AN: Wow, so many favorite lists and story alerts for this in only a day. O_o Thanks for everyone who did and a special thanks to Dezzi Star for leaving a comment.

I'll be explaining why the split happened the way it did, probably in the next chapter, which is a lot longer than the other two, but that whole pacing thing again. Trying to decide if I want to split it down to be more consistent or not.

His mind reeling, trying to understand. Why had the split done that? Red eyes…there was barely a red eye ghost in existence that wasn't evil. They existed, but he knew what they meant on him for sure. They were definitely evil.

The phantom grinned. "Well, well, isn't this new," she said, flexing her fingers.

"You're…I can't…feel my ghost powers," Dani said.

"Weren't you listening? All that was ghostly was removed, so that means I have it," the phantom said. "And, it seems, all those pesky thoughts that keep saying 'that's wrong, we can't' over and over again is gone too."

"I don't know how that happened, but you're going right back with Dani," Danny said, stepping forward.

The phantom looked at Danny and he froze. That look, it wasn't so much fear that made him pause as shock and…pain, that he felt. The eyes were cold, akin to some of Vlad's worst angers before he completely lost it, but they also seemed hollow. Broken in a way he never wanted to see.

"You don't even know how this happened? Have you really missed that much or have you really not researched what you are at all?" She asked and gestured to Dani. "She's already figuring it out. And she already knows what I'm going to do."

"Don't! You can't!" Dani shouted. "It's wrong! We're supposed to be better than that."

"We're two years old! We aren't supposed to be better, we're supposed to be a child!" Phantom snarled.

"You can't honestly think I'll let you go…do whatever that Dani's freaking out about," Danny said.

Phantom looked at him and smiled. In a sickeningly sweet and almost fond way. In a way that managed to make his skin crawl. "Danny…you know I'd never want to fight you. You're too important. You never left, it was always me. So there's no reason to fight you. Don't worry, it's nothing that will cause you problems."

"It doesn't have to. If it's wrong, I can't let you do it," Danny said, moving between Phantom and Dani.

The smile fell. "Oh, Danny…I really don't want to have to do this…" And suddenly she fired an ecto blast, sending him flying back. He quickly recovered, about to counterattack when suddenly ice encased his hands.

"What? When did you-how did you get control?"

"Danny, Danny, Danny," she said, shaking her head. "I've always had excellent control," she added, firing another volley of ice, encasing his body and flying over to him.

He started charging up the ecto in his hands, planning to shatter the ice, but she put her hands on the ice. As soon as the cracks started to form, they'd seal up again, her eyes glowing blue. Danny was floored. How did she get this strong, this good? It had only be little over a year ago she'd been stabilized!

"Don't fight me, Danny," she said, her voice low and soothing, yet hiding something sinister. "You're too important to me." Then her eyes blazed red. "But don't think I won't hurt you until you learn."

"Get away from him!" Dani shouted, pointing an ecto gun at Phantom.

She looked over, looking her human side up and down slowly. "You don't have it in you anymore. You and I both know that."

Dani's hands started to shake. She couldn't pull the trigger. "Just…just please…"

Phantom sighed and patted the ice block. "Do keep an eye on her, won't you, Danny? I'm afraid she won't last long on her own," she said and smiled at him. "Now, I'll be back, so just behave, all right?" And with that, she vanished from sight.

Moments later, Danny blasted apart the ice, for a moment thinking of trying to follow even if he wasn't sure WHERE Phantom was going, but after hearing the clatter of metal on metal, he turned to Dani instead. He rushed over, changing back to human, and kneeling beside his cousin. Her knees had given out on her.

"Dani, are you okay?"

Dani nodded her head. "I am," she said and looked at Danny. "Are you okay? She attacked you…"

"I'm fine. Listen, this…do you know where that you is going?"

Dani shook her head. "I…I don't….she's smart, so her goal, she won't go there first. She knows she wouldn't win."

"Win? What's her goal?"

Dani looked away. "…she's going to kill Vlad."