Chapter 1: Two Secrets

When Danny was five years old the first incident had happened, but he hid it by explaining it away as a side effect of his parents lab. Even when those teachers from the school came he suppressed the feelings down and told them he did weird things because he was exposed to stuff in his parents lab. Knowing how his parents felt about ghosts he had been afraid that they wouldn't accept anything supernatural. Once he turned eleven he started training in secret knowing that going untrained could be bad for his family. It was the only thing about him that Sam and Tucker didn't know even though after what happened two years ago he was certain they wouldn't care. He had just gotten so used to keeping it.

When he became the Halfa ghost fighter Danny Phantom the accident had triggered memories from when he was very young. Most ghosts end up forgetting their lives, but since Danny had only half died the images that flashed before him about his entire life stayed with him. He had observed his parents closely after the fact and searched the entire house, but he began to suspect that they didn't even know. They didn't know that their son was really their nephew and that he had had a younger brother. If it hadn't been for his other secret that he kept so carefully hidden he would have wondered why his parents had pictures of him when he was a baby even though he hadn't come to live with them until he was three years old.

He was the unknown child of his birth parents the one they hadn't wanted to involve in their war. Most likely if it hadn't been for the fact that the bad guy had searched for children born around the time of his younger brother he would have been kept secret as well. Sometimes he wondered if that is when his ghost powers truly came to be because when the man had killed his father a green mist had flowed out of Danny's and settled on his father. The bad guy hadn't paid him any mind almost like he hadn't seen Danny at all and Danny on his short little legs had tried to run tried to get to his mother and brother, but when he heard that unearthly scream he had somehow appeared in his parents living room and they had believed he was always their son. Sometimes he wondered if it was his own power, Clockworks, or someone else's power that had sent him to live with them.

Looking outside the window to the plane Danny felt uneasy ever since he had been able to fly on his own he had become uneasy in crafts that he didn't pilot. Then again that could have been an after effect of the Fruit Loop trying to kidnap his mom and him and make them into the perfect little family. He had never understood why the Fruit Loop wanted nothing to do with Jazz despite her brain. It was always about Danny and Maddie winning them for his family, and trying to kill of Jack.

Although they never told him why about a month ago Sam and Tucker had both moved to England at first everything was fine and the ghost attacks had stopped. His parents noticed though that each day Danny seemed to be getting more and more lifeless and had decided it was best to move to England as well. After all they could do their research anywhere and despite Danny's problems with curfew and school they couldn't stand to see him so depressed. Jazz was even excited about getting away from Amity Park, although Danny was a little worried about why the Ghosts had suddenly stopped attacking and he didn't have a good feeling about it.

Danny couldn't wait to see Sam and Tucker again, but he was a little afraid about going to England. In Amity Park where the weird was normal it was easy to hide his none ghostly powers by blaming them on inventions or the fact that they lived in Amity Park. Being somewhere normal though was making him anxious and he was afraid that if he was picked up on again he wouldn't be able to get out of it this time. Not when neither of his 'parents' had the gift like he did otherwise he could have just said he was being homeschooled. What he could learn on his own was seriously lacking though, although having his own lair in the Ghost Zone had made it a lot easier.

One thing Danny did know though is if he was forced to go to the special school he was going to have to pretend that he was a first generation. He couldn't let anyone on to the fact that he wasn't the first of his kind born to his family line because he didn't want to have to talk about how he had survived. He didn't want to have to tell people that he hadn't been able to save his family even though at three years old what could they have expected him to do. The memories from that night caused him nightmares ever since the accident and at times he wished he knew more about the details.

Five hours later they were standing in front of a house in the cleanest neighborhood he had ever seen. Their house was number 7 Private Drive and he could tell just by looking around the neighborhood that his parents wouldn't fit in here at all. All Danny really wanted to do was go explore the neighborhood, but he was unsure about walking around without knowing anything about his surroundings. Even if he could take it getting noticed by them on his first day in England would be horrible.

"Danny mom and dad are going to unpack, but you really should go look around little brother," Jazz told him looking him over in concern. "Go relax for a little bit."

Sighing because he didn't want to have to go anywhere until he had done research he knew he wouldn't win the argument with Jazz after all that's what happens when your older sister wants to be a psychiatrist. Usually the arguments are won quite easily with her finding out information he didn't always want her to know. Sometimes he wondered if it would have been easier on him if he had just told Jazz the truth and that they weren't real siblings. Would she treat him the same or would she turn on him and never want to talk to him again when she found out that he's more than just a ghost?

Grabbing his backpack before leaving he glared at Jazz when she tried to take it away. There was no way he was going to walk around an unfamiliar neighborhood without taking some ghost fighting equipment with him. Like always his parents didn't actually research where they would be moving to, so for all he knew despite the completely puke worthiness normalcy of this neighborhood it could be a hot spot for ghosts. It's not like he knew were all the natural portals opened up after all.

Walking around he was a little surprised to not see anyone no one even looked out the window at him. Even though for his new neighborhood he had to look a little strange especially after one of his parents inventions exploded and his hair ended up getting red streaks in it. No matter what he tried they wouldn't go away the only time they weren't on him at all was in his ghost form which he was grateful for because otherwise his parents would have put everything together.

He was still just wondering around when he heard a scream and he ran towards it. The closer he got to the sound of the scream the more screams he heard and he was starting to feel cold something that hadn't happened to him since he had developed his ice core. Oddly enough he could hear his birth father screaming for him to run and his mother screaming for the bad guy not to hurt his baby brother. Fighting all the ghosts that he did he was certain that this was just a new ghosts power so he kept going forward.

The scene in front of him was one he didn't quite understand and he finally realized that his ghost sense had never gone off. Whatever the hulking creature in front of him was it was definitely not a ghost. The creature was going after a slightly overweight guy with slicked back hair and with it's mouth gaping open it looked like it was about to kiss him. Something told Danny that wasn't a good thing. Behind them was a guy holding a wand and about to shoot off a spell despite the restriction. Something told Danny it would be a bad idea if he let the spell leave the other boys lips, so he took advantage of the creature's distraction and pointed the thermos at it, happy when it was sucked in. Immediately after the creature disappeared into the thermos the screams stopped and the air became warmer.

"Hey are you alright?" he asked going towards the overweight guy wanting to make sure that creature hadn't hurt him. The guy looked at him with wide eyes and seemed about to faint although the terrified look in his eyes left.

"I. I think so" he said gasping for air. "Wait where's Harry, where's my cousin?" he asked starting to panic again.

Looking around for the other boy Danny almost gasped in shock at how much this guy looked like him, although a much scrawnier version with green eyes and a weird scar on his forehead. The guy seemed shaken up and looked like he had fainted. Probably would have sooner if it hadn't been for the adrenaline telling him to protect his cousin. Danny was glad that his parents had ended up dying his hair with that invention otherwise he probably would have freaked out this other guy more.

"Is is he dead?" the other boy asked looking at his cousin with worry in his eyes coming up behind Danny.

"No he should be fine. Just fainted whatever that thing was I've never seen anything like it. I'll help you take your cousin home if you'd like?" he offered although he picked up Harry before he got a reply. Maybe if his baby brother had lived he would look like Harry, although hopefully he wouldn't have appeared so malnourished.

"Thank you for saving us," the other boy said offering a hand to Danny. "I'm not sure if my cousin could have done anything, but from what he told me that thing could have killed us or worse."

"It's fine I couldn't just ignore that you two were in trouble. I'm Danny Fenton by the way I just moved here from America," he said introducing himself to the boy as he started walking away. He didn't want to be around this area if more of those things showed up.

He also pocketed Harry's wand not sure where he kept it and knowing it wouldn't be good if any Muggles saw him carrying one. Besides if Ministry officials showed up he could just feign ignorance and say that he came from Amity Park and had fought off the ghost because he was used to it at home. He would be telling the truth well at the same time not revealing to him he was a wizard. Thus not having to go through the headache that memory charms give him since they never work on him anyway.

"I'm Dudley Dursley and that's my cousin Harry," he said walking beside Danny. Probably sensing it was the best place for him if another one of those creatures showed up. He found it odd that Dudley hadn't given him his cousin's last name, but decided it was most likely because they had the same last name. Even if it didn't sound quite right to him, but it was best not to press Dudley who still seemed to be shaking in his boots. Not that he could blame him with how awful that creature had made him feel.

"So where am I taking you guys anyway?" he asked not wanting to just wander around aimlessly. He just hoped that Harry would be alright and that the creature hadn't done something to him before he got there.

"Number 4 Privet Drive," he said looking all over in freight.

Luckily it wasn't much further of a walk and it was on Danny's way anyway since he lived just across the street. His parents and Jazz must have been in the house though because he couldn't see them doing anything from the porch of number 4. Something told him that what happened today would change Dudley a lot and the same something was telling him that it would be for the better.

"I better take Harry from here otherwise my mom might freak out," Dudley said looking at Danny apologetically. Shrugging not thinking anything of it Danny passed Harry over to his cousin. Even if they might have a rough relationship he was certain that Dudley was truly concerned about his cousin.

"Oh you better take this then he almost dropped it earlier. Must be a good luck charm or something huh?" he asked handing Dudley the wand and making sure Dudley didn't suspect he was a wizard as well. No reason to be breaking the statue if Dudley didn't know plus he didn't really want to be found out at the moment.

Dudley looked terrified as he shoved the wand into his pants and looked at the front door. Almost like he was afraid of someone inside having a bad reaction to seeing it before he carefully moved Harry around in his arms to open the door. Leaving Danny alone on the porch wondering why Harry made him feel so protective. Maybe it was because Harry was the name of his little brother and if he didn't know he was dead he would have thought that Dudley's cousin was his baby brother. As he left their house and went to his own he never felt the invisible eyes watching him and making sure he wouldn't hurt the boy he had just saved.