#Danny kitsune au

[fandombrainrots]

Ok just a random idea that I had to put down before I forgot it- and it feels so silly but it makes my brain go brrrrr

So, Kitsune AU Danny after a classic reveal gone wrong, the kitsune is from a meta gene he discovered while on the run. He winds up in Gotham, hiding his ears and tail as he starts trying to settle in. Cue Red Hood’s gang approaching Jason, telling him he needs to get himself a body guard, because everyone knows he has a thing going with sweet book-nerd Jason Todd. Red hood catches Danny saving a child, and just goes, “ya I’d let him protect me.”

I will flesh this out more later I swear-

( psssss @stealingyourbones can I has opinion)

#dc x dp #danny phantom #dp x dc #danny fenton #dpxdc #dc x dp prompt #dp x dc prompt #Danny kitsune au #tehe #this is my first try at a prompt lol #stealingyourbones get over here I want your opinion #opinions from the prompt god I beg

[13thdoodle]

[ Ectoberhaunt 2022 Day 4 : Box ]

tfw you got stuck a "bit" too long on the Other Side that ur family already throwing a funeral for you

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....technically a frame is box shaped... right? 🖼

#13thdoodle #danny phantom #ectoberhaunt22 #eh order #day 4 #box #danny phantom au #dp kitsune au #yea its not my a game im playing catch up with things rn qwq

[silverorchideon]

"いいこ　いいこ　とってもいいこ"

"Good child, good child. You're such a good child."

GJEJFJSJDJS I MADE THIS ANIMATION IN A LITTLE OVER A MONTH.

Okay, so it's been a while, and I haven't posted much because this thing's been sitting in flipalip for a bit.

There's a lot to say, but know that this is not my au, and in fact belongs to @13thdoodle! I got into the au the same time I started listening to this song again, and while it may not work in the canon of the au, I just wanted to animate something with it. Do support them, and thanks so much for the brainrot!

Now it'll be a bit, so I'll put the rest under a cut to make things easier.

The song is "The Good Child and the Fox Spirit" by Kikuo!

This took forever to do because of the shading and backgrounds. It's my first ever fully colored and shaded animation, so there's that!

Some of the animation is a bit janky, especially with our little fox here, and I'll be the first to admit that. I realized halfway through the lineart that I can't draw animals, and that was almost enough for me to scrap this altogether, but a flawed result is still better than a result never received, so there's that.

Don't even get me started on the shading, though. There was no clipping masks, or add layers. I settled for a hard light, but man.

Oh, but most importantly! Note that the Japanese on the "Possess me, possess me, did you possess me?" Could be a little inaccurate since I mostly got the Japanese from the vocaloid wiki, and had to seperate it in the animation captions. I'm not sure if I had cut it properly, so it may be inaccurate.

Also, there wasn't an extra "lonely" in the 3rd line, but I decided to add it in because it felt better for keeping the rhythm.

I also debated adding the Romaji text, but decided against it since I felt like it would clutter the animation.

I can't believe I wanted to make this a full animation of the entire song at first. I'm glad I didn't, honestly.

#art #digital art #fanart #au #danny phantom #dp #dp kitsune au #animation #danny fenton #danny fenton dp #i ramble a bit in this one #Go support KC as they are very talented! #dp au #danny phantom au

[duskyashe]

CAMP NANO DAY 22

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Duke watched Phantom pace around the rooftop in growing bemusement. The kid was going over the notes he'd taken in his little pocket notebook over the course of his and Dick's Q&As with a rather deep furrow between his brows, muttering under his breath all the while. Duke chanced a glance at his oldest brother from where he sat as straight-backed as possible on his stool of shadows. Though Dick was fully masked and in character, Duke could read the older man like a book. His casual perch on top of the roof access shed held a shade of wariness and the set of his shoulders belayed his concern.

He fully understood, from what Steph and Jason had said, Phantom knew pretty much instantly exactly what both of them were as soon as he'd finished questioning them. He hadn't had to ask them more than ten questions total before he just knew. With Dick, however, he'd asked almost twenty five questions, and Duke was asked almost forty before Phantom had started up his pacing and muttering.

Right as Duke's anxiety started acting up, started whispering poisonous words about how he was a fake and a failure, that Phantom was going to declare him nothing more than a freakishly over powered meta and his family would turn him out on the streets over it, the kid abruptly stopped pacing and, without even looking up from his little notebook, asked the two of them, "So did you guys know you were both light deities before you came up here, or is that just a huge freaking coincidence? Because I've cross-checked the facts and crunched all the numbers, and you two are both minor deities of light, among other things."

Dick rolled his head dramatically to the side door a moment before asking in his raspy Raven voice, "Among other thingsssss?"

Phantom looked up from his notes with a blank startled look before understanding flashed across his expression. "Ahh, yes. Raven, you're a minor guardian trickster deity of light, your domains are pranks and tomfoolery, light, and protection. Signal, you're a minor guardian deity of light and shadows, your domains are both light and shadows, as well as protection. Basically, your domains are things that empower you and that you can manipulate and control with training. Eventually, you'll even be able to bless people within your clan's territory with any of your domains, such as blessing someone to find safety within the light of street lamps. Raven, as a trickster, you'll be drawn to areas and people full of mischief, and even feel the urge to start mischief, yourself," he explained. "As both of you are also guardians, you're inherently connected to the general wellbeing of the inhabitants of your territory. When someone is in danger within the city limits, you'll be able to tell. With practice, you'll even be able to hone in on the location."

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Cass watched from her spot draped across a crouching Tim's shoulders as Phantom gently smacked his forehead with his little notebook. He'd just finished questioning her and seemed to be having a small mental breakdown. She watched him for a little longer before softly whistling a question to her little brother in the family's secret conlang, Is he okay? Tim's chirped answer, I'm not sure, was followed by Phantom taking a deep breath and looking back up at them.

"Sorry about that, I wasn't expecting your clan to have so many minor deities in it. Ibis, you're definitely a kitsune, though I have no idea how many tails you have yet or what they can do, so we'll have to figure that out next time. BlackBat, you're a minor guardian deity of darkness and shadows, your domains are darkness, shadows, and protection. Like I told Raven and Signal, your domains are things that empower you. You and Signal share the domain of shadows, but as you also possess the domain of darkness itself, you'll be able to do things with shadows that he likely never will, no matter how much he trains his shadow domain," Phantom said before letting out a gust of breath and drawing his feet up to sit in midair. He ran a hand through his bright white hair, his entire frame screaming to her his astonishment and wariness. "Ancients, your clan is seriously OP. Batman is most likely a major deity since he has three minor deities under him, then there's the three of you minor deities. Condor's a Phoenix, Starling is a banshee, you're a kitsune with who knows how many tails, Ibis—" he pulled his hand from his hair and ran it down his face instead.

Tim and Cass glanced at each other at his words. Were clans... Not supposed to be like theirs? It felt entirely natural to her, especially since her family had started taking lessons from Phantom. She couldn't imagine her clan being anything other than exactly as it was.

Phantom must have caught the motion of their heads as he hurried to explain. "Most clans are made up of similar, if not the same, species. Your clan not only has a wider variety of species than normal, a lot of you are rare species that either have difficulties getting along with certain species also counted among your number, or aren't usually found in clans at all. Deities, major and minor, either form pantheons, which are different from clans, with other deities local to their territory or fiercely guard their territory from other deities and remain solo their entire existence. The fact that you have a deity in your clan, let alone three or more, is—is unheard of."

Tim froze in her grasp as he immediately began absorbing, analyzing, and extrapolating the new information they'd been given, but Cass barely noticed. No, what drew her attention more than the truly ground shaking information, was the beginnings of real, fragile hope began to show themselves in Phantom's body language. Where before, both the first time she met Phantom and just earlier that very night, he'd exhibited signs of relief and safety, this was perhaps the first time she'd seen him express hope. Cass wondered what he'd seen, what he'd experienced, that had led to him losing his hope in the first place, then she decided that, whatever it was, she wanted to punish the ones behind all of it for taking that hope away.

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AHHH I DID IT. I FINALLY FINISHED WRITING CHAPTER THREE. ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ This took forever, and I apologize for that. I had to start writing this chapter five different times before I finally figured out how the heck I even wanted to begin. Anyway, I had a lot of fun writing this chapter and all the lore drops. Cass's POV kinda got away from me and I'm not entirely sure where half the stuff I put in there came from, but it works! I hope y'all enjoyed it! I'm hoping to get back into the swing of writing and posting nearly every day for the rest of the month, but we'll just have to see, won't we (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

#danny phantom #batman #fanfiction #dp crossover #fanfic #dp au #dpxdc #cryptid batfamily #danny fenton #duke thomas #dick grayson #cassandra cain #tim drake #i guess Duke isn't a will o the wisp anymore #but i think this might be better #Tim is still a kitsune though #poor danny #he's having a hard time wrapping his head around the species he's confirmed make up the bat clan #don't worry he'll get there #camp nanowrimo 2023 #CAMP NANO 2023 DAY 22 #Calling All The Monsters part 4 chapter 3

[ne0nkisu]

Kitsune au slight redesign ~ for @13thdoodle

#dp kitsune au #danny phantom #dp #ak art #danny fenton

[ajitated]

(Originally posted: 15 May 2021)

Summary: Adjusting to life as a fox spirit isn't easy, but Danny's getting the hang of it. Now if only the closest thing he has to a mentor would actually answer his questions, instead of sending him out to do tasks with no explanation.

Written for DannyMay Day 15, Nature! (and also @13thcat's kitsune au :3)

#ajility writes #ajs fanworks #danny phantom #moving onto blog #originally posted 15 may 21 #dp kitsune au #dp lost time #dannymay #dannymay2021

[ideasarestuckinmyhead]

Okay a different Au where all the listeners are cryptics/Eldritch horrors.

Like boo kept it a secret since they didn't want to freak out Al. Well they're more like a hybrid but have a longer life span bc of the cryptic part of their biology. Instead of a gun killing Derek it was Boo showing him their true form. The horrid screams Derek let out was all everyone needed to not go in. They're a shadow one bc of a fic I read.

Casper being a powerful ghost that can make their body physical think Danny Phantom. So when Charlie called them Casper they un ironically loved it. But when they're really pissed they'll make everything float in the room and forbid anyone if they tried to hurt their rat boy.

Even Rook deciding to play around with Auron but ends up falling in love and being very protective over him. They could be like a...playful spirit like a Kitsune. They weren't joking when they told Auron they were dangers as him...obviously more. But he has slight control over them.

Finn obviously gets with a plant cryptic or eldritch horror. Like a plant person, after watching how much he loves plants they decided to chat with him. When a plant just isn't doing well they use their powers to help it grow stronger. They also have a secret garden for him.

Story!Finn gives me like a time or owl eldritch horror. Since we know he's a mage and probably lives longer. His lover might also have a part in playing with that. But they help with overseeing everything in the universe and is trying to fix his mistakes. But mostly is just living their best lives with him.

Seth to live out his promise of bedding the mothman gets a moth crypid s/o. They are able to use glamor to hide some features and their wings are hidden away easily. They show him one night and he's geeking tf out. Lil cryptic nerd. And no we don't know mothman but he could he a distant cousin.

Faust has a star type eldritch horror s/o. Since they lived for so long they wanted to come to earth to do whatever. Streaming came easy since they were use to so many people's attention being on them. They like this silly blue haired man. They show their half true form bc the real one will drive anyone mad. A star tattoo is on their forehead as their 'third' eye.

#yuurivoice auron #yuurivoice bittersweet #yuurivoice #yuurivoice charlie #yuurivoice finn #yuurivoice faust #yuurivoice alphonse #yuurivoice seth #red writes

[mysteryideasgroup]

S___ the Dog/Kitsune My NEW MSA X Poppy Playtime OC

Full Name:

Nicknames:

Short Name:

Gender: Female

Profile Pic

Age: 15 or 18/20

Blood Type:

Scent: Roses/Cherry Blossoms

Occupation:

Actual or Past Occupation:

Favourite Shows/Games: ___/___/___

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Favourite Food:

Instrument:

Favourite Animal: N/A

Family Members Relatives: S___ the Polter Dog/Kitsune (Younger Sister)

Other Family Members Relatives:

Friends: Bobby BearHug, Bubba Bubbaphant, CraftyCorn, DogDay, Hoppy Hopscotch, KickinChicken and PickyPiggy (The Smiling Critters/her new friends), Cheerful Unicat, Lonely-Sad Goat, Bravefoxie Fox, Storyteller Owl, Laura/You, Sardonyx the Poltercat, Sarah/Me (her Favourite Owner Toy), Samantha the Polter Dog/Kitsune, Sapphire the Dog/Kitsune, Ruby the Palisman Dog/Kitsune

Enemies: Catnap, The Prototype,

Species: Toy Dog/Kitsune

Status: Alive/Active

Alignment: Good

Likes: Mystery Solving, Mystery Games, Solved Mystery, Mystery Skulls, Scooby Doo, Danny Phantom, Playing with Big Fish Games and Mad Head Games, Resolves Mystery,

Dislikes: The Poppy Gas, storms and rains, Unsolved Mystery,

Hobby: 

Goals: To survived from Catnap's Poppy Gas and to defeat Catnap (Both Succeeded)

Personality: Mystery, Smart, Friendly, Puzzle, Helpful, Kind, Adventurous, Suspected

Weapons: 

Powers and Abilities: 

Skills and Abilities: 

Fears/Phobias: 

Skin Colour: White

Eyes Colour: White

Hair Colour: Like Mystery's and Misty/Misti's

Clothes: Like Mystery's and Misty/Misti's

Shoes: Like Mystery's and Misty/Misti's

Accessories: Collar with Questions Mark: ? of Like Mystery's and Misty/Misti's,

Hair Styles: Like Mystery's and Misty/Misti's

Nationality: 

Sexuality: 

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For @laurasanchez36

AUs Alternate Universes Crossovers belongs to me 

All belongs to my msa x ppt ocs sonas 

All belongs to her msa x ppt ocs sonas 

Mystery Skulls Animated MSA belongs to Ben and MysteryBen27 of YouTube YT Series 

All belongs to my new msa x Horror Games Poppy Playtime PPT games ocs sonas 

All belongs to her new msa x Horror Games Poppy Playtime PPT games ocs sonas 

Poppy Playtime belongs to Mob Entertainment 

#mystery skulls #mystery skulls animated #mystery skulls ghost #msa #msa oc #mystery skulls oc #poppy playtime #ppt #msa x poppy playtime #msa x ppt #msa x poppy playtime au #msa x ppt au #au #au crossover

[gamerbearmira]

Supernatural Au? I love the house broken and mermaid au and than I thought what if there was a mix, and what if it also affected Alma, it’s just she’s never been aware. They all become some form of supernatural Creature! And it affects everyone who joins the Madrigal family!

From oldest to Youngest.

Alma is an Elf, but her ears only slightly pointed so she can still come off as human. She just didn’t realize that she stopped aging after the triplets got their abilities.

Felix is a Werecat. Specifically one who becomes a Jaguar. And he changes every night rather than during full moons

Julieta is a witch since her cooking is kinda like making healing potions. She can do more but she specializes in healing. Her ears are slightly pointed.

Pepa is a Fury. This in hand with her weather powers makes her someone you definitely don’t want to piss off. Plus now she can fly :D

Bruno is a Kappa. They can tell the future and usually try to warn people about bad ones. They make jokes sometimes to you varying effects

Agustin is a mummy because he seems like someone who’d need to be bandaged up all the time. Plus sometimes mummy’s are buried with honey and maybe that’s why bees are always at him.

Isabella is a flower Nymph though she can grow more that that. She’s part plant!

Dolores takes after Felix by being a werewolf. Her senses are always sharp in or out of the form

Luisa is a Lamia. Half Human half snake. She can potentially hypnotize the donkeys so she doesn’t have to waste energy carrying them all.

Camillo is a Kitsune. Mischievous shapeshifter

Mirabel is a Ghost. She’s got ghost powers but overall looks the same and doesn’t think she’s as unique despite these abilities.

Antonio is a fairy because…he’s a cutie patootie

YOU MIGHT BE ONTO SOMETHING THERE….

Imagine Ghost Mirabel but she’s just Danny Phantom. Literally whenever someone in her family makes her mad she she either disappears or phases into the floor 💀💀

But I like this! I can imagine Mirabel trying to prove that she can help with her ghost abilities and all that. Alma won’t let her though because it probably just isn’t flashy enough for her taste. Even though Mirabel can probably do a ton of helping. How she’s saves. Casita, she probably can pull some ghost stuff and somehow grab the candle.

What she just goes whole days invisible and when the family starts freaking out she’s laughing so hard lmao. Just goes around haunting people and scaring the crap out of them ☠️☠️

#encanto #encanto au #au #encanto mirabel #supernatural AU

[13threbagel]

I know a shortcut? 👀

ajskdsd that one's a kitsune au comic wip

I wanted to play with the "Paulina is a Phantom fangirl" thing for kitsune au n one way i can think of to get there is Danny helping her in someway n thats when she thinks this kitsune yokai is p cool actually uwu

So, Paulina had a fight with her parents and then ran off into the mountain area (probably didn't even realized it, her house is very big n near the mountain n she just kept running). Danny found her hiding and wanted to help her get home bc it's night time already, very dangerous for human to be there

But she ran p far into the woods and it'll take a bit to go back, esp with Kija (enn's oc snek yokai that likes to eat ppl) around. So, Danny offer a shortcut

I actually really like how this looks but I keep going back n forth on how to illustrate the shortcut part n it end up buried under other wips n doodles

#asks #tag game #wip #one of these days I will get back to this bc it actually looks cool qwq

[dailudannos]

A secret santa gift my beloved friend @13thdoodle!

A request of Kitsune!Danny with Tucker and Sam exploring the caves (don’t worry they just got scared by a bat that’s all)

#danny phantom #dp kitsune au #kitsune au #sam manson #tucker foley #dp au #13thdoodle #my art

[13thdoodle]

[ DP Kitsune AU : 🍁❄ ]

I got a request for Danny's alternate costumes ages ago. Finally got the time to do them. Danny get to be extra fancy uwu

(There's no spider lily emote so 🍁will have to do u_u)

#dp kitsune au #danny phantom #dp au #danny phantom au #13thcat art #It's been so long since I draw properly.... #i got anxious n feel hella rusty

[archangeltama]

@13thcat >:3c

#dp kitsune au #my art #DP #danny phantom #this is the longest four seconds of my life

[alitheakorogane]

I present to you, my own version of Chibi Kitsune!Danny. ❤️❤️

This is based on Danny Phantom Kitsune AU by @13thdoodle, and the pose was based on on a pose reference I found on Google.

Transparent PNG version:

#danny phantom #kitsune!danny #dp kitsune au #kitsune au #chibi!danny #danny phantom anime #danny phantom fan art #phanart #danny phantom phanart #chibi art #chibi #danny phantom au #alternative universe #anime art

[blazinartstudio]

so a DP kitsune AU exists? 

well now i have to draw my kitsune with danny!

@13thdoodle

(Edit: this is getting a lot of attention so hi, please follow me if you want to see more of my art, thank you ❤️)

#dp kitsune au #shiro #sona #kitsune oc #danny phantom #artwork #WHY IS THIS GETTING SO MUCH ATTENTION LOL

[ajitated]

Kitsune au Preview (ch1) by ajility

Ectoberhaunt 2021, Day 18, Spider Lily (treat)

(Originally posted 10 November 2021)

This is an unbeta'd version of the first chapter for a much longer kitsune au fic I'm writing! @13thcat originally came up with kitsune au, though I'll be taking my version in a different direction :3c

Summary: Being from a family that has a history in exorcism mostly meant that he gets laughed at in school and his parents spend too much time building ridiculous weapons to fight things that don't exist. ...And then his parents decided to move to Japan, halfway through Danny's first year of high school, and he quickly learns that spirits do exist, and that finding them is a lot easier than his parents led him to believe.

Keep reading, or check it out on ao3!

Ch01 Sneak-peek:

Danny knows he’s dreaming in the same way that you know something terrible is going to happen to the protagonist in the beginning of a horror movie; it’s a fact, there’s nothing that can be done about it, but you still flinch when it happens, you still hold yourself back from yelling at the screen and telling the characters ‘no! don’t go in there!’

He’s in a forest, the same forest he always sees in his dreams, with trees too tall and wide to really exist and little dancing lights that flicker at the edges of his vision. There are a lot of things like the lights, that lurk and taunt and exist only until he tries to look at them more directly, but the lights are the most prevalent… and the only ones he doesn’t really mind.

At least they don’t make him feel like he’s being watched, like there’s something silently laughing at him and waiting for him to come just a little bit closer so it can pounce.

Leaves rustle and a stick snaps behind him. Danny spins around, already growling and ready to protect himself, but… there’s nothing there. Nothing he can see, at least.

Danny knows that ghosts aren’t real, when he’s awake — or at least, not real in the way his parents think they are. They don’t go around haunting and killing the living. They don’t hide items that are important to people. They aren’t malevolent, they aren’t the source of all living people’s problems, and they most certainly don’t need to be hunted with special weapons.

Maybe things were different in the past, he doesn’t technically have proof that they’re not real… but despite being from a long line of exorcists, his parents don’t have proof that they are real, either. You would think that a family of exorcists would have some sort of proof, if the things they exorcise actually exist.

But things aren’t as clear-cut, when he’s dreaming. Dream-him isn’t bothered by things like reality and science; he takes note of the little lights dancing just out of focus and thinks ‘will-o-wisps’. He sees strange shadowy shapes creeping between trees and thinks ‘bakemono’.

He does things like growl and bear his teeth at potential threats that never actually turn visible.

It’s probably a good thing he hardly ever remembers the dreams upon waking, because there are a lot of invisible potential threats in the forest, and it’d be really bad if Danny picked up a habit and started reacting to things by growling when he’s awake, too.

A gust of wind. More rustling leaves. A low growl builds in the back of his throat. A shadow starts building up just off to his right side, something growls back, and Danny slaps a paper tag in the direction of the shadow before taking off, twisting and weaving between the trees.

Branches almost seem to reach out for him but he’s gone before they can ever make contact, moving so quickly it’s almost like he’s flying, feet never even touching the ground.

He makes it to a stone path and stops for just a second, orienting himself and choosing a direction before continuing to run. He can just make out a splash of bright red through the trees and he grins — a torii gate. He must be near the entrance, if he can just make it through the gate-

A teasing laugh sounds out, directly next to his ear, and Danny lashes out with sharpened claws even as he’s jumping away. How did one get so close-?

A ripped paper tag drifts to the ground.

“Ohh, your reaction time is getting better,” a voice teases, from directly in front of him.

He growls in frustration, because he still can’t see the speaker. How can he deal with a spirit, if he can’t tell what type it is?

“You don’t want to step through that gate, though,” the speaker continues, either ignoring the fact he can’t see them or unaware of it.

“Why not?” Danny demands, “I want to go home.”

“And so did all of us, at one point or another,” the voice agrees, and it’d almost be sympathetic if the sharp edge of amusement wasn’t still present, “but that doesn’t make it a good idea.”

“So, what? You want me to wander around this forest forever?” Danny says sarcastically.

“No, of course not. This world has much more than a single forest, and you have a whole lot to learn.”

There’s a pause. He thinks that maybe they left or just don’t want to give him any real explanation, but then there’s a soft pressure on the back of his neck and the voice is directly by his ear again.

“We’ll see each other soon, but for now… What I want, is for you to wake up, little fox. Before you forget how.”

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Danny wakes with a start, only to get pulled back by his seatbelt and to find Jazz staring at him with raised eyebrows. He grasps at the remnants of his dream, trying to hold on to anything at all, but it’s already fading.

His fingers feel weirdly blunted and tingly, there’s an uncomfortable pressure in his jaw, and even the way he’s sitting feels wrong, like he shouldn’t be able to lean back in a car like this. He’s felt like this after just waking up before but usually it isn’t quite this vivid.

It’d probably help if he could remember what he dreams about — are they even dreams? Maybe it’s nightmares — but all he can call up is the thought of running, needing to run, and an impression of teasing laughter. He sighs.

“We’re almost there, honey,” Maddie says, “and look! There’s the school you two will be attending now. It looks nice.”

“It looks old,” Danny grumbles, crossing his arms. What a way to start a New Year: another weird dream, and an overly long trip because his parents decided they’re going to move to Japan halfway through a school year. “Why couldn’t we at least wait until summer for this?”

“The shrine won’t sit there forever, Danno! Great grandpa Walker left it to us, and it’s our duty to uphold the Fenton family name and hunt down those ghosts!” Jack says, with way more excitement than the situation warrants.

“Spirits, Jack. We have to be respectful,” Maddie reminds him.

Jack nods and brandishes the ecto-gun he’s been polishing since they got off the plane and started driving. “Right! Maybe your school will be haunted, wouldn’t that be exciting? It could be our first job in Japan!” He points the gun in the direction of the school as they drive past.

Jazz puts a bookmark in the book she hasn’t stopped reading since they left, and snaps it shut. “I’ll pass on that, actually. I plan on getting an education at school, not performing exorcisms.”

“Oh come on kids, quit whining. It’s fun to move to a new place, it’ll be an adventure!” Maddie insists, glancing back at them for a second. This leads to them almost missing a turn, and she dramatically spins the wheel to make up for it with a “Whoops!”

Jazz’s book slides into Danny’s leg, and Jazz probably would’ve slid into him too if it weren’t for their seat-belts. The road gets bumpier, then turns into dirt and starts slanting up. Danny suddenly has a very bad feeling about this.

Jazz does too, if the way it looks like she suddenly swallowed a lemon is anything to go by. “...mom? Why are we heading up the mountain now?”

“We’ve talked about this, sweetie. We’re here to take over the upkeep of a shrine.”

“Yes,” Jazz replies slowly, “but that doesn’t explain why we’re heading up a mountain when we’re supposed to be moving into our new living space today.”

“The shrine is our new living space Jazzypants!” Jack booms, “and everyone knows that shrines have to be on mountains! It’ll be great, what better way to learn more about the gho- er, spirits on this side of the world than to live right in a real shrine?”

Danny is pretty sure that isn’t true, that there’s no requirement that says shrines have to be on mountains, but arguing it is probably a moot point. It wouldn’t change the fact that this shrine seems to be on a mountain, and that his parents have, evidently, decided they’re going to live in it. Are you supposed to live in shrines?

He exchanges a glance with Jazz. At least they’re both annoyed about this, and Jazz hasn’t been able to muster up her ‘look on the bright side of things!’ attitude yet. They’re going to have to walk down a mountain every day to get to school, just because their parents are obsessed with ghosts, despite the fact that they’ve never even seen a real ghost — or spirit, as they’ve started insisting ever since they first learned of the shrine great grandfather left them.

Danny never met his great grandfather. He didn’t even know they still had any family living in Japan, but maybe if he’d known, he would’ve been able to beg the man not to leave a shrine to his parents.

Jazz leans over and whispers, “...maybe it won’t be that bad? People probably don’t send spam mail to shrines, and mom and dad can’t attach any weird giant signs to it, right? It’d be too disrespectful.”

When the shrine comes into view, any potential optimism they’ve dredged up disappears just as quickly as Danny’s memories of his dream did.

It might have been beautiful, once upon a time, but now… well. He’s pretty sure their grandfather hadn’t been doing any upkeep for at least a few years now. The paint is cracked and peeling and it looks entirely abandoned, some plants have even started wrapping around the wood and growing up through cracks.

The inside isn’t any better. Some of the wood is rotting and there are even more spiderwebs. The only upside is that since their grandfather lived there for so long, there are valid living areas, even if they desperately need to be cleaned and fixed up. Upon seeing the outside, Danny had been half worried that there wouldn’t be a kitchen or bathroom or bedrooms.

...actually, maybe it would’ve been better if there hadn’t been a kitchen. Then they would’ve had to find an alternate living situation, and their parents wouldn’t be excitedly discussing how they’re going to fix up the place and what additions they should add on.

Their parent’s enthusiasm hasn’t wavered at all, despite the state the shrine is in — and worse, the fact this is a shrine doesn’t seem to be stopping them from pulling out plans for a lab and workshop space. Now that it’s happening, he isn’t sure why he and Jazz expected otherwise; their parents are nothing if not predictable. At least the living quarters are separate from the main part of the shrine.

Jazz glances at him and offers a weak smile. “At least we’ll get to learn more about the other half of our heritage?”

Danny isn’t sure that’ll make up for everything else, but he nods. At least Jazz can work up some excitement over learning about the culture.

All he’s thinking about is Amity Park and Nasty Burger and everything else they left behind. He’s interested in learning more about Japan too, of course, but… he would’ve preferred to do it through the internet. Or anime. Or anything less extreme than ‘move to the country with roughly 24 hours of warning.’

The moving truck has already dropped off all their stuff, at least. His parents start bringing in all the larger boxes and furniture, while he and Jazz bring in small boxes and suitcases… then start the arduous task of cleaning.

Danny stops and turns around more than once, quite certain something is watching him from the forest that surrounds the shrine, but nothing is ever there.

They work late into the night, getting rid of all the spiderwebs and dirt first. The next day, they start going through cabinets and counters and shelves, dusting and clearing out any of the random stuff they find.

It’s mostly empty, but Danny finds a few old papers with calligraphy he can’t read and a surprisingly nice teapot. It’s heavy and black, probably cast iron, with a gold flower design going around the outside. It feels strangely warm when he picks it up, but he can’t get the lid off, so it must be a decorative piece.

He sets it down on the counter and goes to get Jazz, intending to show her the teapot and see if she can open it… but it’s gone when they walk back over.

“...so?” Jazz asks, glancing around the room with a raised eyebrow. “I thought you found a fancy teapot.”

Danny goes through the cabinets quickly, but those are empty too. “I left it right there, it was black and had gold designs!”

Jazz stares at the counter that very clearly has nothing on it. “...mhm. I think the dust might be getting to your head. Oh!” She reaches into her pocket and pulls out a little rectangular charm. “I picked this up earlier, here. It’s an ‘omamori,’ meant for luck and protection. You can keep it in your pocket or hang it off a bag, and when it gets really dirty or a year passes, you replace it.”

Danny examines the little charm for a second, silk embroidered with gold thread, then puts it in his pocket.

“Shrines usually sell these,” she continues, “so we might end up having a whole bunch here. I have no idea what mom and dad plan on doing besides the exorcism stuff, but… we’ll probably have to start doing some shrine stuff too, right? It’s just a local shrine, but people must still know it’s here, so we might get visitors… I have to research it more.”

Right. The exorcism stuff. Danny wonders if people here will be more open to the idea, or if they’ll get scoffed at and laughed at again — no one in the US ever took them seriously, though they did occasionally get accused of being devil worshipers.

“Thanks for the charm, Jazz,” he replies, instead of addressing any of the other stuff. He has no idea what they’ll end up doing with the shrine, after all, and with how long repairs and fixing everything up is going to take… well. There’s plenty of time for his sister to research.

Jazz smiles and nods. “There’s a bunch of different types, I’ll have to figure out what each is for. For now though, let’s go outside? I think it’s time for some fresh air. We can finish inside once mom and dad decide where they actually want to put everything.”

There’s a loud crash as something is dropped in the other room, quickly followed by Jack shouting, “I’m ok!”

“...yeah, outside sounds like a good plan,” Danny agrees, and they go to sit on the freshly swept steps to the shrine.

Danny takes a moment to actually look at the area surrounding them for the first time. They’re around three fourths of the way up the mountain, and there’s a stone path that splits in two right outside the gate, one side going down the mountain and the other leading farther up, disappearing into the trees. There must be something at the top of the mountain then, right? Besides more trees, since it seems to mostly be forest here.

He turns his attention to the gate, which desperately needs a paint job, and notices a splash of color he hadn’t seen when they first drove up. Spider lilies. Had those been there yesterday?

“Hey Jazz,” he asks, pointing at the flowers, “were the spider lilies there when we drove up yesterday? I didn’t notice them.” Considering they’re the only part of the shrine that’s bright red, what with everything else being so faded, he definitely should’ve noticed them.

“Spider lilies?” Jazz repeats, looking towards the gate. “Oh. Those are red poppies, Danny. I’ll have to get you a book on plants, whenever we find out where the nearest library is… They were there, they just hadn’t been in bloom when we arrived.”

Not being in bloom is a good enough reason for him to miss them, but… Danny is pretty certain those are spider lilies. He might not be great at plants, but even he knows that poppies are small and roundish, and those flowers are large and spindly.

Maybe he’ll get Jazz a book on plants instead.

Whatever.

He stands up and stretches. “I’m gonna go for a walk. Be back soon, ok?”

Jazz sighs and also stands, brushing off her pants. “Ok. I’ll do a little more cleaning, maybe try to convince mom and dad to get our beds set up for tonight. Be careful?”

“Yeah yeah,” Danny replies, already heading towards the forest. “I’ve got the charm you gave me, I’ll be fine!”

As he walks through the gate, he stops for a second to take a closer look at the flowers and determines that yep, they’re definitely spider lilies. He’ll have to make fun of Jazz later, for thinking they’re poppies… Maybe she needs glasses? But for now, he heads up the path. It’s time to find out what’s at the top of the mountain.

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