"I am Aurora." Announced a high pitched female voice before I had even had a chance to open my eyes.

"My head hurts." I answered.

"Silly Danny, when you are dead you feel no pain."

I groaned and wrenched my eyes open and stared at the girl in front of me. "Dawn?" I asked, thinking of the leader from level eleven.

"You're thinking of my twin sister." Answered the yappy girl who looked exactly like Dawn.

"Right." I answered softly. "So . . . are you the one who's going to send me home?" I asked hopefully.

"Yeah, right. I'm only a stop along the way. No one ever comes here." Aurora whined, and I looked around. Her place looked exactly like Dawn's -there was nothing but blank white space there- but here there was a darkness creeping in around the edges. Aurora continued to explain, "It's so lonely here, and everyone is so mean!" Aurora stamped her feet, and I realized that although the twins looked exactly alike, they were, not total opposites, but opposites.

"Right." I said for the hundredth time since getting to this confusing place. I still wasn't sure what way was up or down. "Will you send me on my way now?" I asked, hopefully.

"Fat chance." Aurora snapped. "I'm not letting you go until I'm ready."

She plunked herself down on what I assumed to be the floor, and I followed, wanting to get out as soon as possible. I sat there for what could have been hours, or only seconds. I still didn't know how long I'd been here. I heard Aurora's life story, about how she and the cheerleading team painted the football captain's house pink, only to realize that he lived with his father and not his mother. About how her cat Tibbles, died and she hadn't been allowed to see him. About how her perfect little sister, Dawn, had gotten all the attention when they had been alive. "I'm five minutes older!" She'd yelled. "The first born is supposed to get all the attention!" About how she'd died in 1989 from a car crash, just after winning the cheerleading nationals.

"Anywho," Aurora sighed, and I hoped our meeting was coming to an end, "Farewell, mister Phantom, it shall be an eternity before we meet again. For me anyway.

"Up four levels."

I know it's short, but all of these chapters will be short. If anyone has any ideas about a 'leader' for a level (10, 11, 9, and 8 have all been used) then send them to me, I'm always open to suggestions and questions. I don't own Danny Phantom.

~DI4MGZ~