Author's Notes: Ok everyone here we are again! Sorry these last two updates took so long I've been feeling under the weather lately, but I think I'm finally over the worse of it. So with that said please enjoy, and tell me what you think!

Warning: Character Death…AGAIN!

Yours truly, RoxieDivine

(Three Days Later)

[Location: AMITY VIL: Vlad's Manor]

Danny sighed as he stepped off the bus and stood on the steps of Vlad Masters' Manor. His Aunt Alicia was not exactly happy about his decision to move away from her, and everyone else he ever knew to go live with some lonely weirdo bachelor out of state, but she respected the decision all the same.

"Just promise me you'll call me every once and a while." She said, before he boarded the bus earlier that day.

"I will." Danny promised.

"Don't forget to call me too." Valerie had said.

Danny pulled away from his Aunt, and threw his arms around her. "Thanks for everything." He whispered. "I don't think I would have last this long without you."

Valerie hugged him back. "I'll see you soon." She whispered.

"Don't forget about me. Ok?" He whispered into her ear.

Valerie smiled back and nodded. "As long as you promise to never change on me."

He gave her a weak smile and then climbed onto the bus that would take him to the airport and then to Wisconsin.

Danny shook the memories from his head, as the bus driver handed him his bags. "Here you go kid."

Danny took his bags, and flinched as one split open, and its contents fell on the ground beside him. Danny stuffed the items into his second bag, but froze to stare at the last item, with a heavy weight of guilt in his eyes. It was a picture of him, and his family, along with Sam and Tucker.

"Ah, Daniel my boy," Vlad exclaimed as the Manor's doors opened, revealing him in his usual black suit and tie. He ran up to his side and patted his shoulder. "Come inside."

Danny sighed and stopped to take one last look at the picture.

Vlad follows his gaze, and his smile evaporates. "I know it's hard now, but we'll get through this." He said, guiding Danny into the manor as he spoke.

Danny followed Vlad into the Manor, secretly grateful that the older halfa had not told him that everything would be okay. He was secretly tired of hearing those words, partially because they had yet to come true, and Danny was beginning to think they never would. He sighed once more as they continued to walk through the manor, however he barely noticed anything on his way in. After all, nothing mattered anymore.

It was funny really, only a month ago he would have shuddered at the fact that he was willingly going to stay here with Vlad, the biggest fruit loop the world had ever seen.

Danny sighed and slumped to the floor in the front hall, he instantly noticed a large painting of Vlad looking mighty and victorious as it stared down on him. Danny shook his head in disbelief, here he was in this house; a house for the rich, and the successful. Wasn't that what he had wanted in the start of this whole mess?

A successful future?

That was what they all wanted out of him right?

Danny growled and banged his fist on the ground. 'That stupid test, that stupid, stupid, stupid test.'

Danny couldn't even remember why it was so important in the first place.

"Daniel." Vlad appeared to his right. "Why don't you follow me to your room," he suggested with a pity filled smile.

"My room, right – whatever…" Danny mumbled getting to his feet.

"Come now, it's time to move on, the future is waiting," Vlad said, trying to be encouraging.

"What future?" Danny asked. "Don't you see? Without them, my life is over!"

Vlad frowned; he didn't seem to be very good at this encouraging thing.

"I just wish I didn't feel this way anymore, I wish I didn't care…" Danny moaned.

Vlad sighed and opened a door to his room. "Ah, here we are."

Danny looked over his shoulder at the very expensively furbished room, and sighed. "Tucker would have loved this place."

Vlad bit his lip, and watched him drag his feet pass him, and into the room, where he dropped his bags and slumped onto his new bed. "Right, I'll call you when it's dinner time." He assured him, before retreating, and leaving him alone in his room.

A clock ticked, counting off seconds that seemed more like hours to Danny. The slow, endless ticking swayed him into, yet another nightmare filled sleep…and as he slid into this world of sleep his last thought was one of pain, and the wish that he couldn't feel it anymore.

About an hour later, Vlad reappeared to invite him for dinner, only to see that the boy was fast asleep.

"Oh Daniel, I really wish there was a way I could pull all the pain out of you." He whispered. "And perhaps I can." He realized. "And I can do it in a way that will benefit us both!" And with those final words, he left the boy tossing in his sheets, at the mercy of his inner demons.

(The Next Morning…)

Danny woke the next morning to a noise that made him think of a stampede of noisy elephants. Danny frowned and then slumped against the wall again, 'Who cares?' He thought.

He wasn't sure where this stronger wave a depression had come from. Perhaps it had always been there, and Valerie had just been distracting him from it. For a moment he regrets leaving her, but changes his mind instantly. 'You were ruining her life!' he told himself. 'Now she won't be a total outcast.'

He pulled out the picture of his family and friends again, and found the tears falling almost instantly. "What was I thinking?" He asked himself. "I had it all!" He cried. "I had my family, my friends, and my health. I already had the perfect future, and I ruined it!" Danny threw the picture across the room, and watched it shatter as if in a daze.

"No!" He suddenly snapped out of it, and ran over to pick it up. "Owe!" Danny cried as he bend over on hands and knees, only to have a piece of glass cut him slightly. Danny eyed the glass knowingly. "If I slit my throat now it would all be over." He whispered. Danny stopped to ponder that, suicide; would it really be so bad? Sure, Death wasn't the end, but maybe it could be the end of his pain, the end of his suffering.

"Promise me you want shut down, or go suicidal. Promise me you'll hold your head up high, and try to move on."

Danny winced at his Aunt's words and abandoned the glass, reaching for his book bag, and leaving the room.

"Daniel you're up early." Vlad noticed out loud as the boy walked by him. The billionaire was busy tinkering with some kind of giant mechanical gloves with claws on the end of them.

"I thought I'd check out my new school." He muttered. "You know as a distraction."

"That's a perfect idea!" Vlad said as he got up, throwing on his coat.

"I'd rather go alone." Danny said, stopping at the door.

"Oh of course." Vlad said, dropping his coat. "Well, have a good day."

Danny nodded, and walked out of the Manor closing the door behind him.

Vlad sighed, and sat back down, continuing his work. "Don't worry my boy, once I'm done with this invention I will make the pain go away I promise. Then well both get what we want." He stopped to look at a picture of Maddie on his desk. "I'm truly sorry Maddie, but I still need an heir, and Daniel needs to stop feeling the pain. So, you see this is the only way. "

(Following Danny…)

Danny knew he could ride the bus to his new school, but he saw it on the way to Vlad's yesterday, so he knew where to go, and besides he really didn't want to deal with anyone at the moment. To be honest he hadn't wanted to go to school at all, but he promised everyone that he would keep trying in their absence. 'But I'm tired of trying!' He argued with himself. 'I just want the feeling to go away!'

Danny reached the school grounds in no time at all, and found the front office with ease.

"Yes? Can I help you?" The sectary asked.

"Uh yes, I'm new here, my name is Daniel…Daniel Masters." Danny didn't like using Vlad's last name, but he didn't want his "Murder reputation" to follow him here. Danny Fenton was a cheater that got his friends, family, and a teacher killed, and as much as he hated it, he couldn't take being ridiculed like that again. So, he and Vlad both agreed that Danny would use his last name.

"Ah, yes, Daniel Masters, I have you schedule right here." She handed him his schedule. "And your locker number, and combination is written on the top in pen there."

Danny looked at the top of the page to see it was true.

"Alright do you need any help?" The secretary asked.

Danny was about to answer no when someone cut in.

"I'll help him." A girl with long black hair and fair skin said, appearing beside him.

"Why thank you Sarah." The Secretary said, and ushered them on to class.

"So, I'm Sarah." Sarah said as she led Danny down the hall to his locker.

"I'm Danny." Danny told her.

"Yeah I heard." Sarah said with a laugh.

Danny smiled, 'She's really pretty.' He noticed, and it was true, with her long dark hair and fair tan skin Sarah could give Paulina a run in for her money when it came to beauty. 'So why is she talking to me?' He wondered. 'Pretty girls have never noticed me before.'

"So, is it true?" Sarah asked breaking him from his thoughts.

"Is what true?" Danny asked, looking worried for a moment. 'Had she heard? Had word really traveled this far out of the city?'

"Are you really related to Vlad Masters?" Sarah asked.

Danny stopped suddenly getting in an instant why she was so interested. She thought he was Vlad's Son, and that he was rich! Danny groaned and stomped ahead of her, until he reached his locker. Before the accident Danny would pray for this kind of thing to happen, but now it only made him sick to his stomach.

"Danny wait!" Sarah called after him.

But Danny didn't stop moving, not instead he started running, he ran passed his locker, through the hall, out the door, and into the awaiting sun.

Tears spilled from his eyes, as he pulled out his phone, and flipped through the numbers only to stop at Sam's. He dialed it in seconds and after several rings he heard a voice he never thought he'd hear again.

"Hi, it's Sam, you know what to do."

Danny felt his heart swell at the sound of the messenger tone beeping from his phone. "Hey Sam, I know you won't pick up, but I just wanted to hear your voice again, it's been so long….I'm so sorry Sam. I'm so, so sorry." He wiped his runny nose sniffling a bit. "I miss you." He said, and hung up the phone.

Only to dial another number moments later.

"Hey, it's Me Tucker, sorry I can't get to the phone right now, cause I'm either tinkering with my new PDA. Or hanging out at the Nasty Burger with my two buds Danny and Sam. But please leave your name and number and I'll call you back as soon as I can."

"Hey, Tuck it's me Danny." Danny said. "….I miss you man…I really…really do." Danny hung up the phone again. He felt like he had an ice pick in his chest.

He dialed another number, this one for Fenton Works.

"Hi, we're not home right now." Danny smiled as his mother's voice sounded off. "And if we are I'm too busy cleaning up Jack's latest explosion to answer the phone."

Danny laugh as he heard his father muttering in the background.

"You blow up the lab one time, and she never lets you hear the end of it!"

"Anyway." His mom's voice went on. "Jazz if this is you sweetie I finish looking over your thesis statement and I was so proud of you when I was done. Not a single miss spelled word. Oh, and Danny if this is you I want you to know you left your lunch money on the table again, so I gave it to Jazz to pay the lunch lady with."

Danny smiled. That happened almost five months ago, his mom was always bad at not updating the answering Machine.

"Any way you father and I love you both." Maddie went on.

"Very Much!" Jack exclaimed from the background.

"And if this is anyone else you know what to do."

Danny paused at the sound of the beep before answering. "Hey mom, dad just wanted to hear your voices again, I…I know if you were still alive you probably would be very disappointed in me. I want to say I'm sorry, but…but sorry can't fix this. I can't fix this! Mom I feel so alone, and I wish you were here to make it all go away. You always knew how to do that. Dad I'm sorry I wasn't a better son, I'm sorry I wasn't the genius you wanted me to be."

Danny wiped his eyes again, and hung up the phone before dialing one final number.

"Hi, this is Jazz's answering machine. She's not here, but I'm open to suggestions."

Danny smiled. "Hey Jazz, it's me Danny, I just wanted to…I just wanted to say...you were right, I'm a cheater, and a villain, and I got what I deserved. I'm sorry, and I would take it all back if I could but-" Danny hung up the phone his voice too choked up to continue.

He was so sick of feeling this way…No! He was sick of feeling at all!

He wanted the pain to just go away.

His phone ringed, and Danny answered it.

"Daniel?" A voice asked.

"Vlad?" Danny asked.

"Oh Daniel, I just got a call from your homeroom teacher saying you missed roll call. Is everything alright?" Vlad asked.

"No, it's not!" Danny snapped. "And it never will be again!"

Vlad sighed, "Actually I think I can help."

"Everyone says that!" Danny snapped, "But nothing helps."

"No Daniel I mean it." Vlad said. "I've been working on something, and I think I've done it. I think I've found a way to pull all those painful emotions out of you."

"Really?" Danny asked stunned. "Do you mean it?"

"Yes." Vlad told him. "If you come home right now I can show you."

"Ok." Danny answered. "I'm on my way." He hung up the phone and got to his feet. A strange feeling had just washed over him. Danny felt almost hopeful, as if a strange feeling of peace had filled him.

This was it he was finally going to get rid of all the pain!

Vlad sighed as he hung up the phone, he would like to think that he wouldn't regret this, but he knew he might; even if it was just a little bit. Maddie would never forgive him for taking advantage of the boy in such a weak state, but he had made up his mind.

He was going through with this, and nothing could stop him now.

(Back with Danny…)

Danny raced home, eager to see how Vlad planned to do what no one else seemed to be able to do.

Would he really forget all the pain?

All the regret?

Was that even possible?

Danny raced up the Manor steps and burst through the door, and into the living area where Vlad had been waiting.

"So, I guess by your eagerness that you wish to give this a try?" Vlad asked.

"How?" Danny asked. "How are you going to take it away?"

"With these." Vlad answered slipping on some white and green colored Ghost Gauntlets with claws at the tip of the fingers. "These will tear those human emotions right out of you. No emotions, no feelings; you'll be free Daniel."

Danny knew it wasn't that simple, he knew Vlad must have an alternative reason for helping him, but at the moment he didn't care, He just wanted the pain to go away. "Okay, let's do it." He said.

Vlad led him down to his Lab where he strapped him in on an Autopsy table.

Danny took a deep breath. "You promise this will work?" He asked.

"Oh, trust me it will work." Vlad assured him before he activated the Ghost Gauntlets, once he did they glowed with purple energy. He then ripped into the boy, and pulled something out.

It was his ghost half!

The Autopsy table freed the now human Danny from its hold, and Danny's human self-watched in horror as his ghost half opened his eyes.

Ghostly Danny looks around and find himself in a since of peace. No emotions, no feelings, it almost surprised him that Vlad had kept his word. Or it would have if he had any feelings. Wait did he have feelings? Ghostly Danny looked down to see the claws of the gauntlets still buried deep inside of him. 'Let's test this theory shall we?' Grinning Ghostly Danny slammed his fist into Vlad's face, causing him to slide out of the gloves and slam into the wall across the lab. 'Wow that felt…good!' He realized, as the gloves fell from his ghostly form and onto the floor.

'Oh, so there was still some feelings apparently, just none of those useless human ones.' he thought.

Vlad's eyes widen, as he took in the sight of the ghostly boy. This was not how he had planned this to go, he was supposed to rip out all emotion from the boy, not separate the human half from the ghost half. "Where did I go wrong?" He whispered.

Ghostly Danny grinned; he was free; he was totally free! Free of emotions, Free of morals, and most of all free of his humanity and the emotions that went with it. However, something was missing, the ghost felt weak, and exposed without his human side to hide it from the outside world, he needed a way to make up for that. He needed a way to become instantly stronger so that no one could hurt him ever again.

His eyes fell Vlad, and then it hit him Vlad was part ghost wasn't he. Yes, so in theory He could rip out Vlad's ghostly self, and merge with it allowing him to have all the power, and experience that he would ever need. Pulling on the dropped gloves Ghostly Danny advanced on the still recovering Vlad, and rips his ghost half out with ease. He then throws the gloves aside and forces himself inside the body of Vlad's ghost half; merging them as one.

For a moment the two ghost fight each other for dominance, as Danny's hair goes fiery white, and his skin turns a ghostly blue.

"Don't let my evil half over-whelm you!" Vlad shouted from where he had been thrown.

Over-whelm? Danny almost laughed; Vlad's evil half could not overwhelm the evil that already rested within his own soul. All the self-loathing, and self-doubt he felt had evolved into an evil so mightily that is made Vlad's own evil desires look like child's play. There was no way Vlad's ghost half could ever hope to overwhelm him, no Ghostly Danny took over with ease, taking all the power as his own, as Vlad's ghost half faded into nothingness.

"Daniel what have you done?" Vlad exclaimed.

Ghostly Danny smiled again, "Done? Why I've done what you promised me you Fool!" Ghostly Danny cackled. "Now nothing can hurt me ever again!" he turned then to see his human half still shaking beside the Autopsy table. "As for you, I know exactly what to do with a weakling like you!" He said and leaped for his human self.

Vlad watched in horror as the ghostly Danny tore his human self apart one claw mark at a time until he was nothing left but a pile of misshapen, and dead flesh. He winced at the screams the human Daniel let out; they were so horrible that Vlad wanted to tear his own ears off.

With one final swipe at the torn carcass the ghostly Danny laughed and threw an ecto-blast at Vlad before speeding off into the night.

Vlad has just enough time to activate the force field button beside him, and sighs in relief as he is protected from the resulting explosion! His once great manor was now in shambles around him.

Ghostly Danny laughed evil as he raced away into the night, he was free, and now he was powerful, and one day he would become unstoppable. And then the whole world would pay for their part in his suffering. Everyone would feel the pain that he had felt.

They wanted a murderer; well, he'd show them what a real Murderer looked like!

-To Be Continued