We soared higher and higher trying to escape our pursuer. He stayed on our tail like a shadow, and no matter how hard Daniel tried to escape Plasmius only smirked and copied our movements.

I kept bracing myself for the moment he would attack us, but that never seemed to happen. He only flew calmly after us. Like a cat chasing a pair of mice.

"Reason with him!" Daniel said in a panicked voice. That was the last thing I wanted to do, but it looked like it was the only thing to do.

"Um, why do you hate me so much? We were the same person after all." An almost confused expression filled my evil half's face, but it was gone so soon it could have easily been my imagination.

"You never used your powers correctly. You were blessed with the power to have anything, the power to rule the world! But you couldn't even murder Jack Fenton." His tone changed and now it sounded like he was speaking to a baby. "Poor little Vladdie can't even kill an idiot."

"This isn't working." Daniel said angrily. "Your ghost half is too insane to talk to."

My evil half smiled wickedly at Daniel. "Let's see how well you can handle trouble." To my surprise he phased out of Maddie and let her drop. Time seemed to slow down, and I stared into the face of Plasmius. He seemed to grin wider, and fired a blast at Daniel. Daniel was launched backwards and suddenly I was falling too.

I looked up and saw my other half waving goodbye with his evil smile stretching his blue skin. Daniel was still flying backwards from the force of the blast, and all that I could do was fall.

It was worse than any roller coaster I had ever been on. I looked at the ground coming closer, and a terrifying sensation filled my stomach, almost like stage fright, only a thousand times more intense. Screaming was impossible, because the air was simply shoved back down my throat, and my thoughts seemed to evaporate.

A single regret filled my head. The fact that I had never told anyone that I was a Halfa, not even my past best friends Maddie and Jack. Maybe if I had had someone to help me through it I wouldn't have turned evil and none of this would have happened…

I gasped for air and realized that I was on the ground. Shouldn't I have been dead by then? I sat up and looked around, not feeling any pain, but I was shaking terribly. I was somewhere just outside city limits in a park. No one was around, and I collapsed back on the ground and took several deep breaths.

"Good, he seems ok. For now anyways. He's just lucky I still have a little bit of humanity left in me. That will be gone soon though…"

I sat up and said, "Who's there?" No one answered, and I wasn't really expecting anyone to. The voice had spoken in my head. Was I going crazy now? Something my other half had said to me seemed to be pushing at the back of my mind, and I tried to remember. Unfortunately I was still too relieved from not dying that I couldn't figure out what I was trying to remember.

My legs shook as I stood, and I almost fell. It was like they were made of jello. I slowly walked back towards the city, and then fear filled my chest. How soon before I stumbled upon Maddie's shattered body? Unless she was saved somehow too.

I scanned the skies looking for Daniel and saw no one. Then there were footsteps behind me and I turned around expecting it to be Daniel. Unfortunately it was someone much more evil.

My evil half, although I wasn't really positive if I should call him that since I was supposedly evil too, smiled. Something was strange about it though. It was almost as if he was hiding another emotion. Optimism said fear, pessimism said that I was being stupid to think that he felt any emotions besides hatred.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't my old pal Vladdie, somehow miraculously saved from the clutches of death." Something in my mind wanted me to believe that he had saved me. A slight frown crossed Plasmius' face and I remembered that he could read my mind.

Then the thing I had been trying to remember clicked. He could read my mind because of some weird connection we had with each other. Did that mean that I could read his mind too? A little bit at least.

I saw my other half's frown deepen out of the corner of my eye, but when I turned back he was grinning. "It looks like I'm not the only crazy one around here." He floated over to me.

"I don't know how you managed to survive the fall, but you're not going to live much longer. Jack still has a reserved spot in my list of people to kill however, and we wouldn't want to have to cancel that now would we?" He vanished in a puff of red smoke.

"Vlad!" Daniel's voice yelled. I turned and saw him come running with Maddie unconscious in his arms. "You're alive!"

"Yes, I somehow was saved." I said. "Is Maddie okay?" I looked at her. She was unconscious but still breathing, and she didn't appear to be hurt.

Daniel didn't answer my question, instead he said, "I saw you fall and I thought that that would be the last time I would ever see you, well alive anyway, and I caught my mom just in time." I realized that he was shaking. "You should be dead Vlad. I don't know what saved you but it wasn't me. I- this hero stuff, I just can't keep it up. The next time something like this happens people might die, there would be death on my hands."

He looked up at me. "I'm sorry that I couldn't save you Vlad. I don't want to be a halfa anymore. I just can't take the chance that people would die because I couldn't save them." he changed back to his human form and placed Maddie on the ground. I was about to say something to Daniel when Maddie woke up.

She moved and opened her eyes. "Vlad?" she said quietly "Danny? Where am I?"

"There was a ghost attack." I said. "You were overshadowed." Maddie sat up. "I promise you the ghost wasn't one of mine."

"Prove it." She said angrily. I showed her my hands, which were now bleeding, and her expression softened. "Oh…" She looked at my hands for a while longer. "Those are really bad ectoburns. We should get them bandaged up." She looked around. "Where's Danny?"

I looked around and remembered what he had told me. He was going to get rid of his ghost form. Could that have been my ghost half's plan all along? "We need to find him before anything happens." I grabbed her hand despite the extreme pain in mine, and helped her to her feet.

"Vlad, what's going on?" I looked at her and then told her one of my half truth stories.

"The ghost at my mansion, it's turned against me and wants to kill Jack and all humans. It's powerful enough to succeed, but I'm worried that it wants more power, and that it will use your son to gain that." I stared into her purple eyes. "I don't want that to happen. I didn't want any of this to happen, everything from twenty years ago till now was a mistake, but I'm trying to prevent another mistake from happening."

She stared back, and then said. "I believe you."

"Thank you. Now we need to go save your son."

You know, the feeling that I described as falling was the same that I had when I jumped off a bridge into water. When I got out of the water my legs were shaking and I almost fell back in, much to the amusement of my sister.