Cupid's Arrow of Doom, Chapter 4

A Danny Phantom fanfiction by Dustin M. Dixon

Meanwhile, in class, Danny sat at the center of the room, surrounded by every girl in the class, sans Valerie, who was sitting in the back with what appeared to be a look of longing on her face. "Man…" he trailed off dreamily. "This is the LIFE. Valentine's Day rocks!"

"Fenton!" Tetslaff barked angrily, leering over him. "Stop hogging the attention of every girl in class! This is important stuff you'll need to know in the future!"

"Hey! I can't help it if I'm…" he started, waiting for one of the girls to fill in the blank.

"Dreamy!" Paulina spoke up.

"Delicious!" Star added.

"An absolute hunk!" A third girl chimed in.

"Yes. Those things." Danny smirked, then noticed the girls had stopped momentarily. "I know the big three have already been covered, ladies, but feel free to keep showering me with compliments ANYTIME." He finished by winking and pointing toward the crowd of young women around him. The girls all sighed dreamily in response.

"I think I'm gonna be sick…" Sam said, as she entered the room and took her seat by Valerie.

"What took you so long?" Valerie griped.

"Is that some hostility I detect?" Sam smirked as she whispered to the young fellow black-haired girl. "I thought you didn't want to go out with him."

"I never said that… I CAN'T go out with him, Sam." Valerie sighed. "I have a job. I can't quit it, either." She glanced back over at Sam. "What about you? You said you were gonna be sick."

"Well yeah!" Sam piped up. "Because none of these girls have EVER been interested in going out with him!"

"That IS weird." Valerie's eyebrows raised. "In FACT…" she trailed off, raising her hand. "Miss Tetslaff, I need to go to the bathroom!"

"What is it with you people and the bathroom today?" Tetslaff looked a might bit perturbed, before sighing and saying " Fine, go on. Manson! Give Gray the hall pass!" Sam reluctantly followed orders, handing over her hall pass to Valerie, who dashed quickly out of the room.

As Valerie entered the bathroom, she quickly ducked into a stall, her sleek new ghost-hunting suit forming around her. As it finished assembling, Valerie immediately activated the suit's intangibility mode and flew through the ceiling.

"I don't know what's happening, but I'm not about to let Danny get hurt…" she snarled, determination in her voice as she appeared on the second floor. Just then, as she went tangible again, she was blasted against the blackboard. "Uhh…" she moaned, struggling to stay conscious from the attack.

"Well well, if it isn't Amity Park's NON-ghost ghost hunter!" Plasmius grinned down at the young girl as he walked toward her.

"You're the ghost that was… fighting side by side with Danny Phantom…" she gasped.

"Yes I am. Allow me to introduce myself." Plasmius nodded satisfactorily. "Plasmius. Vlad Plasmius. And you're—"

"Gonna kick your butt!" Valerie responded, a miniature ecto-gun forming on the right wrist of her suit, which she fired immediately, sending Vlad into the nearest wall. "I don't know how or WHY you've turned every girl's affection to Danny Fenton—"

"Of course you don't, foolish girl! You're 15!" Plasmius shouted angrily, before composing himself once more, smirking as he continued. "Let's just say that Danny Fenton has had this coming for a long time…"

"I'm not gonna pretend I'm even following… but this ends here before whatever you're planning can get any further off the ground!" Valerie took aim once again, before… "OUCH!" she shouted, feeling a pain in her butt suddenly.

"What took you so long?!" Plasmius griped, and Valerie turned to see Cupid floating in midair.

"A new ghost…?" she asked, before firing an ecto blast at the fairy, who simply yawned.

"I'm afraid Cupid's not a ghost, dear girl. But he has given me an edge in this little encounter of ours." He then immediately shot a purple ecto beam over Valerie's eyes. "And since we can't have anyone in our way… you'll just have to join the masses!" He grinned wickedly, grabbing Valerie's arms and floating her through the blackboard and then to the classroom down below. As he caught sight of the target, he allowed the makeshift blindfold to disappear, causing Valerie to catch sight of Danny…

"Yes yes…" Plasmius grinned evilly. "Take it all in… pretty soon you'll forget all about me and Cupid because you're too busy being distracted by your raging pheromones!"

"…Huh?" Valerie asked as her suit de-powered, causing her to revert to her average 15 year old self. Sure enough, she paid no attention to who had previously been holding on to her as she dropped to the floor, just as most of the class, Tetslaff included, had left due to the ringing of the second bell. Danny, however, was still in the center of his new posse of girls. He jolted upright immediately as his ghost sense went off, seeing Valerie lying there on the floor.

"Holy crap! Valerie, are you okay?!" Danny waded through the crowd of girls and rushed to her side.

"Huh?" she repeated, looking up into Danny's eyes before smiling wavily. "Better now… the view's much nicer." Danny looked on for a few seconds before smirking confidently. "So… that Dumpty Humpty concert you asked me about yesterday… you still offering?"

"Best. Day. EVER." Danny whispered to himself, barely able to contain his glee, before he composed himself, deciding to play it cool. "Uh… sure. I was just gonna hock 'em to the A-list, but I GUESS I could take you to the concert tonight."

"It's a date, then." She grinned in satisfaction. As she walked away, he grinned even wider than he had previously.

"YES!" He was snapped out of his reverie, however, by the angry voice of Paulina.

"HEY! How come you didn't ask ME?"

"Or ME?!" Star shouted.

"Can it Star, Danny likes me! Or at least… I THOUGHT he did!"

"Hey, there's…" Danny trailed off, swallowing hard. "…Enough of Danny Fenton to go around?"

"GET HIM!" Star shrieked. Danny yelled his bloody lungs out as he took off out of the door as fast as his two human legs would carry him. He bolted around the corner, only to run into Dash, Kwan, and the other A-list football team.

"FENTONOWSKI! I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE BIGGEST SWIRLY OF YOUR LIFE!" Dash roared in absolute rage.

Danny turned back around immediately and ran back toward Health class, only to run back into the mob of girls.

"GOUGE HIS EYES OUT!" Paulina ordered angrily. Danny cringed in fear as he glanced back and forth between the two crowds closing in on him, before uttering one last sentence…

"Worst... day... ever..."