LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! BOYS AND GIRLS! WE ARE NOW PRESENTING WITH MY 100TH FAN FICTION I'VE WRITTEN THAT IS NOW DANNY PHANTOM! That's right! I am now writing my 100th fan fiction and to celebrate this, I am going back to when I would write Danny Phantom fan fictions. This is intended for those who are a fan of the show or might not even like it at all. This is a challenge to change the storyline and genre of the DP universe into a darker and interesting version of Danny Phantom. I have done a story where Danny and his ghost half were rather two different people or merged into one. Well, turn off everything you know about Danny Phantom and enter into another dimension where things turn slightly more serious and there's more to the one dimensional characters than the show, while also still keeping their characters. I will change some of the character's personality, but only by slightly and not too much to where it's not the character at all. This story is also going to involve a darker element and even involve murder and certain abuse, which is why I'm rating this T. Not for language. Don't wanna ruin DP that much. Review please!

The school bell of Casper High rang, meaning the end of school. A stampede of high school students burst from the school screaming and running on their way to the buses or the parking lot where the parents were to pick up their kids. Some of the students, who lived nearby, walked home. The higher age group owned their own cars and rode themselves home.

Half of the boys ran on their way to the park by the school, one of them bouncing a basket ball. One of the guys turned around and asked, "hey, you wanna come along and play?"

The boy, the guy asked, was a fourteen year old freshman in high school with short thick black hair and baby blue eyes, who wore blue jeans, plain tennis shoes, a black hoody with rolled up sleeves, and fingerless gloves. He was reading a blue book, looking up to his local peer.

"Thanks, but I'll pass," the boy replied plainly.

"Suit yourself, Danny," the guy shrugged before heading off to the park to play basket ball with the others.

Danny sighed, putting his nose back into the book he was reading, which was his personal notes for the ghost portal he was creating with some help. He'd been working on it for eight years and it still hasn't worked. His parents were fascinated with ghosts and the other world they lived in. Danny grew into that fascination, despite other people's and his sister's opinions of ghosts being nonexistent. Danny did do some research and found that there were traces and evidence of ghosts possibly existing. It didn't hurt to look into the existence of spirits.

Danny's parents, Jack and Maddie Fenton, were scientists that studied the possibility of ghosts or spirits of the undead existing. Their daughter Jazz thought ghosts were mythical and her parents were delusional. Hardly anyone at school knew about this, besides Danny's only best friend Sam Manson, who never told anyone and became just as fascinated as he was.

Just as Danny was about to turn another page, his booklet was snatched from his hands in an instant. He looked to his right and found Dash Baxter, one of the two bullies of the school, who was reading Danny's booklet. He held short, neatly cut blond hair and slightly violet eyes. He wore a jock coat, for being the quarterback of the school's football team, and blue jeans.

"What the heck are you reading?" Dash asked, skimming through Danny's booklet.

"Give that back, Dash! This isn't funny!" Danny glared.

"You want it? Catch it!" Dash smirked, throwing it at Danny's direction, but the booklet being caught by his friend Kwan, who seemed to be an Asian American boy with green eyes and black hair. He wore a jock coat and jeans as well. Kwan was one of the Football teammates, who played left field.

"What is this, your journal or something?" Kwan asked intimidatingly before throwing it to Dash. Danny jumped to try to catch his booklet, but it was too high. He ran over to Dash to snatch it back, but he held it up too high.

"What is this anyway?" Dash asked, reading it while Danny was trying to grab it. "Ghost Portal? You actually believe ghosts exist?"

"No!" Danny lied, not really caring. "It's non of your business!" He tried reaching for the booklet, but it was too far for him to reach.

"Wait, so you do believe in ghosts? Man, I knew you were a nerd, but not crazy! Maybe I should've held you inside my gym locker a little locker."

"This isn't funny! GIVE IT BACK!" Danny shouted angrily before Dash covered his ears.

"Jeez, you're loud!" Dash complained before the booklet was snatched from his hands. "HEY!"

Sam appeared wearing her usual plaid skirt, black tank top midriff, and combat boots. She had short black hair in a side ponytail and violet eyes. She held Danny's booklet and gave it back to her friend with angry looking eyes.

"If he says 'give it back' you should give it back, you jerks!" Sam snapped.

"Hey, we didn't do anything!" Dash glared. "I was just trying to man him up is all!"

"Right, because picking on someone weaker than you is manning him up, just like the other times you bullied Danny! Now scram!"

"Whatever!" Dash and Kwan replied together before they walked over to the park with the rest of the guys.

"Thanks alot, Sam! I owe ya a veggie burger," Danny thanked Sam gratefully.

"You shouldn't let those guys pick on you, Danny! They've been torturing you since middle school!" Sam told her friend.

"They're not that bad, Sam," Danny disagreed, rolling his eyes.

"Danny, they stuff your head in the gym locker, give you swirlies, and take your lunch money and you're telling me they're not that bad?"

"Okay one, they haven't given me a swirly since middle school, two we don't know what they're actually going through; they might have a rough life, and three they only stuff my head in the gym locker as a joke."

"Danny, I hate to tell you this, but as your best friend, I must say you're the most gullible person I know."

"I'm not gullible!" Danny disagreed.

Danny didn't like being bullied or not having any friends, besides someone of the opposite sex, but learned to deal with it. The only male relationships Danny had with anyone was his father or the two bullies Dash and Kwan. It was probably most of the reason Danny defended them in the first place. He had no male friends to have sleepovers or hang out with, but did dream about it. There was one time, long ago, he could've had a male friend named Tucker Foley, but Sam caught him vomiting in her lunch box in the second grade. Sam was so angry, she chased Tucker around the school building and he was scared to be around Sam or Danny. Danny sometimes would see Tucker walking down the hallway, but he'd shyly walk passed the two.

Danny and Sam eventually reached Danny's home, which held the big sign that read "Fenton Works." Danny couldn't help, but smirk, since it would be so easy to find his home, since all anyone would have to do is find a sign that read Fenton. Everything his parents made were always named with the word Fenton, so much it was obnoxious. It was something to sigh or roll his eyes about.

As soon as the two entered, Jack appeared with his big round eyes and a smile that would only be worn on a mental patient, greeting, "hello kids! Welcome back!"

"Hey Dad," Danny greeted, rolling his eyes. "I'm just showing Sam my progress on the portal."

"You still working on it?" Jazz asked boredly.

"Of course he would! He's a Fenton after all!" Jack replied for Danny.

"Thanks. We'll be downstairs, if you need us," Danny informed his father before him and Sam left for the basement.

"Sure thing, Danny!"

Danny and Sam walked downstairs to the lab where test tubs lied on the two tables placed against the far corner on the bottom right and, in the middle of the wall ahead of the two teens, was the portal Danny built. It was still unfinished, since the plug was out and it was just a big round cone with wires showing like C3PO from Star Wars: A Phantom Menace. Sam stepped inside the portal and looked around. She then put her hands around her mouth and shouted "ECHO!" hearing the echoing sound of her voice.

"Don't get too excited yet, Sam. I'm still not finished with this portal yet. I still need to connect a few wires together and place the covering. I just hope it will work this time," Danny said.

"Well, you have been working at it for eight years," Sam said.

"And I'm glad Mom and Dad finally decided to let me try doing this on my own this time," Danny thought, reading through his booklet, and then melting a couple of wires together with his blow torch. He, of course, did wear a protective mask, so the light wouldn't burn his eyes.

"I'm surprised they let you build it at six years old!"

"Well, I am a Fenton and we have the blood of a scientist," Danny teased with a smirk upon his lips.

"Okay Doctor, will you please tell me how this works?" Sam asked in a British accent.

"Well um, you... you see, these wires here uh trail through the portal and the electricity travels through the wires, but... but can be very unstable, so-"

"Shut up, you're not Jeff Goldblum!" Sam smirked, throwing a crumpled up piece of paper at Danny's head as Danny laughed in reply.

"Say, will you be a dear and help with the blue wire on the inside of the portal to connect to the top of the cone?" Danny asked in a teasing manner.

"Sure, if you will stop being a jerk!"

"Sure thing, sweetheart!"

"I said stop!" Sam snapped out as Danny laughed, not taking Sam's complaining seriously.

Dash and Kwan were found at the park jogging down the track. This was one of their ways of gaining exercise, so they could prepare for their Football game. It always felt good to walk around the track and take all their pains and worries away, especially for Dash. He wanted to just run around the track and never worry about anything. It made him feel refreshed and happy. This especially was a good time to steam off a few things.

"Man, glad to be out of school. I swear Sam is such a beast sometimes!" Dash complained.

"I don't blame ya, man. She can be scary at times," Kwan agreed.

"Who does she think she is? I'm not bullying the stupid wimp, I don't even give a hoot about what he wants! All I'm doing is just giving Danny a hard time! What's wrong with messing with the kid a little bit!?"

"I agree. She's just being over-dramatic."

"Good thing I jacked this," Dash smirked, getting out a crumpled up piece of paper from his pocket.

"What's that?"

"A page from Fenterd's diary or journal, whatever the heck it is! It's mine now!"

Kwan smirked, "sweet. What cha gonna do with it?"

"Probably throw it in the trash when I get home," Dash said, scrunching it in his pocket.

The duo were then stopped by one of the school councilors of their school. This one's name was Mr. Bertrand. He was a small midget man with white hair that was shaped like Elvis with a business suit on. The two jocks stopped with questionable looks.

"Hey Mr. Bertrand, something wrong?" Kwan asked.

"I've been hearing word you two were bullying?" Mr. Bertrand asked.

"What? We di-" Dash was about to snap until Kwan kicked his friend and interrupted.

"Everything's cool. No bullying here!" Kwan replied with a fake smile and sweat dripping from his face.

"There's no bullying, even on outside of school grounds. I will investigate this. Have a nice day," Mr. Bertrand said, before walking passed them.

"You moron, you can't just snap at him, he's the councilor! He has connections with the principle!" Kwan snapped at Dash.

"Seriously!?" Dash asked with shocking eyes.

"No duh!"

"Wh-Whatever, let's just run a few more laps."

Bertrand smirked and dialed Danny's phone number. Danny's cell phone rang and Danny picked it up, still working on his portal. He said, "hello?"

"Hello, this is Mr. Bertrand. I couldn't help, but watch the security cameras and noticed you were having trouble with a couple of bullies?"

"Wh-What? No, I'm fine! They were just messing around with me is all. Anyways, I'm working on a project right now, but thanks for checking."

"Alright, but I will be keeping my eye on you, Danny. I am very concerned with your well-being and how it may affect you psychologically. I shall be investigating this."

"Uh... right... bye," Danny said, hanging up.

"Who was that?" Sam asked.

"My councilor, who apparently had a little too much alcohol to drink."

"That's nice."

"Whatever. Let's continue on this before we fall behind," Danny said, working on the project some more until nightfall.

Danny was tired the next day from working on the ghost portal all night. He was lucky that Sam returned home before her curfew or she would've given Danny a cow. He was so tired, he hardly knew where he was going and accidentally bumped into Paulina, the most popular and beautiful girl in school. She was also Danny's crush, who never really paid attention to Danny, not even give him a glance.

Paulina wore a regular pink midriff, jean capris, and white shoes. She had long black hair that was curly at the bottom and teal eyes with her dark skin. She glared at Danny with annoyance on her face.

"Watch where you're going! Are you blind?" Paulina snapped.

"I'm so sorry! I'm kinda not in the head today," Danny yawned.

"Well, watch it! I'm not in the mood! I just broke a nail from PE and I can't find Dash and Kwan anywhere! They were supposed to help me study for English, but were called in by Mr. Bertrand for some dumb reason!"

"Wait, Bertrand?"

"Yeah!"

"Gotta go!" Danny said, dashing through the halls. He knew Bertrand had called him about Dash and Kwan bullying him and he didn't want to be in trouble for ratting. In fact, he already clarified that they weren't bullying him, or his definition of bullying. It wasn't like they were giving him a swirly or something, even giving him a black eye like in middle school.

Danny finally found Dash and Kwan behind the school, away from public, face to face with a hulky green figure. Danny didn't know what it was, but he knew those eyes anywhere and could already conclude it was Mr. Bertrand or someone who worked for Bertrand. Danny ran to their direction.

"What are you doing?" Danny asked, which made him feel stupid for asking that.

"Giving these bullies what they deserve for bullying you, Mr. Fenton," Bertrand replied, letting Danny know, by the voice, that it really was him. He took the two jocks and tossed them against the wall before punching both of them in the gut. Blood was coughing from their mouths before they dropped onto the ground.

"Are you happy now, Fentonio?" Dash asked Danny angrily.

"WHAT!? I wasn't involved in this! He's just doing this randomly out of nowhere! I never told him you did anything to me! I swear I didn't!" Danny promised.

"Here comes another one!" Bertrand cried out with a sickly smirk upon his face before Danny dashed out in front of Dash and Kwan with his arms straight out.

"That's enough! I don't think this is even legal! I told you they did nothing to me!"

"Why are you protecting them? Aren't they the ones that keep giving you a hard time? I've seen what they do. Wasn't that your underwear on the flagpole during the first day of high school?"

"NO!" Danny lied, not really wanting to deal with this. "Maybe they give me a hard time, but not the bullying type! They're my friends!"

"Friends? You actually like these punks? Most people would hate those that bully them."

"I told you, they're not bullying me! They were just messing around. Sometimes it does get out of hand, perhaps even mistaken for bullying, but they're not bullies! Now, leave here now or I'll report you to the police for this!"

"Not until you pay your debt," Bertrand smirked before punching Danny right in the gut, then taking him by his head and throwing him over the fence of the school and landing on the sidewalk. If it wasn't for Danny's hands and knees to break his fall, he would've probably had trauma.

"You can tell the police too, because I'll just tell them that you made a false alarm, because who would believe your story that you were beaten by a ghost?" Bertrand asked as he morphed from a hulky ghost to a green blob and flew in the air. "Ta ta!"

Danny slowly got up on his feet and began climbing over the fence that separated the two parts of the back of the school. He fell from the top of the fence and found Dash and Kwan passed out from loss of blood. Danny wiped the blood with the sleeve of his hoody and cleaned the blood from the two jocks before leaving. There was nothing much he could do at this point. They would wake up eventually and Danny didn't know where they lived.

Danny wished he had the strength to protect the weak from those, who were stronger and were the real bullies. Bertrand didn't even seem like one, but he was the real bully. Dash and Kwan were bullies too, but they didn't deserve any of this. Detention maybe, but not beaten up like that! Danny wished and kept wishing he had the strength and power to do something about this. At least now he knew there were ghosts in this world that exist and may misuse their powers for criminal activities.

Making it back to the lab after resting for about an hour, Danny continually worked on the ghost portal, still being upset with Bertrand and being too weak to defend Dash and Kwan. Sam eventually appeared, but seemed very worried. Usually, Danny would call Sam, if he was working on the portal. He turned around and the girl gasped.

"Danny, what happened to you? You look horrible!" Sam asked.

"Nothing happened. I just needed to work on this for a while," Danny replied in a slightly harsh manner. Sam probably had noticed his swollen up lip and bruised arm.

"Something happened! Did Dash have anything to-"

"No, they didn't!"

Sam sighed and was about to march upstairs when...

"He didn't, Sam! I'm telling the truth! It wasn't Dash, who did this!" Danny said, running to his friend as she turned and saw that her friend wasn't lying.

"Then, who was it?"

"I'll tell you, after I get done with the portal," Danny promised. "It's the only way to release my frustration."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

"How's it going so far?"

"I'm almost done! I just need to put this last covering on!" Danny replied, placing the metal covering over the inside of the portal to cover the wires.

Danny got his blow torch and used it to melt the metal in place, while Sam made a quick check on the portal. Danny placed the covering, then got out his booklet to make a few checks to make sure the wires were in place. They seemed to be in order. Just when he was going to check on the power cord page, it was missing. Danny slightly gaped his mouth, witnessing the ripped paper in his booklet.

"Hey Danny, I ju-" Sam said, then noticed the missing page. "Oh no! Those two jerks! I shoulda-"

"Hey kids!" Jack shouted with his big grinny smile. "You busy?"

"Kinda!" Danny said, seemingly defeated and sad. "Dad I..."

"Missing this?" Jack asked, showing a ripped up piece of paper. He gave it to Danny, who uncrumpled it up and saw it was the last part of his notes.

"This is it! Where'd you get it?"

"One of your friends dropped it off... or at least I assumed he was. Nice guy! Kinda tall, blond, said you were missing this."

"Thanks alot, Dad!"

"Don't mention it!" Jack replied before closing the door behind him.

"So, Dash gave it back? That's kinda weird for him!" Sam thought with glaring eyes.

"I guess every person has some good in him," Danny said with a small smile. Deep inside, he knew exactly why Dash gave this back.

Danny walked back to the portal and checked on the power cord and it seemed to be in place. He walked inside the portal and turned on the power button, then walked out and Sam plugged the portal to the outlet turning it on. The lights flashed and the portal instantly turned on. The portal was huge and green, showing a swirling vortex.

"We did it!" Sam shouted excitedly before the green portal then burst a huge light beam against Danny, who screamed in pure agony. "OH NO!" Sam ran stupidly for the light beam before it knocked her unconscious, leaving a third degree burn on her right shoulder. It was a good thing the walls of the lab were made out of titanium, which stopped the light. It then faded and, out from the green smoke, came a teenage boy with snowy white hair and glowing green eyes wearing a pair of black pants, a green shirt sweatshirt under a white muscle shirt, white boots, and white gloves. He looked around and seemed confused until he closed his eyes, then snapped them open after a few seconds, and a demonic grin appeared on his face.

"Time for a little fun!" The ghost boy smirked before flying through the ceiling of the lab.

Bertrand arrived at the roof of the school after receiving a call from Danny, who seemed to be echoy. He looked around in his blob figure until he saw a mysterious ghost teenage boy appear with folded arms.

"I've been waiting for you, Bertrand," the ghost boy smirked.

"And who are you?" Bertrand asked confused.

"Danny? The one you called?"

"Danny Fenton? My, my, someone didn't survive my beating. I guess you couldn't take it and decided to commit suicide!"

"I honestly don't know what you're talking about, but I like the name. Danny Phantom. Works for me."

"Oh, ha ha! That's the worst pun I've heard yet!"

"Whatever, I'm keeping the name," Danny smirked, punching his fist against his hand before flying right up at Bertrand and punching him in the gut and sending him flying to the back of the school.

Bertrand changed into his hulky figure and began to shoot green ecto blasts at Danny, who dodged them swiftly. Danny laughed playfully, flying in a hoop as he dodged the blasts. He shot passed Bertrand before kicking him from behind and shooting an ecto blast of his own. Bertrand landed on his hands, performing a back flip on the roof before being hit by an ecto wave; losing his balance and sending him landing on the brick wall of the school.

The hulk ghost found ecto blood on his mouth before glaring angrily and finding Danny having a hold of Bertran's choke-hold. A deadly smirk appeared on his lips, which sent fear through the hulk ghost's spine. Bertrand stared at this kid in fear, then glared.

"Are you afraid of me or am I seeing things?" Danny asked threateningly before throwing smashing Bertrand against the wall, then grabbing him by his legs and slamming his head against the wall over and over again. "If this is how you fight, you're seriously lame on your fighting skills. Let me show you how it's done."

Danny threw Bertrand in the air, then shot a huge green blast at him, saying, "like this!" The blast threw Bertrand farther before a green ice ball hit him against his body, making him cough green blood from his mouth. "And that!" Then, two legs kicked him from above and sent him falling straight into the ground. "AND THAT!"

Bertrand got himself up, finding himself dizzy and weak. He didn't expect Danny to grow this strong, but he did. He was grabbed by a headlock as chills of fear ran down the councilor's spine. He shook in fear as he turned his eyes at Danny's evil grin. An evil chuckle escaped from Danny's lips as his whole world began to turn green and a scream was released from Bertrand's mouth.

"The realm of the dead has been unlocked."

The students were talking when the next day came at Casper High. Mr. Bertrand had mysteriously disappeared without a trace and there was green paint on several parts of the school's roof and outer brick walls. The cleaning crew arrived to clean it up, but how it got there was beyond anyone's imagination. The missing councilor rumor began to spread as different stories came about of how and what happened.

Sam woke up and found Danny safe in his room and asleep from all the hard work he made on the portal. Sam concluded that Danny was okay and was extremely relieved about this news. Though, she still wasn't sure what happened to Bertrand, especially after what Danny told her about what happened with the guy, Dash, and Kwan. It was a complete mystery.

As the duo were walking down the hallway, Dash called out, "Hey!"

Danny looked at Sam and gave her a nod before she walked on her way to her Homeroom and walked to Dash. Danny asked, "yes?"

"How're the wounds treating ya?"

"They're okay. Yours?"

"Good. Listen... I never got the chance to thank ya for what happened yesterday."

"I'm sorry that whole thing-"

"It wasn't your fault, I know you wouldn't wish that on me now."

"I never wanted that ever!"

"Yeah, but... never mind. Listen... I know I've done a ton of things that... were bad, but..." Dash said, letting out a sigh. "How about we start over? We can hang out! This time, I won't give ya such a hard time. We'll be like... pals... or whatever." He scrunched his lips after saying the word 'pals.'

"You mean it?" Danny asked, almost speechless.

"Yes!" Dash replied, seemingly like he was holding in something.

Danny couldn't believe it! He was actually going to have his first real guy friend for the first time in his life! Sure, it wasn't the perfect choice, but if it was someone like Dash, he could protect Danny from other bullies. This could be a huge advantage and who knows? Maybe there was more to Dash, like Danny assumed in the past. He showed a huge smile and nodded.

"Of course!" Danny replied.

"Gr- Sure... I'm late for class!" Dash said, reddened cheeks from the embarrassing speech he made, and made a huge dash as his shoe flew right off his foot, while he ran to his Homeroom.

Danny quickly picked up Dash's shoe and yelled, "You dropped your shoe!"