And here's the next chapter!

Finished for today to celebrate Canada Day! Hope everyone enjoys it, as well as everyone that's not Canadian =)

And for those who read my other story Star Gazing...that story will be updated as well. Just got to edit the chapter.

Hope you all like the chapter!

Chapter 25

The two powerful wizards wasted no time as they both traded blows with spells. Light flashed all around the hall as the spells bounced off shield or connected in mid air with each other.

Danny watched from the side trying desperately to steady his shaky breathe. His back continued to pulse in pain from the flames. His shoulder meanwhile was a deep red completely raw, stinging with pain.

'I'm lucky that I got hit in the shoulder' Danny thought blissfully, not even wanting to think about what could have happened if the spell hit something fatal, or his face.

Danny looked up, away from his shoulder and saw Voldemort and Dumbledore exchanging words.

"You do not seek to kill me? Above such brutality, are you?" Voldemort retorted.

"We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom." Dumbledore countered, appearing calm and controlled. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit-"

"There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore." Voldemort snarled.

"You are quite wrong. Indeed your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness" Dumbledore replied.

Voldemort looking like on the verge of exploding from pure anger, sent another jet of green light from his wand towards Dumbledore.

Dumbledore just stood his ground as the gold centaur jumped in front of green blast, exploding into pieces across the floor, before any of the pieces touched the ground, Dumbledore whipped out his wand creating a whip of fire, wrapping itself around Voldemorts white shield.

At first it looked as though Dumbledore had the upper hand but suddenly the flaming whip morphed into a flaming serpent. The serpent turned itself around towards Dumbledore, ready to strike. Dumbledore swiftly struck his wand towards the serpent, causing the snake to fade into black smoke.

Voldemort disappeared in a wisp of black mist. Reappearing in the pool where the five golden statues had stood and shot the killing curse towards Dumbledore.

"Look out!" Harry and Danny yelled.

At first it looked as though the spell would hit but Fawkes swooped in from above and took the curse into the mouth. In a burst of flame, the phoenix dropped down to the ground, small, wrinkled and flightless.

Dumbledore used this surprise to his advantage, quickly rising the water in the fountain to completely submerge Voldemort in a circular water prison.

Danny still on the wall, managing to gather enough energy to be floating in the air, mustered the cold energy from his ice core and shot the water cocoon, effectively freezing the cocoon.

Danny's tightened muscles loosened as he saw Voldemort frozen in place, mouth agape ready to yell a spell.

"It's over" Danny said with a sigh.

Dumbledore just stared at the frozen cocoon with a thoughtful eye, not lowering his wand for a second. "Don't be so sure"

Danny just looked at him with a raised eyebrow, and as though it was scripted the ice exploded revealing the ice cocoon to be empty. The teen bent his knees and got his ectoplasmic energy ready in his palms, watching the room for any sign of the dark wizard.

The side part of the brick wall started to break apart, shooting fast towards Danny and Dumbledore.

Danny quickly let off his ecto beam destroying a small part of the barrage, going intangible to get out of the way. Dumbledore meanwhile blocked the barrage with a shield spell.

The wood planks in the floor started to break and rise around Danny and Dumbledore. A sharp wind started to swirl around the halfa and wizard creating a cyclone of wind and sharp pieces of wood.

Dumbledore twirled his wand trying to stop the miniature tornado while Danny tried to stand his ground, tangible to protect himself from the wood.

Suddenly a red beam came towards Dumbledore through the cyclone. Danny flew as fast as he could, trying to get to Dumbledore in time. He collided into the old man's side causing him to fall to the floor out of the reach of the spell. The spell had just grazed the side of Danny's hair.

The typhoon continued to swirl with ferocity. Dumbledore swirled his arms trying to contain the twister, his eyes locked in concentration. Appearing out a black smoggy smoke was Voldemort standing across from Danny his red eyes blazing.

"Phantom, do not engage him." Dumbledore warned.

"I thought I had dealt with you spook." Voldemort told Danny ignoring Dumbledore.

Danny held his palms up, like in the western movies in a duel, his glowing green eyes staring right back at the red.

"Think again" Danny said arms rising for another ecto beam.

Danny shot the beam of ghostly energy towards the dark lord. Voldemort raised his wand and simply put up a shield charm. Voldemort flinched as the beam rebounded off the shield.

Danny followed up with a larger ecto beam that also hit the shield making Voldemort crouch in one knee, gasping for air.

Danny then flew towards Voldemort trying to catch him off guard.

"You're more powerful than you look, Phantom" Voldemort said sneering toward the ghost boy. "But let me show you true power!"

Voldemort raised his wand shooting off a powerful sound wave. Danny quickly weaved around it and shot more ecto blasts at Voldemort.

Voldemort disappeared through the black mist, reappearing behind Danny trying to use the same trick twice. But this time Danny was ready. Just as the 'scruge' spell was fired at Danny again, he did a quick manoeuvre up, dodging it. This caught Voldemort off guard. He built up the energy in his palm and fired it right into Voldemort's shoulder.

The dark lord yelled in pain as the ectoplasmic blast impacted into his shoulder, the heat of the energy burning off the shoulder on his robes. The master wizard gasped as steam came off his wound. He looked upward towards the halfa, anger resonating from him.

"You insolent little creature! You're going to pay!" Voldemort yelled.

Voldemort raised his wand towards Danny to retaliate, not before the banners of the hall flew towards him, wrapping around his body and mouth, constricting his movements. The soft banner then started to harden, as though they were turning into a hard rock or rock.

Standing behind Danny's floating form was Dumbledore with his wand lowering.

"MASTER!" Bellatrix yelled in vain, still pinned by the golden witch statue.

At the side was a pattering of footsteps coming towards Danny and Dumbledore. Harry had gotten by his golden guard and was running towards them.

"Harry, stay where you are!" Dumbledore warned. For the first time in the fight he sounded frightened.

Danny looked towards the now solid prison of Voldemort finding nothing of the ordinary from it.

'Isn't it over?' Danny thought confused.

Suddenly Harry fell down to the ground, screaming in pure agony. He clutched his head as though holding it would help the pain.

Both Dumbledore and Danny ran quickly to Harry's side.

Both checked over at Harry, he looked up at them weakly his green eyes straining to stay open. He gasped for air desperately hoping for some sort of relief.

"Kill me now, Dumbledore" Harry spoke lower and with a hiss.

Harry's eyes were now wide open with the same red as Voldemort's, masking Harry's brilliant green eyes.

"If death is nothing, Dumbledore, then kill the boy." Harry spoke again, his voice giving chills down Danny's spine.

Danny stared dumbfounded at scene not believing that Harry had been possessed by Voldemort.

"Harry, you got to fight it!" Dumbledore said urging Harry on.

"Dumbledore, I've got an idea on how to fight it." Danny said at the side.

"What do you have in mind?" Dumbledore said, staring seriously at Danny.

"I think I could get Voldemort out of Danny's body by overtaking Harry's body myself." Danny explained quickly, seeing Harry continue to whither in pain.

Dumbledore just shook his head. "Absolutely not. Voldemort is a master at Legilimency."

Dumbledore then turned his attention back to Harry, trying to support the teen with some emotional support to fight off Voldemort himself.

Danny watched as Harry continued to shake and shiver as if the pain was an unbearable cold. His neck cricked and cracked as it twisted inhuman towards Dumbledore and Danny, Harry's now red eyes staring at them.

"Dumbledore..." Harry said, smiling evilly towards them. "You've failed"

Harry under the control of the dark lord started to chuckle deeply, his arms grabbing towards his scar. Harry had tears started to prickle out the corners of his eyes, streaming slowly down his cheeks.

Danny watched at the side, trying to control himself from jumping in recklessly. He had been told by Dumbledore to not engage.

Dumbledore meanwhile spoke in Harry's ear trying to help all he can.

Just as Dumbledore finished saying something out of Danny's hearing, Harry screamed in agonizing pain, wishing for release. It was then that Danny snapped, and before Dumbledore could stop the halfa, Danny turned intangible and fazed into Harry's body.

What's going to happen next? Well, you'll have to find out next chapter...

Remember to review! Guess what you think is going to happen next or make a comment on the chapter.

IMPORTANT: I'd also like to say, that I have no plans on saving Sirius. I don't want to try and come up with some sort of ridiculous plot device. I want to respect the canon and find a new way of seeing this death from another perspective (Danny's POV). His death was necessary in the books, as it is in this story. You'll just have to wait a few chapters for an explanation from a certain all knowing ghost. (hint, hint ;D )

And once again. HAPPY CANADA DAY! =)

Until next time,

Prophet =P