Chapter One: Paths

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Danny wasn't all that sure he liked being famous anymore. Sure it was nice, no longer having to run for his life, hoping that today was not the day the legions of random Ghost Hunters didn't suddenly become smart and actually succeed in tearing him apart "molecule by molecule". And he absolutely adored the fact that he could now fly anywhere without having to worry about stealth. But, even that was being interfered with.

Planes stalked him!

People followed him around everywhere!

He couldn't even so much as step in a pizza joint without people jumping all over him, and forget calling, he'd had his order recorded and used in a blasted advertisement! No idea how that worked, but it certainly brought the store heap loads of customers.

Thankfully his famousness allowed him some leeway. Enough to go to outer space and drag back a certain…thing…without being questioned.

Needless to say Sam and Tucker weren't exactly ecstatic about what he brought back, and neither were his parents. But he'd have felt like a murderer, no matter how indirect the death would have been, no one could seriously expect someone to survive in outer space for long, it was a death sentence. And Danny had no intention of being involved in such a thing.

So he did the only logical thing, and brought Vlad home.

Keeping the arch-nemesis of the entire world hidden was hard, but even more so when said nemesis insisted on heading off to some place unknown.

It didn't help that the man got better at sneaking away as the day's passed, and due to the fact that he'd yet to gain back all his powers, no one saw him as a threat, so none chased him…and Danny's fans kept him so busy, and with no random ghost attacks he had no excuses for randomly vanishing on them.

Today he'd actually managed to get away. Hidden within a park long forgotten within the depths of some random forest Danny sat on a moss covered log and sighed. Shoulder slumping and eyes drooping, somehow being famous seemed more tiring then being hated.

After a while he began to doze, the calm winds soothing and the bright sun relaxing.

The sound of crunching leaves broke his peaceful doze.

Glancing up through hooded eyes Danny blinked as the boy before him smiled softly, shoulder length light brown hair and gentle blue eyes almost shinning under the sun.

"Am I intruding?" the boy asked, voice as soft as his appearance.

"Nah," Danny shrugged, used to random people intruding on his personal space, "care to have a seat? You're kind of blocking the sun."

The boy chuckled and moved like the wind, practically gliding to the log.

"You probably already know this," Danny began after a moment of silence, "but I'm Danny Fenton-Phantom, and you?"

The boy cocked his head to the side in slight confusion, appearing not to recognize something, but smiled nonetheless, "I'm Joey."

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