Finally finished this chapter. Sorry about the wait.
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Now, on to the story.
Chapter 7
It was mass hysteria in Grimmauld Place; everyone was stressed over their last minute packing, checking over all of their possessions and stuffing it away into their large trunks. They also had to be on time.
"You idiots you could have seriously injured her!" Molly screamed from downstairs, loud enough to wake up the screaming portrait of Mrs. Black.
Danny plugged his ears trying to block out the two screaming woman. 'Sometimes a better sense of hearing can be a curse.'
The twins with their love of no restrictions to using magic had enchanted their trunks to fly down the stairs instead of carrying them. Instead they had hit Ginny, which knocked her down the stairs. Luckily, Danny was there to catch her before she could tumble the down the rest of the way, leaving her in pretty good shape.
Danny's world had now been turned upside down since the start of August; here he was in a magical home, helping a magical organization in a magical war. 'Not to mention moving to a magical school!' Danny thought in excitement.
Danny was ecstatic, in the many meetings that Danny had with Dumbledore, he had decided that it would be best that Danny went to Hogwarts so he could be in close proximity with Dumbledore and kids his age. Instead of just sitting around in Grimmauld Place with Sirius Black.
Danny thanked Dumbledore a countless amount of times for letting him go and live at Hogwarts but the old Headmaster just told him that it was his pleasure.
But whenever there's good, there's also the bad. Danny had written a letter to Sam, Tucker and Jazz to tell them that he was going to be away for a while and told them as much as he was allowed to tell, which wasn't a lot of information for their benefit.
Danny had been even been to his first meeting with the Order a few days ago. Some people had protested Danny's inclusion but Dumbledore had put up a good argument for Danny. Danny quickly got filled in on the current missions of the Order. Like what needed to be done and dealt with by the Order.
Finding out about the prophecy about Harry in the Department of Mysteries was a huge shock to Danny. But, he kept to his word and no matter how much the others begged he ignored them and didn't answer their questions. 'Though I'd love to hear what the prophecy says about him!'
Once everyone was ready to go, they all went in formation and started to walk to Kings Cross Station.
Danny's task of staying invisible watching for any danger from above the car was extremely boring.
Finally, the group had made it to Kings Cross, though later than expected, though Hermione had warned Danny that this happened nearly every year for the Weasley family. Harry and Ron had even missed the train before!
Danny gazed in wonder at the magical platform of 9 ¾. The whole platform was littered with oddly dressed people all giving their goodbyes to their kids. The magical portal to the platform really threw him off guard. Seeing people disappear through a wall wasn't anything he had expected from today.
All the teens said their goodbyes and rushed onto the train just as the horn sounded. Danny floated invisible beside Mad-Eye and Sirius in his dog form. The two of them were watching the train start to move and pick up steam for the trip to Hogwarts.
Danny watched as everyone started to wave to all the kids. His stomach started to knot as he thought of his family and friends as he watched everyone waving their goodbyes to their kid.
'They must be worried sick about me.' Danny thought miserably. He knew it was complicated to tell even Sam, Tucker and Jazz but to tell his parents why he left so suddenly and unexpectly wasn't fair to them.
'What am I going to say to them when I return? Hey guys, I left you all so I can help the good guys in a magical war! Yeah, like that was going to happen.' Danny thought disappointed.
The train started to pick up speed and leave the platform completely, as Danny watched the train just about leave he felt a chill go through his chest and form a blue fog coming out of his mouth. 'Oh no! Not here, not now!'
Danny started to scan all around the station for the ghost but was nowhere to be seen. 'Dang, must be invisible'
Danny turned to Mad-Eye and quickly whispered "Mad-Eye there's a ghost in here, I don't if it's a friend or foe so I'm going to leave the station just in case there's collateral damage."
Mad-Eye nearly jumped from Danny's silent outburst and began to alertly look around the station, Sirius' dog ears perked up and soon he was watching the surroundings of the station for any sign of danger.
Danny started to fly to the outside and as he left the chill in his chest grew stronger as he floated high in the air. Just as Danny was out of anyone's sight he turned visible and got ready for any attacks.
Instead he heard a deep voice from behind him. "Aren't you a little a bit far from home whelp?"
As Danny was turning around to meet the voice a powerful green energy blasted him in the back, he started to lose altitude but he quickly righted himself and turned around to meet a glowing 7 foot robot with a green flaming goatee and hair smiling evilly towards Danny.
"Skulker? What are you doing here?"
"You can't escape me whelp, I am Skulker the ghost zone's greatest hunter"
"Why don't you be the ghost zone's greatest hunter back in the ghost zone!"
Danny shot a green ecto beam from his palm right into Skulker's chest. Skulker flew 5 feet back from the hit, only to look amused by Danny's effort to hurt him.
"You're going to have to do better than that whelp."
Skulker extended a missile launcher from his shoulder and shot multiple missiles towards Danny. Danny quickly flew through the air trying to run from the missiles while shooting some of the missiles with ecto beams. He was very successful at this but Danny wasn't fast enough as one of the missile exploded right into his chest.
Danny flew backwards trying to right his flight, but just as he gained control Skulker flew straight at Danny and tackled him. Skulker was driving Danny towards the ground when Danny turned himself intangible and shot a beam of ice into the back of Skulker who just flexed to break off the ice, but this gave Danny enough time to fly straight at Skulker and delivered a combo of punches at Skulker.
Just as Danny was going to deliver another punch into Skulker's face, the mechanical ghost grabbed Danny's fist and punched Danny hard into the face and followed that with a head butt to the face. The blows to the face dazed him, making his vision blurry.
"I'm curious ghost child. Why did you leave?" Skulker taunted.
Danny didn't answer and tried to punch Skulker with his free hand but Skulker effortlessly caught it and smiled at his foe before saying "It leaves my employer very perplexed. I mean why would you of all people, leave your town defenceless."
At the mere mention of Plasmius Danny started to channel to his ice power through his hands and into Skulker's mechanical hands. While Skulker's hands turned to ice Danny pulled his legs towards Skulker's chest. Just as Danny's legs were on Skulker's chest, he kicked outwards which shattered Skulker's mechanical hands.
Danny did a quick back flip, once he floating straight up he blasted Skulker with a powerful blast of ectoplasmic energy.
Skulker went flying back fast and furious, he tried to control his fall with an added boost from his jetpacks but Skulker was going too fast for the jetpacks to do any help.
Skulker continued to fall until he landed right on top of a train car on the Hogwarts Express.
Skulker's impact had shaken the whole car, scaring all the kids inside the car. His mechanical body had also left a big crater in the metal of the train car's roof.
Skulker was dazed as he tried to recuperate from Danny's ecto blast. He slowly got up, only to be punched hard again, right in the head. Another punch was coming but the ghost blocked it and swiftly punched Danny down into the train with his metal knobs.
Danny quickly became intangible and went right through the train.
Once Danny recovered from the throw, he flew back up to the roof only to find it vacant. Danny heard a charging sound and instant pain in his back. The blast had thrown Danny right off the train; he recovered and found Skulker equipping one of his blasters smiling at the halfa.
"Why are you after me Skulker!"
"Plasmius is desperate to find you ghost kid, desperate enough to have a hefty reward for whoever can capture you."
"Plasmius has a reward for me?"
Skulker had two huge blades come out of his metal knobs, and continued to glare at Danny. "He never did specify how good of a condition you could be in. All it says is for you to be brought back alive"
Skulker quickly jumped out at Danny, who narrowly dodged the hunter. Once Danny was out of Skulker's range, Danny shot beams of ice towards Skulker.
Skulker dodged the beams and shot some of his arm-cannons. Danny dodged the blasts desperately but some the blasts had hit the train car behind Danny. 'I got to get this fight away from the train.' Danny thought.
Danny then burst at his top speed straight at Skulker. The hunter swiped with one of his arm blades, Danny dodged it and kicked Skulker straight into the chest. The mechanical ghost recoiled from the impact but Danny didn't give him any time to recover and quickly blasted Skulker with a powerful ice beam.
The ice started to solidify around Skulker's whole body but Danny didn't let up on the blast. Danny continued the blast and it started to solidify around Skulker. Skulker struggled trying to break the ice but Danny just covered any cracks that Skulker had made in the ice cocoon.
Skulker stared in shock as his whole body was covered in multiple layers of ice, except for his head.
Danny floated up to Skulker who glared with menacingly over the ghost teen. "The hunt is not over whelp, I will return to finish it."
"No Skulker, this is over."
Danny then fazed into Skulker's mechanical head and pulled out a small green glob figure out from the head.
"Now tell Plasmius to leave me alone" Danny said dryly before throwing Skulker as hard as he could in the distance.
Danny watched as Skulker went flying through the air cursing Danny as he went farther and farther away.
'Why can't they just leave me alone?' Danny thought with a scowl.
But that was just hope for Danny, he knew that Skulker was just the beginning of a coming onslaught. Other ghosts were going to go after him for Plasmius reward.
'The others must be wondering if whatever made that dent is still out there…it probably really spooked them.'
Danny flew off to the moving train and turned invisible and intangible to faze into the train car. Danny saw that most of the people in the train car were spooked by whatever had dented the train. As Danny listened to some of the conversions he found some ridiculous theories, but most of the kids and teens were afraid that whatever had dented the train would come back.
Danny started to look for Harry, Hermione or any of the Weasley's. He finally found the car that Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were in, but it seemed they were joined with a girl with blonde hair and a brown haired boy with very plump cheeks holding a strange looking plant. All their attention was on a boy with slicked blonde hair joined by two large looking teens with dark hair.
"Tell me Potter, how does it feel to be second best to Weasley?" The blond said mockingly.
"Shut up Malfoy" Hermione said sharply.
"I seem to have touched a nerve" Malfoy said smirking. "Well just watch yourself, Potter, because I'll be dogging your footsteps in case you step out of line"
"Get out!" Hermione said, standing up furious at Malfoy.
Malfoy started snicker and walk away leaving Harry and the others. Just as Malfoy was beside Danny, still being invisible, he stuck his leg and made it solid. Malfoy fell straight down, face first into the train carpeting.
Danny couldn't help but chuckle softly as he saw the boy get up shakily wondering what made him fall over.
Harry and others saw Malfoy fall and they all laughed at how shaken and embarrassed the Slytherin teen was.
Once Neville and Luna had left the room Danny had quickly went into the room to tell them how the dent got there.
He only made his head appear to make it easier to hide himself if anyone saw him. But the downside of Danny's plan to stay hidden was how much he spooked Harry, Ron and Hermione with his head suddenly appearing out of thin air.
"Hey guys, sorry about the dent." Danny said shyly.
"Blimey that was you" Ron said surprised.
"Well I hit the person who made the dent..."
"Who were you fighting?" Hermione said not looking very pleased.
"Just a ghost who doesn't know when to quit."
"Why did you fight him?" Hermione said sharply
"He attacked me, I was only defending myself" Danny said defending himself from Hermione's glare.
"You ok?" Harry asked trying to change the subject.
"Just some bruises, but they'll be gone in a few days."
The others nodded then all jumped in surprise and quickly said "Neville's coming you got to leave."
Danny shook his head and turned himself intangible and went through the floor.
Neville slid the door open and shivered the moment he came inside. "Why's it so cold in here?" he muttered in confusion.
Some hours past and Danny had just enjoyed flying through the English countryside following the train. As the day wore on it started to get dark and Danny had to get on the train because of how tough it was to see the train in dark from a bird's eye view. Even with Danny's ghostly night vision.
He had just lied down on top of the train tired from the fight earlier with Skulker. 'We must be close to Hogwarts by now.' Danny thought excited
Danny stood up and looked out at the horizon and noticed faint lights in the distance. 'That must be Hogwarts!' Danny thought overjoyed.
"We're finally here!" Danny said to himself in anticipation.
Edited and Posted May 23rd/2012
Well there you have it, my first fight scene for this story and I'm planning more just don't which villain I should do next. (in a review suggest who you want)
In the beginning of my story I thought of having Vlad in this chapter but later on I found too many plotholes for having Vlad included and then Skulker came to mind and he just fit better. =/
Notice how I use the words "were finally here". This is just a pun or joke on how most HP/DP crossovers take a while for Danny to get to Hogwarts.
Now remember to REVIEW because I love to hear your thoughts on my story so I can improve in later chapters. =)
Until next time,
Prophet =P