Well everyone, I must say that I was not expecting the results of the poll for this story to be as they are. But the results currently are as follows.

Karudio of the Horse Clan: 3 votes

Elzador of the Dragon Clan: 3 votes

Ponygon (Schneider) of the Horse Clan: 1 vote

Due to the results being a tie, I am going to flip a coin to decide which of these Mamodo, between Karudio and Elzador, will be Danny's partner. Whoever wins two out of three coin tosses (Heads = Karudio, Tails = Elzador) will be the Mamodo I will choose to be Danny's partner. But until that chapter comes, I hope that this one will tide you over until the next chapter when Danny meets Elzador and fights his first Mamodo.

*I still don't own Danny Phantom or Zatch Bell!*

Dialogue Key

"Zaker!" = Regular Speech

'Rashield!' = Someone's Thoughts

"Jikerdor!" = Someone Yelling

A Mother Reflects

Back at the Fenton Household, Maddie was busy loading up hers and Danny's belongings into the moving truck. She doesn't have to worry about covering the costs of the move and paying the movers since she set up a separate savings account in case of an emergency. She never told her ex-husband, she's still not used to calling him that, because he'd likely have hacked into it and spent it all on useless things like mountains of food. Especially fudge.

As the movers loaded the heavier things into the van, like Danny's bedroom furniture and her vanity, she is busy loading up some of the lighter and more fragile objects such as dishes, personal belongings, and a little bit of ghost hunting equipment that she herself was working on and kept hidden from Jack. Things like an improved version of the Specter Deflector, slimmed down and easier to use Ghost Gauntlets, special trackers that can be stuck onto rogue ghosts in case they get away, and even an improved and more compact Fenton Thermos.

And for reasons unknown to herself, she started developing a new Fenton Ghost Finder. One that will both detect ghosts and tell you whether they're malevolent spirits, or simply ghosts that are trying to accomplish whatever it is they needed to do in life so they can move on. It can even tell you whether a ghost is friendly.

Not that she believes in the whole friendly ghost thing, but hey. It's at least a new field for her to study for scientific purposes of course.

But as Maddie placed a box of her son's belongings into the back of the pickup truck she has, she thought about how she saw the window to his room open and Danny nowhere to be found. He most likely overheard her and Jack yelling at each other again and didn't want to be dragged into another argument. Not that she blames him after what happened the first time. With that broken jaw, he was stuck eating soups and blended foods and could barely talk without sharp pains shooting through his jaw.

And after hearing about how much the kids on the Football team bully her son, she's glad the principal finally did something about it after the first incident where that Baxter kid bashed her son's head into his locker and caused him unimaginable pain from his, then, broken jaw. The dumb jock really got what was coming to him after that incident.

She sighed as she ran a hand through her hair. This whole thing has been nothing but a bunch of headaches. Maddie's just happy that Jazz won't have to deal with the aftermath of this whole thing since she's leaving for college in about an hour. The same time that she and Danny will be leaving for Japan. This way, her kids can at least say goodbye to each other before moving on with their lives.

Hopefully, when they get to Japan, her son will make some new friends. Ones that won't ditch him like Samantha and Tucker did.

But still, even though it's Jack who had cheated on her, Maddie can't help but feel guilty about all of this. She never even talked to her kids about the divorce and the move until the actual divorce had already happened and she was given full custody over Danny. Something she really should have done. Now, it seems like Danny's avoiding, not only Jack, but this whole broken family.

"How did it all come to this?" Maddie asked herself.

***To Be Continued…***

Thank you all so much for reading. As I said in the above Author's Note, I will be flipping a coin to decide whether Danny is partnered up with Karudio, or if he's partnered up with Elzador. I can honestly see some real character development with either of these Mamodo just like I could see real character development if he were partnered up with Ponygon/Schneider.

May the Force be with you, and have a Merry Christmas!