Author's note: Hello everyone! This is my first Danny Phantom story and I hope you all enjoy it! Oh and I've recently seen "Phantom Planet" and nearly cried at the end. I just Nickelodeon is being incredibly stupid in canceling the show. If you haven't had a chance to see "Phantom Planet" I recommend it immensely, in my opinion it was a good ending to the series. That was the ending right? So wish it wasn't ,but oh well.
Disclaimer- I do not own Danny Phantom
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Soaring over an airplane and staring down towards the ground, at first glance you would miss the hidden kingdom of the mighty Fenton's. The trees concealing it from any prowling eyes and enemy attacks, the hills around the forest looking like large dark shadows in the dead of night.
The people living in the kingdom walking around going about their normal day, greeting each other happily at the sight of an old friend or a new friend. The air was filled with the glorious feeling of happiness and friendliness. Everyone here new everyone, what was new and was old. The Fenton's on the other hand...knew no one but themselves.
Their castle lay in the middle of the kingdom where it stood tall and white, gleaming down at the villagers with a slight eerie glow. The Fenton's never came out to say hello, only on duty would they come and see the daily news of the villagers to hear about who has done wrong and who has done right.
The boy inside the castle longed for the freedom of walking past the castle walls, his raven hair falling over his hypnotizing electric blue eyes, staring down at the open window and watching as the villagers once more danced along to the music being played by the town musicians. A knock at the door causes the boy to jump and hit his head on the edge of the window.
"What?" He growls rubbing at his head, a man stood at the door, white faced along with a long white mustache and equally long hair. Glasses were perched over his eyes so that he looked older than he truly was, a black suit giving him a business like look.
"Master Daniel, your sister requests your assistance in the garden," he says pushing his glasses a bit higher to his nose. Danny rolls his eyes at the butler.
"Again? And why does she keep sending you to get me, Why can't she just get me herself?" Danny asks angrily. The butler shrugs.
"I know not sir, but your sister is very keen for your help, so if you will," the butler says standing aside of the door to allow Danny through. Danny jumps off of the window sill, sighing at the sight of the happy villagers outside.
"Thanks Jerry, but next time tell her that I'm making her get me," Danny says shoving his hands in his jeans pockets and making his way towards the garden, the empty hallways of the castle sending his own foot steps back at him, he shivers at the silence before running out towards the back door and at the garden.
An immediate flowery scent was sent towards his nose as a thousand flowers stood in bloom all around him, if they let the garden grow any more, they would surely get lost in it. He suddenly spies a mound of long orange hair crouching over a flower pot, Danny quickly runs towards her and bends over her.
"Hey Jazz," he grins as she let's out a yelp and jumps up, her heart beating fast.
"Danny don't do that!" she screams attempting to hit him with the flower pot, he shrugs and sits down beside her.
"Jerry said you wanted me for something, what is it?" he asks eager to get back into the comfort of his own room.
"I just wanted you to try and kill these little worm things! I don't like them much," she says pointing at pure white worms wiggling around. Danny makes to grab them but she grabs his arm to stop him.
"What now Jazz?" he asks, she shrugs.
"Just a safety precaution, wear gloves Danny," she says shoving her gloves at him, he rolls his eyes at her and grabs one sending it flying into her hair and she immediately begins screaming as Danny doubles over in laughter. Watching as she runs around squashing some of the newly planted flowers.
"DANNY FENTON YOU ARE SUCH A JERK!" she screams before running back into the castle. Danny smiles at her as she leaves, but suddenly feeling lonely. Now he wished she hadn't left. He looks up at the sky, a full moon was smiling down on him, he lay back onto the grass watching the stars twinkle before him.
Life inside the castle was never fun, with an overachieving older sister, an incredibly smart mother, and a king for a father, he was much a lone all of the time. He just wasn't as special as the rest of his family ways. He wasn't given some extraordinary gift, he was just...ordinary. Tonight was his fifteenth birthday, not much of a special event...and yet his family refused to pay him much attention.
He leans on his side sighing deeply as he disturbs some fireflies that begin to fly away like little sparks of fire towards the dark forest next to the castle, Danny shivers at the forest. Just by looking at it he already gets a weird vibe from it. He shakes his head away from it and stares up at the sparkling stars above him, falling into a deep slumber...
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"Samantha! Samantha where are you!" came the rough voice of her father, she quickly jerks her head around to face him. She quickly runs deeper into the forest having no intention in going back to her parents, they denied her of any freedom so she's denying them of any help. Is that bad? Whatever it doesn't matter, the only thing she really cares about is getting out of the Fenton's trash of a kingdom.
"SAM! WHERE ARE YOU!" her father yells into the air of the forest, she suddenly stops in her place, feeling guilty.
"Maybe I should go back..." she whispers to herself until suddenly she feels her foot slip on the edge of the cliff she stood on and is suddenly thrust backwards rolling down the hair as the rocks stab themselves into her sides and legs, the edges of branches scratching up her face and messing around with her hair. She suddenly lands face down on the forest floor with a mouth full of disgusting dirt, Sam immediately spits it out and stands up her whole body aching as if someone had jammed her into a blender and grinded her to nothing.
"Great! Just perfect!" she yells frustrated to see how far she had fallen, the cliff above her daring her to try and climb back up. But Sam knows better the cliff is too high to climb and she was in no condition to try either way.
Sam quickly turns to look at her surroundings, fear suddenly engulfing her as she walks into the empty darkness of the forest, the top of the trees all jumbled together making the place darker than the night, even though in the more clearer patches of trees, the sunset still shone brightly.
A rustling of leaves behind her causing her to jump and fall backwards on the forest floor with her heart beating wildly, she crawls to her feet. The random screech of a bird behind her causes her to jerk backwards just in time to see a large vulture type bird launch itself towards her, she immediately ducks feeling the bird's feathers slide against her neck sending goose bumps all along her body.
Sam quickly turns around to face the bird again to get a better look at it, it's large bat like wings beating at the wind angrily and it's large slit like red eyes gleaming in the darkness as it lunges at her once more.
She let's out a small scream before grabbing a fallen tree branch and striking at the bird as it zoomed by her. It smashed into a nearby tree with a sickening crack as its head cracked in two, blood pouring on the forest floor at Sam's feet. She drops the branch and sets off at a run, a move most unwise. She runs into the forest's unknown heart occasionally stopping to try and figure out where she was.
Her heart skips a beat at the sudden rising light coming from the end of the trees ahead, she races towards it, the night sky becoming clearer and clearer. She quickly jumps out at the refreshing breeze and the real full moon above her, panting she looks around to see where she is.
Sam's heart stops as she looks at the tall castle in front of her glowing pearly white under the gaze of the moon and the darkness of the night, fireflies flying around a boy sleeping soundlessly in the castle's garden.
She slowly walks over to him and lands on her knees at his side, poking him awake.
"WHAZZAT!" He yells violently sitting up, Sam stares at him, bewildered.
"Hey, boy...you shouldn't be here, do you know where this is!" Sam bellows looking fearfully at the castle. The boy stares at her perplexed, and she gasps as she watches him stand closer into the moonlight, the boy was no longer there.
Instead stood a tall white dragon, its green eyes staring down at her with interest as its white and blue wings flapped at the air earnestly, his long jagged tail slamming down onto the garden disturbing many plants and animals. It glowed majestically in it's place, its hot breath paralyzing Sam to her spot, she was sure she was dead now.
"What...What did you do with the boy!" Sam pleads her courage building slightly, the dragon grins at her question.
"What boy?" it answers back, his voice low and yet so incredibly soothing, bringing magic into Sam's ears.
"What do you mean, 'what boy'? You know which boy!" she says angrily stamping her foot on the ground, the Dragon suddenly leans closer to her, so that they were face to face, she suddenly saw two large black horns force themselves out of the Dragon's skull, Sam's knees seem to have given out since she now sat on the floor.
"There is no boy here, only you...and me," he grins looking back at the starry night before releasing a jet of emerald fire into the night, the Dragon gave a long groaning sound before looking back down at Sam.
"Fire's a bit weak right now," The dragon says as if in apology. She stares at him, bewildered.
"Where...Where did you come from?" she asks, the Dragon shakes it's snake like head and looks back towards the moon.
"It is the first time I have ever shown my face here, and...I doubt that it shall be the last, I have always been here, just never seen," the dragon says before pushing himself off of the ground and beating it's wings in the air so that Sam was forced to clutch down to the ground in order not to be blown away, she looks back towards the sky to look at the Dragon once more, but it had vanished.
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Danny woke with a start on the cold hard ground of the cave, he coughed loudly as he attempted to stand up, his knees trembling under his weight.
"What...What happened," he grunts leaning against the cave wall for support, immediately he hears the stomping foot steps of his father coming towards him.
"Danny! Danny speak to me boy!" King Fenton says horrified, Danny suddenly feels himself being lifted from the ground and into his father's bulky arms, the sobbing of his mother and sister filling his ears.
"Dad? What...Why--"
"Shhh Danny, not here, back to the castle," Jazz says shutting him up, Danny attempted to look at her, but he could not move, he felt to weak to do anything, he could barely try and keep his arms open.
"Jerry, back to the castle at once," his mother says.
"Of course Madame, right this way," and soon Danny and his family were inside the carriage and trotting back towards the castle.
They finally arrive a the castle, Danny still in his father's worrying arms.
"Dadlemmegoicanwalk," Danny muttered under his breath, King Fenton looked down at his soon with precaution.
"Here! We've found our son, Now tell us what's wrong with him!" King Fenton yells angrily at a tall baggy old man standing at the entrance of the castle, his long silvery hair getting caught in the wind and his black mustache only inches from the ground. He held a long staff in his right hand with a purple orb at the end which swirled ominously with different images, right now it held the image of Danny.
"Good, Good, this way please," the man says breathing heavily at the sight of the unconscious Danny. They follow the man back into the castle all of them joining him at a large circular table in the middle of the dining room, it has obviously been summoned only minutes ago.
"As you may have already noticed, last night was Daniel's fifteenth birthday, was it not?" The old man says, straightening his spectacles up to the bridge of his nose. The Fenton's all gave a sturdy nod.
"Then, I assume that you have all remembered what I had told you all, those sixteen years ago before the boy had even been born?" the man continues as if the disturbed faces on the Fentons, did not exist.
"'Course we remember, it's just that we thought--"
"That I was a mad old man? Yes, I get that a lot," the man says chuckling, unfortunately all this did was make the family even more uncomfortable.
"You see, what I said back then seems to have come true, hasn't it?" the man says looking around at the family's faces and finally resting once more on Danny, who was still in his father's arms appearing to be sleeping.
"I...I'm not sure about what your talking about," Mrs. Fenton says although her voice was chocking with such an uneasiness it was hard to believe her.
"Then, I shall kindly repeat what I told you so long ago," the man says smiling as if this were to be a great treat, he stabs the end of his staff on the ground so that the purple orb suddenly began to shake violently and crack open revealing a long and yellow stained piece of parchment.
"Ah, here we are," The old man grins, clearing his throat a little as he begins to read, " ' On the night of the full moon as the war rages on bellow, a boy will be born with the heart of a dragon's stone. The curse to be threatening and yet a gift beyond treachery, it is he who must defend the land once more, the princess of the dark as his guiding light, when the fifteenth candle of his life has been lit, the boy shall become what the heart desire...and what the heart desires will become what he wishes, Princess of dark to clash with the boy as his fifteenth candle burns with a desire to destroy and save at the same time,"' the old man finishes, he leaves the Fentons in complete confusion staring down at the sleeping Danny.
"And, you think that Danny is that boy?" Jazz asks, horrified.
"Yes, like I have said so before, I am almost certain that he is the boy," the man says, nodding towards Jazz.
"But...a desire to kill? Danny?" Mrs. Fenton asks alarmingly.
"Yes, it is my belief that if the boy does not learn how to control the creature inside of him, he will be lost from your grasp before he can even figure out what's happening," the man says sitting back in his chair and stuffing the parchment back into the orb.
"But, then...what should we do?" Mr. Fenton asks shaking slightly. The man's smile immediately faded away, he sighs and looks at the family once more.
"For now, all I can do is give you this," he says snapping his fingers so that long silver snake like chain appeared out of nowhere, " And this," the man says snapping his fingers once more so that a small circular and white medallion appeared, embroidered with a white dragon shooting fire from it's mouth, it's eyes glowing black menacingly.
"Well, what do we do with them?" Mrs. Fenton asks taking them from mid air, the man gives another snap so that the two pieces collided together to form a necklace and then sends them flying towards Danny so that the necklace was now around his neck.
"As long as he keeps that medallion on...he can't do his dragon transformation, for now...that is all we can do," the man says getting up as the chair gives a loud screech.
"But...but surely that can't be all of it! What about Danny!?" Mr. Fenton says angrily also getting up so that Danny's head wobbled back and forth on his shoulder.
"It would be best to tell him the truth once he wakes up...he can't live through the rest of his life going through the unknown...even though I know that is how you wished to raise him," The man says walking out of the house leaving the Fenton's with an expression that you could have been sure that someone might have just slapped them.
"B...But..." Mr. Fenton cut off his sentence when he realized that the man was gone, Danny stirred in his arms as Mrs. Fenton slowly began to pull his hair behind his eyes.
"Oh...Danny, Jack what are we going to do?" Mrs. Fenton asks as she and her husband place Danny in his room.
"We'll do as the man says, Maddie. We'll tell him once he wakes up in the morning, we have no choice," Jack says angrily.
"What should I make for dinner?" she asks choking back tears, Jack's eyes suddenly narrowed towards the wall in front of him.
"Ham...just ham," He bellows. Maddie stares at him, surprised.
"You must be really worried, aren't you?" Maddie says
"Yes, dead serious," He says walking away from her, Maddie sighs and follows him towards the kitchen...what was her son about to go through?
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Author's note: Hey! I'm really sorry it's a bit short, but don't worry I'll try and make the next chapter a bit longer! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!! And yes, Danny is getting Dragon powers instead of Ghost powers! Heheh.