The major ghost activity was taking place in where else but the center of town. Danny dreaded the thought of having to go where most people would be. But as he got closer he realized that the whole town was practically there, trying without success, to stop all of the ghosts that Danny easily beat. He braced himself for all the possibilities before landing in the center of the raging battle.

Everyone stopped dead in their tracks to see the halfa standing amidst them all. Even the ghosts had to gawk, the whole reason they came was because he wasn't here to protect the city. Danny could hear the angry hisses of the citizens saying things like 'How dare he come back,' and 'who does he think he is', but instead he ignored their rude comments and waited for the ghosts to attack.

That was the good thing, ghosts were predictable, well at least to Danny, he knew all their moves and all their weaknesses. He easily brought them down and sucked them into his thermos. After finishing the fight with Skulker, he landed back amongst the people who all stared at him with their hateful eyes. But he refused to run, he wasn't about to let them scare him away, this is where he grew up, and this is where he rightfully belonged. He was just about to explain to them why he came back until he heard frantic screaming. It was Sam?

"Danny! Danny!" She screamed. He looked at her as she came running frantically. " Look out!"

Danny didn't have any time to react, before he knew it he was hit by a painful ray in the back of his head and was sent skidding across the pavement. But he caught all the ghosts, at least he thought he did. He turned over onto his back and supported himself with his elbows. That's when he was staring face to face with the creature that haunted his dreams and memories, but he was the only one who really knew what this one could do.

It was himself, sort of, well his non-existent future self. " How can you be here? I stopped you I never became you." Danny shouted at Dan who was hovering above him.

"No you didn't become me, but I don't need you to exist, I exist out of time. Which means you don't need to live for me to be here." He said with a mirthless laugh. A laugh that sent shivers up Danny's spine.

But Danny refused to be brought down, so he shakily lifted himself off the ground and stood tall. The last thing he needed was for Dan to see his weakness.

"You're pathetic, you think you can come back just like that and save the town and live happily ever after, trust me those things don't happen. And you wont even be living when I'm through with." Dan spat, trying to unnerve his younger self.

"Big deal, I've beaten you before, it probably wont be hard to do again." Danny shouted back.

"Oh that's right you "beat me" and that's why I'm still here. The only thing you did was shove me into that ridiculous thermos. That my boy is not defeating someone, you only imprisoned me, and if you do it again I'll only escape again."

Danny noticed that Dan was stealing glances at the people, that's when Danny realized that he was going to hurt them all, he had to do something, he had to distract them. Why wouldn't they run? Don't they know danger when they see it? So the best Danny could do was throw ectoplasm orbs at Dan who didn't seem to be affected by them.

"The thing is I cant decide whether to slaughter all those people in front of you then leave you to take the blame or just destroy you all. It'll be a hard call."

" No way you aren't going to hurt these people, they may not be the brightest but they don't deserve to die." Danny returned angrily. He flew at Dan trying to take him down with all the power he had. A few things knocked him down and Dan was beginning to become annoyed by the teen's tactics. He grabbed Danny's foot and threw him into a building. Danny slid down it trying desperately to get back up.

"You know what I don't think I'll even give you the satisfaction of living." He sneered. Stepping on top of Danny who couldn't move under the older ghost's strong hold. Dan pushed his boot down harder on Danny's chest, "What are you going to do now, you haven't got a prayer."

Dark Dan turned his head and saw a large shield surrounding the townspeople. Confused he looked back at Danny. "Did you do that? Do you really think that'll be there after your dead."

"No, I just needed to buy some time." Danny laughed before going intangible and slipping out from under the malevolent ghost. He punched the back of Dark Dan's head in anger, and began beating him mercilessly. "You aren't so tough." He growled.

The people inside the shield looked out at the fight. They could see through it although it made things a little green, but they couldn't go through it. "Jack we cant get through it, we cant help Danny." Maddiecried frantically.

"I think, he put it up to protect us, he isn't going to let us help him, but I don't understand why." Jack pointed out.

The people watched as the fight raged on, whenever it looked like Danny was going to win Dan would take him down and whenever it looked like Dan was victorious, Danny would bounce back. Anyone at this point could win this fight, which frightened most people to think that the evil one was going to win.

"So now what are you going to do, you've used up every power you had and it still wasn't good enough. You are weak you are pathetic, and you are dead. You should just give up now stop straining yourself, it isn't going to do you any good.

'There are so many choices and many opportunities and just be sure to keep things straight and be sure to stand your ground. Danny let nothing shade your vision, even fight to keep it clear and don't ever let anyone change what's right for you because you choose your path and you are the only one who can decide what's right in your life.' Danny could hear Jazz's voice echo through his head, and that's what he believed was holding him up, he couldn't let her down, he couldn't let any of them down. Somehow he summoned up all the energy within and pulled it all into his hands. He could feel the white hot energy in his hands and it glowed brightly, immediately he knew what he had to do. Danny tossed it at his and Dan's feet and the huge ball caused a large explosion of blinding light.

Everyone within Danny's protective dome covered their eyes unable to look at the blinding light he created. And when the brightness faded people slowly began to look but there was smoke surrounding the area, and that's when they noticed the protective shield was down, and Danny was nowhere to be seen.

Duh Dah duh a cliffhanger! I'll update soon, I promise.