AN: &text& mean what's being said is in esperanto It's being used for a certain DP character who only speaks Esperanto and maybe some broken English. (for the record, Danny does not speak Esperanto and has no idea what aforementioned character is saying)
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She didn't want to believe it. She couldn't believe it! It wasn't true!
"Shinichi?" she asked, trembling. He nodded. Ran reached out to his face, her hands tracing the contour of his jaw. She tried to get a grip only to see her fingers inside her face.
That was too much for her. Ran screamed, snapping her hand back as though it had been burned.
"Ran, please!" Shinichi pleaded, "It's just me!" He tried to reach out to her but she shrank back, "Ran?" She's scared…of me? The shock hit him even harder then when he had realized he was a ghost. Ran's scared of me… "I…I guess I'll be going then…"
That broke through. Because if there was one thing Ran feared more than ghosts, it was Shinichi leaving. "Don't you dare!" She grabbed him, at least as well as she could. In the end it was more like she was hugging herself, but it had the desired effect. Shinichi stayed where he was.
"I've waited all this time for you and you have the nerve to show up dead! Don't you dare leave me now Shinichi Kudo!"
"Ran," Tears started streaming down his face, though they vanished as they fell. He turned around to face her, "I'm so sorry. This is why I never told you anything. I didn't want you to end up like this."
"Shinichi…"
"CONAN WHERE ARE YOU!"
Ran screamed as a white haired ghost flew into the apartment.
"Ran, it's okay. Phantom's on our side." the ghostly detective assured.
"You know him Shinichi?" Ran asked disbelievingly.
Shinichi? Where have I heard that name before? wondered Phantom, Wait a minute, wasn't Shinichi Conan's adult name?
"Dammit." the halfa swore. "The explosion at the police station was a trap. They wanted to lure me away from you so they could k-ki-DAMMIT" Danny punched the wall, leaving an imprint. "Sorry."
"Don't worry about the wall, Ran does that all the time."
"HEY!"
"And I'm not dead yet."
"What!" came the shocked reply from both Ran and Phantom.
"It's weird, I can still feel my body, but it's at a distance." He shivered. "It's cold."
"You idiot!" Ran tried to whap her errant boyfriend. "Why didn't you say that in the first place! We could be out saving you!"
Shinichi shook his head. "I'm not exactly somewhere easily accessible. They took me into a Dalv Inc. building basement and threw me into a swirling portal to a very cold place"
Danny blinked. "They threw you into the ghost zone. Man, Vlad must be pissed at you."
Ran blinked, feeling very left out of the loop.
"Okay, think, think" Phantom floated back and forth. "No way I'm going to be able to get into Dalv, Vlad will have seen to that. Our portal is back in America. I haven't seen Wulf in forever."
Suddenly his eyes brightened. He put two fingers in his mouth and whistled.
"What are you doing?"
"Getting help" Danny answered with a smirk.
ARF ARF
Reality seemed to twist in a small spot in the room, then what looked liked a green comet zipped out and around the room.
"Cujo SIT" Phantom commanded.
The comet stopped, skidding slightly, revealing itself to be a small green dog.
Shinichi and Ran blinked.
"Cujo used to be a guard dog. He has pretty good tracking abilities too." Danny pulled a piece of glowing fishing line out of his pocket and tied it to the ghost dog's leash. He then wrapped the line around his hand. "Cujo get a good sniff." The dog started sniffing Shinichi.
"Do you want me to come with you?" Shinichi asked tentatively.
Danny shook his head. "You noticed how you're not like the other ghosts you've seen? It's because you're not a real ghost yet. I don't want to take any chances of that changing."
"Phantom," Shinichi hesitated, "I'm going to tell Ran the truth. About my case."
Danny smiled. "Tell her the truth about everything. Cujo, fetch."
The ghost dog took off, dragging the ghost boy through the portal with him.
"I need to sit down." Ran whispered, the events of the past few minutes catching up with her. Shinichi guided his love to a chair as best he could without actually touching, "You're taking this very well."
Shinichi shrugged. "Ever since I got involved with the Impossible Murder it's been one impossibility after another. I guess part of me is still thinking I'll wake up and this will all be a dream. Ghosts, portals to the netherworld, this goes beyond everything I've ever believed. I used to believe nothing but facts and evidence. Now I'm not even sure what's real and what's not."
"There is only one truth" Ran whispered, trying to take comfort in the familiar phrase.
"One truth" Shinichi whispered. "Ran do you remember who Phantom came here looking for."
Her eyes bugged out. "CONAN! We have to find him! He could be hurt!"
"If you can call free floating in the nether world hurt. Ran, I'm sorry I never told you."
She shook her head, "No NO!" Conan was the one bit of sanity left to her. Shinchi couldn't take that away from her too.
"The people who did this are still hunting me Ran. So I did my best to make Shinichi disappear. Because if Shinichi's dead then they'd have no reason to hurt you." He laughed self depreciatingly. "I guess I can stop pretending."
"Don't talk like that. Phantom will save you." She put her hand over his own, giving the semblance of touching. "Make no mistake, Shinichi, I'm going to kick your butt. But I'll wait until you're out of your current crises."
Shinichi grinned and moved closer to her. Ran felt a wisp of cold air on her lips.
She smiled. "Shinichi, what did Phantom mean when he said to tell me everything?"
The teenage ghost grinned. "Oh you're going to love this…"
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Everything in Danny wanted to scream "Slow Down", but he didn't. Conan-Shinichi-Conan-his friend was counting on him. And that was what it had boiled down to. Despite barely knowing Conan a day Danny trusted him with his secret (not that he had much choice).
There was something about leading a double life. Not even his friends or his sister truly understood. But Conan did, because Shinichi was his Phantom. Because even though there was a side of him he had to keep hidden, he still did everything he could to help others.
They were the same.
And that's why Danny was letting Cujo drag him through the ghost zone at a rate most motorcycles would be proud of. Because a friend was in trouble and neither Danny Fenton nor Danny Phantom would let his friends be hurt.
Still he couldn't help but feel lead in the pit of in stomach as he saw where the ghost dog was leading him.
"Great. I guess being alive in the ghost zone is 'Against the Rules'"
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A sudden noise startled on of the guards of Walker's prison. He turned but no one was there. Shrugging the guard went back on patrol. Danny became visible again, holding Cujo in one arm, his other hand over the dog's muzzle.
His human side came in real handy here.
He had to give Walker this, he had his integrity. He set himself against any he saw as code breakers, and that included Plasmius. Which fortunately meant the other halfa wasn't supplying Walker with technology that could stop him.
He dropped the ghost dog onto the floor. "Okay, now to find Con…"
"ARRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
Danny froze, he knew that howl.
Now he had two friends in danger.
Fortunately, he didn't have to choose.
Concentrating as hard as he could, Danny's figure blurred. Cujo whined in confusion as suddenly there were two Danny's in front on him. One leaned down and scratched the ghost dog behind his ears. "It's okay Cujo, you and me are going are going to save Conan-"
"-while I'm going to save Wulf." finished the other.
"ARRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
"You do the crime you do the time," sneered Bullet, as he whipped the werewolf-ghost.
&Bastards!& sneered Wulf
"This is what you get for siding with the hybrid, you filthy mutt."
Bullet flung back his whip, intent on striking the inmate again. Instead a charge of ectoplasm went through the whip and shocked Walker's second in command.
Wulf's eyes widened in disbelief. &You came for me?&
"Man, they did a number on you," Danny look at the ectoplasm leaking from the welts on Wulf's body Dammit, I knew Walker was after you, why didn't I try to find you sooner.
Danny fired a blast of ectoplasm at the special restraints that bound Wulf's claws. This is really taking a lot out of me. I forgot that I'm at half strength while I'm split
"We need to get moving. Bullet will wake up soon and there's someone else here who needs our help"
Wulf nodded &Any friend of yours is a friend of mine&
Danny nodded, not quite sure what his friend was saying, and took of in search of his other half.
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They bumped into each other, quite literally. The two Dannys turned a corner and collided with each other.
&Why are there two of you, my friend?&
"I finally figured out Vlad's cloning technique," explained Danny, guessing at what Wulf was saying. The two Danny's grabbed hands. There was a bright green flash and suddenly there was only one Danny, holding Conan in his arms.
&This is friend's friend?& Wulf asked, gently stroking the small boy's hair.
"His name is Conan, sorta. He helped me take down Plasmius and as a result he got stuck in here while he was still alive. His soul is still in the living world though. I've got to reunite the two."
"You won't be reuniting anyone," said a familiar and unwelcome drawl.
"He's dying Walker. But I can still save him." Danny tried to reason.
"Being alive here is against the rules. I'm afraid none of you are leaving here."
Cujo growled, changing into his adult form.
Wulf looked at the small boy whose life was slowly draining out of him, there was no time for this! He flexed his claws and tore through the fabric of the ghost zone. "Get friend to safety. We take care of him."
Danny looked confused. Then Wulf grabbed him and threw him through the portal.
"NO CUJO! WUUUUULLLFFF!"As the portal closed shut, the two canine ghosts nodded at eachother and commenced in starting a prison riot.
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Danny was flung through the portal and smashed into the Mori's wall.
"Are you okay?" asked Shinichi as he helped Danny to his feet.
"My friends, they're in trouble! I have to go back!"
"Conan? Oh god Conan!" Ran ran to the small body. His lips had turned blue and his eyes had a glassy dead stare. The only thing that showed he was alive was the intense shivering of his small frame, looking almost like a personalized Earthquake.
Danny collected himself. Wulf and Cujo were good fighters and the truth was he had no way to reach them right now.
But Conan he could help. Conan he could save!
"Get back in your body." Danny instructed.
"How?"
"Just touch it, you should get sucked in."
"Like thi-iissss" Shinichi was sucked into Conan's body. Instantly life sparked in his eyes and his body huddled up, actively trying to keep warm.
Danny grabbed him; "The fastest way to get to the hospital is for me to fly him there." He explained as he shifted into his ghost form and took off.
Ran had meant to be right behind him, really she did, but she apparently she couldn't move until she'd had a nice long cry.
Danny landed behind some bushes in front of the hospital. A brief look around to make sure he wouldn't be seen and he changed back to normal and ran into the building.
Inpatients, outpatients, doctors, and nurses scurried around. Danny was lost in the shuffle, no one noticing him or the injured child he had.
Danny took a deep breath, adding just the slightest amount of his power to his voice. "SOMEBODY HELP ME!"
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"So he's going to be okay?" asked Ran for what seemed to be the thousandth time. The doctor nodded patiently.
"Truthfully as bad as he looked, his case was rather mild. There was no tissue damage, though judging by his body temperature if he wasn't pulled out of that freezer when he was, it'd be a different story."
"Freezer?" asked Sato. Conan had requested a call to the police be made since he was technically kidnapped. He described his assailants as 'Three old jewish buzzards' All having slight builds and white hair in varying stages of baldness.
"Yes, a young boy named Daniel Fenton received a message from Conan, apparently that badge of his acts as a two way radio. Mr. Fenton pulled him out of the freezer and brought him here."
Sato and Takagi looked at each other. "And where is Daniel now?" asked Takagi.
"Home I believe. He got a phone call from his sister. He gave me some contact information to give you though." The doctor gave the officers a slip of paper with the address for the Marapul hotel and a phone number. Sato dialed the number.
"Hello, Maddie Fenton speaking."
"This is Detective Sato, Mrs. Fenton. Is your son there?"
"No why? You can't think Danny's involved in-"
"It's alright, mam. In fact your son saved a small boy's life today. We just need a statement from him."
"He did?" Sato could hear the pride in her voice. "That's my son. He's not here right now, though."
"Thank you for your help." Sato hung up. "He hasn't reached the hotel yet."
"Probably not if he went on foot." Takagi agreed.
Ran, for her part, did not mention how unlikely it was Danny went on foot.
Sato felt a small tug on her skirt. Conan looked up at her with the most adorable childlike eyes ever. "Sato-keiji, can I come with you? I wanna thank Danny-niichan for saving me!"
Sato smiled. "If the doctor says it's okay for you to go…"
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Ran shook her head, One day I'm going to find out how he does that.
She and 'Conan' were in the backseat of Sato and Takagi's car. It was one thing knowing Shinichi was Conan, it was another thing seeing him playing the part while knowing Shinichi was Conan. It was slightly creepy.
That didn't mean she wasn't holding him as close to her as possible.
"Hey," asked Conan, "Isn't that Shiratori standing in the middle of the street?"
Sato squinted. "I think you're right." She slowed down.
The super-intendant was standing in the middle of the road, apparently not worried at all about someone hitting him.
The car rolled to a stop a few feet away from him, but he showed no response.
Suddenly Conan started shivering. Hard.
"Are you okay?" asked Ran, alarmed.
"Ssssso cccccold" stuttered Conan.
Sato looked in the back seat. Shit "Don't worry, we can talk to Danny later. We're going back to the hospit-"
"SATO LOOK OUT!"
Sato barely had time to realize that Takagi was pulling her under the dashboard as Shiratori leveled a gun at the windshield and fired.
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TIM Omake:
Danny landed behind some bushes in front of the hospital. A brief look around to make sure he wouldn't be seen and he changed back to normal and ran into the building.
Inpatients, outpatients, doctors and nurses scurried around. Danny was lost in the shuffle, no one noticing him or the injured child he had.
Danny took a deep breath, adding just the slightest amount of his power to his voice. "SOMEBODY HELP ME! he screamed. Or at least tried to. Instead a ghostly wail tore from his throat and gave the hospital a brand new sunroof.
Everyone stared.
"Hehhehheh, Oops? Um, now that I have your attention could someone help this kid? Please?"
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AN: Don't forget to check the fanart, four new pieces up.
The-world-needs-peaceI'm not trying to torture you on purpose but a chappie doesn't feel right if it doesn't end on a dramatic point. Plus all my personal info I give out online is falsified and while the story is done you still need me to upload it. So please don't kill me
YELLOWCARDFMAFANS: #fans# Don't Worry, he's gonna be okay.
Terra89: Yay Drama! And yes the ending for the movie was hilarious!
Basser: I can understand the HP thing. Love the books, love the movies, tolerate the games, but the fandom scares the Bejezzus outta me. Danny's maturity is caused by two things. One being he's older (this is roughly two years in the future for him) and Vlad's really crossed a line. No playing around. Conan's stoicism is that, while he trusts Danny, he's really not comfortable with the supernatural aspect Danny's dragged into his life.
SN 1987A: Apotoxin cure? Conan has no such luck. And Jack wouldn't be Jack if he wasn't so lovably naïve. As for what Takagi will make of fighting ghost #gives author laugh 104: I know something you don't# And thank you for not making a challenge. I would have had to write it. Because I'm like that.
Sharmaine: No Conan's not a halfa (what would the point of the omakes be then?) The shock of being thrown through the portal just kinda separated him form his body. The only 'power' he'll retain is the intensive shivering when an evil ghost is near.
Firefly4000: Anytime. There can never be too much Thundercake.
Godessforshort: Danke
