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It was a shadowy building, a dark castle destroyed by time and war in equal parts. It floated in the sea of green that was the Ghost Zone. For the most part the Ghost Zone was a terrifying place where the souls of the damned suffered for their eternity. But from the outside of that castle not a sound could be heard; not a single moan or cry. For few dared to venture close to it, and even fewer ever made it out alive. For this castle is haunted by a being that even the ghosts know is best left be.
If someone was to approach the front gate, he would find mountains of blooded and decaying corpses, both those of humans and of ghosts alike, their red and green bloods mixing together in the frigid dirt. The gate itself had long since been torn away by the numerous attacks on the castle. They laid in ruin at the bottom of a pit that many of the dead had been swept into during the earlier days of the master's occupation in a vain attempt to keep it slightly clean.
If you dared to venture further in then you would find a welcoming hall, though nothing could be less welcoming. For the walls were all singed and painted red and green with the blood of those who had died there. One could hardly find a spot to put their feet for all the bodies that lay strung about the ground. Though the master didn't really care, he flew everywhere he needed to go anyways.
At the end of the long hall one would come to the throne room. In this room you would find no corpses, though one would still see the evidence of death everywhere they looked. The master didn't wish to have any in that room, it was his place to think and who could think will the dead are staring right at them.
If they ever managed to make it to this room they would find a young man, hardy more than a child, sitting on the throne. One leg kicked over the other as he shifted a ring around in his hand. He had taken that ring from the previous master of the castle after the boy had killed him. Of course this was no ordinary boy. He was the both legendary and infamous half ghost child. Those who looked up to him called him Phantom, and those who fear him and hoped to destroy him called him by a different name, the Neo Pariah. He had had a real name once upon a time, but he had to give it up.
If asked what made him the way that he was he would say it was one meddling time ghost. After all, if Clockwork hadn't messed with his affairs then his old parents wouldn't have found out about him. His old friends would not have been scared that he would one day become that monster that had tried to kill them. The same monster he had destroyed with his own hands, marking his first time he had ever killed anything, living or dead.
After that day he was hunted relentlessly in the world of human's. The government had decided that he presented a realistic threat and began pursuit of him no matter where he went. He ran to the only place that he could, the world of the spirits, the Ghost Zone. There he spent two months in a tribal village known simply as the Far Frozen. The Chieftain, Frostbite, offered him protection and helped him master his ice based powers. Frostbite became like a new father for the boy. But after those two months, the Observants, the beings that watch over and govern the Ghost Zone, decided that even though the dark future was in a way prevented that the boy was still a great threat to the Ghost Zone and that he had to be killed.
They wanted so badly to kill the boy that they release the first Pariah, Pariah Dark, to destroy the boy. But without his crown of fire and weakened from his slumber, the once great Ghost King was no match for the power of the youthful Phantom. But after that battle the boy felt like he could no longer live in Far Frozen and put his new father and his people in danger. So with regretful goodbyes, the young boy moved off on his own.
And so the boy sits on his throne as the days went by. It had only been fourteen months, but it felt like an eternity to the boy. He lives off of the food provided to him from his former enemy 'the Lunch Lady's Ghost' and her husband 'the Box Ghost'. He had not tried to maintain his appearance in a long time. His messy raven black hair stretched down passed his solders in the back and over his eyes and down to his nose in the front. The clothes that he had were covered in holes and patches to the point where there was more of the latter than the original cloth. All except for a beautiful white fur jacket. He made sure to take good care of it and to remove it before every real battle. It had been a gift given to him by Frostbite right before he left for his self enforced exile and was his prized possession.
In truth, he did leave the safety of the castle from time to time. To either stop humans from killing innocent spirits, or spirits from attacking the humans. In the beginning he always just destroyed the weapons and dragged the guilty party away. But as time rolled on he began to kill the faulted parties. He couldn't remember why he had started doing it, but he couldn't stand the fact that the fighting was almost always the same four or five groups of people.
At first he had tried to keep the halls of his castle clean, and tried to always respect those who he had killed. But as tens turned to hundreds and hundreds turn to thousands and tens of thousands he just lost the heart to keep doing it. So he left all of the bodies at the front door and hall to ward off any new victims.
But the problem with being alone is that he had too much time to think. And the thing it always came back to was 'do I deserve to live?' 'Would both worlds be more peaceful and better off if I were to just disappear?' The thought of taking what was left of his life passed his mind more than once in the year he spent on that throne.
Then one day he heard a call. "My servant that exists somewhere in this vast universe, my divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call, I wish from very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear." The boy sat there blinking as a portal opened up in front of him. He knew his portals, and this one was neither nature, nor a gate made by technology. In fact, it was not a portal between the human world and ghost zone as far as he could tell.
"A portal to another world." He said with a smile. He didn't really understand what the voice said. But anything would be better than his current situation. "I suppose that I have nothing to lose." He said looking at the blood stained walls. "The only thing that there is for me here is death and violence with two whole worlds seeking to destroy me. I might as well take my chances with this new one." He said thoughtfully to himself and walked forward into the portal.
No one had expected anything when Louise the Zero went up to cast her Summons Familiar spell. They all knew there would be an explosion like always, but no one thought that she would be able to summon anything.
She stood in front of them and rest of them and raised her wand and began to chant. "My servant that existed somewhere in this vast universe, my divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call, I wish from very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear." They had even less expectations since it was nothing like the other summoning spells.
Sure enough, there was a large explosion that pushed most of the audience back. "Just as you would expect from Louise the Zero." Said Guiche de Gramont in frustration of having to be in front of yet another explosion. Guiche is a blond haired noble who tried to stretch the limits of the dress code at the magical institute in order to make himself more appealing to the ladies. He looked down at another blond haired noble, only this one was a girl with cruelly hair, she was staring wide eyed into the dust that was kicked up by the explosion. "What is it my Montmorency?" Guiche asked.
The girl only lifted one finger and pointed into the smoke. The Familiars that had already been summoned were starting to jump around out of their masters' control. A small dragon that had been summoned pushed several people out of the way in order to be closer to the dust cloud.
The dust began to settle and even one was shocked when they were met by the sight of a young man no more than sixteen. He stood there looking around and dusting himself off. "A human?" someone in the crowd said. It was followed by comments about the man's appearance, with his hair grown out and unkempt and his clothes being like no nobles they had ever seen before. Everyone was in agreement on one thing, this boy was a commoner.
"What part of this is supposed to be divine, beautiful, wise and powerful?" Louise said trying to suppress her growing horror at the fact that she was stuck with this boy as her partner for the rest of their natural lives.
The boy looked around and then back at Louise raising an eyebrow. "I don't see any enemies for me to fight. Why did you call on me, Summoner?" He asked, though the words were wasted since the girl could not understand him.
"Great, he doesn't even speak our language. Who are you peasant and where did you come from?" Louise demanded. But the boy also didn't understand.
He sat there scratching his head for a second but then smiled. He pointed towards himself and said a single clear word. "Danny!"
"Exactly what you would expect from someone who boasted like you did, to think you actually summoned up a peasant." Kirche Augusta Frederica Von Anhalt Zerbst, a bronze skinned red haired woman mocked Louise and caused her fellow class mates to laugh. The boy frowned and bent over picking up a small pebble.
"Louise the Zero, she always seems to live up to expectations." Said Malicorne de Grandpré, a rather chubby blond noble brat. Before he could laugh though the boy through the pebble hitting him square between the eyes, catching him of guard and knocking him to the ground. They all stared at the boy stuck out his tong in the universally understood gesture.
Everyone was staring at the disrespectful boy who had began to scratch his butt looked around as if bored. Several of the other familiars were moving closer to him with wide eyes. The young dragon that was summoned by Tabitha had moved straight up behind him and pressed it head into the boy's back. The boy turned around a little startled but then just smiled and began to pet the dragon as it started to purr like a cat.
'Why do all the familiars group around him like that?' The mages were asking themselves. But any that were paying attention would notice that only the air and water attributed familiars were attracted to the boy. The earth and fire ones didn't seem to care about his existence.
"Stop that!" Louise shouted at the boy and turned towards her teacher. "Mr. Colbert can I try that summoning spell again?" She asked desperately.
The request was shot down hard and Louise was left with no choice but to continue the ceremony with the boy. Louise sighed and approached the boy who looked at her expectantly. "My name is Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière. Pentagon of the five elemental powers; bless this humble being, and make him my familiar." She only paused momentarily as she got a look at the boy's pale blue eyes underneath his bangs. They held an intensity like nothing she had seen before.
He said one word in response as Louise pulled him in for the kiss that would seal the contract. "Muffins." It made no sense but it wasn't like anyone could understand him anyways. Perhaps if they had heard his words, then maybe they would have been more prepared for the trials to come. Louise lips meet the boys who merely raised one of his eyebrows at the gesture. "So… what was that about?" The boy asked though he knew that he would not get a response.
Pain shot all up and down the boy's body. But he was used to pain. Mr. Colbert was surprised how well he was taking it. He merely looked down at his hand with a look of curiosity rather than the usual agony. The boy was fascinated as a feeling he could hardly remember flooded his body, the feeling of warm. Not just warm, true heat. He had forgotten how good it felt to be warm, since his ice core finished developing, he had never once felt warmth. Steam began to rise up off of his body and his right hand began to glow. The runes of the familiar were burned onto his skin.
"That pattern, it can't be." Mr. Colbert mumbled to himself. He was sure he had seen those runes before in some book. He would have to look into it later. "Well, if that is everyone then class is done for today. I would suggest you spend this time to get to know your newly summoned familiars better." Colbert said before practically running to the library.
The boy didn't seem to understand. After the warm feeling disappeared he simply turned back to the dragon and began to give it a belly rub. "Come with me, familiar." Louise growled at the boy. But the boy didn't even turn his head. And just kept petting the dragon. Some other familiars tried to get closer but were all batted away by the dragon's tail. "Jeez, he can't even understand his master's orders." Louise complained as she reached out and made to drag the boy away, but the familiar just ignored her. At this point people were starting to laugh at Louise's misfortune. She got angry and pulled out her wand. "Fireball!" she called out.
The familiar boy saw the action out of the corner of his eye and sensed the coming blast. He pulled off his jacket and threw it into the air away from the coming attack and braced himself. The explosion happened and the dragon dashed madly away towards her master. As the dust settled everyone could see the boy standing there as if nothing had happened. He reached out and caught the jacket before it could reach the ground.
Everyone was shocked by the boy's quick reflexes and by the multitude of scars that could be seen all up and down his arm since he was now only in a short sleeved shirt that looked like a patch work quilt. The boy looked to be around their age and was the same size as the little Louise, what could have caused him to be so injured? "Please don't do that again." The boy said. Only this time, everyone could understand him.
"Wait, you can talk properly now?" Louise said in surprise.
The boy blinked as he stared at the girl. "So you used some kind of translation spell." He said rather impressed.
"No, Louise the Zero was trying to use a fireball spell but just messed up." Someone laughed.
The boy began to stare the laughing man down until he stopped. "In any case you need to come with me." Louise said moving towards her dormitory.
"Okey doky." The boy said in a goofy tone and followed after her. He turned back and waved goodbye to the dragon as everyone just stared at the unusual peasant boy.
"Tell me peasant, who are you and where do you come from." Louise asked her new familiar once they had gotten to her room.
"Let's see here. My name is Danny and I come from a small town called Amity Park which is located in another world." Danny said with a shrug noticing that the girl didn't seem to believe him. "Now it's your turn. Tell me Summoner, who are you, and why did you summon me?" Danny asked with a playful grin that seemed creepy with his lengthened hair.
"Don't take on such an attitude with me. You are just a lowly familiar. I am Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière and I summoned you to be my familiar." Louise said angrily.
"Sorry, you lost me. What is a familiar?" Danny asked.
This started a long conversation about the difference between peasants and nobles, and the bonds between mages and familiars. Danny chuckled a little at the till death do you part logic. "So I'm a slave then. You cast a spell that dragged me away from my family and loved ones and forced me into slavery all against my will. How does that make you feel?" Danny asked looked at Louise curiously as she struggled with her thoughts and tried to deal with what he had just said. Then Danny broke out laughing. "Don't worry, I don't really have any family or loved ones, and I knew that it was a gate to another world. You don't have to feel guilty."
Louise glared at him for the trick he had just pulled on her. "You're worse than a dog. Why did I have to summon a peasant? I wanted something cool like a dragon or a griffon…" Louise started ranting but then stopped when she noticed that her familiar was gone and the door to her room was open. "What? The familiar ran away? You got to be kidding me?" She panicked.
Danny had gotten bored and happened to look out the window and see the night sky. It had been so long since he had stare up at the night sky in a living world. So he decided that he was going to go outside then and there. Louise was still ranting so he got up and simply walked out the door.
He went down a couple flights of steps and saw one of the nobles from that after noon, the blond one that dress a little flamboyantly, talking with a girl in a brown cloak with brown hair. "Oh, my lord Guiche, I have been told that I am very good at making sulfas."
"Then I would love to have the honor of trying one of them Katie." Guiche replayed looking straight into the girls eyes. Danny simply walked straight passed them. "Wait, isn't he the familiar that Louise summoned?" Guiche said watching Danny pass.
Danny paused and turned to the man and smiled. "My name's Danny, nice to meet you, Lord Guiche." He said offering a hand. The hand wasn't taken.
"You should remember your place when dealing with nobility, peasant." Guiche said glaring at Danny.
"Sorry, I thought I was just being polite. I don't understand the customs here. I would ask for your forgiveness in any future mistakes as well." Danny said trying to stop his eyes from rolling. But he knew the value of none burned bridges.
He gave a little bow and continued down the stairs. He noticed the front door and wake out past another couple that was sitting in front of a fountain. Danny did find the girl to be pretty, but it wasn't his main objective at the time. He walked out the door and looked up into the night sky.
He was in awe of the two moon that seemed to fill the night sky a lot more than the one moon that he had back in his home world. The larger of the two moons was a brilliant blue coloration well the smaller was a bright pink. Each was far larger than the one moon that was visible back on his earth.
"I'm free, I really am free." He said to himself with a smile. 'Well, I guess I am now a slave to the whims of a little girl, but it is still more freedom then I had before. At least I don't have to fight for my life anymore.' Was barely an afterthought as he laid down and looked up at the new starry sky.
"There he is!" Danny turned his head to see Louise alone with Guiche and Katie, and the two people from in front of the fountain. Guiche pointed his rose wand as Danny, who was entertained as he was lifted up off the ground. "What do you think you're doing, running away from your master!?" She shouted. The other seemed to be laughing at her.
"What are you talking about? I was just going to look at the night sky." Danny said defensively from his position in the sky above them. "It has been so long since I have gotten the chance to see one." He said looking up at the night sky again. "It makes me feel truly free. After all the time I spent locked away in that castle. I am now free."
"Free?" Guiche said mockingly. "Just as we would expect from Louise the Zero's familiar, common sense does not apply to it. A familiar is bound to its master, it will never be free."
Danny laughed. "And what of you? Is there not someone in this world that out ranks you and can force you to do anything they want against your will? Freedom is a state of mind because no one is truly independent. So in my mind, I am free." Danny gave a smile that confused all who saw it.
The big busted woman from in front of the fountain started to laugh. "Louise's familiar now thinks itself a philosopher. What a boozer creature."
After laughing some more and swinging Danny around like a rag doll in the air they finally let him down and Louise dragged him up to her room and chained him to the wall. "That should stop you from running away again."
"Not really." Danny said look at the chain. "It wouldn't be very hard to get out of this. But I already told you that I won't run away." He sat down on the bed of hay that was provided for him. "I get food, shelter and to learn about magic. And all I have to do in exchange is some small chores and helping you out. Sound like a good deal to me."
"But you were just talking about how I forced you into a contract against your will?" She said looking confused at her familiar.
"No, I said that if I had been someone else that it would have probably been against their will. I came willingly and even though I didn't know that you would make me your slave it's still a better outcome then I was expecting." Danny said lying down on his back.
"You're so weird." Louise said looking at her familiar.
"That maybe, but I like the way I am." Danny said with a shrug. "But now it is my turn to ask a question. Why do they bully you like they do? It isn't my fault is it?"
Louise paused looking angrily at her familiar but she seemed to decide that it would be best for him to hear it from her. "It isn't just because of you. I do not have an element and I can't do any magic without messing up like with that fireball earlier today." She said bitterly. "Because of that, they call me Zero. And now I summoned a useless familiar. I will never be a strong mage like my sisters."
Danny looked at her with understanding. "Louise, I will prove to them that you summoned the strongest familiar, just wait. I will make them stop laughing." Louise looked over at him in surprise. "Now go to sleep my master, and dream of laughing in the faces of all those bullies." Danny said with a smile. Louise chuckle a little but didn't take Danny seriously. He was just a commoner and a clown at that, how could he be more powerful than a dragon or a salamander.
Louise stripped down and got into her night attire and Danny shielded his eyes. Danny couldn't help but wonder if he had been sent to a world were woman had no modesty. The idea was only interesting to him. After gaining his powers he quickly realized that he didn't have any wish to go and sneak into the girls' bathroom. The girls he had like were always the ones that showed unusual pride in themselves. He was never all that interested in things like skin color or size of their chest.
He personally thought it was cute the way his new master insisted that she was a noble and demanded his respect. Of course, he knew better than to say something like that. 'So this is going to be my new life. I will live with this strange girl and gain some new friends that could help me make a life for myself. When the time comes when I am ready, I will see whether or not I want to leave.' Danny thought and drifted off to sleep.
I want to make one small thing clear to all of you who want to make a Danny Phantom fanfic. Go ahead. But there is one thing that you absolutely can not do that I see in almost ever single one. You can't have Danny's family killed by Dan, or reject him because of Dan, and then have him be friends with Clockwork. That is like taking a **** in someone's birthday cake and then eating it too. You shouldn't do both, I mean... you can but... just don't.