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Blending

Danny faced Tucker with his hands on his hips, blue eyes burning with accusation. Tucker backed up until he pressed against the cool metal of his locker. He really hated the fact that Danny got news alerts on his phone. And why did Vlad have to have a press conference the instant something went wrong? It's not like he had much of a reputation to keep up.

"What were you thinking?" he demanded.

Tucker glanced to his side. Sam was slowly making her way towards the exit. "Just because Vlad blamed you again doesn't mean I had anything to do with it!"

"The news report said that the fruit-loop tried making another weather machine. Instead of making it sunny, there was a technical glitch that made it rain. And then it started to snow. Then a strange weather ghost-which many people swear they saw before-shows up and basically trashed City Hall. Then by some miracle, there's a major heat wave before it instantly switches back to the original weather."

Tucker blinked. "And that has to do with me because...?"

"I don't know. Whenever someone says 'technical' and 'glitch' I think of you and your stupid P.D.A!"

"Watch your mouth!" Tucker cried and instinctively placed a hand over his beloved P.D.A, which was now back in working order.

"There's also the fact that you have ice powers. I presume when you made it rain-I'm guessing by accident due to the whole technical glitch thing-you blasted the machine with your ice element and made it snow."

Sam had just about reach the exit when Danny hollered, "Get back here or I'll come over there!"

The Goth winced and reluctantly removed her hand from the metal handle and shuffled back over. Danny now had a finger pressed against Tucker's chest and the techgeek was looking extremely nervous and uncomfortable.

"You probably called Sam and made her help you get out of your little mess. And this probably all happened when I fell asleep in English, correct?"

"Correct," Tucker and Sam muttered.

"I can't take my eyes off of you guys for one second." Danny sighed and backed away. Tucker sighed with relief and stepped forward. "When it comes to Vlad, you will tell me what he's up to. Understood?"

"Understood."

Danny nodded in satisfaction. "Good. Although I have to give you props for beating Vortex. It isn't an easy thing to do."

"I only lucked out by Sam saving my butt. Good thing Vortex can't stand direct sunlight."

The trio started down the hall. Danny jolted slightly as a chill travelled up his spine and a blue mist escaped his mouth. Sam and Tucker jumped back an intangible hand reached through the wall and grabbed Danny by the front of his shirt.

Tucker winced as Danny was turned intangible and yanked through the wall. "I suppose that would be Vlad?"

"I believe you are right."

"Danny did tell us not to pick a fight with Vlad, correct?"

"Correct."

An angry Vlad was certainly a Vlad Tucker didn't want to deal with. "Shall we run to the safe haven of the Nasty Burger?"

"Haven?" Sam questioned with an arched eyebrow.

"I'm trying to be sophisticated here."

Sam rolled her violet eyes and started for the exit. Tucker scowled and hurried after her. "At least I think I'm funny."

...

Danny yelped as he was yanked through the wall. He landed in a heap on the other side. He glanced around and realized he was in the health room. He couldn't stand those posters of your body and what happens when you don't take care of them.

His gaze travelled to a rather furious Plasmius. His hands glowed with pink ecto-energy and Danny hastily transformed into Phantom. "What do you want Plasmius?" he growled.

"You know very well what I want. You messed with my new weather machine! Do you have any idea how much money I spent for that thing to be built?"

"What made you think it was me?"

"When my scientist couldn't figure out what was I wrong I figured you got your little computer friend to mess with it." Plasmius narrowed his glowing red eyes. "And someone just happened to tell me there was a sheet of ice on it before someone melted it off. Care to tell me who else has ice breath Daniel?"

Frostbite. Dani. Vortex. Tucker.

Danny gritted his teeth and glowered at Plasmius. "I guess you want to get your revenge, huh?"

A wall of pink energy slammed Danny against the blackboard. Chalk pieces rained down on the floor and shattered into dozens of tinier pieces.

"What do you think my boy?"

Danny scowled and fired his own ecto-blasts. Vlad avoided them and came after Danny. He kicked the older halfa in the chin and sent him sprawling backwards. Vlad growled and charged up his ecto-energy. Danny quickly threw up a shield and struggled to keep it up as Plasmius rapidly shot ecto-rays at him.

"Getting tired Daniel?" Vlad taunted.

Danny put all of his power into his ecto-shield, but it was starting to crack. Soon it shattered and Danny crashed into the wall. Plasmius swooped up and grabbed Danny by the front of his shirt. "Has Jack never told you not to disrespect your elders?"

"I don't. I only disrespect fruit-loops like you!"

Wrong thing to say.

Danny screamed in pain as Vlad channelled a volt of electricity within his body. Cracking with pink bolts, he slumped against the wall as he unwillingly transformed back into Fenton.

"Your ghost half is out of commission Daniel. Your little friends aren't here to rescue you. What are you going to do now?"

Danny knew that letting Vlad discover his element power would be a bad idea. But since he didn't have enough energy to transform into his ghost half, he would have to harness his elemental power.

"I'm going to use what Clockwork gave me!" Danny snapped and his hands glowed with a golden light. Vlad stumbled back in shock.

"What the-?"

Danny slammed his light energy into the older ghost. Vlad slammed right through the window. Danny stared at the shattered glass and winced slightly. "I should have aimed a bit better...looks like the art department is going to have to make some cutbacks."

He jogged over and carefully climbed over the broken, jagged pieces. He climbed over the sill and jumped to the grassy ground. Danny narrowed his blue eyes and watched as Plasmius climbed to his feet unsteadily.

"What on Earth was that?" he demanded.

Danny smirked. "I guess I am a bit more powerful than you after all." He quickly formed rays of light and shot them at Plasmius. He hastily went intangible and the rays passed right through him. Vlad turned invisible and Danny groaned softly, frantically trying to pick up some sign on where he might be.

A fist came out of nowhere and punched Danny in the chin. He sailed backwards and crashed to the ground. Danny frowned and glared up at Vlad. The older halfa was powering up his ecto-energy and glowering down at him.

"I don't know where you got that power, but I know that you will never be as powerful as me," Plasmius hissed.

Danny widened his blue eyes as the pink projectiles sped down towards him. He threw up his hands in defense and grinned slightly when a shield of golden light appeared in front of him.

Cool. But I can't keep this up! It's easier when I have my ghost powers...I can fly out of the way and turn intangible! Maybe there is some way to mix my elemental and my ghost powers.

Danny took a deep breath. "I just have to concentrate," he muttered to himself. Closing his eyes, he managed to harness the energy he needed to turn into Phantom. "Mix the powers together. Become an elemental ghost."

A flash of white light later and Danny opened his eyes. Vlad was staring down at him, mouth agape.

Danny frowned. His transformation light was white instead of blue? He glanced down. "Oh wow."

His black jumpsuit had now turned white. His boots were golden and so were his gloves and D symbol. His hair was still white and he was pretty sure his eyes were still green, but his entire costume had changed.

"This is so cool." Danny grinned and took down his shield. He flew up and smirked at the shocked Vlad. "If you keep your mouth open like that you'll catch flies. Let me close it for you!"

He reared back and shot an ecto-ball at him. Vlad was not prepared for the attack and crashed to the ground. Danny grinned and zoomed down to the ghost. Before Plasmius could get up, Danny latched a hand onto the front of his costume and zapped him with volts of golden light.

"Aagghh!" he shrieked with pain and slumped to the ground, black rings separating and turning him into Vlad Masters.

"Let that be a warning fruit-loop. Don't mess with an elemental warrior!" Danny snickered and zoomed off as students began pouring out onto the front grounds as the bell rang loudly.

I probably shouldn't have told him that, Danny mused and shrugged. Sam and Tucker were waiting for him. He'd deal with the fruit-loop later.

...

Vlad limped into his office in a rather dark mood. His body ached from that blasted attack Daniel had unleashed on him. What had the boy meant by elemental warrior?

The mayor reached up and snagged a book from his bookshelf. He flipped through the pages and came upon a section on the elements.

"There are seven elements; earth, fire, water, ice, darkness, light and wind. These elements were given to seven humans. Those humans became elemental warriors. They worked with each other to keep harmony and balance to the world. Many people were terrified of these witch-like abilities and had the warriors marched straight to the gallows."

Vlad snapped the book shut and scowled. "How did Daniel get his hands on an elemental power?"

He said something about Clockwork. And from what you heard of him, he seems to have some sort of fondness for the boy.

"If Daniel has an element, then I must have one as well!" Vlad went to the large window overlooking Amity Park and surveyed his town. "I will not let him have the advantage over me!"

He slammed a fist down on the window ledge. "I will take that light element...one way or another."