Good news everyone, I'm back and with some good news! First, thanks to all of your votes Spirit has now changed to Howl of a Phantom! Second, I'm finally going to finally give Danny powers! Lastly, in either the next chapter, or the one after that (I don't know for sure yet the chapters are still a work in progress) the Gaang is going to appear :D

I know a few of you were looking forward to them coming in, and I'm pleased to be able to give you guys what you want! So without further interruptions here is the third chapter of Howl of a Phantom!

Chapter 3- His First

Danny did not know how to react to what he had just seen. He was sure that with the sort of day he had been having nothing could get any more bizarre, but he was proven wrong. Sam, a spirit he just met, had managed to changer her shape from a wolf, an animal that Danny had never heard of until today, to that of a girl, and a pretty attractive one too.

"Common Danny, we don't have all night to waste." Sam stated, a slight growl escaping her throat.

"R-right." Danny stuttered as he reluctantly grabbed Sam's outstretched hand. He would have lied if he said that when he got up he felt no pain at all, because he did, just not as bad as the first time.

"Are you alright?" Sam asked, worry clear on her face. "I tried my best to subdue the pain, but I guess it still wasn't good enough."

"It's fine." Danny lied as he forced a smile. Sam gave him an uncertain look, but did not push the subject further. "So what are we going to dig with?" Danny asked, not sure if Sam turning herself into a girl would really help the digging issue.

Sam simply smiled, "Shovels." She stated simply as she stepped away from Danny and towards a rather large tree.

Danny looked over at Sam with skeptical eyes. "Are we going to be making them by hand?" He asked a cocky smile on his face.

"In a way, yes," Sam answered smugly as she reached the tree and rested her hands on it. Right where her hand pressed against the bark the tree started to grow more leaves and the wood turned a richer brown color and soon started to sprout little patches of moss. However after only a few second the growing ceased and then the bark started to morph against Sam's hand, then in just a few short moments the wood stopped moving completely and Sam held two wooden shovels in her hands.

"Whoa," was all Danny could say about what he had just seen, although it still did not explain his shock enough.

Sam's smug smile widened and she walked back to Danny. He had not noticed it before now, but as Sam walked, the grass that surrounded her feet started to either grow, or become richer in color. He also noticed that the area she had been sitting in until now had at least a foot of grass surrounding a rough circle shape. However Sam either did not seem to notice the change, or simply did not care, and just handed Danny one of the shovels. "Let's get started." She said as she stuck her shovel into the ground and lifted the dirt, Danny quickly followed suit.

As they dug Danny could not help but flinch at every movement he made, and he had to move quite a lot. After only two minutes Sam actually yelled at him to go sit down, and he reluctantly left all the work to her. In all honesty he would never push all the work on a person like that, but given his injuries, and the fact that when Sam got angry it actually scared him, he could not argue. So he sat only a few feet away from her and waited patiently to be allowed to do something.

After only five minutes Sam let out a sigh and sat next to Danny, who could see that she was exhausted. However right when he was about to pick himself up to get some work of his own done she yelled at him again. "Stay!" She growled, and Danny fell back down with a sigh of his own.

"I'm fine," Danny started, clearly not liking his current predicament. "You need to rest and I can dig just as much as you can." Of course it was a lie, he doubted he could even get up without flinching ten times, but he needed to do something to speed the process along.

Sam gave him an annoyed look but Danny help his ground. "No," She stated, "you need to stay well rested, you hurting yourself further will not help either of us." She then closed her eyes and leaned back, a small smile forming on her face. "Besides, we already have all the help we need."

Danny opened his mouth to ask what she was talking about until he heard something rustle on the bushes behind him. Immediately his body stiffened and he slowly turned his head to see what had made the noise. However what he saw actually made him jump a little, in front of him was a huge seven foot tall platypus bear that stood on his two hind legs, like he was ready to strike Danny down in a moment's notice.

"Um, Sam?" Danny asked in a whisper so he did not draw in too much attention from the animal in front of him. "I'm not sure if this is what you meant by 'help', but we have company."

Sam's eyes snapped open and she looked over at the wild animal that was walking now towards them, still on it's hid legs. "Oh, there you are Casper! I was wondering where you had gone off to." Sam said as she stood up and started to also walk towards the large animal. Danny tried to get up and stop her, but his body was in no shape to do so, so he was forced to simply sit and wait for the platypus bear to eat his new found friend.

"I was trying to find something to eat when I got you message." The platypus bear stated, and then looked towards Danny. "Is he for me?"

Danny's heart stopped when the platypus bear started to speak, however when the last four words came out of its mouth he was sure he was about to have a heart attack. "NO!" Sam yelled. "Danny here is our guest and is actually going to be helping us. So unless you want those firebenders to burn your home to the ground you will not harm or offend him in anyway, you hear me?"

The platypus bear looked depressed by Sam's words, but did not argue with them. "So why am I here if not to eat the boy?"

"You are here to help him. He and his father were attacked by firebenders, and his father did not make it." Sam's face then turned sympathetic, but she continued. "He needs your help to bury him."

Both Danny and the platypus bear looked at Sam in shock. "You want what?!" they both asked in unison.

"Please Casper," Sam pleaded, "I promise, if you do this our forest will not only survive the firebenders attacks, but it will flourish afterwards."

The platypus bear, now known as Casper, held a skeptical look, but soon let out a sigh. "Fine, but when this is done I get to help attack those firebenders."

Sam's face became worried, but she reluctantly nodded. "Alright, just… be safe when it happens."

Casper nodded and then got on all fours and started walking (or was he crawling?) towards the hole that Danny and Sam had started, and began to dig. All throughout the time he dug he kept giving Danny weird looks that he could not interpret, thanks to all the dirt and fur covering him.

When he was done he climbed out of his five foot deep hole and sat on the edge, totally ignoring Danny's father and just focusing on Danny. Sam on the other hand took the initiative and carefully put Danny's father in his grave. "The job is done," Casper said now looking back as Sam, "if you want the boy to mourn for his lost he should do it know, before I put the dirt back."

Sam nodded and looked at Danny, "Any last words?"

Danny opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it. Of course he had stuff he wanted to say to his father, but he had already said a large majority of what he wanted before Sam found him. Besides he could not bring himself to say anything more with a huge platypus bear named Casper looking at him. "Goodbye dad, you were a good father until the end."

Sam gave Danny a sad smile as she put a hand on his shoulder, "From what I saw, he was one of the best men that ever lived in that village, he would be very proud of you." Danny nodded as a loose tear fell from his eye. Sam gave his shoulder one more squeeze before she looked over to Casper and gave him a nod to finish.

Casper briefly acknowledged this gesture before he started to push the dirt back into the hole, finishing the burial. "Now Schim," Casper said when the dirt was done being put in place, "will you please tell me how exactly is this… boy is going to help save the forest. He can barely help himself."

"Hey!" Danny argued. "I took down at least half a dozen Fire Nation soldiers before they were able to take me down. I can handle myself just fine!"

Casper looked at Danny, shock clear on his face, "Schim… why is this boy talking to me as if he heard me?"

Sam looked over at Danny, a sympathetic look on her face once again, "Because I gave him some of my spiritual energy to ease his pain."

"Y-you what?!" Casper yelled, now looking at Sam in horror, or at lease Danny guessed it was horror based on his voice, since he still could not interpret the animal's features. "Do you know how dangerous that is in your current condition?!"

"Of course I do!" Sam yelled back. "However this is not about me, this is about my forest!

"That may be," Casper started again, "but how do you plan on saving the forest if you're de-"

"Casper!" Sam interrupted in frustration. "I know the consequences, and have thought them out. I may be weakened at the moment but Danny on the other hand will be able to do so much more than I ever could if I succeed."

"What do you mean 'if you succeed?'" Danny asked, breaking into the conversation. "What exactly is it that you plan on doing?"

Sam and Casper turned to look at him. Both of them had looks that clearly said they had forgotten that he was there, which Danny was slightly offended by. Sam then shot Casper a menacing scowl as if to say 'I swear; if you say another word, you'll wish you were never born.'

However the scowl quickly vanished as she turned to look at Danny. "Danny, can you stand up for a second?" Sam asked and a sweet voice that made Danny both hesitant, yet totally willing to comply, it was a weird feeling to say the least. However despite his inner turmoil Danny's body complied, but in doing so a lot of pain signals were then shot towards his mind. "Good," Sam said with a sweet smile as she walked over to him, and Danny could not help but feel even more conflicted by the way she was looking at him. The smile on her face seemed kind, yet Danny could not help but feel like some sort of prey, "now this is what I mean." Sam finished as she grabbed whatever remained of Danny's shirt and pulled him towards her.

Danny expected pain from her quick actions, like a punch or some other form of physical assault, but what actually happened left him a little bewildered… alright, he was totally bewildered. Why, you may ask, well because Sam did the total opposite of what he expected, instead of feeling pain, he actually felt a very pleasant kiss!

Danny's mind froze at the sudden contact, not sure as to how to react. Of course if he ever said he disliked the interaction it would be a flat out lie, as a matter of fact he enjoyed it, just like any fourteen year old teenager would. So no one could blame him for kissing her back after getting over his initial shock. To Danny it was perfect, and he was more than willing to allow it to last forever. Nonetheless, all good things must come to an end, and Danny could not help but feel slightly disappointed when Sam pushed them apart. However his emotions were quickly extinguished by a burning sensation that wracked his whole body.

It started in his chest, then, like a flame, it started to spread throughout his veins, and in a matter of seconds his body was wrenched with pain. Danny could not help but curl up in a ball, hoping to rid the pain by making himself smaller, it did not help in the slightest of course. In the background he could hear Sam yelling at him in horror, apparently just as shocked as Danny was from the turn of events.

Thankfully, after what felt like a millennium the pain finally started to die down, and Danny could not help but pant from exhausting.

"Danny!" Sam yelled and Danny could fell something touch his cheek, but he could not find the will to open his eyes just yet. "How did… wha- What did you do?!" Sam yelled once again, except now she sounded more frustrated than worries, although Danny could not even begin to understand what she was talking about. His mind was still a little groggy, but he could not tell if it was from the kiss, the pain, or from a combination of the two.

"Wh-What did I do?" Danny had to ask as he finally opened his eyes and saw Sam looking down at him, her face a mixture of worry and pain.

"YES!" Sam yelled, "I was trying to give you more of my spiritual energy, but… but then… something happened! You were not supposed to fall down in pain like that, and I know I did not mess anything up! So, what did you do?!"

"Wait a second, spiritual energy…?" Danny started to ask, remembering the past conversation about saving Sam's forest and how she had a chance of succeeding if she did something with Danny. It was then that Sam had kissed him. In that instant, Danny finally plugged some of the pieces together. "Wait a second… you kissed me to give me that…'spiritual energy?!'" He was not sure if he should be pleased to finally have his first kiss, or total freaked and/or pissed that it was stolen from him simply to implant something into him… alright so he did say he would help Sam with the forest, and she did worn him, but still, it was his first kiss!

Sam scowled down at Danny, "Of course, how else was I supposed to get it into you without having any escape and be wasted into the wind. I barely had any to give, I couldn't waste a drop!" She clarified, "However like I said before you were not supposed to fall pain like that…" Sam then shook her head, "That does not matter right now, what matters is my forest, and guessing by your looks I'd say you are more than ready." She said as a devious smile replaced her frustration.

However Danny's confusion only grew, "My looks?"

"Yeah!" Sam said with a wide smile, "You can't tell me that you expect to look exactly like you did after receiving spiritual energy can you?" She then stood up and walked over to a tree and swiped her hand across the trunk, in that instant a thin layer of ice coated a small portion of the tree. Danny started at the ice in wonder as he saw Sam's reflection mirrored in the ice. "Come here." Sam instructed, and Danny reluctantly complied, shocked to feel no pain shoot through him as he stood.

However, when Danny got to the tree he was shocked to see someone else stare back at him. The boy looked about the same age as him with weird glowing blue tattoos under his glowing green eyes, and snow white hair with a large highlight on the top of his head that was the exact same shade of glowing blue as his tattoos. The boy was also glowing, just like Sam did when she was a wolf. Danny took a startled step back to only find the boy do the same with a horror stuck look on his face.

Danny did not know what to make of the sight, so out of curiosity he did the same thing he did when he saw Sam as a wolf, he lifted his hand to see if the boy in the ice was real. Sure it may not be the smartest thing to do since he would most likely touch ice when he reached out, but he was shocked to see the boy do the exact same action at the exact same time. It was then that Danny finally made the connection.

"What… What happened to me?" He asked now grabbing his snow white hair to make sure the ice mirror was not lying to him, it was not.

"Spiritual energy has a lot of effects on a human's looks. In the Northern Water tribe there was a princess who's hair turned just as white as yours after receiving spiritual energy by the moon spirit. However that was just a touch, she never had as much spiritual energy as I gave to you until the Fire Nation attacked her tribe and killed that very spirit. It was then that she gave up the energy that kept her alive to become the new spirit of the moon. When that happened the princess's inner personality changed her form in a more extreme case, just like you.

"The princess was a kind soul with an elegant and caring personality, so when she became a spirit her looks and clothing matched that. She really is a sight to behold if you ever get the chance to see her." Sam said as she let a tender smile touch her lips. "You on the other hand," Sam started as she pointed at Danny, "have been a very strong person until the end, so I guess I should not be surprised by your looks and choice of clothing."

Immediately after hearing that Danny looked down and was shocked to see that his clothed had also changed along with his looks. He wore a white furred shoulder plate on his right arm and an arm band on the other. His clothes were white, blue, and a dark grey that was dark enough to almost be considered black. The designs seemed like they came from one of the Water Tribes, yet still had a touch of Fire Nation included. He also found more glowing blue tattoos on the back of his forearms right underneath his elbows, one underneath the arm band, and more on the back of his hands.

Danny was sure that if his appearance had not looked so cool he could have freaked out a long time ago, however since they did, he was totally excited. "This is awesome!" Danny yelled as he examined his clothing's more closely and then looked back at the ice mirror to look at his changed features.

When Danny looked at the mirror he could still see his old face staring back at him. He still has the same nose, eyes, and mouth shapes and hair style, the only difference where the tattoos and the change of his eyes and hair color. He was sure that if he walked into town at the moment no one would recognize him, but they would probably be a little freaked out by the fact that he was glowing. All well, nothing he could do about that now.

"Well I'm glad you like it." Sam said with a small laugh.

"Yes, very nice, he is a spirit now. So when do I get to attack some Fire Nation soldiers?" Casper asked shocking Danny, who had totally forgotten that the large platypus bear was there.

"Later Casper, I still have to show Danny the ropes, after all he still does not know how to use my abilities yet." Sam said with a wide smile. "But don't worry, I'll tell you when it's time."

Casper nodded, "Alright, then I'll go get something to eat since the boy is not on the menu." He said as he stood up on all fours and started to walk (crawl?) back into the bushes.

"Um… Sam… would he have seriously eaten me if you had not stopped him?" Danny had to ask.

Sam looked back at Danny in shock, like he had spontaneously grown a second head, Danny quickly sneaked a glance at the mirror just to be sure, he saw nothing so the sort. "Of course, he is still a wild animal, and everything in the wild has to eat. Now, let's get started, our first priority; icebending!"

Danny looked at Sam with a worries look on his face, "Don't you mean waterbending?"

"Nope, I find it hard to bend regular water, ice on the other hand I can do perfectly, so I just call it icebending." Sam stated with a shrug as she started to walk towards Danny's father's grave. "It comes with the turf I suppose."

"What do you mean waterbending isn't your strong suit?" Danny asked as he jogged to her side.

"Danny, do you see any large lakes or oceans anywhere near my forest?" Sam said as she crouched down in front of the grave.

"Well, no but you have a stream."

"A small stream," Sam clarified, "that's how I'm able to somewhat bend water. But ice is my turf, you want to know why?" Sam asked with a wide smile.

Danny looked at her in confusion, not sure how ice could be her turf if she barely knew how to bend water. "No."

Sam then rolled her eyes. "You lived so close to my forest yet you seem to forget what happens four to five months out of the year." She then let out a sigh, "Snow, my forest gets the most snow than any other area in the Fire Nation. Strange, I know, but it was one of my strongest abilities before my forest started to shrink."

"Oh," Danny said as he looked down, feeling a little guilty that he brought that subject up again.

"No worries," Sam said with a smile as she put her hand on the head of the grave, "with you here I'm sure that we can get me and my forest back to normal soon." Then right when she said that her hand moved up and a large thing of ice appeared. "Now, what do you want me to write on your father's grave?"

"I never… thought… that bending… would be this… tiring!" Danny got out through pants as he rested his arms on his knees and slouched over, totally exhausted from training. Danny had to admit, the first ten minutes had to be some of the best moments he had ever experienced, after all he was finally able to bend an element, even it if was a limited form of one. However that ten minutes became multiple hours, and Danny could not help but feel the need pass out.

Sam let out a smile, "Of course, you didn't expect it to be a simple walk in the park did you?"

"No… but I also didn't think… we would be practicing… until daybreak!" Danny exclaimed through paints as he pointed at the rising sun. He had been practicing all night!

Sam looked at the sun in confusion, but then realization quickly passed through her face. "Oh, sorry about that, I usually never paid attention to something as simple as time."

'Simple?' Danny thought, but did not push the matter, "Well… I don't know about you… but I would kill… for a good… night's sleep!" Danny said as he finally fell to the floor, still gasping for air. "T-think we could… continue tomorrow?" He finally got out as his eyes finally closed and his breathing started to settle.

Sam stared at the sight in front of her in surprise. "But Danny…" Sam started worry creasing her forehead, "spirits don't sleep." However her shock and worry only grew as a ring formed around his waist, and in a bright light the rings split, one going up, the other down, and before her very eyes, Danny's form changed. Sam stared at the sight, not sure as to what to make of it.

In front of her was, of course, Danny, but it was the Danny she had grown so accustom to seeing, the one with raven black hair. However he was still slightly different, all the tattoos he had were still there, except they were no longer glowing and were now red, instead of blue. His hair also had a large red highlight on the top in the exact some place his other form had the blue highlight.

Then there were his clothes. They still resembled his other clothes but they now mostly resembled Fire Nation styled clothing then water tribe clothes. The colors also seemed to have changed, what was once blue was now red, and what was white was not black, however the grey had stayed the same except it may have lightened up a little.

Other than those significant changes Danny still looked the same, not that Sam really minded that. The only issue she was worried about was why he changed his form like that, and so far, Sam did not like the ideas that were forming in her head.

Thanks everyone for your support throughout this story, and sorry again for updating so late but I'm writing this story as fast as i can, and ideas are flowing so hopefully this story will not end up having to many long breaks.

So, if you want me to post the next chapter ASAP I need a majority of you to review! So hop to it before I lose my inspiration!

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So please Everyone review, I don't like it when those two runaway! D:

~Ned