Chapter 1: the price of freedom

'Hey…..would you say, I became a hero?'

"Boy oh boy, the price of freedom is steep." A figure pulled a giant blade from his back and brought the guard to his forehead. "Embrace your dreams…..and whatever happens, protect your honor AS SOLDIER!" the figure ran forward into what would be his last battle

"Hm…..I got it, how about this; every time I see you, you have to wear pink." The female figure next to the original laughed

"heh heh, don't be silly." An alarm could be heard going off

"Whoa!" Daniel J. Fenton had just woken up….and fallen off his bed. His dreams had been plagued by what he now called the 'crisis dreams'. He recorded them before going to school and even now his parents were actually worried. He'd told his sister, Jasmine L. Fenton about this and she said that it was the hormones going through his system making him act, talk, and dream the way he was. What she didn't understand though was that those dreams felt more like memories. He even felt himself becoming the person from the dreams. He started wearing black sleeveless sweaters and black pants and combat steel-toed boots. He couldn't wear the gloves all the time though, school policy and all that.

Now the day was beginning to go along. Grabbing his breakfast consisting of nothing but a piece of buttered toast he ran out the door, his parents were downstairs working on their projects. He ran along the streets swerving along the people in the streets. Sam and Tucker were at the half way point to the school when he met up with them. His Friend Sam had encouraged him to start growing his hair out like the person in his dreams. She had believed it was a form of reincarnation…she didn't know how right she was.

"Hey! Guys hold up" Danny waved to them. They turned and stopped giving him a chance to catch up "Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think today's going to be a good day!"

"Good for you maybe, my mom just put a limit on my PDA just cus I stayed up too late last night playing skyrim." Tucker said. Sam chuckled

"I used to stay up like you did, but then I took an arrow to the knee." Both Danny and Sam were laughing their asses off at Tucker's expense. "Aw, don't worry about it Tuck, you'll get full PDA privilege back in no time, I'm sure."

"Yeah, besides, your mom is too kind to keep you on a leash like that for too long anyway." Tucker smiled and the three went off for the start of a normal day.

Classes had gone normally up till gym class. It was obstacle course day. One by one people went on the course, and a majority of the popular female group failed with the lowest times possible. Danny's rival; Dash Baxter had just finished with a time of five minutes and forty-seven seconds, the top score so far

"Fenton, you're up!" Danny made his way to the starting line, and as soon as the whistle was blown he took off. What he had to do hit him like instinct. First the tire run, jogging through a set of ten tires in high knee while making sure that the foot made it in the center of the tire.

Once he completed that he ran the fence crawl, as the teacher called it, a pseudo barb fence set at about a foot off the ground, the person taking this obstacle would have to crawl for about a yard and a half to get to the other side. If it were real barb wire, the person would risk getting cut if the elbow had scrapped along the fencing. Again, Danny completed that easily.

Next came the 'stairs challenge' where the participant would climb over a set of wooden logs that act as a mountain like bridge to the next obstacle. The crowd watched in awe of how he was handling the course, no one had seen him do anything like this and by the time he was at the finish line, everyone was gapping with their mouths open.

"uh…time?" Danny said with an unsure air on him, it was the first time he had made everyone gape in class…well maybe the second time if he remembered third grade right.

The teacher stopped the watch and looked at it "two minutes, twenty-five seconds"

"WHAT!" everyone looked at Dash "THERE IS NO WAY FENTON COULD'VE GOTTEN A BETTER SCORE THAN ME!" the bully marched on to the teachers side to see the clock, and just as she had said, Danny had gotten a better time than him.

"How did you do it, Fenton? How did you manage to cheat on the most uncheatable thing around?" Dash interrogated

"hm…"Danny put his hands to his sides having an 'I'm thinking so shut up' look on his face. Suddenly the dreams/memories had gotten hold of him and for a split second, he became this person he dreamed of. "A person once told me, that we should embrace our dreams. To become a hero, of even the smallest kind ranging from football star to a U.S. Marine, we need to have dreams…and honor. Those dreams allow me to push my limits and become stronger."

Everyone looked flabbergasted at him, surely this wasn't Danny…or at least the Danny they knew. He chuckled "Ya know, if you all have your mouths open like that your all bound to catch flies." Everyone closed their mouths and the bell rang for the next class to start

Half way through the class, Danny's ghost sense went off. "ugh…..Mr. Lancer, can I use the restroom?" Lancer looked his way

"is it an emergency?"

"Yes…" it was only a half lie considering he had a ghost to fight after all.

"sigh…Very well, hurry back when your done and don't take all class period!"

Once he was out of class he made a bee line for the nearest empty hallway and transformed, phasing out of the school and leaving no trace of him ever being there but when he got to the scene, the sight that waited was not anything that he expected

"'when the war of the beasts brings about the worlds end

The goddess descends from the sky

Wings of light and dark spread afar

She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting' It's been a while, Zack."

Danny looked in shock "No way, you can't be here."

next time:

"Genesis!"

the blades clashed, sparks flying as the shock wave pushed spectators away

"Zack, d you know what dumb apples are?" Angeal asked.

"uh no, what are they?"

"unbelievable, you'll never become first if you don't even know what dumb apples are."

"Sam, I...I think you were right...about me being a reincarnate. What...what should I do?"