A/N Jazz already knows. This is sometime during the third season, but before Phantom Planet.
There was nothing but darkness. There was no pain, but no happiness or joy either. He wasn't dead, wasn't alive, just-there. He had nothing. No memories, no power, only himself.
Danny bolted up.
"YAAAH!" He swung his head around, trying to remember where he was. When he saw all the cruel experiments and smelt the ozone crackling in the air, his panic level went up to bright red. When struggling against the glowing light emerald ropes did nothing but start to wear him out, Danny did the only thing he could think of. Talk.
"All right, Vlad. What did you do?" Vlad, still ghost, slowly melted out from the shadows.
"Ahh, you're awake. Do you really want to know?" Danny tried to phase through the ropes, but no use.
"Of course I do!" Vlad chuckled darkly.
"If you insist… I altered your DNA. You now have until midnight Saturday before you are no longer half ghost. You will chose-whichever you form you are in at the stroke of 12, you will stay." Danny's mouth dropped open. Never, in all his time of knowing Vlad, had he ever thought his foe would sink to this despicably low level.
"You're lying." He tried to put confidence in his voice, but the fear it could be true placed a slight tremble in his words.
"Am I? You'll see soon enough. Now, leave. I have much to attend to." As Vlad waved his glove offhandedly, the ropes broke off the table, but still trapped Danny and started floating towards the ceiling-and the door.
"That's it? No tricks? You're not going to try to kill me like you always do?" Vlad turned back to his young enemy.
"Why would I bother? You have 3 days. Either you can be permanently destroyed as a ghost or are no longer a threat as a plain human. "He snapped his fingers, and one last electrical shock from the ropes short circuited Danny, causing him to pass out again.
When he woke up, he was still ghost on the grass just outside the Masters mansion.
"I just hope he was bluffing…" Danny took to the air, worried.
"I never thought I had to choose. If the incident when I did separate my ghost half and human half is any indication, this won't be good either way. Which is more important?" He sighed.
"To the town, Danny Phantom is. But to those who know Danny Fenton, they'll stop at nothing to find me. Either way, I'm screwed. Danny Phantom can't just disappear-the town would be overrun with ghosts within the month. This stinks." As Danny was contemplating, Sam and Tucker were arguing which were better-computers or gardens.
"But, you can't eat computers." Sam smiled, until Tucker quickly retorted.
"You can't keep homework, calendars, or pictures in a plant. And to me, veggies aren't meant to be edible." As they argued, Sam noticed a bright light streaking toward them. When she pointed it out to Tucker, the boy panicked, running around in aimless circles.
"Meteor!" Sam laughed.
"Since when do meteors look like Danny?" Tucker shrugged.
"Hey, I didn't really look." When Danny got closer, both Sam and Tucker gasped. His suit was tattered, but that wasn't the problem. Danny's face was covered in anguish and indecision. It looked like he was physically in pain from uncertainty.
"DANNY!" When he landed, both teens noticed he wasn't nearly as smooth as usual. Sam raced forward, followed instantly by Tucker, so Sam got Danny's attention by setting her hand on his. She was so worried; the Goth didn't even think to be embarrassed.
"What on earth happened to you? You look like you've been through a war!" Danny looked slowly up at his friend, pushing up his gaze gradually from the moist grass.
"Vlad." Sam could hear the venom in his voice- she'd never heard him so full of total loathing.
"He… he… altered my DNA. I… only have 3 days to either figure out how to fix it or I'm stuck as ghost or human permanently. He gave me a choice." His voice was bitter, but at the same time drained. Both his friends gasped as he suddenly collapsed to his knees.
"DANNY!" Sam wrapped her hands around him, and pulled him tighter, trying to keep him warm before remembering that he was usually this cold. He was shivering intensely, wrapping his arms around himself.
"I think…I think I need some time alone. I'll see you tomorrow." Sam pulled him closer.
"No way. You look ready to jump off a building. We're walking you home." She turned her head to glare at the boy behind her.
"Right, Tucker?" Tucker coughed, turning his gaze to Danny's back.
"Right. C'mon, Danny." Danny had to use both hands to push himself up, not to mention how slowly it took, which worried Sam.
"You should probably turn back. You seem worn out enough as it is, and staying a ghost won't help." Danny shrugged, still shivering, but obeyed. The sapphire ring appeared around his chest before splitting and moving slowly, one up and one down. Danny had his eyes closed, so he didn't notice when, at the very last second, the top disc turned bright red for a millisecond. However, both Sam and Tucker did.
"Danny? You sure you're okay?" This time it was Tucker, setting a hand on his best friends' shoulder. Danny looked up at him confused, and his voice still had a bit of a shiver when he responded.
"Yea. J-just a bit tired." Sam had to keep her hand on Danny's shoulder, and noticed he still seemed really chilly.
"Are you cold? Do you want to borrow my jacket?" Danny tried to push her away, but his intense shivering left his poor argument useless. As Sam slipped his thin arms into her darkly colored coat, she noticed something else-he still looked pale as a ghost. Well, paler then he usually did when he turned back to normal.
"We better get you home quick…you really look sick."
One awkward walk later, with both Danny and Sam quiet while Tucker blabbed on about his new PDA to cover the silence, they arrived under the huge 'Fenton works' sign. Danny shimmied out of Sam's midnight windbreaker before opening the door.
"See you two tomorrow." He sighed, taking a deep breath before ducking behind the building.
"Can't let Mom see me come in…" He muttered, switching back to ghost form. It took almost 4 whole seconds, more than twice the usual time. "Man, I must really be beat…" He jumped up into the air, hovering for a moment before phasing through the bricks into the room. His bedroom, where, unfortunately, his sister was waiting.
"Danny. Do you have any idea what time it is?" Danny shrugged as he reverted back to Danny Fenton, dead tired. Jazz's flame-orange hair whipped around as she gestured angrily towards her watch.
"It's fifteen to 11! What were you-Danny!" Danny had reluctantly looked up to catch the tail end of her sentence when she slowly started backing away, the girl's eyes wide.
"I'm exhausted Jazz, so unless you have something to say that-"She had ran forward, grasping the halfa's shoulders before whirling him around to look in the mirror.
"Your eyes! They're still ghost green!" It took a second to register in Danny's mind, but it felt like a kick in the gut when it did.
"What?" A second look in the looking glass confirmed his sister's words, not that it made them any easier to take.
"Where have you been?" Still dazed, Danny attempted to explain his predicament to his older sister, while she stood and nodded thoughtfully, not saying a word. After the four minutes it took to tell the story, Jazz finally spoke up.
"It seems your forms are going to have bits and pieces of each other while switched. You're going to have to be really careful…"
No duh.
A/N Okay, not much to say. Jazz is kind of tricky, but a fun challenge. I just found Toonsurfer-it still has the DP videos even though Megavideo deleted them! I don't know how, but hooray anyways! Please rate and review.