Fate or Consequence


Danny sat back in the leather chair and looked around.

“Is this what my ghost hunting has become, just a seat and a desk in a precinct,” Danny though to himself. Of course he had to be grateful. When Jazz became mayor she thought it would do some good for Amity Park to have its own ghost task force, she made Danny the town halfa the chief of course.  He was only 24 years old and was the head of his own branch of security in the local government. This would be any young man’s dream.

Though he was happy with his position Danny’s life felt empty.  A lot had happened since that fateful day when he was turned into Danny Phantom. He had gained friends and enemies and lost people too. He opened bottom left drawer in his desk and reached all the way back. He retrieved a small old photograph from his senior year in high school. It pictured a young, tall, and lean boy with bright blue eyes who had his arms wrapped around slightly thicker ebony girl with dark brown curly hair and dark green eyes. He traced her face for a minute then turned the photo on its back to read the note.  Danny and Valerie PDA, grade 12. He had finally worn her down at the end of sophomore year. Heck, he had even slowed down her ghost hunting; at least they had had two years.

His mind went back to the day that became one of the biggest turning points in his life. It was only weeks after the picture was taken. It was senior prom. The night had been cool and full of mischief but Danny didn’t care, he was with her. They all had decided to go together: Sam, Tucker, Valerie, and Him. Sam’s parents had let them borrow the limo and everyone was laughing, even though she seemed distant in a way. Tucker was busy e-mailing some girl in Russia who thought he was a future all-star basketball player (yeah right) while Danny and Valerie sung every song that came on the radio. Soon they’d be off to college. Valerie and Danny had secretly decided to move into a coed dorm so that they could share a room, not even Sam or Tucker knew. This was to be the best night of their lives but they were wrong.

They arrived at the party to see it was already jumping with people. Twista’s light speed lyrics were bumping on the speakers. Valerie immediately grabbed Danny and pulled him to the dance floor. Sam’s eye began to twitch as she saw the two grinding, but she swallowed down her hurt. “He’s happy, let them be,” a small voice said in her head “That should be you,” a loader voice said. The only thing she could do was turn her back, but her pain was interrupted by a large crash.  SkulkTech 9.9 blasted through the roof of the facility where the prom was held. “I got to go, I’ll be right back, I’m going to go get help.” he told Valerie. She looked up at him without fear, “I’ll hold them off until you can get your dad or somebody.” All he could do was smile, his little Amazon princess. He ran out the door. The familiar energy rings formed at his waist and traveled up and down his body. Danny Fenton was gone and Danny Phantom was in his place.

The ghost boy burst through the doors. “What are you doing here your shouldn’t exist.” Danny shouted.

“But we are here and we do exist and we’re on a very important mission.” SkulkTech responded robotically.

“Oh yeah, what’s that”

“Doing this,” with that SkulkTech pulled out a large laser and before he could move Danny was hit. SkulkTech vanished into a portal. He fell to the ground. His chest throbbed as if his heart was being wretched out. Gasps and awes were coming from the crowd. He looked down at his hands and body. He was human; he had been outed in front of the entire school. The only thought that ran through his head was Valerie. He looked over at her and wanted to die from what he saw. Her expression was disgust and she quickly turned heel and ran out the door.

“Valerie, no wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!”  Danny cried after her. He followed her out of the door but it was too late, she was gone.

Danny became a hero and was praised by everyone. Valerie dropped out of school and ran away. The last news of her was that she had been taken under the wing of Vlad Masters. When he was killed by a very dangerous experiment, he left everything to Valerie. She stayed out of the spotlight but nearly tripled Vlad’s assets by selling his weapons and quite a few she had made herself to ghost hunters. Even the force had some Master’s weapons. Valerie had never returned to Amity Park and Danny was sure never planned to.

A very distressed officer interrupted Danny from his thoughts. “Uh sir we have a code x.”

“A code X, you must be kidding we’ve never had a code X. No ghost is powerful enough to break right through the sensors.”

“Sir, look outside.” Danny turned to be confronted with what looked like Armageddon. The sky swirled with fire and ashes. “Okay this may be a problem.”