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The teen looked at the shocked expressions of his classmates.
"The Crucible! Daniel Fenton!" his teacher cried. He limped over to the teen while grasping his injured leg.
The halfa slowly turned towards his teacher with a sheepish smile.
"We just keep learning more and more things about you," Lancer said in almost a whisper, his eyebrows were high on his forehead and his eyes extremely wide. "Did that come from your accident too?" he asked, while he looked at Danny's hand nervously.
Danny glanced down to said hand as well, before replying, "Yeah, it did." He awkwardly shifted his feet, feeling skittish under the stares of his peers.
"When you did all that freaky stuff it didn't look like you had to think about it that much," Dash said, breaking the silence.
"Uh, what?" the halfa asked, trying to play dumb.
"You said you had to really think about it when you go intangible," Mikey said for Dash. "But when you used both of your, er, powers it looked like you had done it plenty of times before." Mikey looked up at Danny with admiration, most likely because he was thinking of all the ways Danny could get back at all the bullies who had beaten both Mikey and Danny up for years.
Danny knew he had to tell them the truth...or at least most of it. "Okay, so I may have been lying when I said I could only go intangible sometimes," Danny sighed and rubbed his neck. The students stared at him, waiting for him to continue. "After the accident, I gained more than one ghost ability," he continued. "I can go intangible or invisible whenever I want to and I can also form ectoplasm with my hands."
He lifted up his hand and made it glow eerie green with ectoplasm. Danny bit his lip and wearily looked at his peers. They were shocked, they stared open-mouthed at his hand with transfixed looks. Lancer was muttering something, there was no doubt in Danny's mind that it was some book title. Dash and the other jocks looked a bit frightened, which they had every right to be considering Danny could have done some serious harm to them when they beat him up. Tucker looked around nervously at the others reactions, and Sam looked irritated.
Figuring the class had seen enough, Danny dropped his hand and extinguished the light. The boy awkwardly stood there for a moment. Sam caught Danny's attention when she mouthed, 'What are you doing?'.
He wanted to tell her that he had a plan and that he knew what he was doing, but with his whole class still goggling at him, he decided to just give her a reassuring smile.
"Can you go invisible?" Nathan asked.
Danny gave a small nod and vanished. Some people jumped back, Lancer reached for his heart in shock.
Danny reappeared with an uneasy smile on his face and his arms slightly spread as if to say tah-dah.
"That's awesome!" cried Nathan. Danny let out a small chuckle of partial amusement and relief.
"So does this mean you're a ghost?" Star asked.
Curious eyes shifted from her to Danny. "No, no I-I'm not a ghost," he assured. "I just have some ghostly…abilities."
"Like a superhero!" Mikey exclaimed.
Danny ignored the couple of snorts from the jocks. "No-"
"Like a freak," Billy coughed.
"Mitchell," Lancer snapped. "You'll be joining the rest in detention when we get back." Billy glared at the teacher, but kept his mouth shut.
"Uh, anyways, there is something else you need to know," Danny informed the group.
"By all means tell us, Mr. Fenton," Mr. Lancer urged.
"There's an evil ghost named Plasmius. He wants me as his apprentice or something. Since I have these...abilities. I might have made him angry by telling him no, and this is kind of his payback for that," Danny said sheepishly with a hand rubbing the back of his neck.
The class was quiet as they stared at him, but with a different look than before. Now they were eyeing him skeptically. Danny instantly realized how crazy the notion sounded.
"That dude must be crazy if he wants Fenton, ghost powers or not," Dash snickered to his friends.
"So we're stuck on this island because of you?" Billy asked loudly with his arms crossed. "It's all your fault!"
Sam and Tucker shot glares at Dash then Billy and Sam opened her mouth to say something but Danny beat her to it. "Yeah, it is, and I'm really sorry." He looked down at the ground for a second before continuing. "I'm pretty sure Plasmius is here. If we find him we can get out of here."
Excited whispers raced among the group.
"One more thing," Danny said, quieting the group. "Wherever Vlad is I bet we'll find Valerie there."
"How do you know that?" Star asked.
Danny hesitated before replying. "Just a guess." They stood there for a few more moments. Danny felt extremely uncomfortable, he really had nothing else to say and was hoping the class would just start acting normal again after he stopped talking.
"Mr. Fenton, are you sure you're alright?" Lancer asked, looking at his student's arm. Danny looked at him with curiosity for a second before understanding what he was talking about. With all the adrenalin pumping through his body with the fight and his secret nearly getting exposed, he had almost forgot about his arm.
He turned it away from the stares of his classmates. "Yeah, it's fine." He looked down at it, it actually wasn't that bad of an injury, he had blasted the mutant ghost before any real damage could be done. With the rate he healed it should he figured it would be healed in a few hours.
"Well, I guess we better start walking," Lancer told them. He turned and started to walk, but abruptly stopped and turned back to Danny. "Daniel, why don't you lead. You are the only one here who knows this ghost. Maybe you will know where to look," he told Danny.
"Me, lead?" Danny whimpered. He was already going to be stared at more than normal, being a leader would just give them an excuse to stare even more.
"Yes, since you are the one who knows him, maybe you will know how to find him."
"I don't know he-" Danny stopped when something came to mind. This was Vlad he was talking about, the one who has a giant, floating football in front of his ghost portal. He was flashy, he didn't worry about hiding. If he was going to take a guess where Vlad was it was probably high up, that way he could feel powerful. It would most likely be pretty obvious as well...and possibly have some Packer's memorabilia close by.
He thought back to the times of flying over the island. A memory of a large waterfall flashed through his head. Danny snorted. "Seems stereotypical enough," he thought.
Danny looked up to Lancer, then at his peers. "Uh...follow me?" He hesitantly turned around and started walking in the direction Lancer had been going, hoping that it would bring them to the river of water once again.
Sam and Tucker were at his side in no time. "You're lucky our class has the common sense of a sack of potatoes. Otherwise everybody would have figured out who you are by now!" Sam said in a hushed voice.
"I know, but it seemed like the best thing to do at the time," he grumbled. "Plus I think I have a plan."
"You think you have a plan? Or you have a plan?" Tucker asked. "Please tell me it involves meat...or any food that I would eat."
Danny hadn't noticed it before, but Tucker looked a bit sick.
"Tuck, when was the last time you ate?"
"I don't know dude. The first day we were here when we finished off the last of the airplane's food," He said holding his stomach. "Unless you count the berries I tried to eat...but I couldn't hold those down..."
Sam and Danny shared a worried look.
"Alright dude. Just tell me if you start feel like you are gonna faint or something."
Danny was pretty sure Lancer would have made a much better leader. So far Danny had dragged the class through mud, thorns, spider webs, and tangled undergrowth. So when they came across a huge waterfall the class stopped and sat down, not even bothering see if Danny had given them the thumbs up for a break. The halfa didn't mind, they had reached their destination anyway.
Tucker flopped down onto the dirt with his hands on his stomach and legs spread out. Sam remained standing, staring off in space.
"I think this is where he would be," Danny said as he examined the large waterfall.
His friends both looked up to where he was staring. "Behind a waterfall? That's so cliché," Tucker said, unimpressed.
"But so Vlad," Sam added in the same tone.
"Danny?" a flirtatious voice asked from behind them. Danny swiftly turned around to be nose to nose with Paulina. He blushed and quickly took a couple steps backwards. No longer invading each other's personal bubbles, he looked at the girl.
"Uh, yeah, Paulina?"
She gave him another flirty smile. Danny got the feeling she hadn't seen how badly her makeup had run. Otherwise she would be having a fit right now. "We were wondering if you could show us some of your powers again?"
Danny glanced behind her to see the "we" she was talking about. Sure enough the rest of the A-listers stood a short distance away, pretending they weren't listening to the conversation. "You've already seen them. They're really not that great," he said nervously.
"Please?" As she batted her eyes one of her fake eyelashes fell down without her notice.
"Maybe another time," he said nervously. "We're going to leave soon." Danny turned around walked to the water. Mostly just to get away from his peers for a couple of minutes. He had bent down to the water to wash his face when a cold chill ran up his spine. His ghost sense escaped his mouth and floated up towards the waterfall.
Danny squinted up just in time to see a ghost fly through the water intangibly and zoom off. Luckily he didn't look down to see Danny and his classmates. The halfa smirked. He immediately stood up to go to the lair, but was stopped in his tracks by his teacher.
"Fenton!" Lancer called.
Danny silently cursed and turned around to see not only Lancer, but the rest of his classmates staring at him.
"Yeah?" he tried to sound innocent.
"Where were you going?" the teacher asked as he walked over to close the large gap between them.
"Bathroom," Danny replied.
Lancer crossed his arms. "Like I haven't heard that one before," he said dryly.
Danny winced. "I think I know where Vlad is," he said sheepishly as he glanced back up at the waterfall.
Lancer followed his gaze and immediately focused back on Danny with a look of disbelief. "Mr. Fenton, I can't just have one of my students go and face a psychotic ghost by themselves!"
"Fine," Danny quickly agreed. "Sam and Tucker will come with me." His friends hesitantly walked over to stand next to him.
Lancer gave him a stern look. "That's not what I meant, Daniel. I can't have any of my students around a mentally unstable ghost!" He paused for a moment. "Or any ghost!" he added.
"Mr. Lan-"
"No. I, as the teacher, will go and talk to Mr. Plasmius."
The trio exchanged glances. "It doesn't exactly work like that," Tucker slowly explained.
"I think we've already made it pretty clear we know how to handle ghosts, we'll be fine," Sam added.
"Mr. Lancer, I was part of Mr. Fenton's ghost fighting club. I know how to fight ghosts, I'll go too!" Paulina said happily.
"Same here!" Dash added.
"I know karate!"
"Me too!"
"I've studied Phantom's fights!"
Everybody seemed to have a reason to go in and help fight. Lancer looked overwhelmed. "Lord of the Flies! Fine!" he shouted as he held both his hands up. He was quiet in thought for a minute before answering, "We will all go in there. Only because I can't leave any of you unattended while there are ghosts and other potential predators around here," the teacher looked cautiously around him like something might appear at that moment and start shooting. "Where do you think this ghost is, Mr. Fenton?"
Danny looked a little angry, but answered his teacher anyway. "Behind the waterfall," he grumbled.
Lancer raised an eyebrow as he looked up at the waterfall. "Very well. Daniel, lead the way."
After a while of climbing, slipping, whining, and Lancer going over safety precautions, the class finally reached the entrance of the cave. Danny turned back to his classmates, who were looking at him with anticipation.
"Well, here goes nothing," Danny muttered. They slowly walked down the dark and dreary cave entrance.
"I feel like I'm in a horror movie," Paulina whispered, holding onto Dash's arm with a death grip, but Dash looked terrified too. His eyes were darting back in forth at every noise and he was nervously chewing on his finger nails.
Finally, they reached a large room. Danny hesitated, but when he heard nothing he cautiously walked in. There was nobody in the room, it was relatively empty except for a couple of chairs and a television. The rest of the class trailed in after Danny. The screen showed them as they entered into the room.
"That has got to be the worst security system I've ever seen," Tucker said as he looked up at the television. "Who would even bother putting a-" he stopped when the camera zoomed in on himself. The students glanced at Tucker then back to the TV. The boy turned away from the screen as he looked around the room in agitation. "Where even is the camera?" he muttered.
"Great, that means he knows we're here," Danny said. He scowled at the television when his a closeup of his face appeared.
"That would be correct, Daniel," Vlad said as he appeared in the middle of the room, causing a few screams. "Though I have to admit, I wasn't expecting to see you this early by the way you were leading these poor children through the woods."
Danny glared at Vlad with neon green eyes and clenched his teeth. "Oh, the scary eyes! Now I'm really terrified." Vlad smiled, disappeared, then appeared in front of Danny. "But please tell me, did you really think you could just march into my lair without a real plan?"
Screams erupted from all sides of the room as ghosts appeared. With smirks on their faces they circled around the humans and lunged for them.
Sorry about that...Uh would it help if I said this wasn't supposed to be a cliffhanger and I just couldn't figure where else I should stop it?