19 coming together to fall apart

Danny phantom fanfiction

Keeper

-D-

Vlad beamed with a wide smile. His sharp vampire teeth glistening in his ghostly glow. I wasn't sure if that was uncommon or not. "I also remember you killing me." I continued my face blank and emotionless "Remember falling in love with you. I remember hating you enough to kill. I remember you getting stranded in space. I remember you marrying my mother. I remember you killing my entire family. I remember you protecting my family. I remember you saving me. I remember you hurting me."

I closed my eyes as the visions built up, swimming around in my skull endlessly. "I remember each one like it really happened. Feel, taste, and see it as if it was all seconds ago." I opened my eyes zeroing in on Vlad's human blue ones. "The question isn't what I remember. It's which one is real and which one is fake."

Vlad stared at me. His black coat over his arm as he stood dignified in the middle of the room. "It will be alright son. We will get through this. I will help you."

I watched as Vlad seemed to change again before my eyes so he was in ghost form. He didn't transform but it was like he just morphed into his ghost alias. For a second I entertained the idea that it was a new power or something of the like. But seeing how insane I was I brushed it off. Although hallucinations inside of my visions, or reality, could not be a good sign.

"Daniel." Vlad called.

I blinked and suddenly his hair was no longer in spikes but a ponytail like he had in human form. "Huh?"

"Did you hear what I said?"

I rolled my eyes waving my hand nonchalantly. "Yeah, yeah, take over the world, steal my mom, Darth Vader me. Blah. blah. blah. Honestly Fruitloop, hear it once you've heard it all."

Plasmius bristled with anger, fury lighting in his eyes. Sometimes I wished I watched my tongue more.

"you insolent bra-"

I blinked. Vlad was standing as a human in front of me, hair a mess, dressed in pajamas. He smiled almost fondly at me shaking his head as he murmured "-t. What am I going to do with you."

I threw him an insulted look. "What do you mean?"

"No not the eyes!" Vlad said imminently covering his eyes as I smirked. He never could resist my puppy dog eyes.

"Can I open them now?" Vlad asked annoyed. I floated behind him hands covering his eyes so he couldn't peek.

"Peek a boo." The white haired man said as his face was suddenly thrusted in my face.

I squealed in delight putting my hands together in a messy clump, my small pudgy fingers, giggling in full three year old delight.

I rolled around on the ground laughing uncontrollably.

"DANIEL!" shouted a voice that was both firm and panicked. I looked up to see Vlad still drenched to the bone. Looking like a drowned rat.

I bit my lip to keep myself from laughing again but a giggle or two still escaped me. "Y-yeah"

"What did you do?" Vlad whispered his tone and voice, more than freaked out. His hair was a mess, his clothes warped and worn. I had never seen him like this, it was enough to snap me out of my giggles, briefly. "What did you do to me?"

I tilted my head and blinked. Suddenly Vlad and I were on my bed. I was leaning back, Vlad was sitting at the foot in his ghost form. "I did it again didn't I?" I asked cautiously.

Vlad still looked majorly creeped out but he nodded. "You did something that is for sure."

I shook my head trying to clear away the weird visions. "I can't tell what is real or not. I didn't mean to scare you."

Vlad took a deep controlling breath. "It's- alright but what was that?"

"That was Danny losing the progress we made." Came a firm voice from the door.

I looked up to see a woman I had never seen before. Her hair was radioactive read, orange and yellow, swirling around like smoke. Her eyes were like shining stars flickering viciously. And her skin was darker than night sky. The strange woman stalked inside visibly angry.

"Orbit was not meant to be a trap to keep you out he was meant to be an anchor for Danny so he could tell that this was reality." The woman's eyes narrowed at Vlad. Now that I looked at her, she seemed familiar. Like I had seen her somewhere before, in a dream or a –

"What did you do to Orbit?"

Vlad shrugged with a sly smile throwing an arm around my shoulder. "Does it matter? I have what I came for." Vlad turned to me. "Come on son, lets get you away from these horrid kidnappers."

My eyes locked with Vlad's trying to focus so he wouldn't be able to hypnotize me again. I didn't know how he did it the first time but I could not allow it to happen again!

"Danny?" called a worried voice. Vlad held my face in his hands with a very worried expression on his face. His hair was down for once. "Speak to me." He pleaded.

I opened my mouth. A dark hand grabbed Vlad's arm and pulled him away. Both of us jurked to our attacker as the strange dark woman dragged Vlad away from me. "Get away from him!"

Vlad ripped his arm out of the woman's hand smirking. "And why should I?" he asked cruelly. Suddenly Vlad slumped, blinking and shaking his head as if to clear away the cobwebs on his mind. "What just happened?" he asked slowly almost afraid.

Compass turned to me. "Danny do you know what you did?"

I blinked at her but the image didn't shift this time. "I-I'm not sure."

Compass slowly approached with great caution. "What do you remember?"

"A lot of stuff." I spoke slowly as the memories of the last couple minutes fell into place. "It was like the visions, always switching but it was like I was having them in this world. Only one thing changed instead of the entire world." I looked up at the ancient. "I'm really sick aren't I?"

Compass's eyes were soft and understanding despite their bright glow. "You are sick. But what you just witnessed was not an illusion."

I tilted my head in confusion.

"You made those things happen Danny. You made your visions come true."

"…W-what?"

"Your powers are finally forming Danny." Compass said softly. "And now you are affecting your environment while you're hallucinating."

"B-but-" I shuddered trying to grasp what was happening to me. "if I am changing things in the real world to fit my hallucinations then the fake is real and if the fake is real then how am I supposed to tell the difference from real and real, real, actually real. Real I didn't make."

"Calm down Danny." Compass said softly. "The other Ancients are coming. Together we will counter your powers until you gain control."

My breathing slowed.

"You just have to stay calm until they get here."

I focused on my breathing, thousands of information, memories, and lessons on meditation bombarded my head. I gritted my teeth and fought against the current trying to cling to this. This reality, this real.

Bang!

"I figured it out!" Jazz cried bolting into the room, a huge grin on her face as she raced up to me.

"Jazz now is not the time-" came a voice nearby but all I could see and hear clearly was my sisters next words.

"Dimensions!" she cried gripping my shoulders. Her words seemed to flow through me, hitting a gong in my chest causing my entire body to vibrate. "You are the Keeper of Dimensions."

A haze grew around me almost like gray smoke.

"Jazz can you please-" a faint voice spoke

"No. hear me out." And suddenly the girls face was gone. I watched as the gray slowly engulfed me. The world around me became distant. The farther I got, the fainter the voice

"We already know multiple dimensions exist. Natural portals in the Ghost Zone prove that."

It felt like I was changing, moving, morphing. Not from Phantom to Fenton. That was turning inside out. This was… curling into a ball. Everything I am everything I could become, becoming liquid or gas or something that was not flesh and gravitating into a small ball.

"If someone is the Keeper of multiple timelines then someone has to be in charge of dimensions, keeping them separate or connecting them; and it makes perfect sense."

I was 'aware' of my surroundings. I had no eyes to see but I saw. I had no ears to hear and yet I still somehow heard the words growing more distant with every second.

"Theoretically there are near limitless amounts of dimensions one for every decision everyone has made. This would make some with small difference from our own, to colossal."

I turned around in place trying to 'see' what was around me. Trying to find…something

"And from what you said, if Danny is the Keeper of Dimensions then it would make sense for there to be some version of him in every reality, every dimension."

A glimmer of light showed in the distance, it glittered and shown like a star.

"Thousand's upon millions, possibly infinite amount of Dannys some exactly like ours and some completely different."

Then another and another and a thousand 'stars' more appeared until the nothing but a wall of glittering shining dots in the gray around me. Some closer, some farther but there were thousands, millions, billions of them.

"When Danny started growing into his powers he connected with his other selves. That is what the hallucinations are. They are memories from his other selves. That's why he is so confused."

"The changes Danny has been making." A different voice came, voicing realization as pieces fall into place. "He is pulling things, other versions of himself from other dimensions here."

I turned to the closest star and moved towards it. Not sure how I did it but I did.

"Changing our reality to fit the memory he is receiving." Jazz completed the thought.

I touched the star and suddenly I was human again. Sitting on my bed flipping through a magazine even though I should be doing homework.

"That's why nobody can see the changes he is making, he is shifting everything with his memories."

I startled at the voice. Looking up and seeing nothing but my empty room. My ghost sense hadn't gone off.

Then I was back in my ball form skittering away from the star only to run straight into another.

I was flying for my life above Amity Park. Trying desperately to escape my pursuers. The tears in my eyes were not making the job any easier, blurring my vision, but I couldn't seem to be able to stop crying.

"Not that this isn't fascinating but perhaps you should focus on what Daniel is doing now?" a man's voice spoke causing me to jump in my flight. I was greatful a second later when another blast shot were I had been. Bolting off even faster I shook my head to focu-

I floated away from the star I accidently touched making assure to not touch another.

I looked around trying to find the source of the voices. They were getting faint as if they were drifting away. I had to find them. If they got too far I would get lost in the stars and never get out.

"Danny?" called a voice. It was so familiar.

"Danny? Can you hear me?" That's right. This was the first voice. The voice that told me-

Jazz. Reality. I was changing reality. And now I had lost control.

Closing my 'eyes' I pictured Jazz as clearly as I could. It was hard there were too much information and yet not enough. Through the smoke, the lights, I saw a shadowy outline of a girl. "There are so many of them" I tried to shout through the smoke but it came out as a whisper gray smoke billowing around the figure. My voice sounded like thousands and millions of voices all different and all the same speaking in sync. "What do I do?"

The shadow was silent for a while. For a minute, almost seeming like she was talking to someone I could not see.

"Danny what do you see?" she finally asked.

"It's… like outer space." I spoke again, this time I looked around me at the stars still crowding me "There are stars all around me." I looked at one. The light and energy swirled around it and somehow I knew. "They're other me's." As I spoke all the stars flashed with me. "They're everywhere. What do I do?"

"What do you think you should do Danny?" the figure asked.

I paused, turning again, looking around me and came to a sudden realization. The stars were moving around. And there are a lot of them much to closer to me. I growled in frustration as I bumped two at once. I was instantly stargazing on the roof and flipping through one of my astronomy books. The irony was not lost on me. "They're too close." I spoke again. "I can't move."

"Then move them Danny." Jazz said her voice getting faint again.

I pushed one away getting a flash of a chemistry test the other me was taking. I did it again with another and another but I never seemed to be able to finish. Finally having enough of this, I shoved one away as hard as i could. It flew back ramming into two other stars. I watched in horror as lightning flashed between them. cracks spreading between the stars that touched. Rushing forward I ripped the them apart. The lightning stopped but the cracks were still there. I took the moment to look around. The stars were still coming towards me, a lot of them getting too close to each other in the process.

"It's not working." They won't stay away.

"Try finding something to hold them." the words were fuzzy and soft. Turning back to shadow Jazz I barely managed to make out her form as it blew away into gusts of gray smoke before a star blocked my view.

I looked around best I could. But there was nothing here. Nothing but smoke and stars. Nothing to hold them back. I was getting swarmed. If I needed to breath I wouldn't be able too. Too many stars were touching. I was touching too many. They were touching each other. Memories and thoughts were shared all over, people going places they should not be, buildings appearing where they should not sit, beings interacting with beings they should never meet.

Come on think, think. You can do this. What do you put things in? A chest? No the stars would still touch each other. A desk? Not nearly enough drawers. A book shelf?...

A shelf might work.

Pushing away the onslaught of emotions, memories and happenings as a star touched me I tried to focus. Picture it picture it. It was both easier and harder than Jazz. It was easier because I wasn't trying to connect with some other place, harder because I wasn't sure what I was doing or how to make it permanent. Shadow Jazz hadn't lasted long. And of course there was the slight distraction of being lost in the memories as stars crowded me .

Finally, finally, finally I finished. Wasting no time I pushed all of the orbs around me into the shelf. They stayed where I left them this time. I was about to push the last one into place when I realized how small and faint it was. It was not glowing like the rest. Looking at the other stars I saw a handful of them had the same problem. One was even flickering like a candle about to go out!

In my panic the self dissolved the shelf into gray smoke and the stars immediately began moving but not just at me. They moved up, down and sideways as if to get closer to some of their brethren. But the flickering stopped and the stars shown just as brightly as before. I didn't know whether to sigh in relief or groan. The lights were back but I could barely move.

This was going to take a while.

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-D- Danny Fenton (Phantom) point of view

(in reference to a kind of question)

I went through the chapter 18 once before sending it to my editors. No problem didn't crash once. I get it back and go to read through it to make sure everything is still how I want it… and it crashes like three times…

Yeah.

I'm sending it in to get it looked at, thankfully my warranty is still valid.

I do not own 'Danny Phantom'