Chapter 1

"See you later, Sam. I'm going to explore the doors in the ghost zone." Danny Fenton says to his girlfriend as they leave their summer school class. Danny needed it to catch up on a few classes and Sam took it so she could hang out with him.

"Ok, I'll tell Tucker when I see him." She kisses his cheek and walks down the street to her house.

Danny hides behind a bush and changes into his alter-ego, Danny Phantom. He turns invisible and flies up over the city. He loves flying. It's his favorite part of being half dead.

He lands behind a car a few blocks from his house. His parents still don't know he's the ghost boy who protects everyone. They even tried to inject him with some anti ghost virus but Tucker had made him a fake doctors note saying Danny couldn't take it because of a strange allergy to hypodermics.

Danny changed back to human and walked in the front door of Fenton Works.

"I'm home!" He called in case anyone was there. He didn't really care if they were there or not but he needed to figure out how hard it would be to get to the ghost portal.

"Hi, Danny! Your father and I are in the lab. If you're hungry I made meatloaf!" His mom called from the basement.

Danny had just entered the kitchen when what she had said fully registered. 'Meatloaf?' He looked around the kitchen, ready to defend himself. His mom's cooking tended to be brought to life because of the ectoplasmic radiation she tends to always be covered with.

There it was, trying to convince the rest of the food in the fridge to start a revolution.

Danny pointed a finger at it and hit it with just enough ectoplasm to make it inanimate again. He grabbed the meatloaf and put it back in its pan, then he grabbed a pop from the fridge and went up to his room.

Danny sat on his bed and drank his pop while he let the school stress wash away. It seems like Dash was only being harder on Danny since he got a real girlfriend.

He listened to the house around him as he grabbed everything he would need incase the trip into the ghost zone will take longer than expected. He emptied out his backpack and refilled it with his cell phone, his wallet, the Fenton thermos, an ectoplasm gun, the Jack-a-nine tails, and the map he and Sam had started to draw out.

Danny heard his mom go into the bathroom downstairs and turned into the Phantom and went invisible and intangible. He drifted down to the lab where his dad was busy welding something. He walked over, still invisible, to the ghost portal and opened it. He jumped in and watched it close behind him.

Danny checked to make sure his phone still worked and called Tucker.

"Sup Danny?" His best friend said through the phone.

"Hey, Tucker. I'm gonna be exploring the ghost zone for a while. If my parents call, can you cover for me? Tell them I'm sleeping over or something." Danny said as he flew through the ghost zone to the last section of doors he had explored.

"Sure thing dude. I got ya covered."

"Thanks man. Is Sam there? She told me she was gonna see if you could hang out."

"Yeah, she's trying to find something an ultra-recyclo vegetarian can eat in my kitchen, for the hundredth time this month." Tucker said with a sigh.

Danny laughed. "Ok, tell her I said hi, I'm almost to the unexplored sector, see ya!" Danny said and shut his phone off. The map ended here and Danny was standing on a floating rock between two doors.

This is where he and Sam had decided to stop last time. They picked it because it was easy to remember and this area stayed pretty stationary.

He put the map in his bag and flew to the first door. It looked like a door in a correctional school for troubled youths. The only reason Danny knew this is because his parents brought him to one as a threat

when he would spend whole weeks without telling them where he was and skipping school. He was more careful around them after that.

Danny opened the door and found a room filled with British flags and graffiti. He changed back to human and started looking around. He found a bunch of garbage and what looked like old broken train tracks. Suddenly a loud noise came from the wall next to him. He turned to it, prepared to fight something, but all he saw was a wall with a door similar to the one in the ghost zone. The whole wall was splattered with paint in a way that made it look like a ripped up British flag. Danny walked over and opened the door.

He nearly wet himself. What he saw was a speeding subway train. It only took a second for it to go past but Danny stood in shock for a few minutes before he could move.

"Ok, British subway system. Useful." He started reaching for his bag when he heard something move behind him.

"Oi, boy, what are you doing' in my hideout?" A girls voice said a few feet behind him in a heavy British accent. There was a click that sounded like a gun being cocked.

Danny sighed, knowing his body would automatically go intangible out of self preservation if she fired but he didn't want the ricochet to hit the girl.

He raised his hands, showing he was unarmed, and slowly turned to face her.

"Answer me, boy, how you find this place?" The girl looked to be about twelve. She had dirty braids, a snow cap, and thrown together hobo clothes. The gun was pointed straight at Danny's head.

"I didn't know anyone was here, I was just exploring the tunnels." Danny said, trying to stay as close to the truth as possible.

The girl tilted her head. "That accent, where you from, boy?"

"Amity Park." He said.

"What's your name, boy?" She asked, lowering her gun slightly.

"I'm Danny." He said with a smile as he lowered his arms slowly. "What's your name?"

"I don't think I have to tell you that." She glared at him.

"I think you do to be polite." Danny responded with a smile.

"What if I don't wanna be polite?" She was testing Danny, seeing if he was a threat or not.

"Then I would have to leave, but I would like to know the name of my host before I go." She looked him up and down. Danny could practically see her weighing the possibilities in her head. Suddenly she pointed the gun back at his face.

"If I let you leave, you'll just go tell the cops! I can't let you do that." She took aim.

"What makes you think I'll tell the cops?" Danny could see his lack of fear for her gun was unnerving the girl. She was scared.

"You're dressed like one o' those rich rule following snitches." She accused him.

"I'm not even from around here, why would telling the cops what goes on in the tunnels be of any concern

to me?" Danny asked.

This seemed to confuse her.

"Are you going to tell me your name or not?" He asked, getting a little impatient.

"Didn't you say you were from Amity Park?" She asked.

"Yeah."

"Then you lied to me! You said you are from Amity Park but you also said you aren't from around here! How can it be both?" She was getting mad.

"Ok, tell me exactly where we are. City, country, date even." Danny said with a sigh.

She looked concerned for his sanity.

"Humor me."

"Amity Park, Great Britain, July seventh." The girl said cautiously.

"I am from a city, also called Amity Park, in America." Danny clarified.

"Why did you need to know the date?"

"It's a long, complicated story." He said. "So are you gonna tell me your name or not? I need to get going."

She looked at him. She sighed but kept the gun pointed at him. "I'm Alice. But you won't be leaving." She grimaced and got ready to pull the trigger. "I can't risk anyone finding me."

"Trust me, you don't want to do that." Danny cautioned. She ignored him and motioned for him to stand in front of the door. She opened it and had him stand between her gun and the open subway tracks.

"I don't want blood in my home and if I time it right your body will be pulled far from my door before anyone on the train knows they hit you." She was just about To fire when Danny had an idea.

The train was almost to the door. Danny jumped backwards onto the tracks. Just before it hit him he turned intangible. Alice was backing up from the door, making sure no one on the train could see her.

Danny waited for the train to pass, standing in the middle of the tracks with his arms folded.

When the tunnel was quiet again, Alice came back out to look and see if the train had left any sign of the black haired boy.

She screamed. Danny was standing in the middle of the track, not a scratch on him. She slammed the door shut and Danny sighed. 'If a train couldn't stop me, why does she think a door would?'

He flew up to the door and floated through it. He made himself solid again and glanced at the girl in the corner. He rolled his eyes and walked over to his backpack. He had dropped it when Alice first pointed the gun at her.

"W-what are y-y-you?" She whispered from the corner.

"I am a ghost." He left it at that. It was too confusing to explain he was only half ghost.

She pointed the gun back at him. He looked at her, her hands were shaking so hard that even if Danny could be hit, she would miss.

She pulled the trigger and Danny lunged at her. She screamed. Danny turned them both intangible. The bullet bounced off the steel plated wall and flew straight back at the shooter. It finaly stopped when it imbedded itself in the stack of wood boards behind Danny and Alice.

Danny grabbed the gun from her, emptied the bullets out of it, and tossed it onto the train tracks. "I told you, I'm a ghost, but I'm not evil or anything. I'm just trying to figure out everything I can about my new world."

"You made the bullets go through me. You saved my life." She looked at Danny with a mixture of terror and awe.

"I help where I can, but you're the one who put your life in danger." Danny looked at her. "How old are you?"

"Thirteen." No hesitation this time.

"Don't be so quick to risk your life, or to end someone else's." Danny glared at her. She nodded like her life depended on it.

Danny looked around the room again. He sat on an egg crate in the corner opposite Alice.

"Why do you live here?" Danny asked. "Where's your family?"

Her eyes went cold. "I don't have a family, they gave me up four years ago. The orphanage keeps trying to find me. The cops used to keep bringing me back when I would hide in the allies. But now I have this place. It was painted when I got here. Someone must have been here before me. But it looked like no one had been here for years, so I made it my home." She looked a little confused as to why she was telling Danny this.

"And what do you do for food?" He asked.

"I steal. I'm a good pick pocket so whatever I can't steal I buy using some sucker's money." There was a bit of a gloating glint in her eyes.

"What if you can't steal or buy food?"

"I can go hungry for a few days before I get sick. But those kinds of problems haven't lasted longer than three days before."

Danny looked at her face and saw her cheeks were starting to turn hollow. "When was the last time you ate?"

"Yesterday. I was out looking for an easy target when I came back and found you here."

"What's your favorite food?" Danny was really feeling bad for the girl.

"I don't know." She frowned, trying to remember if she has ever had anything she could call a favorite food. "I don't have one. But I've always wanted to try a BLT sandwich." Her mouth was watering.

Danny shoved his wallet in his pocket and put his backpack in the corner.

"I'll be back in a minute." Danny started to turn intangible when a thought came to him. "Don't touch my

bag, and stay here, I'll have something for you when I get back." With that, Danny melted through the wall

into the subway tunnel and changed to the Phantom.

He flew along the tunnel until he got to the station. He found a map and looked for a sandwich shop. The closest one was three blocks from here. Danny changed back to human and walked to the Shop.

The cashier was a blond girl who looked no older than Danny. Danny looked at the menu and found the BLT.

"Hi, how may I help you?" The girl asked with an overly nice smile.

"I'll have one BLT meal and one French dip, both with a medium lemonade." He said as he pulled out his wallet.

The girl seemed a little disappointed that Danny didn't take her hint. She told the cook his order and went back to texting. Danny sat on a bench under the window so he could take in the view. It was a small town with brick roads. There was a lot of viney plants and small trees around the buildings. There were bright flowers everywhere. Danny was almost positive the only reason this town had a subway stop was because it was a great vacation spot.

"Sir, your order is done." The blond called to him. When Danny looked up he noticed the girl had unbuttoned her shirt a bit and had styled her hair some. He grabbed his food, paid the girl, and left with a smile. He saw her pout.

When Danny was out of sight he turned invisible and flew back to Alice's subway room.

He entered the room invisible and saw Alice holding the Fenton Thermos.

"Hey!"

She squeaked and dropped it. Danny set down the food and put the thermos back in his bag.

"I-I'm sorry. I just wanted to know what a ghost would need to carry with him." She was so scared Danny

would do something ghosty to her that she didn't notice the food.

"It's ok. I'd be curious too." Danny set his bag next to the crate he had set the food on. She smelled it now.

"I said I would have something for you. Here." Danny handed her a lemonade and grabbed for her sandwich. "I got you something. I hope you like it." He smiled and handed her the BLT.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" She had tears in her eyes. "All I've done is try to kill you and dig through your things."

"I know what it's like to be desperate to keep a secret. Plus, you needed a friend, I know that feeling too." Danny pulled out his own sandwich and the au Jus and took a big bite.

Alice looked at his sandwich, then back to her own.

"Do you want to try mine?" He asked.

She jumped a little. "Oh, no, I just didn't know ghosts could eat." She eyed his food and sniffed the bacon.

"It's real food, don't worry. I bought it from a shop near the subway station down that way." Danny gestured the way to the station.

"You have money?"

"Yeah." It was becoming more confusing to try explaining himself as a full ghost than explaining how he's only half ghost would be.

"How did you get money?" She seemed eager to find a new way to get some extra cash.

"I saved up when I was alive. Nobody told the bank I was dead."

She watched him eat, probably hoping the food was gonna fall straight through him to the ground.

"If your not gonna eat that I can take it back."

She must have forgotten she had food of her own. She jumped and almost dropped it.

Alice licked her lips and took a huge bite of the sandwich. Her whole face lit up. She started to shove the whole thing in her mouth.

"Whoa! Slow down! You wanna make it last. If you eat it all at once you will be hungry again faster. Slow down and take a sip of your lemonade between bites. It'll fill you up more." Danny instructed.

She did as he said and they ate in silence for a while.

Danny glanced at his bag and remembered what he was doing. "I gotta go."

"Don't go! I want you to stay. Everyone else left." Alice said with tears threatening her eyes.

"I'll be back. I'll make sure to visit you. Next time I'll help you make this place more livable and hidden." Danny promised. He put a hand on her shoulder and smiled.

She jumped forward and hugged him. He could feel her crying and returned the hug. She pulled back first. "I'll miss you."

"I'll be back. I promise. I might even bring a few of my friends." He smiled to Try to calm her down.

"Ok. But even if you don't come back, I'm happy I met you." She pulled back and handed him his bag.

"I will be back." He pulled the map out of his bag and showed it to Alice. "I made this map. It shows every place I've ever been. I'm gonna mark the map so I always know to come back." Danny pulled out a pen and wrote Alice on the door leading to this room.

"Why does it look so weird?" She asked as she watched him write her name.

"This is a map of a special world just for ghosts. Only we can travel through it freely. It has a door to everywhere and I'm trying to map out where every door goes. Now I have your door and I won't forget

you." Danny smiled at her and she smiled a little.

"Ok." She was still sad but there was nothing else Danny could do, he hugged her then went back through the portal into the ghost zone. It was invisible to non-ghost eyes.

Author's note: this is my first story so reviews are welcome, but please be kind. I know there's no mention of Gravity Falls yet but it will show up in the next chapter, don't worry.