A King is born
Chapter 1: A Prince is born
"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings" Horace
Brrrrrrrring "Ah man! late again?" The speaker; a young, not quite fourteen year old boy bemoaned as he rushed to class. This is Danny Fenton, an average, unassuming young boy in his first year of high school.
As he entered the room all eyes fell on him, none so scathing as that of the teacher, Mr Lancer.
"Glad to see you could join us Mr Fenton." He uttered with disdain. "I hope you have your assignment? If not, a better excuses then "My dog ate my homework is needed"" He finished tiredly.
"Um, my dinner ate it?" at this the whole class erupted into mocking laughter. Who would ever believe that? Danny sighed as he sat down, yet again the laughing stock of the room. It's not his fault his parents keep experimenting with ecto energy. Now everyone at Murakami High knew him as the freak with ghost hunters as parents, and unlike his sister, he didn't have high grades to hide behind.
Danny and his family had moved to Jump City when he was five years old. While his birth town of Amity Park was useful for his parents research, funding for it ran dry. That is until one of their inventions was noted by an employee of Wayne Enterprises and suddenly they were offered a large endorsement. The only term was that they needed to move closer to the company.
Eventually the class settled down and Danny returned to his seat. Looking next to him he noticed that once again all of his class's popular girls were ogling pictures of the schools star athlete, Victor Stone. Now don't get him wrong, Danny didn't dislike the guy, he was just jealous.
Victor was the schools all Star athlete and he had the brains to Ace most of his tests as well, when he chose too. (The most common rumour was that his parents were testing all sorts of weird intelligence boosting devices and drugs on him, but who would ever believe that, right?) So of course he was also one of the most popular students. Although, recently he had been seen hanging out with one of the schools delinquents', Ron Evers.
Suddenly Danny felt a light tap on his shoulder and turned around. Behind him sat his best friend since Kindergarten, Tucker Foley, an African-American boy with an unhealthy obsession with technology. "Hey man, trouble at home?" he asked with a smile Danny laughed quietly before responding. "Yeah, dad brought the sausages back to life again" at this Tucker joined Danny in Laughter
With a small cough and glare, Mr Lancer brought the two teens' attention back. Turning away from the his friend, Danny turned his mind back too what Lancer was saying.
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock; The meat it feeds on." Lancer droned a verse from the book in his hand. Danny sighed again as the Bald teacher continued.
As with all things, the day eventually ended and Danny headed home, stopping at Tucker's to say goodbye on the way. Arriving at a large brick house, the same as the rest in his neighbourhood, except for a giant UFO like object on the top and large neon sign proclaiming it to be the Fenton household. He opened the door, only to be met by the hulking shape of his bright, orange jumpsuit clad father, Jack Fenton, who suddenly picked him up and began a long tirade about ghosts and such. Eventually he got to his point.
"Danny my boy! Your mother and I have just finished our greatest work yet! A portal into the Ghost Zone and you're just in time to see it activated!" Before he even had a chance to utter a single word he and his father were down stairs and in there basement.
While most home basements were turned into storage areas or personal spaces, his was turned into a lab and there against the far wall was a large octagonal shaped machine with a black and yellow diagonally striped door.
Next to it stood his mother, Maddie Fenton, as usual clad in her blue jumpsuit and red goggles "Hi sweetie, How was your day?" she asked before being interrupted by Jack "Never mind that, It's time to bring this beauty to life! BANZAI!" Jack connected the power cables, activating the portal. The portal sparked but nothing else happened. Both parents turned to one another confused.
"That's strange, all of my calculations and simulations state that it should be working" Maddie glared at Jack. "You didn't mix the ecto purifier with cola again did you?!" Jack glared back at Maddie "Of course not! I made sure of it! See!" Jack pulled out an empty container marked Ecto Purifier. Danny sighed as his parents continued to argue before heading upstairs to his room.
Crashing at his desk, Danny took out his homework but didn't get very far before his parents arguing became too loud. Closing his book, he started his computer up, put headphones on and began playing video games before going to bed.
The next Day.
Danny was woken to the sound of his parents once again arguing about the portal. Breakfast was a difficult affair as his parents kept glaring at each other and his toast kept trying to bite him. Eventually giving up on a peaceful meal, he threw away his toast and went for the door.
As he opened the door his sister, Jasmine 'Jazz' Fenton appeared next to him and offered him a ride to school. While driving Jazz began to talk. "Don't worry about mom and dad Danny, they'll sort this out in a few days. For now, just try and concentrate on school" At this Danny rolled his eyes at her, but gave a small smile still.
As they arrived at school, Danny noticed that a lot of the girls were looking down, but didn't really pay them much attention. His mind was too caught up in his parents' current fight too really care about what was bothering them. "Probably just some make-up company shut down or a band was disbanded or something" He thought to himself.
Without a sound Tuck appeared on one side of Danny, having noticed the downtrodden look on his face. Tuck was the first to speak. "You alright dude?" "Yeah, its just my parent's new invention failed and they wont stop fighting about it." Danny shrugged "I'm sure it will be back to normal soon, it's not the first time this has happened. Just taking longer is all." Before Tucker could reply the school bell rang.
Arriving early for class for once, Danny took his seat next to the window and looked outside. A few minutes later the rest of the class arrived, followed by Mr Lancer. As Mr Lancer began to speak, Danny's mind began to drift. "As You all have probably… a terrible accident… as such… at school…" To focused on his parents fight, the last of Lancers' word were lost on him.
This continued for a week, Danny would get home and his parents would be arguing, in the morning they would argue until breakfast, when they would just glare at each other. When his birthday came around, he thought things would be different, but they weren't. In fact they were worse. His dad was currently sleeping on the couch and both parents would hardly be in the same room as the other. It was so bad; they both forgot that it was Danny's birthday.
As Danny returned from another hard day of school and being shoved into lockers, His mother stormed out of the door, completely ignoring him, before marching off down the street. In the house Jack continued to glare for a moment before sighing and sitting down on the couch.
As his father sat moping, Danny decided to do something, anything to get his parents to stop fighting before things became… permanent.
Heading downstairs he moved towards the crux of the problem, the portal. While not as intelligent as his mother or sister when it came to theoretical science and such, Danny had always had a gift for building and operating mechanical craft.
Often he would come downstairs and tinker with his parents discarded equipment, building random devices. He'd once built a prototype hover board out of spare parts, but after it exploded on its first test run, breaking his arm and giving him some nasty burns, his parents had stopped letting him play around in the lab.
Danny took a quick look inside the portal, noticing all the loose wires and such from his parents latest attempt at fixing the device. Danny quickly put on a spare hazmat suit, before noticing the stick-on Jack head. Cringing at his dad's goofiness, Danny ripped the picture off after zipping it up.
Getting himself busy, Danny began re-attaching wires where he believed them to best belong. After an hour of reconstruction, Danny felt that it was time to retry the experiment. Quickly grabbing the two power connectors, Danny turned the machine on. Once again all it did was spark.
Growing frustrated, Danny decided to take a look inside a bit. Stepping into the deactivated portal, Danny placed his hand against the wall for support. As he moved along, Danny felt a part of the wall give way. Looking, he saw that it was an on/off button. Suddenly a loud sputtering sound began as the machine started up, with Danny still inside. "Uh oh"
Before Danny could even take a step back, the Ghost portal began to open. Danny screamed as is body was ripped apart and stitched back together a thousand times over and over again. As the emerging ectoplasm ripped open a portal to the ghost zone, so too did it rip apart Danny, changing his DNA. While in most cases, having your very DNA ripped apart would kill you, due to the strange nature of ectoplasm, the ghostly energy combined and healed Danny's core building blocks.
Eventually Danny was flung out of the portal, crashing head first into the opposite wall. As Danny lost consciousness, the last thing he thought he saw was two white rings spiralling away from each other from his torso. As the white light passed over his head, his world went black.
Upstairs:
Maddie, after walking outside for a bit and letting her temper cool down, returned home to find Jack sitting on the couch with his head in his hands. As she closed the door he looked up at her. Instead of the usual glare that the two had been swapping for the past few day, a look of remorse covered his features. "Mads?" he spoke softly "I, I don't want to fight anymore" Maddie smiled, "Oh Jack, I don't want too either, let's just scrap the portal and try again later" At this the two both smiled at one another.
Suddenly the two paranormal experts heard a loud scream from downstairs. Both Maddie and Jacks' eyes widened as they recognised the agony induced scream of their son. "DANNY!" the both shouted before rushing downstairs. As they got too the door his scream cut off. Just as they took the last step down into the lab they were briefly blinded by a bright flash before their eyes adjusted to the dark.
Two things were noticeable in the room. One, the ghost portal was activated and swirling a toxic green, and two; Danny was lying nearby, still smoking from the accident. As the two rushed over they noticed just how severely burnt he was. Maddie panicked "JACK!, quick call an ambulance!" Reaching down, jack responded, "No time!, we'll have to take the RV!" and with that the giant of a man picked up his son, and rushed upstairs, outside and into the Fenton RV. As mother and father rushed to the hospital regardless of safety or rules, Danny began to stir before crying out in agony every time the RV turned.
After what felt like hours of antagonizing pain, physically for Danny and emotionally for the Fenton's, they arrived at the hospital and rushed Danny into ICU. As the paramedics rushed around the boy, two nurses ushered the Fenton's into a nearby waiting room.
While waiting for news about their son, Maddie began to fill out the needed paperwork as Jack phoned Jazz and informed her about the accident. Within minutes the more calmer, rational Fenton rushed in through the doors, tears streaming down her face and began to ask questions a mile a minute. As Jazz became hysterical, Jack reached out and pulled her into a hug, rubbing her back and just trying to calm her down.
Eventually after about several hours of waiting, a doctor appeared from the emergency room. His Name Tag identified him as Doctor Gibb "Mr and Mrs Fenton?" he asked in a calm manner. "yes?" the two responded worriedly before Maddie continued. "How's Danny?, how is our son?"
Looking calmly at the two jumpsuit clad scientists, the doctor gave his answer. "Your son has received sever electrical burns all over his body." The doctor paused to collect his thoughts. "It's actually a miracle the boy is still in one piece, let alone alive. The amount of damage done, usually results in the underlying tissue melting and fusing together, however your son seems to have been wearing some kind of item of clothing that negated much of this effect." At this the doctor looked up at the two adults dressed in spandex. "I believe on of your suits would be the likely cause."
As the two parents looked at the doctor, he continued. "Now in most cases, burns of this type would cause death, however it seems your son has a bit of a healing factor, and already 10% of the burns he had when admitted have healed" At this the doctor looked sternly at the two Scientists. "For medical purposes I must ask you this, have the two of you been experimenting in any way or form on young Daniel?"
At this both Maddie and Jack stood up, glaring at the doctor. "I would never do such a thing to a child of mine! How dare you even..!" Before Maddie could finish her verbal attack, the doctor interrupted. "I do apologise if I seemed rude, it's just that in most cases like this, a child experiencing a supernatural ability such as your sons usually results from experimentation of some kind. And if you recall both of you claim to be scientists, even if it is a far-fetched science such as Ghost hunting"
Both Maddie and Jack looked affronted at this, but vehemently denied ever performing an experiment on Danny. "Alright then, has the boy shown any signs of his abilities before the accident?" The two parents took a moment to think before Jack shook his head. "When Danny was young, he broke his arm and burnt his leg after an accident at home, and as far as I can remember, it took the normal amount of time to heal"
The doctor once again looked to his notes before continuing. "It's is possible that the high discharge of electricity may have activated a hidden meta-human power. I'll need further observations to be sure," Turning a page the doctor looked up to the parents and smiled. "but judging by the speed at which he's healing he should be able to leave within a week."
At this both parents breathed sighs of relief, before Maddie asked in a small voice, "Will, will we be able to see him yet?" Smiling gently the doctor nodded before signalling for Jazz to follow as he lead them to Danny.
When they found him, he was lying in a bed, completely covered in gauze with in IV drip next to his bed. As all three moved towards the unconscious boy the doctor spoke up one last time before leaving. "I must ask that for now, no physical contact be made. While the drip prevents him from feeling the pain, physical contact will still be too much."
Jack nodded as his wife and daughter sat down beside the youngest Fenton. Taking the last available seat, he held his wife's hand as she cried in relief.
1 Week later
True to the doctors words, within in a week, Danny was healed enough to leave the hospital. While still not fully healed, he could now walk around without pain and physical contact no longer hurt. The doctors had even mentioned that he wouldn't even scar.
As the family left the hospital, Danny turned back and thought of the short while there.
I woke up with a start, before moaning in pain. Trying to move just caused more pain so I stopped doing that. Opening my eyes, I had to blink a few times as the light stung them. Looking around I realised I was in a hospital. Then I remembered. Pressing that button, hearing the portal turn on. Feeling the pain as my body was torn apart and fire racing through my veins. A bright light and then nothing. I should be dead. How am I alive?
Suddenly I heard a sound next to me before my vision was filled by four familiar faces. Mom, Dad, Jazz and Tucker. I tried to smile but realised I couldn't. Panicking I tried to move but once again my body burned in agony. "Honey! Shh, calm down, you're alright! It's alright, we're here. you're going to be ok." as my mom calmed me down I stopped moving. That's when I noticed my entire body was wrapped up like a mummy. Before I could do anything else, my world faded to black.
When I woke again my family was gone. I wasn't alone for long though as soon a nurse walked in, saw me awake and ran to call a doctor. As the doctor entered he smiled at me, a strange sort of knowing smile, before pressing a button. With a jolt my bed began to move. Strangely there was no pain. Walking over to me the doctor began to unwind the bandages around my face before he began to speak.
"Hello Daniel, my name is Doctor Tim C.. Krokelow. but you can just call me Tim, if that's alright?" I slowly nodded my head, still expecting the pain that never came. Tim continued. "You might not remember but you were recently in an accident. You're very lucky to be alive." When he finished undoing the bandages he offered me a glass of water. "Here, drink up. Slowly now, your mouth might still be sensitive so take it easy for now."
As I slowly drank the water the doctor continued to examine my face. Nodding in approval once I had finished the water,he continued. "While the electrical shock that you experienced burnt most of your flesh, it also saved your life." I looked at the doctor sceptically. What the hell was he talking about? Saved my life?! The damn thing near killed me! Seeing my face the doctor continued. "When the machine activated, your body began to regenerate from the damage. While slow, it was fast enough to save your life."
"Are you saying I got some weird super power from the accident? Cause that's crazy!" Even as I said this, I could feel my body heal, something I had never felt before. It was like a small tingling sensation, like an itch you want to scratch but cant find the right spot. "It's probably just a temporary side effect of the accident and should go away in a few days. I want you to know that I'll be monitoring your health for any dangers, should anything go wrong. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask."
I shook my head. "No." This was all to much. I just wanted to be left alone now. I suddenly felt sleepy and barely heard the doctor "Very well then, good luck young Prince. Rest well, your parents will be here too see you in the morning." With that the strange doctor left the room and I fell asleep.
The next morning I was woken by a nurse, who brought me a tray of food and water, with some small pills. While I had often heard people criticise hospital food, it wasn't half bad. The pills where hard to swallow as my throat was still dry, but I managed it eventually.
Soon my parents, Jazz and Tuck all walked in, excited to see me up and about. Well not necessarily about but I was sitting up in bed reading a book on constellations. We talked for a bit and laughed when Tuck told us about the latest incidents at school. It didn't feel like long before they had to leave and I was once again left alone.
I was just getting to a good part in my book when it happened. My book suddenly fell through my hands. Not out, through. I looked at my arms and I freaked. They were slightly see-through! Straight away they returned to normal and I eventually calmed down when I was able to pick up my book. I thought that it was just my imagination, but it kept on happing throughout the day. I would pick up something, only for it to fall through my fingers. I even fell out of my bed once.
This continued for the rest of my stay. Fortunately it never seemed to happen while anyone else was around. I just hoped it was just another side effect of the accident.
Dr Tim came to see me the day I was scheduled to be released, holding a clipboard in one hand. "Good Morning Daniel, Excited to finally go home?" I nodded quickly, having gotten bored lying in bed most of the time. "Good. Now there's just a few more things I need to go through before you can leave." He began to give me a regular check-up, listening to my heart, checking my temperature etc, when I remembered something I had meant to ask him.
"Um, Doctor Tim..." "Please, just call me Tim" he smiled. "Uh, Tim? Why did you call me Prince that one time?" He looked at me closely for a second before answering. "I don't know, you sort of remind me of a Prince from a story I know. I guess I wasn't really thinking." He laughed. "Sorry if I offended you in anyway." "No, no it's fine, I was just curious." He continued with my check up before telling me that I was fit for release. "
"I must ask that you don't do anything physically straining for a while. Your body still isn't 100 % healed yet and you may hurt yourself." For once he actually looked serious. "I wont."I promised. He smiled at me again before helping me into a wheelchair and too the door. When I got there my family was waiting.
The drive home was uneventful. Maddie and Jack were silent for most of the trip, just glad Danny was okay. Jazz wasn't able to make it as she was still in school so Danny entertained himself by texting Tucker.
A week after leaving the Hospital, Danny was able to return to school. Even though it had been a week, the 'side-effects' of his accident continued to plague him. In fact, they had worsened. While he still would constantly shift into intangibility, he was now also shifting out of view completely, having freaked when he woke one morning without arms. Fortunately his arms returned before his parents entered his room and he was able to play it off as a nightmare.
At school, some students welcomed him back while others treated him as if he never left. He was still a nobody at school. The only one to truly care about his return was Tucker. "Welcome back dude! We've got so much to catch you up on." and so Tucker began to clue Danny up on all of the latest news from school. Danny was surprised to hear that Victor had left the school, and even more so about why.
Soon the bell rang, forcing the two friends to rush to class. Quickly taking there seats, the two friends prepared to once again sit through a boring class with Mr Lancer.
"Good morning class, and welcome back, Mr Fenton. I hope you're fully recovered from your mishap?" Danny just nodded in confirmation before Mr Lancer continued. "Well, its good to see you back, and just in time to meet our new student."
He indicated towards the door, which opened drawing the rest of the classes attention. In walked a girl their age with fair skin, dark hair done up in a ponytail with a green hair tie, purple lipstick and violet eyes. She was dressed in very Gothic clothing. She had a black choker around her neck, a black tank top with an oval in the centre that exposed her midriff, a black striped skirt with a green cross-hatch print. purple leggings and black combat boots. Two black bracelets also wrapped around both wrists.
Mr Lancer spoke to the girl. "Please, introduce yourself" Looking at the class, she spoke with a dark foreboding voice. "Hi, I'm Sam Manson"
Hey everyone! It's been over a year since I lost posted anything XD. I did have some stuff ready for my previous story, but unfortunately I lost all of that when my computer crashed. I may one day go back and continue/redo it but for now I'm going to focus on this story.
I'm not sure what kind of schedule I'm going to be on yet. This Chapter took me a while to write, mostly cause its original (I hope) and I needed to do research on certain things. I don't expect as much trouble in future chapters, as I have the general plots sorted out, but who knows what could happen.
I would like to ask just 1 thing, I would like to know if there is anyone willing to be a beta tester for me. While my comprehension of the language is alright, I tend to create a few mistakes while writing. It doesn't help that I'm dyslexic, although it's not very severe. g
Hope you all enjoyed this Chapter and I can't wait to here feedback so punch the review button, in the face. LIKE A BOSS. And, high fives all around! (Yes I know its stolen but I love the guy!)
