I own nothing, not the characters, the space where this story exists, or even the eyes that you are using to read it. This is for entertainment purposes only, no money involved.
This story is being made as a challenge to my self to see how fast I can pump out chapters if I don't care about plot, canon, relevance, length, spelling, grammar, or continuity (Since those things are were most of my time go).
It started because someone asked just how fast can I write a story when I try. So at the end of ever chapter I will put down the number of hours, minutes and seconds the chapter took to write.
But the rule is that I have to put out one chapter every day and can't start on the next chapter until the next day.
This will not be my best work, but it will hopefully be entertaining.
Lets see how long I can last.
Chapter 2
Goodbyes
Danny and Clockwork phased upstairs into Jazz's room, and there she was still frozen in time. Clockwork slipped one of his medallions around her neck releasing her from the freeze.
"What, huh, Danny look out there is a ghost!" Jazz cried, jumping back and pointing at Clockwork.
"Jazz, relax this is Clockwork, remember the one I told you about. Master of Time, he helped me when you were all killed by Dan Plasmius." Danny said trying disparately to get his sister under control.
"So he is a good ghost?" Danny nodded. "So what is he doing here?"
At this Danny's head fell, so Clockwork explained, "I am a feared Jasmine at your parents found out about Daniel's half ghost status and tried to experiment on him."
Jazz's eyes widened, "No they wouldn't, not to Danny, is everything ok, did they hurt you." Jazz had freaked out again and was checking Danny up and down without giving him time to speak.
"Jazz, I am fine." Danny said, batting Jazz's hands away from him. "Clockwork got me out of there at the last second."
"You are not fine." Jazz said hands on her hips. "I can't even imagine the psychological affects that your parents knowingly trying to kill you could have on a boy your age." Jazz had started her psychologist to be act. "Danny this could mentally scar you for the rest of your life."
"Jasmine, I am a fear we should not change the past, right know we are only here to discuss what happens next and to tell young Daniel the truth of his birth." Clockwork had stepped in know that Jazz's rant could go on forever if he let it.
"What do you mean the truth?" Danny asked since this was the first he had heard of it.
"That is another story that the Observant won't get off of my back for, you see you are not really a Fenton. I left you here on their door step as a three month old baby after your real parents were murdered and you were over looked among the bodies." Clockwork replied, seeming a little stressed out about the whole ordeal.
"Wait, so I am adopted and my real family is dead?"
"Not all of it, you still do have an older brother, but I am still trying to figure out how to explain all of this." Clockwork shifted into his old man form before continuing, "You see Daniel, just like ghosts are real, so too is magic. And your real parents were a witch and a wizard."
"Wow, for some reason I am not even a little surprised." Danny half laughed to himself though it sounded hallow.
"Wait, why should we believe you, you don't have any proof." Jazz asked, always the skeptic.
"There is no proof that I could give you what you could not write off as a ghost artifact." Clockwork started.
"We can trust Clockwork, Jazz." Danny said, "I would trust him with my life." That seemed good enough for Jazz, or at least she dropped the subject.
"Very well as I was saying, your parents were murdered by a man calling himself Lord Voldemort" Danny had to hold in a laugh at how stupid the name was but then again 'The Box Ghost' was only a little better, "He was a dark wizard on the rise and killing everyone in more or less the same way as Hitler would just with none magical people or muggles as the wizards call them instead of Jews, until he fell for a self fulfilling prophecy and blow himself up trying to kill your older brother Harry. Which is how a one year old baby was credited with destroying one of the darkest wizards of the age."
"That seems really disappointing." Danny said.
"Yes, it really is, but Harry is worshipped for it like you are for locking away Pariahs Dark." Clockwork said. He to felt like it was a little anti-climatic for a mass murderer to go.
"Ok, but why did you leave me with mom and dad of all people?" Danny asked, "No offense Jazz."
"None taken, I need to give them a piece of my mind after this." Jazz said reassuringly.
"I did that because the world needed you here, Daniel. Think of what the world would be like without Danny Phantom. Man and ghosts alike would have been conquered by Vladimir or Pariahs. Maybe all mankind would have been drowned by Vortex or feed to Undergrowth's army of plant children." Clockwork said smiling with pride. "You have done more than most would have ever dream possible in the last two years."
"Thanks Clockwork." Danny said with a smile, taking pride in the job that he had done protecting the city. "But what am I going to do now."
"You will go to a school for wizards, the same one you would have gone to two years ago if I had not interfered. After all, Jackson and Madeline are not just ghost hunters, but haters of all things that are supernatural and not normal. The irony of course being that they are the more unusual ones around." Danny couldn't help but to laugh even though he knew the hollow truth behind the words. If the people he had called mom and dad his entire life had found out he had magic in his blood, they would have killed him anyways; ghost or no ghost.
"I will spend some time training you to use magic. Though since I can't use it myself and can no longer look into your future, this will be an interesting experience for me as well." Danny's head shot up at these words.
"What do you mean you can't see my future?" He asked wandering what was so special about him that the all seeing clockwork could not see his future.
"Have you not noticed that there is no medallion around your neck?" Looking down Danny could see that he was right, there was no medallion, and yet he could still move freely. "In order to seal away the darker future, I had to remove you from the time steam. The Observant were not happy about that, I can tell you. But I believe it was the right choice to make."
"So what will I be learning?" Danny wanted to get off of the subject of Dark Dan as fast as possible. Not to mention he was curious about what exactly he would have to learn for a wizard's school.
"Yes, you will need to study; Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Divination, Muggle Studies, History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, and Astronomy." Danny's smile widened, he had always loved outer space, and had gone there on more than once. He knew that he would love that class. "Those are the only classes you will have to take at your school, but I will be teaching you one other form of magic. You see Daniel, there is a magic that was lost to time, it was called 'spirit weaving'; it used the ectoplasmic energy in the air to perform magic. But it was always weak, because it was limited to the energy in the air around the user, and could only be performing in a spiritual rich environment." Clockwork smiled, "Of course you don't have those restrictions do you. And as such, in your hands it may prove to be the most powerful form of magic of them all."
"That great I guess," Danny said rubbing the back of his neck, "But I can't leave Amity Park alone. It would be destroyed."
"How so?" Clockwork asked, "You destroyed the Fenton's portal, and I have destroyed the Plasmius portal. We can contact Frostbite to have him send soldiers over with the infinite map if anything happens. And you have already helped lock away most of the real threats."
"But what about Vlad?"
"When he finds out about what the Fenton's tried to do to you, he will give up on Mrs. Fenton and stop attacking the town. He will spend the next three months eating large quantities of blue bells ice-cream and crying in a corner before buying a cat and moving on with his life." Clockwork reassured Danny.
"Don't worry so much Danny." Jazz said. "We can handle ourselves, and with Frostbite and Valarie in our corner, what could go…" Danny slapped a hand across Jazz's mouth.
"Don't jinx it." Danny said quickly before lowering his hand.
"You're too superstitious." Jazz said, folding her arms across her chest.
"Considering I am half ghost and just found out I am a wizard, I don't think that what they say about black cats is that farfetched." Danny replied with a playful glare.
"Point taken."
"We really must be off, since you have to learn more than two years of magic in just two months." Clockwork said. "Jasmine, make sure both you and Daniel's other friends keep some Fenton Phones so that you may stay in touch with Daniel both when he is in the Ghost Zone and when he goes to school."
"Ok, Mr. Clockwork, sir, and thanks for helping take care of my little brother." Jazz said before giving Danny a hug. "I'll tell Sam and Tucker what has happened so don't worry about that, just make sure you come back to visit. We can have you stay at Sam's house in one of the guest rooms."
"Thanks Jazz, I will miss you. And can you get Tucker to tell Valeria everything that happened to, I don't want her shooting at the Far Frozen." Danny said hugging her back. "And make sure you work on your aim will I am gone." He finished as Clockwork teleported them away with a sweep of his cloak. Leaving an angry Jazz behind who was no longer wearing the time medallion.
Danny looked around to see that he was once again in Clockwork's tower; in the middle of the room on a table was a wand, that he picked up on Clockwork's instruction. Light pour out of it as it started to change shape, growing and twisting into a walking staff. It was around the same height as Danny himself and was completely smooth and cool to the touch. Then Clockwork said with a smile, "It is time to begin." And like that Danny spent the next two months of his half life training with Clockwork, including his Thirteenth birthday, and seconded deathday. In that time, Danny started to look at Clockwork as a father, and began to call himself, Danny Clockwork in his human form.
Through generous usage of his duplication powers he not only learned all of the first two years of material, but also the third year for Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, and Astronomy. And soon September first had come and found himself standing on platform 9 ¾ with his staff in hand and luggage beside him, gazing at the Scarlet train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
This chapter took 52 minutes 23 seconds to write. (I am only running spell check once at the end and only for the stuff that the computer can detect. Going for speed here.)
(In case you didn't notice I was at first going to have him visit all three of his friends, but then realized that there was going to be a lot of needless repetition and that the plot only needed one person to know so I scraped the other two without changing the beginning of the chapters because this is a test of speed, not continuity.)
Day 2 complete
