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'Why did this all have to happen?' I thought to myself through the waves of tears. 'If my parent had just accepted me... Why did everyone have to die?' I grieved trying my hardest not to break down and give up.

My mom and dad had found footage of me transforming into Phantom. And they decided that they could never have a ghost for a son. They came for me in the night and zapped me in order to take me down stairs to the lab and experiment on me. The experience was horrifying, they poked around in my inners for hours and used experimental drugs and weapons on me. The pain was so intense I felt myself losing my mind.

Once the morning had come Jazz noticed that I was gone. She had found the lab locked but used the hidden key that our dad kept behind the emergency fudge. When she saw me strapped to a table being electrocuted to see the rate of deterioration of my cells she freaked and tried to rescue me. Dad brought on of his massive hands down across her face. They told her that her brother was dead and that she should just accept that as fact and move on.

Jazz didn't give up. She called everyone that she thought would hide my secret; my friends Sam and Tucker, as well as Valeria and even Mr. Lancer. They got there as fast as they could and Mr. Lancer used an ax to break down the door to the basement lab so that they could try and save me.

When Sam, Tucker and Valeria saw me they went into a blind rage. They pulled out weapons that were meant to be used on ghosts and opened fire on my mom and dad. Mr. Lancer who didn't own any ecto weapons started to grab veils from the shelves and throwing them. After a few seconds an unstable solution hit the ghost portal.

The portal exploded… I was the only survivor. 'Why did they have to die? I wasn't worth it. Jazz… Tucker… Mr. Lancer… Valeria… Sam, oh god Sam.' I hadn't been able to take the sight of all of them dead. I lost the entire contents of my stomach. After I couldn't take it anymore I flew. I kept flying until the exhaustion fatigue and stress caught up with me. I crashed into an alley and transformed back into my human form and lost consciousness.

Hours later I wake up to find that I was inside a building. Not only that but I was on a bed. I tried to sit up and get a bearing on my surroundings. My entire body was in pain. 'Why does everything hurt?' I thought.

I heard a voice coming from a door on my left and my eyes snapped to it. "You're awake." It said. In the doorway was a kind looking man with thinning black hair and a surprisingly blond handle bar mustache. "We found you in an alley yesterday night. You were in pretty bad shape there kid." My brain was still rebooting so all I could do was stare at him in puzzlement. "You ok there kid. Do you need us to call your family?" he asked.

With that word, 'family', everything came flooding back. "Gone, there all dead." I said the tears coming a new to my eyes.

"What is your name son, maybe we can find out who your legal guardian is." He said kindly.

My thoughts went to Vlad as my god father and what would happen if I went to him. "No!" I said quickly. "No, my godfather is a monster."

The man stroked his mustache for a second in silence before asking me a question. "Is your godfather the one that did this to you?" He asked. I was a mess.

I was about to tell him the no but then decided to lie. "Yes." I couldn't go to Vlad. If I went to Vlad I would become Dan. I couldn't let that happened. I promised Jazz, Mr. Lancer, Tucker and Sam. I would not ruin my memories of them by breaking that promise.

"We can get the police to help. We won't let him touch you I promise." The man said.

"He is a monster, with really good lawyers. The law won't stop him." I said simply.

The first unpleasant look crossed his face. "Lawyers… In that cause it is probably for the best that you don't tell us your full name. But we need to call you something. A fake family name will be needed. How is Phoenix?" I blinked at his willingness to abandon the idea of sending me back where I came from. "I am not about to send a kid like you back to whatever did this to you. They call me Teddy you're at Bayville's orphanage. If I fake some documents saying that you have been here for two years then no one will ever look for you. You can stay as long as you want to. But you won't be leaving till your injuries are gone. So I will need a first name Mr. Phoenix." He said with a smile.

After a moments hesitation I gave him my name. "My name is Danny." I said with a weak smile. "Thank you."

A story I found from way back when, while I was cleaning out my old computer.

No I'm not planning on continuing it. Just felt like putting it up.