Hello! I'm back with my first DP fanfiction! I've actually been writing this since July– and I'm finally bringing this idea out. Full credits to my sister, who fully laid out this entire fan fiction. The plot and storyline is fully written out so I actually know where I'm going with this one, so hey, let's hope for the best. Please leave reviews on what you thought, I am fully open to constructive criticism and I am always happy to clear up any thoughts you had on this story. :)

Full Synopsis: When Danny is captured into the Fenton Thermos by Maddie, she excitedly decides to take him back to the Fenton Works lab for questioning, interrogation and painful dissection. Upon Danny's panicked insistence that he should not be dissected, he strikes up a deal with the growingly suspicious Maddie– he'll give her a tour of the Ghost Zone providing his knowledge on ghosts in exchange for his freedom. With Jazz's increasingly lame alibis for Danny's sudden disappearance, a tour gone awry, 'Phantom' exhibiting unusually human behavior, ghosts continuously almost blowing Danny's secret and a threatening ghost hunter scientist with an ecto-gun held up to his head, could this be the last straw for Danny's secret?

All rights to Danny Phantom go to creator Butch Hartman.

Chapter 1

Most people didn't spend their weekday evenings battling ghosts, keeping a secret identity, living with the fact that they are only half living, and having their own parents hunting them down with every given chance. Then again, most people weren't Danny Fenton, whose life included all of the above. Well, that, and juggling the life of a 'normal' teenage boy with barely passing grades, overbearing ghost hunting parents and an unfortunately poor social status.

At one point, he only had to deal with the half of those things, until the beginning of freshmen year, when he was convinced by Sam Manson to step inside his parents' newly built ghost portal, and accidentally pressed a button that resulted in his untimely death. Well, half death. When he woke up, he became the one thing his parents both hated and unreasonably obsessed over—a ghost. Well, a half ghost. Still half human, at least. He was going to tell them at first, but after one too many unsuccessful attempts and fears of being ripped apart molecule by molecule, he decided it'd be better they not know at all, along with everyone else except Sam and Tucker, who were present during his half death.

When the lab accident occurred, Danny not only had lost his once normal life, but had also activated the passageway from the human world to the Ghost Zone—all by pressing a button. And now that the portal worked, every ghost now had a free pass to the human world whenever the portal doors were open. And out of subconscious guilt, an increasingly growing hero complex, and the need to save Amity Park from any malevolent ghosts, he took it upon himself to protect the town, and in the process becoming Amity's resident ghost fighter.

It didn't take long before Jazz had found out after seeing him transform. She had been overprotective at first, but soon Danny and Jazz came to an understanding when it came to his ghosting hunting job, where he would do his thing, and she'd help out on the sidelines when he needed it, like making up an excuse of why Danny currently wasn't home. Sam and Tucker always helped out too in one way or another when it came to ghost fighting, but this time, they were both absent in the wake of the current ghost. And this unruly ghost had decided to plague Amity Park, just like every other ghost that found ways to escape from the ghost portal and terrorize the town.

This time, Aragon had decided to pester the Amity Park Mall by destroying everything in sight, the only reasonable thing a ghost dragon would do on a Friday evening.

"Seriously, dude? I thought you learned your lesson when Dora dethroned you! Why are you even here?" Danny asked as he threw ectoplasmic blasts from his gloved palms. The ghost dragon roared an ear-splitting cry as he circled in on the ghost boy, knocking down several mall kiosks with the end of his tail. Luckily most of the nearby spectators of the fight had long gone, or there would be even more problems on Danny's hands.

"Coming back to take what is mine!" He growled, breathing out a fiery blast aimed at Danny who quickly became intangible to avoid the fire that went through him, but burned through the food court tables behind him.

"Oh, come on! See, when you do things like that, I get blamed for property damage! What do you even want this time, Aragon? And why did the mall have to suffer?" Danny asked as he floated up to reach the flying dragon's height. Aragon sneered in return.

"I've returned to retrieve my human bride!" He claimed, eyes ablaze.

Danny narrowed his eyes at the black dragon ghost. "Sam? Dude, we've been over this. She doesn't want you! And how did you get your amulet back?"

"No, not that wench!" Aragon spit. "I have come to find a new bride! How I regained my power is not of importance to you, ghost boy, and will not be either when I destroy you once and for all!" He bellowed, and flew fire through the roof of the building before escaping through it, making a large, gaping hole into the ceiling.

"Yep, so getting blamed for this," Danny said to himself, and flew through the hole after Aragon.

"Hey ugly! Are you done?" he taunted, getting the dragon's attention, who huffed angrily as he spotted Danny in the sky next to him.

"You underestimate my power, child, for I am the king, the ruler, the supreme, the most powerful–"

"You might wanna rethink those words, buddy," Danny interrupted, and held his palm back before releasing a powerful ecto-blast in the dragon's direction, catching him off guard and sending him crashing through the same hole he escaped from through the roof of the mall. His heavy form landed with an explosion of gravel, and the mall floors caved in, leaving the black dragon laying in the rubble, seemingly unconscious.

"Wow. Knocked out already?"

Danny flew down to Aragon's level, and glanced at the dragon to inspect him before the ghostly creature suddenly woke up with a start, and bared his teeth. He rose up from the ground, and whacked the ghost boy with his long, spiked tail, sending him flying across the room with a thud.

Danny grit his teeth and beared the pain; he'd had much worse before. With the amount of times he gets thrown into walls everyday, this should be nothing. Danny clenched his hands into fists and teleported to where the furious dragon stood. He had to distract Aragon somehow.

"Boo?" Danny tried, and was met with a fiery blast of dragon breath that he avoided just in time by turning intangible. Aragon blew fire in all directions, turning any nearby objects in sight to ashes. Property damage at its finest.

"You dare think you can beat me?! I am unstoppable! No mere simpleton ectoblast can bring such a powerful entity like me down!" He roared.

Danny took this as his chance to act, as the dragon ghost was finally distracted. He turned tangible and once again teleported behind Aragon.

"Oh, but I bet this will!" he yelled, and with all his force, ripped the glowing necklace off him, rendering Aragon powerless without it. Immediately, the ghost dragon reverted back to the form of a person, leaving only an angry, human-shaped ghost in its place.

"I think we're done here," Danny said casually, pulling out the Fenton Thermos from his belt. He left no time for Aragon to respond, and sucked him into the thermos, as he cried out, "I will return!"

"Yeah, didn't think so. Wouldn't want this battle to drag - on. Heh," Danny said, and laughed at his own bad pun as he pocketed the necklace to return to Dora later.

"Wow. I really need to get a life." Danny commented as an afterthought. He glanced at the still working clock in the mall center before gasping.

"5 o'clock already?! Man, I should get home before dinner, mom would totally kill me if I wasn't there!" Danny exclaimed, beginning to leave, but froze in place when he spotted someone entered the mall. He gulped, and suddenly forgot that he could easily escape.

"Or, she can kill me now." he added.

Shortly before, across town, Maddie Fenton walked into the kitchen on-edge from her latest experiment. She was less than ecstatic with the outcome, but at least she was able to recover some data about the integrity of the non-sentient ghost she'd analyzed.

"Are you okay, Mom?" Jazz asked, noting her wide eyes and careful entry into the room.

"Just taking all of the very little that I've learned from this capture." She sighed. Looking around the room she saw her daughter nearing the end of reading her newest psychology book, and her husband tinkering with the Ghost Gabber. "Where's Danny?" She questioned aloud.

"I dunno, but Danny's always getting into trouble nowadays. The way it's been the past few months in school, I wouldn't be surprised if he was in detention again!" Jack spoke up.

"Honey, you're only saying that because we agreed today was the day the garage was gonna be cleaned. He doesn't have to help you when you're the one who keeps building up the piles of junk stored in there!"

Lowering her book, Jazz giggled under her breath as Maddie scolded her husband like a child. She knew from the Phantom-spotting news that her brother was at the Amity Park Mall, but better for her mother to stay out of the loop in case she wanted to pop in and catch him off guard.

"It's not junk! It's valuable equipment that I may or may not use again! It just happens to be a little cluttered… and Danny was supposed to clean it today!" Jack reasons, but Maddie puts her hands on her hips.

"Jack, your things, your responsibility! Danny can help you clean it when he gets home, wherever he happens to be where we don't know." Maddie said, and Jack pouted in response.

"Well when Danny gets home, he's going to help me clean the garage like his life depends on it!" Jack claimed, entire attitude changing, suddenly standing on foot on the table, one foot on the chair heroically.

"That's nice, Jack. Anyways, I'm going to the store to buy some things for dinner, stop by the mall on the way, and such! Buh-bye!" Maddie says, swiping the keys to the GAV from the counter just as Jack begins to wobble off the table and falls down, crashing.

Jazz's smile drops at the mention of the mall but is unfazed by the crash. Danny!

"Uhh, mom! Are you sure you don't want me to go and pick up the things you need instead?!" The teen offers eagerly, dropping her book and jumping out of her seat from the table to follow her mom.

"Oh, no, it's okay sweetie, but thank you anyways," Maddie calls, foot already out the door of the kitchen.

"Did you remember to bring an ecto-gun in case of any ghosts, Mads?" Jack asks, dusting himself off from the floor and pretending like he didn't just break the kitchen table. Jazz squeaks.

"Of course! And the Specter Deflector, Fenton Finder and Wrist Ray to be sure!" Maddie responds cheerfully, sticking her head in the door.

"Um… wait! Mom! Could you stop by the library first to get me a new psychology book before youdoanythingelselikegotothemallorsomethingprettypleasewithacherryontop?!" Jazz spluttered as she ran to the door so fast she almost tripped. She gave her best convincing grin, but it came out more unsettling than anything else.

"Oh, sure, Jazz! But the mall is closer to the house anyways, so I'll just stop there first! Bye sweetie! Bye Jack!" Maddie calls as she steps into the driver's side of the GAV, and with a happy smile, speeds off from Fenton Works, into the direction of Amity Park Mall.

Jazz bites her lip. "This can't be good."

Maddie pulled up to the Amity Park Mall and walked through the front doors of the unusually abandoned building, gasping at what she saw. The mall center was in ruins, with a flurry of broken kiosks, smashed store signs, burnt cafeteria tables and chairs, broken walls, a gaping hole in the ceiling, and floating there, right and center, was him.

She narrowed her eyes at the culprit.

Amity Park's local menace, the ghost boy. Phantom. There he was, in all his evil glory, just floating around as if he didn't cause this. And it seemed like he was talking to himself. He might have the town fooled to think he was some sort of hero, but Maddie was no fool.

"You!" she accused, whipping out an ecto-gun from her belt.

The ghost boy's expression went from confusion to complete shock. "Mo-Maddie!?" He exclaimed, and then looked at his surroundings, glanced at the property damage, and back at Maddie. "Oh no." He mumbled worriedly.

"You thought you could get away with destroying the mall, didn't you, ghost boy?" she spit, her voice laced with venom. No ghost was getting out this easy after this crime– not if Maddie Fenton had anything to do with it.

"No, no, no, you don't understand!" He yelled as he waved his hands around in front of his face, voice raising. "Th-this wasn't me! I didn't do this! I was trying to stop this!" He tried to explain, but he was talking too fast and Maddie didn't believe his lies for a second.

Maddie pointed her gun at the ghost. "Do you think I'm stupid or something–"

"No, you don't understand! It was Aragon, the ghost dragon! I stopped him, he's in here, see?" he tried, and pointed to the Fenton Thermos in his hand. He seemed to think that this would work, but then a look of horror crossed his face. Maddie fumed.

"You're stealing our equipment?!" she asked in shock and waited no time for a response as she fired a shot at the ghostly menace, which he avoided at the last possible moment.

"NO! I didn't–" he began, but Maddie just kept shooting.

"I didn't steal anything, I was using the thermos to capture the ghost that did this!"

"Tell me one good reason why I should trust you, ghost!"

"I–"

"I don't want to hear a word of your ghostly lies! Save it for the lab, thief!" Maddie yelled as she pulled out a Fenton Thermos of her own, and aimed for Phantom. This took the ghost by surprise and he narrowly tried to avoid the direction of the blast but it was too soon before ungracefully getting sucked into the containment of the thermos.

"Wait, you don't understand!" He screamed as he getting sucked in, and soon was gone in a bright flash.

"I understand completely, that you're an evil ghost bent on destroying Amity Park," Maddie replied, shaking the thermos in her hands, with Phantom inside it. "Well that won't go on for any longer!"

Her expression brightened. "Now, to do those errands for Jazz!"

Maddie pulled up to Fenton Works in a hurry, taking a glance at the Fenton Thermos. She had finally caught Phantom, after all these months. Should she tell her family? Tell Jack? He would be ecstatic to find that she had finally captured the ghost boy, but Jack tended to get a little… overbearing with new discoveries.

Perhaps she should keep it a secret until she figured out what to do with Phantom. She glanced down beside her in the passenger seat, down to the Fenton Thermos that lay still and untouched. Inside it was the same ghost she had been trying to capture for the longest time. Should she interrogate him first or dissect him then interrogate him?

Gingerly, Maddie parked the car and grabbed the thermos as if it was made of glass, and then grabbed her shopping bags from the trunk. Guilt clouded her thoughts, if what was to come if she didn't tell her husband. This was a breakthrough for them, and they were a team. They did everything together– how would Jack feel if he was left out while Maddie had captured a ghost as important as Phantom?

Maddie took a deep breath, and decided. She would tell her family later. Surely Jazz and Danny wouldn't be too freaked out if they found out that she had captured Phantom.

"Jazz, Jack, I'm home!" she called, opening the front door. Jazz popped out of the kitchen, looking nervous.

"Hey mom! What did you do? What happened at the mall?! Did you get groceries for dinner? Why did you take so long?" She said quickly, firing each question like a bullet. Maddie smiled at her daughter, as she led her back into the kitchen.

"Oh, not much, sweetie. I stopped by the mall, caught something special– I mean, bought some... things, for dinner!" she corrected, but Jazz's concerned face didn't drop.

"...Okay. Where's, um, Danny?"

"You mean he hasn't come home yet? I haven't seen him since this morning before school! And it's almost 6 now!" Maddie exclaimed, setting the groceries on the counter.

Before Jazz could reply, Jack came barging into the room. "Mads! You're back! Great news, I just added the newest addition to the Fenton Ghost Shield! No ghost can ever get through this shield again, thanks to the new Fenton Ecto-Proof Ghostifier!" he announced. Jazz frowned.

"Ecto-Proof Ghostifier… Dad, what does that even mean? Are you sure you don't want to give it a better name than that?"

"Nonsense, Jazzerincess! It's a perfect name, and a perfect invention! Well, after I finish a few more kinks on it. Some kinda hole in the shield… Actually, I'll go back and fix that too!" he said, and began to turn around to go back into the lab, but paused, and looked around the kitchen.

"Hey… where's Dannyboy?"

Maddie crossed her arms. "I don't know, but he's gonna be in a lot of trouble pretty soon."

That's it for the first chapter, please let me know what you thought of it! Sorry if it came to be a little fast paced, I tried my hardest to make it not drag on too long because I tend to do that whoops. Anyways, see you next update, which will come soon! Please leave a review if you liked it! :)

-dannyghost