EDIT 8/18/17: fixed any grammar/spelling issues, made sure names weren't repeated too many times

Hey, I'm back again! Sorry I'm posting these so fast… As time goes on I'll probably post much slower, especially in a few months when it gets hectic again.

Also, I apologize for not leaving time for reviewing. I got these chapters pretty much finished last night, and I hate waiting... xDDD Hopefully it's a good thing that more of this is coming out at the same time...

Well, enjoy! :D

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Danny Phantom or the main plot of Shades of Grey.

Blazes of Grey

RECAP: Danny had just met Cujo and chased him around several times, each time destroying something of Valerie's, including her dad's work, AKA Axum Labs, and her yard sale merchandise. Needless to say, Valerie's pretty ticked off at this point. This begins right at the scene where Vlad sent the suit and weapons to Val.

"Great news sweetheart!" Damien said with a smile as he opened the dingy apartment's window, "I'm getting one last chance! I convinced them to let me guard what's left of the research lab, while they rebuild!"

"Oh, that's great!" Valerie said with as much enthusiasm as she could muster. "How many of your employees can you put on it?"

Her dad frowned a little, "I don't have any more employees... I have to guard it myself... At night... In that..." He pointed to a navy blue uniform hanging on the door.

"Nice," Val said sarcastically, "and if things get worse, you can use that outfit to deliver packages..."

Just then, Damien's watch beeped. He started and started heading for the door. "Whoa! Don't wanna be late!" He gave his daughter a quick kiss on the cheek, "Bye sweetie!" And then he was gone. Valerie sighed and looked at the ground. Everything had gone so badly for her and her dad for the last few days.

And every problem we've had is because of that stupid ghost kid and his dog! She thought angrily and clenched her fists. If only there was some way for me to get rid of them once and for all...

She emerged out of her thoughts and stood up from the couch, stretching her stiff limbs. Valerie quickly decided to head to the library to do some research on ghosts, and more importantly, ghost hunting.

A few minutes later, at the library, the teal-eyed girl found several books about ghost hunting for beginners. Convenient, she thought contentedly as she checked out a few of the books. Once I read them and get some weapons that can be used against ghosts, I'll be all set! She grinned as she skipped back to her apartment.

Vlad had several different ways of keeping track of the ghostly activity in his area of the Central United States. A lot of his efforts were focused on Amity Park, though, for several reasons. One was that Danny Phantom, his fellow halfa and student, lived in and protected Amity Park, and the older half-ghost wanted to keep an eye on his town in case the ghost boy needed assistance. And two, the Fentons were in Amity Park, along with their ghost portal, which was pretty much, singlehandedly, the only reason there were any ghosts in Amity in the first place.

The man rolled his eyes as he thought of his former best friend, Jack Fenton, who ruined both Vlad's life and Jack's own son's. The billionaire would likely never let that go.

The elder halfa was brought out of his thoughts when he got a new alert from Amity. He quickly checked it out and found it was several books about ghost hunting checked out from the library. (Yes, Vlad even supervised the online databases for anything that had to do with ghosts) He squinted at the small print and saw the person who checked out the books: Valerie Grey. Vlad hmmed and wondered who this girl was, and why she was interested in ghosts.

If this girl, Valerie Grey, has the right drive and determination... She could assist the little badger in Amity Park, Vlad thought to himself. Not that Daniel doesn't have it under control, but he could always use another helping hand... Of course, I'd have to stress the importance of her not fighting Danny...

After considering it for a while longer, Vlad make his choice. He went to his weapons vault (yes, Vlad had one too) and fetched one of the full-body-armor suits. Vlad spent the next couple hours modifying a suit so it would fit any size girl or woman.

Once Vlad was satisfied, he started on a note to Valerie.

Dear Valerie,

Heard about your recent ghost troubles - hope this helps.

However, in order for me to let you keep it, you must promise not to fight a ghost named Danny Phantom, but become his ally. I will arrange a meeting between the two of you as soon as I can.

-Vlad

The next morning, Valerie walked out of her apartment to see a large cardboard package at her doorstep. "What the..." She muttered and brought it inside, after seeing it said her full name on the outside. "The mail doesn't come this early... right?"

The girl knew she had to get to school sooner rather than later, but she wanted to open the mysterious package, mainly because she had a feeling it was very important.

She ripped open the package and carefully reached into it. She pulled out a note and started reading it.

Dear Valerie,

Heard about your recent ghost troubles - hope this helps.

However, in order for me to let you keep it, you must promise not to fight a ghost named Danny Phantom, but become his ally. I will arrange a meeting between the two of you as soon as I can.

-Vlad

She gasped in surprise as she skipped to the bottom name and saw it said Vlad, with no last name.

Huh... She thought, skimming over the note again. She frowned at the part that said she had to work with another ghost, named "Danny Phantom."

She reached back into the box and found several guns, followed by a small metal pack.

What the... Valerie thought. She put her arms through the straps of the pack and automatically, the metal stretched around her figure. Before she knew it, she was looking through a pair of high-tech red-tinted goggles.

She blinked in surprise, and briefly wondered how to get it off.

As soon as she had thought that, the metal peeled off of her and back into a compact pack that could fit easily into her backpack.

Valerie grinned, thinking about how she could use this gift to make the ghost boy and his dog pay.

What were the chances that the annoying ghost kid's name was Danny Phantom anyway?

A few minutes later, Valerie trudged into the school building carrying her library books, as well as the new ghost hunting gear hidden away in her backpack. Unfortunately, once she reached a corner in the hallway, she bumped into the biggest geek in the school, also known as Tucker Foley.

"Valerie!" Tuck said in surprise, "Hi!" He gave his best grin to the girl, "Okay guys! See ya!" He yelped to his friends.

Danny and Sam shrugged at each other before walking away, while Tuck quickly got onto the floor and picked up the fallen books.

"Ghost Hunter's Almanac? Ghost Killing for Dimwits? When did you get so interested in ghosts?" Tuck smiled curiously.

"When they ruined my life!" Val snapped and snatched her books back.

"You know, I happen to know a thing or two about ghosts..."

"Please," Valerie said sarcastically, rolling her green eyes, "I'm broke. I'm not stupid."

"Seriously! Did you know that Danny's parents are professional ghost hunters?"

"No, I didn't know that!" Valerie exclaimed before turning around and putting on her most adorable face, "Hey Tucker! Wanna carry my books for me?" She blinked innocently and smiled. Tucker fell for it right away and smiled back.

Valerie sneered a little when his back was turned. If the Fentons could help her become a better ghost hunter, it was worth playing girlfriend with this dweeb.

A few hours later, at the school basketball game, Danny and Sam sat in the bleachers talking.

"Danny, will you relax?" The goth girl questioned her friend.

"How can I relax?!" Danny asked, annoyed. "That stupid ghost dog could be anywhere, not to mention, I've driven Valerie to hate ghosts! Did you know that she was carrying like three different books about ghost hunting this morning?"

"Hey, guys, can we join you?" Tuck came up and asked, with the new ghost huntress by his side smiling sweetly.

Sam and Danny stared for a minute before snapping, "No!" at the same time.

Valerie looked down, and Tucker glared at his friends. "Of course we can," he answered flatly, and the new couple scooted in beside the halfa and the Goth girl.

"Soo, Tucker tells me your parents hunt ghosts..." Valerie said to Danny with an innocent smile.

"Oh did he now?" The youngest Fenton asked, sending an accusatory look to his friend. "What else did he tell you?"

The conversation was halted by a whistle, and the group of four looked up to see Dash about to throw the winning shot.

All of the sudden, a crash and loud barking came from the wall in front of them, which made the star quarterback miss his shot. The giant green ghost dog barked some more and dashed toward Dash (heh). All of the players rushed away screaming.

Valerie leapt up from her seat and ran to the left, going out the door to put on her new suit. Time to test this baby out, she thought eagerly, and the suit formed around her, making her feel ready to take on anything. She also pulled out the thermos from her backpack, which she assumed was something to use against ghosts.

She rushed back into the gym and heard talking from behind the bleachers. She ran around and saw the ghost kid and the ghost dog, now in its small form. She aimed her gun nervously (she had never actually used a gun before...) and fired, hitting the dog on the first shot.

"Say goodbye, ghost boy!" She exclaimed confidently and tried twisting the thermos lid. It didn't budge.

"Ugh, come on, you stupid thermos!" Val muttered angrily and continued to try to open the lid.

All of the sudden, she heard a "Hey Valerie, wait up!" from above. She frowned, confused, until someone fell on top of her, effectively pinning her down.

"Great outfit!" The boy exclaimed optimistically, and Val recognized it was her "boyfriend" Tucker.

She rolled her eyes and looked up to see the ghost boy flying directly towards her. She didn't have time to struggle as he snatched her up and threw her into the basketball hoop.

"You should be safe here until help comes," the ghost boy told her in a tone that said "stay here or else!"

"Get me down!" Valerie yelped, "Get me down so I can destroy you!" Phantom shot her an unimpressed look before turning intangible and flying through the wall.

The next day at school, Valerie hated ghosts more than ever. She was in science class when she heard the ghost dog's annoying barking again.

"May I be excused?" She jumped up and asked, coincidentally (or not so coincidentally) at the same time as Danny Fenton. She looked over curiously but decided to ignore it as the teacher let them leave class.

Once she had gone to the bathroom to put on her suit, she flew out of the school on her hover-board with her biggest gun blazing, ready to get the ghosts once and for all. She shot several times at their forms only a dozen feet in front of her.

After a few seconds, a green laser came flying toward her from the ghost boy, which knocked her back.

When Val got her hover-board under control again, the ghosts were nowhere to be seen.

"I think I'll go pick us up a little late night snack," Damien told his daughter with a smile. "Will you be okay, honey? You got stuff to do?" The two were at Axum labs that evening, and Damien was working the night shift again. Valerie had all of her school books and homework out, but she honestly had no intention of doing anything with them.

"I'm fine, Daddy," Valerie replied happily. "I've got everything I need right here." She patted her backpack and accidentally set off one of her guns.

"Valerie?!" Her dad exclaimed in surprise, poking his head back through the open door.

"I'm okay!" The girl promised with her best smile and innocent eyes.

Once her dad was gone, Valerie suited up and traveled through Axum on the lookout for the ghost boy. Soon enough she heard his voice and rushed to that room as quietly as she could. She aimed at the oblivious ghost and fired at him, throwing him into the wall.

"Back to the scene of the crime?" The Red Huntress snarked to the ghost.

"I really hate to do this, but..." Danny said slowly and charged up a ghost ray, soon sending it towards the ghost hunter, blasting the gun out of her hand.

"Yeah? Well I don't!" The huntress snapped as a gun came up behind her shoulder. Valerie aimed through her built-in goggles and fired, but the ghost shot through the ceiling, so her shot ended up breaking a hole through it.

Oh no... My dad's gonna kill me! Valerie briefly thought before rushing towards the ghost boy again. All of this would be in vain if she didn't manage to destroy what destroyed her life!

More shots were exchanged until the ghost boy hit the wall several feet above her head.

"You're a pretty lousy shot!" The girl teased.

"That's because I'm not trying to hit you!" Danny replied, "Can't we talk?"

"I'm done talking!" Valerie snapped.

The fight continued, until Valerie accidentally shot the alarm button, which caused all of Axum's security alarms to go off.

The Red Huntress blasted Danny into another room through the wall, but when she turned around, the huge ghost dog stood growling at her, only inches away.

She panicked and fell down, praying that the dog would just go away, until she heard a voice.

"Here boy! Is this what you've been looking for?" Several squeaking noises made the dog look up with an optimistic expression. "Does you want your squeaky?" The ghost boy taunted in a baby-voice, "Oh does you?"

After throwing the toy and sending Cujo away, Danny knelt down behind the new ghost huntress.

"Look, I know you're angry, but that's not my dog... And I'm sorry about whatever happened to you..." He stood up and held out a hand. "Not all ghosts are evil." The ghost boy paused, looking directly where Valerie's eyes were underneath her suit.

"Yeah?" Val said in a faked nice tone before taking his hand and judo-flipping him over her head. "And not all humans are saps, huh?" A gun sprang out near her wrist and pointed right at Phantom's face. "Goodbye, ghost boy!"

"Valerie?" A questioning voice rang out from behind the wall.

"Oh no, my dad!" The girl realized in horror, "I can't let him see me like this!"

"I'm sorry," Phantom said sarcastically to the girl, annoyed about his failed attempt to call a truce, "I can't help you there." He zipped away through the ceiling. Valerie looked around, panicked, before taking off her suit and started shoving it in her backpack.

"Maybe Danny can't help her, but I can!" Tucker said quietly to Sam, and nobly walked forward and let himself get trapped in a net. Valerie turned around in surprise and glared at him.

"What are you doing here?!" The girl demanded, confused.

"Umm... Hoping for a fake-out make-out?" Tucker smiled a little, causing Val to give the tiniest smile back.

"Ahem!" Valerie's dad glared at the techno-geek.

"Aheh, hi! You must be her dad..." He grinned nervously. "You're bigger than I thought you'd be, heh..."

"Well," the other man drawled, who Valerie assumed was her dad's boss, "At least we know we're secure against teenagers... But you're still on thin ice." Damien glared at the two teens, who smiled guiltily back.

That sure was a close one, the teal-eyed girl thought, shaking her head at her crazy night.

The bell rang, and all of the freshman students were sitting down for lunch.

"Know where the dog went?" Tuck asked the younger halfa.

"Nope."

"Gonna play it a little safer now that Valerie the ghost slayer is around?" Sam piped in.

"Yep."

The trio watched the huntress strut by, not once looking in their direction.

"I just wish I knew where she got those weapons..." Danny wondered aloud.

Just then, Vlad teleported into the hallway in a puff of pink smoke, looking both ways before moving. He set down a note to Valerie in her path and flew away again. Next, the elder halfa flew invisibly and intangibly to Danny, looking both ways again before allowing another note to become visible in the boy's lap.

Danny flinched before looking down and seeing who the note was from. He looked up to see that Vlad was already gone.

The younger halfa smiled and read the note.

Dear Little Badger,

I sincerely apologize for causing quite a bit of… friction between you and Valerie. I will fully explain the next time I see you in person. But yes, indeed, I was the one who supplied her with the suit and ghost weapons-

"Seriously?!" Danny shouted, causing the whole lunch room to look at him. He blushed and ducked a little, and continued reading.

-I know you probably just called all attention to yourself in the lunchroom-

Danny sighed and shook his head. Vlad always seemed to know, well, everything...

--and haha, I was right, wasn't I? Anyway, I did not realize at all that young Valerie was after you specifically. I even said, in the first note I wrote to her, your name and not to fight you but to be an ally to you. I apologize again for not being aware of what was bound to happen.

I wrote her a similar note that said to meet you at the Amity Park billboard this evening at 6:00. Please be there, and explain to her about my mistake. If you have to, take this note and compare the handwriting, or something along those lines. Just try not to reveal anything more. You know what I mean.

Deepest regards,

Fruitloop (I still haven't a clue why you chose that name...)

Danny grinned and handed the note to his friends to read.

"Don't you just love Vlad?" Danny asked sarcastically after all of them had read the letter. His friends started to laugh, and he soon joined in.

Despite the huge misunderstandings between the two halfas and Valerie, the black-haired boy somehow knew at that moment, that it would turn out okay in the end.

Another thing he knew was, the next time he saw Vlad, they would have a long talk about handing out ghost weapons to girls with grudges.

And there's where we end with Blazes of Grey! I hope the situation with Valerie sounded at least somewhat believable. I also ended up cutting out the Dumpty Humpty concert, because I already had a good ending and I didn't want to have to change it. I don't think it has a big effect, though, but feel free to tell me if you think I should add it in.

Also, sorry DannyxSam fans! I had to cut out the fake-out make-out... Sorry 'bout that. Maybe I'll add it in in a future chapter sometime...

Thanks for reading and if you don't mind, leave a review on your way out! :D