A man could be seen sitting in the darkness of a large library, the only light came from a new projector he had brought out when the last one was broken to pieces. He was currently looking at news footage from only a month prior to this day, it was the footage of Inviso-bill vs Spectra. Through his sources and his wealth, he managed to obtain the raw uncut footage and was quite astounded at how much power and potential his young Godson had. Spectra at her full power was no easy ghost to beat, she is easily a class B ghost at base power or apparition form. However due to her energy boost from all the teens she absorbed she flung herself from B to A+ in terms of power.

'Daniel only became a ghost about three months ago...to be able to beat Spectra is nothing short of miraculous…' Vlad thought as he kept rewatching the footage, only to be broken out of his stupor by a ghost vulture that phased through his door and had what seemed to look like a camera of some sorts.

Looking over to the vultures, they soon began to fly closer to him and hand him the camera. He looked down and then back up to the vultures for an explanation of some sorts as to why he was being disturbed and what exactly they had given him. The vultures looked a bit apprehensive before they gulped down whatever saliva they had in their throats, before beginning to speak.

"Master…" The vultures began as the look in Vlad's eyes began to intensified. "...We've managed to recover this camera from the Guys in White's headquarters. Apparently it has live footage of what was happening within the gymnasium before the initial fight between Danny and Spectra."

Vlad looked seemed to soften a bit, remembering how Daniel addressed the memory of his confrontation with Spectra.

Vlad's Living Room : First Week Staying with Vlad

"Alright Daniel, I've told you countless stories of my battles with ghosts…now I think it's time you return the favor by telling me atleast what happened at your school" Vlad said while looking at the teen with a sense of regret in his voice as he saw a plethora of emotions flash in his eyes before the teen began to tear up. Vlad thinking quickly wrapped his arms around the younger boy, who seemed to gulp down the saliva in his throat.

"I-I was trapped by Technus...a-and he played l-live feed from my school, a-and I saw my m-mom d-d-di-" Before he could finish Vlad pulled him in closer and rubbed his back so he could gain some composure back.

Slowly, Daniel began to sob less frequently and continued his story. "I managed to get free and knock out Technus...I went as fast as I could to the school so I could save anyone that was still alive, b-but when I defeated Bertrand...m-my dad…" Daniel didn't even finish as Vlad once again embraced him.

'Ghosts are evil Daniel…I'm sorry you had to learn it the hard way' Vlad's eyes flashed as he remembered when he and this girl were fighting Undergrowth and his corrupted army of humans. Everything was going according to plan, until he was critically wounded with a spectral vine. He reverted back to human form where the girl went to go make sure he was alright before she smiled with pain as she looked at vlad. "Sandra what are yo-" Vlad was soon cut off as his lips touched his lips before parting quickly…

Vlad didn't know how to react. "What was that..?" She looked back at Vlad and took the bag that was previously on his back, only to strap it to herself. Vlad's eyes widened as he saw her begin to walk away and towards the towering form of Undergrowth. "SANDRA NO!" It was supposed to be him to take the fall! Not her! Anybody but her! TURN BACK "TURN BACK!" Vlad screamed at her retreating form as she deployed the jetpack from the pack. She turned back to Vlad and with the same cheerful smile she had always given him said the words he never wanted to hear…

"Goodbye...Vlad…" she soon took off, managing to maneuver her way through the incoming vine tendrils and plant herself directly into the chest of Undergrowth who shouted at what a puny insect like her would do, only for the bomb to go off. The explosion was only for a few seconds only to implode on itself, sucking everything that was directly touching it within itself. Vlad looked on at horror as he saw his best friend die, his entire world shattered...his once purple eyes began to get brighter, turning into red. His powers began to flare out as fangs began to appear and his face darkened to a light shade of blue. "SANDRAAAAAAAAA!"

Vlad was broken out of his stupor when he heard quiet breathing coming from the boy he embraced. He removed himself from the embrace when he saw indeed Daniel was sleeping. He smiled and thought 'Don't worry, I will help you realize the evilness in ghosts...I'll teach you so you don't have to experience the pain I had...Son

Although he didn't gain much from the conversation other than hearing that his friends Maddie and Jack died, he realized that it would take time for Daniel to cope with the thought. After all, he was still just a kid. He asked once more when he had awoken, and Daniel only told him that he was overcome with rage and fell into a state of unconsciousness. Vlad didn't push Daniel anymore than that, not wanting to get on the younger halfa's bad side.

Returning from his thoughts he grabbed the footage from the vulture and nodded to it. The vulture nodded back with a moderate sweat dripping down its ghostly form at being the victim of Vlad's intense glare. He was never like this before the kid was around, what had changed him it wondered.

Seeing the vulture phase out of the room Vlad examined the camera. It looked to be a normal camera used for news broadcasting. Luckily it had the same wires for normal human camera's, so Vlad took the wire from his computer and attached it to the camera and watch the projector flicker to life once again, showing only one video file on the device. He didn't really know much about ghostly technology, only recovering some weapons from Skulker on occasion should their paths meet. Feeling around the camera, Vlad felt a small indent and decided to put his hand there. This released the same video feed that was currently up on the projector.

Vlad soon began looking for a switch or control for the camera only to find none, and decided for one final ditch effort. He extended his index finger and clicked on the camera's screen directly, causing it to begin playing the video. He looked back up and eyes widened at the condition he saw his friends were in. Maddie's burnt up body and Jack's bleeding shoulder, both look like they could drop dead at a moments notice.

He saw Spectra steal every last one soul of everybody in the room. First Maddie then to a middle age bald man, and ended with a latina girl. This left Jack all alone still bleeding when he saw Spectra begin walking only for a huge boom to be heard in the distance.

'Daniel' Vlad thought as he saw him fly into the view of the camera where he took out Bertrand, only to look back and see his father's soul taken from him. To see his friend die like that, especially in front of his kid was gut wrenching to watch. That wasn't thing he was looking that, no...he was looking at the huge explosion of silver flames that came from the stage. 'Could that be Daniel's special power?'

Soon though he understood what caused the weird look from the news footage, out from the flames looking as if it was the devil's incarnate...stood Daniel, or what used to be him…

...All I felt was rage...

Vlad eyes widened at the realization, he knew how to gain the support of Daniel. A regretful frown settled onto his face as he slid the projector shut.

"It is the only way…"

*Guest Room: 4:45pm*

I was currently laying down in my bed, resting after I attempted to once again duplicate myself earlier today. And once again...ending with failure, however a positive would be that I managed to stretch my body as if it were about to be split in two. I wanted to tell Vlad the success I had achieved, but I haven't seen him the entire day. It was as if he upped and disappeared, no pun intended.

I began to draw in my sketchbook, finishing up a drawing of Vlad when he was in his ghost form. When he had shown me the first time, all I first thought was Monster. I think that's the first response anyone would give, because he looks like Dracula if he had decided to invert the colors of his suit from black to white.

I was broken from my thoughts as I felt my ghost sense go off, and I already knew who it was. "Hey Vlad." I said trying to act like nothing happened yesterday night. When I didn't get a response, I saw Vlad floating with a serious face. "Is there something wro-" My breath was soon taken away from me as Vlad quickly flew down and gripped my throat.

From pure reflex, my hands went to grab at Vlad's arm to try and stop him. However this seemed to encourage him as he began to grip tighter. "Gah...W-why are y-you doing this" I managed to wheeze out as he reeled his arm back. Shit. "I-I'm going-" Before I could complete my phrase he slammed me through the door, which made me fly and hit the wall of the hallway. "Cough...ghost."

The white rings appeared and soon disappeared, showing my ghost form in defiance to the older ghost. "I don't know what's going on with you, but you better stop before I make you!" I yelled as an amused evil smirk made its way to his face.

"Oh really? I'd love to see that." With that said he soon gripped his stomach, which confused me at first before my eyes widened. I quickly phased through the wall that I recently collided with, Smart of me too; because as soon as I left the wall, I heard a large explosion rack the mansion.

'Vlad just did an ecto-burst, what the hell is he doing?!' I was broken from my thoughts as Vlad went behind me and put me into a headlock. As soon as I attempted to break free, another Vlad phased from the wall, his hands glowing red with energy. "VLAD WAIT!"

My plead fell deaf on his ears as his clone quickly melted into ectoplasm as I was hit with the full force of the ray. "AHH!" I yelled as my body collided with the foundation of the mansion. I didn't have a chance to recover, because the older ghost grabbed my leg and was soon lifting me up only to slam me back down with the force of a freight train.

After four clashes with the ground he threw me, where I hit the fountain in the backyard. He didn't decide to continue his assault, giving me a chance to question his actions. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!"

He only looked down at me and snorted. "You're nothing but a weak child. No wonder why you failed against Spectra." My eyes widened before they narrowed.

"What have you done to Vlad?" I said as my eyes began to glow dangerously as my hand began to charge with green energy.

"Oh you're adorable." Vlad said with a mock tone that just seemed to agitate me further. "I am Vlad!"

"LIAR!" I soon charged him, managing to slam my fist directly into his chest before my other fist was caught and turn around in a hold that threatened my shoulder. He leaned over to my ear.

"This is exactly why you couldn't save your parents...You're...too...WEAK!" He finished with a yell as he dislocated my shoulder with a loud POP causing me to yell in agonizing pain. He then charged his hand with energy and faced his palm towards my face, blasting me head on with energy causing me to hit the ground once more.

Vlad frowned not seeing the response he wanted to gain, only to hear a growl to coming from the recently thrown teen. He smirked 'A few more hits and taunts.'

I stood up shakily from the ground, before falling back down. I clenched my fist in anger as the words reverberated through my head.

You're too weak!

A growl escaped my lip as I raised my fist only to slam back down on the ground causing a slight tremor. 'NO I'M NOT!' I raised my head from its downed position and openly glared at the halfa in front of me. He rose one of his eyebrows as he saw the colors of my eyes. One of them was red and the other blue.

'Weird…' Before he could react however, he was soon sent flying by the sheer force of the punch. "ARGH" He yelled out as he collided with the bushes. As I flew back in to give him another punch, he caught my hand and reciprocated with a backhand.

"Is that all you can do? Perhaps I should take a trip to your parents house and plead for their forgiveness as I strip their flesh from their bones."

I growled even further as I felt myself gain a further powerboost, both my eyes now red and my hair becoming more wavy in the wind. "YOU MAKE THEM STAY OUT OF THIS!" I shot towards him once again, but seemed much faster and landed a left hook to his body.

Vlad doubled over in pain as he felt his wind get knocked from him slightly, only to be thrown back from an uppercut. Vlad sensed me get closer and decided to split himself into four. "You are an annoyance." I heard them say as they surrounded me.

I was about to attack them one by one until they all shot ecto-rays to me simultaneously. "ARGH!" All the Vlad's laughed in amusement as if this were just a game. Vlad soon took notice of how my hair was blowing in the wind faster and faster.

'Almost showtime...final push…' Vlad coughed as he nodded at his clones who began to continue their combined ray assault. "You don't get it do you! You're too weak to protect your family! I will kill them in front of you as Spectra did before, and do you know why?" Vlad soon felt the area drop forty degrees 'what the hell?' he thought before continuing.

"BECAUSE YOU'RE A FAILURE!" Vlad yelled as all the clones nodded and put all they had into their attack.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM

A massive column of silver flames soon erupted in the area, claiming the clones limited lives and blasting away Vlad with its sheer concussive force.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Vlad heard through the flames as a shadowed figure came through with glowing red eyes and a fanged snarl. It was just as he expected...this was the devil. Vlad felt me get even closer and he decided to deploy his ghost shield.

"GET OUT HERE SO I CAN RIP YOUR HEART OUT LIKE I DID THAT PATHETIC SHAPE SHIFTER!" I yelled as both of my fists were ignited with silver flames, my recently dislocated shoulder long forgotten.

Warning, Ghost Shield slowly overheating, please cool down or else system failure is inevitable.

Vlad's eyes widened. "Oh butter biscuits." Soon the shield's integrity failed which enabled me to grip his neck with the force to crush a car. Vlad has never been this afraid in his life, He saw me boost from Spectra's A+ Level to his S range. 'It's impossible!' He then cringed as he felt his ghostly skin begin to burn under the pressure of my ignited hand.

But luck was on his side as he felt my grip weaken causing him to blast me again with a ecto-ray. "Where was all that bravado earlier?" He said cockily, but he knew if he didn't stop me soon then it was game over for him if I stayed in this form.

I got up with a snarl and ran at him only for him to clone himself once again, and this time bombard me with twenty ghost rays. "ARGH!" Vlad then signaled his clones to dog pile me. As all nineteen of them got on me, I released my ghostly energy once again in a huge silver fireball of destruction.

When the flames settled I looked at Vlad who had a weary look, but was replaced smugness when he saw the condition I was in. I was breathing with much difficulty, sweat dripping from my forehead as blood leaked from the corner of my mouth and now was currently sporting a couple of bruises. My vision began to fade. I was about to charge with blind rage at him, before I felt him rush to me and grab my arm. "What are yo- AHHHH!" I felt the ghost stinger run the currents through my body, destroying whatever fight I had left in me. I felt myself depower back into human form and my vision blur further as I fell to the ground unconscious.

As soon as Vlad saw me pass out from exhaustion, he fell to one knee and fell to the floor exhausted. Vlad proceeded to cough up blood as he felt his throat healing itself. "You will help me whether you want to or not Daniel...because you just proved why ghosts are dangerous." Vlad got up and began to drag my body to his lab, him being too exhausted to turn back into ghost form.

"You said I wasn't evil Daniel...hasn't your parents ever told you to not trust a malevolent spirit?" Vlad said while looking down at me with a regretful look, before activating the elevator to head down into his lab.

DING

The elevator door rang as it opened up to show a similar lab as to mine back home, but with much more tech built into it. Vlad then dragged my body to a machine that looked like a cryo bed. He focused a bit and turned back into his Plasmius state and carried my body over to it. He then strapped me into the bed where he then took out a large syringe which had green liquid in it. Vlad proceeded to stab it within my arm and push the contents of it within my blood stream,

"AHH" I yelled as I was forced awake, which caused me to take in my surroundings and the man in front of me. "Vlad what are you doing to me!

"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry little badger, I didn't mean to hurt you…" Vlad said while looking sympathetically towards me. "However this procedure will make you see things my way! Soon you'll see that all ghosts are evil."

"YOU'RE THE EVIL ONE, YOU FRUITLOOP!" I yelled as I thrashed around in the bed. "LET ME GO!"

I soon heard a releasing sound, and saw that the glass cover was soon put over the bed, and wires were deployed that injected themselves into my arms and legs, each one pushing a red liquid into my bloodstream. "What are yo- NOOOOOOO!" I soon began to pound the glass as my eyes began flashing from ocean blue to blood moon red. "VLAD!"

Vlad shedded a tear as he saw his Godson turn back into the monster that he just fought. "I'm sorry son…" He soon began to hear howl's of pain coming from the tank, which caused him to go back to the elevator so he could go to sleep for the night. He then put his finger on the up button and clicked it.

"It was the only way."

That concludes chapter 11 The Evil Within.. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter, I look forward to the next one. Leave any comment, suggestion, or concern, and I'll be sure to get back to you as quickly as possible. Anyways lets answer the reviews from last chapter (I'll do this if I have any reviews, don't like it then sue me.)

SonicMax: Vlad is Evil...I guess he is evil ain't he? Well my take was that he does what he does because of past experiences. Sorta like in the main continuity.

Avatarlopes: Why make him like a bargain brand Pariah or Dora's brother? Well I mean that'll be explained if I don't forget haha. Dan Phantom is currently wrecking shit, only beaten by his puny human half's stamina, thirty more seconds and Vlad would've been toasted.