Firebreather X Danny Phantom

Chapter 9

                Wednesday.

Danny didn't even bother going to class. He dumped his backpack in his locker and left campus. Danny found a place behind the garbage bins for the building next to the school to become invisible and run. Danny made a beeline for the canyon lands and didn't stop until he couldn't see the city anymore. He sat down, panting, and looked up to the sky.

Eternity passed before Danny could breathe normally again. He stood up, knees shaking.

"I just want to go home!" Danny screamed. His hand built up green energy and he shot the ecto beam into a rock, shattering the formation completely. Danny felt a hot tear fall down his cheek as he prepped even more energy. Danny howled as he fired ecto ball after ecto ball at the earth around him. Finally, it all stopped. The dust from landslides settled on the newly porous ground. Danny huffed and started allowing himself to calm down.

"Feel any better there, Danny?" Kenny asked, peeking out from behind one of the few last standing rocks.

"A little. Why are you here?" Danny sighed.

"I don't know if it's weird, but I see a lot of what happens in the school that most people wouldn't. Like you walking in, leaving your backpack and leaving." Kenny answered.

Danny chuckled. "I guess it's not that weird." Danny paused, then said, "I do remember promising to tell you what you want to know last night. So go ahead and ask."

"If you're cool with that, then, how'd you become half-ghost?" Kenny hesitantly asked. Danny rubbed the back of his neck before saying,

"Unlike Duncan, I became a halfa through an accident. My parents built a thing called a ghost portal, but it didn't work in the beginning. My friends convinced me to go inside of it to try and fix it. I went into the portal and accidently pressed a button on the wall that turned the device on. I don't remember much, but I came out as Danny Phantom."

"Dude. What do you remember?"

"Just pain, along with the color of green, but just a whole lot of pain." Danny grimaced and shuddered.

Okay. Changing topic. Um... how'd it go at first?"

"I struggled to control it. Walking through vending machines, falling through floors and chairs, dropping stuff I was holding, losing my pants, and at one point I unintentionally overshadowed a person. It's a miracle nobody picked up on it." Danny laughed.

"What's 'overshadowed' mean?" Kenny inquired.

"Taking over a person's body and turning them into a puppet."

"Neat, but you can just call it 'possess.' New topic... how'd you even get here?"

"Being chased through the Ghost Zone; it's not as dizzying as Walter says it is, I find it a bit relaxing; and coming through a portal that closed on me. Been stuck here since."

Kenny didn't say anything, but his eyes glazed over as he went deeper into thought. Kenny blinked and sighed.

"We should head back... everyone's gonna worry about where we are."

"Yeah, you're right." Danny agreed. He started walking for a moment before stopping. "Hang on, I've got one more little outburst to let loose. You'll want to cover your ears for this one." Kenny nodded and set his hands on the sides of his head.

Danny turned away from Kenny and took a deep breath. His Ghostly Wail erupted from his lungs and knocked over rock formations that hadn't been taken out from Danny's first tantrum. His scream ended as Danny ran out of breath. He listened to the echoes bounce back and forth through the canyon for almost a minute before he brought himself back around to a frozen Kenny.