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Disclaimer: I'm starting to run out of clever disclaimers but I still don't own Danny Phantom.

"No, Danny, please don't!" Free Spirit pleaded.

They were sitting in Danny's room along with Sam and Tucker, who Danny had called the moment they had gotten back from Vlad's.

"I'm sorry, but I already warned you that if it got to dangerous for you, you would have to find someplace else to stay." said Danny.

"We got out of it okay, didn't we?" Free Spirit tried to reason.

"We barely got out of it okay. I really am sorry, but it's just too dangerous..."

"But I have to stay with you! It's my only choice!"

"No it's not! Listen, Sam and Tucker both offered to take you in, just go with one of them!"

"I can't! Don't you remember what Conformity said the first time you beat her?"

Danny thought back and it hit him. "'He can't always be around to protect you..' That's right..." he said to himself.

Free Spirit nodded. "Yeah... As soon as you and I are separated, Conformity will come after me and I won't be able to defend myself..." She sighed sadly and stared at her knees. "And besides that... I just found out that the situation is more serious than I realized before..."

"How is it more serious?" asked Tucker, "You have an overly strong, power hungry lunatic, ghost after you! How can the situation be any more serious?"

"When I was stalling Vlad before Danny came he explained something to me... He told me that I am free spirit itself, and that if I'm destroyed then free spirit in the world will disappear altogether..."

Everyone was silent and Free Spirit sighed.

"That's why Vlad was targeting me... He wanted to break your spirit, Danny, so he could defeat you..." Free Spirit finished in a whisper.

No one knew what to say to that. As they sat there in silence they heard some commotion in the basement. Free Spirit gasped.

"Conformity must be trying to get me again!" she said.

"Good thing my parents aren't around..." said Danny, "I'm going ghost!" A white ring formed around his waist and split into two and they traveled up and down his body as he transformed. "Come on, guys!" he said as he flew down the stairs. When he got to the basement he found, not Conformity, but the Box Ghost.

"I am the Box Ghost! BEWARE!" said the chubby blue ghost in overalls.

Danny sighed. "Listen, I've got more serious things to deal with right now, could you just go away this time?"

"I will not surrender!"

At this point the other three reached the basement and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. Free Spirit froze.

"B-B-Boxy?" she stuttered.

"Free Spirit?" said the Box Ghost.

"Well... this is awkward..."

"Wait, you two know each other?" said Danny confused.

"Yeah," said Free Spirit, "he's... umm... an ex-boyfriend of mine... long story..."

If Danny, Sam, and Tucker weren't so shocked they would have fallen to the floor laughing.

"You dated the Box Ghost?" said Danny laughing, "How did that happen?"

"Well... I was going through one of my many rebellious stages and somehow ended up with him..." said Free Spirit as she shifted uncomfortably.

"Free Spirit, are you sure you don't want to come back to me?" said the Box Ghost pleadingly.

"For the millionth time, I'M SURE!" Free Spirit screamed at him.

"PLEASE!" the Box Ghost begged.

"Sorry, but uhh..." Thinking fast, Free Spirit grabbed Tucker's arm, "I'm with Tucker now!"

A state of shock once again fell over the room.

"But... YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" said the Box Ghost, "IT'S AGAINST THE RULES!"

Free Spirit fell to the floor laughing. "Boxy, you know I don't follow rules!"

"That's true... you didn't even hold up the Christmas truce..."

"THAT WAS ALL CONFORMITY'S FAULT! WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? JUST SIT THERE AND TAKE A BEATING?"

"Preferably..." came a voice from above them. Conformity phased through the ceiling and into the room. She grabbed Free Spirit by the neck and lifted her off the ground. An electrical looking energy crept down her arm and into Free Spirit who screamed in pain. She laughed maniacally until a flying box hit her in the face.

"You will not harm Free Spirit in the presence of the Box Ghost!" the Box Ghost yelled as he made the box hovering over his head fly at Conformity's face.

Conformity dodged the box only to have Danny blast her across the room.

"You're outnumbered, Conformity!" said Danny.

"I will win this war! It's only a matter of time!" Conformity shrieked as she took off through the ceiling.

"Danny?" came Jazz's voice from upstairs.

"I'm in my room!" Danny called back.

"No you're not, I can hear you down there! I'm coming down to see what's going on!"

Free Spirit gasped and they all looked to see her changing back to how she looked the night they found her.

"The sun is setting!" she said as her heart beat a mile a minute.

"Jazz can't see you like this!" said Danny in a panic.

Free Spirit went over to the Box Ghost. "Sorry, Boxy!" she said as she pushed him back through the ghost portal. "Let's go back to your room, Danny!" she said as she phased out and took off through the ceiling.

Danny grabbed Sam and Tucker. The three of them phased out and took off after her. Once in Danny's room they heard Jazz's voice again.

"DANNY!" They heard thundering footsteps as Jazz ran up the stairs and over to Danny's room. "DANNY, WHAT IS GOING ON? YOU'VE BEEN VERY SECRETIVE LATLEY, WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?"

Danny gulped. He had never heard Jazz this furious before.

"WHATEVER YOU'RE HIDING, I'M GOING TO FIND OUT!"

He knew she was right. She always seemed to have ways of finding out. He walked over to the door and opened it slightly. "Jazz, I have something to show you... but you have to promise not to tell mom and dad..."