Darkness surrounded him, a pale green light highlighting his own body, though the source of said light was unknown. His sapphire eyes gazed around in confusion, wondering what was going on. A quiet murmur started in the back of his mind, steadily increasing in volume. He recognized those voices…. Mom….Dad…They were whispering soft comforts in his mind, telling him that they loved him, and would never betray him. Their images floated in front of their face, oddly transparent, smiling softly with loving eyes.

Danny inhaled sharply, a thin trickle of mist floating out of his mouth, his blue eyes flicking up to see his parent's reaction. They were confused, brows furrowed in thought. His mother opened her mouth sharply, a light of akarm and realization in her hazel eyes. He responded with a soft phrase, one that he had said to her once, while in his other form.

"And with that...I bid you a fond farewell" He turned quickly, running toward what would have been the stairs, had it been his home. He saw her look of betrayel out of the corner of his eye, but not before he saw the swirling green mass in front of him. It darted forward, engulfing him, coursing fire though his viens. He felt the familiar white/blue lights dance across his torso, knowing the changes that went along with it. He screamed in pain and fear, fear for what his parents would do if they found his secret in this way.

When the green light faded, he was curled into a loose ball, Eyes squeezed shut against the light. He hesitently opened them, only to find a sneering walker in his face, holding him up by his near-skintight suit. His boots dangled uselessly a foot above the ground, hands wrapped arount the specter's arm. "I may not be able to keep your human side in the my prison, but I sure as heck can drag phantom in there. After all, he owes nearly a millenia in jail time for past crimes." How the white skull managed to smile gleefully, he will never know, for his own eyes were focused on the gauntlet opon its left hand.

He knew that glove. It was the same one that haunted his dreams, the gloves that sprouted claws, and could seperate the ghost in him from the humans...The gloves that ultimately turned him and vlad's ghost halves turn into one Intelligent killing machine. Into Dan Phantom (1)

Danny struggled for a moment, glowing green eyes wide with fear. The emotion changed suddenly, when a familar green blast struck the jailman in the chest, pale hand dropping the fearsome glove. He was about to lash out at said apparel, going to erase ut from existance, and hopefully his memories...When a black-gloved hand picked it up, Hazel eyes examining it.

"Danny..." His mother murmered quietly, a single tear snaking down her slightly tanned cheeks. "Are you really... Phantom? This isnt a trick?" His father appeared behind her, appearing rather depressed compaired to his usual self. Danny nodded, eyes downcast, suddenly very self-consious about the way his outfit hugged every curve and muscle in his body. Not very modest, in his mind, right now.

His mother spoke up once again, voice softer than ever. "What is this supposed to do, danny... Why did you look at it with such terror"

He took a deep breath, rubbing his upper arm nervously. "I know a ghost that is able to control time. He is neutral, neither good nor evil. He...showed me a timeine that could have happened, if I made a couple of wrong choices. Where you all died, and I ended up being torn from my ghost half...Who's mind on its own was only filled with the pain of seperation, and killed my human half." He paused, taking a deep breath, the pain of those memories still feeling freash in his mind. Trying to lessen the shock, he detransformed, the blue-tinted lights circling his body anc reverting back to his human form.

"My ghost half merged with another, more malevolent ghost...and called itself Dan Phantom. He proceded to destroy the world, after Va- The Red hunter drove him away from Amity. A few years later, he developed a new power...one that I have now...that was able to break through the reenforced ghost sheilds protecting the town, and destroy it"

Danny swallowed, eyes focused on the floor. "I never want that to happen again...and those are the gauntlets that were used to seperate me and my phantom"

The corner of his lip twitched up in a small smile at that phrase, even if it was innaccurete. He and Phantom were one in the same, A single being, a single mind.

His meanderings were cut off abruptly at his father's statement.

"So...If we were to dull the pain, Phantom wouldnt be so hurt, and we could destroy him while he was out of you"

Daniel's eyes widened in surprise and fear, automatically taking a step back from his father's words.

Behind him, the ghost gauntlets rose up of their own accord, slashing forward with glowing green claws.

Danny could feel a part of him being torn away, blackness swirling around his vision, before two glowing green eyes hovered in front of his face. Snowy white hair tickled his nose for a moment before the voice whispered in his ear, sounding almost exactly like him...but... darker, evil almost.

"You really should run now. I barely stopped them, and there will be no chance after this." Danny looked upward, trying to see who spoke, but all that was in his vision was the barrel of a large ecto-gun. A light glowed at the back of the barrel, and he twisted to the side, leaping away from his parents and their weapons. For a moment, all he heard was the wind rushing past his ears as he fled the dim yellow light, footsteps echoing in the darkness. Then, he heard a shout from his parents, voices melded into one hateful-sounding sentance.

"We will find you, ghost child!"

Tears tickled at the corner of his eyes, glowing green light surrounding his body, tripping him. Instead of landing on the ground he had been previously walking on, his body started falling endlessly through black, a pair of feircly luminous eyes gazing down at him from above.

danny...

Danny

"DAnny!"

"YAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Danny thrashed in his sheets, instinctivly summoning an ecto-blast, and chucking it randomly. His ears heard a pained yelp, and the thud of a body hitting the floor.

Finally, he discovered the exit of his white cage, and flung the cloth from his half-clothed body.

A yell was heard from downstairs, and his still-panicked mind came to a hasty conclusion.

Flee.

Kyo flung the door open, ignoring Shigure's protests of his poor abused house, and was greeted by a scene that shocked him.

Their guest, Danny, was sprinting toward the door, one hand glowing green with a faint trail of smoke coming from it. He had no shirt on, and when he glanced back over his shoulder, the zodiac cat saw that a strip of his hair had turned the same silvery white as Ayame's long locks. The boy's eyes were glowing a bright yellow-green, and filled with both fear and anger.

What really cought his attention, was the young girl he had gotten to know (And love) gasping on the floor, with a circle-shaped burn mark on her stomach. He couldnt see her skin, bu the clotth was badly charred, and the female's breaths were ragged.

His own reddish brown eyes narrowed with rage, a cry of rage ripping from his throat as he leapt forward, fingers curved into claws. Danny shot him a fearful glance before leaping out the window, broken glass sparkling around him. The crash caught the attention of Haru, who looked up from his sketching to see their teenage guest nearly fly from the second story window, only to drop and roll on the ground, leaping up and sprinting away, one strip of his ebony hair bleached white.

He had caught a glimps of the emerald eyes and slightly crazed look upon the boy's face as he ran at near-inhuman speeds.

Oh boy... This was NOT going to be fun.