Hey! I'm extremly sorry I haven't updated like I said I was going to but I got really caught up in cheer comps over the weekend, then my car broke down, then it was Christmas, then New Years and so on!

So is everyone excited that this is our last year ever! Actually I really don't believe in it but then again… *mischievous smile* hope your holidays were AWESOME like mine and I'll try my best to update regularly. :D

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Chapter 11

"It feels amazingly good to be free. Ooh, and look who set me free, little Paulina. I never thought I'd see the likes of you again." Dan chuckled darkly as he stared down and the frightened face of Paulina.

"Get away from her Dan." Danny snarled back changing into Phantom and flying towards his evil alter ego.

"Don't worry, I won't attack. Yet. Ta-Ta!" He smirked flying away through the ceiling. Danny waited a second longer before letting his feet his the ground and walked over to Clockwork his face hard. "When?"

"Soon." Was all he said.

"How powerful is he?" Danny asked not letting his voice waver. He was nervous because the last time had been tough and if he was any powerful he would be harder to beat.

"Come with me." Clockwork led the group down a hallway and through a door, "I figured you'd need this." He pointedly told Danny.

Danny sighed in recognition of the training course. He quickly spun around to face his friends and sister. "Look, I don't want you getting hurt so I don't want you in here."

"We need to train as well Danny." Sam stated sternly folding her arms over her chest.

"I think it would be best for Daniel to practice here alone." Clockwork told them shuffling everyone out the door, except for Sam. She gave Danny a glare, turned on the heel of her combat boots and walked out the door.

Danny began his training.

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"So what was, like, that thing form the Thermos?" Star asked as the group sat in the large open space eating food that Clockwork had provided for them. When Tucker had asked him how he'd gotten some he told him that it was 'his little secret' and he wasn't telling anyone.

"Danny's older dark version." Sam sighed as she tossed an apple from hand to hand. "Remember that story that Danny told at the campfire?" They all nodded their heads, "Well… that was us. Danny was the one that promised that he would never turn into anything like that."

They sat in silence for a while, Tucker and Jazz sat next to each other holding hands, when Dash suddenly spoke up.

"Is that why Fenton would always take my beatings? He never seemed to fight back anymore."

"Yes." Sam sighed but glared at the blonde haired teen, "He feared that if he fought back then he would turn into Dan. Basically." The group sat in silence again until Clockwork broke them up forcing them to head off to bed.

"Sam could I speak to you?" Clockwork asked of her. She nodded and he led her down the opposite hall as the others. He didn't take her far until he turned around and pulled out a ghostly colored greed dagger. The hilt was leather-bound and imprinted on the leather was a black skull with what Sam thought was the Crown of fire. But she knew that couldn't be.

"Who's was this?" Sam asked reaching out to touch the glowing knife that Clockwork held out to her.

"This was Pariah Dark's." The goth looked at him with surprise, "Yes, you see before the Ancients placed Pariah in the sarcophagus of forever sleep they had taken his main weapons. This was one of them." Clockwork held it up to his face as if he was inspecting it. "Many lives have seen this. Some never saw anything else. But, Dan and Pariah are evenly matched and with this dagger you could get rid of Dan forever."

"Me?" Sam questioned. She thought this was all about Danny facing his older jerky self. "Why me?"

"Because you are the opposite of what Danny sees in Dan. With Dan it's pure hatred but with you it is pure love that he has. With you wielding this weapon you should be able to defeat Dan making sure he will never come back."

"Where will he go?" Sam asked still blushing from what Clockwork had said about Danny loving her.

"I presume an alternate timeline where he will officially live there but our time will remain normal and Dan free."

"This. This is huge Clockwork." She said after a few minutes of letting it all sink in. "But you can't tell me for sure if this will work or not?" she reached for the knife he held out to her and handled it with care.

"I'm gravely sorry that I cannot. But why don't you go and rest up?" he smiled with the corner of his mouth and ushered her down the other hallway.

She yawned and let her feet carry her towards he room but stopped abruptly when she noticed her classmates peeking in through a door. "What are you doing?"

Valerie shushed her, "Were watching Danny practice."

"I don't think so, we all should go to bed."

"When did you become so responsible?" Tucker turned to her, "That's normally Jazz's job."

"Tucker." His girlfriend glared at him.

"What that's a compliment!"

"I don't care, but everyone should go to bed and leave Danny alone." Sam told them and was wondering what Tucker and Jazz were both doing there considering they have already seen Danny train multiple times before.

"Just come watch Sam." Valerie pulled her in and forced her to look through the crack in the door. Sam's eyes grew wide as she saw Danny flying through different obstacles and dodged lasers that shot at him from every angle. She watched as he dodged one but didn't see another one which hit him sending him to the ground. She listened harder as she heard a clock begin a countdown from ten and noticed Danny push himself harder.

As the Clock reached one and buzzed with its final time Sam heard Danny yell out, "No!" and sink to the floor on his hands and knees his head hanging with white hair covering his eyes. Sam rushed forward not understanding what he had been trying to protect. The others however had noticed the exact replica of Sam on the other side of the room which seemed to be Danny's goal.

Sam placed a hand on his shoulder as she leaned down on her knees, but in a second she was pinned to the hard floor, an ecto-beam inches from her face and Danny sitting over her. When Danny realized it was his girlfriend he quickly got off her a gasp slowly escaped his lips and placed his head in his hands.

"Danny, what's wrong?" Sam looked at him concerned. She heard him mumble something but she couldn't make out what it was, "Danny I can't help you if you mumble."

"I almost..." was all Sam got out of his garbled reply. She rolled her eyes and pulled his hands away from his face to see one lone tear streak his cheek. "I almost killed you." He finally got out in a broken whisper.

Sam pulled him close to her burying his head into her shoulder, "Danny you could never kill me. I promise you that."

"But it was so close," it sounded like he wanted to say more but it never happened.

"Now you listen here Daniel Fenton, you could never kill me. You know why? Because I'm your best friend, because I'm your girlfriend and you care to much to ever hurt me much less kill me. You attacked on impulse because you've pushed yourself so far today. Farther than what you should have."

"But, Sam…"

"No buts Danny. Now come on. You're going to bed too." She grabbed his arm and began pulling him up.

"Just an hour longer. I promise." Sam looked at him skeptically, "I promise and then I'll come to bed."

"An hour." Was all she said before kissing his cheek and stalking towards the door. "Come on." Was all she told the group as she began grabbing them and pulling them up and dragging them down the hallway to their rooms.


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