Sorry for the hold up. I just got back from Disney World. It was so fun, although it could have been better if Space Mountain wasn’t closed… but what can you do. Besides, I get to back in five months with the band. I guess being a band geek has its rewards once and awhile.

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Danny Fenton was running as fast as he could. He had to get away. It was dark all around outside. There was nobody around except Danny and the dark, ghostly figure chasing him.

Danny was tired and looked all beaten. His shirt and jeans were ripped, he had scrapes all over, and he didn’t have enough energy to turn into Danny Phantom. But he had to keep running away, it was his only hope.

Suddenly, he was almost hit with a green ecto-blast. Luckily, Danny moved out of the way just in time. He turned down an ally; unfortunately it was a dead end. Danny looked around for a way out as the figure flew down the ally. Then he saw a latter attached to an apartment and jumped onto it as the figure shot a ghost ray at his previous spot.

Danny climbed the latter and jumped into a nearby open window. The figure followed him. Danny ran up the stairs to the rooftop with the figure close behind. He rushed to the edge of the roof and looked for a way down. The figure suddenly flew to the top of the roof with Danny, and charged towards him.

Danny noticed that the two buildings were close together and jumped to the next one. He barely made it, but the figure continued to follow Danny. Danny ran across the building and stopped at the edge. There was no other close building around. He had to think fast because the figure was getting closer and closer to him.

Suddenly, Danny jumped off the building and grabbed onto a pole hanging from a building. But the pole started to crack and then broke. Danny fell onto a cloth hanging over the entrance of a shop, and bounced off it into a pile of garbage.

“You know, ya think I’d have learned about that pole thing by now,” Danny sighed to himself.

He got up and started running away again as the figure started to follow. But, Danny tripped on a stone and fell to the ground. The figure landed in front of him. He stepped forward, closer to Danny so they could see each other face to face.

The ghost had flaming white hair, blue-green skin, a black and white jumpsuit with a DP symbol, an evil smile, and cold red eyes.

“I should thank you Danny. Because of you, I don’t need you, my goody two shoes self anymore,” Dan Phantom smirked.

Then he delivered the final blow on Danny with his ghostly wail.

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Suddenly, Danny jerked up in his bed, sitting up and screaming. He looked around and saw that he was in his room, alive, and in bed.

“I’m okay!?” Danny wondered out loud, “I’m in my bed!? I’m alive?! Uh…” Suddenly, Danny realized that Jazz was standing right outside his doorway.

“Danny? Are you okay? I heard you screaming,” Jazz asked.

“I… I mean yeah, I’m okay.”

“Danny, I’m pretty sure the neighbors even heard you.”

“Jazz, it was just a small dream,” he insisted.

“Yeah, right. Screaming at the top of your lugs is from a small dream. You’re a terrible liar Danny,” Jazz sighed.

“Seriously Jazz, I’m okay,” Danny argued, giving her a warm smile as she left the room.

But Danny didn’t hear Jazz whisper, “Except this is the sixth night in a row where you’ve woken up screaming. I sure hope you’re right little brother.”

Danny rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But as soon as he closed his eyes, Dan’s face appeared in his mind. Danny’s eyes shot open. Then he got out of bed and glared at the clock.

“I guess I could stay awake until school. After ghost fighting I got to bed at 1am, and right now it’s 3am. So that’s 2 hours of sleep. The same as last night… and the night before… and the night before that.” Danny sighed and walked away.

Danny Phantom Theme Credits:

He’s a Phantom

Danny Phantom Danny Phantom

Yo, Danny Fenton he was just fourteen

When his parents built a very strange machine

It was designed to view a world unseen

He’s gonna catch em’ all because he’s Danny Phantom

When it didn’t quite work his folks, they just quit

Then Danny took a look inside of it

There was a great big flash everything just changed

His molecules got all rearranged

Phantom, Phantom

When he first woke up he realized

He had snow white hair and glowing green eyes

He could walk through walls, disappear, and fly

He was much more unique than the other guys

It was then that he knew

What he had to do

He had stop all the ghosts that were comin’ through

He’s here to fight for me and you!

He’s gonna catch em’ all cause he’s Danny Phantom

Gonna catch em’ all cause he’s Danny Phantom

Gonna catch em’ all cause he’s… Danny Phantom

Danny Phantom in:

Sleepless Frights

“A Tiresome Episode”

At Casper High Danny, Sam, and Tucker were walking down the hallway. Danny was extra tired today.

“Are you okay Danny? I’ve never seen you this tired before,” Sam asked her tired boyfriend. She knew Danny never got mush sleep because of all the ghosts, and their occasional ‘late night, non-parental-knowing’ outings, but that only on the weekends.

But Danny didn’t hear Sam, so he just kept walking.

“Danny?” Tucker said, seeing him dazed.

“Danny!” Sam repeated, getting louder and louder, “Danny!!!”

Danny suddenly snapped out of it and yelled, “Hun!? What?! WHERE’S THE GHOST!?” Suddenly, everyone in the hallway was staring at him.

“Uh, I mean… I saw the ghost kid beat a ghost… last… week?” Danny tried covering. Everyone shrugged and went back to talking to each other, ignoring him again.

“Come on. We’d better get to class,” Sam said, dragging her two friends down the hallway.

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In Lancer’s class, he was giving a lecture when he noticed Danny had fallen asleep. Mr. Lancer walked over to Danny as the whole class watched.

“Mr. Fenton!” he called out, “Mr. Fenton! MR. FENTON!”

Danny shot up and screamed “64! Phantom! 1982!” Then Danny looked around and saw that he was in his class room. In fact, the whole class except Sam and Tucker was laughing at him.

“Did you get any sleep last night?” Sam asked, leaning over to Danny.

“Yes.”

“How much?”

“2 hours,” he hesitated.

“Well that explains it.”

Sam went back to sitting normal when Tucker leaned over to her and said, “Did you hear him yell ‘Phantom’, as in Dan Phantom?”

“Yeah, we’ll ask him after school,” she explained.

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In the hallway, Danny was leaning against his locker, about to doze off when none other than Dash Baxter stomped over.

“Hey Fentina! Do you know what time is it?” the jock mocked in his taunting voice. But Danny didn’t answer. He didn’t even look up at Dash.

Dash got really irritated that the ‘geek’ wasn’t paying attention to him, so he yelled “Fenton!!!!”

Danny looked up at Dash, completely dazed. “Hun?”

Suddenly, Dash angrily shoved him into a locker and slammed the door shut. Then he proudly walked off. Sam, Tucker, and Jazz walked up to the locker Danny was in.

“Hey Danny, are you okay in there?” Sam asked, the three putting their ear against the locker. They listened, and suddenly heard snoring.

“I think I’d better take him home,” Jazz said as they pulled him out of the locker.

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The next day, Danny was walking down the hallway. Suddenly, he saw Sam run over to him.

“Hey Sam,” Danny greeted.

“Danny, come on. The C.A.T. results have been posted,” Sam said, running back over to the group of people surrounding the bulletin with the results.

Danny hesitantly followed. This was weird. He didn’t know that they were posted in front of the whole school.

Danny just shrugged it off and pushed his way through the crowd and looked for himself. “Let me see. Fenton, Fenton, ah! Here it is,” he said.

Danny read out loud what it said his future would be. He hoped it would say astronaut. But, to his disappointment, it didn’t.

It read: “Fenton, Danny- You will turn into the evil Dan Phantom and destroy everything in sight.” Danny’s cheerful smile turned into worry as he backed away. “No! This can’t be right! I stopped that future! This can’t be happening!”

“Oh, but it is.” an evil, eerie voice spoke to him.

Danny whipped around to see that all the students were gone, and Dan was floating there. Danny transformed into Phantom and shot a ghost ray at him. But the blast just went right through him as he laughed evilly.

“You will turn into me. It’s only a matter of time,” Dan chuckled evilly.

Then he flew out of the school as he laughed evilly again. Danny followed him, only when he got outside, his whole town was completely destroyed. He looked around and saw his jerk self on the top of a tall building.

“You see all of this destruction? It was all caused by you. This whole town, and then the world, will be destroyed!” Dan grinned and gave out another evil laugh.

“No! No!! NO!!!” Danny shrieked.

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Suddenly Danny woke up, screaming in his bed. He stopped screaming and looked around and saw that he was back in his room. What had just happened? He remembered Jazz taking him home from school and then was hanging out in his room until later at night when she force him to go to sleep. The rest must have been a dream.

All of a sudden, his door was bursted open by Maddie and Jack, who were in their pajamas and holding ecto-guns.

“Where’s the ghost!?” Jack yelled.

“Don’t worry Danny! We’ll get it! No ball of ectoplasm is hurting my boy!” Maddie shouted. They looked around, and put their weapons down when they saw nothing evil and ecto in the room.

“Oh, um, there’s no ghost here guys, sorry, just a nightmare,” Danny explained.

“Aw, just great, another false alarm,” Jack pouted as Maddie put a hand on his shoulder and they walked out the door.

He rolled back in his bed, but soon as he closed his eyes, the picture of his destroyed town flashed in his head. Danny shot back up and looked at his clock. Then he jumped out of bed and transformed into Phantom.

“I’ve gotten 1 hour of sleep. I’m sure that’s enough. Besides, I’ve got to patrol the town and make sure it stays safe from any ghost attacks,” he said to himself. Then Danny flew out the window and into his town and through the night sky.

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In the morning, Jazz knocked on Danny’s door and walked inside. She noticed that Danny wasn’t in there. “Danny?” she called out.

Suddenly, Danny Phantom fazed through the wall and landed on his bed. “Yawn. Hey sis. What’s up?”

“Well I was just coming in to see if you were ready for school yet, but Danny, you look awful! Were you up all night ghost fighting?” Jazz questioned.

“Well, I got one hour of sleep,” he answered.

“Danny. All night? You’re a mess. You can’t go to school like this. I’ll tell you what, I’m going to tell mom and dad that you’re sick so you can stay home from school today. I highly disapprove of this but… you look so tired that you could pass for sick for a month. Try to get some sleep. Okay?”

“Yawn. Okay, thanks Jazz.”

Then Danny laid back in bed and transformed back to Fenton as Jazz walked back out of his room. He was careful not to let his eyes close throughout the whole day.

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Danny tried to relax, and was careful not to fall asleep. Although, Danny was still pretty paranoid, tired, and his hair was messed and had bags under his eyes. But he was dressed in his normal shirt, jeans, and sneakers.

Danny was on the brink of closing his eyes when his ghost sense suddenly went off. He looked out his window and saw one of those green goop, basic ghosts. Danny quickly transformed and flew out the window, only to tackle the ghost.

The ghost got out of Danny’s grasp and tried to fly away, but Danny grabbed it by its ghostly tail. It flew high in the air and swung Danny around in the air, but he refused to let go.

Finally, it slipped out of Danny’s hold and flew through an office building. So, naturally, Danny followed it. He was too tired to stay intangible, so he had to doge the hustle and bustle of the crazy building.

“Scus’ me!” Danny yelled, rushing passed a busy hall, making workers fall over and leap out of the way.

“Pardon me!” Danny called, making someone spill coffee all over a tough bald man. As

the coffee steamed on him, he cracked his knuckles at the wimpy guy who spilt coffee all over him.

“My bad!” Danny apologized, flying past a woman, making her drop her giant pile of papers.

In another room, three very attractive ladies were about to be filmed for a new product when Danny accidentally fazed in. The three squealed and yelled, “OMG! It’s Danny Phantom!!! I am so texting this to my BFF’s!!!” as they took out their cell phones and surrounded Danny with love sick looks.

“You know, now I just can’t see the bright side of this anymore,” Danny said, looking at the ‘hot girls’ that weren’t so ‘hot’ to him anymore now that he had Sam.

Then he quickly fazed out of their as the director yelled, “I got it! Danny Phantom sponsors our new toothpaste brand! It’ll sell millions! Now, does anybody know that kid’s cell number?”

“Uh, he’s kind of a… ghost,” the camera man mentioned.

“So, he’s still a kid, and famous around here. Have you even heard of a kid without a cell phone? Even if he is a ghost, not having a cell phone is just uncivilized,” the director argued.

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Danny invisibly caught up with the ghost only to be blasted back, unknowingly, by Maddie and Jack Fenton.

“Ha! I got him Mads!” Jack cheered.

“Great Jack; now let’s get that ball of ectoplasm!” Maddie said as they ran after the ghost who was flying away. Danny sighed and flew back to his room, his parents could handle it; he was just fortunate that his parents didn’t notice him. Danny slumped down on his bed and transformed back.

Suddenly, his door slowly opened. Danny shot up and got in a fighting stance. But it was just Tucker and Sam walking in the room.

“Danny, it’s just us,” Tucker reminded him, “Remember, you said last week that you wanted to train today. So why don’t you turn into that Phantom guy and lets get this thing started!”

“Phantom!? Hun?! What!? Where’s Dark Phantom! I’ll get him this time!” Danny shrieked.

“Wait?! Danny did you say Phantom? As in the evil, dark one who’s loose?” Tucker asked. Danny cringed a little at hearing Tucker say Dark Phantom’s name.

“Are you okay Danny? I think he was referring to your ghost half, you know Danny Phantom?” Sam explained.

“I bet you’re having those nightmares again,” Tucker figured.

“What?! Who said I was having nightmares? I’m perfectly fine!” Danny exclaimed.

Sam and Tucker looked at Danny. He was a mess as his eye twitched a little.

“Danny, it is okay. We know you’re having nightmares,” Sam sighed.

“What makes you say that!? Who told you! Because, it’s not true! Don’t listen to them!” Danny defended… very loud. Danny looked around, paranoid. He was freaking out.

“Because last time you fought Dark Phantom you had these nightmares for a few days. Only last time they were gone by now. I think they’re actually worse now,” Sam said.

Jazz walked in, over hearing the conversation. “Well, maybe that’s because Dark Phantom’s now free and Clockwork doesn’t know what’s going to happen, while last time Dark Phantom was trapped in a Fenton Thermos and safely locked up,” Jazz explained her theory.

Danny cringed and twitched after hearing his evil future was loose again. Sure he already knew it, but to hear it, well…

“Nice one big mouth. You have a mouth almost as big as Tucker’s,” Sam whispered to Jazz.

“Yeah…! Hey!” Tucker yelled, overhearing the whisper.

“Look Danny, we need your head clear and the only way to do that is for you to get some sleep. It’s bad for your health if you don’t get enough sleep,” Jazz explained, going into teen therapist mode.

“Okay, I’ll try,” Danny sighed; after all, he was extremely tired and too tired to argue.

Then Danny laid back in his bed and closed his eyes as Sam, Tucker, and Jazz exited the room. Danny drifted into his sleep.

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Thanks to: JESSiKA, starr1095, NinjaSheik, and CandyCoastedChocolate for reviewing.

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