Ghost History
Contributed by Clockwork (Written in third person point of view)
The Ghost Zone was made at the same time as the rest of creation and with it was made time's guardian, the master of time from whom nothing is hidden, Clockwork. He was known to humans as father time. He is capable of morphing his appearance, so that he looks human, to be able to see humans without them freaking out. He watched the human race corrupt itself with forbidden fruit, knowing that it was all for the best. He watched as the first murder was committed and the first city built.
He tried a few times to help humanity see the wrong that they did in sinning against their Creator, he was laughed away. He saw the first king follow the right path until his wife died and became the first true ghost. She died giving birth to their firstborn child, a son whose name was called Pariah because of his mother's death. His mother came back to them and for a while they were happy again.
More people started to become ghosts and the boy's mother was taken back to the Ghost Zone. His father died soon after of old age and joined his mother in the Ghost Zone becoming the first king of the Ghost Zone. As is sometimes the case he died at the same time as a tyrannosaurus-rex gaining the unusual ability to have two forms, because of how dissimilar the two life forms are, a "Dragon(/Dino)" form and a humanoid form. Clockwork then made for him two objects of power to symbolize his position of power, the black Ring of Power and the white Crown of Fire.
Peace flourished in the Ghost Zone for the couple centuries called the Golden Age of the Ghosts. There were only islands where there was water, and there were no floating doors. That was how unified they were under the King, Queen, and the young Prince Malbenita (Esperanto for "Cursed") (modern name).
Back on Earth, though, all mankind became evil except for a few. Before the end came Pariah died and joined up with his most loyal servant, Turbarentur, who became known as the Fright Knight, the spirit of Halloween. Those wiped out by the Great Flood became the skeleton army of Pariah because they had a small mind and no souls for what they did in life. He became the most evil Ghost to exist, but he still had some good in him that prevented him from taking the throne from his father despite his brother's training.
Then Malbenita used a glove he had made using magic, of a kind known only to the multi-dimensional, magical beings the humans called gods, to remove the goodness from his brother. What neither of them realized is that the goodness of Pariah would become its own entity that they would then have to lock away. Pariah the fought for the kingship and won it from his father. He then made devices for those he thought of as threats and placed them in the Sarcophaguses of Forever Sleep and buried all of them except his brother under his castle. He placed his brother in his treasure vault out of respect for his brothers training.
When he became king the unity of the ghost zone started to corrode, resulting in the islands, paths, floating doors and unstable physics that characterize the ghost zone today. During his 2,000 year reign he was ruthless and cruel beyond belief, striking fear into the hearts of his subjects. The end was in sight for the least physically powerful of all the ghosts, the group called the Observants. These, though the weakest of all ghosts, were listened to because they had the ability to see the future. They gathered together the seven Ancients to fight on their behalf against the king.
The Ancients fought their way through Pariah's army, trapped the Fright Knight, and defeated Pariah taking the ring from his finger. They then put him in his own invention, The Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep. Then the Ancients gathered together their energies and destroyed the Unity of his capitol.
They went to Clockwork to ask him what they should do with the ring. He then asked the One who made him what to do because his all-seeing vision was clouded by Him. He was instructed to make a skeleton that held the ring in a force field between its hands. The force field would only go down if the Skeleton Key unlocked the nose. He then placed it in the castle and his vision cleared.
The Ancients then asked him to make them alive again. He did and mixed them with the seven most humanoid species in the universe, which the self-proclaimed "gods" of humanity had scattered to the stars and changed from the humans of Earth. This left the ruling of the Ghost Zone to the highly incompetent and prideful Observants. Unlike the two kings they barely ruled except to "make" Clockwork or other powerful ghosts do their dirty work for them.
As new ghosts came they got their own lairs in the discoordination that was the Ghost Zone, all they heard of times past was the stories of the two kings and how different they were. It was about a thousand years after the defeat of Pariah that ghosts started to go back to the land of the living to do things like see their relatives or in the case of the "Yetis" of the Far Frozen, checking the state of particular environments of Earth. Even Clockwork occasionally went to the land of the living to help humanity when they needed it.
One of the Ancients died again and became the Spirit of Death, the Grim Reaper. He remembered what He was before and took the title that Clockwork gave him. He didn't really do his job until after he met the Man who died on a cross, he was told the he "held no power over Him" and that he wasn't doing his job well. So he started to do his job, noticing this was what caused most of the malevolent to start acting negatively toward humanity and this started the many bad myths and legends about ghosts.
In the Ghost Zone various small kingdoms were formed who tried to keep order but failed. Many in the Ghost Zone seemed to good friends and bitter enemies at the same time. The Observants also became their own little kingdom that looked down on everyone and judged only the most evil ghosts like Vortex and Nocturne.
As the more modern came to Earth it resulted in ghosts such as Technus, Ember, Johnny 13, Penelope Spectra, Bertrand, and Youngblood. It also resulted in the older ghost Skulker, who started out looking like a human, gaining high-tech armor when he turned into a blob under "unknown" circumstances. In addition it gave rise to the normally good-mannered and docile Ghost Writer and the entirely unreasonable Walker. Then came the vampiric Vlad Plasmius with his way of doing things being similar to the Prince of the past. Though clearly not as powerful as the Prince, Vlad brought many ghosts under his thumb, just like the Prince.
In more recent times there came to be a boy who accomplished many feats in a short amount of time and grew strong faster than ghost before him, aside from Clockwork who was created powerful. He became humanities protector and tried to show them that not all ghosts are evil, as believed in times long gone. His name is Danny Phantom and he is the continuation of our history.