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Prologue
Dead. They were dead. The word seemed so final, so permanent, I could barely think it. I choked back a sob as the nurse poked her head in the room.
"Are you alright?" she asked me. Her hair was blonde and she was wearing scrubs in that typical, weird turquoise color. I almost wanted to laugh—how could I be alright?—but it all seemed hollow.
"Physically," I replied. She nodded in understanding and left me alone. That day…I'm not even sure what to think anymore. I'd been gone for two weeks—as Fenton and Phantom—and when I appeared again, it was at Sam's window.
Tucker was pacing nervously, slowly wearing a hole in Sam's bedroom floor as the goth and my sister watched him from their place on the bed. I phased through the window, collapsed to my knees, and coughed violently. I looked down at the faintly glowing ectoplasm in my hand.
"Danny!" Sam looked at me, horrified.
"Dude, who did this?!" Tucker asked in shock. Before I could answer, my parents busted into Sam's house—luckily, her family wasn't home.
"Danny, quick! Turn human!" Tucker said.
"It doesn't matter…" I muttered weakly. I watched as everything seemed to click in their minds.
"No…" Sam gasped.
"Dude…" Tucker added. Jazz merely started sobbing. My parents burst into the room and glared at me. Dad—no, Jack—pulled out a highly unstable new weapon labeled the Ecto Molecule Destroyer. He aimed right between my eyes and pulled the trigger.
Explosions…death…I'm still not sure what happened, I may have gone intangible out of pure instinct. Maybe that's why I was still alive. All I knew for sure was Jack's weapon malfunctioned. Majorly. When I opened my eyes, I saw only rubble. The mansion was in complete ruins. Shambles. Utterly obliterated. I barely registered when my energy gave out and I flashed back to human; I was too busy searching for them.
Jack…Maddie...Tucker…Sam…Jazz. I held my sister in my arms and cried. I sobbed my heart out. She looked at me, and I felt a tug at my heart—she was still alive!
"Da…nny…"
"Jazz! Listen to me, sis, you're gonna live. Okay? I'll protect you. You'll be alright…"
"Danny...listen…to me…"
"No, save your energy, please, we can talk later, okay?"
"Danny…no…I won't—"
"Don't say it, Jazz, please. Don't say it," I was desperate for her to live. She needed to live.
"It's…al…right…Danny," Jazz gasped out, looking me right in the eyes. "Please…just…promise me…something…just…one thing."
"Anything in all the worlds, sis," I sobbed. "Anything."
"Live…on…little brother…Don't…be sad…for…too long…okay?" Jazz smiled at me.
"Live on."
Edit: I felt the need to say this, because I'm getting tired of the reviews reminding me of it. I know there are a lot of problems with this story, they are due to poor planning on my part, and some poor integration of CWA's ideas with my own. I have obsessively picked apart every flaw in this story. So many of you enjoy it so much, and I would like to make it better in the future. For now, I am glad so many like what I did here, and I hope to see you lovely reviewers again. Alright, sorry, get back to your regularly scheduled fanfiction.
Ta-da! Short prologue. :P I've been working on this story for a few weeks, actually, but Pokemon X came out and I've been sick, plus college... Anyway, I'm totally addicted to writing this story, and I'm really proud of what I've done so far! It's my longest story yet! (Current, un-edited, length is 8600ish words.) This was adopted from Clockwork's Apprentice's story Life and Death. I wasn't intending to change much about her story, but it kinda ran away with me. You'll see soon enough. ;)
I hope you enjoyed the prologue! It has been titled "How to Kill Your Feels in Two Minutes" by Just-Another-FanBoy160, and my unofficial (but awesome and invaluable) beta, Lost-Lovegood, told me "May wizard god smite your feels-inducing soul." Needless to say, I laughed maniacally for quite awhile. :3
-Vi
