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(Danny)

How could everything have gone so wrong? I can hardly remember the fight that started it all. I keep telling myself that any moment I will wake up and all of this will have just been one of those nightmares. But no, everything is gone, Mom, Jazz, Sam and Tucker and every building in Amity Park. And my Dad left to take all the blame. I have no one left, I am all alone.

It all started when Vlad was trying to mutate humans into half ghosts through the same twisted method he used to make the ghost animals that ran wild in the estate outside of Vlad's summer cottage. I went and worked to stop him, destroying the device that he was planning on using. But that didn't end it. No, it wasn't even the beginning.

My mom and dad showed up in the RV and were trying to shoot us down Jazz sitting in the RV praying that they didn't hit me. My dad was on foot with a Fenton Bazooka and my mom was in the RV manning the energy cannons. But then the GIW, Guys in White, came and told them to leave the area.

My dad was outraged and refused to go. That is when it all really began. The GIW decided that they would use deadly force to remove my family from the area. They opened fire on the RV. I didn't notice what they were doing until the explosion, since I was fighting Vlad.

"NO!" I heard my dad's screams. "Maddie, Jazzy. NO!"My eyes widened with horror.

Then there was another scream. This time it was from Vlad. "No, you killed Maddie! My Maddie!" He screams of rage filled the air. He came down like death upon the GIW. But I didn't care. I couldn't feel anything as I flew down to the RV to search the wreckage. It was not long until I found the bodies, unrecognizable after the explosion.

Then I couldn't help it, I broke down crying. "Mom, Jazz, please don't leave me." I sobbed. In my grief I didn't notice the ring around my body turning me back to human form.

"Da… Dannyboy?" I heard my father's voice behind me. "What… what have I done. I was… I was hunting my own… oh god… no… please no… just let me wake up." My dad broke down into plies for forgiveness and begging for whatever god was out there to take him instead. But in was no good. Mom and Jazz were already dead.

I just knelt there unable to move. As Vlad murdered every single GIW that was there. And I didn't stop him.

Vlad's vengeance didn't end there. After he killed every GIW that had been there he moved onto their home base. But he was still not satisfied. He moved onto other branches of the government.

I didn't stop him. I just stayed at my home, grieving over my own lose. Government officials blamed my father for inventing the Ghost Portal. My father confessed to everything that they asked him to. He felt like he desired the punishment. I begged him to stop but he didn't listen. He would only say. "I am a terrible father. I deserve the death penalty for what I have done. Even that is too good for me."

It was the third day when I received a visit, from the last person I ever expected to come. "Ghost Child, we need you. Vlad is out of control." Skulker said as he phased into my room.

"What do I care?" I mumbled. "Why don't you deal with it?" I didn't even want to look at a ghost. Ghosts were the reason my mom and Jazz were dead. Ghosts were the reason my father was gone. Ghosts were the reason I was alone.

"Please Child, don't you think I would have if I could." Skulker looked desperate. "Vlad is to powerful, none of us can stop him. He is convinced that the entire Human World should burn for what happened. As much as I hate it we need you!"

"I don't care. Let Vlad destroy the world." I still didn't look at him. "What do you care if the Human World is gone."

"You and I both know that if one world is destroyed then we all go down with it! He is setting his portal to explode!" Skulker said shouting at me. He lifted his gun. "You will come with me even if I have to drag you there kicking and screaming."

The phone went off. I didn't even bother to reach for it. But surprisingly enough Skulker took it. His mechanical eyes widened. "It's Vlad, he has your little sidekicks."

My heart sank. I didn't even wait for Skulker to stop talking. I transformed and was off for the underground lab at the Mayor's office. I flew in and scanned the room. My eyes widened and I fell to my knees. There on the floor was the lifeless bodies of my friends, Sam and Tucker. Each had been torn in two.

The scream that left my body could be heard for miles. "No, Sam… Tucker… What have I done… If I had just acted then… then…"

"Do not greave for the worthless humans, little badger." I heard Vlad's voice coming from in front of the portal. "I made sure to kill them slowly so that they could think about the full multitude of their crimes." I could hardly recognize Vlad, his cape was gone and his clothes where in tatters, the blue of his skin was turning a sickly black and his old pointy hair was now straight.

"Vlad… you… you monster!" I shouted and flying full speed at him and driving us both into the Ghost Zone. I was nearly blinded by my emotions. The hate was pouring out of me. But not hatred for Vlad. Hate for myself for letting it all happen.

I drove Vlad's head into one of the flouting rock that littered the ghost zone after another. I kept smashing at him until I heard a loud explosion. I looked to see the Plasmius portal closing.

I stopped out of surprise and he had enough time to recover and throw me off of him. "I see… you noticed… my going… awa… away present to Amity Park." He said throw a mouth full of his own bloody ectoplasm. "I set the portal to blow, and take Amity Park with it."

My blood froze. Everything I had even known… it was all gone. "What is the matter Daniel? We should rejoice, this was a victory against the human scum." Vlad laughed like a manic.

I turned to him. I was not sure what to do. I had never killed anyone in my life, but… Vlad had to be stopped. I was too late to save everything that I loved. But I would be damned if I let Vlad finish everything.

"Vlad… enough is enough." I said looking at him. All felling had left my body. I could see the large white wisps of energy surrounding me. "I should have stopped you a long time ago Vlad." I raised my head and started taking in all the air around me. I looked at the startled creature in front of me and whispered my final word to him. "Goodbye." It was no more than a whisper, but then the wail hit. Vlad was through back before the wail started to tear him apart.

By the time I was done, Vlad was a broken man. But he was still alive. I stood over him, a glare edged onto my face as if carved there by a knife. I lifted my hand over my head charging the attack that would finish the man for good.

But before I could bring it down on my enemy I felt fingers wrap around my wrist. I looked and my eyes widened as I saw an angelic being holding onto my arm. It barely took me a moment to recognize her. "Danny, you should stain your hands with his blood." Sam said. The dress she wore was a pearly white, one that would have made her cringe back when she was alive. Her hair no longer had that small ponytail and out of her back were four beautiful wings.

"Sam?" I asked in amazement half believing my eyes were playing tricks on me. She smiled and nodded. "I'm sorry… if I had only acted sooner… I'm sorry." I wept as I begged for her forgiveness.

"It's not your fault Danny, but you need to stay true to who you are. You stumbled the last few days but who wouldn't have?" Sam said trying to comfort me. "You need to remember who you are Danny, and never stop moving forward." I continued to cry and the angelic figure of Sam patted me on the back. "I can't stay Danny." She said looking at me with clear regret on her face. "I'm not a ghost. I have to move on. But always remember, that I am watching over you."

The angel disappeared in a flash of light, leaving nothing behind save a single Fenton Thermos. I grabbed Fenton Thermos. I let the blue beam of light shine over Vlad's body and he was pulled in. Another thermos that would never be opened again.

And that was the end of my life. Everything I had ever known was gone from the world at that moment; my family, my friends, my home, even my enemies. I had nothing left.

I flouted slowly toward Clockwork's tower. "Daniel… words can't began to describe." Clockwork had said sadly when he saw me come in.

"Please don't call me that." I said miserably. I didn't want to be reminded of Vlad.

"I don't think any other name would feel any better, Phantom." He said and I could feel the pain of being called that. It was a name that I had worn in the times when I was proud of who I was. Right then the painful memories made it felt like a dagger. "Daniel, you need to keep moving." He said his voice full of worry. He took the thermos from me and placed it next to the dented thermos that contained the dark future.

"I have nothing Clockwork. I just don't have any reason to continue." I said in self pity.

"Daniel… this is not what your friends would have wanted for you. Be strong, Daniel." I couldn't help but think back to the Sam's angel. She told me to keep moving.

"I… I will try." I said sadly. And that was going to be the first day of the rest of my life.


(Danny)

"Class I want you to all welcome a new student, everyone, this is Danny Foley he is transferring in from America." The teacher said as he introduced me to my new class mates. In the end, I had nothing left in America. But my family still had property in Japan, since three years ago when a massive monster sighting originated there.

I can still remember being locked in the town hall with my sister and everyone else that had been in the town at the time. To this day I still don't know what happened there. I do know that none of the monsters were ghosts, but like everything else in the world ever since my friends died, I just didn't care.

I dropped my family name and used Tucker's. I don't know why I did, every time I hear it brings back painful memories. But so did my own. The only difference was that my dad had been blamed for the destruction of Amity Park, so my own name wasn't safe anymore.

"Danny… Danny?" The teacher was trying to get my attention. I looked at him but didn't otherwise respond. "Would you like to share anything with the class?" he asked me. I didn't see why I should share anything. I slowly shuck my head. "Oh… alright then, could you please sit down next Daisuke, the boy with the goggles."

I walked over quietly and sat down were I was told. The kid with the goggles turned to me. "Hey man nice to meet you, I'm Daisuke, you wouldn't happen to be good at basketball would you?" I didn't respond and he started to act a little nervous. "We're going to be playing a game in gym today but my team always loses." Daisuke said rubbing the back of his head. But I still didn't respond. I simply turned my head back front and rested my chin in my hand.

"Man rude much." Daisuke mumbled. "Maybe he just doesn't know any Japanese."

"Daisuke, leave him be." A brown head girl with a camera around her neck said. After she spoke up she caught my attention. She had the same feel about her as the Angel Sam did. "You should know better than to try and force someone to talk to you when they want to be left alone."

"Sorry Hikari." Daisuke said a little embarrassed. "But it isn't like he can understand us anyways."

"Hikari." I mused out loud catching their attention. "A word meaning light. It suits you." I said but then turned away again still aware of the feeling of light she seemed to give off. The feeling made me uncomfortable, like I was being judged by it.

"Ok, maybe he can talk." Daisuke said a little freaked out. I was vaguely aware of the eyes that were on me. But I simply faded into the darkness, letting it swallow me like a sea of emptiness within myself until their eyes could no longer reach me. But always… always the light of that one girl seemed to penetrate my shadows like a single star in the night sky.

I went through the day doing my best not to communicate with anyone. When the teacher asked a question I would give the shortest answer, when a classmate talked to me I would only nod if I even bothered to do that. But that one girl still caught my attention. She was so hard to ignore.

During the gym class I state on the side line while everyone else played. No one had picked me to be on their team so I was simply left out. I didn't mind. I didn't want a team… my team was gone.

My focus wondered until I noticed something on the air vents above the court. I stared at it for a moment until I realize that it was a creature of some kind. It looked a little like a tiny blue dinosaur with little horn like things growing backwards out of its head. It was jumping up and down in an excited manner and I couldn't help but to stare.

But it wasn't alone there were two other beings with it. One looked a little like a pig without a snout and had big bat like wings for ears. The other was a white cat that had on strange boxing glove like claws. 'What are they?' I asked myself. My mind went back to the creatures at the convention center all those years back, and of the giant vampire man. Were these creatures like them? 'They are too small to give too much trouble.' I thought pulling myself back into my protective shell of disinterest.

At the end of the day even spotting the monsters seemed unexciting. I simply left and walked towards my own home. Not paying attention to anything beyond the level needed to not bump into someone by mistake.

'Why am I even here?' the thought burned in my mind. But then something happened that I never expected to happen ever again. A shiver went up my spine and a thin mist exited my mouth. My eyes widened as my ghost sense went off. I looked around by couldn't see anything. I was standing next to a TV station. Something inside me made me act on the sense, even though I didn't want anything to do with a ghost. Moved into the alley behind the station, and that is where I saw him.

He looked like a scarecrow with a bunch of patches and makeshift pockets all over his body. He had a blue cloak and a wizard's hat on his head. His mouth looked like it was sown shut and in one hand he still barely hung onto a staff with something that was in the shape of a sun on top of it. But the thing that struck me the most was the condition of his body. He was fading in and out of existence, the sign of a ghost that was about to fade away.

'He isn't my problem.' I turned away and started to walk. But I hadn't even left the alley when I stopped and looked around again. It made no sense, what do I care if a ghost disappears. But I couldn't help it. I went back to save the ghost. 'I know you have something to do with this Clockwork.' I couldn't help thinking.