Danny phantom: What Happened Next

By ~PrennCooder

Re edited by ~PrennCooder and ~NosillaParvatir

Danny has to decide whether or not he wants the whole world to remember his secret. And is he really meant to be with Sam?

Clockwork makes an appearance in this prologue.

The prologue really sets the mood for the whole thing.

It's gonna be great! Hope you all agree!

Prologue: The Continuing Story

They were fourteen.

Danny Phantom had just saved the world from a disaster. He and his friends—Sam, Tucker, and Jazz—let's just say that they were going to be big heroes now to both our world and the ghost world. Because all ghosts know that their zone is the flip side of our world.

Our world was about to be shattered into space dust by the Disasteroid when Danny had the idea to turn the earth intangible so the asteroid would just pass through harmlessly. But, that took a lot of power. It also took the help of a gazillion ghosts. All the ghosts in the ghost zone. Danny's enemies, friends, allies, everybody. They, together with the humans, teamed up to save the world. And the mission was a success.

Danny refused to attend his own hero ceremony because he had some unfinished business to do. Sam Manson, Danny's best gal friend and the reason he had his powers, was standing right there. He took her by her hand and flew the two of them on top of a big hill to watch the sun set. Then he gave her his father's class ring.

He knew in his heart that he had wanted to attend his ceremony. He didn't want to tell Sam because he thought it might spoil the moment. Ah yes, the moment. It was so perfect. They both just had all this excitement stirred up within them from nearly dying and then saving the world.

And Danny could always have Tucker tell him all the deets later anyways.

Right now, Danny was going to have his first real date with this girl. It was about time that he gave her a chance.

Sam was the last girl Danny thought he'd end up with. But that was years ago that he thought that. Now, here they were, together. The mood just seemed to be right.

Everybody else wanted them together.

Danny's whole class had decided that he and Sam would end up together no matter what.

Danny never thought that.

Until now, when, she was staring into the ghostly green eyes of Danny Phantom. He knew that she wasn't the one he'd end up with forever—he wasn't in love with her, he was just attracted to her at the moment, because she was a girl and she was very much available—she was at least worth a date.

He'd go from there and then decide if they should go on another.

He picked her up, and they flew off dramatically.

But what next?

As they were flying, they felt like they were on top of the world. Down below were the people waving at the Phantom hero and thanking him. Danny smiled back. All this new attention he'd be getting might be awkward, but he wouldn't ever regret doing what he did. He had saved the world.

And there was no way that he'd ever let the attention go to his head. That would spoil all the fun of being a teenage boy. (Sarcasm.)

Sam admired the statue of Danny Phantom that stood proudly in the center of Amity Park Square.

After a while of skimming the clouds, the pair of them sat down by the monumental caption of Danny. By that time, the crowd had left and the ceremony was over. Dusk was all around them—Sam's favorite time of day. A shroud of mist laced across the image of the moon.

"So, what are you going to do now? You seem to keep a firm mind about everything these days." Sam said.

"Well, um, of course I'll need the help of you and Tucker. I could never imagine fighting ghosts without you guys." Danny sighed. "In a few days, I'll be going to talk to the President."

"Wow! That's great."

"I can see you're not totally thrilled. You can't hide these things from me, you know. You're goth, so you're rarely that happy. I know you're happy for me, but I also know you want me to stay. how long have you liked me anyways?"

"Since you were the first person to treat me normal even though I dressed like a goth. And then you, me and Tucker became the best of friends." Sam blushed through her sorry attempt of keeping her stoic expression. "I don't want you to go." Sam said softly.

There was a moment of silence, there, as the new couple watched the sun set finalize. A pair of birds flew overhead. The scenery was peaceful. Relaxed. The opposite of rushing. Danny didn't like to rush into things. He's easygoing. He's not afraid of toil or loss. He's not even afraid of the bad guys anymore.

He's afraid of losing those closest to him.

Like Tucker, Sam, Valerie, Jazz, and the rest of his friends and family.

"I don't want to turn into a girl who nags you to go in the direction I want you to. What I want is for you to make your own decisions." Sam looked at the boy. He seemed distant. "Danny?"

"I feel like if I don't go, I'll be missing out on a great opportunity."

Sam nodded.

"I'm going to go." He looked her straight in her purple eyes. "But I'll be back. I'll be exactly the same as I was before I left. I promise."

The moon seemed to look away disapprovingly while he kissed her.

It was so awkward, kissing Sam.

It felt so wrong, but yet so very right.

She wanted him, that's for sure.

He could tell now. he wasn't always so clueless, ya know.

It's late August. It had been four months since infamous hero Danny Phantom's idea saved humanity from a gigantic asteroid that would have destroyed the entire earth. It was a shock to everybody that this heroic ghost teen was also half-human, better known as a halfa. The world didn't know what to make of it, but they accepted it nevertheless.

There had been a lot of changes in Amity Park, Colorado as well. Jack and Maddie Fenton had adopted Danielle as their child and they had been homeschooling her because she was a clone and didn't know all the basic school lessons. But she was a quick learner and she thinks she'll be able to start high school next year.

After Valerie had seen that Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom are one and the same, she didn't like it. She remembered some of the things that he did and put all the pieces together to realize that he was only ever a good guy. And she felt guilty for all the times she'd tried to hunt him down and blast him to bits. But she never told him how she felt about that because now he was dating his best gal friend, Sam.

Danny had been dating Sam ever since that one day at sunset during Danny's hero ceremony. He had given her his dad's class ring and then carried her off into the setting sun. After that, they sat on top of a building and held hands while they talked about the future.

"I'll be on the news for interviews this next week." Danny said.

"I'll be watching." She said with an eager smile.

"And Oprah wanted me on her show too. And I haven't gotten a chance to check my email inbox but I'm sure it's full. I'll have to get a new one that's more private. And my dad wants me to be his ghost-fighting sidekick, which is a thought I'd appreciate but I won't have time for. And then I'll have to find a job to pay for Astronaut College because I really want to go."

"Sounds like you've really got a lot on your plate right now." She looked down and let her dangling feet swoosh back and forth in the wind.

As the air brushed by her black combat boots, it made a strange sound. Danny floated over head to survey the city like he did almost every night. Earlier this night, he had saved this world. So he might as well take the time to get to know it.

"Yes, but I'm glad I've got you and Tucker and Danielle to help me."

"And Jazz too."

"Well, I've sorta relieved her of all of this so that she can go to college and live her life without having to worry about mine."

"That's…so sweet of you. You're always thinking about everyone else except yourself."

"So what will you be doing this summer?"

"Oh, ya know, just standing out I guess. I'll be supporting you every step of the way."

"That's what I'm counting on." He leaned in to give her a kiss.

And that summer was the busiest summer Danny had ever had. Dash Baxter, formerly a school bully and a sports hero, wanted to be Danny's friend. Dash admitted he always thought Danny Phantom was really cool.

Suddenly famous people emailed Danny or even called him on the phone. A news anchorman gave him the bribe of a fancy sports car to be on his show.

But Danny turned him down.

Danny found himself wide-awake one night wishing that all of this had never happened. He was one of the most famous people in the world. Nothing could change that, he thought glumly. He wanted his old life back. He didn't think his life was meant to be like this—with fans watching his every move. And he thought about Vlad, too.

Vlad had always been Danny's bitter arch enemy. And Danny knew Vlad was still trapped in space somewhere. So why hadn't he come back? Danny couldn't stand the not-knowing. It bothered him almost as much as the feeling that this wasn't even his real life.

His girlfriend was constantly worrying about him. He worried too. And so did Tucker and Danielle. (Danielle, by the way, kept her halfa secret to herself) Danny was afraid that one day he'd let it all go to his head. And then he wouldn't be himself anymore. This had to stop. And there was only one person who could help him.

"I still don't understand why you want me to do this". A blue ghost with red eyes and a purple hood crossed his arms and stared back at a ghostly teenager with snow white hair and glowing green eyes.

"It's not supposed to be this way. At first, it was cool and all, but I can't go on like this. It's not right! I don't even know who I am anymore don't you remember back before the world knew my secret and everything was all simpatico?" the ghost boy looked down at the ground he was floating above.

The blue ghost paced. He stroked his long white beard. His pacing ended in front of a large circular screen. On the screen was a portal to a place called Amity Park. The portal was invisible on the other side. "Danny, the world needs you. Without you, there would be great disasters in both our worlds. You help keep the balance between good and evil."

"Won't you help me?"

The blue ghost sighed. "Allright. I'll do it. I'll make it so that nobody in the human world remembers you and Danny Fenton are one and the same. None of the humans will remember except for you and your friends Sam and Tucker and your two sisters Jasmine and Danielle."

"Thank you. Thank you very much, Clockwork!" Danny said gratefully smiling.

Clockwork picked up his staff and tapped the portal to Amity Park. "But this will have great consequences. Your future will be changed. Whether it's for better or worse is all up to you."

"You don't know how much this means to me!" Danny said as he was about to fly through the portal. "I'll finally get to go back to the way my life used to be. I'll get to be a normal junior!"

"You'll never be normal."

"Normal for me, I suppose."

"WAIT!" Clockwork commanded. Danny stopped short before returning to his home. "I assume you understand that what I've just done will change things you might not even think about. You've actually put yourself in more danger than you were before when the world new your secret."

"Yeah, yeah, I know altering anything will change the future, but who's to say I can't make this a better future than the one I would have had?" Danny smiled proudly. Clockwork waved him on to his home and Danny went through the portal.

"Or a worse one." Clockwork said to himself.

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