So… yeah. :D
I REALLY loved Danny Phantom when it was on, but once it ended, I just… forgot about it
Then my love was reawakened when scrolling through the cartoons section of fanfiction, and I spied the link proclaiming 'Danny Phantom' and I had a happy attack. Danny Phantom rocks, and I've seen every episode (Just can't remember them well anymore XD)
ANYWAY:
I like pie. And Danny Phantom, which I've already told you. Any who, when I read fanfics about Danny and his friends/family/schoolmates being stuck in the Ghost Zone, and Danny can't (or tries) to not reveal his secret to everybody else besides Sam/Tucker/Jazz, I decided to write my own fanfic before I mentally exploded. (Which has happened before, and trust me: It wasn't pretty)
So… again, yeah. All of your favorite ghosts are going to make appearances, don't worry, and I'm pretty nervous on how you guys are going to accept it.
Hopefully, well.
Anyway, I'm just going to write this story so you all don't become bored and click the 'back' button.
Disclaimed: I don't own Danny Phantom. Nickelodeon and Butch Hartman does. (And yet they cancelled Danny Phantom…)
Oh yeah, this obviously happens before Phantom Planet.
Danny Fenton's day hadn't been going… well. He woke up late, missed his bus, his bag ripped, and he face planted in a mud puddle.
"I hate spring." Danny muttered, before closing his mouth quickly. With his luck, Ghost Writer would appear again and force him to speak in rhymes until he learned his lesson that spring was 'the season of life and new beginnings' or whatever.
Fortunately, the dead author didn't show up and Danny managed to get to class only five minutes late. The teacher wasn't there yet, so he couldn't be considered tardy.
One of his best friends, Samantha 'Sam' Manson was already sitting at her desk when he stumbled in. "What happened, your alarm didn't go off?" She asked.
Danny sighed. "I must have turned it off when I got home after fighting Skulker again. Then the Box Ghost. And Ember, Desiree, and the Lunch Lady! I bet my dad left the portal open again."
Sam grinned. "You weren't the only person with a bad morning. Tucker accidentally short circuited his PDA, Dash forgot his football, Paulina her eye shadow, and me matching socks." Sam gestured to her black combat boots, and Danny could see one sock was a normal black, while the other was bright pink.
"I bet your parents snuck the pink sock in." Danny grinned, and Sam groaned.
"Your probably right. They're slowly trying to make me 'fit for society'. Well, kudos to them for their persistence."
Danny grinned and sat on his desk right next to Sam's. "They're probably where you got your shining stubbornness from." He teased gently.
Sam cracked a smile and opened her mouth when Mr. Lancer walked in.
"Attention, class. I have an incredibly important announcement to make, so listen up." He drawled in his usual monotone.
"Wonder what it could be." Danny whispered to Sam, who shrugged in response.
"Students who sign up by next week will be able to spend a whole school week on a camping trip on the outskirts of the Ghost Zone."
"Ooh, maybe I'll see the Ghost boy!" Paulina whispered to her best friend, Star.
"Why would anyone want to go to the Ghost Zone?" Dash sneered, although he was looking in Paulina's direction as he spoke.
"Did I mention no homework for the entire week you miss while in the Ghost Zone? And that you don't have to make it up?" Lancer said, eyeing Dash.
The effect was instantaneous. All the A-list kids started talking about the trip. The girls were giddy with hope that they'd meet the famous Danny Phantom, while the guys were psyched about the 'no homework' part.
"Are you going?" Danny asked Sam when the bell rang and everyone left for first period.
Sam nodded. "This time, we'll actually have permission to enter." She smirked, and Danny also smiled remembering all the times they'd entered the Ghost Zone unauthorized.
"Yeah, I'm also going. The trip might need backup in case of an attack by ghosts or something." Danny said, pretending to flex his muscles.
Sam burst out laughing, but stuffed a fist in her mouth when they entered the classroom for Science.
Tucker was also there, and Danny could see he also knew about the trip. After hurriedly discussing plans on things to do during the trip, the trio sat down at their desks.
For Danny, the rest of the day soared by until lunchtime. Immediately, Tucker, Sam and Danny went down to the office and signed up for the trip, getting spots just in time before the mob of A-list kids came and filled up the rest of the list.
At the end of the day, all of the people who were to go on the Ghost Zone trip were:
Danny F.
Sam M.
Tucker F.
Dash B.
Kwan
Paulina
Star
Mikey
Valerie G.
Jazz F. (For training to be CIT of sorts)
Mr. Lancer (as chaperone)
Maddie F. (Guide)
Jack F. (Guide)
Wait, what?
Danny rubbed his eyes and did a double take when reading the last two names.
"My, my parents, are-?" Danny's voice rose in pitch as he spoke.
"Oh my god." Sam said, also reading the last two names.
"Well well well, Fenturd. Looks like your Mommy and Daddy are also tagging along." Dash sneered over their heads before walking away.
Danny buried his face in his hands and moaned. "I'm doomed."
Tucker patted him absentmindedly on his back, reading the rest of the sheet telling what they would need to bring. "Yeah, yeah you are."
"Dude, not helping!" Sam said, and punched Tucker in the arm.
"Ow!" He yelped. "Okay, I'm sorry!"
Danny sighed. "If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find a hole and crawl into it."
Danny turned and walked away dejectedly, when Sam grabbed his hand. "You're not getting away from me-us that easily. Now come on, let's get you a comic book or nonfiction book about astronomy."
Danny grinned and followed her. Tucker suddenly laughed behind them, and they both turned around to stare at him.
"You guys do realize your still holding hands, right?"
Both teens began blushing furiously and immediately let go, before Sam yelled "TUCKER!"
The rest of the day was spent with Sam beating the crap out of Tucker through his already shaky self-esteem.
I was going to stop here, but I'm too hooked to stop! XD
The next day…
"Are you guys ready for the field trip today?" Sam said, walking up to her two best friends, a black cargo bag slung over one shoulder.
"Er, you do realize this is a one week trip, right Sam?" Danny said, looking at Sam's tiny bag.
"What? No, this is just my 'equipment'. Fenton phones, thermoses, ghost gabbler, and the BOOmerang. Also my tool kit. THAT'S my luggage." Sam said, and pointed to her limousine driver who was taking a medium sized black suitcase out of the trunk of Sam's car.
"Ok… then." Danny said, shouldering a backpack of his own. "What about you Tucker?"
"I brought my PDA, camera, phone, DS, game boy…" Sam cut him off.
"Did you leave anything left in the electronic store?" She said dryly.
Tucker looked a bit put out, but Danny just laughed and patted him on the back. "You know she's right, dude."
"Ahh, good job, Danny-boy! First step in wooing a girl: Always agree with what she says!" Jack Fenton said coming over and slapped his son on the back, nearly knocking him over.
"For the last time, we are not together!" Sam and Danny shouted in unison.
"Oh, leave those hormone crazed teenagers alone, Jack!" Maddie Fenton said coming over. She obviously meant to help her son and his friend, but both teens immediately turned bright red.
"Mom!" Danny cried, burying his face in his hands. "Ugh… if any of you need me, I'll be in the 'bus'." Danny walked away groaning and walked onto the Specter Speedster, which looked like the cross between it's original design and a London double-decker tour bus.
Sighing, Sam grabbed Tucker's arms and pulled him after their embarrassed friend.
Later…
Still refusing to look at his parents in the eye, Danny slunk down in his seat on the bus and put in his earphones.
He closed his eyes and didn't open them until he felt someone pull out one of his ear buds. "What?" He asked groggily.
"Were doing headcount." Tucker hissed. "And no one can see your head!"
Feeling confused for a moment, Danny then realized he had unknowingly turned his head invisible. "Shoot!" He said, then willed his head to appear again. "Hand me your hat!"
When his mom called his name again, Danny stood up and pushed the brim to Tucker's hat out from his face. "Oh! There you are, Danny!" Mrs. Fenton smiled, then continued on with role-call.
"Nice plan, dude. Now give me back my hat!" Tucker said, before snatching back his signature headgear.
"Guys." Sam's head popped over the back of their seat. "Take some Fenton phones, in case we run into Ember."
"Good idea." Danny nodded before taking a pair of the neon spectral filters. Putting them in, Danny grinned. "At least now I won't hear Star's talking!" He whispered.
His friends snickered. "Your right, only dogs can hear her!" Sam smirked, before she disappeared again into her seat behind them to talk to her friend Valerie.
"She's a keeper, dude!" Tucker grinned, nudging his best friend.
Danny frowned and shot him with a blast of his ecto-powers. Just a small amount, but it was enough to burn a hole in Tucker's pants.
"Dude! I just got these back from the cleaners!" Tucker whined as he inspected to dime sized hole right above where his knee would be.
"Yep, that's a keeper!" Danny laughed, then using one of Tucker's numerous gadgets, took a picture of his dejected looking friend. "Now then, if you don't stop cracking jokes about me and Sam, my thumb is going to 'accidently' hit the SEND button to all the contacts you have on your phone, okay?" Danny grinned evilly as his friend mutely nodded. "Good. Now, here's Hannah."
Danny tossed the phone back to Tucker, then stared out the window. While he and Tucker had been arguing, the Specter Speedster had entered the Ghost Zone. Gazing at the now familiar landscapes he called his second 'home', Danny wondered when he would finally join the residents of the Ghost Zone, permanently.
Mrs. Fenton was holding a small microphone in one hand and was speaking to Danny's class about what ghost hunters knew about their prey.
Danny snorted as he listened to his mom incorrectly describe ghosts as 'unemotional shadows of a once living person doomed to haunt a place they can't bear to leave, and how mindless they were'.
Minus a few ghosts (AKA, the Box Ghost), most ghosts were incredibly smart and could formulate strategies very easily. As for the 'no emotions' part, Danny knew that ghosts could become angry, sad, happy and even fall in love. Having kids was also possible, so you didn't have to die to become a ghost; you could be born one.
Danny's frown deepened. Then there was himself. One of the only halfa's ever. Vlad, his clone Danielle (or as she liked to be called, Dani) , and Danny all were freaks of nature.
It wasn't Danielle's fault she was a half-ghost. She was born from Danny's own DNA, which included his half-human, half-ghost genes. Vlad and Danny, however, became half-ghosts through lab accidents. Although so similar in origins and powers, there was the fine line between good and evil.
"Great. I'm only fourteen and I'm already half-dead, I have an arch-enemy, and a daughter." Danny thought sourly. The daughter part was fine by him. Danielle was a great kid, don't get him wrong. But it was hard pulling off the cousin act when they looked and acted exactly the same. Not to mention the fact that the third time Dani visited, she had been bullied by Dash and Danny went ballistic on the football player, right in front of his parents by the way.
Danny's mom had looked initially confused, then later commented when they got home that Jack had acted the same way when Jazz was Dani's age and got bullied by a high-schooler.
This was way to close for comfort, both Danny, Dani, and Jazz thought, so Dani immediately took off running shouting about having to go home, Danny mumbled something about playing Doomed and went to his room, and Jazz ushered her mom inside the kitchen to help her prepare dinner.
Danny briefly wondered if he would see Dani on this crazy field trip and slightly smiled.
Little did Danny know, Maddie Fenton had been watching her son closely, and was unprepared to see the flash of emotions going across her son's face. Amusement, anger, happiness, and last of all, love. Not the kind of love that was between Sam and Danny (even though they were blind to it, while even Jack was aware), but a sort of fatherly love. Like Jack's expression when he first held Jazz, then Danny in his arms.
A flash of that Dani child went through her head as she remembered that hot summer day when Jack's supposed cousin's daughter arrived:
Begin flashback:
That morning, being a Saturday, Maddie was in the kitchen reading Ghost Hunters Weekly when Danny came barreling into the room. Normally, Maddie is a calm person, but she couldn't stop her gasp at seeing her son at this time of day. Normally on the weekends, Danny sleeps in 'till noon, or even past that. Sometimes he would wake up in the morning but still look asleep, not as wide awake as this.
Ignoring his mother, Danny rushed to the front door and jerked it open.
"DANI!" He shouted happily, before scooping up the person at the front door in a bear hug.
"DANNY!" Came the reply in the form of a happy squeal. It sounded like a girl. Going into the hallway, Maddie came upon an extremely strange sight: A twelve-year-old girl rather on the small side on Danny's back. She was hardly taking up any room, and Danny held her up easily.
The girl's chin was propped up on Danny's head, and her feet dangled barely past Danny's waist. Putting the girl down, Danny stepped aside to reveal the girl fully. Her messy black hair was pulled into a short ponytail, but her bangs were exactly like Danny's. On top of her hair nestled a red beanie. She wore a blue hoodie and red pants. Her sneakers were in the same design as Danny, but instead of blue on white like Maddie's son, the little girl's were red on white. Te overall appearance was to Maddie like seeing a mirror image of Danny, just a few years younger with genders and clothes colors reversed.
"Hi Maddie!" The girl said smiling broadly. "My name is Danielle, but please call me Dani. As in, Dani with and 'I' on the end."
Maddie smiled back and came forward to give the girl a hug. "Why, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you're Danny's clone or something!"
Maddie missed the pained expression the girl gave.
"Come on, Mom. Give Dani some breathing room." Danny said, hands on his hips. Maddie was surprised by the amount of affection was inserted in the girl's name.
"Can we go get ice cream? PLEASE?" The girl said, giving the best impression of a puppy Maddie had ever seen.
"Of course!" Maddie said. "Your obviously a Fenton. Tell me, what's your favorite flavor?"
"Fudge!" Dani declared instantly.
"Congrats, Dani! You have just passed the Fenton family test!" Jack declared, coming into the room. "Any fudge lover is welcome in this household!" Jack looked at his partly assembled family as if daring one of them to argue.
No one did.
"Really? Great!" Dani said, then opened the door. "I'll drive!"
"WHAT? You could hurt yourself!" Danny cried, running after her. Maddie and Jack shared a bemused look, then Jack followed his son and 'niece'
"I'M DRIVING! NOT YOU TWO!" Jack hollered as he managed to squeeze through the small doorway and barreled towards the Fenton RV.
Maddie rolled her eyes and followed them, but not before grabbing something off the table. She walked towards the Fenton RV, where Jack, Danny, Dani, and now Jazz were fighting over the wheel of the family 'car'. Maddie gave a quiet cough, and instantly everyone looked up.
Maddie smiled, and took out something from behind her back: The car keys. "I'm driving."
No one argued.
A few minutes later, Maddie calmly pulled up to the ice cream parlor in downtown. Instantly, everyone piled out and got in line to buy ice cream.
After everyone got their icy goodness in hand, they all sat down at one of the many tables outside the ice cream stand. Danny and Dani were having a contest on who could finish their ice cream first, when Dash and his gang of football buddies sauntered up.
With a sneer, Dash knocked the ice cream out of Danny's hands and it splattered against the sidewalk. "Hey, Fenturd. Sorry about your ice cream. Let me guess, it was a kiddies' sized one, right? How fitting for a loser like you."
Maddie opened her mouth to say something, and Jack was reaching for an ecto-gun when Dani spoke up.
"Leave Danny alone!" Dani was standing on a table so she towered over Dash with her hands on her hips. The sun shone behind her, so her face was incased in shadow, while her eyes stood out against her darkened face. (A/N: Imagine it in your mind. Doesn't it look EPIC? XD)
"Who the heck are you?" Dash asked, feeling a little bit intimidated. You try not feeling scared when you aren't able to make out the face of a possible enemy who may be able to hurt you.
"My name's Dani, with an I. Now let my cousin go!" Dani almost growled.
Dash snorted. "Yeah, right! What can you do?" The reply was a fist that landed a solid punch on Dash's eye. Dash backed up a few steps, reeling from the punch.
"I said, leave my cousin alone, you big idiot!" The shadowed girl snarled.
Jack let out a low whistle. He leaned down to Maddie and whispered in her ear. "She'd make a GREAT ghost hunter!"
Dash growled in response, while his buddies backed up step by step until they fled down the street.
"Why you little-" Dash kicked the table Dani was standing on and knocked it over. Dani, not expecting this, fell off to and landed on her wrist, hard.
There was a sharp crack.
Dani whimpered a little, and Maddie rushed over to her niece's side. Sure, she didn't know the kid well, but she couldn't be older than twelve.
Gingerly feeling Dani's injured wrist, Maddie's face darkened. "That Neanderthal broke your wrist!"
Danny, who was kneeling next to Dani, literally snarled. Danny turned towards Dash very slowly (A/N: Again, epic image XD) with his normally blue eyes bright green.
Before anyone could even blink, Danny was holding up Dash by his collar over his head. Danny brought Dash's face close to his and growled; "If you ever so much as look at Danielle again, I swear to God that I will hunt you down and rip you apart molecule by molecule, do you understand?"
Dash snorted, clearly thinking Danny was bluffing. "Yeah, right. Sure I will."
Danny literally threw Dash into a wall across the street. Dash hit the wall about ten feet up and fell down to his knees. Fortunately, the street had rather emptied of people since a majority were teenagers, and as soon as Dash and his gang walked over to Danny they fled, so there weren't many witnesses.
Danny walked calmly over to where Dash was gasping from the force of being thrown into the wall. "Listen, Baxter. You can bully me all you want, but that girl right there is as close to me as a daughter. So you can wail on my all the time, but so much as one hair is out of place on her head, I will personally kill you, do you understand?" Although the words were quiet, they carried over to Danny's family, who looked over at him at shock. (Except for Dani, who was currently grinning from ear to ear at what Danny had called her)
Dash finally looked Danny in the eyes and was stunned by how green they were. That could be no trick of light. "Y-yes. Danny. Sure. I won't bother your cousin or friends anymore, I promise!"
Danny smirked. "But can you keep that promise?" Without waiting for an answer, Danny walked back over to his family. "Are you okay?" He said quietly to Dani.
Dani nodded. "Did you really mean it?" You could just hear the hope in those five words.
"Yes. I promise." Danny smiled, and Dani hugged him as hard as she could with one arm.
"Now let's get home before your wrist sets improperly." With that, Danny easily picked up Dani, who climbed on his back, laughing. Danny also laughed, then started running with Dani on his back squealing, "Faster! Faster!"
The rest of the Fenton's also smiled (it was a funny moment) and piled into their RV, leaving behind a shell shocked Dash who was still sitting on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the road.
End flashback.
Hooray… Danny is OOC -_-'
yay.
You can probably tell that Dani is my favorite character on the show. I mean, she's around my age and she kicks SERIOUS butt! XD
As always,
OHA