Chapter 2
The sun soaked the city of Amity Park in a peaceful and serene sky up above. 'A perfect day for flying' Danny thought with a smile.
The past week had been great for Danny, no ghosts or ghost hunters attacking him, as well as lots of time to hang out with Tucker and Sam. Which all made for a great week of summer vacation.
Danny was flying through the air making flips and loops, making a good time of the non-existent ghost attacks over the past week. "It's almost too good to true." Danny thought.
It was mid-August and Danny had been enjoying his summer. 'But, anything could be better than last summer.' Danny thought to himself, remembering last summer's fiasco searching for the pieces of the Reality Gauntlet with his family and friend's families being captured while being found out by everyone that he was Danny Phantom.
It was last month when Danny went on a camping trip with his family. It was good time, even though his Mum turned the marshmallows alive and had them sprung loose. Leaving Danny and Jazz have to watch embarrassed as Dad asked anyone if they had seen any of them, which turned out to be pretty destructive marshmallows.
Back at home Danny's summer consisted of spending most of his time with his friends Tucker and Sam. They mostly hung out at Sam's watching movies, eating at Nasty Burger, playing DOOM and even going to the water park once in a while. They even helped out with the ghost hunting that Danny had to deal with.
Danny swooped down lower to the ground when he heard someone yell from below. Out of nowhere a red beam shot out from an alley nearly hitting him. "What was that!" Danny said in surprise.
Danny turned and flew towards where the shot came from, only to find a man with a black cloak and a white mask covering the person's face. The man's appearance gave Danny the creeps and he'd fought some truly scary enemies.
"Ah, Danny Phantom we meet at last." The masked man said coldly, his voice rough and tough sounding.
Danny was ready for anything from the masked man considering the red beam was probably fired by the cloaked figure. "What do you want from me?" Danny said looking straight into the man's mask.
"Good, you're straight to the point. I like that Danny. It's a trait that everyone should learn." The cloaked man said with a twisted pride. "I'm from Britain and my master would like to recruit you to our cause."
"What exactly is your cause?" Danny asked the cloaked man, looking at him sceptically.
"There's a coming war, and my master would like your help with eradicating the mudbloods and putting the muggles in their rightful place in the world." The cloaked man said believing every word of it.
Danny on the other hand regarded the man to be crazy. And if he was crazy, then he's crazy with a weapon.
"Ummm, excuse me but what exactly is... a muggle and mud-blood." Danny said confused, trying to play along.
"Muggles are non-magical swine and mud-bloods are muggles borns that were lucky enough to have magic in their dirty veins." The cloaked man says.
Danny's anger rose when he realized that the man before him was asking him if he wanted to kill innocent people. Danny started to clench his hands into fists as a green aura started to surround his fists. "So you're asking me to kill innocent lives because you think you're better than them!" Danny said angrily.
The cloaked man was surprised by Danny's response and aggressive stance. "Understand Phantom, that my master doesn't take no for an answer." He said in an angry hiss.
"If your master is asking me to kill then my answer will always be a no" Danny said still in his aggressive stance.
"You will join us whether you like it or not" The man hissed strongly.
"Never" Danny spat. Wasting no time Danny quickly launched two ecto beams at the man but in a perfect roll the cloaked man dodged the beams and withdrew a small wooden stick.
The cloaked man waved the stick in a fluid motion and yelled "Crucio."
Danny instantly fell on the ground, his muscles muscles spasming and bones feeling like they had been set on fire. The pain was unbearable and wouldn't stop no matter what Danny did as he squirmed on the ground. It felt like he was being cooked while being sliced into pieces at the same time.
Danny heard the man say something else and the pain suddenly went away but the lasting damage was already done on Danny. He gasped for air and felt blood coming up his throat as he started to choke on his own ectoplasmic blood. Danny heard footsteps coming towards him and looked up to see the cloaked man walking over with a triumphant step in his walk.
"You are strange one Phantom, I didn't think that ghosts could bleed, which could make this a lot of fun." The cloaked man said to the choking halfa, pointing his wand at him.
Danny started to get up as his strength returned but was stopped as he was kicked in the side by the man. Danny started gasping for air again as Danny rolled in pain.
The cloaked man looked like he was enjoying himself as he watched the Danny whither in pain. He pointed the stick at Danny again. "Let's see if this spell works on ghosts?" The cloaked man said.
Imper—. Just when the spell was being finished a blue beam came from the entrance of the alley and launched the cloaked man 10 feet back. With a loud thud the man landed right on his back.
Danny looked over his shoulder at the entrance of the alley only to see a scraggly middle aged man with brown and grey hair in worn out and torn clothes. The man started to step towards Danny when a red beam came at the rescuer. The rescuer waved his wand upwards blocking the spell and shot a spell of his own.
Danny watched in awe for a moment as the two men duelled each other using only sticks and strange sounding words. Somehow these words had made the stick burst out beams and shields out of thin air that could have devastating effects on their target.
This duel continued long enough for Danny to gather enough energy to phase himself underneath the ground, gathering enough speed towards the cloaked man, Danny came up from underneath the ground and got both fists on the chin of the cloaked figure.
The cloaked man's mask shattered as Danny launched him ten feet with the powerful punch. On impact, the man went completely limp. His body flailed through the air and gravity then started to bring him down. Right when he going to land head first on the pavement his fall was stopped to a halt, making the man somehow float in midair.
Danny looked over at the man who had rescued him, who had his wand withdrawn as he made some movements with the wand towards the cloaked figure, which slowly laid the man to the ground.
As Danny's adrenaline faded away Danny started to notice the pain that had been inflicted by the cloaked man's curse.
"We have to leave right now, there might be more out there." The middle aged man said.
"Wait what's going on here? How did he cause all that pain without hitting me?" Danny said in confused to the scraggly man.
"There's no time Phantom. I'll explain later once were safe. Now grab onto me." Danny's rescuer said in urgency.
Danny was a little sceptical when he saw the man's hand held out for him. "How do I know I can trust you?" Danny says.
"You're just going to have to" The man said in urgency.
'Can I trust this guy? I mean he did save me from the masked man...He's probably here to help me.' Danny thought.
Danny started to slowly approach the man and had his hand make contact with the man's hand. Danny's rescuer flinched when Danny had grabbed his hand because of the cold coming from Danny's ghostly body.
"OK, now hold on tight." The man said.
"Appareo"
Just as Danny's shabby looking rescuer said the incantation, another man in the exact same cloak and mask as the other man before ran into the alley stick pointed at Danny when a green beam came right towards him and his rescuer, then everything suddenly went black.
Danny felt his body being pushed down by an invisible force pushing down, crunching his chest as it was pushed down to its limit. Danny's nose felt like it was touching the back of his skull while his eyes felt like they're were going to burst. 'It feels like I'm being rammed down a pipe.' Danny thought in distaste.
When the pressure was at its worst the pressure started to stop. His body started to get itself back into the right order of things, the pain was before going away in a flash. Danny was relieved for the freedom from the freedom, then suddenly the darkness around him faded away and a dark street started to come into view.
Danny stumbled onto the street gasping for air and his head feeling light and dizzy, trying desperately to keep his balance.
The man started walking across the dark street passing by old style British homes.
"What was that?" Danny asked in between deep breathes as he tried to keep up with the man, his stomach feeling like it'll keel over at any moment.
"That was apparition, but I'll explain more when we get inside." The man said.
With that the man stopped walking and turned around to face Danny. He then dug his hand into his pocket and took out a small piece of paper.
"Read it, but don't say it out loud." The man told Danny strictly.
Danny nodded and looked down at the slip of paper, reading the message on the paper, 'The Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London'
"Wait...London! I'm in-"
"Shh!" The man quickly shushed him up before he could say anything more. "I'll explain inside.
The man then took the paper and burnt it with the stick the man was holding. No sparks or flames came out of the stick, the page literally just combusted on the spot. "How did you do that?" Danny asked getting more confused by the second.
"More on that later Phantom, now think of the contents of the paper and we'll be our way." The man said in a rushed tone.
As Danny thought of the message that was written on paper, clearly confused by what the Order of the Phoenix was or if he truly was in London, "This guy is crazy, there's no number twelve here, there's only eleven and thirteen. This Order is probably just a bunch of-"
Suddenly the houses eleven and thirteen in front of Danny started to slowly split apart, the people inside oblivious of the building coming out in between the two, revealing number twelve Grimmauld Place.
The man walked up to the door that had just appeared and knocked on the door. Danny heard some shuffling on the other side and a woman that appeared to be in her 40's, was very short with red hair answered the door. "Hello Remus I wasn't expecting you back so-Merlin's beard what is that!" she exclaimed.
Danny looked at the red haired woman with surprise, but when he thought about, he did look strange to any common person in his ghost form.
Just as Danny was going to say something in his defence the man stepped in. "Molly he's the Phantom that I was looking for in America and when I found him he was being attacked by a Death Eater. When we escaped, another one saw us, so we need to get inside right now!"
The man stepped inside ignoring the woman named Molly motioning for Danny to follow.
Danny looked at the two of them sceptically, not sure if he should come inside.
'You could run right now Fenton, nothing's stopping you. You can't trust these people, you just met them...' Danny thought, clearly thinking over the consequences of running.
And with a test of faith, Danny drifted forward, past the woman inside Grimmauld Place.
When the door closed the lanky man turned around to Danny.
"Hello my name is Remus Lupin and welcome to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix."
Editted and posted: Apr.30/2012
And so ends the chapter.
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Until next time,
Prophet =P