200 REVIEWS! I love you guys all so much! And special shout out to ShinyMudkipGalfor being the 200threview, your special surprise will happen within the next couple of chapters!
I should have you know that I am in no way knowledgeable of Latin, any translations I do for now are done on google translate, but I do try and make sure it is as correct as possible with lots of retranslating. If you guys know anyone who knows Latin, or Esperanto, or German (the languages that will be featured later on) could you please tell me so I can get accurate translations? And any English translations will be written at the bottom of the chapter.
Sophia the daughter of Nyx: Thanks!
Potterheads2016: Glad you liked their reactions. I always kinda thought that they were a little too accepting in some other fics. Surprised, definitely, but never conflicted
Guest (1): Once again hoping I translated correctly, I promise I won't
ShinyMudkipGal: The little witch deserved to get take down a peg or two, and your review made mine, as always :D
Phantomfanforever: Are you a telepath O.o ? Thanks, and another quick update!
Guest (2): You have no idea how happy it makes me that something I wrote made someone react that way, thank you so much (this review is also the inspiration for Danny's own inhuman sound)
Randomphandom: I realized I didn't say this before, but love the rhyming name. And he has lots more. My name is Unlucky, so Danny's not exactly gonna have a nice time
Great: And you will find out, in this. Very. Chapter. Dun dun dunnnnnn
Princessbinas: Yeah, I've made him a little creepy stalkerish
LooneyAces: Thanks, good to know I got them right
Mimi1012: For now he's kinda sane, and the review wasn't late at all, it's no problem
Nesy girl: Not actually sure on the number of chapters. I didn't think it would end up this long. In my head, I'm thinking five more, which means it's probably gonna be more like ten :P it all depends on the turns the story takes
TheBoss3254: I actually wasn't planning on going that way, or at least not in the way that you expected.
GirlFish: I think I mentioned it earlier, but it is already known that Vlad was a halfa. He still revealed his identity during PP
Reptil: Oh, you will
Shiikun: I hadn't thought of that, but it really got me thinking, and just for I've included an explanation of that at the end of the chapter :)
Sorry there's no real action in this chapter, I guess it's kind of a filler, and it can't be all action. But there will be!
Enjoy!
The Red Huntress flew through the back alleys of Amity Park. She had been going back and forth between houses and the school for several hours now, carrying two people with her at a time. It was frustrating, trying to fly properly while being thrown off balance by the additional weight. If it were her old board, the trips would have been much longer, if it could have even stayed up. Luckily, her new and improved board had more power and tech that allowed it to compensate for the uneven weight.
Below her, the more brave people were slinking along the alley, ducking at every sudden noise. After her first few trips, apparently word had somehow spread that the school was a safe place to be. Every home within a mile and a half radius, and while Valerie doubted everyone could fit into the auditorium, the wraiths had yet to step onto school grounds. So they might by safe as long as they stay inside.
"Huntress!" Valerie quickly spun around and aimed her board to the street. She pulled up beside a couple she recognized as Maurice and Angela Foley.
"Yeah?" Valerie asked.
"The ghost shield is also up at Fenton Works. You should people to head over there as well," Maurice said.
"How do you know?"
"Jazz called us," Angela explained.
"Okay, thanks," Valerie nodded to them both, then flew off. She was out until dark, telling people to either go to Fenton Works or Casper High. When Fenton Works became too full, Casper High became the only refuge. When the sun started to dip below the horizon, Valerie knew it was time to head back. There were still people trapped in their homes, but she didn't want to be flying around at night, when ghosts were typically more active, and her absence might have been noticed by people who didn't know her secret at this point.
Valerie was on her way back when she halted in the middle of the air. There was a group of wraiths standing at the mouth of the alley. They were clustered together, heads raised and empty eyes boring into the red-suited girl. She shivered and prepared to attack, should the wraiths make any sudden move. Their jaws slowly opened, and a green mist poured out, pooling around their feet and slowly filling the alley. Thin tendrils reached up like gnarled fingers and curled around Valerie's ankles, probing her suit for holes. Valerie panicked and shot out of the alley, the wraiths moaning and reaching for the board as she flew overhead. Caution abandoned by her fear, she flew as fast as she could over the rooftops to the school, bursting through the doors and tumbling across the board as her suit retracted. When Valerie stopped rolling, she sat up and rubbed a sore spot on her head, then looked around. This specific hall was luckily empty, so no one had seen her removing her suit. The doors to the school remained blessedly closed, but she could still hear the wraiths moaning outside.
"I'LL KILL HIM!" Danny roared
"Danny, calm down!" Sam shouted, but Danny wouldn't. He was pacing around a large bedroom in Dora's castle, having woken up an hour ago. At first he had been a little delirious, but as soon as Sam walked in, her arms and legs covered in bandages, he had descended into a fit of rage. There were fist sized holes in the thick grey stone, and a few black stains from ectoblasts on the ceiling as Danny took his anger out on anything that didn't move. At first his rage had solely been directed at Kraeva, for hurting Sam, but in the last ten minutes, he was threatening Skulker and Technus as well. Occasionally Vlad.
"NO! I'll kill them all, for hurting you, for making me… for making me relive that! They're dead, the next time I see them!" Danny spun around and kicked the nightstand by the bed. It went soaring across the room and smashed into the wall, breaking into a thousand smaller pieces. He stared down at his bloody fist. Some of the blood was from the shredded skin on his knuckles that was slowly knitting itself back together, but most of it was from the jagged cut in his shoulder. The shard of glass Danny had used to make it lay discarded on the bed, and the rest of the broken mirror littered the floor beneath the frame still hanging on the wall. It had been an irrational and split second decision, to cut out whatever Skulker had placed in his shoulder. Unlike the time medallion that… that he had fused with Danny's body that other time, this small piece of tech was simply been placed inside of him, and Danny had managed to carve it out by cutting through what it had attached to. A gory process that Sam had tried to stop, but she couldn't exactly reach him when he floated against the ceiling, his blood dripping down onto her upturned face. She had almost been crying, begging him to stop, but Dany hadn't. Not until there was the light plink of something small and metal dropping against the stone floor, soon followed by the thud of Danny dropping.
The device had no longer been intangible, and Danny had picked it up with surprising delicacy despite his anger, and turned it over in his hand. Now, he stared at the thing, and the large N inside a circle that graced its only flat side. He had recognized it immediately for what it stood for.
Danny's eyes flared red as he stared at it, and he summoned all his power, changing into Phantom. The temperature in the room dropped, ice spreading out from his feet, and his aura glowed blue as Danny did something he never knew he could do.
"Nikolai Technus, princeps manes imperat tibi majestas faciem iudicium tuum1!" Danny's aura flared, there was a bright flash, and suddenly Technus was in the room with them, spinning around and trying to get his bearings.
"Who dares disturb I, the hip and cool Technus, master of all technology! It is I who summons you!" Technus pointed an accusing finger at Danny, then froze—not literally, of course—as he took in the halfa's appearance. Glowing eyes flickering between red and blue, bright blue aura, the ice encasing his feet and slowing spreading out across the floor, covering everything accept for a circle of space around Sam.
"Nemo hominem summonitionem me2." Technus nodded quickly, and Danny thrust out his fist, palm open with the small piece of tech on full display. "What is this?"
"Technus 2.0 does not reveal his secrets!" Technus cried, though he sounded less confident than usual. Danny's eyes narrowed and spears of ice shot from the floor and ceiling, stopping inches from Technus and stopping any attempt he might make at fleeing.
"What is this, and what does it do?" Danny repeated
"Skulkeraskedforit," Technus answered quickly. When Danny glared at him, he repeated it much slower.
"And?" Danny prompted.
"When activated by a chosen ghost's ectoplasm, it reacts with a ghost core. The great and powerful Technus, has a theory. A ghosts last memories are imprinted on their core, this memory being their death. When faced with the correct stimulation, physical experiences of these final memories are induced, and a ghost will experience their death again. Only a ghost as powerful as I would have the ability to create such a device, and Skulker recognized that genius in his quest to cause you pain!" Technus explained.
Danny's glare shifted from Technus to the small device. Green electricity crackled along his arm and zapped the machinery. There was a sharp pop, and it started to smoke.
"Ah, my invention!" Technus moaned.
"You will not make this again," Danny instructed, turning his hand over so the now useless device fell from his palm and onto the ice.
"The master of all technology, complies to your request," Technus said quickly.
"Relinquo3," Danny growled, and Technus vanished. The electricity that had flickered across his arm appeared now around the ice at Danny's feet and spread out across the room. Cracks formed along the ice, and as the lightning dissipate, the ice melted as one, and water dropped from the ceiling to soak Danny, Sam, and everything in the room.
Danny changed back to Fenton, his eyes fading from red, to green, to blue. He opened his mouth, and a distinctly inhuman sound to Sam resembled her name came out. She rushed forwards, wrapping her arms around Danny and guided him onto the bed.
"How… did I do that?" Danny asked, staring down at his hands.
"I don't know. You were angry, really angry," Sam tried to comfort him.
"Angry like him," Danny shuddered, pulling his knees up to his chest. He focused on his hand, and a spark of green flickered around his fingers. "Sam, I need to tell you something."
It was an hour later when Danny and Sam emerged from the room, completely dry after Danny phased the water off of them. The halfa had calmed down a little, at least enough not to be punching things, and he apologized to Dora profusely when she saw the damage he had caused in the room. Dora had left and said something about troubled little brothers, sounding oddly like Jazz.
"Danny, you need to face them," Sam urged as they stood outside the dining hall, where Dora had informed them the rest of the Ghostketeers were.
Danny shook his head. "Not really. I could drop out of high school, run away from home, stay invisible for the rest of my life. I don't need to face them."
"But you should. Trust me, Danny. No one in there hates you. Well, maybe Dash, be he hated you already," Sam gave a nervous, breathy laugh.
"Uh-huh," Danny nodded, dragging his hands through his hair.
"It'll be fine." Sam rose onto her toes and gave Danny a kiss on the cheek, which seemed to surprise the halfa.
"We're dating now, remember?" Sam laughed.
"Oh yeah," Danny's face brightened momentarily, and he wrapped his hand in hers before entering the room. He was immediately tackle hugged by his parents, who tightly wrapped their arms around him.
"Danny, we're so sorry. We should have noticed, we should have realized something was wrong. We shouldn't have threatened you, all the times that you told us you were good, and we didn't listen. We've been horrible parents," Maddie cried into Danny's shoulder. Danny didn't move, unsure of what he should do, and gave Sam a helpless look.
She returned his look with one that easily recognized as an "I told you so", and motioned for him to hug back. Danny did so, a little awkwardly.
"You guys didn't know, I'm the one who didn't tell you," Dany said.
"But you should have been able to, and we should have asked you more about the accident," Jack countered. Danny spotted Ember standing in the corner of the room over his father's large shoulder.
"How much do you guys know?" Danny asked, eyes roaming to the other people in the room as his parents finally broke away.
"We figured out it was the portal, and Ember gave us a few details. She also told us about your obsession," Maddie recounted.
"Yeah, man. Saving people? That's awesome," Tucker grinned, and Danny realized that he hadn't actually told his friends what his obsession was.
"Mostly," Star added, reminded everyone about the rest of what Ember had said.
"It really isn't easy," Danny chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I'm assuming this is the cause of all your problems at school?" Lancer asked. Although everyone already knew the answer to that question it was, in a way, a relief to hear Danny confirm it.
"Yeah. There's not really a lot of time for school work when I'm spending most of my time fighting ghosts. Honestly, I'm lucky if I manage to get a couple hours of sleep any given night," Danny smiled sadly.
"That little?" Lancer asked, eyes wide.
"I mean, I don't really need as much as you guys anyways, so it's not a big deal. And I have other ways to regain my energy if I really need to."
"What's it like, being Phantom, saving people?" Kwan asked.
"It's really cool. Being able to fly, knowing that people are okay because of me. Can't complain about the increased strength, though having sensitive hearing can cause a few problems." Danny rubbed his ear absently, remembering the first time he had almost burst an eardrum because of sounds being louder than they should be.
"What kind of stuff can you do?" This question actually surprised Danny a little. Considering how much time he spent fighting around Amity Park, one would expect people to have seen all of his powers already. Or maybe Kwan just wanted to hear Danny say it himself.
"Oh, man. That's a big question. I have a lot of powers, actually. Almost everything you've seen the ghosts attacking Amity Park do, I can do as well. There's really so much, it would take a while to go over. But the biggest things are Cryokinesis, which is limited to ghosts with a ghost core. Besides the yetis of the Far Frozen, I've never actually met any other ghosts able to do this. In the future I should be able to create portals to the Ghost Zone, and I have my ghostly wail, which I think is my most powerful ability.
Danny paused and focused on the floor while green electricity crackled up his body. "I can do this now too, which is actually kinda similar to my ghost stinger."
"Sweet! But what about teleportation?" Tucker asked.
"Some ghosts can do that, but I can't," Danny shook his head.
"No, you can," Sam said. "When we were in the Speeder, and you were panicking, I said your name, and you were suddenly in front of me."
"Really?"
"Dude, there was a bright flash and everything. It was pretty cool," Tucker corroborated.
"I've never done that before, I think," Danny scowled, thinking back to all the fights he could remember. There was a moment during the second ordeal with Freakshow, he may have teleported then. But Danny wasn't sure, he had been so worried about his family and friends, he hadn't really been focusing. Then again, earlier he would have been worried about Sam.
"It's worth a shot." Danny glanced around the room, then focused on a spot. He pictured himself disappearing from where he was now, and reappearing there. It worked. There was a flash, and suddenly Danny was gone.
"Cool!" Everyone looked up to see the halfa standing on the ceiling, grinning wildly. He started walking around, and Lancer gaped. How was he not falling?
Danny laughed when he saw Lancer's expression. "One of the many powers I didn't mention, wall-crawling."
He walked over the wall, then stepped onto that instead. Wide eyes continued to follow Danny as he made his way to the floor and returned to his spot beside Sam, once again grabbing her hand in his.
"Ember, where's Danielle?" Danny asked.
"Sleeping, I think. I got the pipsqueak from Far Frozen and we flew back here. She may be just like you, but her stamina isn't the same. The trip took a lot out of her," Ember said.
"Side effects of her formerly unstable form," Danny explained. "And thanks."
"Whatever, Sparky," Ember scoffed, but she was smiling.
"I really can shock you now, so maybe you should be careful?" Danny suggested, letting the green energy crackling around his hand. He was honestly starting to enjoy this power.
"Danny, before, you told us that Danielle is Phantom's daughter," Maddie said slowly.
"Oh, yeah. I was kind of wondering when you'd mentioned that. So, she's my daughter, and your granddaughter," Danny smiled sheepishly at her parents. "She'd the product of Vlad's attempt at cloning me, trying to make the 'perfect son.'"
"He cloned you?!" Jack shouted. "That means he experimented on you!"
"Just a little?" Danny was quiet as he said this. He could feel the phantom pains of pin pricks and scalpels along his side.
"Hey, dipstick, I've kinda been wondering. If the pipsqueak is your clone, does she share your obsession? I've never seen her save someone, and I have to say, she's a lot more mentally stable than you are," Ember pointed out.
"First of all, she's not one hundred percent me. In case you haven't noticed, she's a girl, I'm not. I call her my daughter, not my twin. Since all my other clones turned out really bad, Danielle is about .000001 percent not me, to try and stabilize her."
"Why so little?" Maddie asked.
"DNA compatibility. My DNA is somehow perfectly compatible with ectoplasm, it's why the portal didn't kill me. Vlad wasn't totally compatible, that's we he got ecto acne. Using the smallest amount of foreign DNA possible did stabilize her more, but using anymore and she could have been worse off than the others." Danny shuddered at the memory of watching a clone that looked just like him melting into oblivion, and then the memory of Dani melting as well. "But anyways, her obsession? Since it had never been done before, I guess you guys wouldn't know. Obsessions aren't genetic, it has to do with the ghosts wishes. I died, as was essentially born as a ghost, wishing that no one would have to feel this pain. That I could save them from it. Ember died wishing more people knew her name, and don't judge her. It's not vain, not when you know the whole story. Danielle was born not only wishing for a family, but she was created for that purpose. Those emotions would have fed her first instances as a ghost, since she had no previous human emotions. So Danielle's obsession is family, and as long as she has one, she'll be fine."
Danny smiled. A goofy, loving grin that made him seem to glow, before it slipped from his face.
"By the way, we're heading back to Amity Park as soon as Danielle wakes up. Kraeva mentioned a surprise, and I hate surprises."
To see a list of all of Danny's powers, go to Danny's Danny Phantom wiki character page. All powers listed there are what he can do. He probably won't do all of them in this fic, but I might use a few of the lesser mentioned ones, like wall-crawling, as you've seen I've already used it.
Also, as you may have realized, in my fic, Danny's experience with cloning wasn't as pleasant and easy as it seemed in the show.
1Nikolai Technus, the prince of ghosts commands you, face your judgement
2No man summons me
3Leave
'See' you next time!
