A/N: This is going to be my last mult-chapter story for this phandom so enjoy it while it lasts. I plan on having it incorporate all the ideas I wanted to explore in detail but either never got around to or I tried to and stopped because I didn't like how it was going. So hopefully it will be good despite how much I'm going to try to shove into it. I hope all of you like what I'm going to be working on. Oh, and one more thing before I go on to the regular disclaimers. I don't know how often I'm going to be able to update this. I'm hoping to update each Friday, but more than likely it will be every other Friday like most others on here. Okay? Okay.

So, I don't own Danny Phantom. Butch Hartman does. I don't own the song Whisper. Evanescence does. I wished I owned both of them though because Danny Phantom is the best TV show ever and Whisper is a totally cool song.

Please Read and Review this. I worked really hard on it. Thank you and enjoy my last multi-chapter story.

The Grim Reaper

Catch me as I fall

A fairly small black dot fell out of the sky trailing a smoky tail behind it. It seemed to fall slowly, resignedly, as if it had given up the fight already. The small crowd that had gathered to watch gasped in horror. Some screamed. Some cried. Some shouted encouragements. Two teens, a boy and a girl, ran forward toward the slowly falling dot.

Say you're here and it's all over now

The girl reached the fallen dot first. She looked down into a smoking crater to find that the dot had been a black and white clad boy. His short white hair was singed; his eyes were closed. A small pained breath escaped his parted lips as he lay prone in the hole.

"Danny!" the girl shouted as she skidded down the side of the crater to kneel next to the boy.

"Sam! Is he okay?!" asked the boy standing at the lip of the pit.

The girl, Sam, shook her head. "Call the Fentons! We have to get help for him NOW!"

"Oh, it's too late for that," a cruel voice gloated.

Speaking to the atmosphere

"No it's not!" retorted Sam. "Just you wait, Vlad! Danny will be fine and you'll pay for what you did!"

"Sam…" moaned a weak voice.

Sam turned away from Vlad to look at the boy on the ground. She carefully picked him up and held him in her arms. "Danny? Danny, can you hear me?"

"Sam…" he moaned again, his voice gradually getting softer.

"Danny!" she said again, as if yelling his name might revive him.

Vlad crossed his arms over his chest. "It's too late for him, girl. He can't hear you. Face it, he's dying. His mind is far away from here."

Speaking to the atmosphere

No one's here and I fall into myself

"No, no. He'll be fine. He's always fine," Sam murmured to herself. She brushed a few stray locks of hair from Danny's face and busied herself with trying to stop the flow of ectoplasm from a wound on his side.

"Sam! They're coming!" the boy yelled down to her. "They'll be here in a few minutes."

"Really?" Vlad asked with interest. "Good. They'll be here to see him die… and the father will join him."

"Shut up!" Sam snapped at the villain. She then motioned for the boy to join her. "Tucker, help me!"

Tucker slid down the side and joined her next to Danny. He pushed his glasses farther up his nose and stared worriedly at his best friend.

"He's lost a lot of ectoplasm. I don't know if…" she refused to finish the sentence.

This truth drives me into madness

"He'll be fine. We just need to stop the bleeding," she said after a moment.

"How?" asked Tucker.

"We need to make a tourniquet. Or a bandage. Or anything that'll stop the ectoplasm," she answered, frantically looking around her for anything she could use. Eventually her eyes fell on Tucker's shirt. "Give me your shirt."

"Why…?" Tucker started to ask but stopped when he saw the look in her eyes. He wordlessly pulled his shirt over his head and handed it to Sam.

"He'll be fine," she whispered to herself as she ripped Tucker's shirt into strips which she tied around Danny's body. "He'll be fine. He always is."

I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away… If I will it all away

"Come on, Danny," Sam muttered once she was finished. She shook the unconscious boy's shoulder slightly. "Come on. Wake up."

"Give up, girl! It's no use," Vlad said condescendingly.

Sam and Tucker ignored his taunts. They stared anxiously at their friend while holding his hands, waiting and praying for him to wake up.

Don't turn away. Don't give into the pain.

"Ah! And here are the Fentons now!" came the predatory comment as the sound of a large moving vehicle became loud and close. The evil half ghost began to hover as the vehicle came closer. Once it was in a few feet from him his hand began to glow ominously. "And now the real fun begins" and with those words he blasted the RV.

The blast hit and caused the RV to do a complete three sixty. As it came to a stop, large guns and other weapons emerged from its metal hide and aimed at the vampiric half ghost. Unfortunately the ghost was faster than the machine as he managed to get in several blasts before any of the weapons fired.

"We have to help them," Tucker said to Sam as he watched the battle.

"But we can't leave Danny. If we move Vlad might attack Danny. We have to stay with him," Sam argued.

"He's going to hit us anyway!" Tucker argued back as he looked up and saw Vlad towering over them.

Unbeknownst to any of them, Danny squeezed his eyes shut even more.

Don't try to hide. They're screaming your name.

Sam tightened her grip on her dying friend.

"Oh don't worry, girl," Vlad said while rolling his eyes.

Sam narrowed hers.

Vlad grinned sickeningly. Suddenly his hand darted out, aiming a blast at her, Danny, and Tucker. "You're going to die with them."

As the blast powered up, Danny slowly opened one emerald eye.

Don't close your eyes. God knows what lies behind them.

He slowly managed to get his clouded vision to focus. Once he did he quickly opened his other eye and stared up at his impending death.

Never sleep, never die

But he was saved from having to suffer it right then. It was delayed as a single, solitary blast struck the ghost down before he could unleash his attack.

Danny shifted his gaze to the source of his rescue. It was his mother.

"Are you kids alright?" she asked without looking at them.

"Yeah," Sam and Tucker answered together.

"But they won't be for long," Vlad interrupted as he stood back up from where he had fell. He grinned menacingly at Danny's mother. "And neither will your current husband, sweet Maddie."

"You swine," she answered him, continuing to train her weapon on him.

"You won't be thinking that for much longer either," he replied before unleashing a blast at her husband. The man fell.

"Jack!" she yelled as she watched the orange man fall head over heels into the pit where he landed next to the three teens. He didn't move.

Vlad cackled. "So you see, my dear. It won't be long now."

Maddie shook with anger and sadness as she stood there, torn between firing shot after shot at her former college friend and running down into the crater to check on her husband. After a few seconds she decided on option B.

"Uh, uh, uh!" Vlad said mockingly as he aimed a powered up attack at the three teens. "Move and I'll kill them."

Maddie froze where she was, at the edge of the crater, and turned her head to look at the person she despised most now. "What do you want?"

"You know what I want, my love," he replied. "I want you."

Maddie looked back down into the pit, at her child and his friends, and at her husband. Two of them lied unmoving in that grave.

Danny squeezed his eyes shut again, this time in pain.

I'm frightened by what I see, but somehow I know that there's much more to come.

Maddie didn't move. She stood and stared at her family and friends, unsure of what to say or do. She didn't want to join Vlad but there were so many lives at risk. If she didn't go with him they would die, but she couldn't help thinking that there had to be another way out.

Immobilized by my fear and soon to be blinded by tears

I can stop the pain if I will it all away

If I will it all away

"Well? What are you going to do, my love?" Vlad asked.

Danny opened his eyes again and stared up at his mother. Weak, but nevertheless willing to fight for his family and friends, he tried to lift a hand.

Don't turn away. Don't give into the pain.

A sharp pain went through his whole body. He sucked in a breath and tried again. His arms, hands, feet, and legs wouldn't move.

He was the only person who could save them.

Don't try to hide. They're screaming your name.

Tears of pain and frustration prickled at his vision. He wanted so badly to help them…

But he was in so much pain and exhaustion. But he needed to fight. He had to stop Vlad from hurting anyone else. It was his duty. It was his responsibility. It was his job.

Don't close your eyes. God knows what lies behind them.

He had to stay alive for them.

Never sleep, never die

"You won't hurt them?" Maddie finally asked.

"Oh, of course not, so long as you join me that is," Vlad said smoothly.

"Don't do it Mrs. Fenton!" Tucker yelled up to her as she took one last look at them.

"Silence boy!" Vlad roared. "Come here, my love. I won't hurt them if you join me."

Maddie slowly, reluctantly walked over to him. He grinned as she neared him.

"No!" Tucker yelled as Maddie placed her hand in Vlad's.

Without looking, Vlad blasted the boy to his death.

Danny watched in shock as his best friend fell to the ground dead… and noticed for the first time that his father was dead too.

Fallen angels at my feet

His breaths became short and fast as the full realization of what was happening hit him. His father was dead. His best friend was dead. His mother was being forced to join his worst enemy. He was dying and powerless.

A sharp unforgiving pain clutched his heart. His eyes rolled back in his head.

"Give up," whispered a voice.

Whispered voices at my ear

A shadowy figure rose up from the ground of his blackened vision. It wore a cloak made of night and it's voice sent chills down Danny's spine.

"Give up. It's time for you to leave."

Death before my eyes

Lying next to me I fear

"I can't leave," Danny told it. "Not yet. They need me."

"Danny?" Sam said as she heard his hoarse voice. "Danny?"

She beckons me.

"Your time is up, Danny. You know that," Death said in a monotone voice.

Danny looked behind him.

Should I give in?

"Will I become a full ghost?"

Death, though Danny couldn't see his face, seemed to stare right into his pain filled eyes. He nodded.

"I'll be able to come back?"

Another nod.

Upon my end shall I begin

"I'll come."

Death raised his scythe.

Forsaking all I've fallen for I rise to meet the end

The scythe came down fast and, before Danny could so much as blink, tore through him, ending his life. He didn't even get a chance to scream.

Don't turn away. Don't give into the pain.

Don't try to hide. They're screaming your name.

Don't close your eyes. God knows what lies behind them.

Don't turn out the lights. Never sleep, never die.

Sam screamed as she felt Danny die in her arms. Maddie screamed as she realized her only son had died in the arms of his girlfriend. Both screamed as they realized that they had been powerless to save him or any of them. Neither gave a thought to themselves and what they were about to go through.

Servatis a pereculum. Servatis a maleficum.

A/N: So, did you like it? Whether you did or you didn't I would greatly appreciate it if you pressed the little blue button that says 'Go'. I want to know what you think (without the flames please). Thank you and I hope you stick around for the next chapter!