The original idea that I had was that I would update all of my stories at the same time but I just had another idea that instead each day I'll update one story until I've reached the end then start all over again and this time I'll update by picking them out of a hat or the oh ever so accurate method of iny miney mynie mo.

Chapter 3

"NO! WAIT! I can explain!" Beast Boy cried out in fear in a desperate tone as he tried to plead to the angry sorceress in front of him.

Robin and Cyborg coward behind him using the green changeling and some sort of shield or barrier to keep them apart from Raven who's eyes were now glowing and glaring down on them with venom in them making the boys feel a chill in their bones.

"You have exactly three second to explain what you've just done before I send you to the darkest realm I can find for all eternity where you'll live out your worst fears every, single, minute." she spat out making the boys flinch and tremble even more.

Raven was known to always keep good with her threats and most of the time she added it with interest as well. Something they did not want to have to endure anytime soon.

"It was all his idea!" Cyborg confessed pushing BB to the front so that maybe he and Robin could be spared just a little mercy and in response to the betrayal of his 'friends' BB shot them a glare for a second before looking back at Raven.

He gulped nervously as several things in the room started to float, move, fly, or twitch in their place. What caught his attention the most were the really sharp and blunt objects that stood by Raven like obedient little children surrounded by the magic that gave them life.

"It was?" Raven narrowed her eyes watching Beast Boy and the others like a hawk.

There wouldn't be any escape for what was coming to them...

Backing up until he was against the wall, Beast Boy held up his hands in a peaceful mode. "Come on Raven, I only did it for you. You know to be...uh, friend," he said meekly.

"And what kind of friend were you being when you signed me up for this?" she hissed angrily.

Beats Boy looked over to Robin and Cyborg pleading them to help him out. It was clear that they were to terrified to say anything at the moment and the longer Raven was focused on the changeling the longer that they'd stay alive.

Beast Boy was sweating bullets as he tried to come up with the right words that wouldn't trigger Raven's already miniscule short temper. "I just thought that you could use somebody to... uh... talk to..." he said lamely.

Raven calmed down a bit that her eyes weren't glowing anymore but the sharp and blunt objects still remained. "Why would you think that I need someone to talk to?" she asked curiously.

Sure she tended to spend a lot of time by herself and didn't socialize that much. Star was great and all but she was just too perky sometimes and could completely miss the point of a conversation despite the fact that the alien princess could recite the periodic table and name each element's atomic mass.

But that didn't mean that she was lonely, right...?

"I-I just thought it would be good for you if you could you know... meet someone new other than us."

Raven thought for a moment at what Beast Boy was implying before she shook it off surprised that she would even consider it. This was BEAST BOY! Most, if not all of his ideas always ended badly in some way or another. It was as if as soon as Beast Boy's mind started to think something stupid came out of his mouth. If he ever did say something smart it was probably by accident.

The boys relaxed a bit now seeing that Raven was less angry now. Picking up on what Beast Boy had said Cyborg joined in the conversation. "You know, (and I can't believe I'm saying this) BB here might have a point."

"I do?" Beast Boy looked questionably at Cyborg and Robin. Nudging him in the arm slightly with his elbow he caught on. "Ow! I mean... I do! Yeah, I mean... don't you get lonely being all alone all the time?"

Raven looked down at the floor deep in thought. Slowly she lost her concentration and everything settled down returning to its normal state. The windows and doors were uncovered so the light could be let in once more. Other than the room looking a bit messier than it first was, everything was back to normal.

It was Robin's turn now, "Maybe this could be good for you, who knows maybe you'll actually like this person." He offered.

Raven let out a sigh, "And if I don't?" she retorted.

"Then... uh... you can, uh..." Beast Boy scratched his head trying to find a suitable bargain that would fit Raven's needs and keep Beast Boy from having to breath through a metal tube. And that was only if he was lucky.

It was Cyborg who answered for him (much to Beast Boy's displeasure to say the least) "And if you don't you can always do what ever you want to BB here for as long as he lives..."

"And make him eat some of Starfire's cooking for a week." Robin added unable to resist.

Both Titans whistled innocently in tune together with innocent expressions ignoring the way that their friend in danger of the sorceress's wrath shot them a scathing look.

Raven thought this over and looked back to Beast Boy with a devilish smile as the images passed before her of what the possibilities were.

"Alright, I do it." She said at last.

For a slight second Beast Boy stared at her in awe before the look was replaced by a much more devious one. "Excellent now why don't you start right now!" he said cheerfully steering her to the computer.

As he loaded the page she couldn't help but be just a little curious about the chat room.

But Raven had always preferred to have her books around to comfort her instead of spending hours in front of a blinking monitor slowly killing off her brain.

God only knows that BB had killed it a long, long, long time ago...

The boys looked over their team mate's shoulders as the page appeared ready to go. Starring silently as the fast typing soon allowed them to read the introduction.

Raven blinked at this and read out loud subconsciously, "Welcome, you have chosen to enter the vast world of internet chatting. This program was designed to allow different people to communicate with someone entirely new without having to reveal any part of their identities unless they choose to do so. At the end of the trial period you and your new friend will meet at a convention to see each other for the first time..."

Raven paused there raising an eyebrow narrowing her eyes at the changeling again making him squirm uncomfortably. "Hehe, why don't we just keep on reading?" starting off where she had left off he continued. "You would be surprised at what you can find out about others and yourself and may even wish to do it again-"

Cyborg cut him off there, "Do it again?" he repeated looking slightly amused. "Like Rae is the type of person who would actually want to do this sort of thing again?"

His chuckle died cold in his throat when he heard a sort of growl coming from Raven. That instantly meant to shut up.

Robin quickly scanned the page and addressed Raven, "Looks like this system is pretty safe unless someone actually bugged this thing so that they can locate each one who's participating and know who they are."

"Yeah and that's before they have to look through every single one of these connections just to find a specific one."

"So what you're saying is that this is pretty much safe?" Raven asked.

Cyborg nodded, "Yep. This is like have to find a needle in a hay stack the size of New York City. Only a computer genius can figure this stuff out without going completely crazy. Like me!" he gloated smiling to show all of his white teeth.

Rolling her eye Raven just went back to the website, "Are you sure this is safe?"

"Positive." he confirmed.

"Alright then... leave!" she pushed them all out of the now open doors to throw them out ignoring their protests. "I'm not going to have you three listening in on my conversations. Got it!" Turning around she left them with a rather unpleasant taste in their mouths of what was to come, "And by the way... I haven't forgotten and believe me you'll all pay and Beast boy, I will collect after this is all over no matter what."

Without another word she sealed the door shut locking everyone out and herself in. Making herself comfortable she breathed in deeply and clicked on the 'begin' button.

This person better be worth it.

By the time Danny had finally returned home it was past his curfew which meant that once again he had to endure yet another lecture from his parents about him being late again for the tenth time in a row. Also a round of endless questions from his mom about his state of being.

From his messier hair, to the large cuts on his shirt.

Dragging his body up the stairs he shed his shirt throwing it into a chair so that he could throw it away tomorrow, right now he was too tired. The now full thermos that held that cat thing from earlier, and several other rouge ghosts as well from that day, sat on top of his desk next to his computer for him to empty out into the Ghost Zone in the morning.

Cujo seemed to have dissapeared again once he had gotten his toy back.

At least one of us is happy, Danny thought as he kicked off his shoes and reached for the first aid kit under his bed so that he could tend to the injuries he had acquired that day. Taking out a cloth and a water bottle, he poured the liquid onto the cloth and began to quickly clean some of his lesser wounds.

Usually that was all that it took since they'd soon be gone in a few hours anyway.

Being a ghost hybrid did have its advantages allowing Danny to heal at a super human healing rate that would even make Superman jealous, so that no one even knew about the ghost hunting that he did.

But for the bigger things, like the three large claw marks that Cujo's evil nemesis had given Danny as a souvenir to remember it by, Danny applied a bit of natural herbal stuff on his abdominals to help the burning sensation and help heal it even quicker.

Tending to his wounds had given Danny a vast amount of herbal medicines since he wasn't sure how his body reacted to modern medicine and he wasn't in a hurry to find out any time soon. Especially after that one incident with something as simple as cough medicine.

Somehow Danny ended up breathing fire for a few seconds and managed to burn his bed sheets. Something that Tucker found hilarious to no end and even had pictures of the incident. Sam had scowled him for it but even she had to admit that the situation had been a little funny.

After that they had decided that the best thing was for Danny to stick to the natural stuff. Sam liked the idea of using natural medical herbs to help her friend since it was better than that stuff made from animal parts like those fish pills and tiger bone powder that was sold in China.

He had to admit with her though, this stuff really did work and was pretty easy to find since it grew in nature he only had to go to the woods to find it or just go to the Chinese pharmacy in Elmerton only a few miles away from Amity to get what he needed.

Finishing wrapping the gashes, he put away the gauze and slid the kit back in its place. Standing up Danny was about to go to bed when he noticed his math book wide open with pieces of paper scattered around along with his history text next to it.

Sighing, Danny slightly cursed that he had forgotten about his history report and math homework that he still had to do for tomorrow if he wanted to avoid yet another after school detention.

Sitting at his desk Danny quickly skimmed over what he still had to do. After a few seconds of thought Danny took his history book and opened up to where he had left off. He was almost done and only needed to describe the different conflicts that contributed to the start of the Civil War.

Good thing he had actually been there thanks to the help of the Ghost Zone and a magical map...

He was able to finish it around midnight satisfied that he would at least get a B- on it. Math on the other hand wasn't exactly the teen's best subject to say the least. Sure he had a C in that class but it was hard to keep it at that for the hybrid.

Growling in frustration he shoved the book to one side and rested his head on his hands for a few seconds. God he was tired and he really wanted to go to sleep but he had to finish that stupid work.

"Maybe Sam could help me out," he said out loud to the empty room.

Danny yawned as he made his way to bed not bothering to climb under the covers and just fell dead asleep on the covers as soon as his face hit his pillow.

Finals were coming up soon and Danny had been putting in even more effort to try and study, along with every thing else, so that he wouldn't have to endure his whole summer in a class room of flunkies who would, without a doubt, put him through hell.

There for it equaled an even more stressed out Danny than usual. Despite the number of times that his friends had told him that he should take it easy and let them handle a few of the ghosts for a while.

Which he obviously refused to do. Danny would never let his friends take those kinds of risks if he could help it no matter how tired he would get or hurt.

He didn't even notice the figure that stood outside of his door as they opened the door just a tiny crack. Aqua eyes fell onto the sleeping boy and then to the small hint of the bandages on his stomach.

Little by little the door opened to reveal Jazz in a pink night gown tip toeing into her brother's room to check on him. Shaking her head but smiling she quickly stacked the books up neatly and covered up Danny's form with a blanket.

Pausing for a moment Jazz bent down brushing some of his bangs off and kissed him lightly on his forehead. "Night little brother," she whispered before stepping out the door and back to her own room.

Even though she was proud of her brother she couldn't help but be worried for him every time that she saw any sign of a wound on him. Danny was stubborn and hard headed always putting others before him despite the fact that he was sometimes too weak or wounded to continue he never gave up.

Jazz couldn't help but be afraid for him that he might one day never come home from a fight with a ghost. What might be worse would be if their parents found out that their youngest child and only son was found dead and they would have never found out the truth about him.

Danny had told her that he will tell them about his powers one day when it was time. Jazz respected his decision and agreed with him it was probably best for all of them if they waited first for the time to come when their parents would be able to take the news.

That they would accept him no matter what.

Now it was just a matter of when...

Getting into her own bed, Jazz glanced out the window at the stars entranced by their innocent beauty as they shined in the night over the sleeping town.

One star seemed to shine brighter than the rest but you had to look carefully in order to see it other wise it just look like the rest. In a way it reminded the oldest Fenton child of her brother.

How he was so unique and different from everyone else yet you could never tell that from one look at him. You'd have to pay close attention in order to see what laid beneath the exterior of a fifteen year old boy.

Smiling at her notions Jazz drifted off to sleep giving a small prayer that her brother could find some sort of peace of mind.

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Morning seemed to come much too fats for the half- ghost for as soon as he saw what time it was he shot out of bed gathering everything in one quick sweep. Shoving them into his backpack.

Rummaging through his closet he pulled out a clean shirt. Rushing as he tried to put on his shoes while hopping on one foot and put on his shirt ended up with Danny tripping over his feet and landing face down on the floor.

"Danny?" called out a voice from downstairs, "Are you ok up there?"

"I'm fine mom," he answered back.

"Hurry up then sweetie the bus leaves in five minutes!"

As he was heading out the door Danny smacked his forehead double tracking back for the spare and empty thermos he had in one of his drawers that was protected by a simple spell that if anyone other than himself, Sam, Tucker, or Jazz opened it all they would see or feel would be extra sheets of paper that were school notes.

Instead of profiles that held detailed maps of certain areas of the Ghost Zone and notes on it too. Sure Danny used his computer for that stuff but carrying around a simple notebook was a lot easier for his than a laptop.

Cursing that he still had to finish his math homework Danny thought it was better to finish it in homeroom if he could get there on time for once. Hopefully there wouldn't be any ghost attacks that morning and things would be able to go smoothly for once in his life since becoming half ghost.

Apparently some force in the universe had decided that Danny was the perfect subject to be given the gift of poor time management and math skills.

Danny ran down the stairs and bolted out the door quickly saying good-bye to his parents. "ByemombyedadI'mofftoschoolloveyabye!"

"Wait! Danny! You forgot your lunch!" Maddie cried out but it was too late. Her son was already down the block and out of hearing distance as he made his mad dash to get to school on time. Maddie smiled bit slightly chuckling at her son's rush.

Jazz was no problem in the morning, she was usually cheerful and in a good mood, ready and willing to begin a new day. Danny on the other hand needed a bucket of ice cold water just to get him out of bed.

She remembered that exact thing happening when Danny was only ten and Jack wanted to take his son out on a father/son fishing trip. Jazz would always laugh at the memory of her little brother drenched and shivering from head to toe at five am looking like a puppy who had just experienced their fist ever bath.

At that moment she heard a loud bang coming from the basement. Dashing downstairs she went to see what had happened and to help out her spouse in anything that she could.

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It seemed that Danny finally managed to get a small break for once. He had made it on time to school and has able to finish his math assignment in time for third period. The rest of the day passed almost normally.

With the exception of a couple of ecto-octopusses that were trashing the science lab and some weird blob thing that wrecked like Dash Baxter's gym socks.

Danny was just glad that it was only a class level 1 ghost and that the slime was washable from his hair and that he had an extra shirt in his locker.

All and all things were going smoothly that day.

When he got home he made his way up to his room in order to retrieve the full thermos and empty out its contents back into the Ghost Zone where they belonged.

He stopped short for a moment when he realized that his computer was blinking saying that he had received a message from the person he was supposed to have been paired up with for the whole 'chat' thing.

Not wanting to be rude Danny opened up the message to read it and send a short reply back. Each reply only took a few seconds in order to return to the other person so it was just like IM only that the person was someone you've never met and it could probably a thousand mile between the two on liners.

Clicking on it Danny read his message from a so called Raven.

Raven: is anybody there?

Danny typed an answer.

Ghost boy: yep

You could choose to go with your first name or by a pen name and for his Danny had chosen the one name that he heard so often on an hourly basis.

Raven: so anything interesting happening

Ghost boy: nope

For some reason Danny had the feeling that who ever he was talking to didn't want to do this as much as he didn't want to do this. Taking a one shot here he typed.

Ghost boy: just out of curiosity, do u even want 2 b talking online?

It took a few moments for Raven to write back and Danny had been afraid that he had insulted them for a second.

Raven: 2 tell u the truth i don't

Ghost boy: then y r u here?

Raven: friends

Danny couldn't help but grimaced at that. One word said it all. He knew exactly how this person felt.

Raven: how bout u?

Ghost boy: friends 2

Ghost boy: their great but can be a pain sometimes

Raven: got that right

Ghost boy: did they force u into this or did they just sign u up behind your back?

Raven: behind my back, but i thought to just try it out before passing judgment

Ghost boy: true

Raven: i'm so going to make them pay for this though

Ghost boy: sounds like fun, need any help?

Raven: no, i got that covered

Ghost boy: got any ideas to give me? a second opinion would be nice 2 have

Raven: sure but what did you have in mind first?

Danny thought for a moment before a twisted grin came onto his face with a devilish look in his eyes as several possible images passed through his mind. It was true that creativity ran in his family but his appears more in ways to get beck at people.

Ghost boy: i'm not sure yet but it's between decapitation or public humiliation

Raven: on what kind of scale 4 the humiliation?

Ghost boy: i was thinking global or interstellar if i can find a way to get the reception

Raven: nice, i like the way your mind works -

Ghost boy: thanks! it's nice to know that my creativity is appreciated by someone

Ghost boy: how bout u?

Raven: i'm going along the lines in the category 'fate worse than death'

Ghost boy: then feed them my sister's cooking

Raven: how is that a punishment... unless she's a really bad cook

He involuntarily shuddered at the memory of Jazz being in the kitchen trying to actually 'cook' something. It still gave him nightmares when he thought about the experience and now he was probably not going to get any sleep that night thanks to unwanted thoughts of meatloaf.

Ghost boy: you don't know how bad

Raven: it can't be that bad

Ghost boy: let's just say that the food was suppose to be meatloaf but when it came out it was purple and it was blinking at me

Raven: is that even possible?

Ghost boy: i'm not sure but i don't want to find out anytime soon

Raven: agreed but i still can't believe that they did this 2 me

Ghost boy: that's friends 4 u

A blue mist escaped his mouth indicating that a ghost was near.

Ghost boy: got 2 go

Raven: y?

Ghost boy: my sister

Raven: me 2 talk 2 u later then?

Ghost boy: sure

Danny was grateful for the internet at the moment that it was easier to lie to someone without them getting suspicious or revealing anything about his 'side job'.

Transforming into his ghost form and phasing through the ceiling of his room and flying towards where he had sensed the ghost. At the same time Raven was logging off and heading out the door with her team mates to go and face a robbery in the city.

Both unaware of the other's super hero identities.

Ha see they did start chatting in this chapter and I kept my promise. It's not much but I was in a hurry and I can get a bit jittery sitting still for a long time without moving anyone of my muscles for a long time. Hope you all enjoyed this. Now to get to work on my other stories. Chow!