Fanfic / The Phantom Twins

The Phantom Twins are a series of fanfics written by mikaela2015

These fanfics are a retelling of the Nickelodeon TV series, Danny Phantom, but with mikaela's OC, Dayla Fenton/Phantom, who is Danny's twin sister. There is also some slight canon divergence here as well.

Danny and Dayla Fenton are twin siblings who gain ghostly superpowers after an accident involving their parents' Ghost Portal, turning them into the half-ghost superheroes known as Danny and Dayla Phantom. Together with the help of their friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, the two protect their hometown of Amity Park from the attacks of ghosts while trying to deal with the struggles that come with being two teenagers in high school.

This series is notable for bringing closure to several arcs that were left unresolved after the show's untimely end^note i.e. The return of Dark Danny, Vlad's pact with the Fright Knight, Danielle getting adopted by the Fentons, etc.. The fourth fanfic really feels like an actual season from the show, with each chapter having unique and interesting plots/arcs. And Dayla herself proves on several occasions that she's more than just Danny’s twin and has her own distinct character and personality. Links to the fanfics below:

The Phantom Twins: Season 1

The Phantom Twins: Season 2

The Phantom Twins: Season 3

The Phantom Twins: Season 4

This series includes examples of:

• 11th-Hour Superpower: Towards the end of Four Times the Trouble, Dani and Dale unlock their Ghostly Wails to stop Auriana from draining their friends' life forces.
• Academic Athlete: Dayla is a straight-A student at Casper High, and several chapters show that she's very fit and agile as well.
• A Day in the Limelight: A few minor characters get some significant focus in certain chapters.
  • Musical Mayhem centers around Paulina and her eventually becoming true friends with Team Phantom.
  • Mr. Lancer gets focus alongside Danny and Dayla in The Trouble with Books.
• Adaptation Expansion: The fourth season really delves into Vlad's alliance with the Fright Knight that was only briefly hinted at in Reign Storm, as Saving Dayla reveals that after Pariah Dark's defeat, Vlad promised the Halloween spirit his freedom, and in return he would serve him loyally and lead his army against the Ghost Zone and Earth.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Mr. Lancer. While he's still a Stern Teacher and favors the popular kids just like in canon, he has more notable Pet the Dog moments in this fic, if some of his interactions with Dayla are anything to go by.
• Adapted Out: The Fright Before Christmas is the only canon episode that that was never remade.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Due to the author skipping over the Christmas episode, Ghostwriter does not appear in season 2. Instead, he appears in the 4th season in The Trouble With Books.
• Adaptational Villainy: Ghostwriter in canon was just a regular ghost author who only became antagonistic towards Danny after the latter destroyed his Christmas novel and gloated about it and then trapped him within a story in order to teach him a lesson. In this fic, he traps the twins (and Mr. Lancer) within multiple stories while cancelling out their ghost powers just because they accidentally destroyed a shelf of books in the library during an unrelated ghost fight.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Just like her brother, Dayla is often the target of bullies, especially Dash and Paulina, the latter often calling her things like "freak", "loser" and ripping up her sketchbook every time she comes out of art class.
• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: The Amulets of Nova and Bergthora, which belonged to the eponymous Guardians of the Ghost Zone. They are used to summon their spirits to revive Dayla after her Disney Death. Conversely...
  • Artifact of Doom: The Amulet of Kyba belonged to a powerful ghost sorcerer who sought take control of the Ghost Zone and Earth.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: Danny, at the end of second Final Battle chapter. Fortunately, it's only temporary.
• Artists Are Attractive: Dayla is an aspiring young artist, and has been mentioned by a few to be quite good looking.
• Atrocious Alias: Like with her brother's (initial) alias of "Inviso-Bill", the public gives Dayla the nickname "Inviso-Jane".
• Awesome, but Impractical: In Driving Lessons, a scientist from Axion Labs presents a prototype self-driving car. Lampshaded by Andrew when he asks what would be the point of learning to drive in the first place.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Dayla reveals that she can sing in The Trouble with Books, and a few characters have commented In-Universe on how amazing her voice is.
• Becoming the Mask:
  • In Musical Mayhem, Paulina initially only pretended to be friends with Dayla to keep her and Danny distracted so that Ember could use the school's antenna to broadcast her hypnotic music all over the world. However, she eventually comes to truly enjoy hanging out with her, and later proves instrumental in helping the twins take down Ember.
  • Four Times the Trouble has Selena Adams, AKA Auriana, who planned to become Dani and Dale's adoptive mother so she could siphon away their energy. The fact that she ends up sparing them and giving back all of the energy she stole from her past victims despite knowing she will die without it proves that she had grown to love and care about them.
• Befriending the Enemy: Dayla does this with Poindexter, after clearing up the misunderstanding about Danny being a bully to Dash. She places his mirror portal in her locker, effectively giving him a second chance at dishing out retribution to those to truly deserve it.
• Beta Couple: Dayla and Andrew are this to Danny and Sam. They have far less sexual tension than the former two, and end up together in Flirting with Disaster.
• Big Brother Instinct: Despite being only 3 minutes older (as confirmed by the author), Danny is nonetheless shown to be very protective of Dayla, often getting pissed if she's harmed in any way. Dayla at one point has to remind him in Maternal Instincts that she can protect herself.
• Big Good: Nova and Bergthora, who were named the Guardians of the Ghost Zone and faced off against Kyba.
• Bilingual Bonus: Because of Dayla being added to the story, the Reality Gauntlet has a fifth gem, the Gem of Ĝemeloj, which has the power to duplicate objects, including the Gauntlet itself, but only if a pair of twins were to touch it. Three guesses as to what Ĝemeloj means in Esperanto.
• Breather Episode: Reflections is all about the group reflecting on the twins' origin story and other memories of the past, with no ghost battles whatsoever.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Paulina is talking about her quinceañera in Memory Blank.
  Danny: That's because you invited me, I thought you were joking.
  Tucker: And that you forget to invite me.
  Andrew: And remembered not to invite me.
  Dayla: Especially me.
  Sam: And especially remembered not to invite me.
• Broken Pedestal: While it was established in canon that Danny begins to lose interest in Paulina in Memory Blank, here he breaks off his crush on her at the end of Parental Bonding after finding out that she had been bullying his twin sister.
• Brother–Sister Team: Danny and Dayla. Also, their clones, Danielle and Dale.
• Brought Down to Normal: Vlad Plasmius, who ends up losing his ghost powers in the season four finale.
• Bully Turned Buddy: After the twins reveal their secret to the world at the end of season 3, most of the A-listers become genuine friends with them. Paulina takes longer, but she too eventually comes around.
• The Bus Came Back: The series, especially the fourth season, brings back several characters.
  • Danielle and Dale, who were last seen flying off Walking the Earth in D-Stabilized, return in Four Times the Trouble and later are officially adopted by the Fentons.
  • Vlad is revealed to have survived during his time in space and returns in A Bitter Return.
  • Dan and Day Phantom come back in the Ultimate Return two-parter.
  • The Guys in White, last seen in season three's Living Large, return in the aptly named season four chapter, ''The Return of the Guys in White''.
• Cassandra Truth: In Four Times the Trouble, Danny and Dayla try to warn Danielle and Dale about Selena being a ghost, but they don't believe them until they show them a photo of her in her true form stealing their energy.
• Character Development: In Parental Bonding, Dayla was easily reduced to tears by Paulina's bullying. After a pep talk from Sam, she later grows a spine in Shades of Gray, standing up not just for herself, but for Valerie as well.
• Characterization Marches On: In Splitting Images, Dayla was against using her powers to get back at bullies and chastised Danny when he did so with Dash, yet in Reign Storm she has no issue helping her brother pull pranks on the Jerk Jock.
• Clingy MacGuffin: In Beauty Marked, when she is made Sam's lady-in-waiting, Dayla is forced to wear a bracelet that cancels out her powers, and she can't phase it off due to it being coated with ectoplasm. She does manage to cut it off, though.
• Coordinated Clothes: Danny and Dayla, being twins, more or less wear the same outfits throughout the first three seasons, with the only difference being their colors (red/blue for Danny, green/black for Dayla). Subverted in season four, when they get different outfits.
• Costume Evolution: The main cast all get new outfits at the beginning of season 4.
• Creepy Twins: While Danny and Dayla generally avert this, they become this in Control Freaks when they are brainwashed by Freakshow.
  • Played straight with Dan and Day Phantom.
• Dark Is Not Evil:
  • Dayla in her ghost form has a black jumpsuit like her brother, and is firmly on the good side.
  • Andrew's attire throughout the first three seasons is comprised of dark colors, but he's a Nice Guy.
• Deadpan Snarker: Dayla is just as quippy as her brother, and fond of exchanging witty banters during fights with ghosts.
• Disney Death: Dayla, in the season 4 finale. She gets better, though.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Dan and Day Phantom, who are eventually defeated by their younger selves for good midway through season 4, leaving Vlad Plasmius to become the true Big Bad of the series.
• Disappeared Dad: Andrew's father Arthur was a US naval officer who was killed in the line of duty when the former was 9 years old.
• The Dragon: The Fright Knight becomes this to Vlad in season 4.
• Driving Test: In the aptly named chapter Driving Lessons, Danny and Dayla prepare to take their tests to get their driver's licenses. Later on, a scenario involving Technus stealing the prototype for a self-driving car gives the two the practice they need to defeat him and pass their tests at the end of the chapter.
• Easter Egg: Driving Lessons has one in the form of a street called "Hartman Street".
• Face–Heel Turn: According to legend, Kyba was once on the side of good with Nova and Bergthora, fighting alongside them to protect the Ghost Zone from evil. However, he began craving more power and sought to rule the Ghost Zone in his image.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Frostbite and his people found Blizzard wandering the Ghost Zone and took him in and helped him master his ice powers. Years later, he repaid them by trying to take over the Far Frozen and even attempting to steal the Infi-Map.
• Fire/Ice Duo: The twins become this once they gain fire powers in Playing with Fire and Ice. It's also stated that they are the very first ghosts (and half-ghosts) to possess two different elemental cores simultaneously. Also worth mentioning that they use both powers interchangeably rather than having one twin stick to a specific element.
• Forgot Their Own Birthday: The first chapter of season 4, A Bitter Return has the twins being thrown a surprise party for their 16th birthday, which they had forgotten about.
• For the Evulz: In Urban Jungle, Andrew ends up being brainwashed along with Sam, with Undergrowth's reason being that "every father must have a son", implying that he only did it to make Dayla suffer.
• From Dress to Dressing:
  • After Dayla gets a large thorn embedded in her shoulder courtesy of a mind-controlled Andrew in Urban Jungle, Danny uses one of his gloves as a makeshift bandage to patch up the wound until it can be healed at the Far Frozen.
  • In The Trouble with Books, Dayla uses a piece of Danny's shirt as a bandage for his arm after he is injured by a wolf creature while they and Mr. Lancer are trapped in the Hunger Games novel.
• Gendered Outfit: Dayla's jumpsuit when in ghost form is the same as Danny's, but with a miniskirt.
• The Ghost: Pun-intended. Sojourn, the ghost who wrote the journal pages detailing the location of the Amulet of Kyba, is mentioned several times but does not appear at all in the series.
• Golden Super Mode: When Danny and Dayla receive the legendary amulets of Nova and Bergthora, their bodies become surrounded by a gold aura.
• Half-Identical Twins: Danny and Dayla are twins of opposite genders who are identical in most respects—having the same eye/hair colors and styles, wearing similar outfits, sharing the same powers, and having largely interchangeable personalities.
• Hammerspace: In Mystery Meat, when Tucker pulls out a fork and knife. Dayla actually lampshades this by asking where on Earth he got the utensils. Tucker merely shrugs.
• The Hermit: Zortheus is a ghost sorcerer who had hid himself away in his home after being deceived numerous times by ghosts who sought to use his potions for evil. Fortunately, Dayla is able to gain his trust by proving her sincerity in wanting to save her brother, and he later gifts her with a special bracelet to summon him with if she ever needs his help.
• How We Got Here: The beginning of Musical Mayhem has Paulina helping Danny and Dayla fight off Ember before going into a flashback seven weeks earlier and all the events leading up to said fight.
• I Have Your Wife: To lure their younger selves to the docks for their final showdown, Dan and Day Phantom kidnap Sam and Andrew and trap them in an old abandoned warehouse.
• Lady-In-Waiting: Dayla is forced into this role in Beauty Marked after she is kidnapped alongside Sam as part of Prince Aragon's plan to marry the latter.
• I Lied: In Saving Dayla, Vlad promises to give Danny the cure for Dayla's mutation under the condition that he bring him the long-lost and dangerous Amulet of Kyba. Danny of course, manages to complete his task, but instead of honoring his end of the deal, Vlad destroys the last vial of the cure and escapes with the amulet, dooming Dayla to her fate. Fortunately, Dani and Dale save the day.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A non-romantic example occurs at the climax of Four Times the Trouble. After Selena Adams is exposed and revealed as Auriana the Weeping Mother, she attempts to drain Dani and Dale of their life forces, but at the last minute remembers all the good times they had together and chooses to spare them and return give back all of the energy she had stolen from her victims.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After four seasons of causing trouble for the Phantom Twins and their family, Vlad finally gets defeated, is stripped of his ghost powers, and carted off to prison for the rest of his life.
• Meaningful Name: Andrew's last name is "Knight", and he's shown to be a noble and kind boyfriend to Dayla. She even calls him her "knight in shining armor" at the end of Beauty Marked.
• Mind Rape: What Nocturne essentially does to Dayla in Frightmare, unlike the happy, idyllic Lotus-Eater Machine dreams he gives to the others, instead making her have a horrific nightmare of Plasmius murdering all of her friends and family and her being Forced to Watch.
• Mistaken for Cheating: The B-plot of Double Cross My Heart has Dayla suspect that Andrew is cheating on her after seeing him with another girl at the mall. It's later revealed that the girl in question was his cousin Tabitha, and she was helping him create a promise ring for Dayla.
• Missing Mom: Valerie reveals in Time Trouble that when she was 10, her mother died in a car crash.
• Momma's Boy: Andrew has shades of this. Due to having lost his father at a young age, he is very close with his mother.
• Mundane Utility: During the school's musical production of Wicked, Dayla, playing Elphaba, uses her flight ability to simulate the character floating up in the air without the use of a harness.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Danny and Dayla get two new ghost powers over the course of the fourth season: Fire powers to combat winter wasteland bringing ghost Blizzard, and the power of telepathy for their fight against their evil future selves.
• New Transfer Student: Andrew had originally lived in New York before moving to Amity Park, and he makes his debut in the series in Life Lessons.
• Not Worth Killing: In the Final Battle two-parter, Danny, devastated by his sister's Heroic Sacrifice, dishes out a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Vlad and is about to finish him off for good. However, at the last minute he realizes that that would make him no better than Vlad and chooses to strip him of his ghost powers instead.
• The Omniscient: Zortheus, the Ghost Sorcerer is able to know every little detail about a person just by looking at them.
• Once More, with Clarity:
  • When the legend of the Amulet of Kyba is first told in A Bitter Return, it describes Bergthora having sacrificed her life for her brother Nova who, in his despair defeated Kyba with a powerful blast. In part 1 of The Final Battle, it is revealed that after she took the fatal hit, Bergthora used her last bit of strength to transfer all of her power to Nova, who then summoned every ounce of his energy to destroy Kyba for good, but at the cost of dying himself shortly afterwards due to over-expenditure of his life force.
  • In The Ultimate Enemies, Future!Vlad refused to tell exactly how Dan and Day Phantom killed their human selves. The Ultimate Return reveals that they ripped their hearts out of their chests and crushed them with their bare hands!
• Original Character: Dayla, Andrew Knight, Day Phantom and Dale Fenton are characters all created by mikaela2015 for this series.
• Origins Episode: Similar to Memory Blank, Reflections goes further in-depth to the moment where Danny and Dayla got their ghost powers and became known as the Phantom Twins.
• The Paralyzer: Bashir, the snake-woman ghost that Danny and Dayla are pitted against in Fright Club, can inject a paralytic venom into her victims via bite. Dayla later uses this to her advantage by tricking Bashir into biting her own tail.
• Passing the Torch: In Fright Club, after having been mayor for a year, Tucker decides to step down and give the job to deputy mayor, Johnathan Simmons. He does say he he'll run again after college, though.
• Playing with Fire: In the season 4 chapter Playing with Fire and Ice, the twins gain pyrokenetic powers, not unlike how they developed their ice powers in Urban Jungle.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Said verbatim by Danny as Dayla is dying from her chest wound in the season 4 finale.
• Properly Paranoid: In Four Times the Trouble, Danny and Dayla suspect there is something off about Dani and Dale's soon-to-be adoptive mother Selena Adams, as they feel a strange spectral aura whenever she's near them. Their suspicions are later confirmed when she turns out to be a ghost who steals energy from children to keep herself alive.
• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Blizzard was once an apprentice of Frostbite, but then he went rogue and tried to take over the Far Frozen, only to be stopped by Phoenix.
• Race Against the Clock: The Danny's Final Hour and Saving Dayla chapters both involve one of the twins trying to save the other before they succumb to their illnesses. They both succeed.
• Recycled Script: The plot of Playing with Fire and Ice is more or less the same as Urban Jungle, with the twins getting a new ghost power, going to the Far Frozen to master it, and using it to defeat the Monster of the Week. The only differences are that Blizzard only wanted to take over Amity Park rather than the whole world and nobody gets brainwashed.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • Dayla and Andrew officially become an item at the end of Flirting with Disaster.
  • Tucker and Valerie become a couple in season 4.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Vlad fatally wounds Dayla in the climax of The Final Battle Part 2, a distraught Danny (now powered by both amulets) mercilessly beats Vlad within an inch of his life without holding anything back... only to stop himself from killing him at the last minute and strip him of his ghost powers instead.
• Satellite Love Interest: Andrew doesn't really get much characterization aside from being a Nice Guy who is Dayla's crush. While there have been attempts to flesh him out, he's notably the only member of the team who doesn't get an episode/chapter focused on him.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Andrew ends up discovering that the twins are half-ghosts in The Million Dollar Ghosts, much like Jazz in My Siblings' Keeper, though he reveals his secret in the following chapter, whereas Jazz wouldn't reveal hers until Ultimate Enemies in season 2.
• Sensitive Artist: As stated above, Dayla loves art and she's generally described as kind and empathetic.
• Series Continuity Error: In the flashback of Reflections, the twins decide to become superheroes just hours after the portal accident, despite the fact that they don't figure out what their powers are for until Mystery Meat, which takes places a month after said accident.
• Shipper on Deck: Like many a character in canon, Dayla is well aware that her brother likes Sam, and vice-versa. She also seems to support Johnny 13 and Kitty to a lesser extent, as she gives them relationship advice when they have a spat in Girls' Night Out.
• Shout-Out:
  • Dan and Day Phantom killing their human halves by ripping out their hearts and crushing them is a reference to Once Upon a Time.
  • After nearly killing Vlad in revenge for Dayla's death, Danny decides instead to take away his ghost powers.
  • According to mikaela2015, the challenges that Danny faces in Saving Dayla were inspired by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the book series Deltora Quest.
• Siblings in Crime: Dan and Day Phantom.
  • Danny and Dayla, to a lesser extent, when they're being controlled by Freakshow.
• Sixth Ranger: Andrew becomes part of Team Phantom at the end of Control Freaks. Valerie is later revealed to have joined the group at the start of A Bitter Return.
• Sleep Cute: The twins have one at the end of Infinite Realms Also Discussed in that chapter and in Mystery Meat, when it's mentioned that Dayla would always go to Danny whenever she had nightmares when the twins were little.
• Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: While trapped in the Hunger Games novel, Danny, Dayla and Mr. Lancer get chased by a swarm of hornets (tracker-jackers), but are able to lose them by jumping into a stream. Anybody who's familiar with bees and wasps (even fictional genetically engineered ones) knows that jumping into water is one of the worst things do when being attacked by a swarm as they will wait for the victim to come up for air.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: In Girls' Night Out, Dayla is shown to be able to swim underwater without needing to breathe when in her ghost form.
• Taking the Bullet: Bergthora did this for Nova to save him from being by killed by Kyba. Dayla later does the same thing for Danny during their final showdown with Vlad.
• These Questions Three...: After clearing most of the obstacles inside the Temple of Nova and Bergthora in Saving Dayla, Danny encounters a female knight named Kyra who presents him with three riddles he must answer in order to gain access to the Amulet of Kyba. He of course, gives the correct answer to all of them.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Dayla is the girly girl to Sam's tomboy.
• Transformation Horror: In Attack of the Mutant Ghosts, Dayla becomes infected with mutant ghost animal DNA after getting scratched on her arm by feline-scorpion ghost. The DNA remains dormant in her system for a few chapters until The Return of the Guys in White, to which she ends up transforming into a monstrous half-human/half-ghost animal hybrid, complete with feline and scorpion claws, a tail, fangs, etc.
• Twins Are Special: The premise the of the series. The two main characters are twins who possess the same ghost powers, and have a very close bond with each other.
• Twin Telepathy: Danny and Dayla gain this power in the Ultimate Return chapter.
• Twin Theme Naming: Danny and Dayla, Danielle and Dale...you get the idea.
• Two Girls to a Team: Team Phantom initially has three guys: Danny, Tucker, and Andrew; and two girls: Dayla and Sam. When Valerie joins in season 4, they become a Gender-Equal Ensemble.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Even before they became a couple, Andrew is nothing but patient with Dayla and accepting of her half-ghost status. He never gets mad at her, even when she wasn't very considerate towards him in Kindred Spirits. When she temporarily gives up her powers in Phantom Planet, he's ultimately more disappointed than angry, but he doesn't invalidate her feelings of wanting to protect him and gently reminds her that her powers are a part of her.
• Villains Want Mercy: Vlad, after Danny destroys the Amulet of Kyba and subjects him to the mother of all beatdowns in the season 4 finale. Danny's response pretty much sums it up:
  Vlad: Please, Daniel! Have mercy!
  Danny: Did you show mercy when you killed my sister!? DID YOU!?
• Walking Shirtless Scene: When Andrew gets brainwashed by Undergrowth in Urban Jungle, he is seen wearing nothing but a pair of ripped green shorts. His second outfit includes an open dark green vest.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Musical Mayhem, which details how Paulina eventually becomes true friends with Team Phantom.
• Whole-Plot Reference: The Trouble with Books follows the plots of Treasure Island and The Hunger Games.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • The jocks at Casper High apparently have no issues with beating up girls, as Dayla has been subjected to as much physical abuse by Dash as Danny, and in Splitting Images, she is nearly assaulted by another jock named Dylan.
  • Walker has also tortured Dayla a few times just for standing up to him.
• Wonder Twin Powers: A couple instances show Danny and Dayla linking hands to combine their powers.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: After the twins get their fire powers, they start using moves that involve combining said powers with their ice powers. One notable example is their Phantom Tornado.