Chapter One: Assurance
There has always been a mysterious and dangerous place, violent as it was, and yet connecting everything within it much like the universe connects all galaxies in existence. Purple doors and green portals that led to different Realms, lairs, and even the timeline have also littered the green abyss as long as any ghost's memory existed before their death.
The Ghost Zone.
However, there was one place in the Ghost Zone very few had ever entered. One place that even ghostly inhabitants knew better than to trespass, except if they have a reasonable explanation.
There was one thing, though, that made 'this place' so unique. Unlike anywhere in the Ghost Zone, this place surrounded by giant clock gears.
This place was known as The Dark Zone.
In the Dark Zone there was a large citadel that was made of towers and clock gears. Time itself seem to bend around this lair, breaking laws and doing as it wished. It was here one of the most powerful ghosts to ever exist resided. This was his home. And his name was Clockwork.
Master of All Time.
For centuries this ghost had stayed in his tour, watching and guarding the time streams to make sure time was not interfeared with. Very rarely did he interact with the living world, and never had he form an attachment with a human. Of course, that had all changed when he officially met Daniel James Fenton a.k.a Danny Phantom, a half-human half-ghost hybrid that just saved the world from a deadly asteroid, by turning the whole earth intangible and can manage to keep his secret identity.
He hadn't been surprised though, strange things often happened to the young fourteen-year-old.
Such as becoming half-ghost, for starters. Grinning to himself Clockwork waved his staff, the mirrors in front of him changing their image to reflect the half-ghost back to him.
The young halfa was changing back into his human half, home from one of his Late-Night-Ghost-Hunting. Collapsed on his bed with a loud 'thud' trowing the covers over him. When the young one finally into a peaceful slumber. A strange green glow appears on his wrist underneath the covers.
Frowning the ghost sighed, knowing it was almost time.
"Daniel James Fenton. Daniel Phantom, you have a long journey ahead of you." Watching his screens as flashes and pieces of the future rushed by Clockwork's gaze saddened, "And there is a chance it will not end well for you. Bu do not worry, my son, you will not face this callenges alone. You will have many there with you, whether be ghost or human."
"You will have your family, small one."
Darkness. Darkness and gray. That's all Danny could see when he opened his eyes. The half-ghost looked around his surroundings, the first thing he noticed that he was in ghost form. The second thing he noticed that he was in some kind of a forest.
"How the heck did I get here?" He murmured to himself, as he looked around the woods. Glancing up Danny saw the sky was dark with clouds, rolling thunder lightning the clouds in a way to where it looked as if it was bleeding red. This was a landscape that reminded him of war and death, like when he fought Pariah Dark or Dan.
Danny shuddered at the thought.
'I must be dreaming again' He may be used to these dreams, but that doesn't mean he was any less concern about it. The teen didn't know if it's a sign or not, the dreams weren't anything nightmarish... But they were starting to be.
A soft growl pushed Danny out of his thoughts, when he look up he saw two glowing red eyes staring down at him calmly. Danny didn't know why, but he felt something inside him urging him to come forward.
The teen took unconcious steps forward. Immediately, he found himself trapped in those bright red 'orbs' and he couldn't look away. Danny suddenly stopped after seeing the eyes moving closer to him.
The slowly came out from the shadows, the creature slowly coming towards him. The teen didn't move or react, he just stared with wide eyes at the sight.
A dragon.
If Danny haven't met Dora, and didn't fight ghosts in many shapes and forms he might have been freaked out right now.
The dragon have dark grey scales. The scales on the back of the dragon and also those on the back of his wings were dark black, just like Danny's hazmat suit. The dragon's belly and the drawings on the inside of his wings were murky white.
The teen slowly raised a hand, and gently touched the dragon between his nostrils, making him purring in contentment while looking at Danny calmly. The young half-ghost suddenly felt something while looking at those red pupil-less eyes, it felt like... familiarity.
Suddenly Danny's right wrist began to glow bright green. The teen gasp as he felt an odd sensation that began to spread in his body, when he touched his wrist, and he realized that it was frozen cold!
And it appears that it had a glowing green symbol, on his inner whist.
The teen felt a terrible headache coming in, before he fell to his knees and felt his vision started darkening.
The last thing he saw was the dragon's worried eyes.