Me: So, do you want to kill me?

Danny: Believe me, yes I do, but I'm quite curious on how you are going to fix this.

Me: You don't believe I can, do you?

Danny: Nope.

Me: You'll see I can, just you wait.

Hello! I'm back with another chapter here! I won't spoil anything for you, I'll create suspense. What do you think? Do you think Danny is really dead? Or do you think that he will come back? Review please! I DO NOT OWN DANNY PHANTOM.

A year had passed since Danny left with Dan and Vlad, and Amity Park was helding a ceremony to honor him like they did the year before when the town found out. They had search everywhere for a sign that would lead them to Danny for months before he was declared finally dead.

Flashback

"C'mon, keep moving people! I want a perimeter around the house and every soul alive and dead looking for clues!" said the chief of police, in charge of finding Danny. Some of the ghosts were helping them too, when Tucker and Danny's parents asked them.

After they left Vlad's mansion Jack called the police while Jazz and Maddie cried with each other in the RV. At the same time, Tucker was trying to get Sam out of her trance to no avail. The police arrived fast and Jack explained the situation as well as he could when his only son could be possibly dead. (A/N: I know there's Jazz too but she is a girl! Duh!) He handed them the note of Vlad and Dan to get clues but it wasn't of much help.

The police got moving fast. Maddie and Jack asked the police to escort Sam, Tucker and Jazz back to Amity Park, the teenagers didn't refuse. The first one to get home was Sam, and when her parents asked her what was wrong she just passed them by and went to her room. Her parents, worried, asked the cops. They explained everything and they realized why was Sam so upset. Even when they knew, they couldn't do anything to get her out of her room until a week later when they gave her permission to help in the search.

Next was Tucker, who got home with his head hanging and tears in his eyes. His parents asked him what the problem was and he told them. Danny meant a lot, not only for Tucker, being his best friend, but also for Tucker's parents, as he was like a second son to him. They grew to love him in time and were too really affected by the news, still, remained strong for their son and always supported him.

Jazz was the last one to get to her house. With her it was different, because she didn't have anyone to greet her nor comfort her. She didn't even bother to turn on the lights and went straight to her room, where she cried until her eyes dried. The next day she went back to her parents and helped them with the search of her brother.

Jack and Maddie, on the other hand, searched nonstop until their bodied forced them to rest. They slept in the RV but didn't rest. In the morning Jazz joined them, but before they continued the search, they shared a tight hug. They were the most affected by everything, after all, it was their son. Maddie still didn't wrap her mind around the idea that Danny might never come back yet, and Jack was struggling to believe it too. Jazz couldn't help believing it had been somehow her fault, and she knew her parents thought so too, but they'd never tell her.

After a week or so Danny was declared officially missing and the FBI stepped in to help with the investigation, and after months and months of searching they gave up and declared him dead. His family, however, refused to believe it and continued it more until they realized it was too painful and that it was better to let him go, that he was already gone. That day, the town gather to make a memorial in Danny's honor. It was a very sad day for everyone in Amity Park and even the ghosts attended the memorial.

End Flashback

This year, too, a memorial was held for Danny. The ghosts attended too, and the family was dresses in black, such as Sam and Tucker. The ghosts, having mercy for the town, stopped for a while in their attacks, but later realized it made no sense without the ghost boy to fight with. They stopped coming out of the ghost zone eventually.

Sam never got over the whole sitation, and neither did Danny's parents. Tucker was coming out of it with the help of his parents and he was also helping Jazz, for whom he realized he had feelings more than friendship, to stop blaming herself.

The sun was setting and that marked the start of the ceremony. The major stepped out into the podium to give some speeches, then Mr. Lancer and later his parents. As an act of conmemoration they put a placke in the center of the park which read 'IN HONOR OF AMITY PARK'S BRAVEST HERO: DANNY FENTON/PHANTOM.'

However, when they were about to finish the ceremony, a huge blast blew up the placke and everyone raised their heads to the sky. There, stood Danny Phantom, whose eyes instead of being the usual green, were a bright red. He floated down to the ground while everyone's gaze, ghosts and humans, followed him. "So it's true, you all gave up on me!" he yelled, startling everyone.

"Danny..." Maddie gasped, eyes widened "Danny! Is that really you?" She neared her son, tried to touch him, but he pushed her away so strongly that she lost her balance and Jack went forward to catch her.

"Son..." Jack started "What happened to you?" He couldn't believe his eyes; his son in front of him but looking at him with such hatred and resentment.

"You still have to ask? Don't make a fool out of me!" Dann yelled again and was about to shoot again.

"Danny!" Sam screamed and ran forward and hugged him. She was so fast that he didn't even saw it coming; he looked down to Sam and saw her crying.

"S-Sam...?" He asked, more like a question, while his eyes turned blue for an instant before changing back again to red. "No... NO!" He pushed her away while grabbing his head and falling to his knees.

"Danny, what's wrong?" She asked with concern.

"Don't..." he started to say and abruptly rose his head, his eyes full of anger and hate towards her "Don't you ever near me again!" He then proceeded to punch her in the face, still, his fist never reached its destination because Tucker grabed Danny's arm and placed it on his back, unabling him to move.

"Dude, chill out. What happened to you?" Tucker said whilst fighting to keep Danny unable to move, which didn't work well sa Danny became intangible and turned the tables.

"Stop asking what happened to me!" Danny said spitting venom as he put Tucker in the same position he had put him before. Tucker, however, didn't have ghost powers to get away with. "You, all of you, are the ones who left me! You abandoned me! So stop asking what is wrong with me!"

"Danny, stop!" He heard Jazz cry, "You're hurtinig him, this is not like you!"

Danny stared at his sister not believing his ears and seeing in her eyes something he hadn't seen or felt in a long time. Then, realization sank in his head. He chuckled while everyone looked at him as if he had gone nuts. "Seriously? You, my sister, and Tucker, my ex-best friend? You sure fell hard, Jazz." He spat as he tossed Tucker to the ground.

Jazz was quickly by his side, nursing Tucker's arm after the strong grip of Danny. "I didn't change," Danny said under his breath, however, as everything and everyone was silent, it was as clear as uf he had used a microphone. "I was forced to change because you left me alone. And now, you pretend you actually cared with this hypocrite memorial held in my name. Please, don't try to fool me."

Danny finished his speech and started floating away. "Ha! You even invited the ghosts who tried to kill me more than once, how nice. Take this as a warning, for I'll be back and the next time I do I'll burn to the ashes this place which I used to call home; even if you're in it."

Then, he flew away fast. Immediately after, the ghosts coming out of their shock chased after him. The people of the town slowly returned to their homes leaving only Maddie, Jack, Jazz, Tucker and Sam. Maddie was crying into Jack's embrace, Jazz into Tucker's as well as she could considering that Tucker could barely move his arm from the pain, and Sam just sat there in shock. Not even crying anymore, because she couldn't find her tears.

Soon, the ghosts came back. Ember, Skulker, Technus, the Box Ghost, Desiree, among other surrounded the family. "We couldn't catch up with him, he was too fast," Skulker declared with everyone else nodding in agreement.

"What happened to him?" Ember dropped the question into the air, followed by a heavy silence.

"He's not Danny" Sam mutered after a while and everyone turned to look at her. "He is not the Danny we know, or else he'd never do something like this. Did you see his eyes? They were red."

"I saw his eyes turning blue for a moment too," Tucker added, still hurt not only on his arm, but also on his heart when he saw his best friend being that kind of Jerk. "Then they quickly turned back to red."

"Remember he went with Vlad and Dan," Jazz said, whiping away her tears or at least trying to. "They're the ones who caused this."

"However, whatever they did to Danny doesn't matter now," Jack said while standing up, trying to look strong while his heart ached with those words. "Right now, he threatened us and our town, so we need to pretect it at all costs."

"But he's our son!" Maddie cried while standing up too. "We can't just try to kill him!"

"We don't have to kill him," Jazz said rising her hopes high. "We just need to stop him for a moment, capture him, and try to get him back."

"We could try that" Sam agreed. She was getting her hopes too high, and the heartbreak would be twice as unbereable if the plan didn't work out. It hurt her seeing Danny trying to hurt her; he was definitely changed. Slowly, rage and hatred started to fill her heart as she swore on her mind to make Vlad and Dan pay for making her Danny that way.

Danny flew fast across the clouds heading to Wiscounsin. 'Those traitors, hypocrite people who never loved me. They just wanted me to protect the town, but when there was nothing to protect it from they just kicked me out and abandoned me. I'll make sure they suffer the same I did.'

Then, the memory of Sam clinging to him, her scent, the look on her eyes, everything made him remeber some actual good times, before everything happened, and he couldn't help but say her name out loud. After that all the memories of the horrible things she did to him came back and he pushed her; filled with rage, he wanted to hit her, but then his old "friend" Tucker had to step in.

What a fool he was for trying to contain Danny as a ghost and he soon turned the tables. He was really going to crush Tucker's arms, but Jazz stopped him. She had in her eyes such concern, worry and fright. She was frightened of Danny and scared of what he would to Tucker, but, why would she care so much for him if they never were really close. Because they had something more than friendship. Rage invaded Danny, but he did his best not to show it and to seem indeferent. When he returned to Amity Park he would take care of those two for good.

Then his parents, the very same parents that were the first to kick him out of the house and convinced the town to kick him out too. The very same parents who were ghost hunters and that thought it was a good idea to test every invention of theirs in Danny. Maybe that's the reason they kicked him out in the first place, because he denied to be their guinea pig any longer.

Whatever their reason was they had no right to do it in the first place. The only thing he could do was go to Vlad for comfort and shelter; he didn't refuse. In fact, the past year he had been a greater father than his biologicall one. Then, when Dan came back seeking revenge on Danny, Vlad stepped out for him, protected him, and convinced Dan to forget about the revenge. In the end, Dan wind up joining their small "family" and Danny realized he wasn't such a bad guy, he just was misunderstood by the people.

The three of them lived well until Danny found out a newspaper where it said about the memorial that'd be held in his name, and the blood boiled up inside him. Vlad and Dan tried to talk him out of it, but Danny needed to get his revenge on the hypocrites who claimed to miss him. That's pretty much his story in the past year, but, is it true? Or was it implanted on his memory?

He got to Vlad's mansion right before Dawn, because he flew a little without a define direction. When he entered the house, Vlad was waiting for him. He saw how upset Danny was and followed him to his room and talked with him.

"So, Daniel, how did it go?" Vlad asked slowly.

"How it's supposed to be. At least now they know I'm still alive... They're all... such a..." Despite how much he wanted to curse the people in that town, he couldn't bring himself to do it. After all, he lived there most of his life and they used to love him. Slowly, tears leaked out of his eyes and fell into the bed.

Vlad turned the stereo on and put on a CD of some classical strange music. "Just relax, Daniel, and tried to sleep. Later we'll all talk about it, when you've calmed down." He left the room and closed the door behind him, an evil smirk appearing on his face replacing the "compassive" look he was wearing before.

He went to the lab, where Dan was waiting for him. "So, how was it?" Dan asked.

"It couldn't have been more perfect. He is so affected by the situation, so hurt inside. I told you that seeing his town and his family would only make his suffering deeper. Now he's in his room with one of the CD's we taped for him."

"I have to recognize your plan of brainwashing the kid was brilliant. If we can't get near Amity Park, if we can't destroy it and its people, then let's have him do it for us," Dan chuckled evily.

"And when everything's over, when he killed the last one of his friends and family, we'll tell him the truth. That everything was a lie and that he killed the family he loved so much," Vlad continued as he laughed loudly.

"Shh! If you wake him up now and finds us here then everything we did the last year goes to waste."

"Don't worry, right now he is so devastated..." Vlad faked to be depressed to mock Danny in front of Dan, who laughed in response. "He will fall asleep listening to that CD and when he wakes up his hate and anger will be so great that he will want to get rid of that insignificant town tonight!"

Both of them forgot about discretion and started to laugh loudly agian, celebrating their triumph over Danny Fenton and their final revenge against him.

Back on Amity Park, Sam stood up all night thinking about Danny's sudden comeback and how changed he was. Hadn't she see it, she wouldn't have believe it. I was so not Danny that attitude, that rage, that hatred. Surely Vlad was behind everything.

She hadn't left her room since she got back from the failed memorial. She wasn't crying, for she knew Danny was alive and could still be safe; but she couldn't stop thinking of how and what did Vlad and Dan did to Danny to change him so much.

She felt so hurt when Danny tried to hit her; Danny, who touched her with such delicacy as if she were a rose, reason for which she got mad at him many times before when they started dating. He needed to learn that Sam could protect herself, she wasn't a weaklink. Still, compared to the way he treated her on the memorial, she'd rather have the Danny who treated her like a porcelain doll.

This Danny, she was sure of it, would never hesitate to kill her and the whole town if they didn't do something fast, because his warning was that the next time he came, he would be destroying everything.

On Tucker's house, he laid on the couch. His head on Jazz's lap, his armed cover in bandages. He couldn't stop thinking about Danny's red eyes. That looked at him with hatred, that wanted to kill him.

He looked at Jazz, who was lost in thought probably thinking the same thing about Danny than he was.

"Jazz, do you think we'll get Danny back? Our Danny, I mean, the one with blue eyes," he asked her, pulling her out of her mind.

"I don't know, Tuck," she replied. "Danny's mind... someone really messed it up, and I'm sure it was Vlad and Dan woriking together. But, whatever they did to him, I fear it might be irreversible. If we base on what we know, they already have a year screwing his brain."

Tucker sighed, followe by Jazz who also yawned. "You should get some sleep. Your parents are already working on something to protect the town and we must be rested for when... Danny comes back," Tucker had real trouble trying to wrap around his head the idea of the new Danny who wanted to destroy and nothing else.

"Yeah, maybe I should. But you should too."

"I have an idea. How about we both go to sleep." Tucker suggested, smiling weakly.

"May I stay here, I don't want to be a nuisance to my parents. And if they work all night on it I'll feel really alone. So, can I stay over."

"Yeah, don't worry about it. You can use the guest room, so, shall we go to sleep now?" Tucker said stainding up and offering his hand to Jazz.

"Of course, my very sweet gentelman." She replied kissing his cheek. You know? Even after all they time they spent together, and despite they were much too close to be friends, Tucker stil wasn't brave enough as to ask her out.

They went upstairs, each one to their rooms, and they went sleep, although didn't rest as their dream was plagued with nightmares.

Danny woke up with a headache and feeling dizzy. He didn't quite remeber the events of the night before as it felt like a blur to him, his eyes were blue once again. He examined the room he was in: it looked expensive, the walls were of a light blue and there was a big window to his left. He neared it and looked outside, his eyes widened as he recognized that place.

The door slowly open and there appeared Vlad "So, Daniel, how are you feeling today?" He asked putting his mask on once again. Little did he know Danny wasn't in his trance.

"Are you... taking care of me?" Danny asked, fearing the answer.

"Well, of course I am..." Vlad's voice faded as he looked into the halfa's eyes. They were blue, not red.

"Why?" Danny asked, confused. He didn't remember anything, and what he did remeber was confused and he didn't understand the memory.

Vlad sighed in relief as he read the confusion in the boys face, disimulating it. "You hit your head, your parents are downstairs," he lied.

"Really?" Danny asked, not trusting Vlad.

"Yes, come down stairs." Vlad opened the door widened to let him pass. He pushed a button hidden in his sleeve, activating a silent alarm that went to Dan's wrist watch, one Vlad made especially for him, and that was meant to be for cases like that.

Dan, in the lab, became intangible as Vlad and Danny came in. "So, where are my parents?" Danny asked, turning around to face Vlad.

"Right here," Vald said and before Danny could react he shooted an ecto-ray at him that threw him to the wall.

"Somehow I knew it was a lie," Danny muttered, trying to catch his breath. "And somehow, I know I can't fight him... because..." The events of the last year and last night flashedin front of him, even what he did to the twon while under the influence of the brainwash, and he realized why he couldn't fight Vlad: he made a deal.

Then, Dan turned visible and tangible again, grabbed Danny, and tied him the table in the lab. "I should have known you'd pull a stunt like this" Danny said, worry and anger in his voice.

"Oh, don't worry, we'll just put you to sleep now, and when you wake up you won't remeber any of this. Instead you will wake up remembering how mean your town was to you, which will make you want to kill everyone. We won't oppose and you'll destroy everything you fought so hard to protect." Dan said mockingly to Danny, who couldn't believe he did something like what happened last night.

"It won't work, I snapped out of it once and I can do it again!" Danny yelled desperate, not really believing his own words.

"Not if we triple the dosis we gave you last time," Vlad added and put a helmet on Danny's head while Dan left to some machines to his right.

"You," Danny mutered before yelling, again. "We had a deal!"

"The deal was that neither Dan nor I could get near amity park and, or, hurt its population. The deal didn't said anything about you being the one destroying it," Vlad said and laughed at his marvelous plan.

"It won't work" Danny said under his breath.

"Can you bet on that?" Vlad whispered in response before signaling to Dan to activate the machine. Once activated, Danny fell his headache increase tenfold while wronged images of his family, friends and town did to him. Dan left the machine on for four hours before turning the power down, leaving an unconscious Danny on the table. Vlad then put some CD on different stereos, like three at a time, and left to let the CD's have the desired effect.

An hour or so later, Danny woke up in his room again with a headache and feeling dizzy; but this time, his eyes were a flashing red.