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Part 3 of Phil , Part 5 of phic phight 2023
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2023-04-05
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Summary:

A powerful ghost shows up in class and publicly annouches that Daniel Fenton is the next ghost king and crowns Danny right then and there

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Danny yawned and rested his chin in his hand. He hadn’t studied very hard for this english test and it was kicking him in the butt now. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, he just had other things he needed to do. Like kicking Skulker back to the ghost zone. And playing Doomed. 

Danny started nodding off. His head was almost to the table when suddenly everyone's tests were flying across the room in a whirlwind of wind. His head shot back up and he nearly fell out of his chair when he saw the ghost standing in the middle of his desk staring down at him. 

“Hello, Mr. Phantom.” The ghost quips. “I come before you today to crown you King of the Ghost Zone.”

“What the hell?” Danny hissed, leaning back in his seat. 

“Fenton? Phantom? King of the ghost zone?” Dash sounded off to his left. 

“Lord of the flies!” Lancer shouted.

The ghost ignored the clamoring of students that had erupted around the classroom. Now he was digging inside his pockets.

“Hey… Ghost. Guy.” Danny said slowly. “What are you talking about? Phantom? King of the ghost zone? Haha, you must have the wrong guy.”

The ghost started pulling things out of his pockets. “I’m afraid not, Mr. Phantom. I was given these orders to crown you by the Observants.”

“What?” Danny squeaked.

“I believe I was also given other instructions but I must’ve lost them in my pockets.”

Danny threw his hands up into the air. “So empty them!” 

“Impossible.” The ghost said. 

He continued pulling random items out of his pockets. He even somehow pulled a defibrillator out of one of his pockets and that’s when he finally found what he was looking for. 

“Ah, here it is.” The ghost pulled a piece of paper from his pocket. He squinted at it and started reading. “‘Phil. We hereby assign you to the crowning of one Daniel James Fenton Phantom. From this point forward you will act as royal advisor to his majesty. The one thing we ask of you is to do Phantom’s coronation in private as he prefers to keep the two halves of his life separate.’”

Phil finished reading the note and looked back to Danny and then around at the rest of the humans in the classroom. 

“Ah. I apologize, your majesty. I had not finished reading the note before I put it in my pocket and forgot about it.”

“I don’t want your lousy apology.” Danny frowned and crossed his arms, leaning back in his chair. “This wasn't how I pictured my identity reveal going.” 

“You’re really Phantom?” Dash squeaked. His cheeks went red. 

“Can I still say no?”

“It appears not, your majesty. I don’t think they will believe you.”

“Thanks, Phil. But I wasn’t asking you.”

Phil stood on top of Danny’s desk for a few silent seconds before he continued pulling things out of his pockets, littering the classroom floor with them. 

“Well, we might as well get on with the coronation ceremony, your majesty. No point in stopping now that I’ve already ruined it.”

“How did Danny become ghost king, again?” Dash asked, voice still squeaky. 

“He overthrew the previous ghost king, Pariah Dark. Ghost Zone law thereby decrees that the kingship should pass on to those that challenge the king and win.” Phil pulled a bowling ball out of his pocket and dropped it on the ground while he talked. “It had taken much deliberation but the Observants had finally decided that a half human half ghost hybrid would in fact be fit to rule the ghost zone, Mr. Baxter.”

Dash’s face went white. “How does he know my name?” He whispered. 

“Ah, here we go.” Phil pulled out first a scepter and orb. He gestured for Danny to stand up and after a few moments of having a staring contest, Danny rolled his eyes and stood up from his desk. 

The next thing Phil pulled out of his pocket was the crown of fire. Phil was speaking some sort of official sounding speech, but right before he placed the crown on Danny’s head, he backed up. 

“Do I have to wear it?” Danny asked.

Phil nodded, and understanding in his eyes. “Yes, your majesty. But I can take it back after the coronation ceremony if you wish.”

Danny nodded. Phil finished the rest of the speech and placed the crown on his head. 

“King Daniel James Fenton Phantom of the ghost zone!” 

Danny felt as the crown gave off a puff of power. It sent the scattered papers rustling on the floor and then everything was still again. 

“What did that do?” Danny asked Phil as the ghost took the scepter and orb back. 

“It recognized you as the king of the ghost zone, your majesty.” Phil said. He pushed the scepter deep into his pocket. “The crown bonds with you and recognizes you as its own.”

“Oh.” Danny said. “Will you be taking it back now?”

“Yes, your majesty. If that’s what you would like me to do.”

Danny nodded. The crown was floating above his head, but it was still a weight he didn’t like hovering over it.

Phil stooped down and gently took the crown off of Danny’s head. Putting that back in his pocket as well, he bowed down to Danny.

“I have been a royal advisor for many millennia, your majesty. So trust me when I say the ghost zone will be in good hands.”

And then with another whirlwind of scattered papers, Phil was gone back to wherever he came from. 

The classroom was silent for a few blissful but agonizingly tense moments before Danny’s classmates erupted into an uproar, asking him a million questions that he didn’t have the answers to. 

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