A/N: Whooo . . . this chapter took a long time to think of.

BlueMouse: That's cause we finished the first part of this story Chibi . . .

Kara: We shouldn't be writing this . . . we have homework . . . Screw homework! (grabs Chibi) Write more so we can get to the torture scenes!

Chibi: Ehehe . . . I would if my muses would help me out more . . .

BlueMouse: (munching on cookie) Wha?

Kara: (sigh) (drops Chibi) We own nothing . . .

Chibi: OW! T-T

Chapter 20: New Problems

For the first time in ten years, Danny felt like a normal kid . . . There had been no sign of the GiW and Jazz, Sam, and his parents always kept a close eye on him. He didn't really mind. Besides, he didn't have to worry about being a ghost anymore . . . Everything was going great! He was even going to go to his sister's old school, Casper High. It thrilled him even more to know that Tucker and Sam were going there too.

Speaking of school, to celebrate the last day of summer before having to go school, they were all at the beach. The computer geek was trying to pick up girls and getting slapped before recording it into his PDA, still freaked Danny out to know that his friend did that. And the Goth girl . . . well . . . She had gotten an umbrella and had stuck it in the sand, huddling under the shade as she wore a black hat, dark jeans, and a black shirt, complete with fishnet gloves on her hands and her signature combat boots on her feet. She was scowling at the ocean. No matter how many times Danny tried to coerce her into getting into the water, she would shake her head and smile a little. "No, Danny. To go swimming means that I'd have to go into the sun . . . I am a creature of the night, I prefer sulking in the shade." she said with a bit of a grin that slightly freaked Danny out.

Danny sighed and stood with his feet in the water, the waves not going much higher than his knees. Tucker slumped over to his friends, placing his bag of electronics by Sam, his face having a distinct hand imprint on his cheek. "This sucks . . . I'm at the beach, and I can't even pick up any hot girls." he griped.

Danny chuckled. "Like you have any muscles to lift them up." he said, causing Sam to try to hold in laughter at the comment. Tucker pouted. "Fine, but if you're gonna poke fun at me, Sam's gonna have to get in the water." he said with a grin.

Sam's eyes widened. "What? NO! No way!" she protested angrily, scooting back as far as the shade would allow. She saw the grins spreading on Danny's and Tucker's faces and as they got closer, she started freaking out a little! She didn't even bring a change of clothes or a bathingsuit! "I swear if you make me get in the water, I'm gonna throw Tucker's stuff into the ocean!" she threatened, and then the boys had grabbed her and threw her into the water. She spluttered a little before tromping out of the water with a scowl on her face, grabbing the towel that Danny held out for her.

"You alright Sam?" he asked, chuckling a little.

"I hate you all."

000

Three dripping wet teens showed up at FentonWorks, one stormed in, her combat boots squelching on the floor while the other two were still laughing about what had happened at the beach. The wet goth went over to the eldest Fenton sibling who had been reading a book on the couch. "May . . . I . . . please . . . borrow . . . some . . . clothes . . .?" the angry teen hissed out, trying not to take out her anger on the peppy red-head in front of her.

Jazz nodded and then led the angered goth into her room to let her borrow some clothes. Danny and Tucker smiled and then went up to Danny's room. It had been pre-arranged that the boys would be sleeping at the Fenton's on the last day of summer since Danny's family lived closer to school than the Foley's did. Tucker already had his suitcase in Danny's room, and had a couple of changes of clothes. The boys changed, in separate rooms, and then saw Sam off, who was huffing about how Jazz's clothes weren't dark enough for her tastes.

Danny couldn't help but smile at the memory of the beach. Sam had gotten her revenge all right, but he was certain she'd had more fun because of their actions. He was brought out of his reverie by Tucker pulling him towards the basement. "Again Tuck? You've been down there, like, ten times!" he said in exasperation.

Tucker nodded, smiling excitedly. "But I haven't yet seen anything near all the cool stuff your parents have invented! Come on! I can't get in without someone to open the door for me!" he said, tugging Danny's arm.

Danny sighed. Since he had gotten home, his parents had locked the basement door with a lock that could only be opened by members of the Fenton family . . . yeah . . . that had been a slightly painful day when they got the DNA samples . . . "Fine, fine . . ." he muttered as he headed down to the Fenton lab. Danny placed his hand on the doorknob, and heard the little 'ding' noise that signaled that they had entry. "Come on." he said, feeling just a bit tired of all the ghost-stuff. He really wanted nothing to do with that again . . .

000

"WHAT THE HELL TUCKER?!" Danny shouted angrily, his voice a bit echoey.

Tucker chuckled awkwardly. "How was I supposed to know that you'd get turned into a ghost by going into that thing?" he asked, rubbing the back of his neck.

"'It couldn't hurt' you said, 'We've got to find out how to turn it on' you said . . . asshole." Danny huffed, floating a bit, feeling angry at his best friend. To recap, Tucker had found the dud of a Fenton Portal. Danny had just wanted them to leave it alone, but Tucker, through much persuasion, managed to get Danny to go inside the thing where Danny tripped on a bit of wire inside and stumbled, putting out his hand to steady himself and pressing the on switch that was inside the portal.

"Hey, you were interested in it too! At the end you know!" Tucker said, trying to defend himself a little.

Danny just glared at the techno geek. "I blame you for anything that goes wrong because of this." he hissed angrily.

Tucker sighed. "Alright, I guess I deserve that much . . ." he muttered and then looked at the ghostly version of his best friend. "So . . . how are you supposed to change back?" he asked.

Danny shrugged. "I dunno . . . last time, it happened with the sun . . ." he muttered. And then heard the little 'ding' noise that said that another family member was coming in. "Oh crap." he said, his eyes wide. He then landed and prayed to whatever god was out there that he could change back. "Change back, change back, change back, change back!" he muttered urgently, then felt something familiar as two rings of white light appeared around him and moved in opposite directions, changing the ghost, Danny Phantom, back into the human, Danny Fenton. Tucker's eyes widened.

"Dude! How'd you do that?!" he asked, estatic that his friend could change back. Danny shrugged as he looked at himself.

"I have no idea . . ." he muttered.

Jazz then poked her head around the corner that was the entrance/exit to the lab, frowning in disapproval of all the ghost stuff in there. "If you two are done in here, we're having dinner upstairs." she said and then left quickly.

Tucker and Danny looked at each other and shrugged before following after the red-head. They could always deal with Danny's ghostliness in the morning. After all, it wasn't like anything totally serious was going to happen because of it . . .

They did not know how wrong they were . . .

A/N: Hee hee. Finally done with this chapter. Yes! (smiles) I like how this turned out. It should get a lot more exciting from now on.