Sam was sure that it was a person. She was begging that it was Danny. She tried to lift up from the stretcher. But she was still too weak to move. And the two paramedics prevent her from lifting. Danny... she had to get to him. But suddenly she saw two shadows...

People all around saw the shadows, too. Obviously people, trying to leave the scene. Everyone was shocked. Sam feared the worst: Vlad was there, too! Yeah, he somehow managed to get out of the portal before it explode and took Danny hostage?! Everything was blurred. The two shadows came closer and it was now pretty sure that that were two humans. Sam screamed and yelled, but her words were unrecognizable. She was too upset. But she really wanted it to be Danny and only Danny! Not Vlad, not a ghost. But that was actually a couple. And Sam was shocked about that couple... they were the last ones she expected... Jack and Maddie Fenton!

Jack Fenton, 45 years old, originally from Farmer City, Illinois and his wife Madeline, nicknamed Maddie. 44 years old, originally from Spittoon, Arkansas. Both officially declared death in 1982. Both staggering away from the crater and towards the blinking lights of the emergency vehicles. Both pale and looking like they hadn't eat for days. It was obvious that both were confused and disoriented. And they had all reason to be... Just seconds ago, they were running away from some guy in the ghost-zone... and now they stood on this field, back in the human-world. Surrounded by police and fire-trucks. The place looked familiar, but also totally foreign.

Sam tried to scream again. Danny's parents just came out of the crater! How? And why they look like from 1982?

Jack wore orange workwear, that was heavily damaged. Maddie wore a costume that was obviously from the late 70s. The same clouthes they weared September 2 nd 1982. Everyone could see it... Local police officers and FBI agents surrounded them...

"Sir, ma'am... are you allright?"

"What happend?" was everything Jack was abel to answer. He was still overwhelmed.

"Are you injured?" a police-man asked.

"I don't know!" Jack respond, looking down on himself.

"Where are we?" Maddie added. "What is this place?"

"Everything is fine... you are safe..."

"Where is our house?" Jack asked still confused.

The two 'elder' Fentons were escorted to the ambulances. Sam was still laying on a stretcher, with an oxygen-mask over her face. But there was no doubt, that that were her parents-in-law... Still weakened, Sam was finally able to lift up and staggered towards the couple, that was still surrounded by police and FBI. Were they real? Or an illusion? She had to get to them. The paramedics tried to stop her but Sam denied to settle back on the stretcher and went closer.

"Tell me your names!" an FBI-agent ordered.

"Fenton!" Jack answered stuttering. "I am Jack... Fenton! This is my wife Maddie... Madeline!"

"Mister, please... where are we?" Maddie asked again. She was still confused.

"Fairview!" someone answered.

"Fairview, Amity Park?!" Maddie respond shocked. "No... it can't be..."

Sam finally reached them. She pushed an FBI-agent away to face the couple. Tears shooting in her eyes. Jack and Maddie saw the woman in front of her. She looked so shocking familiar to them. But with all the soot in her face (instead of the dark make-up), they suddenly thought that she looks so much like thier son's friend Sam. But that was impossible. This was a 40 years old woman and Sam was only 16.

"You..." she screamed shocked. Touching them, to check if they were really real. They were! "No, this is impossible... You can't be..."

That voice sound so familiar too for them. But suddenly the Fenton's were so shocked. That was really Sam. But she was so much older...

"SAM?!" Maddie said shocked. "Sam Manson?"

Sam nooded. Jack and Maddie were shocked. So shocked that the only question Jack was able to ask was: "What year is now?"

"2004!" a police-man next to them answered.

"22 years!" Jack realized shocked. He and Maddie were gone for 22 years!?

"Gosh... Sam, is that really you? Where is our house? Is Danny here?" Maddie asked.

Sam burst out in tears after the last question... Danny was obviously gone...

Latter was barely able to keep his eyes open while he hold onto a rock or something. He could feel that he was fading away, soon. He could hear Vlad ranting in the distance. Someone captured him. At least he hoped so. Danny meanwhile could feel someone taking him. Only to wake up in a bed on Clockwork's Island in the ghost-zone.

Danny, now in the ghost-zone and Sam in the human-world learned the rest of the story...

It was all Vlad's fault! After he prevent the Fentons from 'curing' him and throwing them into the ghost-zone, he and his 'henchmen' light up the town to cover up the Fenton's disappearance. The Fenton's were trapped in the ghost-zone got captured and were imprisoned by a ghost called 'Walker' because everyone thought that they were Vlad's allys. After an sucessful escape they met Clockwork and decided to trust him. Clockwork told them that thier son will arrive one day and retrieve them and 'sealed' them in those 'cocoons' where they didn't aged and were safe. Clockwork knew that Danny will arrive one day.

Vlad continued his life full of ghostly crimes and continued watching Danny and Jazz from safe distance. Even stealing technology from the guys-in-white to hide it in electronic devices in thier houses. These 'bugs' finally lured the other world's drone to thier realm and the two devices created the wormhole together. Vlad mentioned this and decided to interfere. Not only because of this incident, but also because he wanted the skeleton key. Danny learned from Clockwork that this key was a way to open every realm in the ghost-zone, giving it's owner incredible limitless power and influence. Vlad was already infamous in the ghost-zone. And Danny not only helped them to finally capture the vicious criminal, he also safed his wife and his unborn child in the same progress. But at the cost that Danny's 'deactivated' (not cured, only switched off) ghost-powers break threw again, forcing him to a life in the ghost-zone.

Clockwork invited him to stay on his 'island' as long as necessary. Giving Danny time to learn to use his newfound powers and to arrange with his situation.

And now Danny stood at the parapet, looking around. He had no clue how much time had passed since he stranded here. A couple of weeks, he guessed. A soft breeze going threw his white-bleached hair. All around him the wide, nearly endless void of the ghost-zone. He was wearing a cloak, he got borrowed Clockwork. His minds circling about his family...

He was sad. Sad to be here and not with his wife, his children and his returned parents. But he was also relieved. Relieved that his parents were free again, that Vlad was imprisoned here in this void and that he was not hunted anymore.

He didn't even had the chance to talk to his parents again. After all these years full of guilt. And Sam... how long he will stay here. Will he miss the birth of thier baby? And these powers? How will the kids react when he returns and has ghost-powers? Did they inherit them? No! That was not possible, but what about his unborn baby that was exposed to the ectoplasmic radiation in that basement?

Danny was not mad on his parents that they hide it from him all these years. He knew that they only wanted him to have a normal life without all the fears of beeing a 'halfa'. They only wanted to protect him from beeing taken into a lab, like the guys-in-white did. And they worked hard to stop Vlad from continuing committing crimes in both worlds.

Danny could feel this 'ghost-breath' comming out of his mouth again. Knowing that it could only mean that Clockwork came closer. Latter was floating now right behind him.

"How are you, Danny?"

"It's a... weird feeling! Sorry, that I don't remember you..." Danny said to the now 'young' Clockwork.

"No need to! But when I saw you floating around here, I could see that one day you will help to liberate us from Vlad." Clockwork said. "The ghost-zone is in your dept."

"Can you also see what happens with my family? Will I ever see them again?"

"No! I can't see it... but I can show you. Come with me!" Clockwork said and flew back inside.

Danny followed him: floating! So far he learned how to fly. And he enjoyed it... Danny followed Clockwork inside and together they floated around a sphere. Clockwork used some of his power and Danny looked into the sphere to see them...

"Can you see them now?" Clockwork asked.

"Yes..." Danny respond happily. He saw them all together working on something at a place he never saw before. They all together: His parents, Sam (now with visible baby-bump), his children, his sister, her husband and his nephew. "...and you were right..."

"I told you, so..." Clockwork respond. "...they are working all together, to find you..."

THE END

I hope you liked it. This was my very first Danny Phantom Fanfic ever. Hope you enjoyed it and hope to see you in my next fanfic, too. Please Review and most important: Keep well!