(Author's note: This is one of many fan fictions I started but never finished. Please note there are fan characters throughout this story. )

Chapter 1: Rain

The sweet smell of rain fell upon the two, tiny fighters, in the sky. Lighting occasionally illuminated the area, but otherwise they remained in the shadow of night, blow for blow, blast for blast. Two half ghosts moving to the dance of combat.

Vlad chuckled to the younger lad as a rather large blast threw him back and shattered his reflective shield. "You've improved since the last time we fought, boy."

"Well it has been a while. I thought you had decided to retire, old man." The fifteen year old hero retorted, as he readied another blast. He kinda missed the banter that usually occurred between him and the older, sometimes desperate-bachelor half ghost.

"Daniel, if I ever decided to retire, I'm sure you'll be the first to know." He dodged the boy's attack, returning his own at a downward angle. Danny simply went intangible and the pink energy harmlessly sailed through him, hitting the ground and leaving a bit of a mar in the cement.

The teen half ghost smirked as he returned to tangibility. "Seriously Vlad, I know all your tricks, and while you were gone I refined all my new ones!" With that he let out a ghostly wail at the older man. The green rings of sonic ecto-energy hit their mark and sent Vlad flying back, until he hit the side of a building and slid to the street beside it.

Cautiously Danny floated down towards the fallen rival. Vlad didn't seem to be moving, but he wasn't changing back to Masters either. "So are you going to give up and go home?" He asked with a hint of arrogance, even if he wasn't sure the one he was talking was unconscious or not. He finally was close enough to touch the man, if he wanted to. Not that he actually had any intention of reaching out and touching Vlad.

Vlad remained still, with his normally glowing red eyes closed. Danny sighed and finally gave in, nudging the man with his foot. "Hey, Fruit Loop, you alright?"

"Yes, Daniel." Vlad muttered, a twisted smirk forming on his lips as he opened his eyes, aiming a blast from his eyes. Danny couldn't help but yell out, startled, until the attack hit him. Then he was flung back a short distance from his rival. Vlad slowly rose to his feet and brought a hand around his stomach, his body aching. But at least, he could assume Danny was now hurting too.

He only closed his eyes for a second as he got up, but when Vlad opened them again Danny was gone from his sights. His grin reversed as his eyes shot back and forth in search for the teen. Something moved behind him and he pivoted, energy blast in hand. He fired the attack, sending the shadowed figure against the wall he was just leaning against in a billow of dust and debris.

"And now you're way off target. Maybe you need glasses, Vlad." Danny's voice came from above the man, making his glare shoot straight up.

"Darn you, boy! If you'd just hold still we'd have finished this by now." Vlad split his Plasmius form in two and went to go flank his rival. Danny was about to split into four to cancel it, when he noticed something small and human shaped amoung the settling smoke of Vlad's attack. He gaped for a second as the form a small child came into view.

Just barely dodging the flanking attack Danny pointed down. "Uh, Vlad. L-look!" The older half ghost just snuffed, forming back together before charging up a rather large attack.

"Like I'm going to fall for that boy! I didn't just fall off the turnip truck." He shot off the attack, but clearly missed the teen as Danny flew down to the side of the small child. Vlad turned to watch, but his heart nearly stopped as he watched his rival shakily picking up the boy.

Danny checked over the little boy, and found him covered in cuts and burns from the ecto-energy. He was bleeding quite profusely, but the teen hero didn't know what to do, panic making him forget all his first aid training. But as he picked up the child something fell from his neck, landing on the ground in a small puddle of blood and rain. In a flash of soft, non-evasive light the boy changed before the two enemies eyes. When the glow died Danny found the boy had small feathered white wings, and a little round crystal in the middle of his forehead. Even in the dark of night the crystal shone like a cloudless sky.

Vlad watched as the boy changed in the younger half ghost's arms. He couldn't believe his eyes. The tiny one was, as far as he could tell, an angel.

He finally landed on the battle worn street and changed back into Masters, looking down at his hands. He had struck an angel, and not just that, but he had struck a child. Danny, still in his Phantom form, glared up to the older man with glowing green eyes. Tears filled the lower lids as the anger rose.

"I hope you're happy!" The teen hero finally screamed out at the man, who looked away in shame. "How could you hurt a kid like this?" He didn't wait long for a reply, just making a loud sound of frustration before he turned to go. He wasn't sure where he'd go to get help, but he had to do something, while the boy was still breathing. He was about to shoot off into the night when a hand reached over and touched his shoulder.

Vlad gripped Danny's shoulder as firmly as he could, but he was shaking a little too. "I had no intention. Please, Daniel, I can help him." He got the youth to stop and turn back to him, but Danny's eyes just shot daggers into his older rival. Vlad took off his coat and held it out to him. "Wrap the boy in my coat, maybe it'll stop the bleeding long enough for us to take him to the hospital."

Danny did as he was told, swaddling the small child. Then he turned back to the other half ghost, slowly shaking his head. "We can't take him to the hospital, though... I mean what do you think the doctors are going to think when they see a boy with wings?"

Vlad sighed and nodded to his younger rival. "You're right, Daniel... Let's take him to Fenton Works." To this Danny nodded and took to the air. Vlad changed back to Plasmius and shot after him.

When they got into the house they snuck right through all the floors down to the lab. This late at night it was the place that was least likely bothered by any night-owls. Danny looked around for a clear spot to place a child, but frowned when he discovered every flat surface in the whole room was occupied with... Junk.

Vlad, changing back, had to glare with disappointment, blaming Jack under his breath as he cleared off a counter for the child. Then he stepped back so Danny could put the little one down.

"Where are the medical supplies?" The older asked as the younger was unwrapping the child to check on his wounds. Danny looked over as he changed back, pointing over the locker styled closet in the far corner. Vlad nodded and got out the supplies, hurrying back over.

It took a few hours to get the little angel cleaned up and his wounds dressed, but when they were done Vlad looked down at his watch and frowned. "Well, its nearly morning, Little Badger."

On cue Danny yawned, then glared over to the man. "I kinda figured..." He glanced over to the seemingly sleeping child. "What are we going to do about this little guy? I surely don't know how to explain him to mom and dad..."

"I'll take him home." The older man stated, picking the angel up. "Since I live alone I do not have to explain to anyone."

The teen hero frowned poutingly for a moment. "All the way in Wisconsin?" He crossed his arms. "Even if you're helping you still hurt the kid in the first place, I don't trust you entirely."

"No... I've got a small little place out here, I recently purchased as a autumn home." He grabbed a piece of paper and quickly scrawled on it. "Its just outside Amity."

"How convenient..." Danny took the scrap of paper from him and nodded. "Fine, I'll come see how the kid's doing after school."

"That's fine by me, Daniel." With that Vlad took his leave. Danny yawned again and headed up to bed.

He just hoped he could get some sleep tonight.