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Manifest Destiny

Chapter 1: Rebirth


14 years later


"Guys, there's nothing in here." A young Daniel Fenton pronounced as he looked around the inoperable ghost portal.

Danny Fenton was the fourteen year old son of the infamous ghost-hunters Maddie and Jack Fenton. He had baby blue eyes and raven black hair. His parents were scientists, specialists in the field of the paranormal and about six months ago they had theorized that there existed a world parallel to Earth. A plane of existence that was the home to those who had died but refused to pass on, in lay-man's terms, ghosts. So six months, twenty-three days and two hundred thousand dollars later(all provided for by the tax payers of course) Danny's parents had enthusiastically called everyone in the household down to their lab underground to witness this phenomenal event.

So Danny, his two best friends Sam and Tucker along with his older sister Jasmine (aka Jazz) had stood anxiously beside his parents as they pressed the big red button that should have started up the portal and in an amazing display of lights and sound punch a hole into what they dubbed, the Ghost Zone. However they were rewarded with a display of sparks, the sounds of wining and then…nothing.

Dejected, Danny's parents had went upstairs, going over calculations and wondering what they were going to tell the government (As it was their job to make sure the portal worked and for this to be not another waste of the tax payers money). Jazz had also began to trek up to her room, closing the insulated soundproof door leading to the lab as she whispered a melancholic,

"I told them it wouldn't work, why wouldn't they listen to me?"

Danny stood in the mouth of the portal, pained at seeing his parent's dejected forms. He suggested to his friends that he take a look inside the portal, just in case they had missed something. So he put on the Hazmat suit (always better to be safe than sorry) which was a tight fitting suit that was a simple white in color with black gloves, boots and collar sans giant face of his dad of course (there was no way he was wearing anything with his dad's face on it) and entered the portal.

"Man that sucks, your parents looked so bummed out too." Tucker Foley said as he sighed and put his hands in his pockets.

Tucker Foley was an African-American who was, simply put, a nerd. A red beret sat on his head and thin glasses framed his face. He wore a yellow turtleneck and forest camouflaged cargo pants with brown boots. His love for technology bordered on the platonic and sometimes that worried Danny. He was a fun loving guy to be around and a loyal friend; unless you gave him a seat of power, then he was kind of a douche.

"Well don't give up Danny, try feeling the walls or something." Samantha Manson suggested, trying to wrack her brain for any clue as to help jump start the ghost portal.

Samantha Manson was an independent, self-proclaimed Goth and an Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian, although she only answered to Sam, if you had the misfortune of calling her Samantha to her face, she'd deck you faster than any world-renowned boxer ever could. She mainly wore a sleeveless black tank-top with a purple oval in the middle, a black and green plaid skirt with purple leggings. On her feet she wore, two inch thick, steel-reinforced combat boots. How she lifted them, much less walked in them no one knows but God help you if she decided to step on your foot. Her eyes were a breathtaking purple and her hair was midnight black.

"I dunno, I don't th-woah!" Danny cried as he tripped over a wire, though he was able to catch himself using the wall of the portal for support. Danny felt something under his supporting hand and lifted it to reveal a big red button, the words ON glowing to show that the portal had indeed been activated.

Before Danny could utter so much as a 'crud' the portal began to glow bright green, the light growing intensely by the second until Danny had to cover his eyes with his hands, a weak whining sound had began growing and growing until the portal itself seemed to be screaming. However as Tucker and Sam listened closer it was not the portal that was emitting a gut wrenching scream, it was Danny.

He screeched as his body was blasted with thousands upon thousands of volts of electricity, ectoplasm attacking his body, tearing his physical being apart and he felt as if he was being dismembered slowing, limb by limb, and molecule by molecule. He continued to cry out until his vocal chords burned out and his mouth emitted a soundless howl as he gripped his head with his hands and threw his head back. The pain seemed to be never-ending and he cried, begging and pleading in his mind's eye for mercy, for whatever deity out there to release him from this arduous torture.

As if answering his silent prayer Danny saw a shape in the madness that was plaguing his body, his mind and his very soul. Although when his mind's eye focused on the shape, he was struck with pure, primal fear. If his body was his own (if it even existed anymore) he would have ran and screamed however his physical body had long since began tearing itself apart, molecularly deconstructing itself, though young Danny was ignorant to all these facts. He merely saw the shadow that raised its claw and swiped across where his body should have been and yet he felt no pain; but a soul-chilling cold. Then this monster, this terrifying entity reached with its other claw and he felt as his soul was torn in two.

Finally, darkness began to overshadow Danny, and if he could have he would've wept tears of joy for being granted the mercy of death. But as if reading his thoughts, a voice whispered to him from within the blackness,

"Neigh, youngling, the death you seek shall not come to you, not yet at least." A raspy chuckle echoed from all around him before it spoke again, this time in a more modernized tone,

"I have merely separated your mind from your body, to prevent you from succumbing to insanity while I reconstruct your body."

Before the question could be thought into existence, the voice answered in an all-knowing tone,

"Because although I am the taker of life; I am also the giver of life. It has been decided that your destiny is too great for your pathetic mortal shell to fail you here, thus my presence. Come child,

As the voice said this, Daniel felt more than saw a part of the darkness separate and extend its claw, which Danny somehow knew wasn't a claw at all but a skeletal hand, stripped of flesh and muscle and he just knew this shadow's hand rested where Danny's chest, his heart, would be,

"It is time for you to return to your world, and so it shall be that I will keep this half of your soul,"

Danny saw the half of his soul, a floating mass of light in the distance before the darkness closed its skeletal hands around it and pulled it into the blackness,

"however, you cannot live with only half a soul, the body I have recreated for you must have a soul that is whole and strong, thus, I will give you a piece of me,

As the voice said this, Danny felt the space he was in grow cold and suffocating and suddenly he felt like thrashing and screaming. Terror echoed through his consciousness as he slowly saw the darkness consume him, filling the void that was left from his vacant human half,

"Shhh child, be still. Be not afraid, this is a gift, no matter its terrifying appearance."

Slowly the thrashing in his mind began to cease and Danny resigned himself to this fate, seeing as there was nothing he could do, the voice continued soothingly,

"All will be well child, you will be watched over by the Master of Time himself, so do not fret youngling."

Danny slowly felt his mind come to terms with what was happening as the darkness consumed him whole,

"Now come boy, let the merciless embrace of frost take you and live Danny Phantom, live!"

Daniel felt as the darkness soothed his mind, removing all feeling from it. He reached out and hugged himself as he felt a breath of ice make its way through his entire being and suddenly, almost too suddenly he saw a light, powerful and vibrant. The light came closer until it enveloped everything, and for a moment Danny knew true bliss.


When the flash of light had ended and the wail of screams had ceased, Tucker and Sam slowly picked themselves up from off the ground and slowly looked at one another, noticing the tears that stained their faces.

"T-t-t-tucker…is h-he..?" Sam whispered as she stared from Tucker to the portal,

"I…I don't know…but we have to find out." Tucker said with more confidence than he felt.

As they slowly approached the smoking portal, it was the smell that hit them first; burning flesh. Tucker fell to his knees and spewed his stomach's contents onto the lab floor as the realization hit him. His best friend had probably been burnt to death and he had done nothing but watch.

Sam fell to her knees sobbing, cradling her head in her hands as tears began cascading down her pale face. She had a stronger stomach than Tucker but the scent was nauseating and to know it was her best friend made it that much worse. Tucker eventually got up and made his way over next to Sam, he slowly held her to his chest and they wept for their lost friend, that is until they heard a whisper that sounded too much like said lost friend,

"S-sam…t-tucker…..."

The two sobbing teens' heads whipped up as they saw the smoke had cleared and saw a kneeling Danny, his arms hanging limp by his side, his mouth hung agape as smoke seemed to be leaving his body. His upper body sat erect and his head was facing upwards towards the ceiling. They shot up and ran to the aid of their best friend, in their haste they failed to notice, the now working portal behind Danny. It was a swirling mass of green ecto-energy, enforced by a thick steel barrier that was octagon in shape. However, Sam and Tucker could have cared less about the portal as they approached their friend but stopped suddenly when they noticed his current state. Danny's eyes were glazed over but they were neon green and his jumpsuit was now black and white, his hair had become snow white and his skin was ashen in color.

Before the two could comment, twin rings of pure white light formed around Danny's body at the waist, one ring traveled up towards his head and the other towards his feet and when the rings disappeared, there kneeled a more human looking Daniel.

"Please…"

Slowly Danny collapsed to the ground,

"Danny!" Tucker and Sam cried out simultaneously as they picked their friend up and dragged him away from the portal. As they fretted over calling an ambulance, Danny merely shook his head and whispered,

"Just let me lay here…for a few minutes."

Having been traumatized from watching their best friend get electrocuted, it didn't occur to them why the injured Danny had refused hospital aid or why they didn't force him into an ambulance but they could have cared less as they watched their friend's chest heave up and down, air leave his lungs and every breath he drew was a declaration of life.

It would be only hours afterward they would discover that Danny's physical transformation was a result of a drastic change in his cellular makeup. His snowy white hair and radiant green eyes a testament to his passing over into the realm of the dead. Danny had become something that would be later recorded as a halfa, a human-ghost hybrid.

Of course, for every action there is a reaction.

It didn't take long for the ghosts in the Ghost Zone to learn of a hole bridging the two worlds and a month after; Amity Park had officially become America's most haunted town. Young Danny knew that the ghosts plaguing his town entered through the portal that he had activated and so he picked up the mantle of town hero and became Danny Phantom. With the aid of Sam and Tucker (and later on Jazz), he would defend the citizens of Amity Park against a myriad of ghostly enemies; hunters, evil therapists, rule-obsessed jailors while escaping the clutches of his ghost-hunting parents, who chose to remind him every time they fought, that they would catch him and they would tear him apart, molecule by molecule, as well as the relentless Red Huntress and of course let's not forget the manipulative Vlad Masters/Plasmius who was the first halfa created in a lab accident caused by his dad Jack.

Of course Danny made allies out of some of the ghosts he met. For example, the yeti like ghosts in the far-frozen, Clockwork the Father of Time, and Danielle, a female clone of himself to name a few. His opinions and bravado eventually spread his reputation around the Ghost Zone and caught the attention of more powerful ghosts who would appear in Amity to attack the young hybrid.

Over the years, Danny fought and grew, the onslaught of fighting further strengthened his body and mind, his ghost powers developed with him, growing more and more powerful by the day. Going from zero to hero in the society's eye, he had worked his way from Public Enemy Number One to the town's deputized protector. Although he hardly got any schoolwork done he was somehow able to maintain his C- average and with the aid of his friends, keep a semblance of sanity.

His life was hectic, hell it was crazy but Danny couldn't imagine himself living it any other way.


Rawr, so that was chapter uno. What did you think?