Title: Deep Freeze

Summary: It's the annual Casper High ski trip to Mount Amity and Team Phantom is ready to kick back after a long week of ghost fighting. Unfortunately, besides the fact that the Fentons are the chaperones, Danny has to deal with a deadly snowboarding ghost named Glacia Powder. Strangely enough, she's attracted to Dash! After uncovering a local legend at the ski resort, he uncovers that Glacia is after her 'backstabbing' boyfriend, who looks exactly like Dash! With time running out for his family and friends, can Danny stop Glacia's frozen fury or will she put Danny permanently on ice?

Timeline: Set after the events of "Control Freaks", which is the end of Season One.

Pairing(s): Danny/Sam (light hints), OC/OC

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, but own rights to the ideas and original characters for this fanfiction. All rights belong to Nickelodeon and Butch Hartman.

"Alright, everyone! Single file onto the bus!" An overweight bald teacher dressed in a red jacket, called to a group of students in front of him.

It was a crisp and cold January morning in Amity Park and Casper High School's grounds were covered knee high with glistening, white snow. Several school buses pulled up into the parking lot, now filled with students, carrying snowboards and pairs of skis. The bus's doors opened slowly, just as people got on board, handing in crumpled permission slips to Mr. Lancer: the vice principal and an English teacher at Casper High.

"I can't wait to get on the slopes!" said Sam Manson, a fourteen-year-old girl with short black hair and light violet eyes. She was dressed up in a black jacket with a white trim, black gloves, and her usual black combat boots. She also had a purple and black scarf and dark purple earmuffs. "I heard there's a drop that defies the laws of geometric physics!"

"Well, I'm just happy that there haven't been any ghost attacks today", said Danny Fenton, a fourteen-year-old boy with raven black hair and light blue eyes. "I've been exhausted lately from all of that late night fighting..."

Danny was a ghost, or at least half of one, since that fateful day, several months ago, when his weird ghost hunting parents: Jack and Maddie Fenton, created a portal that would allow ghosts to enter the human world. However, when they connected the plugs, the portal didn't seem to work and they left their lab. Influenced by his friends, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, Danny had decided to take a look to see what was the problem from inside of the device. Unfortunately, he pushed the 'on' switch that was inside, activating the portal with Danny inside of it. Fusing ectoplasm and electricity to fuse into his body, Danny gained the powers of a ghost, creating the ghostly superhero: Danny Phantom.

Ever since the accident, Danny, with the help of Sam and Tucker, had been beating up the ghosts that had been coming through the portal to wreak havoc, revenge and mischief onto his town. Recently, however, the ghost attacks had become larger and much more difficult for Danny to get rid of, causing him to stay up longer on school nights, making him more exhausted, and causing his grades to slip in school. But this time was different. Mr. Lancer had organized a school field trip to Mount Amity, for two fun-filled days of winter activities, relaxation and hot cocoa. Not to mention, a chance to impress Paulina Sanchez: the most popular girl in school and Danny's secret crush.

Too bad Jazz is sick, Danny thought. She would have loved to come along...

Danny was in his long red and white jacket over his jeans, along with white gloves, and silver colored boots. He also wore a red beanie cap that covered most of his head.

"Don't jinx it Danny," Tucker warned. "Remember the last time you said that..."

Tucker was also fourteen, and had light brown skin and turquoise eyes. He wore his trademark red beret, as well as a light yellow jacket with a white trim, a red and white striped scarf, black gloves, and his usually worn brown hiking boots. Tucker was also carrying his trusty PDA, planning out his trip schedule.

"Don't worry Tucker," said Danny coolly. "What can possibly go wrong?"

As if on cue, an array of snowballs smacked Danny on the head, causing him to fall face first onto the snowy ground.

"That," said Tucker, pointing behind his friend to the people who had purposely attacked him.

Cearling his face of the gritty snow, Danny looked up to see Dash Baxter: the school bully and popluar jock, tossing a well-made snowball in his hand. He and his jock gang wore the school's red and white football jackets, blue jeans, black boots and red tuques that said "We're Number One" in large, white letters. They all laughed as Danny started to get up, now shaking the snow off of his jacket. Dash threw his snowball in Danny's face and laughed nasally, his gang following suit.

"Hey, guys! Check it out," Dash jeered. "It's Fenton the snow geek!"

Danny, who couldn't stand being humiliated by Dash, growled in anger, unaware that his eyes changed from his usual blue to a ghostly green. Seeing Danny's reaction, Sam put her gloved hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

"Just ignore him, Danny," she whispered. "Dash is just bullying you just to get you annoyed, and you know that..."

"Sam, cut it out. You're beginning to sound like my sister," said Danny coldly.

Sam frowned at him, and then turned to Dash and his friends, all of them still laughing at Danny's humilliation.

"I don't think you should be laughing at Danny, Dash", said Sam coldly. "You should be laughing at yourselves! I mean, look at you. You're all wearing the same pieces of clothing! Did you just come out of an assembly line for dumb athletes?"

Dash growled in anger, his hands curling into fists. "Why I oughta..."

"Manson! Fenton! You two lovebirds better get on or you're gonna be staying here!" Lancer shouted in the distance.

"We're not lovebirds!" shouted Danny and Sam at the same time. Noticing this, they both paused for a moment and stared at each other.

"Are we?" asked Danny, confused.

"Er, no! Of course not!" stammered Sam, slightly blushing at the mere thought of a deja-vu from the Ember incident. "Why would we be?"

"Come on," Tucker said. "We'd better get on before all the seats are taken."

Sam and Danny sighed. As they walked onto the school bus, they heard Dash in the distance.

"You'd better watch it, Fenton!" shouted Dash. "I'll be waiting for you to be off guard and when you least expect it...well, let's just say it's not gonna be pretty for you or your geeky friends..."

Dash smirked evilly and pounded his fists together. His friends copied the same thing as Dash, all with evil grins on their faces.

Oh great, now I've got to put up with three things: Dash, ghosts, and a death sentence! thought Danny nervously.

"Hey, I heard that some kid from our grade has his parents chaperoning for the school trip," said Tucker, tucking his PDA into his jacket.

"Ouch," added Sam."I feel sorry for him to drag his folks along for the ride."

"Well, if you happen to see him, tell him I said good luck…"said Danny.

As they entered the bus after much pushing and shoving, Danny stopped dead in his tracks, his mouth now agape. In the back of the bus, were two people that he recognized immediately as his parents. His father, Jack Fenton, was a overly large man with black and grey hair, dressed in an orange and black hazmat suit. His mother, Maddie Fenton a woman with brown hair and violet eyes, in a dark blue lab suit with red goggles. Danny noticed his father was tinkering with a small handheld device.

Why are they here? he wondered.

"Mom? Dad? What are you doing here?" asked Danny. "Aren't you supposed to be at a science convention or something?"

"That's next week, sweetie!" said Maddie, with a cheerful smile. "Besides, didn't you know?"

"Know what, exactly?"

"We're the parents that are chaperoning the school trip!"

"WHAT?" Danny gawked at the sound of that last sentence. Chaperoning? Oh, just great! That's number four to my list of things to watch out for!

"Good luck," whispered Tucker, now grinning like a madman.

"And while we're doing that, we're gonna test out our new invention: the Fenton ghost compass!" Jack continued with sheer confidence, shoving the invention right in front of Danny's face. The square invention was a metallic silver and green, and it was about the same size as Tucker's PDA. On the black screen was a green electronic compass with the 'North' arrow flashing right in front of him. Danny jumped in fright as the compass addressed in a dull tone, "Ghost directly ahead, zero degrees north."

Better make that five...

"Hmmm…probably still has a few kinks to work out," Jack muttered, examining the gadget. Looking upon his son's frightened face, he turned a small black knob near the screen. "Danny, don't be scared. This gadget isn't gonna hurt you."

"Human mode: on. Humans located in all directions. Closest: zero degrees south," said the device.

"See?" said Jack. "The Fenton Ghost Compass acts like a compass, but it can track down human or ghost DNA in a certain just by using regular GPS. Then it gives the exact coordinates that lead you to that person or ghost. Cool, huh?" Jack offered the small gadget to Danny, still nervous.

"Uh, yeah. Very interesting," Danny said carefully. "I'm going to find my seat, now..."

"Talk about your bad karma," Tucker muttered, trying not to laugh.

Unfortunately, Sam wasn't enjoying Tucker's attitude. She elbowed Tucker hard in the ribs to shut him up.

"What did you do that for?" demanded Tucker, glaring at Sam while rubbing his sore chest.

"Look," Sam whispered sharply. "Danny's having a hard time right now as well as it is, so let's try to cheer him up and look on the bright side, okay?"

Tucker sighed. "Fine..."

"Settle down for roll call!" shouted Lancer, clipboard and a retractable pen in his hands.

Everyone seemed to scramble to their seats at the sound of the teacher's voice. Planning quickly, Danny sat with Sam at the front, while Tucker sat with Valerie Gray, who was two seats across from where his two friends were.

Lancer clicked his pen. "Alright, then: Abigail Aries?"

A tall blonde girl with dark blue eyes in the back, raised her hand shyly. She looked at least a year younger than all of the other students.

"Um, Mr. Lancer? My name's Abby, not Abigail. Only my parents call me by that."

"Very well then, Abby. Moving on…"

Dash came next, then later Danny, followed by Tucker, Valerie, and Sam. After the last name: Ken Williams, Lancer looked over his list carefully, and counted the heads of the teens.

"Hmmm…it seems that Jasmine Fenton isn't here." Lancer questionably looked at Danny. "Do you happen to know where your sister is, Danny?"

"We can explain that," interrupted Jack. "Jazz has an ectoplasmic disturbance in her body that we think that a ghost is involved by possession."

Maddie slapped her head in embarrassment.

"Ignore my dad, sir," said Danny quickly, ignoring the fact that his social life was spiraling out of control. "Jazz just has the flu, that's all, so she won't be coming on the trip."

"What a shame," said Lancer. "Send her my regards, then."

"Will do," said Danny with an uncertain smile as he watched his teacher walk to the back of the bus, just as it exited the school grounds.

"An ectoplasmic disturbance?" questioned Lancer, with an eyebrow raised in suspicion as he sat next to Jack.

"My mistake," apologized Jack, grinning in embarrassment. He quickly got up from his seat with haste to avoid more conversation with Danny's teacher. "Hey, to pass the time, who would like to hear about my research about ghosts?" he asked to the group.

Danny suddenly froze on the spot. Oh no. Not the speech! He crossed his fingers. Please say no. Please say no. Please say no...

The bus was silent and stared at Jack in confusion, but several hands seemed to rise up. Danny stared in amazement as six people had their hands raised in the air. One of them was Valerie's.

Great. Now the ghost hunter wants to know more information, so she can KILL ME!

Valerie Gray was the only other human nemesis, besides his parents, that hunted ghosts for a living. After a few incidents with Danny and a stray ghost dog, her father lost his job at Axion Labs but was then reassigned to low class job as a night watch guard. Furious at this, Valerie dedicated her life to hunting ghosts, who the very beings that ruined her social life. Danny still didn't know how she got the ghost hunting weapons or the bright red costume she wore in battle, but he still had to watch out for her, human or not.

Danny suddenly felt his hand being touched and being raised up. He quickly turned around to see Dash, who was sitting a seat behind him smirking, grabbing his wrist. Jack noticed Danny's hand being raised and smiled, unknowingly that it was Dash who did it.

"Great!" Jack said, grinning from ear to ear. "Danny, I didn't know that you wanted to listen to my lecture again! It's great that you have such an interest in this subject! I think I'll start at the beginning..." He cleared his throat. "Ahem... Ghosts are supernatural beings that have passed on into the afterlife, but they can appear in our world in a bodily presence if they have unfinished business to take care of or a task to accomplish…"

Seeing Dash smirking and his father talking a long and boring ghost speech combined, was a sign that this was cruel and humiliating punishment. Dying from embarrassment, Danny hid his face under the protection of his jacket hood.

I'm so doomed...

A Note from the Author

No need to panic my fellow readers. This is merely a merge of Chapters 1 & 2 with a load of editing. Most of the story's chapters are under peer editing at the moment to tidy up a mess of punctual and literal errors. Some of the chapters' content (like the gang's winter outfits) will be edited to reflect on Seasons 2 & 3, but do not introduce any content from the future seasons (so no chest emblem, 'Phantom Planet', ice powers, ghostly wail, etc.)

When I had first written 'Deep Freeze' back in 2004, Canada had only gotten the first 13 episodes of Season 1 while the U.S. received the next 4 in February and the last 2 episodes of Season 1 at the end of June, following the 2 episode premiere of Season 2. After contemplating on this story's timeline a few months ago, I had decided to keep it Season 1 centered because of how much I had written ahead when Canada only had the first half of Danny Phantom's first season. So, seeing to that, this story is set a few months after 'Control Freaks'. So, for people who keep bugging me to give Danny ice powers, it ain't going to happen. So, sue me.

So, until then, happy reading!

Celestial Maiden Sukira