I don't know why I felt like writing this I just did. I read a lot of fanfics, see a lot of them abandoned and get minor ideas from them that I expand more on sometimes. So, even though I don't usually do this type of fic the idea intrigues me because we don't know how a ghost's body technically works or how they reproduce. I mean how did Box Lunch come to be if it's believed ghosts can't have kids? I see a lot and I mean a lot of fics when Danny is with Ember, but the pregnancy and birthing process is like a humans. There are barely any that go into the how's of why ghost reproduction is so different. How? Because they're dead and they're living organs can't function anymore and so for them to have a kid they'd have to do it a different way. And so I find it fascinating with the idea of how with ghosts it could work for any gender together since they're dead. I know it's weird, but seeing Danny put in these situations amuses me.

Also, this was going to be a oneshot in my Danny Phantom fanfic collection 'Shots of Ectoplasm', but decided against it. As with them I usually only write the oneshots up to 3000-6000 words minimum. so, with a new story, I have more freedom for more ideas to flow as I kind of wanted to write Danny's experiences through his pregnancy like how he deals with the ghosts, his parents, school and so on. I wanted to also show what happens after, but this would mainly be Danny's first experience with the ghost version of pregnancy so I decided to make it into a story. Since I don't see a lot of fics delving into the psyche of characters often and since Danny's half-ghost we don't know how his ghost side affects him like this.

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Word Count - 2,324 (Not including ANs)

Chapter 1: Just A Normalish Morning?

Amity Park: FentonWorks - July 15th Sunday - Morning - 2007

A teenage boy with messy, raven-black hair that fell in front of his face; eyes that were the colour of ice and almost pieced into the souls of anybody that he looked at sat up from his bed, groaning. He was around the height of six foot and the age of seventeen, wearing baggy blue pyjamas that covered up the taut muscles and scar tissue underneath. His voice had also deepened from what it had been three years prior and now had the decent tone of voice of a growing young man about to enter his senior year of school in a few months.

This teenager was the half-ghost hero and menace of Amity Park known as Danny Phantom or as his human self; Danny Fenton.

He gave out a loud yawn, covering his mouth as he did so.

He closed his eyes and lowered his head as a frown appeared on his face. "Why do I feel so hot?"

He had a cold-core.

He wasn't meant to be hot.

He was meant to be around a lower temperature in human form and beyond freezing in ghost.

So, why did he feel like he was sweltering?

He put a hand to his forehead to feel his temperature but was surprised to find sweat dripping down to his brow. His forehead was quite warm and he could feel the watery substance underneath his fringe, frowning. His fringe was sticking to his forehead as if he'd only just taken a shower.

'Okay, so it's summer right now and it's meant to be hot', He thought to himself.

But that didn't mean he'd be waking up sweating.

That's never happened before.

The teen just shrugged it off as it possibly had to do with the weather, getting up from his bed, grabbing a spare change of clothes and heading across the hall to the bathroom. He closed the door, locking it and put the pile of clothes on a nearby stool. He took hold of his nightshirt, ready to take it off when he froze.

It wasn't the sweltering heat that had suddenly popped up within him that was bothering him this time.

No.

It was the fact that he felt the urge to go into the Ghost Zone.

He felt the urge to change to his ghost form, but why was that?

He swallowed, lowering his nightshirt and looked in the mirror as if inspecting his appearance.

"Nothing seems different about me..." He folded his arms across his chest, glaring at the mirror. "So, why do I feel so weird?"

The Ghost Zone: Far Frozen - July 15th Sunday - Morning

Danny had pondered over the thought for most of the morning before finally giving in and deciding to head into the Ghost Zone and see his friend Frostbite. He didn't know why he was feeling this heat within him.

He didn't understand it.

All he knew was that it might be ghost-related.

If he asked a ghost he'd get answers.

Hopefully...

And so after he's gotten changed and had breakfast he made his way to the portal in his parents' basement and went through, passing by many doors and islands as he flew through the endless green abyss.

He didn't have time to get distracted.

He wanted to know what this was.

He had thought about asking his mentor; a ghost by the name of Clockwork that watches all of the time, but he had a feeling he wouldn't get a straight answer from him.

At least with Frostbite, he'd receive straight answers to his questions and not be left hanging.

As Danny finally arrived at the FarFrozen, landing on the snowy terrain with a soft squish sound he was greeted by his friend a few moments later, hugging him.

What surprised him was that the hug was gentle it wasn't like his usual bear hugs.

He stopped hugging Danny and grinned at him, patting him on the back, once again gently.

It seemed strange to the teenager that his ghostly friend wasn't using all his strength on him as usual.

Why was that?

"What are you doing here, Great One! I thought you had to go to that human school!" He exclaimed, showing off his large teeth in a smile.

Danny couldn't help but smile as well at seeing the cheeriness his friend had. "I'm on summer vacation. I start in another month for my final year." His cheeriness left as he gave Frostbite an odd look. "Frostbite, I came to ask you something."

"What may that be, Great One?"

Danny suddenly got nervous about telling Frostbite about what had happened that morning but relented. "I woke up, feeling hot and sweaty and I don't know why. The other odd thing was I wanted to come into the Ghost Zone."

Danny looked up at his friend, noticing how his friend was staring at him before he burst out laughing causing Danny to take several steps back, surprised.

"Umm ... Frostbite...?"

The yeti-like ghost kept this up until he was finally able to calm himself down, somewhat but still chuckled at Danny's misfortune. "Great One, it's nothing to fear. You have just gone into 'Ghost Heat'."

Danny blinked, staring at the ghost before him, tilting his head in confusion. "Ghost Heat?"

Frostbite grinned and nodded, folding his arms across his furry chest. "Yes. Every ghost goes through it at this current age..." He gestured to Danny as if to prove a point. "...and it comes around every five years. Ghost Heat usually ups the effectiveness of hormones since ghosts are a lot more emotional than humans. You said that you had already felt the heat all over your body, but because you live above a Ghost Portal you can absorb the energy without going in," Frostbite explained to Danny.

Danny listened intently, interested, but also slightly creeped out at the fact that he's in this Ghost Heat.

That his hormones have been played with due to this, so now he could have sexual urges that he may not want to do.

He's only seventeen for crying out loud!

This was too much!

"Now ghost reproduction, however, is a little different from humans. It can happen to a ghost in one of two ways..." Frostbite began off with a new topic, startling Danny.

The teenager waved his hands around, shaking his head until it hurt. "Whoa, there big guy. I don't need another lecture on sex. My parents already did that for me."

He not only didn't want to hear it because it was embarrassing but because he'd heard it all before.

He knew what happens if you have unprotected sex.

He was responsible enough to know that.

He wasn't stupid ... clueless, maybe, but not stupid.

The ghostly yeti just raised a brow at Danny while tilting his head only slightly. "That may be so, but ghost reproduction is far different from a human's. The first way for a ghost to reproduce is with any gender between two specific ghosts or our term for it; mates."

Danny cringed as he continued to listen, but felt it'd be rude if he outright left in the middle of the lecture. 'This feels so weird....'

"However, you're a part of the other way in that it happens because of your teenage hormones. Which means because of all the energy in you that you absorb from your time in the Ghost Zone along with your hormonal tendencies your power level is quite high, so you can carry eggs without a mate," Frostbite explained, but after he said all that Danny's mind went blank.

"Huh?" He just let stumble out of his mouth.

What was Frostbite going on about?

He could carry eggs because of his power level?

Wait, that meant that he was ... pregnant...

"Ah-ha, good one Frostbite," Danny said, still stumbling over his words slightly. "You almost had me there."

However, the ghost didn't seem to smile or grin this time.

He just stared at Danny with a concerned look on his face which irritated the teen.

"It's not a joke, Great One."

There was physical smoke coming out of Danny's ears as he glared at the yeti-ghost. "Oh, yea! Well, I know for a fact that I can't get pregnant! I'm male, Frostbite!"

"You being male doesn't exclude you from pregnancy if you're a ghost," Frostbite replied, calm to Danny's anger.

Danny was about to retort back when the ghost lifted his hand and conjured a large piece of ice from the snowy ground below them in the shape of a full-length mirror. Danny frowned at it before looking at Frostbite as if to ask why he'd done that before Danny noticed something odd with his reflection.

The teenager hadn't seen his ghost form before he left, but his glow was slightly brighter along with his stomach being a little see-through along with what he noticed looked like tiny eggs the size of little easter eggs growing in a new compartment of his abdominal area. He could just barely see the ectoplasm flow into the compartment - feeding the eggs.

The sight made him sick.

It didn't sit right with him.

He wanted to throw up.

He did throw up.

He bent over and threw up ectoplasm on the icy floor, splattering the white snow with green barf. He groaned, bending on his knees and staring at the now green and white snow before looking back at his reflection before turning away again.

It was true.

He was pregnant.

Male ghosts could get pregnant.

It was weird.

So very, very weird.

It shouldn't be possible yet it was.

The ice mirror vanished into the snow as Frostbite knelt by Danny, rubbing circles into his back and the teen felt grateful for that.

"I will tell you a few last things before you leave, alright?" He said, softly, knowing the teen was still unsure and scared about this news he'd received.

The teenager nodded his head, solemnly at Frostbite's question.

"Alright, the eggs will get bigger..." Danny cringed at the fact he might gain weight when he was pretty athletic-looking from his ghost-fighting habit. He didn't want to lose this figure he gained over the last three years. "...however ghost pregnancy doesn't last as long as human ones do; it would only last for four and a half months - half of a humans, but with you being half-human who knows." He shook his head since he didn't know how long it'd last which made Danny a bit more worried. "There is also the fact that you have to take into account normal pregnancy attributes; you'll be vomiting for the first few weeks, having mood swings the next few before in the final weeks you'll need to come into the Ghost Zone to nest as the Zone's term for birthing."

Danny shivered at the Ghost Zone's term for birth.

'Nesting' just sounded weird in his opinion.

It sounded like he was laying eggs?

Then again he kind of was.

It was still weird.

"In between the weeks of mood swings and nesting you could still have symptoms of vomiting, but you would also be more aggressive and protective of yourself towards those around him. So, try to be careful, Great One."

Danny nodded his head as all of this sunk in.

It hadn't fully yet, but he still had a conscious idea that he was pregnant in the Ghost Zone's version.

He never realised how weird his half-life would get than it already had.

The halfa stood to his feet with the help of Frostbite, thinking over what his friend had told him. Something was bugging him though and he wanted to know. "Um ... will the eggs ... when they hatch be just blobs of ectoplasm or be like me?"

However, he didn't get an answer and just received a smile in response to his question.

Danny was confused along with a bit miffed he didn't get one and stayed that way as he left the FarFroze, heading back to the Fenton Portal with a lot more now on his mind.

Amity Park: FentonWorks - July 15th Sunday - Noon

Danny arrived back at FentonWorks through the open Fenton Portal; still feeling unsure and frustrated about his current situation. He stood in the lab, glaring down at the metal, plated floor and narrowed his eyes as he saw his glowing reflection in the shining tiles. His brighter white glow, the way his body was see-through and also how he now had an extra organ for a bunch of eggs. He growled, turning his head away and closing his eyes while clenching his hands into fists.

This was so wrong.

Just because he was half-ghost didn't mean this had to happen.

Why did ghost biology have to be so weird?

Why did this have to happen to him?

He grabbed his head, breathing heavily as it began to dawn on him that he was indeed pregnant, but the ghost equivalent of it.

It wasn't his human-half that was affected this time, but his ghost-half ... and that's what freaked him out.

It just showed how much of a freak he was.

His fingers dug into his skull, squeezing his eyes tight and whimpering. "Why...?" He shook as tears broke through his closed lids, but didn't let them fall. He lifted his head to the ceiling of the lab and cried out, "WHY IS IT ALWAYS ME!?"