Combining two of my favorite series, Danny Phantom and Cirque Du Freak, I have come up with one of my favorite fan stories of all time. Enjoy Chapter 1 everyone.
Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman and Cirque Du Freak belongs to Darren Shan (author).
Danny Phantom/Cirque Du Freak
Phantom Meet Freak
Ch. 1-The Invitation
A small, fat man stared at the fabric of time, seeing the flow go past him for the infinith time until he saw the precise moment that he needed. He reached out, changed a couple minutes, then let it continue on. A very short while later, he reached out again and changed another few moments. He kept doing it for a little while longer until it was what he wanted it to be, then stood back to observe his work.
"Oooooh, this is going to be fun," he said to himself as the little heart watch on his pocket chain glowed ever so brightly.
In the world of reality, in the town of Amity Park at Amity Park High School, best friends Danny Fenton (a.k.a. Danny Phantom), Nyreena Dark, Tucker Foley, and Sam Manson were outside, eating lunch when the techno-geek just happened to look up and stare at something for a second, point at it, then said to the others, "Guys, look over there."
The other three teens looked up to see what he was pointing at, and saw a little man dressed in a blue robe taping a flyer of some sort to the light pole a few feet away. They watched him finish putting up, then leave through the bushes next to him. After waiting a couple of minutes, they got up to investigate. When they crowded around the pole, Nyreena pulled the flyer off and read it aloud, "Welcome to the Cirque Du Freak, the show of mystery, excitement, and true terror. Come see favorites such as the Wolf Man, Madam Truska, Evra Von, and Mr. Crepsley with assistance from Darren Shan. In town for one night only. Prepare to be blown out of your minds...more so than usual."
They all looked up at each other, all thinking the same thing. Was it just them, or did the poster meant that somehow someone who was running things knew what they had experienced and what truly gruesome things they had seen?
"Well, guys, what do you think?," Nyreena asked.
"For one thing, from what it says, it can't be as bad as what we've experienced," Sam replied.
"What does Cirque Du Freak even mean?," Danny asked, puzzled.
"It sounds French to me," Tucker thought aloud. "But don't look at me for an answer. I don't how to speak it."
"But what about your PDA?," Sam inquired.
"Oh, yeah!," the African-American teen replied, pullingit out
Quickly typing in the name into the mobile browser search engine and looking through the results, he said, "Okay, so going through it a few times, it came up with Cricket Freak, Circus of Freak, Circuit Freak-,"
"Wait," Nyreena interrupted. "I think one of the search results matched. Cirque sounds a lot like circus, and I remember reading somewheres that Du is used commonly in different French languages to say "of." So Cirque Du Freak translated is Circus of Freak. So...it's a circus of freaks."
"Do freak circuses still even exist?," Danny asked.
"Supposedly," Tucker replied, reading a new search result he inputed. "In the old days, freak circuses were sideshows where mean and horrible ringmasters that nade normal people with every now-a-day deformities do cruel things for other people to laugh at and make fun of them. But it doesn't say whether or not they exist today."
"Well, I guess there's no harm in going. What does it say about tickets?," the ghost boy asked the princess.
Nyreena searched the flyer, then noticed writing at the bottom of the poster that she missed when reading the adverstisement.
"Here it is," she replied. "It says: 'Tickets are $35 apiece, tow tickets per flyer, but to whoever finds this flyer, they and three others get in no charge. I guess it's us."
"Where's it showing?," Sam wondered.
The ghostly shapeshifter read further on and answered, "The address is where an old abandoned movie theater is downtown. It's actually not far from here."
"Then tonight we meet here early, head on over and see what this 'cirque' is all about," Danny planned.
"What time should we get here, then?," Tucker asked, PDA poised to input data.
"After dinner. Tell your parents that we're meeting to go to the internet cafè for homework," the halfa replied. "That way, they won't know we'll be in the complete opposite direction."
Chapter 1 is through, but get ready for Chapter 2, where the fun is about to begin! See you next time!
