Danny Fenton lived in a nice little town named Amity Park. Both he and his town was normal, with one huge exception. Ghosts. Just recently, his town had been attacked by an army of ghosts, and Danny had saved the town in the end. Now, Danny was only fourteen years old, so how could he have saved Amity Park. Well, Danny Fenton had a huge secret that only his friends knew of. He was half ghost.

His parents, Jack and Maddie Fenton, were professional ghost hunters, and had made a portal into the world of ghosts. After a freak accident, Danny Fenton's DNA was screwed up, and he became half ghost.

At the present time, Danny had a lot of control over his ghost self. He had just recently learned to duplicate himself, and could turn from ghost to human and vice versa almost instantly and without fault. However, Danny's ghost self had been dubbed as Public Ghost Enemy Number One after a first attack on the town. But, after saving Amity Park from the ghost army just recently, the entire town had accepted him as a hero. Well, almost the entire town.

There were three people who lived in Amity Park who still thought that Danny's ghost side was still against them. They were ghost hunters. Jack and Maddie Fenton, and Valerie Gray. Valerie was fourteen, like Danny, and was beginning to form a crush on the fourteen-year-old halfa. Of course, she didn't know he was a halfa.

Danny had two best friends, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley. Both were his age, and both knew of his secret. Sam was goth and an ultra recyclo vegetarian, and Tucker was a techno freak and a carnivore for the most part. All three of them were different, but they had one thing in common. They were all unpopular.

That brings us to the popular kids. For a while, Danny had been crushing on a girl named Paulina Torrez, who was, of course, the most popular girl in Casper High School. But, after learning of her crush on Danny's alter ego, Danny decided that it would be best to avoid her. However, this was not the case for the school bully, Dash Baxter. The head of the football team, Dash loved to beat up anyone who was smaller than him, which was almost everybody. Danny, however, always happened to be in the same hallway as Dash, so Danny was very much used to being stuffed in a locker or kicked in the shin.

Danny's older sister, Jazz, knew of Danny's secret, but tried to keep it to herself. Danny hadn't told her, and she wanted him to tell her before she told him that she knew. Jazz was helpful to Danny, especially if their parents invented a new ghost hunting device. She would always either end up breaking it or getting Danny out of the house, and sometimes even herself. Nobody said that her parents were perfect scientists. Their house had been through some rough times.

Presently, the whole freshman class was going on a week-long fieldtrip to New York City. His parents and Jazz would chaperone, as well as his English teacher Mr. Lancer and a man named Vlad Masters. Vlad was also a halfa, caught in an accident similar to Danny's. However, he had been a halfa for twenty or more years, and hated Jack Fenton for stealing Maddie from him. This caused many problems for Danny, both his human and ghost sides.

Everybody crammed into the bus to leave. Dash, Kwan, and Paulina sat in the back seats. That was where the quote popular unquote students sat. In the middle sat the quote middle class unquote students, such as Valerie and Jazz, and in the front sat the quote bottom of the list unquote students, or in other words Danny, Tucker, and Sam. Jack and Maddie sat in the front, Mr Lancer sat in the middle, and Vlad Masters sat in the back. The bus started moving and they were off to New York City.

When they finally arrived in New York City a day later, everyone was told to stay in groups of three or more. Danny, Sam, Jazz, and Tucker were in one group, and Dash, Kwan, Paulina, and Valerie were in the other group. Though Jazz was a chaperone, she was also a student and went with the tres amigos in order to keep them out of danger, and she of all people knew what kind of danger those three could get into. The four adults allowed the students to go by themselves as long as they stayed in their groups, and they went off to do whatever adults did, whether it was get some coffee or look for ghosts. Danny and his group headed to the east, where they noticed a skating park. There were only three kids there.

"Hey, guys, do you want to go over there?" Danny asked. "It wouldn't hurt to talk to people." He recieved a mumble from Tucker, who was furiously tapping at a button on his video game.

"Sure," Sam and Jazz both said in unison. So the four teens went over to where the other people were skateboarding on the half pipe. As they got closer, they realized that there were two boys and one girl going back and forth on the half pipe, doing tricks in the air and sometimes landing on the bottom, their skateboard flying off in a random direction.

A skateboard flew towards Danny, and it seemed to go right through him. In reality, it did. Both Sam and Jazz noticed this, but Tucker was still entranced in his video game. Danny had turned intangible, letting the skateboard go right through him. The yellow skateboard landed upside-down a few feet away, and Jazz noticed a red dragon drawn on the bottom. She blinked when a hand reached down to pick it up. She quickly traced the arm up to meet two black eyes. The boy had spiked, black hair with green highlights and wore a white t-shirt, red jacket, and blue jeans. He put the skateboard under his arm and looked from Jazz to Sam to Danny and then Tucker.

"Yo, wuzzup?" he asked, and Jazz jumped. It had been so quiet, if you tuned out the honking and ringing and screaming in the background.

"Um, hi?" Jazz more or less asked. A huge smile was planted on the boy's face, and she attempted to return it.

"I'm Jake, and these are my buds Trixie and Spud," the boy said, gesturing towards the other teens, who were walking in their direction.

"I'm Jazz, and this is my brother Danny, and his friends Sam and Tucker," Jazz said, regaining her composure. Sam and Danny waved, and Tucker looked up in hearing his name.

"Yeah?" he asked. When he recieved no answer, he went back to playing his game.

"Hey, Jake!" a voice called out, and everybody turned to see a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Jake quickly turned back around. Sensing she wasn't welcome, the girl sighed sadly and turned around. When she was out of earshot...

"What was that about?" Jazz asked. "She acted like she was your friend, but you just ignored her."

"It's a long story, and it ends with me finding out a secret about her," Jake said. Tucker looked up.

"It can't be as bad as the big secret Danny's hi-ouch!" he yelled as Sam elbowed his ribs. She smiled in victory as Tucker rubbed the spot where she had hit him.

"I've got to go to work. See ya!" Jake called, jumping on his skateboard and taking off. Jazz, Sam, Tucker, and Danny just stood there. Trixie and Spud followed Jake on their own skateboards.

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"This ends now, Dragon," Huntsman said, pointing his staff at the American Dragon. The red dragon turned around to face another glowing staff, this one being Huntsgirl's. He was trapped.

"Um, why can't we talk about this. I mean, there must be some kind of misunderstanding, and--"

"Zip it, Dragon," Huntsgirl said, and the dragon immediately quieted. He sighed.

"Guys, I think this has gone too far," Danny whispered from behind a bush. He, Sam, and Tucker were watching the battle.

"You know, a couple of years ago, I wouldn't have believed this was happening," Tucker said. "But now...did that dragon just talk?"

"Yeah, it did, but I didn't think they could talk," Danny answered. "I know that the ghost dragon could talk, but all she could say was -girly voice- 'I want to go to the ball.' I thought that was because she was a human as well."

"Shh," Sam said. "Listen."

"I've waited all my life to slay a dragon," Huntsgirl said. "But I think I can wait a little longer...just long enough to find out your human identity."

"That ain't gonna happen, Huntsgirl," the dragon said. His eyes suddenly turned green and he blinked. "Um, bye?" He disappeared, leaving Huntsgirl and Huntsman standing there, dazed. The American Dragon reappeared a few miles away, just outside the city. His eyes turned black again and he blinked. "Whoa, what happened?" he asked himself.

"You're lucky I showed up, or you would have been dragon mince meat," a voice said. The dragon turned around to face a boy, hovering just above the grass, with white hair, green eyes, and a black and white jumpsuit with a D on it.

"Who are you?" he asked. The boy opened his mouth to speak but was intercepted by another voice.

"His name is Inviso-Bill, and he's my hero," a voice said. Both the white-haired boy and the dragon turned to see a Latino girl, or in other words, Paulina Torrez. The boy sighed.

"She's wrong, you know," he said, facing the dragon. "I'm Danny Phantom." He held out his hand.

"American Dragon," the dragon said, shaking the ghost's hand. Then he changed the subject. "Why isn't she surprised by all of this?"

"Because where we live, nothing is normal," Danny Phantom said.

"Hey, next time I need help with the Huntsclan, I'll just call you," the dragon said, taking off into the sky. Danny looked over, where Paulina was still staring at him dreamily. He sighed and turned invisible, flying off after the dragon.

The red dragon landed in front of a building and walked inside. Danny sighed. He went right through the wall and stopped. The dragon stood before an old man and his dog. To his surprise, or actually, not really surprising, the dog stood up on his back feet and started talking.

"Hey kid, I see you got outta that one with your tail still attached to your butt," the dog said.

"Yo, Fu, I really don't wanna talk about it," the dragon said. "I'm gonna go home and sleep it off." He morphed into a human, and Danny could only see the back of his head. When the boy turned around to walk outside, Danny saw his face and gasped.