Danny Phantom in Darkness Phantom

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom.

Yusei: We're here! This is the final chapter!

Manabu: I liked this story. It was short, but more constructed than any of the other stories TCM made.

Julia: Before we begin, let's take a moment to thank most of the people who has been so kind to review and favorite this story... Not it!

Manabu: Not it!

Yusei: Not i-Damn! *takes out a list* Kixen, Invader Johnny, Reishin Amara, Makube, Mr. Average, and Frankenstien93.

Julia: Now that I think about it why are we wasting time naming people when they'll probably change them within the next few years?

Yusei: Julia, are you so old that your heart and passion have turned brittle? *gets kicked through a wall*

Manabu: Enjoy the show, folks!

The Final Darkness: Towards A Better Future

On the other side of the portal Vlad's clone has taken Danny all the way to the furthest part of the Ghost Zone, or at least halfway. But then again since you already know this the writer probably shouldn't have mentioned this.

Anyway, he comes before Skulker's island and releases Danny from the thermos, before destroying it. Danny shouts, "Whoa! The Ghost Zone?"

"Ta ta for now Daniel. Say hello to your friends for me!" Vlad says before he vanishes in the blink of an eye.

"Ah great. Now I have to fly home-" He is cut from his concentration when he hears a gun charging up. Turning to his left he spots Skulker aiming a wrist gun at him.

"I don't know why you're here ghost child, but this is the perfect opportunity to mount your pelt on my wall!" The hunter threatens before firing at him.

Frantic, Danny avoids his attacks and flies away, before firing an ice beam from his eyes to freeze him. Skulker has the funniest look of surprise on his face while being frozen. Danny then flies away, saying, "-while avoiding every one of my enemies."

Danny continues to fly throughout the Ghost Zone to reach his destination. "Damn that Vlad! He just makes me so mad!"

Along the way he comes before a cemetery. He spots someone placing a crystal kabutomushi figurine on a grave. Before he could get a good look at it, he is suddenly distracted by the annoying noise of, "Beware!"

Danny looks to the side, to his disappointment, to find the Box Ghost floating above him. "You know, I was going to yell at you for showing up in front of me, but I'm actually glad that I have someone to blow steam off of."

"I am not someone you should take lightly! After tormenting you as the frightening owner of Pandora's Box has made me stronger than ever! I AM THE BOX GHOST REVIVED!" The Box Ghost says in a shouting tone. Danny wastes no time in flying towards him, and punches him twice in the face. The Box Ghost is knocked to the ground within the cemetery. Danny lands and his eyes shine bright green. He gathers green energy to his hands.

"Hey Pox Ghost! You ever heard of dodge beam?" 'Huh. Talk about deja vu...' Danny fires an energy beam at the Box Ghost, who hurries out of the way. The beam strike the mourning ghost and destroys his beetle figurine.

"Oh poop! The Box Ghost doesn't need to get involved with him!" The Box Ghost shouts before flying away.

"Huh?" Danny looks at the ghost he just shot, and sees his crystal figurine has turned to dust. The ghost stands up and turns to him. Danny could see this person is as white as Walker, and just as tall. But he differs from him by the giant beetle horn on his head and the other bug-like attachments on his body. He looks like a tokusatsu kaijin actually. "Whoa. Does anyone need an exterminator?"

"You fool! Do you realize what you did you stupid ghost brat?" He curses, making Danny even more pissed.

"And you are?" - Danny

"I am Kevin Dunames, the Gene Ghost. I finally made my deceased wife the perfect item to commemorate her death, and it's destroyed! There's nothing left for me to bring it back with!" Kevin shouts at the halfa.

"Well, I'm sorry. But... Wait, this kind of seems familiar..." Danny says, taking a moment to pause and think about the situation.

"Of course it does. You've probably attacked ghosts in similar situations millions of times!" Kevin shouts, forming a rainbow glow from his horn.

Danny prepares to form a barrier with his left hand but then something grabs hold of his arm and stops him. Kevin blasts his left arm, blowing him and the other person back. The Doomsickle is extracted from his arm, and twirls elsewhere into the ghost realm. Danny regains his balance and prepares to fly at Kevin, before Desiree appears into existence between them.

"Desiree?" Danny says, stopping in mid air. "Oh great. Looking for revenge?"

"Get out of my way! He has to pay for what he did!" Kevin shouts at her.

"Daniel, make a wish. Wish that Kevin's figurines would be restored," she says to him, surprising both Phantom and Dunames.

"Huh?" Kevin exclaims.

"Uh, I wish that Kevin's figurines would be fully restored," Danny says, making the wish without thinking first. Desiree's magic activates, and the crystal figurines that Danny vaporized earlier have been restored. Kevin's eyes widen as he sees his precious crystals have been brought back, so much so he cries.

"They're here..." Kevin places the crystals back on his wife's grave. He then turns to Danny, saying, "We're cool for now. Don't let this happen again."

"Uh, okay fine." Kevin flies off, leaving his wife's grave and going home. "Well, that was bipolar."

"Danny." Desiree floats towards Danny, who picks up his guard. Unknown to either of them, Clockwork appears by the Doomsickle and takes it, disappearing with it. She smiles and leans out, surprising Danny and hugging him. "I'm so glad you're still alive."

"Wha-Hey!" Danny phases out of her grasp. "What are you doing?"

"...You don't remember, do you?" she mutters, closing her eyes and turning away. "It's okay."

"Why did you suggest something like that? I thought you hated me?" Danny asks her.

"I don't... Anymore... I used to hate you, but now I've grown from that," she says, edging herself closer to him. "I don't think I'll ever hate you again, because I... I..."

Desiree continues to struggle with her words. She couldn't say she loved him because he doesn't remember her feelings for him. There's nothing she can do until he remembers on his own. "I want to be your friend."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I want to be your friend, to put an end to the fighting between us," Desiree says, smiling the only pure, true one he's ever seen. 'None of this would have happened if it weren't for that woman giving me memories of that future...'

"...Well, if you want a chance to be friends then I'll accept. But you can't go around granting wishes for other people. If someone makes a wish, get their mouths close," Danny says to her.

"I understand." Desiree leaps forward and hugs Danny, placing a kiss on his lips. He is surprised at first that she would do that, but for some reason his body doesn't want to stop her. Infact, he holds her by the waist and kisses back, returning the loving feeling he was receiving from her.

'Why am I kissing her back? And why is she kissing me in the first place? This feeling is... I'm feeling something from her that's warm, warmer than any of the times I kissed Sam.' Danny's thinking is cut short after he removes her lips from Desiree's. She releases Danny and slips from his grasp. "What...What was that for?"

"You'll find out someday... Would you like to go home?" Desiree asks him, smiling at the ghost kid.

"...Oh! I wish I was at home inside my room!" Danny says, making his wish.

"Your wish is my command!" Desiree sprays Danny with pink dust, and he is teleported back to his room. Desiree flies off to her domain, breathing a sigh of relief through her nose.

Back with Danny he picks up the phone and calls Sam. "Hello?"

"Danny! What happened? You just disappeared!" Sam shouts on the other end, sounding relieved to hear him.

"Vlad caught me in a thermos and took me to the Ghost Zone. Thanks to Desiree though I'm back safe and sound," he says to her.

"What? Desiree? Why did she help you?" Sam asks him.

"I'll tell you tomorrow," Danny says, hanging up the phone. He then turns back into Fenton and lies back on the bed. He sighs, and his ghost sense goes off. Danny raises his head and looks around, checking for any ghosts that might be around. "Who's there?"

The person who is spying on him doesn't answer him and flies further up through the ceiling. This person then fades into existence, revealed to be Reina. Smirking, she slashes the air in front of her to make a portal, and passes through it.

Clockwork's Domain...

Clockwork enters his home and flies up to the top, placing the Doomsickle on a set of hooks sideways. He then flies down to ground level, just as two shadows enter his home. "Ah, the Observants. You're right on time."

"Clockwork, you've meddled with the time stream for that child again! This is clearly-" As the first one speaks, he suddenly stops when he sees the Ghost Princess existing from a portal behind Clockwork. "P-P-Princess Reina!"

"Are you really going to make this a big deal?" she asks them, glaring at their singular eyes with her pupilless green ones. "Danny Phantom is, as you have said before, Clockwork's responsibility. It would be rather foolish for him to let the half ghost die."

"T-That may be," The second one begins. "But the fact remains that Clockwork did something completely unneeded and outside of our demands! He's the ruler of time, not an ally of that ghost child!"

Reina's eyes glow dark red, striking fear into the Observants. As Clockwork turns into an old man she tells them, "Clockwork is a neutral force that governs the time stream. Since when does he take orders from anyone not me?"

"Besides-" Clockwork says, cutting into the conversation. "-I did the tasks you asked me for; Danny Phantom has destroyed the Darkness of Infinity, the Crown of Fire and the Ring of Rage, and now that time has been restored humans and ghosts that have died during are brought back. Not to mention Dan Phantom has been erased from the time stream."

"...Fine. We shall take our leave," The first one says, and soon they exit his home. Clockwork turns to the time windows, becoming a child, and switchs them on.

Reina steps towards Clockwork and asks, "You knew everything single thing that would happen, didn't you? Of course you did; you had to do a little meddling to make things the way they were."

Clockwork edges his head to the side in response to her words. "You were the one who placed the Doomsickle in the cemetery in the first place, right where he could find it. You also went back in time and took one of those ecto thingies for the genie ghost, and you knew the Fright Knight would steal Dan Phantom; that's why you didn't bother warning him."

"...You make it sound like I'm some sort of criminal mastermind. Like you said, he is my responsibility," he responds to her, secretly chuckling.

"Don't take me for some fool. You're planning something." Reina forms a portal behind her and turns to walk through it. "Whatever you're trying to do I'll ignore for now because it involves Danny's survival. I'm also interested in father's better myself."

"I know, but like you said-" At this moment Clockwork becomes an adult. "-I know everything."

The ghost princess walks through the portal, leaving Clockwork alone. The master of time then skips a window ahead one month. It shows Danny fighting Vlad in space, or near the rings of Saturn, freezing him and stealing the Infi-Map. He then enters the Specter Speeder and heads home with his friends. Mid chase, Vlad blows up his space station, releasing a giant meteor with a scary face on it.

"Danny will need this experience when he has to save his planet from the Ectoranium asteroid," Clockwork says before turning them off. He then readjusts his clock scepter, just as he realizes something. 'I still feel like something's missing... Why's is so quiet?'

His eyes drag over to the table where Dan Phantom used to be. "Oh yeah, he's not pissing me off."

Yusei: IT'S OVER!

Kazuki: We did it! *stomach bumps with Yusei*

Hakurei:Wasn't it terrifying?

Victor and Dante: What a night!

Manabu: Okay, references aside, we're all thankful for your support of this story.

Julia: Shouldn't there be a sequel? *everyone raises their heads up to her* I'm just saying.

Yusei: No way! It doesn't need a sequel!

Reina: What about me?

Kazuki and Victor: What about you?