Author's Note:

I've been reading quite a few Danny Phantom fan fics recently and I thought I would try out one of my own. I came up with this story while searching through all the fan fics for something more or less specific in mind. I couldn't find it, but that could easily have to do with the fact that there are thousands of DP fan fics and I don't have time to search through them. Either way, I decided if there wasn't one then I would just have to make on, and thus this story was born. It's kind of loosely based off of Aladdin, but it also has some elements from Les Miserables and a few other things.

Important Notes: The story will be futuristic but with semi-medieval social systems and fashions. Also, ghosts aren't dead people, they are their own race in a separate dimension and don't really have much of an interest in the human world as none really ever come out of the Ghost Zone.

Well that's enough from me! Don't forget to review, it will motivate me to get chapters out faster. (I intend to attempt to get one out every two weeks though it may end up monthly depending on how nasty my Organic Chemistry class from here on out, but reviews will motivate me to get out more! Who needs to do homework anyway?)

Prologue: Sacrifice and Loss

"Jack dear, would you get me those ectoplasmic samples from the refrigerator?" Maddie Fenton asked as she adjusted a microscope while peering into it.

"Sure thing sweet-cheeks!" Jack said enthusiastically as he set down his latest invention and turned around to open the refrigerator next to him. "Whatcha lookin' at?" he asked curiously as he set the samples down next to his wife's microscope.

"Thanks honey. I wanted to test a new staining method I came up with that I'm hoping will help us identify ectoplasm types." Maddie said as she started to prepare a slide for examining.

"That'll go great with the Fenton Melter I'm working on! It's melts ghosts into ectoplasm and destroys them! I can't wait to show Jazz and Danny when they get home from the academy!" Jack said excitedly.

Maddie smiled at her husband. "I'm sure they'll-" she was interrupted by a loud crash coming from upstairs.

"Ghosts!" Jack bellowed as he grabbed the Fenton Ghost Fisher and raced for the stairs. Maddie glanced around quickly before she grabbed an ectogun and started running after her husband.

The two of them had just reached the stair when they saw a blast of green energy coming right at them. Dodging out of the way, Maddie returned fire. She heard a grunt coming from the direction she had shot and nodded to herself in satisfaction before looking around for Jack. She smiled when she saw him busily trying to untangle the Ghost Fisher's line.

"Maddie look out!" Jack shouted as he grabbed a stray ectogun and fired at something behind her.

Maddie heard a hiss and turned around in time to see a ghost slam into a nearby wall. "Nice shot Jack!" She congratulated her husband as two more ghosts entered the room. One had a burn on his chest so Maddie figured it was the one she shot earlier.

"Thanks Maddie!" Jack said as they both stood up and positioned themselves back to back to fight off the ghosts in their lab. Maddie pressed a button on her belt and heard a faint hum that told her Jack had done the same. The button activated her jumpsuit's ghost defense system and various anti-ghost lasers to extend outwards.

"Come on! Dazzle me!" Maddie taunted at the ghosts as she beckoned them forward.

With wails of rage, the ghosts charged all at once, but Jack and Maddie were ready as they returned fire and held their attackers at bay. This continued for a few minutes before Jack turned to Maddie and said, "We're not getting anywhere like this! I'll cover for you while you grab the Ghost Weasel. Go!"

"Use this then!" Maddie said as she tossed Jack her ectogun. She then took off towards the other side of the lab where they kept the aforementioned device.

"Eat this spook!" she heard Jack say as he fired both guns at one of the ghosts that had gone after her. It hissed and, ignoring her sped towards her husband.

Using the opportunity Jack had provided, Maddie grabbed the Fenton Weasel and started to power it up while shouting across the room. "Jack! I got it!"

"That's great baby!" Jack said as he looked at Maddie with a grin. "Now we just have to-" he didn't get to finish that sentence as dozens of little ghosts suddenly filled the room and surround them both.

"What the-!" Maddie started to say before the little ghosts all lunged at once. They didn't actually cause her any pain she noticed as she began swatting at them, but they distracted her enough that they were able to tear the Fenton Weasel out of her hands. "Give that back you ghost scum!" She yelled in frustration as she tried to locate the weapon through the wall of ghostly forms surrounding her.

"Argh!" she heard a sudden cry of surprise and turned her head in the direction it came from.

"Jack!" She stared to run towards her husband when an attack from behind hit her and knocked her down onto the floor. Now scowling, she looked behind her to see one of the ghosts from earlier hide behind the wall of small ghost pests, effectively hiding itself from view.

She got to her feet and slowly tried to make her way across the room to where she heard Jack trying to fight off the ghosts assaulting him. With the low visibility, she knew that neither of them dared to use their ranged ghost weapons because they could easily end up accidently hitting each other. If they couldn't get back to each other, they were at a huge disadvantage.

Out of other options, Maddie reached into a pouch on her belt and took and a Fenton Ghostsaber. She gave a battle cry as she started to expertly spin the staff in her hands and strike at the ghosts surrounding her. She was starting to make progress until she heard a voice that stopped her in her tracks.

"What are you all doing!? Stop playing around and take them down! I don't have all day!"

The voice seemed to have a direct effect on the ghosts around her as they suddenly became much more hostile. The little ghost things bared their teeth started to dive at her with claws extended. She frantically fought them off while wincing in pain as they tore at her jumpsuit and left cuts all over her body. She was so focused on defending against the smaller ghosts that she was completely taken by surprise when a large fist came out from the swarm and hit her in the chest, knocking the wind out of her and leaving her sprawled on the ground.

Gasping for air, Maddie tried to get back to her feet, but the smaller ghosts took advantage of her position and attacked with renewed fury to make sure she stayed down. She gasped in pain as she tried to protect her more vital areas from the onslaught by curling into a ball.

She stayed that way as more attacks came at her from all sides. She started trying to fight the dark haze creeping in at the edge of her vision. Even though the cuts weren't very deep, she had a lot of them, and she knew she's lost a lot of blood. Just as she was beginning to wonder if she was going to die, the voice came again.

"That's good enough. Start dismantling the portal. I'll figure out how to unlock it once we get it out of here."

The ghosts immediately backed off and left a bruised and heavily injured Maddie Fenton lying on the ground panting in exhaustion. She squinted her eyes to try and get the figure standing in the shadows to come into focus. She already had her suspicions on who it was, but she wanted to confirm it with her eyes.

"You!" she hissed once she was able to see clearly.

The shadowed individual laughed as he stepped forward so she could see him better.

"It's been a while Lady Fenton. You and Lord Fenton stopped coming to the galas shortly after Lady Jasmine was born so I'm surprised you even recognize me. It's been, what, eighteen years?" he mocked.

"What are you after?!" Maddie demanded with as much anger as she could manage.

"Power, obviously. I'm going to turn this kingdom upside down, but I need to get into the Ghost Zone to do it so I'm here for your portal."

"What do you want with the portal?" Jack said from his spot five feet from Maddie.

"Ah, that would be telling wouldn't it?" the man said with a crazed smile.

"We won't let you." Maddie said defiantly.

The man laughed before he said, "And what do you think you can do in that state? You can barely move. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a coup to stage." He walked past Maddie to stand next to the portal and started to watch the ghosts disassemble it.

Maddie glanced at her husband and they made eye contact. Jack nodded at her weakly, but his clear blue eyes were as strong as ever. Maddie smiled back weakly before carefully reaching into her belt and pulling out her lipstick.

"We won't let you win you monster!" She yelled as she aimed the lipstick's beam at the ectofiltrator and destroyed it.

"Warning. System damage has been detected. One minute until portal's explosion. Please replace the ectofiltrator" A calm voice called out over the speaker system in the lab.

"WHAT?! NO!" The man screamed as he examined the damaged filtrator. He spun around and stomped up to Maddie. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" He demanded as he kicked the lipstick out of Maddie's hand.

Maddie glared at the man fiercely and said "I protected my children and the rest of the kingdom from you!"

"Forty seconds to portal's explosion. Please replace the ectofiltrator." The calm voice said.

"ARGH! YOU!" the man pointed at one of the ghosts. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" The ghost zipped over to the man and grasped his shoulders, turning him intangible. As the man was carried out of the room he glared balefully at Jack and Maddie below him and said, "At least you will pay for your insolence with you lives." With that he was gone and Jack and Maddie were left alone in the lab.

"Maddie" Jack said as he weakly started to pull his injured body forward towards his wife.

"What's going to happen to Jazz and Danny?" Maddie questioned with a shaky voice as she held out her hand and grasped Jack's firmly.

He pulled her towards him and held her in a tight embrace as they lay on the floor of the lab and listened to the countdown. "They're both good kids, I know they'll be able to overcome this. And they still have each other." He said in an effort to comfort his wife.

Maddie sobbed quietly into his shoulder as she pictured her two babies sitting in class as they heard the news about her and Jack. She pictured the two of them comforting each other as they mourned. She felt herself mourning over how she wouldn't be there for them anymore. She'd never see Jazz walk down the aisle. She'd never meet the girl Danny would fall in love with. She'd never get to see her grandchildren.

She felt Jack run his hand up and down her back in an effort to console her. His hand was shaking. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before her puffy red eyes met her husband's own tear filled eyes.

"You're right." She said. "They'll both recover from this. They're Fentons after all." She managed a small smile at her husband.

"Ten"

Jack smiled sadly at her and said, "I love you Maddie." He closed he eyes and held her closer.

"Nine"

"I love you too, Jack." Maddie said as she closed her eyes and buried her face into his chest and listened to the countdown.

"Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One."

Fenton Ghostsaber: We saw it in Maternal Instincts. It was the pole thing Maddie used to fight off the ghost animals that Vlad sent after Danny. It was unnamed so I gave it a name to make things easier in the future.