Author's Note: Thank you all for the wonderful reviews! I replied to all of them so far, and I promised a couple of them that I'd update, so here it is. Also, sorry about the shortness, I'm a bit rushed.
Chapter 2
"Danny, is everything alright?" Maddie called. Danny opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He was frozen in fear. His mom! If she saw this, who knows what she'd do. Danny looked back and forth between Plasmius and Vlad. "Danny, sweetie?"
"Plasmius, you have to hide," Danny whispered, loud enough that the ghost could hear him but his mom could not. The ghost immediately disappeared, and Danny put his hand on his face. What was he going to do? He just split his worst enemy in half! Wait, wasn't that a good thing?
NO! Not when you and your worst enemy have a big secret, and splitting him in half may reveal said secret. This was bad, really bad. And they had no way to put Vlad back together.
Maddie came down the stairs and gasped as she saw the Fenton Ghost Catcher broken and on the ground, Vlad standing right in the middle of the circle. Vlad and Danny both put on an innocent look. "Oh, Vlad and I were just making sure the Ghost Catcher didn't work on humans. Nope, everything's fine, perfectly fine, right Vlad?" Danny jammed his elbow into Vlad's side and Vlad inhaled quickly. Maddie raised an eyebrow suspiciously at Danny's behavior.
"Right," Vlad agreed. "Nothing wrong here. Unfortunately, Danny lost his balance and everything went toppling. Luckily, nobody was hurt." He looked at the two Fentons, they were staring incredulously at him. "What is it?"
"You just..." Maddie began.
"Called me Danny," Danny finished, blinking twice. Vlad was confused.
"But isn't that your name?" he asked. Danny nodded, then shook his head in confusion.
"Yes, but you always... always call me Daniel," he replied. "You only call me Danny when you're angry at me." The phone rang and Danny sighed. "I'll get it." He ran upstairs, leaving Vlad alone with Maddie.
"Is there something wrong?" Maddie asked, putting the back of her hand to Vlad's forehead. Vlad removed her hand.
"Nothing's wrong, Mads," Vlad said, and Maddie stepped back in shock.
"My God, you haven't called me that since before the accident," she whispered. "I think the Catcher did have an effect on you, just different than on a ghost. It's changed your personality."
Danny put the phone on the reciever and turned around. He was suddenly suspended in the air, a gloved hand holding him by his throat. Danny struggled for air, clawing at the hands to try to loosen their grip.
"Hello, Daniel," a voice said, and the last thing Danny saw was blood red eyes before everything faded to black.