The Siege

By Kellie Fay

Disclaimer: Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman.

No I don't have a beta reader. I would very much like one!

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Chapter 1 The Mystery of Sarah Daily.

"Are they still in there?"

"I think so."

"What could they be talking about for three hours?

"Little Women are they all in there again?"

The last comment came from Lancer joining the twenty boys standing outside Mrs Tetslaff's classroom.

Part of today's Teen Health Day at Casper High included separate boy and girls open talks. Danny Tucker, and the rest of the ninth grade boys were imprisoned for an hour with Mr Lancer who lectured them about their reproductive system. The boys couldn't wait for the hour to be up.

The ninth grade girls ended up with Mrs Tetslaff, but Miss Daily asked if she could join in. Two hours later a note came out asking if they could have lunch brought to them. They went to regular classes after lunch, but when the last period rolled around Danny and Dash found they were having Math Lab with Mr Lancer instead of Miss Daily. Mrs Tetslaff and the girls had commandeered her again.

The last bell of the day rang twenty minutes ago, and all the girls were still in the classroom with Miss Daily and Mrs Tetslaff. The only indication that they were in there were the chuckles and giggles the boys could hear.

Tucker tugged on Danny's shirt and the two boys moved to the back of the crowd.

"Danny do you think that we aught to check on them or something?"

Danny gave his best friend a hard glare. "By we, you mean me, and in case you have forgotten Miss Daily can sense me even when I'm invisible. If she caught me in there listening to their conversation she'd hex me into next week."

Tucker had ever reason to be slightly worried, but Danny also had a reason to be cautious. Miss Daily was no ordinary teacher. She was also a sorceress, A magic user who chose to come to Amity Park to help Danny deal with the stress and trials of being both Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton. At first Danny and his friends resisted the intrusion of this adult, but quickly Sam, Tucker, Jazz and Danny, realized that they needed her adult perspective and experience in dealing with children like Danny who had some form of special powers.

Danny realized very quickly that having an adult confidant and friend somehow decreased a lot of the stress he was feeling in his life. Things he would never tell Sam, Tucker or Jazz he found himself telling her. Her home was protected against other ghosts or dark magic, and Danny felt safer there, and in her protected classroom, than he did in his own home. Not that it wasn't frustrating at times. Sarah had some strange ideas about the things Danny should learn. On Friday nights Danny would sneak out of his house after going to bed, and he and Sarah might go though some formal training, or just a game of tag or hide and seek. Sometimes Danny and Sarah would just float around the city on her flying cape, and Danny would rest on the cape with her, and just talk about whatever came out of his head. That's when Sarah would try to explain to him that most of what he was dealing with was normal, or she would explain to him that he had to create his own code of ethics for having ghost powers. At the moment Danny's code of ethics warned him that spying on a bunch of girls with Miss Daily in attendance would be a bad idea.

Or maybe it was just his well developed sense of self preservation

The opening of the door jarred Danny from his thoughts. All the girls came pouring out of the room smiling and talking to each other. For some inexplicable reason Sam Valerie, and Paulina came out of the room at the same time. They all turned and looked at Danny together then giggled.

Danny looked at the three girls nervously then at Tucker. "Tuck, should I be worried that they're looking at me and laughing?"

"Absolutely" Tucker said sounding a little nervous himself.

Even Dash noticed the attention. "If three girls who all hated each other started laughing when they saw me, I'd make a run for it, Fenton." He said.

Now Danny was really worried. When Dash puts the fact that we're both guys against girls before the fact that he hates me it's time to listen. Danny was about to try to disappear, when Miss Daily came out of the room and smiled at him.

"What's wrong Danny?" His teacher asked with a mischievous smile. "You look as if you're being hunted."

Danny took a glance back at Valerie speaking to Star. Both girls looked back at Danny and giggled before talking more.

"Am I?" He shot back slightly nervous. "I'm starting to get the feeling that I was the major topic in there."

Sam couldn't help but laugh as she joined them. "Not directly," she said, "but I think a few girls knew that some of the conversations were about specific boys, and even though your name didn't come up, I think you were an anonymous topic."

"I was?" Danny said worriedly. Why was he a topic of conversation among girls.

"Was I mentioned at all?" Tucker asked excitedly.

Sam chuckled at that. "Not in the least," she said with a smirk. "Sorry, Tuck."

Before Tucker could press it or protest Miss Daily changed the subject. "Sam, do you need to see any one else before we go to the mineral shop?"

That got both boys attention. "Mineral shop?" Danny asked.

"There's a mineral shop about five blocks from the Skulk and Lurk," Sam explained, "I'm going to show Miss Daily where it is. She needs some quartz, agate, fluorite, and hematite."

"I thought we were going to your house this afternoon. You said you had some chores for us?" Danny said slightly suspicious. As much as he liked Miss Daily, he didn't quite trust her with Sam and Tucker.

"You two go ahead," Miss Daily said. "Sam and I will meet you there."

Danny frowned, but he didn't have a reason to argue. Instead he said, "we could come with you."

Sam sighed and rolled her eyes. "Danny I'll be fine really. You two go on ahead."

Translation, Danny thought to himself, Go away I want to talk to Sarah alone. Danny wasn't sure why Sam wanted to talk to Sarah alone, but she obviously did. Danny wondered if it didn't have something to do with the fact that he was an anonymous topic of conversation in class today. Even so he didn't let his suspicions show.

"Okay, okay I get it. You two want to have a little girl time together," Danny said sounding annoyed. "Geeze what went on in there today? All the girls are still buzzing about it." It was true the few girls who were still milling around were in small groups still chatting and giggling away from the boys.

"I'll tell you later," Sarah said with a smile. She handed Danny a slip of paper. "You and Tucker go on ahead. Here is a list of the things you guys can take care of while I'm gone, and Danny, stay away from the green house and my new plants today. Some of that stuff might not be safe for our mutual invisible friend."

The mutual invisible friend was a euphemism for his ghost half, so Danny took the advice to heart. Not too long ago Danny learned the hard way that when Sarah Daily said that a place and an object is dangerous to ghosts she means it, and Danny should stay away.

"Okay, Miss Daily," Danny said absently passing Tucker the list. "Tuck and I will wait for you over at you're place."

"I'll see you in an hour or so." Sarah said with a grin. Then she and Sam walked off.

Danny couldn't help but stare after Sam and Miss Daily walk off together. Tucker waited a few minutes then asked, "Danny you okay?"

"Huh? Oh yeah Tuck I'm fine," he said slowly still watching the pair. Then with a deep breath he said. "Let's go."

Next up Chapter 2 Bikona

"Okay Sominus umbrus, or the Bikona Suku. It didn't have an English name on it so I'm guessing it's from someplace really remote and exotic, and - HEY!"

Quite suddenly and without warning Danny snatched Tucker's hat off of his head, and took in a deep breath. "It's your hat!" Danny said in a quiet, but delighted voice. He took in a deep breath, as if Tucker's hat was a bouquet of flowers. "It smells so nice. What did you do to it?"

Oh man my hat fell into that damn box! No wonder Danny's acting so weird! The screen flashed up and Tucker quickly read the information.

The Bikona Suku, also known by the natives of Thailand as the ghost plant. Priests and others would plant these flowers several miles away from any shrine or temple to keep ghosts away from the shrines. It is said that the flowers attract and calm restless spirits, pacifying them making them unable and unwilling to harm travelers to the temples. Extremely endangered today less than four hundred known plants remaining.