Here it is people, the final chapter of A Phantom's True Form. It is currently 6:19 in the morning and I have not slept for nearly twenty four hours, so enjoy the chapter since I put in the effort of making it long for you guys.

"Why am I here again?" I called out to seemingly no one. I was standing in the Far-frozen combat stadium. Frostbite and Spectra had told me to meet them here, but it looks like I beat them. I sighed and tried to pass the time by throwing a ball of ecto-energy against one of the nearby targets, but instead of bouncing back it ended up exploding and making a small crater where the target used to be. I backed away and mentally cursed at myself.

I've got to learn how to limit my new power. It's a miracle I didn't kill any of the Guys in White.

My mind suddenly went into panic mode.

At least I don't think I killed any of them. But then again, I went full out against them. I was blasting enough energy at them to power all of Amity, shooting lightning at them and calling it down from the sky, that one guy who tried to punch me probably cracked his head open when I threw him backwards if he didn't break his back first. Half of them are probably dead and it's all because of me, me the one who promised to protect people from ghosts.

I was completely hyperventilating, something that's very hard to achieve when in ghost form. My hands were trying to grip at my fiery hair. Horrible images of the Guys in White burning alive or being blown to pieces by my energy flashed through my mind like and endless slideshow, families crying over the deaths of the people I killed.

"Great one," I jumped and spun around, creating a small charge of energy in my hand. Frostbite and Spectra were standing behind me.

"Oh, it's just you guys." I said and smothered the charge in my hand.

"What's with you?" Spectra asked bluntly. "You're jumpier than Kitty when she doesn't have her morning coffee."

I snorted. "You try being a one man army in the middle of a war-zone for over a year and not being at least a little jumpy." I regretted the words as soon as they left my mouth, because I soon as I did I saw Spectra wince a tiny bit. "So why did you guys tell me to come here?" I said, trying to change the topic.

"Mrs. Spectra would like to see if your powers are maturing properly. Shifting into one's purest form can often cause problems when trying to use their ghostly powers, especially if they are forced into that form." Frostbite said and placed a giant clawed hand on Spectra's tiny shoulder, "Though it looks like you have already taken the liberty of warming up." He said, gesturing to the small creator where the target had once been.

I hunched over a bit at the reminder. "Frostbite, you wouldn't happen to know anything about my little fight with the Guys in White would you?"

"Hold up, did you just say you fought the GiW? How many of them?" Spectra asked, suddenly very interested.

"Um," I bit my lip trying to recall just how many of them there was. "About fifty tanks, seventy or eighty jeeps armed with heavy calibre machine guns, a helicopter armed with rocket launchers and mini-guns as well as a few jets, but I'm not sure because I think the lightning knocked them out of the sky before I could, and a little over a hundred agents on foot with guns that were about the size of Frostbite's arm. Oh and also, all their weapons were made by Vlad." I said. I wasn't trying to brag or anything, that's just how many of them there was.

Spectra just gapped at me before clearing her throat and trying to regain her professional look. "I see," was all she managed to say.

"So Frostbite, you wouldn't happen to know anything about the aftermath of the fight, would you?"

Frostbite straightened up a little. "No, but your friend Tucker has been using our computers to monitor what has been happening in your world, great one. If you wish I can have someone fetch him for you."

"No, that's fine." I said and turned to Spectra. "So what was it you wanted to see?"

Spectra didn't answer and motioned for me to fallow her a little bit away from the targets. "Let's start with a plasma-ray," she said. "How many colours can you use for your plasma-rays?"

"Uh..." How many colours? I though ghosts only had one colour of energy. "Green for my ecto-energy and blue for my ice powers."

"You're kidding, right?" Spectra said, raising an eyebrow and crossing her arms. "You're stronger than Pariah Dark and you're only using green ecto-energy." Her gaze lingered on me for a second before seeing that I wasn't lying and sighed. "Stronger ghosts can use a multitude of different colours, everyone can use green and they mostly do because it's the easiest to use, but other ghosts like the Plasmius and Pariah Dark can use stronger colours like red and pink." When Spectra saw the completely lost look on my face she continued. "Different colours of energy can have different effects. Green makes a small explosion on impact, red plasma burns because of the naturally high power of it, and blue is more like a physical blow, there are more colours, but we'll talk about them later."

"But I already have blue energy and it freezes anything it comes into contact with." I said.

Spectra shook her head. "No, that's elemental energy."

"So you're saying that I could probably use more than one colour of energy if I want?" I said, frowning and looking at my hands.

Spectra shrugged. "Some ghosts can't use some colours while others can use them like second nature; it all depends on how the energy in their cores is."

I looked at my hands again and tried to picture them glowing with different colour energies."Alright, so how do I use these different types of energy?"

"Well, some will just naturally come to when you're fighting, but others you'll need to meditate and train your core to use." She said. "Now, let's see what you can do."

An hour and a half went by and Spectra said my powers were behaving perfectly. I learned a few new tricks as well. I learned how to focus my energy into smaller, yet more powerful attacks. That was when my family and friends came to watch me. They were pretty surprised when a marble sized ecto-ball burned a hole through five targets before exploding on the sixth and took them all out. Dani wanted to train to, but I Frostbite said she needed to conserve as much energy as possible. Frostbite also gave me another lesson with my ice powers and showed me how to form weapons and shields in my hand.

When everything was over I thanked Frostbite and Spectra for everything they had done for me. Frostbite said it was not a problem and an honour to be of service. Spectra surprised me though. I thought she was just going to shrug it off and say she was just doing her job, or something along those lines. Instead she gave me a quick hug and told me that if I ever needed someone to help me with my powers or just to talk, all I had to do was look her up.

I walked over to the stands; my power was still low so I shifted back to human form. "Hey guys, ready to go home?" I asked once I got close. Everyone got up and started walking to where the spectre speeder was parked. "Hey Tuck," I whispered to my techno-geek friend.

"What's up, bro?" He said.

"Frostbite said you were listening to the T.V broadcasts back home. Did you get any word about what happened to the Guy's In White?"

Tucker sighed, knowing where the conversation was headed. "Only you would worry about the well being of the people who tried to kill you." He said. "Ya, from what the news report said you really went at them with intent to kill." Tucker said, raising an eyebrow.

"They can target me all they want that's fine, but hurting my family is crossing the line." I said surprisingly coldly. "I really lost it though, didn't I?"

"Well, it turns out you suck at killing people." He said. "Almost all of the agents went to the hospital for something, more than half of them are in critical condition from burn injuries, but all of them are accounted for."

I can't believe it. I didn't kill any of them. The forest looked like a bomb had gone off there in my dream and all of the GIW made it out alive. Tucker's right, I suck at killing people. But it's for the best.

A half hour later and we were almost home. Sam was sitting on my left, Dani on my right, Tucker was at the far right, mom was driving, jazz was squished in between mom and dad who's sitting on Jazz's right. Dani was still in ghost from, enjoying the look of her new suit. I had an arm around Sam and she was leaning against my shoulder. Tucker looked over at us and opened his mouth to comment, but a quick red eyed glare from me shut him up fast.

I sighed with content and leaned my head back against the seat. "We're finally going home." I said.

"I know," Mom said. "It feels like we've been gone for days."

"All I want to do is go home and have some nice hot fudge." Dad said, making us all laugh. A minute later we pulled though the Fenton portal. We all got out and stretched our sore limbs.

Suddenly, an explosion from outside rocked the building, causing all of us to lose our balance for a second. We all gave each other confused looks, before bolting up the stairs and bursting through the front door. Amity Park was in complete turmoil. Ghosts were everywhere, shooting plasma-rays and terrorizing people. I quickly shoved everyone back inside and closed the door.

"Mom, dad, get to the ops center and turn the ghost-shield on and make sure you expand it as far as possible. Jazz, go down stairs and get as many weapons as you can and bring them upstairs. Sam, Tucker, make sure Dani doesn't try to do any fighting, because I do not want a repeat of yesterday." I said, giving my little sister a pointed look.

"What are you going to do?" Tucker asked.

I turned around and went ghost. "I'm going to beat the hell out of them," I said and phased out of the house. Instantly I spotted a familiar face.

"Come on Johnny I want to get out of here, It's getting dangerous." I faintly heard Kitty say though all of the sounds of chaos.

"No way babe, now that the punk's gone I can do whatever I want." Johnny said and shot a plasma-ray at a car. I swooped in front of the blast and blocked it with my hand, making the energy fizzle out against my aura. "Hey, what's the deal?" Johnny shouted.

"Kitty," I said, turning my attention to the blue skinned ghost. Kitty and I were never really enemies. I had even had a few nice conversations with her on the off chance she came into the human world without Johnny. "What the hell's going on around here? Where have all these ghosts come from?"

Kitty was silent for a few seconds before; "Do I know you?"

I sighed in frustration. It was getting pretty annoying to have to keep explaining myself to everyone. I changed back to human form, earning a gasp from both of the ghosts.

"Ya, ya, I'm terrifying. What's going on here?" I snapped.

"V-Vlad Plasmius came to the ghost-zone and gathered a whole bunch of powerful ghosts. He said something about finally getting rid of you once and for all. Most of the weaker ghosts just saw it as an excuse to cause destruction while you were busy dealing with the stronger ones." She said, not taking her eyes off me.

I growled and felt my eyes turn red. Of course Vlad would be behind this. "Johnny, take Kitty and go back to the ghost-zone, you do not want to be here when the real fighting starts." He nodded, though still looked completely shell shocked. "One more thing, where is Vlad?"

"Amity library, he said he'd be waiting for you there," was all he said.

Why would Vlad be waiting for me at the library? "Good," I said, despite my confusion. "Now go, before my parents turn the ghost-shield on and lock you out.

I turned around and started running to the library. I was still weak from my battle with the GIW, maybe a little less than a quarter of my full power and knowing Vlad he'd have some kind of surprise waiting for me. Soon the library was in view. It was a big building to say the least, over three stories high and as big as the entire school. I turned the corner and started making my way up the steps, when suddenly a chill ran though my body and a breath of fogy air drifted from my mouth and whisked behind me.

I spun around and created a shield just in time to block a powerful plasma-ray. I looked up and saw almost all of my enemies floating above me. Skulker with his wrist-gun still smoking, Ember right at his side, Technus, Nocturne and a dozen sleep-walkers, Vortex, the fright night, Aragon in his dragon form, Desiree, Youngblood, the lunch lady, Lydia, and a ton more ghosts that I didn't bother to learn the names of.

"There you are whelp; we were beginning to think you wouldn't show." Skulker jeered.

"I don't have time for you weaklings. Do yourselves a favour and go back to the ghost-zone before I'm done with Vlad and I won't have to beat you."

"Ha, do not make us laugh child," Technus said. "Even you could not stand up to all of our combined power."

I smirked, "Typical of Vlad to leave out the most important detail." I rose up into the air to their height.

"What details," Skulker said, clearly not concerned.

"I'll show you." I said. "I'm going ghost!" Instantly the black rings formed around my waist. My clothes were replaced with my black and white jump-suit and cape, my skin turned a ghostly bluish green, my canines elongated and sharpened, my tongue turned long and forked, my hair exploded into a white, fiery inferno, and my baby blue eyes turned a dark crimson.

All of the ghosts backed up, in surprise and fear. None of them made a move to run away, but they didn't make a move to attack. Finally, Skulker managed to find his voice.

"What happened to you?" I groaned. This question was getting old and fast.

"It's my purest form and I'm over fifty times more powerful than I was before. I only needed forty to beat Pariah Dark." I said, lighting my fists with energy. I hope they buy it. I'm still low on power and I don't know if I can take them all on at once and still have enough energy to fight Vlad. Unfortunately, none of them looked like they were going to back down. Damn, then I guess I take the fight to them.

I shot forward and duplicated myself into eight. I headed straight for Skulker and punched right though his mechanical head, quickly ripping the real him out of his suit and threw him backwards. Before Ember could react I punched her in the head and sent her to the ground. Vortex charged at me and fired a bolt of lightning. I shot my own lightning at his attacked and managed to turn his own lightning against him, hitting him with both my own attack and his as well. He screamed and dropped to the ground.

Nocturne sent his sleep-walkers at me. They grabbed my arms and legs, but I froze them with my ice powers and shattered them, then froze Nocturne with a quick ice-ray. I was about to shatter him when I felt an ecto-sphere hit me in between my shoulder blades. I grunted in pain and turned to see who attacked me. Ten low level ghosts were behind me, forming another blast with their combined power. I shot small plasma-rays out of my fingers and hit all of them.

I felt another blast of energy connect with my back and throw me forward. Nocturne had gotten himself free and was forming several more sleep-walkers to his side. I concentrated and turned my body into smoke, so they passed though me. I reverted back to normal and fired a bot of lightning at Nocturne, making him cry out in pain and fall to the ground. The sleep-walkers dissolved as he lost the power to sustain them. More ghosts surrounded me. I can't keep this up much longer. My copies are draining me to fast and there's just too many of them.

I flew forward, punching some ghost hard in the face as I past him and broke free of the crowd. I willed my copies to come back to me and breathed deeply as the short memories of eight different me's suddenly filled my mind. I shook my head clear and looked at the other ghosts. Vortex had recovered and looked angry, Skulker was back into his suit and had somehow managed to mend the face on his suit, and Ember was beside him and was already forming a bruise from where I had punched her. A lot of the minor ghosts were down for the count, but the stronger ones looked like they could keep going for another few battles. I had to end this now.

With a deep breath I let out a ghostly-wail. All of the glass windows below shattered. The ghosts desperately tied to cover their ears and block out the sound, but soon the green sound waves crashed into them. I ended the wail and dropped thirty feet to the ground, gasping for air as the black ring formed around my waist, but I made it disappear.

That wail was defiantly not a good idea. I was almost completely out of power; even my fiery hair grew smaller and slowed its dance. I spent an entire minute hunched over on the ground before I found the strength to push myself up and make my way to the crowed of fallen ghosts. Among them, I found that Technus was still conscious, but unable to move.

"Tell me ghost child, is that new form your purest form?" he wheezed out. I walked over to the ghost and knelt beside him.

"What would you know about pure forms?" I growled.

The ghost chuckled a bit. "Isn't it obvious? I too am in my purest form." He said. "It's frustrating, isn't it? Knowing that you have all of that power bubbling beneath your fingertips, yet it's out of your grasp to use it."

"Unable to use it, huh? Well, just because you can't use that power, doesn't mean I can't." I placed my hand on his face and used my energy draining powers. Instantly, energy flooded through me again, but just as soon as the energy began, it stopped. I couldn't take anymore without killing him and I'm not about to kill a defenceless ghost for just a few more plasma-rays worth of energy.

I stood up, this time without any effort and walked to the library doors. I pushed the heavy wooden doors open and stepped inside.

"I see you managed to defeat my little welcoming comity." Vlad stepped out of the shadows, already in ghost form.

"What's the matter fruit-loop? So scared of me that you need to ask others for help?" If there were two things Vlad hated it was being called a fruit-loop and scared.

Vlad glared at me and lit his hands with pink energy. "Give up now Daniel and I'll let you live." He snarled.

I shifted backwards into a fighting stance and lit my own hands with energy. Neither of us made a move. We just stood there, sizing each other up. Suddenly, Vlad roared with furry and let loose a double hand plasma-ray at me. I ducked under the shot and charged at Vlad, firing my own shot at him with my left hand. My shot connected with his side and forced him to stagger back, clutching his hip. Before he could retaliate I closed the distance between us and punched him hard with my right hand. Vlad went flying backwards and slammed into a bookcase.

He got back up quickly and fired another shot at me. The shot took me by surprise and hit me in the chest. I hissed in pain and fired a bot of lightning at Vlad. He turned intangible and flew at me. He spear tackled me into a wall and punched me in the face several times. Vlad went to punch again, but pulled his fist to far back and left an opening. I caught his fist in my hand before it hit me again and twisted it, then blasted him backwards with a strong plasma-ray.

He threw an ecto-sphere and I matched him by throwing my own. The energy balls collided and exploded. I had to shield my eyes with my cape to stop from going blind. When I moved my cape away, Vlad was on top of me and landed an upper-cut to my jaw. I stumbled backwards and made myself a shield of ice around my arm to block Vlad's next punch. The older halfa yelled in pain as his knuckles made contact with the hard as steel ice. I dissolved the shield into water and sent another plasma-ray at Vlad, knocking him back. I had to end this fight fast. My energy was draining and if this kept up, Vlad would win.

I rose into the air while Vlad was distracted and powered up a big ecto-sphere in my hands. Vlad managed to get his sense back and put a shield around him before I threw the energy. Vlad grunted and was pushed onto his knees, but his shield held up. He glared at me then grabbed his cape and started spinning around fast. An ecto-tornado formed and pulled me in. The whirlwind spun me around a few times before spitting me out and slamming me into a wall. I grunted and pulled myself out of the cracked stone, then dodged an ecto-sphere.

I kicked off the back wall and sped at Vlad, but he seemed to be prepared for this as he grabbed me by my throat and threw me had into the ground.

"Walker, now." He shouted.

I leapt to my feet and suddenly found myself surrounded by Walker and his police goons. The grabbed me and dug their weapons into my body, sending jolt after jolt of energy through me. Walker walked in front of me.

"You lose kid, next stop, my prison."

I ignored him and looked over his shoulder at the smirking Vlad.

"Big mistake... Vlad," Before any of them could react I split several copies off of me, still connected by the waist. Each of my copies grabbed one of the guards while I grabbed Walker's head and used my energy draining powers. They all gasped and dropped the weapons, trying to use what little strength they had left to pry my arms away. But it was too late.

I reabsorbed my copies and walked forward, still draining power from Walker until he didn't have any left and dropped him. Vlad backed up in fear, seeing that I had regained all of the power I had just used to fight him. I lunged forward and punched Vlad rapidly several times, before charging my fist with energy and punching him again, this time sending him hard into the wall. He recovered and glared when he saw the cocky smile plastered on my face. Vlad roared and flew at me. Quick as lightning I grabbed the front of his suit, spun him around, and used an upper-cut to send him up and through the roof.

I smiled, knowing I had this fight. I shot up though the hole in the roof and found Vlad had already recovered and wanted to fight still. He fired a plasma-ray which I dodged easily. I few at him and punched him had in the face a few times. He grunted and flew back a bit. Then, unexpectedly, he smirked at me.

"Give up Daniel, you won't win this fight." He said, whipping ecto-plasm from the corner of his mouth.

I resisted the urge to laugh and opened my mouth to make some smart comment back at him, but I never got the chance.

"Danny," I heard Sam's voice yell from below me. The peaces quickly fell into place about what Vlad was going to do. I twisted around in the air and saw Sam holding a Fenton thermos.

"Sam, run!" I shouted and turned back to Vlad. My eyes went wide as I saw Vlad had duplicated into four and fired simultaneous ecto-waves. I roared in pain and crashed into the pavement hard enough to make a crater.

I heard Sam scream and my eyes flew open. Vlad was right in front of Sam holding her crushed thermos in one hand and an ecto-sword in the other, ready to plunge downward into Sam's chest. He pulled the sword back, about to deliver the killing strike.

"No!" I roared, leaping to my feet, reaching deep inside my core for all the power I could muster into one shot and combining it with my lightning power. Vlad thrust his arm down just as I fired my blast at him.

Vlad screamed in agony as the electrically charged energy pierced though his chest and came out through his back. Vlad's energy sword dissipated into nothingness as he fell backwards onto the cold, hard street. I didn't have to check him up close to know what I had done. The shot had passed clean through the older man's heart.

Vlad was dead.

I wanted to be sick. I, Danny Phantom, hero of Amity Park, had just taken another man's life. My hands were shaking badly and my legs threatened to give out from under me. Suddenly and image of Sam appeared in my mine. I shook my head and took a deep breath. I didn't have time to feel sorry for what I just did. Sam might be hurt.

Shakily, I forced my legs to move towards where Sam was. She was on the ground, staring at Vlad's body as it leaked blood onto the streets now that it had reverted to human form.

"Sam, are you alright?" I asked, kneeling down next to her.

She looked at me, then flung her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly. I could feel her body shaking badly from the near death experience. "Oh, god Danny." She sobbed. I tried to calm her down and whispered comforting words to her. A minute later, my parents arrived with Jazz, Tucker, and Dani.

"Vlad," Dad yelled and knelt beside the corpse. Dani turned away; Tucker looked like he was going to be sick, Jazz buried her head in Tucker's shoulder and started crying. "What happened?" He demanded.

It took awhile, but I managed to explain to mom and dad about how Vlad had gotten his ghost powers from the portal accident in their collage years, how he used his powers to lie and steal his way to the top and finally about how he tried to kill Sam just now. Dad was in shock. Can't blame him either, he just found out that the person he considered a brother had been plotting to kill him, marry his wife, and make his son his half ghost apprentice.

Suddenly, I was aware of the flashing red and blue lights of police cars as they pulled up. The police pulled us away from the body and questioned us. I gave them the full story and didn't try to hide anything. I killed Vlad and I'll face the consequences. "Am I going to go to jail?" I asked the officer who was questioning me.

He bit his frowned thoughtfully, before responding; "Well, technically the law states that murder is one human killing another. Technically though you aren't human, plus you were defending your friend, so I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't charged." I nodded and thanked the officer as he put away his note pad and walked away. I just sat on the curb, not moving, not even bothering to change into my human form.

"Danny?" I looked up and saw Sam standing on my left. There was a moment of tense silence before she spoke again. "Do you hate me?" her voice was so quiet I thought I imagined her hearing it.

"What? No of course not, why would I have any reason to hate you Sam." I stood up and hugged her.

"I thought you might because I didn't do what you told me to and because of that you were forced into killing Vlad." She said, her body giving a quick shake at the memory.

"No, it's not your fault." I said, breaking the hug and squeezed her hands tight. "I'm just ashamed with what I've done." I said with a bitter laugh.

"You did it to defend me Danny, besides Vlad was too dangerous to be left alive. He was too much of a threat to everyone around him."

"I know, even though I regret it I know there was no other option this time and there are going to be more times when there aren't going to be other options. I'm just going to have to accept the fact that sometimes I have to do things that are against my morals for the greater good." I said, staring into the big, beautiful violet orbs that were Sam's eyes.

I took Sam's hand and walked back to where everyone else was. They all looked at me, waiting for me to speak.

"Come on guys, let's go home."

THE END

YES! It's finally done.

Ok for the people who didn't like Vlad's death I'm sorry, but I needed Danny to learn that he's going to have to make a lot of impossible choices when being the hero, since in almost every fan-fiction I've read, Danny doesn't have a fucking back bone.

One more thing. I'm going to make a sequel to this story, but it'll take a bit before I can put it out, because I actually plan on figuring out where I'm going to take the story before I write it.

The title will be The Phantom of Time or something better if I can come up with it.

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