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Clockwork Master of Time watched over his time screens with a sharp eye. Or to be more specific, one young boy by the name of Danny.
He internally winced at the boy's pained screams then sighed in relief and regret as he pasted out. Despite what other's like to say about him, he did not enjoy other's pain. In a way he was like an human judge, he couldn't act biased to any case without disastrous results.
The last time he had was during the rule of Parish Dark, or before he turned into a tyrant Lukas Pandorn. He had been a good and humble king at first, until Clockwork had interfered. Clockwork had seen he would take a dark path and warned that if he didn't change his ways he would be dethroned and locked away.
Lukas had not liked that at all, as you would imagine. He began killing other spirits and turning them into a mindless army. It was a brutal battle but after some time and with luck they had caught him by surprise and locked him along with his loyal second in commend, Fright Knight, away.
Many had been lost and Clockwork trying to interfere had only made what he had tried to prevent happen sooner. He was not under a sort of "probation" by the Observents, which he scoffed at since they were noting more then one-eyed annoyances; but he played along, he felt sorry over the lives he had taken a small part in taking and promised him self to be far more cautious in his meddling (only when it was needed of course).
He closed off his tower some others could only find it if he wanted them too (except the Observents, they got past whither he liked it or not. He swears they are more annoying then the Box Ghost!)
He shook his pointless thoughts away and made a portal to the newest resident of the Ghost Zone. He disappeared from his tower in a spin of clock hands and reappeared in the alley where Danny still lay unconscious.
The boy was smaller and far thinner then a boy his age should be. His brown hair sticks out at odd angles from the lightning strike, some edges still smoking. It was long now from not being cut in 3 months and almost touched his shoulders. His head was turned to the side facing Clockwork, face still scrunched slightly in pain.
Clockwork however did wince when he saw Danny's left hand, the one that had touched the forming portal.
The lightning mixed with the ectoplasm, basically the opposite of human skin, had burned most of the skin away leaving it looking like a hand shaped piece of charcoal. Sadly because of the ectoplasm now running though the boy's body it will stay the way it is. He will be able to use it, but it will be permanently weaker then it use to be.
Clockwork hopes the super strength all ghosts naturally get will help.
Clockwork sighed and picks the frail boy up gently, holding him close to his grandfather clock core, hoping the faint but constant tick might ease the child.
His lip twitched up when it did and Danny's face relaxed slightly.
"Come little Phantom.' Clockwork mutters Danny. 'Many great things await you…in time."
The clock hands appeared again and the two were whisked back to Clockwork's tower.
From there Clockwork floated to a small room he had set up for Danny and laid hem on the bed. He ran his hand though Danny's hair and saw where the roots of his hair where getting lighter and had the faintest of glows.
"It will take time for your ghost half to fully form. We will speak about this later, when you are actually awake." Clockwork says in amusement.
He ran his glove covered hand though Danny's hair one more time before leaving the room. He closed the door softly behind him.
/_\ -48 hours later- /_\
Danny's eyes fluttered open slowly. His body felt sore all over, most of all his left hand. He raised his right hand and ran it though his hair, it was long now so he made a mental notice to cut it at some point.
He realized that he wasn't in his box but a really comfortable, but of course that could just be from lying on the ground for 3 months, bed. His eyes widened as he gasped slightly, looking around wildly. He was in a small bedroom, all that was there was the bed he was on, a side table and a desk in the corner. There was no windows and only one door on the other side of the room.
Ignoring the ache in his body he stood up slowly and made his way to the door.
His mind raced, trying to remember how he got there. All he really remembered was a flash of green, the smell of ozone and a blinding pain going though his body.
He opened the door with his right hand and found him self in a corridor.
He debated if he should go or stay but figured staying in one place might not be the best idea. Whoever had brought him here had to be around here somewhere and he wasn't going to wait for him/her to come to him and possibly be a killer or something
Ok that maybe exaggerating; but after dealing with his father for his whole life and add the 3 months alone on the streets he had a right to be paranoid of others.
He walked down the wall and took a left then a right and came to some big doors. He hesitated before he opened it enough to peak his head in.
When he did his jaw dropped.
The room was full of clocks, tons and tons of clocks. The room was huge and clocks sitting on shelves and tables and…
"WHAT THE HECK?!" Danny gasps looking at the glowing clocks that floated innocently in the air.
"They are clocks, Phantom,' A voice says behind. 'I figured you would know this."
Danny yelped in surprise, jumping into the room and spinning around.
"AHHHHHH!" Danny screams falling backwards at the sight before him.
It was a man with blue skin, red eyes with a lightning scare going over the right eye. He had a dark purple cloak on with the hood up, it was kept together by a gear on his shoulder. Under it was a purple tunic with a grandfather clock in the middle of his chest; gloves covered his hands with three watch on each. Their was a belt around his waist with a pocket watch on a chain connected to it. Instead of legs he had one wispy tail, and a staff with a stop watch on top was held in his hand.
All in all he didn't look human at all.
Which made Danny next action reasonable; he screamed and ran in the opposite direction.
Clockwork's eyes flickered with amusement as he shook his head. He pressed the button on his stop watch staff calling out "Time out!"
Danny froze mid run, both legs in the air and mouth still wide mid-scream.
Clockwork floated to in front of Danny, waving his staff so only his head was unfrozen.
"Please don't eat me!" Danny cries, staring at Clockwork fearfully.
Clockwork waited a moment for Danny to calm down before he spoke. "I will not eat you, Daniel."
"You know my name?!' Danny asks in shock. 'What are you?"
"To answer your first question; yes I know your name, your birthday your favorite color and so on. I know everything. To answer your second,' Clockwork smirks slightly. 'I am a ghost, the Ghost of Time to be exact."
Danny bleached. "Y-You're a ghost?"
Clockwork nodded and releases Danny, placing him on the ground. "Yes, but know not all ghosts are evil, young Phantom."
If Danny noticed the name Clockwork called him he didn't say anything. He was in shock, ghosts were real and one was right in front of him.
"Where am I?" Danny asks looking around. He noticed what looked like a window, but it couldn't be; there was nothing but swirling green outside of it.
"You are in my tower in the Ghost Zone." Clockwork says.
"Ghost Zone?' Danny raises an eyebrow. 'Weird name, what's a Ghost Zone?"
"It is where ghosts, for the lack of a better term, live. Ghosts actually do feel emotions and eat and sleep. Basically everything humans do but we have pasted on and normally are only still here for one or more reasons. It is parallel to the human world and at times natural portals form between the two, allowing anyone or thing to get though. Luckily they are normally weak and don't stay open long." Clockwork explains calmly.
"So…Why am I in the Ghost Zone?" Danny asks in confusion.
"What do you remember of last night, Phantom?" Clockwork returns.
"I remember a flash of green, the smell of ozone and…pain." Danny say rubbing his left hand, only to feel crispy skin.
He looked down and looked at his burned hand in horror. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HAND?!"
Clockwork moved closer and put a firm hand on the hyperventilating teen's shoulder. "Calm down, Phantom and I will explain."
"Why do you keep calling me Phantom?!' Danny cries. 'My name is Danny, not Phantom."
"Your ghost name is Phantom, that is why I'm calling you that." Clockwork's voice was still calm.
"Wha-?' Danny's brows knot in confusion. 'What do you mean 'ghost name?' I'm human, not a ghost!"
"Not completely, I'm afraid.' Clockworks says. 'You were hit by lightning last night while touching a forming portal. Ectoplasm is covering your DNA, making you half human and half ghost, a halfa."
"But…I don't feel dead.' Danny says touching his chest and face. 'I still feel my heart beat!"
"You would have your heart beat in human form, but you will not when you're in your ghost form. It will take some time for it to completely form, but it had already started to form." Clockwork says.
"Huh?" Danny mutters.
Clockwork makes a mirror appear, handing it to Danny.
Danny gasped as he looked him self over. His skin, which uses to only have a light tan, had darkened a bit. His eyes that use to be a Byzantium purple had flakes of toxic green, making them an odd dark gray/brown color. He shuddered at the brown part, his dad's mud colored eyes glaring at him flashed in his mind. What really caught his eye was the white streak in the middle of his head.
He gave Clockwork a bewildered look. "Huuuhhhhh?"
"All ghost change in some way when they pass, some drastically, like my self, and some change less noticeably, like your self.' Clockwork says. 'You are still in the development of your ghost half so you will change more and when you are able to change between ghost and human your powers will begin growing."
"Powers?" Danny asks in awe.
"All ghosts can fly, turn intangible and invisible. Most can shot ectoplasm blast in someway, and other powers depend on the ghost them selves." Clockwork confirms, lip twitching at Danny excited look.
"I can fly?" Danny says, practically buzzing at the thought.
"Now come,' Clockwork says, putting a hand on Danny's shoulder and pulling him along. 'I'm sure you're hungry and after that you will need rest. We can talk more later."
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