Hey! *shy wave

I know I should work on my other stories but right now I´m completely in Danny Phantom Fanmode and just couldn´t get my head streight. Plus I was attacked by one of the feared Plotbunnies. *shudder

I´m sorry, guys, really. BUT I will continue my other stories, no worries there, so calm down.

And to say the truth I am more scared of this Plotbunny here than the Fangirls of my other story...so enough chitchat and on with the story!

*goes in hiding* By the way I don´t own Danny Phantom!

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1. The other half of him

Fear, oh, he was so afraid.

Pain, oh, it hurt so much.

Regret, oh he was so sorry.

And when the pain got too much he just let go. He hadn´t got anything to loose anymore.

Nothing left, it was cold, dark.

He had no idea which time it was.

In the backgound were some noices, some voices.

Sleep, he was just so tired and now it just felt good to let go.

The next time he woke up it was still cold, but it got warmer. He blinked, trying to remember what had happened. And when he did, he regreted it. His family, his friends, his teacher, heck, even his over half were gone, gone, unreachable. The stab in his chest which should have killed him might have healed but his other wounds never will. And they hurted.

So why stay awake? Why should anything matter anymore to him?

He let go again.

The third time he woke up everything was clear. In the background was a loud alarm and in front of him stood a woman in her midth twenties. She had dark hair and skin and green-bluesh eyes and she wore a red suit. You could see, she was beatiful and a fighter, but now she just looked worried. He wondered who she was, but secretly he had the feeling he knew her. He saw that he was in some kind container, it was very cold and everything was wet. "Have I been frozen?" the boy wondered, but then he shook his head. Why should anyone do something like that to him? When his blue eyes met hers she smiled and hit a button on the side of his glassy prison. The container opened and the boy stumbeld forward into the waiting arms of the young woman. She stumbeld back but held him tight. "Come on, Danny, I´ll get you out of here" she whispered and Danny felt himself smiling and the world went dark once more.

It was dark when Danny opened his eyes. He was to his surprise in his old room. For a moment he felt himself full of the foolish hope that everything that had happened was just a dream. He would ignore that his room was too dusty for such a thing to happen, but he stumbeld out of the safety of his bed and to the window. Everything was alright, they all would be alive and well and he would still have his ghosthalf.

But when he looked out of the window everything had changed, his little hope crushed. And he was forced to accept this empty feeling, half of him gone, the other half grieving for the loss of everything he once had. He wished his with Vlads merged Ghosthalf would have killed him properly and not only giving him huge pain and a giantic scar on his chest.

His next thought was the time. He had no idea what day it was. He guessed by the darkness it was before sunrise. Then he turned to look into the mirror of his room. He still looked fourteen, so it only could have been some months. Danny didn´t know if it was a good or bad thing because he was still grieving for his loss.

Suddenly the door opened and the woman from earlier entered holding a package of food. When she saw Danny was awake she almost dropped it. Quick reflexes caught the contents luckily. Danny handed the package back to her, not really knowing what to say. The woman eyed him curious: "Aren´t you hungry?" The boy shook his head: "No not really". To say the truth he was, but that didn´t matter in the moment to him. The woman looked cautious at him before saying: "You should eat." Danny shook his head: "I´m not hungry. But why should that matter to you? You don´t even know me." In mind he added to have a suspicion to know her, a feeling whispering her name, he knew her, he just didn´t want it to be true. The woman sighed before sitting down on the bed and gesturing him to do the same. Danny eyed her cautious but did as requested. The woman smiled sadly before starting: "I knew something like that could happen, the doctors warned me. But Danny, you have to believe me if I say it: It´s me, Valerie Grey."

And when the suspected month turned to years Danny was just glad he already sat because he wasn´t sure if his legs would have carried him further after hearing this.

Valerie told him of how Phantom had pushed the world into chaos and how Amity Park had been the only safe place for some years before Phantom had returned to it. She told Danny how she had found him in the smoking remnants of Vlads Villa and that it was pure luck that he had been even if it was only barely alive to that point of time. She told him how the doctors had healed him and how she decided to freeze him along with some other kids to wake up in a brighter future without Phantom in a secret underground laboratory outside of Amity they thought was safe. And she told him how Phantom came back and broke into the lab killing every single child besides Danny, who again was lucky to have survived because she, the Red Huntress, had been at least fast enough to get him out of there. Valerie told him about the most impotant things that had happend in the last ten years and how she was sorry that she had decided to freeze him without his agreement.

Danny assured her that he was fine with that and only then Valerie saw how wise he was bejond his age. She didn´t know that he silently cursed himself for being able to survive and not having one of the deceased children instead of him sitting next to her.

On some point Valerie convinced him that he would be better off now eating his food than grieving for what had happened. He wouldn´t be able to get rid of that pain and last time he tried everything only got worse he remembered.

After accepting the fact he was indeed ten years in the future without him needing to age, Valerie lead him down into the laboratory of the Fenton Works where they met Damon Grey, Valeries father. Only having lost one eye and an arm he still looked pretty fine for his age. There weren´t much words to share. He only informed Valerie that Phantom was sighted near Amity and she nodded before rushing away, leaving Danny with her father and an akward silence.

The peace only lasted fifteen minutes when suddenly an awful sound was heard and the Ghost-Shield around Amity broke. Hell went loose and sirens all around Amity grew loud together with the awful sound. Damon rushed to the screens standing on one side of the lab. Next thing they knew was that the Fenton-Works shook with an explosion. "Does that happen every day?" asked Danny with wide eyes. Damon shook his head: "No, only..." He got cut off by Valerie rushing into the room: "Dad, the Fright Knight is here which means that he can´t be far behind. What do we do? What do w-" She got cut cut off by the awful sound and Damon: "Val, run!" And then suddenly he was there, breaking through the ground: "Hello Valerie." He didn´t seem to aknowledge Dannys present who stood safely hidden behind Damons bigger features. Then Phantom spoke again: "And goodbye." He summoned a very strong ectoplasma attack in his outstredged hand and shoot at them.

When the smoke lifted Phantom was gone. Instead was an Anti-Ghost-Shield covering the three people. With a panicked act Danny had hit one of the dozens Fenton-Safety-Buttons, which instantly reacted to his Fenton-DNA summoring up a powerful Ghost-Shield and leaving Phantom thinking he erazed them from existence. "...how...?" asked Valerie coming over the shock of still being alive. Danny smiled sadly: "The Fenton Works has a spezial safety system to defend any Fenton against any attack or attacker." Valerie nodded, understandment in her eyes: "I see, so your parents really weren´t such morons everyone said they were..." When Danny gave her an angry glare she fastly completed: "...not that I ever thought they were."

Danny rose an eyebrow but Damon interupted: "Not that that would matter now. It safed our lifes and thats all that matters, right?" When both nodded, Damon continued: "I just wished we had known of this inventon earlier...It would have saved thousands of lifes, that´s for sure." Danny nodded, but then he stopped death in his tracks: "Wait a sec, does that mean he does this all the time?" Valerie nodded: "Why do you ask, I had already told you upstairs if you might remember." Danny shook his head: "Sorry, I was to freaked out that ten years have gone by without me knowing it that I was kind of to distracted to listen to anything else in that matter!" The boy started walking up and down, shaking his head, guilt nagging in the back of his mind. It was all just his fault! If he never had wanted Phantom to be removed from him, nothing like that would ever have happened!

Damon interupted his thoughts: "Do you think it would be able to build a security system like this for the whole city and everyone and not just here and for you?" Danny stopped wih his pacing and sighed: "I doupt it. The only persons to be able to do so should be my parents or maybe, if he hacked into the system, Tucker. We should ask h-..." Danny stopped. Asking for Tucker again, his death best friend, was a habit he had for almost his whole life. He would always helped him. But now...the truth hit Danny like a stonewall, crushing his hopes and plans. The cruel reality stood there and laughed him in his face. While he fought not to start crying he whispered: "Right...they are gone..." "I´m sorry, Danny" whispered Valerie. The boy turned to go upstairs, shaking with sorrow: "Excuse me please..." Valerie looked like she wanted to follow him, but Damon held her back: "Give him some time alone. He needs it."

Danny stared at the ceiling of his room, lieing in his bed, his emotions going crazy. He had hoped if Vlad removed his Ghost-Half the pain might stopp, but no, it only got worse. Now he couldn´t even go flying and clear his head, now it was his fault the world was destroyed and millions of people were dead. He stopped sobbing when his mind, his hero-complex, his very being came to a conclution. He stumbeled to his closed and reached in depths of it for a special piece of clothing. He only wore it once, now was the time to finish everything where it began.

Valerie and her father blinked, too shocked for a moment, when Danny came down again. For a second their mind whispered about the resemblement and screamed for a negative-picture, but they just had to shake it off. Valerie caught herself first: "D...Danny?" Yes, indeed it was Danny. He wore a grim expression, pure bravery in his eyes. His white-black HAZMANT-Suit still fit him perfectly. He held a Fenon-Bazooka in his hands and on his black belt hung the Fenton thermos. He finally spoke up, breaking the silence: "I´m done with hiding myself, grieving for what I´ve lost while other people are still loosing their lifes out here. I now I can help to stop it, I will help." If Jack Fenton would have seen his son in the moment he would have been proud, the boy taking over his ghost hunting buziness. But the teen himself had no interest in the hunting itself. He just wanted to stop Phantom himself and showing him that the other half of him does not agree with what he had done.

...cut!

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