I'm soo sorry it took me this long to get this chapter up, but I have a good excuse...okay, no I don't really it's just I had writer's block for a while then I typed some of it, but guess what? My laptop got a virus and everything got deleted! I'm still really mad about that and what else? Oh yeah then school. So yeah... but enough of my ranting, here's the chapter.
Disclaimer- I don't own Danny Phantom
"RISE AND SHINE CLASS!" shouted a wide awake Mr. Lancer.
His students groaned at the sound of their teacher's voice. When not one of the teens got up Lancer sighed and started to clap his hands while yelling, "It's another start of a beautiful day and I have a long day planned ahead for us!"
"Then can we wait until the day actually starts?" asked Dash, squinting at the horizon where the sun was just barely showing itself.
"But before you know it the day will be over, so hurry up and get changed," replied the teacher. When a gust of wind blew his way, he shut his eyes and took a deep breath. "Ah, there is nothing like the brisk, morning air of the ocean."
Star smelled the air and scrunched up her nose. "All I smell is seaweed," she retorted.
"Lancer, I need more sleep or else I could break out or I might get wrinkles prematurely," Paulina cried. She brought her hands up to her forehead as if feeling for both.
"You'll be okay for one day, Ms. Sanchez. Just, please, everyone get ready." The girl rolled her eyes but did what she was told to do, others reluctantly followed along.
Tucker nudged Danny to get his attention. "Look who's still asleep," he said looking over at the girl's side (Lancer had made the girls and boys divide into two sides, with himself in the middle.) where Sam was still sleeping face down using a sweatshirt as a pillow. He walked over to where she slept with Danny behind him. "Time for a wake up call," Tucker whispered with a smirk on his face. Danny's eyes widened as he saw Tucker reached down for Sam's water bottle. He brought the bottle over the girl's head.
"Tuck…" Danny warned quietly. But before Tucker could get the cap undone a pale hand twisted one of his arms.
"Ow ow ow…" he hissed in pain.
"Don't even think about it," Sam growled underneath a mess of black hair.
"Okay, okay, never again! I swear. Just please, let go," he whined. There was a laugh under the mass of ebony hair then she let go of his arm.
"Tried to warn you," shrugged Danny.
"Yeah. Thanks," Tucker said bitterly, rubbing his wrist.
Sam pushed her hair back quickly. "Danny you're back!" Sam said, as soon as she saw Danny she became wide awake. "What happened? And why were you fighting Skulker?"
"Uh…It's a long story. I'll tell you guys later, but right now I think we need to get ready" said Danny, glancing at Lancer who, at the moment, was ushering a group of talking girls to get ready.
After everybody was dressed appropriately, Mr. Lancer had all his students gather around him in front of the forest. After the last two students (Paulina and Star) finished, he started talking. "There is not enough food and water to last everybody on this island for two days. Therefore it is our job to find a source of clean water and food." The class groaned. "Gulliver's Travels, I would think you would all want to survive long enough to see your families again." When the class went silent the teacher nodded. "Good, now, Dash and Kwan, each of you take one of these bags. Kwan, your bag is filled with empty water bottles for clean water," Lancer turned to Dash. " Mr. Baxter, your bag is for the food. My bag has the first aid supplies, lighter, and bowl for boiling water. Now let's get going."
After about ten minutes of walking the group had found a bush which held many small, blue fruits. In sight of the blueberries multiple students cried out, "FOOD!" Some charged at the bush, and immediately started to pluck some off and pop them into their mouths'.
"Dash remember to put some in the bag!" Mr. Lancer yelled, trying to overcome the excited murmurs and sounds of the students finally finding some food. "Ah, forget it," the teacher mumbled as he grabbed an unused barf bag to collect berries from Dash's now deserted backpack. He smiled when he saw all the kids enjoying the fruits.
Except for Tucker Foley, who stood beside his two best friends as they munched upon blueberries. "Come on Tuck, what are you waitin' for? Have some," Danny said as he threw one at his friend. Tucker watched as the blueberry fell hopelessly to the ground.
"Dude? Remember? 100% carnivore? Only ate vegetables once so I could save your butt?" Tucker said, glaring at the half ghost.
"Oh yeah," Danny replied, mentally replaying the memory when Tucker ate the blood blossoms.
"It's about time you start eating healthier anyways. Might as well be now when we have nothing else to eat," Sam added. She smirked when she heard the carnivore's stomach grumble. "I bet you want a blueberry right about now," she said as she waved one in front of his face.
Tucker grimaced and shook his head. "No, never again."
A high pitched scream sounded from the other side of the bush. Everyone rushed over to the noise at once to find Dash was on the ground staring at the shrub.
"There was a huge spider!" he yelled. Paulina and Star shrieked at the word spider, but Sam walked right over to where Dash was pointing.
"You mean this little guy?" she pulled out a spider with a tiny body, but had long legs that stretched out across the palm of her hand. "He's harmless, Dash."
The jock shifted uncomfortably. "Well I-I thought it w-was one of those poisonous ones," he shrugged, his face was tinted red.
"What are you gonna do with it Manson? Add it to your collection?" Paulina sneered.
"Actually, you can have it." Before Paulina realized what Sam said, Sam gently tossed the spider at the girl. Once the spider landed onto Paulina's chest she made an earsplitting scream.
"Ew! Get it off! Star don't just stand there! Get it off of me! Ew, ew, ew!" Paulina cried. Star reached to whack the spider off of her friend but then drew her hand back like she was just about to touch fire. "What are you doing Star? Just get it off of me!" Paulina shrieked yet again.
"I don't want to touch either!" Star replied. Her eyes glanced on the ground, and picked up a nearby stick. Trying to keep much of a distance as possible, Star reached toward the spider (who was now climbing its way up to Paulina's face) and flicked it off of her best friend. The blonde smiled when she removed the insect, but once her eyes met Paulina's angry ones she bit her lip and looked down at the ground.
"What was that? You almost didn't get that thing off of me!" Paulina screamed to her personal satellite. "What if it bit me? I could have died!"
This earned a "Like I already said, the spider wasn't poisonous," mumble from Sam.
"Sorry Paulina," Star said softly.
"Whatever," said Paulina. She turned her back towards Star and walked over to the football players. Leaving Star a little dazed and by herself.
Mr. Lancer cleared his throat. "We should still try to find some water and if possible, more food." With that he started to lead the group the opposite direction they had come.
"Hey Danny you never told us the full story of what happened yesterday," said Tucker.
"I've been wondering the same thing," added Sam.
Danny sighed. "Long story short, I was flying but then Skulker came and started to shooting at me and-"
"Yeah we saw you and Skulker, but what was he doing here? Was he the one who caused the plane to crash?" asked Tucker.
"I was getting to that," said Danny. "Anyway, I ask if it was him who caused the crash, and he basically said that it wasn't just him, there are other ghosts who caused it. Oh, and that none of us can leave because my enemies have this whole island covered," he sighed. "I have no idea how we are going to escape."
"What about Valerie? And how did she manage to tie you up?" Tucker asked.
"Valerie caught you?" asked Sam who looked partially amused.
"Yup, but no worries. I saved him," chimed Tucker.
"I was distracted and she handcuffed me," shrugged Danny. "She's never gonna trust Phantom again…where is she anyway?"
The trio looked around themselves. "There she is," Tucker said as he nodded towards the back of them. "And it looks like she found out you escaped," Tucker said to Danny.
Sure enough Valerie was a few people in back of them, walking by herself. She had her fists and teeth clenched, and her eyes glared at the ground ahead of her.
"Great," Danny gulped. "And I think I was just coming to good terms with her." Suddenly Danny shivered and a blue mist escaped his lips. "Guys, we have trouble. Cover me?"
"On it," Tucker replied.
Danny bent down to pretend to tie his shoe and let everyone else pass. He stood up and made sure nobody was looking, then walked casually behind a tree to turn into his ghost half. He flew up into the sky. The halfa looked around but couldn't see any ghosts. "That's weird…" he mumbled.
Danny started to descend downward back to his class until his ghost sense went off again. He followed his senses and flew through the forest. As he flew on he noticed that the light of the sun and green of the forest were slowly disappearing. Instead, he found himself in a dark, shadowy place where the trees were dead. Thick fog rolled in from seemingly nowhere. "This isn't creepy at all..." he muttered, checking out his surroundings. "And looks eerily similar to the beginning of Dead Teacher IV."
Suddenly a powerful, evil force seemed to enter his body, as quickly as it came it left him. The force knocked the wind out of Danny and he tumbled out of the air a few feet before catching his balance. "What the hell?" Danny looked around, but saw nothing. "Who are you?" the halfa's hand lit up with ectoplasmic energy, ready to shoot as soon as he saw the ghost. He squinted in the darkness, all he could see were the trees that illuminated green from his hand and eyes.
Before Danny knew what was happening he heard a screech, then felt claws penetrate through the back of his suit. The boy yelled in pain, then turned around quickly and shot where he thought the ghost would be, but it had disappeared again and all he managed to do was blast a hole through a dead looking tree. Danny grinded his teeth in frustration. "Come out you coward!"
A shriek of laughter was the only reply. Then a shrill scream was followed by a black streak. Danny cried out in pain. The thing had made a slash across his chest. He brought his hand up to the wound and it was instantly covered in sticky ectoplasm.
The blur came again and made more scratches on Danny's body. The boy tried to catch a glance at the thing, and saw that there were multiple ghosts. They looked like scarier forms of Johnny 13's Shadow. The halfa clenched his teeth and squeeze his eyes to try to block the sound of their screams. If it wasn't for the fact he was trying to blast the creatures away from him he would have covered his ears. The black, shadowy creatures kept entering and re-entering his body, filling it with cold, negative energy, that made him feel woozy. Finally Danny snapped, his green eyes intensified.
He tucked himself into a ball in midair and generated a sphere shaped shield around himself. "Get. Away. From. Me!" he screamed as he expelled all the energy he could muster outwards.
The bright light caused the ghosts to cry shrilly. Danny looked up just in time to see their transparent, shadowy bodies fleeing into the woods. Danny took a few shaky breaths as the light of the ectoplasm diminished and the darkness fell back on him. Before anything else could attack, Danny flew the way he came.
Once he was in the sunlit part of the forest he plummeted down not so gracefully next to a large tree. He fell to his bottom and looked down at himself to assess the damage of his body. Danny was covered in scratches, luckily most of them were shallow and would heal in a matter of minutes because of his powers. The other ones would stay for a few hours at most.
The spirits didn't do much physical damage, but they had left Danny feeling very weak after going through him. It was like they sucked almost all the energy out of him. He took a look around himself and saw a small, flowing river only a few steps away. In the back Danny's mind he congratulated himself for managing to find water. He shakily stood to his feet. As he took his first step towards the river, black spots engulfed his vision and he fell to the ground.
Not so far away, Mr. Lancer's class hiked along, still looking for water. They had managed to find a small variety of foods, but still no sign of water.
"Wait a minute…do you hear that?" a nerdy boy named Lester asked.
"Hear what Loser?" Paulina asked.
Lester didn't answer, instead he walked over to where the route the class had been taking sloped downward. He looked over it, then after a moment of silence he yelled, "There, it's water!" Immediately everybody was by his side looking over and seeing the river of water. Once the kids saw it they all rushed down the hill, with their teacher following close behind.
"Don't drink the water! We need to kill the bacteria!" Lancer called after them. "Just fill up the water bottles!"
The high school students stopped to moan in disappointment. It looked clean enough, and the teens were thirsty enough to drink just about anything. They grabbed the water bottles from Kwan's bag and filled them up. Not long after a girl's terrified scream filled the air.
"Star!" Kwan screamed, and sprinted towards where the sound had come from. He halted when he came next to Star and gasped. "Oh my god…Fenton?"
The rest of the class followed soon after Kwan, they gaped at the bloody boy on the ground. A worried Sam and Tucker broke through the crowd. "Danny!" they both screamed. The two bent down next to their best friend.
"Paradise Lost! What happened?" Mr. Lancer asked as he looked down at Danny.
"He's just unconscious, he'll be fine," replied Sam, who was now checking her friend over for injuries.
Lancer gaped at her. "Fine? Ms. Manson, I don't mean to worry you, but his shirt has blood on it and he's ash white," the teacher almost yelled. He knelt down and felt his pulse. The worry on his face grew more prominent. "He has a pulse, but it's very slow."
Tucker and Sam shared a knowing look. "He must be dehydrated. That's why he passed out. And obviously he pulse is going to be slow if he's unconscious," Sam said.
The teacher opened his mouth, but sighed and shut it. Of course he knew that the boy's pulse would be slower than if he was awake. But it was even slow for an unconscious person, to the point of almost nonexistent. But he also knew that the girl was very close to Fenton and he didn't want to scare her or the rest of the students. Instead he focused on waking the boy up.