Season 1 Episode 2
Parental Bonding
"In Sensational Dragon-Vision"

Inside the Fenton Works lab one morning, Jackie Fenton was wearing a fishing vest, hat and soda cap while she sipped from the tubes before she casted her blue glowing fishing rod into the active Fenton Ghost Portal. After about a week ago during the whole Lunch Lady incident, Jackie once discovered that ghosts really did exist and was now determined more than ever to hunt one down, even though she had no idea that her very first ghost she saw was actually her own daughter, Dani Fenton.

Speaking of Dani, she arrived downstairs into the lab before she jogged up to her mother while she dropped her backpack to the floor.

"Hey, Mom, what cha doing?" She asked.

"Dani, keep it down, you'll scare away the ghosts!" Jackie said as she pointed at her new fishing rod. "It's the Fenton Ghost Fisher, I'm fishing for ghosts." She reeled in the rod and tugged on the blue glowing string, showing how strong and sturdy it really was. "Check out this line. Coated with a special high test ectoplasma-ressen that ghosts can't break. Now, quiet...don't wanna spook 'em." She casted her fishing line into the portal again, until her stomach suddenly growled from her drinking too much soda. "Oh, hehe, I keep forgetting that I need to cut out from the soda." Jackie handed her youngest daughter the rod while she stared at it in confusion. "Hang on to this real quick, I need to use the Fenton Can."

She ran up the stairs to find the bathroom, leaving Dani alone in the lab for a while.

Just after her mother left, Dani's eyes went wide when the fishing line suddenly began pulling inward towards the portal like something has nibbled onto it. Dani's ghost sense went off as she gasped, alerting her that there was a ghost coming out.

"Oh crud!" She exclaimed nervously.

She tried to pull hard on the rod until it suddenly snapped loose. Two giant clawed hands emerged and slammed on the floor while smoke bellowed on the floor. Then a huge, blue dragon ghost entered the lab with the fishing line in its jaw. It roared while it released the hook and it snapped on Dani's forehead a little as she glanced around nervously.

"I WANT TO GO!" It bellowed at the black-haired girl, making Dani run away as she yelped. The dragon followed her while it fully exited the portal. It grabbed her with its clawed hands and lifted her to the air. "I HAVE TO GO!" Its roaring voice made Dani's hair flutter from the wind.

"You'll have to stand in line behind my mom. In the meantime…" Dani said as she narrowed her eyes determinedly. She changed into her ghost form before she turned herself into blue mist and escaped from the ghost dragon's clutches.

It looked surprised at first, until it glared again as it tried to swipe its claws at the ghost girl, but she dodged its every blow it threw at her. It then breathed a stream of green fire at her, but she hovered aside before she charged up to it and punched it dead on. While the dragon flew across the lab, its golden amulet flew off of its neck and unknowingly landed inside of Dani's backpack.

The dragon looked disoriented when it began to glow. Dani watched as the dragon ghost shrunk into an innocent-looking ghost man, who wore medieval peasant-like clothing before he descended on the floor by his fours.

Dani stared down at him in awe silence. "All I wanted was to go to the princess's costume ball, and my horrid daddy won't let MEEEEE!" He cried in a British accent before he sucked himself back into the portal while his scream echoed. Dani landed on the floor and stared at the portal when it briefly flashed brightly.

"If that dragon suit's his idea of a costume, I'm on daddy's side." Dani said to herself before she changed back to human form and rubbed her head. "Phew, man, that's a relief.""

Right on cue, Jackie returned with two cans of soda in her hands, just missing the whole ghost fight. "I'll tell you what a relief is!" She said, until she made a look like she just forgot something when she handed the sodas to Dani. "Darn, I almost forgot!"

She ran back out the lab and a toilet being flushed was heard, confusing her daughter a little.


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)


Outside Casper High that morning, the students were all very excited for the school dance happening tomorrow night since most of them have found dates, but for Tina Foley, she was waiting outside the doors while she tried to look for a boy to go out with to the freshmen dance. Even though Tina confidently considered herself as a gentleman's lady, she was still part of the invisible clique, so most (to almost all) of the boys would constantly reject her, and that morning was a good example.

Tina smiled brightly when a boy walked out of the school. "No." A boy said rudely as he continued outside, making her smile drop.

She smiled again when another boy came. "Keep dreaming." Another said boringly while he walked outside.

Tina looked frustrated, even another boy exited the school, and she didn't even say anything to him. "No."

"Are you all kidding me right now, doesn't anyone want to ask me?!" Tina exclaimed as she stomped her foot.

She then just gave up when she slumped next to her friends with her hands under her chin at a picnic table. Sam ate his salad and Dani ate her sandwich, but Tina didn't have anything since most of the boys were just rejecting her rudely.

"Strike three, Tin?" Dani chuckled smugly.

"Try strike three-thousand."

"I don't see what the big deal is about going to some stupid dance. I don't need to go to some dance to know that I'm special, I…" Sam said, but faltered when he noticed that Dani and Tina weren't really paying any attention to him. They were staring out lovingly in one direction, much to his annoyed confusion as he frowned at them. "What?"

"Paul Sanchez…" They mused in unison.

They were staring at a handsome Hispanic prep boy with short brown hair with a lock hanging over one of his teal eyes. He wore a white shirt with a magenta-pink jacket over it, blue skinny jeans, and magenta sneakers. As he walked down the sidewalk in the courtyard, the girls all either sighed, fawned, and/or fainted at the sight of him, and even hugging each other as they gave Paul a cheeky grin, revealing that he was the most popular and most handsome boy at school.

"Paul Sanchez…" Dani and Tina laced their hands with each other as they stared in love at him.

Dani has had a major crush on Paul ever since she began her freshman year. However, she hasn't had the guts to even talk to him yet since he was popular and she knew that she was unpopular in the invisible outcast side, whether she would admit it or not.

Sam, however, looked more annoyed as he scowled in his direction. "Oh please, Paul Sanchez? Boys like him are a dime a dozen." He said as he frowned at Paul in disdain. Apparently, he didn't really like Paul, because of the fact that he was a social prep who cared for nothing more than his own looks and popularity.

Dani and Tina began digging through their pockets as they pulled out some dimes. "How much change you got?" Dani asked Tina.

Sam laughed bitterly and sarcastically. "Very funny! Remember, you can't judge a book by its cover."

"Well, there's only one way to find out." Tina said as she and Dani sat back down before Tina pointed encouragingly at Paul. "Go on, Dani, go to that library and check out that book." Paul leaned against a tree as he pulled out his yogurt near the trio.

"I can't, Tina. I become a motor-mouth when I try to talk to cute boys." Dani said miserably as she looked down with her arms cross on the table.

Sam's eyes went wide and then frowned when she practically admitted that she gets shy around cute boys. "Oh, and you have absolutely no problems talking to me." He said while he narrowed his eyes at her, somewhat offended.

Dani realized what she has just said when her eyes went wide. "Oh, no, Sam, I didn't mean-"

"Skip it, go give your mouth a fresh jumpstart." Sam pulled Dani out of her seat and then he shoved her carelessly up to Paul.

Dani stared at Paul, who didn't notice her yet as he stirred up his yogurt. Dani took a deep breath as she brushed her bangs back while they fell over her face again.

"Um...hey." She said as she blushed bashfully with her hands laced, catching his attention when he glanced at her only briefly.

"Hey. What clique are you with?" Paul said somewhat carelessly in a Hispanic accent as he looked down at his yogurt and continued to stir it.

Dani giggled nervously as she leaned her elbow on the tree. "Um...well, I'm...why do you ask?" Her arm suddenly became intangible and it phased through the tree, making her cheek hit the trunk of the tree while she grunted from impact. She quickly pulled her arm back out, turned it solid before Paul could even notice, and flexed her fingers as she held onto her wrist.

Paul rolled his eyes. "Please, don't say you've suddenly fallen for me, that line is so last semester." He took a bite out of his yogurt as he stared at Dani.

"Yeah, I-I mean, no, that's not it-uh…" She stuttered as Paul stared at her skeptically while he remained silent. "I'm Dani."

Then her foot suddenly became intangible, making her eyes go wide before she yelped and fell onto the grass and with a grunt. All of the students at the courtyard all laughed hysterically at her while both of her friends looked concerned for Dani when Sam covered his mouth with wide eyes. Paul laughed along with the students with his arms crossed, looking amused by this as he looked down at the humiliated unpopular girl.

"A lady would generally bow and the man would kiss her hand, but I'll give you points for originality." He chuckled with a grin.

Sam narrowed his eyes when Paul just practically mocked Dani like that. He walked up to Dani and helped her up while she looked down at the ground in embarrassment as she rubbed her arm sheepishly.

"Kudos, Dani, you just set an all-time speed record for drowning in the shallow end of the gene pool." Sam said as he scolded his signature unemotional-like eyes at the hispanic social preppy boy.

Paul looked surprised as he eyeball glanced around at what the goth boy just called him before he scowled at him offendedly. "Oh no! You did not just call me shallow, did you?!"

Sam crossed his arms while he stared at him. "If by shallow, you mean can I step on a puddle of you and not get my feet wet?" He then gave him a small grin. "Then...yeah."

"Shallow? I'm not shallow!" Sam only remained silent when he rolled his eyes. He then walked away while he ushered an embarrassed Dani close to him. Paul then went deep into his thoughts when he smirked coldly with an idea. "On the other hand, I'm not so deep, that I could lure a girl away from a goth geek. And I will…"

Inside the hallway of Casper High, Dani dug through her locker while Tina leaned next to her. She was still pretty embarrassed by what just happened that morning when her powers made her look like a total fool in front of her all-time crush.

"Thanks to you, I now know how to win a man's heart: a firm stance." Tina said with a sense of humor probably to cheer her best friend up.

It didn't really work since Dani sighed miserably as she faced her best friend. "Okay, I'll admit, I also lose control when I talk to boys, but totally blew it yesterday. I mean, Paul probably doesn't even want to talk to me!"

"Hey, Dani!" Paul's voice said. They both turned around in surprise when they saw the Hispanic boy standing there a few feet away from them as he smiled at Dani warmly. All of the girls in the hallway sighed heavenly at the sight of him as they fawned at his good looks.

"...or not." Dani smiled brightly before she leaned close to Tina. "Hey Tina…"

"I get it, I'm out!" She sprinted away, but briefly came back to give her a wink and a thumbs up. "Good luck." And she finally sprinted away again, leaving her best friend alone to talk to her major crush.

Paul approached up to her while Dani gave him a cheek grin and tensed her shoulders with her hands laced close to her chest. "Hey, Dani. I was wondering if you'd like to-" He began, until Daphne Baxter suddenly appeared as she shoved Dani into her locker, surprising Paul when his eyes went wide while Dani yelped.

"Meet me? Who else doesn't?" Daphne asked casually as she closed the locker and stared flirtatiously at the surprised prep boy. Paul blinked at her in confusion and looked kind of unimpressed by this cheerleader before Dani phased out of her locker invisibly, and glared angrily at her arch-rival. "Daphne Baxter, but friends here call me Daph." Daph ignored Paul's glare as Dani placed her hands on her rival's back to make her fall through the locker she was leaning her hand on. However, her hands only phased into her body, surprising Dani when her eyes went wide before she suddenly got sucked into Daph's body while she spoke. "Captain of the cheerleading squad, all-star basketball player, I'm also-"

She suddenly froze and her smile dropped when her eyes opened, revealing now to be glowing green. She stared out like she was in a trace until she looked down at herself in confusion. "In Daph's body?" She said in Dani's voice.

"Excuse me?" Paul asked.

Dani stared down at Daph's hands as she realized that she was completely taking over her rival's body and even her actions. "Right, of course!" She noticed that Paul was staring at her oddly, so she decided to make Daph look like a freak. "I'm also president of the Casper High Geek Club, and I have every fingernail I've ever clipped. Wanna see 'em?"

Paul scolded at her in disgust. "No."

"Oh, then you should get to know Dani Fenton. She doesn't scratch her dad's back every night like I do." Dani then made Daph grab Paul and twisted him around as she grabbed his shoulders.

He walked away backwards in disgust as he glared at her. "Eww! Get lost, freak!"

Dani flew out of Daph's body while she smiled at the cheerleader before she phased back into her locker. Daph stood back up to her feet, looking a little disoriented and confused as she rubbed her head, dizzy from Dani controlling her.

"Why do I suddenly feel like scratching my father's back?" She asked herself in confusion as she walked away and rubbed her headache. The cheerleader captain has apparently became slightly influenced by what Dani said while she was being controlled.

Paul scowled at where the cheerleader left before he smiled as he opened the locker door. Dani smiled at him until she tumbled out of the locker with a yelp and landed on the floor as a golden amulet fell out of her backpack.

Paul chuckled as he kneeled before her with a smile while she glanced at him and smiled a little. "We have to stop meeting like this." He said, until he noticed the amulet on the floor when his eyes went wide. "Oh my gosh, what's that?" He picked it up and examined it in amazement.

"That?" Dani asked, looking confused by how that amulet ended up in her backpack. "Uh, well, it's a-a…" Dani hid her confusion with a smile. "Do you like it?"

"It's incredible!"

"Hey, that's great!" Dani stood back up to her feet as did Paul. "Cause...I got it...for you." Though she sounded a little unsure about herself, since she has never seen that amulet before as she shrugged her shoulders.

Paul smiled brightly. "Really?"

"Yeah, it's just that...if I didn't have enough courage to go with you to the dance, I thought I would buy you a gift. And that's what it would've been, it's for you." Dani felt her foot beginning to turn intangible from her nervousness, but she quickly grabbed her leg and lifted it up as she tried to keep her power under control. "Whether you'd go with me or not."

"Well...you are kind of cute, even if you are a little clumsy. I'd love to take you with me." He tied the amulet around his neck as Dani smiled at his acceptance. He then walked away as his eyes glowed green, unknowingly to either himself or Dani.

Dani's smile faded as she made a troubled look. "What am I doing? That doesn't belong to me, it could be my dad's...or my brother's."

Paul waved to Dani as he disappeared behind the corner. "Bye, Dani, see you!"

Dani smile then returned. "...Or I could worry about that later, because he said 'yes'! Woohoo!"

Unfortunately, her happiness was cut short when she tripped to the floor again as she yelped and landed with a thud and a grunt. She growled to herself in frustration before a shadow loomed over her. She looked up and saw Ms. Lancer towering over her with a glare.

"On the floor again, Ms. Fenton?" She said as her least favorite student stood back up and stood still before her. "Third time this week I caught you...how do you kids say it?" She read on her book saying 'How to be hip for unhips'. "'Dropping to the floor'. I guess it's time I sewed your mother for a parent-teacher conference."

She then gave Dani a slip form as she stared at it in disbelief. "Oh man, not my mom…"

"Make sure she's not late." With that happy note, Lancer walked off, leaving Dani to slump in disappointment.

Later on at the Fenton Works lab after school, Jackie was still trying to fish for some ghosts with the Fenton Fisher. Dani stood beside her as well while she tried to find the right words on how to tell her mother she had to go to a parent-teacher conference.

"Catch anything, Mom?" Dani asked.

"Kid, I couldn't catch a coal." Jackie said as she rested her cheek on her hand in boredom. "I've been sitting here all day without a single bite!"

Dani looked at her paper slip. "Uh-"

"I'm so frustrated, I wanna take out my rage on the first person who gives me bad news. Anyway, you wanted to tell me something?"

"Well, sort of...Ms. Lancer…"

"Ms. Lancer what?" Jackie asked in suspicion as she narrowed her eyes at her daughter. "Is this bad news?" Dani quickly hid the paper slip behind her back as she smiled nervously, thinking her mother would kill her if she told her that Jackie had to talk to her teacher.

"Ms. Lancer…" She suddenly got an idea as she smiled to herself. She turned herself intangible while her mother wasn't looking and she flew straight into her body as she smiled. "Wants to have a word with us!" She was really getting the hang of this new power she has recently discovered, even though she still didn't know what it was called yet.

At Casper High in Lancer's office, Dani (in her mother's body) was present with her teacher while she tried to act natural. "Thank you for coming here to discuss your daughter's schooling, Mrs. Fenton." Lancer said politely with a smile.

"Well, sure!" Dani said through her mother while she tried to sound like Jackie as best as she could. "I'm a parent, and that's what parents do...uh, right?"

"Well, she's had a few incidences with her…falling most of the time…"

"Has she been tripping and falling again? Poor Danielle. She studies so hard, she forgets to sleep. I know these things because I'm her mom, and not her!"

Lancer thought to herself for a moment while Dani leaned on the desk and waited patiently for an answer with a wide, anticipated smile. "Hmm...that would explain things."

"It worked? I-I-I mean, uh, of course you understand! No wonder your Dani's favorite teacher!"

Lancer cocked an eyebrow. "I am?"

"We, Fentons, consider teachers to be underpaid and underappreciated." Dani smiled largely with her mother's smile.

Lancer smiled a little by her little talk. "I like your style, Mrs. Fenton. In fact, I would like you to chaperone the upcoming school dance."

This took Dani by surprise when her eyes went wide with confusion and uncertainty. "Chaperone?...Well, I'm not sure."

"I am. See you Friday, or as the kids say: 'Catch you later, G'!"

Jackie's face grimaced in somewhat stress.


The next day at the Amity Park Mall that afternoon, Dani and her friends were all pigging out at the 'Time 2 Grub Food Court' for dinner. Dani has just finished explaining to her friends that their teacher has invited Jackie to chaperone the school dance. However, she won't even remember anything since Dani was controlling her the whole entire time. Dani even explained to them that she has discovered that she had another new ghost power: the ability to completely control people by simply phasing into their bodies and control all of their actions.

Tina looked at a boy, but he merely walked away rudely while he ignored her like she wasn't even there.

"So your mom's going to chaperone the dance?" Sam clarified Dani as he played with his salad.

"Yeah, but she doesn't know she's going to chaperone, because she doesn't remember that I made her say yes!" Dani said in frustration before she rested her cheek on her knuckle.

"Let me get this straight: you can just walk into people and take over their bodies from the inside?" Tina asked, sounding a little interested by this new power of hers.

"Yeah, pretty much." Dani didn't really know why she was so interested.

Tina spotted a boy near their table while he read off a book before she smiled at Dani mischievously. "Hey Dani, if you could control a boy for just about two minutes…"

Dani finally understood what she talking about as she waved it aside and frowned a little. "Forget it. You can get your own date for the dance like I did."

"Does she have to be a klutz and act like a dweep...or with either one do?" Sam asked Tina rhetorically as he grinned cleverly. Dani glanced up at him in confusion while she cocked an eyebrow and chewed on her burger.

Meanwhile, at a boy's clothing shop, Paul searched around until he saw the sales of Flee Dye Jackets at the end of the shop. He gasped in excitement with a smile before he began to shuffle around a pile of jackets.

"I just got to have one of these! They so rare!" He said to himself before he held one up. He then turned around and saw other men wearing the jackets in different colors. "Señor!" He called a manager to him as he walked up to him. "Do you have this in a size medium?"

"Sorry, we just sold our last medium Zippy-Up Flee Dye Jacket to someone else." He said a little cheerfully.

"Will you be getting anymore soon?" Paul crunched the jacket as he gave him a hopefully and desperate look on his face.

"The Zippy-Up Flee Dye Jacket franchise has been discontinued, and if you haven't already got one, you doomed to be a total social outcast in five or more than sixteen weeks. Sorry."

That made the social prep boy explode with absolute anger and rage when he glared murderously at the employee. "SIXTEEN WEEKS?!" Paul ripped up the jacket he was holding in half before amulet he got from Dani the other day suddenly began to glow. His skin turned blue, his eyes glowed solid red, and then he grew into the same dragon ghost Dani once fought in her parents' lab the other morning.

"WANT FLEE DYE JACK!" He growled angrily to the heavens before he blew green fire at the jackets, burning them to ashes. All of the customers and employees in the store ran away for their lives and screamed in fear as Paul began to go on a chaotic rampage.

Back with the trio in the food court, they all continued talking about the school dance, but Sam was the only one who wasn't really interested in going, unlike Dani and Tina.

"Honestly, guys, I glad I'm not going to the stupid dance, saves me from wearing the lame tuxedo my parents bought me." Sam said to both of his best friends before he chuckled nervously.

"So no one's asked you, huh?" Tina guessed as she grinned cleverly at her Gothic friend.

"Maybe if I was as handsome as Paul Sanchez." Sam glared at the mention of his name with a tone of disdain.

"Why are you down on him?" Dani asked, not really getting why Sam seemed to hate Paul so much. "So he's handsome, it's not a crime."

Sam gave her a skeptic eyebrow. "Looks are deceiving, Dani."

Then they noticed that the customers at the food court all began to scream and run away from something. Dani's ghost sense went off, signaling that a ghost was attacking the mall.

"Ghost time." Tina said before she held up Dani's fries. "Can I finish your fries?"

Dani ran a few feet away from her table before white rings appeared at her waist and intersected her, changing her into her ghost form. She flew towards the chaos and hovered in front of the same blue dragon ghost she once fought before a couple days. Of course, Dani was completely unaware that the ghost dragon was actually Paul Sanchez himself.

"Say, haven't we met somewhere?" She asked it rhetorically. The dragon only roared, making Dani alarmed when it blew a stream of fire, which Dani easily dodged. "Let's try this again. Hi, I'm Dani Phantom, and you are?" The dragon ghost only roared again before it whacked her with his tail, sending her flying while she shrieked and she crashed into the 'Weenie on a Skewer' kitchen and demolished the roaster machine. She sat up while she rubbed her head before she frowned in somewhat annoyance. "Testy, got it." The dragon blew more fire at her, but she recovered quickly as she flew away just in time. "Sorry, dude, but I think you got the wrong weenie!"

Dani charged at the dragon while she slammed onto him by his underbelly and shoved him across the mall with her super strength. The dragon managed to grab her before he slammed and pinned her to the ground hard.

"MUST HAVE JACK!" The dragon growled angrily.

Dani smiled sarcastically at what he just shouted. "Jack? Oh, good idea! Coffee can make you a bit jittery. Better yet…" She then phased through the floor, and the dragon looked at his hands in surprise and confusion. Dani suddenly phased right back through the floor with her fist ready. "Have some PUNCH!" She uppercutted the ghost dragon straight at the jaw.

As a boy walked in the mall while he was minding his own business, he suddenly noticed that the dragon ghost falling straight towards him. He screamed loudly in terror and bolted away, leaving his bag behind just before the dragon slammed his head on the ground. His amulet fell out when he impacted the floor and fell into the bag before the dragon slowly shrunk and shifted back into Paul. The prep boy looked disoriented as he rubbed his head as he got to his knees, not really remembering anything about turning into a giant dragon ghost and going on a rampage.

"Whoa, what hit me?" He groaned to himself before he then noticed his amulet in a shopping bag. "Hey, my amulet." He tied it back around his neck, and then pulled something else from the bag, which was a Flee Dye Jacket he always wanted. "Hey, my Flee Dye Jacket! They must have had it in my size! I guess good things happen when you maintain a positive attitude."

Dani phased through the floor near her friends. "Dani, are you okay?" Sam asked in concern as she changed back into her human form.

"Fine, but that's the second time I fought that dragon, we need to investigate." Dani said as she frowned in suspicion before she glanced at her friends. "How are you guys?"

"Great, if you don't count me still being dateless to the dance." Tina said with a somewhat miserable look, still feeling hopeless before she pulled out her PDA and scrolled through every boy who has rejected her. "Shawn, no…Derek, no. I've hit every boy in school, except…" She turned her head and grinned when she saw an African-American boy walk up to her. He had curly black hair, green eyes, a yellow tank top with a v-neck, yellow wristbands, dirty orange sweats with light orange ends rolled up above his ankles, and white tennis shoes and yellow socks. "...Vincent Gray."

"Hey, Sina, is it?" He asked carelessly.

"Tina...or Tin...or Tinaerno."

"Which ends with no." Tina eyes went wide at his rejection. "Which, by the way, is my answer, unless something happens in the next five minutes, it makes me dateless."

And then Asian cheerleader suddenly ran up to him with a bright look on her face. "You'll never guess what happened! Justin said he'd go to the dance with me, so you're dateless!" She said cheerfully, yet somewhat a little heartlessly before she ran off.

"...You're on."

Tina smiled brightly. "I'll take it!" Vincent only raised an eyebrow and walked away. Tina looked back at her friends, who were both looking proud that she has finally found herself a date for the dance, in triumph. "Some may call it a rebound, but I call it a 'yes'. I got a date! Whoo! And the stance is still firm."

Back at Fenton Works that night in the kitchen, Matt Fenton was helping Jackie with her purse while James leaned against the table and Dani got herself a glass of water.

"I don't understand why I have to bring this stupid thing." Jackie said, looking a little confused.

"Because it's Dani's first dance, Jackie. If we're going to chaperone this thing, we have to make sure we don't embarrassed her." Matt said to his wife.

"How would we embarrass her?"

"I think it's great when you guys do anything that doesn't have something to do with your sick obsession with ghosts!" James said a little happily, then frowned when he finished while Dani remained silent as her brother spoke.

Jackie still looked very confused. "Funny, I don't even remember volunteering to chaperone the dance. It was all a vague blur…"

James then turned his attention to his little sister, who was drinking her water, as he smiled cleverly. "By the way, Dani, just so you know, I'm on to your little secret."

Dani spat out her water in surprise and eyeball glanced around frantically. "Wha? W-what secret?" She asked nervously.

"The clumsiness, the nervousness...I can't believe I didn't figure it out before: you have a boyfriend!"

"It's a lie, I'm not a ghost!" Dani then realized what her older brother was actually talking about. She quickly covered up what she just blurted out when she smiled with a little chuckle. "Uh-I mean, he's not my boyfriend! I'm just going to the dance with him."

"That's great! I can meet him and talk to him about ghosts!" Her mother said proudly as she smiled.

"You better him know your family's insane now, Dani. If you marry him and he finds out later, that's attractant." James said as he smiled at her a little.

Dani sighed in frustration. "I better go get ready." She said as she walked out of the kitchen, through the living room, and up the stairs as she made her way to her room to get herself ready for the dance. "Okay, so I'm going to have to dance with Paul and keep my mom from embarrassing me...I can handle that."

Later on that night of the dance, Sam was currently typing on his laptop in his dark and gloomy goth room. He was also on a video chat with Dani and Tina, who were getting ready for the dance in Dani's room.

Dani wore a long blue dress with a neck strap and a blue waist ribbon with a bow tied behind her, blue eye-shadow, and also wore blue pumps and a blue over-shoulder purse, and even removed her blue headband. Tina wore a yellow and orange dress with two shoulder straps, took off her red beanie, had one yellow glove on her left hand and wore an orange bracelet on her right hand, and an orange and yellow handbag.

"Hair brushed, makeup done, unbreakable ghost fishing rod tucked neatly away just in case." Dani listed off as she checked her eyes and picked up her mom's device, settled it into a cylinder, and tucked it inside her purse. She then looked back at her laptop. "What's taking so long with that dragon research, Sam?"

"Alright, jeez!" Sam said in annoyance as he continued typing on his laptop. "Here, I'm sending you the link."

The website on the dragon appeared on Dani's screen. "That's it!" She clicked on 'More Info' and read the website out loud as her friends listened. "'Medieval ghostly legend held that the cursed Amulet of Aragon can transform any wearer into dragon form under extreme emotional distress or anger'." Dani zoomed in on the image of the exact same amulet she has given Paul before by accident. "That's amulet I gave to Paul. It must've accidentally fallen into my backpack when I fought that dragon in my parents' lab." Dani's eyes went wide in realization. "Wait…you mean...I'm going on a date with a dragon?"

Sam gave her a clever and smug look as he grinned. "Like I said, looks are deceiving, I'm sure you girls will have a wonderful evening." And then he logged off from his video chat with his friends.

"...He really wants to go to the dance."

"But he said he didn't want to!" Tina pointed out.

"We're his best friends, we should've known."

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it now, right?" Dani thought about that for a moment and then she smiled with an idea. She gave Tina a mischievous look on her face when her eyes glowed green. Tina realized what she was thinking about as she frowned in disagreement. "No way, forget it. Absolutely not! No!"

A few minutes later, Tina knocked on a door to the Manson residence, and Sam answered the door and saw his friend. "Tina? What are you doing here? Where's Vincent?" Sam asked in confusion as he looked around.

"He kind of canceled on me." Tina said, but it was really Dani controlling her as her eyes were glowing green and talking in Dani's voice. Sam's eyes went wide, but luckily didn't recognize Dani's voice. "Do you think we could go together, you know, as friends?"

Sam smiled a little, but then looked a little hesitant. "Uh...I don't know...this is so last minute, and I do have...plans, and…"

"Well, I-I understand if you don't want to go."

Sam then smiled with excitement. "Okay, but only because you got dressed up, I'll go suit up into the dumb tux I wasn't going to wear!" He then slammed his door shut to go change himself into his tux.

Dani, in her ghost form, phased out of Tina's body as she smiled at her. "See ya!" She said to her friend before she flew away, leaving her to deal with Sam.

"That is so unfair!" Tina called after Dani as she frowned. "And as soon as Sam comes back, I'm gonna-" The door opened back up as Tina turned around and she faltered in surprise. She saw Sam in his black formal tuxedo, and his hair tied in a ponytail with his bangs and locks hanging over and beside his forehead and ears. She smiled admirably at him as she blinked a few times.

"Come on, we're gonna be late!" Sam said excitedly before he closed his door behind him and dragged Tina down the steps along with him.

Dani phased back into her house and changed back into her human form (in her formal dress) as she waited for Paul to arrive to pick her up, while at the same time try to find a way to get the cursed amulet off of him.

"Paul, about the amulet...it's a family heirloom and I need to get it back." Dani said to herself, trying to find the right words. She smiled a little until she slapped herself on the forehead and rested her head on the back of her hand as she looked up in thought. "No, that's stupid." She then heard the bell ring, catching her attention when her eyes went wide. She answered her door, revealing Paul wearing his gray tuxedo. Dani smiled brightly that he actually came to pick her up. "Paul, hey!"

"Come on, Dani." He said while Dani's eyes went wide on the cursed amulet around his neck, which didn't exactly go well with his formal clothing at all. "We're gonna be late."

"Right with ya there." Dani and Paul laced arms together before they walked down the steps and made their way to Casper High.

At the school gym, all the freshman students arrived at the dance in their formal dresses and tuxedos while most of them danced to the music and some chatted with each other.

"'Let's get down to our bad selves'!" Lancer said as she read from her book out loud, but most of the students looked annoyed by her terrible slang since they scowled at her. "'Yo, shake that thing'! 'Hey, G, you're my dog'!"

At the punch stand, Paul gave Dani a glass of punch as she gladly accepted it. "You look amazing, Paul." Dani said bashfully.

"And I'll admit, for an invisible, you look pretty noticeable." He complimented back.

Dani blushed when he sort of unknowingly referred to her secret, but then made a looked that she needed to focus at the situation at hand. "Paul...I was thinking, that amulet-"

"Isn't it amazing? I haven't taken it off since you gave it to me."

"Yeah, well...a-about that. See, I shouldn't have given it to you in the first place, because…" She then saw Sam talking with Tina as he looked over his shoulder and glanced at Dani. "...it belongs to Sam!" Paul then growled angrily like a dragon as his teeth became fangs and his green tongue licked the punch out. He then crushed the glass with his bare hand, making Dani flinch nervously when he nearly changed into a dragon. "Uh...but I-I want to make it up to ya!" Dani nervously gave him her glass while he glared at her. "I'll get ya something else...something...more special."

Dani then saw Ms. Lancer approaching her parents. "Mrs. Fenton, about our conversation the other day, concerning Dani…" She began. Jackie frowned at the teacher in confusion, making Dani panic as she gasped with wide eyes.

"Like punch! I'm gonna give you some special punch!" Dani ran from her date, and snuck up behind her mother. She turned intangible and quickly phased into her body, making her eyes glow green. "Yes, Dani, what a fine girl she is. Yes, as her mother, I get that all the time." She said through her mother.

"Jackie, you sound kind of strange." Matt said when he noticed the change of her voice.

"Oh, it must've been something I ate." She then saw the punch stand, but noticed that Paul wasn't there anymore since he probably walked off somewhere. "Hey, how about I give us some punch?" She began to run through some of the teens. "Excuse me! Excuse me! Adult coming through! I bath everyday!" She finally made it to her friends, Sam and Tina, with an urgent look. "Sam, Tina, we've got trouble."

"We had nothing to do with it, Mrs. Fenton, it was all Dani's idea!" Tina said nervously, not knowing she was actually talking to Dani directly.

"Tina, it's me, it's Dani!" She gave her friends a couple of walkie-talkies. "Sam, try to help me find Paul. Tina, keep an eye on my mom. If she starts talking to anyone, page me, got it?" With that, she walked off somewhere else.

"This dance gets better and better with every passing minute." Sam said before he ran off leaving Tina to run the other way.

In the other side of the dance, Sam saw Paul walking into the men's room and he gasped. "Dani, I've got him!" He said through his walkie-talkie.

"Stay on him, I'm on my way, and Sam, don't make him angry!" Dani said through Jackie with her walkie-talkie before she phased out of her mother, took the talkie, and flew away, leaving Jackie confused as she looked around.

Inside the men's room, Paul checked on his hair for any frizzes from his reflection until Sam entered the bathroom and smiled at him. "Hey, Paul...nice tux." Sam said.

"Yes, and it looks so good with your amulet, don't you think?" Paul asked as he turned to him and smiled darkly at the Goth boy.

Sam stared at him with perplexity. "My amulet? That's not mi-" He suddenly paused when he got the picture that this could be the key to his advantage to get the cursed dragon amulet off of him. "...Right! See, my grandfather gave me that amulet, and-"

Paul only snapped at him darkly as he smiled cleverly at the goth boy. "Forget it, dork, I'm not giving up this trinket or your little girlfriend, Dani."

Sam's eyes went wide in surprise when the prep boy actually thought that Dani was his girlfriend. "My girlfriend?" Sam laughed hysterically like he was joking around before he took a deep breath. "And they say handsome boys can't be funny. Dani is not my girlfriend."

"She's not?"

"She's my best friend, maybe that's why I've been so hard on you. I'm sorry I called you shallow. Dani's a very nice girl, and I guess unlike her, I just didn't have the spirit about wanting to get to know you better."

Paul, however, looked as though he was kind of disappointed to hear that Sam was just only Dani's best friend and nothing deeper. "What a bummer!" He looked down at the floor briefly before he smiled up at Sam carelessly. "I only agreed to go out with her, because I thought I was stealing her from you!" Sam's eyes went wide when the prep boy said that. "Here take your crummy amulet!" Paul tied the amulet around his neck while Sam continued to stare at him, still looking very baffled and confused with disbelief. "I'm going back out there to dump your dorky little friend." And with a heartless smile, he walked right past him.

Sam's confusion then began to rapidly rise into resentment and hatred when his fists trembled with absolute rage while he glared angrily at the prep boy. All this entire time, Paul has only agreed to go out with his best friend just to make him jealous and now he was gonna dump her like she was nothing but garbage. The amulet around his neck began to glow as his anger began to trigger it before his skin turned scaly blue, his eyes glowed a reptilian red, and his teeth turned to fangs

"SHALLOW LITTLE WARLOCK!" He growled in a deeper voice before he fully transformed into a dragon ghost and roared loudly straight at Paul. Paul froze his tracks in shock before he turned around and fainted at the sight of the ghost dragon.

Outside of the restrooms, Dani waited frantically for Sam to come back with the amulet off of Paul, but he has never even showed up yet. "Paul? Sam?" She asked frantically, but then she perked up with worry when she got a bad feeling that something terrible has happened.

She entered the men's room and witnessed the dragon ghost flying from a hole on the roof while he roared loudly. Dani narrowed her eyes as she changed into her ghost form before she flew after him and once she caught up with the dragon, she double-kicked him on the back, and sent him plummeting to the football fields with a boy in his hand.

She landed in front of the ghost dragon. "Take it easy, Paul, you don't want to hurt Sam…" Dani said, but faltered when she noticed that Paul was the one in the dragon's hand, unconscious. "Paul?" She glanced at the ghost dragon as it glared at her. "Sam?"

The dragon rose up to a tall stance with its claws in the air. "SHALLOW BOY!" He roared, and Dani knew there was only one person who called Paul 'shallow'.

"Yep, that's Sam." He breathed green fire at her and she quickly turned intangible as the fires torched the grass behind her and harmlessly through his ghost friend. She turned solid again as she looked back up at her out-of-control dragon friend. "Whoa, Sam, two words: breath mints."

She flew up into the air and snatched Paul from his hand, making him growl angrily. When she tried to fly away with Paul, she noticed that Sam was suddenly right in front of her as he whacked her with his tail. He sent her and Paul flying backwards across the fields while Dani quickly made them both intangible again.

"So, do you like cheerleaders?" Daph asked a guy behind the stadium some bleachers, until Dani crashed next to them with Paul in her arms. Daph and her date stared down with wide eyes at the ghost girl.

"Uh, sorry." Dani said as she smiled at them weakly. Sam suddenly lifted the entire grade of stadium bleachers with ease and roared loudly, making Daph and her date scream in terror before they ran away. Sam threw the bleachers several yards away as he continued to growl at his friend. "N-now, Sam, be reasonable!"

Dani's walkie-talkie then rung before she placed it toward her ear and answered it. "Dani, Lancer's getting close to your mom!" Tina warned through her walkie-talkie, making Dani panic a little when her eyes went wide.

"I really hate to do this, Sam…" She flew behind him and grabbed him by his tail. She strained when she managed to lift him off the ground and began to spin him around with ease before she threw him hundreds of feet away as he roared. She then slouched when she remembered another problem at hand. "Oh man, Mom!" She quickly flew back to the school gym dance.

Back at the school dance, Jackie was walking around while she was just minding her own business until she noticed that Lancer was talking to her husband. "Hey!" She said in displeasement, as she frowned at the out-of-shape woman skeptically. "Who the heck are you and why are you talking to my husband?"

"Jackie, this is Ms. Lancer, from the parent-teacher conference?" Matt said, looking a little confused just as much as Lancer was.

Dani phased through the floor and quickly took control of her mother again. "Right, right, I'm sorry, it's just in this light, I thought you were Georgia Clooney. Isn't she sharp Dad…I mean, Matt?" Dani asked through her mother.

"Well…" Lancer said a little pleased with a chuckle. "Thank you."

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to dance with my husband. That's what we adults do: dance with our husbands." She dragged Matt to the dance floor and they began to dance to the music.

Matt sighed as he enjoyed dancing with his 'wife'. "Doesn't this bring back memories?" He asked Jackie, but really asked his own daughter.

"If by memories, you mean things you remember that I don't, then yes. Go ahead and remind me of stuff, I'll totally agree on remembering." Dani said, until she heard the crowd cheering for the adults, making it a perfect distraction when she quickly phased out of Jackie and flew away.

"What the heck...I mean, uh, thank you. Thank you all, on behalf of me, Jackie Fenton." She said to the crowd.

Back outside at the football stadium, Dragon-Sam recovered from Dani's little spin toss when he charged straight at her while she phased out of the building. He blew more fire at her as she quickly dodged every one of them.

"I hate to say this, but you throw fire like a girl!" Dani mocked out loud, making Sam glare darkly when he heard her shout that offensive insult. She brought out the cylinder and expanded it into her mother's Fenton Fisher. "The Fenton Fisher! It can capture ghosts and dragon ghosts! Way to go, Mom!"

She casted the line at her friend's neck and he blew more fire at her as she flew around him while she avoided all of his fireballs in the process. She tie him up with his arms and wings completely wrapped by the unbreakable fishing line before she released the rod. Sam dropped from the air and crashed onto the ground while Dani flinched from his impact. Dani then landed next to him as she grabbed the cursed amulet and ripped it off his neck. Sam began to glow when he shrunk back into his normal self, not really remembering anything since he wasn't in control of himself.

"Sam, are you alright?" Dani wondered as she changed back to her human form and leaned down as she placed her hand on his back while he got onto his fours wearily.

"Wow...did I have fun at the dance?" He groaned as he rubbed his head.

Dani chuckled softly. "Well, let's just say you had a roaring time." That made Sam smile at her weakly at her little joke.

Back inside the gym, the students began leaving the dance after a long night of dancing and hanging out since they were all getting a little tired, which only left Dani, Tina, and Sam alone at the dance. Even Jackie and Matt returned home after that long night, but Dani promised them that she would be home soon.

"Girl, sorry your date didn't pan out. Where is Paul anyway?" Tina wondered out loud as they looked around the gym.

The trio found Paul leaning against the wall while Daph flirted with him. "So...do you like cheerleaders?" She asked him. Paul looked more annoyed with his arms crossed since he was still apparently disgusted by what Dani made the cheerleader captain say to him about a day ago.

Sam was about to say something, but then smiled as he just brushed the subject aside since Paul wasn't the most important objective anymore. "Ah, who cares? Look, the DJ's still playing." He said as he pointed at the DJ still at the recorders, and then he turned back to Dani while he smiled somewhat warmly at her. "And I guess there's time for one last dance."

"Sure, I'd love to." Dani said with a smile before she gave Tina the cursed ghost dragon amulet that began this whole ghost dragon incident in the first place. "Keep an eye on this, will ya?"

Tina smiled warmly as she watched her two best friends dancing. Dani's hands were on Sam's shoulders and his hands were around her waist while they slow danced to the music while that both looked at each other's eyes.

"Promise me you won't fall to the ground or step on my feet?" Sam said.

Dani smiled at him as she giggled a little. "I'll do my best." She said.

Tina continued watching her best friends dancing until she smiled brightly in realization. "Why didn't I see this before?" But then realized something else when she frowned in annoyance. "Wait a minute, I'm dateless again? What does a girl have to do to get hooked up around here?"

"Would you care to dance, milady?" The original ghostly owner of the amulet from before asked politely, making Tina jump a little in surprise.

Tina stared at the ghost nervously as she began fearing this ghost's presence. "On second thought, I don't need a date that badly!" The ghost held onto her hands and smiled at her warmly, making her freak out even more in fright when she called after her friends. "Hey, guys! Wait up! Can I cut in?!"