Danny slowly began to wake up from his sleep, blinking his eyes open to the sunlight streaming in from behind the curtains.
Once he was half awake and coherent enough to think he wondered what had happened last night.
Slowly the memories came back to him, Sam and Tucker wanting to see his parent's lab, them sneaking in, his friends stuck in the vault, him in the portal, the shadow of someone and the explosions.
When he realized what these memories meant he shot up straight in bed shouting;
"AAAHH!"
He quickly turned his head to take in his surroundings and from all the technology scattered about, he instantly recognized it as Tucker's room from all the times he had come over.
However there were some slight differences that he noticed mainly Tucker sitting in his desk chair and fast asleep while Sam was sitting on the floor with her head on the side of the bed which is what he was currently focused on.
Danny's startled cry had awoken his friends and when Sam's eyes had opened and where looking into his he could see they were slightly red from crying.
Sam's eyes began to widen when she realized that Danny was awake and as he began to ask, "Sam? What happened? What's going on'ohmmff!"
She unexpectedly tackled him with a hug, knocking the wind out of him before he could finish and was joined a second later by Tucker crying out;
"Dude!"
The combined force and weight of both his friends tackling him with hugs knocked him straight back onto the bed.
"Okay! I'm fine, so can you guys please ease up on the hugs?" Danny asked trying to get air into his lungs.
"Oh!" "Sorry!" said his friends and they let him go when they realized what they were doing.
"Are you feeling okay?" Sam asked slowly in a concerned tone while sitting on the edge of the bed cheeks a little red from what she had done.
"Aside from having the wind knocked out of me, yeah, I'm fine." Danny answered groaning slightly.
But then he took on a more serious tone and asked, "What happened last night?"
"What do remember?" Tucker asked after he regained his spot on the office chair.
"Us at the labs, an explosion, me blacking out and then waking up here." Danny summarised and then asked, "Why? What happened while I was out?"
Sam and Tucker shared a quick glance before Tucker began explaining, "That explosion took out most of the lab, Sam and I barely got out of there alive because we were in the weapons vault, but…"
"We think it somehow caused your body to change." Sam slowly finished for Tucker.
"Change, change how?" Danny asked confused.
After a few seconds of silent debate, Sam grabbed a mirror from a nearby desk and pointed it so that Danny could see his reflection.
And what he saw made him go stiff with shock, he was still wearing the jumpsuit he had put on but the colours were now inverted, his hair had turned snow white and his eyes were a 'glowing' green.
He moved his head and face around to see if it was a picture but the reflection mimicked every one of his movements.
Tucker then added, "You also seemed to have some powers now too. You kept turning invisible, floating in the air and…"
"Wwaargh…"
"…turning intangible." He finished lamely after Danny had phased through the bed and floor.
Sam and Tucker ran downstairs a second later to the kitchen, which was under Tuckers room, to find Danny sprawled with his back on the floor… looking exactly like he had before he put on the jumpsuit.
"What the… you're normal again!" Tucker exclaimed in shock.
"Huh?" Danny said confused before getting up and looking in a kitchen mirror and exclaiming "I'm me again!" with his held high and a look of delight.
But when he flickered from visibility for a couple of seconds he dropped his arms and shouted "DARN IT!" in annoyance.
Sam sighed saying "At least you can control them." then walked over and put a comforting hand on his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we'll figure this out."
Danny looked over to her and released a sigh before turning to them slightly and saying, "What else happened while I was out."
After the trio had sat down in the lounge room, Sam and Tucker spent the next hour telling Danny about them pulling him from the crumbling building to them guessing that he was now half ghost from all of the powers he had displayed and that they found him in what was left of the Ghost Portal.
"… so to sum it all up, YOU HAVE SUPER POWERS!" Tucker exclaimed, cheered up a lot from knowing that his friend wasn't completely dead.
Sam lightly smacked him in the side with the back of her hand and scoldingly told him, "This is still serious Tuck, we're just lucky your parents had left earlier or we'd have a lot more explaining to do."
"Have my parents called?" Danny asked.
"No, they think we we're sleeping over here all night, remember?" Sam reminded him knowing what he was thinking.
"Oh, right."
After a few seconds of silence Tucker asked what was on every one's minds, "So what are we going to do now?"
"They're only two major things that I can think we can do right." Sam stated. "Option number 1; we tell Danny's parents, they might know how to undo this."
"But what if they see me as an experiment or test subject and not their son anymore?" Danny asked slightly panicked.
"Dude, chill your parents won't do that." Tucker said assuredly, trying to calm him down.
"Can you say that there's a 100% chance of them not dissecting me." Danny retorted having not calmed down.
"Uuh…"
"Thought so."
"Then I guess we'll go with Option number 2." Sam said drawing both of the boy's attention.
"We keep this a secret and help Danny learn to control his powers." She finished off looking levelly with both of them.
Danny then looked at his hands then his friends and asked unsure, "Can I really control them?"
"Only one way to find out." "Try transforming!" Sam and Tucker answered encouragingly.
Danny smiled at his friends words of encouragement, then stood up and determinedly said "Okay then."
He then closed his eyes and concentrated on transforming and after a few seconds of nothing a white ring of light surrounded his midsection before splitting and traveling up and down his body transforming him as they went.
When the rings had finished passing over his body he was left looking like it had when he woke up.
"Whoa. So I guess this would be your 'Ghost Form', huh?" Tucker asked in awe of what he had seen.
"Looks like." Danny answered smiling.
Though it turned into a frown when the rings reappeared turning him back to Fenton.
"And that would be your 'Human Form'." Sam jokingly said.
"I really hope I learn to control that power before school starts." Danny said slightly annoyed.
Sam then cheered Danny up by saying "Well we've got less than a week before it does so we might as well get started."
(Danny in his 'Ghost Form' getting ready to run at a wall.)
Sam began counting down "3. 2. 1. GO!"
Danny charged at the wall activating his intangibility before he hit it and just as his upper body had finished passing through his intangibility failed, causing him to suddenly stop.
He then tried pushing his way out while asking his laughing friends, "Guys! Little Help?!"
(Danny still in 'Ghost Form' standing in front of his friends with Tucker holding a stopwatch.)
"And… GO!" Tucker signalled, while starting the stopwatch, for Danny to turn invisible which he did.
After a few minutes Sam said "Well this is boring, don't you think Danny?
'Silence'
"Danny?"
'Silence'
"Danny?"
"He's gone isn't he?"
"Yep."
(Danny in 'Ghost Form' floating a few centimetres off the ground in a park at night.)
"Check it out guys! I'm flying!" Danny exclaimed with joy before moving around the area.
"Uh, Danny?" Sam asked hesitatingly.
"Yeah Sam?" Danny asked still enjoying 'flying'.
"I don't think that qualifies as flying, you're only going as fast as you can run and you're not gaining any altitude." Sam stated uncertainly.
"Huh, really?" Danny asked stopping to look down and seeing she was right.
"Don't worry dude, floating's still a cool ability." Tucker tried reassuring while holding in his laughter.
"I definitely can fly! Just watch!" Danny determinedly said.
He then proceeded to do a series of jumps, swimming styles and just randomly kicking his limbs about before 'floating' back to his friends with a pout on his face and stating, "Okay so I can't fly."
Sam and Tucker broke into laughter after he had said that.
(1 Week Later)
The Trio were currently standing in front of Casper High looking ahead towards the imposing building.
"You guys ready for this?" Danny asked his friends.
"After surviving an explosion this'll be easy." Tucker stated with confidence.
"Why do I get the feeling you just jinxed us?" Sam asked with a sense of dread.
Before Tucker could retort to what Sam had said, the first bell indicating for them to go to class rung.
"Well either way we should get going before we're late on the first day of school." Danny said.
And then Danny, Sam and Tucker began to make their way through the front doors of Casper High.
Sorry Sam but Tucker did jinx you guys.
Anyway that was the last of the introductory chapters so from here on out it'll be mostly based off of the TV series.
One point I'd like to make clear is the 'flying' and 'floating' , put simply ghosts can't fly, they can only hover and float a certain distance off the ground and can make whatever their holding lighter as well. So that means Danny won't be able to fly with his ghost powers.
Thanks for all the great reviews and to 'Ethan Demas', 'Luna Lillyth', 'Walkers Annoying Voice' and 'danifan3000' for all the great creatures to add to my story. Though some may just be variations of another creature and also… DRAGONS! HOW THE HECK COULD I HAVE NOT THOUGHT OF THAT?! THEY ARE LITERALLY THE FIRST WORD IN MY NAME!
Phew, glad I got that out of my system.
So I've updated the list on the previous chapter if any of you have a creature that I could still add.
I might come back to these chapters later in the story and adjust them as they were a bit rushed because I wanted to get the introductory chapters out of the way.
The schooling system will be a bit odd and confusing since I've mixed and added elements from Australia, America and anything I make up along the way, so it'll start in the Spiring between February and March and end around November (leaving Christmas in the school holidays).
So please R&R and I'll see ya later!