Here is chapter 3! It was inspired by prplzorua's fics
In Athens that Tuesday morning started as usual, the ghosts who decided to sleep started to wake up and began their routines. Pandora decided to no sleep last night, instead she stayed up in her study to prepare Danny's lessons for the day. It's been a week and some days since they agreed the dates of their classes and she had enjoyed teaching to her son.
Pandora remembers when Danny came to have his first Greek lessons, he was nervous at the beginning, but as the time passed he became more comfortable. She was amazed at how smart he was, in just two classes he knew and could pronounce all the Greek alphabet and the numbers. She also recalls when Danny had his first sword lesson, she noticed he was a fast learner in combat techniques and assumed that in a few more lessons he should master sword fighting. There was a knock in the door that snap her out of her thoughts.
"Come in" Pandora said, seeing as Galenos, one of her most trusted helpers, opened the door.
"Good morning Queen Pandora, I have brought the books you requested" Galenos said smiling.
Galenos was a ghost that had a calming aura and a happy attitude, he has green skin with light blue hair and red eyes, and was wearing a white toga that had golden accents and reached to his permanent ghostly tail. He was one of the first ghosts that decided to spend their afterlives in Athens.
"Oh, thank you Galenos" Pandora said, taking the books from him and placing them in the table.
"You are welcome Queen Pandora" Galenos said bowing and exited the room.
Meanwhile in Amity Park, Danny woke up suddenly with the sounds of explosions that came from the lab, making him jump out of the bed. After a moment of indecision he went down the stairs and into the kitchen, he found his parents working in their last experiment that consisted in some kind of weapon; he could see a lot of parts were distributed in the table, leaving a little space for his Dad's fudge.
"Mom, Dad are you okay? I heard some explosions" Danny asked watching wearily the weird looking gun, he didn't want it to go off and shot him, even if it was partially disabled.
"Yes honey, we were just making some adjustments and... well you know how unstable ectoplasm is" Maddie said.
"I thought you were in the lab?" Danny asked, curious as to why they put the weapon in the kitchen table and hoping that the fudge wouldn't came to life.
"Yes we were Danny-boy, but now the lab is full with smoke so we activated the Fenton-cleaner to get rid of it and now we are working in the kitchen until it's safe to go back" Jack said with his usual booming voice.
"Ah ok, I'm going to get ready to school now" Danny said while going upstairs, he didn't want to stay there if his father decided to start a long explanation about how the new invention worked and all the details of how it will hurt ghosts.
"Ok sweetie, breakfast will be ready when you come back" Maddie said cheerfully, leaving the experiment and starting to cook.
In his room Danny grabbed some clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower, after changing he came back to his bedroom, grabbed what he needed for school and went back to the kitchen to have some breakfast. When he finished eating his ectoplasm free meal, he went out of his house and started walking to school, he didn't need to go flying because he had woken up early thanks to his parents.
Coming to the school he found his friends in the entrance stairs waiting for him, Tucker was sitting in the stairs playing some game in his PDA and Sam was leaning in the railing with a frown in her face. After greeting them, Danny asked Sam why was she angry and she told him that her mother tried to put her in a pink dress that morning, making Danny and Tucker reassure her that they have black painting in their lockers for emergencies.
They entered the building before the bell could ring, they went to their lockers and grabbed the books they needed for the day. In their way to their first class they got halted in the hallway by Dash and his jocks friends.
"Hey Fen-tina, it's time for your daily beating" Dash said grinning while his jock friends laugh.
"Hi Dash, can we do this another time..." Danny said not wanting to be late to class.
"Nope" Dash said while grabbing Danny from the front of his shirt and putting him inside of a locker.
Danny was small enough to enter easily there and after Dash closed the locker door, he could hear Dash and his friends walking away and laughing, and how Sam yelled at them for what they did. When the jocks were far enough, Tucker opened the locker door, making Danny fell down to the floor. After making sure his friend was alright the final bell rang, announcing that they were late.
Once they arrived to class Mr. Lancer give them a detention for being late, then they took their usual seats. The class continued and the students took notes, Danny tried to not fell asleep but it was difficult as he was kept up awake almost all night by Skulker and Ember. At lunch, the three friends were seated outside under a shady tree.
"Hey dude, are you alright? You seem tired" Tucker said while eating his triple-meat sandwich.
"I'm fine, it just Skulker and Ember wanted to fight me last night. Apparently they have some couples problems, Skulker wanted to prove Ember that he's a good hunter by having my pelt in his lair, which is still gross, and Ember wanted to let out her frustrations on me, in a violent manner" Danny said finishing with a yawn.
"Hmm, it's like they use you as their punching bag" Sam said taking out her salad.
"Ughh... I'm already Dash's personal punching bag, I don't need more people beating me" Danny said with an exhausted and irritated face, making the dark bags under his eyes more pronounced.
"Well at least you can return the punches with the ghosts" Tucker said while patting Danny's back.
"Yea, you're right Tuck" Danny said with a smile and began to eat his lunch.
They talked until lunch finished and returned to their classes, in History Danny received the result of his last test in which he failed. In some other classes Danny had to go and stop some other ghosts that wanted to cause damage, and that earned him more detentions. With his mood down for the test and the detentions, Danny walked home besides his two best friends.
"Wow Danny, you look worse now than at lunch" Sam said concerned.
"Hmm..." Danny muttered without the energy to said something else.
"Cheer up man! Today wasn't that bad, besides you're going to see Pandora tonight" Tucker said, trying to make his friend happy.
"Yea you're right Tuck" Danny said with a little smile and his mood lifted a little.
"Why don't you take a nap before reading what we gave you?" Sam suggested.
"Good idea Sam, I definitely need a nap" Danny said suppressing a yawn.
Once in his home, Danny leaved his backpack in the floor and took his nap in the sofa while his parents worked in the lab and Jazz studied in her room. When he woke up, he took his things and went to his room to read the books his friends gave him. After Danny told them what Pandora was going to teach him, they were excited and told him they were going to help him. Sam gave him a book she found in the 'Skulk and Lurk' of techniques that were used with antiques weapons by ancient cultures; and Tucker gave him online sites, books and audios to help him learn Greek that he found.
It took little time for Danny to read a bit more of the books, giving him more time to do his homework and study for history. At dinner he could eat some of his food before his tongue started to feel tingly, after that he refused to eat more; apparently his parents putted some anti-ectoplasm agent in the food again, the last time it happened wasn't an experience he wanted to repeat.
At night Danny went to the Ghost Zone after telling his sister where he was going. In his way to Athens Danny became lost in his thoughts, wondering what he would learn and if there was going to be any food, after all he was a little tired and very hungry. Coming to Athens he went right to the palace, knowing that Pandora was waiting for him there.
"Hi Pandora" Danny said while entering the study room.
"Hello Danny, how was your day?" Pandora asked, while hugging him.
"It was fine, if you count bullies and failed tests... yep fine" Danny said with exhaustion in his voice, while hugging her back.
"You seem tired" Pandora said with worry, noticing the dark bags under his eyes.
"Well I was really tired this morning, some ghosts didn't let me sleep much, but I took a nap before coming so I'm good now" Danny said shrugging.
"Alright, I'm glad you are good" Pandora said, not really convinced but letting the subject drop.
"Hey do you have some food here? I couldn't eat dinner today" Danny asked looking around.
"Yes we have, come lets go to the kitchens" Pandora said leading Danny outside the room.
After Danny ate, they returned to the study room where Danny had his Greek classes. That day Pandora taught him some new words, they pronunciation and the most common uses. When the lesson was finished, they went to the gardens to talk and enjoy their company, like they did after the end of every lesson. Some time passed until they heard a kind of knock that appeared to echo in all over the place.
"What was that?" Danny asked looking around him.
"That sound is the one we heard when someone is knocking in the door of the entrance temple, Pandora explained to him.
"Oh, I didn't know it sounded like this" Danny said.
"Want to come and greet our guest?" Pandora asked getting up from where she was seated.
"Ok, let's go!" Danny exclaimed flying to the entrance, making Pandora giggle for his enthusiasm.
When they reached the entrance of the temple, Pandora opened the doors with Danny standing slightly behind her. After the doors opened Danny was surprised to find that the ghost knocking was Nocturne, he stood just as Danny remember him with his horned helmet and his body covered of stars that ended in tendrils of various sizes. What really surprised Danny was Pandora's greet to Nocturne.
"Hello brother, is good to see you again" Pandora greeted Nocturne hugging him with her four arms, lifting him a little from the floor.
"It's good to see you too sister" Nocturne said.
"Nocturne, I want to present you my new son, Danny Phantom" Pandora said smiling and stepping to the side so he could have a better view of Danny.
"Hi..." Danny said waving nervously.
"Hello Phantom" Nocturne said frowning, recognizing the name and the child.
"You two know each other?" Pandora asked surprised when she saw the expression in Nocturne's face and looking between them.
"Yea, he kind of attacked Amity Park a few weeks ago" Danny said not sure if attacking Nocturne would be a good idea, because he is Pandora's brother.
"You did?" Pandora asked Nocturne, lifting an eyebrow, crossing two of her arms and putting the other two in her hips.
"Yes I did, but only once, I needed the dream energy of the humans that resided there" Nocturne explained.
"Alright, why don't we discuss this in the gardens?" Pandora asked while letting Nocturne enter the temple.
The three of them made their way to the palace in an uncomfortable silence, at least to Danny. Pandora was trying to come with something so the three of them could have a civil conversation, she didn't want her son and brother to be hostile between them. Nocturne was still processing the fact that her sister's son was the famous halfa Danny Phantom, he really wanted to know how that happened. Once in the gardens they took seat, near some ghostly trees that had blue leaves and dark purple wood.
"Alright now I want to know how you two know each other, and don't think in omitting anything" Pandora said making sure that her voice and face told them that if they lied or hided something, there would be consequences.
Danny told her his part, of how he woke up in the ghost zone with a machine in his head after a weird dream, that he freed his friends from their helmets by going inside of their dreams, a fact that surprised both adult ghosts, and how he manage to defeat nocturne with his friends help.
Then Nocturne started his version, he told them that he wanted more dream energy to test one of the experiments he had in his lair, for that he needed humans dreams, so he went out of the Zone from the Fenton ghost portal, knowing that the halfa was living there, he made sure that he wouldn't interfere, that's the reason he put him in the Ghost Zone to sleep, the rest of his story was very similar to Danny's version. When he was sent back to the Ghost Zone he had obtained all the dream energy he needed, and that's the reason why he didn't bother to seek revenge in Phantom.
"Well now that you know our story, I want to know yours, I'm very curious about how this happened" Nocturne said curiously.
After Danny and Pandora told him their tale, Pandora decided to make sure they wouldn't fight in the future, after all they were family now.
"Nocturne, now that you know I have adopted Danny I want to make clear that I will not tolerate any form of enmity between you two" Pandora said, waiting for their reactions.
"Uhh, sure Pandora, only if he doesn't attack my city again" Danny said looking nervous.
"Alright, I'll not fight the boy" Nocturne said with a neutral tone, crossing his arms.
"Are you two siblings?" Danny asked curiously after some minutes of silence.
"Yes we are, but not like humans, we were born out of ideas and emotions and didn't have a life before existing here. At the beginning we were just friends, but in time we build a sibling bond between all of us, so now we call each other brother and sister" Pandora explained to him.
"Ah, that makes sense" Danny said.
"My apologies Queen Pandora, but you are needed in the palace" Galenos said coming from there.
"Very well, I'll be with you two in a few minutes" Pandora said and went into the building.
Some minutes passed in silence between the halfa and the Dream Master. Danny felt awkward and unsure, he didn't know how to act with a formerly enemy now neutral ghost. Nocturne didn't know how to start a conversation with Phantom, he didn't knew the halfa that much; he wasn't going to say anything until he took notice that it was oddly quiet, from what the rumors and his own experience said, Phantom always took the opportunity to through witty banter in the fights.
"You are unusually quiet child" Nocturne said looking curiously at Danny.
"Well I don't know what to talk about and I don't think we are in the best terms after the last time" Danny said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Hmm, yes I see your point Phantom" Nocturne said stroking his chin in a classical thinking pose, not really knowing what to talk about.
"What if we start over? Like if we hadn't fought" Danny asked nervously.
"Alright, I'll start. Hello my name is Nocturne, Master of Dreams, what's your name young ghost?" Nocturne said putting on a serious face and a fake accent, that Danny didn't know from where it was, but made it very funny for him.
"My name is Danny Phantom, but my friends call me Danny, is a pleasure to meet you sir" Danny said smiling and following nocturne in what he was doing, making the both of them laugh at how they were acting.
"That was fun" Danny said once they calmed down.
"Yes it was Phantom, or should I say, new nephew" Nocturne said teasing him.
"Oh right, he I didn't think I would get an uncle today" Danny said smiling, feeling more comfortable with Nocturne after sensing the lack of hostility.
"Well, look at you two already bonding" Pandora said, coming from the palace and surprising them because they didn't saw her coming.
"Hi sister, what was the thing that had you occupied?" Nocturne asked, feeling more at ease than before.
"Oh just some paper work they wanted me to approve, nothing to important" Pandora said making a dismissing gesture with her hand.
"That's a relief" Danny said finishing with a yawn.
"Are you tired child?" Nocturne asked, noticing the dark bags under his eyes.
"Well just a little, I've had worse anyway" Danny said while rubbing his eyes in an effort to keep himself more alert.
"You have?" Nocturne asked with some concern showing in his face, though Danny didn't notice.
"Yes, one time I spend like a week without sleeping, there were a lot of ghosts that came out of the Ghost Zone in the night and I couldn't let them destroy Amity Park, though some of them wanted a fight with me to get revenge or my pelt, and didn't let me rest at all. So yea I think I couldn't spend that time awake without coffee, energy drinks and spite" Danny explained.
"Wow, that's a lot of time, how did it stop?" Nocturne asked, curious and impressed for Danny's determination.
"Mom and Dad fixed the door that keep the ghost in this side of the portal. I don't know why they didn't turn off the portal to repair it" Danny said yawning once more.
"Well I suggest you to go home and have some sleep before you pass out in your way" Pandora said, not wanting him to be too tired. She knew he has school at the next day and didn't want him to drop his education because staying to late with her.
"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow, bye Pandora, bye Nocturne" Danny said, flying to the entrance and waving.
Pandora and Nocturne stared at the place where Danny disappeared. Pandora was relieved that Danny was comfortable enough with Nocturne to be talking with him.
"He is a good kid brother" Pandora said smiling like every proud mother.
"Hmm yes, though I don't know him that well" Nocturne said still thinking of how different the halfa acted in and out of battle.
"Well, you could know him better if you came to visit more often. A couple of decades in between visits is a long time" Pandora said, a little annoyed of how much time he took to visit her.
"Alright, alright I'm sorry I haven't visited more often but you know how demanding is my work" Nocturne said trying to appease his sister.
"Yes I know, but I also know that your job description says nothing of experiments using dream energy" Pandora said.
"Why are you bringing this up?" Nocturne asked, confused at Pandora's motives.
"I don't want you to fight my son, brother. Did I make myself clear?" Pandora asked with a stern voice, crossing two of her arms and frowning. She just wanted to make sure there weren't hostilities between them.
"Ok, I'll not fight him" Nocturne said, not wanting to anger his sister, he knows very well that that is not a pleasant experience.
"Good" Pandora said satisfied with his response.
"So... What do you think Clockwork will say about this" Nocturne asked smirking at the thought of their brother.
"Why do you ask?" Pandora asked.
"Well, I think you should properly show your son to our brother, even if he already knows it. Remember that he forgets to live in the present sometimes" Nocturne explained.
"Hmm... yes that is a good idea, we could go one of this days to his citadel" Pandora said, starting to plan when it could be.
"We? As in you, Phantom and I? Are you sure?" Nocturne asked not really sure if that was a good idea, he just knew the kid.
"Yes, besides when was the last time you visited Clocky mmh?" Pandora said with a cocky expression in her face.
"You want me to go because I didn't visit before, right? What if I don't want to go?" Nocturne asked with a defiant expression and his arms crossed.
"Well in that case, I would go to your realm, restrain you and drag you there, though I don't think you want your new nephew to witness that, do you?" Pandora said, smiling in victory when nocturne made a face that made clear he has resigned to his fate.
"Alright, When are we going?" Nocturne asked, crossing his arms and pouting a little.
"One of this days, I'll let you know" Pandora said.
"Alright. Though what days does Phantom come here?" Nocturne asked.
"He'll come tomorrow, Fridays and Saturdays nights. Why do you ask?" Pandora said curiously.
"It would be good if I know my nephew better. I'll come some of that days" Nocturne said.
They continued to talk, remembering the old times when they were younger and the adventures they have with their others siblings.
Meanwhile Danny was flying towards the portal, he didn't know Pandora had a brother and wondered if she had more. He hoped that his new uncle would be better than 'Uncle Vlad'. When he reached his bedroom he changed into his pajamas and fell asleep when his head hit the pillow, hoping that no ghosts interrupt him, and with his luck it wasn't likely.
I want to thank to all the reviewers, you guys are amazing and inspire me to keep writing
Prplzorua and TheMissingShadow ! The next chapter will have Clockwok ;)
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