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"Val…" Danny said standing next to his own bed were the African America girl was unconscious after she was injured saving him from Pariahs Dark. Danny bit his lip and closed his eyes as they charged from crystal blue to a venomous green from his own self hatred.

He felt a gentle hand on his shoulder and turned to see his best friends Sam and Tucker standing there behind him. "Come on man, it's not your fault." Tucker said sadly.

"Isn't it? They were supposed to be my enemies. Vlad, the Fright Knight, this… Ghost king… everything I thought that I could handle… but I couldn't." Danny said walking over to the window were outside of the anti-ghost shield that his parents had put up around the town he could see the swirling green skies of the ghost zone. He closed his eyes and his head hit the window. "What do I do?"

"What you have always done, Young Phantom." A deep and timeless voice said. Danny's eyes shoot open and turned his head to see that everyone in the room was frozen. Putting a hand around his neck Danny found an amulet of a CW inside of a gear. Looking around Danny finally saw the childish form of Clockwork, the ghost master of time. Even with the body of a toddler, Clockworks red eyes seemed showed his ancient wisdom from underneath his dark purple cloak. In his small arms which were covered in watches he held his staff of time. "You will fight. And you will win."

"Clockwork… I can't." Danny said sadly looking down at his own hands. "How can I beat the king of ghosts?"

"That title is only a farce to hide his true nature." Clockwork said shaking his head as his body matured at an unnatural rate until he was an adult. "You need to have faith Danny. The pieces are all in place. I am just here to give you the knowledge you will need to win." Clockwork lifted a hand and put it on Danny's head. The hand began to glow with a golden light and Danny's eyes dilated wide as they filled with the same light.

After a few moments Clockwork took his hand away from Danny's head and smiled at the boy. "Everything is as it should be." And just like that he was gone. Time began to tick again and Danny was left standing in front of his friends will gazing at the amulet in his hand.

"Come on Danny, things will work out… Danny?" Sam said looking at her friend.

"Sam… I'm going." Danny said a look of determination passing over his face.

"What!? Danny you can't." Sam said in panic.

"Dude we will figure this out. Don't throw you life away." Tucker said looking at his friend like he had lost his mind.

"Guys… I can't explain it but… I feel like I can do this." Danny said as a white ring of energy passed over his body. His raven hair turned white and his blue eyes became a steady pulsating green. He then shoot out of his window and started to fly over the town.

Some of the people on the streets looked up at him and cheered. "You get them Inviso-bill!" Pauline shouted.

"My name is not Inviso-bill. It's Phantom, Danny Phantom!" Danny shouted as he flew off towards the edge of the barrier.

He was half way out of the town when he was stopped. "Wait Boy!" Danny stopped and was surprised to see Vlad Plasmius flying towards him.

"You can't stop me, Vlad. I got to do this." Danny said shifting to a fighting stance.

"I am not here to stop you. Catch." Vlad snapped and throw something at the ghost boy.

Danny instinctively caught it and glanced down not wanting to take his eyes off of Vlad. "A key?" He said puzzled at the gift. It was a large and heavy green Key that had a skull shaped handle.

"It is the 'Skeleton Key' it is what the Ancients were said to have once used to seal way Pariahs, and what I used to set him free. If you're going to fight him, then you will need it." Vlad said sternly.

"So you're… helping me?" Danny said surprised.

Vlad scoffed. "Do not read into it my boy, as long as I had that key Pariahs would try to find me just like with the ring I gave to the Gray girl. And know that I am rid of it, I will flee until this all blows over and I will rebuild in whatever new world order has been set up. If by the off chance you win the fight against Pariahs, then all the better." Vlad said turning his back on Danny. Then in a lower voice he added. "Good luck… Little Badger." Then he flew away at full speed.

Danny actually smiled and he attached the key to his belt. Flying to the edge of the ghost-shield he transformed in midair just long enough to pass through the shield before transforming back. "Jazz, Val, Tucker, Sam, Mom and Dad… everyone… I will save you all." Danny muttered as he flew in the direction of near certain death.

He finally came upon the giant flouting rock that housed the Ghost King's castle and paused. Standing before him on the flat top surface of the rock was a massive army of hundreds of thousands of the Ghost King's skeleton soldiers. Danny took a deep breath and charged in.

He was slowly making his way through the massive mob of enemy and towards the door. He had just kicked through two skeleton dragons when twenty of the foot soldiers dog piled on top of him. Danny granted as his face hit the dirt. "Let… Me… Through!" He shouted and sent a burst of power outwards blowing the skeletons to dust. "I… I have to keep this up." Danny muttered taking a few most steps towards the front gate.

A blast of green energy hit the group of enemies directly in front of him. Looking over his shoulder he spotted the Spectral speeder coming towards him with his best friends and older sister in the cockpit. "What are you guys doing here? It's too dangerous." Danny said seriously as he threw off two more attackers.

"Oh, we aren't here to stay. We're just making a delivery." Jazz said and pulled a lever. A hatch opened up out of the bottom of the spectral speeder and bright blue light came pouring out. Standing before Danny was his entire rouge gallery all prepared for a fight. The Dragon Dora wasted no time as she flew off burning a path through the skeleton army.

"How did they fit you all in the spectral speeder?" Danny asked a little surprised.

"Are you kidding me? That thing was like a luxury hotel compared to your stupid thermos." Ember said as she went of the offensive, shooting pink fists of energy left and right.

"Enough small talk, go and defeat the Ghost King so that I can hunt you another day." Skulker shouted pulling duel machetes out and running into the crowds.

"Really has a way of motivating a guy." Danny said to Ember before flying over the rest of the army who were too busy dealing with the new ghosts to stop him.

He reached the front gate and kicked it open, he closed it behind him and barred the way so that he wouldn't have to worry about enemy reinforcements. He quickly found the throne room and opened the door.

Sitting on a chair in the center of the room was Pariahs Dark. Danny's sixth sense flared, a normal ghost would send a cold chill up his spine but Pariahs was a crippling chill through his entire body. Danny fell into a fighting position and did his best to ignore his body's survival instincts that were telling him to run. "I commend you for getting this far, boy." Pariahs said with a grin that showed his sharp incisors. His wild black hair supported a crown covered in toxic green flames that gave off neither warmth nor light. His chin rested on a giant gauntleted hand that Danny could see a green ring on his middle finger. His non eye-patched eye watched Danny with an amused expression.

"I'm here to stop you Pariahs. You can't keep hurting people like this." Danny said angrily as his fists began to glow bright green.

Pariahs scoffed. "Hurting people? What use are humans to a god? Their entire kind could burn and nothing would be lost." Pariah's got up from his throne. His was two stories tall and Danny had to look straight up just to see his face. Pariahs lifted a massive mace and tried to bring it down on Danny's head. Danny jumped to the side and began to fire ectoblasts at the king.

To Danny's horror the blasts hit some kind of golden shield of runes that had been around the Ghost King, unseen until Danny's attack. Pariahs laughed and shot a blast of crimson energy out of the top of his mace that blew the unsuspecting ghost boy back where he hit a pillar and slide to the ground.

"Don't you get it boy, I am a god. My Divinity protects me from all harm." Pariahs's laughter shook the hall as he lifted his mace.

Danny got up and spat out a mouth full of red and green blood. "I won't give up." He said shortly before rushing Pariahs again. The mace came swinging sideways at him but he jumped over it moving into the inside of Pariahs's attack range and landing a glowing green fist in the giant's face knocking him back. "I guess you have to put down that shield in order to attack me uh." Danny said smugly.

"Do you think that means you have a chance, boy?" Pariahs said not losing his grin.

Danny had to weave through blasts of crimson energy that Pariahs rained down upon him as he struggled to get closer to the god. But Pariahs, getting tired of the game, rushed him and brought his mace down on Danny in a two handed swing. Danny turned human and sank through the floor before the blow connected came up behind Pariahs. Turning back into a ghost he grabbed the Ghost King's cape in both hands. Taking a deep breath Danny shouted. "Block This!" The pitch of his voice broke into a long wail that shattered the ear drums of the Death King. The sound produced a visible wave of energy that shook the throne room. The cloth of Pariahs's cape tore and the king was blasted away through the wall on the opposite side of the room.

"Now… stay down." Danny wheezed as he tried to catch his breath having used all his energy. But a blast of crimson energy came from the smoke and hit Danny in the chest knocking him down and burning his stomach as he bounced and rolled across the room.

"You thought you could destroy me, a ghost beating Pariahs Dark, the king of ghosts, a god of Death?" Pariahs laughed but there was hatred behind it. Hatred towards the child that had managed to hurt him.

Danny stumbled to his feet and looked at Pariahs who only had a couple of scratches on his despite the point blank attack. "You… aren't the King of Ghosts." Danny said coldly even as he held his own heavily battered and bruised body.

"Oh, so you can't still stand?" Pariahs mused as Danny's body pulsated with green light. "I see, you are not really a Divine Beast after all. You are more like a reverse of the Divine Ancestors. You are exchanging your human life force for the strength you need to continue."

Danny took a step forward and lifted a hand that glowed bright green. The shot bounced off of the golden shield as Pariahs continued to laugh at the boy's vane attempts to reach him. "You can never win, boy. Just give up."

"No…" Danny said, the soft word no more than a whisper seemed to reverberate in the room despite the falling stones and the sounds of the battle taking place outside. "Too many people are counting on me to stop you, and I will not let them down." A calm look passed over Danny's face as he looked up at the king, whose smile faltered at the sudden change in the boy. "A key to close the box once opened." Danny chanted. The green light that had surrounded him slowly turned to gold and Pariahs moved back in shock. "The Greeks believed that in the age before time began, there were two beings; Mother Earth and Father Sky." Pariahs noticed that the golden light was coming from a key on the boy's belt.

Danny took the key in his hand and continued to chant. "Together they gave life to six sons and six daughters. They loved these children whose beauty and strength was beyond words and they named them the Titans, who would later be known as the First or the Ancients." The key began to change in both shape and color in Danny's hand. It grew in length and the grip shifted. Once it stopped Danny had to hold it in two hands and seemed more like a large sword than a key, the new key was as long as he was tall. It had changed from a sickly green to a shining white with silver ribbons of metal decorating its surface. But the form of the key was still there, in the guard that curved back and connected and the bottom of the hilt, and in the tip of the blade that had four angelic wings protruding from the top, three curving in and one outwards to form the teeth of the key.

"No!" Pariahs shouted in panic and basted another shot of red energy at Danny who swatted it aside with the new blade.

"But they had other children. Children whose forms were hideous to look upon and Father Sky was sicken by these children." Danny's blade began to glow brighter and he dived out of the way as Pariah's tried to crush him. "So Father Sky created Tartarus, a land of damnation deep inside of Mother Earth and locked away his unwanted children." Pariahs tried again to strike Danny but Danny disarmed him and the mace flew across the room. "Mother Earth was horrified by the loss of her children and urged the Titan's to take up arms against their father."

"Don't… Stop these hateful words." Pariahs said putting his hands over his ears.

"Kronos, the youngest of the Titan was the first to answer their mother's pleas. He took a sickle fashioned of the earth and castrated his father." Danny said. Pariahs winced and his hands went between his legs as if he was remembering old pains. "The Titans fought their father and imprisoned him in a sarcophagus where he was to sleep for all eternity before casting him into the pit of damnation that he himself had created. And so the sky became the pit. That is who you are Pariahs, you are no king of ghosts, you are Uranus, the night sky who was cast down before the first dawn!"

Danny rushed forward brandishing the shining key sword. Pariahs put up his hands as if to shield himself and the golden barrier appeared between himself and Danny. But this time Danny's key cut straight through the shield and slashed through Uranus's shoulder. "My… my Divinity… you cut through my Divinity!" He shouted in alarm.

"No… I unlocked it." Danny said with a grin. "Once you understand the lock, all you need is the right key." He said lifting the blade in front of him. "Now are you going to stop all this madness?"

"No! I am the King!" Pariahs said and ran at Danny his arms spread wide fire pouring out of him. Danny dashed forward with all the power he had left in his being and drove the tooth of the blade deep into Pariahs's chest.

The god stopped moving and went limp. "So… cast out by one of my own." He said solemnly as his body seemed to dissolve. "And now I have been usurped from a second kingdom by a mere child." His lower body was completely gone, turned into golden dust. "My Authority is yours, boy… use it as you wish." His final words as his body disappeared from existence.

Danny staggered when the Death King had final vanished completely. The battle outside and inside the castle had taken its toll on Danny who had used the last of his life force in order to win. He fell down onto the ground, his last sight before losing consciousness was the elderly form of Clockwork standing over him. "You did well… my nephew."

Danny was not really sure if he was dead or not… Ok, if he was completely dead or not. He was lying on a surface that he couldn't see and his body felt too heavy for him to move.

"The black art that Epimethius and I left behind. The sacred birth of an illegitimate child shrouded in darkness, born of a fool and a witch. A secret right of usurpation, only possible through the sacrifice of a god." The voice of a young woman came to him through the fog. Danny's eyes fluttered upon. Kneeling over him was a young girl, she looked like she was around twelve with pointed ears and purple hair done in twin ponytails. "In other words all the conditions have been met and you will receive a gift from the heavens." The girl said with a kind smile.

Danny felt calm as he looked at her. Despite how young she was, there was something… motherly about her. "Wow that was wordy." Danny joked.

The girl giggled. "Well I guess put simply, you sacrificed your life to slay the god, Uranus." She said with a smile.

"So… everyone back home is safe now. I'm glad." Danny said smiling back. "Are you the angel that is here to taking me to the pearly gates? I know I've just killed god but you aren't going to hold that against me, are you?"

The girl laughed. "I like you. You still have a sense of humor. But no, I am the all giving woman, Pandora." The girl said leaning over Danny. "And you Danny will be reborn again… again… as a Campione, the God Slayer, a King among Kings, a Campione..."

Danny's vision filled with white and everything around him faded. He found himself not wanting the girl to go. "No… wait." He said. "Mom!" He shot up panting to find himself on the floor in the middle of his basement.

"Wow dude… not really the first thing we were expecting to come out of the mouth of the conquering hero." Tucker chuckled from above him. He gave a yelp of pain as Sam punched him hard in the arm.

"You alright, Danny?" Jazz said leaning over her brother in concern.

"Yeah… I… I think so." Danny said looking down at his hand. "The key." He said slowly turning his wrist to them showing the new form of the skeleton key burning into his arm. "I guess Vlad's gift paid off in the end." Danny chuckled.

"So… it's over." Sam said slowly.

Danny smiled. "Yeah… it's over… until the Box Ghost comes back." He joked lightly and they all laughed. But in the back of his… being… he could feel that he was different. Like how he felt after he had first stepped out of the ghost portal as a halfa. 'Campione.' He thought as he looked at the ghost portal.

"Come on, Danny!" Sam shouted from the stairs. "This calls for movie night marathon. I beat the ghosts will be too tired to attack tonight." Danny grinned as he chased after them. Whatever was going to happen could wait. He was alive…ish and his friends were safe. That was good enough for now.

"You know that was cheating, don't you?" The voice was familiar to the ancient time keeper.

"I only get him a key, he was the one who used it." Clockwork said turning to him sister-in-law. "It is good to see you again, Pandora. But it isn't like you mind Daniel becoming a Campione, do you?" He asked the goddess as the little girl strolled past him to look at the image of her newest adopted son in the looking glass.

"No, he is in essence what a Campione should be; brave, good instincts, hard of hearing…" She giggled. "I believe he would have overcome Uranus even without your help." Pandora said smiling as Clockwork nodded. "Besides I am his mother now, and all mothers love their children without question."

"You really haven't changed at all have you, Pandora? Still more than happy to watch and cheer for the beings that Epimethius and I put on earth so many millenniums ago." Clockwork said gently looking at his sister-in-law's face.

"And you're still a trickster who is playing the gods for fools and steering mankind towards that brighter future that you were always talking about, huh Prometheus?" Pandora said giggling. "Maybe that's why I love the humans so much, because they change, adapt and grow, especially my little Campiones. Who would have ever even imagined a human boy becoming a Divine Beast and a Campione? I can't wait to see how he will move the world."

"Do you want me to give you a preview?" Prometheus teased.

"NO! No spoilers!" Pandora said seriously puffing out her checks and looking displeased as her brother-in-law laughed before joining him in giggling.

"Do not worry, I will not look any further into his future, I to want to witness my new nephew's destiny outside of a looking glass." Prometheus said waving a hand and the images of the future disappeared from his vision. "Good luck Daniel. You uncle is rooting for you."

Clockwork is a true god, like Pandora. If you know about the Campione show then you know what I'm talking about. The gods are divide into true gods that don't mess around and get people killed, and the heretic gods that do.

For the purposes of this story; The Ultimate Enemy has already happened, Ghosts are Divine Beasts, the Ghost Zone is the Netherworld, and some of the more powerful ghosts were really heretic gods.

What do you all think about Pariahs being Uranus? Interesting chose or would you have picked differently? In the show 'Campione' the gods disguised their true histories because it made them harder to kill.

How about the skeleton key being a weapon?

Danny is the first none human to become a Campione. This is because Campione are supposed to have no clue what is going on or what will happen if they actually do beat the god. Even though Danny is known human, he is still clueless.