Author's Notes:

Wtf I think this is the longest chapter I've done so far. XD
*cries* The little badger is growing up, I can't deal with this!

-Friday, October 13th-

"Wake up!" Dani exclaimed excitedly, shaking her brother awake.

"I'm awake, I'm awake." He insisted with a yawn, eyes still closed as he snuggled deeper into the warm bed sheets.

"C'mon!" she persisted.

Despite himself he smiled and finally gave in, sitting up and rubbing his eyes with the palm of his hand. "What is it?"

"Happy birthday!" she said as she gave him a hug.

Danny smiled even brighter and returned the hug. "My brain is still asleep. I had forgotten that it was today." He confessed with a laugh.

"You forgot because you're old." She giggled, empathizing the last word.

"I just turned nineteen, that isn't old!" he huffed.

"Well it is to me, now get up!" she said, looking as if she would drag him out of bed any second.

Dani loved birthdays, finding it amazing how someone was celebrated and got a party just for turning a year older. After all, she had technically missed out on at least twelve of her own birthdays, so she treated each one as if it were some sort of holiday or the most amazing ceremony in the world.

"Okay! Then shoo so I can get dressed." He replied.

She did as she was told but not before snatching his pillow and hitting him over the head with it in a playful manner and left the room, closing the door behind her.

Her excitement and giddiness had rubbed off on him causing the halfa to jump out of bed smiling and hurrying to pick out his clothes. The teen grabbed his phone, headed to the bathroom, keyed up his favorite playlist and took a quick two and a half song shower. He exited the shower, dried off, put on his concealer (only on his hand) put on deodorant, got dressed and brushed his hair.

The halfa had chosen to wear a fitted but not tight black sweater that had a cartoony ghost on the front (hey it's almost Halloween), blue jeans, his necklace, black boots and a green beanie, the teachers would more than likely make him take it off when he got to school but he didn't care at the moment. Besides, he looked pretty kickass, if he did say so himself.

He raced downstairs and entered the kitchen, instantly greeted by his parents.

"Hey Danny, come over here!" Jack called; he was currently sitting in his usual seat, his laptop in front of him on the table.

"What is it?" the teen asked, going over to his dad.

"You have someone who wants to see you." His father replied with a grin.

The halfa peered over at the computer and nearly squealed when he saw who it was. "Hi Jazz!" he shouted with delight.

"Hey Danny, happy birthday. How are you?" she asked, beaming.

"Great! Better than great. What about you? How have your classes been? I'm guessing that you're pretty busy, I mean you haven't called as often." He replied as he pulled up a chair and sat down.

"I know I haven't, sorry. Studying physiology isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world."

"I know, you've told me like a million times. You never answered my other questions."

"I'm doing fine, classes have been pretty hectic but that's to be expected by now. Thanks for asking little brother."

"Don't forget about me!" Dani called popping up behind her brother all of a sudden.

The eldest sibling laughed. "I could never forget about you Dani. How are you?"

"Super, did you say happy birthday to Danny yet?" the ghost girl asked

"Yes I did. Sorry that I can't go over for a visit, I'll make up for it during Christmas break." Jazz replied

"Don't worry about it Jazzy pants, besides you were able to visit during the summer." Jack said

"Say goodbye to Jazz." Maddie said.

"Do we have to?" Dani pouted.

"Yes, you two need to get to class, you could talk to her later." Their mother answered.

"Bye Jazz." The male halfa said.

"You better call later." His little sister added.

"See you later Jazz." Their dad said

"Bye, love you guys! Talk to you later." The oldest of the three siblings said.

"You better or else I shall teleport over there and haunt you!" Danny proclaimed with a few ghostly noises.

"Very scary ghostly brother," his older sister deadpanned, smiling. "Bye everyone." She said before logging off.

"I'm plenty scary." The male halfa huffed.

"Of course you are." Maddie consoled placing the food in front of them on the table.

It was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream along with scrambled eggs and hashbrowns; aka on of his favorites. "Awesome, thanks mom!"

"You're welcome, now hurry or you're both going to be late." She replied, sitting down to eat as well.

Soon the two halfas were done with their meal, brushed their teeth, grabbed their backpacks and raced out of the door, saying a quick goodbye to their parents.

They met up with their friends at the usual place, they immediately greeted the older teen with various 'happy birthdays' while making jokes. They all entered the school, talking along the way, took Dani to her first class, luckily didn't run into Dash and made it to their first class.

-Drama Class-

"-why would he leave us here? I'm tired and I'm hungry and I want to go home!" Danny cried, rehearsing his lines atop the stage.

"He didn't want to do this sister; it was the doing of our stepmother! Our father was influenced by her!" Dash replied (Remember that they're projecting their voice, not actually shouting.)

"Why would she do that!? We have done nothing wrong!"

"We are a poor family; she has convinced him that we are too expensive to care for!"

"Then we will convince her otherwise!"

"It's not that simple!" Dash sighed.

"I do not care! I want to go home!"

"Okay wait a moment." The teacher said holding up a hand, pausing the rehearsal.

"What is it?" the older teen asked.

"Gretel is scared that she and her brother have been left in the woods. So why are you smiling? I'm not trying to call you out; it's just that I'm supposed to point out these things." Mr. Macrone replied.

"Sorry, I'm just really excited about today." Danny said, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.

"That's no reason to start screwing up the play." The football player snapped.

Ever since they had been assigned their roles the teacher had told Dash to play nice or else (the or else being the jock losing his role). So far the bully had been cooperating with the set terms, 'so far' being the key words here. Of course as soon as school was over Dash would always go hunting for the halfa to let his frustration and anger out. But the older teen had gotten pretty good at the game hide and seek; in fact the other hadn't caught him outside of school even once for the past month. At least not yet, but Danny wished that he could continue avoiding the other. Till when he had no idea. He just wondered how long it would take Dash to explode and be threatening him against a locker all over again.

"Dash I sincerely doubt that his smiling will make the whole production go up in flames. I know that it's what the class is called but if you could lower your drama level a bit." Mr. Macrone said.

The jock scowled but didn't say anything. The teacher already recognized that as the teen's way of saying 'okay, whatever'. "Good, now take it from the top." The drama teacher said

They re-rehearsed that scene along with two more by the time class was over. The halfa met up with his friends at Lancer's classroom and copied the day's lesson, but not without talking and passing jokes between them. Before very long the beloved final bell rang signaling the end of the school day and the beginning of the weekend.

Danny raced out of the classroom with his friends, chased by Lancer's shouting about no running in the halls. They quickly met up with Dani and headed for the Fenton Works, talking about all of the shenanigans that they could get into for his birthday. Halfway there they were interrupted by Skulker who popped up out of nowhere.

"Oh c'mon! Please Skulker, not today!" the male halfa shouted.

"The hunter doesn't rest until their prey is caught." The robot ghost replied.

'Doesn't the Christmas truce thing extend to birthdays!?" he yelled, growing more irritated by the second.

" 'Fraid not, sorry." Skulker replied with a shrug before firing a net at him.

Dany rolled to the side, transforming as he dodged. "You guys go, I'll catch up!" he called, taking fight.

"We can help too you know!" Sam yelled, obviously peeved.

"I never paid him back for electrocuting the shit out of me," he told her before turning his attention back to the ghost. "I'm surprised it took you this long to go after me again."

"He can handle this. Have fun Danny!" Valerie said before racing off with his friends.

"I will!" he laughed.

"Excuse me but your ghost mate did quite a lot of damage to my old suit, it took Technus forever to fix it. And he wouldn't even listen to the advice I gave him. He left it halfway to go off and do his own schemes and whatnot, I told him not to use that dumb virus thing but did he listen? No he-"

"No one told you to shoot me out of the sky." The teen interrupted before the robot ghost hunter got into full on rant mode. The last time that had happened he had ranted for a least half an hour before he sucked him into the thermos, effectively silencing the ghost.

"No one needs to tell me to, I know good sport when I see it." The cyborg replied before shooting another net at the halfa who dodged again.

"Have you considered a different hobby? Fishing maybe, you are rust proof aren't you?"

The ghost didn't reply and shot at least a dozen darts at him, once again the teen moved out of the way.

"I'll take that as a no." he fired an ectoblast at Skulker who dodged, decided that this was going nowhere and moved to punch him in the face.

Danny saw it coming, flew to the side and kicked him in his metal face, earning a slightly throbbing foot in return. 'Right, robot." He hissed 

He shot another ecto beam, grinning in small victory as it made contact with the other's right shoulder, singing it. Skulker acted as if he didn't notice and shot yet another net at the halfa. This time he went intangible for a second, the snare passing through him. He unclipped the thermos from his belt.

"Okay how about we end this?" the halfa suggested

"Why not, that should have been enough time anyway. Happy birthday ghost boy." The cyborg ghost replied before phasing through the road.

"Um thanks? And what the hell are you talking about tin can? Enough time for what?" the teen yelled after him, getting only silence in return.

He flew to his house to catch up with the others and phased through the front door. No one was there; he looked around trying to spot someone to no avail.

"Anybody home!?" No answer.

He flew around the living room, kitchen, did a quick check in the lab and found nothing, not even a note. He started to get a sinking feeling in his stomach. 'That should have been enough time anyway.' 

'What if he was a diversion or something? Maybe he had Technus come here to attack them. It doesn't look like there was a fight.'

The halfa's mind raced at a hundred miles per hour, thinking up ever worst case scenario and then forcing himself to calm down. He went to the second floor and looked around. He checked Dani's room, the guest room and his room, not finding anything. Well there was some letters and gifts from fans in his room, he would check those later, first things first.

'Only one place left, the emergency ops center.' He thought as he phased through the ceiling.

"Surprise!" Multiple voices yelled.

Danny was so shocked that he almost turned human. The whole ops center was covered with multi colored streamers and balloons, looking nothing short of a wonderland. What's more was that all of his friends were there, most were laughing at the surprised look on his face. Sam, Tucker, Valerie, Dani, His mom and dad, Youngblood, Alter, Ember, Wulf, Box Lunch, The Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady were all there. All of his closest friends were there in the ops center.

Including Kitty and Johnny.

Author's Notes:

Yay! Danny's birthday!! I've been wanting to do this but I haven't been sure how, figuring it out though Hehe. I did not DID NOT put his birthday on Friday the thirteenth to be cheesy or shit like that. I had decided a while ago that his birthday would be in October and that it would either be on the twelve or the thirteenth. I chose thirteen cuz why not, and i chose to make it a Friday because- well I can't reveal the reason as to why right now, now can I? *smiles innocently*
*le gasp* Kitty and Johnny are alive! O.O Wait... I should have phrased that better, shit, just realized right after I typed that sentence XD
Ah!! The puns!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!!!! XD
What the fuck is wrong with me?