Danny Fenton was a young soul. At the ripe age of only 14, he had died. This fact was something he prided himself in. For the young man was also very much alive. He was known to the ghost realm as a Halfa. The Human realm, luckily, had no knowledge of his unique condition. Danny's death was caused by an electrical shock that, if it had come from any other source, would've killed him outright. However, Danny's death was caused by a very unique, two-of-a-kind electrocution. The boy had been attempting to fix what his mad-scientists parents called a 'Ghost-Portal', which was supposed to lead to the realm of the dead. Unknown to Danny, a small button on the inside of it happened to be the very thing that turned on this portal that worked, despite what Danny and his parents believed, which was that the portal was a failed attempt, and therefore harmless. When Danny accidentally pressed the 'on button' while inside the portal, he was electrocuted and killed by all the ectoplasmic-electric energy of the ghost realm, which happened to be the reverse side of our very own realm. After being electrocuted with all the energy of an entire realms very existence, Danny's every molecule was destroyed and rebuilt over and over again until his entire body was both alive and dead. This allows him to switch back and forth between his human form, the one that represented his living self, and his ghost form, which is who he would be if he were completely dead. After becoming a Halfa, as it's been dubbed, Danny realized that in activating the Portal, he allowed ghosts to begin traveling into the land of the living. The boy decided to protect the people of his town from any threatening ghosts and inadvertently became a local hero to most of the town. Of course, there were some people who found him to be dangerous or a menace. Some of these people, unfortunately, were Danny's own parents. However, only four people in the town knew that he was both Danny Fenton AND Danny Phantom. These four happened to be Sam and Tucker, his two best friends, Jazz, his sister, and Vlad Masters, the Mayor and only other Halfa in existence. Oddly enough, despite being two-of-a-kind, Vlad and Danny absolutely despised each other. They often fought in their ghost forms and were known by those who knew them both for disliking one another greatly. Not to mention that Vlad had cloned Danny multiple times, only one of them surviving with Danny's help. The clone was a female version of the Halfa who called herself Dani and had decided to travel the world, living her half-life to the fullest.
Danny woke from a dreamlessly deep sleep after fighting ghosts every night for a week, he had finally gotten a full night of sleep. The Halfa stood from his bed, stretching and rubbing his sleep-heavy eyes. Danny wandered over to his dresser and pulled on a pair of jeans before switching out his blue sleep-shirt with his usual white and red t-shirt. Danny grabbed a pair of thick leather bracelets and strapped one of them around his wrist, glancing at the other as he did so. Danny had once fought a being by the name of Pariah Dark, who was the King of the Ghost Realm. Because Danny had defeated the King of the Ghost Zone, he was now the rightful ruler of the Ghost Zone. On top of that, he was a 'new ghost', which is the Ghost equivalent of being a minor, making him Prince of the Ghost Realm. Unfortunately for Danny, being any form of Ghost Royalty meant having a Royal Mark. The Royal Mark was a small crown that would be placed somewhere on your body, like a tattoo. Unfortunately for Danny, he has the mark on his wrists, a small crown on the inside of each of his wrists with a black line wrapping all the way around. Wrapping around the black lines were two thin blue and green lines, representing Danny's blue ice core and the green of ectoplasm. He knew that anyone seeing the marks would only cause trouble, so he now wears black leather bracelets that cover them.
Danny strapped on the second bracelet and walked to the bathroom to brush his teeth and make sure his hair wasn't a complete mess. When he looked in the mirror, Danny realized that his arms had muscle tone, as well as some scars from the past week and realized he would have to wear long sleeves. Danny quickly brushed his teeth and combed his hair before returning to his room. Upon looking in his dresser, however, he discovered that his hoodies were all dirty and tried to find what else he could wear to hide his arms. The only thing he could find was a leather jacket that Sam had bought him as a joke a couple of months before. Danny sighed and pulled off the tag before slipping on the jacket. He looked in the bathroom mirror again to make sure he was hiding anything he wanted to hide and realized that he would probably have to start wearing the jacket more often. Looking in the mirror, however, Danny realized that wearing the jacket more often might not be too much of a problem.
Danny made his way down the stairs and grabbed his backpack off the floor next to the front door. Before he could leave, however, the loud booming voice of Jack Fenton, Danny's father, sounded from in the kitchen.
"Well, hey, Danno! No good morning for the old man? At least let me say good-bye before you run off to that school of yours!" Danny sighed, but on the inside, he was pleased. Despite the man's faults, Danny knew his father truly loved him. Danny walked over to the man, who was wearing his signature orange hazmat-suit and gave him a hug, which was returned ten-fold by the large man. Danny pulled away started putting on his shoes.
"Good morning, Dad. I love you, but I have to go to school now. Have a good day!" The teen smiled and waved at his father before walking out of the house, hearing a loud 'Love you too, Danno!' after he closed the door. Danny smiled before going on his way, walking down the street until he made it to a nearby alley where he slipped to the end, far enough down that nobody could see him. The teen looked upward and whispered to himself. "I'm going ghost."
Immediately after speaking the quiet phrase, a large glowing ring appeared around Danny's body. The ring split in two and moved along Danny's body, replacing his converse, jeans, t-shirt, leather jacket, and backpack with a black and white hazmat-suit. As it moved over his head, Danny's blue eyes turned green and his black hair flipped to a stark white before the rings disappeared, leaving Danny Phantom where Danny Fenton had just stood. He smiled and quickly shot off into the sky, flying in the direction of Sam Manson's house.
When he got there, Danny turned invisible and slipped through the roof of Sam's house, landing in her room. Danny transformed back into his human form and sat on Sam's bed, waiting for her to exit her bathroom. After less than a minute, the ebony haired goth stepped out of her bathroom in her day-clothes, smiling when she saw that her boyfriend had already arrived.
"Well, well, look what the cat dragged in. Am I dreaming, or are you wearing your leather jacket?" The girl climbed onto Danny's lap, straddling him. "I never thought I'd see the day." Danny smiled.
"Oh, I realized I'm too good-looking nowadays. I have to hide my beautiful biceps." Sam laughed and pecked Danny on the lips.
"The funny part is that I believe that." She climbed off the teen boy and grabbed her backpack from next to her bed. "On another note, are you ready to go?" Danny rolled his eyes and quickly transformed into his ghost self before turning them both invisible and intangible. In a moment, the two of them were flying through the sky. Tucker had started going to the library before school on Monday's, so they went right past his house and straight to Amity High. Danny landed the two behind a large tree across the street from their school, turning them visible, tangible, and transforming himself back into his human form. The two walked out from behind the tree and crossed the street, walking to their lockers, which they had moved to be next to each other. The couple discussed a new video game while they put away their backpacks and grabbed what they would need for their first half of the day. Sam carried their folders and notebooks, while Danny carried some textbooks and a small pencil case with writing utensils in it.
"I hear there's going to be a DLC where you can replace every character in the game with a customized skin. Maybe we could turn them all into ghosts." Danny smiled as he made the suggestion, making Sam laugh.
"Oh, my Clockwork. Imagine making all of the healers be yeti from the FarFrozen? You could have the queen be Pandora!" Danny laughed loudly.
"Only if your dog companion becomes Cujo. It's so perfect that if we don't do that it would just be depressing. I feel like we would be breaking some kind of law." The two continued making suggestions to one another and laughing until they reached their classroom. When they finally got there, the two walked to the back of the room, where Tucker was already sitting. The tech-obsessed teen easily joined in on their conversation and the Trio spent the rest of their time before class started laughing about their various ideas and plans. When class started, Mr. Lancer stood in front of the class for a few seconds, staring at his students as a small smile crawled onto his face. Afterward, he finally spoke up, yelling to the room of chattering teenagers.
"Good morning and happy Monday, students! I have an announcement to make that I think you'll all want to hear!" Most of the students turned to Mr. Lancer with tired eyes, while a small handful continued to type something on their phones or whisper to each other. "Now that I have *most* of your attention, I'd like to make my announcement! This Friday, we're going on a field trip! That's not even the best part! The best part is that thank's to Daniel's parents, we're going to the Ghost Zone!" The room went totally silent as the students took in what their teacher had just said. Danny couldn't help but notice that almost half of his classmates were looking at him. "So, at the end of the day, you're all going to grab a permission slip from my desk and you have to bring it back signed on Thursday. Then, on Friday morning we'll all meet here before taking a bus to the Fenton Residence. Daniel, you can meet us there." Danny rolled his eyes.
"I was planning on it, either way, sir. I do live there after all." The rest of the day went as usual, including Danny having to leave for a few minutes during Chemistry to return the Box Ghost to an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town where Danny had agreed that the Box Ghost can live. When everybody grabbed the permission slips at the end of the day, the Tio decided to read through them on their way to Tucker's house, where they were going to spend the evening.
"'Please wear appropriate clothing. This means good walking shoes and full-length pants and sleeves. Make sure that the fabric is durable and flexible, to ensure that you are able to participate in any physical activities.' Just watch, Puddle and Satelite will break at least all of those regulations. I'm expecting High Heels, short-skirts, and tank tops. Then complaints that their feet hurt and they're uncomfortable in various ways." Sam smirked as she finished her prediction. Danny sighed.
"Okay, that's probably true, but can we focus on the fact that our entire class and teacher are going to be in the ghost zone with nobody to guide them except my parents? Not to mention, we're kind of well-known in the zone. What if some ghost recognizes us and doesn't keep their mouth shut?" Tucker waved his hand dismissively.
"They aren't dumb enough to cross you. Every single one of those ghosts has either been beaten by you or watched someone get beaten by you. You do realize they were all there when you literally defeated the King of the Ghost Zone, right?" Danny laughed, hoping that his friends wouldn't put together what defeating Pariah meant for the Halfa. He hadn't told them that he was now a Prince, but he had his reasons.
Danny knew that if he told Tucker, he would never live it down. Meanwhile, if he told Sam, he would *never* live it down. Either way, he would never get away from the title. Not to mention, he didn't want them to see him any differently. He was literally the Prince of the entire Ghost Realm. That would definitely bring on some comments that Danny didn't want to deal with. Besides, Danny was still having trouble processing the situation himself. His main problem, though, was that his new status made him even more recognized by other ghosts. However, it was helpful in the fact that only the ghosts who he had made a deal with ever visited Amity Park anymore. This consisted of the Box Ghost, Johnny 13 and Kitty, Dora, Klemper, and the members of the FarFrozen, who never visited unless it was an emergency anyway. The rest of the Ghosts knew that if they caused trouble on Danny's territory he would beat them into the next century then some, so they didn't risk it.
"Danny!" The Halfa jumped and looked at Sam. "Wow, babe. You completely spaced out there. What was distracting that mind of yours?" Tucker smirked.
"Yeah, man. For a second there we thought we had lost you." Danny chuckled.
"Heh, sorry. I got distracted. Just trying to figure out what we should do on Friday." His friends nodded in understanding. The Trio decided to discuss possible plans and ended up spending the rest of the evening preparing for the field trip. They could only hope things would go well.