Candeh- Wow, I love getting reviews. If I get more, of course, I'll keep updating. :) It's simple really, but since I love you guys so much and your crazy reviews, I'll keep updating... this time...full of ideas...sort of kind of... ;) wink And no, this is NOT a vladxdanny story...because I'm not really into those kind of...stories if you know what I mean. I just like Vlad cause I think his life is sort of the classic sob story. :o Haha.

Chapter 9-

Danny was blocked at the front of the door by Walker, who laughed. A few feet away, he saw Vlad get up from the corner of his eye and start to run toward him, but was pulled back by the Box Ghost who was looking mysteriously evil.

"You people," Walker said. "Never play by the rules."

Danny took a step back towards the other ghosts that surrounded him and bumped into Skulker who picked him up by his arm. "You're ours, ghost child."

Danny struggled to get free and when he did, the stood in the middle of two dead ends.

"What?" Danny said, angry. "What the hell do you want? I didn't do anything!"

Walker laughed and the rest of the ghosts laughed a few seconds afterward. "It doesn't matter. Nobody really needs a purpose to die, Fenton." As Walker thought about this, he added, "But you - on the other hand - did do something."

Danny panted, tried to punch Walker, but Walker disappeared and reappeared behind him, pushing him and knocking him into a bookcase by surprise.

"You, Danny Phantom, broke out of my prison," he said.

Walker sent Danny flying against Vlad's back wall, destroying it and letting smoke come up. Vlad seemed to wince looking at his house almost in ruins.

Danny tried to get up, and dodged a ray Walker sent flashing towards him. The other ghosts stood still, smiling.

"You, Danny Phantom, are the one always stopping me from doing anything."

Danny served to the right, making Walker barely miss his stomach from a glowing green punch.

"Even though, phantom, I rarely know why you even try."

Danny went intangible and went through one of the walls, but Walker seemed to grab him anyways, and Danny went back into his regular mode. Walker took a familiar belt off a desk and buckled it onto Danny, not letting him change back into a ghost and Danny could hear Vlad curse in the corner, saying something about not picking that up earlier this morning.

"There are so many people who hate Danny Phantom," Walker said, taunting. "There are so many people who don't believe you are even on they're very side. There are so many people who think that you, yourself, bring so much misery to your town and yet you just keep on freaking fighting."

Walker sent a few surges jolting through Danny's body, and Danny let out a long scream and fell to the floor, steaming.

Vlad POV:

Oh shit.

Oh shit.

Maddie is going to kill me when she finds her son burnt to a crisp.

I don't know why Danny hadn't really trusted me at first...

Ugh. This isn't the time.

"Walker!" I yelled. I could bargain. I could bring Danny home to Maddie and look like a true hero. Yes. Perfect. "Um...wait."

"Vlad Masters," Walker said, his voice seeming more powerful, and yet, he knew so little.

I struggled away from that idiot Box Ghost and Skulker who were holding my arms back and twisting them around back behind me. They let go.

Walker took a step towards me and from behind him, I could see Danny's eyebrows go up like, what the hell are you doing?

Daniel, you are so unknowing. A kid of only fourteen and yet he thinks he can do everything by themselves and yet again, all teenagers think they are so invisible. So moral and right. And yet, even though I hate to admit it, he's probably raised in such a careful family.

"Let me show you around?" I said.

Oh that was pathetic.

"Show me around?" Walker said, suspecting, a smile on his face and his hat shadowing his head making his pale white skin almost match Danny's and mine. Danny stood up in the corner, trying to get the belt off. I should have put that away, dammit. Maddie's going to notice that. Then again, I was never hired to babysit. "What a clever, attempt."

"Attempt?" my voice quaked.

"Yes," Walker said. "It's not unknown Plasimus, that you not only have the most annoying love for," he looked at Danny, "the kid's mother, but she's also married. It's so tragic. And you yet have the heart to try to protect him, when you yourself want him dead..."

"Dead?" I said.

"Do not tell me you haven't tried, Plasimus," Walker raised an eyebrow. I hate his voice.

I tried to talk back in the same, annoying smooth tone, but Skulker punch me in the back and it freaking hurt like hell. "Ok, I've tried."

"Of course," Walker said. "So what is your explanation for this...almost heroic..." he laughed. "gesture...if I should even call it that."

"I'm not protecting him," I lied. Maybe if I denied it...covered it up. "I'm...leading him to you."

Danny gave me an angry glare and the ghosts behind me stepped back, thinking that I may have been on their side, one of them, and I felt a stab of guilt because Danny looked at me with such hate...not that this was the first time.

I gave Daniel a wink to tell him I was just stalling, but Walker noticed and grabbed my shirt. Danny lunged at him.

"Let go!" Danny shouted.

"Daniel," I yelled at him. "Get back there!"

"Let go, Walker," Danny said. "You freaking coward."

Walker grabbed Danny's shirt and I let out a sigh. "You've gotten us nowhere."

Danny looked at me, annoyed. "I'm not going to sit there and just watch as they kill you and then me."

"Of course," I said.

Walker shook us.

And then Danny was in the cage again. Maddie's going to freak.

Danny's POV:

Dammit, again. I looked around, but the only ghost that was there was me, and Vlad was hanging from the door on a clothes hanger, looking disturbingly upset that he was too weak to admit anything, and too self conscious and conceded too admit he was weak. Walker crept toward me, almost sliding over.

But Vlad trying to protect me.

Ah, this is weird.

Walker laughed. "Too weak." He looked at Vlad. "And too young and weak," he looked at me. "Vlad almost qualifies, but he'd have to reverse time a few hundred or thousand years or so." And Vlad looked resentful. He kicked around for a while, and then stopped, convinced.

"What now?" I said.

"What now?" Walker laughed. He unhooked Vlad and then threw him against the cage which made it shock me. "You both die in front of an audience."