DISCLAIMER: I do not own Danny Phantom, just the character's I created.

This is my first story on Danny Phantom. Enjoy!

"Mr. Master's?" My call echoed down the halls of this enormous mansion. I cautiously walked further and found football decorations along with tacky cheese ornament's.

*The guy's obviously not married* I thought, glancing at the décor.

My name is Camillia Nought, by order of the local officials I was sent to do community service for an old man who needed help cleaning his home, doing chores, yadda yadda..

"Ouch! Ugh! This retched-!" I heard from an odd opening in a wall in the library. What followed was inaudible grunts and curses. I walked into the passage and down a few steps.

"Ello!" I greeted as I entered what seemed to be a lab. An old man, dressed professionally in black, stood in disbelief by a hole in the wall. "Are you going somewhere with this, gramps?" I walked around inside a tunnel-like hole in the wall, and discovered it was all metal inside. Then an interesting green goop on the floor caught my eye. "Cool" I squeezed some in my hand, felt like putty.

"Do NOT call me 'gramps' girl" The man stood and regained his composure.

"Don't call me girl.. It's Cali, I'm here for the community service" I relaxed and tucked my hands in my pockets.

"Ah, Cali.. Though they said you were tame, I heard you started a food fight. . In you're social studies class. . Four day's in a row" his eye's narrowed and I shyly grinned.

"International food day, all week, starting with Australia, Asia, Europe-"

"And the worst was South America.. Tell me child.. Is this why they banned you from eating in my home?"

I grinned and nodded, remembering that whole food fiasco was based on a dare.

"But, you seem harmless enough.. Very well. My name, as you should already know, is Vlad Masters. And as you can see I am a scientist. Don't touch anything down here" He sternly stated as I squished the putty substance.

"Put that down!" Vlad slapped it out of my hand and looked pained as he wiped away the goop that got on his hand. "That's from a broken beaker you twit!" He pointed at the scattered glass pieces.

"Right" I grabbed a dust pan and broom, and threw away the mess.

"Uh.. Good job" He said surprised that I cleaned that up.

"What next, Vladdio?"

"Could you grab that beaker?" He spoke in a way that reminded me of a kindergarten teacher.

I got the beaker, and realized it was a not broken version of the one I just threw away. He had me lock it in a slot on the tunnel machine. After that things were simpler then my imagination lead me to believe. All the old man did was make me work on the tunnel as he sat, directing orders, and drank smoothies. At six my alarm watch sounded for me to go home.

"See ya tomorrow, Professor Vlad" I joked casually saluting him.

"Oh, I do look forward to it!" He happily struck a girly pose causing my face to look at him funny before I got out the door.

I got home before dinner and decided to sketch what I remembered of the old man in my sketchbook. Then I drew his lab, and any interesting things I happened to remember from school. Ever since I was a small person, I loved to draw, but my mom didn't like my creativity going on the wall in crayon. So she introduced me to my first sketchbook. And over the years, I've filled up sketchbook after sketchbook of my memories.

"So, how was your punishment?" Mom sighed at the dinner table.

"Fascinating" I blurted as I picked at the fruit bowl.

"Really?" Dad seemed suspicious.

"He's a scientist. He has me helping with one of his experiments" I explained.

"Is it dangerous?" Mom questioned.

"No, but he couldn't be weirder. He needs to find a dating site or something, old age is hitting him hard" I babbled through chews.

"Don't talk with your mouth full.." Mom tapped my plate.

The next few days went by normally. School, service, then home. Old man Vlad's even praised me for being his 'ideal daughter.' I think it's because I'm so helpful, but that's just my job, he couldn't actually handle being my parent.

"You're early" Vlad greeted me at the door on the last day of my community service.

"Hello, tall, dark, and single. I saw a cat wandering around outside, your's?" I cleverly remarked.

"You remind me fondly of my niece.. Come, thing's must be done by today" Vlad ordered as I followed him to the lab.

"You have relatives?"

"What makes you question that?"

"Nothing.." I drifted away. "Oh, I'm early cause all my friends were busy with some new video game" I hopped up beside him. He merely looked down with a "hmm."

We entered the lab and got straight to work, today we were going to test the tunnel for whatever it's suppose to do. As he finished the wiring I got into a custom suit Vlad made for me. It has a capital C glued on the chest area so I could tell it was mine. I have to wear it due to some health violation, and something about chemical hazards. When I finished I went through a pile of papers on his desk that were held down by a granite rock. The paper I picked up was titled Ghost Thesis it read: Having the portal in it's experimental stage is the key to these powers coming to life. The ghost particles flow freely in this stage, and with that they can surge through the body to merge the DNA with-. Vlad pulled the papers away.

"It's ready" He gave a narrow eyed smile.

"Super!" I jumped up.

"I need you to flip some switches inside while I make adjustments to the controls" He instructed. I ran inside as he worked on the circuit boards.

A sound came from the tunnel that reminded me of a car engine staring up.

"Is it working yet?" I asked feeling the need to walk out.

"Yes" He said.

An explosion of light engulfed me as the granite in my hand shook and crumbled. I could feel burning hot pulsations from where the rock was, but it was nothing compared to the shock going through my nerves.

"STOP!" I screamed in pain. The machine kept roaring until the circuits overloaded and the machine exploded. Not having to fight the pain anymore, my knees gave in and my hands limply fell to my side. My senses were shot, but in a few seconds my hearing came back and I could hear Vlad calling my name. Then my thoughts, the first thing I wondered was, what happened? After replaying it in my head, my vision went from blurry to clear, and I checked my hands. The granite vanished, and so did my hands! I gasped and took a quick look back and forth, I was surrounded by smoke.

As I panicked, a flash of light seemed to scan over my body, and everything went back to normal. I attempted to get up in my anxiety, but my head couldn't take it, then all went black. When I woke I heard an indistinct fight outside the room I was in.

"Cali?" I jolted a bit, noticing the lady next to me. She looked like a doctor, but the room looked like Vlad's house.

"Yeah" I answered in a hoarse voice. I gripped my throat and attempted to clear it.

"I heard you got caught in a lab accident" she said as she went through some papers.

"Yes. . ." I gave her a suspicious look as I tried to recall what happened.

"I came here as the only doctor that does house calls. Now, I need to do a little test. Could you sit up straight?" The doctor asked as she pulled out a stethoscope. She pulled my shirt up and stuck the cold metal against my back. Then she checked my spine, and put pressure on my stomach. When she was done, I was surprisingly okay.

We walked out and I found my parents biting Vlad's head off. The doctor said some words then left.

"Honey!" Mom embraced me.

"See, Cali is fine, no need for any lawsuits" Vlad nervously clapped his hands together.

"She could have been killed!" Dad stomped forward, and Vlad pulled back, like a rabbit meeting a fox.

"Whoa!" I slid between them. "Dad, Mom. I'm okay, it was a harmless experiment, see." I twirled around to show I was unscathed. "Besides, I'm done with my community service, let's not make this anymore complicated.. Please.." I never used the word 'please' seriously. My parents understood and we left without another word.

Though we were neighbors, our houses were far apart. Vlad owned a large amount of land that was about a mile from our house. As we walked home, I trailed behind trying to put my thoughts together on what exactly just took place. I was quickly pulled out of focus when I lost my footing and hit the ground.

"What the-" I looked back at what got me and it was my own two feet, slowly creeping into the ground. Mom and Dad walked back to help me up.

"Cali, are you feeling okay?" Mom asked.

"Fine.. F-fine.." I checked, my feet were normal again.

When I was through with dinner, I did my chores. I got around to washing the dishes, and by then my mind was lost. I recapped the day, and what went wrong, but so many thing's didn't make since. I had a tight grip on a plate as I put it away, deep in thought. However, I clicked back to reality when the plate suddenly left my sense of touch, and hit my head.

"Ow" I quickly responded before the plate shattered onto the floor.

"Cali Nought!" Mom ran in and asserted herself. I rolled my eyes as she gasped and made a big deal about her 'fine china.'

"I am so sick of you constantly making a big deal out of everything! Mom, it's a plate. There's a thousand more being made at a factory in china!"

"And how many more of you are there!" She screamed through sobs. I pulled back realizing what her increase in emotions was all about.

"Mom-" I started to say in a calmer voice.

"That man could have seriously harmed you" she interrupted me. "If only you weren't such an unruly child. You're in this mess because of those people you call your friends"

"Mom!" I was getting irritated.

"Two month's into high school and they're already influencing you to make bad choices! Honey, you have to see through that, make new friends. Better friends-"

"MOM!" I shouted. "Stop! I choose who I want to hang out with, not you! I'm the one who got in trouble, that choice was all mine" I opened the outside door and began to leave. "Maybe you shouldn't blame my friends, maybe it's your fault for raising me wrong"

"Cali!" Dad came in, just in time to comfort Mom, as I ran out.