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A/N Yay! The story made it out sooner than I thought! Enjoy!
Chapter One: Wake Up Call
"Wake up kids!" was the battle cry heard throughout the Fenton household. Sadly, three out of four people were awake. The fourth person was the youngest out of them all, and the strangest. Considering who the Fentons were, that was saying something.
Jasmine Fenton, AKA Jazz, was the oldest sibling. She was one of the smartest kids ever to grace the halls of the town's high school, Casper High. She was already planning her future job as a phsyciatrist.
Knowing that she was the best choice to wake up her brother, Danny, who had a bad habit of letting his reflexes take over and attacks first, and asks questions later. She knows, as do his friends, that he doesn't mean to do it, but after a couple years of fighting ghosts as his alter ego, Danny Phantom, and having his enemies know his true identity, you tend to pick up a few defensive manuvers, and use them still half asleep.
Thinking about last time that she got on the bad side of Danny before he fully woke up, Jazz Fenton entered the room of the halfa that was still decorated in NASA colors. Looking up to the ceiling above Danny's bed, you could still see the glow of the glow-in-the-dark stars and planets in the early morning shadows. Jazz knew that it would be better to poke him awake than yelling at him. Thinking quickly, because her parents could show up at any second and insist of waking him up, and in turn, find out startling facts about their son, Jazz grabbed the longest thing she could find that Danny wouldn't be mad about saying goodbye to.
Using the trophy Danny got from the Spelling Bee in third grade, Jazz slowly and carefully, started trying to poke Danny in the head.
Emphases in 'trying'. Before the trophy even touched his face, Danny's hand grabbed the trophy, crushing it with inhuman strength and speed. At the same time, he opened up his eyes, which litteraly glowed a vivid, toxic green.
Slowly releasing the trophy, Danny took in his surroundings and realized that it was a trophy, not an undead, ghostly hand trying to strangle him. And that his only sister was standing out of his reach, holding the now crushed trophy.
Still drowsy, and trying to blink the green in his eyes away, Danny looked at Jazz and said, "Thanks for being the one to wake me up. Especially considering what happens when someone does."
As Danny slowly got up, and Jazz moved towards the door to head downstairs, she replied with a simple, "No problem little brother."
Danny slowly grabbed his usual baggy clothes from his dresser, while he thought about all the disasterous things that could happen with the town hero of Amity Park being gone for a week. His biggest worry was what would be the consiquences if there was a major ghost attack and he couldn't defend Amity, and the people would start believing that he purposfully let them attack.
As Danny was hopping in the shower, Jazz walked down the stairs and right before she entered the kitchen, she took in the wonderful sight before her.
Instead of wearing her usual teal blue hazmat suit, Madeline Fenton was wearing normal people clothes! She always insisted that she just had to wear the unattractive hazmat suit when in the ghost hunting bussiness. Her husband, Jack Fenton wore a simular looking hazmat suit, but his was an orange that seemed to glow. Of course, Jack wasn't in the house, as he was driving to pick up two of Danny's friends, Samantha (Sam) Manson, and Tucker Foley.
It was obvious that Maddie was trying to make pancakes, but even Dash Baxter would be able to tell she was doing it wrong. Having enough of watching her mom struggle, Jazz walked into the kitchen.
Without looking up, Maddie asked, "Is your brother up yet? He wouldn't like it if we didn't wake him up in time before Sam and Tucker got here."
Moving over to her mother to prevent her from mixing too much sugar into the pancakes, Jazz replied, "Yep! Aaand, he's even in the shower already!"
Accepting defeat, Maddie walked away from cooking the pancakes, and instead started grabbing the plates to set up the table. "You'll have to tell me how you manage to get Danny out of bed in the mornings. Two years ago, you had to drag him out of bed, but ever since you started waking him up, he gets up."
Smiling over at her mom, while checking the pan was hot, she replied with a gleefull, "A magician never reveals their secrets!"
"And they can't help showing off, too." Came a voice from the shadows outside of the kitchen. In came a Danny with slightly damp hair and a twinkle in his icy blue eyes.
"Takes one to know one!" Jazz said in a singsong voice.
"Good morning, Danny!"
"Morning, Mom."
Walking over to the table, Danny started another conversation," Soo when are Sam and Tuck gonna get here?"
Looking at her watch, Maddie replied, "They should be here-"
A bang echoed through the house, followed by the familiar clomping of a certain someone's combat boots.
"... And we're almost done with a net that should hold any ghost, no matter how powerfull," came the cheery voice of Jack Fenton.
Looking at the doorway to the kitchen, you could see two bored teenagers rushing into the house, trying to get away from the man, who like his wife, wasn't wearing his jumpsuit.
The teens' faces lit up when they noticed Danny was up and about. They both said, "Danny!" at the same time, and rushed into the kitchen to hug him.
Laughing, Danny hugged them back and said, "Hey guys!"
Everything was quiet, even Jack stopped talking. Not liking the silence that much, Maddie got up to help Jazz carry over all of the food. Feeling accomplished that she managed to make bacon without it coming alive, she gave most of it to Tucker, who still hadn't noticed, as he was watching his two best friends continue hugging.
Right as she was done, Tucker noticed the smells, "Uh,guys? Time to eat!"
The two friends jumped away from eachother and both blushed. Danny rubbed the back of his neck, embaressed, while Sam gave the death glare to Tucker.
Laughing, Maddie, Jack, and Jazz sat down and started eating.
As soon as they were all done eating, they scrambled into the Ghost Assault Vehicle. A whispered conversation started as they drove away from Amity Park, but sure enough, trouble just had to start before they could escape.
"We saw on the news that Danny Phantom was fighting Skulker this morning."
"Yeah," said Sam. "Did he get hurt?"
"Well... That depends on who your talking about. Skulker got pretty hurt, but Phantom barely got a scratch!" Danny relaxed, propping his feet up.
"That's my little brother!" said Jazz, lightly punching Danny in the shoulder.
Wincing, Danny rubbed the back of his neck. "Heh, heh... I kinda, maybe got a... scratch from one of Skulker's new weapons when he, uh... tried to get my pelt..."
"Danny!" They yelled.
Realizing that the kids were yelling at Danny about something, Maddie tried her best to eavesdrop on them.
"... You need to tell us everytime a..." Jack drove around a car turning, almost flipping the GAV on it's side. Maddie yelped a little, drowning the whispered voice of Sam. "Last night was bad enough, but when Skulker shows up, at least call us,..."
Jack chose at that moment to slurp lowdly on his drink from the helmet contraption he always wore on long road trips somewhere.
"...was easy to manage,..." Danny got quieter. Maddie had to strain to hear his next words, "At least we won't have to worry about any of them for the week."
"...lock the... portal?" Maddie couldn't tell who spoke without turning around, and then they would know that she was listening in. The most she could tell was it was a female. She doubted it was Jazz, because the voice sounded a little deeper, but not deep enough to be the boys'. So obviously it was Sam.
"Yes, I did, and Jazz checked. So no ghosts to worry about, which equals no secrets getting exposed, and, most importantly, we get to spend time with eachother as regular, seventeen year old kids!"
"Yeah right! Knowing our luck, things will somehow get out of hand because you said that, Tuck." Maddie could obviously tell that was her son talking this time.
"If things somehow go wrong at any time on this trip, I will make sure everyone starts calling you 'Bad Luck Tuck' again!" Sam said angrily, her voice steadily getting louder, so it wasn't that hard to hear. There was a heated argument starting between Sam and Tucker, so Maddie decided it was time to stop eavesdropping on them.
She got sucked into her own thoughts, thinking about the conversation she overheard. Nothing made sense! Why would Danny, her baby boy, need to call his friends when Skulker showed up? And what did he mean when he said Skulker was 'easy to manage'? He made it sound as if...
As if he helped Phantom take down Skulker...
But that's impossible! She would of heard him leave the house! So how did Danny sneak out of the house to go help a ghost take down another ghost? She thought that her and Jack managed to teach her kids that ghosts were evil blobs of ectoplasm! That all they ever wanted was to destroy the normal, living humans that didn't die like them.
And what did he mean when they could be normal seventeen year olds? And no secrets would be revealed while on the trip? All that eavesdropping did was just raise more questions than answer her other ones. She knew her baby boy was doing something that kept giving his bruises, and made him sleep in class, but she would of never guessed he helped Phantom. Maybe it was only a one time thing? Maddie could only hope...
"You guys better stop fighting!" Jazz turned around in her seat to stare at the three of them. Looking at Danny when they stopped arguing to pay her attention, she pointed out her window where clouds of billowing, black smoke rose into the air from Amity. "Danny, I think a ghost managed to avoid capture."
Standing up and heading into the bathroom, they could hear Danny muttor to himself. "Really, Jazz? Ya think?"
To Be Continued!
A/N
I am so sorry to those of you who may have read Phantom S'mores before I took it down! It wasn't going too good, so I took it down and rewrote it!
Please reveiw and tell me if I should continue with this story! Thanks!
Edit: The next chapter WILL be posted tomorrow anyways!