Chapter 2

Danny Phantom was actually pretty calm given everything that had happened. He was leaning up against the same tree he'd been leaning against when the odd bunny-eared girl had left with her parents, and was looking up at the night sky. The moon was broken; as if someone had blown half of it outwards from the inside.

"Either the idiots in White decided to unleash that payload they had saved for the Ghost Zone onto the moon, or I'm not in Kansas anymore," Danny mumbled to himself.

He couldn't say that he was thrilled about having been sent to another world, one that seemed to have its own monster population and ungrateful people with animal ears, with no understanding of how to get back, but he wasn't all that upset about it either.

After all, he had been injured to the point where he should have been dead. The only thing that saved him was dumb luck and the fact that none of the GIW could aim a gun to save their lives.

Danny had protected his friends and what was left of his family and the Ghost Zone and human world were safe. So all he needed to do was find a way back eventually.

Wulf would take good care of Dani and Jazz; they were strong enough to make it until he found a way to return to them. So for now he was mainly focused on trying to heal his wounds - a process that drained his energy reserves and bored him to tears.

In truth the only thing that was really annoying him was how ugly the broken moon made the otherwise perfect night sky look.

Noticing a quiet rustling sound in some bushes on the other side of the field, Danny focused his perception on the area and noticed a small soul, the soul of a normal creature. It wasn't one of the monster; those, he quickly noticed, lacked a soul He'd killed a few of them that tried to pass him in the direction that the small family had gone earlier, they never seemed to attack Danny himself though, they circled around him as if contemplating it, but they always tried to move on.

Danny didn't know if they were just uninterested in him, or if they somehow felt like he was out of their league, even in his injured state.

But the movement in the bushes continued and a small being came out. Danny looked at it and his natural night vision flickered the creature into focus.

It was the girl, the one that he had saved from one of the monsters earlier. The first monster he had killed and had started his trend of killing them. After all, not having a soul wasn't a good enough reason to kill something. But, if their kind attacked children on sight, then that was a perfectly good reason.

The rabbit girl moved slowly towards Danny, seemingly prepared to bolt like the rabbit she was at the first sign of trouble. "Mr. Human Boy Person, are you still alive?" She whispered.

Danny chuckled at the unusual name the girl had given him, causing her to jump before he responded, "I'm still kicking. But shouldn't you be in bed? It's too late for a girl your age to be out and about."

"I... I just wanted to make sure you were alright," The girl said before revealing some bandages and a couple apples, "I brought you some bandages for your scratches. And some food, if you're hungry."

Danny smiled. "Thank you," he said as he picked up one of the apples. It was much better than Danny had hoped for. Apples were a symbol of death's power, just as much as they were a symbol of life. He found that apples recharged his powers much faster than any other food or drink.

The girl was staring at him. "Are you really human?" She asked, sounding curious, "The adults in my village always told me that humans were cruel and selfish people who would hurt me for being a faunus. But you don't seem that way at all."

Danny paused and thought about it for a moment. "They aren't exactly right, but they aren't wrong either," Danny said, confusing the girl a little, "It's true that there are some bad humans out there that do mean things to people who are different than them. But there are also humans that don't care about things like what you are and would be your friend regardless."

"How can they be both?" The girl asked.

"Well... do you have dogs in your village?" Danny asked.

"No, but we have cats," The girl offered.

"Ok then, you know how some cats are really tame and will let you pet them and hold them, but some try to scratch you if you get too close?" Danny asked, and the girl nodded, "Humans are the same way. Some are nice and some aren't, and some will be mean at first but then warm up to you. I bet there area few... faunus that are the same way," Danny said using the word that he had heard the girl use to describe herself.

"Oh, I think I get it," The girl said, smiling. Then she noticed some shiny objects at Danny's side. Danny followed her gaze down to a small stack of knives that he had fashioned out of ice. Each was a foot and a half long, four inches wide, and curved ever so slightly. Weapons to be used against the creatures.

He picked one up, holding it loosely by the blade and held the handle out for the girl. "You want to see it?" He asked, she nodded slowly, "Alright, just be careful, it's pretty sharp and cold."

She reached out and gasped as he fingers wrapped around handle.

"It's so cold," She giggled, "What's it made out of?"

"It's ice," Danny said, chuckling at the girl's reaction.

"Ice? I've never seen ice before. I thought it had to be really cold out to have ice," The girl said excitedly, "The village has to keep a low technology level to avoid attracting the Grimm. Or at least that's what the elder says."

"Really? You've never seen real ice before?" Danny asked, a little surprised.

The girl shook her head.

"Then I guess you've never seen snow either, huh?"

Again, she shook her head.

"Alright then, close your eyes," Danny said, smiling.

She hesitated but she closed them anyway.

Danny swept a glowing blue hand towards the clearing, "Alright, you can open them now."

The girl opened her eyes and gasped, breath taken at the now snow-white area.

"Wow, is that..."

She tried, but the words got lost as she walked forward and touched it, shivering at the cold between her fingers, "I didn't know humans could make snow."

Danny chuckled. "Most can't. I'm a very special kind of human," Danny said, "So what's your name kid? I can't thank you properly if I don't know your name."

The little girl grinned widely, "I'm March, March Usagi."

"March, huh? Well March, I'm Danny Phantom, thanks for the food," He thanked her, smiling.

"Danny?" March asked, confused, "That's a weird name." Danny was a little surprised that the girl found his first name weird instead if his last.

"Well, you can call me Phantom if you want." Danny said.

"Can I really?" March asked.

"Go ahead. Almost everyone does," Danny shrugged as he finished the last of the apples, "But you really should be going back home. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah!" March cheered, grinning. Then she remembered that her village was moving.

"But my village is moving tomorrow to get away from the Grimm," She mumbled.

"Well, I guess I'll just have to visit you before you leave then," Danny said before getting up from the tree, "Come on. I'll take you home right now. It isn't safe for someone as young as you are to be running around alone."

"Are you really okay to be moving?" March asked, surprised.

"I'm fine, those apples you brought really did the trick," Danny grinned, "Come on, we can talk on the way."

Danny walked alongside March towards March's village. March asked a lot of questions, but Danny's answers only confused her. She had never even imagined half of the things that Danny had told her. Most of them seemed like something out of a fairy tale to her, except that the endings didn't seem very happy.

"We're getting close to my village now," March said happily, but then halted in her tracks with her rabbit ears twitching.

"What's the matter?" Danny asked the little faunus.

"I hear something..." March whispered.

There was movement in a bush to their right and a large black boar with a white mask-like plate over its face came barreling out of the bushes and straight at March, who fell back in shock. But before the boar-like Grimm could reach her, Danny grabbed March and pulled her out of the Grimm's path before taking one of the ice knives and sliding it into the eye hole of the Grimm's mask.

The Grimm squealed and turned to the pair. It hesitated for a moment, as if confused, before changing again. It started to roll, trying to run the two over, but as they moved to the side its back quills became stuck in a tree. Danny drove another knife into its stomach and after another squeal of pain, the boar disappeared into a puff of black smoke.

"Are you alright, March?" Danny asked the little girl as he quickly looked over her for injuries, keeping his eyes and ears peeled for other attackers. Yet again the Grimm creatures didn't seem to target him, they were more interested in the little girl.

"I'm alright." March said a little shaken. "But... they're so close to the village. And I can still hear it... I can still hear something smashing things. Mommy, Daddy!" March screamed and bolted towards her village.

"March wait, don't go alone!" Danny shouted, running after the girl as fast as he could.

March burst into the clearing that had been made for the small village and her heart sank into her heels. Dozens of Grimm were destroying the village, jumping on roofs, ripping off doors and smashing windows. That is, the ones that didn't have their teeth buried inside a dead faunus.

March nearly gagged, but instead ran straight past them in the hope that she would find her own house untouched in all the carnage. The Grimm were too distracted in their fit of destruction to even notice the girl as she moved past them. If March had taken even a moment to think, she might have noticed that she couldn't hear any cries of resistance.

She reached her house and a whole wall had been smashed in. She went into the house and saw her mother and father... underneath two large bear-like Grimm.

"Mommy, Daddy!" She cried out, not thinking about her own safety. The Grimm's heads shot up and they turned to face the little girl. Blood dripped from their mouths as they moved towards her.

Daggers of ice flew through the air and buried themselves in the throats of Ursas, turning them to a cloud of smoke in seconds.

"March!" Danny shouted as he moved to the girl's side, "March are you alright?"

The girl didn't respond. Danny followed her eyes to the lifeless bodies of March's parents, torn completely open.

March fell to her knees by her parents and sobbed, Danny standing behind her, unsure of how to could help. But the sounds of movement brought him back to reality. What seemed like every Grimm in the entire village was circling the house. A giant snake, two huge scorpions, a massive bird and nearly three dozen wolves had been drawn in by the despair in the cries of the innocent girl.

Five of the wolves rushed forward, wanting to be the first ones to get to the small child whose despair had caught their attention. But as they got closer, a shockwave of green energy blasted them all back, killing them in the process. March looked up as the bodies of the Grimm started to fade.

It wasn't until she wiped the tears out of her eyes that she noticed the bright light coming from behind her. She turned around to see Danny standing over her, only he looked different. His torn clothes were replaced by a black jumpsuit, his hair was a pure white, and his eyes had turned a deadly shade of green. White light edflickered off his body as he stood protectively over her.

"Phantom?" March whispered, amazed.

"I told you March, I'm a special kind of human,," Danny said, glancing down at her.

"Take all the time you need to grieve. I won't let them reach you."

Then the ground shook beneath them as what looked like a sixty foot tall mammoth Grimm came into view of the house.

"The world can never go easy on me, can it," Danny grumbled before getting to work on the small army around them.

Danny made three clones of himself to guard March from the smaller Grimm while he focused his attacks on the bigger ones. The snake tried to push past him towards the girl but a strong kick to the head quickly got its attention. The snake was fast and Danny had a hard time dodging its lunges, but after a few attempts he got a clean shot on one of its eyes, causing the creature to reel back in pain long enough for him to get a strong blast in on the bottom of its neck that burnt a hole in its spine, killing the snake.

Next was one of the scorpions. They seemed to have realized that Danny was a threat to them and that they needed to take him down first. They had yet to realize that they should have just turned and ran. Danny flew up into the air to get away from the claws and tails before raining down ectoblasts on them. But their harder shells seemed to resist being blasted so easily.

"Stubborn, huh," Danny grumbled as he charged up a bigger blast that knocked one of the scorpion's tails completely off. But before he could finish the job the bird dove at him and he had to dive to the side to avoid being eaten. Danny glared at the bird as it came back around and he put his hands together. He formed a small ice crystal and pumped it full of power until it was glowing like a green star. Then as the bird came at him with its mouth wide open he threw the crystal into its mouth before dodging to the side.

Danny grinned before snapping his figures. The built up energy exploded outwards and the bird's stomach expanded before it popped like an over-inflated balloon.

But Danny had taken too long: the Goliath had arrived, crushing the injured, bussized scorpion underneath its foot.

"Dang, it's even bigger up close," Danny remarked, wide eyed, "But you shall not pass!"

Danny roared and the sound became deafening, so intense that it became a visible force, a pulsating green light that flowed through the air. The smaller Grimm were reduced to smoke instantly and the remaining scorpion was blasted away, falling into pieces as it went. The Goliath tried to stand its ground, but the scream was slowly peeling away the shell over its head.

But Danny couldn't keep up the attack for long, not while maintaining the clones he had made to protect March from the other sides. His voice died before the Goliath was destroyed. The Goliath seemed to understand that Danny was weakened by his own attack and started to push forward again.

"Look up."

The Goliath didn't seem to understand the statement, so it didn't see the fifteen foot long icicle fall from the sky and smash into its weakened head plate, impaling it straight through the head and down to the ground. He'd had one of his clones fly above the beast and drop a giant icicle on it from a thousand feet in the air.

Dissolving the clones he returned to March. "You alright March?" He asked, kneeling down in front of the girl.

She pointed up at him, "Your ears..."

Danny blinked in confusion before reaching up to the top of his head. His eyes widened as he felt two canine ears that had definitely not been there before. He also felt something waving about behind him and looked back to see a furry, white tail. The only think he could think was, 'Huh!?'

Second chapter

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