Sorry guys!! It had been 6 months since my last update I KNOW! I'm so sorry!! but I had to leave this fic in Hiatus while I was on school, I thought I could update in vacations but didn't find the right time and moment, and I had kinda of a writer's block.

Here is the chapter we have waited for so long...

Sam

"Yeah, I wonder why."

Danny wanted to hit himself for his stupidity. "NOT AGAIN! Arghh, way to go Fenton," he muttered, then stood up abruptly; so he cried for her: "Valerie", but that was pointless because even he knew she wouldn't turn back. He started to make his way toward the huntress… before he abruptly was pushed against a hard wall. Head pounding, he took a good guess of whom it was. To make sure it was he, the halfa looked up, and there the boy glared at him with much hatred.

"Dash," Danny spoke first, narrowing his eyes and stepping back. Meanwhile, Sam and Tucker caught up with him and were standing some feet away from Danny and the jocks.

"Hello, Fentoad. You and I have some business to get done," Dash snarled, punching one hand against the other to make sure that the boy got the message.

"Well, it surprises me that you can complete a coherent sentence, Dash," Sam smirked, the anger evident in her voice.

"Hey, Fenturd! Tell your weird girlfriend to shut up or to go back to the circus where she came from," Dash retorted, offended. This comment caused Danny to get more than angry at Dash. He tried his best not to make his eyes go green, or worse, transform fully into Phantom. But he didn't say anything more, just kept staring at his enemy with hatred burning through him.

Two seconds later, Danny was already surrounded by the three football players that had come with Dash. All of them where pushing him out of the restaurant. The guys didn't let go of the ghost-boy until they were standing in front of the Nasty Burger. But he was still surrounded by the curious teenagers who had come out of the restaurant to watch the fight, including his worried friends Sam and Tucker.

"You don't have anything to say, weirdo?" Dash asked, a curl in his lip. Obviously he had run out of insults to use.

"Shut up, Dash, I'm not in the mood!" This comment from Danny caused the jock to laugh because he didn't consider Danny a threat, not even when he was really mad: very big mistake!

Dash launched a punch, but Danny dodged easily, resulting in the jock trying again, though it was to no avail. Dash grabbed Danny by his shirt, the material firm in his large hands, but the ghost-boy grabbed his hand and pushed Dash back. He wasn't thinking about revealing his secret at the moment, he didn't care if they knew that he could fight for himself, right now the only thing that was on his mind was that he was angry, and that he wouldn't tolerate anything after what happened between him and Valerie.

Dash on the other part was awestruck, but still his little mind didn't want to process the idea that fighting Danny was pointless and dangerous. The athletic teenager tried to kick the boy in the chest, which was again dodged. At this point the jock was furious, and, at a really fast speed, took Danny by his shirt like he had done many times, and then raised him up form his feet. The ghost boy struggled but to no avail, and so the fight stopped for a moment. Both boys were looking at each other with hatred, which was very different from Dash's normal mocking smile and Danny's scared face.

"I'm going to tear you apart," Dash warned him through gritted teeth.

"I would love to see you try," Danny growled, using great effort to look at the jock's eyes since he had been raised above Dash's face.

"Danny...DON'T!" he heard from behind, and he was completely sure it had been Sam. Danny got her message then: he was being too harsh with Dash—and this could bring up suspicions. So Danny calmed down for the moment, leaving his luck to Dash's mood, which wasn't getting any better.

"Okay Dash," he sighed with defeat, "I'm not going to fight you."

"I knew you were a coward!" he laughed, his eyes gleaming with warning. Dash prepared a punch, but it never reached his destination… The boy looked with much fear to a specter that had appeared from nowhere.

Danny's ghost sense went off, meaning that it was 'real fighting' time, just what he needed, more problems. But fortunately Dash let go of Danny to run away like the coward he was. As soon as the surrounding group dispersed, he changed into his ghost form. The halfa flew to the Nasty Burger where he found the ghost, a purple blob with two crimson-glowing eyes, somehow similar to the bat that he had fought at the beginning of the week.

"Hey, you, looking for someone?" Danny shouted at his newfound enemy, making him turn around.

"Yeah, you actually!" The ghost sent an ecto-blast at his foe, which dodged it at the last moment. Danny frowned at the sudden attack and sent an ecto-blast of his own, which the ghost dodged by morphing a hole in his body so it would pass through. Fury burned into Danny's eyes—this day was just not going his way.

"Do I know you? You seem familiar..." The half ghost asked at last; he was sure he had seen this ghost somewhere...then he remembered. "Hey I know! Bertrand! Weren't you green? And where's Spectra?" Well, this was odd.

"Are you kidding me?" the ghost spat. "Don't ever confuse me with my brother!" He launched at his foe, who was still frozen with shock. The sudden impact caused Danny to smash up against a building. He rapidly got out of the way as the blob struck again, sending an ecto-blast toward him. Meanwhile, Tucker and Sam were looking at the scene from not far away, no doubt wondering about the ghost's intentions.

The halfa didn't miss with his hit and the enemy ghost was sent back against the building too. It didn't last long as the enemy became intangible, flying behind Danny who was still looking for him.

"Show yourself...whoever you are!" he shouted to the space; he hated when the ghosts did this.

"I'm here, kid, and it's Billtrand!" his foe said, transforming into a bat, but when he was about to charge something took him by surprise. The boy was...

Laughing?

"BILL trand? Hahaha! God, are you serious?" Danny was laughing so hard that he was starting to lose his equilibrium. The sudden laughter from the ghost boy caused everyone else watching to start laughing too. But the ghost didn't use this as an advantage to attack— he was furious and embarrassed at the same time! A foolish kid and some mere mortals laughing at HIM; what an insult! So he morphed from a bat back to his normal blob-like form.

"SHUT UP!" he cried in anger.

"Oh my, BILLtrand? I thought Inviso-Bill was bad," said the boy still laughing, wiping tears from his eyes and barely managing to talk. "So Bertrand is your brother... Were all the good names taken or what?"

"He is NOTHING compared to me, I AM much powerful than my stupid brother... and… and… QUIT LAUGHING!" the purple ghost growled in annoyance. But Danny wasn't scared and kept teasing him.

"Well he's not that one with the funny name, is he?" the halfa answered, everybody around laughing too, all influenced by Danny's maddened screams of laugher. The ghost was growing angrier by the minute and he couldn't bear it anymore.

"SHUT UP, OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!" The angry ghost built up a great amount of energy, and spotting his foes' friends, fired at Danny's crush: Sam.


Silence.

Danny was unable to speak as he floated, still trying to comprehend what have happened a minute or so ago. Then realization and reality came to him like a big bomb and he screamed.

"SAM, NOOOOOOOO!" The ghost boy's green eyes were glowing bright and a feeling of anger and guilt building up with every second. He looked at Billtrand who was savoring the moment, with the same expression. Well, Billtrand was calm…until he met Danny's gaze, reality also coming back to him. So the ghost relaxed again and smiled to give no sign of fear.

"I think this is my cue to go away, see you soon, Danny Phantom." The ghost disappeared in an instant.

But Danny wasn't the only one awestruck, Tucker and all the people who were crowded around and also laughing a moment before were now silenced and getting around Sam to look at her, or help her, after the direct attack she received. An attack caused by Danny's teasing… It was his fault! The tears of happiness and laughter were starting to be replaced with tears of sadness and shame. Then, he saw Sam moving her hand and head. She groaned.

The ghost boy didn't hear it because he was floating too far away. Luckily, it didn't matter because he had seen her move, meaning she was alive. He wanted to float down and take her away to the hospital, but he had spotted the cameras filming everything since the ghost appeared, and so he decided to change back in the alley from where he came.


The Manson's had just arrived home and were exhausted. They wondered where their daughter was but then remembered that it was Friday, which meant she was hanging out with her friends. At this thought, Sam's mother sighed; she didn't like when her daughter wandered around with people that had inferior social class, especially that 'Danny' boy. He was so weird. She let that thought spill away and both of them entered the study to watch the news before having dinner.

The television was turned on and the news was transmitting from the Nasty Burger, apparently another ghost was around the city, again. Same old, same old… But then they saw it.

They shared that moment of utter surprise and silence that was present at the place of the event. Then they gasped, and Sam's mother fainted.

Her husband ran to her and placed his wife on the couch, walking as calmly as he could to turn off the TV. He didn't want to hear or see anything more; it was all her friends' faults! What was she doing in that cheap and nasty restaurant?!? But all of that didn't matter, his wife woke up and both of them shared the same expression, each knowing what was the other thinking about. The Manson's ran to their car and sped away toward the Nasty Burger.


Vlad watched the news smiling and enthusiastic. Bill had done a great job and the experiment was almost finished already. Everything was settled and it was just a matter of time before the most important part was done.

Billtrand appeared in Vlad's study, shaken and afraid. Phantom was MAD at him and that wasn't good. Plus, everything that the childish ghost had said to him was so... he couldn't find the words for no one had insulted him like that. Well, only his brother but that was another story. After all, Billtrand was much more successful because he was working for someone important like Plasmius, not with an incompetent ghost like Spectra.

Vlad sensed the purple's ghost arrival and turned around in his wheeled chair, looking at Bill with pleasure. "Well done! Bravo! Bravo! I don't even know what was better, the boy teasing you out or you attacking his best friend?"

"Thanks sir. I think…" he smiled, though still unsure of what Plasmius meant. "What's next?"

"Very well, lets wait for tomorrow and I will give you your orders. You know what the next part of the plan is; don't forget. You are dismissed," Vlad said, waving his hand and turning to continue watching the news. Everything was running smoothly, perfect, just like him.


The ambulance arrived. Danny was in human form sitting next to Sam who had just half-opened her amethyst eyes.

But not only did the doctors come, also her parents. Knowing her overprotective parents, she was not going to be able to go out of her home for a very long time. Poor, unfortunate Sam.


WOOOOOT I made it!!! I t had been one year since I started writing this story. This chapter is SO IMPORTANT for the plot, I hope I can find some time to update this soon :D

I'm so sorry, I know that half of this time it had been in hiatus but school is just getting more complicated, and I don't have much time for myself anymore.

Thanks to everyone, every reader, every reviewer, and all of those awesome people who alerted or favorite this fic! And a super special THANKS to Sophie for beta reading my works and supporting me all this time!!

Expect the next chapter to be the beginning of the climax :P From this point until the end things are going to get more interesting…..I will try to do my best on updating faster he hehe…..

Thanks so much for reading!!!

-Bluename

Posted: March 9, 2008 (omg 2008 already :O XD)