Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, Urusei Yatsura or any of the characters used here. Danny Phantom is the property of Butch Hartman, Nickelodeon and Viacom International. Urusei Yatsura is the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I also do not own any of the characters utilized in this crossover, they all belong to their respective owners.


Those Obnoxious Ghosts

Chapter 9: Meeting Ten

Danny rubbed his eyes, but the image that was before him was still there.

The image of a small, green haired child who looked no older than 2, with pointy ears, a small horn on his head and he was wearing a tiger-striped diaper.

A child who looked EERILY similar to Lum.

The child opened his eyes and looked around his surroundings.

"This Earth sure is a scary planet..." The little child said, sounding concerned.

While surprising the two earthlings that the child could speak at his age, Lum gasped in delight and smiled widely at the sight of the child.

"Ten?! Why, it's Ten! Hi! Come over here, Ten!..." Lum said happily.

The child turned to look at her and smiled.

"Lum!..." The little boy said happily as Lum extended her arms for a hug.

"Lum!..."He let out again.

Danny and Jazz blinked and before either could do or say anything, they saw the small child suddenly float into the air and tried to float towards Lum.

It just confirmed to them that this child is an alien, from Lum's race and that they know each other.

"Oh man, who is this? Her little brother?..."Danny thought as he saw the little alien child trying to float to Lum slowly.

"Oh, you're quick!..." Lum said happily, even though the floating child barely moved a few inches as he kept going to her, with a big smile on his face.

"Yeah..." He said with his eyes close and a big smile as he kept floating.

"You're fast!..." Lum said, in the same way.

"Yeah..." The child said, in the same way, though he was still taking a while to float over to Lum.

It was almost like he was CRAWLING in the air.

Normally, Danny would say something but he was still surprised that he said nothing, since he was still trying to figure this out.

He waited until the little alien boy reached Lum and the two aliens shared a hug, further confirming that they knew each other.

"Uh… Lum… who is this?..." Danny asked cautiously as Lum continued to hug the small child in her arms.

"He's my cousin, Ten..." Lum explained.

"Oh man, not another alien!..." Danny thought in mild dread.

Ten blinked a bit as he looked at him, before turning to his cousin.

"So, Lum, is this man your husband?..."He asked innocently.

"That's right..." Lum said to the small child, as if that settled the matter.

"No, I'm not…" Danny stated, but was ignored by the princess.

Danny was still surprised to hear that this kid is Lum's relative...and that he is here.

"Lum's cousin?..." He whispered.

Danny wondered if he had the same kind of powers as her and if not, are they as dangerous as his cousin's?

Ten saw him looking and frowned when he noticed his staring.

"Hmm? What's that look on your face!? Is that how you look at folks comin' all the way from beyond the galaxy?..." Ten said in a tough sounding voice.

Danny blinked, snapping out of it once he realized that he was indeed staring and maybe the kid might assume he was being rude or something.

Despite the bizarreness of this whole thing, Danny didn't want to be mean to the kid since he hasn't done anything... besides leaving several huge holes in his house, but he's not focusing on that.

"Oh… uh… sorry… I didn't mean to stare… uh… Ten, right?..." Danny said, though he was still confused.

"Yes..." The small child said.

Danny and Jazz shared a baffled and worried look.

"I'm… I'm sorry but I am confused. Lum, what is he doing here and why did he show up in a… peach? Is that a thing in your world?..." Danny asked, still confused.

Lum giggled, while Ten sent him a look.

"This is a surprise to me too..." She looked to her cousin. "Why are you here?..."She asked her baby cousin.

"I heard a rumor that Lum found a good husband on a planet called Earth...so I said to myself, this I got to see...and set out..." Ten said.

"You're so clever Ten!..."Lum said as she hugged Ten.

"Ten is a good boy!..." Ten said, soaking up the praise.

Danny, however, was just looked bewildered by what he just heard.

"You came alone? A little kid traveled into space all alone?..." He asked, mildly jealous since he would love to travel in space and also kind of concerned too.

Still, he had to ask the following.

"How was it?..."He asked, wanting to know what space travel really was like from the traveler's point of view.

The little alien child then answered like he was offended before dramatically talking about his travels.

"It was a long, hard voyage for a little kid like me..." Ten said with his arms crossed.

"I...I see..." Danny said, still reeling this whole thing in as a baby like Ten was able to get himself shipped over like it was nothing while traveling through space.

"Lucky kid..." He thought in jealousy.

It was then that he properly processed everything Ten said. Turning to Lum, Danny asked what was on his mind.

"Wait… how old is he?..."He asked.

"He just turned 2..." Lum said.

Both Fenton siblings turned to look at each other before back at the two aliens.

"He's… pretty vocal for a two year old..." Jazz commented. "Must be an alien thing..."She commented.

Ten saw Jazz and smiled.

"Hello, miss..." Ten said, in a much friendlier voice than he said to Danny. "You're really pretty..."He said in a sweet tone, trying to look adorable and the girls just thought he was being childish and cute.

Danny didn't pay attention to that, as he was still focused on the fact that a TWO YEAR OLD got to travel through space all alone.

"Wait… you just came here, just like that?..." Danny asked, still wrapping his mind around that.

"That's what I said..." Ten said, his voice as it was when he just last spoke to Danny.

Jazz thought it before questioning something.

"Wait... do your parents know you are here?..." She asked.

Ten smiled at the pretty girl and resumed his previous demeanor.

"Don't worry about me Miss. I'm able to take care of myself..."He said, trying to impress her.

"That's right, children on our planet are taught how to take care of ourselves at a very young age..." Lum explained

"Must be a warrior race thing…" Danny thought but still felt that he shouldn't have gone alone.

"Lum, you should call his parents and let them know that he is here, they must be worried..." He said.

Lum smiled widely.

"Oh darling...you are so caring..."She said happily and Danny rolled his eyes.

Jazz rolled her eyes said as well.

"Danny's right through Lum, we should let them know that Ten is here before anything..."She said.

"I'm sure Auntie and Uncle won't mind, but after all Ten has a right to make a decision on what he wants to do..." Lum said confidently.

Turning to Ten, Lum asked him the following question.

"Ten, what you wanna do?..."

"I wanna stay here with Lum for a while..." Ten said, while trying to project himself as a bigger kid.

"We still need to let your parents know where you are..." Jazz said, speaking to him like the small child that he is.

She looked at Lum and the red haired sighed, knowing she needed to be the mature one in the room.

"Do you have a phone I can use to call his parents?..."She asked.

"Sure thing, sister-in-law, follow me..." Lum said before picking Jazz up. She then turned to Danny and asked, "Darling, could you look after Ten for me while we're calling Ten's parents?..."

"Sure. But I want my sister back unharmed..." Danny said, as he didn't mind looking after Ten, even though he's a relative of Lum's.

"Don't worry Darling!..." Lum smiled before taking a shocked and scared Jazz up to her personal spaceship.

As soon as the two were gone Danny saw Ten staring at him, with an expression that children Ten's age shouldn't have.

"Uh, what are you looking at?..." Danny asked.

"It's obvious that Lum is too good for you!..." Ten said sharply.

"Huh?..." Danny questioned.

"So, it wasn't worth coming all this way to visit her..." Ten said casually, showing no respect at all to his "in-law".

"He's...blunt..."Danny thought, trying to be patient.

Ten floated up and sent him a critical look, judging him and he is not impressed with what he sees.

"I don't see how someone like Lum could ever fall for a scrawny prepubescent teenager like you! Why couldn't you be someone similar to Rei?..."He asked, looking annoyed,

Blinking, Danny was a bit put off with what he just heard from a two year ago kid, not to mention how he said it.

"How does a little kid like Ten know so many big words compared to me?..."He thought before getting offended by something he said.

"Hey, I TOTALLY hit puberty..."Danny said as he pulled out a chest hair. "See, that's TOTALLY a chest hair..."He pointed at it.

Ten sent a disgusted look on his face at that and got annoyed.

"Using body hair to justify your age? Honestly, you must be joking..."Ten said in disgust.

Danny frowned before he recalled something else the kid said.

"Wait… who's Rei?..."He asked.

Ten however, ignored his question, and kept on razing on Danny.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Lum only decided to make you her husband just because of a fluke or some kind of trick!..."He said in a mean way.

"Be patient Danny. He is just a little kid..." Danny thought, doing his best to not lose his temper because of a little kid.

Soon Jazz and Lum came back as the Oni Princess waved to him, oblivious to what has been happening here.

"We're back, Darling!..."She exclaimed. " How are you and Ten doing?..."She asked.

Before Danny could say anything, he heard the doorbell ringing.

"Oh man...you two stay out of sight while I go handle this..." Danny said as he changed forms and phased upstairs.

Ten was surprised by the transformation.

"What is he, anyway?..." Ten asked his cousin.

"He is my darling..." Lum replied while Jazz groaned.

"This is gonna be trouble..." Jazz muttered.


Upstairs

After peaking through the floor to make sure his parents weren't home, Danny floated up and changed back before going to the door.

After answering the door and saw his old friend.

"Sam?..."He said, happy to see her.

The goth, however, was not as happy as she spoke to the ghost boy.

"I called but you didn't answer and...I got worried..." Sam said, before looking past him.

Despite it being quiet she had a sneaking suspicion about you-know-who.

"So...is SHE still around?..." Sam asked bitterly.

"Unfortunately... and you'll never guess what happened just now..." Danny said.

However, unbeknownst to Danny, Sam saw a baby with the same hair color as the princess, a single horn on his head, and a diaper in the same style as the oni girl that she despised.

"Does… it involve a floating, green haired baby?..." Sam asked in a stun voice as she pointed behind him.

Danny saw that it was Ten.

"Ten… what are you doing? I said to stay out of sight..." Danny said to the small kid.

"I wanted to see who would want to come and see you..." Ten said rudely, which Sam noticed.

"But I told you and Lum to stay out of sight..." Danny stated to the baby.

"Why would I need to hide?..." He asked, confused.

"Because this planet is a lot more dangerous than you or Lum realize. It already doesn't like ghosts, so aliens can't be far off..."Danny said.

"Hah, you're such a bad liar! Humans are too dumb to be a threat to me!..."Ten said, still being rude.

Sam saw this and frowned.

"What a brat..."She thought as she could tell that she wasn't going to like this kid anymore than the space princess.

Still, she restrained herself and tried to speak calmly.

"Danny, who is this?..." Sam asked with her arms crossed.

Ten saw her and smiled at the pretty girl. He immediately floated over to her and put on his cute, childish act again.

"I'm Lum's cousin, Ten..." Ten said in an innocent sounding voice.

Sam was shocked.

"Lum has a baby cousin?!..." She questioned, then turning to the baby she continued. "And he can speak?!..."She asked.

"Yeah...uh...he's...he just got here..."Danny said sheepishly as the baby alien continued to stare at Sam.

"Miss, you are very pretty..." Ten said, using his innocent, child persona.

Danny raised a brow.

"Looks like he has a crush on Sam..." Danny thought as the little alien child made a mistake.

He tried to hug Sam.

"Hey, let go!" Sam said as she pushed him off, before Ten could "cuddle' her.

She wasn't very rough and didn't hurt him, but it was enough to show that she didn't want the little brat close to her.

Ten was shocked at this, as if no woman ever pushed him away before.

"You don't like me, Miss?..."Ten said in a fake innocent voice but inside, he was upset at her rejection.

"Yeah and right now, it's getting worse..."Sam said, not trusting him anymore than she trusts Lum.

Danny was as surprised by Sam's attitude as Ten was. Sure she wasn't a people person, but that doesn't mean she could treat a baby like Ten this way.

"Sam? What are you doing?..."He asked.

"Because anyone even remotely related to Lum can't be trusted since they did want to invade, after all. Plus, I know a spoiled brat when I see one..." Sam told Danny before turning to the alien brat. "I have cousins that are close to your age and they are as bratty as you are..." She said, knowing he's just a little trouble-maker.

Ten got more upset and did the one thing 2 year old's are best known for, throw a tantrum.

"WAH! SHE'S BEING MEAN TO ME!..." Ten cried as he used his crocodile tears that he has mastered in his short-life.

However, to his disappointment, the one who came to his "rescue" is Danny.

Danny looked disappointedly at Sam before tending to the 'upset' baby.

"Shush.. it's okay Ten...no need to cry..." Danny said, actually trying to calm him down, before scolding Sam. "Chill out Sam, he is just a kid..."He said, not seeing the glare Ten sent him for touching him.

Sam did, however, and glared back at the baby.

Before Ten pushed Danny away from him, a thought came across the small child's mind and he immediately questioned his "in-law".

"If Lum's your wife, who's this pretty lady supposed to be?..." Ten asked, being nosy and suspicious.

"She's not my wife..." Danny groaned before saying, "This is Sam, my best friend..."He said but the bratty alien got suspicious.

"Are you cheating on Lum with her?!..." Ten asked, pointing accusingly at Danny.

Sam's button was pressed.

"She's not Danny's wife! She just misheard Danny talking to himself when she was supposed to not be on our planet as she should've been. So she-..."

"Hello, Darling? Who was that at the door?..." Lum soon came flying over before she saw Sam and looked angry.

"What is SHE doing here?..."She shouted in jealous anger.

"I'm just making sure you didn't accidentally kill Danny with your cooking or worse your electrocuting..." Sam said as the two of them began to glare angrily at each other, both boys would stare and thought they saw lightning between them.

Jazz came to the room and sent an apologetic look to her brother.

"I'm sorry Danny, I lost track of her for a second and then- Oh boy…"She said as she saw the glares between Lum and Sam

"Yeah… I'm going to take the kid upstairs..."Danny said, not wanting him caught in a crossfire.

Since it looked like there was no getting through to either of them Danny sighed and carried a scared Ten away from the two girls, while Jazz tried to play peacemaker.


Later

In the attic

Danny was in the attic digging through some stuff as if he was looking for something. Ten was floating behind the teenager as he did not trust Danny one bit.

"What are you doing?..." Ten demanded with his arms crossed.

"I'm looking for something... just sit tight, kid..." Danny said, before he found what he was looking for and came back into the room with a box.

Placing it down Danny pulled out some old toys and comics for Ten to play with or read so he would not get too bored while Sam and Lum still had their glaring contest downstairs.

"Here, play with these until we can figure something out..." Danny said.

Ten was still suspicious.

"Listen you, how come you have to pretend to be so nice?..."He asked suspiciously.

"Who's pretending?..." Danny asked with one eyebrow raised.

The little alien boy, however, got angry and sent a dirty look at the ghost boy.

"You are! You think you can bribe me to like you just so I can go home and you can do what you want to Lum. I'm more intelligent than you think, human..." Ten said.

"What? That's not it at all..." Danny said.

However, Ten had shot into the air.

"Face divine punishment!..."He shouted and surprising Danny, Ten shot fire from his mouth.

Getting down, the fire went out before touching the walls but the ghost boy did not like nearly being friend.

"Dude! What's with you!?..."He asked, dodging and trying his best not to get burned.

"I'm punishing you for tricking Lum! Now hold still so I don't burn the house down..." Ten said before taking a deep breath to try and burn Danny again.

Danny, though appreciating that Ten doesn't want to burn his house, was not going to make it easy for this intelligent 2-year old.

"I'm Going Ghost!..."He shouted as he began to morph.

Soon, he changed again by use of white rings as he became Danny Phantom and used his ice powers to put out the fire.

Ten was surprised when he saw those powers and was curious about them.

"Hey, how'd you do that?! Are you from Neptune or something?..." Ten asked, shocked to see the human with ice powers.

"What? No! I'm from earth!..." Danny said and was confused.

Before he could ask what he meant, the bratty little kid started attacking again.

"Then burn!..." Ten shouted as he kept breathing at the ghostly boy.

While Danny would counteract the fire with his ice powers. While growling at how strong this baby's fire breath is, he then went intangible and invisible when Ten took another deep breath to fire again. However, Danny made snow appear in his hand and aimed it at the alien child.

"Got you..."He said cheekily as he fired snow into the kid's mouth, filling it with ice.

"TOO COLD!..."Ten let out in muffled anger as he was trying to get the fire out to melt the ice in his mouth.

However, Danny grabbed him and brought him up to him at eye level, staring at the child sternly.

"Look kid! I'm not trying to hurt you but you're not giving me any choice since you're being stubborn as your cousin, and believe me, I can be stubborn too..." The ghost boy said.

Ten glared back at Danny before the powered teen used his powers to phase the ice out of his mouth. He then changed back and sighed.

"I don't wanna hurt you since you're a kid, so why don't we stop this before we call your parent about this..."Danny said.

Ten's eyes widen at that and Danny knew that something he said must have worked.

"Just know that I am NOT keeping your cousin here against her will...it's actually the reverse..."He muttered before continuing. "So, you can quit with the flame-throwing, I don't wanna fight if we don't have to and believe me, I can do WAY more than just freeze stuff..."He warned.

Ten still sent him a glare and Danny sighed. He didn't want to make an enemy today and tried to make some form of peace here.

"Ten, I have powers that you've probably never seen before so I am not sure what you'd expect but I don't want us to be enemies if we don't have to be..so, let's end it here for now. Besides, you are just a kid and I know you are just trying to look out for your cousin..." Danny said, leaving it there for now.

Ten eyed him warily. Even after Danny began to clean up the room before his parents found out.


Meanwhile

Outside

As Danny was trying to keep both Ten and Lum out of trouble and keep them from causing more damage to his house, someone was outside of the Fenton home, spying on them.

This figure had been keeping an eye on the building for the past week. He upgraded after getting his armor fixed from the electrocution it suffered from an attack from that alien girl.

So far, he had learned that electrocution to disable her from fighting back does not seem effective, which means that he had to make a few changes to his hunting tactics.

Thankfully, had now has new countermeasures to use against her.

He also learned from his spying that she can fly, she is strong, and any threat to the ghost child seems to turn her very hostile.

It was clear that she is his mate...or she is trying to become it.

However, instead of welcoming this strong female as his mate, the ghost boy seemed very aggravated by her devotion and is constantly trying to make her leave.

"Hmm...perhaps I should to strategize place stress on the two lovers to have a falling out and defeat them one after the other..."He considered.

He was about to ambush them and try and claim both their pelts.

However, that unusual lightning and the appearance of that… giant… peach… brought a new variable into the game.

Knowing the full range of the ghost boy's range of his 'Ghost sense' Skulker made sure to stay far away as he observed how there was a new creature, and it seemed to be an infant male form of the alien girl's species. Except instead of emitting lightning, this one seemed to breathe fire, however, the baby shows signs of talking more than human babies have at the early ages.

"Hmm...interesting...this just might be the opportunity that I've been looking for..."He thought as he tried to figure out how to take advantage of his.

He would think about what he should do in order to get an advantage over his elusive prey.

"What would be the appropriate bait for the infant alien?..."He wondered as he tried to think.

"WAAAHHH! MOMMA I WANT CANDY!..."Was suddenly heard.

Skulker looked down below and saw a five year old child crying as their mother continued on ignoring her child's sweet tooth as he kept screaming.

"I think you've had enough sugar today..."The mother said as she dragged her child away.

"GIVE ME CANDY! I NEED CANDY!..."The kid kept shouting as his mother dragged him home.

Both were unaware of the ghost who had been above, watching them and had unknowingly given him an idea.

"That will do..."Skulker commented as ideas began to form.

He then laughed as he went to get some candy for his plans.


Later

That night

After finally managing to fix up the holes left in his house for the time being, things started to seem to settle down...sort of.

At least Lum was too busy looking after Ten to bother Danny, much to the ghost boy's relief but he could still see the dirty looks the kid sent him. He tried not to pay any mind to them and just kept up with his own thing.

"Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll convince Lum I'm not husband material and get her to leave..."He thought to himself as he just tried to stay out of the kids way and have some peace, not to mention keep his parents from finding out about his "guests".

Anyway, after the sleeping arrangements had to be reminded to Lum for the umpteenth time, the two teenagers went to sleep and Ten was given a make-shift bed to sleep in.

The little alien, however, grumbled about everything he learned about the guy who tricked Lum into being his wife.

"I'm on to you, Earthling..."He muttered under his breath, glaring at the sleeping form of his new "in-law".

"I know that he must've tricked her...heck, he probably cheated at the tag race too..."He muttered, still convinced that the ghost boy is trouble and still kinda sour that he had his mouth stuffed with ice earlier.

The little oni child had never felt that cold in his young life before, not even when he last visited Oyuki with Lum and he hated it.

This Danny was different than any other life-form he's ever met, and therefore cannot be trusted.

Sure, when he heard that Lum married an Earthling, he didn't expect him to have any powers since from what he's learned, most earthlings are pretty weak and ignorant.

Still, powers or not, he didn't trust Danny or think he was good enough to be Lum's husband. Heck, he didn't even buy the fact that he won the tag race fair and square!

He then imagined that Danny used some sort of weapon that took Lum's bikini top off and while she was distracted, grabbed her horns and claimed his victory in a despicable and unsportsmanlike way.

After realizing how stupid that was, especially considering that Danny has powers and some intelligence behind him during their little fight, Ten shook his head.

"Nah, even I know that's not likely..."The oni boy admitted to himself, turning away from the sleeping black haired teen and muttered the following.

"Plus, Who'd be dumb enough to actually try something like that, anyway?..."He wondered.


Meanwhile

Japan, Tomobiki High

Ataru had sneezed as he was about to eat lunch during a lecture. The volume of the sneeze made almost everyone jump.

His teacher heard this and glared at him.

"Moroboshi!..."He snapped while the boy just chuckled.

"Sorry Sensei, I think some super-hot and busty babe was talking about me..." Ataru said, drooling as his imagination got away from him.

"ATARU, YOU WOMANIZER!..." Shinobu shouted, throwing her desk at him and effectively hitting her target.

Ataru was now on the floor as his leg twitched in the air from the pain he received.

"Shinobu, lemme explain..."He let out in pain while his teacher simply shook his head in disappointment before going back with his lesson.


Back in America

The little alien boy kept glaring at the sleeping Danny and then at his sleeping cousin, who was in a separate bed.

This sleeping arrangement still left him confused and without a clear answer as to why that is, but decided to leave it be for now.

After all, this young boy still needed his sleep but he had some trouble drifting to sleep.

Ten sighed as he turned, staring up at the ceiling and deep in thought.

"Being here on this planet's so boring…"He said as he looked the window and at the night sky.

He would have fallen asleep until his nose picked up a rather sweet smelling scent.

"Huh?..."He let out.

He then saw something sticking out the window and floated over.

"Hey, what's that?..." He questioned as he got a closer look.

To his delight the baby Oni knew what it was.

"Candy!…" Ten then gave a cry of joy, but clamped his mouth shut to make sure no one heard him.

He went and hurried out of the window to get the piece of candy. Only to find more, smaller pieces leading him. He stopped.

"Wait… is this supposed to be a trap?..."He considered, as he thought about this for a moment.

Thinking it over Ten heard his stomach growling and his hunger got the better of him. Plus, he knew this wasn't a problem where he couldn't just handle it on his own.

"This will go to waste. Besides, I'm a growing boy who needs his energy..."He thought as he began picking up and eating the candy.

He picked each piece up one by one, eating and floating further and further away from Danny's house, unaware that he was being watched.

"Yummy..."He let out as his sweet tooth got the better of him, oblivious to what trouble was about to befall him.

As soon as he saw the biggest chocolate bar he ever saw, Ten's mouth couldn't stop drooling and dove for it.

Unfortunately, as soon as he touches the chocolate bar a cage forms up around and traps the baby Oni inside. Ten looked around and panicked.

"What is this?!..." He exclaimed as he to break out, but soon regret attempting that.

The moment he tried to touch the bars he was electrified.

"AHHH!..."Ten let out and immediately let go of the bars.

On the bottom of the cage he groaned. "What the… *cough* was that?..."He let out, in pain.

"Something you should not try again, after all, the ghost boy would not risk his life for bait who does not exist..." A mean voice was heard.

Ten looked and saw a strange creature standing before him how the face looked, it would be similar to a skull with a flaming goatee. He then picked up the box.

"Now that I have my bait. I need to give him my message..."He said as he took his bait back to his lair and laughed evilly.

All that time Ten was a little scared by his predicament.


The next morning.

Danny woke up and yawned as soon as his alarm went off.

"Another new day, another wish that these aliens were just a bad dream..."He thought as he yawned again..

It was Saturday and he had no school today, meaning that he'd try to get away from Lum.

Danny sniffed his armpit and cringed.

"I definitely need a shower..."He thought as he decided to take one.

He got up and walked to the bathroom door and opened. He was still a little groggy as he did, he did not realize that someone else was in there… until now.

Once he did, he was now fully awake and his face turned redder than crimson upon the sight of who was already here.

"OH MAN!..." Danny shouted as he covered his eyes and ran out of the bathroom.

It was Lum, with a towel covering herself as her only clothes that were hanging from the sink.

She looked back and giggled at what she thought was his cute display of shyness.

"Darling, it is alright. We are married..." Lum said.

An embarrassed Danny got mad.

"NO WE ARE NOT! WE ARE NOT MARRIED AND EVEN IF WE WERE, WHICH WE ARE NOT, PEOPLE LOCK THEIR DOORS WHEN THEY ARE IN THE BATHROOM!..." Danny yelled at her. Lum frowned and before they could argue, the doorbell was heard.

"Stay out of sight!..."He ordered.

Lum pouted but nodded as she went right back to Danny's room, taking her revealing attire with her.

Thankfully for Danny, his parents went off to deal with a ghost this morning, so they didn't hear any of this ruckus.

"Devoting my life as a monk isn't looking so bad if it means getting rid of her..."He thought as he went to see who was at the door.

Once Danny felt better, he let them in..

As Lum changed, Sam and Tucker entered the room with Danny, seeing her finish up by putting on her last boot.

Sam grimaced while Tucker had an interested grin.

"Hey Lum..." Tucker said as he wiggled his eyebrows at her.

"Hello, male friend of darling named Tucker..."Lum said with disinterest.

"She's still here?..." Sam asked Danny. "I was hoping she'd at least take your little visitor home…"She said.

Before Danny could answer, Lum spoke up.

"Ahem!..." She went with an edge.

Sam noticed it.

"Oh, you got a problem with me talking to Danny?..." Sam challenged.

Lum turned red with rage and shook her arms in anger.

"He is my husband!..." Lum insisted, reminding everyone of what she believes to be hers.

"NO, I/HE AM/IS NOT!..." Danny and Sam yelled in union.

Sam and Lum glared at each other, Danny was out of patience and Tucker gulped, sensing that this could get ugly.

However, before things could escalate, Jazz walked by and noticed that someone seemed absent from this drama.

She knocked on the door to get their attention.

"Uh, guys… where is Ten?..." Jazz asked. "I wanted to ask him if he would be joining us for breakfast..."She said.

Tucker, new to this, spoke up.

"Who?..."He asked but got no answer.

"Maybe he's still asleep..."He said before seeing what time it is and recognizing how oddly the kid is being.

"Weird..."He thought as he went to go check up on him.


Upstairs

Danny looked around all upstairs but didn't see him anywhere.

"Where is he?..."He asked out loud.

Lum got worried and also looked around, flying to nearly every corner of the Fenton house but didn't see her baby cousin at all.

"He's not down stairs or in the basement..."She said, looking worried.

"Where is he?..."She demanded.

"Maybe he went home... you should go too, to find out..."Danny said as he hoped she'd take a hint.

The alien girl didn't listen as he sighed bitterly.

Danny then saw a note on the floor and gasped. Lum saw the look on his face.

"What's wrong?..." She asked. "Where is he?..."She demanded, worried for her little cousin.

"Ten's been kidnapped!..." He said, earning a gasp from her.

Tucker blinked before asking, confused. "Who?..."He asked again, since no one answered him the first time.

"Lum's spoiled baby cousin..." Sam said in a tone that made the others in the room glare at her.

"Not now Sam…" Danny said.

He then pulled up the message, which read:

"Ghost Child, I have the infant alien, if you want him unharmed come to my island in the Ghost Zone where you will find him. Come Alone. Skulker, greatest hunter in all of the Ghost Zone..."

The teenagers were horrified by this development.

"Seriously?! Skulker just kidnapped a baby?!..." Tucker asked, scared for the kid, despite not meeting him yet.

"Ten should be able to take care of himself, but… Darling, what is this "Ghost Zone" place?..." Lum asked, not liking the sound of it.

Danny sighed before pointing to the portal as Jazz took up explaining.

"The Ghost Zone is a parallel world that our parents theorized to be where the ghosts exist after they… you know. However, one day when they were about to view the world unseen it didn't work so they quit. Danny came up with an idea of wanting to look inside of it when he accidently turned it on and somehow his molecules got rearranged with ectoplasmic energy that made him half-ghost and half-human..."She explained.

Figuring it was his turn, Danny picked up the story

"When I first woke up I realized that my hair turned snow white and glowing green eyes. I could walk through walls, disappear, and fly..."He said.

"Making him much more unique than the other guy..." Tucker rapped.

Everyone's attention was turned at the techno-geek which made him chuckle a bit.

"Sorry. Thought we were starting a rap..."He said sheepishly while everyone else ignored him and continued.

"Anyway, that's when Danny decided to use his new powers to try and help people, especially since some ghosts were using our dad's portal to get into our world. But it hasn't been easy for him. When he kept his secret everyone thought that well… something wasn't right with him..." Jazz finished, looking down ashamed of herself.

"Oh…" She said.

Her expression became determined for her cousin.

"What'll we do?..."She asked.

"Simple, I'll go in like Skulker said, find Ten, beat the snot out of Skulker for kidnapping a two-year old kid and then return home..." Danny said as he changed forms again and approached the portal.

Lum would move to follow before Danny spoke, looking much more stern and serious than she'd ever seen him before.

"You're not coming with me Lum..."He said, upsetting her.

"But Darling, Ten's my cousin, I need to help him..." Lum protested.

Danny understood where she is coming from, he did but he just couldn't risk getting any more people involved.

"You read the note, if Skulker sees anyone but me, he might hurt Ten or worse..." He told her.

"I don't care. I'm coming to help and then I'll teach that ghost hunter what will happen when he messes with an Oni..." Lum said crossing her arms, making the humans get annoyed with her stubbornness.

Danny sighed as he was about to say something before… an idea popped into his head.

"Lum, I understand how you feel but believe me when I tell you this that the Ghost Zone is a really dangerous place. It's not like any place in the universe. Besides, you can't come with me for another reason..."He said, getting an idea.

This peaked everyone's question.

"What other reason?..."Lum asked.

"The Ghost Zone isn't a place for non-ghosts..." Danny said to her.

"What's Danny doing?..." Tucker asked Sam and Jaz in a whisper.

He was then elbowed by Sam, who caught on to what Danny was thinking, as was Jazz.

"What do you mean?..." Lum asked, all her attention on Danny.

Danny saw an opportunity and tried his best to keep his act up.

"I once accidentally went into the Ghost Zone and I found I couldn't breathe, it was only after I went Ghost that I was able to breathe again and from what my folks theorize, anyone who's exposed to the air in the Ghost Zone slowly and agonizingly become a Ghost..."He said dramatically.

It was sorta a half-truth.

His parents had all sorts of theories about the ghost zone and what could happen to human there, including the part he said about what might happen to a human in constant exposure there...however, since they never actually went inside it, they aren't sure if their theories are correct yet and haven't yet made the proper equipment to travel into the GZ to see for themselves if they were right or not..

Still, Lum didn't need to know that.

However, she didn't seem all that concerned about the possible dangers or side effects, given her alien biology.

"Big deal, I'm able to survive in space by generating an electric field around me by using my lightning. I am sure that I can handle whatever atmosphere or lack there of is in this Ghost Zone place..." Lum said, still being stubborn.

Danny groaned and he knew they were wasting time. He decided to go with plan B instead and he was certainly hoping that she'd listen.

"Lum you don't know him, now that he knows what you're capable of, he could have all kinds of traps prepared for you. Please, I don't think either Ten or I could stand if something happened to you..."He said, hating that he is resorting to this but he had no choice.

Hearing that made Lum's heart flutter. She still wanted to go but finally gave in as she looked into his eyes.

"Okay, Darling, but please…" She then placed her hands with his, making Sam get red with anger, even as Lum didn't paid her any mind at all.

She just sent him a worried look.

"Please promise that you will bring Ten and yourself home safe. If you do than I'll let you go after Skulker yourself..."She pleaded, worried for both her young cousin as well as her darling.

Knowing he was trapped, Danny nodded.

"I promise..."He said, both determined and happy to get some space.

Lum let go as she stood with his friends before Danny turned and flew into the portal.

Danny was hoping to get there before anything too traumatic happens to the bratty but childish alien, whom he is still sorta hoping will convince his cousin to leave Earth. But for now, his mind wasn't on that.

He had a life to save... again.

-To Be Continued-

Next Time on Those Obnoxious Ghosts

Rescuing Ten


A/N: I wanna give a special thanks to NeoMark and Jay The Average Fanboy for helping out here.


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