I Do Not Own Danny Phantom

But I do own this plotline!

All for my Little Girl

Chapter 8

Third Person

Danny Fenton, aka, Danny Phantom was lousing around in his bedroom after another long hard fight against Skulker, who ones once again after his pelt, much to Danny's irritation.

Creeper. Danny thought as he rolled over on his bed slinging an arm over his head to cover his eyes. He was still sore from the few hits that the hunter had managed to get in, bruises beginning to form on his pale skin.

He froze and tensed when his core pulsed slightly as he felt the cold energy leaking out form it and up through his throat as a puff of cold fog. As the Ghost sense vaporized in front of his face, he groaned and buried his head under his pillow, not quite wanting to deal with another ghost just yet.

After a solid minute of silence, and no one outside screaming, he thought that it might have been a harmless ghost, just simply passing through. This caused him to relax for a second in relief, not wanting to leave the soft comfort of his bed.

"Daniel!"

"GAHH!" Danny cried as he shot up suddenly, falling out of his bed and onto the floor from the fright. The black hair, blue eyes teen looked up at the familiar voice from his place on the floor, his breath catching in his throat at who was floating in the middle of his bedroom.

"We need to talk, boy." Vlad Plasmius said sternly, his arms crossed over his chest as his red eyes stared down at Danny with a touch of curiosity.

Danny growled, morphing into his ghost half as he pushed himself up to face Vlad, moving into a defensive stand. "Plasmius." He hissed. "What do you want?"

Vlad rolled his eyes at the teen, letting black ring change him into his human half as he dropped back down to the ground silently. "Relax, Daniel. I am not here to fight; I just need you to explain something to me."

Danny, still not trusting his arch enemy, snared at him coldly, charging up his hands. "Oh yeah? Why should I believe you?"

The older hybrid narrowed his eyes at the teen, trying not to lose his patiance. "Does the name 'Dan Phantom' ring any bells?" he asked, watching for the boy's reaction carefully.

Danny's whole body ceased, flinching back violently as if he was struck, radioactive green eyes widened as he stared horrified as the older hybrid. "W-what?" he stammered in shock. "H-how do you know that name?" Danny asked, fear coursing through every fiber of his body. Just his name bought back the memories of his encounter with him and all that he had-or could have done to everyone that had loved.

Vlad watched Danny reaction with surprise, noting that he seemed almost terrified of this ghost, just by how he was reacting just from mentioning his name. "Yes, I thought you might know him." He said as he watched the boy critically. "Mind telling me who he is and why he came barging into my house with that little rat, Danielle, by his side."

Danny's body jolted back to life as if he were giving a powerful shock, his bright green eyes quickly looking up at Vlad. "WHAT! What do you mean he was at your house? He not's locked up in the Fenton Thermos? What do you mean Dani was with him? Is she crazy? Is he controlling her? Explain, Plasmius!" Danny yelled, looking almost to the point of hysterics.

Vlad's eyebrows rose up slightly when he caught a few words that he had said that stuck out like a sore thumb. Locked up in a Fenton Thermos? Doesn't Danny normally always let ghost go after catching them, back into the Ghost Zone? He thought with confusion. When he saw that Danny was begging to hyperventilate, he quickly brought his hands up in a calming gesture. "Daniel, relax. As for what I had seen; no, she was not being control, she looked to be with him willingly. This…ghost was also highly protective over her." He said with a pained grimace, resisting the temptation to rub his still sore chest form one of the ghost powerful blast.

Danny froze as he looked at Vlad like he had grown two heads. "Protective? That-that creature was protective over Dani?" a pause. "We are talking about the same Dan Phantom, right?" he asked, head tilted to the side slightly.

Vlad raised an eyebrow, "Blue skin, red eyes, fangs, blazing white hair with a black and white suit and a tattered cape?" he said, giving the description of the ghost that had come into his home and attacked him.

Danny's face paled as the memories of his fight against his alternate future self, fluttered through his mind, his body giving off a violent shiver. "Yeah…" he croaked weakly. "that's him." He then turned his back to Vlad as he ran a gloved hand through his white hair, his mind racing as he tried to talk calming breaths.

Okay, he thought. Dan is loose, and he his hanging out around Dani, no doubt trying to cook up a plan on how to hurt her or to use her against me. Danny mind halted to a confused stop as he turned and looked back at Vlad.

"You said…he was protecting her, right?" he asked, hoping he had heard him wrong.

Vlad nodded sharply. "Correct. Danielle...came into my lab so I thought it would be a good idea to attack her…"

Vlad trailed off unsurely when Danny's expression darkened before he asked another question. "And he…protected her from you?" the teen asked doubtfully.

Vlad nodded again. "Yes. I thought I had the girl right where I wanted her, but before I could do anything…'Dan' stepped in and blasted me aside, saying that I wouldn't be able to harm her while she was under his protection." He told the teenage hybrid.

The white hair teen shook his head, eyebrows creased with confusion. "The description of him is right but…his personality is not." He said, before looking off to the side, a thoughtful expression on his feature. Then, he suddenly turned around and growled; going intangible before nosed dived through the floor, down into the lab.

Vlad watched the teen with surprise. "Just where are you going, Daniel?" he asked, morphing into Plasmius once more and followed the boy out of mere curiosity.

Danny ignored him and floated down to the floor, walking over to the portal, pressing this thumb into the genetic lock. The portal doors slid open, revealing the green vortex that lead into the Ghost Zone.

"Daniel." Vlad called again. "I asked where you were going. You're not planning on going to face that ghost, are you?" he asked, his solid red eyes growing wide out of concern for the stubborn and bold teenager.

Danny shook his head. "No. I managed to beat him once, but that was sheer luck. I'm going to go visit a friend of mind to find out more on what the hell is going on."

Vlad opened his mouth to question who this 'friend' was, but before he could utter a single word, Danny had dove into the green mass, vanishing out of sight and hearing range. "Darn it, boy." Vlad growled. "If you get yourself kill, how will I tell your mother?" her asked himself before he jumped into the portal, intending to follow the teenager and get some more answers.

But once he appeared on the other side, he looked around the green atmosphere, looking for a black and white figure, but could find none.

"Gah! Blast it!" Vlad hissed in irritation, before flying back in through the portal, back into the human realm, having no interest in going after Danny out of risk of running into Dan Phantom while he was still healing and recharging.

Half way across the zone, Danny was flying at his top speed of 152 mph, heading straight towards his destination without any hesitation. He green eyes were narrowed, fully determined to beat to snot out of a certain Time Ghost that had let his worst nightmare free to roam the earth and zone once more.

Soon, the floating rocks were replaced with gears that rotated slightly, growing larger in numbers the closer he got to Time Tower. Once the old floating tower came into view, he slowed down some before coming to land on the front steps, knocking roughly in the large double doors.

"Clockwork! You have some answering to do!" Danny snarled.

The door creaked open as a purple robed ghost with a long white beard appeared in the door way. "Ahh, Daniel. I was wondering when you were going to stop by." He said to the seething hybrid with complete calmness, not a single bit of emotion showing on his face or within his red eyes. "Please, come right in and make yourself at home." He said, stepping aside and gestured for the teen to come in with a sweep of his hand.

Danny shot the ghost a withering glare before floating into the tower, his eyes quickly scanning for Dan's old Thermos that normally resided a dark corner of the room.

Nothing.

There was no sign of the silver and green thermos anywhere in the room, showing that his fears were true. He quickly rounded on the Time ghost with a betrayed expression.

"Why?" he asked, eyes wide.

Clockwork floated up to the boy, raising a single eyebrow with fake confusion on his now child-like face. "'Why' what, Daniel?"

Danny's glared hardened. "Why did you let that evil ghost loose? Why HIM?"

Clockwork tilted his head ever so slightly. "Evil ghost? Whatever are you talking about, Daniel? I have not let an evil ghost free." He told the now confused and irritated teenager.

Danny reached up and grabbed at his white hair with a frustrated sound. "Uhgg! Stop with these mind games, Clockwork! You know perfectly well what I am talking about! Dan Phantom! Why did you let him out? You know how much of a threat he is to the worlds and you just let. Him. Go! WHY?" he yelled his expression pained.

Clockwork nodded slowly, a small smile flickering on his lips. "Ahh, Dan Phantom. Now I remember. Yes, I let him go, but for a good reason." He told the hybrid as he shifted into his middle aged form.

Danny glared with confusion. "Why? What's the reason why you let him go? To destroy the world? Kill me? Kill Danielle? Why?"

Clockwork shook his head slowly a long white beard appearing on his face as his blue face got wrinkly. "That I am not allowed to tell you, but just know that none of you are in danger of being killed by him."

Danny snorted. "Yeah right. That's like saying Vlad forgave my father and is now best friends with him again- which will never happen according to the fruitloop."

Clockwork fought to hold back a chuckle of amusement as he stared at Danny blankly. "True. But have I ever led you wrong?"

"No, but-"

"'But' nothing. I know what I am doing, Daniel. I have been doing things like this for almost as long as the earth has been around." He told Danny sternly, his red eyes serious as he watched the boy. His time scepter was gripped slightly in his now toddler hands.

Danny stayed silent as he studied the Time Master, still not believing that Dan wouldn't hurt anyone or anything- especially Danielle. "I still don't believe this. I'm going to find him and stop him. I don't want him anywhere near Danielle."

Clockwork glared. "You will do no such thing. I want you to stay away from them. I won't hesitate to lock you up in a thermos myself." He threatened.

Danny paled that the powerful tone in Clockwork's voice, but his mind was still set in wanting to get Dani away from Dan. "I don't care. What you are doing is too dangerous. I'm putting a stop to it." He said before turning and flying out of Time tower as quick as he could, wanting to get away from the Time Master, feeling that he had been betrayed by someone he viewed as a potential mentor and teacher.

Clockwork watched as Danny few off, quickly dropping his mask as a smile quickly took its place on his face.

"Perfect."

End of Chapter 8

Wow, I got that one up faster, didn't I? Hehe. Now the interesting plot can begin! *grins wickedly*

Rae

DanPhantomsApprentice