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, Christopher Scott and DaughterofPoseidon32498 for your reviews.
Danny, while invisible, flew towards the human territory in hope to find a human kingdom. He never went out of the Dead Forest before so he had to admit he was flying blindly. He was so hurried to leave the place that he failed to spot the soldiers entering into the Dead Forest.
The hybrid flew for hours until he finally spotted a kingdom in the horizon. He flew faster and he saw a huge sign where it was written "Kingdom of Amikeco Park". The boy wanted to get nearer, but he couldn't. He was feeling dizzy because of the smell of the Bloody Blossoms nearby.
Danny wasn't aware that it was the flowers that gave him that feeling, but he knew that the humans were creating stuff to fight against ghosts. So he assumed that he his sudden condition was probably one of those things. But even then he knew that he didn't like to not know what exactly the humans were using to make him feel like that.
The boy saw a man driving a cart full of hay being pulled by two horses. He saw that as his chance do get inside of the city and he used that chance. He went inside of the hay and turned human inside of it. Fortunately nobody saw the flash of light that accompanied his transformation.
The boy stood still as he traveled hoping to not get caught. When the cart arrived at the entrance of the kingdom, the guards examined the man and also the cart. While one guard examined the man, the other checked the cart.
He looked under it and then drew his sword and stabbed the pile of hay a few times to check if there was anyone hiding inside of it. The weapon barely missed the boy's neck in one of the strikes.
Danny paled when he saw the blade getting really close to him. The hybrid wondered if they had discovered him. But he relaxed a bit when he overheard the guards saying that the cart was clean and that the man could proceed inside of the city.
When the cart entered the city, Danny waited for it to stop before he could make any decision. It took about one hour until the man reached the place where he was supposed to deliver all that hay. It was at the royal stables. The hay was supposed to be given for the horses to eat.
The boy turned into his ghost self and when he left the safety of the not-so-pleasant smell of the cart, he nearly threw up. He went to a desert spot as fast as he could and quickly turned into his human self and then panted hard for air. The Bloody Blossoms didn't affect him while in his human half so it was a huge relief for him. Danny realized that if he wanted to meet his grandfather he would have to do it in his most fragile form.
Only a few hours had passed since Sam had first encountered the strange Ghost Boy. And she had barely made back at her own kingdom in time. She was worried that someone would miss her and Tucker, but seemingly nobody missed them while they were out.
She would be relieved in any other occasion. But she was frustrated for two reasons. The first one was that her father had just received a summoning from King Raymond to Amikeco Parko and now they had to move again. The second thing that bothered her was what Danny had told her. As far as she heard about ghosts, they struck first and asked no questions later. The two ghosts were nothing like that. But it was the younger ghost who called Madeline Irongrip his mother that called her attention the most.
He seemed totally clueless about what the humans said about what happened to the princess of Amikeco Parko. Samantha Manson wondered what could be behind all that. She knew that one of the sides was a big and fat liar.
She had met the ghost boy for the first time that day and she caught him by surprise with that. There was no way he could have come up with such lie in so little time. So, for the girl, there was only one explanation: There was something King Raymond was hiding. She intended to discover the truth. It would be disastrous to have such friction with the ghosts just because of a misunderstanding.
Thankfully, Sam saw an opportunity to do so. Her parents were taking her to Amikeco Parko because of a invitation of King Raymond. They decided to bring her along because they wanted her to get used with political meetings, she had to learn how to be patient. They knew that, after the weeding, Dash would be the one who would handle the political affairs of royalty, but she couldn't always fidget and move around while he did so.
For Sam, the major downside of it was that she wasn't allowed to bring Tucker long with her for the visit. Her parents liked the boy and thought he was a good influence for their daughter, but that didn't mean they would bring him around because the two spent a good amount of time together. The parents feared the two might end up falling in love and do something stupid. They knew how teenagers were like.
Sam's parents wondered if it had anything to do with Jack Fenton, because he had started to help King Raymond quite a lot with anti-ghost gadgets.
Hours later, they finally arrived at Amikco Parko, completely unaware that Amikeco Parko was about to become a bloody stage.
Meanwhile, at the werewolf village, Alphonse went to his father's house alone. He didn't want to, but he knew his father and as soon as he got over whatever Wolfgang wanted to say the best it would be for him.
Alphonse had to put up with Wulf's sister, Jadiwiga, for seven years and it seemed already like an eternity. He was tired of pretending 24/7 that he loved her and he himself wasn't sure how could she even buy his act. The only experience the silver werewolf had with love was from stories he had read from story books. He merely repeated what he read there. How the men acted towards their beloveds and such.
The worst part was that Jadiwiga was starting to talk about having children. Alphonse managed to hold her desire for a bit by saying that they were still two too young for that. But this was the only thing he couldn't convince his wife.
When the silver ghost werewolf was inside of his father's house, his headache only increased as he waited, while sitting on a chair, for his father to appear in the living room. Wolfgang dismissed all the servants from the room so he could gloat to his son.
"What is it, father? Can you make it fast?" Alphonse said.
Wolfgang chuckled as he replied: "Of course I'll make it brief. You have a wife to return to, isn't it?"
The younger lycanthrope growled at that for Wolfgang's amusement. "I think you might want to keep that bad humor to yourself. You don't want to end up unleashing it against you beloved wife, am I right?"
Alphonse sighed heavily not liking that conversation already. "Did you call me here only to tell me this?"
"Of course not, son. I'm here to tell you I've gained King Pariah's trust thanks to my brilliant mind. I didn't need your help to achieve that!"
"Oh, geez. You finally started walking with your own two legs. Congratulations!" Alphponse replied sarcastically. He would never forget how his father used him to even get near the king in first place.
Wolfgang interpreted that as jealousy. He didn't know that Alphonse's reasons to obtain knowledge weren't for self promotion, but for the pleasure of uncovering the secrets of nature and also use that to help the ghost werewolf's kind to fortify themselves. Alphonse wanted the werewolf village to be its own independent small country, but he threw his ideals out of the window after he married Jadiwiga.
The older werewolf then said: "You may be wondering what I had come up to gain such honorable thing."
'No, I don't and I don't give a damn.' Alphonse replied in his mind too bored to even speak that out loud.
Not waiting for his son to voice his thoughts, Wolfgang continued: "I've researched and I've come up with a plan to kill the humans as the insects as they are. I've found a way to poison them!"
Alphonse raised an eyebrow. "Poison? Really? Don't you think it would have been more subtle to shoot an ecto-beam on their faces during daylight?"
"Your jealousy is quite amusing, son. I've thrown arsenic in a river that crosses a human kingdom. Fortunately, I didn't have to go that long to throw it in. The river starts here in the Dead Forest, so it was a quite easy task."
"Are you mad?" Alphonse said getting up of the chair in alarm.
"Why the sudden reaction? Arsenic doesn't harm us ghosts even in large doses like the one I've thrown in the water."
"You're an IDIOT! It may not harm us, but it'll harm the forest!" Alphonse replied.
"They're just plants. Why do you even care? It's not like we'll need to hide in this forest after we've dealt with the humans. King Pariah will rule even the human lands."
Alphonse didn't care much about the forest either. He was more infuriated because of his father's recklessness. It was no secret that such act will have serious repercussions in all Dead Forest ecosystem and…
It was then that Alphonse started to shiver in pure fear. 'If that weird tree from the Cave of Beginning gets water from the river too, then…'
Alphonse then bolted from his father's house, leaving a very confused Wolfgang looking at his son as he left the house.
Spectra was at the Royal chambers smiling in delight. She had waited seven years to put her plan into action. She had nurtured a "relationship" with Bertrand for all that time.
The shape-shifter truly believed that Queen Spectra was in love with him. He had proposed for her to run away with him so they could live happily away from everybody. But Penelope Spectra had other plans for him.
She wanted him to murder Pariah Dark. It was no easy task. King Pariah was a very powerful ghost, but she explained how Bertrand should proceed to get him. She wanted her husband dead so then she could claim that Bertrand was the murderer of the king and have him executed. Then she could become the very first single queen of the entire ghost kingdom. Sure she new that not everybody would be fond of listening to the orders of a woman, but she could make herself to be listened.
Spectra had instructed Bertrand to follow the king around disguised as an insignificant fly. The shape-shifter was ready to execute the plan he considered brilliant in order to live with his beloved.
When the King was all alone inside of a chamber where he usually thought about his war plans, Bertrand flew to the back of his neck and turned into a huge snake. He first wrapped around his body and use the surprise attack to use his fangs to remove the crown from the King to weaken his powers.
"What's the meaning of this?" Roared Pariah Dark outraged by a ghost attacking him.
Before Pariah could react, Bertrand then bit the king on his neck injecting as much poison as he could. However, King Pariah finally recovered from the assault and used his brute strength to free himself from the grip.
Bertrand then turned into a small fly again and flew towards the King's right hand where he kept his Ring of Rage. King Pariah tried to hit the now diminutive ghosts with the palm of his hand, but he missed him.
When the shape-shifter got near enough, he turned into a gorilla and quickly grabbed the king's hand and took off his ring, throwing it away. Spectra had told him to get both ring and crown and take them to her and leave the King to suffer from the effects of the poison. But Bertrand wanted to finish the obstacle of his love with his own bare hands.
The ghost 'animal' was about to punch Pariah when the king used his left hand to hold Bertrand's right hook. The poison was already making its damage inside of Ghost King, but he was still quite powerful.
Pariah then kicked Bertrand on his gut sending him to the opposite wall. The shape-shifter turned into a jaguar and leaped towards the king who punched Bertrand even harder on the face.
The Ghost King was sweating and panting from the poison. His vision was getting blurry, so he wanted to finish that quickly so he could get some medical help. The King then took his green mace he always carried on his waist and ran towards the still dazed Bertrand who tried to shape-shift into something small to flee from the attack, but he couldn't do so.
Pariah Dark hit him hard with his spiked mace crushing the now bleeding ghost against the wall. The impact was very strong and made Bertrand turn into his true form as he slowly lost his conscience. The shape-shifter true form was of some kind of green blob with red eyes.
But that didn't make the king have any mercy towards the shape-shifter. As Pariah raised his mace to give the final attack, Bertrand felt a huge sorrow for not being able to stay near of his beloved anymore. The impact made everything turn black to the shape-shifter.
The army of humans soldiers marched into the depths of the Dead Forest not knowing when or how to expect an attack from the ghosts. They had their orders to kill every ghost on sight, but a blue ghost with black hair and red eyes who was supposed to be the ghost who married Madeline. The King assumed that from what the soldiers who he had ordered to kill the princess had told him.
As the army advanced, they came across with a small ghost village mostly inhabited by pacific ghosts. In one of the houses there was a ghost called Ezekiel, but he was mostly known as the "Box Ghost". He lived with his wife, Sandra, also known as the "Lunch Lady" because of her cooking. Both were the owners of a small inn.
Nobody of the village could have foreseen what happened next. First many soldiers appeared out of nowhere throwing bags that when they hit the ground a huge red cloud rose from them and turned all ghosts into weaklings. They couldn't even walk, much less turn invisible or even fly.
They all coughed violently so they couldn't fight back ass the army advanced and started to use their weapons to slay the ghosts. Even those from afar who got scared and tried to flee weren't spared. There were archers among the humans who shot arrows towards them. Men, women and children were killed in the massacre as if they were nothing but beasts.
Fortunately, some managed to escape, among them there was the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady. They all flew as fast as they could away from that horrible scenario. They wanted to warn the others about what had just happened. They prayed they weren't too late.
End of chapter 17
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