Battle Born Romance (a Danny Phantom fic)

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A/N: So, at the request of a certain reviewer of mine (you know who you are), I've decided to do a Danny Phantom fic because I've never attempted one before today. It's gonna be a little different than the usual fics about this cartoon series but it will still have yaoi elements to it, particularly the pairing of DannyxJohnny 13, so strap yourselves in cuz it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

*"Talking"

*'Thoughts/Flashbacks'

*'Song Lyrics'

Summary: Set in the year 2360, Danny and his best friends Sam and Tucker are looking for a fourth team member to participate in the 5th Annual Psy Rumble Tournament. Danny meets a boy with potential named Johnny 13 but learns that bad luck follows him everywhere, will he be able to help the blonde Rumbler turn his luck around while discovering his own feelings for him?

Ch.1- Searching

The sun rose up over the city skyline and signaled the beginning of another day in Neo Ammity Central, the hover pathways and cars firing up to transport people to wherever they needed to be. The city itself was at the pinnacle of industrial progress, save for the slums of Casper Woods. It seemed as if the high tech city was looming over the broken buildings and deserted apartment complexes like a god over its' subjects.

This was where Danny shared a 4 bedroom apartment with his two best friends Samantha Manson and Tucker Foley, as well as his younger cousin Danielle Masters. Samantha, or Sam as she preferred to be called, was your typical goth girl who listened to punk rock music and avoided anything that had blood spurting out of it on a bun. Tucker was the genius of the four friends who had scored higher than anyone on the entrance exams and was certified to be sent to a top notch school in the city, but declined in favor of staying with his friends. Danielle, or Danni, was the daughter of a man named Vlad Masters who had also been his father's best friend but had passed away years ago, in his will he asked Danny's family to look after her until she was 18 and old enough to take care of herself.

The alarm clock in Danny's room blared loud enough to wake everyone in the whole apartment complex until the 15 year old raven turned it off agitatedly, a groan escaping his lips as he realized that he'd never get anything productive done if he stayed in bed all day. He threw the dark blue blanket off of his thin body and let his feet touch the cool wood floor beneath him, a shudder coming from his mouth at how cold the room was. Danny stepped out of his white shirt and black boxers and went into the bathroom to begin getting ready for another depressing day, the water warming up slowly behind the clear curtains as he locked the door behind him. Danny wedged a chair up underneath the busted deadbolt to keep it locked in place so no one could walk in while he was naked.

After 30 minutes of washing and drying his hair and body, Danny stepped out ready for the day. He wore a dark grey shirt with black skinny jeans that were a little tight on him with a black and red studded belt and a pair of white socks as he slipped on his black combat boots that were a gift from his ex boyfriend Elliott, a brush carding through his long black locks until they looked somewhat presentable, his bangs falling in front of one eye giving him an emo look.

Danny then joined his roommates at the table for their meager breakfast, Sam going for her usual colors of black with a plaid skirt and purple stockings with black boots while Tucker wore a button down yellow shirt over a white under shirt and khaki slacks with a red beret, whereas Danni wore a cornflower blue jacket and red skirt with black leggings and black sneakers with a red hat, her short black hair brushed back out of her face.

The silence was what they all liked this early in the morning, because it meant they wouldn't have to talk about anything recent…such as the robbery at Casper First National Bank or even the bombing attempt on Casper High School, no one liked remembering such horrid things but soon enough their silent breakfast of cup ramen and milk had to come to an end so the four roomies grabbed their backpacks along with their Rumble Cases and headed out the door, ignoring the creaking from rusted hinges and the heavy sound of the door slamming shut as they walked down the metal steps until they reached the bottom.

Danny took a different route so that he could drop his cousin off at the nearby middle school, their blue eyed gazes locking as they tried making idle conversation.

"So Danny, are you guys still looking for a fourth member of your team?"

"Yes Danni, and before you even ask the answer is no."

"But come on, I've gotten so much better with my Beasts!"

"That's not the point, I could never live with myself if you got hurt in a battle because you charged in without thinking first…look, I know you wanna join the Neo Specters but if my parents or best friends found out that I let you join a battle with us and you got hurt I'd never hear the end of it, not to mention I could never forgive myself if I put you in the hospital."

"But-"

"The answer's no, end of discussion…besides, we're already here- have a good day at school Danni, I'll pick you up at 6 unless plans change. I'll call you if they do."

Danni begrudgingly sighed before she hugged her older cousin and ran off to school, the older boy smiling as he turned around and began heading to the worst place on earth, Casper High School.

(1 hour later)

The raven was sitting in class as he listened to their teacher, Mr. Lancer, drone on and on about the history of the Psy Rumbles and how they were formed. Danny's hand absently went down to his hips and stroked the Rumble Case secured there, his three Rumble Beasts contentedly sighing at the feel of their master's touch. Sam also touched her Rumble Case as she thought of the Free Rumble battle that she and her friends had been challenged to in the courtyard during lunch, the jock boys thinking they could actually win against her and her three friends.

The bell soon rang loudly and the students ran out like their asses were on fire while the raven and his best friends made their way to the roof, their stomachs grumbling at the thought of getting something into them. After a quick jog up the stone steps, Sam opened the door and let the warm September wind caress the three friends as they each took their usual spots against the metal fence and pulled out their lunches.

Danny had a BLT and a bottle of water while Sam had a soy tuna melt on whole wheat bread and Tucker was munching on a rib-eye sandwich on a hoagie roll, no one really came up to the roof to bother them so they loved eating lunch up here. When the trio of friends finished their food, Tucker glanced at his high tech Holo Watch and noted that it was 12:15…which meant that it was time to work off their lunches in the form of a brutal ass wiping, their targets being Dash and his idiot friend Kahn.

As the three of them stood in the courtyard of the school, Dash was the first to open up his Rumble Case and send out his beast, which looked like one of those robots they used to train football players for their upcoming season. Kahn released a similar beast, but his was less buff which meant that it was obviously built for speed rather than raw power.

"Sam, Tuck, ready to put these losers 6 feet under?"

"Oh you know it, Danny." Sam said excitedly, she loved nothing more than taking apart arrogant assholes that had no place mocking an elite team.

The nearby Hover Monitor began recording the battle that was to come and placed a barrier around the brawling teams, but it was more commonly referred to as a Rumble Space and kept the nearby buildings from suffering physical damage as well as prevent unneeded human casualties.

"Yo Sam, shall we go with Plan Alpha X79?" Tucker asked his friend, her excitement from earlier was contagious.

"Yup, ready Danny?"

"Oh yeah…WildClaw, it's Rumble time!"

"Spectra, take 'em out!"

"Cerberus, crunch these losers!"

And thus began the battle, Danny's beast WildClaw looked like a black and grey werewolf sporting a high tech collar with wrist cuffs that had chains attached to them, he was also wearing a prison uniform and unsheathed his green claws as he let out a roar of anticipation. Spectra was a pure black female shadow with deep red eyes and a sadistic grin on her face as blue flames began glowing in her hands. Cerberus was a three headed wolf with a conjoined collar and chained cuffs around his 4 ankles, each head having dark blue eyes that shone with excitement and bloodlust.

"WildClaw, take out Dash's beast with Phantom Slash!"

"Da, stăpâne [Yes, Master.]." WildClaw nodded as he rushed at Dash's beast faster than either could blink and stabbed his claws right into the opponent's heart before he snapped his neck between his jaws, the Ghost wolf throwing his head back and howling in victory.

Spectra by this point had disabled her opponent with her Vector Slip attack and Cerberus was chewing on the now dead beast like a chew toy, it was obvious that the Neo Specters had won. After declaring the winner, the Rumble Space disappeared and the three friends went back to class to await the end of another boring day.

After their last class ended, Danny went to pick up his cousin while Tucker and Sam went grocery shopping with the money they'd earned from winning underground Rumble battles. When they all got back to the apartment after forcibly pushing the door against the wall, Tucker took the bags inside while Sam closed the door behind them and set to making dinner while Danny helped his younger cousin with her math homework. When dinner was finished, the four roommates sat down at the table while watching TV as an interesting news story showed up on screen.

"Good evening news watchers, this is Diana Grace bringing you our top news story- the so-called 'Bad Luck Boy' Johnny 13, a solo Rumbler who has been dominating the Free and underground Rumbles for the last 4 months. We recently had a chance to catch up to the solo Rumbler and finally try to learn more about him, our onsite reporter Tyrell Danson is speaking with the boy right now. Tyrell, what can you tell us?"

"Good evening Grace, I am standing in the presence of Johnny 13…the Bad Luck Boy that has been making it very unlucky for his opponents when they pick a fight with him, Johnny what is your secret?"

Danny looked at the blonde shown on the TV screen and was curious as to what the very good looking man might say, he looked to be around 17 with shoulder length pale blonde hair and clear purple eyes that were framed by blonde bangs. He wore a black trench coat and a white halter top with black skinny jeans and silver-grey boots and 2 studded belts, the top belt was silver and dark grey while the second one was purple and red. He also had a few necklaces around his neck and a Rumble Case on his belt loop.

"Don't really have one, I just battle because I want to."

"Ok…is there anyone out there that you wanna say a few words to before I let you go?"

Johnny looked at Tyrell and then the screen before he replied to the question that'd been asked to him a minute ago.

"Yeah, first of all I wanna say thanks to my sister Kitten for helping me get better with my Beasts…and to the Neo Specters, I'm coming for you so be prepared when I show up."

"Alright, well thank you Johnny 13 for this short but revealing look into your personal life…back to you, Grace."

After the screen went back to the news reporter, Sam switched it to a movie called 'The Boy Who Cried Werewolf' for Danielle while Tucker pulled up information on Johnny 13.

The dark colored boy had turned the laptop monitor towards his friends so the three of them could read it together.

"Guys, Grace wasn't joking when she said that guy's been dominating the battle circuit…he's won all his solo Rumbles with only one of his Beasts, it's called Shadow and he has yet to lose a battle to anyone. He takes on people solo or even teams single handedly and trumps them all, none of them know how he does it but they see a flash of black and then it's all over. We definitely need to be careful of him, if he's coming after us then we need to make sure we face him as a team."

The three friends nodded while Danni watched the movie, the next few days were probably gonna be their most dangerous.

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T.B.C.- Well, that's the first chapter…hope you guys like, a couple of things I should explain though before I leave you all here until the next chapter, and the first one's about WildClaw. If anyone has seen any episodes of Danny Phantom that feature him then you know his language is definitely not English, I cannot for the life of me remember what exactly it's called so I decided to change it to Romanian for easier reading of his lines. The English translation will be featured next to his Romanian sentences and speech just like in this one so you won't get confused when he talks in Romanian and you can't understand him. Also, I didn't know what to call Tucker when a sentence doesn't have his name at the beginning and I definitely don't wanna come off as racist or offensive to certain individuals who read this chapter so I settled on calling him dark skinned. If that's too much, then suggest something for me so I don't seem like a racist bitch…anyway, hope you all like, read and review please!