(Hello, and welcome to the first full chapter of my first Danny Phantom Fan fiction! I want to thank Yumi and Eramath, my two good friends from Gaia for their support! I hope everyone enjoys this chapter as much as they liked the prologue. Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman does. If I owned it, it wouldn't be allowed on TV before 11: 00 at night. XD. Well here it is! Remember, read and review.)

The Ghost and the Kitten

Chapter One

The Wedding

He stared in the direction of where the cat-girl-creature had been standing, still not sure if he had really seen her or not. Was she a figment of his imagination? He didn't get time to think about it, when he heard the chimes of the town's giant clock in the distance.

"Shit." he growled under his breath.

He was late, and if he didn't hurry, he'd miss it. The most important event of the day and the thing he had been thinking about as he had sat on the edge of the building before the demon had attacked. The wedding of his two best friends, Sam and Tucker. It was kind of funny. For years everyone thought it would be Sam and Danny who would tie the knot. No one ever expected this. He smiled to himself as he started to fly to the church as fast as he could. He had and would always have feelings for Sam, but after what had happened to his parents, he didn't want something to happen to Sam. He had stopped letting Sam and Tucker help with his fights. They'd sneak to them and watch him fight, hoping he wouldn't see them, but they never got involved. He couldn't bear the thought of what happened to his parents happening to Sam, or Tucker either. He was glad Tucker was the one marring Sam. He couldn't think of a better man to always be with Sam. To take care of her and protect her. He was only a little saddened that it wasn't him.

He didn't give it anymore thought as he continued to fly to the church. He landed outside of it and looked through the windows until he found one where Sam was getting into her dress. He watched her finish and casually walked through the wall. He remained intangible and invisible as he walked up to her. He stopped behind her and planted a small kiss to her cheek and put his arms around her slender waist. Most women would have jumped, maybe even screamed, but not Sam. She smiled and leaned into his embrace.

"You look beautiful." Danny whispered into her ear.

"Thank you." Sam said as she giggled and blushed in spite of herself.

Danny smiled and turned tangible and visible as Sam turned to look at him.

"You're late." Sam said with mock disgust.

"Only five minutes. Why am I not surprised that you're wearing a black dress?" Danny asked teasingly

"Ha. First, I'm still a goth. I don't do white. Second, I'm not exactly that innocent or have you forgotten that time at your house?" Sam asked with a really evil smile.

The comment got the expected blush to wash over the ghost's face. He quickly tried to recover by clearing his throat.

"Careful now. We're in a church. Don't want any god or other deity throwing lightning bolts at you for such thoughts. I doubt Tucker wants a char broiled bride." Danny said smiling.

Sam couldn't help it any more. She threw back her head and almost howled with laughter. She laughed so hard that her eyes started to water.

"It wasn't that funny. Hey, are you crying!" Danny exclaimed gathering Sam into his arms.

"I'm just so nervous. I think I'm getting cold feet. Is this even right? I want so much for it to be you that I marry." Sam said through tears Danny had thought were from laughing.

"You are getting cold feet. You know you and Tucker belong together. You guys were always together. You'd finish one another's sentences and everything. You guy's spent more time with one another than I spent with you." Danny said still trying to reassure himself as well as his friend.

He had the sudden impulse to pick his friend up and fly away with her, but he couldn't do that to Tucker. So instead he spent the next ten minutes trying to convince Sam that she and Tucker were meant for one another. He wanted to laugh at the irony.

"It's getting about that time. I need to go and detransform." Danny said as he smiled at Sam and released her.

"Yeah. Tucker won't want a char broiled bride or a ghost for a best man." Sam said with a smile.

"Yup. See you out there in a bit, Mrs. Foley." Danny said with an ecstravagent bow, then he was gone.

"Mrs. Foley?" Sam asked, then with a sigh, "I wish it was Mrs. Finton."

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Everything was going as planed. Sam's father walked her down the isle, as her mother sat in the first seat in the church and cried. Danny stood beside Tucker in a black tux, his black hair about as combed as ever. He was almost as nervous as the bride and groom. Tucker looked on the verge of pukeing, passing out, or both. When Sam arrived next to Tucker, Danny winced as Tucker staggered and almost fell on top of her. Sam caught him and helped him steady himself. The guests let out a nervous chuckle all around. The preacher cleared his throat and started the ceremony. He got as far as asking Sam if she would take Tucker as her lawfully wedded husband, when the ceiling imploded.

People screamed and jumped under seats as Tucker tackled Sam to the ground and kept her head covered. Danny had shoved the priest out of the way and went intangible as a large piece of roof fell towards him. He walked through it unharmed and quickly went back to normal hoping no one had noticed. He looked up and saw a similar creature to the one he had fought earlier flapping it's large, powerful wings to keep it airborne. Danny grumbled a few choice curses under his breath as he ran from the remains of the church so he could transform somewhere unnoticed. As soon as he was in his ghost form, he flew and punched the demon out of the sky.

"What the hell were you trying to do? Kill everyone in there!" Danny yelled angrily.

"As a matter of fact..." the demon started with an evil grin.

"Well, if you were trying to kill them to get my attention, you should try a less suddle way. Next time wait and come talk to me." Danny grumbled sarcastically.

"My apologies, Phantom. Excuse me if I'm not in the mood for politeness, but the death of my brother at your hands kinda pissed me off." the demon growled back.

"Was that your brother? Gee, I'm sorry. If you like I could send you to meet him." Danny said with an almost sadistic grin as his eyes flashed a slightly deeper green than usual.

The demon started to laugh uproariously as Danny stared at him in surprise. It wiped its eyes and looked at Danny with a grin.

"The master was right. You'll make an excellent addition to our ranks. Come now Phantom. Let's not make this hard." the demon said.

"Man you guys are repetitive. Your brother said the same thing and I killed him quite easily. What makes you think I won't be able to take you on?" Danny asked as he shook his head in exasperation.

"Oh I have my ways." the demon said.

It snapped its fingers and a small imp appeared.

"Fetch the master." it told the imp.

The imp bowed and disappeared. A few seconds later a familure thing appeared. Vlad. But he was different. He was no longer a ghost. He was a demon. Wings were sprouting from his back and horns from his brow. He still wore the tailored suit he always wore and he had a tail with a thick point like an arrow at the end of it. Danny gasped and backed away.

"Hello, Daniel. It has been a while." Vlad purred.

"Murderer!" Danny screamed and leapt at Vlad only to be thrown backwards by a barrier.

"Awww. I missed you too, dear boy. You've grown quite a bit since last I saw you. I must say those wounds you dealt me the last time were quite effective. I cursed you as I wondered the ghost zone as a full ghost. Then a most unexpected thing happened, a beautiful woman approached me with a deal. She'd make me the master of a legion of demons if I joined her. She would turn me demon and give me unimaginable power. I couldn't refuse. I joined her and become a demon with part ghost powers. It's been a wonderful experience these last four years as I got use to my new powers. Sadly my mistress has set her sights on you. I told her you were fare inferior to me, but she wouldn't hear of it. So now here I am. You've already killed one of my minions, so why don't we save each other a lot of time an effort. You come with me, except the demon power, let it destroy your human side, you help me destroy the world and turn it into a living hell and we call it a day." Vlad explained.

Danny only stared at Vlad with a bored look on his face.

"You always were one to spout a boring monologue before a fight. You know how this is going to go down. We fight. I kill you again, and then I go back to minding my own business. So let's get the fight over with. I've got a reception to go to." Danny said with a shrug.

"Why you impudent little whelp! I'll teach you to talk to me like that." Vlad growled as he flew at Danny.

Danny didn't pay the threat any attention as he flew at Vlad and slammed his fist into the barrier. He used all his strength to shatter the barrier and plant his fist squarely in Vlad's jaw, knocking the once half human backwards. Danny had forgotten about the other demon that come up and sent a hoofed foot into Danny's stomach. Danny doubled over in pain giving the demon room to bring his fists down on the ghost's back sending him free falling into a roof. Danny lay stunned for a moment, and was slowly sitting up when Vlad sent his foot into the ghost's face. Danny fell back into a laying position, only this time holding his bleeding nose. He quickly got up and wiped the green ectoplasmic blood from his face and glared at the two demons.

"You'll lose this fight, Daniel. Come with us peacefully and willingly and no further harm will come to you." Vlad said with mock pity in his voice.

"I'm not like you, Plasmious. Never have been and never will be. Leave this world and I won't have to personally escort you out of it. If you're still part ghost, then I'll have no trouble trapping you into a thermos and shoving your ass through the ghost portal." Danny growled.

"Ha! You couldn't trap me in one of those things before, remember? Sounds to me like you're trying to bluff your way out of a bad situation." Vlad said.

"Maybe, maybe not." Danny said with a shrug.

Before either demons could say or do anything, Danny blew Vlad's minion's head off. Gore splattered onto Vlad, making the demon growl in anger.

"You idiot! Stop destroying my minions!" Vlad roared.

"Destroy? I thought they looked better that way." Danny said with a grin.

With a furious roar, Vlad flew at Danny and drove his fist into the ghost's stomach. Danny moaned in pain and doubled over again only to have his teeth almost smashed by Vlad's fist slamming into the bottom of Danny's chin, throwing the ghost up and back. Danny landed on his back and slid backwards a couple of feet. Before he could get up, Vlad was there standing over him. Vlad stomped the ghost's chest again and again, until Danny spat out green blood that splattered Vlad's shoes. Vlad planted his foot on Danny's chest firmly, pressing the ghost into the roof.

"You were never my equal in battle. Even now as an adult you are no match." Vlad muttered. "I have no idea why the mistress would want you."

"Can't say it's my sunny disposition." Danny grumbled.

Vlad grabbed Danny by the front of his hasmat suit and pulled him to his feet and inches from his face. Vlad didn't say a word. He only held up a red seed like object that appeared to have a swirling red cloud inside of it. He made sure Danny saw it clearly, and then he baled his fist up with the seed safely inside of it. He let his fist go intangible and sent it into Danny's body. Danny let out a cry of pain, then groaned as Vlad pulled his now empty hand from the ghost's chest. Vlad dropped Danny with a disgusted look on his face.

"You're pathetic, but thanks to that seed, you'll soon no longer have any humanity inside you. You better detransform and try to be human for a while; you only have a couple of days left to enjoy it." Vlad said.

With out so much as an evil laugh, the demon disappeared as Danny slumped to the roof surface. He was about to fall completely, when he felt arms grab him and slowly lower him into a laying position. A hand went intangible and went into his chest he felt terrible pain as the hand grabbed something and tried to pull it out. He screamed out loud as the hand started to yank harder. Finally he heard a sigh as the hand reemerged empty.

"I'm so sorry." came the familure voice of Kari. "I couldn't get here in time. They blocked me after your last fight. I had no access to the human world. Please forgive me, Danny. I tried. Don't listen to Vlad. Don't turn into a human. The longer you stay in your human form, the faster the seed grows. Stay in your ghost form at least until I can find a way to destroy the seed."

The voice come from somewhere behind him. He didn't see her leave, but he knew she was gone, when he no longer felt her presence. He couldn't say anything to her anyway, even if she had stayed. He was too weak. He couldn't keep his eyes open, and he soon passed out, involuntarily detransforming into his human form.

To Be Continued...

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Next: The Ghost and The Kitten: Chapter Two: Reunion

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