I know that this is long overdue, but before you criticize me consider this. If Cellosolo2007 (Sapphire) hadn't helped me with this chapter than you probably never would have gotten it. I had a very severe case of writers block, (but that makes sense because I had to decide whether to let Plasmius' plan work or not), and Sapphire came up with amazing ideas and helped co-write this chapter. Since this whole story was really her idea I hope that this is giving her enough credit.
I struggled against the ectobonds as Plasmius approached Daniel. It was no use, I couldn't break free. Maddie was trying to escape too, and I saw tears running down her face. She was about to lose her only son, and it was all because of me.
"Stop!" I yelled at my ghost half. He turned around and smirked. Apparently he wasn't in a hurry. "Daniel and Maddie don't deserve any of this. I'm the one who stands in your way."
"Really? You stand in my way? That's a surprise. Tell me Vlad, how exactly are you a threat to me?" He grinned, clearly believing that I was completely helpless.
I hoped that I was right. "Because I am you. We may be different now, but before the Ghost Catcher split us we were one person. Vlad Plasmius and Vlad Masters. I know exactly how you act, how you think, and I can have every ghost hunter known to man go after you."
He glared at me, and said in a low whisper, "Fine. I'll just have to kill you right away then. Enjoy the last few minutes of your life." Plasmius turned back to Daniel, his clawed hands extended.
"No!" Maddie screamed, "Don't you dare hurt my son you evil egotistical ectoplasmic mistake!" My other half didn't even turn back to look at her.
"Mistake? No, I'm not the mistake. You made the mistake of thinking that you could defeat me, and now it's too late." Before anyone could say anything else Plasmius took a step forward and shoved the blades into Daniel's chest. Maddie scream pierced the air as my ghost half dragged Danny Phantom out into the open.
Phantom looked very confused, and he quickly looked around the room. He stared at his human half. "What? No… it can't be." He turned and glared at Plasmius. "You're trying to create Dan, aren't you. It won't work. I'm not going to let myself be corrupted by you."
Plasmius laughed. "Dan? No, I don't plan on making him exactly." He pulled the clawed gloves off of his hands. "But you have the basic idea." He launched himself forward and phased into Phantom. Or at least he tried to. The other ghost jumped out of the way and ended up next to Maddie and me.
"I won't let you fuse with me, Plasmius. I promised to my family that I wouldn't turn evil, and I'll keep that promise as long as I can."
My ghost half sneered at Phantom. "How quaint, the ghost who promised to be good. Perhaps you've forgotten a few things though." He shot several ectoblasts towards us, forcing Phantom to block all of them just in case one missed him and hit us. "For one thing your little promise never really happened. Time was reset, so the only one who even remembers Dan Phantom is you."
Phantom's green eyes burned angrily and he tried to shoot an ectobeam at Plasmius only to have it sent back with twice the amount of power. "Not that you would really care about something as trivial as that." My ghost half continued. "But perhaps the second reason will persuade you how futile it is to fight me."
Before anyone could blink Plasmius was across the room standing next to Daniel who was still unconscious. A dangerous looking red ectoblast had formed in my ghost half's hand. Red… a color ectoblast that I had never been able to achieve. It was the most powerful, and if it came in contact with a human it was fatal. He brought his hand closer to Daniel.
"I'm sure that at least one of you knows what will happen if I let this blast touch dear Danny's skin." Plasmius said, smirking at me. "For anyone else who might be concerned about how this light will affect the boy's health… lets just say that he won't have to worry about anything hurting him more than this."
I glared furiously at my other half. How could he do this? Didn't he remember that when we were one person we never planned to kill Daniel? That would hurt Maddie far too much. I clenched my teeth. Ghost's had no emotions, so of course he remembered, he just didn't care. And I couldn't do anything to stop him.
"Now that I have your attention, perhaps you would like to hear the other reason now? Not like you have a choice really." Phantom glared at him and a green blast began to appear around his hand, but Plasmius only brought his glowing hand closer to Daniel's face.
"Reason number two." He said, grinning. "Why would you even want to protect these humans? They don't care about you."
"Of course we do!" Maddie yelled angrily. Plasmius fired a beam at her that bound her mouth shut.
"Please don't interrupt me when I'm monologing, Mads." He said. His red eyes flicked to me as if daring me to say something, and then moved back to Phantom before he started speaking again. "Daniel, this Daniel," he said, pointing at the unconscious boy next to him, "Is the only one that the two mortals behind you care for. Think about it. Maddie is a ghost hunter, and Vlad is your archenemy. They don't think of you as the Danny that they know and care about, they think of you as a ghost. Even Vlad, who was once a half ghost himself thinks of you as Phantom instead of Daniel."
A pair of green eyes stared at me in surprise, then they became accusing. Why was my ghost half doing this? If he wanted to overshadow Danny Phantom then he should just get it over with. I turned my head to avoid Phantom's stare and glare at Plasmius, but he was gone. For a moment I wondered where he went, but then I realized his plan. He had been talking to distract Phantom and get him to let his guard down.
By the time I started to warn Phantom it was too late. Plasmius appeared and out of thin air and phased into the other ghost before he could escape. A bright light filled the room and pain shot through my head. It felt like I was going to explode, and I was struggling to maintain consciousness. Why was this happening? I had no time to wonder about anything though, and I could feel myself fading fast. Everything went black.
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Probably less than a minute later I woke up. I tried to move, but even though the ecto bonds that were on me seemed to have vanished I was too weak to sit up. Some of my energy returned to me, but not very much. I was able to push myself up off of the floor at least. It felt like I had half died…
The room was filled with very strange green smoke. A black gloved hand appeared out of the smoke and waved it away, and the hand was quickly followed by a very evil looking face. The combination of Daniel's ghost half and mine stepped into my line of vision and grinned evilly.
He was thinner than Plasmius had been, probably because of Phantom, but be appeared to be older than fourteen. His costume was mostly white with black streaks across the top. Two streaks met in the middle of his chest to form a large black V, and he had a white cape with larger black streaks on his shoulders. He also had flaming black hair and pupilless red eyes.
"Amazing, isn't it? One moment you're half of a being and the next you're the most powerful ghost in the universe." He said. Suddenly I was weak again and I fell to my knees. "Feeling a little woozy? That's probably because the connection between you and I was destroyed when I fused with Daniel. In other words, you needed your ghost half to live, but now I don't need you."
Silence filled the room as I began to realize what was happening. My ghost half couldn't kill me before because he still needed me to survive. That's why I hadn't died from falling out of the sky. Plasmius had saved me because he would die if I died. But now that he had Daniel's ghost half he was whole, and he could kill me. He came closer.
"It's so satisfying to have you kneeling on the floor in front of me Vlad." I gritted my teeth and forced myself to stand, using one of the walls for support. "Now if only I could decide how to kill you." A green ectoplasmic ball formed in his hand and he tossed it back and forth. "I have so many new powers to try out."
He casually tossed the ball at me, and my body practically screamed in pain as I jumped out of the way. It missed me at first, but to my horror it turned around and hit me directly in the chest. The green light slowly pushed its way in, leaving no mark as it entered my body. A few seconds of confusion passed by and suddenly electricity coursed through my veins from the inside out.
Intense pain filled me and I had no choice but to collapse on the floor. I was so weak... Laughter filled my head as I concentrated on not passing out. There had to be a way to fight him. It couldn't end this way could it? I had come so far, and now I was going to die
A low moan came from across the room and Vlad Phantom or whatever he was going to call himself smirked. "How forgetful of me, I was completely ignoring the other people in this room. Who should I kill first, the annoying female, the teenager, or my half alive friend. Perhaps someone who will resist enough to make this an amusing fight. Daniel then."
He began to walk over to Daniel but stopped halfway there. A strange look crossed his face, almost like he was struggling against something. I was extremely surprised when Daniel's voice came out of his mouth and the eyes changed from red to green. "Get OUT of me Plasmius!"
His eyes became red again. "Shut up Daniel. I've worked far too hard to obtain such a powerful body and I'm not about to give it up. Ah!" He doubled over in pain and held his arms around his chest like he was trying to keep his heart from bursting through it.
"No." Daniel's voice replied. "I'm stronger than you will ever be, and I won't just fade quietly into the shadows while you kill everyone that I've ever know." His voice seemed stronger, like he was gaining control. Then he suddenly grabbed his head in pain.
"What will happen if you take over though? You'll become the person you fear the most- Dan Phantom." Plasmius' voice gained strength too. Both of them seemed to be evenly matched.
The ghost talking to itself in front of me began to glow brightly. "I'll just have to take that chance if it means that I can beat you." The room was filled with light again, and I heard an earsplitting scream, but I couldn't tell whether it was Daniel's or Plasmius'.