Danny could hardly believe it. The one responsible for the suffering and torment and stress he had been through over the past week was gone. Danny looked down the long fall that Myrus just tumbled from, and he realized that any trace molecules of Myrus were all gone.

"It's over," Danny repeated. His tired, heavy voice seemed to echo as it bounced off the walls to the empty, destroyed room. He even started laughing for some reason. He was just happy the entire ordeal was over. Almost.

Then, a revelation suddenly struck him: Raschenda and Vundeter! Were the two leaders of the Esceron army okay? He hoped he wasn't too late to save them.

Conjuring up what strength he had left, Danny bolted down to the lower part of the base where the battle was taking place. To his pleasant surprise, he saw that Raschenda and Vundeter were doing fairly well, holding off the Maldum troops.

"Danny!" Raschenda yelled.

"Ghost boy! Are you okay?" Vundeter asked anxiously. "What happened? Are you okay? Where's Myrus!"

"Myrus had to split," Danny joked. "Hey, look what I can do!"

Danny started charging an Ectoplasmic Vaporizing Blast and didn't waste another second. He began firing it at several of the remaining Maldum troops who were still fighting. Rashcenda and Vundeter stared in awe as Danny melted away the Maldum troops with no trouble at all.

"How did you get that?" Vundeter asked.

"Uh…kind of a long story," Danny replied, not wanting to go into detail. Raschenda and Vundeter left it at that, knowing Danny wasn't in any mood to tell them about how he got some powers. As far as they were concerned, if he had powers and was using it for their good, then that was all that was important.

Raschenda and Vundeter beat a few more Maldum soldiers, but the majority of the rest were taken care of by Danny and his EMV ray. After all the trouble the Maldums had caused him, he felt good knowing that he was getting his revenge.

In no time, the remaining Maldums were defeated or were forced to surrender. Raschenda and Vundeter planned on holding the Maldums prisoner and trying to convince them to join the Esceron army. (Vundeter was excited about this for obvious reasons)

As soon as they surrendering Maldums were beaten, everyone flew out of the Maldum base. From the outside of it, you couldn't tell that a vicious battle had been fought inside. And Danny wasn't ready to let anyone find out about it.

As Raschenda and Vundeter began to float away, Danny began charging up a huge blast of EMV. When it was fully charged, he began firing it at the Maldum base. As soon as the ray hit the wall, he began tearing through the rest of the base with it; it was like carving a thanksgiving turkey with a cutting laser.

After a while, the entire Maldum base began splitting apart and disappearing into millions of tiny molecules. Danny watched in glee as he saw the base begin to disappear. After the entire thing was gone, he flew back the Esceron base.

He walked in, and he found that everything was disturbingly quiet. He expected the Escerons to be celebrating their victory over the Maldums, but there were none in sight. He started looking around the base, and he checked one of the rooms that he hadn't seen in a long time. It was a wide room with nothing really in it. Danny walked in and was surprised with what he saw.

As he opened the door, he saw all the Esceron soldiers who made it through the battle standing in an orderly fashion to create an aisle that went to the front of the room. (it looked pretty similar to the end of the first Star Wars movie) As he walked in, everyone started applauding for him. Danny looked to the front of the room and at the end of the soldier-made aisle, Raschenda was standing. And for the first time ever, Danny saw that she was actually smiling.

Danny walked down the aisle with a huge grin on his face as all the Escerons were cheering for him and clapping their hands. He walked closer to Raschenda, and as soon as he was right in front of her, Raschenda signaled the Esceron grunts to stop cheering.

As the applauding died down, Raschenda began speaking.

"Danny, you have demonstrated great courage and decision making in this war," she said. "Now with Myrus and Cobaark defeated, maybe the Escerons can finally get a well deserved break."

"It was really nothing," Danny replied humbly. "I was just doing what I do. You know."

Raschenda didn't say anything. "Well, we are very grateful for your help, but I think you've deserved your break as well."

"No kidding," Danny said. "The worst part is that it's a school night tonight, and I got to make up that Romeo and Juliet test sometime…"

"Well, you've performed wonderfully," Raschenda said. "Now you even have enhanced powers, so you won't have to fight your enemies with so much trouble anymore."

"Yeah. I look forward to giving the next ghost who bothers me a good butt-whooping," Danny replied.

"Well, I'd say you've earned your break," Raschenda continued. "I'm sure Vundeter would thank you if he was here, but he's busy trying to get Maldum troops to join our side. He said he was going to do it the 'hard way'."

"Poor guys," Danny said. "Well, that's just about it for me. If you ever need me, you know where to find me! Just next time, let me finish my homework first."

Saying this, he started flying out of the Esceron Base and back to the portal that led to his home. He flew through it, and never before was he so happy to be there.

"It's all over…" Danny thought. He was in a peaceful state of mind until his dad came bolting down the stairs to the basement. He was yelling "Danny! Danny!" as he come thundering down.

Danny quickly reverted back to his human form just as his dad came into view.

"Danny!" Jack Fenton yelled with a look of excitement on his face. "I just finished fixing the Fenton Thermos!"

Danny sighed in an exasperated way. "That would have been extremely useful a little while ago!" he yelled.

"Why, did you finish your gopher project without it?" Jack asked.

"Gopher project?" Danny asked in a confused way. "Oh, yeah…that gopher project. Yeah, I got it done."

"Well, I hope you did well on it!" Jack yelled. "Well, here you go!"

He threw the Fenton Thermos to Danny and Danny caught it in his arms. He watched as his dad ran back up the stairs to do who-knows-what.

"Well, so much for that," Danny set, throwing the Fenton Thermos to the side. He ran up to his room and plopped down on the bed. Never before had it felt so comfortable. He was exhausted and wanted to sleep, but he was way too overtired to even keep his eyes closed.

"You know what?" Danny said to himself as he realized he couldn't sleep. "I'm a mess. I'm going to go take a bath."

Danny trotted over to the bathroom and started filling up the tub with warm water. Just when it was the right temperature, he was ready to get in. Unfortunately for him, just as he was getting in, his ghost sense went off.

A look of complete frustration appeared on Danny's face. "Oh, great! Well, there's another one to take care of. I'm going ghost!"

Danny turned into Danny Phantom once again and looked for the ghost.

END

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Author's Note:

Well, this is the end of Split Decisions. I hope you all liked reading it, because I sure had a lot of fun writing it. Thank you to MasterofProcastination, enigmaticpenguin, GhostWulf, Christoph and kittyfenton for reviewing this story as I went along. And a VERY special thanks to MasterofProcastination for drawing a fanart of this story, and then drawing another one. Thank you for that.

Well, it took me about four or five days to completely outline this story from Chapter 1 to Chapter 32, and it took me two and a half months to completely write it all. Writing this had become part of my daily schedule, and I'm somewhat relieved that it's over. However, I had a lot of fun writing this, and I'm happy with the reviews I got of people saying that this was awesome and begging me to update. You guys have no idea how much I liked getting positive feedback with no flames or anything.

But, now Split Decisions is over. Like I said, I enjoyed writing it, but that time is over. Thank you again for reviewing this story over and over with every chapter; calling a story of mine awesome and great is something that's never happened to me before, and I appreciate it.

-Velkan the Impaler

Thursday, February 09, 2006

3:48 p.m. EST