Chapter 24

Danny and Sam phased into Danny's room and Danny placed Danielle on his bed. After a few seconds she changed back to human form. Visio phased into the room soon after and demanded, "Why did you call yourselves her parent when she is a halfa and I never heard of you being a halfa? In fact I have never heard of Samantha Phantom either."

Danny and Sam looked at each other and changed back to their human forms, making Visio's eye twitch. Danny's mouth became a thin line and he spoke, "I am guessing she never told you of her origins?" Visio shook his head and changed back to human form in a blast of grey light as his odd grey transformation rings washed over his dark form. "Vlad Plasmius cloned me a couple times to have the perfect half-ghost son. On one of his attempts he used my girlfriends DNA while she was still human and my DNA as a half-ghost, because I am stronger than him and my DNA is more stable, and he combined them making an unstable female clone with a mind of her own, who is technically our daughter. A couple months ago I was able to stabilize her and she flew off to explore the world. If I had known at that time that Danielle was my daughter I wouldn't have let her go."

Visio stared at him open-mouthed, "Plasmius would go that far to get what he wants. He is one crazy blighter." He thought for a second and looked at the two of them, "Did he know that you two were Halfas?"

Sam answered him this time, "He knew Danny was two years ago, and he just found out I was a halfa the same day I did, yesterday."

Visio lowered his hood and raised his eyebrow, "Who are your ghostly parents?"

The two younger Halfas looked at each other in confusion, and Danny said, "I got my powers from being inside of the Fenton Portal when it activated so I don't have any ghostly parent, and Sam got her powers from Undergrowth, who, I guess, liked the way she felt about plants. He infused her with his own ectoplasm and called her daughter, so I guess you could call him her ghostly father."

Visio looked at them in shock, "So neither of you were born Halfas?" They both shook their heads so he continued, "There are only two other times I have heard of a person not being born a halfa. Jason Elias, who is part of the Halfa Council with me and Malbenita, the first halfa, fused with a ghost named Xeraunius about three-hundred years ago. The only other one was Plasmius, who I found and brought before the Council, and who got his powers by being blasted in the face with high concentrations of contaminated ectoplasm that fused with his body. Everyone else had a human parent and a ghostly parent, or they had at least one parent that was a halfa."

Sam gaped at him, her amazement trickling through her bond with Danny. Danny took off his coat and stretched his wings out because they were getting cramped, and Visio's eyes widened at the sight of them. He thought, The wings weren't just a part of his ghost form. He is of the rarest of the rare. The last angel-halfa died by one of those bloody Blood Blossom infused arrows. I have to make sure that doesn't happen with him.

Sam saw the amazed and determined look in his eye and asked, "Are you that amazed that he has wings? Then you will be even more amazed when you hear what else he is."

Visio raised his eyebrow, "What else is he?"

Danny groaned as Sam smirked, "He is the Prince of the Ghost Zone."

Visio stared at them in shock and said, after he took a few moments to regain his composure, "You are the new king that I was hearing about? How?"

Just then a groan was heard from Danny's bed, and upon opening her eyes Danielle said, "Anybody get the license plate of the bus that ran me over?"

Danny smirked and Sam shook her head, "Yup, she is your daughter all right."

Then Danielle looked at her parents, and the thought going through Danny's head was that, if their life was a cartoon, a question mark would have appeared above her head, "Daughter?"

Sam handed her the papers about her creation that they had Tucker print off, and she read them quietly to herself and she saw a Ghost Zone birth certificate with the names Danny and Samantha Phantom signed where the parents' signatures would go. She looked up at them a little teary-eyed and asked, "You want me?" Danny put his arm around Sam and shook his head yes, and Danielle promptly jumped off the bed into her parents' arms, "Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Danny and Sam hugged her back, and Danny chuckled, "You do realize that this means you will be staying with us from now on."

Dannielle pulled away from the hug, "So what."

Danny grimaced, "That means that you won't be traveling the world anymore."

Danielle raised her eyebrow, "You thought I would miss out on having a family so that I could do something that was starting to get boring anyways. In my travels I also saw many families doing things together and that is part of the reason why I started traveling with Visio. He has become like an older brother to me."

Visio glared at her, "You get in more trouble than anyone I know."

Danny and Sam looked at each other and broke out in a laughing fit. Danielle smirked, "I guess you have just as bad of luck as I do?"

Danny accidentally read her mind, and she felt the invasion of her privacy and gave it the proverbial boot. Danny rubbed the back of his neck embarrassed, "I didn't mean to look at your memories. From what I saw though your luck is just a little bit better than mine."

She looked at him with her head tilted to the side, "I don't understand."

He shook his head in amusement and pointed to Visio, "The first Halfa you met, that you didn't know was a Halfa, turned out to be a good guy instead of an evil Fruitloop."

She then looked at Visio with a questioning look on her face, "Were you going to ask them something before I woke up?"

He was just about to speak when a loud shout rang through the house and Danny's door was thrown open, "GHOST!" Everyone blinked at Danny's father standing in the door. He looked down at the Fenton Ghost Finder 2.0. and scratched his head for a second trying to remember something he had forgot, then he got a good look at Visio, "Visio Garret? It must have been thirty years since I last saw you. You haven't aged a day."

Visio cracked a smile at Jack, "And you, old friend, haven't changed a bit. Well, personality wise anyways."

Jack said, "My new invention detected four ghosts up here in Danny's room."

Danny face palmed, bringing everyone's attention back to him, "Dad, your inventions are probably still picking up Halfas as well." Then Danny turned to Visio, "And I thought that your last name was Nightshade?"

Visio looked at Danny and shook his head, "You really don't know about your own races customs, do you? It is customary for us Halfas to have two last names, a given one for our human form, and a chosen one for our ghost forms. Rarely did we take the chosen last name of our parent. The one instance where that happened was with Julia Hunter/McLain."

Danny's eyes bulged and Jack tilted his head to the side, "Wait. Visio, you are a halfa as well." Visio nodded and Jack looked to the side and noticed the little girl, who looked similar to his son and his son's girlfriend, sitting on the bed, "Who are you?"

Danny got over his shock of knowing that Ember had a daughter and said, his wings twitching nervously, "Dad. Do you remember what I told you about having a clone, who was actually mine and Sam's daughter?"

Jack looked at his son, not quite comprehending what he getting at, "So"

Danny's wings flared a little in his fear as he pointed to Dannielle, "She is my daughter, Danielle Lilith Fenton/Phantom"

Jack beamed at her, "Welcome to the Fenton family. Would you like some fudge?"

Danielle's mouth started watering and she gave her father the "Puppy dog look." Sam just laughed at her reaction and said, "She is a girl after her grandfather's own heart. Next thing you know she will wake up yelling 'GHOST' at the top of her lungs." Everyone started laughing at that. They were definitely a family now.

-DP-

Through a bug on the wall, red eyes, that watched what was happening, burned with hatred and a forked tongue slid out between polished fangs. The being thought to himself, I will gain power unimaginable to them and I will destroy their lovely little family. Even Maddie will be destroyed on my day of reckoning. For I will be the most rare and powerful creature of all. He turned back to his book written by Frederich Isak Showenhower, also known as Freakshow.

The book was opened to a page that was titled, "Vampires: Legends versus Reality." He held up the feather he had obtained from Danny's wing, I barely believe that this was all I needed to be more powerful than Daniel and his pathetic band of friends. It is similar to something I read once on another world, in a language more ancient than even the oldest Halfa, "When the 47 spheres align, a perpetual conflict will culminate upon a world forged from chaos. And the weak shall perish in the shadow of a rising darkness." Last year the 47 spheres aligned, but I will be among the strong and Danny Phantom will fall.

He started laughing a laugh that would make the Dan proud, I will be the one to wear the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage. This is the beginning of the end for you Daniel. The beginning of the end.