Chapter 5: Mages and Fruitloops

Shadow: Welcome back readers and mortals alike to Tri-Phantom. However before we can continue we need a brief recap.

Dani: Last time Danny was finding it hard to sleep so he decided to go over and chat with Ember. There he told her about what had happened with Sam and after she was able to console him, the two were attacked by Tucker or Warlock as he liked to be known in his ghost form. The battle was intense especially with Danny being low on power, but he was able to take Warlock down and revert him to human. Afterwards he took his friend back to his parents and revealed to his parents the same information that Sam's parents knew.

Shadow: And now we get some more answers in this bloody story.

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"That sounds hectic."

"Yeah it is."

It had now been a day since Danny had faced off against Sam (Moonseed) and Tucker (Warlock) and luckily the last day didn't seem to have any ghost or halfa attacks. And Danny was glad for that as he was allowed to regenerate his power and think more on his resurrected friend situation. In his thought process he decided to reveal what had happened to Carol for any input she might have.

"I gotta say, it sounds like you're in quite the predicament." Carol said. "This can't be easy for you."

"It isn't." Danny said with a sigh.

"But I do have a suggestion. Why not use your parents' Ghost Catcher to separate their human and ghost forms and lock their evil sides in a Fenton Thermos?" Carol asked.

Danny shook his head.

"No that would basically kill them." He replied before noticing her expression of confusion. "Let me explain, when I became a halfa my DNA changed and the same thing happened to them. They're not just humans with ghost powers; they biologically became half human half ghost. Because of that they can no longer survive separated from their other half. They've been halfas for three years so their merge is basically permanent. Actually even if they had only been halfas for a day, removing their ghost forms would still be odd to them. Example being Tucker, when he got powers the first time."

"This isn't the first time?" Carol asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No. Long story short, Tucker got jealous and decided to wish for ghost powers and he became a halfa. I used the Ghost Catcher to remove the human from the ghost but there was a change in Tucker after that. At some moments he would start missing his ghost half and at other moments he would fall sick and need a small bit of ectoplasm to get better." Danny explained. "And when I went to visit his ghost self this one time I learned that he had dissolved because of being away from his human side for so long."

Danny's legal guardian nodded in understanding.

"I guess that option's off the table then." Carol said as she adjusted her glasses. "But that's not the only reason is it?"

Danny chuckled sadly. "No. Moonseed and Warlock are actually the Sam and Tucker I know. They are the ones with all the memory of our life together but their just angry at me. Maybe I'm being too optimistic but maybe I can reach out to them."

Carol smiled.

"You still have the same heart of the boy I met 3 years ago." Carol said. "All I can say is good luck, and don't do anything too reckless. I'll try doing any investigations on my side for any ways to help your friends."

"Thanks Ms Carter." Danny said with a smile.

The government agent/child services employee stood and began to leave the room.

"Also Danny by the way…" Carol said sweetly causing Danny to freeze in place, "don't call me Ms Carter…" Danny sighed in relief before her suitcase hit the back side of his head, "also I'd prefer it if you told me that your ghostly girlfriend was moving in. I would have had your room soundproofed."

Danny blushed.

"SHE'S NOT MOVING IN, SHE JUST NEEDS A PLACE TO STAY BECAUSE HER'S GOT DESTROYED! AND SHUT UP YOU'RE EMBARASING ME!" Danny yelled as the woman walked out the room with a smug smile.

With a sigh he removed the pendant that he had kept in his pocket since his battle against Warlock. Holding it right now he was struggling to keep his hand in human form and that showed just how much it had improved since he last encountered it. And obviously he knew only a handful of people smart enough to create technology that could keep halfas in their ghost form and two of them were dead and the other was in Europe taking care of another 13 year old halfa meaning the last was here in Amity Park.

The last time he encountered this technology, Plasmius had tried to use it to allow the Guys in White to find him and have him punished. It didn't work out in the end but it did prove to Danny that Vlad had blamed him for the death of Maddie Fenton. Actually Vlad had changed drastically after that, he no longer wanted Danny as his son but only wanted him dead. So confronting him on this might not be the best idea… had he not grown in power and drastically improved his abilities over the past three years.

However the young hero knew that he wouldn't immediately confront his good ol' uncle Vladdy. He had another ghost to talk to first.

With a quick transformation, Phantom flew off to his Ghost Portal with a specific destination in mind.

~00000~

"Well at least she was easy to find." Phantom noted as he stared at the giant genie lamp.

Sometimes finding a ghost's lair was incredibly easy as the lair would always be a personification of the ghost. Granted a lot of ghosts simply had doors for lairs, but there were those who invested in a proper lair, hence the giant genie lamp. The only thing that Danny was unsure of however was how to get in.

Shrugging, Phantom placed his hand on the lamp and rubbed it. Turns out that worked as green mist escaped from the opening in the lamp and materialised into the ghost genie that had caused Danny a lot of trouble in the past.

"Wow Desiree you're looking younger." Phantom noted first.

It was true. Before when Phantom had met Desiree she looked like a woman permanently trapped in her late twenties. Eternally beautiful and forever holding the pain and hate against men. However now she looked even younger. She looked like she was somewhere in the age range of 18 to 22. Same black hair, red eyes and blue Arabic outfit but different age, she also had a different aura of power around her. Quite frankly she felt more like a mage than she did a genie.

"First you show up to my home and now you flatter me." Desiree said with a smile. "To what do I owe the pleasure Danny Phantom?"

"I recently ran into a problem." Phantom said. "Remember when you turned my best friend into a half ghost?"

"How could I forget?" Desiree asked. "He was quite amusing."

"Well turns out that after a near death experience, he got his powers back and a lot more." Phantom said. "He got quite a bit of your magic power and because of that and probably Plasmius, he's dangerous. Obviously I can't w-word to defeat him like you."

Desiree simply laughed.

"Oh so I assume you want me to reveal to you how to get past his magic?" Desiree asked. "And I love how you still think I'm bound by wishes. We haven't face off in almost 2 years. In that time I have grown past my wish granting. I'm free to use my magic in any way possible."

Phantom raised an eyebrow. That was certainly a change.

"Besides I can't tell you how to get past his magic because I don't know his powers." Desiree said. "I can tell you however that little Warlock is working with Plasmius."

"And how did you know this?" Phantom asked.

"Oh simple." Desiree said. "Plasmius called Undergrowth and I when he learned about your little friends. He also called some of your other more powerful enemies. He wanted to use us to help destroy Amity Park and build a kingdom over that would control the entire world and Ghost Zone."

"Over my dead body." Phantom said.

"I believe that was the idea." Desiree said with a slight grin. "However I told him I wasn't interested in his games."

"You're a terrible liar."

Phantom turned and to his glee saw Warlock floating behind him.

"You where the one who found me and jumped at the opportunity to take me to Plasmius." Warlock said. "And wow Danny. I didn't know you had it in you. I destroy your girlfriend's house and you come and demand answers from mine?"

"Your… Desiree is your Girlfriend?!" Once again Phantom was taken back. Not to be mean or anything but of all people he never expected Tucker to get a romantic relationship with someone like Desiree.

"Yes." Desiree said as she floated up to him. "We worked together to unlock each other's maximum potential."

Phantom's jaw dropped.

"Wait what?"

"And now that we're together I don't plan on letting you escape."

Phantom, not wanting to face off against two fully realised mages decided to do the only thing he could and teleported away.

~00000~

"You son of a…"

"Ahh ah Daniel, watch your language."

Once Danny had teleported away he decided that now was the perfect time to talk to Vlad and so he burst into the Mayor's office with an expression of rage.

"Shut up fruitloop." Danny said angrily as he stormed up to the desk. "I have had it with your stupid games now tell me what you did to Sam and Tucker!"

Vlad simply stood and looked at the teen calmly.

"Whatever do you mean?" He asked with a sly smirk.

"Cut the crap." Danny said.

"Ooh there's that temper again." Vlad said.

"I'm not playing games Vlad." Danny said. "I want to know how and why you turned Sam and Tucker into Halfas."

Vlad only grinned.

"I didn't do a thing. They became halfas on their own. I don't know what caused it but it happened." Vlad said. "And what happened to them was quite rare. They lost their memories and received multiple personalities. Never has that happened with the formation of Halfas. I was intrigued and I helped them alongside Undergrowth and Desiree to become powerful and make sense of their abilities. And when I learned they wanted to kill you I thought it was perfect."

Danny in a burst of anger grabbed the older halfa's jacket and pulled him close.

"So you turned them into weapons against me." Danny growled angrily. "There's a line Plasmius and you just crossed it."

"Oh no Daniel." Vlad said calmly. "I never turned them into weapons. They were lost halfas and I gave them a place to call home and a way to reach their true potential. I made them into my apprentices. It would have been you once upon a time, had you just accepted me and not killed the love of my life. But obviously you chose that life of a hero."

The way he said hero, it was clear that he was mocking the term. He found it derogatory and a joke for especially Danny to be considered a hero. But he would play along with the term for now and the idea that he was the villain.

An explosion rocked off in the distance.

"Well then little badger, go on and be a hero." Vlad said darkly.

"You're sick Vlad." Danny said before he jumped through the window and transformed into Phantom before shooting off towards the explosion.

Vlad stood and stared at the retreating form of the younger halfa and smiled darkly. Today would mark the end of Danny Phantom.

~00000~

Phantom was quick to arrive at the location of the explosion and noted that in an act of irony, the explosion occurred near the Nasty Burger in the Mall. And the flames where spreading quickly throughout the mall so Phantom wasted no time in dashing down to contain the flames and save lives.

Flying in he was quick to duplicate himself to better protect the people within and to put out the flames. Because of the intense heat from the flames he knew he had to work quickly so that he could save as many lives as possible without losing his own life in the process. He flew deeper into the flames all while attempting to reduce them with his cyrokinesis. It was proving successful and it worked to his advantage as he could easily follow the source of the flames and find people stuck in the flames.

For the most part he focused on rescuing people over putting out the flames. He had already taken steps to ensure that the flames wouldn't spread and knew that he couldn't over freeze in fear of hurting someone. With his duplicates finding the people stuck inside was easy and he was able to get quite a few out with no serious burns. Some others weren't so lucky and had as much as 3rd degree burns, but they were alive. But just when he thought he was done he heard more voices calling for help so he dashed in their direction.

Once he arrived he found someone held under collapsed beams.

"Hold on I'm going to get you out of there." Phantom said before he grabbed the person and turned him intangible before pulling him out from the wreckage.

"Always defending the weak and defenceless. That's what I like about you. Predictable." A very familiar voice spoke from behind Phantom.

"And that's why we're gonna win." A second familiar voice, but this time female, spoke from behind.

"Moonseed, Warlock." Phantom cursed before he dodged an attack from Moonseed's vines.

Acting quickly he used his power to teleport the civilian outside before he turned to face the two other Halfas.

"You guys set this place ablaze?" Phantom asked.

"Yeah genius wasn't it." Warlock said. "Lure out the hero with trouble. And keep his frosted self in a burning building where the heat will eventually get to him."

"Now with you in here, you won't be able to remain strong all that long, making your death easy." Moonseed said.

The two heard a low growl coming from Phantom before a massive pulse of arctic energy shot out from his body and completely froze the flames over.

"I don't want to fight you two. You where… are my best friends." Phantom said before he sent a glare towards them. "But even then best friends fight from time to time. And you nearly killing people is a damn good enough reason to fight."

Moonseed and Warlock were taken back by the ferocity in his voice and even more taken back when he fired strong enough ecto blasts to send them out of the now frozen mall. Phantom wasted no time in flying off after them. He knew these two and he knew that if he took them out quickly he would be able to reduce the amount of damage they would receive. That was his plan. He still didn't like the idea of fighting his two best friends and as such he aimed to ensure that they were taken down quick and efficiently.

Unfortunately the two adversaries weren't feeling like being defeated easily. Moonseed was quick to regain her composure before firing a high power purple ecto blast towards her former friend. However not feeling like experiencing her raw power again Phantom's body morphed into a green foam like state allowing the blast to fly right through his body before he reformed. While she was shocked he flew strait towards her and prepared to deliver a right hook to her. But before he could reach her he was tackled by Warlock and tossed aside like a ragdoll.

Warlock then placed his hands together as magic energy began to form.

"Dniw Mrots!" He yelled before a massive gust of wind flew towards Phantom.

Taking note of the magic, Phantom was quick to avoid the attack, not knowing what it would do. And he was glad he moved as the wind sliced right through the concrete as if it were air.

"Wow, sharp stuff." Phantom noted.

"Would you shut up with those stupid quips!" Moonseed growled angrily before sending thorns flying in his direction.

Phantom acted quickly and put up a shield of ice to block the attack but that was all Warlock needed before he fired a large blast of lightning towards the white haired halfa.

Phantom could smell the electricity in the air however he wasn't quick enough to avoid the attack. And just like last time it hurt just as much. Phantom cried out in pain but he made sure not to fall unconscious. He had to fight he couldn't die today.

Moonseed saw Phantom struggling against the electric attack so she sent vines to warp around his body and squeeze him tightly.

"Finally Danny you're going to die. After all the crap you put us through." Moonseed said.

Phantom yelled out as he was hit by attack from both his former friends.

"I'm not going to let you kill me." Phantom said through his gritted teeth before he broke out of the attack and flew to a safer distance.

"You're not getting away." Warlock yelled before firing a yellow ecto blast at Phantom.

Phantom was quick to avoid the attack but he was struck by an attack from Moonseed that send him flying into the ground. Phantom had to act quickly to move to avoid being impaled by Moonseed's plants. Once again it was clear that the two weren't holding back and they had no intention of holding back any time soon as they continued sending constant barrages of energy towards him. Warlock sent more magic spells and Moonseed sent giant Venus Flytraps towards Phantom.

Phantom was on the complete defensive in this battle and it didn't look like that would change in any time. The problem was that they were two highly powerful halfas and had each other's back. They also weren't holding back and that made them even harder to fight. There was also the fact that Phantom didn't want to truly hurt them. All those reasons made them hard to battle against.

He was too reluctant… until another attack missed him and hit the nearby reporters news van where a bunch of eager reporters where trying to get their latest story. The van exploded and so did the people within, those outside didn't escape the blast.

Phantom stopped dead in his tracks as he saw the explosion that killed the innocent civilians.

"You killed them…"

They didn't reply. They didn't care.

"You killed them." Phantom said again in shock as Moonseed and Warlock got closer with their power building up.

Warlock with a Lightning infused fist and Moonseed with an Ecto infused fist came with the intent of striking Phantom with simultaneous large blasts.

"YOU KILLED THEM!" Phantom yelled before he caught both of their fists and diffused their power in their hands.

Phantom's usual green eyes became red a deep red. Next Warlock and Moonseed were sent flying by Phantom's powerful ecto blast. However they didn't get far before Phantom appeared behind the both of them and delivered powerful punches that sent the two flying. The ghostly hero then duplicated himself and flew towards the two and gave multiple fierce ecto and ice infused punches, each of which sent them flying further and further until they crashed through a rundown building. But he didn't stop there. He flew after and kept on attack, with ecto blasts, ghost stingers, his enhanced strength, ice and any other power he could throw at them. He never gave either a moment to attack. His anger was too high now.

He got to the point where he grabbed their bruised bodies and pushed them against the wall while giving a feral growl.

"Danny?"

He stopped. He looked at the two. He couldn't see Moonseed or Warlock anymore. He couldn't even see Samantha Manson or Tucker's new personality he saw Sam and Tucker, both confused both scared. He could see it in their eyes. But his hands where still wrapped around their necks. Within a few seconds they were unconscious and back in their human forms.

He dropped them and dropped onto his knees. He saw them for a brief second. Their third personalities, their real selves and he hurt them. He choked them to unconsciousness. He…

"I'm still here. I still exist. Which means you still turn into me." That voice echoed in his mind. The voice of a monster.

He hurt his best friends after he promised. He swore that he would never turn into him but here he was acting on anger, scaring Moonseed and Warlock into their third personalities. Not even the knowledge that Sam and Tucker still existed within made him feel better, because he hurt them.

"From now on, I won't let my anger get the best of me." Danny said. "And I will bring you guys back. That's a promise."

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Shadow: Well Snap.

Dani: Well that was a depressing way to end of 2015

CyberActors15: 2015 was a depressing year for me what with it being the last year of high school. But don't worry nothing remains evil for long. Speaking of which Happy New Year's Readers and Morals alike. Enjoy 2016 and your supposed New Year's Kiss. I sure as hell know I won't be getting anything like that. Cause I'll be writing of course.

Dani: Wow.

Shadow: Such is the life of an unemployed geek with too much time on his hands.

Dani: Okay so what will happen next? Read, Review, Favourite and Follow to find out.