Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. I am just a dedicated fan.

DarkDragonQueen:This story kind of came to my mind a few months before I started it. I didn't really want to write it until I saw a few stories that calmed my nerve. It's an Alternate universe and Sam has never met Danny or Tucker and she's never been to Amity Park until now.

Also no flames, but I do accept constructive criticism. Please bear with me because although I know the basics of grammar, I never did look at the detail. Don't worry my grammar isn't horrible where you can't read it, but it isn't exactly perfect where I could go and become an English teacher.

I decided to put this up early and get it over with so I can work on some other ideas. Read the stuff after the story at the bottom. Very important, especially if you want to see the sequel to this story.

With that said here is chapter twenty- three of this story. It's the last chapter... boohoo. So sad to see it finally done.

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The Judgement

By

DarkDragonQueen

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So that how I ended up here. I can't believe I went back through all that in only about ten seconds. I guess the saying is true. When the ending comes your life flashes before your eyes. So all that led up to where I am now. In the dark standing before a woman who wants to wipe me, Danny, and everyone else like us out of existence. I started saying my good- byes in my head. There was no way I would pass this. We we're doomed to a fate worse then death.

Sam stood looking at the woman in shock as well.

"Me?" she asked

Hatimah nodded. "You will be judged."

A million and one thoughts were traveling through Sam's head at a hundred miles a minute.

"There must be some type of mistake. You can't judge me. I'll fail for sure. What is this judgement anyway?" Sam asked

"Come and you'll see." Hatimah said and the crystal glowed brighter and engulfed both Sam and Hatimah.

Sam shielded her eyes from the blinding light and when she was able to see again she could no longer see Danny, Toya, or Ember. It was just darkness. She couldn't even see past the darkness, the only thing she could see was herself and the Hatimah standing in from of her. This place was so familiar to her. It was like she had been there before.

"Alesia brought you here." Hatimah said.

Sam realized that this was the place Alesia had given her her powers, but...

"How did you know that?"

"Your thoughts and memories are not your own here. I am the judge remember." Hatimah said.

"Oh... yeah. How does this work?" Sam asked

"What's your name?" Hatimah asked

"You already know my name I'm sure." Sam rolled her eyes.

"What is you name?" Hatimah ignored her smart remark.

"It's Sam." she finally replied. "Samantha Elizabeth Manson, but preferably Sam."

"Samantha you are here to be judged on behalf of all those of your race."

"I already knew that much."

"Shall we begin?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"Tell me what is your deepest darkest secret." Hatimah asked and the spikey red crystal in her hand glow.

Sam bit her lip. That was easy, but it wasn't something she admitted everyday. "That I died and was brought back to life making me the Black Phoenix." she breathed out nervously.

"The Black Phoenix. Amity Park calls you Goth Girl, correct."

"I hate that name." Sam said annoyed.

"They say you like to cause trouble in the town. Is that true?"

"No, I don't like to cause trouble." Sam said putting emphasis on the word like.

"What do you do then?" Hatimah asked

"I save people suffering a tragic death, like I did. If there's any trouble caused it's not my fault although I'm usually there when it happens." Sam replied trying to calm her beating heart and then just wishing to herself that it would stop all together.

"So you're a hero?"

"I'm no hero." Sam sighed.

"Then you're a villian?"

"No,"

"A thief maybe?"

Sam racked her head. Her alter ego did have a liking for stealing things when she was in the mood. The only reason she hadn't been doing it lately was because Danny would always be there to reprimand her. He was like her conscience in a way.

"I don't know what I am." she replied simply

"So then what are you?"

"Maybe you need to get your hearing checked." Sam said dryly not intending to be sarcastic at a time like this.

"Who are you really then?"

"I'm Sam Manson. Resident goth girl." Sam sighed.

"Are you?" Hatimah asked still holding up the crystal.

Sam tilted her head in confusion. What did she mean? Then it dawned on her. She wasn't just Sam Manson.

"I'm the Black Phoenix she said. Not hero, but not a villian either and when I don't feel like being her anymore I put on my mask and become Sam Manson. They both play a role in who I am." Sam said as her heart still raced.

"And you truly believe this?"

"Yes,"

Then Hatimah did something that surprised her. She smiled.

"So you did know who you were. Not many people, especially teens know that. You will accomplish great things." Hatimah muttered.

"So you mean I passed?" Sam asked hopefully.

"Yes child."

Sam let out a sigh and her racing heart finally calmed down. The red light glowed again and this time when Sam's eyes recovered she was standing back in the park with Danny still clutching at his side in ghost form and Ember and Toya floating next to him.

"That was weird." Toya blinked.

"So,"

"What happened?" Toya asked.

"Well we're not being painfully erased from existence are we?" Sam asked dryly.

"Who would have thought, the somewhat hero, somewhat villian goth girl saved our race." Ember said dryly. "Well, I think I've done enough good deeds to last a decade. I'm gone, unfortunately I'll probably be seeing you later Goth Girl. " Ember then used her hair to wrap around her and she disappeared leaving Sam Danny and Toya.

"Come on Ghost Boy," Sam said as she put his arm around her shoulder helping him stand up. "You're going to need that to be bandaged when you get home."

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"I never thought I would be glad to come back to school, but now that I'm back, I remember why I didn't like coming in the first place." Danny muttered as she closed her locker.

"Well just think, in two months, we'll be out for the summer and that will be more fun since everyone will be out of school." Sam shrugged running a hand through the top of her hair which was now just below her shoulders after finally figuring out a way to cut it, and was now thrown into a low ponytail.

"I know." Danny replied as she sighed.

"Hey guys," Tucker greeted as he approached them. "Thank god you're back in school. Do you know how boring it was without you three?"

"Oh come on Tuck," Sam laughed as she punched his shoulder playfully. "You lived through it."

"Yeah, but where's Aly?" Tucker asked and suddenly Sam put a hand over her mouth to hide laughter and failed miserably.

"What?" Danny asked suspiciously.

"Aly caught Dash, Kwan, and Paulina in her locker this morning trying to take her diary and make copies of it so they could pass it out all over school... today's Wednesday so I think it was Monday she caught them. Anyway I think Dash is still scared of her because he thought she was going to pound him. She told him that if she ever caught them going in her locker to get her diary again she would do something much worse than beating him up. Well Dash took her up on that and went back with Paulina and Kwan to get the diary." By this time Sam was crying from laughter. "Well Aly caught him the next day and this time had back up. You'd be surprised how many people like her. She and her 'helpers' got hold of Dash and well... let's just say Dash will never want to show his face at school again after today."

"What did she do?" Tucker asked eagerly.

"A sadistic action much worse than any torture I could ever come with." Sam laughed. " And you're about to find out what. Let's call it payback for them getting us suspended. Tucker get your PDA. You have to record this."

The entrance to the school burst open and about twelve girls came in. Six stood on each side of the entrance and Aly walked in.

"Your attention student body of Casper High." she announced. "You are about to witness an event that unfortunately could result in the utter humiliation of one of our students...Well, unfortunately for them anyway. Get your camcorders, your cameras, and anything else that can capture a momentum of this moment." Aly laughed. "Also let this be an example of what might happen if you cross me. Trust me, it's worse than death itself. So without further ado I present to Dash, or should I say maybe, Dashlyn Baxter."

Upon seeing Aly step out of the way and two rather large girls bring Dash through the entrance, the school broke out in laughter.

"Oh my god!" Tucker exclaimed barely able to hold his PDA in place so he could record it.

Standing there was Dash... in a miniskirt, belly shower tank top, red lipstick, and high heel shoes.

The twelve girls did a mock salute all the while laughing as Aly played graduation music and pushed Dash between the girls with the two rather large girls walking beside him. Then when nobody thought it could get any better, Dash did something that had every with there jaws scraping the floor.

Sam squealed and turned around covering her eyes.

"Is there any possible way you can reach you hand in my head and pull that image out of my head. That's not something I'd like to remember." she said to Danny who merely shrugged with amusement, shock, and disbelief in his eyes all at one as he laughed.

"Sorry, no can do."

Let's just say Dash would make a good stripper in the future and leave it at that...

Dash had run into the boys locker room now, and Aly smiled in satisfaction.

"This is too perfect." Tucker laughed. "This is blackmail for life!"

Aly came up to then will a wide grin on her face. "I didn't think he would do that. He won't ever think about crossing me again."

"How did you get the teachers away?" Sam asked. "With all the commotion surely one of them would have heard."

Aly smiled. "Sometimes it pays to share a body with a ghost who can hypnotize people with their music."

There was a scream from the boys locker room and Aly smirked. "I guess he found the cockroaches I put in his locker..."

At this point the teachers were from under Ember's influence and Mr. Lancer came around the corner just as Dash ran out from the locker room with a towel around him.

"Lord of the Rings! What is the meaning of this?" he exclaimed

"McLain did it." Dash shouted

"How could she have when she was in the library doing a bit of volunteer work for the school?" Mr Lancer asked. "To my office Mr. Baxter."

Aly smirked and winked at Dash mischievously.

"I love mind control." Aly smirked thanking Ember in her head.

"You know," Danny said heading to his class. "If you keep this up, I'm going to have to end up sending you to the ghost zone."

"I'm not being that bad. It was just a little payback." Aly's eyes flashed mischievously.

"Un- hun... Payback, You can't tell me you didn't want to do that when they first invited you to the 'A- list'." Sam said giving Aly a look that told the older girl not to deny it.

Aly sighed. "Okay, so I had been planning it for a while, but that doesn't mean-" she was cut off by a gasp from Danny as his ghost sense went off.

"Oh great," he said about to take off and go ghost but Sam grabbed his shoulder reaching in his backpack and taking the thermos.

"I got it. Go on and get to class. I can afford to skip a few." Danny gave her a grateful smile and the three took off.

She transformed and ran outside where Desiree she think it was, was looking on a few students who hadn't gone in yet and frankly looked like they couldn't care less.

"Hey Wish Girl," Phoenix said.

Desiree raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me, you're another wanna- be ghost hunter looking to be the hero, right."

"No," Phoenix said. "I'm not a hero. I'm as good as a wanna- be and when I feel like it, I'm not good at all. Guess how I'm feeling now?" she asked as she launched into battle with the ghost.

So that's the first part of my story, life after death, but it's not the end. I don't know if I'll ever get there. I am the Black Phoenix and this is only the beginning...

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That's it. I know sorry ending. I'm not good with those. Here's the sneak peak of the first chapter of the sequel and a sneak peak of a story I plan to put up:

The Black Phoenix: Humanity- Sneak Preview

"What's rhetorical?" Toya managed to ask.

Sam sighed again. "Forget it Toya." she said in a monotone not feeling like explaining.

"Even when you're hot as hell-"

"Toya who taught you that?" Sam scolded

"Well, in your Phoenix form you don't have such a decent mouth." Toya rolled her eyes. "And neither does Danny when he's bothered or angry. So I was bound to pick it up sooner or later. Anyway like I was saying even when you're hot as... hot you can still talk in the dry monotone voice that creeps anyone who doesn't know you out."

"I get a lot of practice doing it when I'm fighting off ghost and bad guys." Sam replied

"Speaking of that," Toya started. "Can I ask you something?"

"You just did." Sam answered and Toya rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, I just wanted to know what that crystal does besides telling you when danger's coming?"

"Well, I think it keeps me alive and helps me to transform into The Black Phoenix." Sam said simply

"I don't think it keeps you alive." Toya said suddenly

Here's the sneak peak of a new story I'm putting up most likely right or another before the sequel to Black Phoenix called Humanity. It's not as long as Black Phoenix though:

"You don't have to recognize me as that. You can't really deny it if I am, so I could care less. I don't want anything to do with you and you want nothing to do with me. That's the end of this conversation." Sam declared

"Just like her great grandmother." one of the council muttered. "Well then if that's how you feel about that then there's nothing more for us to discuss. Meeting a-"

"Oh, Sammy- kins. Look what I bought for you. Just try it on for me." Mrs. Manson's voice came and Sam gasped hearing footsteps at the top of the stairs.

"Meeting adjourned." Sam rushed out and the council disappeared. Sam grabbed the spell book off the bed about to hide it but then dropped it as her door burst open.

"Mom," she shouted out nervously. "I didn't know you were home."

"Just got here dear, now I want you to try on this beautiful dress I bought today. It's pink, but it would look so good on you." Mrs. Manson said happily

"Mom, no now I have some work I need to do so if you could give me my space so I could-" Sam cut herself off so she could push her mother out the door. Her mother then stepped on the book she had dropped.

"What's this?" she asked and picked up the book giving it a once over and then giving Sam a stern look.

'Busted...'

And here's the summary of something I want to post, but I want you to vote whether you want to see the new story I have above or this one and don't vote for Humanity. That's going up anyway. I just wanted to do a drama/angst. So here's the summary. I haven't actually started writing this one.

Alternate Universe. After Sam is raped, she finds herself pregnant. Her parents don't believe her and just think that she's a hopeless case of teen rebellion and disown her. She's sent to live with the family of ghost hunters in Amity Park, the Fentons. There she meets not only the Fenton's strange and mysterious son Danny, she also meets ghost, in particular the ghost boy Danny Phantom, and people with very peculiar personalities at school. Toss that in with the fact that she's trying to hide her pregnancy and fighting for legal custody of her child, can Sam find the strength to survive the next hectic year?

I know a bit cliche. You've seen it before, but it's actually different than most. Trust me I get tired of the fics that have the same old thing happen. Tell me what you think and what you want to read. R&R.