Knock

Knock

Knock

A young man with black hair and ocean blue eyes could be seen at midnight knocking on his father's study door. The reason for this sudden outburst was because he just couldn't take it anymore...the pain, the memories, the feeling of something missing...he needed to find out. Now.

Hearing a muffled Come in from within the room, the young man entered while looking at the person he's come to know as Father. But that was just it...his memories are yelling at him, screaming in fact that...this was him, this was his dad, but something is just off about saying that. Ever since the Box Ghost incident...

"Yes Daniel?" Vlad said with a hint of confusion. He remembered ordering me to head to bed, so I can get up early to facilitate more ghosts. However, it seems my presence has definitely changed his initial plan. "Didn't I tell you to go to bed?"

This was the weirder part of me however...it feels as if I'm two people...two people who are battling for control because something inside me isn't right...I'm not even sure if that made any sense, but that's the only way I can describe it…

One part of me, is loyal to my Father, wishing to please his every wishes and complete his plans of helping the Ghost Zone. But there's a part of me, even if a little, screaming at me, telling me that this is all wrong, and to snap out of it. Everytime I see my father, I have the urge to lay down the hardest beatdown I've ever given to any one person...and those thoughts seem to bring a small smirk to my lips.

I broke my train of thought, so I could answer his question. "Well, yes Father you did-" But before I can continue my explanation, my Father stopped me.

"Well then it's all settled, Goodnight."

"Bu-"

"No Buts."

"Bu-"

"I Said no-"

However this seemed to make me angry, because I lashed out. "NOW YOU LISTEN HERE YOU FRUIT LOOP!" I see his eyes widened, but I couldn't pinpoint his exact emotion, it looked to be a mix between recognition and regret. "I'VE HAD THESE WEIRD FEELINGS WHERE IT FEELS LIKE I'M LIVING A HALLOWED LIFE, IT'S AS IF SOMETHING IN MY HEAD IS NOW GONE!" However his widened eyes soon narrowed as each and every word escaped my mouth in my little rant.

He must've had grown a pair since I last saw him (Where did that come from?), because he walked over to me and openly glared into my eyes, with me reciprocating it full heartedly. After twenty minutes of silence, he spoke with his usual arrogant (again where is this coming from?) tone of voice.

"Who are you to me." He seem to be quieter than usual as he stared at me, it was as if he was trying to find a flaw in my eyes, seeing if I'd break under the pressure.

However, I wouldn't miss a beat. "I am your so-" As soon as I was about to say that, something inside me shifted...and it shifted hard. Memories flashing of a giant orange jumpsuit man and a blue jumpsuit woman, birthdays, neglect, and finally a stage at a school. My eyes began to get wider and wider, as each memory flashed through my eyes. How could I not see it!

"I'm Danny Fen-" The final word didn't escape my lips however, because soon a flash of light erupted in front of me, and my Father was in his vampiric looking Ghost Form. He lifted me up from my shirt and glared with all the amount of hatred he could muster, but that wasn't all the emotion I saw...there was still that weird regretful look in his eyes.

"YOU INSOLENT BRAT!" I could practically feel the malevolent energy shoot out from him, it was as if being hit by a tsunami. "I GIVE YOU FOOD AND SHELTER, I GIVE YOU POWER AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GIVE ME IN RETURN? HOW DARE YOU!"

I knew what was coming next, so I attempted to change into my ghost form, only to be shocked by a ghost stinger. "AHHHHH" I can feel myself slip away, that tiny speckle of me that turned into a huge raging fire, was slowly being diminished. However at the last second, my eyes glowed an erie toxic green, as my hair waved around dangerously...like fire as I reeled my fist and threw it with all my might, knocking away my Father, and giving me enough time to change into my Ghost Form.

The two rings had shimmer across my chest and legs, revealing my snow white hair and glowing gre-

RIIIIIIINNGGGGGG RIIIIIINNNGGGGGG

I woke from my dream with a sudden jolt as I took in labored breaths. This was not the first time I've experienced these vivid dreams. I remember telling my Father about the experiences I've been receiving regarding my fight with the Box Ghost, and ever since that little chat, I keep having dreams of a different way it could've went down.

Every time I have that dream, I seem to always gain the epiphany moment. But this moment is always ruined by my Father's yelling, followed by a small fight which is stopped with me jolting awake, as if I'm being purposefully stopped. As if...something is being held from me…

Whatever the case may be, it doesn't matter. I was recently assigned a case where I had to hunt down these two elusive ghosts, who have seemed to duck down from the radar, forcing me to hunt them down. These two ghosts are named Kitty and Johnny 13.

Kitty is a green haired ghost with red eyes and purple lipstick. Her outfit consisted of a black shirt and boots, followed by a green fishnet legging, red jacket and skirt. Johnny 13 however wore a huge trench coat and a white tee, with huge grey combat boots and black pants. Both of them being the usual pale white ghost skin I've come to see with all the humanoid ghosts I've liberated.

Soon, a condensed red wisp escaped my mouth as I heard a motorcycle sound in the distance. Looking over at the road near me, I could see that in fact, that there is a motorcycle with a green haired girl and blond hair man riding as fast as they could. 'Probably to run away from me…'

I counted to down from three as I flew up high into the sky, where I began to descend. Fast.

3...

2...

1...

'...As if they could...'

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM

The road cracked as the explosion hit, throwing the couple off with a resounding thud to the area they were currently at within the Ghost Zone. "Nghhh" The couple groaned in unison as they looked at the perpetrator in question.

All they knew was my demon hair and eyes, which meant certain doom to every ghost around them. "Oh crap!" I heard Johnny said, as he yelled for Shadow?

As I took a step forward, I was wrapped around by a black entity that looked similar to Spectra. 'Interesting...hopefully you put out a better fight than her.' I was about to engulf my body in flames, but a motorcycle came flying in, ramming into the side of my skull. This caused me to fly and hit a nearby boulder, causing me to growl in frustration.

However just as I was about to get ready to fight Johnny 13 and his little pet, I had to dodge a kiss shaped blast, which hit the boulder I was previously at...causing it to disappear. "What the-" But my thought was broken as yet again, a motorcycle hit me. "NOW I'M ANNOYED!"

Just as Johnny's Shadow was about to wrap itself around me, I exploded into a pillar of fire, causing it to reel back to its owner, and the couple to get out of the way. They soon saw the reason why everybody feared Phantom. My glowing red eyes that glowed eerily through the flame, as if I was judging their fates.

But Johnny whispered something into his girl's ear, I knew what they were planning before they did it.

Just as expected, Johnny came flying in with his motorcycle, heading straight towards the flame. Oh how naive of him...my hand shot straight out of the flame and grabbed Johnny by his neck, using him as a shield, which stopped his girlfriend's Banishing Kiss.

The shadow attempted to pry me off, but the heat of my flames were too much for it, causing it to be heavily damaged and recede back into Johnny. "Come here now...girl."

"Kitty...no…" Johnny wheezed out as he felt the air from his lungs begin to escape him. Kitty with apprehension walked to our destination, where she looked me straight into my eyes as I glared back at her with a smirk. However, It was soon wiped from my face, as I was hit by a blue ghost ray. "ARGHHH"

My grip was lost as I was blown back, Kitty attempted to help Johnny stand, only for her to collapse under him. He was too heavy. She looked back at me, as I began to stand, my red eyes glowing dangerously as she attempted to pull her boyfriend along. "Kitty...just go…" She had tears in her eyes, as she now stood, glaring defiantly at me.

She began to power up two ghost rays into her hands, and began to fire them at me. Oh silly ghosts. I speed blitzed her, and grabbed her boot, and did a familiar move that I can't seem to remember where from, and slammed her side to side on the ground, causing cracks to appear every time she hit the floor.

This caused Johnny's eyes to widened, as he began to stand despite the pain in his neck, and summoned his shadow once again. The shadow flew at me and stopped me from once again slamming his already bloody girlfriend into the ground.

I looked up to see Johnny with the angriest look in his face as he kept throwing haymakers, which repeatedly got me, until I grabbed his fist. "My turn…" I growled out as I snapped his arm and used it to fling him to the ground where I repeatedly slammed my fist into his body and skull, making it into a bloody mess. His shadow in attempt to save its master, flung me a couple of meters away, forcing me to skid across that land.

As I got up however I opened my eyes to see something that just resonated with me. Kitty was crying over her boyfriend's mangled body, as she cradled it and kept saying repeatedly "it was going to be alright."

I began walking towards them, but with each step I took, I got slower and slower, memories flashing to a stage where a boy hugged two bodies to him, one extremely burnt, and the other bleeding out.

I stopped right in front of them, and reeled my arm back which was engulfed in red energy, my thoughts instantly flash to the giant orange jumpsuit man and his blue jumpsuit wife…"Please...just let us go…" I heard Kitty whisper.

Soon my red energy disappeared, and my arm went down to my side...my eyes changed to a green shade and my hair began to flow less and less, and reverted back to its original spiky state. My skin changed to its natural tan as I looked down sadly at the couple.

"I-I-I'm s-sorry"

I passed out, leaving the couple to tend to their wounds as Johnny's shadow drove them to safety on its masters bike. And for me...to end this nightmarish reign of the demon ghost...time to confront...the Phantom

ANDDDDDDD that concludes chapter 14 The Battle Within P1. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I tried to go for about 2k words this time around, instead of the previous 1k words. Danny is now going to confront Phantom in his mind, will he win? Idk Clockwork knows tho.

Reviews:

Jtcookie96: Danny has high potential, which is why he became just as strong, if not stronger than Vlad in his Dan Phantom state. The question however "Is Danny stronger than Clockwork?" is a strange one at best, because I haven't written how strong he is yet. SO FOR THE MEANTIME, nope.

He23t: Interesting to see that you have an interest in desiree even though I never mentioned her within the story. However Ember should be appearing very soon in the upcoming chapters, so stay tuned.