Season 1 Episode 22

Origins: Part 2

"Haunting!"

Tina: Previously on Dani Phantom…

Dani Fenton woke up from her bed before she stretched her arms as she yawned tiredly. "First day of school." She mumbled.

In the lab basement, Dani watched in awe as her parents finished building the Fenton Ghost Portal. "It's called the Fenton Ghost Portal: it allows ghosts to enter our world and allows us to enter their world called the Ghost Zone." Jackie explained to her daughter.

Dani and her best friends, Tina Foley and Sam Manson, walked up to Casper High for their first freshman year together with backpacks on their backs and their hands on the straps. "This is it, guys! Once we step through those doors, our lives will change forever." Tina said excitedly to her friends, looking very confident.

In class, someone threw a crumpled paper ball at Dani's head, making her turn around as she glared and she heard some cheerleaders snickering. "I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life being labeled as the daughter of a couple of ghost hunters who are obsessed with ghosts! And my whole life is sitting on the sidelines! I wish there was something I could do, something so much more than this." Dani said out loud to her friends.

"If it isn't Fentina of the freaks." Daph Baxter said mockingly before she shoved Dani to the floor roughly as she landed with a grunt. The cheerleader laughed rudely as she walked away, leaving Dani glaring angrily at her arch-rival.

Back in the Fenton Works lab, Sam walked in front of the inactive portal with the camera in his hands. "Come on, Dani! A Ghost Zone? Aren't you curious? You gotta check it out." He said to Dani somewhat excitedly.

"You know what? You're right. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of that portal?" Dani asked as she slipped into her white jumpsuit with a black collar, belt, elbow-length gloves, and thigh-high boots before she walked into the portal by herself.

Dani then accidentally pressed the 'ON' button and activated the portal in an instant as she shrieked loudly in agony while her molecules began to rearrange inside her body and ectoplasm coated over her DNA. Plus, her hair became white, her headband became black, her jumpsuit inverted colors, and even her eyes became neon green.

Back at Casper High School the next day, Dani was evading Daph's blows as she dodges with unexpected, yet great reflexes until she grabbed her wrist and squeezed it tightly before she punched the cheerleader several feet away.

"Dani's never been the same since that night. Something's wrong with her and it clearly had something to do with the accident." Sam said to Tina with concern as they walked down the hallway.

"What's happening to me?" Dani asked herself in fear. She saw her eyes flicker from blue to green briefly in the girls' bathroom and walked down the hall as her arm flickered invisibly.

She changed into her new form she received during her accident as she flew around town and ends up at Casper High as she flew straight into a janitor's closet with a grunt while crashing was heard. Sam opened the door, revealing a terrified Dani with cleaning equipment toppled on top of her, and laying upside down, hyperventilating.

"Are you alright, Dani? You look like you've seen a ghost." Tina said.

"Maybe that's because I am one!" Dani exclaimed, finally realizing what's been happening to her. That the lab accident she had earlier has transformed her into a ghost.

Theme Song:

(She's a Phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

A kid whose life has changed
Molecules rearranged
Ghost are so deranged

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

Spirits don't stand a chance
Senses all enhanced
Power so advanced

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

Unleashing all the freaks
Until her whole town screams
Now everyone you beat

(She's a Phantom, she's a Phantom)

Fly right through the wall
You can't see her at all
If they are big, or small, or tall

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

At the park after school that day Dani unwillingly had a crazy flight of her life, the trio have gone there to discuss what was going on with Dani, but she finally realized that after the lab accident, she was not entirely human anymore, but that it has transformed her into a half-human, half-ghost hybrid, something that no one ever knew before could even exist. Tina and Sam were talking with each other while Dani looked away from them, but was listening to them very clearly while she glared at nothing in particular with her hands on her hips.

"So when Dani accidentally activated the ghost portal with her caught inside, it rearranged her molecules with pure ecto-energy, and ectoplasm must've coated with her human DNA as they began to merge together overnight, transforming her into a half-ghost." Tina explained when she finally got the picture. "Along with that, she's also gained ghost powers. She can fly, pass through solid objects, turn invisible to the naked eye...who knows how many more powers she has!"

"This is all your fault, Sam." Dani said vexedly, not even looking at them as she continued to glare.

He looked offended when he turned to Dani and scowled. "My fault? How is this all my fault?" He demanded.

She finally turned around to her friends, but mostly to Sam before she rolled her eyes sarcastically. "You just had to urge me to walk into that stupid portal, didn't you?"

Sam was about to say something back at her, but then made a face in realization that she was right: he was the one who made her enter that portal in the first place, and because of that, she has been changed into a half-ghost, probably for the rest of her life.

"Look, Dani, I'm sorry, but it couldn't be all bad. Just tell me, are you gonna be alright?"

"No! I'm never gonna be fine!" Dani snapped with overwhelming anger. "Do you know why? Because being invisible in school and coming from a family of ghost hunters is one thing, but no one will accept me now that I'm a freak! No one would want to bare to see me as a ghost!"

She was about to storm away until Sam grabbed her shoulder and she turned back around to face him as she gave him a look. "Look, Dani, I know a ton of people who'd accept you. Take me and Tina for instance, we don't think you're a freak, we think you're unique. Right, Tina?"

"Yeah, totally. We will always have your back, ghost or not." Tina said as she stood next to Sam while they both smiled at her.

Dani lost her glare as she sighed. "Look, guys, I get sunburned easily, I just started freshman year, and we've been already lowered to the outcast scale in just one day, I'm already flunking math, my parents are obsessive ghost hunters, and my brother's a total know-at-all." Sam and Tina smiles began to drop when she spoke these negative traits about herself. "I have problems, guys, and I don't need this one...I need just need some time to myself right now." And that with, she walked away from her friends, still looking completely overwhelmed about today while she held onto her head.

"Well, that went well." Tina said as she and Sam gave each other looks of pity for their best friend.

Later on, Dani returned to Fenton Works as she walked into her house with a miserable look. She saw older brother, James, reading a book like he usually did every single day, and both of her parents were working on yet another invention in the living room. They both seemed to have let the Fenton Portal thing go, but they didn't seemed to realize that they have inserted 'ON' and 'OFF' buttons inside the portal, which was what caused the accident that transformed Dani into half-ghost.

"Hi, Dani, how was school today?" Matt asked, but then his smile dropped when he noticed his daughter's expression. "Danielle? Is everything okay?"

"No, not really, but I don't want to talk about it right now." Dani said before she ran up the stairs as her folks exchanged confused looks.

Dani walked into her room before she plopped herself onto her bed as she sobbed on her pillow softly. She was still completely overwhelmed and terrified that she has been transformed into something she considered an urban myth, and she didn't know what to do.

Dani (Voiceover):

I know what you're all thinking, that I never told my family about what happened, because they're ghost hunters and I'm half-ghost. You think it's easy telling your ghost hunting parents that you've become something they're been trying to hunt for years? I was also afraid of their reactions, because I don't know what to expect, and my mind was just overloaded with questions that I wanted answered. Why me? Why did I have to walk into the portal? It should've killed me, but it didn't. I still felt like me, but I also felt like there was someone else in me. And after my little 'flying experience', it just scared me half to death, and I didn't want to think about ghosts anymore.

Dani heard her phone ringing, but she didn't reach out to answer when she heard it ring. "This is Dani Fenton, leave a message." She heard her voicemail say.

"Hey, Dani, it's me." Sam's voice said through the phone, and she wasn't surprised about why he was trying to call her. "I know you're terrified right now, but...we have to talk about this sooner or later. I'm sorry about what happened, I didn't know it would hurt you and...you know, but I'm just happy you're still okay. Look, can you meet me and Tina at the Nasty Burger tomorrow after school? We really need to talk about this with you. Just call me if you want to talk, because you still have me and Tina. I'll see you tomorrow...hopefully." He first sounded desperate to talk to Dani, like he really wanted to talk to her, but in his last sentence, he sounded more...sad.

Of course you've all been wondering, I didn't want show up at the restaurant to meet with Sam and Tina, because I felt like I was just gonna keep putting them in danger because of these new 'abilities'.

Dani buried her face under her pillow again as she began to sob softly.

Well, the fun also started when Baxter ratted me out for 'injuring the cheerleading captain of the squad', and her parents didn't exactly take it too lightly.

The next day at Casper High, after hearing what happened to Daph Baxter when Dani punched her hard with abnormal strength, Lancer arranged a meeting with Matt Fenton and even Daph's own parents. James was also present and Daph, who had an ice pack on her stomach because of her aching tummy from Dani's rough blow she pulled on her the other day during their fight, she was smirking at her arch-rival, very pleased by how things were turning out for her.

"Fighting on school property, dropping beakers that cost a quarter of the whole class credit, injuring the cheerleading captain...need I go on?" Lancer listed off.

"That little brat harmed my little girl, I suggest you suspend her from school!" Mrs. Baxter exclaimed as she pointed accusingly at Dani, who was looking down at the floor the whole time in shame.

James's eyes went wide when he heard the woman angrily suggest this selfish proposition. "What?! NO! She needs a good educational system. And besides, she just needs time adjusting to her new high school career, and the last thing she needs is to flunk out of school without a future." He said defensively, trying to protect his own daughter from suspension from just having only two days of school.

"Total confidence builder." Dani muttered sarcastically under her breath as she rolled her eyes.

"Mr. Fenton, what do you propose?" Lancer asked.

"I would be certainly surprised if Dani would even hurt a fly, but I wouldn't want to be too rough on her. She's just going through a lot changes, Mr. Lancer, and this is her first week at high school, and she just needs time to adjust." Matt said defensively.

"Oh, please, that what you would say, huh, crackpot?" Mrs. Baxter snapped rudely with her arms crossed. "Look at what your daughter has done to mine." She pointed her thumb at Daph. "She can't even do a backflip while she cheers!"

Matt glared at this spoiled woman. "And it's just a bruise, she'll heal, and it's not like Dani meant to, it was probably just self defense."

Mrs. Baxter scoffed like he was just talking nonsense and then turned her head away in disdain. "Self-defense, I taught my daughter how to just in case someone threatens her." Daph smirked behind her mother's back, since she has been mostly using her self-defense mostly for personal pleasure and bullying.

"Very well, I won't recommend suspending her nor giving her a detention, but I am going to give you all a warning." Lancer said before he then turned his attention directly to Dani. "Ms. Fenton, is there anything you will like to add?"

Dani looked up and saw everyone staring at her. Daph and her parents were glaring at her angrily for her punching her, her older brother and father stared at her pitifully. She didn't know if she had something to say to them, like how she should tell them that she has ghost powers and everything she did was all out of the ordinary. But she thought that she would go from a geek to a freak at school, so she decided to answer while she looked down at the floor.

I've done the safest thing any 'freak' would say at a time like this.

"No." She muttered half to herself with her eyes closed in somewhat shame.

This is gonna make me sound like I'm being very selfish again, but I began distancing myself from all of my friends and family. I know Sam was the one who urged me to go into the portal in the first place, but I just didn't want to hear about the word 'ghost' anymore. I guess that only ended up making both him and Tina even more worried about me, and I wanted to handle this on my own first. And in the month I've had these new ghost powers...they didn't really help me with my high school problems at all.

Weeks have passed since Dani's lab accident and Lancer's conference with her father, and she has been freaking out most of the time every time her intangibility activated at the wrong times and she dropped beakers at school and so Mr. Lancer has finally decided to ban her from handling fragile school property for the rest of the year. Daph also seemed to have gotten over the fact that Dani managed to beat her in a fight for the first time, since she just saw it as beginner's luck; Dani has also lost all of her reflexes and strength after her transformation power was revealed, which weakened her use of those handy abilities, and Daph went back to bullying her into shoving her to the ground and shoving her into her locker. She was still been treated like the invisible person everyone believed she is (to Dani, it sounded almost literally, since she can technically turn herself invisible).

"There's more where that came from, Fenton." Daph said, smirking at Dani as she picked up her books from the floor and gets side-kicked on the side by Daph as she laughed. "What's wrong, have things been slipping through your fingers this month?" And she walked down the hallway with her best friend, Kwyn, snickering selfishly.

Dani glared at her briefly, but then she became miserable again as she walked down the hallway. She then ran into Sam before they both looked at each other, but Sam saw a sad look on Dani's face as a tear leaked from her cheek and she just walked right past him without looking back at him.

Sam continued making a look of regret, because of the fact that he was the one who was responsible for convincing Dani to go into the Fenton Ghost Portal that nearly could have done something bad to her than this, and because of that, she now viewed herself as a freak people kept on saying she was. He wished he could do something to help her, because she has suffered enough as it is.

I know it was rude of me of distancing myself from my own friends again, but I was just too caught up on my new 'abilities' that I just wanted to think to myself. My friends would only try to pursue me into doing something with them, so I just wanted to stay away from them until they wouldn't say the word 'ghost' anymore. I just wanted to be normal again, but I didn't think I was ever going to be normal again. In fact...I felt like I didn't even know who I was anymore.

Like Dani has been doing for the past weeks, she still didn't show up at the Nasty Burger again as Sam and Tina ate at their favorite hangout. They were both still concerned about their friend, and they were even more concerned that Dani was still distancing herself from her own best friends.

"I can't even describe how terrible I feel right now." Sam murmured as he played with his salad with his spork. "It's been almost a month now and not only does Dani have almost any control of her powers, she's been banned from handle fragile school property and she's scared out of her mind."

"Not ta mention she's been avoiding us lately." Tina added, looking a little offended by the fact. "Of course, Dani just needs some time alone to think for herself. She's been through alot this month and this is kind of an unexpected change she has to go through, probably for the rest of her life."

"I know, but I just want to do something to help her. She can barely control her new powers, and if people find out about her, they'll just want unexplained answers, maybe even dissect her or use her as a guinea pig. If I were her, I wouldn't want to imagine being cut open for personal studies. I'm not surprised on why she hasn't spoken to her folks about it yet."

"I can understand that, but we're the only ones she trusts with this big secret, if there's at least two people who she wants to talk to, it's us. Right now, let's just let her deal with this on her own."

"Yeah, but she's our friend, she'll need help from someone." Sam then took a bite out of his salad and chewed on it, and he suddenly perked with wide eyes and spat out his salad in disgust. "Okay, who made this salad raw?!" Tina shrugged in confusion with blank eyes. Sam sat up and walked away shouting to an employee. "I want my money back!"

After Sam got his money back, he left the Nasty Burger to find Dani and talk to her himself. Luckily for him, he finally managed to find his now half-ghost best friend walking down the sidewalk all by herself as he quickly sprinted up to her.

"Dani, wait!" Sam called out, catching her attention when she froze her tracks and turned around with wide eyes before he stopped in front of her with a few pants. "Look, Dani...I know you're terrified about...all of these changes you're going through and you have a lot going on in your mind, but I'm always here if you need someone to talk to you. Honestly, Dani, you're very special and this could be a good kind of change if you just believe it is and fight against your fear. And you could be the heroine you've always wanted to be, you've kept on bragging that someone has to step up to the game and fight for the good and protect everyone from harm. But you can't just distance yourself from me and Tina, because you have a lot on your mind these past weeks, we've been worried sick!"

"You think I'm trying to abandon you guys?" Dani asked as she shook her head in disbelief. "I just need time to myself right now. I just...don't want to hear the word 'ghost' anymore and the stupid accident that got me into this mess in the first place! I just want to have a freaking normal life! Is that all too much to ask?"

"In life, yes, it can be."

Dani tried to ignore his answer as she continued. "And one other thing, what chance does a ghost have at becoming a heroine in some random town? Look around, nothing bad is happening! And look, just because I have these...ghost powers...it doesn't mean I'm special." Dani was about to walk away again, until Sam grabbed her shoulder and she turned back around with a small frown of her face.

Sam looked a little irritated by her always walking away from him like she has been doing for weeks. "Dani, I can't deal with this anymore! You're just avoid us like you don't even forgive us. Look, I do kind of see it was my fault to begin with, but I never meant to hurt you. You're my best friend, and I've known you since the first grade! You can't just dump your friends so you can avoid what's already been changed."

"And now you think I'm trying to dump you and Tina, too?" Tears began leaking from Dani's eyes. "Sam...I'm not mad at you. I'm just scared I might get you and Tina hurt, because of what I can do now. You and Tina will always be my best friends, and I couldn't wish for better ones...but I can't handle seeing you guys as terrified as I am." Dani walked a few steps away before she stopped and slightly turned her head with a look of sadness. "And if I hadn't forgiven you, you of all people would know that I would try to abandon you completely. Holding grudges isn't in my nature…" Dani turned around a little more to Sam as more of her tears leaked from her cheek. "...especially if it's changed my life forever." And with that happy note, she walked away from Sam.

Sam sighed as he tucked his hands into his pockets. "I guess you make a good point right there." He muttered mainly to himself sadly before he walked away a little slowly in the opposite direction with slouched shoulders.

Dani walked around the neighborhood miserably, thinking about this big change she has gone through, and she almost regretted snapping at one of her best friends. She past by some random citizens, all of them acting so normal, but even though she has acted normal, she felt like she was never going to be normal, even if she pretended.

"Hey, Dani!" A random teen greeted, and she merely waved back.

"Sup, Fenton?" Another one said before running down the sidewalk.

She watched a little girl play with her mom and dad. She got a flashback of when she was only eight years old and her brother, James, was ten and they used to play with their parents, Jackie and Matt, while they weren't worrying about ghosts. She remembered Matt would play rockets with her and then lift her in the air before they hugged each other very tightly. And her mother would give her a ruffle on the hair, and James and herself would playfully tackle each other while giggling. Those seem like the good ol' days, and Dani did miss them.

I always asked myself how my childhood seemed so normal, but as the days went on, things began changing from the life I've always wanted since I was a little girl. Now after that month, I didn't think I could ever be normal again, even if I could act normal.

But all that ended over the years as she and James grew up. Now, her parents have been more occupied by ghosts, her older brother has become more of a smart-alec and an overprotective brother to her, and Dani's become...well, an invisible she always saw herself as Dani's flashbacks ended and then she made a look of sadness before she continued her way back home.

She finally made it back to Fenton Works and walked into the kitchen. "Mom? Dad?" She called out, but got no response until she found a note on the table and read it out loud. "'Your father and I are out for dinner. Act responsibly. Love, Mom. P.S. Bring the first samples of ectoplasm into the lab, please, and there's leftovers from yesterday in case you get hungry'."

"Hey, Dani." James said as he walked down the stairs with a backpack. "I'm gonna head for the library. Don't do anything impulsive until I get back." And with that happy note, he walked out of the door and out of the house.

Dani made a look, but she did what she was told by her mother's note. After she settled the samples on the counter in the lab and was about to leave, she suddenly stopped and looked at the Fenton Ghost Portal at the end of the lab. She walked slowly to it as she looks at the yellow-and-black striped doors, and behind it was a portal to another world, the Ghost Zone.

Before the accident which gave her her powers, she once admitted she wanted to see the other side, but then after the accident...she didn't know how to feel, now that she was half-ghost now. She had a feeling most of the ghosts in that world aren't that friendly, or even have feelings with complicated morals. Out of little curiosity, she walked toward the console next to the portal, reluctantly raised her hand, pointed out her index finger and slowly pressed the 'ON' button.

The siren went off on top of the gate, alerting Dani when she rushed into front of the portal with wide eyes. The doors began to slide open, revealing a green vortex, a man-made gateway into the Ghost Zone. Wind began to act as Dani looked around in awe and fear at the same time and her hair fluttered madly. Suddenly, the portal flashed brightly as green streaks emerge from the portal, surprising her enough to fall on her back and cover her head as she screamed loudly and covered her head with her arms over her as several (but not a lot of) random ghosts flew out of the ghost portal.

When things dial down a little, Dani slowly looked around and saw no more ghosts flying out as she panted heavily. She slowly got back to her feet and continued to look around the lab, and she got a bad feeling that the ghosts were all around her house. Dani quickly grabbed a flashlight from the counter and exited the lab. She flipped on her light and aimed it shine to an old basement door with wooden steps where she and her family rarely used, other than for storage. She slowly opened the door as it creaked and shined into the dark, eerie basement. The room was full of dusty boxes, cobwebs on every corner, and a few rats squeaking out of nowhere.

Dani took a breath and cautiously walked down the stone steps and every step echoed in the room. She can almost feel her fear triggering her powers and tried to keep them in control, but unfortunately, she yelped as her leg phased through a step and she almost tripped, if she hadn't grabbed a rusty chain in a nick of time. After she turned her leg back to normal, continued down the steps, frowning a little that her emotions tend to trigger her powers against her will. She growled a little before she continued to slowly walk down the stairs

Then her expression perked when she heard moaning echoing out of nowhere as she shined her flashlight to a couple of boxes, walls, and air vents. "Hello? (Hello...Hello…)" She called into the dark room as her echo repeated. "Is someone there? (There...there…)"

She then suddenly began to shiver when a chill ran up her spine and the same blue wisp emerged from her mouth as she gasped. She heard a faint growling coming from behind, making her eyes go wide in surprise and fear. She slowly and fearfully turned around as she shook a little and shined the light. Out of nowhere, a green ghost roared in front of her.

"AHHHHH!" She screamed in surprise as she tripped to the floor.

Dani quickly got up and ran to the other side of the room, in hope of getting away, but ended up getting caught in a dead end. She pinned her back to the wall as her legs tremble at the sight of the smirking ghost, growling at her evilly.

Dani's terrified expression began to rapidly change as she clenched her eyes and finally made a look of determination. "Pull yourself together, Dani, you can stop this thing. You have the power." She told herself as she stopped shaking. She clenched her fists tightly as she tried to fight her fear of her newfound ghost powers when her eyes began to glow green. "I'M GOING GHOST!"

White rings appeared at Dani's waist and intersect her body. She transformed into her ghost form willingly and then flew into action. She grabbed the ghost and threw it straight to the wall. It at first splattered into ectoplasm and Dani smiled, but it dropped when she watched it merge back into one again. It howled and swiped its tail at her, sending her crashing into a pile of boxes as dust flew everywhere. Dani coughed as she shook some senses out of her head.

"Okay, that was cute." She groaned before she glared and charged at the ghost again.

She unintentionally became intangible and grabbed the ghost as they both phased through ceiling, into the living room, and finally outside where she shoved it to a building across from Fenton Works. Dani smiled at it again, but then suddenly got grabbed by her waist and was swung wildly in the air before getting slammed to the ground with a grunt. Although she felt pain, she was surprised she hasn't even broken a bone in her body. She looked up and saw a group of ghosts floating above her and she made a look of fear and concern.

"I'm not sticking around to get haunted like a prey dog!" Dani said nervously before she flew the opposite direction with the ghosts following at her tail.

She suddenly merged her legs into a ghostly tail which made her gain extra speed, although she was a little surprised, it wasn't her only real concern for the moment. She flew down the road of the neighborhood until she found Sam and Tina walking down the sidewalk.

"So, I'm thinking movies tomorrow after school?" Tina suggested, but Sam was focused on other problems, mainly on Dani since Tina could obviously observe when she rolled her eyes in somewhat annoyance.

He suddenly heard whooshing in the air, much to his confusion as he looked around. "Do you hear that?" Sam asked Tina.

He looked back behind him and gasped in surprise when he saw Dani flying right towards them. "BRACE YOURSELVES!" She warned and grabbed them as she held onto them tight by their stomachs.

"WHOA! Dani, what's going on?!" Sam demanded. He looked back and gasped in fear when he saw a group of ghosts chasing after them while howling.

"Does that answer your question?" Dani said sarcastically.

"What happened?" Tina asked.

"Look, I accidentally turned the portal on and now these creeps are going to roam free and haunt everybody until I send them back into the Ghost Zone!"

"Easier said than done! How are you supposed to do that?"

Sam thought for a minute before perking up with a plan. "Dani, you have to let them follow you back to Fenton Works and back into the lab!"

"Getting them to Fenton Works will be easy, but getting them to the lab-" Dani yelped in surprise as she dodged an upcoming truck. "-that's not."

The driver in another truck screamed in terror when he saw the crowd of ghosts floating through him as they continued chasing the trio.

"I've got an idea!" Sam said.

He explained his plan, and Dani looped in the air and turned to fly after the ghosts, but she flew around them until she managed to make it out of the crowd and made her way back to Fenton Works. Dani made a determined look as she tried to fly faster and Tina and Sam shouted loudly as they held onto her for dear life. They made it back to Fenton Works and Dani landed and released her friends. While Sam and Tina run inside, Dani remained behind and faced against the ghosts.

"Alright, let's do this." Dani murmured to herself and she began to fly away while she punched one of them into a mess.

They howled again and flew after her as she just landed on the road in a fighting position as the ghosts flew all around her and she waited for their next move. One charged at her, but she did a backflip handstand as she kicked it up to the air and landed back on her feet. She saw a octopus-like ghost screeching and flying right at her; she grabbed its tentacles and swung him around rapidly until she released it and it crashed to a light post. Dani looked a little dizzy after spinning that much until she shook it off. She flew off again and headed for the library, where James was reading off a book from the inside. From his window, Dani is seen punching and kicking the ghost into splatters, but James doesn't even notice the fight, but got annoyed by the noises, so slipped on some earphones and listened to some music as he read.

Dani grabbed the last ghost's tail and slammed it to the ground, splatting it. Dani breathed heavily as placed her hands on her knees and hung her head in exhaustion from all the energy she has been using. She looked up and saw the ectoplasm flying up and reforming back into ghosts as they howled and smiled deviously at her. She saw a boy fetching a frisbee on the road, when a ghost spotted him and flew down to him. As he picked up the frisbee, he noticed the ghosts and screamed to the top of his lungs. Dani quickly flew to him and swooped him away before the ghost got to him.

She held him tightly until she landed on the sidewalk and released the boy as he looked at her in awe.

"You better go home where it's safe! Go!" Dani told him.

The boy immediately ran down the sidewalk and she looked up at the ghosts smiling at her as they flew around the sky. As she stared at them nervously, her phone suddenly began to ring and she answered it.

"Dani, we're good to go!" Tina said, perking Dani up.

"Finally, I'm on my way." She said before she hung up. "You ecto-freaks what some more? Well, follow me."

She flew back toward her house with the ghosts at her tail and she flew as fast as she could until she smiled when she saw Fenton Works only a few feet away, but got knocked to the side by one ghost. She tumbled down the road and she weakly got up from both energy use and pain as she groaned. She glared up at the ghosts circling around her and she flew through a few, splatting them again and straight to the door, opened it and ran inside as the ghost only phased to the ground and the building.

In the lab, Sam and Tina awaited their friend as Sam held some kind of vacuum device in his hands. He heard someone flying in and saw Dani, looking very exhausted and sweating, but has an urgent face. She landed on the ground and panted heavily.

"They're coming!" She exclaimed to her friends.

On cue, the ghost phased into the lab and roared and howled in the heavens before flying toward the teenagers as Sam and Tina trembled in fear at the sight. Dani glared and snatched the vacuum from her friend, settled it to suck and she held it out as she turned it on. The ghost look surprised and tried to fly away, but they get caught and sucked into the vacuum as they shrieked until all of them were sucked in.

She then pointed the device to the portal and shot the ghosts back into the portal as they screamed and their voices echoed, and she slammed on the 'OFF' button and the doors slid shut, shutting off the Fenton Ghost Portal. All of the ghosts have been rounded up and defeated and returned back to their dimension of the Ghost Zone.

Dani, Sam, and Tina all panted heavily, but Dani looked a lot more worse. She was very worn out from her fight with her hands on her knees and she was sweating like she did an exhausting workout. "We did it...we...did…" She panted before she finally passed out from exhaustion and changed back to human form as she was about to fall to the floor. Sam caught her in time and he gently sat her on his lap as he got onto his knees.

"Dani?" Sam said in concern. She didn't respond back since she only breathed heavily, but she was still okay as she fell unconscious on her friend's lap.

A few hours have past as Dani moaned and began to wake up in her own bedroom and on her own bed. "Sam, she's waking up!" Tina said as she and Sam walked up to their friend and they both smiled down at her.

Dani groaned as she sat up and rubbed her eyes to rid the drowsiness out of them and looked at her friends and smiled a little. "I passed out, didn't I?" She asked them sarcastically.

"Only for a few hours, no thanks to all that ghost energy you were using to beat those creeps." Tina said as her smile never dropped.

"Honestly, no one could beat a whole group of ghosts in just one afternoon, and I don't think your parents could have done something like that. That was a little mainstream, but still...you saved us from a ghost attack. And for that saving the day today, thanks, Dani Phantom." Sam said with a small grin of gratitude.

Dani stared at him with wide eyes. Apparently, Dani knew that Sam deep down knew himself that the ghosts would have never been sent back into the Ghost Zone if she hadn't been there to stop all of them. And there was the way he called her Dani 'Phantom' and it sounded a lot like an anagram of her real last name, only more ghostly and a bit more...heroic, sort of.

Just then, Dani's mother, Jackie Fenton, barged into her room with a bright smile on her face. "Hello, did I just hear you three are amazed by our ghost-hunting?" She said, but misunderstood their conversation when she eavesdropped a bit.

"Um, actually, Mom, we were-" Dani tried to explain, but only to get interrupted.

"That's super! You and your friends can come down to the lab and make you kids a promotion." Jackie walked out of her bedroom with a smile.

Sam and Tina look at Dani as all shrugged. She hopped out of bed as they all followed Jackie down to the lab, where they sat on chairs and Jackie faced them.

"So, Dani, you and your little friends want to hunt ghosts?" She asked her daughter…

Okay, you already know that part of the story, but that was how I became the teen ghost heroine I am today. Like I said before, every story has to have a beginning, just not always in ways you would expect or not. Even though things did turn out scary for me at first, I learn from the past and use them for the future so I can learn from my mistakes and make things right with my life and my friend's. Like most teenagers in the world, I deal with the fights they make themselves, but secretly, I finally dedicated my life to protecting my home of Amity Park from anything or anyone that means to cause harm to innocent lives.

My name...is Dani Phantom!

In the present, Dani was currently in her ghost form as she overlooked Amity Park from the edge of a building as her white hair fluttered gracefully in the breeze and she wore her signature brooding look as she smiled boldly with her hands on her hips while she stared at the sunset in front of her in the distance as the sunlight shined on her...until her phone rang, making her drop her smile as she pulled her phone out of her jumpsuit and answered it by her ear.

"S'up, Tin?" She asked with her free hand still on her hip.

"Dani, there's a ghost wolf attacking the park!" Tina exclaimed urgently through the phone, making Dani's eyes go wide.

Dani then heard a distant wolf howling in the distance as she turned to the source of the howl before she sighed heavily like she sounded a little annoyed that her little sunset moment has just been ruined by Tina putting herself in danger by a ghost again. "I'm on my way." She moaned under her breath before she hung up her phone and then she flew off to the park to save her techno-geek friend from a ghost attack.

Dani flew straight towards the park and saw Tina screamed at the sight of the ghost wolf. The wolf then heard someone flying towards it as it turned its head and whimpered as Dani glared with determination and fired an ecto beam directly at it with her eyes glowing green as she shouted loudly; leaving the rest of the fight all up to the audience themselves.

And that was the main origin story about how Dani Fenton became Dani Phantom, the same ghost butt-kicking heroine she was to this day, but that was just the beginning of her never-ending journey as she continued to life both a normal high school life as a normal girl and going on action-packed adventures filled with ghosts and going on multiple adventures with her two bestest friends, Samuel Manson and Tina Foley.