This is a major divergence from the Danny Phantom cannon not just because of itself being a fanfiction but part of the this chapter
Thoughts and or Phantom and Fenton speaking
"Neil Speaking in present"
Speech nod narration
Setting Cave, Perspective Phantom
The trip back to the cave was fairly somber. We had to set their mothers head to rest. Jak found a large willow beside the river. Setting aside the head gently, I dug a roughly four foot deep hole at he base of the willow. Jak gingerly stepped forward with the head he picked up and placed it down in the hole. We both filled and patted the hole firmly. I scarred the willow with my claws in a flower shape. "Why did you mark the tree?" Asked Jak. "So we know that she has been laid to rest" I reply. We continued in silence towards the cave.
When we got back to the cave and grabbed the buckets from my duplicates, we quickly ran (but slow enough to avoid spilling) to the little sister Grimm with Jak in tow.
When we got to the a small room in the side of the cave where I will be designating the operating room for now. We were surprised to see Little brother howling a small little song, like a mother singing a lulleby to a child, and Little sister was sound asleep. Once he saw us he stopped his song and motioned us to come over to him but also brought a claw to his maw telling us to whisper as well.
"She just fell asleep, it will take about an hour to wake her up now." Said Little Brother. I told him "I can operate on her while she sleeps however she will possibly wake up from the pain. If that happens I need you and Jak to keep her calm, can you do that Lute."
"Who's Lute?" Asked Lute, "Phantom decided to give us both names mine is Jak and yours is Lute possibly from your song." answered Jak. "But I am not worthy for this, why I mean if her Cruelness learns of this, she will be furious." Complained Lute about his new name.
"I will worry about this queen when it comes to it but it would mean a lot to me if you kept the name like your brother." I said while thinking Why would this Queen be mad about me naming her subjects?, not only they are just kids so they deserve name. Maybe I will ask Jak later tonight about this queen.
I then walked over with the berries and then started to mash them down using my tail and stir them until they turned into a mush like substance. While I got the berries into the goop I also remembered that we forgot to grab a leaf or something to act as a bandage then I got a good look at Jak, and saw that he had a piece of shredded cloth stuck to his claw.
I made a duplicate which went over and pulled off the cloth without him noticing as he was currently speaking to Lute, I could make out words like 'Hero' and 'Help' as well as the phrase "Better than the queen" however I didn pay it that much mind. I then got another look of the little ones wound again.
The bleeding had stopped but looked infected (even more so than before) so then I asked Jak for the water and after I got it I started to pour the water over the wound causing it to agitate and Little Sister to whimper in pain, after that I ripped a strip of the cloth off and slathered it with the purple gunk before tiring it to her leg (Which was difficult with no hands and just claws). After it was nice and tight around her leg and was finished with cleaning up everything I looked for Lute and Jak but couldn't see them. I then assumed that they went outside, which might be bad actually now that I thought about it. I was then about to leave a duplicate and go out to look for them when they came back with what looks like a 400 pound...elk between both their Jaws big enough to feed us all with no leftovers.
The then put it down in the room and proudly exclaimed, "We caught Dinner, and it is fresh." This promptly woke up little sister with the smell of blood and meat. She quickly jolted up, mouth watering and took in her surroundings. Then she was confused and then quickly scared.
Probably didn't know that basically a half of a day went by without notice. We better calm her down before things get out of hand. I looked over at Lute and Jak and they were probably thinking the same thing.
We then walked towards her and when she saw Jak she immediately lunged at his chest and nuzzling into him however the sudden movement caused her a bit of pain but not as much as before.
Wow, how fast do those barries work?, I barely put them on about 10 minuets ago and she is just about walking correctly. I then saw that they were helping her onto her front two legs while useing their tails to keep her leg from hitting the floor and walking towards the elk which actually looked pretty tasty now. Maybe it was the animal instincts or that I had not eaten anything today, espessially after that huge battle. (Even though my armor was back to normal color, it was still a few shads darker than it seemed it should be.)
Once they sat down around the Elk, Jak motioned with his Talon for me to come and sit down and eat. Then afterwards everybody threw their maws forward and started to tear the elk to prices, I let the primal hunger from the back of my mind consume my thoughts and started chowing down on the carcass. It actually tasted really good almost like and I know that it kind of could be, like Raw Venison. Fentons Parents were mediocre cooks and ghost hunters (Sorry Fenton but just stating the facts) so the fact that Fenton has to eat raw foods sometimes to survive was sickening, so while he was asleep I seceretly went to the local library and learned how to cook practically everything casual and gourmet in the cook books so my other half would never have to worry about staving to death, (and also his sister) in the morning I would get up before Danny awoke from his comatose like state in his mind, and made breakfast for everybody in the house and when Danny wake up along with everyone else he would get some of the only praise I would ever hear his parents say, 'Good job son' or even just 'thanks'. I swear that the only ones with proper manners in that household were Jazz and Fenton himself.
I then snapped out of my daydream to the sound of grinding bone and I saw that we were all grinding our teeth on the bones, as well as sharpening our claws. I then saw that the huge Elk (most likely Bull elk) was now just a bunch of discarded bones on the floor. I then heard the loudest burp of my life afterwords. "BEUUUUUUUURRRRRAKK...um excuse me" said Little sister. I then started the hardest I had ever laughed in my life.
I then settled down after 5 minuets.
"That was a good one Mira." I said. "Mira, I like it thank you for the name Phantom." She said.
I was genuinely surprised that she accepted the name so quickly, maybe she does not know about this law or whatever.
Jak took a small amount of the berry goop with his tail and with his unique skill, he flings it where it lands right in the middle of my face. All falls quiet. Till I break into even more laughter while taking some of the leftover spilled goop and flung it at Lute, which flung at Mira (with careful aim). We proceeded flinging laughing and being covered in the berry goop.
We settled down after a good while, cleaning ourselves of the sweet goop.
"Phantom, I don't think that we can stay here." Said Jak with a concerned whine. Now that I thought about it he was right, possibly more humans will come looking for us after I had killed the two monsters. And I let the other two go. Crap I should of at least made sure they wouldn't talk. Oh well no regrets means no tomorrow after all. "You are right Jak, we can't stay, two of the monsters escaped and are possibly are going to bring more after us. We will leave for a new home in the morning."
After I said that they all agreed and I lowered my awareness and powers causing my armor to become dimmer but only by a little. Even so everybody tried to get to sleep. Restless, I walked to the cave entrance and sat down in the corner in which I let my power return.
It was truly hard to fall asleep so I decided to reflected on my and Fentons life from before this.
Flashback to 2 weeks memory time. Phantoms perspective
Fenton come on you need rest. Let me take over. I told him. We were currently coming home from school after another fifteen ghost fights, a math test, and a complete beating from Dash.
No Phantom, you have been fighting more of the ghosts today, as well as the strain of trying to do the math test that. The beatings from dash are normal now, so you are the one that needs rest. Fenton argued back.
We were currently coming back from school, sadly Sam and Tucker had to stay behind because of detention and makeup work, they told us (Him)(referring to Fenton) that they would see us (Him) later. While they know about our (His) secret they don't know that we switch who controls the body at times throughout the day. Then life decided to throw more problems our way. "Hey Fenturd"
Why reality, we are both tired and sore. WaitI have an idea. Fenton follow my lead. I told him the plan and then I made a duplicate which transformed into me (Phantom) and put a little more conscience into the duplicate to give it my personality.
Then Dash tried to punch Fenton when my duplicate stopped the punch. He looked confused before my duplicate reveled himself and then started stuttering. "What are you doing Dash?" My duplicate asked. Dash then tried to form sentences before submitting to a simple nothing. I then told my duplicate to turn around and tell me, "Good job helping me today Fenton, sorry that you had to skip class again in order to do it. But still things would have been worse without you and the ghost trapping Fenton Thermos.
The look on the A-Listers faces when my duplicate said that was hilarious and made Fenton giggle. Hopefully they will leave Fenton alone and stop degrading him. Fenton the replied "It was nothing however with the increasing ghost attacks, I have not been able to study and as such my grades are plummeting and I can't really do anything about it." While forcing himself to blush. "You look tired, do yo need me to fly you home, or at least to the front door, you know ghost proof walls." I had my duplicate say. Then Fenton replied "Thank you but no thank you. I will walk the rest of the way. You should go rest as well. I then had my duplicate turn invisible after he nodded and be reabsorbed into me (Us) then Fenton started to run down the street while the A-Listers were still slack jawed. Once we were back at the house with the giant neon sign (Said Fenton Works) we walked down to the lab and flushed the ghosts back into the ghost zone.
Phantom you already know that those idiots will forget this happened tomorrow. Besides let's sleep this off we both are tired. I then gave a fake smile to him in our mental landscape. (Or our mindscape) Alright you go to sleep first I will follow in an hour. I need to make dinner for everybody else so they won't starve.
He then nodded in our mental landscape and fell asleep turning into a comatose like state with only my mind running the body. It was weird for us at first but we got used to it.
I walked into the kitchen and got the ingredients for a hot but mild chili it took 30 minuets to make and after I was done Jazz got home. "Mmmmmm what smells so good, oh hi Danny what's cooking." She asked as she got home from an extra credit session with Mr. Lancer who was both the sophomore and Senior literature teacher."
"Just some of my special mystery flavor Chili." I said happy that Jazz was home, she was the only other one to actually try to support Fenton, other than Sam, Tucker, and the teachers at the school (Espessially Mr. Lancer), and maybe Vlad (when he was not an evil fruit loop, which was rare). I also made the chili because it was Jazz's favorite as she always tries to guess the extra ingredient that I put in from the flavor and she most of the time gets it right however there are the other occasions where she gets it wrong and that is what she loves. When she's WRONG.
"Oh man how much longer until it is ready, I can't wait hold up I can set the table." She then rushes off to get the bowls and silverware. It litterally takes her 1 minuet and 57 seconds to set the entire thing up and get seated at the table. "It just got done Jazz, so would you do the honors of doing the first taste. I pour the chili from the pot into the bowl as she grabs a spoon and takes one taste, as that is our rule when guessing the ingredient. She then grabs a spoonful and puts it into her mouth, taking in the flavor and swishing it around before swallowing and then speaking "Mmmmm, it is always so flavorful Danny. I am not sure about this, but I am going for coconut."
"Sorry Jazz but you are wrong this time, it is actually banana, however like I always say if you concentrate on the second sip you will taste it." I said and she was smiling that this was the one of the many things that I am better at than her.
"Your right Danny, please tell me the recipe, I need to know." Jazz says desperately. Don't tell her please! Apparently Fenton woke up again. "Sorry Jazz, but something is telling me that telling you is a bad idea. Not sure what though." I replied while snickering at both her plight and Fentons Joy of not being betrayed.
The door opened and showed Jack and Maddie Fenton, Fentons Parents and my 'Parents' the fact I had to keep calling them that even though it s clear they don't care about me (us) irritates me. Too wrapped up in their work to acknowledge him (Us) and they only do so if he is in trouble at school. All they say is that they care but I can see through their facade but Fenton can't so I won't tell him.
"Oh look Jazz cooked us chili tonight. Good job Jazzy pants." They chorused. "I didn't make it, Danny is the one who made it." Jazz defended. "Don't act like that Jazz, it doesn't suit you, after all, all three of us know that Danny can't cook." Jack said back to his daughter.
They didn't even notice I was in the same room as them wearing an APRON. "Wow this is good, Jazz how did you make it." Maddie said. Jazz continued by saying "I did not make it, Danny did but he appreciated the compliment." The Fenton parents looked at each other then said "Then we take that back it was good but was not great."
Jazz (Shocked her parents would take back the compliment.) asked "Why did you take back the compliment?" They then replied and said the most horrible thing to both (all three) of our ears. "Because there is nothing about him that deserves a compliment, nothing at all. He skips class, has bad grades, cooks horribly, contributes little to our family,and is a parasite to our short little cash. Not to mention he was not even supposed to come into our lives in the first place."
The plate that I was holding dropped from my hands as Fenton took back control rather forcibly and all of their eyes went towards the sound, Maddie and Jack finally realized that there son was standing in the same room as them and had an apron on proving that he had in fact, HAD cooked the best chili they had ever eaten.
Fenton had tears streaming down his cheeks trying to contain his sobs. All three of them were shocked, (Jazz from what their parents said, and The Fentons from knowing that their son had heard them nonchalantly say he shouldn't have been born.) however I was furious, HOW COULD THEY DARE SAY THAT!
Fenton follow me I sent a duplicate to collect our stuff and necessitys while another opened the ghost portal. Leaving seems to be a very befitting decision at this point. Also I had the same duplicate write a note to Sam and Tucker stating that they will never find him (us), so don't even try searching. We are turning our back on this cruel town that never liked us and the home with parents that didn't love us. ITold him in such a stern and enraged voice that you would think I was yelling at him. (Even though voice in thought form always sounds the same)
But Phantom what about Jazz, she still cares right? He asked hesitantly,
We will worry about that later but now it is time to go. I reply.Fenton then (still crying) ran up the stairs and grabbed the suitcase and then barelled back down. His parents finally snapping to their senses yelled after him. "Son we are sorry / Honey we didn't mean it." Fenton started slowing down until I told him back. Don't fall for it they have done this before, just trust your other half, ONLY TRUST ME. He nodded to me (metaphorically) and ran down past Jazz who wanted him to stop. She ran after him into the lab and saw him finish the code to unlock the Ghost Portal, she only ran over and hugged him, nodding to what he was doing. He hugged back and when his parents saw him near the portal they screamed in fear, but most likely it was not actually about him but about the portal itself. He jumped into the portal, turning to watch the doors shut. His duplicate squeezed through the, but when his parents saw it, instead of seeing their son, the last words Danny would ever hear from them was "Come back here, you Freak!"
Flashback End
Setting Change Cave entrance Grimm Danny.
I woke up from my Memory/Dream by Mira and Lute who were pulling on my fur and Jak who was shaking me awake.
"Come on Phantom you said we would leave by morning, so wake up." Said Jak as he was rocking me back and forth "Ok sorry, I was reliving a bad memory so I am actually relived that you woke me up." I hope Fenton is happy where ever he is.
After I had stretched and cracked my bones I got ready for the upcoming journey to a new home.
Then with Me in the lead, Mira and Lute in the middle and Jak bringing up the rear, we set off, towards a hopefully better and safer home.
Perspective change, Neil Steel, in Atlas Hospital.
I was sitting in the hospital bed after Xera drove my bike to the nearest airship station. As soon as the officers saw us bloodied, bruised and (For me) disabled. I was put into a hospital jet and sent to the atlas hospital closest to the academy.
Xera was outside getting General Ironwood. Although now she could not speak and had to use some sloppy sign language, she was able to convince him to come to the hospital for the report and to bring cadet Winter Schnee. That was an hour ago.
Suddenly Xera and the doctor entered and behind them was the General and Schnee looking forward to the news. However it will be grave.
The doctor finally said "I am sorry Mr. Steel but from the X-rays and Nerve testing you are now permanently Paralyzed from the waist down. And Miss. Ling will never be able to speak again sadly." Ironwood now looked sad that his strongest team's support member will no longer be able to protect humanity.
Then Winter decided to break the ice and asked "Where are Yurin and Otis, I mean, they did go with you for the mission? You have never lost a mission before. So where are they?" Xera looked at me right before she burst into tears, Ironwood then realized what had happened to his best and most favored team. Winter still looked confused but as she slowly realized, she started to shout in denial, saying "NO! This can't be, Please tell me it isn't true!" She then gripped my hospital gown and pulled me close to her tear smeared face with eyes that almost begged for another answer, until Xera was able to separate the two of us.
Winter then looked towards Xera and she slowly shook their head in attempt to stay her tears. Only then did Ironwood ask the important question that needed to be asked, "How did this happen? Tell me everything please, Neil, for your team has never lost a fight against a team or Grimm. So how did this happen? Spare. No. Details."
I was waiting for this and I started from the beginning of the mission.
Flashback/Report, Perspective Neil, Leaving the Airship
"It all started after we left the airship into the uncharted East Dragon Continent intending to eliminate as much Grimm as we could as was our assignment from you; 5,000,000 Lein to clear out the south part of the continent in order to build an outpost there. That includes kill as many Grimm as it takes. How the greed of humanity casts its lure of demise for its citizens." I told them.
"That was the assignment we sent you on." Replied General Ironwood. "However we expected the Grimm to be more inland, were you ambushed?" he asked trying to get a grasp of the situation.
"No, it was not an ambush. It happened halfway through the mission, that I felt something was extremely wrong."
"Come on Neil, how much longer until your bike is fixed?" Asked Yurin as she was currently getting anxious about killing more than that den of 28 Beowulfs, despite the three that got away. "Hold your High horse, Princess Flare." I said in a mock tone as she hated being called that, "That alpha did quite a number on its morphing mechanism and the gear chain is jammed, if anything it was buying time for the three to escape and bring more backup. Which is why we need to stay on guard until I get this fixed." After the alpha was decapitated by Xera, Yurin decided to blow off the head of a straggler and kept the head of an adult Beowulf as a soccer ball. (Which was extremely gruesome.)
"Sounds like something that Psycho would do." Said Winter. "Let him continue Winter, I doubt that this is extra information." Analzed General Ironwood. "Correct Sir. In fact, maybe it was our downfall." I said
After about 10 minutes, I was able to fix my bike and rode it to where Otis and Xera were currently scouting ahead while Yurin was Rocket Jumping with her grenade launcher, as her Jetpack was almost out of fuel, and we were saving that fuel in case of an emergency situation.
As soon as Xera came into view, she jumped up and landed behind me on my bike while Otis was strolling along without a care in the world. Mainly because his semblance basically made him untouchable. He was currently twirling his spear around him and practicing while walking. We were currently following a trail left by the Grimm, (who I shot in the leg), its blood slowly evaporating, so the trail was currently going cold.
"Hey Neil, how you doing?" asked Xera while holding me from behind as I was currently slowing down to keep pace with Otis, also Yurin was going closer. "Oh nothing, just need to start following the trail, so you better keep up." I said smugly, when there was a loud crash that sounded behind us. When we turned around it was Yurin face first into the dirt. "Yurin, what happened?" I asked in case she got attacked by a Grimm.
"Its nothing, I Just forgot to reload my gun before I landed to slow my decent. However, I am fine so you don't need to worry." She said, when I suddenly smelled smoke. I looked back the way she came and saw that half the forest was on fire from her rocket jumps.
"Yurin may have been an idiot but she helped clear out the trees for the outpost, unintentionally that is." I told them
"She does cause destruction where ever she goes." Admitted General Ironwood. "She just enjoys destruction as is." Winter decided to add in.
I then started to ride my bike ahead and saw the trail that was mostly fresh, so they decided to double back and go multiple directions. However, I was able to find out that they were heading to a nearby cave that was on the few charted maps we had. As soon as I did that, I went back to the rest of Team ONYX, who were currently fighting, but I was able to calm them down. We went further into a clearing but stayed within the bushes.
I then saw the most confusing thing I had ever seen. There were two Grimm each carrying stone buckets and what I could see had Phenix Berries in one and Water in the other.
"Wait, did you say Grimm carrying stone buckets? And they were filled with Phenix Berries?" Asked Ironwood. Winter then asked "How old did you say the Grimm were?"
"One of the Grimm was just a juvenile Beowulf, the other was of nothing we had ever seen before, and seemed to be in command of the other Grimm." I replied.
"Xera in my bag, my scroll has a picture of the Grimm, please show Ironwood." I told her. She then took out my scroll and showed it to the General and Winter.
The Grimm had a draconic like skull with parts of wolf skull, it's eyes were Bright Green instead of the deadly red. It had an extremely flexible and sharp tail, along with an upright posture showing its authority.
"How many of these Grimm did it take to destroy your team?" Ironwood asked with the hope of finding out how many there are in a general area, with the next word I said, however, made them widen their eyes in horror. "Just ONE." I whispered, just loud enough for them to hear.
"When we first saw it by the nearby rock formations, Otis didn't want to study its movements and just shouted charge and I went with it, I had Xera jump on the back of my cycle and Drive towards it, while Otis threw its spear. When suddenly, it disappeared along with the Beowulf, I then realized that this thing will be very dangerous.
"Hey Yurin, bring out your ball maybe it will rile them up." Otis said and then she started to play a morbid game of hacki sack, suddenly, She was hit by a flying green object and it turns out, it was the Grimm, who went over and grabbed the head and set it over on the sidelines of the area.
"Wait, the Grimm set the bounderys of the area you would fight?" Asked Winter, as she was in disbelief. "I was surprised as well, this Grimm, it was the most intelligent we had ever seen. It's eyes were glowing with hate at us. Ironwood, the way it looked at us, it was as if we were the monsters instead, as if it was fully aware of what had happened to one of its own. I think, that in it's eyes, we had desecrated the body of one of its fallen comrades, and we took its discarded head as a trophy."
Ironwood then looked down and pondered this. He perked his head up when I said my next sentence. "Ironwood, it had a soul, it had an aura."
"Impossible, that can't be right at all. Grimm don't have an aura, they can't, they are made of pure darkness." Ironwood denied. I then continued with a couple minutes later.
The Grimm was glowing with power, it suddenly fired a beam of AURA at Otis tearing out a chunk of his flesh from his leg, Suddenly, Xera was firing her bolts at the Grimm which looked like they were doing some damage, until it turned into a pale blue outline of itself making all the bolts fall out, then it slowly walked towards the rest of my team. I then revved my Gun and yelled "Everybody Get Down!" As I fired, they all dropped but the Grimm made a green AURA shield and blocked the bullets. However, my gun was making cracks in the shield ,but then, my gun stopped firing. I saw that the bullet chain disconnected and I immediately started to fix it while I told Xera to distract it. But then I heard the clash of metal against metal, and I saw that the Grimm's tail was covered in Aura as it was dueling Xera. Then, I saw the head of a Beowulf behind The Grimm.
"I now realize that the Grimm was protecting the other Grimm from us, the Beowulf was one of the three that escaped and it was also blocking the way to the cave. It was protecting its kind from us. We are the monsters, to them." I told them in a sympathetic tone.
I then saw something fly out of the bushes from where the Beowulf was and stick into Xeras neck. I called out to her as I trasformed my Gun back into a bike. I was about to ride it to her when I felt something pierce my lower back, setting my nerves on fire. I turned to see a complete copy of Grimm behind me with its tail lodged in my back. Then it dissipated, making me realize that is was some sort of temporary copy. The Grimm then appeared in front of me with its tail about to stab me through the head, and then...
"I looked up to see Otis impaled on the tail instead of me. He told us to run and Xera grabbed me despite my protests to stay. She put me on my bike and then drove off with Yurin behind us, but then a Beowulf came out of nowhere and tackled Yurin to the ground. After that I heard the most fear inducing sound I've ever heard. From the Battle ground, I turned to look and that was when I heard and saw it." I explained. "What was it?" Asked Ironwood. "I saw Green waves of Aura radiating towards us, coming from the Grimm. They were directed at Otis, then I saw him Explode from the inside out, probably from the point blank range. I heard the Grimm's 'Voice', I heard MONSTER within the echo of destruction that we were fleeing from." Winter was currently crying. Ironwood looked on in distress at hearing a recording of the Grimm that Xera Recorded for some reason. We all were thinking the same thing, What have we just angered?
Report/Flashback end
"That is what happened no details spared." I explained with a tired mind from recounting those mental images. "Now I have to go back to sleep."
Perspective change Ironwood.
If what Neil has just told me is true, than this is as big as Salem, I need to inform Ozpin.
"General Ironwood." Winter Adressed me. "How soon until I can become a specialist?" she said with a disturbing glare in her eye. "You still need 2 years of training and need to beat me in a match. Why? If I may ask, hopefully you aren't going on a revenge quest for your fallen love. If what Neil said is true, this thing may be unbeatable." Concerned with the cadet and daughter of the biggest exporter of dust in Remnant. "Nothing of the sort, I just want to be ready and waiting for it to attack." Winter Schnee gave him a glare that made him think he was staring down a demon instead of his student.
Someone save us all.