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Phantoms of Time

Chapter One

Usagi and Danny

Warmth. It was the first thing he noticed. He felt awfully warm. He slowly opened his eyes to see a wealth of stars above him. A large crescent moon hung low over head. Danny groaned as he slowly sat up and saw why he was so warm. He was lying under several heavy blankets. A small camp fire crackled next to him. Where was he? This wasn't Amity Park. He was in a clearing somewhere surrounded by dense trees. He could hear birds and other night creatures. Things he hadn't heard since his future self had broken free of the Fenton Thermos he had been held captive in. Clockwork was the one who was supposed to be watching over it, but one day Dan Phantom had broken free, badly wounded Clockwork and had escaped into Danny's time. For years Dan terrorized the people of Earth. Growing ever stronger and more powerful. Nothing could stop him. He could destroy ghost shields with his Ghostly Wail attack, leaving many cities unprotected. He had gone around destroying large cities trying to lour Danny into fighting him. Danny refused and instead stayed hidden and continued to train. Danny become powerful himself and one day went to face Dan. Unfortunately, the future version of himself was still too strong. He easily beat Danny, then drug the younger half ghost back to Amity Park and slowly killed his family and friends one by one in front of him, trying to convince Danny to become evil. To finally give in and become Dan. Danny was able to escape and hide again for a while until he was better. He challenged Dan again. One last battle. One last chance to set everything right. He had been equally matched with his future self, but when Dan used his Ghostly Wail, Danny wasn't prepared for how powerful it would be and was wounded and thrown to the ground. Then Dan had flown down to him and had given him a fist to the stomach and had kicked him until something had flown between them. The last thing Danny remembered was seeing a very attractive set of legs.

Bringing himself back to the here and now, Danny looked around trying to get his bearings, but it was no good. He didn't recognize anything around him. He threw the blankets off of him and sighed with relief as a gust of wind hit him. He was about to put out the fire when a sparkle caught his eyes. He looked up and saw something moving towards him from out of the trees. He stood up straight and stared in amazement, for out of the trees walked what had to be an angel. The moonlight sparkled on her extremely long white hair and a strange symbol on her forehead that appeared to be a star. Her cheeks seemed to glitter, as did her rather skimpy sailor outfit. A long cape trailed behind her as she approached. Danny was unable to think or move. He could do nothing but watch as she walked right up to him and smiled gently. That smile could melt an iceberg. He stared down at her, eyes wide and in shock. She continued to smile up at him. Standing close to him he could see she was a whole head shorter than him. Could have fooled him from a distance. She seemed to have legs that went on forever. He mentally shook himself out of his silly thoughts as she opened her mouth to speak.

"Daijobuka?" she asked.

"Huh?" Danny asked back dumbly.

Great. She spoke a different language. Finding out who she was and where they were was going to be a trick.

"Daijobuka?" she asked again only louder.

"Sorry. I don't understand." Danny said shaking his head for effect in case she didn't understand him either.

"Oh! Gomen nasai! I asked if you were okay. I'm so very sorry. My English isn't that good, and for a moment there I thought you might be able to speak my language." the angel woman said with a slight blush across her cheeks.

"Oh. No problem. Don't worry about it, really. Um, I'm fine. I'm just a little confused as to where we are." Danny said trying to hide his own blush.

He wished he had paid more attention in that Japanese class Jazz had drug him to once. The thought of his late sister made him look away from the angel woman and down at the small camp fire.

"I am not sure where we are either. I hardly ever know where I will end up when I go through a time portal." the angel woman said.

"T...T..Time portal! What happened! What time portal! Did Clockwork do this!" Danny exclaimed.

The angel woman backed up with a slightly frightened look on her face. Not so much frightened as surprised. He forgot about how his eyes blazed when he was angry or in a panic. He turned his head away from her again and directed his now blazing poison green eyes to the ground. He took a few calming breaths, then turned back to the angel woman.

"Sorry." he murmured.

"It is alright. I would be scared too if something like this were to happen to me. I guess I could answer your questions though. It is the least I could do for forcing to leave your world. Would you please sit and we will talk." the angel woman said gesturing to an area around the fire.

Danny sighed but did as she asked. He sat on one side of the fire as she sat on the other facing him. She smoothed out her cape then cleared her throat to speak.

"I am Sailor Cosmos. I am the ultimate Sailor Senshi. I have many powers that the others do not. I can go through time is one. I have many others, but they are not important to this conversation. I was battling an evil entity known as Sailor Chaos. He was too strong and destroyed everything that was important to me. I went back to the past and tried to help my past self destroy Sailor Chaos and protect the ones we loved. I must have failed, because once I returned to my home, everything was still the same. I traveled through time trying to find a place to belong and a way to outrun Sailor Chaos who still chases after me. I traveled for years and years, but I found nowhere for me. I finally came to your world and saw you fighting a large villain. I heard you speak to him and tell him something about never becoming him and about your dead friends and family still living on in your heart. It touched me and I knew I had to stop him from killing you. It'd be such a waist. So I jumped in and blasted him backwards with my scepter. He was dazed, but not completely unconscious. I grabbed you and jumped through the Time Portal with you. I must have passed out, because the next thing I remembered was waking up here beside you." the angel woman said.

Danny sat watching the sad eyed woman, trying to digest all that she had just told him. How powerful was she to be able to blast Dan backwards and still have time to pull them both to safety. He heard soft sobbing and saw that she was crying. He stood and moved to her side placing an arm around her shoulders. He wanted to comfort her, but didn't know how to do it.

"Um...I'm Danny. Danny Phantom. It's nice to meet you Ms. Cosmos." he said with a smile.

Cosmos blinked back tears as she looked up at him. He was trying to cheer her up, but was failing miserably as she put her head in her hands and sobbed.

"Don't cry. I'm sorry if I seemed harsh before. I'm just not quite good at this time traveling stuff. Every time I've done it, something bad has happened. I'm grateful to you for saving my life." Danny said.

He couldn't stand to see a girl cry. It always seemed to be breaking his heart. He was surprised when she shrugged his arm off her shoulders.

"You are so cold." she said.

"Hey! I said I was sorry. What more do you want!" Danny exclaimed.

He was further surprised when she started to chuckle in a sort of way he found incredible sexy.

"I didn't mean it that way, Danny-san. I meant, you have such a low body temperature. Your touch is like ice. Is this normal?" she asked looking up at him.

"Normal for most people, no. Normal for me, yes. I'm part ghost. I have been for ten years now. In my ghost form I feel like any other ghost. Most people get a cold chill when I enter a room. In my human form, it's not so bad. I'm not as cold and people don't have the whole shiver thing going on when I'm around." Danny explained.

"Oh. I see. I made those blankets for you in hopes to warm you. I see that that was foolish now." Cosmos said blushing.

"I wouldn't say foolish. You didn't know and you were only being thoughtful. No big deal." Danny said with a shrug.

The two sat there silently for what seemed like an eternity. He felt her head on his shoulder and looked over to see that she was sound asleep. He gently picked her up, careful not to wake her or get himself tangled in her cape. He took her over to the spot where he had been sleeping at earlier and laid her down on one of the blankets and covered her up with another. He found a soft spot on the ground close by her and laid down, not wanting to lay down next to her because he didn't want to make her cold again and also he thought it'd be rather inappropriate. He laughed silently at this, knowing at another time, he'd have leapt right up under the blankets with her and warmed up his body with hers. A blush appeared on his face at the wayward thought. He cleared his mind and instead took to watching the stars.

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Mean while, back in Danny's original time, Dan Phantom roared his rage at losing his chance to finally get his weak past self to finally become him. It was years past time and he was afraid that if another year past, he'd be erased from existence unless he convinced Danny to change. He heard a laugh over head that annoyed him. He looked up and saw a large blackness moving over him.

"What the hell?" Dan exclaimed.

"You wish to find the weaker version of yourself? I may be able to help. I pursue the bitch who helped him escape." a voice said from within the emence blackness.

"What? You'd help me? What for?" Dan growled.

"As I said. I want the bitch. We could fuse. Become all powerful and unstoppable. Even the boundaries of time could not stop us." the voice said.

"How do I know that you are all that strong? How do I know you won't just weaken me and become a burden?" Dan asked with a sneer.

"You don't." the voice said.

With that, the blackness engulfed the evil phantom.

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Danny awoke the next morning with a horrible crick in his neck. He sat up trying to rub it out as he looked around trying to remember where he was. When he was fully awake and aware, he looked around for Cosmos. She was still asleep, but somehow her blankets and all were closer to him than he remembered putting them. Not that he cared. He stood up and stretched all the kinks out of his body. They'd have to try to find some food soon. He was getting hungry and he was sure he heard her stomach growl. He walked over to her and put a hand on her arm, knowing that he wouldn't have to shake her. She jumped from the coldness on her arm and turned and looked up at him. She smiled warmly at him.

"Good morning, Danny-san." Cosmos said cheerfully.

"G'morning. Feeling better?" Danny asked.

"Much. We must get a move on. I am hungry." she said with a blush.

"Don't worry. So am I. Come on." he said holding out his hand.

Smiling she took the offered hand and let him help her to her feet. She picked up her staff and waved it over the blankets and fire. Everything disappeared in the blink of an eye as Danny stood watching with bulging eyes.

"That is awesome! How'd you do that?" Danny asked excitedly.

"It's nothing. I can summon stuff and send it away again with my staff." Cosmos said with a chuckle.

"Then screw walking, order us up some burgers!" Danny exclaimed happily.

"Gomen nasai, Danny-san. I can't. I can do inanimate objects and people, but not food." Cosmos said looking embarrassed.

"Well, they say walking good for you. Shall we?" Danny asked.

"Walking may be good for you, but flying is faster." Cosmos said with a giggle.

Before he could protest, she grabbed him around the waist. Her cape transformed into a set of wings and she leapt into the sky.

"Uhh...Ms. Cosmos, you do know I can fly, right?" Danny asked.

"Oh! Gomen!" Cosmos exclaimed dropping him so abruptly that he didn't have time to start flying himself.

He plummeted towards the ground, but quickly caught and righted himself in mid air and flew back up to join Cosmos who had a hand over her mouth in fear.

"You're kinda dangerous." Danny said with a light hearted chuckle.

"Don't scare me like that." Cosmos said.

"I'm alright. No harm done, Ms. Cosmos." Danny said.

"Usagi." Cosmos said.

"What?" Danny asked.

"Don't call me Ms. Cosmos. You may call me Usagi. It's the name my friends use to call me." Cosmos said.

"Oh. Okay, Usagi. That's cute. What's it mean?" Danny asked.

"Bunny." Usagi answered.

"Bunny. Now that I like. Bunny. You mind if I call you Bunny?" Danny asked.

Usagi blushed a bit.

"No. I don't mind, Danny-chan." Usagi said testing out a nick name on him and seeing if he noticed.

When he didn't seem to mind or either just didn't notice, she smiled and made it a note to call him that from now on. The two flew quietly and quickly over the trees looking for any signs of civilization. They didn't get too far as Usagi abruptly stopped and turned around facing the way they had come from with total fear. Danny hadn't noticed and had continued flying on until he felt a cold chill go down his spine and he gasped out a wisp of blue breath. He turned and saw Usagi staring in the direction they had come from. He quickly flew to her and stopped when he got beside her.

"What's the matter?" Danny asked.

"It's Chaos. He's here. I feel him." Usagi said with terror in her eyes.

"So he's a ghost?" Danny asked.

"No. I don't think so." Usagi said giving Danny a strange look.

"Oh, but we are now, Princess." came a very familure voice to Danny.

"Dan!" Danny exclaimed.

"Not quite. In a way you're both right. We are Chaos. The ghost called Dan and the entity called Sailor Chaos have fused. Now we are only known as Chaos." said the voice as what appeared to be Dan came from nowhere.

His clothes were a little different. Now every inch of it was black and the D symbol on the front of it was gone. His hair was longer and floated around his face reminding Usagi of Kunzite. His eyes had changed so that they had an extremely dilated look. The red filled the whole eyeball with only a small dot of black in the center. He moved with such speed that Usagi and Danny didn't know he had moved until he was right in their faces.

"Catching you two will be all too simple now." Chaos said with a laugh.

"Keep dreaming old man!" Danny yelled.

He threw two plasma blasts into the creature's face, then grabbed Usagi's arm and took off flying as fast as he could. He looked behind himself and figured they had lost it, only to crash into something solid. He floated backwards rubbing his nose. Usagi gasped and then screamed. Danny looked up to see Chaos holding a large scythe over his head preparing to bring it down on the two. Danny closed his eyes tightly and held Usagi close as he went intangible. The scythe sailed through them harmlessly, and Danny turned and flew back the other way still holding on to Usagi tightly. She was exclaiming something in Japanese in a hysterical way. He'd have to comfort her later. Right now his only thought was to get them away from Chaos. He was jarred out of his thoughts by running into Chaos once more. They didn't get a chance to react as Chaos raced down and grabbed them both by their throats. He held them apart and at arm's length from himself and smirked as they tried to struggle out of his grasp.

"That was sort of fun, but I'm not here to play. I have business with you both. First you, Danny. You are going to become me. One way or the other." Chaos said.

With that Danny felt like lightning was ripping into his head. Then he was back there. Back when Dan was slowly killing his family and friends starting with Sam. He watched as he tortured Sam. Viciously raped her, and then gutted her. Danny screamed out in agony. Not for himself, but for the woman he had planed to marry. Usagi looked at the man with fear as she watched him struggle and scream as if he were being tortured in some way.

"What are you doing to him!" She yelled.

"Just this." Chaos said simply as he transferred the visions to her.

She saw it all through Danny's eyes. The woman he loved being violated and murdered right before his eyes. His best friend went next in a horrible electrocution session. Then his sister went much like his girlfriend, followed by his mother then last his father who was crammed bodily and bloodily into a Fenton Thermos. She screamed and cried as she was forced to watch what the young man had to. She felt bile rise in her throat and tried to swallow it back down. Suddenly, Danny stopped screaming and forced his eyes open. He looked at Chaos and breathed in deeply, then he screamed all his anger frustration, loss and fear at the creature. Chaos was knocked back surprised, his hold and Usagi and Danny lost. Danny dropped in the air and looked about to pass out. He straightened himself and grabbed Usagi's hand.

"This is a good time to open one of those portals." Danny said weakly.

"H...hai." Usagi stammered.

She called forth the portal and the two leapt through it, leaving Chaos behind once more. Usagi held tightly to Danny's hand as they travel through the forth dimension. Soon they tumbled out of the opening on the other side. They landed on a crystal like floor. Usagi watched with shock as two rings of light formed around Danny's waist. One went up his body while the other went down. After they had crossed his body completely they disappeared leaving someone who looked completely different. His white hair had been replaced by black while his hasmat suit had been replaced by a t-shirt and a pair of baggy jeans. She didn't get long to think about this before she heard a voice she hadn't heard in a while.

"Usagi-chan, is that you?" the voice asked in Japanese.

Usagi turned around and saw her guardian cat Luna.

"Luna!" Usagi exclaimed with excitement.

"What are you doing here, Usagi-chan? You're supposed to be at the palace. Why are you dressed like that? Who is that?" Luna asked all in one breathe.

All Usagi could do was to look from Danny to Luna hoping the ghost man would wake up and help her explain this one.

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Next: Phantoms of Time: Chapter Two: Crystal Tokyo

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(Thanks for reading. Sorry if the first part was kind of boring. Just wanted to get some things said and out of the way. I don't know how long it'll be before I can get the next chapter up, but I'll get it up as soon as I can. Read and Review! Ja ne!)