Update 11/25/15: reformatting and making edits

Warnings: blood, gore, loss, adult language and themes to follow

Introduction (Part 1 of 1)

Heart of a Hero

Gem of Brilliance

If I were to speak plainly with you, author to reader, preacher to choir, teacher to student, if I were to give you the God's honest truth in a short, six-word sentence I would tell you that Daniel Fenton was a good kid.

He was a very good kid. He came from a good family, had a good set of friends, and surprisingly good teacher. Danny generally stayed out of trouble—he never bothered himself or his reputation with looking for it. He was, above all else, kind in his disposition towards most others to cross his path.

Daniel Fenton had a plethora of good attributes, however it would take me far too long to list them to you, this being an introduction— and introductions by nature tend to be kept brief.

Daniel Fenton was a smart kid. He came from a smart family— his parents being renowned paranormal scientists and his sister claiming her spot as Valedictorian in her class.

Likewise, the Fenton family gift of brilliance transcended to him and Danny landed with an enormous IQ and the unconventional intelligence of his father before him.

However, Daniel Fenton had an enormous responsibility thrust upon his shoulders at the beginning of his high school career, which set him onto a path of what was ultimately self-destruction.

There was a tragic accident, and with it, everything Danny thought he knew about the life he had made for himself and the people around him had fragmented and fallen apart like broken glass falling from a shattered windowpane.

Daniel must have spent weeks in the hospital. The doctors kept coming up with problem after problem—problems they did not previously associate with electrocution.

He was finally discharged and allowed back into school, his concerned family and friends left somewhat baffled at his speedy recovery rate once outside those white walls, metal doors and IV drips.

At this point, I really see no need to go into this further—you know the story just as well as I do.

You know how Daniel Fenton fumbled his way through school while protecting the town of Amity Park, Illinois from an undead, post-conscious threat once he discovered he possessed a massive amount of power and the ability to gauge right from wrong.

You know his very best friends were at his side the whole time, his overbearing and doting sister joining them in hopes to keep the town safe from an often-unseen threat.

You know of Daniel's wrongdoings, misdoings, and right-doings, and perhaps you even know of the final story to follow.

It was one mistake, really, that inadvertently caused for the mass-destruction of the town of Amity Park and many of the lives that resided there.

It wasn't a large mistake, either. It was simple, probably not even the first time this stunt has been pulled. But it happened, Daniel Fenton cheated on a test that could have decided his future, and lo and behold, it did.

But, luckily for our protagonist and the sanity of both you and me, Danny Fenton had another attribute that is worth mentioning. One that, ultimately, saved him the misery the next decade of his life would have caused.

Danny was likeable. So likeable, in fact, that he had earned the favor of an ancient, unfathomably powerful spirit the day his fate was changed forever. He received an interdimensional warning of events to come, and how to avoid the worst-case scenario.

But a simple warning wasn't enough, and Danny's whole life and everything he thought he had to live for was lost in the fire of the explosion; and he was left with nothing but a few trinkets, a family inheritance, and a massive promise to his name.

That promise— the one Danny had made to his family, his town, the spirit that helped him and himself— is what drove Danny here, almost half way across the country and away from the remains of everything he thought he knew.

As I had mentioned before, Daniel Fenton had inherited the unconventional brilliance of his father. And, like him, Danny struck one gem of brilliance for every four ideas that infiltrated his mind. Perhaps that gem of brilliance is why he ended up here, in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, with the hope of starting a new life for himself and a way to combat the guilt that was slowly eating him alive.

A/N: Hello!

This was an intro, originally a DPxTT crossover but I liked DPxTJ better for this, so I changed it.

I am open to any and all suggestions, as this is not nearly as planned out as I would like it to be.

This is pre-PP and early season 1 of YJ

Peace

-Rookey