Now, all I have is now
To be faithful
To be holy
And to shine
Lighting up the darkness
Right now, I really have no choice
But to voice the truth to the nations
A generation looking for God
For such a time as this
I was placed upon the earth
To hear the voice of God
And do His will
Whatever it is
For such a time as this
For now and all the days He gives
I am here, I am here
And I am His
For such a time as this
You, Do you ever wonder why
Seems like the grass is always greener
Under everybody else's sky
But right here, right here for this time and place
You can live a mirror of His mercy
A forgiven image of grace
For such a time as this
I was placed upon the earth
To hear the voice of God
And do His will
Whatever it is
For such a time as this
For now and all the days He gives
I am here, I am here
And I am His
For such a time as this
Can't change what's happened till now
But we can change what will be
By living in holiness
That the world will see Jesus
For such a time as this
I was placed upon the earth
To hear the voice of God
And do His will
Whatever it is
For such a time as this
For now and all the days He gives
I am here, I am here
And I am His
For such a time as this

this is still, hands down, one of my favorite fanfictions of all time. and definitely my favorite DP fic. I swear, every time I saw it updated, I would scream and gasp and freaked out and just spend the first 10 minutes spazzing before I even managed to click on the chapter like, I've loved it so much. It breaks my heart that it may never be finished, but regardless I thank you for sharing as much as you have with us. and should one day you decide to continue, I will devour every new word as I have the rest. thank you!

Still the best dam story I ever read on this site I hope everything is well for you during these hard times but I just felt I had to say your story telling is amazing. You have true talent.

i cannot believe this story started when i was just 8 years old. i think i was still watching danny phantom reruns as a child at that time. anyways, i read all that you have so far in two weeks and i’m devastated that this is unfinished and there hasn’t been an update in 2 years. i understand though, you must have grown up a lot in these past 10 years. i will read this again slowly because this story deserves it (and i feel guilty because countless other readers have waited 10 years to get to this point, sometimes a year between chapters?). your world building is astonishing, this AU eclipses the actual show to me. i was in the middle of reading harry potter but i’ve stopped because this story is so wonderful, the characters, the development, the intensity of your writing...everything. but please, PLEASE reassure me that spectra and walker will eventually face the punishment they deserve. i’ll wait as long as you need, but please don’t give up

I just spent 2 months reading this amazing story! Such good writing. I cried because of the story and I’m crying now because I have read everything there is! Please let me know if you’re still involved with the story! I don’t think I will be okay with never knowing where this story will end! Lots of love for you and this story️

"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden"

"A smile takes but a moment but is effects sometimes last forever"

"Love is reaching touching and caring. Sharing sunshine and flowers so many happy hours together. It was God who made the garden grow in your hearts."

"Among God's best gifts to us are the people who love us"

"A friend listens to our words but hears our hearts"

"Friends they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

"What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others."

After rereading my favorite chapters many times? This is honestly the beginning with Danny as a baby, the part with him going to the doctor, Desiree making him the necklace and everything that happens when his mother dies, and Vlad is forced to turn him human to save his life. They struggle for a year in the human world?

I can say I love this story a LOT. I think you've done a lot of great world-building, character development. I do love AUs, and I do love Danny and Vlad in a father-son relationship.

FINALLY! We are talking about it! I love this story so much! Even if it did take me a week to read it all! I love the AU.

Where Ghosts are a living race with their own culture and unique biology. The fact they can only have children once. The whole of world-building is fantastic!

I love to see how Vlad, Danny, and Desiree were a family and all the things going on between them, how you can feel all their emotions. Both good and bad.

I love how we see Danny grow up, and again he's so damn cute as a kid.

The dark elements are spot on, and we've got excellent villains in the story.

The dialog is perfect!

Everything all around makes this story rock!

I enjoy pearl84's "Danny Phantom" fic, "Dawning of a Sun." It's an exciting take on the Danny character that he has to bridge the gap between both worlds. His position is ripe with difficulties, and he gets tested every turn.

Now moreover on Danny? If he's wondering who he is or slowly figures things out?

In Vlad's position after Desiree's death and Danny nearly dying? I understand why he didn't tell Danny the truth.

How is a seven-year-old suppose to understand something like that? After losing the only mother he ever has known? Nearly dying and being tortured? And after his aunt already attack him?

At that age, in those circumstances, it would've not been a good idea at all to tell him the truth. It was for his protection, but also, the ghost world would've fallen apart if Spectra ever got the throne.

Vlad made the best choices for both his son and his world. And it's a lot easier to believe what he said then the truth because no one would believe it anyway.

Danny is still the sum of everything. The people who love him, his family, his friends, even the people who don't understand him. He is the sum of his feelings, emotions, thoughts, and experience, good and bad.

And as they say, any dog can have a pup, but not everyone can be a parent.

And Danny is Vlad and Desiree's son in all the ways that truly matter.

And based on the show itself, I'm reasonably confident that Maddie and Jack always shooting at their child show they can't accept them, and he's in fear of his life.

So, in a nutshell, Vlad is the only one who can take care of him.

So yes, Danny is the Ghost Prince, and he's Vlad's son as much as he Jack and Maddie's child.

But in the end, whenever you reach the end of this story, I don't think Danny would ever stop seeing Vlad as his father and Desiree as his mother.

Life is a mystery, and so is fate and destiny.

So, in the end? I think he'll make a worthy king.

So I can't wait to read the end, and I'll continue to reread my favorite parts till then.

Again this is one of the best damn stories I've ever read. I've done my own fanart for it. I drew some song pictures to it. Play your part from MLP and Queen Reprise from Prince of Egypt.

I found both songs fit this story. And I've done a few other fanarts.

So you have made a significant impact on me with this story, and I love it so much! I'm never going to get bored with this!

So again, keep up the excellent work, and with so many chapters, I have got a lot I can say whenever its on my mind.

Makes sense for Vlad and Danny in a duet at this point.

[VARIAN]
(spoken)
Cassandra, you're angry, I get it. Believe me, I know what it's like, but you are making a mistake!

(sung)
The path of hate is a dangerous track
You take one step, and it's hard to turn back
It pulls you along, and though it seems wrong
It feels right

Don't you see
This path you're on leaves a permanent mark
It feels good at first, then it slowly turns dark
With each passing day, you're further astray from the light

Suddenly
You lose your way and lose the thread
Lose your cool and lose your head
Every loss is harder to excuse

Then you'll see
You'll lose your faith and lose your soul
Till you lose complete control
And realize there's nothing left to lose
Nothing left to lose

What can I say but thank you.
I discovered this story in August, via some tumblr fan art. I started reading it before bed each night and was hooked.
It’s been slow going, only about half a chapter a night, if even that, but tonight I finally am caught up.
I’m sad that it seems updates are slow, but I glanced at the notes from Endgame and it seems that life happens. I do truly hope you update this story again someday. I’ve been a DP fan for over ten years and will be for the rest of my life, so rest assured when you update this, I will read it.
As for the story itself, it is one of the few AU stories I’ve read that is so believable I want to see a movie or show for it. Or heck even fan fiction for this fan fiction! The characters are so well developed and you have truly taken the time to build the arcs. Each chapter kept me engaged and I was constantly wondering how things would tie in later.
Thank you for giving this story to me and everyone. It has been a wonderful adventure the last 6 months.
I hope all is well.
You reader - Lisa

I usually have a knack for picking songs perfect for shows and fandoms. And I think I've it pretty well when it comes to fanfics too. Considering I do mental amvs in my head as I can't make real videos. But I think this song which I hope you heard really embraces the theme of when Vlad and Danny are Father and Son.

[Sunset Shimmer]
Power
Was all I desired (I desired, I desired)
But all that grew inside me
Was the darkness I acquired
When I began to fall
And I lost the path ahead
That's when your friendship found me
And it lifted me instead
Like a phoenix burning bright
In the sky
I'll show there's another side to me
You can't deny
I may not know what the future holds
But hear me when I say
That my past does not define me
'Cause my past is not today
Ambition
Is what I believed
Would be the only way
To set me free
But when it disappeared
And I found myself alone
That's when you came and got me
And it felt like I was home
Like a phoenix burning bright
In the sky
I'll show there's another side to me
You can't deny
I may not know what the future holds
But hear me when I say
That my past does not define me
'Cause my past is not today

I love this story.
Will Danni be in this fic? Will Dan appear in this fic?
I would like to see Dan fight everyone or even Pariah Dark or worst: team with him. He could free him from his jail.

Now that I think about it, ghosts, Vlad and his company included, probably should be talking in ghost language most of the time otherwise it wouldn't be first language of their children. Children pick up on language that's talked around them since their first days. Besides for first language to maintain being first language it has to be the most practiced one.
So, yeah, if you didn't notice yet i have a gift for picking up on issues with logic in stories I read and others are not the only ones annoyed by this fact.
Okay, coughed up that hairball of a rant. Now back onto the story!

If two ghosts together can create only one child then you get to a point where there are no more ghosts that can form a child. Such population is bound to go extinct. For a population of ghosts capable to have children to keep at steady level a pair of ghosts would have to be able to form two children and then still the population could decline due to untimely deaths.
So yeah, with such set up of ghost race's reproduction the race is bound to go extinct. Imagine a family tree with only one child from two parents. It eventually reaches one last child.
Okay, coughed up that hairball of a logistics rant. Back onto the story!

[ELSA]
Every inch of me is trembling
But not from the cold
Something is familiar
Like a dream I can reach but not quite hold
I can sense you there
Like a friend I’ve always known
I’m arriving
And it feels like I am home

I have always been a fortress
Cold secrets deep inside
You have secrets, too
But you don’t have to hide

Show yourself
I’m dying to meet you
Show yourself
It’s your turn
Are you the one I’ve been looking for
All of my life?
Show yourself
I’m ready to learn

Ah ah ah ah

[SIREN]
Ah ah ah ah ah

[ELSA]
I’ve never felt so certain
All my life I’ve been torn
But I’m here for a reason
Could it be the reason I was born?
I have always been so different
Normal rules did not apply
Is this the day?
Are you the way
I finally find out why?

Show yourself
I’m no longer trembling
Here I am
I’ve come so far
You are the answer I’ve waited for
All of my life
Oh, show yourself
Let me see who you are

Come to me now
Open your door
Don’t make me wait
One moment more
Oh, come to me now
Open your door
Don’t make me wait
One moment more

[Chorus]
Where the north wind meets the sea

[IDUNA]
Ah ah ah ah

[Chorus]
There’s a river

[IDUNA]
Ah ah ah ah

[Chorus]
Full of memory

[IDUNA]
Come, my darling, homeward bound

[ELSA]
I am found

[ELSA & IDUNA]
Show yourself
Step into the power
Throw yourself
Into something new

[IDUNA & Chorus]
You are the one you’ve been waiting for

[ELSA]
All of my life

[Chorus]
All of your life

[ELSA]
Oh, show yourself

[Chorus]
Ah ah ah

[ELSA]
Ah ah ah ah

[Chorus]
Ah ah ah ah

[ELSA]
Ah ah ah ah

[Chorus]
Ah ah ah ah

[ELSA]
Ah ah ah ah

I've seen dark before
But not like this
This is cold
This is empty
This is numb
The life I knew is over
The light's are out
Hello, darkness
I'm ready to succumb

I follow you around
I always have
But you've gone to a place I cannot find
This grief has a gravity
It pulls me down
But a tiny voice whispers in my mind
You are lost, hope is gone
But you must go on
And do the next right thing

Can there be a day beyond this night?
I don't know anymore what is true
I can't find my direction, I'm all alone
The only star that guided me was you
How to rise from the floor
When it's not you I'm rising for?
Just do the next right thing
Take a step, step again
It is all that I can to do
The next right thing

I won't look too far ahead
It's too much for me to take
But break it down to this next breath
This next step
This next choice is one that I can make

So I'll walk through this night
Stumbling blindly toward the light
And do the next right thing
And with the dawn, what comes then?
When it's clear that everything will never be the same again
Then I'll make the choice
To hear that voice
And do the next right thing