Well, now that the notes are out of the way here is the first chapter of this interesting tale that I have created.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the script for the Walt Disney version of the movie or any of the references that are written in or Danny Phantom. Just the characters that you don't recognize. Just need to make this clear.

Danny Phantom

The Phantress of Paranorma Dame

Chapter 1-The Bells of Paranorma Dame

There is a town called Galmateris, and what a strange and interesting town it is. For you see, it is the only place on the planet where the Ghost Zone and Earth can coexist in one place at the same time. And in this town lives a ghoul by the name of Zalda who always wears a clown-like costume and a mask that covers the top half of his face for celebrations and things along the lines of that. That morning he was entertaining a group of small children of ghost and human alike with his witty antics and comedic ways, making the young ones laugh with delight. After letting them enjoy his performance he told them, "Ah, my dear little ones, it is yet another bright and wonderful morning in our glorious city of Galmateris, no? Oh, and listen very closely..."

In a close proximity to their location was a large building made of pure white marble with two large towers, one on each side of the structure, with a giant stained glass window inserted below a spacious crosswalk that connected the two with another that was enclosed and the rest of the architecture spanned out behind for about two city blocks . For what they were hearing was the great bells of the church being rung as they always have been. After listening to the music for a few moments the entertainer continued, "Isn't it beautiful? The sweet tones that everyone can awake to and start their day on a high note. Get it? High "note"? Well, joking aside, you should know that they didn't use to ring with the automated system they're on now? Oh no, they used to be rung by a single person, a young ghostly woman whose tale is a mighty one indeed and it starts almost two decades ago...

Twenty years ago...

It was a cold winter night as a boat carrying three ghosts, a couple with a baby in her mother's arms were being slipped into the city on the river Spiriteine in a small rowboat steered by a young man by the name of Jack Fenton who was helping the small family sneak their way into town from the Ghost Zone by way of a natural portal. As they slid under the many bridges that passed over the water the child began to cray a bit which alarmed all three adults quite a bit. Rocking the infant to lull it back to sleep the young woman said to it, "Shh, little dear. We'll be there real soon."

Once he saw that it was okay the human pulled under another arch walkway and landed on the shore beside it, quickly hopping out and getting the boat higher up on land while the passengers climbed out, with the man helping his wife and child out. Once he was finished Jack turned to the three and said, "Your Majesties, on behalf of my family I welcome you to the great city of Galmateris."

Suddenly without warning several guards appeared and surrounded the refugees and the person they trusted to help them get to safety. As the soldiers closed in and the silence of the fear getting quickly unbearable, a set of hoof steps could be heard coming towards the scene. A few minutes later the beast, pure black and standing higher than everyone else, appeared and atop it was the most feared being in the entire metropolis: Judge Damon Phantom, upkeeper of the peace and considered himself to be the only pure entity in the eyes of the Lord. When the steed came through the line of offense, the official looked at the duo with a scorned look in his eye, the ghostly man getting in front of his love as a sign of protection blocking the view of his offspring at the same time, and growled, "Well, I never thought I would see you sneaking into town like this, Pariah. With your wife, no less."

Removing the hood of his cloak to reveal his identity, the Ghost King returned the look he was given with one of anger and remorse and answered, "It was only because of you and your false lies that drew everyone to revolt and forcing us to flee from our home."

"Doesn't matter now anyway, does it?," the matriarch of the town pointed out, almost sarcastically.

Motioning to his men to move forward with the capture, Phantom ordered, "Arrest them."

The guards were quick to move in on the king and the young man, and as for the queen when her husband was pulled away had tried her best to conceal her bundled baby under her cloak but unfortunately one soldier had noticed the movements, went over to her, grabbed her arm and inquired, "Hey, you, what is that you're hiding?"

"Something stolen while they made their way through into the city, no doubt," the judge surmised, quickly jumping to the wrong conclusion. "Take it from her."

Fear flashing through her glowing dark blue eyes, the queen broke free of the hand that was holding her captive and made a run for it, which only enraged Damon and commenced pursuit behind her the thunder of the horse's hooves feeling like an earthquake to the escaping ghoul.

As for the other two, the guards stayed with their captives and didn't follow, knowing that the official could handle things himself. However, several random noises coming from every direction wasn't helping the mood a whole lot. When it became too much, two of the troop went to go look for the source leaving the others vulnerable to what was making all the racket. As the rest of the cavalry looked around where they stood, they never noticed a lone figure ducking in and out of the shadows, getting closer and closer to his first target, who was one of the guards that held Fenton prisoner. When he was close enough, the figure was fast as lightning and took the armored man out in the blink of an eye leaving his comrades in a flabbergasted state, wondering what had happened and where the now unconscious warrior was.

While the humans were perplexed by what had happened, Pariah was not. He had sensed the ghost approaching and was able to watch as he took out the soldier and disappear. And with everyone befuddled it gave the king the perfect opportunity to give his own counterattack. Gathering his strength he broke free of his captors then grabbed two of them and bashed them together, causing total knockouts. Dropping the men he turned his attention to the young man who got him into the town the mysterious ghoul had taken out the other guards and was making sure that the job was done right. Approaching, the king observed who had saved the two and memorized the details: the long silver hair tied back in a ponytail with messy bangs that hung in his face, the medium-brimmed hat on his head that was tilted forward to cover most of his face, the bright green eyes that glowed with courage, determination, and a kind-hearted nature that could be seen through them, the black and silver-gray trimmed coat with black pants and silver boots that had a whitish glow all around it. Pariah could tell that his being was going to have a destiny unlike anybody had ever known.

For our hero, he had seen the monarch approaching while he was making sure that all the soldiers were out cold and didn't have to worry aobut fighting them again, stood up straight and gave a curt bow and said, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry that I couldn't get here in time to save your wife as well, but there was a choice to be made to which certain consequences must be paid and this was the only way. I am sorry to say that you will have a loss but will have to wait twenty years before joy will be given back to you. I can't go into much more, but this is what it has to be. But I can show you just one glimpse of what I mean. Follow me!"

Turning around, he dashed off in the direction the queen and Damen had gone in with the king and Jack quickly following behind. Using the hoof steps made in the snow the three traced the trail all the way to the church, where the scene explained it all.

As for Queen Leona, her ordeal at the current moment was very different than the one her husband had while she was running away from her pursuer. After she had broken free of the guard that had tried to take her baby from her, the royal woman had made the choice to make a run for it never expecting the judge to follow after her. However, her escape was dulled when she felt the ground under her tremble with the thundering steps of the beast closing in behind her. Summoning all the energy she had the ghost picked up speed which only made Phantom push his ride to go faster as well. At first it seemed like there was no way of escape but as if it were a blessing a closed gate popped into view and seeing it the mother moved into its direction and jumped over it just as the judge was reaching down to grab the back of her cloak. Seeing that the way was blocked, the being of justice made his equine rear up and go around knowing exactly where to go. After escaping that close shave, the escapee made her way through the may alleyways until coming out onto a large square that surrounded the front of the great and proud cathedral called Paranorma Dame. Running up the steps, being careful not to slip on the ice, she managed to get to the large doors and hoping that someone was still awake banged on the wood and cried, "Sanctuary, please give us sanctuary! If anybody can hear me, please let us in!"

However, it was too late as a whinny was heard behind her and it could only mean one thing: dangers was closing in very fast. Whipping around she only had a few seconds to see Damen come right at her and grabbed the bundled baby and began a tug-of-war which ended with Leona being swung down, causing her to lose her grip, slide on the ice, and land hard on the cold concrete stoop and injure her with a fatal wound to the back of the queen's head, ending her afterlife right then and there. Seeing what had just happened as a fitting punishment, the ghost turned his attention to what was the criminal, in his point of view, trying to protect he was perplexed when he heard the sould of soft crying coming from the wrapping. Moving the prize into the crook of his right arm, he muttered, "A baby?," then loosened the blanket to reveal her face, gasped and said, "A princess!"

The magistrate couldn't believe, never even expected, something like this, but with the way he was thinking he had to get rid of it before it became a problem, especially for him. Looking around, he noticed a well and got an idea. Rearing his steed he rode over to the water-bearing shaft he raised the child over it and was just about to drop the infant in when someone behind him cried, "Stop, before it's too late!"

Turning around to see who said that, the official saw that it was Archdeacon Vlad Masters, the leader of the church and the only one who was up at that time of night and had heard the late queen's cry for help and rushed outside and found the scene which appalled him to the very core of his soul. Looking right at Phantom he accused, "How dare you spill innocent ectoplasm on the steps of this church. Both of our kinds share this place as neutral ground and you went and broke that. Now you will add this child to your guilt?"

"This child is an unholy abomination. I'm sending it back to the Zone where it belongs," Damon simply stated, his slitting and his and holding the bundle lowering closer to the well. "However you may see it, I am guiltless. She ran. I pursued. Simple as that. As I see it, my conscience is clear."

"And as God can see it, you can lie to yourself and to your minions and claim that you haven't anything to confess to, but you can and will never be able to run or hide what you have done from the very eyes of Paranorma Dame," the priest warned, pointing up at the church at the same time.

Following up to where the man of the Lord was pointing to, the passer of judgement's eyes grew wide with fear for the first time in a long, long time feeling a slight twinge of that same emotion for his eternal soul. Continuing to stare at the massive marble structure, he asked Masters, "What should I do to make up for this?"

Picking up the now almost transparent body of the baby's mother, Vlad replied with a saddened look on his face, "Care for the infant. Raise it as your own. It's the only way I that I can think of."

"What? You mean to tell me that the only thing that I can possibly do is to be tied down with this-," Phantom started to snarl, but looking down at the child once again her bright ice blue eyes twinkling and noticed that she had quite the peculiar birthmark across one, the right, in the shape of a tribal rose with the stem going down the cheek and stopping midway on the side of her neck. Knowing that having a child around the Castle of Justice would be a weight and possibly suspicious to some that worked there, he made a decision. Making his mode of transportation turn around and head over to the archdeacon and when the human was in handing reach passed down the baby and offered, "Very well, but for the best interest let stay here in the church, somewhere where she can't be seen."

"Stay here? In the church? You know there isn't many places to hide a growing kid inside," Vlad pointed out, taking the newborn into his arms, placing her in the crook of her mother's body which surprisingly didn't slide through.

"Then perhaps the bell towers," the judge suggested, gesturing to the two opposite pillars. "Maybe when she's strong enough she'll be able to man them for you. Our Lord does work in mysterious ways, after all."

Letting the priest deliberate, the self-righteous ghost then thought to himself, "Maybe this daughter of the unholy king may someday once be use to me."

After thinking it over, the man of faith agreed to house the girl in the church but did ask the new foster father what the name of his new charge was and the magistrate chose one that meant rose of the night: Nyreena.

From what he could see from the alleyway the three were hiding in, Pariah's heart filled with sorrow for the loss of his beloved and child. He had understood what his rescuer said about having a loss but will have joy back in two decades. But to go so long without family he would rather die than see his child in the hands of his enemy. A gesture from the silver-haired ghost told the king that it was time to go and nodding in reply the former monarch returned the hood of the cloak he was wearing back over his head and disappeared into the night, praying that his daughter would grow up strong and bright and hopefully be the princess the Zone would be waiting for.

Back in present time, Zalda asked his young audience, "I have a riddle for you my friends, to guess and ponder at while the bells sing out from the church: who is the ghost and who is the girl? Oh, sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells of Paranorma Dame!"

Well, here we go with the first chapter! Next time is with our heroine and her friends and my one of two favorite songs out of the whole movie! Catch you next time!