The Black Mirror

Chapter 1: Warning

When night comes around, I felt tired from a very long usual day. Ghost fighting, parents arguing, and fan girls, were all of the things that were making me so tired. Finally, the night has comes and I jump onto my bed and went to sleep.

The moment I get to sleep, I fall into a very deep dreams of my evil self, returning from the future and attacks me.

The evil me look at me and laughed, "You think that Fenton thermos could hold me forever? I fought my way out of it. Nothing can contain me. I beat up Clockwork and his Observants because of you and your filthy friends!"

I yelled back, "It wasn't my fault that I created you!"

"You really think so? Who created this time stream and why do I even still exist? Shouldn't I be destroyed when Clockwork resets the time? I don't think so."

I gasped, "Clockwork didn't destroy you?"

Dark Dan crossed his arms and smiled coolly. "He did not destroy me. He held me like a prison."

I really wonder if Dan had something in mind, so I asked, "Okay…if you're going to mess with me here. What are you doing here?"

Dan replied to me, "I'm only here to give you a warning. I'll be free at anytime and anywhere. You can't stop me. Clockwork can't stop me. Time can't stop me."

I growled at him, "I'll make sure where you belong," I pointed a finger at his face, "You will not be release from the Fenton Thermos! If you ever do, I will defeat you the same way as I did to you before!"

Dan laughed at me. "Only the matter of time, Daniel. I will see you soon once I'm free. I will unleash the terror upon you, your family, and your friends. I'm giving you a heads up future warning. "

I became silent and thought, "What future warning?"

Dan looked at me and his face was turned into my father's face. "Danny, time to wake up now! It's breakfast!"

I looked at Dan and crossed my arm, "Now great, it's another joke" Suddenly, I felt a cool splash on my face and wake up.

My father dumped the entire bucket of ICE water on my face. He laughed at me and helps me to get up. Now I'm soaked and wet in my pajamas and my bed is wet too. I had to kick my dad out of my room and change my clothes. I was frustrated and face palmed. Dad is Dad. You just don't see like this everyday. At least, I'm glad he accepted me as half ghost.

I went downstairs, quickly grab breakfast, go ghost and fly my way to school, while eating egg bacon sandwich. My mother always makes good breakfast food, but sometimes, there is ectoplasm inside of the food. My family comes from the generation of ghost hunters. My home can get quarantined sometimes.

When I got to school, I greeted my friends and my sister, Jazz.

Sam greeted and kisses me, "Hello Danny, your hair seems wet. Were you taking a shower?"

I blushed and replied, "No, not really, but it's my dad's wake-up call. It was…really cold."

Tucker chuckled, "How cold? Is it full of ice?"

"If you can imagine if he puts the ice in my pants. No. It was just ice water. Water with ice." I looked nervous around my friends. I had a thought behind back of my head. It was Dan Phantom. I was worried if he could attack the school at anytime now.

Jazz looked at her watch and said, "I got to go now. See ya after school." She left the three of us alone to get to class.

Sam scrutinized at me and she looks concerned about me. "Danny, are you feeling okay?"

I reverted back to my human form, still looking nervous. "Okay?! I am not okay because the future evil me might come back and destroy my family and you guys!"

Tucker was chill, "You gotta chill out, dude, stress is not good for you. Relax, Clockwork got this and Dan is not coming back."

"I don't know, guys…Dan might attack us anytime now. We need to give each other a heads up too. He might even destroy us or Amity Park."

Sam has an idea, "Why don't you visit, Clockwork?"

"No, we can't visit him. Clockwork is like an anti-social ghost. He only watches every time stream to make sure it keeps on the right track. His Observants assist him too. We should not make a visit him. Besides, he can't help with me much like I tried changing the past about Vlad."

"Speaking of Vlad," Tucker look at his device, "Vlad has return and he's in prison right now. A ghost prison at the Guys In White."

"Wow, I'm not so surprise," I was sarcastic when I heard something about Vlad. I haven't seen him quite a while since the asteroid event. I was still thinking if Vlad has something to do with this nightmare that I had. I remembered he freed Vortex before.

Suddenly, a group of kids were yelling out from the other side of the hallway and ran into us like a stampede. I quickly dragged my friends away from them and keep them into the nearest safe place as possible. Once the kids ran away from the opposite direction, I look at where they were running from and saw a giant green ghost bird. It shrieked.

I yelled quickly and raised my arms up in the air, "Going ghost!" The two white rings pass through me and I am a ghost. I flew straight at the bird and punch it in the head.

The ghost bird squawked and pecks at my head and pull out a lot of strands of hair. I yelped, "Ow! Ow!" I grabbed its beak and then spin the body around really fast and hit it against the wall. I accidentally made big damage to the school's wall, but I really mean to do it because I hate and love school. The ghost drill suddenly alarms. I smiled because the entire school building is evacuating.

I looked down at the bird on the hole of the wall and held onto its feet and intangibly fly through the ceiling of the school to fight outside. The ghost bird gets back onto its feet and tries to claw me, but I keep its talon away from me.

The bird starts flapping its wing and suddenly, dragged me everywhere in Amity Park's sky. I was screaming like I was on a roller coaster until I had enough and freeze the bird's legs to break free from it. I was finally free and I shoot ice blast at the entire bird's body to keep from attacking me. The ghost bird tries to resist the cold.

I look at the bird and smiled, "Did you know what I had this morning?!" I completely freeze the bird. "A chilly morning!" I smirked. Any jokes I made myself always make myself feel better after ghost fighting. I take out the Fenton thermos and suck the bird inside of it.

I was finally relieved and relax. "Now the bird's gone, look like there is no school after all. Just another ordinary day for me." I head to the school to check to see if everything is okay.

When I got to the school, the school barely has any damage except I made a hole in the wall with my enemy. That didn't matter much to me after all. I look for Sam and Tucker and I found them waiting outside for me. I fly down and turn back into my human form.

"Danny, that bird you fought…was too easy for you," said Tucker, who was looking at the ghost data on his device. "I thought you said Dan was gonna attack you."

"I said he could attack us anytime now for revenge! I wished you could believe me. I had a real nightmare about him," I complained at my friends. I just feel silly when I said "nightmare" to them. It just takes back to our childhood days.

Sam nodded, "I believe you, Danny, but you shouldn't fret about him much."

I nodded to her sadly and said nothing, and walked with my friends together to my house.

My friends and I were staying over for a sleepover. We watched horror and comedy movies to keep the stress away from me. My thoughts of my evil future self was completely away from me. Being a hero of Amity Park wasn't so easy, but you had to keep an eye out for others from dangers. Dangers could be anywhere. If I didn't save the ones that I love the most, my life would be screwed.

When it was really late, Tucker sleeps on the floor with his sleeping bag. Sam sleeps in my sister's room. I finally get to relax from a long, stressing day I had. Sleep feels important to me somehow, but you can really get a serious warning from it. The moment I shut my eye, I fall into a very deep sleep and heard a sound.

The sound was a child singing and it was singing repeatedly in the tune of "Lapis Lazuli". I tried to cover my ears with my pillow, but it wouldn't go away. I had to wake up and I still hear the sound. It's probably from my parent's music. I called from the room, "Dad! Mom! Can you keep the music down?!"

My mom replied, "We're not playing any music, sweetie," she tries to take some sort of equipment from another room, "We're making more ghost inventions down in the lab."

"Wait, did you hear any sound? Stay quiet for a second," when there was silence, I still hear a song, but when I look at my mother, it looks like she hasn't heard anything.

"I don't hear anything, Danny, but anyway, go to sleep." She goes downstairs with the huge equipment in her arms and carried it into the ghost lab. I was quite annoyed that she didn't hear the sound.

I was still hearing the sound and I tried to fall asleep with the sound, but I couldn't. I had to wait until my eyes fall sleepy and my mind let me falls asleep. The tune of "Lapis Lazuli" was a mystery to me. The sound was so sweet, but it bothers me. It reminds me of my mother's singing to me when I was little. I wondered…who's that child voice belongs to?