Summary: AU, Phantom(Danny) is the newly aged Grim Reaper. Sam Manson is a simple gothic girl with a techno-geek boy named Tucker and hardcore girl named Valarie as friends. All is good till evil sets foot into the lives of the three friends. Phantom now has to visit Earth as a human with ghost powers, that nobody can know about, and do the exact opposite of his job, save a life and take that of the evil one. But can he do it when his afterlife is also in jepardy? DxS, TxV.
On with the chapter!
Life After Death
By: Wolfee
Chapter 1: Grim Reaper's Manual
Phantom sighed as he sat on his bed, a sycthe layed on the bed with his hand resting on it. A raven, his new 'pet', sat on his shoulder. He was just chosen as the new Grim Reaper. So far, Phantom hated the idea of taking people's souls. He jumped, causing the raven to fly and find somewhere else to perch, as someone knocked on his bedroom door. He stood up and answered it.
"Hey Ember."
"Hey Danny, or should I say Phantom." Ember smiled and handed him a booklet.
"Um...What is this?" He looked at it, dumbfoundedly in his hands.
"Read the cover, stupid." Ember replied smartly with a small smile.
"Ok, 'Grim Reaper's Manual: How to be the Grim Reaper'. Wow, didn't think being the Grim Reaper came with an owner's manual. Am I really that stupid?"
"Apparently, and being stupid is what I like about you." Ember ruffled his hair. Instead of his usual laugh, he frowned and faced the floor. "Danny? You ok?"
"Yeah, it's just, my sister Jazz use to ruffle my hair like that."
"Oh." Ember tried her hardest to stay off the subject of Danny's family, but everything she seemed to do caused her to bring up a memory. Ember remembered what the headmaster, Clockwork, had said about Danny and his passing.
-Flashback-
"Ember!" Clockwork called out.
"Yeah?"
"We have a new comer. Daniel Fenton, prefers Danny, age 17, died in a car accident. Please make him feel welcomed."
"Ok." Ember made her way to the end of Sytx river. She saw the boat in the distance and getting closer by the second. Finally it reached and a young boy stepped off. He had raven black hair and baby blue eyes that were filled with tears at the moment. The minute the boy stepped off the raft, his hair became a snowy white and his eyes a glowing neon green.
"Hey I'm Ember."
"Danny..."
"Nice to meet you Danny. Come on, I'll make you feel right at home." Ember led Danny to a room he'd be staying at for the rest of his afterlife.
-End Flashback-
Ember remembered that after his first word in the Underworld, which was his name, Danny never spoke again for four months. Soon he started to speak and became close friends with her. He eventually became a troublemaker, which is exactly how he earned the nickname Phantom. Danny even opened up enough to tell her how exactly he died...
-Flashback-
Jazz and Danny were walking up the sidewalk. They rarely ever got to do this, so it felt good to be in the presence of one another.
"Ah, no more freaky parents and their inventions for today." Jazz sighed with relief.
"I don't care about it that much, but every once and a while it feels good to get away from them and their ghost obsession." Danny agreed. Jazz began to cross the street, while Danny stayed behind and looked at something posted on a telephone pole. Then out of nowhere a loud honk, that sounded like that of a car, broke the air. Danny looked into the streets and saw Jazz paralized in fear at the car coming towards her.
Thinking quickly, Danny ran into the street and shoved her out of the way. Just as he was about to run, the car struck him.
"Danny!" The car skidded to a stop. Jazz ran over to her brother. He was barely breathing.
"Danny?"
"Jazz, tell mom and dad I love them..." Danny breathed in his last breathe and slowly released it. The owner of the car got out and called an ambulance, but it was already too late. Three passers stopped and looked at the scene before being ushered away by some adults.
"He looks fimilar, do we know him?" asked the techno-geek.
"He did look pretty fimilar..." agreed the chocolate skinned girl.
The goth girl thought a bit before she gasped. "That's-that's Danny Fenton, you know from school!" The goth's eyes teared a bit, not from the fact that he was from their school, but from the fact that he was her secret crush for almost three years.
-End Flashback-
It had been almost two years after his death. "Danny look, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to bring up anything." Ember said filled with sorrow.
"Ember, it's ok. Things like this happen and there's no way to stop them," He paused. "Unless you became the master of time, such as Clockwork, and knew what was going to happen ahead of time." Phantom answered smiling.
"That's the Phantom I know and love! Better start working on reading that manual, I heard they'll put you to work right away."
"Ok thanks!" Phantom shouted as Ember exited the room and headed down the hall. He sat on the bed and opened to the first page, which happend to be the rules. 'Figures.'"Ok, 'Rule one: Never take the soul of a person that is not scheduled'...wait, there's a schedule?"
After 5 hours, Phantom was finally to the last rule, totally exhuasted. "Last...one, 'Rule 2000: Never let the sycthe fall into the hands of evil or anyone else.'" Phantom fell back onto his bed. "Finally done." The raven flew over and landed on his head. Before he could even stop the bird, it pecked him on the head. "Ow!"
"Having fun with her?" Ember asked, standing in the doorway.
"It's a 'she'?" Ember shook her head yes. "I got one name, Annoyence." The raven, now found out to be a 'she', cawed loudly.
"She can understand everything you say, you know?" Ember thought she heard a small and muffled 'Goodie!'. "And she already has a name. It's nice and simple." After a couple seconds of silence, Phantom sat up and made a 'keep going' motion. "Oh! Sorry! Her name is Raven."
"Ok, Raven. -the bird looked towards him- Ember, this manual is going to be the death of my afterlife. How do they fit 2000 rules in one tiny book!" Then all of the sudden, Raven flew out the window. "Now the bird ran away..." he grumbled.
Ember just laughed and shook her head at him. "She'll be back." How could they even make a manual on being the Grim Reaper?
Sam Manson, the residential goth, Valerie Grey, a type of girl you didn't want to mess with, and Tucker Foley, a boy who always tried to date girls and carried at least three PDA's at a time, walked down the streets. All were the best of friends and Tucker and Valerie were voted most likely to be together, in school. It was summer and extremely hummid out.
"I'm dying!" Tucker complained.
"Huh, you think your dying? You got another thing coming." said Sam. She was dressed in all black.
"Yeah Tuck, your wearing the brightest out of all of us, so you should be refelecting more sunlight then absorbing it." answered Valerie.
"But still..."
After a couple moments of silence, Sam broke it. "I'm going home. Call me later or something." Sam walked the other direction home.
"What's wrong with her?" Tucker asked.
"Your really clueless aren't you." Valerie turned around and walked they same way.
"What? Was it something I said?" Tucker shouted back.
Sam was laying on her bed. Tears were in the corners of her eyes, threatening to fall, but not exactly going to.
"Sam?"
"It's been two long years. I could have told him, but no. I had to be so shy."
"Sam, it's not your fault. I don't blame you for not making a move. He wasn't even a friend." Valerie reassured.
"I know, but I feel like I still should have tried to make a move." Sam look up to Val. "Sometimes, it feels like he is still alive. You know how that feels, right Val?"
"Well sorta, but no one in my has family passed away, but I'll help you get through like a good friend."
"Thanks Val." Sam gave her a quick hug before saying something else. "Oh yeah! I met his sister, Jazz."
"Really? What's she like?"
"She's really nice and smart. We're going to try and get together sometime."
"Well that's great Sam." The girls continued to chat while a raven landed on Sam's opened window sill. "Sam? Look behind you."
Sam turned around and saw the bird. "It's beautiful." She walked closer to it. The raven didn't even flinch.
"Sam! Be careful!"
"I am." Sam got closer and her hand rubbed the top. Surprisingly, it just let her pet it instead of flying away. When Sam pulled her hand away, it flew away.
"That was weird." Valerie whispered loud enough for Sam to hear.
"Yeah..."
-End Chapter-
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