Author's Notes: Okay guys I'm back and ready to finish this exciting series, but for those of you who haven't noticed I replaced chapter 14 with a real chapter so go back and read it first. If you already have then please enjoy this chapter and tell me what you think.

Yours Truly RoxieDivine ;)

(Back with the Phantom Knight…)

He had a bad feeling about this….

A feeling that laid low in his gut and stayed there like an unwelcomed visitor. Yes, a big change had happened in his absence he could feel it.

This was bad…

And yet he moved forward ever still trusting his teacher to warn him if there is danger ahead, but unannounced to him his teacher was busy with his own problems.

'I won't always be there to help you make the right decision.'

For some reasons, those words greeted him, and it is then that the Phantom Knight knows that the end of their little games is drawling to a close.

'One final test…to prove your worth.' Clockwork's voice rang out. 'And I can't give you the answers to this one. You're on your own.'

The Phantom Knight's eyes narrowed with determination. "I won't let you down." He whispered, pressing forward still.

Clockwork smiled as he dodged another deathly blow of chaos from Lady Time's Staff. "You never could." He assured him.

"How touching." Lady Time scoffed throwing another blow as the observants kept their distance in the corner of the tower and for good reason.

Fighting between time wielders was dangerous. One confirmed hit from a blast from either side could tear you out of the fabrics of time causing you to cease to exist.

She knew this was her fate, yet she fought own, and she did so because deep down she was like Clockwork. Deep down she understood.

Life was a means to an end, but to focused solely on that end is to have never live at all.

She knew this and lived by it, and that demanded respect.

Besides she wasn't truly evil, no she was where Clockwork had once been not so long ago. A master of time forced to wield it how other's saw fit. His eyes fell on the Observants, They could have made him like this, yet he found a way to break his chains.

"Let me help you." He said to her. "I can change…"

"My fate?" Lady Time Scoffed. "What good would that do?"

"A lot." Clockwork assured her as he hit her dead on with a blast, but to her surprise she does fade from existence instead she is simply disarmed.

"You are a fool to even thing of giving me a chance." She screamed at him.

"Yes, a fool indeed." Clockwork mused. "But as a stubborn halfa once taught me, everyone deserves a second chance." He uses his staff to for an alternate Rift. "Here is yours, step through here and your life be as it was before your future-self, instructed you to break Vlad out of prison. You can tell her no; you can go on to have a happy and full life. Or…." He gestured to her Staff on the other side of her. "You can chose to go for your weapon and cease to exist. Your call."

Silence follow his words, not out of spite but simply because nothing needs to be said.

They both know what her choice will be, and yet he still asked…still gave her this chance.

"Stupid fool!" Lady Time Shouted and ran for her staff.

The alternate Rift closes behind her as she runs, and Clockwork makes his final move.

She never reaches her staff before it's over, the blow from Clockwork's own staff hit's it's mark dead on and in an instant, she is gone.

"Yes." Clockwork spoke gravely. "A stupid fool indeed."

(Back with The Phantom Knight...)

He found his master right where he had left him…

Waiting for him outside of Lady Time's tower, Pariah Dark smiled as he grew closer, no doubt Clockwork had already warned him to be on his toes. Still the King was determined to pretend everything was just as the Knight had left it.

It would keep him guessing and give the King the advantage he needed.

"Master." The Phantom Knight bowed before his master presenting his sword to him. "I have defeated Plasmius it was just as I said." He confirmed. "He has been plotting your demise."

"I know." Pariah Dark said simply. "I've been watching." He gestured behind him to Lady Time's Tower. "You have served me well thus far." He admitted. "There is now only one enemy who stands in our way."

"Who?" The Phantom Knight asked, as he placed his sword in its sleeve it was obvious Vlad would stay there and live in his own little nightmare as his punishment for stepping out of line.

'Serves him right.' The Phantom Knight thought. Still he wasn't sure that he liked the fact that the King's focus had shifted from him so easily. Like Vlad had been nothing but a pesky insect buzzing in his face annoyingly. 'If that's the case.' He thought. 'Then what does that make me?'

"Who?" Pariah Dark scoffed as if it wasn't obvious. "Take me to Atlanta." He ordered.

The Phantom Knight opened a portal without question ad the King stepped through and gestured that his knight follow. The Phantom Knight does so reluctantly, he had a bad feeling about this…

And rightfully so.

"Fate has graced us with allowing my enemies to be away from the safety of their shield." Pariah Dark mused.

The Phantom Knight eyes widen as he took in the two Fenton RVs below them. "So, this is it?" he asked finally realizing the truth.

"Yes, from what I hear you can disable ghost shields with a single wail." The King laughed. "Another power you've kept from me isn't that right…Daniel."

He should have seen this coming, and yet it still caught him by surprise.

"Or should I call you Dan?" Pariah Dark asked knowingly. "Which one is it?"

"Neither." The hero answered as he changed his form from The Phantom Knight and back to Danny Phantom, his white cape and fiery white hair danced in the wind. "And both at the same time." He admitted.

"Why chose that form?" Pariah Dark mused. "it will do you no good."

"This is who I am." Danny Phantom answered. "I am a symbol of hope to all who see me. Besides no since in keeping up the ruse now that you know."

"Indeed." Pariah Dark seemed to agree.

"What is don't get is why." Danny admitted.

"Why?" Pariah Dark asked.

"If you knew; why string me along?" Danny asked. "Why not just attack me?"

"We both want the same thing." Pariah Dark reasoned. "You want a world where the ghost and humans never mix as do I."

"Is that right?" Danny asked looking no-where nears convinced. "What happened to killing us all?"

"It's true I did plan to purge you and your kind with death, but by watching your past I learned there is another way." Pariah Dark added. "You and your family can use your ghost shield to eliminate the ghost DNA within you. You'll all be human, and we can put this matter to rest."

A peaceful resolution? Was it possible?

Danny looked down at the RVs below them, no doubt his family were helping survivors and had stopped to rest before heading home. He wondered what they were doing right now.

Did they know of the danger they were currently in?

And would them knowing make much of a difference?

"you really expect me to believe you'll just leave us alone?" Danny asked rather insulted. "Don't insult me the moment I'm no longer a threat is the moment your kind will prey on the innocence of this world."

"Innocence?" Pariah Dark laughed. "Since when did you care about them?"

"I've always." Danny began.

"Always?" Pariah Dark scoffed. "You enjoyed the brutality even now, you haven't changed."

"No." Danny yelled. "I have changed!" He screamed.

"Why?" Pariah Dark asked. "For them?" he gestured to the RVs. "They're not yours they are his!" he shouted. "You think this will erase what you've done? What would Valerie say if she knew what you did to her in your other life?"

Danny winced as the memory played back before his mind, Dan destroyed everything, and everyone she loved and saved her for last.

To torture her.

He remembered the way she looked at him, like he was a monster.

"You're no my Danny…not anymore!"

Those words cut through him like knives now, how could he?

What gave him the right to believe that he deserved anything better than the sorrow and devastating loneliness that he had. What kind of monster deserved a second chance.

Did he really thought he could just pretend it never happened?

But it didn't, that time stream is gone…

No, it did happen, gone or not he was still here which means he still did this!

"Now you see the truth." Pariah Dark said. "You do not belong with them. Rid yourself of them and reclaim what is yours."

He could do that.

Dan suddenly felt a shift in his soul, yes Dan could feel it as could Danny. They could split into two different people again. He could be free of this pain.

Yes, that's all this was…PAIN.

These happy memories of their family, they were not Dan's but Danny's. And seeing them pained him so because he knew the truth.

They were not his, they never were.

His Sam, his Tucker, and his family were gone, and it was all his fault.

The realization was too much for him, Dan fell to the ground below to his knees…defeated.

Pariah Dark floated down to him a smug look on his face. "See I knew you would come to reason." He mused. "Now rid yourself of them so we may be done with this and together we can rule this wasteland together."

Could it really be that simple?

Perhaps if he rid himself of them now the pain would finally go away.

Yes, that's all he ever wanted…

Was the pain to go away.

But it never did.

Maybe now it would finally be over…

"Danny!"

His eyes widen, and he turned to see them there, his family; his parents, his sisters; Jazz and Dani, along with Tucker, Abby, and Sam with the twins all with a shared look of relief. They were happy he was alive, happy he was okay.

Only he wasn't the Danny they were hoping for…NO! NO ONE WOULD HOPE FOR A MONSTER LIKE HIM!

Or so he thought.

"Well don't just stand there!"

He watched as Valerie pushed through them and his breathe caught. She looked the same she always did. Her hair cut short in a crew cut, her green eyes blazing with that same look of determination.

"Go get him." She yelled. "Both of you." She added with a smile.

Dan gasped as that smile seemed to make the world stop turning, he knew that smile, from a memory…from another life.

It was back when Valerie had gone to Clockwork to change his fate, he was about to stop them when Clockwork froze time.

"So, what now?" Valerie had asked.

"I do the one thing I've been wanting to do since I started this job." Clockwork answered. "I manipulate time for the better. But before I do any last words to your friend here?" he asked gesturing to Dark Dan.

Valerie nodded. "Goodbye." She said to the frozen Dark Dan. "I hope to see your better side really soon, I miss him dearly."

And that's when he saw that smile, it had been clear as day on her face.

At the time he thought it had been out of spite, but now he knew better. "Val had been smiling because she was looking forward to seeing me again as a better version of myself." He said out loud.

"What?" Pariah Dark looks stunned.

"She risked everything for me." Dan shouted as he got to his feet, no not Dan, he could feel his souls realigning: he and Danny were on the same page. Once again, they had the same goal, and they were the same person. "And I will not let her down." He said looking to Valerie. "Never again."

Valerie's smile grew. She knew they'd both come around. "Go get him Danny!"

"Yeah you can beat him DAD!" DJ yelled as Lilith cheered.

Sam held them close to her. The RVs were equipped with a ghost shield.

They were safe…for now.

And he would make sure it stayed that way forever.

Danny knew what he had to do, this was his destiny, the future Clockwork had been pushing him towards all along.

He should have known.

I Am Daniel "Danny" Fenton and Danny Phantom." He said, facing off to the King of all ghost. "And I will not let you hurt them or anyone else ever again!"

"Fool!" Pariah Dark hissed as they began to circle one another, the final battle was upon them, and only one would taste victory. "You should have taken my offer. Now you will perish and trust me this time it will be fir real. And believe me it will be slow, you know nothing of pain, but I will teach you."

"No, it is you who knows nothing of pain." Danny Phantom hissed and with that he made the first blow…

To Be Continued….