Authors Note: This is my first ever Danny Phantom fanfiction. Note that this is an AU, in which Danny gains his ghost powers but he does not have as much control over them as he would like. I am honestly just working with this as I go. Any kind of ideas or constructive criticism would be awesome! Anyways I hope that you enjoy and please try to review!
It was a typical weekend for the three teens. Sam and Tucker had, once again, invaded the Fenton household. At this point Danny's parents simply expected to have the two guest each and every weekend. So, even though the two adults had a reunion to go to out of state, they still left Danny a note and some money stating that he could order pizza with it. And of course telling him to be safe. The three teens were ecstatic, with Jazz out of the way studying they practically had the house to themselves for the entire weekend.
The group ordered pizza Friday night and stayed up until dawn watching movies, playing video games, just being teens. The next evening when they finally began to wake one by one, each of them acted as if they had some kind of hangover (except without the alcohol involved in normal hangovers). Tucker even joked around calling it a "pizza hangover" Danny and Sam didn't seem too amused by that.
As the day drifted into late evening the teens lazed about watching tv with extreme boredom. Sam's voice seemed to pull them out of the dullness as she mentioned the ghost portal. Danny seemed a bit nervous as he looked to his excited friends "It doesn't work" he said with a shrug, but after seeing the disappointed looks on each of their faces he turned off the tv and sighed. "Fine. I guess we can check it out. Just don't mess with anything. Dad'll kill me."
The three made their way down into the basement. Danny flipped the light switch and soon the lab was illuminated. There was a faint hum from the fluorescent lights and machinery. This didnt bother the teens as they began to slowly look around. All three of them stopped at once when they spotted the portal. It looked like a gaping hole. One that lead to no where. There were wires and cords laced everywhere inside the huge machine, but still it stood dead as if it had no power going into it.
Sam nudged Danny "Well? Turn it on" she said with an excited look. Danny rolled his eyes and just to prove a point he did what he watched his parents do many times. He flipped the power switch exaggeratedly and pressed the button that would trigger the portal to turn on. There was a small electrical buzz and a wave of green light. Then nothing. They stood there looking at the empty useless portal. Danny shrugged some looking back at Sam's disappointed face "I told you it didn't work." He mumbled before turning to go back upstairs.
"Wait!" Tucker cried out a bit loudly as he stepped closer to the odd machine. "There's a switch inside." Danny frowned before walking back over to where Tucker stood and looking into the portal. Sure enough the brainiac was right. Just in the center of the portal was a small switch, most likely a power switch of some sort. It made sense for his parents to miss something like that. Those two seemed to love quitting even when the answer is staring the right in the face. When the portal didn't work they probably just shrugged it off. Danny smirked. He couldn't wait to see the look on his parents' faces when they come home to find it working. They would never even think about grounding him again.
"I'm going in" he said simply before making his way over to a closet and pulling out a black jumpsuit with white stripes along the ankles, wrists, and waist. He was relieved knowing that his dad was unable to order the hideous orange jumpsuit that he had wanted. With a sigh the young teen pulled on the protective covering over his cloths before looking back at Sam and Tucker, who both seemed to be holding back laughter.
"What?!" He demanded, a blush appearing on his fairly pale skin. "You just- you look like" Sam started to say softly. "Like your dad!" Tucker said busting out with laughter. Danny flashed a glare at the two laughing teens "shut it. Before Jazz hears. I know you both don't want that." They each became silent just at the thought of Danny's older sister finding them down here. She would end up telling Danny's parents and then he would be grounded again. Plus she would probably spend hours telling them how dangerous and reckless they are.
Now that they were silent Danny nervously stepped towards the portal. "Danny, you don't have to do this you know" Sam said noticing how he shook nervously as he walked. "Yeah, we will understand if you're too scared" Tucker added with light laughter which was cut off by Sam elbowing him rather roughly "seriously Danny-" "I'm not afraid!" Danny stated looking back at the two of them "I am doing this."
He then stepped into the portal, trying not to trip on any wires. The switch now seemed much farther away and after what felt like hours of pushing past strange cords and wires Danny finally found himself standing at the switch. He looked back to his friends and smiled triumphantly you ready? He called watching as they both nodded back at him. Tucker seemed ecstatic but Sam had a look of nervousness on her face. Danny smiled to her encouragingly before flipping the switch from the inside. There was a blinding green flash light as energy pulsed into the portal. And then. There was the dreadful sound of a bloodcurdling scream.
For a few moments the lab seemed to be filled with complete chaos. The power began to surge once the machine was cut on, causing the lights to flicker and burst. Danny's horrible broken scream could still be heard over the sound of machinery buzzing angrily all over the lab.
Then suddenly, there was complete silence. The ghost portal created a dull green glow that filled the now scarcely lit room. The void that had once been filled with cords, now led to an unknown dimension. And Danny was still in there. Somewhere. There was a light haze of smoke from burnt out machinery caused by the surge. Both Sam and Tucker could hardly see the portal, other than that eerie green glow. Although Sam did notice the outline of something floating out of the portal and then seeming to disappear.
"Danny?" She called out with a worried tone to her voice, Danny couldn't float or disappear. But she needed it to be him. She needed him to be alive. Guilt sunk in as she stepped closer to the portal. She saw the figure as she moved closer, it's body seeming oddly transparent. It looked like a boy as she continued to move closer slowly. His eyes glowed a bright green, similar to the portal's glow of green. His hair was the color of newly fallen snow, his skin even seemed to match that soft pale color. His cloths though, happened to look just like Danny's jumpsuit. His green eyes were glancing down at his white gloved hands when Sam finally moved close enough to look at his face.
It was Danny! But... What was wrong with him?
"Danny?" She called out to him in a soft voice. His eyes snapped up and looked at her for just a short moment before he seemed to disappear again. Sam looked around in a panic, wondering how her friend could just disappear from right in front of her. She spun around quickly after hearing a soft whisper from behind her. She found herself face to face with him. With Danny.
It seemed impossible. His body was floating, at least a foot off of the ground. In fact, when Sam looked she noticed that he didn't even have legs. Instead after his waist was an odd curl of what looked like a snake's tail. His cool green eyes stared into Sam's purple eyes. "S-Sam?" His broken voice seemed to echo through the room, it had an odd buzz to it, similar to the sound of radio feedback.
"Why?" His voice was barely a whisper as his odd illuminated, green eyes looked into her purple eyes. She reached up almost involuntarily wondering if he was even there. Maybe she was still dreaming. This had to be a dream. As her fingers began to brush against his cold face his body seemed to fade into mist.
"You killed me?" His voice could be heard in a whisper from behind Sam. She turned quickly seeing that he was standing now, an odd glow grazed over his body from his pearl white hair down to his boots. He was looking at his hands once more as green tears dropped from his cheeks and down onto the floor making soft noises that could be heard in the stillness of the lab. Sam held her breath, this all seemed to unreal. What did he even mean? He couldn't be dead. He was standing right in front of her. However, his fierce eyes soon glared up at her, the green glow of them seeming to grow. The power began to surge again as the lights grew brighter and brighter around Danny. "WHY DID YOU KILL ME SAM?!" He voice seemed to make the whole building shake, Sam even took a step back watching her old friend fearfully. The surge pushed higher until finally what little lights that were left in the lab had all began to burst. And they were left in complete darkness.
As darkness took over the lab, there was a noise of a light thump as if a body had fallen to the ground. At first Sam had thought that Tucker maybe had fainted. However as she pulled out her phone to illuminate what was in front of her she saw her tan, coal colored haired friend. She moved forward cautiously, hopping with all her might that she had just had one huge hallucination from maybe all the electrical smoke in the lab. She saw Danny's chest slowly move up and down and sighed with relief. She began to let herself believe that it had all been her extreme imagination until she heard Tucker's strained voice.
"What the hell was that?"
