Nightmare Field Trip//Danny Phantom Fanfiction

Chapter I: The Asylum

Like many nights, Daniel Fenton hadn't much sleep, not with ghosts roaming the city and doing whatever the restless dead do. Many for sure decided to annoy his alter ego, the supernatural hero, Danny Phantom. So he spend a big part of his night with chasing the ghosts that found their way to Amity Park, either though one of the artificial Portals or the natural ones that pop up and close after a while.

While others would be scared of facing the dead on a daily, or nightly basis, Daniel is too used to actually care. He fought them and still does, it's his hobby at this point. But the last night, it even weirded him out. He was, like many days, chasing the ghost obsessed with boxes. The ghost calls himself 'Box Ghost', Danny calls him Boxy, as he can't take him serious. Boxy is one, if not the weakest ghosts in existence.

Box Ghost seemed to be easier to be defeated, but that could just bevexperience of Danny. No, it became weird when he found the ghost called Kitty, a female ghost. Danny, being somewhat friends with the ghostly girl, decided to ask her why she is there. She at first didn't say anything, but then, she appeared to be scared, and vanished. Danny is confused, but decided to ignore the weird behavior of Kitty.

So, like many Wednesdays, he was tired and his friends, the only ones besides his sister, that know his secret, asked what happened this night. He told them about his Kitty encounter, and they were as confused as he was. Tucker guessed, "Maybe Pariah Dark is back? The last time, the ghosts were scared shitless."

Danny declined, "No, Kitty and any other ghost would have told me that Pariah returned. And I as a half ghost would have sensed his return."

They decided to discuss this later, as their school day officially starts. Like always, their homeroom teacher, Mr. Lancer had the most boring lessons.

"Listen children, I have an announcement! We will have a field trip next week!" announced their teacher. The reaction of the class wasn't much, they all groaned, remembering the other trips they had.

Some student asked, "What museum is it this time?"

"We will visit an abandoned Asylum." told them their teacher. This shut the class down and caught the attention of Danny and his friends. "This is an experimental Field Trip, with the goal to learn about the Asylums of America."

The three friends looked at each other, this sounds pretty interesting, not boring. On the other hand, it's Lancer, it could become as boringvas the museum trips, maybe even worse. Their Teacher just continued his talking, "They were, like you know, created to take care of the mentally ill, be it temporarily or permanent. This was especially good for the poor communities that can't take care of their beloved ones."

The class wants to know what the actual trip will be, but Lancer spoke, "But like many great things, humanity ruins it. There are multiple reasons, one being, in the past, no one really understood the mind, disorders like Schizophrenia. This missing knowledge caused doctors to come up with methods, therapies that doesn't work. Many of these methods would be seen as inhumane and immoral by today's standards."

Some listened. "Another reason, is of course money. Many Asylums became privatized, and became just an industry. Many also send their elderly into the asylums, which caused the asylums to be over filled. This made the methods of healing worse, as they had to deal with more people. The general care also suffered. The patients often weren't even seen as human beings. Which enabled something else, inhumane..."

Now the class listened for the most part. "Many patients, especially the ones that stayed there for decades, seemingly abandoned by their families, were used for experiments. Experiments for anything the state won't approve, especially by today's standards. Many patients were killed and many asylums are rumored to be haunted. Years ago, it would be just rumors, but since Amity is haunted by real ghosts, many wonder, are these claims true..."