"An inevitable Future."

A/N: I must of seen TUE about 600 times! This story will try to piece together the events that led to Dark Danny's battle with regular Danny ten years into the future. This story concentrates on Dark Danny's "Birth" and the events that led to the Amity park in the glass ghost shield. I hope you like this part.

Part 1: Living with Vlad.

Danny stood out of the huge castle looking at it. He was starting to have doubts about it. Figuring that Plasmius wouldn't let him live with him. He remembered the first time he had meet Vlad during his parents' collage reunion, the time he meet those damn vultures with a bad American voice. At first Danny thought that Vlad looked pretty normal until he found out that he was the ghost he fought the night before the reunion. Danny had figured out why Vlad was so miserable when he found that picture with his father's face torn out of a photo in Vlad's Lab. Danny also remembered about the time his mother and himself got stranded in the middle of no where only to find them selves in the vicinity of Vlad's mountain house. As Danny thought, it was Vlad's plan to have them land in that jungle figuring they'd find his house. Danny managed to beat Vlad.

Then the time Vlad has put a bounty on him for a million dollars just so he could steal his parents' portal just cause his own was destroyed because he didn't change the ecto-filter while simultaneously and systematically destroy his respect in his father. A task he almost successed in doing so, His father had beaten Vlad into the ghost zone with the Fenton gauntlets. Danny was amazed at how his father was able to beat Vlad into the ghost zone despite his clumsiness.

Then there was the time when he came home from school and there was Vlad sitting down sipping tea in his our. Danny didn't trust him one bit. His fears were realized when he found out that Vlad let out a powerful ghost just so he could become more powerful After the fight, Danny passed out. He woke up in his house with out the ecto-skeleton he just used to fight Pariah Dark. He thought that Vlad must of taken it but didn't have proof of it.

All these things went through his mind in the span of three minutes. Vlad came out of the castle. His face was stricken with grief. He hugged Danny which Danny returned the favor.

"My boy, I am so sorry about what happened. If there's anything I can do for you, just let me know." Vlad said as he let go of Danny.

"Well, I was wondering if I could stay with you. I have no family left, or friends."

Danny looked down as tears threatened to fall. Vlad saw this and felt sorry for him. He had wanted Danny to be his son and live with him and his mother as a family with out that bumbling idiot known as Jack. He didn't want Danny like this…..with out Maddie, with out caring about life anymore. Vlad felt like he won but also felt like he lost something when he heard what had happened to the woman he had loved since college. He felt empty………

"Why, Daniel, of course you can stay with me. As long as you like, please, come in and make your self at home. "

Danny and Vlad went into the castle. Danny put his bags down and looked around. The same stuff that was here before was still here; Cheese heads, packerads stuff, ect.

"Want me to show you to your room, Daniel?" Vlad asked pointing to the stairs.

"I guess." Danny said in a drawl voice.

Vlad whistled, the three vultures appeared from the floor.

"What, what, what is it? Can't you see we are trying to rest in peace?"

"Yeah, Fancy pants rich half ghost half human freak."

"Watch your tongues or I'll send you back to the ghost zone, you ill-speaking winged ecto-plasmic freaks." Vlad said as he turned into his alter ego. "Bring his bags upstairs and be nice to the boy! He has just suffered a traumatic experience."

"I thought you wanted to cause him traumatic experience." The leader vulture said.

"I don't need to explain my self to died birds. Already people think I'm weird when I talk to you in public. People think I'm crazy."

"People 'think' your crazy? More like they KNOW your crazy." The leader Vulture responded.

"Get your lazy bird asses out of here!" Vlad said as he shoot a blast at one of the vultures, knocking it down.

The other two looked at each other, and with the speed of a motorcycle head up the stairs with Danny's stuff. Vlad watched them go.

"Are you hungry, my boy?" Vlad asked Danny, who just stood there looking at the ground.

"No, thanks, Vlad. I just want to go rest up. I have a head ache……"

Danny walked past Vlad. He turns ghost with that same look of sadness on his face.

"So, where is my room again?" Danny asked.

"3rd door on the left, my boy." Vlad said as he pointed to the stairs.

"Thanks."

Danny turns intangible. He raised in to the air and goes through the roof into the upstairs. Vlad looked at the spot where he had been just a few seconds ago. Thinking how hard it must be on Danny losing his family. Vlad felt so lonely right now….lonely because of the fact he had spent the last year and a half trying to kill Jack and steal Maddie away from him. He felt like something was taken away from him those twenty-years ago. The day when Jack's proto-portal gave him ecto-acne. He felt ashamed, disgusted by his appearance. He had to spend a lot of time in the hospital because of it. All those years, his anger grew, and grew towards Jack. Standing there by his door, Vlad missed Jack so much…He missed Maddie even more but Jack and him has been friends since way before the accident. During those years, Vlad never was jealous of Jack since he couldn't get a single girl to like him. Vlad on the other hand could get a few girls to get with him. He never really cared about them like he cared about Maddie when he first saw her.

Vlad fell in love with her at first sight. He was overwhelmed by her sheer beauty. He wanted more then anything in the world to make her his. But she preferred Jack, still he sat behind the side lines, waiting for his chance to be with her………..until that fateful day that changed his life for ever……….

Later that night, while everyone was asleep, a dark shadow appeared beside the window, watching, waiting for that fateful moment where everything would go exactly as it was meant to go. The shadow disappeared before he was found by the strongest being in this house…..

The next morning, Danny got up feeling like shit. He had many nightmares last night. The biggest one was the events that transpired yesterday to change his life forever. They repeated in his mind all night. One of the nightmares he had was about him cowering in the corner as a dark shadow approached him ready to get him. He didn't know if it was real……cause it felt soooooooooo real………Like it was going to happen someday….or the immediate future………….

Danny gets out of bed, goes to the bathroom and is startled by the three vultures. They were preparing a bath, towels, soap, a robe, and other stuff.

"What are you guys doing?" Asked Danny a little freaked.

"The master ordered us to make your stay as comfy as possible. That means. " The vulture makes a throwing up sound. "Washing your back if needed. God I feel like a pedophile right now, me being two-thousand and eight years old and all."

"Look, you guys don't have to do this, I can take care of my self. Can you please go away so I can enjoy some time alone?" Danny said as he took off his shirt.

"You got a problem, talk to the fancy-pants billionaire ghost guy down stairs. I got my orders." The leader vulture said as he went back to check the water.

"I suppose I have no choice then." Danny said as he sighed. "But you guys keep your hands to your self, ok? If I want my back washed I'll ask you, ok?"

Danny gets naked and goes into the tub. The ghost vultures give him what he needed, then left the bathroom. Danny Kicked them out. They fly down stairs into the kitchen where Vlad was sitting down sipping coffee and reading the paper.

"What are you guys doing here?" Vlad asked with out looking up from his paper.

"That ghost brat kicked us out." The vulture leader said.

"Well can you blame him? You guys were in the bathroom as he was about ready to take a shower. Don't you think he'd kick you out? Shame on you three." Vlad said shaking his head.

"But you told us to keep an eye on him no matter where he went." The leader vulture argued.

Vlad shoots an ectoplasmic energy bolt at the leader vulture. The leader fell on the ground with a thud. He coughed up some smoke.

"Ok, I get it, you're the boss." He faints.

Danny walked in with a towel around his shoulders. He sat down at the table with out even noticing the vulture pulsating on the ground. Vlad looked at him as he just noticed him coming in the room.

"Danny! I didn't see you come in, my boy. How are you feeling?" Vlad asked as he sat down again.

"Like I deserve to be killed fro the deaths of my friends and family……..and my teacher that's how I feel today." Danny said as he put his head on the table.

"Daniel, it wasn't your fault they died. You couldn't have known that you cheating on that test would cause those horrific events that transpired yesterday, my boy."

"I feel it is though. Sam and Tucker tried to stop me from doing it, but I wouldn't listen. I was so wrapped up in this super hero jazz that I didn't have time to prepare for that stupid test. I was just so worried about my future that I didn't stop to think about the consequences."

"Daniel, you couldn't have known that your actions would cause the deaths of the people you held so dear to your heart……….and that out of shape teacher……."

"I fell like crap. I just want the pain to go away. I don't want to feel anymore. I just-"

"'Want to be full ghost'?" Vlad finished for him.

"Yeah….that way I would have to worry about emotions dragging me down. I just want the pain to go away……….forever……………"

"Daniel, you do realize the risks involved right? With out your human side to control that ghost in you, you'll be just like all the other ghost you've meet and battled…..a mindless spectral being with out restraint and control to stop you from causing chaos."

"Yeah, then how come you're always causing chaos and destruction? I know you feel like my father took your life away with that accident twenty-one years ago, but you should forgive him………It's not his fault he is the way he is."

"Daniel, I've been angry at your father for years because he stole the woman I loved and still do. Now that they are gone, I miss your father. I really do."

"I miss him too. I miss, my mom, Tucker, Sam-"

That last word sets him off the edge. Suddenly, he snapped and turns ghost right before Vlad's eyes. The thought of Sam's early death makes him unleash a powerful wave through out the castle. Vlad is knocked down by the force of the energies that Danny was emitting.

"SAM! It's not fair! Why did you have to leave me alone in this world! I loved you! I should have told you! SAM!"

Danny has tears in his eyes. He screamed loudly that it was almost as if he was about ready to do the ghostly wail but before he could do it his power drained out of him and hi falls to the ground shaking like a leaf.

Crying, mumbling………Danny felt cold, felt like his brain was going to explode. He was changing between ghost mode and human mode. The tears were increasing rapidly as he sat there shaking.

"Daniel!" Vlad screamed as he kneeled next to Danny..

"Please…….make it go away………make the pain go away……..I beg you…….." Danny fainted in Vlad's arms.

"I will, Daniel………no more painful emotions to drag you down……….."

End of part 1