The man looked around the house for the two children and stopped as he heard a slight noise coming from the closet on his right. He opened it up to reveal Dani and Billy hiding in there and they both screamed in fright.

"Woah! Sorry! Hold on a sec" The man said calmly and then changed back to normal only it didn't calm the children down, only made them scream once again.

"My bad. Sorry" The man said and then shut the closet door.

The man walked continued to walk around the house feeling all kinds of emotions at once from joy, relief and pure happiness. He found the place he was looking for and kicked the door down to reveal an old bedroom that looked like it had never been touched. He traced his hands on the bed and then the rusted up bicycle. He went to the closet and felt the material of the old clothes inside that would fit a young teenager, he stopped at the sight of a photo that was completely covered with dust and picked it up. He wiped the dust away to show it was a photo of a fourteen year old boy smiling with as large man, a sixteen year old girl and another man which was beside a photo in the same frame only the boy was three years old, the girl looked to be five and there was a woman standing beside the two men.

"Mum" The man whispered as he traced the picture.

Dani and Billy entered the room after finally calming down enough to face the man who had just saved their lives. The man looked at them both and asked, "Somebody roll a five or an eight?"

"Uh…he did" Dani answered as she pointed to Billy.

The man laughed with joy and just ran up and picked Billy up and spun him around in a hug although causing the boy to scream and kept shouting, "THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!"

He placed Billy down and ran out of the room and down the stairs as he shouted with joy, "I'M HOME! DAD! UNCLE VLAD! JAZZ! IT'S ME DANNY! I'M BACK! HELLO?! ANYONE HERE! IT'S ME DANNY! I'M HOME!"

He stopped at Dani and Billy and asked, "Are you my little sister and brother?"

"No but are you Danny Fenton? Jazz Fenton's brother?" Dani asked.

The man continued to smile and answered, "Yes that's right. I'm Danny Fenton. You guys know Jazz? Where is she? And who are you?"

"I'm Danielle but I like to be called Dani and this my brother Billy" Dani answered still getting over she was seeing her long lost uncle. "We're Jazz's children"

"You mean Jazz had kids? Oh man this is fantastic! So where is she? And how about dad and Uncle Vlad? Are they down at the factory?" Danny asked.

"Our mother and father have been dead for a year now. We don't know where Vlad is but Grandpa Fenton has died" Dani answered.

Danny's smile dropped to sadness and then asked, "What do you mean?"

"This house has been empty for years" Dani answered. "Everyone thought you were dead"

Danny couldn't believe what he was hearing, first he was hearing that his father and sister was dead, he ran out of the house in shock and horror. As he ran out he had no idea he was heading onto the street as a police car came driving down the road.

"Valerie give me that description again?" The officer asked through the radio.

"Witnesses say it's a floating man wearing overalls and work gloves and somehow he's making boxes float" A woman responded.

The man looked up and saw Danny and immediately stepped on his brakes and came to a complete stop as Danny jumped up and landed on the front of the car. The officer shook his head and climbed out and said, "Please get off the front and step onto the sidewalk"

Danny complied and asked, "What year is it?"

"Well the car was brand new" The officer answered. Danny shook his head and asked again, "No. What year is it?"

"Uh 2018 remember" Dani answered as she and Billy came outside.

Danny's eyes widened in complete shock as realised how long he had been in the game as the officer asked, "Have you got some ID? Oh let me guess you left it in the other wild man costume?"

"Twenty two years" Danny whispered. The officer then asked, "Are you from around here?"

"I was but I've been in the Ghost Zone" Danny answered. Dani then quickly lied, "Uh what he meant was Indonesia. He was in the Peace Corps"

Danny then realised what Dani was doing. He suddenly looked at the officer's name tag and his eyes widened as he recognised the name on it. Tucker Foley.

Officer Tucker Foley then turned to Dani and Billy to talk to them while Danny continued to remain in shock as he whispered, "Tucker Foley? The Techno Geek?"

"Is this man related to you?" Tucker asked. Dani nodded and answered truthfully, "Yes he's our uncle"

"And does he always dress like that?" Tucker asked unaware that Danny had spotted one of Box Ghosts duplicates phase into Tucker's police car. Dani answered, "Yes he's a vegetarian"

"GET OUT OF THERE!" Danny shouted causing Tucker to look at him but saw nothing near his car. Danny simply said, "Box Ghost. Box Ghost"

Tucker turned back to Dani and asked, "Is your uncle a little nuts?"

Dani quickly lied, "He suffered a head injury a few months ago and it causes him sometimes to have episodes…."

As Dani continued to lie, Danny kept shouting at the car where Box Ghost grinned and fired the gun that was inside causing a large hole in the roof of it and making Tucker turn around. He then watched as his car suddenly drove off down the street.

"HEY! STOP! DON'T YOU MOVE! HEY STOP!" Tucker shouted as he ran and chased after his car.

Danny started running down the street again. Dani called out, "Where are you going?"

"To find out what happened to my father!" Danny called back as he continued. Dani and Bill chased after him.

As Danny ran down the familiar streets, he saw Amity Park was no longer the town he used to know. There was graffiti, houses were torn down, new shops were in place and most businesses he knew had been closed down. He came up and saw what used to be Fenton / DALV Labs was now run down and there was no signs of a single employee in sight. He went inside the building and saw all the labs were emptied and broken pieces of technology was scattered all over the floors.

He walked upstairs to an old office with two desks and on them were now dusted name tags that said Fenton and Masters. He traced the desk as Dani and Billy entered and he looked to them and said, "My dad and uncle ran the company. They created the best inventions in Amity Park and were the leading scientists in the field of Paranormal Studies"

He suddenly heard the door open below and ran downstairs to see it was Vlad Masters only he wore more casual clothes and he now had a long white beard and his though tied back was a little messy. Danny wanted nothing more but to hug his uncle but then stopped as he remembered what Dani had told him.

"Oh sorry. I didn't know other people liked to come visit the old lab" Vlad said. "You look really cold if you want I can make some coffee"

"No thanks but can I ask you a few questions?" Danny asked. Vlad nodded and then Danny asked, "Do you know what happened to the lab?"

"Yeah it shut down just like everything else in this town" Vlad answered.

"Why would they close it down?" Danny asked. Vlad sighed in sadness and answered, "Well when Jack's son ran away, we both put everything we had into finding him. All our time, our money to try and bring him back home. Eventually he stopped coming to work and just stopped caring and without his help, the factory shut down. I don't think anyone loved that boy more than Jack did and the one thing he always regretted was trying to force his son into something he may not have wanted. Two years ago he became really sick and that's when he died. It was hard for me to tell his eldest daughter he died and now with Jazz gone, I feel like my family is gone. All I have left of them is now Dani and Billy who I call from time to time"

Vlad walked outside to his car and pulled out some jeans and a jacket and handed them to Danny and said, "Here it's really cold and you should wear something warmer"

"Thank you" Danny said.

A few moments later Dani and Billy had taken Danny to his father's grave at the cemetery where he was buried next to his wife Maddie Fenton and beside them now was also Jazz's grave along with her husband Jason Broadford.

Danny looked down in sadness and allowed his tears of sadness to fall as the last words he said to his father echoed in his head.

"I'm never talking to you again! I hate you!"

Dani and Billy sat beside him and looked sadly at their uncle.

"I'm so sorry" Dani said. "Jazz and our dad Jason died in a car crash"

Billy then said, "She was a psychologists while our dad was in advertising"

"Thanks guys. Well at least I still have you two" Danny said and then started heading out of the grave.

Dani and Billy followed behind him and then Dani bought the subject at hand, "Uh I don't mean to press but shouldn't we finish the game and handle the stuff that has already come out?"

"What do I look like a ghost hunter?" Danny asked. Dani then said, "Well for one thing, you're the one with the ghost powers here and the game obviously gave them to you for a reason. You also seem to have faced these kind of things before and we have to finish it before our foster mother Star comes home and plus there's a wolf ghost in her room. What am I gonna tell her?"

"Won't she be surprised? I hope she's not allergic to dogs" Danny said sarcastically.

They all stopped at the sound of an ambulance and turned to see a car speeding down the street and crashed into the front causing it to spin and stop in the middle of the street. The ambulance wasn't badly damaged and they watched as the paramedics came out of the car and opened the door to see an unconscious woman.

"Get the stretcher!" One of them shouted. Another one came out and they both pulled out the stretcher and walked over to the car.

"Did we hit her that hard?" The second one asked. The first one answered, "No it looks like another one of those weird bites"

That bought Danny's attention and they walked over as they placed who Dani and Billy recognised as Shona the one who sold them the house. Dani was about to talk when Danny shushed her and looked around. After the ambulance left and the streets were cleared of civilians Danny asked, "Okay guys think. What came out of the game before me?"

"There was the wolf, someone named Box Ghost and…." Dani began answering when Billy suddenly shouted, "THAT!"

Danny turned and saw a ghost mosquito coming at them and quickly changed into his ghost form and destroyed it with an ecto blast. More suddenly came and Danny continued to fire and then said, "QUICK GET IN THE CAR!"

Dani and Billy quickly got in and shut the doors and Danny then blasted a few more and hoped in the driver's seat and slammed the door shut. He then turned to them and asked, "So do either of you know how to drive?"

Dani and Billy both looked at him with wide eyes while several more ghost mosquitos surrounded to the car. Danny took that as a no and said, "Okay. Well dad let me back the RV out of the driveway once. So how hard can it be?"

Dani and Billy immediately buckled up as Danny started the car but then found he wasn't moving so he started randomly pushing buttons and that's when Billy sighed and put the car in gear and they were on their way. Dani and Billy screamed as Danny was swerving all over the road, destroying mail boxes and rubbish bins before finally pulling to a stop right in front of the house.

"That wasn't so bad. Piece of cake" Danny said as he climbed out leaving a still scared Dani and Billy in the car.

Danny went upstairs to the attic and found a trunk filled with some old clothes. He managed to find a black shirt that would fit him along with blue jeans, a red jacket and some combat boots.

"Danny" Dani said behind him causing him to turn around to see her holding the game in her hands. He screamed in fright and walked off while saying, "Keep that thing away from me!"

"When are you gonna help us play? We have to hurry Star's gonna be home soon" Dani said as they followed him downstairs.

"Good! You can inform her she's the ex-owner of this house" Danny said as he headed for the bathroom. "With my father and now my sister gone, this home belongs to me"

He opened the door and closed it and was relieved to see the toilet there and whispered, "Oh thank you. No more banana leaves"

Dani sighed as she heard the shower going and decided to just wait until Danny came out and before they knew it, he started singing. Upstairs in Star's room, Wolf woke up from his nap from the sound of Danny's singing and groaned in annoyance. It was about an hour later that Danny had finally come out of the bathroom wearing the clothes he found and Dani and Billy looked to see he had cut his hair back to his original style and completely shaved the beard off hence a few bits of toilet paper covering a few small shave cuts.

"What happened to you? You shave with a piece of glass?" Billy said with a small laugh. Danny shook his head and went to the kitchen as he said, "I never shaved before"

Danny was eating a sandwich while Dani asked, "Okay how about Billy and I play and you just watch?"

"Thanks but I've already seen enough of it" Danny said as he continued to eat his sandwich.

"So if you're not gonna help us; what are you gonna do?" Dani asked. Danny shrugged and answered, "I don't know. Pretty much pick up where I left off. Hope Mr Lancer is still teaching 9th grade"

"Come on Dani he's not gonna help us. He's afraid" Billy said and then started walking away.

"What did you say?" Danny asked taken back. Billy answered, "You're afraid. It's okay to be afraid"

Dani and Billy were about to walk out again when Danny blocked them and said, "Oh you two have no idea what you're getting yourselves into"

"Whatever it is we'll handle it by ourselves. We don't need your help" Billy said and was about to leave when Danny stopped him once more, "I don't think so"

Danny continued to not smile as he said, "You think Box Ghost, Wolf and mosquitos are bad, well that's just the beginning. I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine. Things you can't even see. There are things that hunt you in the night, then something screams, then you hear them eating and you pray to God that you're not dessert. I never asked to be placed in that in there. Every single day of my life for the past twenty two years I have fought to survive and hope that someone will one day roll the dice and set me free. Afraid? You don't even know what afraid is. You will not last five minutes without me"

Billy gulped but bought up enough courage to ask, "So you're gonna help us?"

Danny was silent but then answered, "I'll watch….but I'm not afraid"

With that he left the kitchen. Dani then spoke, "Billy that was very cool"

"It's reverse psychology" Billy said with a chuckle. "Mum used to pull it on me all the time"

They set the game up in the living room and Dani asked, "Are you ready?"

Billy sighed and nodded, "Yeah"

"Danny are you ready?" Dani asked as Danny was closing the curtains who then answered, "There is no ready"

Dani rolled the dice but her game piece didn't move. She tried again but once more the game piece didn't move and she said, "Danny it's not working"

Danny stopped and came over and looked at the board and realised what the problem was, "Oh no. It's not your turn"

"Yeah it is" Dani said. "I rolled first and then Billy twice because he got doubles so it's my turn again"

"No look" Danny said as he pointed to the game pieces. "If two of those pieces are yours, then who are the other pieces?"

Danny was about to touch the game piece of the Lunch Lady when he said, "The Lunch Lady was mine"

"Wait does that mean…." Billy began to ask when Danny cut in, "Yeah kid. You're playing the game I started in 1996. Which means I'm gonna have to play otherwise the game will never get finished"

Dani picked up the dice and was holding them out for Danny when he shook his head and said, "It's not my turn either"

"Whose turn is it?" Dani asked. Danny's eyes widened and he answered, "Samantha Manson"

A few moments later they walked just a few blocks down the street where another mansion stood and Danny said, "This is where she used to live. I don't even know if she lives here anymore"

"Well let's just ask whoever's home if they knew her" Dani said. "Besides according to the sign, it's now also a gothic book store and you said she was a Goth, she's probably a regular customer here"

"Good point" Danny said as they walked up to the front door. Dani knocked on the door and they heard a female voice speak from inside, "Hello?"

"Uh hi can you help us?" Dani asked. "We're trying to find someone"

"Well my book shop is closed right now" The voice said.

"Well maybe you can help us" Danny said.

The woman opened the door slightly enough to show she had black hair that reached just past her shoulders which was kept back by a purple headband, she wore a black sleeveless shirt and a crosspatch black skirt with green leggings and black boots that went up to her knees. She wore purple lipstick and had light amethyst eyes.

"What is it?" The woman asked. Danny said, "We're looking for someone who used to live here"

"No I've lived here my whole life" The woman said as she closed the door. Dani then spoke, "Then you must know Samantha Manson"

She opened the door again and asked, "What do you want with Samantha Manson and it's just Sam by the way. I have never gone by Samantha. Not now, not ever"

Danny looked at her and instantly recognised her and asked, "Sam? Sam Manson is that really you?"

"What do you want?" She whispered.

Danny leaned closer and said, "Twenty-two years ago you played a game with a boy down the street. A game with an eerie noise"

Sam's eyes widened as she heard that and asked, "How do you know that?"

"I was that boy Sam. It's me Danny. Danny Fenton" Danny answered.

Sam looked at his eyes and suddenly knew only one person with piercing blue eyes like that. Her own eyes widened as she whispered in shock, "Danny!"

And before Danny could say more she fell over and completely fainted. Danny fully opened the door and they looked down at her with shock.

"Oh that went well" Billy said sarcastically.

TO BE CONTINUED….

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

A new chapter of DANNY PHANTOM: Justice League VS Teen Titans will be published on Friday and a new chapter of Danny Phantom and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 Version) will be published tonight.