Danny shot towards Master Tower at full throttle. He glanced up at the goggles he had been given. He had his doubts, but it wasn't like he had a better plan. He had left Ace back at one of the safe houses. No need to risk him as well. As he reached the large glass doors that made up the entrance to the tower, he jumped off his bike and it crashed through the doors. He put the goggles on and flew into the main lobby. The bike had smashed into the reception desk, but other wise the room was unharmed. "Now to find the elevator."
"Let me help!" The room filled with a strange red glow. A pale man in a black suit walked up. He clutched a red staff with a red crystal on top of it. The crystal was the source of the light.
"Freakshow! Why am I not surprised?"
"If you knew I would be here. Then you should have been more careful. Now fall under my power." Danny crossed his arms and waited for Freakshow to finish. "What? My staff isn't controlling you."
Danny sighed and drew his wooden stake. "You are the worst enemy I have ever faced. Why do you keep coming back?" He rammed the stake into his chest and Freakshow exploded. "That was pathetic!" He took the goggles off, "At least these worked." He walked out of the tower and looked towards the top. "Better take the outside route." He started to fly up. As Danny reached the top, he started to feel weird energy around him. He reached a large balcony and landed on it. It was still several hundred feet to the top. "No traps or guards. This can't be right!" A large purple curtain was flowing in the wind in front of him. He reach for it, but it pulled away on its own.
"Danny!" Vlad Plasmius stepped onto the balcony. He was dressed in his regular white suit and cape. "It has been so long! You have grown into a strong young man."
"Save it! I want Sam now!"
"So forceful!" Vlad stepped to the side, "Be my guest!" Danny unwrapped his whip and held it ready. Vlad bowed, "I promise not to attack you from behind."
Danny walked past him and into the large room. Painted with purple paint and with fancy furniture all over the room. A large bed with purple bedding sat at the far edge of the room. A woman was laying under the covers. Danny rushed over. It was Sam. The girl looked half dead and was dress in a black nightgown. "Sam!" He grabbed her shoulders gently.
The girl blinked a few times, trying to focus. "It can't be you. This is another trick!"
"Its me!" Danny hugged her tightly, "I'm so sorry!"
"Danny!" Sam realized he was real and returned the hug. "I tried to fight him."
"I'm here now!" He heard Vlad laughing from the balcony. Danny's eyes glowed with green light. "I will rip you apart for what you have done." He let go of Sam and swung his whip at Vlad.
"Anger!" Vlad shifted to the side. "Anguish!" He dodged another attack. "I love this side of you."
"You will learn to hate it!" Danny charged at Vlad and attacked with a whirlwind of whip strikes.
"Fool!" Vlad phased through the floor and shot up behind Danny. "Your anger is no where near the level needed to kill me!" He blasted Danny in the back with a dark purple bolt. Danny crashed into the balcony railing outside. "You haven't the power to defeat me yet. I figured some how you had managed to block out the knowledge of what I was doing to Sam. It made sense since every time I tried to push that button, something prevented me from doing so." As Danny started to stand, Vlad blasted him back down.
"So you sent Burn to bait me!"
"Exactly! If you had gone after the elemental sites before attacking me, you might of had a chance to defeat me." He teleported forward and stood right in front of Danny. "But you have no chance now!" He grabbed Danny's neck and held him up. "Even that whip can't harm me in its current state." A large scythe blade slammed into Vlad's back. The vampire ghost dropped Danny and spun around. "Death!"
The large skeleton in the black robe was floating a few feet away. "You will not drain my master's powers." Death held his skeleton hand out and his scythe flew into his hand.
"And you plan to do what? I am already dead!"
Death turned into black mist and flew past Vlad. He turned back to his normal form. He tossed his scythe into the air and it cut a hole into the air. "You will learn how to ignore your feelings." He tossed Danny into the hole. Death vanished as the hole did.
Vlad sighed, "I guess I can wait!"
Danny crashed into a rocky landscape. As he hit, black ash was kicked up into the air. Danny stood up and brushed the ash off of him. "Lets see! Hot, humid, and lots of black ash. Great! I am in Hell!" He flew into the air. He was on a large island surrounded by lava. "And how is this going to help me?"
"You must learn to fight with your brain!" Death appeared above him.
Danny griped his whip, "Let me out of here!"
"I can't! The only way out is past the guard at the far edge of this island." He floated over the lava. "Be careful! This is just the first layer of Hell. Fall and you can see how bad the other eight are." He vanished.
"At least I have my equipment!" He looked around and spotted a large mountain at the far edge of the island. A glowing red face was etched into the side of it. "Its a start!" He flew towards it and stopped. A thirty foot dog with three heads was sleeping in front of a large cave. "Cerberus! The Gatekeeper of the Underworld!" He floated down and landed in front of the large demon. Two of the heads were asleep. But the third looked right at him. "Oops!"
"Another mortal has fallen into my lair! And the name of this one would be?"
"Danny Phantom!"
"I see! So I suppose you wish to return to the mortal world." Danny slowly nodded. The dog head laughed with a deep echo. "So you wish to fight me?" He eyed the whip, "I see! So The Belmonts are still around!" The other two dog heads woke up and all three glared at Danny. "Run now and I won't use you to clean my teeth."
Danny sighed and readied his whip. "I don't have a choice."
"I guess not!"
"Are you sure this won't kill him?" Simon sat at his desk as Death floated in front of him.
"If he survives, he will be that much closer to defeating that upstart."
"And if he dies!"
Death was silent for a moment, "Even a demon can hope."
"I guess I better prepare for his return! Or his funeral."
Cerberus didn't move as Danny tried to attack. His three heads snapped at him with speed and ferocity. Danny flew back out of his range. "Are you even trying?"
The three dog heads laughed in unison, "I like to play with my food!" One of the heads exhaled a large cloud of green gas. Danny spun his whip around and it blew the cloud away like a fan. "Very good!" The second head spat out a large stream of blue steam. It froze whatever it touched. Danny shot into the air, but the steam followed him and managed to hit his leg. Danny dropped to the ground. His left leg was frozen solid. He went intangible and pulled his leg free.
"Your enjoying this?"
"Much! I rarely have such entertaining pray!" The last head breathed out fire. Danny held out his left hand and a white shield of energy formed around him. The fire smacked into the shield and dissipated.
Danny dropped the shield and flew at the center head. "I don't have time to play." He swung the whip. The left head caught it in its mouth. "Crud!" The left head jerked the chain and Danny was slammed into the nose of the center head. Danny managed to pull himself onto the head's nose before it could chop his legs off. "I have more than that whip!" He fired a pair of ghost beams into the dog's eyes. The center head howled in pain and flipped Danny off. The other two heads rose up to snap at him. Danny shot towards the ground to avoid the attack. He flew around and stopped several feet away. Cerberus didn't pursue. "I thought you wanted to play?"
One of the heads looked at the cave entrance. "I don't need to waste energy chasing you. What you want is right behind me." The left head spat the whip onto the ground under Danny. "Feel free to take a break. This is proving to be more fun than I expected."
Danny flew down and used his ghost beam to clean the whip. He picked it up and test swung hit. "You are going to learn to heel!"