So here is a redo of my first story 'Here Comes Rebel'! After reading a fanfiction on DeviantART, I got hooked back into this fandom! I don't own Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman and Nick do!
Nicole Waters is what most people would call a rebel. She isn't a nerd or a loser but she isn't one of the A-Listers either. As she journeys through a world where ghost are real and one of her best friends is a Halfa, things get a little bit complicated. Well, as complicated as you can get when every ghost you meet is calling you a queen.
The lights blinded her, the sirens nearly making her deaf. But somehow it always seemed to get worse.
- Nicole Waters
"It hurts..."
Eight-year-old Nicole "Cole" Waters groaned. She was in the hospital, at least that was where she thought she was. Her mother was sitting the chair next to her bed, a heartbroken but grateful smile on her face to see her daughter's lilac eyes.
"Baby, you don't remember what happened, do you?" Cole shook her head. She could remember pieces, like a truck, light, and blazing sirens but she had a feeling that her mother meant a full memory.
"You and Charles-" She sniffed before coughing, her eyes watering. "Got into a accident with a drunk driver." Then a memory hit her with full force. One she would rather have revealed. Her father, his shoulder bashed in, a large cut running from his temple through his left eyes to the beginning of his cheekbone, Many of his bones visible and exposed.
Her eyes became blank, her face harden. Tears started to run her mother's, her voice cracking even more as she spoke the next sentence. "Charles only has a six percent chance to live..." Cole could tell the truth hit her just as hard as it hit her mother.
"Soon, it'll be just us?" Her voice was small, innocent. Her mother nodded and hugged her only daughter tightly. "Only us..."
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Later in the month, after Cole was released, the news she dreaded had been given to her. "He's dead..." The eight-year-old crossed her arms. "Don't sound so depressed about it. We all knew it would happen sooner than later." She got out of the chair she was in and walked to the door.
"I'm not going back to class."
Cole opened the door and slammed it with a bang. "Can someone get Daniel Fenton?" The principal asked her secretary.
Cole walked into the rain, her tears mixing with the cool water. Weird how when a Waters goes up, water comes down...
She sat down on one of the wooden tables. She tossed her father's red snap back hat on the table and took off the button up shirt she was wearing over her usual shirt. Gripping the shirt in her hands, she tugged it in half causing it to rip. The two pieces were clenched in each of her fist, her eyes shut to try and stop the tears that were flowing.
"Are you okay?"
Cole looked up to see a boy that looked about her age with raven, black hair and icy, sky blue eyes. The boy walked forward causing the red umbrella he was holding to cover them both.
"I'm fine."
Her voice cracked at the end, showing the emotion she was holding back from people. The boy frowned, his eyes full of concern even through he just meet her. "No, you're not..." Cole stood up suddenly and walked away from him, the shirt still in her hands.
"I'm Daniel Fenton but most people call me Danny, which is what you can call me." Danny smiled and Cole couldn't help but blush. "I'm Nicole but I like to be called Cole." He reached out into rain and grabbed her hat, which was soaked. He placed the umbrella in between his ear and shoulder, ringing the hat of water.
He walked to her and tucked a piece of wet hair behind her ear, one of his hands holding the umbrella and her hat. Danny then placed the hat on her head and kissed her cheek quickly.
Cole raised a hand to her cheek, which was flushed, and stared at Danny in shock. "Why did you do that?"Tbe raven haired boy shrugged. "You looked like you needed something to cheer you up," He winked. "And I think you're pretty."
The rain started to lift but it was still sprinkling. He gave her the umbrella and gave her a small but comforting smile. "I want you to go home and calm down. I'll see you later." Danny gave her a small wave and walked back to the doors of the school. A smile placed itself on her face as Danny gave her one last wave.
And that's how their friendship started.
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A eleven-year-old Cole held a lighter in her hand and was walking towards Danny, who held all of the posters from his room in his arms.
"Danny, don't be like that!" Cole pouted and gave him puppy-dog eyes, her eyes watering slightly. Danny frowned and pulled the posters closer. "I'm not letting you burn my posters, no matter how many faces you make or tears you shed!" Sam and Tucker, Danny's best friends since he was in Pre-K, laughed their asses off.
"But it was a dare! I had to do it and I promise to get you new ones." Danny backed away some more as Cole took a step closer and crossed her arms. "Besides, I forgave you for that run you took with Sam and I's underwear."
Sam waved her hands, tears running down her face. "You can stop now." She held her stomach as the laughter came back. "Please stop!"
Cole sighed and tossed the lighter into a dish bowl that was by the two. She walked over to the Fenton's old purple couch and rubbed her eyes.
"What do you mean by 'you can stop now'?" Cole raised an eyebrow at their two laughing friends and them looked back at Danny. "Seeing as Sam and Tuck are busy, I'll tell you." She pointed at the spot next to her and Danny sat next to her, his posters still in his arms.
"The real dare was to scare you shitless and might I say, I worked." Cole highfived Tucker, a smirk on her face.
Tucker pulled out his PDA and waved it at Danny, mockingly. "And I have it all in here." He started the video and at the sound of Danny screaming at the top of his lungs, Sam and Tucker burst out laughing.
Danny got up and snatched Tucker's PDA and deleted the video. "Real funny, guys, real funny."
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"Don't go out with her!" Danny turned, one eyebrow raised at Cole, both of them now twelve. "And why should I listen to you?"
Cole rolled her eyes. "I knew you weren't answering my texts!" She pulled out her phone, her thumb dancing across the screen. She stopped what she was doing and tossed the phone at Danny, who caught it.
"That's why." She stuffed her hands in her pockets and walked down the hall, knowing Danny was smart enough to figure out what she was taking about.
Danny frowned slightly at the screensaver of an Cole and her dad making funny faces at each other and went to her photos. There was a picture of Lindsay, his valentine date, kissing her ex-boyfriend, Dash Baxter.
He then moved to a video of Lindsay. "What a nerd!" Valeria Grey, one of Lindsay's best friends, exclaimed causing Lindsay to snort. "I know right! I can't believe Fenton would think that I would go out with him!" The two girl highfived and laughed.
Danny scowled and paused the video before he could listen to himself get dissed by his crush since fifth grade. He turned the phone off and stuffed it in his pocket.
The teen walked to the school's main entrance and pushed them open with more force than needed. He walked down the steps and sat next to Cole, who had a pile of rocks next to her that she was throwing at an oak tree.
"Do you believe me now?"
Danny slung an arm over her shoulder and pulled her into a hug. The familiar smell of jasmine going up his nose. "You're right, I'm sorry..." She flashed him one of her smiles. "It's alright."
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A thirteen-year-old Cole smiled, green and purple braces glistening on her teeth. "What do you think?" Tucker rubbed his chin. "They make you look kinda nerdy..."
Sam elbowed his side as Cole pouted and slapped his shoulder. Sam and Danny laughed while watching Tucker rubbed his shoulder and side. "It's been five years and you're still abusing me!" He put his hand over his heart and faked a look of pain making Cole roll her eyes.
Danny slapped Tucker's opposite shoulder, signaling that he needed to dial it down. "They look wicked cool!" Sam gave Cole one of her rare smiles.
Danny smiled at her. "I think they fit you!" Cole rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Just admit it! I look like I was gargling green and purple paint."
Her three friends burst out laughing at her outburst. Cole eyed them in confusion. "What? Was it something I said?!"
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Cole looked at Sam then Danny and back again. "Your parents said it themselves, the portal doesn't work! Why are you worrying?" She cleared her throat, signaling that she had some thing to say.
"I think that you're both right about the portal. Danny if you go into the portal, you would gain a new experience. Sam, if Danny goes into the portal and something happens than that's guilt on your shoulders which I am sure will affect you and Danny's relationship."
Tucker hummed in agreement, his hand running along the outside of the portal while the two looked at the portal. Danny sighed while grabbing the suit from Sam. "I'll do it!"
He slipped his feet into the suit before pulling it up his body and sticking his arms through. He muttered curse under his breath as his arms got stick in the tight sleeves. Danny pulled up the zipper and made his way to the portal.
Cole stepped in front of Danny, her hand positioned to rip off the sticker of Jack Fenton's, Danny's dad, face. She pulled it off and tossed it to Sam, who caught it with a confused look.
"Keep it and put in your scrape book." The goth nodded and slipped the sticker in her pocket.
Cole moved off to the side as Tucker and Sam went to her side. Danny walked up to the portal and skimmed a nervous hand on the portal's surface.
He walked into the portal, careful of where he stepped. His eyes brightened as he stared at the blue and black wiring. He heard Cole take a deep intake of breath and turned, tripping over a wire and pushed a green button labeled on.
There was a flash as excruciating pain flooded through him and then a scream that Danny soon realized belonged to him. "Danny!" Cole dove for the portal as she realized what was going on.
She pulled Danny out despite the slight pain she felt. He phased through her hand and she noticed that instead of his raven, black hair he had snowy grey hair and his icy, sky blue eyes are now neon green.
She grabbed his hand quickly to catch him then moved to check his pulse but his hand phased through hers. She growled, tugging at her hair. "Stop doing that!" there was a flash of light and two rings traveled opposite ways of Danny's body, changing him back to the Danny they knew.
She checked his pulse and was surprised to find out he wasn't dead and had a normal pulse of someone sleeping. He was breathing normally, too. "He's not dead..." The trio let out a breath of relief.
She grabbed his pale hand but it phased through hers. Cole softly lifted Danny's head and placed it on the floor. She walked up to the portal her eyes glazed over, mumbling under her breath.
She tapped the neon green portal causing it ripple. Two hands came out of the portal and pulled her into it. She felt a slight chill as she was pulled entirely into the Ghost Zone. She saw at least hundreds of ghost surrounding her.
"What the hell?!" Cole got up as a ghost in a purple cloak walked up to her and slid the cloak back it expose a head. "I'm Clockwork, the master of time." He turned to all the ghost. "We have found our queen!"
The ghost all bowed while a handful of ghost stayed standing. "This must be some kind of joke! A mortal can not be in charge of running the land of the dead!" Clockwork turned and looked at the ghosts, an eyebrow raised and a small smile on his face.
"Do you not trust my knowledge of the past, present, and future of this child?" Cole frustrated by the bowing and getting answered shouted. "Rise and give me some damn answers!"
There mummer in the crowd and Cole screamed again. "Rise! Do you not understand that?!" Clockwork looked at her before nodding. "I'm sorry..." Cole raised an eyebrow. "What do yo-"
All the ghost fired at her making a unforgettable pain run through her and what seemed like hours even through it was only a few seconds.
She felt herself get pushed back out of the portal and hit the the floor before blacking out.