Chapter ThreeDanny rested till night and got up at midnight when everyone was sleeping, he crept over Lupus and left his room as to get some alone time. The ring formed and now in his ghost form phased through the floor till he got to the basement and looked around for the griffon ghost but could see nothing in the dark basement so he held out his hand and a faint green glow came from his palm. He felt weak for some odd reason, almost like something had sapped him of his thermos was vibrating still from Danny's backpack. Lupus perked his ears forward as he heard the rustling, and lifted his head up. "Danny?" he whispered, noticing that he was gone. Spotting the teenager's low trembling backpack, he poked it with his paw. Feeling the cool metal of the thermos inside, Lupus reached in with his long muzzle. Gripping it tightly in his slender jaws, he slowly began to pad his way down the staircase. His blue eyes glowed in the pitch black darkness of the lightless house as Lupus headed for the basement."..." Danny noticed the griffon was gone, "…good...that's a load off my back..." he mutters and smiles. "But I have so many questions left unanswered"Seeing the door to the basement was closed, Lupus turned himself invisible. He traveled through the door with the thermos, and returned to normal once he was on the other side. "Danny?" he barked lowly, as to not alert the rest of the house. He jumped down all six flights of stairs, and landed on the tiled floor below."oh...its you." he answers and notices the Thermos right away. "Don't touch that! Only Tucker, Sam, and I can handle it." he snaps and takes it from the wolf.

Lupus glared at Danny, his black fur bristling along the row of his spine. "Excuse me, but you are holding my comrades in there! As much as they may hate my breathing guts right now, they are still my friends!" he snapped."...so your with them...does that mean your my enemy?" Danny asks and points the Thermos at pinned his ears back. "Enemy or not, it doesn't matter. No matter what I do, I won't be able to save my mistress..." he said sadly as he glanced at the ground."...explain everything to me now...or you get to spend some time with your buddies crammed in the Thermos" Danny warnsLupus sighed, sitting down on his rear end, and wrapped his long tail around his paws. "Alright. As you know, I am half ghost, half wolf. Like you, I don't understand how I was born like that, but I was. My father was a servant for a powerful ghost, who was a sorceress before she died. When she discovered my birth, she quickly took me in after my mother was shot by a hunter." a flicker of grief appeared in the canine's watery eyes. "My father never really paid much attention to me at all, and soon left to serve another, powerful ghost that owes a prison within the Ghost Zone." he explained.

"...go on" Danny asks and knows kinda of what he's talking about."Well...the unicorn, chimera, and griffon you saw today also knew our mistress before her death, and were actually involved in it. I don't know how however, so that's something you'll have to ask them." Lupus explained, lying down on his stomach while resting one paw over the other paw. "I got along fine with them, but the proclaimed 'leader' of our little group...he hates my guts for being half mortal, and he also never got along with my father." he explained with a heavy sighed. He shook his head to shake away from terrible memories before speaking again. "One night, I was in charge of guarding our mistress while she was exploring the real world. But then..." his voice trailed off, and Lupus suddenly held a look of fear in his eyes."...you don't need to tell me if you don't want. I got rounds to do anyways Lupus...tell me when I get back" Danny says with a smile and flies through the roof and begins flying around Amity park looking for looked grave as he glanced at the doors to the Ghost Zone. "I'm so sorry, my friends." he muttered sadly as he rested his head on his head."...why is the Thermos rumbling...this doesn't usually happen" Danny mutters to himself as he to Danny, a pair of glowing yellow eyes watched him from the bushes. The eyes narrowed down to splits with a dangerous gleam within them. The figure that eyes belonged to quickly vanished back into the shadows with a sickly, bright smile plastering to his ghost sense went of and he spun around only to find there was nothing there. "...I'm going crazy or something" he mutters and continues eyes appeared again, chuckling lightly to himself. "Master, you can strike now." the figure spoke into the ear piece within his pointed 's ghost sense went off again, "okay what's wrong with it today!" he snaps and tops flying and hovers there looking for a figure growled as he walked through the bushes, keeping to himself. "Now...now!" he barked into the ear piece.A purple recto beam hit Danny in the back making him cry out as he slammed into the ground below. "don't give me orders" the other half ghost growls, "I do what I want when I want to"The figure growled before going back to guarding the little...'surprise' the duo brought with struggled to get back up but was only slammed down again by another recto blast. "So...how have you been doing Daniel...well besides eating dirt that is", "...Vlad...should have know you came to town...so here on some new plan to get my mom to leave my dad?" Danny asks and gets to his feet. "Sadly no...I'm here on other business...like taking care of you once and for all" Vlad explains and goes to fire at him again."Leave him alone!" a howl rippled through the air. A blur of black and white fur suddenly exploded from the leafs of the trees, and lunged themselves at Vlad. The blur hit him square in the chest, and set him crashing into the ground."Stop it Lupus...this is my fight!" Danny yells, "oh so this is the dog...I'm not the one you should be fighting you know...that is if you want your mistress back in one piece" Vlad says with a laugh and throws Lupus down to the slid across the ground, keeping upright on his paws. He snarled at Vlad, his fangs gleaming in the dark of night. "Where is she, you bastard?!" he snapped, hatred glaring in his eyes."Why should I tell you?" Vlad asks and zips down and grabs Danny taking the Thermos from him before letting him go. "...hey give that back!" Danny snaps and goes for Vlad but the sound of the Thermos being turned on stops him. "Time to free the two trapped in here" Vlad says and hits the button to release the was a bright green flash as the horrid sounds of screeching, neighing, and howling were heard. Lupus whimpered as Rampage the ghost unicorn, and the chimera flew out of the thermos, and landed on the ground. They both looked up, snarling in hatred and rage. From the bushes, the other hidden ghost with Vlad, grinned sarcastically. "How does it feel, to see your own 'pets' turn on each other?" the figure turned to the trapped ghost in chains behind him. The prisoner glared at him, anger burning in their eyes."Now Daniel...its time I took care of you and captured the wolf" Vlad says and blasts Danny again. "My powers...they refuse to work right now...is it the Venom..." Danny asks himself, "I can't handle this...it's too much" he says with sudden realization that this fight could be his , Rampage and the chimera had other ideas. "You take the half breed and Lupus while I take Vlad?" the chimera asked Rampage. The unicorn ghost grinned as sickly as a rotten pumpkin. "Why, of course. It has been a while since I've had...human flesh." he grinned before charging at Danny. "No, Danny!" Lupus jumped over him, and amazedly, his claws glowed a bright green. "Back off, Rampage!" he snapped at him growling. The chimera turned to face Vlad before suddenly breathing fire at him from both of the front simply put up a shield protecting himself, "clearly you're forgetting who I am Chimera...and wouldn't the other halfa be much tastier for he is younger then I". Danny grabs Rampages neck and throws him into the air "Lupus get the Thermos back...I'll handle the horse" Danny shouts and lets out an recto blast that hits the let out a cry of pain as the recto blast hit his stomach, and landed though a tree. The chimera snarled, the gazelle head snorting. "You were the one that kidnapped our mistress, you halfa!" both heads snapped while the cobra tail hissed. Lupus bolted for the thermos, his heart racing a mile a minute."and you forget...I can have your mistress killed...I know people willing to do so" Vlad sounds serious on this, he puts up another shield to bounce the wolf off, "...the Thermos stays with me pup...I'm gonna need it soon", Danny lunges at the unicorn and punches it into some more trees, "why can't you just leave me alone!" Danny yells in chimera stopped moving when he heard this from Vlad, and snarled at him. Lupus yelped as he bounced off of the shield, and slid across the ground. Rampage snarled as Danny was about to punch him into another tree. "Why don't you ask my teeth, BOY!" he snapped before sinking his razor sharp teeth deep into the flesh over Danny's thin arm. Cracking of bone was heard as the unicorn tasted the sweet, salty blood on his yard long cried out in pain and pushed on Rampages nose, Vlad looked back at Danny. "...It's about time we took care of you" he says and whispers into an ear piece. "Take them both down". Blood covered the ground from Danny's wounds as he tried to remove himself from the unicorn. "...let go!" he shouts and forces himself to go intangible and this gets him free. He looks at Lupus and fights back the pain before blasting Rampage into the chimera with his good barely had any time to react to Danny's attack before being blasted into the chimera, and they both slid across the ground crying out in pain. Lupus groaned as he began to get up, but froze when a sinister, harsh laugher began to fill the air."This is PATHETIC! You two are even weaker then I remember!" a rough, husky voice with a New Yorker accent laughed as a massive, ghost wolf strolled out of the bushes. The left half of his face was missing the skin and flesh on it; only solid bone could be seen. Inside of the empty eye socket was only a bright, glowing green orb. The wolf was black with the lower half of his body a dark gray color, making him appear to blend into the dark background. Around his manned neck was a deep, glowing red chain that was cutting deep into his and the chimera looked up weakly, and both of them suddenly seem to burst with new energy of rage. "TRAITOR!" they both bellowed as they rose to their , however, looked beyond terrified of this ghost wolf. He stumbled backwards, looking as cowardly as a puppy."We are leaving. NOW!" Danny yells and grabs Lupus with (sadly) both arms and flies into the sky at max speed, "...let him run...I know where he lives after all...and" Vlad looks at the Thermos, "we got what we needed". Danny was having a hard time flying with all this pain and right when he got home his powers gave out and his went back to normal making them both crash into the sidewalk. "...get...Jazz...please it hurts..." Danny was in a lot of pain and still refused to trust whimpered before bolting into the house. He turned invisible to go through the door, and then returned to normal. He bolted up the stairs, down the hallway, and slammed the door open to Jazz's room with his massive white paws. Jazz sat straight up in bed. "Huh, wha-?!" she jolted wide awake when she saw Lupus...and let out an ear piercing scream. "MOM, DAD!"Jack got up out of bed with guns blazing and ran into the hall, "what is it Jazz!" he shouts and sees the wolf "...oh...it's just a wolf..." it takes him some time to realize but eventually. "There's a wolf in our house!" Danny hears all this going on and snickers a bit which was good for someone how just got utterly trashed in a fight and now may have to explain his secret to his family to explain these wounds."What?! B-But that's impossible!" Maddy said, looking shocked. "Get it out get it out get it oouttt!" Jazz wailed, holding her blankets to her chest. Lupus grumbled at all of the noise before barking at Jack and Maddy. He bolted pass them, went down a few steps of the stairs before stopping and looking over his shoulder. He barked again before running down to the foot of the stairs. "What is it doing?" Maddy wondered, frowning."I think...its trying to get us to follow it" Jack mutters as he does as the wolf wants, "Jazz get up...I want you to wake Danny and stay with him"Jazz nodded before hurrying over to Danny's room...and let out a cry of fright. "Danny's gone!" she screamed. "WHAT?!" Maddy cried out. Lupus let out a high-pitched before running to the door, and scratched at it with his huge claws."its trying to get us to go outside...come on...maybe it knows where Danny is" Jack says on instinct more then anything and goes to the front door and opens it before the wolf tears the door followed her husband while Jazz remained at the top of the stairs, looking scared of Lupus more then anything. As soon as the door was opened, Lupus flew out the door. He galloped to where Danny was lying on the sidewalk, bleeding by his arm, and let out a huge whine. "Danny! Oh god, my baby!" Maddy cried out in horror when she saw her son."Hey mom...how are you?" Danny asks as a way to lighten the mood, Jack runs over and helps him up, "what happened to you...was it ghosts…more importantly...what were you doing out of the house at one in the morning?" Jack asks and Danny looks away noticed Danny's arm, and frowned. "Danny, what on earth attacked you…Other then ghosts." she added, looking at the deep bite marks embedded deeply into his arm. She looked down at Lupus before turning back to her son's injures. Lupus knew she was thinking, and started to back away."Uh...it was a dog mom...but not this one...it was another one" Danny explains and once again lies to his parents. "Lets get you inside and patched up" Jack says and helps him they were inside, Maddy grabbed the first aid kit from on top of the fridge. She grabbed the bandages from within the white box, and began to wrap up Danny's wound. However, as soon as she touched it, the sound of something crunching within the bloody flesh was heard, and puss began to squeeze out of the bite marks. Lupus watched this from the door, pinning his ears back. He knew that Rampage's teeth were like no other predatory teeth, and they could create intense danger to human or cried out in pain again and held the non torn part of his arm, "...I think we should bring him to the hospital Maddy..." Jack says with a frown, "Jazz...stay with your brother...I'll get the RV and Maddy...you call the hospital in advane" he says and walks nodded and grabbed the phone. While she spoke to the person on the other side, Lupus timidly walked into the kitchen. 'I'm so sorry', he mouthed to Danny, pinning his ears back. Jazz kept away from Lupus, and remained on the other side of Danny. She glanced down at his injured arm, and tried not to looks over at Jazz, "I'm sorry i got mad at you earlier" he says and moves his arm a bit but blinked, and actually looked surprised that Danny was telling her sorry. She sighed, shaking her head. "Its alright." she muttered. Lupus glanced up at them weakly before glancing back down at the floor. "Hrm..." he thought softly to himself, biting the inside of his cheeks."Jazz...can you keep a secert?" Danny asks and fells another attack from the Venom come on making his temperature raise."Ummm...sure...I guess...depends on what it is." Jazz said, raising an eyebrow at her brother."...I'm...I'm the ghost boy...and I'm serious on this too..." Danny says in a low tone as so his mother didn't hear, "I need you to believe me...cause right now this is a bad time for me" he says almost was silent for a while. "...Heh...pfftttttt..." she said bit at her nails, her cheeks turning red. Lupus sweatdropped, glancing up at Danny. He gave him a look that said, 'She doesn't believe you at all.'"...you don't believe me do you..." he asks and knows he'll have to show her proof if this is gonna work out but for that to happen his mother would have to leave the snickered, "Well, of course not! I would have to be a major IDIOT to believe something like THAT!" she giggled. Maddy hung up on the phone, and walked over to her kids. "The ambulance should be any minute now." she told them. She glanced down at Lupus. "Now where on Earth did he come from, Daniel?" she asked."Uh...wildlife project" Danny answers and smiles "uh mom...could you actually take him outside well we wait?" he asks and looks to Lupus with a look that said he better do nodded. "It's not good for him to be around you when you're sick anyways. Germs and bacteria can get in that wound of yours." she said. As it hasn't already, Lupus thought mildly impressed. Maddy left the room to find something as a collar and leash for Lupus. While they waited, Lupus sat on the ground, and began to lick at his paws."I'll prove to you I'm the ghost boy...and remember I'm only doing this cause I'm backed into a corner..." Danny says to Jazz and takes a deep breath. The glowing ring from as he stands and goes over him in both ways giving him the suit and the white hair. "...see...I am Danny Phantom" he says and kneels to the ground and coughs soon as Danny shifted forms...for once in her life, Jazz was speechless."Look...went mom and dad made the ghost portal and tried to get it to work which it didn't...I went in...And turned it on...this...as you can see is the realist...this Jazz is why I've been getting Detention..." Danny explains and changes back wiping blood from his mouth."I...You...Mom...Wha...Dad...ghosts...huh?!" Jazz stammered, looking as pale...well as pale as a ghost! Lupus was about to say something when he suddenly whipped his head around. Flashing red lights were seen from outside along with the screaming sounds of a siren. "Oh thank goodness, they're here!" Maddy said as she came down from the stairs, holding a metal collar (that was made for ghost), and an old piece of rope she round in the basement." it kinda is starting to hurt" Danny says trying to shrug it off, "...Jazz...you need to help me...my powers are becoming unstable due to Ghost venom in my bloodstream...if mom and dad see me in my ghost form they are going to dissect me" he whispers to bit her lip before nodding. "Alright." she whispered to her young brother. "But can I really?" she asked as their mother put the collar around Lupus' neck. He let out a yelp as the collar stunned him, since he was half ghost, and nearly stumbled a watched as their mother lead Lupus outside before turning to Danny. "Alright...what do you want me to do?" she asked quietly."first...if you see Vlad Masters...keep him away...he's an enemy to me okay...he's a half ghost as well and right now he's out to down right kill me" Danny explains, "second...if I say i need alone time...no matter who it is you need to keep them out...like i said my powers are unstable and could invoke without me willing it...which means i could be Fenton one minute and Phantom the next...and Third...please call Sam and Tucker...i really would like to have them there" Danny says in a sight hurt way just as the men come in with a stretcher and get him to lay on it before picking him up making sure he's not hurt from movement and load him onto the grabbed a small notebook from one of the drawers, and wrote down what Danny told her. "Jazz, we're riding to the hospital in the RV! We want you to stay here and wait for us, okay?" Maddy said as she came in to inform her daughter. Jazz nodded, keeping the notebook out of her mother's sight. "Okay Mom. I know who to call if there's trouble." she said. Maddy nodded, "Alright sweetie. Lock the house down while we're gone." she added before leaving, and closing the front door. As soon as she saw the vehicles leave through the front windows, the orange haired girl raced for the phone. Jazz quickly called Tucker first, knowing he always had his phone near him. "Good thing he's a tech nerd." she muttered as she listened to the ringing sound."hello this is Tucker" he answers and checks the number again, "is this Danny?...look dude its around one in the morning...I'm tired i can't come out tonight even if i wanted to" he answers thinking Danny is the one calling him."Tucker! It's me, Jazz!" the older teenager said, frowning at Tucker on the other side of the phone. "Danny is heading to the hospital right now, and he wants you and Sam there!" she explained quickly. "It's serious!""Jazz?...Danny in the hospital? What happened?" Tucker asks out of worry."I don't know the whole story, but I think he might have been attacked by some kind of nasty big toothed ghost!" Jazz yelled. "Oh, and-" she quickly stopped Tucker just as he was about to proclaim that her parents finally must have gotten to her. "Danny told me the truth. And since you and Sam are with him all of the time...yeah, you must know too.""...so he told you...must be bad then...I'll get Sam...We'll meet them at the hospital" he says and hangs sighed in relief, and leaned her back against the wall. She looked up at the ceiling, and swallowed hard. "Oh Danny...what have you've really gotten into this time?" she said, sighing in despair.