*UPDATE NOVEMBER 13th 2017, READ UPDATE AT BOTTOM IF CONFUSED ABOTU NEW UPDATE*

Hello my fellow Authors and Readers of FanFiction. Okay serious and important now; I will be talking and giving some more detail about my absence in the outro as I usually do with my stuff because I want to let you get to the story; but there are things I need to address because I've been gone a while; things have been happening and I think this story if not all my stories will be effected; so please read the outro; I'm sorry that this chapter is a little short but I figured a small update is better then another month with no update; Plus I do owe it to you to know why there hasn't been an update so here you go; I hope you like it and please read my outro so you know what's going on.

Chapter XXXIII: Our Only Hope

Danielle felt the soft, fuzzy feeling of the covers brush across her face as she turned in her bed. She slowly opened her eyes; he room a dark, blur. She felt the crusty discharge from her eyes break off as they opened and she let couldn't help but let out a small but satisfying yawn as she began to wake up. She sat up in bed as the rest of her body started to wake up; ready to start the day. She wiped the discharge from her eyes and spread her arms out into a stretch. She hoped out of bed and started to head for the door when her mind started up and realized something; she had just woken up.

It was obvious that she had just woken up form sleep but the odd thing was it was her that did it; on her own. Usually it was her father that woke her up so she could get to school; otherwise he'd let her sleep until she got up. It wasn't a Saturday or Sunday so she knew she had school; so why didn't her father wake her up. Maybe she was just up early; she didn't have a clock in her room; her parents have thought about getting her one but she didn't know what time it was. Here in her father's ghost lair; well actually it was really more of her room; she was the one who spent the most time in it. Regardless in her room there were no windows to outside and just the basic amount of furniture for living so when she was in it she didn't have any idea what time it was. If she was up early then she should probably be quiet when she left just in case her dad was still sleeping.

Danielle opened the door that lead to her father's room and opened it slowly and carefully. When she exited the first thing she noticed were the blinds was open; letting a small amount of light in and that her father's bed was empty. Danielle looked outside first; it wasn't dark; but it was a cloudy day; the entire sky was grey and the edges of the window were frosted. But it was defiantly day; you could tell the sun was up behind the blanket of grey and Danielle looked over at her father's clock; it was twelve minutes past nine. Now Danielle was really confused; school would have started already. Her dad wasn't in his bed so he was somewhere else; but why didn't he wake her up for school. Danielle decided that for now she should just go about her day like she would; starting with breakfast.

Danielle carefully opened the door to her father's room and looked out; listening for any signs of life in the house. She had to be careful; by now her grandparents would be up and they still didn't know about her; or her father's secrets. Danielle figured that would end soon; with her sibling coming soon it was obvious that her father couldn't hide his secret from his family for long; she hoped everything would turn out fine and she could actually start to hang out and do things with her grandparents. However as she listened she found the house surprisingly quiet. Normally she could hear her grandfather shouting something about ghosts or a loud noise from the lab; but today there was nothing; there was nothing but silence. Danielle still used caution but picked up her speed a little as she exited the room and started to make her way down the stairs to the kitchen; it seemed the only sounds in the house where her small footsteps on the stairs; letting out small patted creaks.

Danielle reached the kitchen and figured she have something simple and quiet today. Her parents had been showing her how to make some food like toast; cereal and pop tarts. Danielle figured cereal would be good for today. She made her way to where the cereal was held and floated up to reach it. Normally she would just climb the up the counter like a monkey; but her parents has tried to stop her from doing that and she didn't want to make any noise. She grabbed the box and floated back down to the ground as she started to pour; she had just the cereal; she tried it with milk once and found it turned the cereal soggy and it didn't taste good. It was only then did she realize just how quiet it was; when she heard the sound of the cereal clanking against the bowl she was pouring it into did she realize the lack of sound.

There was hardly any sound in at all; now normally that would bother much people; after all sometimes a quiet morning is what people like to wake up to but it was the fact that it was too quiet. Except for her there was no sign or sound that there was anything else alive in the house; there wasn't even the sound of cars driving by on the street; just a slight wind and an occasional bird cawing or chirping. Danielle stopped pouring the cereal; there was something wrong. Danielle placed the box of cereal down and started to make her way to the front door. The first thing she noticed was that it was locked shut for the night; that could mean tow things; either everyone was still inside the house and they haven't left yet; or everybody, including her grandparents have left and they've locked up so nobody could break in. However the last one didn't seem likely; if her father or even Aunt Jazz knew they were going to be gone when they woke up they would have left her a note or something. Danielle decided to take a look outside to see if she could get any more ideas on why it was so quiet.

She unlocked the door and opened it to reveal outside; a chill breeze through into the room. Danielle walked out onto the front steps of Fenton Works and looked around. It must have snowed in the night because a light patch of it now covered the ground. Danielle couldn't help but sigh; there went the plan to have a family picnic later; who would want to picnic in the cold snow. The sky was still a solid grey blob and only a small amount of light was coming through; there was an occasional bird call but other then that; nothing. Now Danielle was starting to worry that something was going on; first of all there was no sign or sound of anybody in town. There was nobody walking on the sidewalk or driving through on cars. All the cars from the Fenton's neighbours; or at least the few brave souls who were; they're cars were all still parked and covered in a blanket of snow. The last thing she noticed was the snow; it was truly like a blanket; completely untouched; no tire tracks; no footprints and no sign of any snowplows.

"Hello?" Danielle called out.

Danielle could have sworn her own call echoed; she waited a minute but there was no response. Something was wrong; something was going on Danielle knew it. She retreated back into the house and closed the door; locking it again. She needed to find out what was going on. Maybe her dad left something in his room for her; anything that could give her a clue to where he was or what was going on. Danielle shot up the stairs; no longer caring about sound and darted back into her father's room. It was also then that she noticed it was a mess. Usually that would not be a thing to notice; she and even her father at times admits that he could do better at keeping his room clean; but at least he didn't leave dirty dishes or underwear lying around. But today it was different; it was almost like there had been a struggle or a fight right here. Danielle wondered how she missed it the first time. She probably missed it the first time because she had just gotten up and was more concerned about knowing the time and if her father was here. She started to look around until she noticed something as she turned to look at the closet. There was a piece of paper lying on the ground in front of the entrance to her father's...no her room.

Danielle bent down to pick the piece of paper up. The paper was lying on the floor in front of it and it made her wonder why she didn't see it right away. Its bleached color made it stick out in contrast to the dark floor; maybe; like the state of her father's room; she was to tired or drowsy to notice it. She picked it up and saw that there was some writing on it; it was messy; like it was written in haste. Danielle figured it must be some of her father's homework that must have fallen from his desk where he did his school work. She was about to put it back when she noticed her name at that start of the paper; and she found herself reading the rest of it.

Danielle listen I don't have much time to write this so I'll be quick and to the point. Nocturne the ghost of dreams and sleep has returned to take his revenge on me and the town. He gets his power from people's dreams; the more they dream the more power he gets. He places these helmets on people so they are kept in an endless dream cycle. Don't try to rip them off or phase them off to you'll get a nasty shock. The only way to free someone from his grasp is to enter their dreams and scare them awake. Nocturne has got me; I feel myself getting sleepy and it's getting harder to write; you are Amity's only hope; go and wake up Jazz, Tucker and your mother and tell them what's going on; they'll know what to do. Be careful Danielle; Nocturne is powerful; you can do this; all you have to do is enter someone's dream and wake them up; just overshadow them; I know you can do it; help us Danielle you're our only hope...

The writing got messier and more spacious as it went on but she could still make it out until it just stopped. Danielle was shocked a ghost had managed to take down her dad and he had to leave a note for her. Danielle didn't know what to do she felt torn. Half of her was excited and happy that she could go fight a ghost and her dad trusted her to help them. True he probably didn't have a choice since he was taken down but he was still saying she was needed. But on the other hand she couldn't help but feel scared at the same time; she was going to go up against a ghost that had managed to beat her dad. Wait she didn't need to go up against him alone; if what her Dad said was true all she had to do was wake up the rest of Team Phantom.

But she didn't fully understand how do to so; her dad just said and left a brief instruction. Probably wasn't his fault; it was clear from the writing he was in a hurry so he did his best to tell her before his time was up. Apparently all she had to do was overshadow someone and she would be sent to their dreams where she could wake them up. But Danielle had never overshadowed anyone before. No wait that wasn't true; she remembered she once overshadowed Mr. Lancer to get her dad, mom and Uncle Tucker out of trouble when they first met her. But that was a long time ago and she hasn't really used it since then; even her dad barley did it. Her dad told her once that he didn't use it a lot because if he didn't like it; it was basically possession and taking someone's free will away. He would only use it when it was absolutely necessary or helpful; and even she; to an extent; agreed with him; but she would consider this one of those necessary time.

Danielle figured she should stop wasting time and made her way towards her aunt's room. She opened the door to see her aunt still lying in her bed. Her aunt Jazz looked uncomfortable; she was tossing and turning slightly with an uncomfortable or pained look on her face; she was mumbling something slightly and it looked like she was sweating. There was a large dark; metal helmet with red light attached to her head; it seemed to be the cause of her discomfort. Danielle was about to walk forward and rip the thing off Jazz when she remembered what her father said in his note; if she tried to remove it she would get a nasty shock. Danielle looked at Jazz; and delved into her own thoughts as she prepared herself for what she needed to do.

It was simple; overshadow Jazz; enter her dreams and scare her awake. Overshadow; enter dream; scare awake; overshadow; enter dream; scare awake; Danielle repeated in her head like she was memorizing a list. Danielle looked back at Jazz; she wondered how she would scare her awake in a dream; thought to be truthful Jazz looked like she was having a nightmare more than a dream. She took a deep breath; she could do this; it was simple; everybody was counting on her; the town; her family; her father; it was all on her. Danielle transformed into her ghost form; bright blue halo's bathing the room in light as she hovered into the air. She took another breath before turning her body intangible and flying into her aunt; confident and ready to save the day.

*UPDATE November 13th 2017, this section is my authors note for when this chapter was first published, since then I've gotten my life together more and a job, the authors note I was refering to at the top is for the one below, the one after Update 2017, sorry for the confusion please disrecard this note as it's more than a year old, Ireally should just get rid of it but it's still kind of the chapters as I do say some things in it, anyways it's the second one that is the updated content*

Okay; so again sorry for the short chapter; but again something is better then nothing; Okay now before I get to reviews we need to be serious. First of all I am sorry; I know I say this a lot because delays; despite my best attempts are frequent; however it has almost been or has been three months since I last updated MOAP; people have asked why and I will tell you why...life. Let me make one thing clear; I will not abandon this story; I will not; even if it takes me another ten years; which I highly doubt it will; I will finish this story; the only way it and it's sequel won't be completed is if I die and I do in fact have a plan in case that happens; the story will still get out one way or another; but I'm not planning on dying. However right now my life comes first and right now my life sucks; it's not the happiest right now and I need to take steps to make it better; I've been job searching for almost two years now; it's unfair and not right how difficult it is for me to get a job; and it's not my fault it's not like I have a criminal record or something that is preventing people from hiring me; no I'm clean; my school records and grades are greatly it's just no one has hired me in anything right now and I'm almost twenty; I need to get a job; I need to start making an income and I need to start moving on with my life; it also doesn't help that my family is not perfect either and that is also effecting me. my life has been like this for the past two years and I think it was starting to effect me because I've started to become emotionally detached to everything and gaining an uncaring attitude to stuff; I even started to loose interest in things I relished and loved doing like video games and writing. I even got to the point where I wondered if I was getting depression; I don't know much about it and I don't want to accidently offend anyone who might have it but I was concerned and decided to look into it; I don't think I do; even my doctor doesn't think so but I wanted to know because I was just not acting like myself and I didn't care that I wasn't acting like myself; I almost felt like I was falling to the dark side. However in the recent week I've felt I've gotten better; I'm playing video games again; and I was able to get this small update done. But right now my life; like school when I wrote DOAP must take priority I can't live alternating visits with my parents and brothers with no income; I'm almost twenty I need to move on with my life; writing this story is just something I do for fun on the side that other people like ready and I have given serious thoughts about this; I have thought about putting this story on hiatus until I have my life in order. But I wouldn't be happy with that; I can't control life; I don't know when I'll get a job I could have one next week or not; plus I'm starting to enjoy writing again and you love this story; so I thank you my followed; you love for this story and my work is one of the reasons why I keep writing it; for now I'm not putting it on hiatus as 'm going to get back into work at working on it a bit each day; even if it's just an hour a day; but I'm letting you know that if my life keeps going south; I will need to stop this for a time until I get back on track; however I don't feel that step is necessary yet; so I'm sorry for the huge delay; I hate that it was so long and I let you down and I'm thankful for those who stuck with me; my life is just not a happy one and I'm trying to get it back on track so there.

Another reason was I also looked over my plans for the rest of the story and I was able to get more details and ideas out of it to the point I'm confident and I have a plan for the rest of the story. I changed some things; added some things and I'm happy with where the story is going to go; I'm excited to get to writing it and I think you the fans are going to enjoy it too; so another reason was I was planning the rest of the story; I also had a bit or writer's block. The only other thing was I was actually going to include Jazz's dream in this chapter; but I got stuck. I have an idea of what I want to include in the dreams of other characters but Jazz is a little tough so I'm going to ask you the fans two questions. First of all; what do you think Jazz would be afraid of; what would be in her nightmares; the only thing I could think of was losing her little brother; I could use that but I want to know if anybody else has any ides. I also want to know if anybody has any ideas for stuff to include in the dreams. Because this time it's not a pleasant perfect dream the characters are being put through it's a nightmare and there is going to be some scary and creative stuff; I'm talking about Nightmare on Elm Street creativity; so I have some ideas planned but I'd be glad to hear yours so feel free to say them if you got them. So now I think it's time to answer reviews,

Maya Phantom: Gender can go either way; I have an idea for the appearance but it has yet to be finalize; I'll take your ideas into consideration though

gilly boy: I plan for some very creative, scary and maybe even disturbing dreams; like I said I'm planning Nightmare on Elm Street level; juts maybe not as much blood

vin: That's an interesting idea; I think it'd be amusingly creative to read; but I don't think that would work with my story; not saying it won't work at all or it's a bad idea; just not in this story

Nlresda123: So your solution is for Danny to keep Sam in his closet fro one to two years; hold on to that idea; if it hasn't been done already there's an...idea for a FanFiction

1228428: You'll have to wait and see

Kingpin: There isn't enough of those moments on this sight I feel

Inviso-Al: Those questions...actually those questions will be answered next time

FowlFanKid13: When I finish Mother of a Phantom I'm going to take a big long break to plan and write a good chunk of Father of a Phantom before I start posting it; I am not going to make the same mistake I did with Mother of a Phantom; I wanted to post it for Danny Phantom's 10th Anniversary; I needed more time to plan and write so that mistake won't be happening again; I can't give you and idea or time yet.

The Keeper of Worlds: I plan too

Awesomenesss-sama: I'll try not to; but for some reason whenever it get's near Christmas or I'm writing something about Christmas I just want to put stuff in rhyme; maybe I'm a poet and don't know it; I make a rhyme every time.

jim89: Hah yeah; Sam's Grandmother has Mafia ties...wow that actually makes a little sense. I don't know about Danny creating his own holiday but yeah I plan to explore his scrooge like attitude to Christmas; but yeah I love reading your reviews and thoughts

Hakken-Senshi: I know grammar is like my one writing weakness, I'm working on it

Ghostboy225: My advice; find an idea you like; or something you've always wanted to read and go with that; that's how I started DOAP; it's the story I always wanted to read so I took it into my own hands and now it's one of the most popular Danny Phantom Fanfic of all time; go for that; secondly don't write to much try to space it out; maybe an hour a day that way seven hours a week are dedicated to a story; don't try to cram a whole chapter in all day that could lead to writer block; of course reviews and fans are also a good motivator but write for your own enjoyment too; in fact those things sometimes even help. I don't mind getting a bad review if the reviewer explains what they didn't like in detail; then I can take it into advisement and use it to improve my writing; just have fun and write what you want to that's my advice to you.

The Hollow Lunar Fang: Yeah Nocturne is tough and difficult when it comes for motivation; I really only included him because of hat he can do and what I can write; despite having almost no backstory he can lend himself to some interesting ideas. But yeah the next few chapters will focus on Danielle a lot; which is something I and a lot of other people like and it has been a while. With Nocturne; I'll think and maybe try to do something with his character but at the moment I'm more concerned at making the chapters in general and keeping them interesting; I know this chapter doesn't give you a lot to work with for a review but I would love to hear any ideas you have on what I can include in people's nightmares; I do have ideas but a second(or in case of FanFiction) hundreds of opinions don't hurt. Also about my Star Wars crossover; Rebels isn't EU; it's canon but I get what you're saying and understand; still It would be nice to hear your thoughts on it but I won't force you and yeah I've been thinking about going back and fixing Daughter of a Phantom; but right now I'm more concerned about getting back to my old self and writing this story.

So yeah there you go; again I'm sorry for the long delay and the short chapter but yeah I'm trying to get my life together; I don't know when the next chapter will be out but I can promise you it will be longer then this and it will have nightmares in them; but again can't give you and idea of the date; I hope it's soon but don't hold me to that; I thank you all for your patience support and love; I hate that I keep letting you down; so as always please if you haven't already please favorite and follow this story and please everybody review; let me know what you think; until next time...

The Storymaster1000: I'm Not Dead Yet!

UPDATE: NOVEMBER 13th 2017.

I apoligize from the bottom of my heart if some of you thought there was an update at long last but sadly there isn't, I hate myself for doing it but I don't really have much of a choice so I'm sorry but hear me out because here's what's going on. So in the past few weeks a guest has been sending me reviews and messages saying that I'm copywriting and having content I shouldn't have by FanFiction polices. Such content include text word for word of a a product and chapters with no real reason to the story like MOAP chapter 35 which was just an update telling you all what was going on with updates. Well seeings as this guest won't leave me alone and I have no real proof that they're all the same guy/gal I felt I need to address them. Rereading the terms and policy of Fanfiction I can agree to some points like I don't need a chapter simply being a message saying what's happening in my life or that a sequel is posted so I decided that I may as well remove those it's no bigy. But then by removing the sequel annocuncment from DOAP it updated it instead. Apperantly replaceing a chapter with an updated one dosne't count as an update but removing an entire chapter will. So I had decided to remove the authors note from MOAP but when it became clear that would count as an update I knew that if it said I updated with no real chapter it would tick a lot of you off as I had planned to just replace chapter 35 with the real one when it was ready. But now I feel I have no choice as the guest won't leave me alone about this stuff so just to be safe I decided to remove it anyway.

Now I know alot of you are ticked with me...understandable so to make up for it due to this need and action I will change my plan. I had planned to start releasing the chapters once the majority of them were done so there would be no delays and life was just getting in the way. So because it said I updated when I didn't I will go over the next chapter and I will release the next single chapter within the next 3 weeks, I can't give you a date as there are some things I need to do but I will focus on getting it done because some of you will be angry, at the very least you will have one new chapter before the end of 2017. So again sorry about this but when my story is threatned on being taken down I don't want to risk it as I'm proud of it. One thing they pointed out was song lyrics I used to have in some chapters, again I can see the point there as I actually wrote the song down and it wasn't really needed so I removed those which seemed fair.

Another thing is that apperantly Chapter III: A New Amity has copyright by reusing the Danny vs Technus fight from Phantom Planet. First of all no one on this site ever owns anything they write so this might come off as a big shock but I don't own Danny Phantom. Second yes it's the same scene but I've said my stories happen in place of Phantom Planet and I wanted to show that by having Technus attack the Electronic store like he did in the episode as shwoing the same event happened but because of Vlad's defeat in DOAP there was no fight in space and nothing to send the Disasteroid to Earth. I can see how some might think it's copyright but heres the thing I didn't intednt to "steal" but pay homage by having it present. Second I make no money off this, all I get are words of encuragment, criticsim and great job. If I was making money off of this or telling people that I own Danny Phantom then it would be copyright infringment. Third if you enforced this with every story that takes a scene from something then half of Fanfiction would be taken down. Do you know how many stories are out there that rewrite scenes or have lines or scenes from the source they are from. Some people see it as fun and again they arn't making money off of them. I see the copyright rule as being more of a point of an author using text from an actual published book source or another authors fanfiction and passing it off or claming it to be theirs. Nobody owns anything and if you enforced that policy to the extreme by saying that my story is to be taking down because I have one scene that's word for word then more than half of Fanfiction should be taken down aswell because I can name thousands, fricking thousands that do the same thing it's Fanfiction no one gives a frick we don't make money we do it because it's fun.

But to the guest who keeps sending me messages here's what going to happen, one don't send me a message as a guest again if you want to talk to me take the time to login or make an account if you don't have one so I can send you a PM explaining all of this and hear your reasons behind it. Also if you still think that my story is copywriting then one of two things. I agree with your point that it dosen't really fit with my story so give me a couple days and I'll rewrite to my current level. I'll need some time to think up an alternative fight and to write it out especily since I'm in no creative mood now and I have a busy day tomorrow with personal things and work.

One last thing and I hate doing this but I need to make it known, if my stories ever do get taken down...I WILL NOT PUT THEM BACK UP. I'm sorry if that upsets or scares you but these are my stories and if they don't fit with Fanfiction's policy then there is no point in putting them back up and it would free up a portion of my life if I didn't write Fanfiction so again no point in writing it if it isn't aloud to be seen. Again I know thousands of stories that do what I've done and yet I don't see them getting called out on it so maybe my guest is just an irritating internet troll trying to scare me to change stuff. But on the other hand they do have a point on some things and with my stories I don't want to risk it so here is what I'm doing.

1. I'm removing the author's note from MOAP which is Chapter 35 all it is is saying what's going on with my life, the status of updates and things coming up it's not story so not needed I can agree with that, the site will sadly count the removal of the chapter as an update when it's really not and for that I'm sorry

2. I'll be changing the first part of the fight between Danny and Technus in Cahpter III: A New Amity so it's not the scene from Phantom Planet within the next few days as again I'm not in the creative mood right now and I'm too busy tomorrow

3. I'll focus my efforts on finishing and cleaning up the next chapter of MOAP and hopefully have it posted sometime in the next 3 weeks, deffinetly before the end of 2017 in order to appease and apoligze to any of you who thought this was an update when really it's not. But do not get the idea that threatning to take my story down is a tactic to make me write faster if this keeps happening I'll just leave and stop writing as I don't have the time or patience to get into it, and I really don't want to do that so don't test me

So yeah I'm probably just overreacting and being parinoid to an internet troll but really why take the chance, I'm proud of my stories, partically DOAP and MOAP and I'm overjoyed that you all like them but if they can be taken down then I'd rather not take the chance, also to the guest, in future you will be an offical member of Fanfiction so we can discuss the issue or I will outright delete your message and again if my stories are taken down they will not, I repeat, will not be going back up. If my account is suspended I will not attempt to rejoin. But I do belive that some warning is issued if that ever happens. So again I'm sorry to all of you who thought this was an update, sadly it's not. If you have thoughts feel free to share them.

The Storymaster1000.