Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.... Stupid lawyers......

Sorry about this, I needed more motivation. (By that I mean I was too lazy to open Wordpad to type this up until the reviews reminded me I have a story to write.)

Here's chapter 9!

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Vlad's eyes were wider than full moons as he gazed at the pale teenager. The poor kid looked like he was being sent to the gallows. His ice blue eyes, usually so bright, were clouded over in shock and, something that hardly ever shone in the young hybrid's eyes, fear.

"O-o-o-oh, cr-r-r-ap. H-h-h-he got y-y-y-you too V-v-v-vlad?" Daniel's voice shook again as he painfully rasped out, "I-i-i-it w-w-as H-him right?"

Vlad raised an eyebrow, recalling what his captor had mentioned before. "Him Daniel? That's hardly sufficient enough for me to answer your idiotic question. You're just like your bumbling idiot of a father sometimes."

Daniel said nothing and gazed off into space holding his rib cage. Vlad, however, was very confused as his eyebrows furrowed. That comment should have earned him at least an ectoblast to the face or some long, stupid argument!

"Daniel..." Vlad said cautiously. "Are you alright?" The younger hybrid's face turned a deep red and his eyes started to droop. "Daniel?!"

The young hybrid's body fell to the unforgiving floor with a THUD as he passed out. The older hybrid knelt by his side and inspected the part of his torso that Daniel was clutching. There were at the least two broken ribs and when Vlad went to touch his sweaty forehead the boy was burning up.

Vlad scanned the room for something to help, but found nothing but a note in the teenager's hand.

"Who the cheese whiz is Dan?"

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Clockwork sighed as he looked away from the screen in front of him. "Everything is not as it should be..."

The time ghost shook his head and floated through his castle, deep in thought. That is until he got to the Fentons' room. The door was hanging off the hinges and as he drifted in hesitantly there were two bodies hanging from the rafters, not breathing and being very, very still....

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Skulker shot out of the ghost zone in pursuit of the famous and legendary ghost of the Jumping Frog of Calveras County. The frog, being the fat frog that he was, dove into a nearby pond outside of Fenton Works and sunk to the bottom like a rock. Skulker scowled and instantly grinned when he saw a certain container specter drift aimlessly toward Casper High.

The hunter stalked the Box Ghost , following directly behind him for a few blocks before the annoying ghost turned around and yelled, "BEWARE! I am the Box Ghost! You will never contain me in the giant box of many creatures! BEWARE!"

Skulker's hand flew to his forehead in response to the stupidness, but the Box Ghost stared at a new upgrade on his suit. It was cubically shaped.

"BOX!!!!" he screamed and shot forward to rip the 'box' out of Skulker's armor. He grabbed it and Skulker's yell was muffled by the alarm and voice coming from the 'box'.

"SELF-DESTRUCT IN 10...... 9....... 8......" The Box Ghost flew as fast as he could toward the high school as the 'mighty' hunter tried to deactivate the 'box'.

The irritating cube obsessed specter phased through the cheap plastic and concreate walls. "I think I'll give the ghost child a little surprise today. I'll hit him with steel boxes instead of cardboard and bubble wrap!" The lame ghost yelled to the heavens, "BEWARE!"

Boxy scurried into Danny's homeroom invisibly and flew over to where the hybrid should've been, at his desk in the back of the room, but there was no desk there. So the ghost turned to the familiar Gothic girl to his right and whispered in her ear, "Where's your boyfriend, Phantom? I have a little present for him? BEWARE!"

The Goth, Samantha, looked wildly around the room before he became visible. "Please! Please, don't hurt me! I have no boyfriend or Phantom." She turned her terrified gaze to the teacher, whom had frozen at his desk and screamed bloody murder.

"To Kill a Mockingbird! IS THAT A GHOST?!"

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Woah, lots of weirdness in this chapter. So many questions....

kirby