The Beginning of Phantom Ch3

"DANNY!!" I heard someone's voice from the haze of my senses. "DANNY, WAKE UP!!! Oh god, Tucker he's not breathing!!"

Tucker? The voice I'm hearing must be Sam's...wow, she seems pretty scared, I mean I'm not dead...

I listened for my heart beat thumping in my head...but I heard nothing. I shot strait up into a sitting position, trying to breathe, but I couldn't. Sam and Tucker moved back at my sudden movement, a confused look on their faces...or was it fear that over came them...?

"Guys, what's wrong I'm-" I immediately stopped at the slight echo in my voice. What's going on?! I asked my self. I looked back at my frightened friends. "What's happening? Why are you two staring at me like that?"

Sam slowly walked back towards me as I realized what she was looking at; my head. I reached up to pull down a clump of hair, expecting to see raven black strands...only to see pure, white hair, in the hand of a glowing white glove instead of a black one!

"Danny, you-" Sam had started to say, but I never heard the rest of what she was going to say before I backed away and ran up the lab stairs into the darkened kitchen and towards the bathroom on the other side.

"Danny!" my friends called after me as I fumbled with the doorknob.

Why can't I open this stupid thing?! I wondered. It was like my hand kept going through the handle every time I reached for it.

"Danny! Wait!" Sam said trying to stop me, but she couldn't touch me.

Click

I opened the door and turned towards the mirror as I flipped the switch...and it was like seeing someone I'd never met...but he was awfully familiar. I just stared at this strange person and finally realized, I was staring at my own reflection... I kept running my hands through my hair, now white as snow. And looked strait into my eyes, now bright green rather than sky blue. How can this be?!

"Danny, are you okay?" Sam asked, so softly, she sounded as though she was saying those words with her dying breath.

"Do. I. LOOK OKAY?!" I turned to face them, my green eyes burning in anger and watering with tears.

They cowered in the doorway, obviously stunned, for I almost never yelled as loud as I had then.

I just stood there for a moment, staring back at my friends, before the tears started running down my face, and I collapsed onto my knees, beginning to cry. It sounded so weird to me the way I was crying, because of the new echo-y voice I now possessed. My friends kneeled down beside me and rapped me in a hug. It felt warmer to me for a reason I could not explain at the moment. I felt a slight moistness on my right shoulder, and noticed that Sam had begun to cry as well. Her sobs making her shoulders bounce every few seconds when she let a sob escape. Tucker had taken the left side of me, and he had let go when I calmed down somewhat...but Sam wouldn't let go...and frankly I didn't want her to...

She felt so warm against my freezing body, but she couldn't stop crying...and I finally returned the hug...

"It's alright Sam..." I reassured her. She began to quiet down.

I felt a kind of faint power run through me, and it collected around my waist into a white ring of light. Sam backed away as the ring split in two and began to travel it's way up and down my body...

I stood up shaking, and looked at my reflection. I was normal again. But I felt dizzy and the world around me began to blacken.

"I'm normal..." That was the last thing I remember saying...before I blacked out.



I awoke to the sounds of my friends whispering about something as I rolled over trying to make it seem as though I was still asleep. I didn't care what they were saying, but I could still hear them anyway...

"...he's probably tired," I heard Sam's voice coming from the distance of disappearing sleep. "I mean, were you even there last night?!"

"Why yes, I was there!" That must have been Tucker's voice. "And, for your information, I SAW—"

I sat up to get them to stop fighting. I hate it when they do that. They walked up to me.

"Danny, you okay?" Sam asked me. She was still in her pajamas.

"Yeah, why?" I stood up.

"No reason, just, you went through quite a bit last night and all…"

"Oh. Yeah," I slumped back onto my bed. "I nearly forgot."

Sam seemed as though she would cry again, and both of the sat down next to me.

"What's happened to me?" I asked no one in particular.

"We don't know yet," Sam leaned on my shoulder. "but we'll all find out together, right Tuck?"

"Yeah. We're your best friends, dude. We ain't leavin' you to figure all this out on your own!"

I smiled a little, and glanced at them both. "Thanks guys."

"Well, we're not getting breakfast sitting here like a bunch of toads on a log!" Sam stood up offering me her hand.

"Bacon, here I come!" Tucker double punched the air as he darted out the door.

Sam and I followed him out, laughing at his dorky demeanor. It felt good to laugh.



A few days later, we got together and headed out to go school shopping. My mom wanted us to get that done before the stores ran out of good stuff for school. But there was something wrong about me. I felt kinda weird, like I couldn't keep my balance, and my feet kept going numb! What was that about?!

"Hey, dude, you okay?" Tucker looked at me kinda funny.

"Yeah, yeah, just a bit nervous about starting high school in a few days-"

"Not to mention, you now have ghost powers," Sam added. "How are you gonna deal?"

"Oh, I don't know, just let my self get caught maybe!"

"Chill, Danny, I was only joking..." she began staring at me for some reason.

"Uh, Sam?"

"You're eyes just turned green when you got mad."

"Oh, geez!" I put my head in my hands. "Is that gonna happen every time I get mad?!"

"What do you mean by 'every time'?" Tucker asked me.

"Well, the other day, I was in my bathroom getting ready, when I accidentally squirted tooth paste on my shirt and then when I saw myself in the mirror, my eyes were all green. But when I closed my eyes, they were normal."

My best friends basically joined minds when they said, "Woah."