Chapter 8- Some unpleasant Surprises

"Where are we?" Mumbled Brad as he stood up slowly, rubbing his head. Danny jumped up onto the rock and stood up above the rest of the group.

"Well now, thanks to Technus, Welcome to the ghost zone," declared Danny.

"GHOST ZONE!" Yelled everyone else together, as Danny scanned the swirling green nothingness.

"Yep, and where days of walking from my families portal," explained Danny.

"How do you know that?" Asked Rotwood.

"Well that's Desiree's lair," Danny pointed to a nearby purple door covered in charms.

"Who's Desiree?" Asked Dash.

"The ghost of wishes," Danny explained, and as if to prove a point, Desiree suddenly appeared in front of the group Hayley, Dash, Brad, John and Rotwood screamed in fright.

"Get lost Desiree!" Shouted Danny, rudely.

"What's the magic words?" Replied the ghost, putting her hands on her hips and peering down at him as if she was talking to a naughty toddler.

"I WISH you would go away."

"So you have wished it, so it may be," Desiree replied happily, and in a swirl of mist she vanished. Danny sighed.

"We need to find Frostbite or Clockwork, they'll help us," explained Danny.

"Where will we find them?" Asked Susan.

"We will find Frostbite in the far frozen and Clockwork in the watch tower. I just don't know which one's closer. I've only been to this part of the ghost zone once. Walker banned me from coming here. I stir up too much trouble."

"Well way to go Fenturd!" Cried Dash, shoving Danny from behind. "Now we're lost forever and this freaking wasteland!"

"If I wasn't here you probably would of panicked already and run off the side of the rock already," Danny snapped back.

"The rock?" Brad answered insecurely. Danny motioned to the ledge and the group realized that they were floating on a rock.

"OH MY GOSH!" Yowled Dash, diving down. Danny rolled his eyes at the jock.

"So what are we gonna do?" Jake asked.

"I'm not really su-" Then an idea hit Danny. "Actually…" he said before putting his fingers in his mouth and with the help of his ghostly wail, let out a long, ear piercing whistle, which forced most of the group to cover their ears, except Lao Shi who instead began yelling out in Chinese. Everyone gave him curious looks.

"The stupid child will give away our location!" Yelled the old man.

"Only to one ghost," answered Danny. "And I'm not stupid."

"One ghost or a hundred, you're gonna get us killed Fenton!" Yelled Dash, jumping up off the rock and grabbing a hold of Danny's collar. He didn't realize a small, green puppy, bounding towards the group and when the puppy saw his 'friend' being threatened he grew until he became anything but a puppy. The little puppy grew into a large, snarling, furious dog. Dash let go of Danny and began screaming along with Brad.

"Down Cujo. Be a good ghost puppy," instructed Danny and the dog turned into a puppy once again. "Cujo, heel," the puppy obeyed. Danny rubbed the dog's head. "How you doing buddy?" Danny asked and Cujo barked in reply.

"Can you lead us to Frostbites?" Danny asked the dog, who barked again. Cujo sniffed the ground until he found a scent to follow. "Come on," Danny instructed the rest of the group and after an exchange of glances, they obeyed. The group followed the puppy for about half an hour before he stopped and snarled and Danny's ghost sense went off. He moved into a fighting stance.

"What's wrong Danny?" Asked John, but Danny ignored him, there was a ghost here someone. Which was a dumb thing to think seening as they were in the GHOST zone. He stood waiting for a ghost to attack, but nothing came. Danny's ghost sense kept going off over and over for almost two minutes, until he finally remembered something or, someone. Danny dropped his arms and stood normally.

"Danielle, you can come out now," he said calmly to the open air. He received curious looks from the rest of the group. "Danielle," he said again, putting his hands on his hips. "Fine, come out please, Dani." This time, Danielle made herself visible.

"OH MY GOSH! It's Dani Phantom!" Exclaimed Dash.

"You told me Danny Phantom was a boy," answered Brad.

"He is, this is his cousin Dani, with an 'I'," explained Danny. Then something very strange happened to Hayley.

-Hayley POV-

When I saw that girl- or ghost, appear I totally freaked out. That was the ghost that I saw overshadow my grandfather and she hurt him. Quickly I went Dragon and crash tackled the ghost girl.

"HAYLEY!" Yelled Jake, mom and grandpa.

"DANIELLE!" Yelled Danny.

"MAGICAL CREATURE!" Yelled Rotwood.

"AHHHHH!" Screamed Dash and Brad.

"Hayley?" Said my dad slowly.

-My POV-

"You ghost creep! You tried to take over my grandpa's body and you hurt him. I saw you!" Hayley accusingly yelled at the ghost girl.

"Danny!" Yelled Danielle, without even thinking to use her powers, "help me!"

"Get off her!" Yelled Danny, knocking the pink dragon off Danielle. Hayley turned to Danny and bit him on the arm. He yelped in pain. This drove Jake too far.

"Dragon up!" In a flash of blue light, he turned into a big red dragon and pinned his sister down. Dash and Brad screamed again.

"Hayley, calm down!" Jake demanded, "change back and calm down." The little pink dragon took some deep breaths before changing back to Hayley. Jake did the same.

"I'm sorry Jake. I don't know what came over me. I just couldn't control myself," confessed Hayley. Lao Shi walked (he sorta waddles though) over to Danny.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"I'm fine, but what about Danielle. She just got attacked by a dragon!" He snapped back, eyes flashing green. He turned to Jake. "And you, you told me you were the only dragon, not your sister as well."

"Yeah, yeah, well she is okay." Jake walked over to Danielle. "Are you ok?"

"You should be more concerned about Danny, he's the one that got bitten." Jake turned to Danny.

"Are you okay?" He asked, looking at Danny's arm. It wasn't too bad but it would definitely scar. There was blood with traces of green ectoplasm dripping on the ground.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I've had worse." They looked at the rest of the group. Dash and Brad were still very shaken. Rotwood was looking very excited. Susan and Lao Shi were giving Hayley a good talking to and John...

"Dad, are you okay?" Asked Jake. Susan forgot about Hayley and ran over to John.

"My...my...," he stampeded before collapsing.

-Line Break-

"So Jake, Hayley and your father are dragons?" John verified slowly and Susan nodded. When John came too ten minutes after collapsing, the rest of the Long family had explained everything. "And you're not because it skipped your generation?" Susan nodded again. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I was worried you wouldn't except me if you knew what I was," answered Susan, sadly. "I'm sorry John."

"No, I'm sorry. Especially you Jake. You were off doing this American Dragon business and I always grounded you because I thought you were just being a typical teenager."

"It's okay dad, I'm just happy you finally know."

While this conversation was occurring, a second, more private one was being taken place in whispers between the halfas.

"Maybe you should tell them your secret Danny. That way Jake, Hayley, Lao Shi, you and I could carry the others and fly. It would be much faster," suggested Danielle.

"I thought about that, but I don't know. I'm just scared Dash, Brad and Rotwood will tell people when we get back, or even try to blackmail me."

"I guess, but-" With that, Danielle was cut short by a blue whisp escaping her and Danny's mouths. They both stood and got into fighting stance. The others gave them awkward looks, but then, none other then Danny Phantom but with red eyes appeared to the group.

"WHAT?" Yelled Dani and Jake.

"It's Danny Phantom!" Squealed Dash, but Danny knew what was going on.

"Hey Amorpho!" He yelled at 'Danny Phantom' as he smirked. "How you been?"

"Swell," he answered in a strong accent before changing into a girl with long black hair.

"That's not Danny Phantom! That's Paulina!" Stampeded Dash.

"Actually this is Amorpho, a ghost of shapshifting" explained Danny as 'Paulina' turned into 'Mr. Lancer'. "Come on Amorpho, anyone but a teacher," laughed Danny. Amorpho changed into his normal faceless self.

"How have you been Billy?" Asked the ghost in his strange, but entertaining accent.

"How many times do I need to tell you, my names Danny!"

"I could just call you Halfa," snickered Amorpho. Danny gave him a glare and willed his eyes to flash green. "Ok, ok, Danny."

"I've been good, at least until Technus sucked us into the ghost zone."

"Technus?" Amorpho practically spat the name. "He's been driving me madder than Box Ghost and Klemper together. He's trying to persuade me to shape shift and steal the AVATAR movie from Amity Park's movie store."

"But you can't do that because Danny Phantom said you can't show your face in Amity again," answered Danny quickly.

"What if it's not my face," replied Amorpho changing into Star from Danny's school.

"Get out of here Amorpho," instructed Danny. The ghost obeyed and flew off.

"Good day Halfa!" He yelled back just as he disappeared from view.

"Halfa? What does that mean?" Asked John.

"It's just a nickname some stupid teenage ghosts came up with for me. If we run into any other ghosts, which we probably will, they'll all have some crazy nickname for me."

"Like what?" Asked Brad.

"Well Ember calls me dipstick, Skulker Whelp, Walker's given me the nickname Punk, but halfas probably the most common." He wasn't going to mention what Frostbite and Princess Dora called him though. The Great one and Sir Phantom/ Fenton might give too much away to the others.

"Why do they give you nicknames?" Asked Hayley.

"Because Sam, Tucker and I help Phantom fight them."

"I've seen Foley and your girlfriend-" Began Dash.

"She's not my girlfriend!" interrupted Danny.

"Fine, Foley and Manson help Phantom but I've never seen you suck a ghost into that weirdo soup container."

"Fenton Thermos."

"Whatever."

"Well who do you think makes the thermos'?" Even though it was Jack who made them, Danny figured saying that he made them would be a reason for helping Phantom. Dash paused and thought for a while. "You're not very bright are you?" Asked Danny. Dash began to walk towards the smaller boy with his fist out.

"Did you just call me stupid?" He growled.

"Yeah." Dash swung a punch at Danny who ducked. "Hey Cujo!" He called and the puppy began to snarl and growl at Dash, who stumbled away.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll never do it again. Just don't eat me!" The jock began to cry.

"Cujo down," demanded Danny and the dog sank to it's puppy size and curled around Danny's legs, as Dash sobbed on the ground. Suddenly a yell came from the distance of the ghost zone.

"DID I HEAR A BULLY!" Dash, Brad, Rotwood, John and Hayley screamed in fright.

"No you didn't! Now go away Poindexter!" Yelled Danny in reply. With that, a ghost wearing high pants, braces , a tie and glasses appeared.

"Oh it's the Halfa! Wait both Halfas!" He said when he noticed Danielle. He was about to fly away when Dash and Brad burst out laughing.

"What?" Questioned Sidney.

"You're the nerdiest looking nerd I've ever seen!" Laughed Brad.

"Yeah, Sidney may be a nerd, but he's also a ghost with ecto plasium who can vaporize both of you without even moving from where he is!" Defended Danny. The jock's stopped laughing.

"He has a point," muttered Brad. Danny turned to Sidney.

"Ok Poindexter, the bullying's stopped, you can go now."

"What if I don't want to?" Answered Sidney.

"But shouldn't you be at school or something?"

"I finally ditched Casper High and I'm never going back there again. Whether it's the past, present or future one."

"Well go play with Youngeblood or something."

"I was fourteen when I died remember? Not five! But I do know a way to have some fun!" The nerd ghost grinned mischievously before diving into Danny's body. There was a bit of commotion and then Sidney fell from Danny's body to the ground.

"What happened?" He questioned, cluelessly.

"Well since our last run in Poindexter, I've been practicing. I can no longer be overshadowed by any ghosts and I can't be controlled by Ember's guitar or Freakshow's crystal ball- not that he has that anymore." Danny smiled in triumph while Sidney looked upset.

"Oh, bother," he mumbled, looking up at Danny from where he sat on the rock. "Well I'll get you one day Halfa!" He threated, phasing down through the rock.

"Come on, let's get moving. We need to get out of this area before Walker catches me here." Danny started to walk away with Dani flying beside him and Cujo leading the way. The rest of the group looked at each other and shrugged.

"We should probably follow them," muttered Jake and the ghost dog, two halfas, a crazy teacher, three dragons, two scardey- cat jocks and two reasonably normal people, set out deep into the ghost zone.