Two chapters in thirty days, woohoo!

I just realized it's been almost exactly a year since this story began o.O

So, happy early anniversary!

Shout out to Luna Lillyth, TheLazyWhiteCat, Anon, mbeebow99, Oracle-sama, Kimera20, AwesomeAuthor13, ImpudentMiscegenation, and christhehopper for being the first people to read and review this! :)

I actually already had bits and pieces of this chapter planned out a while back and just decided to mold it into a full chapter and share it with y'all.

Told from Clockwork's POV

"You should become a weather reporter. You'd be second to none! You could say 'There's a 100% chance of snow, but don't worry, it'll stop at 12:17' and no one would be able to argue!"

Jazz Fenton had asked me to teach Danny's Ghost Defense class. She had wanted me to explain things to the class that she herself didn't know much about. Why she even mentioned them, and me, to the class, I do not know. I don't even know why she asked a ghost to teach a class on fighting against ghosts, or why I agreed.

"The Ghost of Weather would make a better reporter than myself," I replied to Danny, which was more than I should've done.

"He has too thick of an accent," said Tucker.

"I'm surrounded by idiots." That was one statement I agreed with Sam on.

"I don't know why I listened when Jazz asked me to teach your class." Then I remembered why I did listen to her.

I took a deep breath and planned my next words carefully. "As you are well aware, there are ghosts who command powers that are almost godlike. I myself am Master of Time. Vortex is the Ghost of Weather. Nocturn: King of Sleep and Dreams. There are also Aleph: Master of Creation, Umbra: Master of Darkness and Shadow, and my sister, Zenith: Master of Space. Together, we are the House of Six. Together, we maintain order throughout the zones."

I took a moment to let that sink into everyone's head. All the students that were awake nodded in agreement, save one Danny Fenton.

"Maintain order? You guys have been nothing trouble," Danny exclaimed. "Just last month, Vortex was rampaging across the globe! And Nocturn!"

As I am the Ghost of Time, I knew Danny would retort with that, but I still struggled to come up with a counter-argument. "I admit Vortex took things too far, but the Six maintains order by inciting fear. When someone or something threatens our grip, we go out to remind the realms that we are a force to be feared."

This time it was Sam who retorted. "Who could possibly have threatened you enough to make three of you feel the need to 'assert your grip'?"

I held out my hand and my staff materialized into it. I took a deep breath and spun my staff. A cyan vortex enveloped everyone in the room and teleported us out of the classroom and into the Ghost Zone. More specifically, into my lair.

"Where are we," asked the blonde girl with a four-petal red flower in her hair.

I looked at Danny, Sam, and Tucker, who were uneasy. I couldn't blame them; after all, the last time the three of them were here, they were forced to experience their darkest possible future.

"Welcome to Long Now," I started. "This is my home in the Ghost Zone."

The buff Asian boy looked around and admired my decor. All of my clocks, to be exact. "At least you'll never need to ask someone what time it is."

Danny looked at his two best friends and then back at me, almost asking 'Why did you bring us here?' I answered his question by raising my hand towards one of my time viewing portals and picturing a certain evil ghost whose hair was a white blaze.

The green spiral in the center of my ghost-catcher-like portal flashed and another region of the Ghost Zone became visible. In it was Danny Phantom: the muscular, evil, future one. He let out his ghostly wail and threw Ember McLain back and into Skulktech's bio-mechanical arms, who also went flying back and against the walls of their laboratory.

Ember tried to speak, but her voice was deeper, constantly cracking. "You... you destroyed my vocal chords!"

"Don't worry. your spirit will join it soon enough," evil Danny said back.

Green ectoplasm covered the screen like static on a TV and the view changed to the Observant High Council. The House of Six was also there.

"Danny Phantom has rampaged across the Earth, and now he's bringing the fight here, in our very own Ghost Zone," an Observant said.

The other Observants discussed amongst themselves about what to do with them, ignoring our presence until Auran, the highest-ranking Observant, called for order in the court. "Clockwork, you've tried to do this alone and failed. By decree of the Observant High Council, I order you to, as well as Umbra, Vortex, Nocturn, Aleph, and Zenith, to unite for this high priority cause and eliminate Danny Phantom."

The view faded away and the class turned their attention back to me, and I to Danny.

"Danny Phantom rampaging across the Earth wasn't the only reason the Observants requested his elimination."

"You're saying the House of Six fears me ... Danny Phantom? Cool!"

"No, not cool. A thousand years ago, Pariah Dark threatened the peace we'd worked so hard to maintain. Look where that got him."

Danny gulped in uneasiness.

"Defeating three of the Six isn't an achievement you... Danny Phantom should be proud of," I continued. I realized my mistake much too late, and, unfortunately, so did Danny.

"Wait, three?" He had defeated Nocturn and Vortex, but couldn't recall facing off against a third member of the House.

I let out a sigh and reluctantly explained. "Undergrowth is the reincarnation of Umbra, cursed to live, die, and be reborn in a never ending cycle on Earth."

"Cursed," Sam asked. "Why?"

I turned to the clock... one of the clocks... in my lair and let out a breath of relief. The period was almost over. "I don't have time to give you a history lesson." And with that, I spun my staff and teleported the class back to Casper High School.

"Just watch your back."

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