Disclaimer (cause I forgot in the last chapter): I don't own Danny Phantom, obviously.
The child wandered through the halls of the castle. He had explored only a few places as his daddy was worried that he would get lost. But his daddy would be out all day. So Daniel decided to explore more.
He walked to a metallic door that was different to all the other wooden ones that he had seen. And this one was open. Curiously, the boy walked forward and pushed the heavy door open enough so that he could fit through.
Inside was like something the boy had dreamed of once. The big room had metal everywhere. On the walls, the roof, and all the tables too. The boy clad in white shorts and red t-shirt, walked up to one of the tables and tried to look at what was on top. Hooking his hands on the top of the tall bench, he hefted his weight up enough so that his icy blue eyes could peer at the seemingly familiar equipment. Although he had no idea of what any of it did.
Bored of that bench, he dropped down and repeated the process. A bench with only papers. One with absolutely nothing. Another with tools. Walking over to one last bench – his arms were getting tired of lifting him up – he was about to jump up when the door banged open.
A short yelp came from the child as he ran to hide from the tall newcomer.
He ran into a tunnel like hole in the wall with wires everywhere.
Hiding behind the lip of the tunnel, the child peered out to see who it was. It certainly isn't his daddy. The tall figure that clomped around to a bench on the other side of the room, had luckily not seen the child, being too preoccupied. Said child's eyes widened at the figure. He looked like a man made of metal. He wore black clothes, and his hair was made of green fire.
Daniel huddled in further into the dark tunnel so the strange person wouldn't see him.
"Skulker, is it ready?" a deep voice asked as another figure came through the doorway. This one has blue skin, pointy black hair, and glowing red eyes that scared the child further into the tunnel.
"Yes it is, Plasmius," the metallic person replied.
"Well what are we waiting for? Turn it on."
Without another word spoken, the metallic person walked over to a computer looking system, and Daniel watched as he did this. Two buttons stood out from everything else, one red, and one green. A metal finger pushed in the green button.
The child looked around the tunnel as he felt it start to heat up. His eyes widened further as a tingling sensation passed through him and sparks flew around him.
"DANIEL!" a voice called to him. One that he recognised as his daddy's.
The child only knew pain. Then darkness.
"DANIEL!" the blue skinned ghost called out as he recognised the figure in the back of the portal. With no time to react, the portal formed around the small child, green mist swirling in the hexagon. "NO!"
He watched wide eyed in horror as his child disappeared.
Then, something happened. The green mist in the portal swirled and twisted. A shadow formed in the centre. All of a sudden, the shadow formed into a child's figure and was spat out of the portal. The blue skin ghost could only stare in disbelief at the small figure. The boy glowed with a ghostly white tinge. His hair turned snow white, and his shorts and t-shirt to black and green respectively.
"Sir?" Skulker asked from beside him.
Rushing over to the child, he flipped his carefully over, scanning for any injuries besides the obvious. Nothing could change that now. He would know. He tried everything.
Daniel stirred a little as he was moved, not enough to open his eyes though. Enough to mutter, "Daddy?"
"I'm here, son. It's going to be okay."
"It hurts," was the last thing he got out before falling limply into his father's arms. A halo of white light formed around the six year olds middle. Splitting into two, the rings passed over the child's body, leaving the raven haired child human again.
"Sir?" Skulker tried again.
"Go home, Skulker. I need to make sure everything is fine with Daniel. I will contact you when I am ready." The stabilised portal got its first use as the metallic ghost past through it.
Once gone, black rings formed around Plasmius' middle and left Vlad in his place. He then stood, cradling his son in his arms, made his way to the control panel for the portal and hit a button. Two doors closed on the green mist, shutting out the portal. He then left his lab and made his way to his small medical room – it did have its uses every now and again. Checking his son over, he found nothing abnormal besides the normal for half ghosts.
Sighing, he picked Daniel up again and moved to the child's bedroom. Placing the exhausted child on the much too big bed, Vlad left the room, leaving the nightlight on as normal.
It had been a year since gaining his son. He loved every precious minute with him. Alas, he always thought that something had been missing. Mostly just the thought of not being able to share everything with Daniel. Though he is far from that yet – much too far – there was now no doubt in his mind that the child needed him now more than ever. And he would always be there for his son.
Okay so this is where I am leaving this thing. I would like to thank those that reviewed, favourited, followed, and read this thing. It means a lot :D
I would like to continue this one day (when I have more time that is) as a bunch of short stories related to this beginning. For that to happen, I would need ideas. *hint* *hint* Leave me anything that you would like to see happen relating to this fic in reviews or messages, and I will get to them. The only thing is they need to be related to what I have set up in this fic.
Once again, thank you for reading and I hope to see you again!
