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Ok everyone sorry about the long wait but I hope I justified it with my longest chapter ever of over 5,000 words!
With plans of future chapters under way I realise that the T rating would be efficient for the future chapter. (Don't worry blood may be minimal or non-existent)
I also want to thank everyone for all the reviews and support of the story.
I will also be updating much faster now that summer vacation is starting =D
Chapter 4
'Too much light, so much…light' Danny thought as he moved his hand to the curtains of the window. Danny quickly moved the curtains to block the morning sun. Once the light was blocked by the curtains, Danny turned himself over and tried to get back to sleep.
He was not a morning person, and he was not going to change in a different country.
Danny lay in his bed for half an hour longer, moving very little to try and get himself to sleep. With his attempts thwarted to get more sleep thwarted by the old mattress and squeaky bed frame. The sunlight went through the thin blinds and shined into Danny's closed eyes and annoyed the resting teenager enough for him to get himself up.
Danny shifted his body upwards, finally opening his eyes to gaze on the old dusty room. Still in his ghost form, his green eyes looked over the peeling wallpaper in the room and the small moving portrait of horseman on a dresser across from him. As he stared at the empty room in front of him, the young halfa started to think about what must have been happening in Amity Park.
'Were his friends worrying about him? Would they think that Vlad did something to him? Or would they think that a ghost abducted him in the ghost zone? What would his parents think since they didn't know?'
All these thoughts plagued Danny's mind as he stared at the empty room in front of him. His stomach grumbled in a familiar sound of an eerie moan. 'I need something to distract me from all this and breakfast might just be the thing to do it' Danny thought with a small innocent grin.
Danny started to float towards the door. He phased through the door being too tired to open it, nor willing to care for such a custom at the moment. He made his way down to the front hall, when he made it there he tried to remember where exactly the kitchen was. He remembered the hallway and started to float towards it phasing through anything in his way. He made it to the door of the kitchen, he opened it and fund the room was dramatically different, but not in the way of a simple redecoration.
Instead of an empty uninhabited room like the night before there was the woman from yesterday named Molly giving food out to 6 teens. All of them looked close or exactly Danny's age. With them at the table was a thin, scraggly bearded man sitting at the table.
"Oh, Danny your awake" Molly said in a cheery voice. She started to move towards Danny and motioned him to the end of the table. To Danny, Molly looked kind of depressed whenever she saw Danny but tried to be as cheerful as possible. "She must be unnerved of me being dead, which is kind of true." Danny thought
As Danny moved to the empty seat all the teens were looking at him in fear, awe and curiosity, all at the same time.
"Ahhhhh, Mum what is that?" A red haired teen said in a quivering voice.
"Remember that letter you read a week ago from Lupin." Molly said as Danny sat down beside a girl with bushy mousy brown hair.
"Blimey that's the Phantom from America! Why is he here?" A black haired teen with messy hair said in disbelief.
"He was attacked by a Death Eater yesterday, but thankfully Lupin came in and helped Danny out. Danny was apparated here and will be staying with us until it's safe for him to come back home." Molly said.
"So you were attacked by a Death Eater?" The black haired boy said.
"Yeah, I did." Danny said in a nervous tone towards the teens. He was more than a little unnerved by the stares of fascination from the teens.
"Danny dear, sorry I don't mean to be rude but, do you eat food?" Molly said looking embarrassed to be even asking the ghost the question.
"Yes, I do eat food. And no I'm not offended." Danny answered nicely.
Molly then put food from a pan onto a plate and set it in front of Danny. He then started to eat the breakfast, when Danny looked up he noticed the bearded man and the teens were all staring at him. When Danny was almost finished eating all the food the girl with the brown hair started try some small talk with Danny.
"So, my name is Hermione." She said as she held her hand out to shake. Danny shook her hand trying to be courteous. Following the girls lead, the other teens started to tell Danny their names.
"We're Fred and George Weasley." Two tall twins said simultaneously, both pointing to each other.
"Ginny Weasley" The short, petite red headed girl said nicely.
"Harry Potter" The tall, black haired boy wearing round glasses said with a small grin.
"Ron Weasley" The tall red headed boy said with a shaky voice. When Danny noticed the boy he realized just how pale the boy looked when he spoke to him.
"Sirius Black" The bearded man said gruffly, almost not looking up from his plate of food to meet Danny.
"I'm sure you already know this but I'm Danny Phantom" Danny said with kind greetings.
"So you're a ghost?" Hermione said in curiosity.
"Yep" Danny replied.
Danny didn't want to tell them that he was a half-ghost; magician or not, no one will know his secret.
"How did you die?" Ginny said
Danny was caught guard by this question and started to think of an answer. 'Should I truthful or say nothing.' Danny thought grimly
"I...I died...in a lab accident" Danny said stuttering in a sad tone. He looked down depressed as he started thinking of his family and friends who must have been worried sick about him.
"You poor dear" Molly said in a worried and sad tone.
"Oh, I'm sorry… I shouldn't have asked you something private like that." Ginny said looking as though she'd done something wrong.
Danny looked up at the red head and gave her a smile saying "It's alright, you were just curious."
"How are you solid?" Hermione asked suddenly to Danny.
Danny looked at her with a raised eyebrow before he answered. "Well yeah, I've always been solid. Every other ghost that I've met has been solid, but can choose to be intangible just like me."
"Well every ghost we've seen at Hogwarts is permanently intangible." Hermione said in a matter of fact tone.
"Maybe…..your ghosts are different than the ones back in Amity Park." Danny answered simply, not knowing how there could be a difference.
"Wait? Is there a ghost portal at… Hogwarts, is it?" Danny said trying to rack his brain to remember the name of the magical school.
"Ghost portal?" Harry said with curiosity glinting in his eyes.
"You know, a portal to the dimension of ghosts?" Danny said while looking at all of the teens in the room. "You don't know about the ghost zone?" Danny said.
"Should we know about it?" Molly asked curiously, her face grim with concern
"Not really, I'm just surprised. You're all are witches and wizards and a ghost portal is practically magic." Danny said.
"So, in Amity Park there are ghosts that are solid just like you?" Ginny asked.
"Yeah." Danny answered.
All the teens stared at Danny with wonder but he just ignored them by starting to eat again.
When Danny looked up at Ron across the table he noticed that Ron was extremely pale but not a natural pale but more like "fear". It saddened Danny that he was making Ron so afraid by just sitting there, but what could he do. He supposed to be a ghost, and people were afraid of ghosts.
When they were done their breakfast Molly told the kids to get ready to clean the spare room on the third floor. "Molly I won't be able to help out, I need to work on something in Buckbeak's room" Sirius said.
"All right Sirius, we'll manage without you." Molly said.
Everyone got up grumpily and started to mumble their discontent on the job ahead of them. Danny with nothing to do, followed the teens up stairs towards a room at the end of the hall.
Once the door of the room was opened the terrible smell of something rotting reached Danny nose. Everyone else smelt it and started to cough from the terrible smell.
When the light was turned on, Danny saw a dusty, cobwebbed room. On the walls were multiple paintings that were moving, talking and interacting with each other. There were also two grand chairs with a side table beside the chairs covered in a brown sticky mess that didn't resemble anything that Danny has seen before. Above the whole room was a grand chandelier that looked more like a cocoon of webs.
All the teens plugged their noses and started to wipe away the cobwebs all, shifting the thick layers of dust and to Ron's dismay, cleaning the mysterious brown substance from the table.
Danny looked around feeling very useless as Molly Weasley walked in and started to help with the cleaning.
Danny felt entitled to try and help the people who'd given him shelter and saved his afterlife so he decided to help with the cleaning.
Danny floated over to and asked Molly if there was any way he can help with the cleaning.
"Of course dear" Molly responded as she reached into a bucket she had with her and gave him a towel.
Danny looked down at the towel and looking a little embarrassed asked. "Can I have 3 more please?"
"Why would you need four towels?" Molly asked with a confused look.
"You'll see." Danny said with a smirk.
Looking into the bucket again she passed him three other small towels. With the towels in his hands Danny started to focus on splitting himself into 3 more duplicates.
As Danny focused more the original Danny started to grow outwards until another Danny Phantom was formed. This continued as more Danny's were slowly formed. When the 4th Danny was formed the four Danny's flew over to their respective sides and started to clean like the others. Everyone in the room was dumbfounded looking at the four Danny's cleaning up the room.
Seeing this display made Ron paler in fear than ever before. Danny felt sorry that he was making someone his own age so afraid of him.
"Dude, how did you do that?" Fred and George said in unison.
"A power that took me forever to learn." One of the Danny's answered while they scrubbed away at the mess. "You should have seen one of my first duplications I tried to do. I literally had a second head for about a minute and when I went back to normal I had one eye." Another Danny said from across the room. "It was really creepy." The third Danny said.
"Can you form more?" Hermione said.
"No, I've only been able to make four." Danny said in a solemn tone.
All the Danny's continued to make quick work of the cleaning, reaching places that the others couldn't reach with his flight.
"It's really great to have you around Phantom, now we have four more people to help instead of one!" Hermione said cheerfully.
Through the hours of work Danny found out more about the magical boarding school, Hogwarts. As Danny listened to the many stories of Hogwarts, the more he believed that Hogwarts can be a dream school. The young ghost kid couldn't believe that could ever be possible after his horrible experiences in Casper High.
With the help of the ghost duplicates, they all had finished cleaning the room in record time, so Molly decided to give the teens free time for the rest of the afternoon. She also reminded them all that they had to clean some more later for the Order's meeting.
All the teens went to the kitchen/dining room where Ron and Harry started to play some sort of magical chess, Hermione started to read a book that made Danny very confused based solely on the title, Fred and George were tinkering with some sort of mechanism that they explained was supposed to grab onto peoples legs when they're sleeping to scare them and Ginny started to play around with her hair.
Danny with nothing to do sat cross legged in a meditative position to try to calm him down from the stress of the past 24 hours. 'It hasn't even been 24 hours since leaving Amity Park and finding out about existence of magic.' Danny thought in dismay. He tried to block out these thoughts with clear thinking and a clear mind.
He had only recently started to do meditation after the suggestion from Sam. She thought that it was wise for him to keep a clear mind with all the stress and crazy stuff that happens in his everyday life. Though he didn't want to admit it to Sam, but he had enjoyed the times where he successfully mediated all his stresses away.
10 minutes through his meditation he felt the feeling of the ground from his legs alleviate from him. 'Wow I must be floating off the ground' Danny thought to himself.
Danny opened his eyes a tiny bit to see how far off the ground he was. He was floating 3 feet in the air, bobbing up and down like a lure in water.
When he observed the others in the room he found that most of them had just turned away. 'Were they staring at me while I was meditating?' Danny thought.
This annoyed Danny, but what did he expect he was new here after all. It also didn't hurt that he was a ghost. Everyone had a fascination with them.
One hour later...
Danny now being unable to continue meditating started to form ice into different shapes at his pleasure while floating cross legged.
Hermione peering over her book at Danny noticed the small ice morphing into different shapes floating above Danny's hand. "How are you doing that?" Hermione asked.
"I can control and form ice." Danny said matter of factly.
Danny continued on his work trying to complete an ice duplicate of Clockworks pendants.
"That's amazing. Is there anything else you can do with that power?" Hermione asked with a giddy expression.
"Sure" Danny said in a smile as he formed the ice into snowball in his hand. Danny looked around for a victim of the snowball only to notice Fred and George pointing at Ron.
Danny gave a quick nod to the twins and threw the snowball at the back of Ron's head. The impact splattered all over the place, it was a perfect hit. Ron had the snow all over his head, in his eyes, ears, hair, just about everywhere.
Harry and the twins burst out laughing hysterically, while Ginny and Hermione giggled uncontrollably. Danny started to form the snow he'd just formed back into a ball leaving Ron's head snow and ice free. The ball started to form into a "U OK?" in front of Ron's face. Ron stared at the message and looked back at Danny saying "You better run when its winter cause I'm going to get you back!"
Danny smiled "I look forward to it."
With the snowball incident finished everyone went back to what they were doing. Danny had started to make figurines of Cujo or even a Dumpty Humpty logo. Hermione and Ginny had even asked him to make some things out of the ice.
Danny even started to combine the ice with his green ectoplasm ray when Hermione asked him an unexpected question, "What did you do in Amity Park Danny?
Danny looked up at Hermione and started to scratch the back of his head awkwardly saying "I'd stop all the evil ghosts that caused destruction on Amity Park."
"So, you fought evil ghosts?" Harry said, jumping into the conversion.
"Yeah, almost daily"
"That must have sucked." Ron said, his face no long pale in fear towards Danny.
"Yay, it really did suck sometimes, but if I'm not going to do it then who will?" Danny answered nobly.
An awkward silence followed that only Fred and George could silence with wit and charm.
"Hey Phantom, tell us about one of your many days of fighting ghosts." Fred and George said in perfect symmetry.
"Sure but what type of story do you want, depressing, funny or serious." Danny said with seriousness.
Fred, George said funny, Ron couldn't decide, Harry and Hermione said serious and Ginny said depressing just to be the unimportant vote.
Danny thought up the perfect story that wouldn't give away his identity and would be entertaining enough for them.
"OK, I have the perfect one and it's kind of funny." Danny said.
"A few months ago I was trying to create a map of the Ghost Zone so I wouldn't get lost all the time. I was getting nowhere with the map until I met a ghost named Frostbite. Frostbite was the leader of an advanced civilization that had created many amazing items. Knowing that I was lost he took me to his village in Realm of the Far Frozen and gave me the Infi-Map to get home. The Infi-Map is a magical map that literally takes you exactly where you want to go with just a thought and since the ghost zone can have natural portals that can open at any time and any place. The map is basically a time machine in the human dimension. Frostbite was going to take me back to Amity Park by using the map but I accidently left without Frostbite. When I got back I knew I had to give it back to Frostbite, but I really wanted to see some unexplored parts of Ghost Zone, so I fooled around with it. The map took me to a natural portal and before I knew it I was under the bed of a random 10 year old in 1944. I accidently scared the child and went back into the ghost zone.
Danny stopped talking as Fred and George started laughing. Hermione started giving them a glare and told Danny to continue.
"Anyways, as the Infi-Map was showing me more of the ghost zone I found another natural portal. I was curious about the portal so I went inside. Instead of 1944, this portal took me to the Salem in the 1860's. When I was returning back to the portal, one of the ghosts I always face Vlad Plasmius stole the map. I put a tracker on him and found it took me to another natural portal where I found myself in the Roman Coliseum where Vlad was the Emperor of the Roman Empire. He made me fight the lions in the coliseum. When I defeated them I started to fight Vlad where he accidentally destroyed the streets below. The people no longer had him as there emperor so he fled to through the natural portal to gain power in another time period. I followed him to feudal Japan where he wanted to become the ruler of the monks. Our fight destroyed the temple so he fled again with the map. The map is very magical, so instead of taking him where he wanted to go it took him to where he needed to go which was straight to Frostbite who froze him to get the map. Vlad escaped later but he no longer had the map which went back into the vault where it came from." Danny finished.
"I bet you he's just yanking our chains, no way you've gone back in time!" Ron said.
"No, that's the straight up truth; I'm even in the picture with the Wright Brothers right after their flying machine was successful, because of me flying it." Danny said looking down in embarrassment.
"Really!" Hermione said clearly interested.
"Yeah, Plasmius wanted to destroy it to make himself more powerful in the present if humans couldn't fly." Danny explained.
"This Plasmius sounds like a smart guy." Harry muttered softly.
"Well he's threatening in his own ways but compared to some other foes I've faced. He's tame. The guy can be downright crazy at times…now what about this Voldemort that the Order is fighting. I've heard that he's quite powerful."
Danny noticed that most of them cringed at the sound of the name leaving Danny very puzzled. "What has he done to get everyone so afraid that even the sound of his name causes them fear?" Danny thought grimly.
"Well you see Voldemort... and his followers had basically gone around killing muggles, muggle-borns or anyone that had gotten in their way about 16 years ago." Hermione said having difficultly saying the evil wizard's name.
"Everyone was afraid for their lives and the Ministry was doing nothing, so Dumbledore had created the Order to combat them" Ron said darkly.
"Voldemort was stopped because his curse backfired on himself when he attempted to kill me, but not before killing my parents." Harry said with a cringe and sullen shoulders.
"After that all of his followers just split up and ran panicking that their leader was dead so the ministry cleaned up, trying to catch all of the Death Eaters but some said that they were controlled" Ginny said.
"I am sorry about your parents, that must be rough" Danny said sympathetically.
Harry didn't answer, he just sat silently as though he didn't want to answer. 'Poor guy' Danny thought.
"So if he was defeated 16 years ago. How did he come back?" Danny questioned.
"He got one of his old followers to rig a tournament for me to win and get myself to where he was able to perform a magical ceremony. In order to get his body back, he required the blood of Voldemort's number one enemy. He chose me as his greatest enemy... After he got his body back, he forced me to duel him." Harry answered in a dark tone.
Danny didn't know what to say. He'd gone through some rough stuff, but he'd never had a time where he was the one listening to someone's story of hell. 'Sam and Tucker must go through this all the time?'
Danny now held a greater appreciation for his friends support.
An awkward silence followed and was cut abruptly by Molly bursting through the kitchen door. "OK everyone I'm running late and I need some helpers to get this place ready for the meeting tonight."
Everyone jumped, being startled by Molly's sudden reappearance. They'd started to get up and get plates out and glasses out on the table.
Danny stood there confused about what he should do at the moment. He got up and asked them how he could help.
Molly told him to help with cutting some of the vegetables, he obeyed and started to chop up some carrots.
As dinner was being eaten Danny was approached by Molly saying that he was not to be down here for the meeting tonight. Danny nodded and continued to eat his dinner.
Danny was just finishing his dinner when an old man with a very long white beard wearing a blue robe with half-moon spectacles came through the door. His appearance seemed to surprise everyone in the room, as he walked into the dining room he spoke to Molly. "Molly, can I talk to Phantom for a moment before everyone else arrives."
"Of course, of course, do you want to use the dining room?" Molly replied
"That would be lovely Molly." Dumbledore said courteously
"You heard Dumbledore. He needs to talk to Danny alone, so scoot, scoot." Mrs. Weasley told the teens with haste.
Once they were alone in the room Dumbledore turned to Danny. "Now I think proper introductions are in order. I'm Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts and the leader of the Order of the Phoenix." The old man said nicely.
Dumbledore motioned his hand towards a chair and told Danny to sit. Danny obeyed but still eyed Dumbledore with caution. He still didn't know if he can trust the old man just yet.
Dumbledore spotted this caution and quelled Danny's worries. "I'm not a danger to you Danny I just merely want to speak to you face to face." Dumbledore said reassuringly.
Danny let down some caution and took a seat still eyeing Dumbledore for any lies and deceit, but found none. "Now Danny, I would like to speak to you about your situation here and your future plans."
"How long do you think I'm stuck here?" Danny questioned.
"My contact watching the Death Eaters told me that there are 3 of them looking for you. I'd estimate you'll be here for 2 weeks, considering how which value you are to the Death Eaters. Now in order for you to stay here I will need you to know that I can trust you and to trust you I will need to know all of your abilities."
"Why would you need to know that?" Danny said apprehensively.
"I need to ensure the safety of my friends in the Order, just in case I make a bad choice in judgement." Dumbledore said all knowingly.
Danny paused for a moment thinking over Dumbledore's question and the consequences of telling him his powers. On one hand it could leave Danny vulnerable if they all decided to attack him but these people were protecting him and he felts as though he needed to gain their trust.
Danny sighed as the argument in his mind was still raging in his mind. 'Should he or should he not, should he or should he not.' It echoed in his mind.
After what felt like forever Danny replied "Sure I'll show you what I can do." Danny didn't really understand why but just by talking to this man made him feel safe. He trusted this man even though he didn't even remember his first name.
Danny quickly went through his skills that he had as a ghost. From intangibility, invisibility, to his ecto rays. Danny even demonstrated a few of powers to Dumbledore, like his cytokinesis. Though he kept some of his powers private from Dumbledore, like his stronger senses, ghostly wail and ghost sense.
When Danny had finished listing his powers, the old man looked impressed to the ghost boy with curiosity sparkling in his eyes. This made Danny very curious about what the man was possibly thinking about.
"Those powers are quite impressive Danny, and judging on some of your demonstrations you seem quite adept at using them." Dumbledore said graciously.
"Yeah, it took a while to master all of them but I guess fighting ghosts on a daily basis would force me to learn how to use them." Danny said with a chuckle.
"Everyday you say?"
"Yep, even saved the world a few times." Danny said with a shrug.
"Is that true?" Dumbledore said in curiosity.
"Uhhhhh, yeah." Danny deadpanned, not sure how he can explain it all.
Dumbledore sat there staring at Danny and told him "When there is more time to spare you will have to tell me more about yourself. But now is not the time." Dumbledore paused and blue eyes stared into the glowing green eyes of Danny.
"The reason I have come to meet you is to judge and decide if the Order can truly trust you to join the Order. I've decided that you can be trusted in the House of Black. As Lupin told you yesterday, we would like you to join the Order. Your abilities would be invaluable in the fight against Voldemort."
Dumbledore paused as he stared into Danny's eyes. As Danny stared into Dumbledore eyes his head felt strange, as though the man was staring straight into his thoughts. Danny quickly glanced away from Dumbledore's eyes.
"I need to think about this. I have responsibilities back at Amity Park and can't just leave them. I'm sorry but this decision is too large to make without weighing out the pros and cons."
Dumbledore nodded "That is quite all right Danny. I will be here at the next meeting in 3 days; you can tell me your decision then."
Dumbledore stood up from his chair and started to walk towards the door. "Um mister Dumbledore, sir, is there any way to contact some people back in my home town?"
"Of course you may borrow an owl from the Weasley's." Dumbledore then hastily took out a pocket watch from his pocket and quickly looked at it and put it back in his pocket, "Now I really must be going, members of the Order are have most likely started to arrive, I must be there to greet them."
"Wait what do you mean borrow an owl?" Danny questioned.
"Just ask the others for an owl and they'll explain what to do for you. Now I really must be going." Dumbledore said.
Dumbledore opened the door for Danny as he rushed out the room. The ghost teen flew through the ceiling, into the hallway only to find the teens pulling up a cord with an ear attached to it.
"Hey what's that?"
"It's nothing" Most of the teens abruptly said in surprise of Danny's abrupt appearance.
"No, seriously that's an ear on a string." Danny said in disgust.
All of them remained silent as if speaking would blow some sort of secret. Danny just stared with some irritation.
"Alright fine don't speak, all I wanted was to ask someone what Dumbledore meant by borrowing an owl" Danny said in irritation.
"I'll help you out Danny." Hermione said kindly.
As they started to walk away he heard Ron whisper with his unnatural hearing "Wow that was a close one. What do you think he'd do if he knew we spied in on his conversion?"
"I don't know, he seems nice, but he is still a ghost" Harry said softly.
'Huh, so that ear on the string gave them the ability to hear our conversion.' Danny thought amazed.
Hermione then started to walk to what Danny assumed was the room she was staying in. The room had two beds, a window hanging over one of the beds and a desk in the middle of the two beds; he also noticed the tidiness of one side of the room and the messiness of the other. The room had pieces of the wallpaper peeling off the wall, just like the rest of the home.
On the desk were papers in a neat order with some neat writing on them. Danny assumed that Hermione must be doing some type of work of some sort in her free time and kept her side of the room tidy. Ginny must have owned the other side of the room, making this the girl's room.
Hermione took out a clean piece of parchment and explained how wizards and witches use owls to send messages instead of technology.
Danny wrote out a quick letter for Sam thinking that she'd be the most likely person to accept a message from an owl. He explained about his safe well-being, he tried to tell her to not worry about him and that he'll be home as soon as possible.
Satisfied with his work he told Hermione that he was finished. She brought a little brown owl and attached a note on the owl (but this was very difficult because of the not being able to stand in one place)
Once it was all finished Hermione opened the window and let the owl fly. "How will the owl know where to go?" Danny asked curiously.
"The owl just...knows" Hermione said hesitantly, as if she didn't understand herself.
Hermione got up and left the room while Danny watched the small owl fly away in the night sky. The stars were out and Danny couldn't help but look up at the sky that was beckoning him to fly home. But, he knew he had to stay because of the danger he was in.
'I hope the others will understand...' Danny thought in dismay.
Edited and Posted on May. 7th/2012
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