Danny Phantom Inside Of a Role Playing Game!
Author note: at last I finally began my long story of DP-RPG, remember the challenge I make at the beginning of the summer, it was me and I did my challenge so now here is your Danny Phantom in a Role Playing Game.
In this story there's a major OC character, promise it will be the only one, all other OC's are beasts or background character for the plot, it'll be all, no important role.
On with the game now:
PrologueMayor Master was finishing his paper work for tomorrow; he was at his house, in his office, waiting for his servant to come while drugging himself with tea. Sure it's 3 a.m. in the morning, who the hell would see the mayor at his house at this hour, friends? Nothing close to a servant. His secretary? Maybe, but not this night, all work was done. The love of his life, with 'their' son under her arm, coming to beg him to be her husband and the father figure her son deserved? You can still dream fruitloop .(Vlad smack himself and throw his cup of tea for that musing). A freaking ghost knight, in black armor and flaming purple cape, holding the book he seeks in attempt to be the ruler of the world? Yes, that's it!
Fright Knight was so proud of himself for being able to find this magical book, especially after he seeked through unworldly land of the undead world, fighting beast to show his bravery, saving princess and damsel in distress, saving a country from an stupidly powerful ghost( all ghost are evil for him) to finally found the goal and end of his sagas' : the magic book was lost/forgotten inside Ghost-Writer library, nearby a book title 'how to pleased her sibling in for hundred & eighty six rules' and 'The Little Prince', yes the library wasn't classed by themes or alphabetic order so it was a three month research into a freaking mess!(the last part ruins all the sagas)
Vlad was so glad he send someone like Fright Knight to search this, or else it might had take all his life time since he must struggle with a double life. Anyway, this magical book was the book of Joy, the name of a powerful ghost who realized peoples deepest wishes. All were always happy after he granted their wishes; nothing comparable to Desiree the genie ghost. No this was, Vlad was absolutely sure, a good wish granting ghost. Even if now he's disappear, he let behind him this book to aloud those who found it to grant their wishes( Vlad was planning on granting more than one). Vlad took the book and realized it was locked by a padlock, a close attention showed astrological symbol on the book.§There were stars, a sun and moon, and even shooting stars across the cover, but no sign of a key to unlock the book. Ho! Well Vlad will use the skeleton key, the ghostly key that can unlock anything, seals, prisons, doors or here: padlocks!
When the master unlocked the book and flipped pages of mystical magic, the book began to glow and revealed his ghostly origin. Fright Knight couldn't hold himself, at last he will see a pleased master and it was all his work who leads to this! Once Vlad rules the world, he dethrones him and turns the planet into a Halloween-ish planet! (Soo sweet!)
But Vlad huge smile began to falter. The entire book was written in an unreadable language of magical pentagram's, unpronounceable names and quite fancy images. That made Vlad annoyed. He's not going to grant his whishes tomorrow. Ho sure, he will find a way to understand the book but now he need to sleep. When Vlad put the open book on his desk and began to dismiss the knight, one milky white gloved hand pop out of the book, then another, and like if it was someone passing his head through a small window, it got a blue night wizard hat with sun, stars on it and a moon talisman on the top. A round white head show two black cross as eyes and a joyful smile that speak:
Wizard of the book: Boooooooo morning! Are you the ones who open the book?
Vlad and Fright Knight (who had already phased through the door), where shocked to see a….. ghost?... out of the book, Will the strange ghost try to pull himself out of his small entrance:
Joy: I'm (hmpff) Joy, the owner of the book and (hrrg) I'll grant you your happiness if you won my trial (hraah)
Vlad: Trial? You don't grant wishes just like that, by magic?
Joy:(still struggling to get his ghostly tail out of the book) No, not at all. Only genies can grant you your commanded wishes, still their limited by rules. My rules and purpose is joy, happiness and games! If you won one of my games I'll grant you something that will make you sincerely happy. But I'm not your slave, far away from that!
Vlad was crushed by this; he wasn't going to rule the world, not going to get the Packers and top of all, he's not going to have his Maddie and Daniel soon! Joy had finished pulling himself out of the book; He wore a wizard like dress with a blue night sky filed with stars, shooting stars, moons and suns. And his foots were replaced by a milky colored ghost tail. If you compare that ghost to any regular ones, you wouldn't truly consider it as a ghost: there's nothing frightening inside of him, except maybe his weirdness, and still you must push a lot your imagination.
Joy: Well now. What's will make you happy?...(stare at Vlad) I see what you honestly want and need! (Look at Fright Knight) And you too!
Vlad and Fright Knight where puzzled, what's going on?
Joy: Ok we need a lot more players in attempt to be able to grant your happiness, as I explained, my power is based on pleasure, so in attempt to collect pleasure, I make people plays games, the fun they toke out of it will energize me so I can reward the winner! In this case…. I make the whole city play! (Smile)
Vlad: What? How? Hu? What kind of game? And (breath) What if we say no?
Joy: (still smiling) Well, one: I don't care what you want, I want to make you happy and have fun; two: The entire city will play (dundundun!) a Role Playing game (biiig smile); tree: the game began at seven in the morning, and then I explain to everyone the rules and goal!
Vlad: (transformed into his ghost form: Vlad Plasmius) I'm not going to play your stupid and irrational games! If you can't grant my wishes then go back into your book and don't ever come out!
Joy stare for a moment at the vampire in front of him, stylish black hair, red and white cape, matching white dress, black boots, belt and gloves. It's being awhile Joy didn't saw a halfa.
Joy: That's wonderful the game will only be better!(claps his hand) And just to have fun: how do you were planning to stop me?
Vlad and Fright Knight stare at each other's and at the ghost happy mood and freaking undisturbed statement.
Fright knight: we were going to blast you to ecto-ashes. Like we always do to annoying ghost!
Joy: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so childish! You're must play my game!
With that Joy claps his hands and colorful stars and deep blue mist pop out of it swallowing their summoner into a spiral that clearly grows each second.
Vlad shoot deadly red blast, not wanting to let a chance to the joyful ghost trick to be. It had no effect, as Fright Knight's sword and so they were swallowed too, then the spiraling stars spread out of the windows to envelop Vlad mansion, then streets and then the whole sleeping city of Amity Park.
Sam was bugged by early light. Her parents had again snuck into her room and open the curtains. And now they will soon try to wake her up with a freaking false cheery mood. Well that's what they usually do but when they began to shook her violently screaming: "Samantha! Wake up! Wake up!" She definitely knows that something was of.
Sam opens her eyes to see her mother face, with so many differences:
-First her long elf ears, the mystic glow in her eyes and color skin who was paler than usual
-Two, her dress, a purple witch hat (that's so nice on her), with a matching dress, and she wore big jewels on her ears and neck (I'm sure these or not in her wardrobe)
-three her dad stood behind his wife. He also had elf ears, no mystic eyes. Instead, he wore a knight's armor with a two handed sword on his belt and a royal red cape.
There was a party right? But when Sam saw a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror behind his dad (She vaguely noyiced it was not her bedroom), she jump to the mirror see for herself. Who did that? This wasn't at all her parents style. Her hair was still the same cut but it seemed more wild and savage, like she never really brush her hair, but still they're perfectly clean. Her dress was a white Greek-like toga, with a slightly torn bottom. And her face: her purple eyes had a mystic glow and the long pointy ears! But the top of all was her make up! She didn't wear it normally, but here she had deep blue curved shape around her eyes, not that is ugly, just…
Someone had changed and touch me while I was sleeping!
This was a terrifying though! And Sam could tell she wasn't alone in this case after she heard a scream…. wait that's Paulina's scream! She run to the wooden door, with her parents on her tail, realizing they were inside of some kind of tavern, a really big and fancy one, in a medieval stile. The next door to the Manson's room laid an elvish Paulina staring at her father who was not at all an elf! He look like some kind of troll, deep grey skin, a savage bear-like armor, but unlike , his was one of a mercenary, add two big pork fang out of his mouth and you understood Paulina's shock. Maybe being an elf is a lucky transformation. Soon everyone was beginning to wake up and scream; both in silence gasp or high-breaking glass-pitched voices. The Mansons realize the hotel they were sleeping in where was abnormally huge. It was divided into several houses linked through gardens, but no innkeepers, just citizen of Amity turned into weird creatures and dressed like… fantastic heroes?... Sam nearly pass Tucker without recognizing him, if it wasn't for his red beret, she would have added him to a poor unfortunate victim of the transformation, he too was more like a beast, as was his parents. His skin was grey too but instead fang he got small horns, pointy ears, just like Sam and had glassy eyes behind his own glasses and he wore an grey blue uniform, like one of a engineer, in a fantastic fashion. Tucker parents where from the same species, his dad was grey skinned and had full grown horns and his mother a more greenish skin with more curved horns. His dad also look like a engineer while his mother looked like a priest in a white toga.
Tucker: (more deep voice) Sam! What's going on? What are you? An elf! And Me? Some kind of gremlin? And you should have seen Dash and Kwan, they look creepy with their pork fangs! Where are Danny and his family?
Sam: I don't know! It's seems like we're all inside some kind fantastic world! Hey here's jazz!
Jazz was in a clear-grey toga and her hair where in a pony tail, her parents behind where human just like her, no: when Maddie came closer, they saw she was an elf just like Sam, but she look like an huntress with furred boots and forearms. Her cloth were all was tainted blue like her 'normal' suit. Jack was in armor just like her Dad but was human (funny the most insane guy of the city wasn't change into a beast or a freak!). At last jazz seems to have pointy ears too but smaller than a normal Elf (was she half human half elf?) But no sign of Danny!
?: ATTENTION!ATTENTION! Please gather yourself in the village plaza! If you had questions I will answer them once you're all here!
The people and families didn't wait to be asked twice. No matter what's going on, they can't do a thing without information. They need to know what happen even if some kind of trap, it's not like their falling to a trap; they probably are already in one! Once the citizens of Amity where all at the village plaza, a village that was only made of taverns, nothing else, ho there's a church behind the wizard like ghost!
Joy: BOOOO MORNING PEOPLES! I'M JOY!
Everyone was puzzled by this… Joy…. He was weirder than normal ghosts, speaking of them, they were also affected like everyone, but they seems more sick and dead (or rather undead). Vlad master wasn't far from them, he also look creepier than normal. Still no sign of Danny! Sam, Tucker and Jazz were losing their calm.
Joy: Looks like everyone is awake except one lazy guy! Haa! I'll wake him up after I explained you the rules.
"So you might be aware that some of you are no more human. I changed you into a fantastic species according to your character, and you got class inside species, like the warrior class, the wizard class, etc…. You'll know what species and caste your part of through your agenda" Joy lift an arm and snaped his fingers. A puff of stars and night smoke and a quite heavy book float above his hand. "You can all summon your agenda by snapping your fingers or spelling 'my agenda' for those who can't snap. Everything concerning your character, states, abilities, technique and even history, are registered in your agenda and I add a guide about the rules with a long list a particular cases, you don't need to read all in one blow, take your time! If you ask aloud a question about the rules or anything the book could answer it will open directly on the concerned page. Now how the game goes and how to end it: You got all a major quest, each one has his own. Finish your major quest and you'll won the game and get the great prizes! (Vlad was obviously fuming). While attempting to finish your Major quest, you will have to finish other quest proposed on boards like this one over here (pointing a wooden wall, hidden under masses of request). Now, have fun." Joy disappears in another puff of stars and smoke, while a huge and anguish crowd began to talk among themselves. Sam had tried to summon her book, which had pop out of purple fairy dust (she wasn't very fond of that, but at least it's not pink!). Tucker also summoned his book, but it was in puff of steel dust and burned steel sparkles. Jazz wasn't going to summon her book before she found Danny. But before she even express aloud her question:
Joy: (appear above people) Ho, yeah! I forgot one extremely important matter, you can die, all of you! In that case you found yourself into a parallel world to this one, from this other world you'll be able to resurrect in a cemetery, so if you fail in the middle of a donjon, you'll have do everything again, and you're armors might be broken when you died, so avoid death as much as possible!(smile)
Then the ghost fly away to a creepy castle that seems to block out the only way out of the valley the village was in. Everyone began to screams in anguish and Vlad tried to control to mob to avoid disaster. Sam noticed the castle and his strategic position. In other terms, it might be the only way out and it looks already dangerous.
Joy flew to the castle, where was the last player unaware of the game and its rules, he phase through the stones walls, went to the cells,( the places was real trial if you don't phase through, but he's ghost, so…). After a few hundred walls, he came to an underground cells, they were been used a few decades ago by some kind of evil sorcerer. Looking by the study, the skeletons lock up inside cells, barely expressing the horror that had happened here. 'It was a necromantian! So no wonders about all the creepy stuff'. A better look show assembled skeletons, from different creatures. An odd smell would tell that there's still some rotten corps nearby, but most of all you can feel the cursed magic in the air. Joy had finally reached the end of the cells corridors where there was a door leading to the deepest and must have been the most well guarded cell! When he enter the room, which was also a torture room, and he would note that it had been used not so long ago, maybe by the evil necromancer. But that's was of no matter, Joy was happy of what he saw: it was a fifteen years old teenage boy, black hair, with a few string of white, a clear skin but not sickly, the kid was snoring loudly, but Joy only see the 'Lich', one of the best and rarest character he ever had in his game. This was promising.
Joy gently pokes up the kids head:
Joy: boo hoo! Wake up boy, the sun arise even if where underground!
Danny: hmm… ho no, another weird dream, maybe I'll try to wake up…. But I'm too lazy and it isn't a nightmare…
Joy began to loudly laugh at the boy statement about his so correct respond, after all his role playing games are like a dream, except that their real!
Joy: open your eyes, pleaaaase!
Danny opens one eye and then the other, realizing he was inside of a cell:
Danny: ho come one! A nightmare about a freaking torture room like only Vlad has. Man I shouldn't look so much horrors movies before going to bed!
Joy: Hahahahaha! No,no,no my boy! You're not dreaming! This is real.
Danny looks groggily at the joyful ghost, this he's sure it's a weird mixed up dream! But when he feels the ghost touch him, the boy began to realize that it was for real!
Joy: Now, now boy do not panic, I'm just here to explain you some things, like why you're here.
Danny: You're a new sick ghost who kidnaps me in attempt to viciously torture me and make feel miserable?
Joy: (looking oddly at the boy) No! I was just going to explain you that I transformed your entire city into a giant role playing game, that if you won the game you'll be rewarded by seeing your deepest need being granted, and to ask you to have fun!
Now Danny was looking weirdly at the ghost, what the heck is this ghost nature, it can be really insane by the look of his clown face!
Danny: You're a ghost of what?
Joy: ho, well I'm Joy and my power are based on people joy. So when I'm free from my magic book, I took everyone nearby and make them play a game with a great reward at the end! I must warn you that my power reaches a level where I managed to transform everyone and created this world for the actual game, a role playing game!
Danny just simply nods, again it was a powerful ghost, but he can't make himself to consider him like an evil spirits. He wants peoples happiness, not their doom or to rule the world. Not like some others.
Joy began to give the boy the same speech he gives to everyone about the rules:
Danny: casts? Races? You mean everybody is transformed into an avatar of their own?
Joy: while yes! I transformed them according to their character, social classes, ability, color skin and family blood, so don't be surprised to know that you're an half elf- half human!
Danny: Does that mean my mother is an elf and dad and human? Because I can't imagine him to as gracious as elf are supposed to be!
Joy: I'm not supposed to tell you who are what but yes. And I can tell what you are, because you're no ordinary character: you're a lich! Read your book about the details.
Danny: hem… isn't that evil?
Joy: I told you read the book, but I don't consider lich as truly evil. Same goes for werewolves, vampires, zombies and other horrific things, it's just that most of the time, there used by a bad person for a bad purpose. That's all.
Danny: (not really convinced) ok but if I get clearly, everyone got powers and ability, same goes for ghost?
Joy: there's no discrimination with fun, it ruin it, and so all ghost are at the same level than human, you're no exceptions. What's exceptional right now in your case is that you began here and not with everyone outside, you very first quest will be to get out of here. Take a good note that all your ghostly powers are retrieve until the game ends, same goes for ghosts! In the end only humans won something in term of powers.
Danny: so you exchange my powers for those of a lich according to the game where playing, I'm right?
Joy: yes! You'll be able to found easily you're family or friend once you get out! Got luck and have fun. But I recommend you to read carefully your book, everything is explained inside, rules ability, and details on particular cases you might be confronted. Now good by I'll watch the game from above as the game master, I'm equal as god for players in this situation (he give to Danny a bow and disappear in a puff of stars and deep blue smoke)
Once the ghost gone the boy began to look at himself: he had dusty white shirt with an odd symbol on his heart, it look like some kind of magical suture. He also had a torn up grey-blue pants, and finally a pair of rusty brown boots and matching heavy glove, but no weapons, well he still have his 'powers'. Danny extend his arms snap his finger and summon his book, it was made of silver, with chains and skulls on it, the reflection was oddly tainted of blue and green. He opens it and began to read on what he is.
Author note: I stop here, next chapter will explain you 'who is what and what they do?'
If anything shock you tell me immediately!
Thanks a lot for Kagome51 for beta reading my work, this first chapter had been messy to beta read but we finally managed to work this up!
Anyway. all critics are still noted and don't fall on deaf ears, even thought I don't respond back( lack of focus, inorganization, or other factors…) I still read them all!