Danny yawned and stretched his arms. He was floating next to Sam's bed in her hospital room. The events of his children being born the previous night still fresh in his mind. The fact he still didn't have his body and the fact he was sharing a ghost body with a nutcase had been pushed to the back of his mind. He checked the small clock next to Sam's bed. "Almost eight."

"Where is breakfast?" Sam's violet eyes opened. Her hair was a mess and she looked drained, but Sam was still the beautiful girl he had fell in love with. And the moment he got his body back, he was going to propose.

"I'll check!" He started for the door, but it flew open and Jazz ran in. Danny had to rub his eyes to recognize her. She was wearing all black and her hair was blue.

"Jazz?"

"No talking!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him into the small bathroom. Sam heard yelling, a couple of crashes, and water running.

"What is going on in there?"

A few minutes later, Danny walked out of the bathroom a little woozy. His white hair had been dyed black and normal clothes put over his black jumpsuit. Jazz hid the hair dye in the trash. "Sorry! Both families are coming in force."

"A little warning would be nice in the future."

Sam simply laughed as Danny sat down in a small chair. "So when are they going to get here?" A loud rumbling from the hall answered for her. "You better go get the kids." Danny nodded and phased out of the room. The door burst open and both sets of parents stormed in. All four of them looked like they were going to start yelling, but stopped as Sam pointed to a small sign over her bed. It said low volume please. The Fentons backed away slightly, giving The Mansons the floor.

"Where have you been? We have been worried sick. First you tell us your pregnant and then you vanish in the middle of a ghost evasion."

"Dad! I can explain!"

"You better!" Her mom stepped up. "Bad enough you hooked up with that boy."

"And what is wrong with my boy!" Maddie was quick to defend her son.

"Well he did up and vanish." Miss. Manson crossed her arms as Maddie tried to come up with a good response.

"Those half ghosts captured him." Jazz jumped in. "They were hoping to use him to get you guys to not fight them."

"I knew it!" Jack slammed his fist into his hand. "When I find the ghosts responsible for hurting my son. I will tare them atom by atom."

Danny reluctantly walked in with one of the nurses. The parents turned, but all eyes were on the small cart with the two infants. Danny sighed with relief as the parents began to pick up the children and talk to them. "Never thought my kids would be saving me so soon."

It was late as the parents started to leave. They had told the pair they would wait until they came home for the full story. Both Danny and Sam were thankful for that. Jazz was the last to leave. "You two try and get some rest. I am having dad put up a ghost shield around the hospital." Jazz left, but what she said didn't make Danny feel any better.

"The ghosts are only half the problem." He sighed and sat down on the bed.

Sam tried patted his back. "We'll manage."

"I know!"

It was midnight as Danny was jarred out of his sleep. He floated to the floor and looked around. Sam was sleeping soundly and the twins were in a small bed next to her. It wasn't exactly allowed, but The Mansons did donate a lot of money to the hospital. One of the few things he was thankful for. He didn't trust the kids being a lone for an amount of time. His eyes glowed green as looked around the room. A pair of red ones shined from the shadows. "Phantom!" A dark version of himself stepped into view.

"Dark!" Danny's hand went to the sheathed Nightmare Blade at his side.

"I'm sure you wouldn't want to do that." Dark glanced at Sam and the babies. "That might do a little too much collateral damage."

"What do you want?"

"My sword!" He held up The Banshee Blade. "Give me what I want, and I will leave you and your family alone."

"Why don't I believe that?"

Dark smiled. "You need to be a little more trusting. And besides, I'm not the one you need to worry about." He tapped the side of his head. "At least I don't have a passenger. And who knows what he will do when he gets out."

Danny hand tightened around the handle of his sword. "I want my body back."

"And I am more than happy to return it to you. A trade perhaps?"

"Not here! The roof!"

"Agreed!" Both of them went intangible and flew to the roof. The two landed on the large flat roof just behind the glowing red sign. The sky was highlighted by the green glow of the ghost shield around the building. Dark held his free hand out. "The sword if you would please."

"Yeah right!" Danny swung the sword and a large blade of green energy shot from it. Dark jumped up and dodged it. Danny's ghost energy flared up and burned away his normal clothes and the dye in his hair.

"You lied to me!"

"Like you would just hand over my body and leave me alone." He pointed the sword at him. "You were going to take the sword and then turn on me."

Dark nodded and smiled. "So you're not a pathetic as I though. Then taking the sword from you will be that much more entertaining."

"I aim to please!" Both ghosts charged at each other.

Far from the hospital, a proxy ghost of Malice watched with several of his followers. "So the two still fight over what is mine."

Samurai floated up. "Your orders my lord!"

"Sneak in and take the children. If those two morons want to beat each other senseless, then who am I to stop them?"

Samurai bowed. "Your genius is truly amazing."

"Of course it is! Now go!" Samurai led six other half ghosts towards the hospital. Malice smiled. "Soon the children and my sword will be in my possession. Then both The Ghost Zone and Earth will be mine!"

Clockwork watched The Board of Destiny as the pieces began to move. Malice's proxy was staying far from his pieces. Sam and the new children were slowly being descended on by Malice's troops. "Things are not going exactly as I have foreseen it. I had hoped Danny would have gotten possession of The Wrath Blade by now." His eyes moved to Phantom and Dark. Their pieces were next to each other and glowing red and green. For the first time in awhile, the future wasn't entirely clear to him. "It is time to move things along." He stood up and smiled. "Without interfering of course." He vanished.