"So, what can you girls tell me about?" Danny asked as he and Emily flew next to each other.
"Well, as you know, I'm Lucifer's daughter. Making me the princess of hell." Charlie said.
"And I'm from heaven as you can guess," Emily said.
"How did you two meet?" Danny asked.
"Well, I wanted to do more for the sinners and thought it would be a good idea for heaven to be aware of my plan. I thought if heaven itself saw what I was doing, it could make things move along much easier." Charlie said before sighing.
"They didn't see it and turned my idea down." She added, surprising Danny.
"Whoa! What?!" Danny said, shocked.
"Sera believed that she was protecting Heaven from any chaos because she was afraid of other angels questioning Heaven's true moods because we could end up turning into Lucifer," Emily said, frowning.
"And I show them proof," Charlie added.
Danny shook his head. While it's true he was hiding something, he had a reason. But turning down the idea of redemption to protect heaven? Even after showing proof?
"Look, I don't mean any ill will towards your home, Emily, but that is the most IDIOTIC thing to do!" Danny said, surprising the two.
"I may not be very religious, but from what I heard about heaven, it's supposed to be a place where people are welcome and overcome their sins. Redemption is part of life. I made mistakes in the past. I managed to redeem some of them. There are still a few things I have to fix, but rejecting possibly redeeming sinners into heaven to ensure that heaven is protection from others turning into Lucifer is NOT helping." Danny said.
"Wait, you agree?" Charlie asked, shocked.
"Yeah. Sometimes the truth isn't pretty. And everyone might be scared to face it. But there's a saying that is said on Earth many times, The truth will set you free. This means that by telling the truth, you'll feel much better about yourself and others. Whoever this Sera person is, from what you just told me, she has lost sight of that. However, since I haven't met her yet, I'm not going to say much about her choice. But I will disagree with her course of action." Danny said, looking away for a second before shaking his head.
"Look, I'm surprised to hear that Charlie is trying to help redeem sinners to make both sides better. However, how can Charlie help others if they don't help themselves? How many people are you redeeming?" Danny said, then asked.
"One," Charlie said, surprising him.
"Is it working?" He asked.
"Yes. He stood up to his old boss and seemed to get his friend to understand his course of action. Though she turned down joining him, she was happy to hear that he was turning his life around." Charlie told him.
"And Heaven turned it down?" Danny asked, seeing Emily nod.
Danny stops, shaking his head.
"Not the best course of action. Turning that idea down isn't dooming the sinners in hell. It's dooming heaven too. Emily, how does God feel about this?" He asked.
"I don't know. He hasn't been seen in centuries." She said, sadly.
Danny had forgotten about that, but it didn't sit right with him. Charlie was trying to help. And everyone was turning it away. Which is doing more harm than good. Despite being a demon and knowing her briefly, Charlie seems like a good-hearted person. She was trying to help and everyone pushing it away.
"Look, I can't really say about their choice of action, but with the way things are going, both Heaven and Hell are setting themselves up to be wiped out. From what it sounds like, this Sera person is letting Hell fill up too much, which could get your father an army bigger than Heaven." Danny said before seeing Charlie look away.
"Heaven is doing something about it, are they? And you don't like it." Danny guesses.
"They sent exterminators once a year to heaven to kill any sinners that don't hide," Charlie said.
"And I don't like it either. I seem to be the only angel that agrees with Charlie's idea." Emily said.
Danny closes his eyes. That didn't sound like everyone was trying to help anyone. Sinners rejecting the idea of being redeemed, Angels turning down redeemed sinners to protect themselves...
"Then they have doomed themselves," Danny said before sighing.
"Look, I spend most of my afterlife on Earth. I learned a lot of things there. People can not force themselves to think they are in the right. That's a mistake that everyone makes. And it sounds like Angels and Demons are not too far off. But we can talk about that later. I said believe we need to get a move on." Danny said, sighing,
Both girls nodded, still surprised by his words. The three flew off, heading for Far Frozen.
A bit later,
"What is this stuff? It's so cold and wet." Charlie asked, grabbing some snow.
"It's called snow. It's wet because it's another form of water." Danny said, looking around.
The village was oddly quiet. Danny didn't like that. He was sure that Frostbite and his people would welcome him the minute they saw him.
"Are you okay, Phantom?" Emily asked.
"Danny." He said, surprising her.
"Call me Danny." He said, smiling.
"And no, not really. I had visited this place many times and I was always welcome here. Frostbite, the leader of his tribe, happens to be a good friend of mine. He taught me how to use my ice powers." Danny said, looking around.
Charlie stepped up next to them before cupping her hands around her mouth.
"HELLO! IS ANYONE HERE?!" She shouted.
Soon, some face peek out of the frozen huts, looking surprised to see them.
"Great One? Is that truly you?"
"Frostbite?" Danny asked, seeing his ghost Yeti friend.
"Leader, how do we know this him?" One of the Warriors said.
Frostbite walked up to the three and looked at Danny. He then smiles before hugging him.
"It is!" He said, surprising him.
"Good...to...see...you...too...Frost...bite..." Danny gasps.
Frostbite soon released him and spotted Charlie and Emily.
"And I can see that you two are far different from your last visit." He said, confusing them.
"Our last visit?" Charlie asked.
"We've never been to the Ghost Zone before," Emily added.
Frostbite looked confused before thinking to himself.
"What is the last thing you both remember?" He asked.
"Well, I was about to open my hotel to welcome more sinners to redeem themselves, and I felt something hit me," Charlie said.
"I was trying to figure out how I could help Charlie when someone hit me on the back of my head," Emily said.
"Huh, I was patrolling around town when someone blasted me out of the sky," Danny added.
Frostbite started to think again.
"What next?" He asked.
"We woke in a trap room and found this video of someone calling themselves, "Master"," Danny said.
"And something about facing our greatest challenge," Charlie added.
"Though we have no idea what that means," Emily added as well.
Frostbite nodded. Understanding what they went through.
"I'm afraid to say that it's worse than it looks. It sounds like you three were pulled from your own timeline." He said, surprising the three.
"Time travel again?" Danny asked, due to being more familiar with it.
"Yes, Great One. It seems that you three were pulled into the future." Frostbite said.
"The future?" Charlie and Emily asked.
"Yes, about 20 years into it," Frostbite said.
"20 YEARS?!" The three shouted.
"Come with me, I'll explain on the way," Frostbite said, walking away.
The three looked at each other before following Frostite, still lost on what they were told.
"As you can see, the time you're from to the time you see before you is different. Shortly after the Great One pulled off one of his most heroic feats, three powerful beings unlike what we have seen before appeared. They said they were here to change the view of the people. They were planning on making changes to their homes. Little did we know, their ideas of change were forced on the people. Many stood up to them, but none could stop them." Frostbite said, frowning.
"Who would do that?" Emily asked.
"They never told us their names. Only that they were the new rulers of Heaven, Earth, and Hell." Frostbite said.
The three looked at each other, confused.
"Are you saying that my dad was overthrown?" Charlie asked.
"From the sounds of it, yes," Frostbite said.
"But, how can someone take our creator's throne? He's the most powerful being in all creation." Emily asked.
"Something told me that didn't happen. But without any proof, I can't say for sure." Frostbite said.
"What about Earth?" Danny asked.
Frostbite looked sad before turning to Danny.
"I don't know, Great One. Earth has been cut off from all the ghosts. Even your enemies refuse to haunt there anymore." Frostbite said.
Danny was surprised. No one knows how Earth is doing? That didn't sit right with him.
"The Three Lords, as they called themselves, have held the three worlds since then. No one knows how different Heaven, Hell, and Earth are." Frostbite said.
"Then we need to get back there," Danny said, not liking this.
"Easier said than done, Great One. We no longer let the infi-map out our sights. So we can't let you use it. I'm sorry." Frostbite said, sadly.
Danny sighs. Whatever happened in these past 20 years must have caused a lot more than he thought.
"What's the Infi-map?" Charlie asked.
"It's the only known map to the Ghost Zone. It's very powerful, able to take you anywhere and show you where you should go. I have used it a few times. Once lost it to Vlad. But he ended up finding his way back here. Which was still fun to watch, by the way." Danny explain.
"We still carry that memory fondly, Great One." Frostbite smiled.
"I have a question. Why do you call him "Great One"?" Charlie asked, not seeing Danny trying to stop her.
"Ah! It was a great tale. A tale that we never forget! The Evil One had mistakenly freed Parah Dark, the King of the Ghost. Once he was freed, he set to rule the Ghost Zone once more. He soon found his way to Earth after the Evil One took one of his powerful items, the Ring of Rage. The Ghost King managed to get his ring back, and it seems that everything was hopeless." Frostbite said before patting Danny on the back.
"Until the Great One united his enemies and sealed the Ghost King back into his prison. We, of the Far Frozen, see Danny Phantom as the Great One and welcome him to our home!" Frostbite added.
"And now you got him going," Danny said, sighing.
Charlie and Emily looked surprised. Danny took down the king of ghosts?
"Wow," Charlie said, surprised.
"That's quite a feat." Emily agreed.
"I don't care for bragging. I was only trying to stop him. Besides, Vlad was the one that locked him back up. All I could do was hold the door shut and hope he'll fall asleep." Danny said, sighing.
"You know, Great One, it's been a long time since we held a feast in your honor! I say we have one!" Frostbite said, proudly.
Danny sighs. It was a bit hard to get Frostbite to focus when he gets like this.
"Might as well." He said, making Frostbite smile.
"Would you two like to join us? A friend of the Great One is welcome here!" He asked Charlie and Emily.
"Um, I don't really need to eat, but I'm not one to turn down a grateful offer," Emily said.
"Well, feasts were never a big thing in my family. So, I wouldn't mind." Charlie said.
Frostbite smiled before he went to get the feast started. However, Danny's mind was on something else, something that the two girls noticed.
"Danny? Are you okay?" Charlie asked.
"20 years. The Three Lords. Something tells me that we not going to like what we see once we leave." Danny said, worried.
Charlie and Emily could understand his worry. Their homes were under a new rule, and they had no idea how their friends were doing. The three sigh, knowing they will find out soon. With that, the three soon followed Frostbite, knowing their quest had just started.
Well, here's another chapter. Danny, Charlie, and Emily (who was renamed from Serentiy after I found her real name) spent some time getting to know each other for a bit. And Danny heard what Charlie was planning for the sinners, and how Emily is the only angel who supports Charlie's ideas. Though Danny has yet to meet Sera, he does believe that she's passing up a chance that could help both sides.
They finally reached Far Frozen and met with Frostbite. And learned that they were 20 years into the future, farther than what Danny traveled last time. And Charlie and Emily learned a bit more about their new friend. Of course, there are the new players in town, the Three Lords. I'll get to them soon. Just need to finish up the trip with the Ghost Zone.