Title: Ghostly Emotions
Writer: Invader Johnny
Plot: Takes place during "The Ultimate Enemy" Before Danny went to Vlad, he lost his memory in the explosion and to make things way worse Ember shows up, now the singer seizes her chance and begins to manipulate the Ghost Boy and as time goes on Danny begins to get his memory back, the problem? Ember's growing fond of him. (Ember/Danny).
Disclaimer: Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman (boy, this is bittersweet), so as you can see I don't own the second best Nicktoon ever created,
Author's Notes: First of all this is my first DP fic (manly because I written a lot more Invader Zim and JTHM fics, hence the pename "Invader Johnny") so give a break if this story doesn't have a great start.
Second: Before any of you give me negative things about this particular pairing or whatever I just want to make one thing clear the Sam/Danny pairing IS my favorite I just happen to like Ember/Danny as my second favorite.
And finally: the first chapter will go back and forwards from Danny's to Ember's POV, JSJK.
Chapter One:
"My sister Jazz often used to tell me that there were three things that she learned in life Study hard, do your best and, well what do you know I can't even remember the third one and to make things worse I knew that I had taken for granted the life that I had, the life that I would never get back".
"Well, it's about time I study for the test tomorrow," Danny said to Sam and Tucker.
"You mean cheat," Sam pointed out unhappily at my decision.
"I didn't say cheat," I replied.
"You didn't say 'not cheat'," Tucker reminded me.
"Guys, come on. I would have loved to have spent the last month studying, but I was fighting ghosts" I reminded my two best friends "Besides, if you two think this test is so meaningless, why do you even care if I cheat?"
I got the answers from my purple backpack. "Why shouldn't I open this up and study the answers, huh?" I asked a little more vigorously. Sam and Tucker just looked at each other blankly. "No answer? Well, that's all the answer I need."
"Fine Danny, you want to cheat, be my guest but don't come to us if you get caught" Sam scolded me like I was a little kid.
"Yeah right," I said "Sam, what could possibly go wrong?"
I could swear my blood pressure was getting higher at the memory.
"I.. I wished I hadn't ignored my only friends when all they were trying to do was help me, I cheated and this was the result, their DEAD, all of them DEAD!"
"And it's all… My fault… my fault… my fault"
"How could you let this happen?" Sam's voice was in my mind.
"I didn't want this to happen and you know it!" I argued with my best friend that I knew wasn't really there.
"Then WHY did you have to cheat?" came another voice I quickly recognized as Tucker's.
"You know I didn't have a choice!"
"You always have a choice!" came a second feminine voice which turned out to be Jazz's.
"You could have asked me to help you study!" She screamed at me with teary eyes "I would have helped you!"
"Even if you helped me I still would have failed!" I argued.
"You failed US… you failed yourself" Tuck, Sam and Jazz said at once and I winced at that statement knowing very well that it was in fact the truth, I made one bad decision and the result was worse than anything I could have imagine".
"Well what was I suppose to do?" I snarled "Let evil ghosts run free and cause havoc on the city I had protected for so long?"
"Mom and that could have done your job while you could have studied!" Jazz screamed her eyes now red.
"I didn't want them to get hurt!"
"Well you did an excellent job little bro!"
"Mr. and Ms. Fenton, Daniel" said my teacher Mr. Lancer "This is the Nasty Burger, when people fail; this is where they end up; whether they fail because they don't study or because they cheated."
My parents gasped in shock. "Danny, is this true?" Jack asked in disbelief at the news he just heard.
"Did you cheat?" Maddie followed up rephrasing the question, if it weren't for the fact that I was in a load of trouble I would have considered that it was kinda cool that I was calling my parents by their names.
"N no, why would I cheat?" I told them weakly, I kicked myself mentally for shaking uncontrollably, I was sure they weren't gonna believe me, but I had to try at least.
"Lies won't help you Danny, they'll only get you in more trouble" Jazz said to herself.
"Ghost fighting seemed like a piece of cake compared at the pressure I was feeling at that moment, it was only for a few seconds they were all staring at me with disappointment evident in their eyes, but it felt like hours, even the fact that Jazz was silent wasn't making things easier, if anything it made me feel worse.
"Mr. Lancer do you have any proof of this?" my mom asked.
"Not yet" He answered.
"Then how do you know he cheated!" My father demanded with a little bit of rage in his voice.
"Because Mr. Fenton, I did hear him talking about cheating just before the test answers went missing, I don't know how he managed to steal them but I know it was him" Mr. Lancer calmly said.
"Why Danny?" Maddie asked her son.
"Slackers don't succeed in life Daniel; if you would have studied then you wouldn't have failed" Mr. Lancer said glaring at me.
"BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME!" I screamed in exasperation and anger.
"Ah, but you had the time to play doomed don't you! Mr. Lancer shot back.
"Just because I didn't study you assumed I was wasting my time with some game!"
"Well what were you doing Daniel?" My teacher asked with authority "What nonsense were you doing that prevented you from studying for the test that would have determined your future?"
"I – I" the halfa stammered but he couldn't think of anything to say. He was trapped. There was no way out. The pressure on his stomach tightened. He couldn't breathe.
"I need a miracle to get me out of this".
The next thing I knew Sam and Tucker came, I felt relived because I thought they were going to help me out but instead they told me the final thing I would ever hear from them.
"Ghost… coming… this… way… it's…"
And the rest is a total blank, but the last few minutes I had with my family and friends is something that's still fresh in my mind... WHY?
"Please you guys! PLEASE forgive me! I didn't mean to fail you…to hurt you… to kill you" I screamed in my mind unable to talk at the moment, just then I started to cry, I didn't care if anybody saw me, it didn't matter anymore, nothing did.
"My fault… my fault… my fault"
"I felt my body was being burned, if I was completely dead then I was sure to be in hell, I might as well be, I Danny Fenton a teenage super half-ghost hero killed six people by stealing and cheating on a STUPID TEST!"
"Please forgive me".
Someone was floating in the air staring down at the boy breathing heavily in front of the ruins of the restaurant that used to be the Nasty Burger, it was a ghost and from the looks of it, it was a female ghost that was either in her late teenage years or young adult years, she had blue hair with a flaming ponytail, earrings, sickly pale white skin, black clothes and apparently she was using a guitar as her way of transportation.
Danny couldn't see her or he didn't care, he was just crying in the middle of the street with blood in his clothes, his eyes full of fear and apparently countless broken bones, the ghost couldn't help but feel pity towards the boy and in fact she also felt a hint of remorse within her.
"Why shouldn't you?" a voice in her mind said, "After all if you hadn't showed up there was a chance that he wouldn't have attacked you and then accidentally hitting that… that… Nasty Condiment"
"Well I didn't know!" She argued with herself "And why are you nagging ME about it! He's my enemy! Why should I care what happens to him!"
"Maybe because he lost the reason to be half-alive the same way you lost your life?" The voice told her and at that comment the remorse and pity came back but a little stronger this time.
"Come on Ember, if you ever had just a little bit of compassion in your life or afterlife, now would be an excellent time to show it" the voice in her mind said.
"Right, what do you want me to do?" Ember thought to herself angrily, go and try to comfort the guy? He'll blast me away the moment he sees me, he's sure to blame ME for this!"
"Well part of this is your fault".
Ember's face held no emotion, she then growled in frustration and screamed, it was amazing that the ghost boy was still ignoring anything but the sight in front of him, the scream was so powerful that it could have made anyone within its radios go deaf.
"Don't you think I know that! And if you're trying to make me feel guilty, you're wasting your time!" she told the voice in her mind once she had calmed down, and then her eyes went wide "Ugh, I'm arguing with myself! THAT can't be normal!"
"Were you EVER normal?" The voice told her smugly.
Ember scowled darkly at that last thought, knowing very well that, no she wasn't normal.
The rock "star" signed in exasperation.
"I don't know what I'll accomplish with this but whatever, the sooner I'm done with this the better" She told herself.
She went flying down the street and landed a few feet away from the ghost boy.
"By doing the kind of thing I swore I would never do" Danny now closed his eyes, still letting the tears run down his cheeks and continuing with his speech of hatred towards himself "The kind of thing that I should have never done but it doesn't matter now what's done its done and I can't change it but I just wished that I…"
Just then his ghost sense went off.
"Oh, this is just great!" he blurted out, his shallow breathing obviously a problem "What else could go wrong for me?"
"Hello dipstick"
"Ask question, get answer" Danny said to himself and coughed.
With half of a smirk gracing Ember's face, she dropped to one knee to put herself more at Danny's level. As if guided by instinct, he tried to move away from her and go ghost; however, his motor control was sorely lacking, and the only action he could manage was a series of twitches in his right leg.
The young woman couldn't help but let her smirk widen a little more, she found it ironic that this time the boy in front of him had fallen by losing something he had hold so near and dear, but she then thought that getting a guitar destroyed was nothing compared to seeing his loved ones getting killed, it must have hurt a lot more, she was kind of jealous that she didn't have the kind of family the ghost boy had when she was human.
"But of course I won't let him know that!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is one fine mess you gotten yourself in, don't you agree?" She said in mock sympathy.
Danny's eyes turned from his normal blue eyes into his ghostly green ones, obviously pissed at her comment.
"What a nice way to try and start a friendly conversation Ember!" the voice in her mind hollowed angrily.
She winced at both Danny's stare and he statement her brain told her.
"Okay, new tactic".
"You know it would be incredibly easy for me to finish you off right now" Ember said with glee in her voice.
She then mentally slapped herself "I really need to watch my mouth"
"And why don't you?" Danny said angrily and spits out some blood in the process.
"The boy has guts I'll give him that". She thought and then said out loud "Because, I may hate you and we may be enemies, but that doesn't mean I don't respect you."
Jerking his head in a motion of disbelief, Danny managed to cough a few more times in response.
"Don't think highly of your self dipstick, I know its weird hearing this from me, hell, even I don't believe those words came out of my mouth.
"Here's something you won't believe I said" Danny hissed "Get the fuck away from me you bitch"
Ember gasped in surprised.
"Get away from me you bitch" A memory hit her in the face when she heard the last word.
Three words came to her "He dies NOW!"
She got her guitar ready and used the knob to set it to the skull "Good-bye dipstick"
But something was completely wrong here, he wasn't scared, he was… smiling, that only made her angrier "What are you smiling about!"
"Because you're doing what I knew you would do" He said weakly and again he spits out some blood "Go on, you have me at your mercy, you can kill me now for all I care, after all if you can use my emotions against me, you can destroy me now that just shows how low you can get!"
"He's right you know, you are low" The voice in her mind said "But I WASN'T before I became a ghost" Ember shot back.
The blue hair woman stared at the halfa, he wasn't trying to go ghost anymore just waiting for her to finish what had already begun, but this was far from over.
She throws guitar in the air and before it hits the floor on its way down, it manages to float just a few inches from the ground. Ember got on it and just stood on it for a few second and flew away from the boy but again she felt something inside of her, it told her to go back.
"No… No... NO! I can't… I WON'T!"
"You know you can't just leave him there, if there's a chance he'll live then you might as well do something about it or would you rather do the same thing that your father did to you".
"I don't have a father or a family, not anymore".
"Well, unless you want to be just as bad as he was then you WILL do something about this"
Again Ember sighed in exasperation and flew back to the spot she was just a few seconds ago.
Danny watched as his enemy came closer to him "Come on, just kill me now".
But Ember had other plans.
"Time to sleep ghost boy" she said as she got off her guitar and then grabs it and lifts it high into the air and with a tremendous speed it hits Danny hard on his head knocking him unconscious.
More blood came out of his body and now the guitar had some of it, this made her wanna throw up, she was a ghost but it still made her sick to see a sight like this one.
"I wanna make one thing clear dipstick, I may be willing to go very low to get my goals but I am not a bitch".
Once again the musical instrument floats just a few inches from the floor and she gets Danny into her arms and she jumps onto her guitar.
"And I'm going to prove it".
In the state of unconsciousness Danny couldn't help but remember one very hard fact "Life isn't fair" but he couldn't help but wish that it should be.
"Next stop the Ghost Zone".
As Ember flew away from the Nasty Burger, an eye witness stepped away from the shadows of a dark alley the only thing that came out of her mouth was a whisper.
"Danny".
And that my readers, it's the first chapter of the Ember/Danny fic, I can't help but feel that I got Ember just a bit OOC and as for Danny well I feel like I did a good job, at least I think I did, ok just review people and tell me if I did ANY mistakes within the characters personalities.
Also, JSYK Ember won't be alone with Danny, I decided to add someone else in the whole manipulating process but rest assure there WILL be some romance moments for the two main characters of the story.
By the way IF WingsOfMorphius is reading this I wanna give her a special thank you for giving me the idea for this fic (and allowing me to change the plot) also for the love of god girl update "Father Of My Son" and "Blackbird" those stories kick ass.
Invader Johnny Signing Off.