In this chapter, Sam's going to take on the mob...it's not going to be difficult for her since they don't know what they're up against...however, they're going to face more a challenging opponent. You might be able to tell who it is by the title.

And yes, Danny's not the only one that suffers from bad publicity...unfortunately.

Chapter 3: Vampire vs. Ghost

Sam wondered how she was going to take on so many people at once. It seemed like she was heavily outnumbered. They really didn't want vampires in their neighborhood, it seemed.

And yet, only Jack, Maddie, and Valerie seemed to be doing anything about the ghosts in the neighborhood, other than Danny himself.

However, she then remembered that she was part vampire now.

"Oh, right..." stated Sam. That would be a good thing to remember.

She decided to let out a bat screech, similar to how she used her echolocation.

Unfortunately, it was not nearly as strong as Danny's Ghostly Wail was...after all, she hadn't had her powers for as long as Danny had.

However, it was enough to disorient the mob. Some of them conveniently dropped their weapons.

"Well, I probably won't have to worry about those anymore." noted Sam.

This gave her an opportunity to strike.

Immediately, she started attacking the mob so that they would leave her alone.

This worked surprisingly well. Already, some of them were retreating.

"More bark than bite, huh?" questioned Sam.

However, others decided to stand their ground.

Quickly, they started poking her with their pitchforks and threw rocks at her.

But, much to her pleasant surprise, this didn't hurt Sam at all. In fact, they tickled.

Sam let out a small chuckle.

"Why isn't this working?" questioned the villagers.

"Must be supernatural toughness..." acknowledged Sam. It seemed like nothing short of dropping a missile on the city was going to bring her down.

Eventually, the villagers gave up and decided to go back home. Maybe they simply weren't cut out for vampire hunting after all. At least they probably didn't have to worry about her when the sun came up.

"Well, that was rather easy..." stated the girl.

Suddenly, she let out a sonic screech, breaking a nearby window.

"Whoops." said Sam.

Meanwhile, Danny Phantom was busy watching TV. Right now he was watching a horror movie.

That movie just so happened to feature Nosferatu.

"Thank goodness I never will have to meet a vampire..." remarked Danny. Enough crazy things happened with him around as it was.

Suddenly, the movie was interrupted with a sudden news report.

"Not again!" exclaimed the fourteen-year-old. Why did Amity Park have to be haunted? At this rate he would never be able to retire from ghost hunting.

"Let me guess, a ghost is attacking the city..." stated Danny. Before, he was rather terrified. But now, he was rather used to it.

Sure enough, it appeared to be just that. Apparently, Amity Park was being terrorized by a creature of the night, and he needed to act so that everyone could sleep soundly in their beds.

"Looks like I'm going ghost!" exclaimed the phantom. What if he had a dollar for every time that he said that? Maybe he would be richer than Vlad Plasimus that way.

Immediately, he turned into Danny Phantom and phased through the wall.

He then began to fly towards Amity Park.

Oddly, his ghost sense didn't seem to be going off...like it always did whenever there was a ghost nearby.

He started to wonder if Amity Park was actually being attacked by a ghost.

However, a screaming crowd of people reassured him.

"Something tells me I should try going in the opposite direction of where they're running..." stated Danny Phantom. It was only a matter of time before he found the specter that way.

"Run! Run away!" exclaimed one of Amity Park's citizens.

Looking around, he discovered who the citizens were so frightened of.

Strangely enough, she didn't seem to be doing anything. She was just sitting on top of a building.

"Am I going to be stuck like this?" thought Sam. She wasn't sure what her family and friends were going to think.

And yet, the civilians seemed to be pointing directly towards her.

Well, if she was terrorizing Amity Park. then he knew what he had to do.

Immediately, he shot an ectoplasm ray at Sam.

Fortunately for Sam, her reflexes were rather quick and she was able to avoid it in time, though she wasn't paying attention to Danny.

"She's fast..." noted Danny.

"Who could have shot that?" questioned Sam.

She looked around, and got her answer.

"Danny?" asked the vampire girl.

"What? How does she know my name?" inquired Danny. Was the "ghost" playing mind tricks on him?

Sam raised an eyebrow. Apparently, Danny didn't recognize her in her new form.

Of course, people didn't recognize Danny in his phantom form either, regardless of how similar he looked to his human form.

For a moment, Sam thought about telling Danny who she really was...

...but she figured that Danny probably wouldn't believe her. After all, if Danny told people that he was Danny Phantom (though he probably wouldn't on account on wanting to keep his identity secret), people would think that he was joking.

Besides, it would be interesting if she had a sparring partner so she could practice her new abilities.

Of course, she was worried about hurting Danny too much...but she then remembered that Danny had once become a puddle of goo and reassembled himself from there...he would probably be fine.

Also, she was hungry for blood...again. And she already knew at some level what Danny's blood tasted like.

Unable to help herself, she lunged towards Danny and began to drink the blood from his neck.

"Hey! Get off my neck!" bellowed Danny.

Sam decided to just that, once she got her fill.

Suddenly, she got the urge to try giving Danny a taste of his own medicine.

Much to her surprise, she could shoot ectoplasm rays now. Curiously, her ectoplasm blasts were red instead of green. Perhaps it had something to do with her being part vampire?

"Ow!" exclaimed Danny.

Sam wondered how she was able to do such a thing.

Perhaps when she drank Danny Phantom's blood she also absorbed some of his ectoplasm.

Well, it worked in her favor, didn't it?

Immediately, she and Danny got into a beam struggle.

"A climatic beam struggle...go figure." murmured Sam.

For some strange reason, Danny noticed that this "evil spirit" reminded him of someone that he knew...but who exactly was it?

Ultimately, it ended in a stalemate, as both of their beams fizzled.

Perhaps they should try something different.

Quickly, Danny began to make some copies of himself, as if he possessed a copy printer.

"That's a lot of copies..." noted Sam.

Perhaps since she absorbed a portion of his powers, maybe she could do something like that too.

Suddenly, she burst into a bunch of bats.

"Let's go with that." thought the vampire girl.

Immediately, each of the bats began to swarm Danny.

"Get them off me!" exclaimed Danny.

Sam wondered if she should call off the bats. As it turned out, she had transformed into a bat herself during the attack.

But as it turned out, he had a way to counter that.

Immediately, he used his ghost powers to become transparent and invisible.

Shortly afterwards, the bats gave up and returned to Sam.

"Where did he go?" asked Sam.

Suddenly, she picked up his scent.

"Oh, there he is." stated the vampire.

Sure enough, Danny was zooming straight towards her.

However, since Sam could still hear and smell him, she was able to avoid it.

Realizing that turning invisible was proving to be ineffective, Danny turned visible again.

"How is she doing that?" questioned Danny. Did she have heat vision or something?

Hopefully she didn't have X-Ray vision. That would be...embarrassing.

Sam wondered if she had an ability that was similar to Danny being able to phase through walls...

...she decided to focus to see if she did.

As it turned out, she DID have a similar ability.

However, instead of simply turning transparent, she transformed into vapor.

"Why do I feel so light-headed?" asked Sam.

"That's because you turned into vapor..." explained Danny.

"Oh..." answered the vampire girl.

For some strange reason, his opponent didn't seem like any ghost that he had ever fought before. Was it some new sort of phantom? His parents would probably want to learn about it.

Now that she was no longer solid, Sam wondered if she could weaponize it somehow.

She most certainly could.

Spinning around, she was able to turn herself into a tornado.

She then began to spin around Danny.

"I'm getting dizzy!" exclaimed Danny. This was much like when his parents thought that he was going crazy.

Next time why couldn't they simply make him wear a straitjacket? Those actually MIGHT be comfortable.

Eventually, she transformed back into her vapor form.

"Ugh..." murmured Danny.

"Maybe I should call it quits." thought Sam. She didn't want Danny to have to give up his ghost fighting career.

"You're really good, you know that?" remarked the phantom.

"Thanks." answered the vampire girl.

"It's time for me to use my Ghostly Wail!" exclaimed Danny.

"Uh-oh." said Sam. She knew what THAT was.

Immediately, Danny began to use his Ghostly Wail, which everyone in the neighborhood could hear.

"Goosebumps!" exclaimed Mr. Lancer.

"What is that noise?" asked Paulina.

"Can you turn it down?" inquired Dash.

"I think I'm going deaf..." remarked Kwan.

This time, it appeared that Danny had the upper hand.

"Ugh..." answered Sam. So THAT was how it felt to get hit by the Ghostly Wail. Well, at least she wasn't TOO messed up...but she did feel pretty dizzy.

"Now it's time to use my Fenton Thermos!" exclaimed Danny.

Sure enough, Danny pulled out a rather familiar device.

"Um, about that..." said Sam.

Immediately, he activated the device.

"Time for you to head to the Ghost Zone!" bellowed the phantom.

Shortly afterwards, a green beam fired out of the device.

However, as it soon as it hit Sam, nothing happened. She wasn't sucked inside at all.

Danny's jaw dropped in shock.

"Why isn't this working?" questioned Danny.

He sighed. It looked like he was going to have to go to his parents' workroom so that he could repair his device.

"You, uh, stay here or something. I'll be back!" exclaimed the phantom.

"I guess he doesn't realize that I'm a vampire." thought Sam.

However, as soon as he began to head home, they suddenly heard rather loud footsteps.

What was possibly making those noises?

Sam decided to take a look.

As it turned out, it was a cyclops. A big, hungry cyclops that dwarfed Danny Fenton's house.

And it didn't look like any ghost that Danny or herself had ever seen.

Immediately, the cyclops let out a roar.

"What the-" exclaimed Danny.

Unfortunately for Danny, the cyclops was wielding an enormous club.

The cyclops then proceeded to lift it above his head.

It quickly became apparent to Sam what the cyclops was going to do.

"Look out!" bellowed Sam.

"What the-" exclaimed Danny.

Fortunately, Sam shoved Danny out of the way before Danny Phantom became Danny Pancake.

"Aww..." complained the cyclops. He had even brought butter and maple syrup and everything.

Danny raised an eyebrow.

"I don't get it...why did you save me...from that giant...with an oversized club?" asked Danny. They were fighting just a few seconds ago.

"It's a long story..." remarked Sam.

Suddenly, the cyclops attempted to stomp on Sam with his giant foot.

However, due to her super strength, she was able to prevent it from squishing her.

She then knocked the cyclops down on his back.

"Someone's been eating their broccoli..." remarked Danny.

"Funny you should mention that, I happen to be a vegetarian..." stated Sam.

Once again, Danny started to wonder if he had met this "ghost" before.

Unfortunately, the cyclops was starting to get back up.

"Any ideas on how we should take him on?" asked Danny.

"Maybe we should try hitting him in the eye...that always seems to be a weak spot..." suggested Sam.

Danny nodded. That would be a good idea.

Immediately, Danny and Sam both fired ectoplasm rays at the cyclops' eye.

Blinded, the cyclops collapsed once again.

And this time, he hit his head on a nearby building.

"Oh my aching head..." complained the cyclops.

Suddenly, Sam's book began to vibrate.

"Huh?" asked Sam.

As it turned out, it was the Monstronomicon.

Sam wondered if she should try opening the book.

She did so...and much to her astonishment the cyclops was sucked inside!

When she flipped through the pages again, there was a picture of the cyclops inside the book.

"Wow." stated Sam.

At this point, she was feeling rather tired, mainly due to her battle with Danny.

Suddenly, she transformed back to normal.

Not only that, but her vampire fangs disappeared. Perhaps her first transformation was simply gradual.

"Huh. I guess that's how you do it." noted the vampire girl.

"Sam?" asked Danny.

"Um, hi?" greeted Sam.

"I don't get it...since when could you transform just like I do?" inquired the phantom. It was quite unusual.

"Since I got bitten by a vampire..." explained the goth girl.

Danny transformed back to normal as well. He might as well since he didn't need to fight the cyclops or Sam anymore.

"A vampire? I thought you were some sort of ghost..." questioned Danny.

"If I were a ghost, why would I want to drink your blood?" asked Sam.

"Oh..." answered the half-ghost. Now that he thought of it, he was wondering why his ghost sense didn't go off...and why the Fenton Thermos didn't work. It was making sense now.

"Anyways, I'm sorry I tried to send you to the Ghost Zone..." apologized Danny.

"It's fine. I was looking for a way to test my powers anyway..." said Sam.

"Why were you attacking the city though?" questioned the fourteen-year-old boy. Was she having a bad day?

"I wasn't attacking the city...I was just drinking a small amount of blood, that's all. The citizens were simply overreacting." explained the vampire girl.

"Oh..." answered the phantom. He wasn't a hero with good publicity either.

"Can we go home now? I don't want my parents to be worried about me..." stated Sam.

Danny nodded. His parents would get worried about him if he wasn't home in bed.

Together, the two of them began to head home.

However, as they did so, Sam was being watched by a ghost.

A ghost that wasn't too happy with her.

"What was she thinking?" muttered the ghost under his icy breath.

And the first person to find Sam's new secret is Danny...not a big surprise, is it? And yes, the Fenton Thermos will not work on Sam like it would on Danny. Perhaps SHE should be the one wielding it.

In the next chapter, we're going to find out who this mysterious ghost is...and what Sam needs to do.