Chapter 1: Week with the Fentons
Shadow: Welcome back readers and reviewers alike to Unexpected Royalty. Because of the unexpected, see what I did there, amount of feedback from you all CA15 has decided that the story will build up to the wedding and that he will try to update as soon as he can but remember he is a Teenager suffering the curse of high school so that might slow down the update process.
Dani: Now with that said we can continue with the story but with tradition we must first give the brief recap. Last time Fright Knight appeared with Ember and took Danny back to Fenton Works where he saw Clockwork talking with his parents and Ember's parents. It was decided by the adults that an arranged marriage would occur for Danny and Ember since they were to become king and queen of the Ghost Zone. It was also decided that they would live together and things only got more awkward from there.
Shadow: And with that said now we can continue.
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Nope turns out it wasn't a dream. Turns out what happened yesterday wasn't a dream but a reality. Danny learned this when he walked into the bathroom connected to his bedroom because standing there in his shower, completely devoid of clothes granting him full sight of every teenage boys dream, was his fiancée Ember.
There was an awkward pause as the two considered each other.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!" She yelled out while Danny bolted out the room with his face red hot.
Danny sprinted at full tilt and jumped out of his widow before turning into Phantom and flying as far from his house as he could. Despite being in Ghost Form he still blushed a deep shade of red.
He quickly broke the sound barrier as he made a desperate attempt to flee and within a few seconds he made it outside Amity Park and was floating over the ocean quite the distance from home. Only then did he stop and once he did he noticed that he had flown past a few time zones and was back in the night.
Danny flew and sat down on a small sand island that had two palm trees as its significant land mark.
He let out a sigh of awkwardness.
"Oh jeez this is going to be a long… rest of my life." He said.
In an attempt to vent out some awkwardness he decided to throw one or two things into the ocean and he ended up throwing a yellow sponge, a pink starfish, a red crab and a pineapple.
Danny then decided to fly back to Amity Park but at a slower pace so he shot off the island completely oblivious to the squirrel that hid in the palm trees.
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About one hour later Danny arrived back at Fenton Works and tried to slip in without alerting anyone to his presence but that failed.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Ember yelled out as she shot towards the halfa.
Danny paled before he sprinted out of his house while trying to avoid his pissed off fiancée… jeez that would never be easy to say.
Danny ran down the street while Ember followed with a freakishly large Fenton Anti-Creep Stick. They completely forgot about their abilities to fly, teleport and shoot energy from their figure tips as they were just in the moment of Danny running in fear and Ember planning on hitting him with a freakishly large bat… a freakishly large bat with the word Fenton on it and that was enough to strike fear into the hero of Amity Park.
As they ran they sped past Sam and Tucker.
"Uh is it me or did we just see our best friend in phantom form run past us with Ember chasing with a freakishly large Fenton Anti-Creep Stick." Tucker asked.
"We did, and did that look very anime to you?" Sam asked.
"It did." Tucker said.
When Sam and Tucker eventually got to Fenton works they were greeted with the site of a cartoonish large bruise on Danny's head and an icepack while the large Fenton Anti-Creep stick lay broken and Ember had her arms crossed with a glare in Danny's direction. Jazz was also there desperately trying not to laugh.
"Jazz what happened here?" Sam asked.
"Danny walked in on Ember in the Shower." Jazz said through fits of laughter.
Tucker then burst out laughing while Sam face palmed.
"This is going to be a long next couple of months." Tucker laughed.
~00000~
After a few hours things had gone back to normal… well as close to Danny's normal with Ember around.
Around lunch time Danny, Sam and Tucker had left for Nasty burger but Ember decided to tag along so she was given a device by the Fentons to make her fit in. Right now as Amber McLain she had flaming red hair and emerald green eyes.
Throughout the trip to the Nasty burger Danny and Ember argued and were even arguing while they sat in the booth.
It was amusing at first but now it was just plain irritating for Sam and Tucker.
"Is this how we sound when we argue?" Sam asked.
"Nope. We're friends at least; they're enemies that have been forced to marry each other." Tucker said.
"How long till they stop?" Sam asked.
"I'll make them stop now." Tucker said before clearing his voice. "Hey Lovebirds can you two stop courting each other and let us order food?"
"WE ARE NOT LOVEBIRDS TUCKER!" Ember and Danny yelled in sync.
"Told you I'd get them to stop arguing." Tucker said smugly.
"Good now we can get our food." Sam said with a relived sigh.
Danny then gasped as a blue wisp of cold air escaped his mouth and he knew that it wasn't pointing to Ember.
"Food will have to wait Sam." Danny said with a new seriousness. "We have some unwanted company."
Danny then slipped out the booth and left the Nasty Burger causing Sam and Tucker to sigh.
"What was that?" Ember asked.
"Danny's ghost sense." Tucker said.
"Meaning there's another ghost nearby and lunch has been delayed." Sam said before she and Tucker slipped out of the booth and prepared to leave. "You coming?"
Ember decided to go and watch as she had never really seen the Dipstick fight; she had only been on the receiving end of his attacks.
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Danny ran into an alley and when he made sure he was alone he raised his arms into the air with a determined smirk plastered on his face.
"I'm Goin Ghost!" Danny yelled before the twin white halos appeared on his waist.
The halos then split and travelled up and down his body changing his regular every day clothes to his black and white hazmat suit with white gloves, boots, a white belt and the white DP logo on the chest. His raven black hair changed to snow white and his icy blue eyes turned glowing toxic green.
The teen hero then shot off into the air quickly becoming a blur as he shot over Amity Park looking for whatever ghost decided to terrorise his town.
He saw his target and with a smirk shot down towards him and delivered a punch to his iron hide and pushed him into the ground.
When the smoke cleared Phantom stood across from his good old rival Skulker.
"Ghost child." Skulker said with a sadistic grin.
"Metal head." Phantom returned with a cocky smirked.
The battle had begun.
Skulker jumped back as his jetpack activated while he pulled out two relatively large dual ecto energy pistols and began firing at Phantom who merely combined his legs into a spectral tail and manoeuvred out of the way of the shots.
Phantom flew up into the air while Skulker continued to fire at him before he shot down and flew straight for the hunter.
However it seemed Skulker had improved as he reacted quickly by discarding his pistols and pulled out a mean looking ecto energy sword and swung it in the direction of the halfa.
Slightly taken back by the quick change, Phantom dodged to the side before forming his own sword from ecto energy and ice and the two clashed their swords.
"Wow Iron Skull, that was pretty impressive, did you get an upgrade or something?" Danny asked.
"I did whelp." Skulker said with a proud smirk as he swung more vigour.
The two continued with their sword clashes completely unaware of the audience who had arrived to see them battle. Amongst that audience was Ember, Sam and Tucker as they stood on a roof top observing the battle. Ember was shocked by the amount of power and skill Danny used in the fight but it made her realise something. Danny always held back he had faced her before. The amount of power he used in this battle was far more than the power he used against her and even now she could tell he wasn't using full power.
This angered her, how could he not use his full power when battling her? But then she never really used her full power when battling against him because she never really thought that she had to, so could the same be with him?
The sword fighting had ended quickly between the two ghosts as Skulker kicked Phantom away before he started shooting powerful energy blasts and throwing grenades putting Phantom on the defensive as he was forced to avoid all the attacks coming at him.
However Phantom saw a moment that he could use to his advantage and quickly turned to face Skulker before throwing his fist out to shoot an Ecto blast… however what was expected and what happened were completely different.
Instead of a blast of energy sound waves rippled from his fist as a deep bass sound resonated and a giant wave of green sound hit Skulker.
"Whoa…" Phantom said while looking at his hand. "Is this a new Ghost Power."
He stared at his hand as it vibrated quickly while creating a small sound as it did so.
The young halfa was so preoccupied looking at his hands and thinking about this new ability that he failed to notice the upcoming attack until…
"Danny watch out!" Ember yelled out.
"Damn you Whelp, this suit was Expensive!" Skulker yelled as he, in his now damaged suit, came down to cut Phantom with his blade.
Phantom, not having enough time to react, instinctively used his arms as a shield for his face while not noticing that his entire body began to vibrate and create a small humming tone.
As the blade came closer the humming grew louder before an explosion of sonic waves rippled from Phantom's body and completely obliterated most of Skulker's suit alongside some of the surrounding rooftops.
Sam and Tucker would have been obliterated if Ember had not saved them at the last minute and allowed them to suck Skulker into the Fenton Thermos before saving Phantom from his fall.
"Come on stay with us dipstick." She said as she caught him. "Don't black out yet."
Ember then flew Danny away just before he turned back into Fenton.
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"Ow did anyone get the plates of the bus that hit me?" Danny said as he awoke before he noticed he was in his parents Lab with his family looking at him. "Oh hey guys what happened."
"You took down Skulker dude with a cool new power." Tucker said with a huge grin.
"But you also used too much power and got knocked out causing me to drag your lazy ass over here." Ember said.
Unlike everyone else who was around him she stood at the far side of the lab while leaning against the wall.
"Aww thanks Emmy." Danny teased causing Ember's hair to flare up.
"So what was that power?" Sam asked.
"We… I can answer that." Maddie said. "When Clockwork visited us he told us why you had been chosen for ghost king. The prophecy was that two ghosts with ancient powers that had been forever lost to the ghost race would become the King and Queen of the Ghost Zone. This lost power was sound. That is why both you and Ember fit the category because you two both have an ancient power making you two, perhaps the most powerful ghosts for over 100 thousand years."
Danny and Ember were shocked after hearing that.
"We're the most powerful ghosts in the Ghost Zone?" Ember asked. "Well that's cool."
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The rest of the weekend went rather quickly for the Fentons and Ember with Ghost attacks and getting used to each other in general but when Monday came…
"WHAT?!" Ember yelled out.
Danny merely chuckled at her expression when his parents told her the news.
"You heard them Ember." Danny said.
"Ember you will be going to school with Danny as Amber." Maddie repeated sweetly but with an underlying dark tone. "Now get your lunch put on your human disguise and go to school."
Ember saw no room for argument and did not want to face off against the very woman who trained Danny Phantom so she merely grumbled and walked away to get ready for school.
A few minutes later Amber McLain came downstairs wearing a green tank top and black jacket. She also wore Navy Blue jeans and black combat boots.
Her usual makeup that she wore as Ember had been removed and now looked like a normal punk rock teenager. She even had a scowl plastered to her face, clearly not liking the idea of going to school.
"Wow I never believed that Taming of the Shrew was possible but I get you have been tamed Ms McLain." Danny said with a smug smirk.
Amber merely growled.
"Stop pouting." Danny said as he slung his bag onto his back. "Come on lets go to school."
Amber growled again as she grabbed her bag and followed Danny and Jazz.
"Jazz should we take my ride or yours?" Danny asked.
"Let's take yours." Jazz said.
"You have a car?" Amber asked.
Danny smirked before he opened the garage and when Amber saw the three vehicles her jaw dropped.
First there was the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle that shone with its usual silver and neon green, obviously belonging to the Fenton parents. Then there was a more modest car that was teal in colour and obviously belonged to Jazz. Then there also a doom buggy that ranged in the colours of snow white with an icy blue stripe down the middle. The seats were raven black and the rims and wheel were toxic green. This ride obviously belonged to Danny.
"Whoa." Amber said while looking to the Doom Buggy. "How did your parents afford this?"
"You forget my parents are inventors." Danny said. "I helped them build this. And besides where do you think they get the funding to build their inventions. They're rich… but modest… sometimes."
"That does not look modest." Ember said dryly as she pointed to the GAV.
"I did say sometimes." Danny said. "But sometimes their ego gets in the way of the modesty."
"Alright come on you two let's head to school." Jazz said.
Danny then jumped into the driver's seat and before Jazz could hop into the passenger's seat…
"I call shotgun." Amber yelled before hopping in next to her fiancé… that would never be easy to say.
Jazz simply shook her head with a smile before hopping in the back.
Danny then started his doom buggy and drove out as the song 'Ridin Dirty' began to play on his radio causing Amber to grin.
"Oh man I love this song." She exclaimed.
"You listen to music from the Human world?" Jazz asked.
"Yeah, music is music doesn't matter what species or dimension it comes from." Ember said with a grin.
"I couldn't agree more." Danny said. "After this song I'll show you some tunes I got saved here."
"Great." Ember said without any sarcasm for once.
Jazz nodded with a smile. "Danny and Ember will be such a perfect couple. I wonder when they'll stop being clueless and figure that out?" She thought to herself.
In a few minutes Danny picked up Sam and Tucker and the five of them enjoyed some good music while heading to school. It seemed the tensions between Danny and Ember had been forgotten… at least while they listened to music, when they arrived at school the enemies resurfaced when…
"Hey Danny, Hey Tucker, hi Sam." Valerie was the first person to greet the Trio plus Amber when they arrived at school. "Who's this?"
Now Tucker could have answered with any sentence but the one he chose induced a large reaction from everyone that was within earshot of the conversation.
"Hey Valerie," Tucker said, "this is Amber McLain, Danny's… uh… girlfriend."
"WHAT!" was the reaction from everyone around. Never in the lives of the students of Casper High had they expected Danny Fenton, leader of the Freak Trio and son of Ghost Hunters Jack and Maddie Fenton, to end up dating anyone besides Sam Manson or to date anyone as hot as the red haired, green eyed beauty that stood next to him.
"He's/she's not my boyfriend/girlfriend." Danny and Amber yelled in sync as they blushed.
"You think just because we have this stupid arranged marriage thing and the fact that I have to stay with him until the stupid wedding makes us a couple?" Amber exclaimed before clamping her mouth shut.
There was a silence as Danny noticed how Valerie stared at him and Amber and how the others stared at him and Amber. Unfortunately two of the people who were within hearing range were the two gossip queens of Casper High and they already had their phones out.
"Paulina, Star, don't!" Danny yelled out but the send button had already been pressed.
The next thing anyone heard the tone of messages being received rang all over the school while the freak trio, Ember and Jazz paled. Seriously two of the people who learned of the arranged marriage had to be the two who had the phone numbers of every student in the school and had those quick capture cameras on their phones as now there were pictures of the prince and princess of the ghost zone all over the school also the tale that they have an arranged marriage.
Amber turned to Tucker who caused her to blurt out this information.
"I'm giving you to the count of 10 to get your ass away from me before I rip your heart out." She said darkly. "One… two…"
Tucker froze before he dashed off toward the school.
"Ten." Amber said while decided that the numbers three to nine weren't worth her time. "YOU ARE SO DEAD FOLEY!"
She was about to run after him but Danny put a firm hand on her shoulder while a small bit of his ice powers seeped onto her.
"Amber, Cool down." Danny said with a double meaning.
When Ember got angry the heat had a tendency to rise and Danny was quick to notice so he had to make sure she didn't accidently set fire to the school or Tucker.
Amber then growled as she shrugged off his hand.
After approximately 30 minutes the first class began and it was, surprise, surprise, English with Mr Lancer.
This guy had been Danny's teacher since he started at Casper High.
In class the normal new kid routine took place where upon Ember stood in front of the class and introduced herself as Amber McLain. The first period continued from there with Amber sitting next to Sam and ignoring the whispers about her.
Eventually that inevitable moment when Danny's ghost sense went off causing him to automatically ask to go to the toilet and fight a ghost and only return after five minutes.
The rest of the day was uneventful… until lunch came.
"You did what!?" Danny exclaimed.
"You heard me, that blond jock was irritating the hell out of me so I kicked him where with sun don't shine." Amber said.
Danny looked at the downed football player that was grabbing his area while howling out in pain.
"You do realise you are wearing steel toed boots right?" Danny exclaimed. "Do you know how it feels to be a guy and kicked there with steel toed boots?"
"No how the hell would I know?" Amber said.
"It was a figurative question." Danny said dryly. "Point is you shouldn't do things like that."
"Not sure you know this but I can do what I want." Amber said. "No one tells me what to do."
"Except for the fact that your parents told you that you had to marry me and my parents told you that you had to go to school. Also a while ago you were ordered around by… your little brother while he was playing pirate." Danny said with a smug smirk.
Amber then swung her guitar case at Danny who narrowly avoided it by jumping out of the way.
"Why do you always have to be the hero Fenton?" Amber said.
"I dunno why do you always have to try and be bad McLain?" Danny resorted.
"I'm outta here." Amber said as she walked away.
"Don't let the door hit you on the way out." Danny replied before he turned the other way.
"Dipstick." Amber muttered.
"Diva." Danny muttered.
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The rest of the day was filled with tension between the two that extended to others.
Dash wanted to beat Danny up because his 'girlfriend' had kicked him in the groin and he even tried to flirt with Amber again and once again that didn't turn out well.
Paulina tried to stick her nose where it didn't belong and figure out about this arranged marriage and why Amber was going along with it as opposed to rejecting it and ditching the loser. She also tried to recruit Amber to the A-list but was turned down as Amber saw them as nothing more than shallow puppets in the schooling system that believed they controlled the others.
When school ended the tensions weren't mended with the music in the Doom Buggy. They had actually gotten worse as Ember was yelling about why she wasn't allowed to blast Paulina and Dash to smithereens.
"Give me a damn good reason why you stopped me from charring them?" Ember yelled as they walked into Fenton Works.
"One you're not meant to expose your powers. Two you're not meant to destroy people you don't like!" Danny yelled.
"Why not?" Ember argued. "It's not like they were actually of worth. They were just taking up space and being irritations to everyone. Wouldn't you like it if the two people who constantly bullied you were dealt with?"
"No!" Danny yelled as energy surged off of him. "You don't get it do you? It's my job to protect everyone even if they're my worst enemies. I make sure that they have very minimal damage happen to them so you threatening to harm anyone, is not good with me. Got that McLain."
Danny walked away leaving Ember shocked. These past few days she had seen more of Danny Fenton than she thought possible and now she had been introduced to another side of him, a darker side that still had his values… or was halfway between his values and someone else's.
And the thing was this side of Danny was the one she feared the most.
"Hey Danny… I guess I might have been wrong in the way I reacted. It was impulsive and your right I guess, wanting to destroy anyone that irritates you isn't the way to solve problems." She said.
Danny's anger melted away as he stared at her.
"I guess I'll just have to get them back with some well-deserved pranks. I think that Latina chick deserves a rat in her hand bag." Ember said darkly.
Danny shook his head. "At least it's no longer attempted murder." Danny said.
The rest of the week continued on like this with Danny and Ember's relationship looking good at first before turning into a tense relationship before going to neutral.
While Ember was here she started to slowly get a better relationship with Sam and Maddie and in a small way, Jazz. She still found Danny incredibly irritating and Tucker slightly less irritating but there were very small signs of something more than an enemy relationship growing but it was clear that it would take a long time for that to truly release. So until that time it was hope for the best with the Fentons and Ember.
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Shadow: And there was chapter 2.
Dani: What a nice introduction to the comedic elements of this story.
Shadow: Yeah it was.
Dani: But I'm just wondering has CA15 been watching Anime?
Shadow: That obvious hu?
Dani: Ember chased after Danny with a giant baseball bat… I think it's clear he got a bit of Japanese influence in there.
Shadow: True.
Dani: SO what will happen next? Will CA15 put more Anime styles in this story? How will the story of the arranged marriage reach the ghosts? Read, Review, Favourite and Follow to find out.
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A single man in a white suite and black shades walked down a sterile white hallway to his commanding chief's office.
"Sir." The agent said as he walked in. "Recent monitors of the Ghost Menace Danny Phantom showed he has developed new abilities, very powerful new abilities."
"Leave the files on my desk agent." The leader said from the shadows.
The agent did as he was told and left the files on the desk before leaving.
The leader of the Guys in White picked up the video file and watched the clip of Phantom's fight with Skulker and what he saw made drop the file.
He stood up and pulled a medallion out of his pocket. The very medallion that had allowed him to live for thousands of years and the very medallion that gave him the ability to travel through time.
"So a Danny Phantom has gained the lost power of sound." He said darkly. "This is not very pleasing."
He then pressed a button on his PA.
"This is the Guys in White HQ I want all units around the world to begin preparations for war. I see a dark future ahead in the next few years and we have to be ready." He said as a secret volt opened showing ghost hunting weapons from past, present and future.
"I destroyed sound once and I will do it again. For the human race." He said darkly.
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Dani: Oh my god.
Shadow: I can't believe this.
Dani: It's getting hard to breath.
Shadow: Somebody get me a mother f**king table to filp!