I am so stupid because I forgot to post this chapter and I thought that I already did. Oh, well.

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Jake had found it impossible to sleep that night. His alarm blared at 6:30; school time. He got up and tiredly got himself dressed. He pulled on his dark jeans, his black sweatshirt with the green oval, and his black and green shoes. He trudged down the stairs and felt like he was going to fall down any moment. He slumped into the kitchen.

"Hey, Jake," his Mom greeted.

"Hi, Mom," he responded dully.

"Hey, son, you okay?" Danny questioned his drowsy son.

"Hmmm? Yeah, just tired."

Jake grabbed a piece of toast, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and walked out the door. He decided that walking to school would be his safest bet. He was so tired and lost in thought that he didn't even notice when Matt had joined him.

"Hi, Jake. Anything weird happen?" Matt asked him, concerned for his friend.

"You could say that," Jake responded vaguely.

"Do I even want to know what happened last night?" Matt questioned.

"Even if you did, I wouldn't be able to tell you anything. It's so weird. One moment I'll be fine and the next I'll find myself in ghost form in some strange place with something blown up. The worst part is; I can't remember doing it," the pale boy replied worriedly.

"Jake, Tori alert." Matt warned.

In code, that meant; Tori's coming so shut up about ghost stuff.

"Hey, guys," she greeted.

"Hey, Tori," they greeted back in unison as if nothing had happened.

"Did you see what that ghost did? My Mom says that after school today, she and I will go look for it. She has some sort of special tracker, so it won't be that hard," Tori conversed.

Jake gulped and almost started twitching in nervousness. Matt glanced at his anxious friend. Tori didn't seem to notice them.

"Y-you know, Tori, my Dad says that Shadow's a g-good ghost," Jake stuttered in defense.

"Jake, you saw what that monster did. He even hurt your Dad. I'm surprised that anyone could still think that Shadow's good," Tori snapped in return.

Jake's face fell. That one really hurt. A monster. That's what he was. A monster.

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Jake was sitting in class. Mr. Taylors was blathering on about something, but the half-ghost teen was too tired to notice what. Jake felt his heavy head slowly slip and fall to the desk. His eyes shut and he began to fall asleep. Unfortunately, Mr. Taylors wasn't blind and noticed this.

"Jake Fenton, I know that you aren't sleeping in my class." The teacher commented. Nothing. "White Birch (Mr. Taylors shouts out the names of plants), Fenton, wake up!" The teacher commanded.

Jake's head rose off the desk. Although, he wasn't really awake. His violet eyes fixed once again in that empty look. Jake stood up and made his way to the door.

"And where do you think that you're going?" the teacher asked irritably.

Jake didn't respond, but continued his way to the door. Abby got up to get her brother.

"Jake, what are you doing?!" she demanded in a harsh whisper.

He showed no signs of hearing her. She grabbed his shoulder and turned him around so that he'd face her. She stared for a moment. Her eyes met his empty gaze.

"Jake? Hello?" she questioned, waving her hand in front of his face.

Matt and Tori got up too. They walked over to their friend and his sister.

"Dude, are you okay?" Matt asked the transfixed boy.

"I think he's sleepwalking," Tori suggested.

"Come on, help me get him into a chair," Abby ordered.

All three grabbed Jake. This proved to fail when Jake's eyes flashed red (which no one but Matt noticed) and he whipped them all off of him. They were shoved onto the floor. The "sleepwalking" teen made a brake for the door and dashed out. Once in the empty hallway, he brought up the black rings and transformed himself into Shadow. He flew away and disappeared from sight before anyone could see him. Abby, Tori, and Matt raced into the hall, only to find that their friend was long gone.

Outside, Shadow was making his way to the ally way that served as his meeting place. Too bad for him that Danny was out on the streets that day and caught sight of him. Danny transformed into Danny Phantom and took off after the ghost boy (how weird does that sound?). Shadow could not realize that he was being followed. The dark ghost landed softly in the familiar passage, Danny invisibly following him.

"Sleepwalker, you have failed me yet again!" Nocturn stated in anger. "Even under my control you have failed to do anything right!"

"Nocturn?" Danny whispered to himself.

"I am sorry, Master. The Phantoms got in the way," Shadow apologized.

"I don't want excuses, I want results! You have failed to give me those results. You are useless! Although, I am not about to let you gain control back. I shall find something to use you for," Nocturn hissed with fury.

"Yes, Master," Shadow agreed.

"Maybe I should use you as bait for Phantom…" Nocturn pondered.

"Too late! I'm already here!" Danny shouted, making himself visible and slamming his body into Nocturn.

Nocturn was thrusted back into the wall.

"You'll regret that, Phantom," Nocturn claimed.

"What have you done to Shadow?" Danny asked him with a tone of anger.

"Ahhh, the ghost child? I have used one of my new abilities on him. I can cause any being to fall at my command whenever they fall asleep," Nocturn responded.

"So he wasn't doing anything this whole time. You made him!" Danny yelled, sending an ice ray at Nocturn.

The sleep ghost broke free of his encasing. "Sleepwalker, what are you waiting for? Fight!" Nocturn commanded.

Shadow jumped into action. He sent his ghost zapper at Danny. Quickly, Danny phased through a wall. The red energy hit the wall and died out, seeing that there wasn't any ghost energy. Danny flew out of the wall again and launched a green, goopy, rope-like substance at Shadow, securing him to the brick wall. Danny created the same substance and used it to nail Nocturn to the wall.

"Tell me how to break the spell," Danny demanded.

"Why would I do that?" Nocturn countered.

Danny took in a deep breath and let out a brief ghostly wail. "Now tell me!" Danny ordered.

"The only way is for me to let go of my control over him," Nocturn replied.

"So do it!"

"Never."

Danny fired numerous rounds of ecto-blasts and ice rays.

"Do it now or else," Danny warned.

"Or else what?" Nocturn challenged.

"Or else I'll make you wish you had," Danny hissed venomously.

"Try me."

Danny eyes began to glow extremely bright with anger. He duplicated himself into four. All four took in a long, deep breath and let out all of their ghostly wails at once. Green sonic waves hit the captured ghost with great force. The ghost's head leaned back against the wall. The shrieking continued for a few moments before stopping. Danny tiredly formed back together.

"Had enough?" the ghost man asked.

"Fine, you win. I'll release him," Nocturn gasped.

Danny smirked triumphantly and made the ropes around his enemy disappear. The sleep ghost fell to the ground. Danny sucked him into the Fenton Thermos. Then, he went to go assist Shadow. Danny let the binds vanish and Shadow fell to the ground on his hands and knees. His moved one hand up to his head and held it there.

"Woah, what happened?" he asked.

Danny bent down, grabbed the young ghost's arm, and helped him to his feet.

"Nocturn was controlling you," Danny explained. "Do you remember anything?"

Shadow shook his head. He looked up at Danny with his piercing red eyes. "Aren't you mad at me?"

"Why would I be mad?" Danny questioned in confusion.

"Because I attacked you and Abby and…and everyone," Shadow replied.

"It's not like you did it on purpose. Trust me, I would know," Danny said with a smirk toward the end.

Danny remembered being controlled all too well. That first time with Freakshow, when the ringmaster used that staff, Danny couldn't remember anything and he had no option but to do as he was commanded. Also, he was blamed for a bunch of things that he didn't do…on purpose at least.

Danny could tell that Shadow was smiling softly back, even if he couldn't see it behind the bandana.

"Now I just have to deal with the rest of the town. That's going to take a while," Shadow thought out loud.

"Yep, it probably will." Danny confirmed.

With that, Shadow flew off, free of control. He did a loop in the air before heading back to school.

"He's more like me than he knows," Danny said with a soft smile and a chuckle.

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Review please. BTW, Shadow still has to be considered evil for a little longer before the town sees the light.