CHAPTER 1: Prologue.
With a scream, Dan was sucked in the thermos. Danny stood there for a little while, happy about his victory, when he remembered about the other pressing matter.
"Oh no!" He turned around, just in time to see the cracks forming on the containers of the nasty sauce, his family, Tucker and Sam and Lancer strapped to it with no means of escape. He began to run towards it, trying to transform, but failing.
"I can't go ghost!" He said to himself, slightly panicked, just before he tripped.
"Noooooo!" But it was too late. And Danny knew it was, for he stayed on the ground, sweating, and looking at his family in horror.
The nasty burger exploded.
Danny was blasted away full force by the explosion. The thermos got loose and was slammed into a building at the opposite side of the road, breaking the thermos, and setting Dan free. Danny himself fell on the ground a few meters from where he was blasted away.
He quickly stood up and began to run, ignoring the pain. He had to get away, or the explosion would catch up to him. Or worse, Dan would. He had to escape, and fast.
He ran until he couldn't run anymore. He had escaped the explosion. It was then that he realised the weight of the events, and he broke down, sobbing.
"They're dead. They're all dead!" He started crying full-force, completely ignoring his surroundings.
Until he heard that voice.
"And you know what to do, don't you? You'll go to Vlad, and all will be well… for me."
"I will never go to Vlad, and you know that!"
"Then where will you go?"
Of that, Danny had no idea, to be frank. Would he go to ask Clockwork whether he would turn back time? No. Clockwork tried to kill him, and while he didn't want to become Dan, he wasn't ready to die either. He had to live, for his family, for his friends… and for Mr. Lancer.
"I don't know, but I won't go to Vlad!" He transformed into Phantom. In the back of his mind, he found it funny that only now he could transform, but he pushed it away.
The weeks after that, Danny would live as a nomad. He didn't come to the reading of the will of his parents, because Vlad was there, and he was sure that if Vlad got hold of him, there would be no escape. He was officially declared dead in Amity after three weeks, for his body had never been found, even though the others thought he died in the explosion with his parents, friends and Mr. Lancer.
Danny visited a few major cities in the world, like New York, Paris and London, and a few places in the ghost zone. He also discovered some new places in the ghost zone that he didn't know before.
However, he never settled down. He was afraid that Dan would catch up to him and destroy whatever he had built. For that same reason, he shied away from human contact.
And so the story starts, when once upon a time, Danny was flying into the Ghost Zone…
Hello, the author, No.311 here. I'm going to explain some things about this story. (LONG AUTHOR'S NOTE ALERT)
1. I have not abandoned Blue Pirates.
2. The story is rated T. There will be deaths.
3. I'm not good with genre tags. For now, I've set them to Horror and Angst, because I thought horror fits the -Man universe pretty well, and Angst sounds nice. Kidding, I do have a general idea, but nothing solid about what Angst is.
So the tags don't necessarily have to match with the contents of the story, and if they don't, please tell me.
4. I have a lay-out completely made for the story, so that I can work more efficient. Still, I will not post the whole story at once, so that I can make corrections as I write it. But it should mean that I can update this story faster than I can update Blue Pirates, for I invent that story as I write it.
5. If there are author's notes, they are at the bottom.
6. I'm open for constructive criticism.
7. If you like it, or have questions, review. I always reply.
That was it. I'll give you the next chapter too, I'm not cruel. Enjoy! This will hopefully be the longest authors note in the story.
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