Maiden- So it's been like, four years, since I started this story! And I think it's safe to say I've matured a lot since 17! Now that I'm 21, I'd like to rewrite most of the chapters to give this piece a more grown up feel. None of the plot has changed, just the sentence structures and I've added a little more detail. Enjoy!
Danielle Fenton
Chapter 1- The Second Halfa
Sky blue eyes watched the scene below him with a satisfied smile. Amity Park no longer feared or resented the 'ghost boy'. Instead, he was celebrated as a hero. All thanks to a raven haired girl who now occupied is arms, and class ring. Danny's fingers traced carefully over the turquoise stone that Sam now wore on her left hand. He'd changed a lot in the past year. He'd grown from a dorky 14 year old, to a super-powered and much loved 15 year old. Of course his bond with Sam and Tucker was anything but forgotten. Danny was well aware he wouldn't be where he is now without his best friends. He never would've gotten his powers, never would've gained self confidence, strength and courage. But above all, he never would've gotten the small, eerily similar figure that flitted across the open sky, waving goodbye before she went about her way. Danny had come to love Danielle like a younger sister, and hated to see her leave. But the stubborn and hotheaded girl refused to stay in one spot for too long. Now, Danny could only watch as she slowly disappear in the distance.
"Sam?" he asked, as the applause from the towns' people died down from Tucker's inaugural speech. The raven beauty turned to look her new boyfriend in the eyes. "I think it's time I come clean. About Phantom..."
"What do you mean? Tell the public?"
"Not at first...I mean tell my parents."
"Whatever you decide, I'll support you." Sam smiled sincerely.
Danny walked through the door of Fenton Works, expecting his parents to be babbling on about finding and 'dissecting' the ghost boy. But what he found, was shocking to say the least. Mady, Jack and Jazz were waiting for him in the living room. The look in his sister's eyes told Danny they already knew.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Mady asked, her hazmat hood pulled down so her violet eyes could look directly into her son's.
"It's hard to slip 'I'm the ghost boy' into a conversation when you and dad are always bantering on about 'killing a ghost'." Danny rolled his eyes.
"That shouldn't have mattered, Danny. We're your parents, so you should be able to come to us with anything."
"How did all this start?" Jack finally asked.
"The ghost portal." Danny sighed. "Back when you guys first built it, Sam dared me to go inside to figure out why it didn't work. There was a button I hit that activated it and that's what gave me my powers. Soon after that, I kinda became Amity's personal superhero."
"You mean you've been fighting these rogue ghosts all this time?" Mady asked, thoroughly surprised.
"Yeah...but I've had some help. Sam and Tucker have always been there for me. And of course Danielle."
"Who's Danielle?"
"Long story."
"Trust me, they'll want to know this." Jazz smirked from the sofa. Danny sent his sister an evil glare before proceeding to tell his parents about the young ghost hybrid that was cloned from him thanks to Vlad.
"Danny, find her and bring her home." Mady spoke seriously. "She's a part of you, therefore, a part of this family."
Danny couldn't agree more. Although it was easier said than done. Danielle had always been a kindred spirit and hard to locate. So, he, Sam and Tucker tried everything they could think of to track her.
After about a year, they finally got a lead. Jazz just happened to find a green hairband with a few raven locks intertwined in it. She had a hunch it was Danielle's, so she asked Tucker to confirm. It was indeed the ghost girl's, so they used this to track her. Once they got an exact location, Danny prepared to head out in the specter speeder.
"Be careful, man." Tucker grinned, patting his best friend on the back.
"I will, Tuck. Don't you guys worry about me. I'll bring her home."
"You better come back to me, Fenton." Sam threatened lightly. She and Danny had been an item for over a year and couldn't be happier.
"I will, babe. You should get to know your new little sister." he smiled cunningly.
"Danny, what are you talking about?"
"This." he chuckled, dropping to one knee and taking a box from his pocket. He opened the small black container to reveal an amethyst ring.
"Samantha Taylor Manson, I know we're only 16, but I've never been so sure of anything. You've taught me to live life to the fullest and never back down from anything. Maybe not right now, maybe not this year, but I gotta know...will you marry me someday?"
"Not my ideal proposal...but why not?" Sam smiled, kissing him lightly while he slipped the ring on her finger. Sitting it next to his class ring.
Tucker snickered to himself and snapped a few pictures with his PDA. Neither Sam or Danny noticed or even cared.
Danny broke the kiss to give Sam one last heroic smile, before he set out. Once inside the specter speeder, he changed into Danny Phantom.
Inside was enough food and supplies to last him about a week, including a pair of Fenton Phones, a walkie talkie, the Boo-merang, and a first aid kit.
Inside the infinite realm of the ghost zone, Danny encountered many of his past ghostly enemies. But thanks to a modification, courtesy of Tucker, a forcefeild surrounded the vehicle. Making it utterly invisible and intangible.
According to the schematics from Tucker's tracking equipment, Dani would be somewhere near Walker's jail. A place that still made Danny's skin crawl.
After traveling for about 23 hours, the halfa stopped the Spector Speeder about half a mile from the jail. He reverted back to Fenton, remembering that humans were the ghosts in the ghost realm. Danny easily phased through the walls and bars of the jail, following the tracker that locked onto Dani's ecto signature.
The twilight hours showed that many of the prisoners and guards were asleep, so Danny had no problem getting around them unseen.
The devise he held led him to the very back of the prison to a cell that had a ghost shield around it with many locks and bars crossing over the steel door.
"This has to be it." Danny thought to himself as he phased through the door. Azure eyes scanned the dimly lit cell to find it empty, or nearly so.
In the far corner, chained to the wall with ecto cuffs, was a small bundle. Danny figured it to be his long lost clone, but approached it with caution just in case he was wrong.
"Danielle?" he called softly. The figure's head moved up a little and icy blue met electric green.
"Danny." the figure responded hoarsely.
Danny deduced the voice as feminine and around early teenage years. He walked a few feet closer to see that it was indeed Dani. She was about a foot taller than she was when she was 12. Her snowy white hair was dull and dirty and had grown out of it's former ponytail. Her spandex suit was worn, filthy and ripped up.
"Danielle, what happened?" Danny asked, freeing her of her chains with his ghost ray. The second the cuffs were no longer touching her skin, she transformed back into a human.
Midnight hair fell loosely around her face and weak blue eyes replaced green. Her light blue hoodie was covered in blood and had a big rip down the center. Her shorts looked like they were about to fall off her and red sneakers looked like they'd been burned.
"Walker." she said choked out. "He captured me 2 years ago after the disasteroid thing. He's held me here ever since." Dani tried to stand up straight, but found her legs extremely weak and unsteady.
Danny could clearly see the girl was unbearably thin. Her childhood clothes hung stupidly from her skeleton frame, much too big for her now.
"Don't push yourself." Danny whispered softly, picking her up bridal style. "I've come to take you home."
Danielle's strength had given out and collapsed in his arms and the elder could see tears coming from the corners of her eyes. He didn't know if they were from pain, exhaustion or relief.
"We're going home." he smiled.
Dani nodded weakly and let Danny carry her out. Once outside the jail cell, Danny went ghost and flew back to the spector speeder.
Once inside, he laid Dani on a cot placed behind his seat and made her drink some water to replenish the clearly dehydrated body. She greedily drank the liquid. Danny took it from her when he saw how quickly the bottle was emptying.
"Take it easy and drink slowly. Rest for right now and we'll be back in Amity before ya know it."
"Ok." and with that, Danielle slipped into a deep sleep. Danny pulled a thick blanket over her and turned up the heat in the cabin before took his place at the controls.
"Goth 1, this is Phantom 1." he called into the talkie. "I've got Danielle and we're heading back."
"Goth 1 here, that's great Danny." Sam responded. "I'll be waiting for you. I love you."
"I love you to, Phantom 1 out."
At six in the evening the next day, Danny drove the speeder through the doors of the Fenton Portal to meet his parents, sister, best friend and girlfriend.
Danny stepped out of the speeder holding the young hybrid in his arms.
"So this is her?" Mady asked, looking at Dani with soft eyes.
"Yep, and she really needs a bath and some clean clothes." replied Danny.
"We can take it from here, son." Jack piped, taking the girl from Danny's arms.
Jack carried his new daughter upstairs and into the bathroom. Jazz and Sam drew a warm bath for her and helped the groggy girl out of her soiled clothes. The moment Dani's skin hit the water, all the impurities on her skin dissolved.
A few minutes later, Dani emerged from the bathroom wrapped in a light blue robe with her dark hair shining again.
Mady, Jazz and Sam went shopping a few weeks ago and bought Dani all new clothes, expecting her to be well grown out of her old outfit.
Sam dressed Dani in some sleepwear which consisted of a light blue t-shirt and navy cotton pants with stars.
"Are you all settled, Danielle?" asked Mady as she came into her daughter's new room.
"Yeah, I'm good, Mrs. Fenton." Dani yawned.
"Call me mom." Mady giggled. "After all, you're my daughter now. You have a family. A mom, dad, brother, sister and two best friends."
"Thanks. For everything, mom." Cerulean blue eyes began to close and sleep overcame the halfa.
"No thanks needed, sweetie.'' said Mady as she kissed Dani's forehead.
