Chapter 6 Hold Me Before It's Over...

"Vlad?"

Vlad Plasmius studied Danny for a moment. He took Danny's face in his hand and turned it. His eyes fixed on the bite mark on Danny's neck, "How did you get this?"

"What does that matter!"

"Tell me!"

Danny sighed defeated, "I got it fighting a ghost."

A grin widened on Vlad's face, "Well, well, this is better than I thought.

What does he mean, "This is better than I thought"? "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to save you, Danny Phantom."

Save me? "I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Oh, but I think you do, Danny,"

"No, I don't!"

Vladimir walked on either side of him then stood in front of him, "Haven't you noticed, controling your ghost powers has become more and more difficult lately?"

Danny's eyes widened in surprise, "How did you-"

Vladimir laughed briefly, "I know many things about you Danny, I've been watching you."

Watching me? "What's this all about?" the ghost boy demanded to know.

"Can't you feel it?"

A scared expression was clear on the boys face, "Feel what?"

Vlad smirked, "Your ghost form is taking over."

Danny gasped. He couldn't believe the words that had come out of Vladimir's mouth. "Your ghost form is taking over." Now Danny's life had been changed tremendesly since his molecules had gotten infused with ghosts. But now they were taking over? It couldn't be true! Could it?

"No... th-that can't be.."

"Oh, but it is. It's been happening for some time now. Slowly your molecules have been forming into ghost molecules. Slowly it's spreading through out your body, like a disease.."

Danny looked down in all seriousness, "No..."

"Soon you'll be a complete ghost! Don't you see, Danny? Together you and I can rule over these mortals!"

Danny raised his head slowly. Mortals?

"We can rule the world Danny! The WORLD!"

The World? For a moment Danny thought about this. "The World"? Was it even possible Danny would become so powerful he could actually bring the world to submission? Danny laughed in his throat. He felt a lust he had never felt before rise up in him. He felt a lust to get to this goal and kill anyone who got in his way! Then it passed. What am I thinking? Why do I feel this way? Why on earth would I want to rule the world?

"The world Danny!" Vlad went on, "THE WORLD!" he laughed hysterically.

Why was Vladimir acting so weird anyway? Since when did he want to rule the world? What was his problem?

"Soon, very soon now." Vlad chuckled.

The boys eyes widened as he let out a horrified gasp. Soon? Just how soon would this happen to him? And when this did happen what would become of him!

"No!" Danny shouted, "Y-your lying!"

The lights in the laberatory flashed on and off as circuts snapped out of place.

"YOU'RE LYING! LYING!" Danny felt a huge burst of energy and strength erupt in him. In a fit of rage he pulled forward until his shackles broke. When he did he fell foreward onto the floor. He was breathing heavely.

Vladimir knelt beside him and whispered, "You see?"

Danny looked down at his hands, they were shaking.

" A half ghost would have never been able to do that!" Vlad went on, "A half ghost could have never controlled lights with their emotions!"

"No.." Danny whispered to himself.

"You are becoming a ghost!"

"NO!" Danny screamed pushing Vlad away fiercy, sending him into a table.

Danny, angry and confused, made a break for it, he made himself intangible and flew through a wall.

Vladmir grinned, "And so it begins."

Samantha was still searching, but still saw no sign of him anywhere. Where could he be? She thought. Where would he go?

Whatever had happened to him she knew she couldn't give up!

Danny was running now, he was too angry and confused to focus on flying. His eyes were closed, but he was still intangible so he didn't hit anything in front of him. He wasn't sure where to go anymore. If all this was true, could he really just shake it off and go home like nothing had happened? And he couldn't go to his friends houses. What would they think of him? And even if they didn't care about that they would freak out! And there would be nothing they could do! Danny felt he couldn't lay anymore of these secrets and responcibilities on his friends. So he ran aimlessly, the only thing on his mind was to get as far away from Vladmir as he could.

He opened his eyes for a second, he saw Sam ahead. Sam. Oh how he longed to tell her everything and just hold her before it was too late.

"Danny!" she called, looking around.

Even though he wanted to stop he thought it would be better if she never knew, if no one knew. He would go through this alone, not sharing his pain with anyone else.

Danny ran through her.

Sam stopped for a moment gasping at a weird feeling that whooshed through her. It made her think of something someone had once told her. "You can't see ghosts, you feel them."

Sam spun around quickly, "Danny!"
The aching cry in her voice made Danny stop. Even though she couldn't see it he was looking right at her.

For a moment he thought it would be all right just to talk to her for a second but he refused his desire and turned to run away. But unfortunatelly for him his ghost powers were still acting up. So he couldn't control what came next. His intangibility faded away.

Sam turned and saw him.

"Danny!"

Danny knew he was caught, so it was pointless to run now. He looked over his shoulder at her, with sad but serious eyes.

The incident before between them had scared her so, that she didn't run to him, she wasn't sure how he would react. She wasn't even sure how she would react.

They both paused, staring at each other. A light wind blew blowing his hair forward and her hair and skirt back.

"Danny.." she said quietly.

They still stood frozen for a moment, neither of their gazes straying from each other's. Then he slowly walked to her.

When he stood in front of her, she examined his eyes. They were no longer red they took the shade of his ghostly green. She let out a sigh of relief. Then as she studied him she noticed something.

"Danny! You're bleeding!"

He touched the scratch, and looked at the blood, but said nothing.

Silence...

Before she could speak again Danny had wrapped his arms around her embracing her, just as he did before.

"Um.. D-Danny-"

"Please," he began softly. "Don't speak,"

Sam did nothing for a few mintues, then she couldn't deny herself this moment any longer. Her arms slowly raised then her eyes closed and she embraced him as well.

She was confused by his next words, "Just hold me before it's too late..."

Authore's Note: W00T! I worship the awsomeness of this chapter! I'm so glad I figured something out! Thanks for all the help my peeps! You're idea's really jump started mine! THANK YOU SOO MUCH! Keep the reviews coming, I like your input! n.n