Season 1 Episode 21
Origins: Part 1
"Haunting!"

Dani (Voiceover):
You know how every story has a beginning? Well, mine doesn't exactly start the way you might expect. Sure, I live in a pretty normal town, attend a normal school, and I was just an average, ordinary girl who desires attention. I have a couple of the closest friends I could ever have, and a pretty goofed-up family. I could start at any point of my entire life to prove how crazy my life really is, but where I would really like to start at...is the day my whole life changed forever!

Theme Song:

(She's a Phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

A kid whose life has changed
Molecules rearranged
Ghost are so deranged

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

Spirits don't stand a chance
Senses all enhanced
Power so advanced

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

Unleashing all the freaks
Until her whole town screams
Now everyone you beat

(She's a Phantom, she's a Phantom)

Fly right through the wall
You can't see her at all
If they are big, or small, or tall

(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)


This is my hometown, Amity Park. It's not as much as a city, but hey, it's home.

In a small town of Amity Park, it's not exactly the most populated town. It has a prime fast-food hangout called Nasty Burger (only one letter away from tasty), a large mall for shopping and feasting, and a primal high school called Casper High School. In a neighborhood, all of the homes lined up just right, but there was one home that was completely different than the others. It was red with a neon sign that read 'Fenton Works' and had a large observatory-like center on the top of the roof, filled with different radars and satellites.

I know what you're thinking, and you're probably right...that is my home: Fenton Works. Long story short, my parents are scientists for paranormal ghost studies, but to me...it's more of an obsession. They might see themselves as ghost hunters, but to everyone else in Amity Park...they kinda saw them as crackpots since they didn't believe in ghosts. And honestly, I didn't believe in ghosts at first neither. At first, my morning started out as normal as a regular teen's.

As dawn began to break, the sun rose behind Fenton Works while the birds began to tweet for a new day. The sun rays shined through a window of the second floor of Fenton Works and into a bedroom, and a rocket ceiling model. The walls had several posters of space and astronauts, and their were clothes scattered on the floor and the light from the window glared over the bed with a large lump that kept rising up and down like someone was sleeping peacefully. There was a sound of a girl snoring underneath the covers before she turned in her sleep.

The alarm clock next to her bed read five fifty-nine, until it changed to six o'clock when it began to blare loudly. The girl moaned tiredly as she reached out to her clock and pressed the snooze button, silencing it. She sat up and removed her covers as she yawned and stretched her arms high in the air. The girl had jet black hair that was in a rat's nest, icy blue eyes that had sleepy bags underneath, and wore a white tank-top with blue sweats. She rubbed her eyes before she glanced around half-awake.

That's me, Danielle Fenton, but my friends call me Dani. I'm fourteen years old and this is my first day of freshman year.

"First day of high school." She moaned tiredly before she got her butt out of bed and began her usual morning routine.

Dani made her way to the bathroom where she squeezed toothpaste onto her toothbrush as she brushed her teeth to rid the nasty morning breath, sipped a cup of water, and gurgled it in her mouth before she spat the paste into her sink. She picked up a hair brush to get all of the knots out as her waist-length hair that waved a little when she was finished. She went back into her bedroom where she opened her dresser and she pulled out a small white shirt with red elbow-length sleeves and a red oval on the chest, which was small enough to reveal her midriff, slipped on a pair of blue skinny bootcut jeans, and tied her red sneakers on her feet before she pulled her hair back with a blue headband on top of her bangs. She finally picked up a red lipstick and rubbed some on her lips before she pursued them, making them look more red.

Dani smiled at her reflection when she waved her hair once and winked at the mirror before she began to pack her backpack up with school supplies. She suddenly heard a loud thud, making her perk up in surprise, and she made a worried look as she slipped her backpack on her back and cautiously walked down the stairs. The living room was dark with the windows closed and small rays of sunlight poured through some gaps, making the room more eerie looking. Dani continued to hear laser-like sounds coming from the basement as she walked slowly and quietly down the stairs and into the basement.

The basement actually looked more like a scientific lab than a basement. The walls were coated with special steel, counters were filled with beakers with green goo inside as some boiled, there were large anti-ghost guns hanging in the walls, and their were even some science equipment and books. At the end of the lab, there was a couple of people working on some kind of a large hole with blowtorches, who could've been Dani's parents. An obese woman who wore an orange jumpsuit with black gloves, boots, collar, and belt removed her blue goggles as she revealed her midnight blue eyes and black shoulder-length hair that was whiting from aging. And a man in a dark blue jumpsuit with black boots, gloves, collar, belt, and a shoulder-strap holster removed his red goggles and revealed his violet eyes and short caramel-brown hair with bangs hanging above his eye.

"Mom? Dad?" Dani called, catching their attentions.

"Hey, honey, just in time!" Her mother, Jackie, said proudly before she walked up to her daughter and dragged her in front of a blueprint, showing a ghost flying out of a hole and the prints reveal it was a 'Ghost Portal'. "I give you the granddaddy of all our inventions: the Fenton Ghost Portal!"

Dani cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "A ghost portal?"

"You betcha! It allows ghosts to enter our world and allows us to enter theirs, called the Ghost Zone, whether we wanted to or not." Jackie walked up to the portal with her hands on her hips and smiled proudly at the hole. "We've been planning and building this baby for six years, and now it's finally completed and ready for operation with the finishing touches on this piece of history."

"You mean a piece of wasting our time? That won't make history, you know." An older boy asked sarcastically as everyone turned around and found a boy with with aqua blue eyes, short orange hair, a black long-sleeve shirt, blue pants, and black shoes. "Come on, Dani, we're gonna be late taking you to school."

"No thanks, James, I'm walking with Sam and Tina today. They want the three of us 'walking through those doors to this life-altering event' at Casper High." Dani said with emphasising.

James only rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Don't get polluted by Mom and Dad's obsession, okay?" And with that happy note, he walked out of the lab and out of sight.

Dani sighed and turned to her parents. "I gotta go." She was about to walk away until her father, Matt, grabbed her arm to stop her.

"Oh, come on, Dani. Stay here and watch us work our magic!" He said excitedly.

"But you guys just finished it."

Matt wrapped his arm around her neck and walked her back towards the portal. "But we got the coordinates to the ghost dimension all set up and we're ready to open it up.

Dani sighed in somewhat annoyance. "Fine, but it better be fast. Sam and Tina will be waiting for me."

Dani stood in front of the portal while Matt began to turn some knobs and pressed some buttons on a console next to the inventions before Jackie plugged in some plugs as Dani heard some humming coming from the portal, like it was beginning to power up when lights began to turn on inside. Jackie and Matt then stood together beside their daughter when Jackie held up the last plug as they smiled at each other before she plugged them together. However, as soon as she plugged in the last cords, the humming stopped as there was only a spark of electricity before it remained absolutely silent and inactive.

Dani, Jackie, and Matt looked kind of surprised that nothing has happened. "I-I-I don't understand!" Matt shuttered in shock as he glanced back at his blueprints for any mistakes. "We did everything right and pushed in the exact coordinates, why isn't it working?!"

"Well...uh...maybe you've just made a minor mistake." Dani said as she smiled a little and shrugged. "I mean, it happens to everyone, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, but I guess everyone was right, there is no Ghost Zone. I guess that thing wouldn't work anyway, even it we actually believed we could make a change." Jackie said sadly as she and her husband walked towards the stairs with slouched shoulders while they walked back up. Dani was about to follow them before she turned back to the portal with a little interest before she followed her folks upstairs.

Outside of Casper High School that morning, Dani walked up to the building along with two other teens by her side. There was a gothic boy with violet eyes, short black shoulder-length hair with bangs and locks over his face, three earrings pierced into each of his ears, a black T-shirt with a purple oval on his chest, a thin chain necklace, and black pants with a green cross-patch pattern tucked into his gray combat boots: his name was Samuel Manson, but he preferred to be called Sam. And an African-American girl with teal eyes, bifocal glasses, black shoulder-length hair with a red beanie hat, a yellow buttoned short-sleeve shirt, green cargo shorts, and brown boots: her name was Tina Foley.

"This is it, guys. We step through those doors, and our whole lives change forever!" Tina said excitedly as they reached the door and stopped when she turned to Dani. "Okay, remember: first impressions are always important, so try to be cool and be more than you."

"Tina…" Dani complained when she was about to give her a look.

"What? You want attention, right? You gotta be more than a girl who lives in a family of ghost hunters."

"Let her be herself, Tina, and can we just get this over with?" Sam asked impatiently.

"Oh, alright, let's make history!"

The doors open as the trio enter the school and stopped at the hallway and saw the students walking around, chatting, and opening their lockers. Then they all stopped when they saw Dani, Sam, and Tina while the trio remain silent for a few uncomfortable seconds before the teens went onto their businesses like they didn't even notice them.

"Well, it was only one second, and they're pretending we're invisible." Sam said dully.

"I know I come from a family of ghost hunters, but...this just feels ironic." Dani admitted before they walked down the hallway.

They went their separate ways while Dani went to her locker and opened it as she then began to unpack her backpack and placed her binders and books into her locker.

Suddenly, a girl walked up and slammed her locker shut, making her jump in surprise. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Fentina of the 's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost." She said mockingly while Dani gave her a look of disdain as she gave Dani an evil grin while she leaned on the lockers next to her. The girl had short blonde hair that was gelled and combed to the back of her head, blue eyes, a red cheerleading uniform, consisting of a red with white linings top and a white oval, revealed her midriff, a red skirt, and white sneakers.

"Daphne Baxter, of course you had to come along." Dani said sarcastically before she crossed her arms. "And here I thought you were staying at summer camp for the whole year."

"Seriously? Why would I stay at that messed up camp near Lake Eerie, with two Es? How's your folks doing? Spazzing about imaginary ghosts again?"

Dani growled angrily. "What do you want, Daph?! I'm not in the mood! I have to get to class." She was about to storm away until she got blocked by Daph's best friend, Kwyn, an Asian cheerleader as she smirked at her.

Daph grabbed by her wrist and clenched onto it tightly. "Better watch what you say around me, Fentina." The cheerleader roughly shoved Dani to the floor as she grunted before the students laughed down at her.

Dani glared up at Daph as she smirked evilly at her before she walked away, laughing with Kwyn. Tina walked up to her friend as she helped her up to her feet while they both glared at the cheerleaders with disgust.

"Why is Daph Baxter here for only five minutes and she's already made captain of the cheerleading squad, and has such an inferiority complex?" Dani asked rhetorically under her breath.

"Her parents are rich, she's a prep who loves rough sports. The way I would see it, Baxter has her ways off trying to show off her wealth and her own popularity to win Casper High as the 'queen bee'. So, I would say she's a spoiled shallow all the way." Tina said with disgust.

Dani and Tina both walked down the hallway together to their first class together. "This is just what I needed, being teased on and being treated like I'm a freak. I wish there was some way I could prove I'm not a freak."

"Don't make a habit out of it, you'll end up being the exact type of girl you despise." The morning bell rung as the students made their way to their first period class.

Dani, Tina, and Sam all went to Ms. Lancer's classroom, who was not just a teacher, but she was also the vice-principal of the school, and she looked out of shape. "Welcome class, I am Ms. Lancer, your teacher and vice-principal." She said in a dry voice and looked as bummed as the rest of his students. "So don't go making trouble while I'm here. I know you're all bummed to be back in school...I know I certainly am, too...but for now, let's get those rusted brains up and running with this syllabus on your desks." All of the students moaned and complained as they looked miserably at their papers.

As Lancer wrote on the blackboard, Dani began to write on her syllabus paper, and then someone threw a crumpled up paper ball at the back of her head. She turned around when she heard snickers coming from behind her, and she saw the cheerleaders trying look innocent. She gave the cheerleaders a skeptic glare before she slowly turned back around and tried to write on her paper, but then they threw another ball of paper at her, making her growl in her throat as her face turned bright red while her hand holding the pencil trembled from her anger.

When they threw the last paper ball at her, she finally turned sharply around to the cheerleaders. "WILL YOU STOP?!" She snapped angrily.

Lancer turned sharply around when she heard Dani's outburst of irritation. "Ms. Fenton, is there a problem?" She asked, not looking impressed by the least.

"Yeah, can you tell those cheerleading brats to quit throwing stuff at me?" Dani pointed her thumb at the cheerleaders, who were trying to cover themselves by looking at the papers as they wrote on them like they haven't done anything bad.

Lancer stared at the cheerleaders before she glared down at Dani. "Very funny, Ms. Fenton. I know the cheerleaders, and they would never even bother a fly, so I'm keeping an eye on you, Fenton, and don't do any more accusations in my class." And with that, she turned back to the board and continued to write. "First day of school, and I already have a troublemaker in my radar."

Dani made a look of disbelief when she heard her mutter that last sentence before she glowered in annoyance until she turned back at the cheerleaders, who smirked at her evilly.

A couple hours later, it was already lunchtime when Dani, Sam, and Tina all went to the cafeteria and bought their lunches as they sat at their own table by themselves. Dani still looked really miffed that Lancer didn't believe her that she was being harassed, so she instead considered Dani the true troublemaker of her school, and the cheerleaders were getting away with harassing. Of course, that just proved that Lancer showed favoritism towards the athletes and allowed them to get away with almost anything. Dani stared down at her lunch, consisting of a mayonnaise sandwich and mashed potatoes which didn't look very edible.

"Oh man, so much for first impressions." Tina said as she settled her lunch down before she sat across from Dani.

"Well, we've already been here for like half a day, and we're already considered troublemakers and invisible outcasts, not that I even care." Sam said as he sat next to Dani.

"I know, guys, but I hate being ignored all the time." Dani said miserably to her friends. "I mean, the cheerleaders getting away with bullying, people who aren't standing up for themselves while everyone tries to take over the school. I can't live like being the daughter of a couple of ghost obsessed nutcases as everyone dubs them. I mean, I can't just sit around and watch everyone as they try to pick on innocent kids, my whole life is sitting on the sidelines! And I can't stand being treated like a freak and a troublemaker, that no one will ever believe me." Dani sighed heavily as she looked at her food again. "Sometimes I wish I would know what it's like to live in a normal family."

Sam stared at his friend with some pity. "Dani, you'd be surprised by what you might have that everyone else doesn't, but that doesn't mean you can change everything. They're still your parents and they love you just as much as you love them."

Dani sighed again as she rested her chin on her knuckles. "Yeah, I know."

"Speaking of which, how are your folks doing anyway?" Tina asked.

"Well...they're bummed. They've been working on this new 'Fenton Ghost Portal' that can apparently send ghosts into our world from someplace called 'the Ghost Zone'. But it didn't work, so they just quit."

Sam looked impressed, which was rare to make him interested. "A ghost portal? Are you kidding? You've gotta show us after school!"

Dani perked up in surprise when he said that and then she hesitated with a look of uncertainty. "Uh...I-I don't know...I'm not allowed to invite people into my parent's lab without their permission. You know they'll kill us if we're caught!"

"Are they going to be home?" Tina asked.

"...No, they're going out for dinner until curfew, but I really don't think it's such a good id-"

"Oh, come on! Just for a little bit, and then we'll be out of the lab before they even show up."

Dani looked down in thought, until she exhaled like she was gonna regret this. "Okay, fine, you guys win, but only to see the portal and don't touch anything."

"Alright!" Sam and Tina cheered in unison as they high-fived, and Dani only made a look like she wasn't sharing their thoughts exactly.

After school, the trio walked out of the building as they approached the road just as James drove up his red car to his little sister. "I won't be able to drive you home, I have tutoring to do at my friend's house, so I'm going to trust you won't do anything stupid at home alone." He said.

"Don't worry, we won't." Dani said reassuringly before he drove down the road and the trio walked together down the neighborhood.

As they continued to walk down the sidewalk, they saw a car being chased by a police car at top speed, a couple of little boys throwing a little girl's doll in the air as she desperately tried to catch it as she sobbed loudly and the boys laughed rudely, and a random teen ran past Dani, Sam and Tina with another boy chasing him as they watched them disappear before they continued their way back to Fenton Works.

"Amity Park, why couldn't it be more like home?" Dani asked sarcastically.

"It could be worse, we could've ended up in our rundown sister city, Elmerton." Sam said as he shrugged his shoulders. "Why do you have to be down on Amity Park all of the time, Dani? So it has its ups and downs, it's still home."

"I know, it's just its eeriness that really bugs me, and I would actually want this town to be special, but I find that hard to believe."

"But not impossible." Tina added as they arrived Fenton Works and entered the house. Dani lead them down to the lab before Sam and Tina both gasped at the sight of the inactive Fenton Ghost Portal at the end of the lab. Tina walked up to it in admiration "Sweet mother of modern tech! If this thing actually did work, I'd literally die of love!"

"Humorous." Dani walked up to the panel and noticed a white jumpsuit with black elbow-length gloves, thigh-high boots, belt, and collar with Jackie's face on the chest. It was the perfect size for Dani when she removed it from the hanger and held it by its shoulders.

"Smile!" Sam said before he held up his camera and snapped a picture of Dani holding her jumpsuit next to the control panel of the Fenton Portal.

Dani tried to blink the stars out of her eyes from the flash before she opened them again and looked at her friends. "Okay, I showed you the portal, can we get out of here now? My parents could be back here any minute now. Besides, they say it doesn't work anyway."

Sam walked in front of the inactive portal and looked inside with an excited smile. "Come on, Dani! A Ghost Zone? Aren't you curious? You've gotta check it out!"

Dani stood next to him as she looked up at the portal in thought before she smiled. "You know what? You're right. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of that portal?" She then began to slip into her jumpsuit as she slipped her arms through and then zipped up her suit, ready to go.

Sam then frowned as he walked up to her. "Hang on." He reached out her her chest and pulled out her mother's face off her chest. "You can't go walking around with that on your chest." Dani stared at her friend before she looked into the inactive portal before she walked into the hole.

As she looked around the inside, she blindly reached her hand out to the side of the wall, but while she wasn't looking, she accidentally pressed the 'ON' button, that was next to an 'OFF' button. Immediately, the portal suddenly flashed on with bright green light when it emitted out of the portal with Dani inside. It shocked her with thousands of volts of pure ecto-energy as she shrieked in agony to the top of her lungs. Outside the portal, Sam and Tina shield themselves from the bright light as their hair fluttered madly from the force, and their eyes were shut tightly. Dani continued to scream while her body began to change when her black hair became white and her blue headband became black, her fair skin turned more tanned, her icy blue eyes became neon green, and even her jumpsuit inverted colors as it became a black jumpsuit with white gloves, boots, belt, and collar. Inside her body, her molecules began rearranging as her DNA became infused with ectoplasm, a ghostly substance. Then with a loud explosion, Dani suddenly shot straight out of the portal and slid across the floor, unconscious with her new appearance as all the lights went out in the house.

From Fenton Works, all of the lights from the neighborhood began to black out from the portal accident. While most of the residences were either talking, playing video games, or watching TV like everything was normal, their power and lights suddenly went out, taking them by surprise when they all looked up in bewilderment and confusion. As Matt drove Jackie in their weird-looking semi-tank-like vehicle, their Fenton RV, from their dinner after they finished, they suddenly noticed all of the lights were going out as the sky became dark as their eyes went wide.

"Whoa, blackout!" Matt said in alert.

"Ghosts must be sabotaging our house! Hit the tail fin, Matthew! Our children are in danger!" Jackie exclaimed before Matt floored the RV as they drove down the road at top speed.

"DANI!" Sam and Tina cried out in unison back at the lab before they rushed to their unconscious friend and examined her new appearance.

Sam held Dani and hugged her as he placed her head on his lap. "Dani? Dani?! Can you hear me?! Answer me!" Sam said desperately as he shook her gently, but got no response at all. She was still breathing which was very good news, but she wasn't moving a muscle.

"We gotta get help! NOW!" Tina said urgently with wide eyes before she ran to the exit.

"Tina!" But she was already running upstairs and out of sight. Sam glanced back down at Dani while he examined her new appearance before he settled her back down on the floor and followed Tina upstairs to find help.

After he left, Dani's eyes began to twitch as she began to regain consciousness while she groaned. She opened her eyes before sat up and rubbed her head. "Oh man, what hit me?" She asked herself, and her voice sounded a bit more echoey.

She noticed the Fenton Portal was active and saw a green vortex in the middle of the hole before she stood to her feet, wobbling a few times before she balances herself. Dani began to inspect her entire body from her thigh, her arms, her stomach, and finally her face. She looked down at her hands that were covered in white gloves as she gasped and sprinted out of the lab and found a bathroom as she looked through the mirror saw her new appearance with white hair with a black headband, her skin more tanned, her jumpsuit has inverted colors, and her eyes were glowing green.

Dani jumped back in surprise as she shrieked. "AHHH! Ghost!" She exclaimed fearfully, until she leaned closer and realized the ghost was her. "Wait...t-t-that's me!"

"DANI?" Dani heard her mother, Jackie, call, making her panic until there was a sudden flash of white light as it emitted from the door, confusing Jackie when she stared at the door briefly before she opened the bathroom door and looked inside with concern. "Dani, are you alright?"

"I-I-I can explain!"

Jackie cocked an eyebrow in confusion while she stared at her daughter. "...explain what, kid?"

Dani looked confused, too, before she glanced back at her reflection and saw that her hair, her eyes, and her skin have all returned to normal and was wearing her original attires. Dani smiled weakly with his hands behind her back. "Uh...um…"

"DANI!" Sam exclaimed in relief when he ran from behind Jackie and squeezed past her to hug Dani tightly as she yelped in surprise. "Oh, thank goodness you're okay!" Dani looked surprised and confused while she remained silent.

"Dani, what on earth is going on here?" Matt demanded as he stood next to Jackie and narrowed his eyes under his goggles.

"Nothing, we were just, um…" Dani said, but faltered.

"It was my fault." Sam cutted in, making Dani stare at him with wide eyes. "I urged Dani to take us into the lab to see the Fenton Portal you two were working and she said no, but I insisted. We started messing with some stuff that could've started the temporary blackout...and we're sorry."

Jackie narrowed her eyes at her daughter. "You're in a lot of trouble, missy. Sam, Tina, it's time for you two to go home, it's almost curfew." She said before she and Matt walked away, leaving the best friends alone by themselves.

Sam turned back to Dani, looking confused that she looked like nothing has happened before he began to examine her entire body, while she stood there in confusion. He grabbed her hair, her shirt, and then he played with her eyes, cheeks and mouth.

"Hey, hey, cut it out!" Dani said as she brushed his hands away.

"You okay?" Sam asked, only to earn a look from Dani. "Sorry, standard question. Is everything alright? You scared the nightmares out of us."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm totally fine." Dani said reassuringly as she waved her hands in front of her. "Had no idea what that was about, but I'm glad it's over."

"Glad to hear that, girl. We'll see ya tomorrow." Tina said, still looking shaken up before she left and then Sam followed her, but then peeked his head into the bathroom again.

"Nothing bad?" He asked again.

"Sam, I'm fine!" Dani said with an exasperated look, but Sam grinned a little before he left her alone. She briefly grinned as well, but then it dropped when she glanced back at her reflection and rubbed her cheek, looking surprised and confused at the same time before she headed off to bed with a baffled look.

While Dani slept peacefully on her bed, the inside of her body began to react when the ectoplasm coating her DNA began to roar with energy as her arm briefly became invisible for a moment, unknown to her since she only shifted around in her sleep before a blue mist emerged from her mouth when she breathed, making her shiver in her sleep.


The next day at school, I clearly was not okay, even when I told my friends I was, but the truth was, I have never been the same since that night.

The next day at school that morning, the trio were walking down the hallway to their next class, but Dani was shivering like she was freezing as her teeth chattered.

"Dani, are you sure you're okay? You haven't really been the same ever since that night." Sam said, looking a little concerned.

"Yeah, I'm j-just fine. I'm j-j-j-just a little s-s-s-shaky, that's all." Dani said, but looked troubled on why she was very cold.

They went off to science class, and Ms. Lancer wrote notes on the blackboard while the students watched and copied her. Dani, however, was still shivering madly with her hands clenched to her desk. She began to sweat, despite being cold, and began to glance around frantically when she could hear her classmates tapping their pencils on their desks very clearly, and she saw a flying buzzing near Sam's ear before he slapped his hands together to squash it, and the slap sounded so loud to Dani that she clapped her hands on her ears. She closed her eyes tightly when she shivered even more and breathed heavily, until she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Dani?" Sam asked, making her jump as she yelped and then she glanced to him. He looked a little confused, yet very worried. The students were all staring at her oddly with wide eyes and/or cocked eyebrows. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Dani said as she rubbed the sweat off her head.

"Ms. Fenton, is there a problem?" Lancer asked solemnly.

"No, sir."

"Then perhaps you wouldn't mind getting some beakers for talking in class."

Dani rolled her eyes in annoyance, but she stood from her seat and walked to the back of the room and found a box of eighteen fragile beakers inside. She was about to grab hold of the box when she suddenly saw her arm flicker invisibly, making her freeze in surprise as she examined her arm and flexed her finger before she shrugged it aside and grabbed the box and lifted it up. But then suddenly, her arms became transparent and the box slipped right through her grasp and dropped to the ground, and the beakers shattered inside. The students turned and gasped in bewilderment as Dani looked at her arms for a second before she hid them behind her back before anyone noticed.

"I, uh...I need to use the bathroom!" Dani said nervously as she grapevined urgently to the exit door with her hands behind her back and sprinted out of the room. Sam and Tina leaned a little as they made looks of worry but their friend's strange behavior before they glanced at each other. She definitely was not okay, and she was not the same since last night.

Dani speed walked down the hallway in a hurry as she rubbed her arm (that was solid again) and examined it in fear. She saw it flicker invisibly again, making her scared even more before she ran into the ladies room and slammed the door behind her. She stopped at a sink and turned on the water as she splashed some warm water onto her face. She then stood straight as she rubbed her eyes and stared at her reflection while she took a few deep breaths.

"Okay, pull yourself together, Dani. There's absolutely nothing wrong with you. Just calm down and everything will be fine." She said to herself.

Dani suddenly saw a scratch on her neck, possibly from her little accident from the portal, but when she wiped her palm on it and glanced down at her hand, it was stained green. She glanced back up at the mirror again with wide fearful eyes and briefly saw them flicker green before they turned back to her normal blue. She slowly backed away before she ran out of the restroom in a hurry.

Later on, Dani has been called to Lancer's office as she discussed about her little 'beaker breaker accident' back in the science room.

"Ms. Lancer, I swear! I didn't mean to break those beakers!" Dani tried to reason.

"That's more than enough out of you, Ms. Fenton." Lancer said coldly. "Now then, you do realize that breaking those beakers will be printed on your permanent records? And will you be crystal clear as to why you broke those fragile breakers that could cost at least a quarter of science budget?!"

"I-I-I don't know! The box just...slipped through my hands."

The vice principal cocked an eyebrow. "Through your hands?"

"I-I mean…" Dani looked down as she sighed. "Look, I don't know what's been going on with me. I've been going through some...changes."

"Ah yes, the oldest excuse in the book."

Dani cocked an eyebrow. "What? No, no, I didn't mean-"

"Ms. Fenton, you come from a family of bad influences and you've only been here for two days, and you've forced me to give you a warning and currently flunking math! I suggest you start acting like your brother, James, and be more responsible."

"But I'm nothing like James."

"I know. From my experience, you're much like your parents." Dani looked down at the floor in sadness. "Troublemaker, making excuses, thinking there is such a thing as a ghost."

"But that's not true, I don't believe in ghosts. They're nothing but urban myths, and my parents don't make excuses...well, at least not the weird ones."

"With some exceptions I'll agree on, but I'm keeping a close eye on you, Fenton." Dani frowned in annoyance.

Dani stormed down the hallway before her shivers returned and she leaned her forehead on her locker as a blue wisp of air came out of her mouth and gasped. She rubbed her arms to rid the chills as she shivered a little, but then her eyes went wide as she suddenly had a strange feeling like someone was approaching her and had a weird sensation on her that she should...DODGE

She quickly leaned her head to the side with a yelp of surprise just at the last second when Daph Baxter's fist dented her locker and Dani backed away with wide eyes, more startled at she actually knew Daph was gonna punch her. "What's wrong, Fenton? Seen a ghost?" Daph mocked as she smirked.

"Daphne, don't do this again!" Sam demanded as he stormed up to the girls with an annoyed.

"Daph, I'm really not in the mood to fight right now, it has been a crazy day for me." Dani said, looking completely overwhelmed with fear and confusion while she held her hands up defensively.

"Well now, let's see if I can make your day even miserable, shall we?" She retorted as the students gathered around them, and she tried to punch Dani's face, but time seemed to slow down for Dani when she quickly dodged her head sideways before she regained her posture.

None of them were sure who was more surprised as they stared at each other with wide eyes, until Daph glared again and tried to uppercut Dani to the jaw, but she manage to narrowly miss her fist as she got into a handstand pose while she back-flipped once with a kick straight under Daph's jaw, making all the students gasp in shock. Daph toppled backwards a little and regained her balance while she held onto her mouth and muffly shouted in pain. Dani got back to her feet and looked at herself in confusion before she covered her own mouth when she realized that she has actually hurt her rival. "Oh my gosh! I'm so, so sorry!" She looked a little amazed and confused that she hasn't even been hit yet.

"Tina, help her!" Sam said to Tina as they watched the fight.

Dani gasped when another blue wisp emerged from her mouth until she heard a shout and then, without thinking, she twisted and air-kicked Kwyn in the cheek (who tried to lunge at her), making her tumble backwards just as another heer leader tried to tackle Dani, but she avoided her fist when she twisted into the floor while she stuck and swung out her leg and tripped her onto the floor with a grunt. Dani managed to get back to her feet with just a lunge of her legs while Kwyn had her hands over her mouth and nose as she muffled in pain. Dani stared at her hands while she panted a little before she turned back to the cheerleader captain and then began to glare slowly as she made her hands into fists, now that she was finally provoked.

"Looks like she's handling this pretty well." Tina said, looking more amazed than shocked.

Daph recovered from Dani's blow when she uncovered her mouth and growled as she threw multiple punches to Dani, but she evaded every one of them while she leaned and ducked so fast, Daph's fists couldn't even touch her. "Hold. still. you. loser!" Daph exclaimed between punches as Dani continued to dodge her head with incredible ease.

Dani then managed to counter block a few of her punches before she finally managed to catch Daph's wrist. Dani glared angrily as she began to squeeze the cheerleader's hand tightly and she knew she wasn't strong, but this time, she could literally hear bones crunching while Daph grunted in pain and tensed her fingers from her rival's sudden unusual strength.

"Do...not...call...me...A LOSER!" Dani exclaimed between heavy breaths right before she punched Daph straight at her stomach, sending her flying across the hallway with a shout when the crowd quickly created a space to avoid being collided and she slid across the middle of the floor. Daph curled into a ball and hugged onto her stomach in pain as she coughed.

Dani still had her fist out, looking just as surprised as most of the students when they began to mutter inaudibly to each other. It was unknown if they were either shocked, amazed, or fearful, but they stared at Dani like they were beginning to feel suspicious about her.

Kwyn stood back up to her feet as she rubbed her cheek from Dani's reflexive air-kick to the face. "Jeez, Fenton, you really are a freak." She said with a glare of disbelief before she walked off to Daph to help her out.

Dani glanced at Sam with wide eyes, who stared at where Daph just flew of before he glanced back at his best friend with a look of concern and disbelief at the same time.

Tina, on the other hand, looked very amazed by her new fighting skills she has unexpectedly acquired. "Dani, how did you..." She began to ask in awe, but Dani remained silent in fear while she slightly shook her head before she quickly sprinted down the hallway. "DANI!"

Dani ran down the sidewalk into town while passing by some random citizens, looking completely overwhelmed. She then ran into an empty alleyway and pinned her back to the side of the building while she panted heavily and rubbed her eyes with her hand. Then Dani suddenly felt a slight tingling sensation on her other hand when she removed her hand from her eyes before she stared at it and watched it flicker invisible/visible all over again as she eyes went wide.

"What's happening to me?" Dani asked herself in fear as she tensed her fingers before she glanced around to make sure no one was looking.

Out of nowhere, she came engulfed in white light as white rings appeared and intersected her body, changing her into the same appearance as the night of her little portal accident. Dani looked down at her gloved hands and yelped in surprise, but then shot to the air and slammed into a building in front of her with a grunt. She looked up and pushed away from the building as she flew into the air while she screamed and waved her arms and legs around madly, trying to stay in control.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOOOOOAAAA!" Dani screamed as she did a barrel-roll and dove straight towards the road full of moving cars and tried to avoid them narrowly while she heard horns being honked. "I can fly?!" She narrowly missed two cars and suddenly swooped to the sidewalk as the citizens noticed her and jumped out of the way with shouts of surprise. "Look out! On your left! No control here!" They all stared at her in stunned surprise as she flew away at top speed. A girl was playing with her superhero action figure while she mimicked some actions sounds, until Dani suddenly zoomed right past her car, making her stare at her in awe and shock as she disappeared behind a building.

Dani looked ahead and noticed that she was flying straight towards Casper High. "WHOA!" She screamed as she clenched her eyes tightly and her entire body became transparent before she flew harmlessly through the walls and into the hallways. Most of the students dropped their books and yelped in surprise as she disappeared behind the walls. "Sorry! No control! Out of the way!"

Meanwhile, Sam and Tina walked down the hallway with their backpacks, but like for the entire day, Sam was really concerned about Dani and how she has been acting weird that day. "Tina, this is serious! Something is wrong with Dani, and it clearly had something to do with the portal accident last night! Nobody can learn how to fight that good in just one night!" Sam pointed out as they stopped in front of a supply closet.

"Really? I know she's been acting weird this past day, but wrong how?" Tina asked as she shrugged her shoulders.

No sooner than she asked, they suddenly heard a familiar scream when they glanced to the side and found Dani flying straight towards them, making them both shout in surprise before they jumped out of the way and she phased straight through the janitor's closet, where they heard items crashing and Dani grunting before a white flash emitted from the gaps.

Sam panted a little as he cautiously walked to the door and opened the door, revealing Dani (back in her normal attire and appearance) laying upside down with several cleaning appliances on top of her. She looked very terrified at her little flying experience as she hyperventilated and her hair looked wild and frizzled.

"Dani, are you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost." Tina said, looking just as surprised as Sam was.

"Maybe that's because I am one!" Dani exclaimed, finally realizing what was happening to her. That lab accident she had with the Fenton Ghost Portal last night has transformed her into a ghost.

TO BE CONTINUED...