19 Works by ZombieMerlin
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Friendly Neighborhood Cryptid by ZombieMerlin for The_Lord_of_Chaos, Bubblegumbeech
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
05 Aug 2021
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Mr. Leggans is partially turned away from her. She doesn't want to interrupt his phone conversation— too many irrational thoughts about him getting explosively angry at her for trying— so she stares at him, willing him to turn back around so she can make eye contact and gesture at the red number on her monitor.
"—the little dude's eyes were just bright green. I'm talking like, the green of those glow-in-the-dark plastic stars that Dean had in his room when we were kids, yannow? And they were glowing."
Robin freezes. That sounds suspiciously like the kid from last week. Robin had long since dismissed him as a bad trip from a laced cigarette. How else was she supposed to explain the moving smoke and his freaky eyes and the glowing thermos? There's no way all those things actually happened.
___A series of semi-connected oneshots in which Amity Park discovers ghosts, featuring a slightly creepier take on our spectral friends. Featuring: A sentient puddle! Wet footsteps! Poorly timed lair redecoration! And— an ocean of milk? Not necessarily in that order.
(a.k.a. In which Danny is the Amity Park's friendly neighborhood cryptid instead of a ghostly superhero. For Phic Phight 2021.)
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Beecher doesn't like hurting children, but he also doesn't like when they get on his nerves.
He finally snaps when Fenton giggles. "Is this funny to you?"
"Yeah, it's pretty funny," the little brat says, frustratingly candid.
Don't react. Don't react. If you react, he will find it funny. "How did you get out of the handcuffs?"
"Ten percent luck."
"What—"
"Twenty percent skill."
"Are you serious—"
"Fifteen percent concentrated power of will."
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Danny gets kidnapped. He finds this far funnier than he has any right to.Phic Phight Prompt Fill 2021 for Hollyflash.
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"Shh!"
In Lancer's peripheral vision, he sees Justine glancing around before her gaze rests on Lancer himself. He'd been staring at the legal pad in front of him unseeingly as he'd listened. He quickly writes out some gibberish on the pad, realizing his pen had stilled. Their voices drop down to whispers after that.
Hmm. Daniel makes videos of some sort? They're available for his classmates to see, and he talks to ghosts in them. Lancer never would have imagined the latter, considering how the boy is always one of the first to leave the scene of a ghost attack. Oh, well. At the very least, Lancer is glad his student has a hobby.
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In which the entire student body of Casper High knows Danny's secret and has collectively agreed to keep it for him, and Lancer is baffled at Danny's sudden rise in popularity. Lancer slowly comes to realize there's a lot he doesn't know about Daniel Fenton... and then, eventually, it all makes sense. Sort of.Featuring Confused!Mr.Lancer and NotADick!Mr.Lancer in 25-ish short chapters. Inadvertently goes through a bit of a tone shift, but ends on a happy note.
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- Part 6 of Danny the ViewTuber
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An Official Ghost-Tour Honeymoon by ZombieMerlin for bibliophilea
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
03 Apr 2020
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"A ghost! That means there's a ghost!" he asks, his still-undetermined accent somehow managing to put more emphasis on the 'h' in 'ghost' than it normally does. He has this reaction every time the radar dings, without fail. The radar has gone off no less than six times today.
Santana Rodriguez-Gustav looks equally ecstatic, her hand a vice as she shakes Maddie's arm excitedly. Maddie has to remind herself that this is worth it. The money is worth this. Today is these two's last day here. She just has to weather the storm. Funding for research doesn't come easy, so she can't blow this. If this couple wants to waste their money on their so-called "official ghost tour honeymoon," that's fine. She just wishes they were easier to deal with.
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For Phic Phight 2020Series
- Part 2 of Phic Phight 2020
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The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes by ZombieMerlin for ghostanimal
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
02 Apr 2020
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"Baby brother? You okay?"
"MMmmmMmMmMMMMm," Danny says in response. Jazz and Maddie exchange glances.
"I'm... not sure what that means," Jazz admits. Then, her eyes light up in understanding. A sympathetic frown pulls down her lips. She hesitates, glancing at Maddie, before turning back to her brother's door.
"Is it related to the thing?"
"Yes," Danny says immediately.
Jazz exhales heavily. Maddie stares.
Her children are hiding something from her.
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In which Danny is stuck as Phantom and afraid to come out of his room, and his mother is worried.Series
- Part 1 of Phic Phight 2020
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'Ouija Board Gone Wrong: What Happened At The Lake' by ZombieMerlin
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
24 Mar 2020
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Maybe he's just psyching himself out, but Tucker genuinely has a Really Bad Feeling right now.
He supposes he could have decided to say no when Danny invited him and Sam to be a part of this video. He'd honestly thought about it, but then Danny offered to let him be the cameraman and well... Tucker couldn't say no to the opportunity to get his hands on that sweet ProCam. What's a little bit of fear when the trade-off is holding a wonderful beauty of human technological innovation? If he has to risk summoning some weird demon just to be able to hold this baby, well, then, so be it.
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In which Danny convinces Sam and Tucker to mess around with a Ouija board for one of his ViewTube videos. It's pretty uneventful at first, but then it isn't.
The events of this fic are referenced in Chapters 7 and 10 of "A Fenton Wrapped in a Mystery". This can be read as a standalone.
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- Part 8 of Danny the ViewTuber
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'How many pranks can I pull on one person in 48 hours? ft. Mayor Masters' by ZombieMerlin
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
25 Feb 2020
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Even from a good distance of away and two stories down, Jack's yell of "Ghosts!" is very distinctly audible. He produces a metal baseball bat with a sticker on it from some mysterious place on his person. Danny starts laughing even harder, and the camera shaking briefly worsens again.
Masters glares venomously at an oblivious Jack, who is still searching for a nonexistent ghostly threat. He then turns directly towards the window Danny is peeking out of.
"Ohcrap," Danny says quickly, hiding behind the windowsill in vain. He'd already been spotted. He turns the camera towards himself. His face is flushed from laughter as he buries a hand in his hair and giggles. "Oh, man, I'm so gonna get it... but it was is worth it."
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Danny has to spend the weekend at Vlad's, so decides to take advantage of the opportunity to make a prank video for his channel. Some of the pranks don't go as planned.This fic is referenced in Ch. 7 of "A Fenton Wrapped in a Mystery," but you don't need to read that to understand it.
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- Part 7 of Danny the ViewTuber
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"OW! I'm bleeding to death and you slapped me?!"
"Suck it up. And you're already dead, it can't be that different."
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Prompt provided by Pipermasters for Phic Phight 2019: Danny reveals his secret to Valerie, either on purpose or by mistake. How does she react?Series
- Part 7 of Phic Phight 2019
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"Sleepover At No Mercy Hospital! (Also: Concussions Suck)" by ZombieMerlin
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
12 Jan 2020
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"Now. Y'all know that I'm incredibly fond of doing incredibly stupid stuff. Last week, I got a dare to spend the night at a certain spoopy location that Casper High students may remember. That's right, I'm at..."
Danny turns around dramatically, revealing the decrepit sign and the looming building behind its fenced gate. Since last year, one of the snake heads at the top of the caduceus on the front of the building had fallen to the ground. Its open mouth oozes silent malevolence, despite being a statue.
"The not-so-affectionately nicknamed No Mercy Hospital!" he declares. Thunder accompanies the statement, followed by a quick flash of lightning. The camera, now attached to his head, points upwards as he looks up at an empty sky.
Wes2Weston: Back at it again with this supernatural bs, I see.
WaterIsSoWet: @Wes2Weston lol why are you here if you're not into it? :)--
Danny is a ViewTuber. In his latest video, he spends the night at No Mercy Hospital. It goes about as well as you might expect.(The events of this fic are referenced in Chapter 2 of A Fenton Wrapped In A Mystery.)
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- Part 5 of Danny the ViewTuber
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An announcement is posted on Danny Fenton's channel later that day.
"On Saturday, something happened at the end of my live stream. Students of Casper High that were present and want a proper explanation, or to those students that weren't present and want to know what really happened, please join this Concord server. It'll start tomorrow at 4:30pm."
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Curiosity is a powerful thing, and the students of Casper High want to know what Fenton's going on about.
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- Part 4 of Danny the ViewTuber
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"DannyFenton has invited you to join a stream. Do you accept?"[ ( ) Yes] [ ( ) No]
Valerie knows she's only being invited to whatever because of what happened yesterday. Danny being Phantom? That makes no sense, so...
[ (✓) Yes] [ ( ) No]
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Bonus: Dash sticks around at the end of the stream.Series
- Part 3 of Danny the ViewTuber
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In Which A Livestream Doesn't Go As Planned by ZombieMerlin for GoingDeceased
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
06 Jul 2019
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Sam facepalms. Tucker looks up, his amused grin fading upon seeing the look on Danny's face. "Danny. Man, come on. That's an awful idea, that's why I'm making fun of it!"
"I mean, it sounds like a pretty cool idea for my first live stream," Danny responds.
"Danny, no," Sam groans.
"Danny, yes."
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- Part 6 of Phic Phight 2019
- Part 2 of Danny the ViewTuber
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That Time Danny Accidentally Became a ViewTuber by ZombieMerlin for GoingDeceased
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
05 Jul 2019
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"What are you talking about? What video?"
"THIS!" Dash shoves a phone in Danny's face. A ViewTube video plays on the cracked screen.
The phone is so close that it takes a second for Danny's eyes to focus but then... oh. He's looking at himself. It takes him another moment to place the moonlit wooded clearing he was training in last night, and he watches a familiar figure scale halfway up a tree and start pull-ups.
Crap. It's his latest training video. That's impossible, though. Danny sets those to private and only shares them with Sam and Tucker whenever he wants feedback. How the heck...?
Oh. Wait. Did he actually make sure the last one was private?
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The first public video that Danny releases wasn't supposed to be public. The second one totally is.Series
- Part 5 of Phic Phight 2019
- Part 1 of Danny the ViewTuber
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"I mean. You look like him," the girl says, like it should be obvious. Which, okay, Danny should have figured that.
"Well, yeah, but I could just be someone in a costume."
"Are you?"
"Uh. No."
"Okay, then."
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Danny is recognized by a young fan.Prompt from Phic Phight 2019 in endnotes.
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I Will Never End Up Like Him (Behind My Back, I Already Am) by ZombieMerlin
Fandoms: Danny Phantom
11 Apr 2019
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Two Ghost Senses suddenly go off at the same time, and the Dannys look at each other. Danny #2 groans.
"Man, I was hoping to finish calc before dealing with this crap."
Prompt by the-trash-prince.
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- Part 4 of Phic Phight 2019
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"Which came first - the music, or the misery?" - Fall Out Boy, "The Music or the Misery"
Logically, Danny knew that ghosts were alive at some point. But it's just... hard to imagine them with lives. Then he stumbles upon Ember, staring up at the remains of a burned house.
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- Part 2 of Phic Phight 2019
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Danny's flying. Something is wrong.
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- Part 3 of Phic Phight 2019
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Fighting while exhausted is never a good thing, because Danny ends up missing things. Important things.
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- Part 1 of Phic Phight 2019
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Reset by ZombieMerlin
Fandoms: The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
12 Nov 2016
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The thing’s rank breath came out in slow, raspy exhales, and its attention didn’t waver as the unknown blond boy slowly stood up. As you watched, he raised a bow you hadn’t noticed before, nocked back a sleek black arrow, breathed, and released.
You thought he was beautiful.
I knew he would be the next one.