4/20/24-Rewrite for quality and continuity. All chapters up until 28 were written when I was in high school. They were not the best, and without school in the way the newest ones went through much more in depth planning and refining. While I don't expect to rewrite too much further than 11, I might slightly update a few later ones just a touch. Making dialogue less cringy and badly written paragraphs a bit more engaging, tiny changes for graphic novel continuity, that sort of thing. Nothing that'll require a reread!

Chapter 6: Suspicions

Danny got close to look at the ghost as he was waiting for him to wake up. He noticed the ghost was not hovering even a centimeter above the couch. It definitely seemed to be core shock. Even his tail was flat and still. But all of a sudden, the ghost's body started to glow. Danny backed up just in time, because the ghost sent out a big shockwave of ghost energy, making Danny almost drop the bottle of ecto-adrenaline and shaking the house.

The ghost madly dashed around the room for a few seconds, then slowed down as the adrenaline rush eased. "Where am I?" he asked anxiously.

"Hello, I'm Danny Fenton, although you may know me as Danny Phantom. I tried to-"

The ghost cut him off. "I know who you are. Failed hero, submitting to the government's mighty fist. And you are probably wondering who I am. My name is Yoltrun, dimensional scientist. You set up the place where I work. I got here from a portal that opened somewhere near here. Another portal opened on a billboard and something coming through it hit me so hard I got knocked out. I think it was another ghost coming through."

Just then, Danny's ghost sense went off. The front door opened and Heather came through with a bright green puppy at her heels. She gently pushed away the barking puppy with her feet. Her hair was messy and covering her eyes and she walked slouchy and slow.

"The dog followed me home for some reason. I'm too tired to take care of it." Heather went towards the stairs. "Who's that?"

Danny looked back to the couch. There was a green-haired human where Yoltrun was standing. "Oh, just a friend from work," he lied. "I'll take care of the dog." Heather gave him a nod and went upstairs. The ghost puppy didn't follow.

This was no ordinary ghostly puppy. The ghost dog barked happily and ran straight to Danny and tackled him.

"Nice to see you, Cujo! Things never change, do they?" He said to the pup, who was nuzzling him and wagging his tail.

Yoltrun dropped his disguise. "That was a close one."

Danny finally stopped Cujo from licking his face. "So you're a polymorphic core. Pretty cool!"

Cujo's ears perked up, and he ran to the front door and barked. The door opened and Sam was home. Yoltrun went into his human disguise again, but this human walking through the door was not exhausted and unobservant. Danny looked at the clock. 5:32. Sam was supposed to be doing overtime. Unless she finished her work faster than she expected, Danny thought.

She stared at the scene she saw. "Explain to me why and how there's two ghosts here."

Yoltrun tried his hand at an excuse. "What do you mean? I only see one."

Danny sat on the chair and shoved his face into his hands. Sam yanked open a blank plate next to the light switch and pressed a button. A portion of the wall spun around, showing a small arsenal of ghost guns. She grabbed one that looked like a goofy sci-fi ray gun and shot both Yoltrun and Danny. Yoltrun was unable to hold his morph. Danny went ghost. That move was a practiced move that took only seconds. Cujo grew to his large beastly size in preparation for things to go down.

"Oops, now there's three!" Sam placed the gun back on the panel arsenal and pressed a button to spin the panel back around.

Danny tried turning back human, but the rings around him just burst weakly. "Ugh, wonderful. Yoltrun, she's my wife. She knows everything."

Yoltrun was nervous now, but kept confident. "Oh, you were one of Danny's team back in the day, weren't you? Well, I guess you can hear this as well. Because I have a good reason for being in the human world, which I'm now stuck in. And if I had to tell anyone, it would be best to be you guys."

Heather had a quick nap when she got home. She definitely overdid it when training with Alex. She figured out transforming between forms, and was just barely able to turn invisible. She was not that good at intangibility, but with effort, she could get at least her hands to phase through things at will. Whether she could stop them from doing it against her will, that was to be determined.

Meanwhile, Sam started dinner. Yoltrun told them about the weird portal activity. After a bit of an argument about how to hide Yoltrun and what to do with Cujo, they chose not to even think about it until after they ate. In around thirty minutes, dinner was ready and Sam called Heather down.

Heather was wearing a baggy long sleeve shirt that was too big for her. She grabbed her plate and tried to take it upstairs.

Sam grabbed her by her sleeve. "Not so fast, I still want to hear about your first day of school!"

Heather reluctantly went to the table. "It was school, I guess. Not much to say." She took a bite her meal, a masterful veggie-filled pasta.

"What did you do with your hair?" Sam asked, and gently rushed her fingers through the spot Heather's white stripe used to sit in her hair.

Heather looked down at her plate.

"Honey, what did you do to it? You know we talked about being proud of what makes you be you."

There was one more moment of hesitation. "I may have gone to Alex's place and he may have helped me possibly put a teeny tiny bit of hair dye in it." A lie, which made her cringe. Her hands went invisible, and she quickly covered them with her long sleeves. Luckily everyone was too focused oh her hair to notice.

"At least you did a good job. It matches perfectly," Danny interjected, earning him a please shut up glare from Sam.

"I didn't want to stand out, or be called skunk girl again, okay?" Heather said.

Sam shook her head and took a bite of her pasta, giving up. Danny didn't like the silence. "So, what do you think we should do about the ghost puppy?" That earned him another glare.

Heather looked up. "So it is a ghost!"

Danny winced. He was too excited about ghost stuff, and forgot he was supposed to be keeping ghost stuff away from his daughter. "Well, you know how your grandparents were ghost hunters. And they tried to get me involved as well, and now they tell you stories. Lets just say I was a little more involved with them than I mentioned before."

Clack! Sam slammed her fork on the table, gave Danny yet another glare of for the love of Clockwork please shut the hell up, then looked back to Heather. "What he's trying to say, is he's not just working in the anti-portal facility because it's a good job, but because he used to help with his parent's ghost hunting!" She turned back to her husband. "And we are going to try to send the dog back to the Ghost Zone and stop worrying about ghosts at the dinner table."

Heather glared at her parents. They obviously were trying to hide something from her. But she wasn't that into dogs, so she didn't protest sending it back to it's homeworld. She also didn't have the energy to do anything about their squabble. "You know what, I'll just take my dinner upstairs. You're both being weird so I won't bother you."

What she didn't consider was the invisible ghost following her up the stairs. The ghost that she didn't even know existed, the ghost that was the secret witness to her transformation. The ghost who studied her in his infinite curiosity. The ghost who watched her freak out about her currently nonexistent-but-still-there hands.

Once she was sure there was no one there (that she could at least see) she took a minute to try calling Alex for help. She discovered using a smartphone was stupidly difficult when you couldn't see where you were pressing on the screen. But she got it eventually.

It rang four times, but eventually got through. "Alex, help! My hands are stuck invisible."

"Umm, just... focus on making them visible again, I guess?" he said, not entirely sure what to do. "Try the stuff from the book."

"You think I haven't tried everything we practiced from the book today? They won't turn visible!"

Alex groaned in annoyance. "Give me a minute to check the book again. This is gonna be a long night..."

4/20/24-I am so glad to get this one redone. It used to be so fillery. Now it has a reason to exist!