I don't own Danny phantom or any of the characters. They are doing a life sentence to their original owners without the chance of parole. Enjoy the next part of Death is only the beginning.

Danny's Realm

"Maddie where am I? The last thing I remember is that me and you were fighting that one eyed ghost before he struck me in the stomach with his mace. Then everything went black." Jack explained recalling the painful memory.

Maddie upon hearing her husband's voice had a feel of mixed emotions. On the one hand she was happy that she didn't see Jack's corpse rise only for the flesh to fall off making him one of the ghost king's minions. On the other hand she still lost her husband and now officially had widow status. Doing her best not to break down Maddie turned to her dead husband and began to answer his questions.

"Jack dear, we are now in our son's realm in the ghost zone."

Upon hearing this information Jack floated towards the fire place, and upon getting to it he noticed the pictures hanging up. Upon seeing the portrait of his family along with Sam and Tucker it all made sense to him.

"Wow this place is enormous is this really your realm Danny?"

"Jack I wasn't done explaining what happened so please let me finish. Now where was I? Oh yeah Jack I have some good news and bad news. The bad news is you... are like Danny now." Maddie said pointing to his corpse while trying her best to hold back her tears.

Jack not wanting to believe what he was seeing floated towards corpse and touched it's face only to feel that it had no heat coming from it.

"Severing spooks, I am a ghost! This a terrible I can't be a ghost, it isn't possible!" Jack screamed causing Danny to glare at his father for said comment.

Danny wanted to give his father a piece of his mind for said comment, however for him more pressing matters plaguing his mind.

"Pandora, shouldn't dad be one of Pariah's minions now? I mean dad was killed by the ghost king himself and his influence is all over the ghost zone." Danny asked surprised that it wasn't happening.

"That has been bothering me as well. Whenever Pariah or his warriors killed someone in the past they became his minion no matter where they were. However, when your father died here he just became a normal ghost. That shouldn't be possible unless..."

"Unless Danny's realm itself is somehow blocking the ghost king's influence. That would explain why Jack is only a ghost and not one of Pariah's minions trying to kill us." Maddie explained with mixed emotions.

"While there is a time limit to how long everyone who isn't a ghost can stay in the ghost zone, We better get the town's people in my realm ASAP. If worse comes to worse and they do pass on here at least they will still have their free will. Mom, I am going to round up the rest of the town's people. If I see the pink huntress I will tell her to send the masses here as well." Danny only for Jack to float over to his son.

"Danny I am coming with you. I maybe new to the being a ghost thing, but 2 heads are better than one." Jack said with a bit of pride.

"No Dad, even if you are a ghost like myself you have little to no knowledge about your powers and abilities. Mom already has widow status because of Pariah, and..."

"What about you Danny? Do you think we were happy when our portal turned you into a ghost? It was because of our machine that you are here in the ghost zone and not with us! You are going to need backup and while I am not as skilled a ghost as you, I won't let my son go on a suicide mission especially without back up! I am coming and that is final young man!" Jack said putting his foot down only for Maddie to glare at him.

"Jack while I understand your concern about not wanting to lose our son out of the two of you he has the better chance of coming out of this still existing. As you said yourself he has been a ghost not only longer than you have but has a better understanding of his abilities." Maddie said to her husband before turning to her son. "However, even with this I share my husband's concern about you going on a suicide mission. We already lost you once and we don't want to lose you completely."

Danny was about to try and convince his parents again why he was going to do this when a pink portal opened up. already knowing who would be coming through Danny was more than prepared to explain why a ghost hunter was coming into his realm. However, upon seeing that Paulina wasn't alone and brought some people with her Danny said nothing.

"Good his minions haven't gotten here yet." The pink hunter said only to see Danny and his family here. "Sorry for bringing them here without asking, but this was the only safe place I could think off." Paulina explained before getting a nod of understanding from Danny.

Paulina than took a look around and upon seeing Danny's parents and Pandora relief sweep her at least until she saw two Jacks. Upon seeing this Paulina turned to her own father, and if it wasn't for her secret identity would have hugged him.

"Danny I am sorry for your loss. It really does hurt when you lose someone you care for." Paulina said causing the adults and Danny to understand where she is coming from.

"Pink Huntress, I thank you for saving our lives. However, my little girl is still out there in that chaos. Could the two of you please go out there and save my little girl before it is too late? She is all I have left and if I were to lose her..." Paulina's father replied not daring to finish that sentence.

"Danny please find Paulina I don't want to lose my best friend either!" Star added among with Valerie and Kwan nodding.

"Don't worry about it I promise I will find your little girl and your best friend. Besides I am going to need to relocate the masses here. It is the only place in the ghost zone that if the worst happens you will still have your free will." Danny said before turning to his family. "Get the suit ready because when I am done with this mission..." Danny continued causing Pandora to narrow her eyes at Danny.

"Don't look at me like that Pandora, I have to do this. You always told me that when it comes to the ones you care for you would risk everything including your afterlife if you had to. Well for me that same rule applies. If it was you in the ghost kings hands I wouldn't think twice about doing the same since you are very important to me as well." Danny explained looking into his mentor narrowed eyes with conviction.

"I already knew you would say that, and I won't attempt to stop you. However I am coming with you and that is final. I have a bone to pick with that idiot and the two of us stand the best chance of coming out of this existing." Pandora added before Jack floated over to Danny.

"I made this stuff by accident a little bit before your funeral when the ghosts started showing up. It was originally supposed to make ghosts shrivel down into nothing. However, I could never get it right, and instead it does the complete opposite." Jack said before tossing him the vile and spray.

"You mean with this stuff a ghost would get a massive power boost?" Danny asked causing Jack to nod with disappointment.

Looking at the murky green goop inside it's casing Danny pocketed his father's invention before opening up a portal and in the company of the pink hunter left his realm.

The ruins of Amity Park

Danny and Paulina exited from Danny's portal to find the entire city overrun by Pariah's army. Worse to wear the destruction the Skeleton warriors were doing to the town was off the scales. 85% percent of the buildings that used to stand tall were now mere shells of their former selves. Johnny pumps that used to hold the city's water supply were smashed causing the clear liquid to spray all over the place. Cars that used to be parked peacefully were ablaze or just charcoal grande. Paulina seeing the destruction looked all over and noticed their were 4 places out of the bunch that weren't destroyed. Casper high, A greenhouse, and two small houses. Knowing that Sam was already captured Danny dismissed the greenhouse.

"Paulina, I will check the housing complex and the it belong to my other friend. The residence there would most likely come with me seeing as they know me. You go to the school and get any survivors back to my realm. Afterwards go back as yourself and stay there until..."

"Oh no you don't Danny! Just because we have a truce doesn't mean you can order me around! When the time comes I am going to fight along side you and Pandora against the ghost king!" Paulina said stubbornly.

"Paulina if me and Pandora don't make it out of this neither of us will become his slaves due to already being ghosts. If he were to kill you on the other hand his influence would take you and you would become one of his slaves! How do you think your father would feel if he lost his little girl? Do you really want to put him through all that angst?" Danny explained in a hushed tone.

As Danny continued to reason with Paulina the skeleton warriors in the area surrouded them and the archers aimed their arrows at the two. Thinking quickly Paulina bit the pin off of one of her grenades and tossed it into the mob causing a medium sized explosion filled with bones flying in different directions. However, the skeletons that were blown apart by Paulina's bomb like always pulled themselves back together while some of them even started laughing.

"Foolish human and ghost child. We can survive even our master's stronger attacks and pull ourselves back together. What makes you think your puny attack will permanently put us down?" One of the warriors said while the skeleton archers continued to fire their arrow's at the two.

"As much as I hate to admit it he has a point. We need to get to the survivors back to my realm before those idiots kill them." Danny explained before each of them made a portal and flew through it to their desired locations.

Pariah Dark's Castle 15 minutes later

Pariah grabbed his sword, and with several quick swings chopped off both of Sam's legs. However, in less than 3 seconds each of the limbs that were cut off reattached themselves without leaving a scar. While Sam was thankful for this massive upgrade in healing it wasn't perfect. Like any injury as long as she was awake she could still feel the pain of each attack and for her it was like hot iron being pressed against her limbs repeatedly.

"Come on now that is getting old! You chopped my arms and legs off several times now, and they keep reattaching themselves. It is bad enough you are terrorizing my hometown, but I could do without the temporary mutilation!" Sam hissed while still feeling the pain.

"While you find it annoying, I find it amusing young lass! I could tear you apart literally or even grind you into the dust, and you still come back good as new. While I could do that with my own minions if I wanted doing it to a human such as yourself is far more entertaining. In fact I think I will test the limits of your body until that child returns my Pandora to me!" Pariah explained as he swung his sword which literally cut Sam into two half's before vines pulled the two back together and stitched up the normally lethal blow without leaving a scar.

"You think of Pandora as your personal property? What era do you think we live in the dark ages?" Sam said in disgust at the ghost king's attitude. "I don't know how long you have been sleep for, but we are in the 21 century now, and women have as much say as..."

"You will hold your tongue child, and you will talk to King Pariah with..." The Fright Knight never got the chance to finish his sentence as he was sent flying on the Pariah Dark airlines thanks a strong punch from the ghost king himself.

"You will not speak unless I order you to my loyal knight! Besides I find the fire within her oddly refreshing." Pariah said smiling. "She reminds me so much of Pandora in her youth." Pariah said smiling.

'Danny hurry up and get here. While I can heal and regenerate my limbs thanks to my ghost powers, it still hurts so much taking said blows.' Sam thought to herself as she focused on seeing what her friend was up to in an attempt to block out the pain.

As she did this Pariah watched as the expression on her face changed from a pained one to surprisingly unnerving smile. Curious as to why his prisoner was even doing this Pariah walked up to his prisoner and was about to get her attention when the Fright Knight intervened.

"Pariah while I know it isn't my place to stop you I have some bad news. The human realm under your influence is now completely empty of human life. You won't have any new additions to your army." The Fright Knight explained while getting out of the Fright Knight shaped crater he was in.

"It doesn't matter my loyal knight. We will hunt them down and I will have a new members to add to my ever growing army. Besides I know the child will come for the girl, and he will bring me Pandora as well." Pariah said flashing a menacing smile. Now my warriors in Amity, return to the castle and prepare for an all out battle against our enemies!" Pariah said as all his warriors withdrew from Amity and returned to the castle.

Sam's Greenhouse

'That girl is regenerating and healing a lot more than normal. It is as if she is getting constantly attacked by someone or something. While her self healing and regeneration due to this will make her abilities grow stronger, if she continues to keep doing so at the rate she is going her powers will try to overtake her and possibly drive her insane.' Undergrowth thought to himself before a small frown appeared on his face. 'Child please come back to us because it would be a massive shame for the future children to be without their mother.' Undergrowth thought to himself as he surprisingly winced in pain as if he felt every blow Sam took.

Stage out

So end part twenty-one of death is only the beginning. The end of the ghost king arc is drawing nearer. Once again I made some major changes but at the same time left somethings the same. Any thoughts comments concerns about this chapter? If so PM me or say them in a review. R and R.