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DarkDragonQueen: Good God. I can't believe I finally got to this part. I was really looking forward to it. Just to let you know about the Alternate Alternate Universe. Remember in chapter fourteen Life After Death? Well I'm doing it now except with a twist to make it more original than just redoing what I think happened in the before ten years after Danny becomes evil. Here's the full summary.

It's been ten years since she became what she is, but when given the chance to not live such a complicated lonely life she jumps at the chance though she still can't help but wonder what could have been. Then, she meets her past self and she sees what she is in this universe, where fate wasn't so cruel and took pity on them.

Yeah, you read this next part from me all the time. Grammar is not my best subject. I can apply it well to writing but I'm not perfect people. If you see a few mistakes here and there dismiss them. Luckily my spelling and use of words makes up for that.

So without any futher interuptions, here is the first chapter of The Black Phoenix: What Could Have Been...

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Escape

By

DarkDragonQueen

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She sighed as she drifted through the ghost zone to the familiar castle deep in the eerie green place. She had been here many times before... Although in her time the locals weren't very friendly when the saw her.

She had to do this quickly while that old Time Master wasn't watching her. She had to rescue him. He was the only friend she had and though he didn't know it she was his. Who was she? The Black Phoenix... she was known as Phoenix now though or Black as he sometimes called her. Who was he? Dan Phantom. Former hero of Amity Park gone bad after a tragic accident changed hi life when he was almost fifteen years old.

She laughed bitterly. It was amazing how a simple choice could turn your life upside down. For Dan it had been a matter of cheating or not. He did it and he suffered the consequences big time. It was much worse than being grounded for life or having privileges taken away. The people he had cared about were gone, so the only thing that seem right to turn to was the dark path.

Phoenix laughed again as her long black dress with a split up the left side that stopped at the middle of her thigh and hugged her hour glass figured went with the flow. It was bitter. She was the only one that Dan had. It had been a few months- actually a year- and she was sure he had given up on her coming to save him. She bet he hadn't even expected it, but she had to lay low for a while. The observants and Clockwork were still looking for her and though she too existed outside time there were ways they could catch her, especially since she didn't want to fight them. She had done enough fighting, killing, and destroying in the last ten, well eleven now, years. It was enough.

She sighed as she took off the crystal around her neck after having put it back on a week or so ago. She had long since figured out it was helping her gain her humanity back and she barely had a fifth of it back and she was already seeing an aversion to fighting and killing unless it was necessary.

Choices... She went back to the day she made her choice ten years ago a little after her fifteenth birthday. It was all for him though.

/Flashback/

Everything was happening fast as the ground shook and the sky was dark. She ran back inside her large home looking for her god- sister and Silver Moon. Tears were streaming down her face.

"What happened?" Silver Moon asked.

"They're dead. That ghost... He- He killed them." Sam was able to stutter.

"It's alright. Everything will be okay." Silver Moon tried to assure Sam, but it was pretty hard when Silver Moon didn't look like she believed it.

"No, it won't. He's coming here." Sam panicked. "There's nothing left for him to destroy but this place."

"What are we going to do?" Aly asked obviously scared.

Sam could feel him. He was nearby. They had to get out. If they didn't leave now they had no chance of making it and they still had a slim to none chance of living if they did that.

"Go," Sam said to the only two people she had left.

"What?" Aly asked shaking in fear.

"I'll hold him off. You and Silver Moon can take my motorcycle." she said referring to the one the latter had built for her.

"Sam we can't-." Sam cut her god- sister off.

"Don't make this harder. If you leave on it now you can escape and be long gone before he can come after you. Go to Amity Park. They have defense against him. The people there will help you." Sam said as his presence came closer. "Go now."

Aly and Silver Moon went to the downstairs area where the bike was stepping over a piece of the ceiling that had fallen. Aly looked back at Sam with tears in her eyes for what she thought would be the last time.

"Good- bye sis."

Sam nodded and then turned around. He was here and she was ready to face him. The wall in front of her was blasted to pieces and in front of her stood the thing that had destroyed the city which had been her home for the last fifteen years. He looked down at her and she stared at him defiantly.

"Why do you not cower in my presence?" he asked her with no kind of emotion apparent in his tone.

"I have nothing to fear but death and if that's what it comes to, so be it. But I will never fall without a fight." she glared.

"You're just a mere child. What can you do?"

In the blink of an eye Sam was her alter- ego, The Black Phoenix. She took out her black leather whip and cracked it.

"More than you know." she said and lunged at the ghost.

The fight was on and it raged across the property of the house which in the process of the fight was destroyed. He frowned. He wasn't even using a tenth of his power to defend himself from her, yet it she was fairing well for no one had been able to take on that. This girl was intriguing to him. She caught his attention.

He smirked as she tried to punch him and he grabbed her fist, squeezed it tight, and threw her hard into the pile of rubble that had once been a luxurious home. She glared up at him ready for whatever wrath he was about to bring down on her, but was surprised at what he did.

"What's your name?" he asked staring into her violet eyes.

"Sam, Sam Manson." she replied weakly.

"No I mean in this powered up form." he said.

"Black Phoenix. What's it to you?"

"You have the potential to be a strong ally. I need a sidekick. What do you say?" he proposed

Black Phoenix couldn't deny it. She was drawn to this monster that had killed this whole town, her parents even. She couldn't help it. She was attracted to this monster that she should have been hating. It was as though fate wouldn't allow her to do it.

"If I'm anything, I'm your partner. I don't do the sidekick thing. We're equals in this." Black Phoenix responded glaring at him.

"Very well then. My name is Phantom... Dan Phantom."

/Flashback Ends/

Sometimes she wondered what would happen if she had told him no. Maybe he would have let her live and she would have hunted him down and then felt an attraction towards him or maybe he would have killed her and she would have become a ghost that could match him in power. It was too late to know now though.

Phoenix pushed the thoughts out her head as she went into the Time Master's castle. She drifted through it and found the place she was looking for easily enough. It was the room Clockwork watched time, but she had no interest in what was going to happen in the future. There was only one thing she wanted and that was the thermos on the table where Clockwork could keep a close eye on it.

Phoenix picked it up and shook it.

"Dan, are you in there?"

"I was beginning to think that you would never come and I would have to stay in this think for the rest of my afterlife." Dan's emotionless, cold, lifeless voice came through the metal container.

"I came didn't I? I could have just let you rot in there." Phoenix said before opening the container and Dan came out.

He looked at his hand turning it back and forth. "Finally, Now I can get my revenge on that-."

Phoenix cut him off. "It's enough of that Dan. No more killing for the heck of it. It's over. Your past self is much more powerful than last time you met and this time he's got a partner."

"Who?" Dan asked.

"My past self." Phoenix replied simply.

"Either way I can still beat him."

"No Dan." Phoenix said firmly. "Aren't you tired of destroying and killing? Why can't we just settle down? I mean you have an adult human disguise you can wear and I'm still a human woman."

"You've been wearing that crystal, haven't you?" Dan asked looking at her with annoyance in his eyes.

"So what if I have and even if you don't like it you don't have a choice because in the past year I've been practicing old spells that are in my races history and I've enchanted that thermos to disable your powers and capture you if you try and destroy something or someone without having a good reason. So either we settle down and move on with the rest of our lives... or in your case afterlife or you get locked back up in this." Phoenix held up the thermos.

Dan rolled his eyes in annoyance. She had thought of everything and there was no way he was going back in that cramped thing.

"Fine then Phoenix but it won't change the fact that I only think of you as an accompanist and nothing more." he set.

"You won't admit it Dan, but I'm the only one you have and you need me more than you think." Phoenix turned her back to him as she floated out the room.

"Where are we staying? Here?" Dan asked since he knew she was calling the shots.

"No way. I'm not staying in the ghost zone. We're staying in Amity Park." Phoenix declared.

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So how did you like the first chapter? It was easy to write. Now comes the hard part. What's going to come in between...Oh sorry while I'm here dwelling in my head here's your sneak peek:

"Okay, disguise yourself Dan." she raised an eyebrow and tapped her foot.

"Why? No one is here but me and you."

"Dan!"

Dan rolled his eyes as she held up the thermos in her hands. "Fine," he gave in. He really didn't want to go back in that thing.

A red smoke appeared around him and when done, Dan was standing in his human disguise...

"I hate this. I'm a ghost and disguised as a human." he commented.

I promised to have this up and I won't break my word, so I hope you enjoyed. R&R.