Ghost King Danny: Book 1
A Danny Phantom Overlord Fanfiction
Author's Note: I have absolutely nothing to say here, so enjoy the chapter!
Recap
"So what you're saying is that without us in Danny's life, Danny would've been an unstable wreck?"
"Essentially, yes. Which is why I have a plan." Clockwork raised his staff, pushing the button on the top of it in the process, and in a blinding flash of white light, the three humans, four Observants and Time Master were all teleported away from Pariah's castle.
End Recap
In the span of one second, a blinding light filled the Clocktower as Danny and his friends, Clockwork, and the Observants stood in the tower. As soon as they appeared, Clockwork floated over to his time screens, checking for any signs of Dramascus' damage to the timestream. Seeing none, he didn't turn around to face the Observants as he told them with a flat tone "Leave. Now," to which the Observants replied, "We hope you know what you are doing. The fate of both realms is at stake." They left without another word. With the Observants finally gone, Clockwork seemed to visibly relax, at least for a little while before a serious look spread over his features. He turned around towards the two and a half humans, specifically Tucker Foley and Samantha Manson with the same serious face.
"Daniel, I need you to stay here for five minutes. Afterwards, head home no matter what you hear, or don't hear. I must speak to Sam and Tucker for that allotted time. As soon as I am finished, I will open up a portal to send your friends to your room."
Danny was unsure why Clockwork wanted to speak to Sam and Tucker alone, but reluctantly agreed to Clockwork's request. After all, Clockwork had never steered him wrong yet. Why would he now?
Clockwork floated away from his time screens and motioned for Sam and Tucker to follow him. After walking in a forward direction for about one minute, the three reached a large stone door. Clockwork placed his hand on the door and his hand was engulfed with a purple hue. A minute later the stone door opened with a 'CHUUUUUUU'. As the doors slowly opened, Tucker and Sam could see two stone tables, like the kind they would normally see at the doctor's office.
"Please lie down. The procedure will take 10 minutes to complete." Clockwork said. The two humans walked over to the stone tables and laid down on them side by side. Strangely, the tables did not feel how they expected them to feel, which was cold. Rather they felt warm, like being wrapped in a hug from people who were recently wrapped up under the covers of a warm bed. They were about to question the nature of these stones, but the warmth was just so good that they couldn't bring themselves to speak. However Sam snapped out of this warmth long enough to ask Clockwork a question.
"And this procedure will help us help Danny?" Sam asked, to which Clockwork replied with "Yes. This will help you help him to great lengths."
"Might I ask how?" Tucker asked. But he was only met with a knowing smirk from the Time Master.
"It is best if I show you. But first, this will hurt." A single purple beam shot out from Clockwork's staff, which split into two beams as each one travelled to and hit their foreheads. The beams seemed to burn into their very souls, eliciting screams of panic and pain from the two that rang throughout the tower.
Danny stood there waiting for his two friends and mentor to come back from wherever it is that they went off to. All of a sudden, he heard two very distinct screams, and tensed up, ready to fly towards his friends without a second thought, but something in the back of his mind told him to wait and see. It also told him that his friends would come back stronger than before. Oh, if only he knew just how right he was.
As the screams of the two died down and their bodies relaxed, two souls began to rise from their bodies, each looking exactly how they would look if they were still in their bodies. Sam and Tucker, after looking down at their bodies, did the only sensible thing that they could do at this moment: They screamed bloody murder, which in their minds, probably wasn't that far from the truth.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO US!?" The two cried out in fear. Clockwork floated there with a blank look on his face as the two new ghosts promptly freaked out.
After about three minutes, Sam and Tucker had finally calmed down long enough for Clockwork to explain. "Now I know you are scared and confused, however, trust me that as long as your bodies remain here, they will not decay or age. You are most likely wondering why I turned you two into ghosts. I have turned you into ghosts because I have a job for you."
Sam scoffed at this. "What job could be so important that you have to turn us into ghosts to do it? I don't want to remain a ghost forever, and neither does Tucker. Right, Tuck?" Sam turned around to see Tucker doing loops around the room and shouting "THIS IS AWESOME!" Sam turned back around to face Clockwork after facepalming. "Well…I don't anyway. So what is this job you have for us?" Clockwork flashed his signature smirk at the Goth girl before saying these next few words.
"I want you to go back to the day of the accident and walk into the portal with Danny."
At this declaration, Tucker stopped doing loops, as fun as they were, to process the omnipotent ghosts request. Both Sam and Tucker were speechless afterwards, and the Time Master's words finally forced Tucker to speak, as well as wonder for the first time in his life, whether Clockwork was insane.
"Are you insane!? Do you know how painful it was watching my best friend get injured and almost die from the thing that gave him those powers? I don't know why you think it is a good idea to have us go into the portal too!"
Clockwork just simply replied, "The reason for this request is so that you two shall keep Daniel not only grounded in his pursuit of good, but also sane. Besides, a king needs his queen," Clockwork said with a smirk on his face as he and Tucker both watched Sam blush a brilliant scarlet red. Sam looked down at her now gravity defying feet and mumbled a "Stop laughing" when Tucker burst into laughter that echoed throughout the room.
A few minutes later, Clockwork had managed to convince the two to travel to the past. When asked how they were going to convince their past selves to go into the portal, he merely replied with "You're not." A moment after he had said those words, a portal had opened up, showing the Fenton's lab the day of the accident. The two temporary spirits somehow managed to fly through the portal, seemingly unaware of a pair of two neon green eyes staring at them.
As soon as the portal closed, Clockwork spoke. "You can come out now Daniel."
Danny reluctantly turned visible and floated from his spot in the corner of the room. He had to be dreaming. He didn't just see his friends die, did he? And by Clockwork, no less?
"Clockwork. Would you mind explaining what the hell just happened there?" Danny said, fearing the worst.
Clockwork was quick to stomp Danny's nerves however. "Do not worry, my young apprentice. Your friends are not dead, rather their bodies are in stasis until their job is complete."
"Job? What job?" Danny asked, confused
"Look for yourself. It is almost finished.
Meanwhile, in the past (Pre-Ghost Danny will be referred to as Past Danny)
An invisible portal opened up just underneath the stairs of the lab as Past Danny and his friends walked down. Once Past Sam and Tucker were seated down and not-so-interestingly listening to Jack Fenton explain pieces of his invented technology to them, the two invisible temporary ghosts watching the two floated out, invisibly of course, and floated towards their respective bodies.
As the two floated towards and merged with their past selves, it felt, surprisingly, easy. It was probably because they would be merging with their own bodies instead of flying into someone else's. Anyway, the two finally merged with their pasts and were now just waiting for the moment they both silently knew would come. They suddenly heard a booming voice yell "BANZAI!" and push a plug and its socket into each other. A set of sparks flew from the hole in the wall, but other than that, nothing happened. The orange clad man hung his head in sadness, while saying "I guess 20 years were wasted", followed by a sigh as he trod back up the stairs to tell his wife what happened.
Danny watched his father sulk back up the stairs with a saddened look on his face. "I wish there was something I could do to help." Tucker then spoke up.
"Maybe there is. What if we all went into the portal to try and find the problem? Maybe then your parents wouldn't be so depressed about this."
"That seems like a good idea Tuck. But you guys will have to put on those hazmat suits Mom and Dad made in your sizes, and wow do I sound like a creeper, or rather my parents do, anyway", Danny said, shortly after stopping in the middle of his sentence.
Tucker and Sam were both speechless as the three walked to the closet in the back of the lab. 'Since when did Danny's parents get my sizes', they both thought. Danny just chuckled at the bewildered faces portrayed by his best friends, for which he earned a glare from the two.
When they reached the back closet, Danny, Tucker, and Sam found three hazmat suits inside that had two things in common with each other; For one thing, they were all white, and another thing was that they all had Jack Fenton's face on them, which, once seen by the trio, were quickly ripped off. The three humans then all walked back to the front of the lab and into the portal, not knowing, well at least in Danny's case, that they were in for a shocking surprise.
A minute later, the three heard a click, as well as the sound of three bloodcurdling screams fill the lab.
In the present
Danny turned around to face his friends' bodies. What he saw astonished him. The two bodies had risen off the stone slabs they rested on, both of them surrounded by an ethereal glow. Sam's body was surrounded by a dark purple glow, while Tucker's body was encased in an electric yellow glow. A second later the glow faded away from the bottoms of their legs and their torsos, leaving only a ring surrounding their midsections.
Suddenly, the one ring split into two and travelled upwards and downwards on their bodies, revealing a whole new form. Sam and Tucker's appearances had Danny stunned for two reasons. The first reason was that Danny now realized that his friends had been turned into half ghosts like him, and the second reason was that their outfits looked, in Danny's honest opinion, awesome.
Sam's outfit was the first thing he noticed. Well, not the first thing. He actually noticed her hair first. Her hair had gone through major changes, two to be exact. First, instead of solid black hair in a ponytail, her hair increased to shoulder length and grew multiple shades darker, to midnight black. Secondly, her hair included deep purple highlights that somehow made her hair standout even more than it already did. Her outfit, however was a completely different story.
On the top half of her body, there was a black halter top, much like her original form except with sleeves. The skin underneath that was Danny's normal ghost shade, which for Sam was a bit tanner than her human form. On the bottom half of her body, deep purple jeans covered her now slender legs. Suddenly her eyes snapped open to reveal two onyx orbs staring at the ceiling,
Danny looked at his best friend over on the other table. His changes, while different from Sam's, were still astonishing, to say the least. On Tucker's torso, a dark green jacket with about as many pockets as there were rooms in as Sam's mansion adorned him. He had cargo pants on that looked like they had enough pockets to hold all of his technology and still be able to move freely, including the many wires he used over the years. Tucker's eyes flashed open, revealing two electric yellow irises looking up. Tucker and Sam then groaned, as if waking up for the first time that day.
"Ugh. What hit me?" they both said in unison. The two sat up slowly, looking confused and waiting for an answer. Fortunately for them, Clockwork was there to explain the events.
"Your transitions into half ghosts is complete. To save time, I will give you the knowledge that Daniel has accumulated over the years." Clockwork floated towards them and placed a purple glowing hand on each of their foreheads as the memories came flooding in. Tucker and Sam's eyes opened even wider as they saw everything from Danny's perspective, all the way up to the talk with Clockwork earlier today.
Once the memory transfer was complete, Clockwork removed his hands from their heads, and led the now three half ghosts to the main room. Once there, he gave the three instructions to head straight to Danny's room after school. He didn't say another word to the three as he opened a portal to the school, watched them go through the portal and transform before he shouted, "TIME IN."
Author's Note: This is the longest chapter I've ever written, as well as the toughest one. I feel I did well with this one. Read, and tell me what you think! See you soon!
