Danny's date was in two days and he was nervous. At least he had finally told his mom and all of his adventures.
For some reason only the mindless ghosts attacked the city and even there attacks were five per 24h at worst. Danny had a feeling that it had some to do with him and the rumours of him being the next ghost king. And he couldn't shake it off.
"So Danny, the ball is in two days and I have yet to see you ask a girl out." Said Tucker.
"Perhaps he already has a date Tucker." Sam replied for Danny.
"Really? Who?" Asked the dark skinned boy as they walked to the exit of the school.
"You will see at the ball but I know for a fact that you had tried to get a date too Tuck." Danny skilfully turned the question around.
"And I succeeded." He beamed.
"Really? Who?" It was Sam's time to ask but the answer didn't came from the fully human male of the group.
"Me." Said a voice from several feet away from the former trio. The voice belonged to one Valerie Gray.
"You Val? First you hang out with freaks and then you go on a date with one of them. Where is your pride as a former A-list." Asked Paulina, trying to separate the trio+2.
"My what pride? Oh that non-existent thing? Yeah it went on a permanent vacation." The students who heard that snickered at the huntress's reply and Paulina left while tossing her hair over her shoulder.
As the trio+2 watched her leave Jazz spoke, "So who is the lucky lady little brother?"
"As I said Jazz, it's a secret which will be revealed this Friday." The halfa replied.
Then there was a crash from the school lab and every teen ran to see what happened.
There stood Dr. Stein looking quite confused and a curtain black haired boy could hear him murmuring about a failed teleport, how he was supposed to be at the only market which sold the things he needed for his new experiment and how it is possible that his teleportations can end only in a lab.
The students were... confused as to why there was a ghost who wasn't attacking.
"Could you tell me how to get to the closest supermarket?" Dr. Stein asked.
"It's next block." Said Danny.
"Ah, thank you sir." Said the ghost, being respectful towards the prince without mentioning his title.
"You know that ghost?" Asked the geek.
"Met him once." Replied Danny undisturbed by the fact that his breath wasn't visible when Stein came. He still had felt the ghost but it didn't show.
That was when Danny felt another ghost in the living world while Valerie's detector went off. Good thing she had turned its sound off.
The two teens looked at each other and nodded. They ran in an abandoned classroom and transformed in their alter egos. Danny Phantom took the hand of Red Huntress and phased them out of the school.
As they flew towards the ghost Valerie's eyes widened behind her visor, "Danny, this ghost's power level is like 16 while yours is 9.837." She said in shock.
"What?!" Danny cried in surprise, "But Pariah himself registered as 14 when he was wearing the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage." He exclaimed.
"16? But I was 17 before I was imprisoned. Humm... it must be my lower energy limits." A voice commented. The voice's origin was a ghost with flaming white hair, red eyes, navi colored skin, pointed ears and a jumpsuit similar to Danny's.
"Oh. It's you." Was all Danny had to say.
"You two know each other?" The Red Huntress asked.
"Yes." The ghosts said together, "Eew." They said together again.
The huntress eyed them strangely.
"By the way when are we going to train?" The oldest of the two ghosts asked.
"Dunno. Ask Clockwork to make a schedule." The prince answered.
Dan nodded and used one of Clockwork's medallions to teleport to the Clock Tower.
"Dude! What was that about?!" Asked Tucker, and he gained raised eyebrows, "What?... Oh right. Stupid question." He finally said as the group was walking by the mall.
*BOOM*
"And peace died." Danny commented before he transformed in an alley.
The explosion was in the mall and once Danny was in there he felt a ghost. Valerie was there too, with her hunting costume.
"I, Alegoria, challenge you, Prince Danny Phantom, to a duel for the crown of the Ghost Zone." Said a ghostly woman wore a red and black dress with a cleft and high-heeled boots. She had black hair, pale skin, dark eyes and red lipstick while her glowing body was simply said sexy.
Danny frowned when he herd that, "Red, could you please evacuate the mall?" He asked and Valerie had no choice but to nod as if to say 'yes', "I accept your challenge Alegoria but first let's allow my... colleague to evacuate the building, hmm?"
The woman hmph-ed and added, "I give her one minute." Her eyes glowed dangerously and when the minute went through she let out a battle cry and sent a quite powerful ecto-blast at her opponent.
Valerie stopped doing her job for a moment to see the two's power level and Danny was recognized as 12 and Alegoria's was 13.7 which surprised her to no end. It was like Danny was trying to hide himself from the scanners and let his true power to the surface only in serious battles.
Danny absorbed the blast and sent it to its origin. Alegoria dodged it and decided to use a different approach and used telekinesis to throw half of the objects in sight some of which were TVs, furniture, glass shards and others. Because of the ecto-energy in the objects, Danny couldn't phase through them so he had to do it the old way-moving out of the path of the projectiles. Then Danny had enough of being on the defense and took a deep breath. I am sure that you must be thinking that he is going to release his ace attack at the beginning of the fight but you are wrong. When the halfa released his breath, blue flames came out of his mouth. They, under normal circumstances, could not burn but freeze whatever they lick to absolute zero and Alegoria had to make a shield but her dress didn't stay undamaged.
The black haired woman was shocked that someone could do that. But her shock was short lived for the white haired teen had started throwing flaming ecto-disks while subtly getting closer for close combat fight.
Alegoria saw that and flew higher in the air. She eyed her foe for several seconds and turned invisible and intangible. Danny reply shielded himself from all sides.
The female ghost didn't like that and invaded the prince's head just enough to make him lose focus on the shield and then threw a quite hot fireball. Danny had recovered fast from the invasion and made a shield of ice which didn't even weaken form the attack.
The halfa thought that this was taking too long and made four invisible duplicates which surrounded the unsuspecting ghost. He, then, proceeded to attack her with ecto-blasts from every side. She was able to avoid getting hit by almost all blasts. The only hit she got had sent her through five columns and bounce from the sixth one and land near the third column. The fallen columns had caused the roof to become unstable and a big chunk of concrete to start falling towards the semi-conscious ghost. Phantom being a heroic ghost he went to save his opponent. Just as she was about to become a pancake, Danny got a hold of her hand and turned both himself and her intangible.
Once they were out of danger it was clear that Alegoria was unable to continue fighting and with that in her mind registered that the prince actually saved her.
"Why did you save me?" She asked with wide dark eyes.
"Because it's what I do. Also, I just met you, Alegoria, which means that you are not an enemy or friend." Danny said to the woman he was still holding.
"I guess you won this time but I will definitely win next round." She said playfully with a smirk playing on her lips.
"Odore Kretos." Alegoria chanted and green smoke travelled up from her toes to the top of her head while the parts of her body which the smoke went around disappoint because of transporting.
"See you later your highness." Were her last words before teleporting away.
Once she was gone Danny looked around himself and saw that the destruction was on the first two floors of the mall.
"Red, Alegoria is beaten and she went back home. How are things on your side?" Danny said in his active Phantom Phone to the Red Huntress who had her suit upgraded by Maddie Fenton and Tucker Foley when she joined Team Phantom.
"Just called clean up." Was her short reply, "How big is the damage?" Valerie asked back.
"The first two floors are in need of repair and there is lots of scrap but it's OK if we don't count that. By the way have Tucker to make sure that no one knows what this fight was about, OK?" Danny asked, worried that it may be too early to alert Amity Park about his royal status.
In the Ghost Zone
After how the previous meeting Frostbite decided to ban Plasmius from the rest of the meetings and now he was looking through a mountain of letters to choose other council members. He had already included Dan Phantom and was planning to include Pariah Dark as well for the sake of the GZ traditions. The leader of the yeti-like ghosts now had to choose two of many ghosts, some being the representative of Olympys, the leader of the Burning Lands, the leader of Atlantis, the heiress of the one of the richest families Alegoria and many others. The leader of the Far Frozen had to filter the possible council members and chose only two of them. But meanwhile...
In a dark castle
FK pov.
I was once again entering the royal castle. Most of the architecture of the center of the Ghost Zone never changed while the rest did because of different monarchs.
I still remember how drastically changed this old relic when Pariah came in power. The castle grew bigger and warmer, like the warm in Pariah's soul or like it used to be.
Let me start from the beginning because I can feel you getting confused. When Pariah's parents past away suddenly he had to choose himself a wife to continue the dynasty and to uphold the traditions. The back then young prince chose a good woman whom he loved and who loved him back. They were good leaders and good parents. They had two children, twins they were. But soon enough the queen was killed and the king hidden his sorrow behind a mask of anger and hate. Unfortunately the mask turned into reality and reality into a living nightmare. Now don't get me wrong I am all for making people feel fear in my presence but his once golden age turned into a reign of terror now forgotten from most of the ghosts.
Now you must be asking why am I here. Well once awaken the Ghost King couldn't return to sleep and once I realized that I started talking to him, to keep him up to date with the things happening in his kingdom. Ha had not spoken even once.
I looked down at the Skeleton Key in my hand. Without Pariah's blessing there cannot be a new king. It is the tradition.
I looked at the many pieces of art in the entrance hallway and sighed. The Ghost Zone needed a good king to look after it and return order in the green colored place.
After another sigh I went deeper in the ancient castle, towards the chamber in which the present king stays. I went through several halls and stopped to look at the grand door to the once throne room.
Once I went in I saw the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep. Inside the king of the dead waited to be released once again.
"My king?" l questioned.
And for the first time he replied, "Fright Knight, tell me more about the boy who bested me. I want to hear everything you know about him."
And so I told him every piece of information I knew and from working for Vlad I had learned more then the halfa himself.
Then my lord said, "Has he been recognized as the heir to the throne?"
"Yes he has my Liege." I answered.
"How long ago?"
"Several days." I answered while play with the key in my hand.
"Release me as soon as you can my knight, the boy will need the one before him to put the crown on his head. The traditions must always be upheld to the best after all." His boomed through half of the castle.
I nodded but then I remembered that he couldn't see that so I relied, "Yes, my king." And with that I left for I was more then sure that it would not be wise to open the sarcophagus before at least informing the council.
Two days later (Friday)
It took a while to create the dress but she managed to get done. Now she was waiting in the lab of the Fentons while being invisible. She and Danny were supposed to meet there but his father was still in the lab and she didn't know what to do.
Then the ghost alarm activated and showed a visual of the warehouses having... a ghostly pest problem.
The giant man jumped in the air and cried, "Ghost!" Then the loud sound of him running up stairs and driving off came out of the blue.
"Good old bait. Always works." Said Danny when he went on the lab.
The ghost turned visible to reveal Princess Dora in human form wearing a light blue dress. Her hair was done in an elegant semi-bun and her make-up was only a rose colored lipstick and mascara.
Her now green eyes gleamed at seeing Danny. He had yet to put on the last piece of the suit and his white shirt was surprisingly skin-tight.
"Just let me finish dressing up and we can get going." Danny went back in his room. A blushing Dora followed him to the living room. Looks like princesses like their boys to be muscular.
In the living room the royalty met Jazz and Maddie.
"You must be Dorathea. I thought that you would look more... ghostly." Jazz facepalmed at how obvious her mother was.
Dora smiled kindly at the older female human, "Oh, that is just a disguise. Like a living form only fully dead."
That got Jazz's interest, "How does that work?"
"Well some of the more powerful ghosts can use their energy to change the color or their skin, hair, eyes and their clothes if they want. The more experienced ones can use the energy of the glow for that so they cannot be so... noticeable." Answered Danny for her.
"Let's get going Dora, shall we?" The halfa asked with a badass smirk which, under the right circumstances, can make a girl fall in love and make good 'ole Dan Phantom jealous.
With an even bigger blush Dora followed Danny outside. (Someone has a cruush~~)
Once outside Danny took Dora's petite hand while looking away from Dora with a slight blush. And with an awkward silence the couple left behind the strange building from which they left.
"Soo... how is being the prince fairing you?" Dora asked, trying to break the ice.
"Hmm. Good enough I guess. Because of that title I met two new ghosts so far. Dr. Stein and Alegoria. Stein is... not the fighting type while Alegoria tried to get the crown but failed. She had no real experience in fighting. But the normal ghosts stopped coming except the animal-like and the ecto-puses, and even they are no problem for me and they do not take too much time to beat." Danny rant ended when they took a turn, getting closer to the school, "Soo... how many balls have you been to?" The halfa asked to change the subject.
The princess put a finger over her lips in a thinking manner, "I believe that this is the first one. My father has always been protective of me so he didn't allow me to step in one at all because nine tenths of the ghosts who were invited were not loyal to father. I always got upset over it but I most of the time got over it." The blonde monologued.
Danny looked at his date's face and chuckled, "Looks like both of us are nervous."
"Hmm?" She questioned.
"Both of us ranted. When you live with a psychologist you learn some things." Danny smiled with humor. Danny saw that they were close to the school, "Well I hope that your first ball is not a total disaster."
And with that they entered the hell hole for children.
AN: I still need your OCs. I have two by now. I don't want to make or use my own OCs because they are overpowered and I dislike that about them.
Dan muse:Yey. First appearance.
GKpb: Took you long enough.
Me: Blame WB. Because of him I have long term ideas but not close term...
