Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own Danny Phantom.
3)I only own the plot for this AU and the eventual OCs
4)Thanks Truephan and Christopher Scott for your reviews.
5)sorry for the lateness of this chapter. I've been really busy last week with college and my country elections.
Four years passed by quickly. Both humans and ghosts haven't started a war yet. While the ghosts were gathering the means to kill the humans without getting near of their defenses, the Kings William and Thurston decided to give up on the war plans against the ghosts. But they knew that King Raymond was still plotting the attack. However, the two kings didn't want to take part in that.
They wondered why the ghosts hadn't retaliated yet. They were sure that the ghosts were a pacific people who didn't want unnecessary confronts and the lack of news on them were the base of their thoughts.
They also wondered how much of what King Raymond said was true. As far as Kings William and Thurston were concerned, all Madeline did was fall in love with a ghost and king Raymond was the one who freaked out and most likely sentence his own daughter to death.
The two of them were discussing about the possibility of sending an ambassador to the Dead Forest and discuss some kind of peace pact between them. If King Irongrip wanted to rage a war, then they wanted their kingdoms to be safe from it.
Meanwhile, King Thruston's daughter, Samantha Mason, was outside of the castle riding horses with her friend Tucker Foley, son of Duke Adam.
They were riding near of the palace grounds of Samantha's kingdom. Samantha wasn't happy at all because her father set her up with King William's son, Dash Baxter. Her father was going to make her marry with someone she barely knew and from what she had seen from him, she spited that boy. He was rude, obnoxious and talked like he was the king of the world.
Dash acted like that because his father talked to him about how he was going to make three kingdoms become under his rule. King Raymond had no successor to his throne and King Mason was going to make his only child get married with Prince Dash Baxter. The king of the Malnova Pordo had announced the marriage one week ago. The Princess Mason and the Prince Baxter were going to celebrate their marriage when they reached the age of sixteen.
Sam's frustration was obviously visible. She had been moody all the time since the proclamation. What infuriated her the most was that she didn't have a saying in that matter and she had to obey and pretend to be nice to someone she considered to be a jerk.
"Come on, Sam. Don't make that face. It's not that bad." Her friend said.
"Not that bad? Tucker, I'm going to get married with the biggest jerk of the world! You're only saying that because you at least like the person your parents are making you marry with." She said turning to Tucker.
Tucker didn't reply. It's true that his parents arranged his married with Baroness Valerie Gray. He did like her a lot. He had known her since he was a kid, just like he knew Princess Samantha.
Samantha was a quite tom-boy kind of girl. She hated the pink and fancy dresses her mother made her wear, but she had to despite of her desire to rip them apart. She liked to be called 'Sam' when she was alone with her friends, which were just Tucker and Valerie.
The princess wanted to run away from that, but she didn't know where to run to. But just because she couldn't run away, it didn't mean that she couldn't at least take a breather from the whole stress.
"Hey, Tucker. Do you want to have some fun with me? Outside of these walls? We'll be back before they know it." Sam suggested. It's true that she always wanted to take a look around the world, but she was bound to stay within the castle grounds the whole time and she only left to go to neighbor kingdoms for parties and such.
"I don't know, Sam. What if they catch us? Besides what there's to see or so interesting?" Tucker asked warily. He had to admit that he was a little bit tempted to have a look outside, but his reasonable side won out in the end.
"Please, I can't escape entirely on my own. I promise you we'll be away for a few hours. Do this for me. I just would like to enjoy my freedom a little while I still can…" Sam said looking down.
The boy sighed and said: "Fine! But it'll be better if we don't get caught or else my neck will be at stake!"
Sam raised her head and with a big smile she said: "Don't worry. Just trust me. I know a way out of here that the guards don't even know about."
Outside of the Dead Forest two ghosts were flying while invisible looking for a human village or kingdom. The two were the now eighteen-year-old Johnny and the fourteen-year-old Daniel.
"Could you tell me again why are we disobeying both our parents and even the King's rules?" Danny asked worried.
"Come on, Danny! I have to get something from a human. It's a tradition of Lycan School that the seniors must get something from a human before they graduate or else I'll be mocked by everyone else until the end of my life!"
The hybrid sighed and said: "This is a stupid tradition…Why can't I borrow you something then? I am half human, you know. Or even why is this stupid tradition is still being held when we're at the verge of a war against the humans?"
"As you said, you're half human and remember that not many people know about that. It'll be better to keep it this way. Besides, when it became almost impossible for us to enter the big towns, the ghosts started to get things from the travelers. I don't know why this graduation thing is still being held between the students, but if the director of Lycan School finds out he'll have a heart attack for sure." Johnny said.
"I see. Wait, what? You mean, the ghosts steal from humans every year?" Danny asked worried. He wasn't liking this.
"No, no. When they appeared in front of the humans, even the men screamed like little girls and ran away dropping something. They kinda…abandon some of their belongings because they're scared of us."
Daniel sighed as they flew. They heard about how human's kingdoms were fortifying themselves against ghosts and because of that, the two ghosts decided to keep away from any place that seemed dangerous for them. However, they also were unaware where to go exactly. None of them had ever left the Dead Forest before and they were at their summer break, so they didn't have to worry about school for a while.
Johnny had also other intentions besides getting an object from a human. He turned to the hybrid and said: "Danny, can I talk with you for a minute?" Johnny asked the hybrid.
"What is it?"
"Well, you're already fourteen years old and so is my sister. I mean, have you made any plans for the future? The two of you get along really well for as far as I can remember. I think my sister would like having you as her husband and I already see you as a brother. So, what do you say?"
Danny immediately stopped flying surprised, turning visible by the sudden question. "What?"
Johnny stopped as he also turned visible. With a grin he said: "Don't tell me you haven't even started thinking about the future. Don't you want to have kids and a wife that loves you?"
"Y-yes. But I never gave it much thought, though. How about you?"
Johnny smiled prideful as he said: "I've already asked Kitty in marriage and she said yes! We're engaged now and our wedding will be quite soon. I'll announce it to my parents when Kitty and her family come over next week for dinner."
"Congratulations!" Danny said to him truthfully.
"Thanks. But don't change the subject. Ember doesn't know many boys and, honestly, I wouldn't like her to get married with someone I don't know or don't like. That's why I prefer that the person to marry her is you. You both like each other, right?"
"Yes, but I don't know…" the hybrid trailed off. He wasn't sure if he wanted to marry his friend, but it wasn't like he thought little of her. Quite the contrary, he knew that he wouldn't be sad if he married her, but he wished he could marry someone he truly loved like his father did. "Can I think about it?"
"Sure. You still have time. I've overheard mom and dad talking about to whom Ember was going to get married. They also agreed that she should have a husband that treats her the way she deserves and also one that she likes too." The older ghost replied.
Danny was silent and noticing that, Johnny then told him to not worry so much. "Sorry. I guess I dropped this subject a little bit too soon for you, but you should start considering it now, you know. But enough of this. Let's resume our search."
Then the two turned invisible again and continued flying until they saw two cloaked figures riding a horse each.
"Hey, Sam. Don't you think we went a little too far? Shouldn't we head back?" said Tucker.
The girl sighed. She was really enjoying herself out there. She wanted to run away, but her father would send the entire army to get her back. "Alright. Let's go…"
But then she was surprised to hear a male voice saying: "Hey, you under the cowl. Mind if I have that cloak you're hiding under?"
The two humans were startled and Sam quickly demanded looking around trying to figure it out who had said that: "Who's there. Show yourself!"
Johnny turned visible while floating in front of Sam. "Demanding, aren't you? I'm just asking nicely in case you don't need it anymore. You don't have to if you don't want to."
Tucker's jaw fell as he saw that tall figure floating right in front of them: "G-gho-GHO-"
"Ghost? Yes. Yes, I am." Johnny said.
Tucker resisted the urge not to panic and told his friend quickly: "Let's get out of here, before he kills us!"
"What?" said another voice whose owner turned visible outraged by what the boy had just said. "We would never do such a vile thing. Come on Johnny. This is a huge waste of time. Take some grass and claim it belonged to the garden of a human."
"But that it would be way too simple!" the older ghost countered.
Tucker was at the verge of running away, but he held himself, because he would never abandon his friend. He made his horse approach Sam's and he grabbed her arm and told her sternly: "Let's go already, Sam!"
"Wait!" Sam told him as she turned back to watch the two ghosts. It truly fascinated her. She had heard about them before. She was told that they were vile creatures responsible for several problems and even for the death of King Irongrip's daughter. She wasn't told of her own father suspicions of what truly happened that night.
She also was very curious to know why that ghost wanted her cloak. It was just a piece of dull gray clothing that she used to hide her own identity as she escaped from her kingdom. The princess also looked with attention to the other boy, who had snow white hair. He seemed to be a boy around her age. The stories she had heard told that ghosts weren't anything like the humans and those two clearly proved that wrong.
"Why do you want this piece of fabric?" She asked.
"You can't be serious! Let's run while they're busy." Tucker pleaded.
Danny and Johnny stopped arguing as their attention went back to the humans. "Well, it's just a tradition of my school that before we graduate we need to bring there something that belonged to a human. If it's not the cloak, don't you have anything you don't desire anymore? We would like to avoid the big towns. You people would hunt us for no reason."
"No reason? As far as I'm concerned you organized a plot to send some kind of ghost birds to my kingdom and even were the responsible for the death of Madeline Irongrip." Sam said not intimidated by the spectral beings in front of her.
"Sam, don't anger them, I beg you!" Tucker whispered to her.
"Hey, Danny, isn't that the name of your…" Johnny started only to be cut off by his friend.
"Lies!" Danny said out loud offended. "How dare you say such thing! My mother died of an illness and you mercilessly killed scouts for your own pleasure!"
With that last statement, Danny had repeated what was spread by King Pariah Dark who really believed that his scouts were killed for the humans' idea of fun.
"Wait, what? Your…MOTHER?" Tucker said in disbelief.
"Yes, my mother. You're the ones who hunt us for no reason and now why are you making up lies about my mother?" Danny said clenching his fists.
"Wait a moment…What were you told about what happened to your mother?" Sam asked curious.
Danny stared daggers at her for a while, but answered anyway: "My mother was a very gentle person who died of an illness some time after she gave birth to me. Now tell me. What sick lies were you told?"
"I was told that a ghost poisoned her mind and because of that she turned against her own father and because of that she was killed by King Raymond Irongrip."
"Another lie. My grandfather was no king and was long dead before my father met my mother." Danny said. He did not know that Vlad had hid from him that his mother was a princess from a human kingdom and also anything about his grandfather.
Sam blinked for a while and said: "I'm sorry to inform you but he really is a king and is still alive."
Danny just stared at her for a while not really believing in her words. "Let's go, Johnny, I don't want to be near them and their lies anymore."
"I'm not lying! If you don't believe me, go check the kingdom Amikeco Parko yourself. You'll see I'm not telling a single lie!" Sam said offended. She also was careful not to bring her status in that conversation she didn't want to be tracked back and she also didn't like to command people just because of her title.
"Right. You know that kingdoms are death traps for us!" Johnny interfered not liking where that conversation was heading to. He really hoped these two humans would run away scared and drop something Johnny could take, but now he gave up on that plan and just wanted to go back home and follow Danny's advice and take grass or something.
"How else do you expect me to prove I'm right?" Sam asked crossing her arms. Then she added: "Why don't you go ask your father about him. I'm sure he knows the truth and is hiding it from you. I didn't even know humans and ghosts could have children, I mean."
"My father never lied to me! Let's go Johnny this isn't worthy of our time!" Danny said.
"I guess you're right, Danny." The older ghost said turning invisible.
Before the hybrid did the same thing, he then said to his friend: "Wait, Johnny. Before we go, I need to know something."
He then turned to the girl, and with a disapproving frown, said with a huff: "You think you are so bold in your lies. Would you dare to be so bold to tell us the truth about your name, then? I heard your friend there calling you 'Sam'. That must be a lie, too. Isn't that a boy's name?"
Sam scoffed and said: "'Sam" is just a nickname that only my good friends can call me. My name is Samantha Mason and this is Tucker Foley."
Danny eyed her suspiciously before saying: "Alright, when I get proof that you lied, I'll be sure to tell you, Sam!" He then abruptly turned invisible and headed back to the Dead Forest with Johnny following closely.
"Are they gone?" Tucker said fearfully. But then he asked his friend: "Are you crazy? Why did you give our names like that? Now they can track us!"
"Don't panic so much, Tucker. If they really meant harm they would have done it…" She said thoughtfully as she turned her horse back and started guiding it back to her kingdom.
Tucker followed her and noticed her expression under the cowl of her cloak. "I know that face. What are you thinking?"
"It's just…That ghost seemed to be telling the truth. I mean, his father must have told him a complete different side of the facts…I know that he lied to his son about King Raymond, but the rest maybe he didn't. Maybe this whole quarrel between humans and ghosts is nothing but a misunderstanding…"
"There you go again, Sam. Just try to be thankful our heads are still attached to our necks! Let's just forget what just happened and return home." Tucker said.
But Princess Samantha wasn't about to let go of that matter.
End of chapter 14
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