OKAY GOOD ENOUGH HERE'S YOUR CHAPTER
Quick note: Danny can't see the save points, because although he certainly has a ton of determination, he has a soul of JUSTICE, not of DETERMINATION. I think only the DETERMINATION souls can save and reset, because it would give an explanation as to why all of the other children's souls didn't come back after dying. They just didn't have enough DETERMINATION. BUUUT that means I get to fill this with HEADCANONS. AHAHAHAHAHA. Disclaimer:
OOh yeah and I don't own Danny Phantom or Undertale or any of their respective characters. They're not mine. This is the first and last Disclaimer I'm going to put in this story because this is a FanFiction site and I don't even know why I should add these.
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As soon as Danny put one foot outside of the hall, Toriel called him. Danny listened to the ringtone for a bit. If only it had a cooler tone, like: dododoweedododooodoweedodo
Gonna catch em all cuz he's Danny Phantom.
Nice.
Danny answered the phone. Toriel was just calling to make sure he was still in the room. Danny stepped outside of the room completely and then looked back into it with a somewhat guilty expression.
"Suuure…?"
Toriel seemed happy, and she hung up. Well, what she doesn't know can't hurt her, right…? Yeah. Danny looked over and noticed one of those 'Froggit' things, and debated walking past it, but the thing just talked to him anyway… somehow. Wait, these things are sentient?!
The frog told him about mercy, and how he should use it. Ah, okay then. Might as well use mercy, don't want to make anyone explode. Especially sentient frogs. Danny's mind was officially blown, so he walked past the frog and into the room next to it with speed people usually only have when walking to a bathroom. He finds himself in a room wherein there was nothing but two streams of water and a bowl of candy.
Danny walked over to the candy and noted the sign that said "take one," and he took an entire handful of them with no remorse. Unfortunately, he accidentally knocked over the entire bowl in the process, and he watched as it shattered against the ground with maybe a little bit of remorse. Then he took the rest of the candy and stuffed it in his jean pockets.
How disgusting.
Danny didn't care.
Danny walked out of the room while chewing on some candy (tasted kinda gross but it was candy, so), and he spotted some leaves lying in the corner, completely randomly placed in a nice cushiony pile and oh he wanted to jump in them so bad.
But Danny was a responsible teenager, and responsible teenagers don't-
He jumped into the leaves and had the time of his life.
Danny stood up out of the leaves and brushed himself off in a very refined and responsible manner, pretending he didn't just spend the last two minutes rolling around in a pile of leaves. But for whatever reason, he was filled with the sense of… something. Maybe ridiculousness. He should probably get going.
Danny set off on a journey full of puzzles and battles and more puzzles and more battles. It was pretty uneventful, (other than Toriel's strange calls about cinnamon and butterscotch and which one he liked the most) but he actually had a whole lot of fun. There's just something about the sense of accomplishment that comes from figuring out puzzles and sparing monsters. Especially since he had found cool stuff, like actual gold.
Well, it might be real, Danny wasn't sure, but it looked and felt like gold, so it was good enough for him. And what's with all the sassy signs and rocks around here, sheesh…
So Danny was just swaggering around with his gold and such, finishing puzzles and acting like the boss of the place, when he encountered a ghost.
It wasn't like the ghosts he was used to, it was more of a sheet costume but transparent and with an actual face. It was saying Z out loud repeatedly, pretending to be asleep.
"Are they gone yet…" asked the ghost, which ruined the facade entirely. Danny wasn't very threatened by this ghost, in fact, he wasn't spooked at all.
At all.
Well, if the ghost wasn't going to move, then he was going to have to use excessive force.
"Um," Danny started. "'scuse me… ghost, can you move?"
And then they entered a fight. Okay then.
Danny found himself actually feeling sorry for this… guy (apparently named Napstablook), as all of his attacks seemed accidental. In fact, all he was doing was crying all over Danny. Danny decided to try to cheer Napstablook up. And what other way to do that than with puns- I mean clever banter?
And so that's what he did. So many ghost-based puns were said it was almost illegal. Blook seemed to enjoy it, though. After a bit, Napstablook decided to show his own skills. He started crying again and he cried himself a hat made out of tears.
"I call it 'Dapperblook,'" he said.
Danny had to keep himself from laughing. He wished that was one of his ghost powers. He gave the ghost a thumbs up and a smile, and they seemed happy.
"Oh… I usually come here to be alone, but today I met someone nice… oh, I'll get out of your way…"
Danny waved goodbye as Napstablook turned invisible. He was going to miss that guy. Danny continued on until he was met with two path choices. He took the one straight ahead of him, and it lead to a Froggit who told him about how Toriel had come through here with groceries. Danny took a moment to ponder that. Groceries? Where had she gotten them? The only food Danny had seen was the monster candy (which he still had a lot of in his pockets), the donut he had gotten after giving some gold to some spiders (which he was still confused about), and the vegetables he'd gotten from that one carrot monster in the place where he'd found an old ribbon (which he totally did not tie up in his hair, what are you talking about) and had briefly seen Napstablook again. Danny supposed she could have gotten them from other food monsters, but that's pretty weird. Oh well.
And what was Toriel doing that took this long. Danny sighed and checked the doorway next to the Froggit. (Which had to be the fifth frog he had passed; honestly, why are there so many?) What he saw made his jaw drop.
There was a view of the ruins, all of the buildings falling apart and making a city of- well, ruin. Danny stepped out a bit more and only tore his eyes away from the view when he realized he had stepped on something. Kneeling down, he realized it was a toy knife.
… hmmm…
Well he certainly wasn't going to need that. He had ghost powers.
And really, who can even get hurt by a toy knife.
Danny stood back up, leaving the knife on the floor. He gazed at the view of the ruins one last time, and then retraced his steps back and took the other pathway.
Danny stepped into the room and noticed an out of place gnarled tree just… sitting there. Okay then. He hadn't taken more than a couple steps before Toriel rushed beside the tree and he froze. Toriel muttered to herself and put in a number on her phone, which was apparently Danny's number, since his phone was the one to ring. Toriel's head whipped up and around and she rushed over to Danny in concern.
"Oh! My child! Are you hurt? Here, let me heal you. How did you manage to get through all of those puzzles by yourself?"
Danny shrugged, deciding to not mention how he actually hadn't solved some of them and had just fazed through the spikes.
Because he's a cheater.
But not on tests he's not a cheater on tests never on tests nope.
Toriel accidentally spoiled a surprise that Danny actually really didn't see coming. Maybe he was too focused on moving rocks…? Oh well. He followed Toriel into her house and was enchanted by how incredibly adorable it was compared to the rest of the ruins. As he was led down the right hallway, Danny glimpsed the stairway down to what he assumed was the basement. In Danny's experience, basements usually hid some secret doorway or portal to a whole other dimension or place, but he didn't think Toriel would have something like that in her house. Haha, silly Danny.
Toriel led him to the first door down the fight hallway. She pat him on the head and then raced off to save the burning 'surprise' which was apparently a butterscotch cinnamon pie. Danny was relieved because he hadn't known which he liked the most out of the two when Toriel had popped the incredibly incremental question.
Danny stepped into the room and was surprised by how utterly childlike and old it was. But it still looked pretty well cared for. Toriel must have taken care of this room for years, waiting for a child to fall down… which sounded kind of creepy, but surprisingly wasn't. As Danny rooted through the stuff in the room, he found a box filled with old children's shoes OC various sizes. He wondered why all of the people who fell down here were children. That was weird. Danny went over to the bed to ponder this and- wow the bed was surprisingly soft. And very comfortable. Surely nobody would mind if he just closed his eyes for a few minutes…
…
Danny woke up to a dark room. Be wondered why is was dark for a moment, then realized Toriel must have turned the lights off while he was asleep. He then looked down and saw a piece of pie laying on a plate on the ground, and noticed that the blankets were mysteriously over him now instead of under him.
Wow. Toriel is really motherly. She was like a- a goat mom.
Danny just really thought about this deeply. She was just a lonely goat mom hanging out in the ruins and waiting for children to fall down and make her less lonely and more mom. That was very sad. Wait, but where did all the children go… did they all die…? Danny looked back at the box of children's shoes. How did they all die…
Oh well, no point thinking on an empty stomach, right. Danny took the pie and started eating it as he walked out of the room and into the hallway. He looked right and then left, and then went left to where he knew there were rooms he could look in. What? Snooping? He's never heard of such a thing! How absurd…
Danny walked into Toriel's room. There really wasn't much to look through, but he saw an open book on the desk and immediately bee-lined for that. Danny ate more pie as he looked at the red circled passage in the book.
"Why did the skeleton want a friend?
Because he was feeling BONELY."
Danny's eyes widened and he tried to not spit pie everywhere. Wow. He didn't know that Toriel was that kind of person. He read some of the other jokes on the page and snickered quietly, and before he left, he wondered briefly why the one about a lonely skeleton was circled in red. He shrugged and left it alone.
When walking outside of the hall, Danny noticed a mirror. He walked over to it to get a better look at himself.t
Hmm. Well, he didn't look all too different. Danny was still wearing his white top with the one red circle, and his plain blue jeans. He had a few smudges of dirt on his cheek and clothes, but not alot. He also had a red ribbon tied not-so-discreetely around a lock of his hair, and one leaf sticking to it as well. He also had serious bed hair. Danny smoothed down his hair and picked off the leaf, then took a last bite of his pie and headed towards where he knew Toriel should be. When he walked into the living room, he was surprised about how it seemed even more homely than any home he's be in on the surface… Which actually makes sense because Amity Park is very strange and Danny recalls several times when he had found a ghost hot dog in his cereal box.
Talk about a surprise inside.
Danny walked up to Toriel, who was sitting in her chair, knitting. She looked up at him and smiled.
"Ah, you are awake!" she said. "Just in time, as I have just finished making something for you."
She lifted up her knitting, and presented him with a light pink sweater with yellow stripes. Danny took it from her and examined it with surprise. Toriel looked slightly apologetic.
"I would have made it red to match your shirt, but I have run out of it, so I suppose this should do. And I noticed your soul was yellow…"
Danny smiled and put it on. The sleeves were slightly too long.
"It's perfect, I love it."
Toriel smiled and Danny thought about how fast she knit that sweater, like dang. Toriel told him that there's more pie in the kitchen if he wants it, and pulled out a book and some reading glasses. Danny walked into the kitchen and was kind of intimidated by the size of the pie. He didn't really think he needed it, what with his candy filled pockets and that one spider donut he was still afraid to eat, so he left the pie and quickly looked into the fridge. All that was there was one single brand name chocolate bar. For some reason, Danny felt like he should leave that there.
Danny thought about how he was going to tell Toriel that he needs to leave. She was just so… mom-like, it would be nearly impossible to tell her that. He probably could just leave without her noticing, but… she just seems so sad, and so lonely… but Danny couldn't leave his friends and family to fend for themselves in a town full of ghosts. Danny already had a mom, a family, and he wouldn't just abandon them. Not even for this really nice goat lady.
Danny stepped outside of the kitchen, still thinking. He noted that Toriel was still quietly reading, and desperate for something to do to procrastinate what he had to ask her, Danny walked over and grabbed a book from her bookshelf. It looked like it was about the history of monsters. Danny read about the war and how monsters were apparently forced down into the UNDERGROUND and kept there with a magical barrier. Danny realised that he must've hit the barrier when he'd tried to fly out earlier. Danny read a bit more, and he started to feel indignant about the fact that the monsters were trapped there. Many of them had probably never seen a sunrise before, or a sunset, or even the- the stars. Danny started at that. They've never seen stars before! That's awful. He didn't wish that on anyone…
Danny suddenly felt something deep down, in his soul. It was a feeling of… of… justice. Yeah, that's it, JUSTICE. Danny wanted to bring JUSTICE to all of the monsters who had been trapped in the UNDERGROUND for so many years, he wanted to set them free.
And the only way to do that, was by getting out of the ruins.
Danny walked over to Toriel with a glint of guilt in his eye as she smiled at him. Toriel told him that she knew he'd have a great time living here, she had prepared a curriculum for his education and wanted to show him her favorite bug hunting spots. Danny gained a bit of a pained expression, but he was also… determined, to make this right.
"How… how can I leave the ruins?"
Toriel started. She looked at him with a bit of worry.
"My child," she said. "That's… nothing of concern. Would you like to hear a fascinating snail fact? Did you know that snails flip their digestive systems as they mature?"
Danny… didn't know that. But that wasn't imported. His expression became more serious.
"I need to know how to leave the ruins."
Toriel looked slightly panicked. She stood up and told Danny to stay right there, she had something she needed to do. Then she raced out of the room and down the stairs. Danny sighed as he followed her. Of course it would be downstairs.
He found himself in a creepy and long hallway. He walked over to where Toriel was standing. She told him that beyond this hallway was the exit to the ruins. She was going to destroy it. She told him not to follow her.
Danny followed anyway.
Toriel said that if he leaves, they, ASGORE, would kill him. Danny continued to follow anyway, wondering who Asgore was and why he wanted to kill humans.
Toriel told him that this was his last warning. Danny hesitated before following her again. Last chance before what…?
They finally reached the room with the door, and Toriel stopped in front of it, turning to face him.
"Fine, if you are so insistent on leaving, then you must do one thing…"
She lifted up her hands, which glew with fire magic. Danny's eyes widened and he took a step back.
"Prove yourself! Prove to me that you can survive!"
They entered a battle. Danny was freaking out a bit. He couldn't fight Toriel! How could he ever hurt Toriel?! He dodged the first swarm of fireballs, but he was caught off guard and one grazed his cheek. He yelped in pain. He was never very fond of fire, having an ice core was probably a big factor in that… wait… his ice core! Danny had a brilliant idea! Maybe, to combat the fire, he could turn his soul into ice! Yes, that would definitely work… Danny concentrated on this and his soul formed a coating of ice on it. Danny looked triumphant and Toriel was confused. Another wave of fireballs came his way and Danny tried to dodge, but discovered that he couldn't move. Oh, so apparently covering his soul in ice protected him from fire, but made it so he was frozen in place.
So his soul couldn't get hurt, but he certainly could. Dangit.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow!
Okay, fire hurt. Danny looked down at his health bar (suspiciously videogame-like, by the way. He should know, he's been in a videogame before), and discovered that it was dangerously low. Fire is not good, fire bad. Danny looked panickedly at the onslaught of fire heading right towards him. A few more hits, and he'd be toast! (Ha)
Toriel looked nervous as well. "What are you doing? Fight or run away!"
Danny had about five seconds before the fire hit him. That was when he decided that he'd rather let Toriel know he's half ghost lest he becomes full ghost. With that thought, he turned intangible and let the attacks pass right through him. Toriel stopped for a second, shocked.
"What was that?" She asked.
Danny shifted his eyes.
"Uhhh… magic…?"
Toriel squinted her eyes and sent another wave of attacks at him. Danny sighed and turned intangible again. He then pressed mercy. Toriel didn't say anything and sent more attacks.
Danny pressed mercy.
"..."
Mercy.
"..."
Mercy.
"..."
This repeated a few times, the number of dots growing exponentially. Eventually Toriel's attacks didn't even hit Danny at all, they just flew past him.
"Please, child," Toriel had a sad and hopeful smile. "you could have a good life here."
… Mercy.
"Please, just go back inside…"
Mercy.
"Why are you making this so difficult…"
Mercy.
"Pathetic, is it not, I cannot save even a single child…"
...Mercy...
"No, you are right. The ruins are rather small once you get used to them, they are no place for a child. You would only be unhappy here. My expectations, my loneliness, my fear, for you, my child, I will put them aside."
Toriel spared him. Danny was a bit relieved, and also a bit heartbroken. Toriel told him that beyond the door is the rest of the Underground. She tells him to be careful, and asks him that once he leaves, to please, don't come back. Toriel hugs Danny and leaves, leaving the halfa standing and facing the door, unable to see her look back. Danny breathed shakily and stepped forward, pulling the door open with skinny arms that held a surprising amount of strength.
He walked into a dark room that bore serious resemblance to one he saw not too long ago. A flower popped out of the ground in the middle of a ray of light.
"You think you're so clever, don't you?" Flowey said. "So you haven't killed anyone yet, big deal. But at some point, you'll meet a relentless killer. Then what will you do?"
The flower's face morphed into something demonic. "You'll DIE and you'll DIE and you'll DIE. Or will you just kill out of frustration? You're obviously capable of it. Your goody two shoes want for JUSTICE isn't going to get you anywhere in the end, and when you break, I'll be there to pick up the pieces. But for now, this is just too fun to watch. See you soon!" The flower winked and sank back into the ground. Danny shuddered and walked forward, then paused for a second and shot a couple ectoblasts at the piece of land the flower shows up on. Haha, take that flower. Danny walked forward and stopped in front of the purple doorway. He took a deep breath and let it out, then stepped into the black.
He forced himself to not look back.
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Okay so I decided to change up the dialogue. Since Danny is having different reactions to the things happening, the dialogue is a bit different because of that. Also because I type this all on my phone and I have terrible internet which doesn't allow me to watch videos, so I'm doing this all from memory.
Well, until next time guys!
Flames will be used to light up all these dark rooms, sheesh there's a lot of dark rooms.