Dan Phantom: The New Beginning

This is my first fanfic so enjoy and review.

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Chapter 1 - Accident

It had been a long day for 14 year old Danny Fenton. 3 ghosts showed up at school, Valerie tried to kill him again, Dash had bullied him as usual, and to top it all off Mr. Lancer had just given him a week of detention for being late to class. Any other day this would have been a typical day for him but unfortunately his 2 best friends refused to speak with him. He had tried to apologize to them but they had simply given him the cold shoulder. He sighed as he recalled the events of the previous day...

(Flashback)

Danny, Sam and Tucker were walking home from school talking when Danny's ghost sense went off.

"Great," muttered Danny as he ran off in a dark alley to transform. "I'm Going Ghost!" he yelled as his hair changed from black to white and his eyes from blue to emerald green. His normal attire also transformed into a black HAZMAT suit with a DP emblem. He was no longer Danny Fenton but Danny Phantom.

He reappeared behind Sam and Tucker in time to see a ghost with glowing red eyes, a dark black cloak covering his entire body and a wooden staff.

"Who the heck are you?" questioned Danny flying up to meet his enemy.

"Shadow," replied the ghost suddenly charging up his staff and unleashing a red ectoplasmic beam towards Danny.

Danny simply formed a shield to reflect the attack. "Yea, whatever. You can't even hurt me," grinned Danny charging up a green ecto-beam and launching it at Shadow. Shadow dodged and charged up his staff once again. "Who says I'm here to harm you?" retorted Shadow aiming his staff in the direction of Sam and Tucker and releases his beam.

"No!" yelled Danny flying over to shield them from the attack but he was too late and the blast hit them dead on and they flew backwards 20 feet. Shadow smiled and disappeared.

Danny rushed over to his friends and gasped at their appearances. Both were badly burned with a couple deep cuts and bruises but surprisingly conscious.

"No." he whispered again, his eyes swelling with tears as he kneeled down to help them.

"I'm so sorry you guys," he cried.

"Yeah, like that's gonna help us," hissed Sam as she lifted her head up glaring at the ghost boy.

"What?" said Danny, completely shocked by the coldness in her voice.

"We can't all have super-fast healing like you," hissed Tucker.

"I said I was sorry," replied Danny.

"Well sorry doesn't cut it!" yelled Sam. "Everyday we do this. We barely get enough sleep, our grades are suffering and to top it all off we've become targets for your enemies all because of you and your stupid powers!" she screamed.

"Don't even bother talking to us anymore Danny," she hissed. "We are through!"

Danny took a step back, stunned by their actions. He knew they'd be upset but he never expected them to end their friendship over this or anything. He always thought they'd be friends forever.

He looked over at his former friends as they slowly began to get up and walk in the other direction.

"Guys, wait." he pleaded but they ignored him and continued walking. Sighing he crossed the street and began to walk in the direction of his home hoping things would go back to normal by the next day or two.

He was so lost in his thoughts he hadn't heard Jazz driving her car beside him. She couldn't take it anymore and called out to him, "Hey little brother. What's wrong?"

Finally he looked up and saw her staring at him. "Oh, hi Jazz. I just got into a fight with Sam and Tucker, that's all."

Jazz noticed he wasn't telling the whole truth and began to question him. He finally caved and told her the entire story. Of how Shadow had attacked his friends and how they had wanted nothing to do with him. When he was finished Jazz had her mouth open wide. After about 2 minutes she began to speak. "How could you?" she glared.

"What?" asked Danny, stunned again at how everyone had started turning on him. He had been hoping for some sympathy or advice from Jazz. He got no such thing.

"How could you?" she repeated. "I thought you were supposed to protect them!"

"I tried, Jazz. I wasn't fast enough!"

"Or maybe you just weren't good enough! I thought you were better than this but I guess I was wrong. You're just like all the other evil ghosts," she hissed.

"Jazz," sighed Danny as he began to walk towards her.

"No," she replied sticking her hand in front of him and motioning for Danny to stop and he did. "Just stay away from me. Stay away from all of us. Who knows who you'll hurt next," she spat and with that she sped off towards their home leaving Danny in the dust feeling more alone than ever.

(End Flashback)

That had hit Danny where it hurt the most. 'I never wanted this to happen' he thought as he continued his walk home.

He had just opened the door and announced his arrival when he was suddenly blasted by an ecto-gun and thrust out of the house 10 feet away. He groaned as he opened his eyes and lifted his head to meet his attacker. His eyes widened in surprise as he gazed at three figures standing before him, ecto-guns all-pointing at his head. He looked hard into their eyes before choking out 3 names.

"Mom? Dad? Jazz?"