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The day after his meeting with Clockwork Danny walked into the townhouse he had bought to put the excommunicated nun in at half past noon. He figured by that point that Johnny and Kitty would have been able to get both the nun and her stuff set up in the house and his faction's hopefully new charge would be ready to talk to him.

If he was lucky this would go better than the last potential living member of his faction he met. The ass thought that a freaking low level illusion Sacred Gear made him the deadliest there was. Danny ended up killing the bastard after he found out he used his Gear to rape three different women. Piece of shit.

He found her waiting nervously in the living room, fidgeting on the couch and staring at her folded hands. Hearing him enter the former nun looked up toward him with a lost look in her green eyes. It was obvious that getting kicked out of the Church that she had spent her entire life serving had hit her pretty hard.

"Do you speak english?" Danny asked casually taking a seat of his own across from the girl.

"Yes I do." The girl replied with a noticeable italian accent.

"Would you prefer if we spoke in Italian instead?" He suggested. Anything to make the situation a little more comfortable for her.

The blonde gave a small smile, "If we could." She thanked him.

Danny gave the girl a brief nod, deciding it was time to get started on what they were there for, "What is your name?" He asked her.

"Asia Argento." She told him.

"Do you know who I am?"

"The people who found me said you were the Phantom. The Church told me that you were in charge of purgatory."She supplied, wincing slightly at the mention of the Church. "Is that true? Are you really that Phantom?"

"I am Phantom, but saying that I run Purgatory would be false." He corrected her, "Purgatory is more or less the waiting room for souls going to Heaven or Hell. I run the Land of Lost Souls, also called the Ghost World and the Ghost Zone." He explained, "It is where souls go instead of Purgatory due to some kind of link to the mortal planes of existence, and they tend to stay far longer." Seeing Asia nod her head in understanding Danny moved on, "Do you know why I had some of my subjects bring you here?"

"Not really." She admitted, "All I was told was that you wanted to offer me shelter from the other factions."

"That is correct." He told her, "You may not realize it, but having a healing type Sacred Gear, especially one as powerful as yours is said to be, could be a huge boon that many would not hesitate to exploit." Danny said.

"Oh." Asia said softly, "Is that what you want in exchange for giving me shelter? For me to use my Twilight Healing on your soldiers?" She asked worriedly.

Danny shook his head, "No. The opposite in fact. If you joined me I could assure that other groups would not use you as a way to increase their military power." He revealed, "I want to keep the world at the greatest level of peace I can, and part of doing that is keeping potential war variables out of the hands of those who want to start a war themselves."

"So you don't want to use my Gear?" She asked unbelievingly.

"My people are already dead Asia." He reminded her, "With that territory comes being extremely hard to put down for good. Nearly impossible in fact seeing as purely physical attacks already don't affect us leaving only magic as an option. Also we all have regeneration factors. Believe me when I say your Gear is of no use to us. I am asking you to join my faction only to prevent others from using you so that they may abuse your power and to allow you the chance to choose your own path. You deserve having a choice about your future." Danny assured her.

"T- Thank you." Asia said happily, "I was worried about what I would do after I ran out of the funds the Church gave me when they… when they excommunicated me." She admitted.

"They didn't give you many options did they? It's almost like they wanted you to be snatched up by another group." Danny observed.

"I do not think that the Church would be that cruel." Asia defended her old faction, "It is more likely that they were merely testing my faith."

"Faith can only do so much without resource and action." Danny pointed out, "But that does not matter anymore. Welcome to the Ghost Faction." He told her with a smile holding his hand out to shake.

With a smile of her own Asia grasped the offered hand as firmly as she could- which wasn't that firm even by mundane standards- and just like that she would start her new life away from the Church on her own terms.

"You can't live your life without an education and some kind of degree, so you start at Casper High on Monday." Danny told her.

Okay in retrospect maybe having Asia join his school wasn't the best plan. Sure it had the benefit of keeping her close by so he could protect her, Casper for all its many faults did have a pretty good standing academically, and she wouldn't even be the first transfer student to ever grace the highly biased school's halls, but there was one tiny little issue that Danny had overlooked.

Asia didn't have anyone to turn to other than himself. And Danny had recently been outed- thanks to Sam telling that group she had put together the week before- as the most promiscuous member of the student body.

"L-Lord Phantom, why is everyone staring at us?" Asia asked the older boy nervously in her mother tongue.

"Call me Danny when we are in public Asia. As for why they are staring, lets just say some old acquaintances of mine don't know how to keep their mouths shut and sentient beings love to gossip." Danny told her in turn in the same language.

Before the former nun could ask what he meant by that a loud, boisterous voice hammered its way through the halls. "Hey Fen-turd! Who's the chick? Another one of the sluts you hang out with?" Dash Baxter the resident jackass of Casper High and the school's long running prize quarterback yelled out toward the two supernatural aware students.

Everyone in the halls immediately went silent. Dash's tendency to wail physically, mentally, and socially on those near the bottom of the social ladder of Casper was well known, as was the fact that danny was not only his favorite target for all three of these things, but that Danny never actually fought back, taking every hit and piece of verbal abuse without a care in the world. Interestingly enough the mental and physical fortitude he demonstrated by doing this actually bumped him up quite a bit in many people's interpretation of the ladder of respect. Not that any of them would tell him or Dash that. Best to stay out of the blonde football player's way.

Danny just sighed at the other teen's insults. They were unimaginative, expected, overused, and easy. Kind of like Dash's girlfriend Paulina Sanchez the so called 'queen of Casper high'. Now how to respond? Pointing out that the biggest female slut in the school is the only one the blonde could get with while Danny literally slept with a girl who became a lingerie model less than a month later? Maybe the fact that Danny knew about Dash's teddy bear collection and had given each a cutesy name? Or maybe it was finally time to break the blonde douchebag's nose and jaw? No, best to keep in character. Snark and smartass-ery it is.

"The girl behind me's name Dash is Asia. She's an exchange student from Italy that I was requested to be the guid of because I can actually speak Italian. Also if you bothered to look you'd notice that she has a cross necklace. She's a devout Catholic. Really one would think someone with your own intelligence and experience would be able to tell the difference between a virgin and a whore. You do date a prime example of the latter after all, and it takes a special level of brain power to flunk English three years in a row. Of course seeing as that's all you could hope to get I guess you don't have a lot of reference for anything else." Danny mocked the boy blaisly.

Okay so that last point was a bit too much for the persona of Danny Fenton, but hey he was still a little irritated that his most disliked personality flaw was now public knowledge and he really didn't take well to assholes insulting his friends and allies, of which Asia was the latter… Maybe if he was going this far it was time to throw a punch or two when Dash came at him? No, that would just make the bully target someone else, someone who couldn't shrug off the worst Dash could dish out as if it were nothing. Damn his stupid bleeding heart.

"What did you say Fucktard?!" Dash snarled, stomping up to the slightly taller but much more streamline built boy, his face red with rage and every vein in his neck bulging obseinly. Behind him the rest of the football team was torn between snickering at their captan and forming a circle around the raven haired social loser he was about to beat the snot out of and the cheerleaders had cruel but satisfied smirks on their faces from Danny's insult of Dash's 'girlfriend' Paulina.

"You know what I said Dash. Or have you lost so many brain cells that you couldn't understand me?" Danny insulted.

Unwilling to take any more of the youngest- that he knew of- Fenton's jeers the blonde boy snarled like a rabid hound and slammed his meaty fist into the teen's gut with enough force that if he had been an average human would have cracked a rib. Of course seeing as Danny was both far more muscular than the average teen and his entire body was saturated with supernatural forces the blow did absolutely nothing. Of course he still had appearances to keep up, and he didn't want Dash to break his hand- they would just blame Danny and he wouldn't even get satisfaction from it- so the raven haired teen leaned forward slightly as the punch hit, making it seem like the blow had forced him to double over slightly when in actuality he was rolling with the punch.

Dash, not knowing his punches were doing nothing, thought the limited reaction was Fenton playing tough like usual and hit the other teen three more times, two in the chest and one hard hook to the jaw, each time getting only slight movements and not so much as a grunt of pain. The last blow was met with a sharp turn of the taller boy's head as he moved it to roll with the punch, but doing so in such a way that it looked like it was forced to move from the force of the strike which got a mix of winces and a smirk from the watching students and Dash along with a sharp gasp of horror from Asia.

Slowly Danny rightened his neck so that he was once more looking Dash in the eyes. "Are you done? I still need to show Asia the rest of the school before class starts." He said evenly.

Dash sniffed at what he believed to be an obvious retreat from the beating, reaffirming the idea in his mind that Danny Fenton was weak and a coward. Four punches and now he's running away without even fighting back. This was the guy people were saying secretly went out to seduce and fuck hot women from out of town? Don't make him laugh. Without another word the blond turned around and stalked off, waving for his teammates to follow him as he went off to do whatever it was he did when he wasn't in class or 'beating up' Danny. As soon as he left the crowd of onlookers dispersed, the source of their entertainment gone.

"L-lord Phantom." Asia fretted over her new… master? Boss? Leader. "Are you alright? Do you need me to heal you?" The kind hearted former nun asked.

Danny gave her a small smile and shook his head, "I'm fine Asia, thank you for the concern but there is no need to worry about anyone in this school. We are the only ones who are a part of the supernatural world here and Dash only targets those of the male persuasion- nearly always me- when he wants to rough someone up." The ghost teen assured her, "I told you you would be safe here and I meant it. It's not perfect but it's under the radar and with me here few if any members of the hidden worlds would dare make a move. Now come on, let's get to class before we are late. First up is Lancer and unless you are a member of the football team he's the last person you want to be late to class for."

Asia nodded and followed behind the much taller teen as they made their way through the emptying halls of the school. Her first day of public school and already she had witnessed what would have been a brutal beating if anyone else there had been on the receiving end of it and was called a slut and whore. She didn't think she was going to like it here no matter what Lord Phantom said. Not one bit.

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