Time Skip: the Next Day: Ghost Zone: Sector: 5: Location: Queen Dorathea's Castle

Queen Dorathea was smiling as she looked at the ghost she had chosen to be Lord Phantom's attendant. Maryland was a ghost that had served Dorathea before she became queen and before Lord Phantom helped Dora realize that she didn't have to follow her brother's orders and led the Kingdom to freedom, not only in the sense of time, but from her brothers reign.

"You know why I asked you here, correct?" She asked.

"Of course, my Lady," Maryland said bowing to Queen Dorathea.

"I am to be King Phantom's attendant and will follow him as if I was his shadow and care for him as I cared for you, my Lady." Dorathea smiled at that and nodded to agree.

"Then it is almost time for Lord Phantom to wake up and begin his school day, I shall leave you to head to FentonWorks and the Human Zone. The portal should be opened, but if not then Wulf will glad to help you. However, first and foremost is the fact that our King wants to remind an enigma, for lack of a better way of saying, so make sure that no human sees you," Dorathea said.

"Perfectly understood, my Lady," Maryland said bowing to Dorathea. With that, Queen Dorathea left and Maryland continued to finish packing up. She would remain with her king forever now. She was his attendant and as thus, her job was to be his tool to use in any way he wanted and while many would think she would hate it. She knew Danny and trusted him more than enough for that and thus she headed to the Human Zone to serve him.

Location: Human Zone: Unknown Regions: Earth: City: Amity Park, Location: FentonWorks

Danny was sleeping easily, even after the long meeting in the Ghost Zone last night. He had been well received by most of the ghosts, which was all well and good, but he still didn't have an idea what being King meant. Unfortunately, due to Dorathea, he was about to get a not so welcomed reminder of that very soon. Danny groaned a little as the sun rays hit his eyes. In his brooding, he had forgotten to pull the curtains down and how was suffering for it. Finally, after realizing that nothing would be blocking the evil sun rays, he opened his eyes, but when he did he saw another pair of green eyes staring back him.

"WHAT THE…" Danny yelled in shock as much that he fell of his bed taking the covers with him. However, quickly, he flipped up and over and landed easily on his feet in a Goat Stance with both of his hands opened for quick jabs if needed. The sharp nails on the gloves he was still wearing added to the stance. However, the ghost just smiled and said,

"Good morrow, your majesty. Is there anything I may do for you this day?" Blinking, Danny calmed down and then asked,

"Who are you?"

"I am your royal attendant, my King. My name is Maryland," She said as Danny looked at it. So far her story checked out. She looked like a typical medieval ghost that Danny had seen hundreds of times in Dorathea's Kingdom with long red hair, blue skin and green eyes.

"My royal attendant, please explain?" He asked confused.

"Of course, your majesty," Maryland said, but before she could say anything, Danny's eyes went wide as he sensed some ones coming and he moved to say something when…

"DANNY! We heard you screaming, is anything wrong?" Jack asked as he and Maddie charged in with ectoguns at the ready. Danny paled when they came in,

"Listen I can explain…"

"Explain what, dear?" Maddie asked as Danny looked to see…nothing. Maryland had vanished completely.

"Explain why I screamed. I had a bad dream and it shocked me enough," Danny lied as Maddie's motherly instincts kicked in and she holstered the ectoguns and walked up to Danny.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No, I'm fine,"

"Did it deal with ghosts?" Jack asked happily causing Danny to frown.

"No, Dad, it didn't."

"Oh," Jack moaned sadly.

"Alright, then, remember that you do have school today, so get ready." Maddie said.

"Right, mom," Danny said as the two left and then Maryland appeared. "As you were saying" He asked turning to face her.

"It is my job to serve you and cater to your every whim, my majesty." She said as Danny sighed,

"Alright, I guess I should begin to get ready. I won't be able to go back to sleep after that little wake up call." He said as he walked to bathroom to take a shower.

He was extremely happy that his parents had put in his own bathroom equipped with a shower, but he frowned when he noticed that Maryland was following him.

"Uh, can I help you?" He asked.

"No, the question is there anything I can help you with, a King much not sully his hands preparing himself for the day. That is the job for his servants." Maryland said with a smile.

"No, I can handle that by myself, Maryland,"

"Are you sure, you majesty?"

"I'm sure and please call me Danny. The whole 'Lord' 'King' 'Majesty', I don't need, I don't want to be called that and I am not comfortable about being called those names. Danny is fine." Danny said.

"Can I still wait outside in case you do need anything or need anything when you are done?" Maryland asked. "Alright," Danny said as he opened the bathroom door and then closed it behind him, locking it to with an anti-ghost shield that his parents just decided to add to every room in the house. Now he was glad that they did.

As Danny prepared for the day, Maryland was floating outside with many thoughts going around in her mind, but only one struck out. In all of her years and afterlife, she had never served a monarch that was so strange. Hmm, I have a feeling things are only going to get stranger, she thought as she waited for Danny.

When Danny came out of the bathroom, Maryland saw that he had brought a change of clothes with him and was fully ready with his backpack on his back. Sighing inwardly, but then smiling Maryland made an attempt to follow Danny out of his room, but he noticed her.

"Maryland, I hate to see this, but you can't follow me to school. Honestly, you should not be here in my room. You know that I can't let any human know who I am now." Danny said sadly.

"But, your majesty…Danny," Maryland said when she saw that Danny was about to say something, but continued,

"What if you need me for anything?"

"It is school, Maryland. I think I can handle myself just fine. You don't need to worry about me."

"But Danny…"

"No there are far too many people even in my own home then at school. It would cause a panic, I don't want them to see you, I don't want to see any full ghosts in Amity Park and no, that doesn't mean you can go invisible around the place either. Ok, I can't have anyone knowing who I am now." Danny said as Maryland nodded to agree, though she didn't like it.

"Yes, Danny."

"Then I hope to see you again, in the Ghost Zone this time not here, have a good day." Danny said as he left. Maryland frowned at that, but then went back into the Ghost Zone to inform Queen Dorathea about what had happened.

Meanwhile: Location: Unknown Regions: Earth: Casper High:

Danny sighed as he walked up the front of the school with almost half an hour before class started; everyone was just beginning to head inside. Danny smiled when he saw Sam and Tucker near the front of the school and was about to call out to them when…

Suddenly a bark came from down the road and everyone in front of the school come an extremely fast green ball of something. Most thought that it was Phantom or an ecto-blast, but nothing prepared them for what it really was. Danny had turned to face where the bark came from, but when his ghost sense went off, a side effect of the portal accident he and his family had said, he knew what it was. Opening his arms, he welcomed the small green ghost puppy as everyone looked at him shocked as the puppy licked his cheek and he laughed happily. Sam had her arms crossed with an annoyed look on her face. Tucker was sweat-faulted while rubbing the back of his neck nervously, but Valerie.

Valerie was looking at the two completely with wide eyes and a shocked expression. She had thought that that dog was Phantom's, but here it was in Danny's arms happily. Danny was not Phantom. He was alive, he was a human, so why? "Cujo, what are you doing here?" He asked happily, though he knew that his secret was in danger of being found out, but still he loved the puppy and when he noticed the note attached to his collar, he knew that it was important. Gently grabbing it, Danny began to read what was written, while every human there looked in confusion.

Clockwork, Danny thought with a smile as he found the small leash and then placed it on Cujo's collar and then gently placed the puppy down onto the ground and then led him towards the school. To make a short story shorter, Clockwork had decided that Danny needed some sort of watchman, a watchdog in this case to take care of him since he knew that Danny would not agree to an attendant or a Knight or anything of the like.

Normally, Danny would ask Cujo to return to his Keep in the Ghost Zone, but if Clockwork went through the work to get Cujo to the Human Zone from Danny's Keep then it was important and required and while Danny didn't know exactly why, he knew enough and knew Clockwork enough to trust him. How just have to think of some way to keep Cujo from the teacher's eyes. He thought as he looked around and saw that Valerie was still looking at him weirdly, but he ignored it in favor of his best friends.

One was Samantha, call her Sam and don't call her Sammy, Manson and the other was Tucker Foley or TF as in 'Too Fine'. They had known each other and Danny since forever and thus were the best of friends, but they still had their rough spots, like Danny's secret and some arguments here and there. This was why the two were at the moment apologizing to each other from their extremely heated argument not that long ago. Danny inwardly chuckled at that as the memory of what part he had played in to get them to apologize to one another had been.

Flashback: Five Days ago: Human Zone: Unknown Regions: Earth Locations: Amity Park's Park and Tucker's home

Danny had just finished talking to the Goth girl next to him, who sighed and crossed her arms. "You're right, Danny. I guess…I was being kind of ignorant," Sam said finally as Danny smiled as the two continued to sit on the bench in the park. Even though she didn't look at him when she said that, he knew she meant it. He knew his friends enough to know what they meant and what they didn't mean. In any case the argument was stupid and Danny wasn't completely sure how it started to for that matter why.

The only thing he knew was that it involved Phantom and while that concerned him, he wasn't about to ask. First things first, he had to get the two at least talking to one another again. It was just too weird for them not to be friends and they knew it, they were just too prideful to admit it, so he had to.

It was a little strange that the reason they were arguing was helping them resolve the issue. Danny inwardly sighed at that, but it had worked and speaking of that. His ghost copy should be finishing talking with Tucker, hopefully his two friends wouldn't find out, but he had to help no matter the risk.

"Yeah, you're right, man. I was being a little insensitive" Tucker said finally getting off of his computer and looking at Danny who was sitting on his bed. The second Danny, the clone, had just finished speaking to Tucker and resolving the issue and he smiled at that, no matter what happened his friends would still be friends…as long as he was here to help.

End Flashback:

That thought, however, brought him out of his musing and he walked up to them and said. "Sam, Tuck, I'm glad to see both of you."

"Danny," The two said happily.

"So are we." Tucker said. "I was finally able to get my parents to let me out." He continued.

"They're not taking the news good either?" Danny asked.

"It is worse than that. They're thinking about moving out of town due to the Ghost Portal being down the block."

"WHAT!" Danny nearly screamed at the top of his lungs, but Tucker and Sam calmed him down.

"Calm down, man. I was able to convince them otherwise. Not being friends with ya and Sam would get extremely dull with your non-love life,"

"WE DON'T HAVE A LOVE LIFE!" Danny and Sam yelled at their friend, who just smirked.

"For now that is,"

"Never mind," Danny said shaking his head, "What was the condition they set up?" Danny asked knowingly.

"That I come home right after school and I do all of the laundry for a month," Tucker said sadly as he went back to the game on his PDA. Danny smiled at that as Sam rolled her eyes at him,

"Well, I only had to convince my…parents…to let me out," Sam said giving Danny a half-smile. One could tell from her voice that it had been from a lot of speaking on her part.

"I know they probably mean well…but, there's certain point where parents should draw the line on how much they want to protect us," Sam said as Danny nodded to agree. "You know parents," Danny said in a fond voice.

"At least you slept last night. The Ghost Alarm kept going off last night. My mom and Dad say it was faulty wiring."

"Geez that must be annoying, I know how loud that thing is." Sam said. She had been there once when it had gone off, and, unfortunately, she had been right nearby one of the alarms. Her ears rang for about a day. Tucker tensed remembering when he was extremely close to one when it went off and the pain that came with it.

"Tell me about it," Danny sighed.

"Well, first…" Tucker said with a joking tone, but immediately stopped, "Dude, why are you wearing those?" Tucker asked after glancing from up from his game to tell Danny what happened when he noticed the gloves on both of Danny's hands as well as the leather jacket. Danny's eyes went wide for just a second, too fast for Tucker and Sam to see, until he shrugged.

"Don't know, just thought I'll try something new. What do you think?" Tucker shrugged as well,

"Whatever. What do you think, Sam?" Tucker asked but when Sam didn't response for some time, he asked again, "Sam?" Sam was not listening, even though Danny only had on a black leather jacket and leather black gloves, she was still ogling Danny.

Oh, my god… Danny looks…seriously hot in that. I mean, he is always hot, but now… However, before her thoughts turned any worse, Tucker snapped her back into reality by waving his hand in front of her face. "Huh…What"

"I said, what do you think of Danny's new look?" He asked again. Sam immediately tuned her head, desperately trying to hide the blush that was rising to her cheeks.

"It's nice, I think it looks nice."

"Are you ok, Sam?" Danny asked.

"Fine…I'm fine." Tucker and Danny, even Cujo, looked at her confused and like they weren't buying it. Thinking quickly, Sam said,

"We should probably get to class. Don't want to be late, you know," She said grabbing her friends by their wrists and practically dragged the two into the school. Danny laughed inwardly as he; Tucker and Cujo were dragged into the school by a blushing Goth Girl. Due to Sam's embarrassment she and Tucker hadn't asked about Cujo, why he showed up or that he was a ghost and that was perfectly fine with him.

He had been worried that Cujo might give away his secret, but now it was fine. However, that wasn't the only reason he was laughing His had been afraid that Sam and Tucker were still shaken up from the battle, heck he still was, but for now they acted normally…for now…anyway…Danny inwardly sighed at that, but he kept a happy face on as the bell suddenly rang much to his dismay.

With that, all of the students began to slowly filter into the halls and into their classrooms. Danny lightly moaned as Sam just smiled at him and Tucker rolled his eyes at the. However, the two didn't know that Danny had been hoping to get a nap before class, he needed some sleep. "Oh, crap," He suddenly yelled as he swung his backpack around and looked through it.

"Please be in here, please" Sam and Tucker arched an eye-brow at him as he pulled out a stack of papers…papers that were due. Danny breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought I had forgotten my paper of Lancer. God, does that guy have any sense of compassion?" Danny moaned.

"Probably not, dude," Tucker said shaking his head. "A little thing like a ghost invasion and us being put under the rule of Phantom," Tucker sneered, "Wouldn't stop him from giving you a failing grade." He said with a hint of humor in his voice. Danny just grunted out a response that sounded none too pleased as the trio walked down the halls and into their English classroom, which much to Danny's dismay was still a little emptier then it usually was.

It seemed as though every other family in Amity Park insisted on moving or keeping themselves locked up in their homes, like Sam's parents. As if he didn't have enough strain on his conscious. Every passing day seemed to scream that he was having the opposite influence on Amity Park then what he hoped and what he became a hero for.

He thought two years of protecting this town would earn at least a second thought about him becoming an evil ghostly dictator…

"Cheer up, Danny. I'm sure life could be a lot worse." Sam said with a smile, giving her a friend a light pat on his shoulder and shaking him from his thoughts for the moment that is.

Really, how? He asked inwardly, but Sam continued to speak. "It's just like freshman year. I'm actually kind of glad there's still a sense of normalcy around here, even if it is from an overweight English teacher." Sam said. As true to her words, Mr. Lancer never seemed to give Amity's latest predicament much through, though he made a few mandatory announcements, he never seemed too concerned about the whole ordeal.

Danny, however, wished he knew if it was because his bald teacher was one of the very few believers in Phantom or he just didn't want to cut any of his students any slack. Sam gave Danny one of her rare meaningful smiles before she turned away and entered the classroom. Once she was gone and out of sight, Tucker ginned, eyeing Danny as Sam walked ahead of them, nudging and raising his eye-brow.

"So, Danny, when are you going to tell Sam that you have the hots for her?" He pestered his friend with a playful look in his eyes. Oh, he knew how both of them felt about each other deep down. Danny blushed brightly as he gave Tucker an incredulous stare.

"Tuck, now's really not the time" He mumbled trying to cover up his embarrassment or lack of enthusiasm.

Yes, the poor halva had developed a crush on the Gothic girl ever since freshman year. However, how could he even get close to flirting with a relationship with Sam ever since the portal accident? If he ever got too close with anyone, it would only be a matter of time before someone found out about his ghostly half…Besides, Master Revan had said many times that Love is an emotion that neither the Sith or Jedi mess it. That and if by some odd twist of events, Sam returned his feelings, he doubted he would be able to keep any secret from her and therein lay his downfall.

"There's just too much going on, you know?" Tucker simply arched another eye-brow at the boy as he shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't get you Danny. You've been crushing on her since we were freshman and you got over that thing you had for Paulina, which I still don't understand now you had in the first place. Seriously dude, if now's not the time then I don't think you're ever going to have any time." Tucker said as he shook his head. Danny's blue eyes gazed at the floor with a hit of pain and hesitance knowing what Tucker said was true, before he took in a breath and walked into the classroom.

"I know," He replied quietly, but knew Tucker heard him above the noise. "Right now is just…really complicated," Danny said not knowing another way of saying it. "I'm not sure you'd understand." Tucker frowned at that as he looked at his old friend with worry and a little scared.

"Danny, is there really something going on at home? I know your folks must be freaking out with the whole Ghost King situation…" He paused, biting his lip as he put his thoughts together, "But…there's nothing else, right…I mean…" He let his words drop, not wanting to speak them. While he knew that Danny's parents did know about his, Sam's, and Valerie's ghost hunting career, it didn't mean that there weren't rumors about them nor was it that hard to imagine that they might be planning on moving or leading an invasion. Danny just took his seat and then said.

"Nothing, it's just…I guess everything that's causing me stress is just piling up one on top of another. Not doing much good for me." He said as he inwardly bit his lip, praying to god that the perceptive boy wasn't able to connect the dots. "I am not getting much sleep at night with my parents making a racket. Tucker, you're worrying too much," Danny said as Tucker nodded. Danny sighed at that.

I just have to make it through the year then I can leave if I really need to, but please god, not yet. How in the world am I going to explain why I have to leave to them? He thought as Mr. Lancer came in.

"Alright, settle down class!" My. Lancer's voice boomed over the disruptions in the junior English class, slamming his book down on his desk. "I'm going to need those papers I assigned yesterday up on my desk. If you would come up by rows, we can get that done and start with our next lesson. Everyone get out your textbooks."

"Alright, if you say so, Danny," Tucker sighed. "You know if you need a good night's rest, you can always come to my place, alright?" He offered Danny as he took his own seat. Sam looked between the two, before she followed Mr. Lancer's instructions, pulling out her literature textbook.

"Uh…yeah, thanks Tuck" Danny said giving him a nervous smile, before covering up his nervous look by trying to look intense with today's lesson, flipping the pages right after he opened the book. Half of the class, including him and Sam, got up to turn in their papers, but a good chuck of them didn't. Well, that's not a good sigh. I know Mr. Lancer will not extend the due date, Danny thought with a frown on his face,

"This is atrocious people!" The balding teacher said as he gave his class a miffed expression as the ones that stood up began to slowly filter back into their seats. "Those papers were due today and I don't want to hear the same excuse." He paused, watching the stressful looks the kids were giving him and the floor, some of them muttering under their breaths. "Nothing has changed since the ordeal with Phantom and as long as you continue to come to school, I expect the same amount of work ethic out of you. Take Mr. Fenton for example, he has turned in his paper and from what I can see actually listened to his sister for help." Danny blushed in embarrassment and then face-faulted as many of the students laughed at him.

"Thanks for the vote of confidence." He muttered as Mr. Lancer just sighed.

Sam had been one of those to turn her papers in, having ample time to do so while locked up at home. Tucker, however, had not. Having come to a silent agreement with all of his teachers since school had begun. He would slack off on take-home assignments, but he would always make up for it with well-done class work and tests. After that and Mr. Lancer got the class back under control from his accidental comment, English class went by relativity smoothly, mainly because of the lack of ghosts that showed up and now quiet the class was due to its low numbers and miraculously, Danny was able to stay awake through the entire lesson. However, it wasn't because he was tired.

Oh, no, he had lied about that to keep his secret under wraps and with the teachers he had, he would be able to seat through even the most boring lectures or lessons ever. At the moment, he was thinking about main of the current operations and projects going on in the Ghost Zone, from economic and financial to basic needs for his people, but no matter what, his mind went back to what Lancer had said. What in the world did Lancer mean? I mean I did my homework with a copy and know what it wrote and Jazz wasn't even home when I did it. Did Jazz lie or something? He thought, but then inwardly shook his head. This wasn't his problem…at the moment and unless his sister mentioned it, he wouldn't. Sighing a little, he pulled out another notebook to write down a few new ideas for the Ghost Zone.

Meanwhile: Human Zone: Location: Unknown Regions: Earth: Amity Park: FentonWorks: Lab:

Jack and Maddie Fenton, while the kids were at school, were in their lab fixing their weapons that had been destroyed during the battle. After setting another blaster down on the nearby table, Maddie sighed,

"I can't believe it. Three days ago, I thought we were safe. Now we are under the rule of Phantom, who is half-human of all things. I honestly wouldn't believe it if I wasn't told."

"When I get on hands on that ghost punk, I'll rip him apart molecule by molecule. Who is he to rule over us? He is a ghost, not a living human. Half-human or not," Jack yelled as he dropped two of the blasters he had been attempting to repair.

"Yeah, but first we have to find him," Maddie said.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot," Jack face-faulted as Maddie sighed.

"What's the matter, Mads?" Jack asked.

"It's just Danny has been quiet and distant since the battle well more so than usually and I don't know what to think of it."

"Maybe he's possessed by a ghost," Jack suddenly yelled.

"Jack, we went over this. We are not accusing our kids of being ghosts because they're acting weird," Maddie said as Jack pouted but nodded in agreement. "But still if we find that Phantom kid, we must capture him alive first when we can experiment on him," Maddie said as Jack got all starry-eyed about catching a ghost while her mind was about figuring out who someone could be half-ghost and half-human. To be honest, she was interested about how something like that was created and how it was possible.

"And with our new weapons, Phantom will not stand a chance against us," Jack yelled grabbing one of the newly designed and created Anti-Ghost Mark 4 Ecto-blaster that were on the table. However, when he charged it up and was able to aim around with it, the weapon's power matrix suddenly overloaded and the weapon itself exploded in his face, covering it with smoke and leaving the remains in his hands.

"Oh, that still needs repair and redesign." He said nervously as he picked up a cloth and wiped his face. Maddie only smiled at him as she stood up from her workstation.

"Now, come on. We worked enough for today. Who wants fudge?" Jack immediately went into full on kid on Christmas morning mood and yelled

"I do! Come on, Mads," He said running up the stairs, nearly tipping on a few wires or weapons that were on the floor. Maddie frowned at that. They would have to clean this place up and soon if they wanted to continue to train the Huntresses and with Phantom now the New High King of all Ghosts, they would need all of their help. Maddie just shook her head after that and then smiled.

Jack's childish nature was one of the things that she loved about him. Slowly and more calmly, she walked up the stairs while Jack was waiting patiently for her at the top, hoping on one foot when she arrived.

However, either of them noticed that the Ghost Portal was opened since they began working and that someone had heard them.