Hey everyone! I'm so excited to introduce you to the next story in the series of Family one is called, The Ties That Bind Us. Thank you to my awesome beta reader, silente faery she's the one that came up with the title! Anyway onto the story. Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, Nickelodeon does.

Time always amused the young halfa. Uncle Clockwork always taught her not to watch it as a parade, like the Observants did, but more as one whole piece of things that may or may not take. It was more fun his way.

"Looking in on your sister again, are you now child?" She jumped at the new voice. Quickly raising her hand to dismiss her watching on the orb, to avoid getting into too much trouble, she turned to look sheepishly at her uncle.

Casting her eyes to the floor to avoid contact, she mumbled, "Maybe."

However, this just earned her a happy chuckle from the elder ghost."You're so much like your dad when it comes to these things. What is Danielle up to?" She grinned, knowing all was forgiven. She was his apprentice after all; she did have some freedom to look at the timelines as she pleased. Besides, she knew she was secretly his favorite out of the three. She knew not to tell her little brother though, he'd get jealous.

"Danielle's the same. I think she and DJ are heading to the movies today, but I know this weekend she's taking me to the mall, while Tucker takes the kids camping. They've been begging to go. Poor Tucker got the short end of the stick on that one."

They both laughed at that. The techno geek, no matter how many years passed, was not one for camping.

Turning a dial on his staff, Clockwork brought up another time. Looking into the orb, he read, October 9th, 2010 and a scene came into focus of her sister, parents, Aunt Valerie, and her brother in law, Tucker, sitting in one of Mr. Lancer's classes. He always taught the most boring classes that would put her to sleep. Which, funny enough, Danielle was doing.

Once she took in her uncle's expression, she realized as to why he was showing her this. "I'm not going home today, am I?" His intimating red eyes settled onto her, a smirk slowly spreads onto his face.

"Nope."

She lets out a small irated huff of air from her lungs. "You've alerted my parents that I'll be gone for a few days, Right?"

He shrugged, "Few days, few weeks. Don't worry child, I told them." He said as he went to retrieve a medallion.

"I'm not a child." She insists, her tone argumentative. Clockwork just ignored her as he swiftly places the artifact around her neck as she asks, "Wait, a few weeks? I have school, how am I supposed to get caught up-"

However, before she was able to finish her sentence, a portal opened and he ushered her into it before it closed. "Don't worry Lilith, you're covered."

"Opf." She grunted as she landed on gravel behind the Nasty Burger. She quickly brushes the hair that was draped over her eyes back behind her ears; rucking it behind her ear. The sky above her was covered in dull empty clouds, no threat of rain came from them yet.

A thin sheet of ice layered the ground, but nothing like the biting cold that the December month would bring in a couple months. It was tolerable, even though she wished for jacket.

"Could've given me a warning, Uncle Clockwork!" Lilith shouted mindlessly into the air. "Great, I'm becoming more like my mother every day." She chuckled at her own joke. She remembered the time where that Elliot kid came to town and tried to get with mom, and dad had become increasingly jealous to the point where he'd stalk her, which made her mom shout angrily into the sky to ward him off.

The medallion swayed back and forth as she braced herself on her hands and knees, trying to regain her balance. Kicking her knee to the gravel out of frustration, the pebbles biting into the skin of her knee in the process, the halfa contemplates on weather or not to pull a Danielle, and flip off her uncle. But she decides against it, it was better not to annoy her uncle and focused on her task.

Before she was even able to gain her bearings, her mouth released the telltale blue wisp.

"Great, off course, not even a few minutes into this timeline and I already have to fight a ghost." Coming to a full stand, she turned to see the shocked expression of the hunter. Wow, he's definitely gotten some upgrades in the future, dad wasn't kidding.

"Wait you're not the whelp. Where is he?"

"No, I'm mini whelp, as you like to refer to me." She beamed at the hunter, baring her perfectly white teeth. Showing no fear in her as she stood firm in her stance; unmoving and unwavering.

Hre scratched at his flaming scruff. "You're not Danielle." It was then that he noticed Clockwork's time travel device hanging around her neck.

"Ah. You're from the future. This should be fun. I'll be able to waste the ghost child's second child before she's even born. Maybe even make a pelt out of you."

Her eyebrows lowered in disgust. "You do know how messed up that sounds, right?"

His eyes narrowed. "Shut up."

With that, he started stalking towards her.

"Crud." She whispered to herself, and then took off towards school, too tired from the time travel to fight back on the advancing hunter. All she could do was avoid his weaponry while she flew to her backup.

Yeah, he hasn't changed much.

Ta-da! Now,before anyone wonders, this is only the prologue, so that's why it's short. Lol. Until next time, my lovely readers. Shoutout to my beta reader silente faery

Edited-6-2-18