*dances around wildly* I feel really happy! I don't know why! Maybe it's because I have this chapter all ready to go! I'll stop shouting like a maniac and let you read!

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or anything related to him! But this story plot is my own idea!

Danny's POV~ first person

Mr. Lancer and Mrs. Tetslaff began telling the fire chief what'd happened. I ignored them and gaped at the burning building. She has to be okay, she just has to. Something near the front of what used to be Casper High caught my eye. It was a pink, foggy swirl. I frowned. The smoke must be messing with my head, but that looked so familiar.

And then, all of a sudden, without warning, the school exploded.

I hit the ground, half because of the force of the explosion, half because of instincts.

Slowly and dizzily, I stood up. I saw a green-white comet shoot into the sky, but I figured the smoke was still in my system. That couldn't be real. Then I looked at the remnants of the school. Fire still spread around, but was being put out by the firefighters. I keeled over and onto my knees as dread hit me like a meteorite.

If she had been alive before, she wasn't alive now…

I was devastated.

The shock of the whole ordeal kept me from running into the rubble, screaming like a psycho, throwing around debris looking for Danielle.

She can't be dead, she can't be.

I stared up into the sky. The green-white comet had disappeared. I wondered what that was. But that was irrelevant. Nobody would've been able to survive that explosion.

At least she already knows what it's like to be a ghost…

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz were just as speechless as I was, staring at the sky and the smoldering ruins. I couldn't believe it. Who would have done that? Who would've dared to cause a fire at a high school? Who would've even considered putting the highly flammable Ectoranium in the building? I couldn't think of anybody off of the top of my head, not with this trauma I had witnessed.

All of a sudden, I noticed something in the sky. I squinted to make out what it was. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned around. There stood my parents, babbling like idiots, but I can't blame them. Dani should've been with me.

"If- if you want to know where Danielle is…" I managed to make out, "…she's- she's gone. There was no way she could've survived that explosion."

My parents just stared at me in disbelief. I looked at them with my icy blue eyes. I couldn't stand looking at their devastated faces, so I turned back around. But then, I became aware of something. That green-white comet was back, but hurtling toward Earth. My eyes widened as the comet hit the ground with tremendous force, right where the remains of the school were. The comet caused so much dust to get kicked up that I was blinded. I coughed wildly, unable to control it. I collapsed on the ground, unable to move.

Finally the dust cleared and I stumbled to my feet. I was so curious about what that comet was that I was the first (and only) person to run down into the newly made crater. I couldn't stand not knowing what it was. But I soon skidded to an abrupt halt.

Because there, in the center of that crater, was the crumpled body of Danielle Fenton.

I blinked, trying to process what I was seeing.

Danielle had been that comet?

I raced down to her body, not knowing if she was still alive. I could feel tears welling up in my eyes. I knelt down beside her and pulled her head onto my lap. Salty tears dropped onto her cut, scorched face.

And all of a sudden, I wasn't there anymore.

I was running through the halls of Casper High, the fire right on my tail. I looked down at myself. Or rather should I say Danielle. I was in her body, which was perfectly fine. I'd overshadowed her hundreds of times.

"Goin' ghost," I croaked. The rings traveled their ways, changing me into my ghost form.

I heard her thoughts, felt her pain, everything. I realized that this was a memory. This was when she was in the school.

I reached the lobby. Long banners hung from the rafters up above. I continued to the doors, but stopped abruptly. Fire was covering the exits. I whirled around to the three halls branching off from the lobby. Maybe I could go down one of them. But to my dismay, all three were flaming too. And the fire was coming straight for me.

I felt her dread as she realized that she was most likely going to die. I wanted to phase her through the flames so badly, to get her out of this mess, but I had no control. Plus, this had already happened.

"No!" I screamed. I didn't want to die. I couldn't die.

You're not gonna die! I wanted to tell her. I wanted to do so many things, but was helpless. I couldn't do anything except listen to her and feel her pain. She jumped up onto a banner and swung onto one of the rafters. And then, I saw the barrel of Ectoranium.

All of a sudden, it dawned on me what that barrel contained. I didn't have to see the label.

She and I both knew the same thing at the exact same time.

As soon as that fire got to it, the barrel would explode.

I wanted to scream at her to run, but it was no use. She didn't move until it was too late.

There was a deafening explosion, and I was blown sky high.

And I was back in the crater, cradling my limp little sister. I checked her pulse. It was very slow, but there. I put my head against hers.

"Don't leave me, Dani," I whispered. She had just saved her own life. She had to pull through now. She couldn't just leave me and Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and my parents.

I was barely aware that my parents and some paramedics had joined me. I bit my lip. I knew that they were going to want to take Danielle away from me. I just couldn't let go of her. I hadn't lost her. I wouldn't lose her.

"Danny," one of the medics said gently. I didn't know how they knew my name, but my parents could've easily told them. "We need to take Danielle to the hospital so that she can get proper treatment."

I stiffened at the word 'hospital'. What if they needed to take a sample of her DNA? We'd find ourselves with the Guys In White before we could even plead not guilty.

"You can't," I said. "You just can't." I couldn't leave her alone for one second now that I knew that she was alive. And then I had another flashback.

It was a while ago. Danielle had to defeat a powerful ghost named Undergrowth all by herself. She was the only one who could, because she had just gotten ice powers, but I hadn't. I had the Ghostly Wail though, so I considered it fair. I was reluctant to let her go off by herself.

No, Dani, you can't!

You know I have to, Danny.

I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if you got hurt.

You might be causing me to get hurt by keeping me here. How do you know?

That situation was practically an exact replica of what was happening now. I knew I would never forgive myself if she died, but keeping her with me was probably making the situation worse. I sniffled back a sob. I stood up, holding Danielle bridal style. I closed my eyes and held her out to the paramedic. I had no choice.

"Take her."

I felt her weight get lifted off of my arms and I opened my eyes. Everybody gravitated toward the medic holding the near-dead Dani. I just dropped to my knees, wondering how bad of an older brother this made me.

"Yes, yes, it's a tragedy, isn't it?" an all-too-familiar voice said behind me. I whirled around to face the last person that I wanted to see right now.

"You!"

Whew! That's the longest chapter I've ever written. I'm not sure if I know what I've just typed. But I'm getting better at these cliffhangers! I didn't want to make it too obvious about who the mystery person (or is it a ghost?) was… but some of you might've already figured it out. Keep reading and reviewing, my precious readers!

Adieu for now

-dani