Danny hurried to the funeral. He didn't care about what they said. All he wanted was to be left alone; unhassled and unmoved. He had just reached the graveyard when he heard a scream. His father's scream to be specific.

His strides lengthened to a full out sprint. He reached the graveyard just in time to see a skeletal figure swipe its claws through his father's throat. His steps stopped as he stared in horror at the creature.

It was entirely black and obviously humanoid. A white stair marred the thing's forehead. Under the star was his mother's name. He stared at it frozen as it seemed to crawl inside his father's body. It was horrible. And the worst thing of all was the chained soul wrapped above it. It was ghastly. Danny took a step forward.

"Mom," rolled off his tongue as he gazed at the soul in fear.

"Well, well, what do we have here? 3" Danny jumped and whirled about in fear to see another strange sight sitting on the wall.

While the other one was a skeleton this on was most definitely not. This being resembled a very, very fat man. He wore a white coat and dress pants. His top hat was adorned with flowers and skulls. Two elf like ears seemed to sprout from his head and he wore an insanely large grin. He also carried a strange umbrella with a pumpkin on it.

"Who are you?" Danny asked. Something told him that although this being certainly looked weird enough to be a ghost he just wasn't.

"I'm the Earl of Millennium, though you can call me the Millennium Earl if you think it should be shorter." The spoke with a happy voice and seemed to be in incessant joy over something. "Though I don't think you'll be alive for long."

Danny swerved to see the barrel of a gun aimed right at him.

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The first thing he felt was pain. His head hurt very bad. VERY VERY bad. He groaned. He tried to move his hand to rub his pounding temples but it felt sluggish. What was wrong with him? Danny tried to squint open his eyes but closed them immediately when hot pain stabbed through his retinas. What had happened to him to make him feel this bad? Sam and Tucker had come over and given him some food. He had eaten it even though he wasn't hungry… and then he had gone to the graveyard. Danny jolted as memories passed over him. Of the strange black skeleton with his mother's name on it, of the weird ghost looking not ghost with a lot of power, and… and of that thing. Danny remembered how it had pointed its gun at him. He also remembered how at that moment his friends had come along and pushed him out of the way. And how Sam had gotten hit instead. Tucker had caught her as she fell. Then he had become angry. Danny didn't remember much after that except that he some how destroyed that creature. It had not taken much. When he had come back down to earth again Tucker had been holding Sam as strange dark pentacles had begun to appear.

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"Danny," Sam croaked as she saw him.

"Sam!" He cried out. He bolted to her side. She began to cough raggedly and black blood spewed from her mouth.

"Danny, promise me," She begged him. Danny didn't know what was going on. More pentacles were beginning to cover he body and there was nothing he could do about it. Danny could tell that Sam knew this. She knew she was going to die. No! Not again! Not another of my precious people! Danny wanted to scream. But instead he merely said.

"Anything," like the good little friend he was supposed to be.

"Keep on going. Don't let this get to you. Don't die." And with that she was gone. The little black goth flower that Danny had loved simply crumbled into dust. Danny felt his tears began to stream down his face.

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Now Danny was in his room. He truly had no one now. Danny didn't really know what had happened last night but whatever it was it had robbed him of his dad. The last of his family. He was truly alone. He sighed. He needed to start looking for his father's will.

After several hours of searching Danny still hadn't found it. Finally he collapsed in his father's study. Danny laid his tired head down on the desk and just stared unblinkingly into the wall. He actually stared at it so long that he began to think one box of the wall was a shade or two lighter than the others. Danny jerked his head up. He wasn't just imagining things! There really was a part of the wall that was a different color. No! They wouldn't have… and yet they did. Danny smiled as he opened the secret compartment. For once he was glad his parents were strange about things. It made them easier to remember. Within the compartment was his will as well as the family book of records. Danny smirked. He loved his parents. Even if they were gone their weirdness would stay close to him forever, both in their inventions and in himself, he realized with surprise. He was probably a lot more like them than he would ever care to admit. Danny opened up the will and began to skim through it. Most of the family's funds and stuff would go into a trust until Danny turned 21. blah blah blah, inheritance, blah blah blah, uncle cross taking him, blah blah- what! Danny quickly looked back at what he had just read. He was to go with his uncle cross. Danny sighed before delving in his mother's family's book of records. This was going to be a long night.