"Ah, ghost child. We meet again." said the figure steeping out from the shadows.
Danny knew just from the tone of the voice that it was Skulker. "I'M GOING GHOST!" Rings of light surounded his body, they disappeared revealing a transformed Danny Phantom. "OK Skulker, I sent you to the ghost zone before and now I'm gonna send you back!"
Skulker looked over at Danny and held his hands up in a gesture of peace. "I have no fight with you this time. The council of ghosts has sent me to find you and ask for your help."
Danny stood there thinking over what Skulker had just said. He charged up twin ectoblasts. "Explain."
"A new threat has entered the ghost zone. This entity has been destroying our bretheren right and left. The council has decided that we need help from you. They are prepared to offer you whatever you wish in return for your help."
Sam watched the exchange and yelled to Danny, "Don't trust him. It's probably a trap."
Danny kept an eye on Skulker as he thought about what his friend had said. "She's right, why should I trust you?"
"Because if you don't both of our world's are doomed." Skulker slumped and looked at Danny. "The Ghost Zone, as you call it, is actually Phantameria. Our world is a kind of Limbo. The evil energies released when someone dies feeds Phantameria. Without those energies Phantameria would die, along with everything there, andwithout Phantameria your world would quickly be polluted by these energies. As the buildup grew your world would wither and die, along with every creature that lives here. Without you Danny Phantom, the army we have gathered will not be powerful enough to destroy the enemy forces."
"Why exactly do you need me?" Danny asked suspiciously.
"Your Existence is a fluke. However being that you are of both Earth and Phantameria, you may be able to defeat what threatens us all."
"Why didn't you go to one of the other Halfas with your deal."
"Others? You mean that there are more than just you and Vlad?"
Danny quickly realized that he had just made a very bad mistake. He had just revealed the existence of Shade to one of the most evil and ruthless ghosts of the Ghost Zone. "Well, tell me why didn't you go to Vlad?"
"We did." Skulker answered, "He has agreed to help us. However, we need all the power we can get. So Danny Phantom, will you help us? Will you fight by our sides so that both of our worlds will be safe?"
Danny looked thoughtful as he asked, "How long will this take?"
"There is no way to know. If we fail then it will not matter."
"I'll fight by your side. However there's something I gotta do first." Danny looked troubled with his decision. "I will meet you in the Ghost Zone."
Skulker looked quietly at Danny then moved back into the shadows.
Samantha Manson rushed up to Danny and started yelling at him, "What are you insane? Skulker can't be trusted!"
"Sam," Danny said gently holding her arm. "I have to trust him. If he isn't lying then, everything and everyone on earth might die."
Sam lookedinto his eyes and saw something she hadn't seen before. She saw the weight that having to fight ghosts and always trying to help others had put on him. He had given up a normal life to do the right thing, and he had taken up the weight of the world. Sam almost came to tears as she thought about everything he had sacrificed to protect those he cared about. "You said that there was something you have to do. Whatis itDanny?"
Sam looked up just in time to catch him staring at her. "I have to tell them. I have to tell my family."
Well everybody I know that you wanted either a love scene between Danny and Sam with them revealing how they feel, or a gruesome and deadly fight scene. Well I don't know about the romantic part, I can give you my personal assurance that before this story is over you will see a war.