Chapter 1: Introduction

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Along the American coastline and taking up one-third of a valley filled with forests is the city of Amity Park. On the outside it may look like your modest medium sized city but what makes this city stand out from all others is…

Nothing.

Yep nothing interesting in the slightest, it's got skyscrapers, suburban areas, parks, good sewage system, high class estate, low class estate, schools, government offices, abandoned buildings of all shapes, sizes and types, hospitals, fast food restaurants, different stores selling different things and paranormal research labs.

Now assuming you didn't miss that last part I should probably explain that and my families' involvement with it

Over twenty years ago technology started booming and with it all new technologies were being invented.

Matter compression, energy storage, robotics and propulsion engines where among some of the break throughs but there were two that stood out the most.

The first was the Re-Genetic-ator or Re-Gen for short, who came up with that name no idea probably my Dad, anyway this machine could take DNA from a patient and stimulate their muscle, skin and/or bone cells to grow.

Which meant that if you say, lost a limb? 'BAM!' ,one new limb ready to go.

It can't regenerate internal organs such as the heart or brain but even if you only had your internal organs intact and a Re-Gen, you'd be up and about like nothing happened in less than a month.

However the Re-Gen does have a major downside, it costs an arm and a leg to run (which is kind of ironic if you think about it). In fact it usually costs so much that you can usually only find one in every city.

Now if you thought that was interesting then you should know the second breakthrough, this one is not only a technological discovery but a supernatural breakthrough.

You know all those crackpot theories about zombies, Bigfoot, Lycanthropy and ghosts well believe it or not they were right they do exist they just went unnoticed.

And it all still is, you see while scientists did find evidence of the paranormal it all ended up being highly controversial, so while not enough to positively confirm the existence of paranormal creatures it was enough for the two foremost experts on the paranormal to try and prove.

And they both just happen to be my parents, what are the odds?

My Dad, Jack Fenton, a big teddy-bear-of-a-man with surprisingly short legs, has degrees in Bio-Chemistry, Mechanics, Electrics and Physics and although he studies all of the paranormal he has a fascination-borderline-obsession with ghosts and fudge.

Along his wife, and my Mum, Maddie Fenton an amazingly fit woman who's nearing her 40's has black belts in nearly every form of martial arts I've heard of to go along with her degrees in everything between biology and physiology.

At first glance they do seem crazy with their orange and blue spandex hazmat suits, that they wear EVERYWHERE, but they're good people who mean well and put their family right up there after their work as the most important thing in their lives, although meaning well and doing well are different things, just look at what happened to our turkey after it finished cooking in the oven and decided to run off.

They originally moved here before I was born because apparently Amity Park is the most supernaturally haunted city in America, they even built their lab into the basement, the roof of our building and put a big neon sign that says 'Fenton Works' on the front of our house (how our place hasn't collapsed is beyond me).

So the scientific community decided to help them by giving them this lab on the edge of town and with funding from a benefactor they have been able to make leaps and bounds in their research discovering facts among the fiction.

My Dad has been able to do enough research on ghosts and ectoplasm that he's made a whole arsenal of weapons and gizmos that they can use against any paranormal threat, though Mum had to fix up nearly all of his designs.

As for confirming the existence of the paranormal they've only gotten samples not full creatures but with that they concluded that werewolves, vampires and mermaids do exist, mummies and zombies are the same thing with the only difference being age and there is a parallel space of existence that we can't touch by normal means.

This parallel space of existence that they've called the 'Spectral Plane' (Dad wanted to call it the 'Ghost Zone') is the combination of the paranormal thoughts of wishing to be hidden from the humans and the humans thoughts of wanting the paranormal to be gone spread over hundreds if not thousands of years resulting in a permanent tear in the fabric of space.

My Mom says it's similar to seeing your reflection walking in a mirror; you see yourself in the reflection walking in that space, you know you're walking in that reflection's space, yet at the same time you're not.

I know Dad and I probably would've looked like a mirror after hearing that explanation. But even after all that the world still believes that the paranormal belong in science-fiction not science-fact because the samples, research and theories my parents discovered aren't enough.

I haven't introduced myself yet have I? My name is Daniel Fenton but I usually go by Danny, I'm just your average 14 year old wanting to hang out with my friends.

Unlike my parents I don't have any interest in becoming a Scientist in the Paranormal, I want to be an Astronaut when I grow up, join N.A.S.A. and go into space, I've gotten good grades so I'm on my way to being one.

While I'm on the subject of my family I might as well introduce the rest of them. Jasmine Fenton, or Jazz for short, is my older sister. She's a head taller and is just about to enter her second last year of high school.

She's also the family shrink, she doesn't need to see one she IS one, though I can't blame her for wanting professional help after Thanksgiving.

It gets annoying whenever she Psycho-Analyses' and then does this weird Psycho-Babble thing with big words afterwards with Mom, Dad and/or me, but she's family and does care for us in her own weird psycho-babbling way.

Then last but not least we have my two best friends in the whole world, Tucker Foley and Sam Manson, they may not be related to me by blood but we've been stuck together since we we're six.

So as my Dad once put it, they're honorary Fenton's. Tucker has to be the closest thing I've got to a real brother (I'm not about to have THAT conversation with my parents to have one related by blood), he wears a red beret and has a backpack that seems to hold an endless supply of technology and has really good skills with using them. Aside from the inflated ego and weird 'relationship' with his PDA, Tuck's one of the best friends a guy can ask for.

So that would make Sam the other one, Sam and my friendship is one that could easily rival Tuck's with her unique Gothic way of life and deep pretty purple eye's (… ugh, forget that 'pretty' part).

Along with the determination to go with what she believes no matter what other people say. And that's just some of the reasons why she's my best… friend who's a girl.

So that's would be my life in Amity Park, it's currently the year 2016, less than a month from starting high school.

I've got amazing best friends, wacky parents, kooky sister, bullies, school so pretty much your average 14 year-olds life. And it's like I said at the start, there is Nothing interesting about Amity Park or Danny Fenton.

At least for now…

So what do you think, Like? Dislike? Curious?

Well it's sure to be more interesting further in.

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UPDATED: 8/2/16