Without a Heartbeat

This is Danny's point of view of the accident with the Fenton Portal that gave him powers. I couldn't think of anything besides this to write so please forgive me if it is sub-par. Yes I did use the phrases from the flashback scene in 'Memory Blank' but I wanted it to feel authentic, so please don't flame me too much for that because I don't take credit for those phrases. First fan fiction I ever wrote so please tell me what I can improve on.

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, though I sure wish I did…

Chapter One: Convincing

At first I didn't want to show them the portal, after all it was one of parents' inventions and was totally lame. But after seeing my parents work on it for months, plus Sam and Tucker always prodding about it, I caved in and finally took them down to the lab.

"I don't know what's the big deal, guys. It doesn't even work." I said as we were walking down the stairs to the lab.

"What do you mean? It's a portal into the spirit world! What can be cooler than that?" Sam replied.

Sam Mason was one of my two best friends, the other being Tucker Foley. Sam had short black hair and dark violet eyes. She was a Goth and an ultra-recyclo-vegetarian, with apparently was just a really long word for 'vegan'.

"You got to admit, Danny, Sam has got a point. A portal into another dimension does sound pretty interesting." Tucker said, agreeing with Sam.

Tucker, my other best friend, had tan skin and murky green eyes. He was a techno-geek and a meat-eater, which frequently had him and Sam fighting over what was going to be on the pizza they were ordering.

"Fine, whatever." I said with a grunt.

We reached the bottom of the stairs and entered the lab, which was a mess, as usual, but not to the extent that it was in last week. (The walls were covered in ectoplasm! Guess who had to clean that up?) I walked up to the portal and pointed it out to them.

Lying on the floor was a small white hazmat suit that was supposed to be for me, but when my parent's showed it to me earlier that day. All I could do was grimace at the picture of my dad's face stuck on it and threw it on the ground as soon as his parents had left.

I picked up the suit, but as soon as I did Sam shouted, "Smile!" and took my picture.

"Ok, I showed you the portal, can we get out of here now my parents could be back here any minute. Besides, they say it doesn't work anyway." I said as my friend looked at the strange contraption with pure curiosity.

"I don't know what the big deal is! After all, it's just another stupid invention that doesn't even work…" I thought to myself.

"Come on, Danny, a ghost zone? Aren't you curious? You got to check it out." Sam said as she walked in front of the portal.

I sighed and thought for a minute, "It sounds like it doesn't exist, but…what if it did?"

I smiled and said, "You know what, your right. Who knows what kind of awesome super cool things exist on the other side of that portal!"

I wanted to go in with my regular clothes on, but I remember hearing Mom say how dangerous the portal was and started to put on the white hazmat suit.

As soon as I finished zipping it up and was ready to go in, Sam said "Hang on," and ripped the Jack Fenton sticker off me, "You can't go walking around with that on your chest." She continued, pointing to the ridiculous emblem.

"True enough." I thought. I looked and stared into the depths of the portal. Regardless, it did go pretty far in and it was dark and hard to see more than a few feet in.

With my hand lightly touching the side of the wall, I walked into the portal. After I was a few feet in, felt my hand push down on something in the wall, and felt a humongous shock.

It was the most painful thing I had ever experienced.

End of Chapter One.

Yes, there will be another chapter. I hope you liked it so far! The next chapter will be up by tomorrow!