Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom as it's the property of Butch Hartman, Nickelodeon and Viacom International. I'm just a fan and I'm doing this for fun.

…

Dani Fenton: School Daze

Chapter 3: Nightmares

"Huh?!..."Dani asked in a confused tone of voice.

She looked around and was puzzled, she didn't know where she was or how she got here. She walked around to notice that she was in some kind of lab, it was strange that it seems like she was here before but she couldn't place her finger on it. She explored a bit and noticed it wasn't the Fenton lab, this place was larger, the machine's were more advance but she couldn't shake the feeling that she knew this place...and it made her very nervous.

"Where am I?..."Dani asked to herself as she walked around, feeling a strange vibe from this place. The sight of the large, cold, metallic devices made her feel nervous and she shook as she felt a strange chill run up her spine, which was odd since she was indoors.

She didn't like it here, she wanted to go home, to her new bedroom and where her family was. She wanted to be inside Fenton works right now, she wanted to be in the strange but warm and happy home. She wanted to see her new mom and dad, she wanted to see her new sister and most of all, she wanted to see Danny right now. She felt so out of place in the large, scary looking laboratory, something about this place just felt so wrong for some reason.

"I want to go home...'Dani said to herself as she tried to find the exit but there was none.

"But you are home..."A voice said suddenly and Dani eyes widened and she felt her blood running cold.

Her heart dropped when she heard that voice. It couldn't be! There was no way she could hear that voice, he was suppose to be trapped somewhere in space! He was suppose to be gone! She had to be hallucinating or dreaming right now! There was just no possible way that he could be back!

Dani somehow got out of her petrified shock and slowly turned around and nearly screamed at who was behind her. There was no mistake, the blue skin, the callous, cruel fanged smile, the appropriate devil-horn black hairdo...and the eyes! The soulless red eyes that had no humanity at all within them.

It was none other than the person she hated and dreaded more than anyone else in the world….The monster that caused her so much pain, that used her, lied to her and almost sacrificed her very life to fulfill his own wicked goals.

"YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!..."Dani shouted as she backed away, she wanted to transform into her ghost form and attack him...but she couldn't for some reason.

Vlad Plasmius! Her creator and fake father who was suppose to be trapped somewhere in the depths of space, far away from the earth that now saw him as the demon he truly was.

"Foolish girl! Is that anyway to speak to your father..."Vlad said mockingly and Dani felt her blood boil in her petrified state.

"YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER…"Dani screamed at him, which only caused the vampire-like ghost to laugh out loud. After all the horrible things he has done, he had no right to that title, he never deserved it!

"Is that so? Did you forget who created you in the first place? Who brought you into this world?..."Vlad asked mockingly as he stomped toward the little ghost girl who backed away from him.

Dani hated the way he looked at her..This was how he always looked at her! Like she was his tool, an object he could use and throw away when it was convenient to him.

"You may have created me, but you are not my father!..."Dani shouted as she wanted so much to leave, to attack him but she couldn't, it was like the mere presence of Vlad took all her strength away.

"You don't deserve it..."Dani shouted at him but he just kept laughing that horrible, cruel laugh of his that was devoid of any real human emotions.

"HA! And who told you that? Was it Daniel or his fat fool of a father of his?..."Vlad mocked and it made her even angrier.

"Take that back..."Dani yelled and tried to shoot him but he easily dodged her and blasted her with one of his own ghost rays.

"It's time you accept the truth as it is, I am apart of you Danielle and no matter where you go or what you do, you will always be your father's daughter..."Vlad said darkly as he charged at the young ghost girl and restrained her, placing her in the same pod that once held Dannny prisoner when he tried to get the mid-morph sample from him.

"No matter what you do, I will always be with you..."Vlad sneered as he then typed a few buttons and Dani suddenly felt a shock of electricity.

"AHHH!...Dani screamed in pain, it was like she was being roasted from the inside out. After a minute or two, the pain stopped, Dani panted and looked down only to scream again...There was just no way!

Her feet were melting away….She was dissolving into a pile again...but this wasn't suppose to happen! Danny gave her the ecto-dejecto, he fixed her! He saved her!

"It took me a little while and a lot of researching, but I managed to study that stupid ecto-dejecto and made an antidote to it..."Vlad said smugly as he eyed the vat of dissolved ectoplasm that was once Dani's entire lower body.

"Just a little more and soon ,I'll be ready to bring my perfect son into the world..."Vlad said as he revealed to Danny a horrific sight, inside the pod was the body of the perfect clone, still completely intact but it was impossible! She saw it being destroyed with her very eyes!

"HOW?!..."Dani asked in horrified voice, that clone was suppose to be gone!

"A father will do anything for his son..."Vlad jabbed at her and Dani was shaking in a mixture of anger, pain and fear.

"You won't get away with this!….D-Danny...He'll stop you, he'll find me and he'll take you down like he always does!..."Dani said with some of her confidence back. She could always count on her big brother to help her when she needed him. Dani blinked when she heard Vlad laughing out loud again, this time he was face to face with her, with a smug expression on his ugly face.

"I'm afraid you're precious "Big brother" can't save you anymore Danielle, I made sure of it..."Vlad said as he moved out of the way and Dani gasped and tears fell from her eyes at the sight of her brother's bloody corpse.

"Danny!..."Dani shouted in despair, it couldn't be so! Danny couldn't be dead, Vlad couldn't have done this! Danny was always the stronger one! He was the hero! He couldn't be gone!

"N-No..."Dani whispered as she felt more tears shed as she stared at the remains of the first person that ever truly cared about her. The first person that was...was her family!

Vlad pressed the button again and Dani screamed more as the electricity surrounded her body and she felt herself melt away while Vlad only kept laughing and laughing.

"AHHHHH!..."Dani screamed as she jolted awake. She looked around and saw that she was not in that horrible lab but she was in her bedroom.

Dani was panting and she pulled her sheets and felt her legs, her arms and everything in her body was still solid and intact.

"A nightmare..."Dani said relieved, calming down as she felt her heart beat returning to normal. Dani looked at her alarm clock and saw that it was 2:29am and she sighed. She thought that after being adopted by Danny's family, the bad dreams would stop!

Dani simply laid there in her bed, hugging her knees as she tried to shake the awful memory of the nightmare away. It was just a bad dream but she knew that at one point it almost came true.

"Stop it! He's gone and that will never happen..."Dani reminded herself and at one point she even picked up her Phantom plushie that Jack gave her. She knew she was being silly but...it all seemed so real.

"Dani..."She heard and turned around to see Danny at the door, he was still in his PJ's and he was looking at her in concern.

He woke up in the middle of the night to attend to some nature calls but he heard a scream and found himself running to Dani's room where he saw her shaking and looking terrified.

"What's wrong?..."He asked gently to his little sister who clinging to his plushie, clearly something really spooked her.

Dani look to the ground feeling embarrassed over being so freaked out over a stupid dream and making him worry about her.

"It's nothing Danny, it was just a dream...'Dani said, not wanting to make him worry about her, but her nonchalant answer made Danny even more worried.

"It doesn't sound like nothing..."Danny said as he sat on the side of her bed.

'Dani, you know you can tell me anything, so what was your dream about?...Danny asked softly to her.

Dani lost her neutral expression, she hated feeling so vulnerable, getting so worked up over a dream….but she looked at Danny's eyes, which were filled with concern, they were nothing like Vlad's eyes were. Unlike Vlad, Danny actually cared about her and wanted to make sure she was alright...He actually treated her like she mattered to him.

"I had a bad dream...about...him...'Dani said looking down and Danny knew who she was referring to. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who could get Dani worked up like this.

"Vlad, huh...what did that stupid fruitloop do"?..."Danny asked as he frowned at the mention of his enemy, even when he was lost in space he still found a way to cause trouble.

"In my dream, he captured me and he tried to melt me again...he somehow found a way to reverse the ecto-dejecto's effects and he zapped me, he kept zapping which slowly...slowly made me melt...and...and when I told him that you..that you would st-stop him...he laughed at me and said...that he made sure that you couldn't save me anymore...because he...because he..."Dani's voice was breaking midway through her explanation and found herself crying.

It hasn't even been a week and she already broke her personal promise to never cry again in her new life...but Vlad...He always found a way to hurt her. The image of her brother's bloody corpse from her dream was still fresh in her mind and it wouldn't go away. She wanted to forget that stupid dream! She wanted to forget Vlad as well. Dani suddenly felt her brother wrap his arms around her and pulled her in a hug, he rubbed her back trying to sooth her.

"Shush...It's always...He's not here...He's gone for good….He can't hurt you or anyone else ever again..."Danny said in a soothing voice, trying to calm the crying girl down.

Dani sniffled as she held him tight, letting her tears fall freely this time...she always felt safe in one of his hugs. She didn't want to be weak...She wanted to be strong...but it was nice to know that...that someone cared about her this much….that someone loved her and would protect her. She didn't want to helpless...but it was nice to know that no matter what there was someone who would always be there for her when she needed them.

It felt nice to know that no matter what, Danny cared about her...as did the other people in her new family...but Danny would always be special to her...he was the first person who didn't see her as a failed experiment. He saw her a person…somebody that...that mattered to him. Like her very existence wasn't a mistake.

"I promise you Dani, you are safe here, you are wanted here and I won't let anything happen to you..."Danny told her without a moment's hesitation.

It broke his heart to see her cry like this, it was obvious that deep down, she still feel hurt but she tried to hide it….She was his responsibility, he was a big brother now and he wanted to be a good one, she deserved nothing less. It was clear that she wanted to be strong...but he wanted her to be safe and happy. Dani was strong but she was still a child...a poor child that had the misfortune of being Vlad's tool but she was safe now, and that creep couldn't take that away from her.

If Vlad ever did return….If he ever showed his ugly face here ever again...If he dared to show up at their door step...if he so much as tried to lay a finger on any one of his family, especially Dani...The old fruitloop would not be able to run far enough and there would be no where on earth where he could hide.

She was his little sister and he would make sure no one hurt her ever again.

"I promise..."Danny said finally and noticed that Dani seemed to be calming down a bit.

" Dani...little sis...please listen when I say this...It's not good to keep things bottle up...If you ever feel upset about something, you know you can tell me right?..."Danny asked kindly to her.

"Yes...I know..."Dani said softly to her older brother.

"That's good..."Danny said as he ruffled her hair and sneaked a kiss on her forehead which earned a protest from the little halfa girl.

"Hey!….Gross!..."Dani said trying to sound annoyed but the smile growing on her face betrayed her.

"Whatever..."Danny said with a smile and Dani soon lost her annoyed eyes and just kept smiling him. Even when she was living with Vlad, he never once came to check on her during the night or comfort her when she had a nightmare.

It was another sign that Danny is not and never will be like Vlad. It was because unlike Vlad, Danny was a good person who actually cared about her while Vlad was just a crazy, bitter old man who only cared about himself and his supposed "destiny".

"Feeling better..."He asked to the pre teen girl, who slowly nodded.

'Alright, well it's getting late and we both are suppose to be in bed right now...or in you're case, in bed and asleep..."Danny quipped to his little sister who rolled her eyes at his corniness.

"Good night Dani..."Danny said to her and made his way to leave the room.

"Good night...big brother..."Dani called to him and the both stopped for a moment.

While Dani already considered Danny as her big brother...this was the first time she has ever addressed him as that. Danny stood there but slowly felt a warm smile adorned his face and he felt his heart melt at hearing those two, sweet little words.

"Man...I'm starting to get mushy aren't I?..."Danny asked to himself and turned back to the flushed little girl.

"Good night...little sister..."Danny said before closing the door, leaving Dani in her room, finally calmed down from her bad dream and feeling much better.

"Little sister..."Dani said to herself as she felt...happy when Danny called her that.

She laid on her bed and stared at her glow in the dark stars on the ceiling, they really were beautiful and no matter how dark it got in her room, they would always show her light.

It was rather corny, but it was still nice to think about.

"Danny's right, no matter what happens...this is my home now and I'm safe here..."Dani thought to herself as she moved under her sheets, savoring the warm softness of her blankets that protected her from the cold.

Her old life was a nightmare….almost literally but like all nightmares...It was over now and all that was left was to forget about it and move forward. She wasn't going to let Vlad keep haunting her, she wasn't going to let him keep ruining her dreams when she was finally free from him.

What happen in her stupid nightmare would remain just that...a nightmare that was now over and could not hurt her in real life and would never come to be.

In just a few days she would be joining Amity Elementary and a bunch of other wonderful things would soon happen to her as well. She had a family now, she had Danny as her big brother now, she lived in a nice town, she would go to school and soon have friends as well and she will also be helping her brother fight ghosts.

What could be better than all of that?

Dani felt a yawn escape her and turned to see her alarm clock, it was 3:02 am...She couldn't believe that half and hour passed with her venting to Danny and him comforting her….Knowing how he rarely gets a good night sleep due to his ghost fighting, he truly did care about her a lot to spend so much time trying to cheer her up.

Dani just stood there in her bed with no more thoughts about Vlad, her nightmare or her past for the rest of the evening. She yawned once more as she felt the desire for sleep slowly consumed her, she soon felt her eyes close and her mind slowly drifting into peaceful slumber….

And thankfully this time, she would face no more nightmares for the rest of that night.

-To be continued-

Next time on Dani Fenton: School Daze

Amity Elementary part 1

REPLIES to my totally awesome reviewers

To my good friend Joggerwriting, thanks for the love! Also I like the suggestion but I don't think it will fit with the flow of the story, thanks anyway.

Ed the Hyena: She'd probably be weird out at most and maybe annoyed.

Lileyfan123: I like the idea, I might use it later in the story...thanks for the suggestion ;)

Dragoonsensei: I do plan on having ghosts appear soon, but I may or may not use Ember, I haven't decided yet but thanks for the idea.

A/N: Just to give you all a warning, classes in my region are starting in just few days and I might not be able to update as quick as I usually do, but I promise I will not abandon any of my stories, I am just warning you all and asking you all to be patient with me.

Don't forget to review and thanks for the love everyone :)

:) Till next time beautiful people ;)