Genes.
Everyone has them. They are what make up the essence of everything in the world. They are the units of heredity in living organisms and the genetic structure of everyone is different.
Some people are more different than others though…
Phantom Dark: The Helix Problem
A Danny Phantom/D.N. Angel Crossover
Daisuke Niwa, 14, male; when you first see the boy the first thing you would notice would be his spiky vibrant red hair. His eyes are a reddish brown and he is fairly short. He is the stereotypical innocent boy with a crush on one of his peers: one Risa Harada…or is it her sister Riku Harada. Frankly Daisuke is very confused at the moment and to make matters worse whenever he sees his crush he transforms into the phantom thief known as Dark. Daisuke inherited this trait from his grandfather and it is considered a family curse.
Almost every night Daisuke is forced to transform into Dark by his mother and grandfather in order to steal (and then seal) a piece of artwork. Little does Daisuke know that his next encounter with the world of art will send him on a journey he never would have imagined…
Danny Fenton, 14, male; at first glance you would probably pass Danny over in a crowd, on second glance though you would see a short boy with messy black hair and wide blue eyes. He, too, is a stereotypical innocent boy with a crush on one of his friends: Samantha Manson…although he would deny it to the bitter end. Although Danny was born your average kid an accident a few months ago in his eccentric parents' lab caused Danny to become the half ghost: Danny Phantom.
Almost every day Danny is forced to transform into Phantom so that he can protect his friends, school, and town from ghosts. Little does Danny know that his next encounter with the world of ghosts will send him on a journey he will never forget…
((G.Nome One: Reflection))
'I am so late,' Daisuke thought as he ran up the hill to the train station. Once again, as tradition in the Niwa house, Daisuke had been forced to wake up and do a little morning 'thief training.' Daisuke would have to maneuver through his own home; dodging traps and unlocking codes to even eat breakfast. Then to make it out the door he had to face it all over again. Usually he was pretty good but this morning his mother had added a few twists in it; throwing Daisuke a bit off and causing him to be late.
'I blame you for this Dark,' he thought grimly to his other half.
In the back of his head a voice chuckled, 'Please if it was me I would have had us out of there in five minutes tops.'
'Then why didn't you help,' Daisuke whined.
He could almost see Dark shrugging, 'Bored I guess…I like to watch you squirm runt.'
Daisuke groaned and Dark chuckled again. He reached the train station just in time to see the last train for the day pulling up, 'Made it,' he thought.
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Danny Phantom ducked into a nearby bush and powered down into his human half. As his clothes changed back to normal, Danny glanced at his watch and smiled, 'Made it,' he thought.
Danny ran up the steps to the infamous Casper High and made a dash for his locker. Unfortunately as he rounded a corner he ran into the person he hated the most: Dash Baxter. Dash smirked, "Well, well, if it isn't Fentonio…ready for your morning serving of a knuckle sandwich."
"Did you come up with that all by yourself Dash," Danny muttered.
Dash glared at the smaller boy, "What was that Fenton!"
Danny's eyes widened, 'Crap that was supposed to be inner monologue…have I been fighting with Technus too much?'
The large bully grabbed his prey and slammed him against a locker, "You know it's been awhile since you've visited the inside of a locker Fenton. Maybe you should make a special surprise visit right now."
"But if I do it now I'll be late for class," Danny stuttered.
"Not my problem," Dash said as he made good on his word and shoved Danny into the nearest locker.
'Great…and today was going so well too,' Danny thought. Now he would have to wait until everyone left before he could faze out and of course the halls wouldn't clear until way after the bell rang. 'I hate my life.'
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Daisuke tried to stay awake during his classes but he just couldn't. He hadn't gotten much sleep last night after, once again, thieving from a private art gallery. He sighed as his eyes closed slowly.
'Daisuke…Daisuke wake up,' Dark pestered him from the back of his head.
'Just five minutes…please,' Daisuke groaned.
"DAISUKE NIWA!"
Daisuke nearly fell out of his desk at his teacher's sharp voice, "Ye—yes ma'am."
"The problems on the board…solve them now please."
Daisuke stood up, "Yes ma'am."
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After five minutes there was silence in the hallways of Casper High. A minute later a boy fell out of a locker and landed face first on the tiled floors. Danny pushed himself up and leaned back against the locker with a sigh, 'Why can't I ever get a break,' he thought.
He didn't bother looking at his watch…he knew it would be pointless since he was really, really late for class. Danny stood up and walked slowly to class, if he was lucky they would have a substitute teacher who wouldn't care. He opened the door to his class and found Mr. Lancer at the front of the room, 'Or not…Mr. Lancer is ALWAYS here,' Danny thought glumly.
"Welcome to class Mr. Fenton…I'm so glad you could join us."
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Daisuke sighed as he opened up his bento (AN: basically his lunch), it had been a tough morning because he kept dozing off and his teachers would then pick on him to answer a problem. It didn't help that Dark kept pestering him either; it seemed he was being quite vocal today and Daisuke was getting sick of Dark's comments about EVERYTHING. He picked up his chopsticks and wondered what to eat first when who should pop up but his best friend and amateur journalist, Takeshi Saehara.
"HEY DAISUKE!" he shouted with glee.
'Uh-oh…he's only that happy when he's about to dump his homework on me…OR…'
"Guess who just released a press announcement saying they're going to steal the famous 'Reflective Soul' painting tonight!"
Daisuke feigned innocence as he asked, "Who, Takeshi?"
"Phantom Dark of course, man you're stupid Daisuke. Anyways he said he'd do it tonight at midnight! I can't wait! I bet I'll make a bundle off of this batch of photos."
Daisuke rolled his eyes and then shivered as he felt someone watching him. Daisuke glanced over his shoulder just as Saotoshi Hiwatari stood up and left the class room.
'Oh man…why didn't mom tell me I was going to steal something again tonight,' Daisuke thought as he ate some of his rice. He was going to have to have a serious talk with his mom (again) about this 'leaving notes for the press' business.
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"So what are you doing tonight Danny," Tucker Foley, one of Danny's closest friends, asked.
Danny shrugged, "The usual."
Sam frowned, "How are you going to finish that project of Lancer's if you're doing the usual."
"Well…I was…I'll do it don't worry," Danny insisted.
"Right…just like you were going to do that science report, or that art project, or that math project…"
"Or that book report," Tucker chimed in.
Danny glared at his computer geek friend, "Tucker…you aren't helping."
"Oh…sorry."
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"Sorry dear but you have to do it," Daisuke's mom said as soon as Daisuke had finished complaining about that night's assignment. "Now then shall we get to it," she said with a smile.
"But mom!"
Before Daisuke could say anymore his mom whipped out a picture of Risa; causing Daisuke to blush and suddenly his red hair began to grow and turn into a violet color. His eyes shifted from their normal color to violet and he grew taller and a bit leaner. In Daisuke's place now stood the handsome and mysterious Phantom Thief Dark!
"So what have we got tonight?"
"Well, Dark, tonight you steal the painting known as 'Reflective Soul.' It's in the museum of art so the security will be a tad bit beefed up."
Dark pushed open the windows of Daisuke's room, "Piece of cake."
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Danny sucked another ghost into his thermos and was about to fly back into his room when his ghost sense went off again. 'Augh! Who is it now,' he thought.
"Evening young wiper-snapper," an annoyingly familiar voice said.
Danny turned and found Technus, self-proclaimed master of all electronics, hovering a few feet away from him. Danny sighed, "What do you want?"
Technus smirked and held up five DVD disks like they were shurikins, "Nothing but revenge!" He flung the disks at Danny and Danny went intangible. The disks flew through him and he rolled his eyes.
"Technus you're getting about as lame as the Box Ghost."
"Oh am I! I'd watch my back if I were you," he shouted.
Danny glanced over his shoulder to see the disks were now glowing green and were heading back for him. Danny flew out of the way but the disks merely circled back, "What the heck?"
"I've programmed those to lock onto your ecto-energy…you're mine boy!"
"Yipe!" Danny dove into the safety of his house and flew straight for the basement. The disks followed and ended up pinning Danny to the closed doors of his parents' ghost portal.
Technus floated down from the ceiling with a grin, "Well, well it appears I am…what do you kids say…king of the square."
"That's king of the hill."
"Whatever," Technus raised his hands as energy built around it, "Ta-ta ghost child."
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Dark landed gently in front of the painting he was there to acquire. He smirked, the police had been easy to fool by using With to lead them on a wild goose chase and so far Saotoshi Hiwatari hadn't shown up either. 'That's weird…he's usually here by now threatening my life,' Daisuke thought in the back of Dark's head.
'Yeah but don't worry about it…I can take care of him like I always do,' Dark thought back to his host. He then went back to concentrating on the painting. It was a rather interesting painting to say the least. It depicted a boy staring into a mirror but the image in the mirror wasn't the boy but a complete inverse of him. 'Kind of like us, huh Daisuke,' Dark thought. He reached out to take the painting but there was a tremendous flash of light and Dark was knocked back and forced to turn back into Daisuke. Then for a split second an image of a black haired boy could be seen overlapping the image of Daisuke as the light faded.
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Technus was about to blast when suddenly an alarm went off, "GHOST DETECTED IN LAB! GHOST DETECTED IN LAB!"
Danny groaned and Technus scowled, "Hush you infernal alarm!" Technus blasted a control panel and Danny's eyes widened, as a red light at the top of the portal began to flash. 'That can't be good,' he thought.
Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and the portal sparked and shocked Danny who cried out in pain. He was forced to revert back to human Danny and as he did an image of a red haired boy overlapped his form and the light faded.
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'Daisuke…Daisuke wake up,' a voice whispered in the back of his head.
'Who's Daisuke,' he thought back to the voice.
He saw an image in the back of his head of a violet haired guy blinking in confusion, 'You are. Don't tell me you forgot…did that painting mess with your head or what? I brought us home though so there's no need to worry.'
'Huh? Painting? And I'm not Dice-kay or whatever…I'm Danny. Danny Fenton,' he thought. The boy sat up and found himself in a strange room. He blinked wearily and then his eyes caught sight of a strange figure. Danny jumped up and ran over to it only to find that it was a mirror however the image he saw was really strange. Instead of reflecting a black haired, blue eyed boy like he thought it would; it showed that plus an overlapping of a red haired boy with red eyes. Danny stepped back, "What the heck!"
He heard the voice in the back of his head sigh, 'You really aren't Daisuke are you.'
"What? Who are you? Where are you?" Danny said out loud, looking around the room for another person. He made sure not to look at the mirror again because frankly seeing himself overlapped by a small boy was freaking him out.
'Well this is going to be fun to explain,' the voice thought sarcastically.
Danny clutched his head, "Oh God! I'm hearing VOICES!"
'Well…that's one way of putting it…'
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"Danny…Danny! Danny are you okay," a female voice cried over him.
'Who is she talking to Dark?' the boy thought. There was no response, 'Dark?' The boy opened his eyes slowly and found a pair of bright blue eyes staring down into his. The girl smiled in relief.
"Don't ever scare me like that again Danny," the girl said angrily.
Daisuke rubbed his eyes, "I won't…but who's Danny?"
The girl blinked then scowled, "This is no time for games Danny! I was honestly worried about you but if you're just going to joke around fine," the girl said in a huff and left.
The boy was at a lost and stood up. He felt funny and now that he was actually getting a good look at where he was, he realized he was no longer at the museum. Instead he now seemed to be in some sort of laboratory. 'Weird,' he thought.
He made his way to the stairs until he caught sight of another person. He spun around and found it to only be a mirror. 'That's not my reflection though…is it,' he thought as he examined the pane of glass. True he could see his red spiky hair and red eyes but there was also another image there overlapping his own. It was an image of a boy with raven hair and blue eyes. Daisuke reached up to touch his face and saw that the image in the mirror did the same, "What is going on?"
'That's what I wanted to ask you,' a voice said from the back of Daisuke's head.
At first Daisuke thought it was Dark but the voice wasn't as deep as Dark's. 'Who…who are you? What happened to me…what happened to Dark for that matter!"
Daisuke caught an image of a white haired figure but the image faded quickly, 'Just call me Phantom…and I'm just as lost as you are kid.'
To Be Continued…
Author's Note:
Welcome kiddos to my newest project Phantom Dark: A Helix Love. The idea for this struck me after watching the anime of DNAngel and then right after that seeing the episode of Danny Phantom with Super Danny and Fun Danny. So anways, settings. The DNAngel timeline is based on the anime (since I've seen all of it) but it's at the very beginning of the series...so Daisuke is still adjusting to the whole "Dark" thing.
As for the DP universe...I'd say before TUE...maybe.
Also if you were confused about what exactly happened to little Daisuke and Danny, I'll see if I can break it down. Daisuke and Danny sort of split and switched places. Human Danny is now with Dark but everyone will see Danny as Daisuke (unless they see Daisuke's reflection then they'll see Danny with a blurred outline of Daisuke around him). Same goes for Daisuke. If that still doesn't make sense...well you can message me and I'll try and make it a bit more clear but I dunno if I can be more clear than that (lol).
Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will review!