This is for Hellbreaker. He really liked my last story enough to stick with it as fast as it came and as soon as it was over. I told him this would be longer and better. I think that it is off to a great start.


Sam groaned as she crawled out of bed and onto the sun warmed floor of her large bedroom.

"Man," she grumbled. "I hate the mornings." With that she headed for her shower where she closed the door and began her morning ritual of waking up. Didn't take long, even warm to scalding water seemed to wake the Goth from her sleep. She was so against getting up so early, but she knew that it being the last day of high school that it was important. After all she graduated today and then just a month down the road she turned eighteen. She was so looking forward to getting out of the hell hole she called home. With a shiver she exited her shower and grabbing a large, black cotton towel headed for her room. Upon covering herself she moved to her closet. Long ago she had replaced several items of her attire, mostly the out fits, but never her boots. Those were her favorite kind and had remained her favorite kind of shoes, especially the ones with the steel toe. Her friends had kidded that she would be married in those shoes and with a smirk she agreed causing the pair of boys to become silent. "What to wear?" she asked her closet. No answer. That was fine, she wasn't expecting one. As she grabbed her newest outfit the door to her room burst open to reveal her father and mother. "WHAT THE FUCK?!" the Goth screamed, her amethyst eyes flashing in anger as she threw her clothes onto her unmade bed before pulling her towel closer to her slender form. The towel covered her to her knees, but the top half did nothing to cover her breasts, which had grown practically overnight. She had used her tops to cover them so that no one else noticed the handfuls, but today she had decided that they could breathe. "Get the hell out of my room, you perverts!" she screamed at her parents in horror and anger, her eyes burning into the pair of overly happy adults. When they did nothing she screamed, her voice reaching several miles away causing another teen to roll out of bed, his blue eyes ever alert.

"Sam?" he grumbled. "What the hell?" With a flash of light he turned ghost and headed to his friend's house where he phased through the walls only to come across a very irate Sam standing off with her parents who were just feet from the fuming young adult.

"If you do not get your fucking asses out of my room I will fucking blast you with the Fenton's newest weapon!" the Goth promised. Danny would have chuckled until he noticed that Sam was naked, well, just about naked. The towel she wore covered almost all of her save for some of her pale slender legs and her upper body, which he could only see the back of since she was facing away from him. With a growl he moved to stand in front of her. She could not see him as he was intangible, but that didn't matter for what he was about to do. He grabbed her parents and yanked them out of her room before shutting the door and heading home. Sam looked shocked for all of two seconds before smirking. Thank god she had a friend who was part ghost.


Danny, on the other hand was still shaking from all he had seen of Sam. He had never seen her half naked and in his mind no one else needed to either. Much less her father! What was wrong with that family? What mother allowed the father of a teen female into her room with her barely covered?! Heading back into his room he sighed. His family was pretty weird, but his mother never came into his room unannounced. She kept her distance from his room when he hit twelve. She preferred not to catch him in the act. He had blushed and left the room the last time she had used those words.

Parents were so embarrassing, but that was about to change. He was eighteen and now he was done with high school, thanks to Tuck and Sam, that is. They had helped him capture ghosts and keep his grades B's and C's with one A. Thank god! This was the year that they could officially move out of their parents' houses. He knew that Sam was looking forward to it and he was a little bit as well. His parents stopped hunting him after they found out last year that he was the ghost boy, Danny Phantom. They had been a little upset that he had never told them, but after Phantom Planet they had come to know that he was the ghost who saved them on a pretty regular basis and that Vlad was the one really doing all the evil things along with several other ghosts.

Lately all of that had quieted down though. Vlad had pretty much doomed himself from ever coming back to Earth and the ghosts had settled down a little. There were some, like the Box Ghost, who came back every week or so to terrorize civilians, but nothing big had happened in a while. His sister had told them, thinking that Danny had died just after the ship he had been flying had came out of the Ghost Zone where it came at the large building they had been watching in before it hit a mountain behind them. As the snow had fallen off the mountain and the skies had become dark, the red headed girl had turned to her parents with a crying Sam held close to her and told them their son was Danny Phantom. When they looked to his two friends for confirmation Tuck had nodded while Sam had buried her head further into Jazz, but only for moments when Danny exited the large ghost portal with a smile on his face and several thousands of ghosts on his trail, all looking straight with no hint of emotion. That was when life had changed.

"Danny!" his mother called up the stairs. "Sam and Tucker are waiting for you!" A loud honk filled the air. Danny smirked. Tucker had gotten a new truck, his parents had promised him that they would buy him one when he was in his senior year of high school. His grades had always been good, like Sam's always was. He never understood how he had such great friends, but back to Tuck's car. I mean that was a thing of beauty, though Sam hated the gas guzzling thing she rode with them on the occasion, like today. The truck was a large, yellow H3 Hummer. It was a very magnificent vehicle and Danny himself wanted one. Though he knew if he asked for a car his father would make him one that his mother would insist, with his father, that it needed all sorts of ghost equipment. Sure, they stopped hunting him, but they were still Ghost Hunters and wanted their halfa child to have all they could give him for doing what pretty much amounted to what they were doing too. That was so not happening. Grabbing his clothes and changing into them in less then two minutes and was out the door to meet his friends in the growling yellow Hummer.

"Hey, dude," Tuck said with a smile as Danny jumped into the passenger seat. Sam never sat up front. She hated the car and then only reason she rode in it was when it was necessary and today was graduation, no real school day so she didn't really feel like walking. He looked back at her with a smile. She smiled back. Tucker looked between the two. "So, what's the smile about." The pair turned to him as Sam told him what had happened that morning at her house. "Ah, so you shoved her parents out the door after you, her male friend had done the same thing?" Sam said nothing as she looked at Danny.

"I saw nothing. My concern was the fact that your father was in your room," the dark haired male said as he turned from Sam's gaze. "What parent, male or female, walks in on their teenager?" Tuck nodded. That made sense. You should knock and then enter, but from what he understood that was not what had happened and then her parents had refused to leave the room at her insistence. Guess, it was a good thing that Danny had been there to "escort" them out of the female's room. Silence filled the large interior of the Hummer as Tucker backed up turned the vehicle toward Casper High.

"Thank god that this is the last day of school. I was beginning to think that it would never end." Both boys nodded. When Danny's identity had come out one of the students had found out and slowly it had made it's way around the school. Soon girls were crushing on him and giving him all sorts of gifts and love letters. Sam had frowned at it all, but all she wanted was for Danny to be happy and if it meant giving him up then she would do it. She had loved her best friend for years and all it had gotten her was heartache, but that never stopped her from loving him from afar. With a grimace she wondered what he would think of her new look. He had yet to notice as she was covered in her ceremonial robes, minus the hat. She was not wearing that thing. She had recolored the whole outfit of course and now stood in black and purple with a dash of midnight blue on the edge. All and all it had come out looking better then she had thought. Her mother of course had nearly had a heart attack while her father had covered his eyes in shame.

"So, what is up with you today?" her friend, the techno-geek inquired as he turned to her. "Knowing you it is something fun and something that will piss off a large group of the masses." The goth smirked. He knew her well enough. "You are the Valedictorian after all."

"You will see soon enough," the dark haired girl remarked causing her friends to both look at her questionably. "You will see," she promised again as Tuck pulled into a parking place, his large Hummer almost too big for the small spots. Sam was the first out, her gown billowing around her as she made a line for the school leaving the two males to watch her disappear into the school.

"I wonder?" Tuck mused as they headed toward the school as well. The first period was free for all to get their selves together for the upcoming event in the next hour. As they headed for the lunch room where the large group of seniors had gathered they wondered what their dark haired friend had in mind. Entering the lunch room brought several girls toward the pair, most for Danny, but Tuck had managed to gain popularity as well. He loved it all, while Danny, though loving that Paulina and Valerie gave him attention, was not as fond of it and Sam, well, she hated it. Danny watched now as she entered the stage before them, her amethyst eyes looking in disgust at all the male attention. She hated that and he knew that she did, but she said nothing to them about it and continued with her life as if it had not changed. Just as she took a step a male entered the cafeteria and headed for her. The male was roughly as tall as Danny, a cool six foot, but he had dark brown hair that glinted muddy red in the light from the sun streaming into the full room.

"Hey, Sam!" the male called causing all of the men in the room to glare while the women all looked at him in lust. His skin was light, like he had seen the sun as often as once a month while his green eyes gleamed with happiness at the sight of the goth woman before him. The woman in question looked up and a tentative smile crossed her lips as she headed for him, then the smile bloomed full.

"Hey Denial," she said as she hugged the much taller male. "Good to see that you could make it." He stood back and looked her up and down.

"Still the same Sammy!" he said as he pulled her into a longer hug causing her to squeak. "So," he started as he pulled back again. "The group is here and are setting up right now. We need like fifteen to set up and then we are ready to rock. Are you ready?" The goth nodded as she followed him out of the cafeteria and into the morning light. Danny watched, his eyes flashing green. Who was this guy? Just then Lancer came in, his form still that from several years back, but now he was the principal.

"I would like to have everyone's attention. This year the school is proud to say that we have a great surprise for Casper High and for Amity in general. This graduation is sponsored by a music group that has promised live music." A cheer rose through the room. "They will start the graduation off with some music and end it as well playing a total of three songs." Just then the room began to shake as music filled the air. Everyone got up and scrambled for the door where they were released into the courtyard. Their parents were slowly filling seats as a group of two guys and one girl stood jamming out to wordless music. As soon as they saw the group of seniors the music died.

"Hello, Casper High! My name is Denial and our group is called Gothic Ruins!" A cheer rose over the crowd again, this time louder then before. Denial stepped back, the guitar around his neck swinging. He grabbed it as the man standing to his right tuned his bass and the girl between them began to tap on her drums before really cranking it up.

"I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know!"

A female voice filled the air as a slender form appeared from behind the drummer. The form was so obviously female as she moved forward, her long gown shifting with her as she stepped into the light.

"I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you!"

The girl who stepped forward was not a girl, but a woman that everyone in the crowd knew. Her voice was smooth and melodic. Everyone grew silent for minute as Denial moved to her right side and began to sing the next verse.

"I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear!"

Danny stared, his blue eyes widening inch by inch as he watched Sam belt it out with Denial. He didn't know what to say. Paulina looked over at him from his right while Valerie looked at him from his left.

"Didn't know that she had it in her," the Hispanic girl stated with a frown. This was not her cup of tea, that is to be out done. Valerie nodded.

"Didn't know she could sing." Both girls continued to look at Danny, their eyes taking in his shocked expression. "Danny?" the dark skinned girl asked hesitantly. "Earth to Danny," she said as she waved her hand in front of him. Danny shook his head as he pushed her hand down.

"What?" he asked as his blue eyes turned to her, the look in them still shock, but another emotion that she could not name. "What's up?" The girls shook their heads as they turned back to the crew on stage as Denial pulled Sam close, the song coming to an end.

"I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you!"

Danny watched glumly as his friend smiled at the male next to her before looking over at him. He smiled at her as she waved and then turned back to her band mate.

"We want more!" Dash yelled. "Bring on Sam! She's the girl!" Sam blushed, her eyes sparkling in awe as she nodded. She didn't do this for them, but the rush she got from belting out her true passion. Having Dash like what she did was a perk.

"Okay," said Denial as he stepped back to start the next song. Sam pulled her mic close as she began to sing again.

"Look around your world pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped it'd be
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
The right time to roll to me
Roll to me!"

"Look into your heart pretty baby,
Is it aching with some nameless need.
Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it
Right then, roll to me!"

Sam stepped forward as the song grew silent.

"This is my speech," she said as her black lips twisted into a smirk. "I am going to be in a band! Everyone always says when you make grades like mine that you should grow up to be a doctor or a lawyer, but I say screw them! I make good grades to be what I want when the feeling hits me! This crew behind you is my group! We began last year and after coming home that summer I knew what I would do when my time at Casper High was done. I would travel the world! I could do what I wanted and this is it!" With that she took her diploma and stepped back into the group, her gown thrown off her to reveal an outfit that revealed a lot more then Danny had seen that morning.

"And I don't think I have ever seen a soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through
Guess who will be there?"

"So don't try to deny it pretty baby,
You've been down so long you can hardly see
When the engine's stalled and it won't stop raining
It's the right time to roll to me
Roll to me, Roll to me!"

Danny stood there in shock as everyone walked forward to grab their piece of paper. His eyes flashed green as he approached the group, his name falling from Lancer's lips. The song ended as he headed to his seat. This was not how he expected his summer to begin. Not Sam leaving. He watched as the group began another song. The last song. Sam, clad in a short black skirt complete with a netted black top that revealed her black laced purple bra. Her black, steel toed boots seemed to give some punk to her outfit. Her legs still had her purple stockings while her hair lay in layers down her back, the black gleaming with a deep purple. With a smirk she twisted her head in abandonment.

"She's a rebel
She's a saint
She's salt of the earth
And she's dangerous

She's a rebel
Vigilante
Missing link on the brink
Of destruction

From Chicago to Toronto
She's the one that they
Call old what'sername

She's the symbol
Of resistance
And she's holding on my
Heart like a hand grenade

Is she dreaming
What I'm thinking
Is she the mother of all bombs
Gonna detonate

Is she trouble
Like I'm trouble
Make it a double
Twist of fate
Or a melody that

She sings the revolution
The dawning of our lives
She brings this liberation
That I just can't define
Nothing comes to mind"

Danny watched as she sang, her eyes shinning like they did when they went ghost hunting. Sam loved this just like she liked the thrill of ghost hunting, but she was giving up on it to go around the world with a guy named Denial. Was that not so twisted? Denial. He had always denied so much with her. He denied that she would change. He denied that she would leave him and he had denied that he loved her. He loved her and now she was leaving! She finished her final song and bowing into a low, very dramatic bow she turned from the school crowd and headed down the stairs as the band began to dismantle. Sam headed for him, her cheeks flushed.

"Sooo," she drug out. "What do you think?" Danny looked at her as though he had never seen her causing the goth to frown. "Danny?" He nodded.

"You were great, but the band..." he faded off as her head tilted to the right a little.

"Do you have a problem with what I am doing?" He shook his head. "Good. I plan on being gone for six months and then I will be back." She pulled him close, her half naked form warm from rocking out. "Danny, I will see you soon. Have fun with your girlfriends and may life bring you many joys." With that she was gone, a peck on his cheek so chaste he wondered what had happened. What had happened? Tuck came over to him with a little blond girl on his arm. She smiled up at Tuck as he told her that he would meet her later. With a kiss on his waiting lips she was gone.

"Dude? Are you going to let her go?" the techno-geek inquired as he too watched Sam leave. She waved at them and Tuck could tell that she was waiting for Danny to stop her or for him to say something. He waved at her, his eyes flashing green as he turned ghost and headed off toward his house. Tuck sighed as Sam turned, a single tear sliding down her cheek.


This is where I will stop. I hope that you all liked it. Please review no matter what the opinion. I know that it was way too long for a first chapter, but I might cut them in half from here on in. Thanks for reading.