Chapter 21! Sorry that this is a shorter chapter, I really wanted to end it where I did, plus I wanted to capture how Danielle was acting through someone else's perspective before anything big truly happened. Anyway, on with the story! Disclaimer, I do not own Danny Phantom, Nickelodeon does. (Right? Since Butch left….That's hard to 's no chance he could buy the rights still and do his own thing with it, right? lol)

She had been off from the moment she had woken. Danny tried to figure out what was running through his daughter's mind, but whenever he tried talking to her she gave her best smile, and said everything was fine and she was still just shaken by the past few days' events.

While that was a plausible explanation, he just couldn't buy it. Neither did the rest of the family. Now Jazz has been calling every day instead of every the every couple days that was their usual schedule routine. She was worried for Danielle, saying how she was too much like Danny, and if she knew her little brother at all, she would bottle things as to not burden people with her thoughts.

The worst part of it all is that Danny noticed that when she was interacting with people she put on a pretty good act. She was attentive, she was mentally and emotionally there, but the moment she wasn't conversing she was lost to something within the confines of her mind. Her eyes always seemed distant. Like she was arguing inside her own head.

His mom even tried to bribe her into talking about what was swarming through her head. Danielle loved her chocolate chips cookies, she even put a pinch of ectoplasm in; being half ghost, it was definitely something both he and his daughter loved.

However, when presented with the delicious treat, her only response was, "Thanks, grandma, but I'm not too hungry at the moment." That was the first time in all the months that she had been there that she had rejected food.

And that quite frankly scared Danny, because he didn't know what was she thinking of doing. Was she planning something? He knew he himself had a hero complex, and if Danielle was anything like him, which he knew she was, she was stewing something up in her head. He talked to Sam, and they both agreed to keep an extra eye on her for a while.

How could he protect his daughter when the problem lay inside her mind?

Soon enough, Tucker was discharged from the hospital and was sent home. Well, Fenton Works at least. Danielle wouldn't let the poor guy out of her view sight for more than five minutes, and that was for him to use the bathroom.

However, now that Tucker had been released from the hospital, paparazzi had been swarming the house all morning wanting news on the mayor's well-being and the background information on Danielle, now that the rumors of Danielle's arrival and who she was had been flying around town. Thankfully, Grandpa Jack threatened to use the Jack 'O Nine Tails on them, to which they all fled the property.

"Danielle, Tuck's gonna have to go home sometime soon, how about you walk him home. The paparazzi are finally gone, it's best to do it before they find their way back, they always do. But we want you straight back. No goofing off." She gave a nod towards her dad, and threaded her arm around Tucker and went off.

The silence was welcomed for Danielle. She didn't want to talk, even if she knew things needed to be said. She just couldn't bring herself to speak, and Tucker wasn't about to push.

They reach Tucker's place quickly. When standing on his front porch, she didn't know what possessed her, but she drew the older boy into a tight hug, clutching onto him as tightly as she could, bunching his shirt in her hands, trying to mind the injuries.

'This might be the last hug. Before we even truly started.' The words echoed in her mind as hot tears threatened to leak from her eyes, but she forced them away. Tucker gave a parting kiss to her forehead before she made her way back to Fenton Works.

I'm sorry Tucker.

I'm sorry everyone.

The swirling green and black ecto energy of the Ghost Zone was staring at her in the face and she was terrified. Her parents thought she was in the shower at the moment, but no. She was here, in front of the changing Ghost Zone portal, and she was scared out of her mind. If she did survive this, she wouldn't be alive for long once she was home. Everyone would be on her ass for weeks. But it didn't matter. This needed to be done.

I love you guys.

Closing her eyes so as if to not to see the pain coming, she flew into the Ghost Zone.

Making his way upstairs to Danielle's bedroom to ask her what she wanted for dinner, Danny made it to the top step when he just felt off. Like something was wrong and it was too late to fix it. Trying to shrug it off for just a moment, he went to knock on Dani's door.

"Danielle, are you done with showering? Your nana and papa are back from Florida, and are having dinner with us. Grandma wants to know what you wa-"

He quickly stopped mid-sentence when he stepped into her room and saw her bedroom and bathroom empty. It hits him all at once. He fell to his knees in fear.

Danielle was gone.

Danny phased to the basement in mere seconds to see the lab trashed. Lab equipment lay broken all around the room. Danny looked up in horror as he saw the worst sight he had ever seen. The ghost portal was broke in half and falling in on itself.

"No." Danny helplessly whispered.

"No!"

Danielle felt a chill for a single moment. She was terrified but this was her responsibility, this was her fault thinking she could ever have a normal life. No, she knew now that if she wanted those things she would have to fight for them. She would have to fight to exist, just like she had to with Vlad. That's just how life went.

Looking around she had no clue where she was. The Ghost Zone had always been mysterious but it was different to this extent? Grandpa Jack was right. The Ghost Zone had been changing. All around her what used to be a beautiful green sky was now broken in shards of green being forever swallowed by a black abyss. It just seemed so lifeless.

In the far distance, she could see the light coming from the Far Frozen.

It took a little while without the Specter Speeder but she eventually made it to the heart of the Far Frozen, Frostbite's castle. She let out a sigh of relief of the view.

Entering the castle, Danielle ran up to Frostbite to explain her situation and why she needed his help.

Frostbite replied, "So let me get this straight, the last time your group invaded that mansion with the small band of misfits you all got, how do you kids put it, oh yeah, served. I was the one who had to rescue you four and we barely made it out alive."

"I know but this has to stop, my friends, my family, he is going to hurt everyone I love and..."

Dani paused for a moment.

"Where is your pet wolf, Snowflake?"

"Oh, her. She had been barking non-stop ever since the Shadow Master's last attack. She is currently in the stables with the other beasts."

That wasn't right, Frostbite loved Snowflake; he'd never put her in a pen.

"Frostbite when this last attack happened, didn't those two guards of yours get injured with a dark blade? How are they not still recovering?"

Frostbite grabbed his face as if in pain.

"You are very clever aren't you, my young Danielle."

Frostbite lowered his hand to stare back at Danielle with soulless black eyes.

"You aren't Frostbite! Where is he? What do you want!?" She looks around the snowy terrain as if by some miracle the real Frostbite would pop out and save her. But no rescue came. She was all alone with this evil ghost.

The shadow master remits a deep, cackle laugh. "You will soon find out. Now sleep, child." He waved his hands in front of himself as a mist of green and purple started to fill her vision.

Not a moment later everything went black.

Danielle's body felt cold as ice.

Thanks to my wonderful beta reader, silente faery!

So, How will Danny get into the Ghost Zone with both his portal is gone, and Vlads mansion along with his portal gone as well. Lets not forget, the real Frostbite has the infa map, and with him being taken over….. Well, we'll just have to see what the team does now. What will happen to Danielle? We will have to wait to find out. Until next time.