Wow. It's been so long since I've actually written anything new. So far I've just been rewriting old chapters. Sorry if it takes me a little to get back into the flow of this story again. I should be fine by next chapter. Enjoy the chapter!

"Of course Danny, I'll always back you up" Hermione responded. That's good because I'm seriously going to need it tomorrow.

"So...what's our plan for tomorrow?" I ask. I'd be stupid to go in there not knowing what to say.

"Maybe..we should just tell the truth? I don't really know Ron or Harry, but you seem to trust them. I mean, how exactly are we going to lie our way out of this one?" She has a point.

"I don't know. I mean I trust them, they just aren't exactly as clever as you are and I'm guessing they're both horrible at lying." I pretty sure I'm just coming up with excuses at this point. Just, the less people who know, the safer it is.

"Danny…:" Hermione says.

"I know, I know. The problem is going to be getting them to listen for more than 5 seconds. Not to mention they're probably angry."

"Well….maybe let them approach you about it, when they're ready to listen." That's not a half bad idea.

"I think that's a pretty good plan. Let them talk to me. Okay. We should probably get some sleep though. I'll fly you down to the girl's dormitory." I picked Hermione up and carried her down into the dorm. Now that I think about it, I should probably go tell Jazz what happened. She's probably asleep though, she tend to go to bed early on school nights. I fly invisibly into the boy's dormitory and make sure Harry and Ron are asleep. Harry's asleep, but Ron's sitting against his bed mumbling under his breath.

"I'm gonna be here when he gets back…..make him give me answers…" I feel bad, making him stay up so late. He looks half-asleep. If I just help him into bed, he'll probably with not remember it, or think it was a dream. I turn visible again, and Ron's head snaps up.

"Danny? Wait no, you're not Danny. You look like him though.." I sigh.

"Look. This is a dream. I'm just gonna help you into bed, and then you'll wake up. Okay?" I move towards him.

"M'kay" I help him get into bed and then turn invisible again. I get into my bed and close the curtains. I change back into my human form and eventually fall asleep.

"Ron! You fell asleep on your watch?" I faintly hear a voice say.

"Apparently! I had this weird dream that a guy that looks like Danny helped me into bed. Next thing I know, I'm waking up and it's morning!" Another voice says. I'm pretty sure these people are Harry and Ron.

"Well then let's check his bed to see if he came back!" Harry says. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no. I'm SO not ready to face these two! At least let me get breakfast! Maybe I should just go invisible and pretend I'm not here? No, then they would get worried and tell the teachers. That would be bad. Before I can decide what to do, the curtain swings open and there's light in my eyes. I groan and roll over.

"Oh thank God! You're here!" I here Harry say. I pretend to be asleep.

"Danny we know you're awake! Answer us! Besides, if you want breakfast, you need to get up!" Ron yelled. I flinched and pulled the blankets over my head.

"Danny! Come on! We've been worried sick about you all night!" Harry exclaimed. I felt a little guilty remembering how late Ron had been up.

"That's it!" Ron said and pulled the covers off me. I squeezed my eyes shut at all the light.

"Ughhhhh. Please don't make me…" I groan. I don't want to deal with this right now. I wish I had gone to sleep earlier.

"Nope! We stayed up almost all night last night so we could talk to you. We're not waiting any longer!" Ron exclaimed. I felt guilt rush through me. They're probably as tired as me, if not more.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm coming, just give me a sec" Danny said. They backed off. I started to get dressed. I need to think of a plan. Now that's it's morning, I realize that Hermione is right. There's no way to escape telling them the truth. So, maybe they could skip breakfast and have storytime? But Harry and Ron might want to eat breakfast. Well, if they want to have breakfast, they're going to have to wait until we have free time. Okay, now that I have a plan, let's go and tell them.

"Okay, Harry, Ron, I guess you guys deserve the truth. We're going to have to skip breakfast though. You guys good with that?" They both nodded. "Okay, let me go get Hermione. Even she hasn't heard the whole story," I say and Ron groaned.

"Do we have to get her?" he asked and I glared at him.

"Yes, we do. She's my friend just like you two. And please try to be nice to her" I said and looked at Ron. "Meet me in the common room" Then I rushed down the stairs. Hermione was already in the common room. Ron and Harry came down after me. Hermione glared at them. I shot her a look telling her to calm down. It was too late though, because Ron was glaring right back.

"Okay you two. We're settling this now. Ron, Hermione isn't actually just some bossy know-it-all like you think. She's actually really nice and really good to have in battle. Hermione, Ron isn't just some rude boy who doesn't care about other people's feelings. He just has some brother issues and doesn't like people who always want to prove that they're smarter than him."

"Hey!" Ron yelled, but I ignored him.

"I think that if you guys just tried to get to know each other, you would become good friends. Now, normally I would ask you two to hug and make up, but since you don't really know each other, I'll let you get away with a handshake" Ron and Hermione just stared at me. "I'm serious! Handshake, now!" As they went to shake hands, Harry came over to me.

"Nice job" I shrug.

"I swear, my sister rubs off on me way too much" I reply. "Okay now, gather around, it's storytime!" I say, trying to act like a preschool teacher.

"We're eleven, Danny, not five year olds" Ron said.

"Okay so, how are we going to do this? Do you want me to start at the beginning, or answer questions as they come along?" I asked.

"In my opinion, starting from the beginning would be better. If you ask questions, he just dances around them" Hermione says and I am quick to defend myself.

"It's not my fault that if I told everyone my secret, I would probably be dissected!" Oops, that probably just confused Harry and Ron more. "Okay, from the beginning it is then! So it all started when-" Hermione interrupted me.

"Wait, why am I here again?" she asked and I glared at her.

"Because I'm telling everyone about that one thing we had an argument over! Of course, if you don't want to hear it, be my guest, go to breakfast" I say and she shook her head. "That's what I thought. Okay, for real this time. It all started when my parents built a ghost portal. My friends, Sam and Tucker, thought it was really cool. So, we decided to look at it. Sam thought that it would be a good idea for me to go inside the portal. I, being the idiot that I am, went along with it. She made me put on a white and black HAZMAT suit to wear there. I walked in and tripped. My dad, being the absolute genius that he is, put the on button on the inside of the portal. I put my hand out to steady myself, and hit the on button. It turned on with me in it." I waited for the cringe that came from everyone, even Hermione. "Yeah. It hurt a lot. Anyway, I got turned into a half-ghost and started fighting ghosts to keep the town safe. Origin story. Yay!" I said sarcastically.

"Prove it" although I was expecting this, it didn't come from the person I was expecting it to be from. Harry said it! I have no idea why Harry is the one doubtful of me, but I am fully capable of proving it this time.

"Hey, I can actually do that without pain this time! Yes! Goin' ghost!" I yelled and transformed. Harry and Ron looked at me in awe.

"Still not used to it" Hermione said.

"So that's the accident you didn't want to talk about!" Harry finally realized. I hope he realizes why.

"Okay, that answers about half of my questions. Can we have question time now? And direct answers please?" Ron asked. I nodded. Harry asked the first question.

"Who's Pariah Dark?" I sighed in relief.

"Pariah Dark's the old king of the Ghost Zone. He was evil and was a tyrant. Some ancient ghosts or something locked him away a long time ago, but Plasmius set him free. He sent a whole ghost army to Amity and trapped us in the Ghost Zone. It was chaos. I had to go defeat him by putting him back in his coffin. I had to use a huge machine my parents made to make you super strong. The only problem was, it drained you of your life force. I was four percent I think away from dying. Not my best moments" I answered. "Okay Ron, your turn!" I say cheerfully. I want to try and keep everyone happy for as long as I can. Although I know when they ask the question, that won't happen.

"Who's Plasmius?" Okay, that escalated quickly.

"Okay, if I tell you this, you have to promise me something." They all nodded. "If you ever see him, pretend like you have no idea who he is. It's very important. Now, Vlad Masters is my arch enemy." Ron interrupted me.

"Wait, we're talking about a guy named Plasmius. Not Vlad Masters. I already know who that is." I kept talking.

"Vlad Masters is Vlad Plasmius. They're the same person. Before you start bombing me with questions, let me explain. Vlad Masters is a half-ghost, like me. He's also evil. He is a crazed up fruitloop. He wants to kill my dad, marry my mom, and have me as a perfect half-ghost son. He's also really creepy. And egotistical. And frustrating. And-"

"Okay Danny, we get it. He's a bad guy" Harry said. I took a deep breath.

"Sorry, I really hate him. So yeah, every once in awhile he shows up with some crazy plan." Then I stopped talking and paled. This is bad. Oh no. I'm such and IDIOT! How didn't I think of this before? "Guys, we need to finish this later. I need to find Jazz" I said and ran out the door before anyone could say anything. I ran towards the Great Hall, too panicked to go ghost. I burst through the doors, Harry, Hermione, and Ron right behind me. Everyone turned and stared at us. I blushed and looked down. I slowly trudged over the the Ravenclaw table and saw who I was looking for.

"Jazz!" I said.

"Danny, what is so urgent that you had to burst into the Great Hall at full speed?" She asked and I used our code words for ghost-related things.

"Thermos!" I exclaim and everyone but Jazz looks at me like I belong in a crazy house. She stands up and walks out with me, very tense.

"What is it?" she asked.

"Vlad!" I hissed. She immediately relaxed. Why is she relaxing? DAD COULD DIE!

"Oh, I was wondering how long it would take you to realize" Realize what? I immediately check her eyes, but they were her normal blue color. Jazz chuckled.

"Vlad's not overshadowing me, Danny. Look, don't worry about Vlad. Remember that time I went to go live with Vlad? Yeah, I found some blackmail. I told him that if he didn't leave Mom and Dad alone during the school year, Mom could find out some things he did NOT want her to know" Jazz said.

"You realize that if you tell her his secret, he's going to tell everyone mine!" I say frantically.

"Oh, it's not ghost related" Jazz said.

"What is it than?" I asked. Jazz shook her head and shuddered.

"You do not wanna know"
"Okay then….I should probably go apologize and finish my story now" Jazz then looked confused.

"What story?"

"Well...you see….I may have had a fight last night and let just a few things slip? Just to Harry and Ron though! They're trustworthy!" I said before she could freak out. "I'll explain the details later, I need to get back to them"

"Okay little brother, see you later" she said and walked back in. I found the three I was looking for around the corner.

"What was that about?" Harry asked.

"My sister being a jerk and not telling me everything. Okay, let's get back to the dorm. I'll finish answering questions now. To finish up on the last thing, yeah that's Plasmius. He's a jerk. Hermione, your turn" I said. Ron asked a question instead.

"Why would you be dissected if people found out your secret?" Oh boy.

"Well, there's this government agency called the Guys in White. They're a total rip off of Men in Black. They capture and do tests on ghosts. They don't knows halfas exist,but if they did, I don't even want to think about what they would do to me" I shivered. I've had multiple nightmares about this.

"What about Vlad?" Harry asked.

"Oh they wouldn't be able to touch him. He's rich and famous, and I'm pretty sure he gives them funding."

"That's not fair!" Hermione exclaimed.

"When you're me, you learn very quickly that not many things are fair. Okay, your turn for real,Hermione" I say and glare at Ron.

"What's an obsession?" she asked.

"An obsession is something every ghost has. It's their reason to live. Well not really live but you get it. If a ghost fails their obsession, they go crazy. Or they cease to exist. One of the two. And before you ask, my obsession is protection. Protect family, protect citizens, protect anyone and everyone who needs it. It's why I always made myself a target for Dash. Again before you ask, Dash was the main bully at my school. I made myself a target so that he would leave everyone alone. It helped he already hated me with a passion. Helped my image too."

"How did that help your image?" Ron asked.

"Well, to keep my secret, I had to pretend to be wimpy so no one would suspect me. And it worked. Most of the time anyway. This one kid Wes found out my secret. No one believed him though. He was really annoying." (AN: Yes, I just added Wes. No fanfic is complete without Wes. If you don't know who he is, look up "Wesley Weston". Wes is great.)

"Oh. Okay" Ron said.

"Why were you locked out of your house so much?" Harry asked.

"So remember how I told you I fought Pariah Dark? So that experience made me stronger because when you do hard things, you come out stronger, common sense. So my parents have a constant ghost shield up, right? So after that experience, I became too powerful to get through the ghost shield, even in my human form. Vlad knows how to mask it or something, because he can get through it fine. Maybe one day I'll learn how. So yeah, I had to get home before the ghost shield went up, or else I had to either sleep at a friend's house, or on the street if no one was answering."

"So, who's Walker?" Hermione asked.

"He's the 'warden' of the Ghost Zone prison. He basically makes up stupid rules to put people he doesn't like in jail. I think I owe him, what, 20 thousand years now? Something like that" They all gasped noticeably. Hermione louder than Harry and Ron.

"What did you DO?" Hermione asked.

"Well the first time I brought the Specter Speeder into the GZ and that wasn't allowed. The Specter Speeder is the vehicle Sam and Tucker use to move around in the GZ, by the way. Then just caused multiple breakouts. One time he invaded Amity and managed to pin the whole thing on me. Ugh. That wasn't fun either," he said. "Any other questions? Okay, well I'm gonna go back to the dorm now bye-"

"Danny." Hermione said. "What were you talking about last night?" I sighed and looked down.

"Are you sure you wanna hear? It's really disturbing" I tried to convince them, but they wanted to hear it. "Okay... So when I start saying really weird stuff, don't freak out, okay? So it all started when my family and friends died in a huge explosion at a restaurant called the Nasty Burger. Weird name, I know. So having no other options, I moved in with Vlad. It was all fine for a while, until I told him I didn't want to deal with human emotions anymore. So, he ripped out my human side so only the ghost half was left. That ghost half decided to rip out Vlad's ghost half. I don't know why. I don't think that my ghost half is evil. I mean, my obsession is protection. My ghost half can't be evil then, right? I mean not all ghosts are evil anyway. But that's besides the point. My ghost half then proceeded to rip out Vlad's ghost half and merge with it. Together, they formed Dan Phantom. He went on a crazy reign and everything was destroyed except for Amity Park. Eventually though, Dan found a way to break the ghost shield with his Ghostly Wail. It's exactly what it sounds like. It destroys everything in it's path. I only use it in emergencies. He destroyed Amity and then came back to the past to make sure all of my friends and family, and teacher? I'm pretty sure he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is when the observants, which are basically the high council of the Ghost Zone, decided to step in. They sent Clockwork, the ghost of time, to come kill me. Harsh, I know. But he knows pretty much everything, and knew that I would turn out fine. So he sent this ghost named Box Lunch. She's the daughter of these two ghosts I fight, The Lunch Lady and the Box Ghost. It's really gross. Anyway, I fought her, and defeated her. She left behind one of Clockwork's medallions. We were all really confused. Meanwhile, out CAT was coming up, which is kinda like our final exam. It basically decides what high school we go to. I don't know why they were having us take in in 6th grade though. Not that it matters now. So when I was fighting Box Lunch, I somehow ended up with the test answers. Sam and Tuck figured out that I had the answers, and told me not to cheat. I was going to anyway. I thought that the universe owed me one considering all the hell it put me through. Sorry about my language. Eventually I ended up fighting Clockwork and ended up in the future." I say, skipping details. I want to get this over with as soon as possible. "Dan attacked the three of us, and I ended up stuck in the future with Dan. I was just relieved Sam and Tucker made it out fine. So he stuck the medallion in my chest so I was stuck in the future. Then he tied me up and threw me into the Ghost Zone. I couldn't do anything about it. I was friggin powerless! Sorry. So, then all of my old enemies came up to me talking about how I ruined their lives. They started beating me up, and I couldn't so anything since I was, you know, tied up. I ended up using my Ghostly Wail and defeating all of them. While this was happening, Jazz had an encounter with Dan and had figured out everything. Jazz sent me a note using this boomerang that keyed into my ecto-signature a while ago. It flew through the GZ for 10 years until it found me and told me to go to Vlad's. When I got there, I explained everything to him. I was really surprised to learn that he had actually changed in ten years. He told me that he had to do some weird thing about ripping out my humanity, then taking the medallion out, then combining then again? Yeah I don't really understand it. Of course, he threatened to kill me first, so I was scared half to death. Wait wouldn't that make me fully dead? Whatever. Anyway, by the time I got back, everyone was already tied to the Nasty Sauce container" I looked down. "I fought Dan and eventually defeated him with my Ghostly Wail, but I was too late." I wiped at my eyes furiously, determined not to cry. Eventually I realized that it wouldn't work and stopped. The tears flowed freely down my face."Everyone….I ever loved…..was gone. All dead..in a moment, my life was ruined. Nothing really mattered to me anymore. Everything I that I told you guys about yesterday…..I was actually feeling that. It hurt. A lot. Maybe more than when I stepped into that portal."

"But….isn't everyone still alive?" Hermione asked. I knew I had to get this out before I couldn't talk anymore.

"Yeah…..thank God for Clockwork. He came and saved everyone and erased all their memories. So yeah, that happened, I'm currently still watching my every move, and I'm traumatized for life. I'm gonna go see Jazz now." I said and stood up and went ghost. I flew into Jazz's dormitory and let her comfort me.

AN: Yeah. That happened. I'm sorry I'm really bad at angst. Anyway, this was kind of a filler chapter, but plot happens next time. I just realized, I'm halfway through the book! Holy Quiznak! But anyway, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed, see you next time!