Chapter 1
(Post D-stabilized, before PP.)
Danny Fenton was walking through town, enjoying the pleasant weather. Normally he would be in school, but an attack by the Lunch Lady caused it to be shut down for at least a week for repairs, mostly to the cafeteria area. So there he was, minding his own business, when his ghost sense went off, only instead of being the normal light blue, it was black!
"Well, that can't be good." Danny said grimly. A ring of blue-white light then formed around his waist, then splitting in two, one moving upwards, the other towards the ground. As it passed over him his t-shirt and jeans were replaced by a black skin tight hazmat jumpsuit with white trim and a white "DP" symbol on his chest, his hair turned white and his eyes a glowing neon green, his skin tan, and a ghostly glow surrounded him, transforming him into his alter ego, the ghostly hero Danny Phantom!
"Now where's the ghost?" Danny muttered as he flew up, his voice gaining a ghostly echo, keeping a careful eye out for anything spectral. He then saw a black rip open in the air next to a lamppost, and with a terrible roar, a fearsome looking grey colored beast with a white skull-like face, yellow eyes, and snakelike tail with plates covering its body came out of it.
"What's that, is it some weird kind of ghost?" Danny asked himself as he got close enough to see that there was a large hole right in the middle of its chest, and got a weird flash of déjà vu about it, especially the hole and the face, and for a few seconds he thought he saw a lizard like creature with a similar skull like face. "Is that a second set of jaws behind there? No, maybe it's a mask?" Danny asked himself as it roared again. Danny was confused, sure, he'd seen a lot of freaky stuff since he got his powers, but this was just something else entirely!
"Whatever it is, I can stop it, because I'm Danny Phantom!" Danny exclaimed as swooped down towards the weird creature, fists outstretched, and punched the creature down the street, then grabbed it and flew towards the city limits, thinking that he could keep civilians from getting mixed up in the battle. When he reached the woods, he dumped the monster on the ground, seemingly jolting it out of its daze, and landed, taking a battle stance.
He then fired a bright green ghost ray at the monster, knocking it back onto the ground, and then used his ice powers to create snowballs which he threw at the beast, and when they hit it, they released bursts of ice power that froze the weird creature to the ground. He then got out the Fenton Thermos and aimed it at the creature.
But even as he turned on the Thermos and started to suck it in, it managed to get its tail free and use it like a whip, causing Danny to fall and knocking the Thermos away. In the few seconds it took for Danny to get his bearings again, the monster had managed to break free and loomed over him menacingly.
"Sooouullll" the monster rasped, looking ravenously at Danny. "Devoouur… soouulll."
"You want to Eat. My. Soul!" Danny exclaimed, both horrified and disgusted. "Three things," Danny said firmly. "One, there is no WAY I'll let you eat my soul!" "Two," he continued. "I won't let you eat the souls of anyone here, so if you have eaten souls before, you won't be doing it EVER AGAIN!" "Three," he concluded, "That is just GROSS!"
Danny got ready to fire an ectoplasmic blast powerful enough to completely obliterate the "apparently", soul eating monster, he stopped, transfixed, as a chain of images and sounds ran through his mind, wiping away false memories that had already been worn down by his powers, revealing another battle with a similar creature, one that was far more cunning, that he just barely survived!
As Danny crouched, clutching his head against the flood of memories reasserting themselves, at the same time his ghost sense malfunctioned again, this time by being white, the creature rose up over him, ready to attack. Danny managed to aim a hand at it ready to fire a blast towards it, but before he could, something unexpected happened.
There was a blur, and a giant cut appeared right through the monster's face!
As the monster then disintegrated into particles that rose up and vanished, Danny turned and faced his savior. It was a man in a black kimono with white trim, (which reminded Danny, oddly enough, of his own outfit in ghost form), Asian style sandals with white socks, and military style black hair with hard grey eyes, holding the sword that he had apparently just killed the monster with in his right hand. He was also standing several feet off the ground even though he looked like a human. He then looked over at Danny, and seemed to be surprised to see him staring.
"Hey kid, can you see me?" he asked.
"Yes I can, why, should I not be able to or something?" Danny asked, exasperated. "Look, I just got into a fight with a monster that apparently wanted to eat my soul, remembered a fight with a similar creature that was far more dangerous, and then YOU show up!" Danny yelled as he flew up to look the strange man in the face. He then yelled, "I want to know who you are, what that thing was, and WHAT THE HECK is going on here before I do anything else!"
(And it ends here for today.)