(Hello, this is my first Danny Phantom fic, and the first none DBZ/GT or Sailor Moon related story. There will not be a single Saiyan in this. Wahhhhhh! But that's cool. We got plenty of scary stuff to enjoy. I hope you enjoy this gruesome tail of Danny Phantom as a 21 year old adult. His parents are dead, leaving him only his sister Jazz, and his two best friends, Tucker and Sam. But there is a mysterious voice that he's been hearing as he battles ghosts. Find out who it is in my first Danny Phantom Fan fiction. Disclaimer time! I don't own Danny Phantom. Butch Hartman does. I do own Kari. She's mine; please don't use her without asking me. Thanks. Well here it is! Have fun and Read and Review!)
The Ghost and the Kitten
Prologue
Strange Voices
Seventeen year old Danny Finton sat in the back seat of his parents RV with his older sister Jazz. His father, Jack, was driving as usual, as his mother, Maddie, sat shotgun and babbled on and on about ghost hunting. They were on their way to the place Danny hated the most. Wisconsin. His archenemy and the man who was always trying to kill him and his father, and take Maddie as his bride, lived there. Vlad Masters. Jack was convinced that Vlad was his best friend. They had been at one time, until an accident in collage caused Vlad to become disfigured and lost his chance to have Maddie. The disfiguration didn't last; he was now a suave debonair, yet very lonely man. He was also slightly insane.
Danny sighed as he watched the road signs pass by from his window seat. He had tried talking his parents out of going, not that his mother wanted to go, but his father insisted. Jack was never exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but he was kindhearted. Maddie knew what kind of creep Vlad was, but her husband never listened to her about it. Even Jazz wasn't to thrilled about going, but then again, she couldn't forget the time Vlad pit her against Danny, wanting her to kill him. She was the only one in the family that knew about Danny's being part ghost. She was also the only one to know, besides Danny, the Vlad masters didn't only become disfigured in the acsadent, he had also been turned half ghost, making him the first human/ghost hybrid. He had been one for twenty years when at age Fourteen, Danny had been changed.
They pulled into the driveway of Vlad's mansion, and were surprised to see that Vlad stood on the front porch waiting for them. Jack stopped the RV, and the family got out to be greeted by Vlad. He smiled at the family as if he were happy to see them all. Danny and Jazz knew that he was glad to see only one of them, their mother.
"Welcome, my friends! How are you all? You look so well." Vlad said in a tone that was dripping with false charm.
"Vladdy! Put-er-there, man! It's great to see you!" Jack said enthusiastically.
"It's great to see you too, Jack." Vlad said flatly as he shook Jack's large hand.
Vlad then pulled away and cleared his throat. He glared coldly at Danny and Jazz, and then smiled lovingly at their mother. Danny had a bad feeling. Something wasn't right. He would never show such distain for his sister and he right in front of their mother.
"I'm afraid you all have come at a time of good news, bad news situation." Vlad said with a smug look on his face.
"Oh? What's the matter, Vladdy? Anything we can do to help?" Jack asked with concern in his voice.
"I'm glad you asked, Jack. You see the bad news is that none of you shall ever return to Amity Park. Good news is that although none of you will return, at least one of you shall live. The way you can help, Jack, is by dieing peacefully." Vlad said with an evil grin.
"Ahh. Isn't this guy a kidder?" Jack laughed throwing an arm around Vlad's shoulders.
"Dad, I don't think he's joking." Danny said as he stared Vlad down coldly.
"I'm not." Vlad growled as he shoved Jack away from him.
Then, further surprising Danny and his family, Vlad transformed into his ghost form, known as Vlad Plasmious. Maddie gasped taken aback. Jazz was stunned and unable to say anything as was Danny. They knew he was Plasmious, they just never thought he'd show his ghost form to their parents. Jack stared horrified at the man he considered his best friend.
"Maddie, quick! Get me a Finton Foamier! A ghost has possessed Vladdy!" Jack exclaimed.
"You always were a big fat idiot! I am a ghost! I have been ever since that acsadent that coast me my chance with Maddie. It was all your fault, Jack. I've been trying to kill you for years now, but something has been getting into my way, or perhaps I should say, someone." Vlad growled as he glared at Danny.
"What are you talking about?" Maddie asked.
"It's a lie! All lies! Ghosts will say anything to stay inside their fleshy meat puppets." Jack said heatedly.
"You are and always will be an idiot." Vlad said with a grin.
"I think he's telling the truth." Maddie said as she pulled a weapon from her boot.
"Oh, but I'm not done with the surprises for the day." Vlad said.
Faster than anyone could react, Vlad swooped over to Danny and hauled him up into the air. He held the young man by the color of his shirt at arms length.
"Lemme go, you fruit loop!" Danny exclaimed as he kicked and punched at Vlad's arm.
He knew he could easily get free from Vlad if he used his powers, but he didn't dare. Not in front of his parents.
"Daniel, why don't you show your parents that little trick you do. How do you start it off? Oh yes. I'm going ghost!" Vlad exclaimed mockingly at Danny.
With that, Danny was involuntarily transformed into his ghost form, Danny Phantom.
"Danny, no!" Jazz exclaimed.
"What have you done to our son!" Maddie exclaimed.
"It's not what have I done, it's what has your ignorant husband done. He built that stupid Ghost Portal. Your son got caught in it when it turned on and it transformed him into this." Vlad said with an ever widening grin.
Danny felt nauseated as he hung there from Vlad's outstretched hand. The forced transformation from human to ghost had made him feel violently ill and weak. Vlad had yet another power he didn't. He groaned as he looked down at his mother and father.
"Danny, you've been the ghost boy all along! Why didn't you tell us!" Jack exclaimed.
"I...I didn't know how you would react." Danny said weakly.
"Vlad, put my son down right this instant!" Maddie yelled.
"Oh, but I'm having too much fun." Vlad sneered as he detransformed then transformed Danny from his ghost form to his human form then back again.
He yo-yoed Danny's forms back and forth about ten times until the youth was sick and vomiting from the quick transitions.
"Stop! You're hurting him!" Jazz screamed.
Vlad finally shrugged and dropped the once more ghost version of Danny, to the ground. Danny landed with an audible thud, and detransformed back into his human form. He lay there past out as his family ran to him to make sure he was still alive. When they checked and were satisfied that he was still breathing, Maddie and Jack turned to Vlad. Both holding weapons pointed at him.
Vlad grinned as he disappeared, and then reappeared behind Jack. Jack hadn't seen him move and was surprised when he felt a pain that started at his back and ended in his stomach. He looked down to see a hand sticking from his large belly. Blood was dripping from the hand. His blood, which was splattered on his stunned wife's face and outfit, his daughters face and shoulders, and the back of Danny's shirt and hair. The hand was pulled from his body as he slowly fell to the ground.
"Daddy!" Jazz screamed.
"Jack! No!" Maddie screamed as tears ran down her face.
Vlad laughed evilly as he grabbed Jazz by her hair.
"I'd let you live, Jasmine, but I know from experience how treacherous you can be. So you will be joining your father soon." Vlad said almost lovingly to the young woman.
"Let her go!" Maddie yelled as she pulled out a plasmic pole-arm, and swung it at Vlad.
Vlad released Jazz and jumped away.
"You can always have more children, my dear Maddie. Why should you care about D.N.A. accidents like these? They are just like their father." Vlad snarled.
"They are my children! Stay away from them!" Maddie exclaimed.
Before much else could be said, a black and white blur slammed into Vlad knocking him back a couple of yards. Danny stood a bit wobbly where Vlad had been standing only seconds before. He fell to his knees and sat there stunned for a minute. He looked around trying to get his Barings when he noticed his father lying in a pool of blood. Danny slowly stood and trudged over to his father's body.
"Dad? Dad, get up. There's a ghost. You need to get it. Come on get up. Dad. Dad? Dad! Dad!" Danny screamed as he shook his father trying to wake him.
Tears started to fill his eyes and spill over his cheeks. He heard a scream as Vlad returned and grabbed Maddie. Danny stood and starred at Vlad with hatred and rage. He jumped into the air and charged at Vlad.
"Let go of my mother, you son of a bitch!" Danny yelled as he flew at Vlad at almost the speed of light.
Vlad held out a hand and as if Danny had smacked into an invisible barrier, he was knocked out of the sky. He hit the ground hard for the second time that day, and lay there stunned once more.
"You little pest! I'll get rid of you now! Once and for all!" Vlad screamed.
He held his hand out towards Danny and launched his most powerful attack. It flew at Danny fast, but never reached him as Maddie jumped protectively in front of the blast and was killed instantly by the blast. Her now half destroyed body fell backwards on top of Danny with a bloody splat. Danny screamed in horror and anger as he saw his mother's blood drenching his hasmat uniform and causing scarlet patches in his white hair.
"MAMMA!" Jazz screamed as she sat on the ground sobbing.
"Maddie! Noooooooooooo! You did this you little basterd! She died because of you! You'll pay for this!" Vlad screamed enraged.
Danny pushed his mother's remains off of him and stood starring numbly at Vlad.
"No. You did this. You took my mother away from us both, and you took my father away from jazz and me. You'll pay. You'll die now too. Heh." Danny muttered with a slight insane giggle.
He then released his most powerful attack as he screamed all his rage, pain, and sorrow at Vlad, his ghostly wail. This one, enhanced by his emotions, was stronger than any he had ever done. Waves of sound hit Vlad ripping him apart in mid air. Bloody remains splattered onto the ground below as Danny fell out of his ghost form then fell and landed in the bloody remains on the ground.
"Danny!" Jazz yelled as she run to her fallen brother.
She reached him and saw that he was still breathing. She looked dazedly around herself at the remains of her parents. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she passed out beside her brother. Danny lay half conscious as he thought he saw a form appear over him. The face of a young woman no older than himself looked down at him curiously. She had large eyes that were almost a silver color. Her hair was a yellow blond color, or at least the parts he could see sticking out from under a bandana.
"I saw you fight." a voice said in his head. "You are like me. You know what it's like to be different. I've been watching you for sometime. I wondered when you'd kill that guy. Perhaps one day we will meet again. Perhaps one day, you'll save me." the voice seemed to purr.
The girl smiled and slowly disappeared just as Danny's vision went hazy and he past out once again.
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The cops were told that they were the victims of a strange attack. They didn't remember what the attackers looked like or where they had come from. The cops let Danny and Jazz go. The courts made Jazz Danny's legal guardian for the remainder of his teenage life. They buried their parents in Amity Park and continued to go to school there. The pain of the loss of their parents never went away, and Jazz became more and more fearful of Danny's ghost hunting. While Danny became more and more reckless with his life. Sam and Tucker even became worried. But one day a year later, Danny seemed to calm down. He still hunted ghost, but it was more like before his parent's death. He joked around while he caught ghosts. He acted normal, but he didn't tell his friends or his sister why. It was the voice. It followed him and talked to him. It would tell secrets to him and warn him of certain moves that the ghosts were going to do before they could do it. He soon grew to feel possessive of the owner of the voice. He wanted to find her. He could only vaguely remember what she looked like. Then one day as he sat in his room quietly listening to the voice, it stopped. At first he thought it was resting as it did sometimes, but an hour later, when it didn't return, he grew worried. A month passed and the voice didn't return. He missed it and wished he could find it again. A few months later though he wrote the voice off as his imagination trying to help him cope with his parent's deaths.
Three years later, Danny Phantom sat on the edge of the rooftop of an old building in Amity Park. He was looking around for any of the usual ghosts. He heard a strange sound behind him and turned to see something he had never seen before. A large horned creature with bat like wings, a forked tail, and hooves instead of feet. It wasn't a ghost or his ghost sense would have triggered. Whatever this was, it was something new.
Danny jumped to his feet and faced the creature. The creature grinned as it neared Danny. It got almost up in his face and leered at him.
"You are not a scrawny boy like he said you would be. Although that was four years ago. You are quit fit now." came a grading voice that seemed to dig into Danny's head.
Grabbing his head in pain, Danny backed away from the creature. The creature grinned as it starred at the twenty-one year old man in front of him. Danny was of average build. He had defined muscles, but they weren't too big. He had a slender waist and muscled, powerful looking legs. He looked more than enough to take on the creature.
"Perhaps I have made a mistake. Are you indeed Danny Phantom?" the voice asked, causing Danny's head to hurt worse.
"Who wants to know?" Danny growled angrily.
The creature laughed. The sound ripping at Danny's brain.
"You are. He said you would have a smart mouth. Ha." the creature said with an amused look on his face.
"Who are you talking about?" Danny asked as he still clutched his head.
"I'm not at liberty to disclose the name of the one I work for. He knows of you and your power. He wants to offer you something greater. He wants to offer you the chance to join the winning team. Give up your humanity to become part ghost part demon." the creatures voice said.
"Yeah, I've heard a deal similar to this. I'll tell you the same thing I told them. No way." Danny said as he straightened himself to stand at his full height.
"Pity. The end is near. Humans shall fall beneath the wrath of the demons. Don't be stupid. Join us, because if you are not one of us, you'll be mere fodder in the great war that is about to begin. We have been planning this war for several millenniums. We learned about the halfas just recently and saw that you were the keys to the victory we seek" the demon said.
"Keep dreaming. I'm not going to help you destroy my own race." Danny growled.
"They don't have to be your race though. You have the chance to become something so much more." the demon said, still trying to convince Danny.
"Sorry. Not interested. So you can take your deals and go back to hell or where ever it is you come from." Danny said, losing interest in the demon.
"You can either come with me willingly, or I'll take you by force." the demon said sounding agitated and a little desperate.
"Is that a threat, horn boy?" Danny growled as his eyes glowed a poison green color.
"It's a promise." the demon said circling around Danny.
Danny only glared at the demon as it circled him. He had never fought a demon, but it couldn't be any harder than fighting a ghost, could it? He watched how the thing moved, then got into a fighting stance. Danny gathered energy into his hand and hurled it at the demon. The demon side stepped and charged at Danny, grabbing the ghost around the waist and launching them both off the roof. A scuffle started in mid-air, and ended when they hit the ground. Both ghost and demon stood and faced one another.
"Aim for his head." came a familure female voice to Danny's head.
"Kari?" Danny asked in shock.
Kari was the name the disembodied voice from three years ago had given him. This was nuts. She wasn't real. She had only been a figment of his imagination. But it was defanatly the same voice. He didn't get a chance to ponder this further as the demon slashed Danny's chest with his forked tail. Two bloody lines ran across the ghost's chest. Enraged, Danny started to hurl blast after blast at the demon.
"Aim for the head." the voice in his head said, this time a bit more commandingly.
Danny aimed one final large blast at the demon's head and watched in shock as it exploded in a mess of flying gore. Danny was pelted by some of the gore, but he wasn't paying attention, because standing across the street stood a beautiful yet strange cat creature. She had silver eyes and blond hair. Two cat ears protruded from her mess of short hair as a tail waved lazily back and forth. She smiled at Danny almost lovingly.
"You. I've found you." She mouthed.
Before Danny could say or do anything, she was gone. Had she really been there? Only the faint sound of melodic laughing confirmed her existence.
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Next: The Ghost and The Kitten: Chapter One: The Wedding
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