Okay I'm finally done! I know it's been longer than a week for this update, and I'm sorry. But this chapter is quite a bit longer than the previous ones, so hopefully that will be enough to make it up to you. Pleaseeeee tell me what you think, your reveiws mean the world to me, honestly. Anyways, enjoy da chapter!

Chapter 4

The black and green scenery of the Ghost Zone appeared blurred to Danny. He was still dazed from the earlier attack, and his mind felt like mush. He blinked a few times, trying to get his vision to focus.

"Maybe it was a bad idea coming here." He mumbled. He had been so determined to figure out what was happening in the Ghost Zone, he hadn't really paid much attention to the fact that he felt awful. And now he could be putting himself at risk. He was in such a vulnerable state; no ghost would hesitate to attack him if they knew he was so weak. Luckily for him, there didn't seem to be many ghosts around. Hopefully they were all too busy with their evil plots to be floating about.

Danny chuckled softly to himself. A few hours earlier he would have done anything to get some action with a ghost. But now, all he wanted to do was go home and relax. A bowl of soup sounded good right now, along with a nice hot bath to sooth his aching muscles. Why couldn't he have felt like this yesterday when he had nothing to do? Talk about irony.

A sudden wave of dizziness came washing over him, making him grab his head in protest. Now the whole Ghost Zone appeared to be spinning, and it was beginning to make him feel sick. "No, I've changed my mind; it was definitely a bad idea." He groaned, trying to steady himself. His whole body was trembling violently, and Danny knew it was time to go back. He couldn't possibly stay here – not like this anyway.

But before he could even begin to head back, a pink blur shot right past him, making him jump in surprise. It had come from nowhere, and it was travelling so quick that even Danny's ghost sense hadn't detected it. It was closely followed by a blue blur, although this one didn't seem to be going as fast. The blue blur appeared to be chasing the pink one, zigzagging up and down and around Danny's head, nearly catching up before the pink one darted away even faster. Danny watched them for a few moments, noticing that the pink blur was once again getting closer and closer to him. Then suddenly, he jolted in alarm, finally realising that the pink blur was going to hit him. He dived out of the way just in time, turning quickly to see the pink blur collide with the blue one.

"OW!"

Danny's eyes only widened when he saw two ghosts a few feet in front of him. The 'pink blur' was actually a girl ghost. She seemed to be the same age as Danny, although a mischievous glint in her yellow eyes made her look far younger. She had red curly hair, which reached to her shoulders, and was wearing a basic pink dress. The 'blue blur' looked had similar features to the girl, but he was wearing blue shorts and t-shirt. He looked to be about twelve, although he seemed kind of short for his age. His long black hair was styled to the side, covering one of his yellow eyes. He too had a mischievous glint in them. Both of them were holding their heads in pain, grumbling something quietly to each other. But they quickly forgot their pain when they realised they had company.

"Ash, look!" The girl cried, pointing over at Danny.

"The ghost boy!" Ash gasped, looking at Danny with awe. He'd only ever heard rumours about the half ghost; he never actually thought he would meet him in person. He was a legend, one that all of his friends talked about. Apparently he had destroyed towns and cities with one had behind his back, and nobody dared to disrespect him. Because if they did... he would destroy them.

"Are you guys done staring?" Danny asked, snapping out of his trance. These ghosts didn't look like they were going to cause him any harm, but it was kind of creepy that they were staring at him like that.

The boy quickly came back to reality. "Wow! It's really you! I can't believe it – I mean – I can believe it, cos' your... uh... here." He smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.

His sister, who was annoyed at her brother for embassasing himself, quickly piped in. "Of course it's him! Who else could it be?" She smiled, before holding out her arm. "Hi, I'm Annie! And this is my brother Ash. We're big fans."

Danny looked uncertainly down at Annie's outstretched arm. But then he mentally slapped himself, realising she wanted him to shake her hand. She gave him an odd look, but he just grinned nervously in response. "Hi, I'm Danny." He said, letting go of the girls hand and stepping back a bit.

"We know." Both siblings said in unison.

"Were massive fan's! ...Well my sister isn't as big of a fan as me, so I guess you could say I'm your biggest." He flashed a grin at his sister before adding, "I know almost everything about you, cos' you're like, awesome! I have posers of you in my room and I –"

"Wait, what?" Danny asked, a confused look settling on his face. "You have posters of me? I thought most ghosts hated me?"

"They do. But that doesn't mean we have to necessarily agree. We're teenagers, we can do as we like." Annie said, folding her arms. Nobody could tell her who she could or couldn't like. Her mum may have threatened to ground her for 100 years, but that wouldn't stop her.

"Yeah! And, you're like, well cool! Is it true that you can shoot lasers from your eyes?" The boy quizzed, looking at Danny expectantly.

Danny smiled, knowing that the ghost wanted a demonstration. "You mean, like this?"

Both ghosts jumped back in alarm as Danny fired two blue beams in front of them. But then Ash's face lit up in joy. "That's like, awesome! What else can you do?"

The hybrid was about to do another demonstration of his powers, when his body suddenly reminded him of how tired he was. He gripped his head in pain, and looked up at the two siblings. "Sorry guys, I sort of had a bit of trouble earlier. I'm, uh, not feeling so great." He smiled meekly. Ash frowned at him, clearly disappointed.

"I thought you were supposed to be like, all powerful? And now you're telling me you can't even handle shooting a few laser beams from your eyes?" He growled, his disappointment quickly turning into anger. "Come on! Don't be pathetic! You've destroyed, like, whole cities before! You can't just expect us to accept the fact that you're not feeling well... "

Danny was surprised at the boy's quick change in demeanour, but he just shrugged it off. He knew from experience that ghosts could have a very short temper, and were easily angered if you didn't do what they want. But just because the ghost was having mood swings, it didn't give him the right to boss Danny around.

"Yes I can! I told you; don't feel well, so I'm not just going to waste my last bit of energy pulling a few party tricks for you guys. So yeah, I'm glad you're fans and all, but I've got to go." Danny turned to leave, when the girl stopped him.

"Nobody disappoints my brother." She said darkly. Her hands had balled up into fists, and she took a slow step towards him. Her brother seemed to know what was about to happen, so he floated back a few meters to give his sister some space.

"Whoa, hold on a sec. I thought you guys loved me? You can't just go round hurting your idols, can you?" Danny said quickly, trying to make the girl ghost back off. But she seemed to get angrier at his words.

"Nobody tells me what I can or can't do. And that includes you." She growled. Pink energy began to swirl around her fists, and the mischievous glint in her eye had disappeared. Her hair started to blow around, as if there was a gust of wind surrounding only her. Danny opened his mouth to respond, but the girl thrust the energy towards him before he could get a word out.

"Arrgh!" Danny cried as the ball of energy flew towards him. He braced himself for impact, raising his hands over his face to try and protect himself. When the attack did hit, it wasn't nearly as bad as he had expected. If it wasn't for the fact that he was already weakened, it would have hurt no more than falling over and grazing your knee. Still, the blast didn't really hurt that much, it just knocked him back a couple of feet. "Is that all you've got?" He mocked, floating back towards the girl.

Annie's face fell as she realised the blast had done nothing to the half ghost. He seemed to be unfazed by her attack, and even worse, he was mocking her for it. What was she supposed to do now? He'd probably destroy her now that she had tried to attack him. But there was nothing more she could do, he was obviously just as powerful as people said he was. 'Great, out of all the stupid rumours about made up ghosts, this one had to be true'. She racked her brains trying to think of a solution.

Danny watched the girl, waiting for her next attack. He now knew that she couldn't do any real damage to him, so there was no point wasting his last bit of energy fighting back. Besides, she'd probably run off in a minute anyways – hopefully she had realised that he was much more powerful than her, and that he could easily waste her. Not that he actually would, but she didn't know that.

"Annie, what are we going to do now?" Ash shouted, flying back to his sisters' side. He too, had seen that his sister was no match for the half ghost. And now he was worried.

"You could just go home and leave me alone?" Danny asked, raising an eyebrow at the two ghosts.

"You wish." The boy sneered, before lunging towards Danny. He attacked the halfa in the best ways he could; kicking, biting and punching. When these proved unsuccessful, he started to pull at the hybrids hair, yanking it as hard as he could. Danny cried out in pain, and frantically tried to push the boy off him.

"Get- off – me!" Danny yelled. He kicked the boy hard in the stomach in a desperate attempt to get him to let go of his hair. But the boy just pulled harder, and Danny could feel the roots of his hair being painfully ripped away from his scalp. Ash refused to let go, knowing that he needed to cause the halfa as much pain as possible. Since he didn't really have any useful powers, the only way he could inflict pain on the older ghost was by using his hands.

Danny didn't really want to use his energy on the boy, as an attack from this close could be very dangerous for the other boy. But he had no choice, since the ghost wouldn't let go. He willed a small amount of energy into his hands, and used it to push Ash away from him. It had really only meant to be a small push, but he wasn't really thinking straight and it had come out a lot more powerful. Ash was hurtled away from him, screaming loudly as the blast forced him backwards.

Danny instantly flew towards the ghost to check if he was okay. He honestly hadn't meant to hurt him. "Are you alright?" He asked worriedly. Ash didn't respond, instead he doubled over and clutched his stomach tightly. "Ash, speak to me. Are you okay – I swear, I didn't mean to hurt you."

"I thought you said you were out of energy." The boy croaked. He slowly opened his eyes and stared up at the halfa who was now holding him. Danny cringed when he saw that the boy was clearly in a lot of pain.

"I was... uh... I am. I just needed you to get off me. I'm so sorry." He apologised. Ash just shook his head.

"You're not sorry. Don't lie to me." His growl was quickly replaced by a whimper as he felt another stab of pain from his abdomen. He looked down to see that the ball of ectoplasm had burnt a hole through his blue t-shirt and had left a deep nasty wound on his stomach. He winced and quickly looked away.

"Should I get you to a hospital? I don't know if there's such thing as a ghost hospital, uh."

"No point. I'm, like, going to die in a few minutes anyway. Well... die for real this time." The boy replied casually. He smiled to himself, knowing that the half ghost was clearly distressed. "I might as well have a bit of fun with this." He thought.

"What?" Danny gasped, looking at the boy in alarm. His eyes widened as he saw green wisps of smoke begin to come off the boys' body. "Stop! What's going on! Tell me I can help you!" Danny exclaimed, shaking the boy to try and get him to tell him something. When Ash just smiled, Danny panicked even more. "You're not going to die! Stop it!"

"Haha, you're like, so pathetic. Can't you handle the fact that you've just wasted me? " He grinned. The wisps of smoke began to collect around his body quicker, and within seconds his whole body was engulfed in a dark green mist.

"Stop it! I didn't waste you! I didn't even hit you that hard!" Danny cried. He was so distraught that he didn't notice that the boy had disappeared from within his grasp. Tears strolled down his cheeks as the realisation of what he had done hit him. "I killed him. I'm a murderer."

He had told himself that he would never use his powers for evil. No matter how powerful or evil the other ghost was, he would never try to kill it. He would always just trap it in his thermos and send it back to the Ghost Zone, hoping that it would have learnt his lesson. Nothing deserved to die, no question about it. What right did he have to take someone else's life? Just because he could, it didn't mean he should. Killing was wrong. Killing was evil.

He wasn't evil though, was he? It was just an accident, after all. It was just supposed to be a little push, just to get the boy off him. He had no choice – the boy wouldn't let go! He was tired, and didn't realise how much energy he was putting into the blast. He wasn't evil... It was an accident! "You can make excuses all you want. You still killed someone." His conscience whispered.

Ash materialized a few meters away from where Danny was sobbing. His sister, who had been unable to do anything the whole time, finally realised that her brother was okay and quickly rushed over to him. "What the... are you okay?" She asked quickly, checking her brother for any signs of serious injury.

"Yeah I'm totally fine! Well, my stomach, like, really hurts, but it'll heal soon." He reassured her. He wasn't expecting the hug from his sister and gasped when she held him tightly.

"I was so worried! You just disappeared; I thought the halfa wasted you."

"Ha, he couldn't hurt a fly! Have you seen how upset he is? He's like, crying because he thought he wasted me. Common, how pathetic is that?" Ash laughed.

"Aren't you worried that he'll be angry that you tricked him?" She asked, the worry still present in her tone.

"Nah, we'll be long gone before he finds out." He looked over to where Danny was still crying and added, "Besides, how many other ghosts can say that they made the notorious Danny Phantom cry?"