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Chapter 5: Peace Conference

First, Dora stepped out.

Danny gave her a bow, "Princess Dorathea, welcome I'm glad you could join us."

Dora curtsied, "King Daniel, you helped me save my kingdom from my brother, and even after what he attempted with your mate, let him alive. As I've already said, if you need me I will come to your aide."

Dora turned to Sam, "Queen Samantha."

Sam smiled warmly at Dora and hugged her. Behind Dora, Pandora exited the portal.

Danny hugged her, "Welcome to earth mother."

Pandora look down at her son and pulled both him, his wife and her granddaughter close to her. After Pandora had pulled away, Frostbite bowed to Danny, "Great One."

Turning to Sam and Dani, he bowed again,"Queen Samantha, young great one."

Behind his was Undergrowth.

Sam acknowledged him hesitantly, "Father."

Undergrowth smiled at his daughter, "My daughter, you have grown and your powers too I imagine. Are you developing alright?"

Sam rolled her eyes, "Yes dad I'm always sure to get enough ectoplasm and sun. And you're right my powers are growing stronger, but the control techniques you taught me have been a huge help."

Undergrowth smiled proudly.

Next to exit the portal was Dairy King who gave a quiet respectful bow and moved on. Wulf lumbered in behind him.

"My King," Wulf said in Esperanto.

A few leaders who had learned the language for the sake of communicating in their country, looked surprised. These looks only increases when Danny responded in the same language. Clockwork emerged from the portal.

"King Daniel," he bowed his head in respect.

Danny returned the gesture. Then turned to see the last three figures making their way out of the portal. Danny reached out to hug his sister.

Jazz was wearing her hair in a ponytail. It had been dyed white for the sake of Danny's secret identity and her normally bright blue eyes were an even brighter icy shade of the color. She was wearing a black shirt with Ember's hair color in two strips down the side and pants the color of the those strips. Ember besides her was in her usual outfit. The last figure was a happy Cujo, wagging his tail.

Jasmine smiled at Danny, "Hey little brother." Ember said, "My king."

Danny grinned at them. Then he turned to earth's leaders who look intimidated by all the ghost's appearances.

"I would like to introduce you all to my allies, they have been briefed on who each of you are and therefore they will introduce and describe themselves to you and the peace talks may begin."

Danny and his family then began to disassemble the portal.

Jazz stepped forward first, "My name is Jasmine Phantom. I am Danny's older sister."

Danny rolled his eyes and mumbled, "She's always gotta mention the older thing."

Jazz continued, "Unlike Danny I have more mental abilities, I can solve anything and in theory built anything. Like all ghost I have the ability to turn invisible, intangible, and fly. I have two mates, one is currently here with me while the other is protecting Amity Park, you may even see her on the news."

Ember went next, with none of the respect Jazz had shown, "I am Ember McLain, one of Jasmine's mates. My hair is fire, my guitar has seven settings on it each giving me the ability to do something for example a punching fist for a burst of sound that can hit you, a heart for a love spell, etc. The chanting of my name will increase my power. I also have the ability to turn into a flame. There are a few more less important ones, but moving on. Before meeting Jasmine I was Danny's enemy and as such attempt to control Amity Park with my music only to be defeated."

Undergrowth cleared his throat, "I like my daughter can control plants and like Ember I was anti-Danny."

"Still is," scoffed Danny

"I attempted to rule the world once because of the way humans treat plant life here. The plants are my children, however unlike my child they obey me."

Sam grimace, "He still hasn't gotten over our marriage."

Undergrowth continued, "I used my plants to control humans in Amity. I then was defeated by my son in law. I can change my size, regenerate, use sentience infused plants, etc. If it involves plants I very likely am able to do it."

In Esperanto, with Danny translating, Wulf explain his abilities, " I am Wulf. Using my claws I can open portals and remove a ghost from a human body, like most ghost I heal and I have a great sense of smell."

"I am Clockwork, master of time, I can manipulate time to my will, however I only watch as it goes by aware of it's every twist and turn, I see all and know all," Clockworks body change with his statements marking them all the more eerie.

He finished, "I can teleport to any point in time or space, can move people and objects with my mind, and can summon soldiers to come to my aid from any point in time."

Dora curtsied, "I am Princess Dorathea, I rule over a small Middle Age kingdom inside the ghost zone. Along with the normal ghost ability, I have superior strength and endurance. I can breath fire, blow cold gust of wind, and turn my hands into claws because of my ability to shapeshift into a dragon."

Dora sat down, and Danny noticed a few politicians look slightly more weary of her.

Dairy King floated above the seat, "I am a peaceful ghost, I mostly just haunt places, although I do have a control over dairy products in my vicinity."

Danny after the Dairy King sat down realized that all the ghost that could talk for themselves had gone, stood up and motioned to Cujo.

"This is Cujo, adorable right."

Quite a few politicians nodded in agreement.

Danny smirked, "Cujo scare."

Cujo growled and started to grow bigger. His once friendly green eyes now an angry red. His tail glowing with green fire. The same leaders that had called him adorable now scrambled to get away from him.

Danny said, "Cujo calm," and Cujo shrunk back down into his playful size.

Danny smiled, "That's everyone, however before we sign a peace treaty we have only two request. First, we move to a less, sterile, more comfortable room with televisions and next, before you walk blindly into a peace treaty with us you first learn a few secrets about us that need to stay out of the public's knowledge."

The president blinked in surprise usually a new nation loved this room, its clear lack of camera, etcetera, and would do anything to keep their secrets. Here, phantom was offering them up on a golden platter.

The president nodded, "I'm sure, that could be arranged King Phantom."

Danny grimace at the name, "If you have to give me a title just call me Phantom and my wife should be back in a second with the perfect room."

The leaders finally noticed her absence and Danny had to smirk, if women weren't so invisible to them they would have noticed her absence by now. The Queen of England shook her head and met his gaze with the same expression.

Sam floated back into the room, "I found one, it looks perfect."

Danny motioned for the leaders to touch and following Sam, phased them all through walls until they arrived in what had to be the presidential movie room. Everyone took a seat and Jazz set the TV up so that every news channel was showing.

Sam stood above the leaders that were relaxing in the more casual atmosphere.

"I am Samantha Phantom, I will tell you about the ghost zone. Mostly because I payed more attention to our studies about the ghost zone."

She fake glared at Danny, causing many politicians to shift uncomfortable, unlike some of their marriages this was obviously a happy marriage. Sam stopped floating, settling gently on the stage and forming herself a plant chair.

"The ghost zone is a branch dimension. It is an infinite zone, much like space, it is ever expanding. It is connected to this world by nature portals. The Bermuda Triangle being the perfect example of what how bad these portals are when they don't close. The triangle is full of natural portal that are forever opening allowing people to travel right into them, fortunately many of those natural portals are connected. What are natural portals? They are holes in space and time were the earth and the ghost zone are suddenly agape to one another. If a human goes through one such portals they may get lost in the zone until another natural portal opens. There is never any promise that this portal will goes back to the same time period or place. We try to get to them before they are loss, but usually they go through a portal and either get back home or die in an unfamiliar place. When a ghost is sucked through a portal, they react based on their type. While all ghost are treated the same, much like humans we can look different. Unlike you our appearances determines our abilities. Octopus like ghost we call ectopi need ectoplasm as a source of energy and food, they need to be surrounded by it at all times, without it they may last anywhere from a few hours to a day. When they are sucked through a natural portal, they react without thinking, hurting others because they are hurt, if Danny doesn't get to them first, they die. A newborn ghost, created or born, will likely cease to exist without ectoplasm being infused into their body around the clock. If somehow they survived the lack of ectoplasm long enough to find a human, they will latch on to that person, feeding off their emotions. That's why people report being scared by these moving, talking, creepy objects, the stronger the emotion the better the feeding. If an elder ghost finds these ghost, they know how to wean them off of emotional feeding into ectoplasmic feeding. An experienced ghost will have been saving part of the ectoplasm in its core and will be able to last for a while without ectoplasm, so either their obsession part of their afterlife will take over causing them to attempt to take over the world, or a town, or just cause chaos, or they will wonder earth looking for a natural portal, if they run out of ectoplasm before they find a natural portal, they will instead siphon energy from people around them like Danny is right now."

The politicians looked really shocked at Danny while Danielle floated over to Sam and Sam realized she was tired, as a hafta she wouldn't die if she didn't have ectoplasm for a while, but she needed to change into her human form occasionally in order to maintain her energy, either that or sleep near a ghost who radiated ectoplasm while in her ghost form, unlike Danny and Sam, she had yet to learned to siphon emotions from people.

Sam cuddle Dani, "The ghost zone is maintained by the strength of the king and queen. If you focus on my ring finger, you will notice a glowing green ring and a crown with glowing green flames on Danny's head. Both of these heighten our connection to the ghost zone. The ghost zone is as strong and well off as it's king and queen. That is why we need a monarchy society. The last king never took a wife and wore both the ring and crown. The problem with this was the constant undivided pull on his core damaged it. It is possible he could have withstood the pull long enough to find a mate or for a partner to be created or born, but the earth was being destroyed by your war and need to expand, to industrialise, the ghost zone had to pull more strength from his core than normal to continue existing. He was driven insane. He became not only a bad ruler, but a malevolent ghost."

A lot of politicians looked guilty hearing this. Their ancestors had did this.

"His people came together in their hatred of him and created a coffin that would withstand his attempts to break free and cut his core off from the ghost zone. After he was locked away the ghost zone's connection skipped from person to person, trying to find a core to anchor to, however no core was strong enough to withstand the constant pull. The zone's pulling forced several ghost to move on to the next step in death. Others core were damaged allowing for the basic human emotions like anger and hatred to take over. When Danny was created, the ghost zone latched onto his core and his core was strong enough that it didn't admediatly destroy him. I came along and our cores connected and I began to share the burden of the ghost zone."

This was actually true, Danny, Sam and Danielle had traveled back in time using a natural portal and the ghost zone map, to make their fabricated story seem true. Everything they talked about had happened. They had went back to the time when Sam had almost been burned at the stake and Danny had saved her. They went into the ghost zone during this time and lived there for awhile. The ghost zone had latched on to Danny's core within a few years and had stabilized, they had gotten Clockwork to bind them together and shared the power of the ghost zone. Later, when they caught up to the day they had left in their time, they went and replaced themselves in the outside world. It had been good for them. They had grown as a family and as ghost without the actual growing part. They had all stayed in their ghost forms and in the ghost zone it slowed their aging. Danny may have a few wisp of hair on his chin and a deeper voice, Sam may have grown a little, and Dani may have finally reached the age she looked mentally and emotionally, but these weren't changes anyone would notice. They just existed.

Danny rose. It was his turn to talk.

"As we mentioned, all ghost have an obsession. A ghost's obsession can be the only thing that keeps them sane or the reason they seem so insane. Mine, protecting people especially those I love, can go either way. Once I traveled into the future and met a version of myself that had lost our family in a tragic accident. He stopped fighting and instead started hurting other people. When I saw this future, I traveled back and stopped that situation from happening, but that me got stuck outside of time."

Danny motioned for Clockwork to come up to the stage with the beaten up thermos.

"This is my worst enemy, me."

He put the thermos on a timer that would open it then close it, set up a containment field and stepped back.

"Should Future Danny ever escape you need to know what he looks like and if you see him you need to run."

A beep sounded, and Future Danny came out, looking like a pissed off demon. He looked around the room, his eyes landing on Present Danny first.

"YOU. I'M GOING TO KILL YOU," he boomed in his deep smooth voice.

He leaped toward Present Danny hitting the containment field and falling in pain. Danielle snuggled farther into Sam, scared, and let out a small whimper. Not loud enough for human ears, but Future Danny heard it.

He spun around, then with a look of shocked confusion called, "Sammy," his voice sounding almost like Present Danny's.

He looked around the room confused. Jazz was here, older and holding hands with Ember, Sam was a ghost and had the Ring of Rage, she was holding a child that looked so much like him.

"WHAT DID YOU DO," he yelled reacting the only way he knew how, "WHAT DID YOU CHANGE. YOU BA-"

His voice cut off as the thermos opened again pulling him in.

Danny sighed, "That me has no care for human life, he just doesn't care anymore, he should have moved on, but he was to anchored to earth by his hatred and corrupted by the same."

The politicians were still staring at the stage in a state of shock and horror and Danny decided that was enough for one day, especially when the cold wisp of air passed his lips.

"We will let you all rest and digest for a day. Say we meet back here tomorrow."

There were murmurs of agreement and everyone stood to retire. Danny nodded to his family and Sam and Dani both turned intangible and flew through the wall as Danny and everyone else followed the leaders out.

It's okay Danny Youngblood felt left out and wanted to visit Dani.

Danny visible relaxed and nodded to all his fellow ghost. Youngblood wasn't being introduced to everyone else because he couldn't be seen by human adults, a last defense for ghost children whose parents wouldn't able to protect them.

Since ghost children were connected to their parents by an emotional bond, when that bond was severed their body created a natural defense that made it so the only one who could see them were fellow ghost could see them. However this defense had one weakness, children could see through it. Danny didn't understand it but something about children and the occasional teenager was so similar to a ghost that they slip through the defense. Once outside Danny watched all the leaders get into cars and turned to his family and friends.

"We need to split up and follow them, guard over them and protect them from other ghost. Everyone have enough ectoplasm to last a few days."

Everyone nodded at Danny or in the case of the more formal bowed. Danny quickly assigned leaders to watch over to his allies.

"Remember if supporting your clones and yourself is too much for your reserved supply of ectoplasm, you need to allow someone to relieve you of your duties and take a break."

Everyone nodded again and Danny felt the need to break the tension by saying okay team no possession on three, but he knew this situation was too important for jokes. If anything went wrong in this meeting it could cause any bad situation, from another World War to the attempted annihilation of the ghost race. Danny would do everything to keep anything like that from happening, so he forced down that childish part of him and put on his best King face.

"We all have a part to play, let's go out and do it."

The ghosts all nodded. Nothing would happen to the dignitaries because if anything did happen, it would start a war for sure. Everyone was tense with the reveal of the existence of ghost, and anything perceived as an attack would be the perfect excuse to attack ghost back. Oh for sure humans would lose, but humans were resilient and if they loss, they would eventually come back to return the favor. Absolutely nothing could go wrong with this meeting. So of course the worst possible situation would take place.