*crawls out of the hole it hides the last 3 months*

Uhh.. HI! First I want to say sorry for not updating, December was so crazy with college finals and holidays that I couldn't write anything... I don't have any excuse for January, lets just say summer doesn't improve my will to write (more if touching the keyboard burned my fingers), I spend half of February in vacations in a farm where I have family, lucky for you guys I got inspired and wrote this chap and half of the next one (Dani is there)

OK so, please enjoy!


After Pandora made sure her son was asleep she left Danny's room and made her way to the kitchen, she was planning to make breakfast to her son. When she started to make it she began to relax, cooking always made her calm and after the previous hours passed with worry for her son this was what she needed. She started to made scones and planned to make five other different pastries, just before she put the first dozen in the oven Galenos knocked in the doorway of the kitchen.

"Excuse me my queen, but you have a visitor" Galenos said while standing in the doorway.

"Hmm? I didn't expect any visitors today, who is it?" Pandora asked curiously.

"It's your brother, the Dream Master" Galenos said respectfully.

"Thank you Galenos, please tell him to find me here in the kitchens" Pandora said and started to make more pastries.

She always had to make more pastries than she thought of doing for her brothers, every time she started to cook they would give her an unannounced visit. At first she just cooked more of what she was doing and gave it to them, but after the fifth time it happened she made them help her with the promise that they would have nothing if they didn't help. After centuries of the same thing happening she had the suspicion that they have a kind of six sense to know when she is preparing something.

"Hello dear sister, how have you been?" Nocturne asked while entering the kitchen.

"I've been fine brother, but worried about Daniel" Pandora said while working in some cookie paste.

"Worried, why? What happened?" Nocturne asked frowning, he knew his new nephew could take care of himself, but if whatever that happened worried Pandora, it gave him some worry.

"He was coming late for our training and I was worried something had happened. Fortunately Clockwork was there and told me that Danny was going to be fine and come here with a pet" Pandora explained while looking for chocolate chips to add at the cookies.

"A pet?" Nocturne asked now more curious than worried.

"Yes and quite large, you'll see it later when Danny wakes ups" Pandora said with a mischievous smile.

"Oh, I didn't know he was sleeping here" Nocturne said surprised at the fact.

"Yes he is and I plan on giving him breakfast before he has to go to school" Pandora said while putting the cookies in the oven.

"And those cookies are for breakfast?" Nocturne asked looking hungrily at the remaining cookie mass and reaching a finger to taste it.

"yes they are, and I have to make more" Pandora said while slapping his hand away.

"Oww! That hurt, besides why do you have to do more?" Nocturne asked while nursing his hand.

"Because every time I cook something you and Clockwork always appear here to eat everything I do" Pandora explained a little irritated.

"You can hardly blame us, your cooking is one of the bests I have ever tasted and I think Clocky would agree with me" Nocturne said.

"Thank you for that, but you still can't eat the cookie mass" Pandora said smirking at the pout in Nocturne's face.


Meanwhile in Danny's room, whimpers and mutters could be heard coming from the bed, the young halfa was moving restless in his sleep, trapped in his dream. Behemoth was sleeping at the end of the bed and he woke up slightly at the mutters coming from Danny, sensing his distress he decided to move a little closer to him to give some comfort, but Danny's subconscious didn't notice the small act of solace and continued with the nightmare.

Danny's nightmare

He was running. He couldn't stop. They were after him and if he stopped they'll catch him. He was running in the dark. He couldn't see more than a few feet in front of him. He thought he passed some trees, it didn't feel like a forest but he couldn't stop to thing in that, he needed to run, they were gaining on him.

Something struck him in the back and pushed him. It burned his back so badly he could only feel pain. He couldn't keep his balance and felt into the hard ground. He has to get up. He needed to get up. They were close, he could feel them. He could heard their footsteps getting near. He got up as fast as he could and against his instincts he looked behind him. Teal and orange were getting closer. He started to run again, fear crippling down his spine. They were so close, too close.

He was running, his back hurt. He heard a sound behind him and before he knew it a net trapped him, he cursed trying to free himself but the net shocked him, the pain didn't let him concentrate enough for escape. When it stopped the teal and orange figures were less than a foot away from him, the sound of their ecto-weapons charging was almost deafening in the silence, the glowing ends were pointed to him. He tried to speak, tried to make them understand, He is their son! He is not a monster! He loves them!

They don't listen, they didn't before he ran into the darkness and they will never listen. Teal shoots first, orange close behind. He feels pain, hopeless, heartbreak, lost. He blacks out for a second... it's feels like a second.

He can't move, that's the first thing he notices, he tries but he can't move. He opens his eyes, he sees white lights, metallic grey walls, ecto-weapons scattered in the floor and walls. He knows this place, he has to get out of here, he has to get out NOW! He can't move, he heard footsteps. He knows they are coming and he feels hopeless.

They come to stand near him, they look at him, observe, study, they found him odd. He knows they'll want to know why, he doesn't want them near him. They start to bring tools where he's trapped, he sees the satchel in teal hand. He panics, he begs for them to listen, he begs for them to not do what they want so much to do. They don't listen, they never listen. Teal starts to cut his skin, orange observe, there is a sickening glee in his features. He feels pain, fear, hopeless, so much pain. He screams.


Danny was thrashing in his bed trying to get away from the monsters in his dreams, his mutters had became screams of terror, pleading from them to stop hurting him. With all that movement and sound the Behemoth was awakened, he saw his friend in great distress and tried to wake him up, only for Danny to scream more in fright. Seeing as he couldn't calm down the ghostling, Behemoth left the room and went to search to his friend mother, following the scent of her he came to a room that smelled of foods, Behemoth found the mother and another ghost in there.

Pandora was surprised when she saw the Behemoth entering in the kitchen, "Wasn't he sleeping with Danny? Why is he here?" she thought and before she could ask out loud Nocturne spoke.

"Sister? Why is the behemoth in your palace? And why is it not attacking us right now?" Nocturne asked, a little wary of the great guardian of the skeleton key and confused by his presence in his sister palace.

"He is Danny's pet now and Danny begged me to let him stay at the palace, I think he couldn't hide him in the human world. Don't worry brother he would only attack if someone means harm to Danny, though I don't know why he is in here, he was sleeping with Danny when I came to cook" Pandora explained amused at the face of disbelieve in Nocturne and curious at the beast presence in the room.

Before Nocturne could say anything Behemoth whined and tugged one of Pandora's arms towards the kitchen door, he was careful to not hurt her but he was very worried for his friend and would drag her to the bedroom if need it. Pandora found this behavior strange and decided to follow Behemoth.

"What is it? Something happened to Danny?" Pandora asked and got very worried when the Behemoth nodded and tugged her arm with more urgency.

With that Pandora started to run towards Danny's room, ignoring the shout to wait of Nocturne and leaving him behind with Behemoth. When she was coming close to her son bedroom, she could heard whimpers and shouts of pain and terror, with her worry increased she opened the door and searched the room for threats, but she didn't find any. She only found her son trashing in and shouting in his bed, trying to get away for something in his dreams, with tears running through his cheeks.

"Danny! Danny please wake up, it just a dream!" Pandora exclaimed gently shaking Danny's shoulder trying to wake him up, but she was unsuccessful and he continued to trash in the bed and whimper.

"What is happening?!" Nocturne asked just after crossing the door, he was surprised by the state that Danny was in.

"Danny is having a nightmare and he is not waking up" Pandora said, her worry was very clear in her voice.

"Please let me help" Nocturne offered, Pandora nodded and moved Danny near Nocturne, she knew that him being the Master of Dreams could help more than her in this case. Nocturne held two fingers in Danny's forehead and closed his eyes, after some seconds both Nocturne and Danny opened their eyes.

"Danny! Oh I'm so glad yo-" Pandora's relieved speech was interrupted for Danny's tight hug, he buried his head in her shoulder and let out some sobs, he was still distressed for the nightmare. Pandora hugged him back to comfort him.

"Shhh... it's ok, it was just a dream. You are safe" Pandora reassured him, she rubbed circles in his back and stroked his hair to help him calm down. Once calm Danny continued hugging Pandora and show no signs of letting go.

"How are you feeling Danny?" Pandora asked still worried, Danny only shrugged in their hug.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Pandora asked.

"I'm fine. It was just a nightmare, don't worry about it" Danny mumbled.

"What was it about?" Pandora asked, trying to make him tell her so she could help him.

"It was... my parents, they found out about me being phantom, but they didn't want to listen to me and... they did experiments on me..." Danny mumbled, this got Pandora even more worried. She knew of his parents ghost obsession, but for them to do that to their own son... she shook her head, now it was not the time to think about that, her son needed her and she was going to be there for him.

"Don't worry about it, like you said it was just a nightmare. Please try to sleep some more, Nocturne and I will be here for whatever you need" Pandora said.

"Alright... *yawn*... good night mom... see you later Nocturne" Danny said already falling asleep, he felt so safe and comfortable in the presence of Pandora and Nocturne that he didn't even try to fight off his sleep.

Once she was sure Danny was asleep, Pandora put him in under his cover again, stocked his hair a little and motioned Nocturne to go with her, he followed his sister not after making sure Danny wouldn't have more nightmares that night, Behemoth stayed in the room with his friend keeping guard. Pandora and Nocturne made their way to the kitchen, Pandora had a worried expression and Nocturne a thoughtful one.

"I wonder if this has happened before" Nocturne thought out loud.

"Why do you want to know?" Pandora asked, not knowing what her brother was thinking about.

"Because if it has, then he's been fearing that since the time he became half ghost" Nocturne reasoned.

"I knew it was not the safest place for a ghost, or half ghost, to live in the house of ghost hunters. I worry about him being hurt for one of those weapons, but now my concern is of who is wielding them" Pandora said.

"You think we should worry about it? That his parents would attack him for being what he is?" Nocturne asked, after all Pandora knew more of the boy's life than him.

"I don't know for certain, there are a lot of 'what ifs' for me to be sure of it" Pandora said.

"You should ask Clockwork about it, and maybe force a 'non riddle' answer out of him" Nocturne said smirking, he always hated how Clockwork would answer the questions of everyone in riddles.

"Oh dear brother, I don't need brute force to have my answers from him" Pandora said winking.

"Oh... I have to see that" Nocturne said, his smirk widening.

"Have to see what?" Clockwork asked while entering the kitchen.

"Hello brother, your timing is perfect as always" Pandora greeted Clockwork, not really surprised to see him, he always appeared when he was mentioned.

"Why thank you dear sister, you seem as strong as always" Clockwork replied.

"Is good to see you too" Nocturne said tired of being ignored

"Don't be angry I didn't forget you" Clockwork said smirking, he loved to tease him.

"Sure you didn't" Nocturne said, rolling his eyes.

"What's bring you here brother?" Pandora curiously asked, she had a suspicion of knowing the answer.

"I might have a feeling that you were cooking and you know that I can't resist your foods" Clockwork said sheepishly, confirming Pandora's suspicions.

"Oh my realms. You two are so similar I swear... alright you both will have some of it when Danny wakes up for breakfast. Not before!" Pandora said smirking at the groans of her brothers.

"We have a question for you Cloky" Nocturne said trying to keep their minds out of the delicious food that was promised.

"Alright, but I may or may not be able to answer it" Clockwork said.

"Oh don't worry you will" Pandora said smirking.

"Oh? and why is that?" Clockwork asked.

"Because I will make extra scones that might or might not be yours. It all depends of your answers" Pandora said, she knew he couldn't say no to her scones.

"Alright let me hear your question first" Clockwork said, those scones were really tempting.

"Is there any possibility in the future of Danny that his parents will reject him and do the experiments they have promised to do to any ghost?" Pandora asked suddenly very serious.

"... there are some possibilities of it, yes, it depends of many factors" Clockwork said with a grim expression.

"Thanks for telling me, now come and help me to cook. You too Nocturne" Pandora said smirking at the new groans, if they wanted the food they'll have to work for it, at least a little.

While they were working Pandora was thinking in what to do if such situation arise, of how will she be able to better protect her son. She could teleport to him when he is in that kind of danger but the problem was of how to know when he was in danger ." It would be easy if Danny could teleport but he hasn't learned that yet…" with that thought Pandora got an idea , leaving her brothers in the kitchen she went to the treasure vault of the palace.

The vault was an enormous room with the only entrance was a door, located under the palace. The door of the vault was magnificent, it was golden with realistic engravings of battles and precious gems encrusted in it; this door besides of being beautiful it was also extremely secure, the only one that could open it was the owner of the realm. Pandora went into the vault and started to search a specific item, her vault almost resembled a museum, only it was not open to the public and everything in there was not for personal collecting, it was very spacious with grey walls and floor, Pandora decided to not decorate it, it would be a waste. The artifacts of power were secured in different pedestals that way it would be easy to see if anything was amiss, this ancient artifacts hold various powers, some could be too dangerous to be left without protection.

The artifact that Pandora was looking for was a pendant that allowed the wearer to teleport to a specific destination, it was called the Hearthstone or Home Stone, Pandora didn't know why the name was so obvious, whoever named it didn't put much thought in it. When Pandora found it she set the destination to be in the palace, this would help Danny escape from a grave danger if he couldn't do it himself. Pandora, now relieved for finding a solution to her worries, went back to the kitchen and went back to cook, she explained to her brothers what she did after making them work in the food.


When Danny woke up he found himself more relaxed and well rested that the last few days, he was very comfortable but he knew he had to get up to go to school, and besides he was hungry. Opening his eyes he saw he was wrapped in blankets and the Behemoth, he tried to get out of the bed but the Behemoth was so wrapped around him that he could barely move.

"Uhhh Behemoth… can you let me get up?" Danny asked to his friend. The Behemoth woke up and letting out a yawn he unwrapped, letting Danny go.

Danny, now free, left his room and smelled something delicious that made his stomach grow. He followed the smell and ended up in the kitchen, he was surprised when he found not only Pandora but also Nocturne and Clockwork cooking in there. Before he could say something Pandora noticed his presence.

"Hello son, how did you sleep?" Pandora asked Danny.

"I slept fine after the… well you know…" Danny said, he was a little embarrassed for his nightmare and was not used to be comforted after one, except for Jazz but she wasn't there for the worst ones.

"Hi Danny, did you have good dreams?" Nocturne asked, he wanted to be sure his powers helped his nephew.

"Yes I did. thanks Nocturne" Danny thanked him with a smile, he knew that Nocturne protected him from the bad dreams.

"Good morning Danny, breakfast will be ready in 11 minutes" Clockwork said while checking the oven.

"Hi Clockwork, can I help in something?" Danny asked.

"Yes you can help me put the table" Pandora said and gave him some glasses.

Danny and Pandora put the glasses, a vessel with orange juice and another with coffee, they put some plates with scones, cookies and other pastries. When they sat Clockwork brought some beacon to Danny and a plate of scones for him. They ate their breakfast and chatted of various topics. When they finished and Clockwork ate all of the scones, much to Nocturne annoyance, Danny got up to leave and said his goodbyes to his uncles.

"Danny before you go I want to give you something" Pandora said.

"Alright what is it?" Danny asked curious.

"This" Pandora said and gave Danny the pendant. Danny grab it and study it , it was a kind of white oval stone no bigger than the half of his tiny finger, it had a kind of small blue glowing spiral and Danny could feel it has a lot of power. The stone was connected to a black metal chain long enough to be used as a necklace.

"Oh wow! This is great thanks mama!" Danny said, it looked very cool in his opinion and immediately put it in his neck.

"I'm glad you like it but it is not a simple stone" Pandora said.

"Really? What does it do?" Danny asked.

"The Hearthstone allows the wearer to teleport to a safe location when in need, it doesn't matter if you are in your ghost or human form or if you have little energy, the stone will transport you whenever you need it" Pandora explained.

"Thanks mama" Danny said while hugging her. He had been worried for the lack of a escape plan if he is ever captured by ghost hunters or Vlad and he can't use his powers, this was a great relief.

"Where is it going to teleport me?" Danny asked.

"Here to the palace son, you will always be safe here. Don't forget it" Pandora said.

"Oh right" Danny said sheepishly, he sometimes forgot that he has a place to call home in the Ghost Zone.

"Now go before you are late to school" Pandora said and gave Danny a kiss in the forehead.

"Ok, bye mama" Danny said and started to fly towards his portal just to stop go around and give pandora a big hug before returning to his travel.


Welp there it is!

Prplzorua I could give Clockwork his scones after all hehehe

Special thanks to Sockenmonster01 for helping me with some errors in chap5 and for inspire me in this chap, thank you so much!

Just to let you guys know I have edited the chapters, only some grammal mistakes, nothing big really changed

you guys have no idea how happy you make me with your reviews, i hope to see more XD