WHAT I'VE DONE Chapter 20
Preparations for the odd surgery had been made by the time the sun rose up over the mountain tops. The world outside was silent as the nocturnal animals fell asleep and the day animals slowly woke up. It was a rather cloudy day, almost as if another storm was waiting to pounce.
The two men where in the basement of the mansion. It was a dark place that let in no natural light. The whole room was nothing but metal and devices made for ghostly evil deeds. The teen was laying on a cold metal slab and was strapped in tightly. Vlad had just finished washing up and was putting on a surgeon's mask.
"That's how the surgery will go down. Understand? Sure you still want to go through with it?"
"I trust you."
"Alright, well, good night then." Vlad pricked a needle into the boy's arm and flushed a highly concentrated medicine he made a while back into the boy's blood stream. The effects were immediate and Danny was knocked out by the time Vlad was taking the needle out. The teen was hanging dangerously close to death. The narcotic not only knocked him out, but slowed his entire body to the point that he's one missed heart beat away from dying. The older man didn't want to use it on the teen, but that was the only narcotic in the world that could actually put out someone who is half ghost.
Everything about the surgery was risky. He was extremely cautious and nervous. All of a sudden it dawned on him that it wasn't the smartest thing to do this after having been up all night worrying over his young lover. He took a slow deep breath and focused on the task at hand.
The metal table flipped up so that the teen was basically standing up. Vlad put on some gloves he had designed a while ago specifically just to rip out not only the boy's emotions, but his ghost half as well. Danny knew that this would happen, and still agreed to the surgery. The teen seemed to be more then happy to get rid of his other half.
Masters plunged the metallic gloves into the boy, making sure they phased through his actual body. He was sweating and focusing as hard as he could. One slip up at this point would cause the teen's sudden death.
After almost and hour of detailed maneuvers that severed the boy's connection with his other half, the man finally pulled out of the teen. Attached to his gloves what the teen's sleeping ghost half. Vlad let out a sigh of relief, glad that the surgery was over finally.
The ghost eye's lit up as he looked at the man in front of him. Instinct forced the teen ghost to shove the man back against the wall away from him. He held his stomach. He was bleeding heavily from having those wretched gauntlets pierced through him.
Anger washed through the ghost. He rushed forward and grabbed the gauntlets from the man. He used them to crudely rip out Master's ghostly half. The man screamed out in pain as he felt the pain of his very DNA being clawed at. The pain made him loose his touch with reality. It was almost like he was in a drug stupor. He watched as his ghostly half fought against the teen before him.
Unfortunately, the ghosts couldn't quite fight like they had so many times before. Vlad's half was crudely torn out of him, making his form unstable. Vlad watched in a daze as the two ghostly forms fused together. They howled out in pain as the effects showed. Phantom's skin split and gave away to a new skin, his hair burst into flames that licked at his head. The immense power burned at every nerve of his body.
As phantom suffered a painful change, Vlad limped over to where Danny was still strapped to the bed. He undid the straps quickly and tried to wake the boy up. With strong medication, it'd be nearly impossible for the teen to wake up any time soon, but Vlad still tried. He knew how stubborn the teen could be.
Phantom leapt forward and slammed the man backwards into the cold metallic wall. Masters let go of Danny as he was flung backwards. The teen's lifeless body slammed into the floor. The jolt forced the teen to wake up from his drug induced sleep. He looked up and saw himself, well, what used to be himself.
For a second, the two separated halves looked at each other. They just stared, taking it in. Suddenly Phantom's hair flamed up and he rushed at the teen. "How dare you get rid of me! I've been with you through the worst of your life, and you just toss me aside?"
"I just wanted to be normal. To be sane." Danny defended himself as best he could while still waking up from the heavy narcotic. The teen found that he couldn't move. His entire body was numb.
Phantom grew irritated by the teen's words. He lashed out with his new found power and slammed the teen backwards into the steel wall. "You were BETTER then everyone else. Why did you want to change that?" Phantom picked up the teen and threw him as hard as he could across the room. Loud cracking sounds filled the room as the teen's body connected with the thick metallic wall. Phantom caught him before he hit the floor. He lifted the teen into the air and slammed him into the floor.
"How could your just cast away a part of yourself?" Phantom pleaded in anger. He slammed a fist into the teen's chest. Blood spurt out of the boy's open mouth. His eyes grew wide in pain. "We're just halves now. We're broken and can't be fixed!" Phantom picked up Danny with a glowing green hand. The ectoplasmic energy singed the boy's shirt and licked at his skin beneath. The heat of it started to burn his skin.
"Fuck you!" Phantom screamed as he flung his human half into a machine that clogged the room. A ray of pure energy followed the boy and hit him right in the chest. The machine behind him couldn't take the brunt of the actions and topped onto the boy. A pool of scarlet drenched the lab floor. Only the teen's hand and a little bit of his hair had escaped the crushing blow of the heavy machine's fall.
"I hate you. I LOATH you!" The ghost screamed out as he burst out of the lab and flew away into the dim day.
Vlad woke up a few hours later as a strong smell of copper hit his nose. He found his lab was ruined, the floor was sticky with half dried blood, and a crushed lover. He broke down and cried, screaming out that he knew it was a bad idea.
After the accident, the man refused to leave his mansion. No one in the world actually ever heard from the man again. His corporations were ran by strong leaders and the town had forgotten his existence. Phantom didn't seem to want to mess with Vlad or the mansion. As the world fell into chaos at the hands of Dan Phantom, Vlad withered away in his cold mansion by himself.
Whether or not the man ever cleaned out the teen's room or got rid of any of his belongings is unknown. What happened to the body is unknown. The man who was hired to deliver the man his groceries swears that when he accidentally got lost in the mansion that he saw a teen boy who was bloody, bruised, and missing an arm was floating in a glass tube of liquid in some remote location of the mansion. But, that's just a story from a man who simply wants to get attention. No one would ever know if that's true or just a lie.