Danny phantom what happened next

By ~PrennCooder

Hai! Big football game in this chappie!

Chapter 9: Cheers

"Gotta go." Danny interrupted as he ran out the door. He took his mom's Buick and drove away very fast.

"…Since your first date with Valerie one year ago." Tucker finished his thought. "I'd better get home." He walked out the door and began his walk home.

Night had fallen and Danny was on the road driving as fast as he could possibly go without getting a ticket. He soon parked in front of Valerie's house. It was 8:04. Hopefully Valerie wouldn't mind.

Danny rang the doorbell and Valerie's father opened the door. "Danny!" Damon Gray's face brightened. "I remember you! Come on in, son. Valerie's almost ready."

Danny was relieved that Valerie had not been sitting around waiting for him. Danny took a seat on the couch. It was small and cheap, just like their living room. Damon Gray was a single parent supporting his daughter and himself. And they never had much money, even before the divorce. Danny looked around at the plain walls painted with drab colors. Somehow Danny wished he could help Valerie out.

Danny heard footsteps coming from around the corner. It must be Valerie, Danny thought. And it was. Her hair was brushed nicely and she was not wearing a headband but she was wearing a lovely peach-colored evening dress that ended above the knee. She had on stylish brown shoes and a cute black purse. She smiled at Danny.

"You look amazing!" Danny smiled.

Valerie laughed happily. She took his arm and they walked outside to the car together. "I think it's cool that you're wearing a hoodie. Most guys I know would have worn a tux, but I'm glad you're so comfortable around me."

Danny was grateful for that. He drove them far past the town of Amity Park and past the city too. They soon found themselves in a very woodsy part of Colorado.

"I know where you're going." Valerie said to Danny. "And I love this place."

Danny parked the car in the parking lot of wood chips which had been cleared just for cars. He opened Valerie's door for her and then took her hand. Together they walked through the rocky pathway with other people who were going to the same place.

"Welcome to The Old Shed!" A man dressed as a wilderness explorer handed out menus to all the people before letting them inside. Danny took the menu. Before the two of them stood a large log cabin three stories high. It had a big wooden roof too.

They stepped inside.

The inside was a grandeur place with golden tablecloths and wooden chairs decorated with white fabric and the waiters were wearing black suits and there was a gigantic winding staircase that led to three floors of fine dining. Danny and Valerie went to one of four host desks. The host sat them at a table for two on the second floor and it was by a window.

"Oh my, Danny, this is all just so perfect." Valerie said.

"Yeah…" Danny blushed. They held hands over the table as they looked at their menus.

When the waiter came, they both ordered a fancy spaghetti dish made with tomato gravy and turkey. It was absolutely delicious and they finished it rather quickly.

"Gosh that was the best meal I've had in years!" Valerie said.

They both stood up and Danny went to pay and he cringed as the host rang up the large amount of money on his credit card. But then Danny looked at Valerie's grateful face and he didn't worry so much. They walked back out to the car and Danny drove Valerie back to her house.

The two of them got out of the car and they hugged goodbye. Danny didn't let go of her hands. He leaned in to kiss her and she kissed him back. They both blushed and then said an awkward "Goodbye." In unison. Danny got back into his car after his date had entered her house.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Wohoo!" He cheered for himself once the door was shut so that nobody could hear. And then he drove back home.

Meanwhile, at Valerie's house, Valerie was delighted from that date. It was a perfect dream! And it was with the perfect guy! Valerie took off her nice dress and slipped into some comfy sweats and grabbed her phone. She had to tell Cecelia.

"Cecelia! Guess how my date went?"

"How did your date go?" Came Cecelia's tired voice. Valerie had probably woken Cecelia up, since it was now 11:30.

"It was amazing! I'm not the kind of girl to go all gaga over a guy but, seriously, tonight was fantastic. I really like him."

"That's great, Valerie. You should tell Paulina."

Cecelia hung up and Valerie dialed up Paulina. They must have spent the next hour just going on and on about boys lone. Paulina liked boys, and Valerie was her friend, so they had quite an interesting conversation there.

Eventually they found themselves talking about girls at Casper High who could easily get a guy to bend over backwards for them.

"Paulina, obviously all the guys in school have a crush on you." Valerie said.

"Oh I'm so flattered! But I already have a great boyfriend:" Dash Baxter. He's the football quarterback, you know."

"I know. I'm a cheerleader. I've been to all his games too, ya know." The two girls laughed.

"And you're a real hottie too, that is, when you don't eat hot dogs and fries. And if you clean up a bit, Danny will really fall in love with you."

Valerie gasped. "You think so?"

"Mmhm! He'll fall head over heels! There's a lot of pretty girls in our school. I never really thought about it before, but they'll probably steal all the good guys for homecoming."

"I can't wait for homecoming!"

"Me neither! I can picture you wearing a nice yellow dress and Star wearing that orange one she has, and of course mine will be pink, and Cecelia's should be purple."

"Who do you think will ask Cecelia to the homecoming?"

"Oh, a lot of guys will ask her, but I don't think she likes anyone at the school. And if a total loser asks her out, she'll probably slap him right in the face."

"Yep, that's Cecelia. What about Sam Manson?"

"Oh, her? She doesn't like homecoming, or dresses, or people that like to look pretty. And now that she and Danny are over, I don't think she'll be going with anybody."

"What about Foley?"

"Foley and Manson, no way! That would never work."

"That's what you said about Danny and her."

"I know but I mean it this time."

Valerie and Paulina finished their conversation and then Valerie tried to go to sleep but she couldn't stop thinking about Danny. And it was then that she realized she completely forgot to do her karate practice for the day.

And so she practiced her high kicks into the midnight hours.

It was the next day—Saturday—and it was the day of a big game for Casper High's football team. And that meant that the cheerleaders had a practice an hour before the game. As team captain, Paulina was directing the cheerleaders to do all their stretches and warm-ups before practicing the routine. All the while, Cecelia wondered "Where is Valerie?" and she kept looking at the front door to the gymnasium but Valerie had not come in yet.

Next, the cheerleaders practiced their kicking. "Good kicking, Cecelia!" Paulina said to her. "You too, Star! Let's keep those legs up high, girls!"

Cecelia excused herself to the hallway so that she could call Valerie and find out where she is. Cecelia dialed three times but Valerie did not pick up. Cecelia dialed one more time and luckily, Valerie answered.

"Cecelia what's going on?"

"You're waaay late to cheer practice!"

"I know! I know! I overslept because I was up late last night! I'll be there in a few minutes. Bye." Valerie hung up.

Now, the cheerleaders were practicing their actual routine and Valerie finally showed up and she joined right in. Valerie stood next to Cecelia so that they could whisper to each other while doing the cheer.

"How is Danny?" Cecelia whispered to her friend.

"I kissed him!" Valerie said happily.

"No way!"

"Yes way!"

Paulina stood in front of the two girls. "You need to focus because the game is in half an hour. I want everyone looking their prettiest!"

After twenty minutes of practicing the routine, Paulina dismissed the girls to get into their outfits and do their makeup.

"You all look like beautiful little princesses!" Paulina said cheerfully as the girls came out of the bathroom.

Some of the cheerleaders watched as the football fans started piling in on the bleachers outside.

Paulina looked out the window too as if she was searching for someone among the crowd.

"Who are you looking for?" Cecelia asked. "Your boyfriend is right over there." Cecelia pointed to the large muscular blond quarterback.

"The ghost boy. He always comes to football games because he wants to see me! He's my hero!" Paulina said.

"So you're cheating on Dash with a…a ghost kid you don't even know…"

"No, no, no. I'm not cheating on Dash because I liked Danny Phantom first. He's my hero! He's saved me from evil monsters many times and he comes to every game just to wish me good luck."

"He told you that?"

"No, but I can see it in his eyes."

"Girl, are you hung up! He's a guy. Think about it. Even though he's a ghost, he's still a teenage boy. He probably just likes to watch dancing girls."

"Well! So that's what I get for trying to share something personal with you? Humph! Danny Phantom would never let me down! I'm practically his number one fan! I'd dump Dash for him!"

"Riiight." Cecelia smartened up and decided to go along with it.

"It's showtime, everyone!" Star announced to the cheerleaders. "The announcer man just announced the team. That means we're next!"

"Smiles, everyone!" Paulina said.

"And now, here are the Casper High cheerleaders!" the announcer called them.

The team skipped across the football field in a nice, peppy line. This was their big scene. The music turned on over the field's loudspeakers and the girls did all sorts of acrobatics and gymnastics like twists and turns and flips and kicks. Not a muscle was out of place as they performed their perfected routine.

Cecelia finally felt like a cheerleader as she looked around the team and they were smiling all pretty. This was the largest crowd Cecelia had ever seen. And it was a very big deal because she was homeschooled all her life.

The cheerleaders waved their pom-poms as they all took their seats on the front bench right before the bleachers.

Valerie noticed Danny in the audience and she heard him saying "Go Valerie!" She waved to him. She had to admit that it was real sweet of him to come here just for her since he never attended regular games. She blew him a kiss.

Cecelia noticed and laughed with her friend. "He's such a dork." Cecelia whispered to Valerie. "That was a really cheesy thing for him to do. And I think I'm warming up to him."

"Good because I think I'm going to be with him for a long, long time." Both girls smiled.

The referee blew the whistle and the game was on.

Cecelia tried to focus on the football game but she kept getting distracted by the fact that this sport was so rough. It was like all of these guys were just bullying each other and it was rather unsettling to watch. Normally, Cecelia wasn't one to complain about violence, but this was just ridiculous and totally not-entertaining. And Dash was a total meanie to all the players on the rival team. When Dash had the ball, he would just plow through other guys and knock them to the ground. "Outta my way, can't you see I'm trying to win the game here!" Cecelia heard Dash say as he was nearing the endzone and attempting to score.

"Go Dash!" an oblivious Paulina stood up and cheered for her boyfriend.

"Why are you even dating him anyways?" Cecelia asked.

"He's great at sports, duh!" Paulina smiled.

"So you don't even like him?" Paulina gave Cecelia a blank stare. "Like him like him?"

"Oh. No, not really." Paulina turned back to the game. "Go Dash! Woo!"

Valerie stood up. "I'm going to sit with Danny." She told Cecelia.

"You do that." Cecelia agreed.

"Hi, Danny!" Valerie smiled at him and gave him a hug. And then she sat down in the empty seat next to him. "I'm really glad that you came."

"Me too. We should go out again, that was fun." Danny said in an awkwardly cute way.

Down at the front bench, Cecelia was bored stiff. She thought she could hear faint moaning coming from inside the gymnasium. It was getting louder.

"Bullies! Bullies!" A very outlandish ghost boy from the 1950s appeared on the football field.

"Outta my way, dweeb!" Dash pushed the kid out of his way so that he could score a goal everyone cheered except for the ghost who had been knocked to the ground.

The ghost's eyes glowed red and he raised his arms. Suddenly there was a giant dinosaur-like monster in Dash's place. The football fans screamed in terror. The rival tem fled. Dash's team froze in fear as the giant monster wailed at them.

The monster took a few football players and threw them into the bleachers. And then he noticed all the scared little teenagers on the bleachers. He picked up Paulina and she screamed like a little girl.

"You put my friend down right now!" Cecelia demanded. The monster picked her up in his other hand. Cecelia squirmed and jerked but she could not break free. But she did not give up.

The monster was now heading for the school, smashing every gate, bench and trash can in his way.

Paulina was screaming her head off and Cecelia thought for sure that Paulina would faint. Cecelia stopped screaming because she realized it was no use.

All of a sudden, something hit the giant monster and he wailed in pain and turned around. Cecelia could see a ghost kid floating in front of them with hands glowing green. It was Danny Phantom.

"Why did you do this, Poindexter?" Danny asked the nerdy ghost who flew up next to him.

"I wanted to show everyone what this guy truly is: a bully. It's not right that he should be at the top of the food chain when he's such a…meanie."

"Change him back."

"No." Poindexter protested calmly. "But if you can defeat him, he will change back to the way he was before and won't remember anything." And then the ghost called Poindexter flew off dramatically.

Danny sighed. He started firing ectobeam after ectobeam at Dash. But it seemed futile because it wasn't even making a dent on him.

"Go Danny Phantom!" Paulina cheered adoringly.

Danny started blasting Dash with icebeams. Now there was a hit! Dash was completely frozen except for his arms and Danny pried Cecelia and Paulina out of there.

"Thank you ghost boy!" Paulina gave him a squeezing hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Thanks." Cecelia said flatly.

"I saved your life, you know. You could show a little more appreciation." Danny thought she was just messing with him, but she really wasn't that grateful.

"Thanks." Cecelia said in the same flat tone.

"Will you go out with me?" Paulina begged.

"I have a girlfriend." Danny Phantom said rashly as if he regretted saying it after he did so.

"That should be me." Paulina said sadly.

"I gotta go." Danny flew away.

Paulina gave Cecelia a sad look. "He has a girlfriend!" she was ready to cry.

"Oh come here." Cecelia gave her friend a hug. They both noticed Valerie and Star approaching.

"I'm so glad you're okay." Star gave them both a hug. "The rest of the cheerleaders fled to the girls' locker room. But it looks like everything's allright now."

"Valerie, where's Danny?" Cecelia noticed he was not there.

"Oh, he left. He just said "Aah, a ghost!" and then ran away. So what happened to the monster?" Valerie looked at the two victims.

"Danny Phantom saved us." Paulina said once Cecelia didn't answer.

"Come on, let's get you to the locker room." Star said to Paulina.

Cecelia and Valerie followed the two girls.

"Why are you so mad?" Valerie asked Cecelia in a whisper.

"I just think it's strange how Danny Phantom knew there was danger in a place so far away from the ghost zone he lives in. think about it, Val, maybe the whole thing was a setup."

"A setup? That would fit along the lines of him."

"Exactly. The next time we see him, we're going to ask before we kick his butt."

"Agreed."

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