A/N: An up-date! Woot! And this chapter is for Axel (Insubordinance if you'd like to read her fics!) because, well, she loves this fic! Anywho, on with this chapter!

Chapter Seven

Dan's Back!

Danny looked at Nemisis, but the girl refused to look at him. her arms were crossed and she had her gaze turned away from him. He sighed. "If he's got Sam, I'll beat him to a pulp, if he doesn't..." he trailed off, not caring for what her opinion would be on the matter. He ran off into the now forming crowd. "Sam!" he shouted. Nemisis looked on after him. She walked off towards the railing to look down to the first floor.

"He's still there and waiting," she mumbled. She looked around at the crowd that was cowering in fear as far from the evil future ghost as possible. Nemisis frowned. Wait a second...

Her eyes widened in realization and she turned towards where Danny had run. "Oh no..."

Danny walked between the frenzy, being knocked about by fearful people. "Sam?' he called out, looking for the black-haired Goth-girl. Where could she be?

"Danny! I'm in here!" came her voice. Danny looked around. He didn't know where the voice was coming from. He stopped walking and looked around. Most people were out already, now trying to frantically find a way out.

"Where?" Danny called, walking forward again as he searched. He passed the theater where the movie he and Sam had been watching was still being played. He passed right by it. "Sam?" He stopped walking as a sound caught his ear from behind him. Thinking it was Sam, the boy began to turn around. "Sa-" he started, but was silence as the figure stopped him from turning by quickly looping an arm around Danny's throat and covering the teen's mouth.

"Right here."

"Eh mh oh!" Danny struggled, but was no match. Before long, he'd vanished into thin air along with the dark silhouette.

Nemisis ran back towards the theater rooms and searched around. She stopped in the middle of the hall and just chose a random theater and ran in. Seeing no one there, she began to rush back out. That's when something caught her eyes.

"Clockwork sent you," came a voice over a loud-speaker. Nemisis froze and looked towards the screen in the front of the theater. She gazed upon the shadow there and scowled.

"What's it to you?" she shouted right back.

"The boy," the voice said. It was deep, hoarse, evil.

"Where is he, Dan?" Nemisis demanded.

"Oh, he's right here," Dan replied. Nemisis gasped. A new shadow came over the screen. Nemisis turned towards the projector window and her eyes widened. He wouldn't!

"You want him?" Dan asked. Nemisis could now see both Dan and Danny.

"Why are you doing this?" Nemisis asked. She could see Danny struggling to get out of Dan's grasp. The ghost had acquired new abilities, she knew. That was why Danny couldn't just phase through his grasp. He was forced to struggling with him. "I thought you only wanted to exist!"

"I do," Dan agreed.

"Then?" Nemisis growled. Danny was her responsibility now. If she failed to do her job, not only was she in trouble, so was everyone in Amity Park according to the Observants and Clockwork. She couldn't let that happen.

"I must instill a grudge in the boy," Dan said. "And that, my dear, takes time." With that said, Dan maneuvered Danny towards the projector window and shoved him outward.

"Ah!" Danny screeched and he found himself grabbing nothing but thin air to break his fall.

"Danny!" Nemisis's breath caught in her throat and her eyes widened even more if that was possible.

"Danny?" Sam asked. She was wandering along through the halls of the cinema. She hadn't seen him on her way out the theater nor during the frenzy. Where was he? As a matter of fact, she didn't know why the frenzy was happening. She'd been watching the movie when all of a sudden someone started screaming outside. The scream had trailed off and some of the people began whispering. Sam had focused on trying to hear what all the fuss was about - not looking at the screen anymore. Then, a girl near the back pointed towards the screen and screamed. Sam hadn't caught what had happened, but others had.

"Danny!" came a voice and Sam was sent whirling around on her heels before running off in the direction from which she'd come. That wasn't a voice she could recall at all. But she did know it was a teenage girl's voice. Who was it? If it were someone she knew she'd recognize it...

Sam tried to keep her mind from giving her bad thoughts and she continued on her way. She finally found the theater she'd been in before and heard what sounded like a thud and evil laughter. And then, "Danny?"

Sam rushed inside. The first she saw was a ghostly silhouette plastered on the screen. She gasped at the sight of who it could be. She then shifted her focus towards where a someone who looked like a girl was running up the steps to the back row. Sam followed suit.

"What's going on?" Sam shouted.

The silver-haired girl didn't stop running, only replied over her shoulder, "Dan's back!"

E/N: Haha! I up-dated and then I leave you there! buwahahaha! Ehm...I hate to hurt Danny...
Danny: As if!
me: It's true! Ya know I luvz ya!
Danny: -shiver-

--Airamé Phantom