A/N: This story was originally written for a phanfiction contest I was a part of, so I decided to post it here! Yes, I know that control of ice is called cyrokenesis, but at the time of writing this, I thought it was crytokenesis. By the time I found out what it was actually called, I had gotten really far in the story, plus Crytos sound cooler in my opinion. Anyway, enough about random name blabbers, on with the phic!

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom. If I did, Nick would pay for even thinking about canceling it, and this would be a movie, where Danny meets the AU version of himself in this phic.

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In the year 2041, a blue-colored building rests in the middle of a dense forest. This building is known as Elementum Academy, a boarding school for those known as Elementals-those with control over the elements of fire and ice.

At present, it was lunchtime for the many Crytos and Pyros in the school, and everyone was talking and laughing, as usual. Only one boy did not join in the cheerful atmosphere: a 17-year old Cryto named Daniel Fenton, Danny for short. He, unlike everyone else, was asleep, using a small block of ice he had formed around his hands as a pillow.

"Danny! Danny, wake up!"

"Hunh?" the 17-year-old Cryto's golden eyes flickered open rapidly, the ice covering his hands shattering as he woke. He rubbed his hand against his forehead, trying to clear his mind of the dark memories in his head. Danny's Pyro friend, Seraphine, gently shook him, her silvery eyes fixed on him. She was 16, a year younger than Danny but at times acted like she was 20.

"The Training Bell just rang. Lunch is over Danny, we have to go."

"Oh, right," Danny said, brushing his silvery hair away from his eyes as he and the other Elementals started to file out of the lunchroom. Lunchtime was about the only time the Crytos and Pyros got to see each other, since they were training with their own elemental groups nearly every other time. This was a precaution that Master (the principal of the Academy) arranged when the training grounds were first built, so there wouldn't be any accidents involving the Pyros and Crytos burning and freezing each other to death.

"Bye Seraphine, I'll catch up to you later!", Danny called out, briskly heading toward his Cryto training class. The two of them waved to each other before they were forced to go their separate ways. Suddenly, an announcement rang through the halls:

"Daniel Fenton, please report to Master's office!"

Danny groaned in annoyance as he turned around and started toward Master's office, getting slight glances from other Crytos as he did so. How could he have forgotten? He smacked himself, and as he did, he saw the glowing indigo ring-shaped marks on his wrists, much more blue than the rest of his Cryto skin. The strange indigo marks looked like Cryto blood, so Danny attempted to keep them hidden as much as possible to avoid others questioning him. He sighed inwardly, it was the reason why he went to Master's office in the first place: to try to forget the events of ten years before, when his life had taken a turn for the worse.

"I can't forget," Danny said softly, staring at the cursed glow on his wrists. "They keep telling me to try to forget, but I can't. No matter what, I never will...the palebloods cursed me when they attacked, and ruined my life for eternity."

Danny sighed inwardly as he approached the door to Master's office-well, everyone else called him 'Master' since it was his last name, and he was the Master of the Academy. Danny, however, personally knew him, so he called him by his first name-Vlad. He felt as if Vlad was the only one in the entire Academy who truly understood him-even more than Seraphine and his best Cryto friend, Tucker-because he was the only one who had been there when the paleloods destroyed everything.

Danny learned a lot from what Vlad had told him. The humans had captured him because he was one of the most experienced Pyros around, destroying his home and family just as they had done with Danny's. Vlad had overheard the humans talking about how and when they were going to destroy the Cryto village, and panicked, knowing that his two friends, Jack and Maddie Fenton, would be staying in that village when they attacked.

As Vlad always described to Danny, security had been extremely tight there, but Vlad escaped when nearly all the humans began attacking the Cryto village that was the Fenton's home. Unfortunately, by the time he arrived, his two friends had been destroyed, as had nearly everyone else. He had, however, been able to save one Cryto: Danny. This was the reason the two felt a special kinship: both of them the only survivors when the humans-or palebloods, as their kind called then, to emphasize that humans were cold and heartless-destroyed their homes.

Danny knew there would be time to think of Vlad's stories later. Now, he knocked on the door of Vlad's office, and a small 'click' was heard, allowing him to enter.

"Come in, Daniel," he heard Vlad's voice say.

Danny sat down on the small chair in Vlad's office, wondering exactly what was going to happen. He knew this wasn't just to help ease his pain-Vlad was doing it for himself too.

"You know why you are here, am I right Danny?" Vlad asked the young Cryto.

Danny nodded slightly, looking down at the floor. "You are trying to help us both forget a little of the pain and anguish we've suffered," he said softly.

"Exactly," Vlad said, smiling warmly at Danny, then frowning suddenly. "Your aura is radiating painful memories...you're remembering it...aren't you?"

Danny sighed audibly. Like Vlad always said: the aura doesn't lie. Vlad had been teaching Danny how to read auras, and he could now sense what his mentor was feeling at a particular moment. "Yes," he said. "I think about it a lot...it's hard for me not to, especially with...these." Danny slowly rolled up his black sleeves so Vlad could see the indigo rings.

Vlad hurriedly ran over to him and stared at them. "Have you had those rings since...the palebloods attacked?" he asked, confused.

Danny inclined his head. "Yes Vlad. I-I just remember a pain that felt like fire within ice, it even looked like it, and then...I got these." He had been wary about revealing the rings, since he had never shown them to anyone, not even Tucker. Danny trusted Vlad though, and decided that he should show him.

Vlad slowly reached out and touched the ring on Danny's right wrist, but suddenly Danny screamed, causing the Pyro to pull his hand away in shock. "Danny?" Vlad asked anxiously, "are you okay? Can you hear me?"

Danny didn't answer. As his screams died down to whispers, he had his eyes closed and was shivering madly. Vlad quickly sensed that Danny's aura was radiating excruciating pain, as if... no, he couldn't of been reliving the memory...could he? "Danny," Vlad said after a minute, gently shaking him, "please, wake up. It's over now, you're safe."

Danny slowly opened his eyes, still shivering with pain and fear. He looked around fearfully; as if he were worried the palebloods might come for him at any moment. "V-Vlad?" Danny asked, "May I-"

"Of course you can go Danny," Vlad said, finishing his sentence for him. "...Are you sure you'll be..okay? Do you need me to help you get to your Cryto training class?" he asked, knowing that's where Danny normally went at this time.

Danny gave Vlad a small smile. "I'd like that." he said softly, then turned his gaze down.

The two of them slowly walked through the hallways, mixed feelings radiating through their auras. For Vlad, it was confusion. For Danny it wasn't just confusion, but fear and pain as well. They didn't say anything, but they were both wondering the same thing: What power did those rings hold? Vlad however, had another thought on his mind:

What exactly had happened to Danny?

A/N: There's the first chapter for you all! Read and review!