Author's Note: My first DP fic so don't kill me if it sucks. I find DanXDani intriguing because so little people have written a full length fic about them. Just to clear thing up, this takes place before Phantom Planet and after D-Stabalzied.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or any other relating characters.
Chapter One: The Beginning
All was quiet in the time master's layer. All except for a ghost trapped inside a thermos. Yes, Dan phantom was still trapped inside the Fenton thermos for quite a while now and had yet to give up trying to break free.
"Just a little more" he huffed while punching the walls of the thermos.
With one final ecto-filled punch to the wall, it gave way and the evil ghost found himself free of the cylindrical prison.
"Ah, is it time already?"
Dan turned to see the little/young/old time master making his way towards him.
"I hope you don't think you can shove me back into that ridiculous thermos again." He said while lighting his fists with ghostly energy.
Clockwork's calm demeanor never faltered.
"On the contrary, I'm here to send you back into the timeline."
Clockwork pointed his staff to one of the many time lines he had opened.
"Go."
Without needing to be told twice, Dan flew into the image of modern day Amity Park.
"Everything is falling into place."A small smile crept across the time master's face as he floated away to deal with other business.
"Danny! Behind you!" yelled the Goth girl, just as Skulker came up behind Danny with a missile ready to go.
"Too late, whelp!"
"Oh, really now?"
Skulker turned just in time to see Danny's fist making its way towards his face. He fell back until his form made contact with the building behind him.
"Now Tucker!"
The young techno geek came up with the Fenton thermos in hand. He unscrewed the cap, pointed at Skulker, and sure enough the ghost hunter found himself being pulled in by the blue energy.
"Awesome!" Tucker placed the lid back onto the thermos before running up to his half-ghost friend.
"Yes, but I don't think we're done just yet." Danny said as a thin blue wisp left his mouth.
Looking around the three teenagers prepared themselves for another battle.
Tucker took out his PDA in hopes of finding the ecto- signature. "Danny, I'm not seeing anything."
"Me neither."
"That's weird. I was sure I-"
"BOO"
The three teens turned around to see none other than Dani Phantom.
"Dani!" Danny cried happily as he flew forward for a hug.
The female halfa managed to giggle out a small "Hey cuz" before returning the hug.
Pulling away from the hug Danny asked "What are you doing here?"
"I came to see you silly" she laughed aloud. "Hey Tucker, Hey Sam."
"Hey Dani." They called back.
"Now that I'm here, let's all hang out!" The younger half floated back down to the ground and reverted to her human form.
"Sure, we're done ghost hunting for the night. Let's head over to my place."Danny offered with a smile.
"Alright."
The four teens packed up their gear and began walking to the Fenton Works.
A small portal opened up in the skies of Amity Park and out stepped Dan Phantom. He silently took in his surroundings.
"Amity Park 10 years ago, huh?"
The evil ghost flew forward looking around at the still intact city. He stopped mid-flight at the group of teenagers in front of him. He recognized the two human teenagers as his old friends San and Tucker. Of course the halfa was none other than himself, but it was the sight of the female halfa that caught him off guard. His heart beat faster as he flew in closer to get a better view. He was right.
"Dani."
The words left his mouth with a mixture of surprise and, dare he say, joy?
The only person who hadn't fled from him when he first became the horrible wreck he is.
He continued to watch as both halfas reverted back to humans and began walking away.
"What should I do?" he thought to himself as their forms retreated more and more. In the future he had lost Dani, but now she was here and so was he.
He stood there for a few moments before making his decision. He then flew off in the direction of the teenagers.
The ghost fighting teenagers were seated around Danny's television, volume on full blast, and game controllers in each set of hands.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"No, no, no!"
"To the right!"
"Use the punch combo!"
"Argh!"
Sam stood up from the group "Victory is mine!"
"Yeah, yeah you don't have to rub it in." The annoyed Tucker proceeded to throw a hand full of potato chips at the victor.
"You're just a sore loser Tucker." Sam said as she picked out the small pieces of chips from her hair.
Dani put her controller up into the air "A rematch, you just got lucky!"
"Bring it on!"
Sam proceeded to set up a new game as everyone chose their characters.
"So Dani, where have you been all this time?" Danny asked while maneuvering his controller left and right.
"You know, here and there." She pushed the buttons successfully launching a triple kick at Tucker.
"Hey, you're supposed to be on my side!"
"I'm on the winning side."
"No, I don't know. Care to elaborate?" Danny quickly looked her way only to look back at the television screen.
"I just wandered around. Now that I don't have to worry about melting I decided visited some cities." She gave a small frown as Sam sent a fireball her way.
"Which cities?" The Goth asked as she killed off Tucker's character.
"Awe man, this sucks." The geek placed his controller down and went to get sodas for everyone.
"No Tucker, you suck!" the female halfa called back.
"The question Dani?" Sam jumped back as Danny came at her with a sword.
"First I went to New York, and then I hitched a ride on a plane to Los Angeles." Dani attacked Danny while he was distracted by Sam.
"How do you hitch a ride on a plane?" asked Tucker as he returned with 4 sodas in a tray.
"Easy." She said with a smile. "You phase through the plane, wait till everyone is seated, find an empty seat, and sit in it. But first you have to go to the bathroom so you can turn back into a human."
"So you can travel for free?" The geek asked in awe.
"Duh, were ghosts Tucker. If you haven't noticed we can fly." Danny spun around with his sword killing Dani.
"Hey, you can't do that to your little cousin!" Dani threw some chips at the elder halfa.
"I'm on the winning side, remember?" He laughed as he gave her a taste of her own logic.
"So how was Los Angeles?" Sam said returning the conversation to the original topic.
"It was great. I spent most of my time there in China Town. I even learned a bit of Chinese."
"Really? Say something in Chinese!" Danny threw a lightning bolt at Sam.
"Wo shi Dani. That means 'I am Dani'".
"Neat" Danny said while desperately trying to dodge all of Sam's attacks. "I gue- GHOST!"
Everyone dropped what they had and took up a defensive stance.
"Wait, I didn't see your ghost sense go off!" Tucker said.
Everyone turned to look at Danny, only to see him beat Sam's motionless character.
"Ha! I won!" he cheered aloud.
"Danny, you cheater, there is no way that one counts!" Sam said, clearly annoyed that she lost.
"Of course it does! How is it my fault that you get distracted so easily?" He questioned almost innocently.
He could never say he didn't deserve it when the entire bowl of chips was dumped onto his head.
After clean up, mostly done by Danny of course, Tucker and Sam left. Danny went to get the sleeping arrangements ready for Dani.
"Alright, let's go and find you a sleeping bag."
Danny walked down to the lab with Dani in tow and began searching through the various gadgets for a sleeping bag. He picked up a small sack that looked like an umbrella case with the letter F on it.
"Here we are." He tossed it towards his cousin with a "Heads up!"
Dani caught it with ease and made her way up the stairs to set it up in Danny's room.
Upon arrival she pulled the string attached to the case and watched a sleeping bag unfurl itself.
"Do your parents make anything that does not have the word 'Fenton' in it?" she asked, eyeing the huge green F in the middle of the sleeping bag.
"Not a thing." he responded while jumping into his own bed.
Dani climbed into her sleeping bag and whispered "Good Night."
"Good night, Dani."
"Wake up guys!" called the voice of none other than Jasmine Fenton.
Jazz had walked in to find the two halfas sleeping in past noon. As a future psychologist she knew that there were better ways they could be spending their time and would not stand for such a sight.
"Five more minutes." Danny mumbled as he turned over.
Jazz simply walked over and pulled his comforter right off, causing Danny to huddle in closer to himself. Dani had woken up at Jazz's first call and was already folding up her sleeping bag back into its case. When she finished she looked over to see her cousin folding his pillow over his ears in an attempt to block out his elder sister's voice. Dani giggled, but suddenly had an idea. The female halfa walked to the kitchen and opened the freezer. Once she spotted the ice tray she removed it and emptied out its contents into a bowl. She carried the bowl over to the sink and filled the remaining space with water. The trip back up the stairs was a little tricky, but as soon as she reached Danny's room she pushed the door open with her foot.
Sure enough, the boy was still asleep on his bed regardless of the fact his sister was doing everything in her power to wake him up.
Dani walked over to Jazz with the bowl and gave the older girl a wink. Jazz smiled and backed away from the bed.
"Wake up Danny! Vlad is here!" The younger hybrid yelled out while positioning the bowl of ice water.
Danny snapped up from his sleep in a split second, only to have a torrent of ice water hit him head on.
"AAAAAAAHH" he yelled out as the cold water hit his skin.
Both girls immediately broke out laughing as Danny ran to the bathroom looking for a towel.
"Not funny guys." He gazed angrily at them before toweling his hair.
"Sorry, but Sam and Tucker are downstairs and you weren't waking up."Jazz had finally managed to say through her laughs.
Throwing the towel over his shoulder Danny made his way downstairs to greet his two best friends. Dani followed after finally managing to stop laughing. The duo entered the living room to find Tucker and Sam listening to Jack blather about a new invention.
"Danny!" they both cried in relief after having spent 15 minutes listening to the old man talk about an ecto-powered toaster.
"Sorry Mr. F, we'd love to sit here and let you finish your explanation, but we have… uh…stuff to do."Sam linked arms with the three nearby teenagers and ran up the stairs to Danny's room as fast as she could.
"We're going to see the new zombie movie, you two in?" Tucker asked while unhooking his arm from Sam's.
"Yeah, let me just get changed."Danny picked out his usual jeans and shirt, the locked himself in his bathroom to change.
Tucker looked around the room, but immediately stopped at the wet spot on Danny's bed. "Dude, aren't you a little old to be having accidents?"
"Ask Dani." Was the only response they received from the other side of the door.
The two turned to look at her as a smile crept across her face. Pointing to the bowl and ice on the floor she broke out into another fit of laughter.
"Man, I wish I could have seen that." said the techno geek as he tried to imagine Danny's reaction.
"Shame you didn't."Jazz returned with a roll of paper towels and started to clean up the mess.
Danny opened the door to the bathroom and exited with pajamas in hand. He threw them into a random corner in the room receiving an un-approving look from his sister.
Danny grabbed his wallet. "Let's go."
The movie didn't start until six, so the group killed some time at the mall looking at the new Dumpty Humpty CDs. As soon as 5:30 came they ran to the cinema in hopes of getting good seats. Tickets bought, food secured, and 5 minutes till show time they all took their seats.
Two hours later the four teens exited, still talking about the movie.
"That was so awesome! Did you see the nerd zombies?" Tucker asked as he ate the remaining popcorn.
"Forget them; those cheerleader zombies were so much more awesome!" Dani said while snatching the popcorn from Tucker.
The teens continued their debate about the awesome species of zombies as they made their way home.
Dan Phantom floated a short distance away from the group listening to them talk about the motion picture they just viewed. A memory ran through his head.
"Dan! Let me tell you about this awesome movie I saw once!" a white haired girl of about 14 announced.
With an indifferent look a younger version of Dan turned and simply replied "Okay."
While she described the movie he simply looked at the view of the city from the cave they were hiding in. Not really paying attention all he picked up was "split-personality", "Martha", and "Fight Club". It was nice to hear a voice that wasn't yelling in rage at him. How was it his fault that he felt the need to destroy everything in sight? The only reason he spared the city in front of him, Amity Park, was because the girl next to him asked him to. Lucky bastards.
As Dani finished her description Dan retuned his gaze to her.
"Sounds nice." he responded in his usual calm.
"It is!"
Dan quickly pushed the thought aside and continued to follow the group, more specifically Dani, to their next destination.
The group froze as both of the halfa's ghost senses went off.
From all directions ghosts began appearing. Some past enemies and some generic ghouls the teens had never seen before. The ghosts formed a ring around the teens and began closing in.
From the ghostly group Walker walked out.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the little ghost boy and his posse." The white ghost proclaimed as he made his way forward.
"You've been breaking too many rules, today is the day we put you away for a long time."
Both Danny and Dani went ghost as the ghost warden continued to close in on them.
"Girl, that boy is a criminal" he began "it's against the rules to help him."
"How's this for rules?" Dani said as she shot energy beams from her hands.
The beams flew forward and knocked Walker's hat right off his head.
"Looks like I get to put two criminals away today and these good citizens here" he gestured to the ghosts behind him "are going to help me do so."
At once, the ghosts came forward to attack the two Halfas. Danny began shooting ice beams at the incoming ghosts, Tucker and Sam pulled out thermoses and began sucking in the weaker ghosts, Dani started firing her energy beams at other incoming ghosts.
Walker stood back to enjoy the scene. He laughed as more and more ghosts continued to fight against the two halfas.
It wasn't long before Danny took a hit. First was a punch to the face followed by multiple ecto-blasts. Various elemental attacks were sent his way as Vortex fired his energy into the sky. Spectra's shadow form came forward and swiped Danny to the ground. Danny managed to roll away in time as Skulker's missiles crashed into the ground. Danny stood up only to be knocked down once more by the heavy sound waves resonating from Ember's guitar.
Walker strutted over to Danny and placed his foot on his chest.
"Get the girl." He ordered while pointing in Dani's direction.
Danny looked over to see his female counterpart dodging various attacks as she flew towards him.
"No! Run Dani!" he yelled out as he saw Walker prepare an attack of his own.
Unfortunately, it was too late and Dani was hit right in the chest.
The 12-year old careened backwards right into Nocturne, who in turn grabbed her and threw her back towards the ground.
Dani slid to a halt near Danny and looked over to see him grab Walker's leg. With all his might, Danny got up and threw Walker into the crowd of ghosts.
Dani tried to pull herself up to rejoin the fight, but found that she could not. Her arms gave way and she fell right back to the ground.
Danny looked around, unable to find his two human friends and panicked. What if something had happened to them?
In a last ditch effort, Danny quickly inhaled and let out his ghostly wail.
Upon impact, ghosts were sent flying back, unable to withstand the intensity of the attack.
Danny's last bits of strength vanished as the wail stopped. He stumbled backwards and fell next to Dani who had managed to sit up. The girl pulled Danny towards her in a vain attempt at protecting him from the other ghosts.
Walker dusted himself off and walker over to the now weak hybrids.
"I hope you enjoyed it while it lasted." The man's hands filled with pink energy as the crowd around them cheered for blood.
Danny pulled his cousin behind him as he tried once more to let out a ghostly wail. A smaller version of the attack appeared and pushed Walker out of the way. Danny turned around to see Dani get hit by an energy beam. The girl fell back clutching her hands to her head.
Danny knew there was nothing more he could do. With Dani down and him at zero energy, they couldn't fight off the mass. Danny closed his eyes as he saw the ghosts fire their ecto-blasts.
But the attack never came.
Suddenly an ear-splitting sound was heard. Danny covered his ears at the sheer force of it. He opened his eyes to see weaker ghosts disintegrating into nothing, while the more powerful ones fled for their after-lives.
Danny looked up as a look of absolute horror spread over his face.
It was his worst nightmare.
It was Dan Phantom.
Yes, some characters may be a little OOC. Work with me please.
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