Nightshade

It's been quite a long while since I wrote anything on Fanfiction so I figure I'd best give you guys an update. Last year after I published the prelude I fell into a bit of a depression. The girl I had a crush on didn't have reciprocating feelings, which hurt my ego pretty bad.

Then I fell into a bottle of vodka from November to the end of December to cope with all the bull**** that my boss was trying to put us through. I work retail and we regularly get two trucks near Christmas that are over 2500 pieces each, making a single night be 5000 boxes overall. Well my boss wanted us to work three trucks one day, then two trucks for five days with one night off each week. He got canned after he couldn't deliver on that.

After December I straightened out my life. Started to see a really cool girl, started my first semester of college, and even got a new position in my store. Okay enough of all that, you guys aren't here for that SO onto the story.

Chapter 1

Maddie sat in the lab talking to Jack about their son for the past three months. During nights, Maddie would get wine drunk and take out her anger at Jack about his poor design choices and how she would never forgive him for what he did to their son. Then the next morning they would both be in the lab talking about equations and probabilities on whether their son was still human. These past three months told them both that he was at least half human and half ghost.

However, all that knowledge meant next to nothing next to the fact that Danny seemed to withdraw from them almost completely. He never once talked to them these months about what had happened. At first, they thought it was because of the shock, but now they think that they simply scare him.

As Jack stepped back from a whiteboard filled with numbers and equations, he finally said, "Perhaps if we could find his ecto-resonance we could create a machine that could separate him on the…"

"That would most likely shred his internal organs Jack!" Maddie snapped.

Jack stroked the stubble on his face and sighed. He sat on a chair and put his face into his hands.

"Jack, do you think he will ever truly trust us?" Maddie asked for the hundredth time.

"Mad, two months ago I would have said of course, but now I think he's lost to us. His grades are slipping, he's not doing his chores, and now he's fighting ghosts!" Jack exploded. He was tired and angry now.

"Jack, calm down. I think I hear…" Maddie started, but knew that Jack was about to go into a tirade.

"I wouldn't have a problem with him fighting them if he would just trust us. Some days I want to get my hands on his other half and wring his neck. Then I would destroy him Molecule by Molecule!" Jack screamed to the heavens.

"I hear ya Jack, but he's our son! We need to help him, but what if he can't be separated?" Maddie asked.

Jack looked at her and shook his head. He went back to the whiteboard and erased the equations and started over. Something would save his son, he just knew it…

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Danny had been eating breakfast in the kitchen when he heard his dad start to yell downstairs. He went to the door to the lab and opened it slightly to listen in, but what he heard turned his stomach. "… I would destroy him molecule by molecule," his dad screamed angrily followed by his mom saying, "I hear ya Jack…"

He shut the door at that moment and went back to eating, feeling the tears start to roll down his face. His parents wanted to destroy him, and that's all he would think about. He looked down at his eggs and swallowed really hard, trying to force his tears back. He got up, leaving the eggs uneaten and left the house.

After making it down the road, he went down an alleyway and turned into his alter-ego Danny Phantom. His clothing went from normal to a black and white hazmat suit, his hair turned from black to white, but most striking of all was his eyes went from a vibrant electric blue to a sunken emerald green. He turned invisible and flew to his best friends' house.

He knocked on Tucker's window and saw his friend open his curtains. Tuck was confused looking through the glass and nearly jumped when he heard another knock on it. He said, "Come in!" through the panes knowing it must've been Danny.

Danny phased through the glass and said, "You're not going to believe what I just heard!"

Tuck turned around to his computer and asked, "What's up dude?"

Danny watched as his friend unpaused his game, then said, "My parents want to destroy me dude."

Tuck turned to look at him with concern. "Like you failed a test bad, or like they found you out bad?" Tucker asked softly.

"They still don't know it's me, but I can't help but feel hurt by what they said," Danny said sadly.

Tucker nodded and pulled out his phone, "We need Sam here dude. She's probably the only one who could get you back to normal."

As Sam picked up the phone, Danny's mouth emits the blue mist. He sighed and said, "I need to go dude. It's probably just some small-time ghost, so I'll be back soon."

He phased out through the roof and followed through the streets looking for the ghost. He went through the air fast, not knowing that his own mother was looking right at him waiting for him to fall into her trap.

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Maddie had decided to take things into her own hands now. She was going to capture Danny using bait and force the ghost to leave her son. That's why she was looking at the box ghost with her anti-ghost net launcher ready. Any ghost that gets caught in the net gets a small shock that disrupts their energy, effectively capturing them.

It only took about a minute for her son to find the ghost. He ended the fight with a single shot of his green ray, that's when she launched her net at him. He didn't know what hit him as the net shocked him. The box ghost phased through the ground and was gone.

Maddie came out of the shadows and said, "Leave my son, Ghost!"

Danny struggled with the net as a myriad of different thoughts went through his head. Any time he tried to use his powers he would get shocked. It was a small shock, but it made him move away from the net instinctively.

Maddie kept walking towards Danny and said, "If you don't get out of my son I will use blood blossom on you, you ectoplasmic MONSTER!"

"Mom, please! It's only me!" Danny pleaded as he kept trying to escape. He was now officially panicking as his mom approached him.

"You won't trick me using my sons voice, ghost!" Maddie took out a syringe filled with a red fluid. She got very close to Danny and said, "This is liquified blood blossom, enough to stop a ghost cold. This is your last chance, you monster!"

Danny started to cry, "It's just me mom, please don't…" but before he could finish she injected him with the fluid.

Danny felt his lungs close, as he fell to the ground. He started to shake uncontrollably as the fluid hit his blood. His veins felt like they were on fire, and his lungs felt like they had collapsed. His already slow heartbeat had almost completely stopped. Worst of all, he felt so helpless. He needed to get out of here, that's all he knew for certain.

A black mist surrounded his body, and his disappeared with a pop.

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A woman dressed in a deep blue cloak was meditating and focusing her energy on the roof of Titan Tower. Her name is Raven Roth of Azeroth, Teen Titan.

"Ms. Roth, I need your help," a deep voice belonging to a man spoke.

She opened her eyes and narrowed them at a green man with a face scar. "Who are you?" She asked defensively.

"I am clockwork, ghost of time. I need your help to save a young ghost who is dying of blood blossom poisoning," the green ghost called Clockwork said as he shifted from a young man to an old and feeble looking man with a long grey beard.

Raven sighed and dropped her legs to the ground. "How do I know what your intentions are? Furthermore, how do I know that this ghost I'm trying to save isn't some monster?" Raven inquired.

The old ghost knew she was testing him, trying to sense his alignment and read his mind. He let her into his mind for a second and said, "The ghost is half human."

Ravens eyes widened as she both felt and heard the truth. She knows the sorrow she felt for him, for she knew what it was like to only be half human. She sighed and agreed to help. She was surrounded by green in an instant, and then in a great library in the next moment.

Her eyes found a boy with white hair lying on a table. His eyes were red, his veins bore a sickly black color, and his skin was pale. She put her hands on him and summoned all the poison into her own body. All the pain fled the boy and went to her, and for a moment she could feel deaths embrace…

That's the first chapter and I must say, better late by a year, then never! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I hope you all have a great day.

Published 02-10-18

Story word count: 1449

Total word count: 1678