This story was sitting half-complete for like, four or five years now. No kidding. I finally finished it, barely edited it, and now I'm posting it. I always though this would be interesting to write, so I wrote it. I really mostly made this for my own enjoyment, so I hope the side effect is you enjoying it too!

I don't own Danny Phantom, sadly.

I have lived since the dawn of life. When Earth was created, it was barren nothingness, just a big hot rock floating through space. The ghost zone, the flipside of earth, was nothing but a dark green void, with a few floating islands here and there and a surface far below made of nothing.

However, life was soon created. It was nothing but a single-celled bacteria, but it was alive. It split and created more of itself, and when it died, it came to the ghost zone. Soon after, I was created, and I was the first sentient being. My first real memory was waking up on a rock. I was nothing, but I knew everything. From the beginning of time to the collapse of the universe, nothing was hidden from me. Everything from every timeline was there before my eyes.

I felt that the power should've overwhelmed me, but I somehow knew how to use it. I knew it was my responsibility to keep Earth in the correct timeline.

I soon created a tower of my own. It had clocks all over it, just for my amusement. I always knew the time and date, no matter what.

Eventually, I learned better control over the visions and future memories, and built the time window, to visualize the past and future. I built my time staff, to focus my power to control time. I created the time medallions, to prevent the one who wears it from being affected by my time powers. They would be needed a long time in the future.

The time of dinosaurs was long and sometimes boring, but I lived through those millions of years like it was a few days. I didn't need to change much. The beasts were beautiful.

The ghost zone, however, was getting overcrowded with the beasts. They were dangerous enough in life, but in death, they were even worse. Most of them were mindless killing machines, and their many-thousand-years ghostly lifespan was making the problem get nearly out of hand.

In the end, I decided to let one asteroid get through. Those beasts weren't going to evolve any time soon, and the timeline that I saw if I let them live didn't have a good outcome. So instead of stopping the asteroid, I let this one get through. It pained me to see their demise, but it was for the better. Even the ghost zone had been affected by it. But I was getting lonely, and I didn't want to simply skip to the future to have someone to talk to. It was basically cheating in the long game of time.

So I just stayed put in my castle, speeding up time for my self just a tiny bit to the dawn of human to watch them grow. It was beautiful, seeing civilization grow and evolve. Not just on Earth, but in the ghost zone too. The overcrowded ghost zone was no longer overcrowded, and life was thriving.

The humans made tools, created fire, farmed, and soon made real buildings. It was amazing. I could see it now and watch the beauty of it, even though I can see the past and future.

Seeing the past and future is different from seeing the present. Looking at the past and future is like looking at a vivid memory. Travelling through time is simply changing your present. You see it. You are there. But looking forward or backward is like living in a dream you don't control.

One day, and I knew it was coming of course, a king arose in the ghost zone. I did not worry, as I knew the road the war would take. And as I saw, he was taken down after a long rule. Strides were being taken in both worlds. I knew what was coming.

Empires rose and fell. Ghosts took interest in the human world, even influencing their religions. It was impressive. Egypt had animal-headed beasts ruling over their lands. The Greeks and Romans had stories and legends of gods and heroes. On the other side of the globe, there were monsters and creatures and magic animals. In Asia, all sorts of ghosts influenced the land. All were benevolent or malevolent, rarely anything in-between. And watching how humans craft their tales was even more amazing in real time, even while knowing what would happen.

And soon, in a miniscule amount of time for me, we came to the Now. That's what anyone would call it, anyone who couldn't see through time the way I do. The first hybrid was created in the dawn of the computer age, using his power for his benefit and soon gaining human power: money.

The latest war started soon after, when the biggest event since the Ghost King's reign occurred. The second hybrid was created. Young and righteous, scared and determined. He made waves in both worlds, changing them permanently. He led the ghosts into the human world and sent them right back, spreading the knowledge that there was a way out. The ghosts were soon discovered as a real thing to the humans, not stories. He fought against the evil threatening his home. He fought the Ghost King, and allied with his enemies. And when it came down to it, he made his choice.

I knew it was coming. I knew the Observants, the stuck-up know-it-alls trapped to see only the current timeline, and not understanding the complexities of the timelines, didn't like what was going to happen. I waited for them to come. To ask me their request. I played their game, interfering with the timeline more than I ever did, just because they didn't like the timeline. To be honest, I was going to change it anyways. I was fond of the humans, and I wanted their future to be bright. But now, instead of changing the events leading up to the future, I acted directly and let everything play out. The Observants are near-blind to the future when the timelines are changing by my hand.

I ended up letting the child make his choice on his own. I never spoke to any human directly. He seemed to like it. The Observants weren't happy, but they weren't angry. They went back to their little hole and continued doing some observing.

And eventually, the big world-changing event happened. The one I was seeing in the main timeline ever since I interfered with the hybrid. The giant asteroid nearly the size of Earth itself. I knew it would end up fine, but I was empathetic for the humans. When the time came, though, the hybrid Phantom, not knowing what lied ahead, brought together all the ghosts in the Ghost Zone, creating the biggest change on Earth since I destroyed the dinosaurs.

They thought their future was grim. And now, they get to live. Their future is bright. Their future is hopeful. They will live on in relative peace and harmony, with their rare human squabbles every once in a while. The ones in their Now have a hero to look up to, the Phantom that saved them. The humans and ghosts will one day make peace and understand each other.

And now, we can look towards the future.