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New Beginnings

Danny was walking down the sidewalk and sighed. One year. Just one year. That's how long it took for his life to take a complete one eighty. More like a seven twenty. Danny sighed in reluctant bemusement. He just shook his head and entered his new store; "The Fenton Works Book Store." Well, it was called a book store but it was more like a gothic café. He had one of those devices that pours delicious liquids into small paper cups. The lighting and color scheme made the whole thing rather dark, and books were not for sale unless the store had two so. That way one was always available for reading.

He got in and looked around. Bookshelves with books covering everything from ghosts to aliens to inter-dimensional destroyers covered the walls. All organized by topic and power. He rearranged some books, and put "Trigon the Terrible" back on the top self. He shook his head. These books were organized by topic and power. He would have to have a talk with Vlad about his organization method. Since he came for a visit, he found books out of place every day!

After making sure that everything was to his liking, Danny went downstairs to his lab. It had a closed ghost portal and all sorts of ghost hunting equipment. It would be very reminiscent of his parents' old lab if it wasn't so clean and organized. He went over to the specter deflector rack and picked one up. 'I just got access to my electrical powers, too.' He looked at the glowing green belt forlornly, and put it around his waist, just above the first one. He powered it up.

"Gerk!" He would never get used to putting those things on.

He transformed himself into his ghost half and proceeded to test his abilities, starting with his most versatile one. The ability to change his ghostly form.

He transformed into a girl. "Gender, check." He made himself a toddler. "Age, tweck." He proceeded to turn into several different things, from Plasmious to Skulker's true form to the president of the United States. He still couldn't remove his ghostly aura, though. "Ok, transformation is all good." He proceeded to transform back to his natural ghost form. He never outgrew his old jumpsuit. It was a link to his past.

He proceeded to shoot several targets located around the room. "Ecto-blasts, check."

He checked all of his other abilities that he had. "Invisibility, check. Intangibility, check. Ecto-shield, check."

He then checked his elemental powers of ice and electricity. They both were severely weakened due to the two glowing belts he was wearing. He just shook his head and gave out a disappointed sigh. Danny didn't like to 'go ghost' anymore, but it was one of two requirements that Vlad gave him. "You must keep in practice, little badger."

With that he phased up to his room and transformed back. His bedroom was of a Spartan style, with just a door, a light, and a mat on the floor. Since the death of his family and friends, he didn't see the need to have anything else. He lay down and went to sleep. His last thoughts were spent wondering why Vlad required him to live in Jump City.


A/N: Thank you all for reading my story! I really appriecate. Now, I know that the first chapter is a little short, but I am going to work on that for the next chapter. There are many other things that I want to work on, as well, and I probably don't even know were all my flaws in my writing are. So, I ask that you, the readers, do something to help me on my quest to better my writing. It isn't a big thing. All I ask is that you review with any coments on what I should improve and how, and any glaring mistakes that you see. Hopefully, your comments will help me learn to write better and thus make this story more injoyable to read! Of course, I wouldn't argue with complets either...
-Shy Shay