A/N: Here is the new chapter guys! Enjoy!
"Wait a minute." Jazz's eyes went wide. "You're thinking of leaving Oxford for NYU with Danny?" Sam tried to fix her eyes towards Jazz with a nervous look on her face.
"I was thinking about it" Sam softly replied.
"And what did you tell Danny?" Jazz wondered.
"Actually, I didn't tell him that." Sam admitted. "I had told him that I was planning on joining Oxford full time in the fall."
"So you now are feeling conflicted?" Jazz stroked her chin while thinking intently. "Interesting."
"Jazz, can we please focus?" Sam tried to avoid Jazz going into child psychology mode at a time like this. "What am I gonna tell Danny?"
"Tell him the truth. Tell him that you plan on going to school with him in the fall." Jazz then thought for a moment while pointing towards Sam. "But didn't your parents want you to come here?"
"Well, yes." Sam sighed. "But they aren't important to me right now. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it."
"Well then, you need to tlel Danny how you really feel about all this." Jazz insisted. "If you tell Danny, then Danny will understand. He might be thrilled. You never know."
"I'm hoping he'll be thrilled that I'm going to leave Oxford." Sam smiled until she realized someone was clearing their throat. Sam turned her head to see Catherine and Mallory looking disappointed. That was when Sam and Jazz both realized; Mallory and Catherine heard everything in that conversation.
"You want to leave Oxford?" Mallory asked sadly.
"Why is that?" Catherine wondered. "Are you not happy here?"
"I love being here." Sam said to them softly. "It's just that I love being with Danny. I can't picture a world without him." Mallory and Catherine looked as if they had no other words for Sam. They couldn't believe the Sam that they had gotten along with had wanted to leave them before September. They just met her-that and she was the closest thing to Danny Phantom that they had.
"I see." Mallory slowly said. Sam turned back around while looking at Jazz.
"We better go and find Vlad." Sam instructed. "If we don't then we could be in a heap of trouble." Sam and Jazz started walking away in order to find Vlad while Mallory and Catherine stood there. They didn't look just hurt, but they also felt a bit betrayed by what just happend. Mallory and Catherine walked away from the rest of the group, starting to look for Vlad.
"I cannot believe that Sam is planning on just to use us and then dump us when Vlad is done." Mallory exclaimed.
"I feel so used." Catherine shook her head.
"Poor little school girls." Catherine and Mallory heard a voice that didn't sound like either of their voices. It didn't even sound like Danny or Sam. When Catherine and Mallory turned around, they couldn't help but notice that there was a ghost floating in front of them. With the white cape, the black beetle boots and with the pale ghost skin, that was when Catherine and Mallory both realized that they were face to face with Vlad Plasmius.
"Are you Vlad?" Catherine softly asked. Mallory quickly hid behind Catherine while they both stared intently at Vlad.
"I heard your problem young girls, and I am here just to help you." Vlad tried to sound as sympathetic as possible. "You felt used and betrayed by Sam and Danny Phantom. When they find me and destroy me, they are just going to leave you without anything. Knowing Danny Phantom, he might just take credit for all the work."
"He wouldn't!" Mallory was becoming more upset and irate.
"Oh, but he would." Vlad nodded his head. "How would you like to catch me and then take all the credit? That way Danny Phantom doesn't get credit for this...and you do." Catherine and Mallory considered Vlad's offer but wondered if they should. After all, it was like making a deal with the devil. Catherine and Mallory's face soon turned into a sly smile while they nodded their heads.
"What would we have to do?"
After Danny finished speaking to his parents about his college plans, he started focusing on trying to find Vlad Plasmius. Danny had to put together the pieces to figure out just where Vlad could be. As Danny continued to look for Vlad, he was beginning to feel a pang in his stomach. Something wasn't right with this whole plan. Something wasn't right at all. Danny soon saw Jazz and Sam looking but all Danny could focus on was Sam. His eyes couldn't move from her beautiful face, the way that she made everything seem so flawless. The way that she made him forget all of her problems. Sam was just that amazing to Danny. Danny for some reason felt that he could be with Sam for the rest of his life, something that he was sure Sam had felt the same way about. Danny was snapped out of his thought when Jazz and Sam waved over to him which gave him the cue to walk over to them.
"Did we find anything on where Vlad could be yet?" Danny asked Sam and Jazz.
"Not yet." Jazz sighed.
"But we will find him." Sam quickly added. "Don't you worry. So, did you get anything?"
"Note Jazz's previous response." Danny sighed.
"So we are back to square one." Sam began to look deflated while Danny put a hand on her shoulder.
"We'll find him Sam." Danny's smile gave Sam butterflies in her stomach when she looked at him. Jazz didn't want to interrupt Danny and Sam's moment but there was the world at stake here.
"Can we please focus?" Jazz sighed
"All right." Danny removed his hand from Sam's shoulder while looking up in the sky. "I guess I'll take the air and you guys look down here. Get in touch with everyone else. That way we can plot what we are going to do next." Danny placed a small kiss on Sam's cheek before flying into the air. Jazz noticed Sam's face turning a bright red as she turned away. Ahh, young love, Jazz thought to herself.
"We better go and start looking for Vlad." Jazz mentioned. "By the way, we should get in contact with Catherine and Mallory just so we know they are still safe."
"Good idea." Sam took out her cell phone and started dialing the number. Sam continued to keep the phone pressed to her ear but was becoming worried when Mallory nor Catherine picked up the call. "I wonder if everything is okay. They aren't picking up their phone."
"Really?" Jazz raised an eyebrow. "Maybe we should go back and make sure they are okay."
"Good idea." Sam started to head back when her phone began to ring. "Oh, I think it's Mallory."
"Then pick up the phone." Jazz said. Sam quickly pressed the answer button on her phone, but when she put the phone to her ear, she felt there was something wrong.
"Mallory?" Sam spoke into the phone. "Are you and Catherine all right?"
"We found Vlad." Mallory spoke into the phone.
"You did?" Sam asked. "Where?"
"We saw him heading towards the town square." Mallory answered.
"All right then. Jazz and I will go and find Vlad. As soon as we get there, we need you two there and then we'll plot from there." Sam quickly hung up the phone while turning back to Jazz. "I don't know, something doesn't feel right about that phone call."
"Sam, it's Mallory." Jazz shrugged her shoulders. "What could possibly go wrong."
"I could think of a couple of things that can go wrong." Sam answered back. Sam and Jazz began to make their way to the town square in order to confront Vlad, but the closer they got to the town square, Sam was wondering if she could call Danny to assist them. I'm sure that we can take on Vlad, Sam thought to herself. Little did Sam know, she was going to be wrong.
Sam and Jazz made it to the town square 30 minutes later but there was no Vlad when they got there. Sam and Jazz gave each other confused looks before turning back to the statue that was in the middle of the park. Sam recognized that statue all too well; it was Danny Phantom. After Danny had saved everyone from the disasteroid, he had a statue all around the world so that everyone could see his greatness. Sam looked at the statue for a moment, getting lost in the features of the marble stone face of Danny Phantom. Jazz quickly snapped Sam out of her thoughts when she started pacing around the park.
"I thought you said Catherine and Mallory said that Vlad was here." Jazz sighed.
"Maybe they spotted him and he flew away." Sam thought.
"Well, we better find him and now." Jazz was becoming a bit angry. Now Jazz was beginning to think that something was off. Vlad was supposed to be around the town square. It wasn't like him to back down from a challange...even a challange like this. "Call Catherine and Mallory. We need to ask them if they saw Vlad again." Sam took out her cell phone but before she could dial the number she saw Catherine walking towards them.
"Thank goodness we found you." Catherine grabbed Sam's arm while looking worried. "We saw Vlad! Mallory is following him."
"Why is Mallory following Vlad?" Sam sounded shocked. "If Vlad decides to hurt her then that could be the end of her!"
"Well, we better go and find her...now!" Catherine sighed.
"And we will." Jazz reassured Catherine. "So which way did Mallory go when she was following Vlad?"
"She went east." Catherine pointed towards downtown London. "Here, I'll lead you to Vlad."
"That's nice of you." Sam said with a small smile.
"Yeah, a little too nice." Jazz started to sound suspicious.
"Come on. Let's go." Catheirne pulled on Sam's arm. Sam quickly followed Catherine while Jazz stayed back a bit. She wasn't sure, but right now Catherine was rubbing her the wrong way. Jazz soon relented and started following Sam and Catherine. As they continued to walk, Jazz became more and more suspicious of Catherine's actions. Sam however was oblivious to Jazz's suspicions and was more intent on finding Vlad, ending him and then getting back to her life as they knew it. Catherine stopped in the middle of the sidewalk where there were cafe's going down the block. Sam and Jazz turned to Catherine while raising their eyebrows.
"So, where is Mallory and where is Vlad?" Sam asked.
"Oh, they'll be here." Catherine squinted her eyes while turning back. Just then Sam sensed something terribly wrong. It was obvious to her now; she and Jazz were in the middle of a trap. The next thing they knew, they were put in a ghost shield that was almost impossible to break.
"What in the world?" Sam turned to Catherine with hurt in her eyes. "Catherine, what are you doing?" With that, Sam and Jazz turned their heads to see Vlad standing over them with Mallory by Vlad's side.
"When I relied on you girls to help and get me some bait, I wasn't expecting you getting the girlfriend." Vlad kept his eyes fixed on Sam as Sam looked in shocked and horror. She realized she had just been played. Catherine and Mallory were helping Vlad, but the question was...why?
"You tricked us!" Sam turned her head to Catherine while shouting at the top of her lungs.
"Oh did we?" Catherine's voice sounded cold. "Or maybe you tricked us."
"What?" Sam sounded absolutely clueless. "How did we trick you?"
"Oh, let's not get into that girls." Vlad smirked, his eyes fixed on Sam. "We better let Danny Phantom know where his beloved Sam is...he would just die to get her back." Sam and Jazz looked from Mallory, Vlad and Catherine before realizing that this was their reality. They were really trapped. And Danny was soon going to be in trouble because Sam was too trusting. Sam felt guilt pang all through her body while keeping her eyes away from Jazz. She was going to have Danny in for the fight of his life...and it was all her fault.
Danny continued to search for Vlad in the air, but as he was flying he just stopped. Danny touched his head while rubbing it, feeling a headache forming on one side of his head. Danny was unsure what was going on next, but he was able to see Sam and Jazz in a dungeon of some sort with Vlad in front of them. Was this a vision or was this Danny's imagination getting the best of him? Danny felt his head start to pound and the more it started pounding, the more clear his vision was. Danny had seen Vlad figuring out a way to kill Vlad, and by Vlad's side it was Mallory and Catherine with smirks on their faces. Danny's eyes flashed open as he looked scared at what he saw.
"SAM!" Danny screamed, while going off to find the others. As Danny thought of what Vlad could possibly do to her, he didn't realize that there was rage building up inside him. The rage was soon getting the best of Danny, because when he blinked his eyes once more, his eyes were no longer bright green; they were now dark red. A grim dark red. A dark red that meant that Danny was coming and that Vlad better hide...because Danny wasn't going to show any mercy.