Danny. A sickening voice called. It's voice echoed through the empty realm of darkness.
Danny Fentons heart was beating faster then ever before. He was running away from someone. But who?
Danny. It's voice taunted. Danny tripped and fell over something. He was sweating like crazy as fear was the only emotion he could feel.
I'm almost free Danny.
No! No! It's not possible! I trapped you!
Then Danny saw him. His claws scrapped the ground as he made his way to Danny leaving grey claw marks on the black sickening ground. His pale blue skin was the only source of light in the dark hellish place. His tongue was of a snakes and his eyes glowed blood red. And what terrified Danny the most was the ring of rage on his right hand and the flaming crown on his head.
Dan. Daniel Phantoms future self.
Hello Danny.
Danny tried to turn into his ghost half. But it was of no use. His powers where gone.
What do you want?! Danny screamed. His face was covered in tears as he tried his best to run from his demonic future self.
I want death. He said.
Dan clawed himself closer to Danny with a wide fanged smirk. Danny tried to pull away from Dan but was soon his back hit a cold wall. His evil laugh echoed through the vast cave of darkness. Behind his where the lifeless bodies of his sister, two best friends, and his parents.
There is no escaping me this time Fenton. After all I am you.
Dan lifted his bloody hand and aimed it strait for Danny's core. He was going to die. And he couldn't do anything about it. And it felt so real. So real...
"NOO!" Danny screamed instantly waking up. "HOLY SHIT!" He stood up with his hands ready to fire at any presence that came near him.
"Danny!" Sam yelped. She saw her boyfriends state. She to instantly woke up. He was covered in sweat and looked absolutely terrified, his breathing was accelerated at every moment. "Danny look at me!" She said. "What happened? What's wrong?" She gripped his arms and pulled them down to his side. "What's going on?" She asked again. Danny fell to the ground sobbing.
"I saw him Sam! He was right there!"
"Who? Who was it?" She stroked his white hair.
"Sam," he looked up at her with red eyes, "Sam I think I just saw the future."
Clockwork looked down at the terrified boy. Sam brought him in like this. He was shaking and sweating. He kneeled at the kings side and listened to the half as story.
"Clockwork, is it true? Has he really escaped?" He choked. Sam grasped when Danny finished his story.
"No my dear boy. No he is still captured, but your dream..." he trailed off. "Your dream I fear isn't quite he future. But I believe it was the crown warning you of something."
"W-what?"
"Pariah was just like this too centuries ago. The crown faced him with his greatest fears to warn him. But he never listened."
"Warn him?" Danny asked. Clockwork shifted into a middle aged man and began helping Danny up.
"Correct Daniel, the crown I fear has warned you of the path your future could lead to."
"In going to become Dan?" Danny asked his voice became so small you can barely hear him.
"No Danny. It was just a warning. It was showing you what would happen if Dan did escape or if you let the crowns power control you."
"H-he told me he was almost free though." Clockwork shifted into an old man.
"He is not almost free Danny. I have him right here in the thermos look." Danny looked at where clockwork was pointing, and there was his thermos. Danny sighed.
"Okay, I believe you." Clockwork put his hand on the child's shoulder.
"Everything will be okay." He said. Danny smiled and hugged his mentor.
"I want extra guards guarding that every day. Don't let it out of there sights."
"It shall be done my king." Clockwork smiled.
"Thank you." The time master smiled.
"Is there something else on your mind?" He asked. Danny watched the time master shift into a middle aged man. Danny inhaled and replied;
"Yea I guess so. Can you scheduled a meeting with the counsel today this afternoon. I believe they are waiting."
"I notified them yesterday." Said Clockwork.
Of corse he did.
Was Danny still terrified from his dream? Well yes of corse. He just put it in the back of his mind because he had issues to deal with at the moment. Clockwork said he was still captured, and Danny trusted him with his life. If Clockwork said it, then it must be true. Danny walked into a giant meeting room. He was greeted by his three best ally's and Clockwork entered behind Danny.
"Frostbite! I haven't seen you for weeks!" Danny smiled.
"Aha! The great one is still alive! How are you?" He asked giving Danny a hug.
"Good actually Frostbite, and Pandora!" Danny smiled. They also hugged each other. "Hello Dora how is your kingdom holding up?"
"Very well my lord thank you." She smiled.
"Of corse and thanks for coming guys for coming on such short notice."
"You have grown much." Pandora said.
"Funny huh?" Danny smiled.
"My king." Fright Night bowed. Clockwork told Danny that Fright Night will be loyal to Phantom because he wore the crown, so Danny added him in his counsel just for another opinion.
"Welcome Fright Night. Alright let's be seated I have some matters to discuss."
"Of corse." Pandora spoke.
The three sat down on black chairs next to a long black desk. Danny sat in the biggest of chairs signifying that he was the king. The room was cosy and had a small green on the right side of him. Some blank sheet of papers appeared next to the council members and quills as well. Above the desk was a giant chandelier that also had lit green candles. Pandora and Clockwork sat together on the right side of the table and Frostbite and Fright Night on the other with princess Dora.
"So why did you call this meeting?" Pandora asked.
"I bet Clocky here already knows." Frostbite smirked. Danny chuckled.
"I wanted to discuss an alliance."
"An alliance?" Frostbite asked.
"But we are already allies." Dora pointed out. There faces where full of confusion.
"Indeed. But I am not talking about an alliance with ghosts I am talking about an alliance with humans."
"An alliance with humans? The living realm?" Pandora asked.
"But humans have hunted out kind for well... decades! They won't listen to a treaty!"
"I think it is a good idea. Please Phantom, tell us what you are thinking." Clockwork smiled.
"Well Frostbite is correct. They have been hunting our king for millenniums. And I am not sure what is going to convince them that ghosts are not evil and that they only follow an obsession. My only hope is to bring this up with the world leaders and they will help pass a treaty. But we will have to show them that ghosts no longer mean no harm."
"And how do you plan on doing that my king?" Fright Night asked.
"By simply passing a temporary law saying passage to the flip side is forbidden."
"What! But that's-"
"I know crazy, dumb, outrageous. But hear me out. I will only issue this law for two months and can only hope that is enough prove that ghosts really mean no harm. In return I ask for safe passage though both realms and hopefully provoke being hunted."
"And what about for filling ghosts obsessions? Most of them are in the human realm." Frostbite asked. Danny looked at Frostbite and frowned.
"That's the fault in the plan." He said.
"What if we construct each ghosts greatest obsessions?" Pandora asked.
"That will take years to suit each ghosts needs. Remember the law saying no ghost can build anything from ectoplasm except the king or given permission from the king?" Frostbite quoted from the rule book.
"That may be true, but you must realize that I am not Pariah Dark." Danny snapped his fingers and a giant book appeared in front of the counsel. The Ghost Zone Laws, it was titled in golden embroidered font. Danny flipped through the law book and stopped at a page. "I can take back this law saying ghosts can construct whatever they please only through there obsession."
"That could work." Frostbite grinned.
"Alright, all in favor of changing the law?" Each councils member raised there hand.
"Great! It shall be done. I will discuss the new laws with the ghosts and tell them what I plan to do." Danny made a golden quill appear and he scratched the new law into the book.
Ghosts and Spirits now have the privilege to construct whatever there obsession is and nothing else through there power they have to control ectoplasm. They no longer need to seek permission from the king if it is there obsession.
"It is done." Danny said.
"Wonderful." Clockwork spoke for the first time during the whole meeting. "I will schedule a gathering with the ghosts in the great hall." Clockwork picked up his quill and wrote, in his beautiful cursive handwriting, a letter that will magically be sent to each ghost member in the Infinite Realm.
"Thank you Clockwork."
"Of corse." He smiled turning into an elderly man.
"And now the last thing I would like to discuss." Danny inhaled.
"I wanted to make my family apart of the royal family here in he ghost zone."
"Continue," Dora said as she leaned forward folding her arms.
"I want to make Dani, my clone as well as Jazz my sister princesses to the throne. Sam and Tucker the Duke and Duchess of the realm. And maybe in the future, my queen. And under consideration Valorie Grey a knight. I want a human guard in the human realm. And lastly my parents to be the royal ghost hunters." Danny looked up to see there smiling faces. Except for Fright night of corse, he had a helmet.
"I think it's perfect." Pandora smiled.
"I agree with Pandora." Frostbite said.
"There is no law against it." Clockwork said.
"It's beautiful. A Phantom family." Dora grinned.
"If it makes my king happy I am in." Fright Night said. Danny smiled.
"Thanks guys. It means a lot. When shall I tell them?"
"Tell them before the gathering with the ghosts. And then give them the title wile all the ghosts are in the hall." Clockwork suggested.
"Then it shall be done. I will tell them at night tomorrow. I think it would be very cool if they had there own personalized rooms in the castle as well as a gaming room for Tuck, and a battle room with weaponry for ghost fighting because not all ghost follow the laws. Hence that's why we have Walker, but anyways, a fighting room where me and Dani can practice new powers without destroying my parents lab would also be nice. My parents could also have there own personal lab. And we could also have like a cool personal portal that can be disguised and worn as like jewelry or something. It would be an entire upgrade to the castle!"
"I have already sent the plans to the ectoconstructors a week ago and the wielders." Clockwork smiled. Danny rolled his eyes and gave a toothy grin. Clockwork put a box on the table with Danny's DP symbols across it. He will look at it later.
"Of corse you did. Also I would like for you Fright, to locate Dani and bring her safely to Fenton works, or in other words my house, can you do that for me?" He nodded.
"Excellent. Alright everyone this concludes our first but definitely not our last council meeting. Thank you guys for the help today."
Danny sat at the couch with his friends Sam and Tucker. He teleported Jazz home telling her he had urgent matters to discuss. His parents as well sat on the couch. Danny was just waiting for Dani and Valorie.
"What's this about?" Jazz asked.
"Yea you made it sound so urgent!" Tucker said.
"Not yet guys I have to wait until everyone is here." Danny said.
"Who are we waiting for exactly?" His dad asked eating some fudge. Danny rolled his eyes.
"Valorie and Dani."
"Valorie!" Sam, Tucker and Jazz said in unison.
"Yes I will explain everything later."
"Who's Danny? You?" His mom asked.
"No Dani with and 'I'. She is my clone."
"Clone!" His parents shouted. Danny winced.
"Sorry we forgot you had sensitive hearing." His mom said.
"It's okay. Well long story short, a while ago Vlad wanted me to join him. I refused because I never wanted to live with that fruit loop of a guy ever. In fact he wanted me so badly to be his son so badly, which is messed up if you asked me,"
The group nodded in response. "He tried to clone me. Most of the clones did not make it through the process and turned into a pile of ectoplasm. But then there was Dani also known as Daniel. She was the first successful clone to be made, but turned out to be a female and much weaker than me. And I say we are a lot more related then most people think." Danny chucked and rubbed his neck.
"Yea and she has your attitude that for sure." Tucker grinned.
"Shut up." Danny laughed.
"Well if she is technically your sister, then she is apart of the family." His mom, Maddie said.
"I agree. It wouldn't hurt to have another Fenton in this house." His dad smiled.
"Thanks guys really."
"So what has she been doing all this time."
"I don't know why don't we ask her?" Danny said. And before anyone could ask what he meant a green portal appeared in front of the living room. And Fright Night stepped out with a squirming girl in his arms.
"You monster you put me down right now! You are a liar! I will kick that helmet off your head and-"
"Dani?" Danny Phantom said. She stopped and Fright Night gently set the girl down.
"Danny?! Danny its you! Oh my gosh!" The two ran at each other and hugged.
"He kidnaped me from Tokyo! I was staying at hotel you sent me money for and he just appeared and took me!" Danny chuckled at the little girls furious face. "Dani look at me. That's Fright Night he has a habit of scaring people." Danny glared at him and he shrunk a little. "But he didn't kidnap you. I requested him to."
"R-requested? He kept on saying that the king has requested me but by king he surely didn't mean- and why the heck do you have fangs, and pointy ears, and a tail! Danny what's going on! Y-your not him!"
"Dani there is a lot you missed out on while you where gone. And I can assure you I am Danny Phantom." He said simply.
"I am so confused. And why are we in your house with your parents?" She said stepping back eyeing them.
"Relax they won't hurt you."
"Th-they know? I mean of corse they do. After the Disasteroid everyone knows. But why aren't they hunting you?" She asked. His parents winced.
"They gave that up a long time ago after they found out."
She cautiously looked around and then turned into her human half. She wore a bright red shirt, jeans, and a grey beanie.
"And what about you?" She asked. Danny chuckled.
"Fright Night wasn't lying that the king requested you."
"B-but that means... your the king?!" She shrieked. Danny nodded and held up the hand which had the ring of rage.
"I will explain more when Valorie comes."
"Valorie is coming!" She smiled. Danny nodded. His clones smile widened.
"Yea any minute now." Then there was a soft knock at the door. "She is here."
Danny walked to the door and opened it.
"Why such sudden news?" Valorie asked.
"Valorie!" Dani ran up to her.
"Dani? Your here?" They hugged each other. Valorie looked around. "As well as everyone else I see." Then she spotted Fright Night and glared at him. "And a spook I see. Wow this must be very important." She said.
"It is actually. Please sit down, and Fright Night you are dismissed." He bowed and opened a portal and walked through. They two girls sat down next to each other.
Danny spent the following 20 minutes updating everyone and especially Dani and Valorie about how he became king and all of that stuff. He showed him his ghost form and they where very surprised. He did also update his suit a bit thanks to the help of clockwork. Danny still had is eloquent flowing cape and his suit remained the same. He just added some armor on the shoulders and a black sword strapped to his belt on his right side and the dagger on his left with the watch clockwork gave him. And people would say he looked very intimidating and scary.
"So," he finally said, "that's what leads us to this moment here. I wanted to ask each of you something that's never been done in ghosts history."
"Okay...?" Sam trailed off.
"Let me start off by reminding you guys that I am trying to have peace between both realms right? Correct, so I though why not have some family members and friends be royal with me? That's why I wanted to ask each of you something. Dani, Jazz? Being technically my sisters you have the full right to the throne which means, Dani, Jazz, would you guys like to be the next Ghost Zones princesses?" There was a long silent before Jazz spoke;
"No. Freaking. Way! This can't be happening right?" She squealed.
"Yes! Oh my gosh yes! Danny you can teach me so much things! I am going to be a princess!" Dani cried. Danny nodded and smiled at the girls excitement.
"You are. Jazz what do you say? I will teach you all there is to know." He said. Jazz nodded.
"Yes I accept. And plus bossing my brother around will be a lot more fun."
"Oh heaven help us all." Danny rolled his eyes. "I have a huge surprise after this by the way."
"If this isn't enough already." Sam grinned.
"Good point. Actually Sam, would you like to be the royal duchess of the zone?"
Her eyes widened and she frantically nodded. "Dude. Your joking right?! Someone has to make sure you don't do anything stupid."
Danny smiled. "Your right I make no promises. Tucker, would you become my next duke?"
"Yea dude! Bro working in the ghost zone and being mayor! This is crazy! And I can boss Skulker around too, and Technus and-!"
"Yea I don't think you can do that." Danny said.
"Who cares? I'm in!"
Danny chuckled.
"Great. Mom, dad, I have assigned you official ghost hunter of the ghost zone and researchers. And I have an assignment, try finding a resistant to Blood Blossoms."
"That's crazy!" His mom spoke.
"So can we still hunt ghosts?" His mom asked.
"In a way yes." His fathers eyes brightened.
"And finally, Valorie. I know we have been at very bad terms lately, and you are more then welcome to decline but would you like to become a knight of the ghost zone?" Valorie was quiet, this goes against everything. She has fought ghosts forever now only to protect them.
"I-I don't know." She said.
"And that's alright. I just need to know by Tuesday this week, for your coronations are on the following Friday. Which is also where all ghosts will be present while I update them on some new laws. If you do accept trainings will be on Wednesdays every week."
"I will think about it." He nodded.
"I understand. Now for the surprise. I have requested the ectoconstructors to build a little something for me. New additions to the castle such as all of your rooms which you can personalize yourselves. As well as a weapons vault, a lab, a training arena, gaming room and more."
"No way! A gaming room!" Tucker yelped.
"That's not it. Hold on." Danny looked up and teleported to his room. He grabbed a box from under his bed and then teleported back downstairs.
"You can teleport?!" Dani cried.
"I can." He smiled.
"Cool."
"So guys, I had Clockwork build a little something for you guys as well." Danny opened the box and pulled out a black and white wring. The black and white bands swirled around each other.
"A ring?" His dad asked.
"Ah, but it's not just a ring. Here. Me and Clockwork created these just last night with the wielders." Danny placed one in his fathers hands. His dad twirled it around then out it on. It immediately moved to fit his finger.
"Cool." He said.
"It's more than that. It can create portals to my castle. Try it. Rub it twice." His father did and a black and white swirling portal appeared. His fathers eyes widened. "In all my years! And you did this in one night? It took us years to create a portal to the ghost zone. How did you do it in one night in a device so small?"
"Easy, we just needed a ghosts ectoplasm that has the ability to create portals."
"Who can?" Asked Valorie. Danny grinned and created a portal behind him and stepped through disappearing before there eyes. Then a portal reopened and Danny came out from it floating in the air.
"Show off." Tucker huffed.
"Aww jealous Tuck? It's okay I have one for all of you, but please be carful and don't open portals in the middle of school."
"Wow geez Danny." Jazz said.
"Crazy huh?" He said landing softly and began to pass the rings out.
She nodded. "Your pretty smart." His mom complimented.
"Thanks, but don't teleport to the ghost zone for like another week please because I kinda need to finish the castle first. Wouldn't wanna reunion the surprise. And don't try to sneak around because I can sense every portal and every being that enters and leaves. Also show the rings to the guard and they will allow you to pass knowing you are a royal. Questions?"
"When is the coronation again?" Valorie asked.
"Friday at 12:00. Your welcome to teleport and I will guide you to where we need to go."
"Alrighty everyone I just ordered pizza! Why don't we celebrate this great news?"
"I agree. But do you by chance have something without meat?" Sam smiled and asked politely.
"Of corse dear, I ordered one of there salads just for you." Danny's mom answered.
"Pizza I haven't had pizza for so long!" Dani cheered standing up.
"I'm so hungry I can eat a whole box of pizza."
"I wouldn't be surprised." Danny grinned. Tucker rolled his eyes.
"Pizza sounds so good. Living off of ramen isn't my idea of good." Jazz said. They laughed.
"I'm not really hungry right now, and it is getting late my dad might be wondering where I am at anyways." Valorie said.
"Or corse. Thanks for coming Val." She nodded and grabbed her jacket and headed for the door. She opened it and with a sad look she left. Danny frowned.
"Hold on guys." Danny walked to the door and opened it chasing after Valorie.
"Valorie hold up!" He cried after her. She stopped in his driveway and turned around. "Valorie, look I don't want you to feel pressured or anything."
"No it's alright, really, I'm okay."
"It's your father isn't it?" He asked. She nodded.
"He can't find a good job anywhere."
"Look, I am really sorry about what happened with your dad."
"Danny please. If anyone should be apologizing it's me. I'm so sorry. If I knew it was you I would have never... never... well... never tried to kill you every day. I'm so sorry and I know you can never forgive me, but I just wish you would understand that I feel very bad. Also why did you never told me?"
Danny hesitates before answering. "You loved Danny Fenton. I just never knew how you would react upon the discovery of my being Phantom. I was scared you would hate me just as much as you hated him. I was scared about a lot of things back then. Even my own parents." She looked up at his icy blue eyes with guilt in her own. Danny then just realized something. Valorie loved his human half and hated his ghost half. Paulina loved his ghost half and hated his human half. But Sam? Sam loved both sides. Sam. Just the thought of her and those purple eyes mad his heart flutter.
"Oh god Danny." She covered her mouth as a tear slid down her cheek. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry."
"Hey." He put a hand on her shoulder and looked at her in the eyes. "Hey, it's okay I forgive you."
Her breath caught, and her heart froze. What did he just say? He forgave her? Just like that? After years of hunting him and trying to kill him, he just forgave her that fast? But it didn't make sense. She never forgave Phantom for the damn dog incident that lost her fathers job, even though it wasn't even his fault. She blamed him and took her anger out on him. But he still forgave her so quickly. Oh how stupid she was to never recognize how much the two had in common. It was right in front of her the whole time. She should have know after the whole Dani incident after all.
"W-what?" She but back the tears and fighting off the confusion.
"I forgive you Val." He smiled.
"Really? Why?" She sniffled as her mind searched for reasons why he forgave her so fast. She found none.
"Because I know how you feel. And your my friend Valorie. I always forgive people because they forgave me. I get it Val, you where angry and confused and maybe even scared. I don't blame you."
She smiled and hugged him.
"Thank you Danny your a good friend. I-I just just don't know what to do anymore. You are right. I am scared, a-and confused and angry, Danny, god I'm so angry. They blame my dad! A-and it wasn't even his fault. He doesn't have a job and no one will hire him because of what happened. We don't have money. We are going to loose the apartment if he doesn't get some income to pay for it."
"I think I can help with that." Danny smiled.
"H-how?" She wiped a tear and sniffles.
"If you want I can give him a job." She paused for a second trying to process what he just said.
"You couldn't? Could you?" She asked, wiping her red eyes and glossy cheeks.
"Well what is he good at?"
"Building and programming." She said and sniffles again.
"Wonderful, it wouldn't hurt to have another text savvy on Team Phantom. He can work for Tucker but of corse getting paid."
"Are you- your joking right?" She sucked in a breath.
Danny shook his head.
"Danny, I don't know what to say..." the Ghost king held up his hand.
"Say nothing. It's the least I can do." She smiled and hugged the halfa even tighter then before.
"I would never thought I would be thanking Phantom, but here I am." She laughed an sniffles and the same time.
"And I would never of thought I would become king of the ghost zone. But here I am." The teens laughed.
"Talk to your dad tonight, okay? Tell me how it goes in the morning. Clockwork made an extra ring, I don't know why, but I am guessing it is for him. Here." He pressed the ring in her hand. She held it tightly.
"Thanks Danny, I can't wait to tell him the good news."
"Your welcome. And if he has questions. You know where to find me." He said pointing to the ring. She nodded.
"I will talk to you tomorrow I guess."
"I guess Val. Have a good night."
"You to Fenton. Thank you so much. You have no idea how much you have helped us." Danny grinned.
"Anything for a friend." And the two, with smiling faces, parted and went home.
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