Ariel was getting an uncomfortable feeling in her gut, but she passed it off as nerves and kept walking. They reached a clearing and saw a huge mansion. Ariel immediately grabbed her siblings and dropped the food bag. Ariel handed her Specter Deflector to Skye and made her put it on. Something was wrong.

Sam noticed her distrust of the building and looked at it to. She saw a blue light coming from one of the windows. It quickly faded, but Sam knew it was Danny. She started to the front door after looking for guards and not seeing any. She looked back at the children to see their distrust of the building. It was mostly coming from Ariel. Sam turned back to the children and smiled. She invited them to stay there where the ghosts could get them. That made them hurry up inside. Sam looked inside to see no one home. She walked up the steps and found a small closet where everyone could stash their food and climbed up more steps.

Ariel stopped and ordered her younger sibling to hide in the closet until she came and got them. They nodded and moved silently back to the closet. Sam looked at Ariel, intrigued by her move. She wanted to ask why, but Danny was closer to her than he had been for years. She didn't want to let him slip to the dark side. Ariel followed her slowly and stopped on several occasions to look around. Sam urged Ariel on so she could see for herself that the place was safe enough for her siblings.

Sam finally reached the floor where Danny's color had been spotted and she opened to what she guessed was his room. She opened the door to see Danny in his ghost form, smiling at her. Except he wasn't tied up and there wasn't anything holding him there.

"Danny!" Sam cried out and hugged the ghost.

"It's been a long time, Sam," Danny hugged back, but he hated the old hag who hugged him with so much love. He noticed a young girl watching him carefully and smiled at her. Ariel didn't fall for it and continued to watch him.

"Danny, I've missed you so much. I thought you had died then Ariel had found a note that Tucker had seen you and–" Sam cut off and cried into the ghosts shoulder.

"I know, I killed Tucker," Danny smiled evilly as Sam stared at Danny and backed away.

Ariel didn't move, she didn't stop watching the so-called hero that had killed his own friend. Sam started running away, but Danny didn't care. He was intrigued by this little girl's bravery, unlike his old friend Sam.

"Why did you do it?" Ariel asked as they started moving in circles around each other, neither one giving an opening to the other.

"It was easy, once Master had taken the goodness out of my heart. I merely had to scare Tucker. He had a heart attack on the spot. I was disappointed though, he really didn't put up a fight like his parents." Danny smiled wider at the thought of death.

"Why did you force him to write that letter?" Ariel asked, afraid to fight this spawn of the man who had thrown the girl who looked like her sister.

"To get my old friend Sam here," Danny frowned when he saw Ariel's eyes change from blue to neon pink.

"You- you were the one who took mother away!" Ariel cried.

"Unfortunately, you're wrong there. I wasn't allowed to go out in public much, Master's orders." Danny frowned at the thought of missing all of those chances to smell blood in the air.

"Where are all the slaves?" Ariel cried, trying to regain herself but losing quickly.

"Their in the dungeons, wasting away like the pathetic humans they are."

"But you're half-human!" Ariel cried as she felt a power overcome her body and shoot a ghostly beam at Danny. He dodged it easily, but Ariel wouldn't stop firing. She didn't know where this power was coming from, but she didn't care. This creature didn't deserve to live.

"Don't remind me you pathetic, little girl. I have loathed the day when my master said he needed my other half with me." Danny lunged through the beams, but Ariel dodged him and shot him in the back.

"The real Danny Phantom would never turn on his friends!" Ariel cried out as rings appeared around her. She looked down at herself. She was turning into Danny Phantom. She stared at the new outfit she was wearing, but forgot about Danny. He grabbed her and threw her into the wall, leaving an indent a foot in. Ariel fell to the floor and couldn't rise. Her vision was becoming blurry as a ring appeared around her and changed her back into human form.

"I see you have done well, Daniel." Vlad walked in through the door and smiled at the girl who was unconscious.

"Thank you, Master." Danny bowed and walked over to the girl. "What shall I do with her?"

"Hmm… I could always use another shoe shiner." Vlad laughed and woke Ariel up. She didn't open her eyes, but guessed at where Vlad was. "Then again, she will be my adopted daughter. Yes, I can see it now, since Ember cannot have any, we shall have her." Vlad laughed again as Danny picked her up and threw her over his shoulders.