As promised a fanfic for August!
This month marks my second anniversary of starting on Fanfiction and writing fanfics. I honestly hadn't written a fanfiction before I started on here. When I posted that first story, I never thought I'd still be on here two years later and over thirty stories written.
So first of, thanks to you guys for making these last couple of years amazing. And second, check out my website. I have a special page in honour of my anniversary (there's links to it on news and sneak peaks). There's a link in my bio.
So this story focuses on the relationship between Danny and Valerie. This is not a romance fanfic, in fact I'm keeping the Danny/Sam couple canon for the fanfic. This is more focusing on Valerie's relationship with both of Danny's halves and vice versa.
Another thing, Phantom Planet never happened. It's based about a year after D-Stabilized for the most part but it starts way in the future. Don't worry it'll make sense.
I don't own Danny Phantom.
And so… on with the story!
Yazmin Thompson sighed softly as she sat down in the park. Five years. That was how long she'd been an orphan for. She was fourteen years old. She had long red hair and purple eyes. She clutched the necklace her mother had given her. A locket. Passed down from her ancestors. Inside was her family's symbol. Not a crest exactly. It meant far more than that. Inside was a white speeding "D" with a "P" in the middle. She carried a secret. As had her mother. She was a descendant of the infamous Danny Phantom. It was family tradition to start training her powers at fourteen. It was a sign of respect for their ancestor, Danny Phantom. But she had no one to teach her. Her father, she never knew. Her mother had died of cancer.
Yazmin checked around herself before frowning at her hand and charged her hand with ghost energy. Her energy was purple. The same shade as her human eyes. She hadn't changed into her ghost form before. But she had seen her mother's ghost form when she was younger. Her mother had had blonde hair as a human but dark brown as a ghost. There was one thing that never changed throughout all her ancestors and their ghost forms. They all had neon green eyes. The tradition was that she would be taught how to change forms when she turned fourteen and given her ghostly outfit. But she had no one to guide her through the tradition and learning experiences. So far, she'd been training herself through trial and error and from a book started by Samantha Manson, her ancestor. The book documented most of her ancestors and a few of their experiences.
She had learnt how to charge her hand with ghost energy by using that book. It also told her how to use her invisibility and intangibility. But there was only so much she could learn without a teacher. And unfortunately shifting forms wasn't in the book. Yazmin dispelled the energy in her hand and pulled the book out of her pocket. She leafed through the aged pages and stopped on the most important entry. It was one of the last ones Samantha Manson wrote. Danny Phantom's last days.
Danny always believed that Valerie would forgive him if she ever learned the truth. I wasn't so sure. Neither was Tucker or Jazz. Danny always argued that she had accepted and helped Danielle. But Valerie hadn't known Danielle beforehand. Danielle never lied to her. Danny did. Vlad had. Valerie had been furious when she found out Vlad's secret. She called the Guys in White. I know she did. But Danny didn't want to believe it. We should have realised then. We made a mistake. She couldn't be trusted. And Danny paid for it with his life. I want to tell this story to warn our children and their kids not to trust a ghost hunter, ever!
Valerie started her ghost hunting career when Danny accidently led a ghost dog, Cujo, into Axion Labs. The lab was trashed during an inspection and her dad lost his job. Danny felt terrible but there was nothing we could do. Valerie, furious and vengeful, became a ghost hunter. Her sole targets were Danny and Cujo. As time went on, she became obsessed and Vlad employed her as his personal hunter, using her to monitor Danny. Almost two years later, Valerie met Danny's clone, Danielle. Vlad ordered her to catch Danielle. Danielle changed in front of her and Valerie used her to catch Danny. Danny explained that Danielle was half-ghost. He told her that if Danielle's ghost half was destroyed, her human half would die too. Valerie felt guilty and helped Danny to save Danielle. During the rescue, it turns out that Valerie learned Vlad's half-ghost secret also. Learned that he used her.
Less than a year later, the Guys in White arrested Vlad after a tip that he had high ectoplasmic radiation. His medical history of ecto-acne was brought up and Vlad, deciding he'd lost, tried to fight his way out. Danny was going to help Vlad, but we stopped him. I'm glad we did. Not for Vlad's sake, but if Danny had helped, he would have been caught. We never saw Vlad again.
It took another twenty years before Valerie learned Danny's secret. There were plenty of close calls over the years. But it was during a reunion at Casper High when there was a particularly bad ghost attack. Valerie noticed that the ghost focused on Danny Fenton. She got interested. Many people wrote it off that it was because his parents were ghost hunters. Valerie's obsession shifted from Phantom and settled on Fenton. She began stalking him. It took less than a month for her to learn what Danny was.
Valerie was outraged. She blamed him for her dad's death years before. He was killed in a ghost attack. She lured Danny away from us and killed him. She worked with the Guys in White and had access to blood blossoms. She poisoned him. Caged him in an anti-ghost cage. She tortured him for hours. We found Danny. He could hardly speak in his last moments. Valerie was arrested and tried for murder. But… her husband and son are still out there. I spoke to her husband after the trial. He said Danny deserved it. He lied to her. Manipulated her. I have left Amity Park with my kids. We can never return. While I'm completely human and am safe, my children aren't. Danny taught them how to use their powers before his death. I'm thankful for that. At least they can defend themselves. I hope this warning isn't necessary. But in my heart, I know that this hasn't ended with Danny. No halfa is safe while Valerie Gray's family line still exists.
Yazmin had read the entry a thousand times. Every time, she felt upset and angry at her ancestor's fate. Valerie Gray had been considered a friend. But she betrayed Danny Fenton and killed him. It made her reluctant to make friends for herself. Her mother had admitted on her death bed that most halfas didn't inherit the book or access to the book at least until they were eighteen. It was generally felt that the lessons inside shouldn't be available to impressionable children. Too bad Yazmin was orphaned at nine and couldn't wait to look inside.
She sighed softly and slipped the book back into her pocket. What was she waiting for? She got a letter in the post, delivered to her foster home with the Fisher family. It told her to come to the park at this time and to sit on this bench. She scanned the area again. No one in sight. Maybe she was just wasting her time. She stood up and turned to leave before blinking at a black haired boy with dark brown eyes walking over to her. He was probably a couple of years older than Yazmin and almost seemed homeless. She gulped nervously. He stopped a couple of steps away from her.
"Hi, I'm Eric Fenton. I'm your cousin," he informed her seriously.
"And I care why?" Yazmin asked warily.
"You're in danger. A Phantom hunter attacked my family. He's going after you now," Eric answered.
"Phantom hunter?" Yazmin repeated with a confused, sceptical raised eyebrow.
"Descendant of Valerie Gray," Eric explained.
"How do I know you are who you say you are?" Yazmin inquired suspiciously. Eric rolled his eyes. He squared his shoulders and shut his eyes. When they opened they were a piercing neon green. Yazmin gasped in surprise and his eyes faded back to brown.
"What happened to your family?" Yazmin whispered fearfully.
"Killed. My dad was the halfa. He tried to save my little sister and got caught. My mom helped me to escape. She offered to stay behind to buy me some time," Eric admitted, his eyes glazing with the memory of the horror he'd seen. Yazmin bit her lip sadly.
"I'm sorry. I lost my mother when I was nine. Cancer. It's not the same, I know. But I understand what it's like to lose someone," Yazmin offered sadly. Eric sniffed and nodded.
"Thanks. I'm guessing you haven't been trained then," Eric realised quietly.
"I've tried to teach myself using a book by Samantha Manson. I know some of the basics," Yazmin told him with a slight helpless shrug.
Eric swallowed thickly and closed the distance.
"You should come with me. I've had some training. I can teach you. We can protect each other. If I can track you down, so can that murderer," he whispered fearfully. Yazmin nodded slowly in understanding.
"Did you send that letter?" she asked. Eric blinked and shook his head.
"What letter?" he breathed. Yazmin pulled the page from her pocket and handed it to him. Eric paled and scanned the area, terrified. They had less than a second's notice. A blue destructive beam was fired from nearby bushes. Eric lunged forward and grabbed Yazmin around her waist and conjured a rippling green ghost shield. He gulped fearfully as a large man stood up. Dark eyes, dark hair, clad in a red and black jumpsuit. There was a large belt around his waist, covered in anti-ghost weapons of all kinds. Yazmin trembled in fear as she saw the barrel of a revolver like ecto-gun pointed at her chest and another was pointed at Eric.
I don't really know what to say. But yes, in this timeline, Valerie killed Danny out of anger and revenge and her descendants followed in her footsteps to hunt down halfas. Danielle doesn't really feature in this fanfic, she's mentioned a few times though.
Yazmin and Eric are very important characters in this story. So do you like them?
Let me know what you think.
Until the next chapter.