Hello readers! I'm so supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! A lot of people reviewed in just four days. 16 reviews, 26 followers, 13 favorites, that's impressive. I'm so proud of his much popularity this story has in just a short time. I am sorry for not updating, WiFi was down and my folks didn't fix it until now.

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Let the story begin!

Chapter 3: What the hell!

Danny, who was in mid-air at the moment looked around for the probably malevolent ghost that triggered his ghost sense. He slowly landed, not letting his guard down for a moment.

His eyes browsed through all the buildings around him.

He knew this ghost was a high level ghost, so caution was his best friend at the moment. "Hello, ghost child!" He heard a rolled his eyes at the greeting. He knew this voice all too well and he despised it too. Skulker!. He inwardly groaned.

"Keep the cliche salutations to yourself, l know it's you," he said folding his arms over his chest.

"So let's dance," he continued, getting into a battle stance. Ever since the disasteroid incident, Skulker had been more persistent. He was also getting incredibly easier to beat and he was now getting tire of it. "I will have you pelt ghost child, up and until l do, l will not rest," he vowed.

"How do you imply on catching me if you can't even give me a stratch, tin can!" Danny exchanged the same witty-banter for what seemed to be the millionth time that year.

Danny was undoubtedly now stronger and to him now fighting Skulker was like boxing the box ghost. They started throwing blast at each other but they were mostly verbally attacking each other now. Danny eyes glowed more because of frustration. They started to glow blue and he threw an ice blast at him.

He froze in place.

Skulker broke free and shot at him. He easily dodged them, until...

"Stop right there, Danny Phantom!" Danny cursed under his breath, he knew the voice very well. It was Valerie. Ever since the disasteroid incident, she never gave up on the notion that all ghosts were evil. She thought that the only reason why Danny saved earth was to save the ghost zone also.

This was also not the first time she interfered with his ghost fights. She would always put herself in the line of fire and ghosts would end up attacking her, so Danny would end up defending her instead of fighting the ghost. How gullible can she get!

"This is not the best time, Valerie, " he said in exasperation.

"You're not the boss of me Phantom!" With that she shot at Danny and as usual he dodged it and turned to Skulker to see if he wasn't doing anything stupid , but what did he expect when it came to Skulker, he was aiming a bazooka at her. He shot the rocket and it vaporised her board.

Since she was a human and she obviously could not fly, she headed the only direction possible, downwards! Danny shot up to the sky to catch her, but something stopped him. When he was two metres from the ground, he suddenly lost his ability to fly and he crashed.

Pain shot through his back and his vision became blurry, but he could still see a red figure come crushing down to earth.

The sound her body made when she hit impact was sickening. Since she fell forward, it probably was her ribs making the sound of something breaking. He heard a laugh come from behind him. Valerie just laid there, not moving. Blood trickled from both her nose and mouth. Could she possibly be dead.

The thrusting of the chest that an everyday human being always had, wasn't there. She was definitely not breathing.

Apprehension arose in Danny because of this.

"She is dead! You failed! You failed obsession, and she is dead!" Skulker berated. Danny closed his eyes shut, thoughts of what has happened that day flooding his head. First his school was invaded by a bunch of psychopaths, he had been shot, Sam has been shot, when he was about to rest for once, he got a bath of his life because of fighting a ghost who could control water, now his oblivious mate was now dead!

He had failed. Failed to protect her, was all he could think about. What he didn't notice was that it was not his fault, but this is Danny we are talking about, so he was obviously gonna berate himself until someone knocked some sense into him.

His eyes suddenly flashed red. Despite the pain he got from whatever Skulker hit him with, he slowly but surely got up. He shot a black ectoblast at him. This is new.

It did a lot of damage than his usual green ones.

As fast a lighting, literally, he stood in front of Skulker, who was still shocked at the blast. He punched Skulker in his chest and his hand went through him. As he pulled his hand out, he took a hold of one of Skulker's feet and dragged him out of his suit. His stare with his now red eyes bore through his.

"Iru al fantomo zono kaj nemiam revenos," Danny spat out. A black aura appeared around Skulker's putrid green body and he disappeared.

He shook it off like what he did was nothing and he walked over to Valerie. He knelt down. He brushed off some dark locks out of her face his his thumb and sighed. He pressed the back of his hand against her chest. To note that there was no heart beat. Wait l take that back, there was one, but a really slow one.

A smile crept up his lips and his eyes turned green once again. Phew! I missed them!

He slowly picked her up, carefully making to sure to not put a lot of pressure on her chest. He ascended and headed in the direction of Amity Park General Hospital. This was not only a trip to the hospital, it was also a guilt trip.

After a long debate in his head, whether he should take her into the hospital as Fenton or Phantom, but after realising they would ask a lot of questions to Fenton and why he wasn't at home at night, plus the fact that he fought thugs at school would not be good so he decided against it. So he proceeded to the entrance, he shook the security guard's shoulder to get his attention. He shrieked at his sight of The Danny Phantom.

"Um, hello, l, uh, got a patient here, a victim of an attack, if you know what l mean," he said nervously. The man looked like he had seen a ghost...oops, he did see a ghost. He blinked twice and his expression turned into a joyous one. "Can l have your autograph!" He suddenly said. Danny slouched his shoulders in exasperation, and directed his eyes at Valerie then back to the man. He got the hint and took her out of his hands. "Thank you, for saving another citizen, Phantom!" With that he left with Valerie.

He flew in the direction of his home. Today was a day and a half. Valerie was still alive, yeah, but she almost died. Sam was shot on her arm at least, but he could have still done something about it. Skulker it was his fault! Danny suddenly remembered, what did happen to Skulker? Did he cause the black aura around him.

What about the black ectoblast, how peculiar. Had he done that or imagined it. He would have to ask Frostbite for answers or Clockwork.

He found an alleyway near his abode and turned back into Fenton.


He slowly opened the door. It was now past curfew, no doubt his Parents were in the lab inventing something to kill him, but still that wasn't an excuse to not be quiet. He slowly turned the door knob, only to find out someone had the same intention.

The person inside continued the revolution and opened the door. It was his mother, aka Madeline Fenton, Maddie for short.

His dad, Jack, who sitting on the couch not so far from them, was eating fudge. He was a fudge adict. "Where were you, young man! You kept this very important visitor waiting!" She scolded, she gestured to the policeman sitting nearby the kitchen door. He knew very well why he was there.

"Oh, hello, how may l help you?" Danny asked in his now shy and innocent demeanor.

The policeman stood up and walked into the center of the room. He gestured for Danny to sit down, he obliged. Danny being the sort of unmanned boy he is, took a cookie and started to munch on it. "I resume you know why l am here?" He started. Danny decided to play dumb and blinked twice.

The man sighed, "l came here for answers. I believe the Killaso fleet attacked your school today," he continued, Danny just nodded. "The other students say, you fought all of them by yourself, is that true?" He asked, Danny nodded again. "How, they are older and obviously stronger than you and why?" He pressed.

Danny thought hard on what he could say as a reply. Something buyable, seemingly truthful. An excuse that just might work popped up into his head. "In case you haven't noticed l am a poor defenseless nerd that is beat up all the time. I got tired of it and started to, um...uh, train so that l could defend myself. How l beat them is completely beyond me. Just dumb luck, l guess. Why l did it well, l couldn't just sit there and watch my mates get taken away like that. In other words l have a huge hero complex," he answered, he was now unsure if what he said would be buyable.

He was about to say something, when his walkie-talkie made static sounds. "Yes... l do read you... sector nine...ASAP... I'll be there pronto!" He turned to look at Danny, who was now picking another cookie and stuffing it into his mouth.

"You're a good kid. I have to go now. I might come back to finish interrogating you although you have answered about 56% of my questions. I like you kid. I believe you are a hero. You should consider joining the force, you would be an excellent policeman," he complimented. "I think I'll pass," Danny said slowly. The officer smiled and left.

When he was about to stand up Maddie pulled him into a bear hug, who am l kidding, it was a death hug!

"Oh, I'm so proud of you my little hero!" She cooed

"I knew you had it in yah, Danny-o. Next thing you know, Mads, he'll be protecting people from ghosts!" Jack said raffling Danny's hair while unintentionally smearing Fudge onto his hair. Suddenly Maddie stopped pelting him with compliments and switched to concerned mother mode.

"But there is one thing l don't understand. Why didn't you tell us that you have bully problems," she asked.

Danny suddenly frowned and his face turned into one of hurt and surprise, like he had seen a ghost (Okay, l know that pun has been over used now.) "Because you never bothered to ask. You're always so cooped up in your lab, looking for ways to kill Phantom that you forget l even exist," with that he stood up and left leaving behind a guilty Jack and hurt Maddie.


Danny tossed and turned to try and get the ringing of the alarm out of his head. He put his pillow over his head and shielded his ears, but his advanced hearing didn't help. He groaned and he fully or halfly woke up. He turned of the alarm and got out of bed.

He went into the shower and did his personal hygiene, that l can obviously not give information about.

He wore his usuals. This consisted of a with baggy long sleeved t-shirt, a blue short sleeved shirt, navy jeans and snickers. He thought about not going to school but he decided against it. He shook the water out of his hair like a dog. He slid down the rail of the stairs. Since Jazz was going to school early, for obvious reasons and his parents were sleeping, he was the only one downstairs.

He took an Apple and went for his morning patrols. Flying for thirty minutes straight and no sign of a ghost, that's a new record. Apprehension arose in his stomach. It was unusual to get such luck. Not even the box ghost was there to bother him.

He took another ten minutes until he figured that it was about time he went to school. Maybe today the ghosts just wanted him to have a day off, impossible. Something was wrong or the ghosts themselves wanted a day off. Eh! Who knew?

He found a bush that was nearby the school. He transformed back into his human half. He walked the rest of the way to school. After what had happened yesterday it was obvious he now has some kind of popularity for a day or two. Ever since the portal accident, popularity was the last thing he wanted. He didn't want people to watch his every move. If you haven't figured out why he didn't want popularity, its kinda obvious. It was now 7:23 and school starts at 8:00. Wow he was actually early.

All he wanted at the moment was to avoid everyone. So instead of going into the school he found a shady tree he, Sam and Tucker used to eat lunch at when they wanted to be alone.

He sat down and took out his sketching pad.

Drawing helped him clear his mind. Besides flying and playing the guitar, art was another recreational activity for him. He ended up sketching a picture of him and Sam, laughing at Tucker when his first PDA broke. It was a really dramatic scene. Tucker was kneeling on the ground with bits of the gadget in his hands.

Sam who was still not a fully grown goth, had her hand over her mouth giggling. Danny was just laughing hysterically on the floor, clutching his stomach. This was sixth grade to be exact. Danny just missed the old times. Sadly, he could not have them anymore. He sighed after one last glance at the picture then he put the pad into his bag.

He looked at the time, 7:50. He stood up and went to the everyday teenager's doom. He slowly walked down the pathway that leads to the doors of the school. He slowly opened the doors and walked in. All the students stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Most of the girls were looking at their phones and back to him and giggled. He continued walking, until...

All the students burst into a round of applause. Danny, who was not used to attention hastened his step to his locker. He opened it and buried his face into it. When the students noted that Danny was not going to say anything to them soon, they continued doing what they had been doing, in other words gossiping about Danny.

He took out his books for his first period and he turned around slowly to come face to face with Tucker. He was grinning. "Hello, hero," he said in a cheery tone.

"Hey Tuck," Danny simply replied. "Dude! You're now popular and I'm the best friend of the hero, do you know what this means!" He said or should l say shouted. "What does it mean," Danny pretended to act dumb. "Since I'm your friend and you're popular, that means l get a share of it and the ladies get, TF for Too Fine," he winked at a girl who was walking past them, who just stuck her tongue out at him and blew a kiss at Danny.

"Ow, come on!" He yelled in disappointment. Danny was bewildered, "What just happened?" He asked, eyeing a group of girls who were glancing at their phones and him.

"Remember when the guy, Slinger took off your button up," he started. "Yeah...what about it?" He said out of curiosity. "You were wearing a muscle shirt underneath remember..." he answered slowly, Danny cursed under his breath. "A picture of you was posted online," Tucker continued, while going online to show Danny the picture. "What the hell," he said slowly as he looked at the picture.

He was smirking, a brow raised and eyes narrowed, he was also in a battle stance, all in all he looked dangerous and *cough-hot-cough*

Danny was speechless. Why him! "Why didn't you tell me you were ripped," Tucker at with a hint of hurt in his voice. "Well the thi-" he was interrupted.

"Fenturd!" Yelled an angry Dash. Danny rolled his eyes and turned around to look at the bully. "What do you want Dash," Danny said nonchalantly as usual. "So geek zero, you think you can choose battles. Well guess what, l am the king if Casper high and l am in charge, if l want to fight you comply!"

"Wow, I'm mind blown, you know what comply means," he replied sarcastically.

Dash, who was now intimidated by what he had said, threw a punch at him. Danny leaned back and dodged it. Dash stumbled on his feet. Danny was always in these predicaments with the bully and now he just has to let him beat him up and everything will be okay.

Dash this time actually punched Danny on the chin. Students gathered up to watch the fight commence. Dash tripped Danny and he landed with a thud.

"Come on Fentoad, l know you can fight! Stop pretending you can't!" Dash said as he grabbed Danny by his collar, "l don't want to fight you," he answered while gasping for air. Although he didn't need the same amount of air as the everyday human, he needed to make sure no one suspected a thing. He hit Danny against the lockers and kicked Danny where the sun don't shine.

He squinted his eyes shut and slid onto the floor. "Please stop!" He yelped in pain. Dash, the guy who obviously never listened to reason, continued to wail on him. Danny was now stuck in a position of fake surrender. His head hung low, he put his right hand on his locker to keep his balance and his legs wobbled a bit.

"Haven't had enough!" Dash teased.

He got no reply. "So if you're not going to fight how about l get someone to fight for you," he taunted. "Qwan, nerd, now!" He ordered. Jayden, who was now bait to anger Danny, was handed over to Dash. This definitely angered Danny. "No one acts my role in a movie, unless it's me," Danny said coldly, not looking up.


Am sure if you find this chapter sappy or horrible, but believe me this chapter is the main start of the story. What will Danny do? I want you to guess in the reviews.

What l loved about this chapter is when Skulker played the Houdini. What do you think what Danny did to him was, l certainly don't know. Just kidding, I'm like the Clockwork of this story, l know everything that will happen.

If l get 8 reviews for this chapter l will make a double length one next rime. I promise. I guess this is another cliffhanger, yey!

BYE!