EDIT 8/18/17: fixed any spelling/grammar mistakes, made sure names didn't repeat too much
I'm back for the 4th chapter! :D But, I'll admit I got a small case of writer's block on this one, when I was trying to find out a way to change Vlad's role in Maternal Instincts into not an evil one… I really wanted to change all the episodes with Vlad, and not have to remove them entirely. However, it seems like either Vlad has a villainous plot, or makes really stupid mistakes… xDDD I didn't think about that when I first started writing this series. Maybe it'll get easier as time goes on…
To Invader Johnny: …I guess that was more obvious than I thought... I think I'll continue with the dramatic irony, (school has taught me some stuff at least…) AKA all the characters being oblivious to something, and the audience knowing. And yes, Vlad's still a crazed up Fruitloop in some ways, I suppose. For a billionaire, he wasn't very bright last chapter… Thanks for reviewing on all 3 chapters! :D Thanks again and keep on being awesome!
To Sockenmonster01: Thank you so much for reading and reviewing! I'll be sure to throw in some DannyxSam… I've kinda neglected that relationship so far, mostly because it hasn't been in the episodes I've rewritten. But it's worth changing them to add in that! Hope you like this chapter! Sorry, no Sam in this one but certainly the next, which may be either another original chapter or the rewrite of Million Dollar Ghost.
To KaliAnn: Haha, yep, it's a nice break of tradition, isn't it? And sadly, yes… Vlad's way more… mistake prone now that he isn't as much of a crazed up Fruitloop, isn't he? I know that was a big mistake on his part, but I honestly couldn't come up with a better way to write it… Sorry to disappoint! Thanks for taking the time to R&R on all of the chapters so far! I really appreciate it, and I hope you like this chapter!
TO ANYONE ELSE WHO REVIEWED, AND I NEVER RESPONDED: I apologize, but a few reviews never went through in an alert email, and the review function has been down since this story was posted. Just this morning, I could finally see all of my 12 reviews. I'm glad that's fixed and in the future I'll acknowledge your existence, ok? Sorry 'bout that!
Thanks to MidnightSky68, TheMissingShadow, Nightmare Nursery, Shadow Ninja 287, EricaLovegood, Pana-sule, kyra235, and rachelapril1006 for faving and/or following this story before this chapter was posted!
ALSO, some people followed/faved and I never got an email… so same situation with the reviews. Hopefully I've said everyone now, with the 2nd chapter and this one. I don't know if anyone cares really… But I want to recognize y'all who chose to read this, even though it may not be the best written or thought out. Huge thanks to everyone!
Anyway, now I present to you, Paternal Instinct!
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Danny Phantom, but I do own my OC ghost, the Woodsman (spoiler!). I also own my changes to the plot.
Paternal Instinct
RECAP: Danny had just practiced all his powers in his parents' lab, with Sam and Tucker helping him. Also, Maddie had just received a letter in the mail (not from the creepy ghost mailman, like in the episode) for the mother/son Scientific Symposium, hosted by DALV (which is one of Vlad's two companies, and not a complete hoax). This starts when Danny is trying (and failing) to duplicate himself.
Danny Phantom took a deep breath, clenching his fists at his sides, squeezing his eyes shut and trying to focus as much as possible.
He felt something happen, but it didn't feel right at all. When he opened his two sets of eyes, he saw Sam and Tucker staring at him in amazement. He had successfully turned himself into a two-headed Danny Phantom.
"Wow, you can eat a Nasty Burger and fries at the same time!" Tucker exclaimed in awe.
"Yeah, problem is I can only split myself this far..." Danny's head to his friends' left head said.
"Vlad, otherwise known as the Fruitloop, can turn into, like, four different Vlad's at once!" The right head contributed, holding up his hand and showing four fingers. "I'm gonna have to step up my game if I want to be ready for him to help me manage more than two duplicates at the same time, like he can!"
"That's what this weekend is about." The left head spoke up again "Non-stop drills."
"No homework-"
"No family-"
"No interruptions!" They exclaimed at the same time.
"Hey Danny!" His mother called down, starting to come down the stairs to the lab. Danny whipped around in horror, still with two heads.
He quickly changed back to human form, but ended up having only one eye in the middle of his forehead. He gasped in horror when he realized something was wrong.
Tucker thought fast and slapped him in the back of the head, bringing back his normal two blue eyes.
"Pack your bags, we're going to a mother-son Science Symposium in California!" Maddie exclaimed in excitement once she arrived in the lab, holding out the letter. "Doesn't that sound fun?"
Danny sagged. He had a feeling he had jinxed it, the moment his heads had laid down the rules in perfect sync…
"At least you're going somewhere," Jazz comforted that night. "I'm doomed to "special family alone time" with Dad..."
The older Fenton child pulled out the letter they had received in the mail. "The DALV group... Never heard of 'em. Are they legitimate?"
"Legitimately boring, I'm guessing." Danny muttered in disappointment, not realizing that DALV was one of Vlad's companies. He heard his father saying something to Maddie, but he only heard the words "ghost" and "Specter Deflector," which didn't sound like anything good for him...
The next thing he knew, they were on a private jet on the way to California.
"Come on, Mr. Pouty Pants," The blue-clad ghost hunter said to her son. "This weekend is supposed to be about us! Those DALV people sent this private jet, just for us! How perfect is that?"
"Do you want the truth, or one of those little white lies that doesn't hurt your feelings?" Danny muttered, crossing his arms and slumping against his seat in annoyance. He had really been looking forward to relaxing and practicing his powers with his friends, Sam and Tucker, especially after all of the drama with Valerie... His attempt to become allies with the huntress at Vlad's request didn't go so well. The two had ended up calling an uneasy truce because Valerie refused to work with "the ghost boy who ruined her life," much to Danny's annoyance. Next time he saw Vlad, the older man was going explain why the heck he did what he did.
Danny emerged out of his thoughts when Maddie sighted dejectedly. "Forget it, Danny. Just look out the window at those beautiful Rocky Mountains."
The boy peered out the window and saw some cold, bleak mountains. He rolled his eyes before the plane started to shake.
"Folks, this is your captain speaking. We seem to have hit some minor tur-" he was cut off by a massive lurch to the left, throwing the two Fentons into the aisle. The floor shook as the plane flew at a dangerously sharp angle.
The mother and son locked eyes nervously before running to the cockpit. The captain was frantically trying to get the plane back under control. His efforts seemed to do nothing to make the situation better.
"The controls are jammed!" The man cursed in anger and fear. He seemed to be in his early 20's, so Danny assumed he was a rookie at flying planes on his own.
"How do we get outta this?" Maddie asked in horror, looking around the cockpit for something useful.
Danny gulped, "I know one way..." He muttered to himself before kneeling down and transforming into his Phantom form. He turned intangible and grabbed his mom first, but he had forgotten about the "Specter Deflector" that his dad mentioned. He was shocked with ghost energy, giving him cold chills in reminder of the accident that gave him his ghost powers. He was knocked back into the door, immediately turning back into a human. He just stood there in a state of shock for several seconds.
"Oh my God!" The captain shrieked and flew out of his seat, whipping around, "I forgot! There are three parachutes! Right there!" He pointed behind the three. Sure enough, there were several tan packs lined up against the wall.
His mother gasped, "Danny, are you okay?" She asked in horror when she saw him still against the wall, a pained expression on his face.
"Uh, yeah! I'm... fine!" He came to his senses just in time, and the plane careened even closer to the ground. The three people each grabbed a parachute and jumped one by one out the open side of the plane. Only seconds after they had jumped, the plane collided with a mountain, causing a booming thud and triggering avalanches on the nearby mountains.
Luckily, the trio were floating down toward a pine forest, so at least they could crash-land without getting majorly injured.
Once they touched down with nothing more than a few scrapes and bruises, the pilot shook out of his shocked state and started apologizing frantically. The poor guy was almost in tears from what had just happened.
"Oh, sir, everything's all right," Maddie consoled, awkwardly patting his back. "We all survived, right? No harm done in the end."
The ghost hunter pulled out her "Fenton Machete" after the young pilot had settled down, and she started chopping a path through the dense forest.
"You carry a lot of stuff, Mom. How 'bout a Fenton Cell Phone so we can call for help?" Danny remarked dryly.
"Cell phone?" She scoffed. "You can't fight ghosts with a cell phone, silly! Not that we're likely to find many ghosts around here... Besides? Who needs help? I'm perfectly comfortable with us ruffin' it out in the woods!" She continued to chop down trees.
Danny and the pilot shared a look before following on the cleared path.
They almost bumped into Maddie when she stopped suddenly. They looked up to see a marvelous-looking stone cabin. The three stared in shock of the sight before them.
The Fenton mother was the first to break the silence. "Or we could just stay at this ritzy mountain chalet... I'm open!"
The group slowly walked around to the tall, wooden double-doors. Maddie knocked before stepping back and wondering who owned the beautiful building.
After a few seconds, the large, carved wooden doors swung open. The ghost huntress, halfa and pilot gasped when they saw that Vlad Masters had answered the door.
The man blinked before giving a confused smile, "Well, hello dear Maddie, Daniel, and... Who might you be young sir?" Vlad didn't pause for an answer before continuing. "This is a surprise. I wasn't expecting anyone way out here! Come on in!" He opened the door wider, and he led the guests into a massive main room, complete with several leather chairs, a leather couch, and a rustic fireplace, which cast a flickering orange glow on the wooden walls. Vlad had been staying in his Colorado house instead of his main mansion because the latter was being renovated, and he was asked to stay somewhere else for his own safety. However, he had his own precautions, including an expensive laptop with secret cameras watching every part of the house, just in case the renovators tried to steal anything. Even though Vlad had plenty of money, it was his own right to supervise his house and belongings.
"Please have a seat." The billionaire said politely and motioned to the expensive furniture, and then took a seat himself. "What brings you three to these parts?"
"You'll never believe it," Maddie started, once everyone had gotten settled. "We were on our way to the Symposium and our pilot lost control of the plane, so we parachuted out right over your house!"
Vlad looked over at the unfamiliar man in the room. "So I assume this was your pilot..." He nodded towards the nervous rookie, who nodded skittishly.
"Yes, Mr. Masters. I'm sorry, Mr. Masters, it was my first real flight and I don't know what happened and I-"
Vlad said a few things to calm down the pilot, and promised he wouldn't press charges or get the young man fired. "Accidents happen," Vlad had told him. The billionaire led the man away to make a few calls to DALV about the incident.
Once he had returned (the pilot had remained in another room to recover), Danny spoke up cockily, bringing Vlad's attention to him.
"What an incredibly well planned coincidence that this happened, right Vlad?"
"That would be an oxymoron, dear boy." Vlad corrected with a smart tone, causing Danny to mock-glare at him with glowing green eyes.
"Ooh, the scary eyes!" The grey-haired man pretended to look afraid before chuckling a little at Danny's immature-ness. The younger halfa sent his mentor a quick look that conveyed the message "we need to talk later, alone."
He nodded ever so slightly and turned to Maddie next, who was by a large bookcase looking through a book.
"Maddie," Vlad seemed to purr, "I'm so glad you're here. It gives me a chance to apologize for… my disappearance for most of the college reunion." He said, referring to his talk with Danny several weeks before.
While listening to this, the boy considered throwing in rude comments to annoy the other half-ghost, but decided against it. After all, his mom could catch onto his and Vlad's sudden familiarity with each other, and it would be hard to explain. In her mind, they had only met each other once, when in reality, it had been about half a dozen times since the reunion.
"Oh it's all right, Vlad," Maddie answered politely. "I know you're quite a busy man." Vlad gently took the Ghost book from Maddie, once he saw it was the one he had gotten from the Ghost Writer, who lived deep in the Ghost Zone. He prayed she didn't get to the page about half-ghosts (which was recently added in once the Ghost Writer met Vlad).
"So, dear Maddie, how is Jack doing lately?" The elder halfa tried to say without sounding too bitter. "Is he still creating those disastrous inventions that cause more harm than help, hmm?"
"Now, Vlad, Jack may be a bumbler, but he means well." The woman said with a smile as she walked toward a different bookcase, peering at the different books on it. Vlad knew he should drop the topic, especially since he didn't want to make Danny angry, so he sighed a little and ended the conversation.
"Of course, Madeline. I apologize."
After Maddie had decided to go check on the pilot, Vlad turned to his student.
Danny looked up at him, a slightly angry glint in his light blue eyes. "Okay, Vlad, I want you to explain exactly why you thought that giving ghost weapons to the girl that hated me for supposedly "ruining her life," was a good idea!"
Vlad looked down and sighed. "I really am sorry, Daniel. It was foolish of me to do something that rash without thinking of the possible consequences."
Danny rolled his eyes. "Plus you embarrassed me in the lunchroom-" Vlad snickered a little at that, causing Danny to glare at him again, startling the older half-ghost into silence. "This isn't funny, Vlad! For having 20 years of experience, I thought you'd have better judgement than that! I mean come on, now that girl hates my guts, both as a human and as a ghost!" He flinched and looked to the door, hoping no one had overheard that.
Vlad's eyes glowed red. "I already told you that I made a mistake! Just because I have years of experience being a lonely old man doesn't mean I'm perfect, you insufferable brat!" He snapped, but immediately regretted the words after he said them.
Danny stared at him. "You're calling ME an insufferable brat?! Just look at you! You have, what, like five different houses? Don't you think there's a better way to be spending your money then to have a bunch of mansions put up in your honor? How selfish is that?!"
"Oh, and now you think I'm selfish?! Take a look at yourself, strutting around and thinking you're the best ever just because you "protect" people?! You think you're the only thing that's keeping the earth spinning? Come on, Daniel, the world wouldn't be any different without you! In fact, it might even be better!"
Danny felt angry tears rushing to his eyes, and he was about to retort, when with a bang, Maddie threw open the closed door when she had heard the fight.
"What is going on here?" His mom exclaimed, confused about why the two males were shouting at each other, when they had (supposedly) only seen each other one other time.
Danny rushed over and grabbed his mom's arm, pulling her forcefully out of the front doors. After a few seconds, he quickly let go of her when he got shocked. Without turning to face the house or his mother, he ran full-speed into the woods. Maddie rushed after him, calling out a quick apology and goodbye to Vlad before she got too far away.
Once Maddie had reached the clearing they landed in, she found Danny sitting down on a fallen tree trunk and covering his face with his hands. Maddie watched in confusion and sympathy for a few seconds, before leaving him alone for a while. She knew from bringing up two teenagers herself, that if they were angry, they should be left alone for a while to cool down.
She just hoped that was the right thing to do.
As soon as Vlad watched Danny rush away at full speed into the woods, his eyes glowed bright red, and two lasers shot out and fully disintegrated one of his chairs.
He was more ashamed than mad, though. He had just yelled at the one person (besides Maddie, of course) that he would not have ever wanted to hurt. And it was all because of one wrong decision he had made, with the intention of helping.
It was the last time Vlad would make that mistake.
Once it started to get dark, the blue-clad ghost hunter had a simple wooden shelter built, two sleeping bags set up, and a campfire burning. Feeling proud of herself, she dusted off her hands and slowly sat down next to her son, who had not budged for a few hours, at least. He stared blankly at the crackling fire, arms crossed across his lap
She gently laid her hand on his, causing him to flinch to the side and pull his hand away when he got zapped by the Specter Deflector again.
"Okay, I get it! Stop touching me!" He snapped, causing Maddie to pull away her hand in confusion and surprise. "Look..." He almost wanted to explain everything to his mom at that moment, but he just couldn't find the words. "I-I'm gonna sleep over here, okay?" He pointed off to the side and shuffled over. The ghost boy didn't want to hurt his mom's feelings, but he also didn't want to sleep next to her because he would get shocked by the contraption around her waist constantly.
The ghost hunter looked down, feeling hurt at her son's unwillingness to tell her what was wrong. "Well, all right Danny..." She got up and pulled her sleeping bag into her shelter. "I love you..."
Danny nodded without meeting her eyes, before settling down on the hard ground. "'Night." He said quietly, looking off to the side.
Maddie watched him for a moment before going all the way into her tent-like shelter. Her heart ached for her son. She knew he was upset, and she wanted to help, but she just didn't know how.
Deep in the woods, just a few miles away from Vlad's forest mansion, sat an old, broken down, wooden shack. It was less than half the size of the forest chalet, but it housed things that few could imagine.
Whatever person that had lived there at some point was long gone. All that remained were dusty animal furs and stuffed heads, broken glass on the floor, and an old rifle leaning against the wall.
The stillness and silence were broken when a glowing, green, animalistic creature rose intangibly through the wooden floor. More and more followed, until there were several dozen squeezed into the shack. Lastly, a more human-looking figure appeared, but it still glowed a radioactive green.
It was the ghost of a (former) man, complete with a shaggy brown beard and beady black eyes. He sported a brown cloak and camo pants, and a green-tinged gun not unlike the one in the shack.
"Go, my minions. Find a body for me to take as my own!" The ghost rasped to the animalistic, mutated ghosts. They roared, chirped, and groaned as one, with each respective animal making its unique sound. The ghosts galloped into the forest, phasing through trees and splitting up in different directions.
The old hunter grinned, showing a few missing teeth, in anticipation of feeling alive again. And no one was going to get in his way…
The ghost boy laid in his sleeping bag, and was in turmoil from what had happened only a few hours before. What had started as a pleasant surprise ended up as a complete disaster. He had never wanted to say those terrible things to Vlad.
He felt a tear start to roll down his cheek. He quickly wiped it away and tried to get some sleep. He couldn't help but wonder if Vlad was done with him... Or if he believed that Danny was only protecting his town to look good. That last remark had hurt the boy the most.
As soon as he had shut his tired eyes, he heard a menacing, echoing growl. He stiffened and his eyes flew open, widening when he saw a big, hairy, ghostly green set of legs.
"Either Mom needs to shave her legs, or this is really bad news..." He muttered to himself and looked up to see a six-legged bear ghost. Unfortunately, it was glaring right at him.
The ghost lunged, and the last thing Danny saw was red eyes before he was roughly blindfolded and gagged. Danny tried to call out to his mother, but his efforts were fruitless.
His vision faded to black from a hard blow to his head.
When the young half-ghost came to, the blindfold and gag had been taken off, and he was tied up with rough strips of cloth that glowed a ghostly green. Danny tried to phase out or Go Ghost, but he found he couldn't use any of his powers, and trying to use them only made him feel weaker. He looked up to see mutated, neon green ghost animals surrounding him, growling ferociously.
"Well, well, you've awakened, ghost boy!" A deep voice drawled. "I sent my pets to find a human body, but you'll do nicely, too..."
Danny turned his head to see an unfamiliar ghost sneering at him with pitch black, evil eyes.
He couldn't help but think to himself: this definitely isn't good...
When Vlad awoke in cold sweat, all he knew was that something was very wrong.
He shot out of his bed and let the pitch black rings change him to Vlad Plasmius. Once he flew through the ceiling, he slowly turned around 360 degrees, confused to where the trouble was. He saw a flash of green light in the distant trees, straight forward from his front door. In other words, in the direction where Danny and Maddie had run multiple hours earlier...
Vlad's eyes glowed bright red when he realized that something must have been after the younger halfa. He accelerated to his full speed, breaking the sound barrier and shooting through the sky like a shooting star.
Whoever had chosen to mess with his Little Badger would pay.
Danny flinched back as the crazy ghost approached him.
"Don't worry, ghost boy, this won't hurt... much!" He cackled and threw himself intangibly into the boy's body. Danny screamed and writhed, his eyes turning bright white, before being completely overtaken by the evil ghost.
Just then, a powerful pink blast blew the wooden shack to bits. A royally pissed Vlad Plasmius floated a few feet off the ground, glaring madly at the ghost animals.
"You're too late!" cackled the ghost through Danny's body. The half-ghost's eyes had darkened to entirely pitch black, and they glinted evilly like the ghost's had. "For I am the Woodsman, and I am new again!" He used Danny's body to transform into Danny Phantom, and he flew up into the night sky, sending powerful green blasts at Plasmius. "So powerful!" Danny/Woodsman grinned as he flaunted his newfound powers. Vlad dodged every blast and sent his own half-power rays back. He didn't want to risk hurting Danny, even if he was being overshadowed. That brought his mind to his first lesson with his student, which made him feel even angrier at the Woodsman.
The fight continued, until Maddie had jumped out of the surrounding trees, yelling "Where's my son ghosts?!" She started fighting the animalistic ghosts, but realizing that she was so outnumbered, (since there were dozens of animal ghosts, plus Plasmius and Phantom) she sped back into the woods, a few of the ghosts pursuing her.
Before the Woodsman had recovered from the distraction, Vlad shot forward and punched him with a glowing fist. The ghost was forced out of Danny's body, causing the ghost boy to transform back to Danny Fenton and start falling to the ground.
Vlad shot a flexible string of ectoplasm out of his palm, which wrapped around the stunned Woodsman, immobilizing him (for the moment at least). The elder halfa swooped down and caught Danny in his arms right before he hit the ground. He could feel his ghost core vibrating more than usual in his chest from the close call.
Danny groaned softly and blinked open his eyes, back to their normal crystalline blue. "W-what happened?"
Vlad was about to reply when he heard growling. The remaining animal ghosts had surrounded them on all sides, dozens of glowing red eyes glaring menacingly. The black-haired ghost hugged the boy closer to his chest and held out his free hand, lighting it up with ghostly energy and preparing to fight his way out.
Just then, Maddie burst from the trees, a high-pitched battle cry escaping her lips. She pulled out a double-sided laser blade, spinning it and jumping at the closest ghost.
Vlad turned himself and the boy in his arms invisible and flew to a safer spot several meters away. Danny slowly and shakily stood up, still leaning on the other ghost for support, and watched in amazement as his mother man-handled the ghosts.
Once she had scared away the last ghosts, Danny ran over to Maddie, barely avoiding tripping and falling on his face.
She gasped when she saw Danny. "Danny!" She said in surprise. "Young man, do you mind telling me what you thought you were doing, leaving the campsite in the mid-"
"You... are... awesome!" Danny grinned and gave her a quick hug, flinching away again when he was electrocuted. But, he smiled anyway because it was worth the pain.
"Aw, honey! Thank you!" His mother said happily, forgetting momentarily about Danny leaving the campsite. "But we better get moving in case those ghosts come back..."
"Uh..." He looked over at where Vlad was floating invisibly and shot him a grateful smile. "Wait for me!" He shouted and ran after his mother.
"Eh, I think we gave those ghost animals the slip." The ghost boy said once they had walked back in the direction of their campsite. "Shouldn't we, um, go back to Vlad's now?"
She looked back at him in surprise. "You want to go back there after what happened earlier?" Danny nodded and smiled the tiniest bit.
"I feel like I need to apologize to him after what happened..." The younger halfa said, wanting to explain more but not wanting to reveal anything. "I over reacted to something, and I said some things I shouldn't have..."
"That's very grown up of you sweetie." Maddie smiled at her son, proud of his decision. "Let's get going then!"
After Maddie and Danny had left the clearing, Vlad went to the ghost that thought he could get away with kidnapping Vlad's student.
The half-ghost glowered, his hands heating up with boiling hot, pink energy. The Woodsman gulped and smiled nervously at the approaching halfa.
"Heh, heh… We can talk this through, right…?"
Vlad blasted him with so much energy that the Woodsman fell unconscious.
Pulling out a thermos (not unlike the Fenton thermos), Vlad captured the ghost, silently promising to hand him over to Walker the next chance he got. Plasmius then returned to his house, content with the outcome of the fight.
Once the ghost hunter and her son had gotten to Vlad's, Maddie stayed outside so they could work it out themselves. She still hasn't a clue why the two would have argued with each other, but she respected their privacy enough to stay out of it.
Once the two were alone, they explained to each other their own side of the story, leading up to the massive fight with the Woodsman and his ghost animals.
Once everything was cleared up about what happened, Danny looked down before speaking up again.
"Listen Vlad, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I totally over-reacted about, well, everything." He rolled his eyes a little but continued sincerely, "I'm sorry..."
"Oh, lighten up little badger," Vlad smirked, "Don't turn this into some reality TV show that teenagers like to make fun of." He held out a hand, "Truce?"
Danny shook his hand with a smile. "Okay, Fruitloop, truce. And speaking of truces... I don't think Valerie will be my ally anytime soon..." He shrugged. "But at least she won't go fighting me whenever she has free time. She agreed to a sort-of truce, which is better than nothing, I guess."
Vlad sighed. "I'll have to have a talk with her. Don't worry, Badger, I'll fix this." He put a hand on his student's shoulder, causing the younger halfa to look up at him with a smile. "I promise."
The next morning, Vlad flew the two Fentons back to FentonWorks in his helicopter. (Danny wondered why he had it, if he could just fly anywhere he wanted with his powers... Then again, if Vlad owned two companies, a few different houses, and a private jet, so it would make sense for him to have a helicopter, too).
After that crazy weekend, the younger halfa wondered if his life would ever be normal again.
But, he knew it wouldn't be, considering he was a half-ghost whose parents were ghost hunters, and he was friends with an Ultro-Recyclo-Vegetarian goth girl, a PDA-loving, carnivorous techno-geek, and a lonely billionaire who was also the only other half-ghost in the world, besides Danny himself.
Danny figured no one else who had ever existed could say the same thing… and he was fine with that, as long as he had his friends by his side.
Whew! That took longer than I thought it would! This chapter ended up way longer than the other ones... more than 5,000 words, compared to about 3,500. And... now I own an OC ghost! My first DP OC, what a milestone! xD
Anyway, about this chapter, I took out the Plasmius Maximus. But don't worry, it'll return later in this series. (I already have an idea of when, but it'll be a while…) Also, I had to remove Jazz and Jack's ghost fights, because of the new set up. The Woodsman wouldn't have known the Fentons, much less where they lived… It just didn't work out. I hope it sounded fine anyway, though.
R&R please! I'd love to know what you thought! I'm trying my best to make this story idea work out, and I hope the first four chapters sound believable and like real episodes could be like. See ya next chapter and thanks for reading! :)