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Danny sighed, looking down at his dangling feet. He had been doing this for about an hour now… well ten minutes but it felt like an hour to Danny. He was trying his best to be patient, although that was pretty hard for him considering he was hovering above the canopy of the island, he was with a huntress that hated his guts and who couldn't decide on where she could keep him as a prisoner, and lastly Danny was powerless.
The half ghost glanced even farther down towards the tops of the trees that were more than a hundred of feet down. With another sigh he propped his head on top of his hands, "Well jumping is out of the question…" Danny thought bitterly. His eyes then roamed to Valerie who was still mumbling to herself.
"I could take him back to the beach with me…of course then I'd have to tell everyone my secret, but then I could watch Phantom to make sure he can't get away," Valerie stopped and cocked her head as if considering the idea and the possibilities, but then shook her head. "No. He's already brainwashed too many of my classmates into thinking he's the 'good guy'."
Danny perked his head up, "Hey! I'm right here you know? And I didn't 'brainwash' them!" he said offensively.
Ignoring what Danny said, the huntress kept talking to herself. "I guess I could just handcuff him somewhere in the forest."
"Hey, here's an idea!" the huntress turned around falling for Danny's fake enthusiasm. "Let me go," he finished stubbornly.
"No. Just hold on to my board," Valerie said with annoyance clearly in her voice.
"Yes ma'am," Danny mumbled then grasped onto the sides of the hoverboard a little tighter as Valerie descended into the forest. Once they got to the ground Valerie hopped of her board, roughly grabbed Danny by his arm, and led him over to a tall tree.
Without saying a word Valerie unlocked one of the cuffs and before Danny could react she put both his hands behind the tree and lock his hands together again. Valerie stepped back a step, put her hands on her hips and smiled as if admiring at her work.
"I need to go back to my class, so you need stay quiet," Valerie said.
And of course Danny had to ask, "And if I don't?"
Valerie gave a smirk. "Well, I have a new gun…" as if Danny needed proof she took out a smaller gun than she had earlier. She pointed it at a big tree and fired. A hole the size of a softball went through a tree and onto another. "I was going to try it out on the Box Ghost, but you'll do."
"Alright, I'll be quiet." he said quickly.
Valerie gave a quick nod before turning towards the beach and started to walk off, but stopped when Danny called her name. "Valerie, wait!"
"What?" she shouted, annoyed.
"Please, let me go," Danny pleaded, "I promise you, I didn't do any of this! I just can't be lock up here. I have another place to be!"
The ghost huntress crossed her arms skeptically. "And where would you have to be, Phantom?"
"Uh, to figure out how to get out of here?"
Valerie smirked. "Perfect, you can figure it out here!" She turned to leave again.
"Wait!"
"What?" she yelled in exasperation.
"Um, I'm afraid of the dark," he said lamely.
For a second Danny thought she was going to end him on the spot for good. "You're a gh- No, no. I'm done with your games." She spun around and stomped back to the beach, all Danny could do was watch.
Once she got to the beach, Valerie poked her head out of the trees and bushes to see if she could find her classmates and teacher. A few seconds of scanning the area and she spotted her teacher calling the students over to him. Her classmates were filing out of another part of the forest, carrying branches and sticks. All of them looked dirty and tired. It was a perfect opportunity to sneak back in with her class.
Valerie went back a little into the forest and made her way over to where she saw her classmates exiting the forest.
Luckily, when she finally got to her destination there was one student left who hadn't completely exited the woods, Mikey, who looked like he was having trouble walking with a pile of branches.
Valerie smiled and went up to the boy. "Want help? I don't have anything to carry."
Mikey nodded quickly, surprised that a girl was talking to him. Valerie breathed a sigh of relief, she would have only brought attention on herself if she wasn't carrying anything.
Valerie casually followed Mikey out of the forest, hoping that nobody noticed she was gone. She followed Mikey until they both reached their classmates who had formed a messy circle around Mr. Lancer.
Valerie partially hid herself behind some students. She still wasn't sure if anybody had noticed her absence although she saw Paulina glance at her in a snobbish way, and if Paulina saw her and didn't say anything she guessed it was safe to say that nobody knew she had been missing.
The girl's attention was focused to her teacher when she heard him clear his throat. "Quiet please. I want about half the wood you people collected to be put in this circle," Lancer walked over to a spot on the sand and drew a large circle with a stick, "and the other half can put the wood over here," the teacher did the same thing but instead of drawing a circle he drew an X.
Without any complaints the students walked over to the circle and X and dumped the wood on it, then walked a little away from the figures and waited to see what Mr. Lancer was going to do.
Lancer then took out a box of matches, lit one, and threw it onto the wood that was in the circle figure. The class watched as the fire spread and soon engulfed all the branches.
"Can we relax now? We've been working almost all day! I think I got blisters!" Paulina whined.
Mr. Lancer wiped the sweat of his forehead and nodded "Yes. I think we've done our fair share for tonight. I'm just going to inform the pilot that we built the fire. Everybody stay a safe distance away from the flames!" the overweight teacher shouted as he walked off.
After Lancer left the class sat down on the sand, enjoying the warmth of the fire.
Elsewhere, a ghost boy kept trying his hardest to break out of a pair of handcuffs.
After being zapped again in an effort to go intangible Danny grunted and slammed his head back into the tree. "Ow," he moaned as he slowly slid down the tree to a sitting position.
Danny took a deep breath to try to relax himself. Then clenched his teeth and fist, and pulled on the cuffs as hard as he could, but with no luck. He sighed and closed his eyes- until he felt a sharp pain on the top of his head.
"Ouch!" the half-ghost looked around trying to find somebody or something that was the cause of his pain.
Clink.
Another one dropped, but this time it landed on the soil next to him. Danny inspected the thing that had just fallen from the sky- it was a walnut of some sort.
Danny squinted through the darkness and saw a small figure peering down at him. A reddish-orangish squirrel sat on top of a branch, it held another walnut as it looked at Danny questionably.
"Um, hey?" The squirrel jumped and dropped the walnut and ran towards the middle of the tree. The walnut managed to hit Danny on the head once again. "Ow! Stop that!"
The squirrel replied with a sound that sounded like a shrill cheep.
"Sorry I don't speak er…chipmunk, but I'll take that as a yes," Danny called up.
Once the squirrel disappeared Danny went back to trying to slide his hands out of the handcuffs.
That is until another seed hit his head. Danny looked up to see the squirrel on a much lower branch, and another squirrel sat next to him.
"Oh great. Looks like Alvin has a friend," Danny groaned.
The two squirrels both made shrill noises, and two walnuts barely missed the boy. "Why me?" the half-ghost mumbled while another walnut hit his head and two squirrels cheeped hysterically.
Later on at the crash site, a certain techno-geek woke up from the discomfort of his full bladder.
He looked around to find that everybody was fast asleep, then checked his watch and realized it was only three o'clock in the morning.
Tucker rummaged through his backpack, filled with electronics, and pulled out a flashlight. He switched it on and groggily trudged into the woods.
Getting a good distance away from the camp, to the point where he couldn't see the beach Tucker went to a tree to relieve himself.
Tucker started to head back to the beach after he was done but stopped when he heard somebody.
"Stop that!"
"Uh, hello?" Tucker squeaked.
"Tuck?"
Tucker's eyes went wide. "How do you know me? Who are you?"
The voice gave a relieved sigh. "It's me, Danny! I need help!"
Tucker peered through the woods and saw a faint white glow. He followed it until he found Danny Phantom handcuffed to a tree. "Dude! You should be miles away by now. What happened?" Tucker asked, shining the flashlight on the handcuffs.
"Long story short- Valerie. I'll tell you the full story later when Sam's around," Danny answered. "I need you to find the key to these cuffs. I can't break out of them."
"How am I supposed to do that?"
"Just look in Valerie's bag I'm almost positive she put the key in the side pocket."
"Side pocket, got it!" Tucker nodded then ran towards the beach.
"Found it!" Tucker wheezed as he jogged toward Danny. He stopped next to the tree to catch his breath. "Man, I hate running," he added.
"Just unlock it."
"Somebody slept on the wrong side of the tree," Tucker said in a sing-song voice.
Danny rolled his eyes and waited until Tucker unlocked him. After he was free the ghost boy got up, cracked his back, and thanked his friend.
"Actually I didn't sleep at all. It was too uncomfortable plus there were these two squirrels in the tree and they were throwing seeds at me!" Danny said pointing up at the tree.
Tucker raised an eyebrow but pointed the flashlight up at the branches anyway.
"Um…Danny there's nothing there."
"Well, yeah, not now because they probably went to sleep. But I swear they were there and they were throwing seeds at me! And it was like they were laughing at me!"
Tucker looked at his friend with sympathy. "It's alright, Danny. No more evil squirrels are going to hurt you. Let's just go back to the beach where you can get some sleep," Tucker said like he was talking to a one-year-old.
"Tuck, I'm not kidding!"
"Whatever you say Danny, whatever you say."
I've had a lot of sugar today.