O-kay! So, now that the fact has been established that teenagers have been vanishing from all over the country and that our hero, Danny Fenton/Phantom, has been kidnapped, what're we going to do? Read on, I guess…!

Two: The Wrong Side of the Bed

"Daniel Fenton! I will not repeat myself a third time! Get out of bed right now or you'll be late for-Danny?" Maddie had opened the door to her son's bedroom only to find it empty. The bed was still a mess as though someone had been sleeping in it only seconds before and nothing was out of place. She walked over to the empty bed and brushed her fingers across it. Cold. No one had been in this bed for hours. She looked up and saw the open window, realization and panic flooding her as she put two and two together.

"JACK!" She screamed in hysterics, tears burning her eyes as she threw herself down the stairs, "JACK, DANNY'S GONE! DANNY'S GONE!"

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It didn't take long for the news to spread across Amity Park the Danny Fenton had gone missing over night. Sam actually went to the length of locking herself in her room and climbing out the window to get away from her parents who looked like they didn't know how to react to the news. She made her way over to Tucker's house and was about to start throwing rocks at his window when someone tapped her on the shoulder. Tucker. They walked towards the park together in silence, taking a spot at their usual bench.

"I hate to say I told him so, it just doesn't seem like the moment." Sam muttered, resting her chin in her hands, "I don't know if I should cry or if I should get mad or what…"

"I cried." Tucker admitted, "For a whole ten minutes before I decided that wasn't getting me anywhere. That's when I snuck out to see you."

"Sam? Tucker?" Both teens turned to see Valerie Grey walking towards them, "Is it okay if I take a seat?"

Tucker gestured depressingly and the girl sat beside him, her hands on her lap, starring at the table top. A part of Sam wanted to glower at her as she usually did but everything seemed sort of pointless at the moment, like without Danny, life was an empty shell.

"I know I haven't been…the nicest person to you guys." Valerie said slowly, like she was choosing her words carefully or she just couldn't get them out right, "But I…I'm really, really sorry…about Danny…!" She choked and furiously covered her face with her hands, shoulder shaking. Tucker put a gentle hand on her arm, tears springing into his own dark eyes.

"Hey losers-I mean-guys!" Sam looked up, astonished, to see Dash and Paulina coming towards them. They sat down on the bench too.

"We heard about Danny," Paulina said, "Like, the whole town's going on about it." She bit her lip in a preppy sort of way, "It's weird without him, like, there all the time."

"I'll say," Dash muttered, tracing circles with his fingertip on the table top, "It's daily for me to beat him up but now he's just…not there…!"

"Everything empty without him." Sam said flatly and the others nodded in agreement, "It's like, without Danny, there's a big huge hole in the universe and everything just falls apart because he's not there…h-holding it t-t-together…!" And she couldn't hold it in any longer, bursting into tears, burying her face in her arms, sobbing uncontrollably, "Why did he have to be such an idiot…!?" She cried, dark make-up smearing across her face and bare arms, "Why!? Darn you, Danny, why!?"

But no one could answer her.

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Violet eyes flickered upwards in wonder. A flash of red fur. A gleam of a white muzzle.

"What is going on!? Why can I not get through!? Who is blocking me!?"

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Danny yawned, rolled onto his stomach, and pulled the covers over his head, trying to get in a few more seconds of sleep before his mom came barging in to wake him up to go to school. He heard a snicker of unrecognizable laughter and was immediately awake, tense beneath the blankets that he realized where not his own. Something was wrong. He slowly sat up and pushed the covers off of himself, starring around. Something was definitely, definitely wrong.

The room he was in was fairly large, like a nice hotel room, with cream colored walls and a carpet floor, mahogany doors leading into other rooms. The bed he sat in was the closest to the far wall where numerous band posters hung (one even pictured Ember) and to his left was a night stand, another bed on the other side of that, another night stand, another bed, and another night stand.

"Hey, he's up!" Said a slightly accented voice, "Morning, Newbie!"

Danny looked around and saw two boys, both probably about his age, standing at the end of his bed. One boy had long brown hair he had pulled back into a loose ponytail the hung down his back, chocolate eyes, and some incoming sideburns. There were square glasses pushed up his nose and he looked a little serious. He was dressed in a blue T-shirt with white around the sleeves, light blue pants, a belt from which hung a slightly bulging pack, and gloves without the middle and ring fingers.

The boy next to him was eccentric, to say the least. His bright orange hair was spiked haphazardly all over his head and he had slate colored eyes that flickered with intense enthusiasm and emotion. A black scarf hung around his neck over a maroon tank top whose hem cut off just above his midriff, exposing his belly button, a pair of slightly to big patched up blue jeans with orange-yellow flames emblazed at the bottom, and arm bands that started below his shoulders and ended at his knuckles, neon green with red circles. He also had a magenta heart tattooed by his left eye, a gold ring in left eyebrow, and three golden wrings in each ear.

"Yo!" The brown haired boy waved at him, "I'm Alex and this is ZeE," He motioned to the brightly dressed boy beside him, "Welcome to the Edwardian-Leonardo Campus Institution of Misunderstood Adolescents. Or Ed's School."

"Wh-wh-what?" Danny stuttered, "But what about my parents!? What about my friends!? What about-!?"

"Hey, hey, hey!" ZeE was the one with the accented voice; he flopped onto Danny's bed and got inches from the boy's face, "You need to calm down. Don't you know, you're parents sent you here!"

"Huh!?" Danny scrambled away from the strange boy, "Are you kidding!? Why wouldn't they tell me!?"

"Zachary, get off his bed, sweetie, he's probably scared stiff." Said a female voice and Danny turned to see a woman in a long sleeved blue shirt and matching pants in the threshold of a door that seemed to lead into a hallway, "And Alexander, for once, please, take those blasted ear bugs out!"

"It's Alex." Grumbled the brown haired boy but took the tiny head phones out of his ears. Danny hadn't even noticed they were there. ZeE bounced off his bed and hopped, literally, over to stand by Alex again.

"Alright, it's Daniel isn't it?"

"Danny." The Fenton boy replied automatically, "And I want to talk to my parents."

"Well, Daniel, here's your cloths and Zachary and Alexander can help you around," The woman continued like she hadn't heard him, setting a pile of folded cloths at the foot of his bed, "Don't take too long to get dressed or you'll miss breakfast!" And she left.

Danny stared after her, amazed. That woman hadn't heard a single thing he said. He looked at the cloths, they were his regular red and white T-shirt and his usual baggy jeans. Nothing odd there. Maybe, his parents really had sent him here and they'd just forgotten. It was probable.

"Hey, get dressed already…!" ZeE was hopping from foot to foot, "I don't wanna miss breakfast! It's French toast and bananas today!"

Still confused about his situation, Danny changed and followed the other two boys out of the room and into a long stretch of hall with golden walls and red carpeted floor, other mahogany doors leading into other bedrooms (or so he supposed), all of them decorated like a collage students dorm. He glanced over his shoulder at the one they had exited and found it covered with magazine cutouts of bands and singers. Well, these two were obviously musical, he'd give them that much.

"Don't worry about getting lost," Alex said, noticing Danny gazing around, "I wound up in a storage closet once and ZeE here almost fell down an old and broken down elevator shaft." He chuckled and ZeE laughed loudly, "We'll help you out!"

"So, er, what exactly goes on around here…?"

"Nothing much," ZeE replied, "These here are the boy's rooms and the girl's rooms are on the other side of the school." He paused, "Well, I still don't know why we call it a school because we don't really learn anything, per say, we basically do whatever we want!"

"With the occasional medical examination or test." Alex put in as they reached the end of the hallway and pushed open a metal door, heading up a flight of stairs, "The rooms are on the bottom level and all these other doors," He gestured to some as they passed them on the landings, "Lead to other parts of the school."

"What's that music? Where's it coming from?" Danny had suddenly realized that there was a song of some sorts playing in the background and the other two quieted down so he could listen. It wasn't really a song because there were no words but someone was singing and it was a haunting sort of melody that made him feel light, relaxed, and he smiled.

"They play that everywhere," Alex said, "Except in the bedrooms. I asked one of the doctors about it once and he said it was just background noise." The boy shrugged, "Beats me, though."

ZeE skipped ahead and pushed open another metal door that lead into a frighteningly noisy cafeteria. Kids everywhere. Now, Danny went to high school and there were a lot of kids at Casper High but this place, Ed's School, beat it all the way. At least a thousand kids, boys and girls, all of them appearing to be between the ages fourteen and seventeen, flooded the huge cafeteria. Voices rang out, laughter, shouts, the clatter of glasses and silverware on plates, and only if you strained your ears could you hear the melody in the background.

The room itself had no windows. In fact, Danny had not seen any windows anywhere, not even in the bedrooms. But it didn't bother him that much. A huge mural was painted on the far wall, depicting a beach scene that looked rather welcoming, the other wall was dark brown wood, as was the one with the door they had come through, and the last wall was an extensive buffet that covered the entire wall, some people in the blue outfits watching the kids and the food supply. A couple girls burst out the door behind the three boys, giggling and laughing, and ran up to the waiting line, glancing back over their shoulders at the group.

"Come on, let's go!"

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Stupid way to end a chapter but it was getting a little long so I cut it short. Don't worry though, there'll be another one soon!