NOTE: I am uploading two chapters at on the same day for a change. So you may not have read chapter 28 yet if you're reading this for the first time. This takes place AFTER the fight with Arkov, so if you have not read that part, flip back to Chapter 28. Thanks.

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"Seriously Tuck, what's making you smile so much?" Danny asked.

"You know, this isn't awful," Tucker said, still smiling.

Danny and Sam passed each other confused looks. Sam broke the silence by looking up at Tucker and asking, "What do you mean?"

"I mean, what's really wrong now?" Tucker asked as if he were in a utopia.

"What's wrong?" Danny asked lightly. "Oh, not much…except for…oh yeah, WE'RE DEAD!"

"So?" Tucker asked, sounding surprisingly carefree.

"So…we're dead," Sam said. "That's not a good thing, Tucker."

"What's so awful about it?" Tucker asked.

Danny and Sam looked at each other again. They were still very confused about what Tucker was talking about.

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Jazz sighed as she continued looking at the road signs pass by her. One sign really hit her hard when it said the cemetery was only about six miles away. It wouldn't be long at all before she said good-bye to Danny for the last time.

"Mom?" Jazz asked, finally speaking up.

"Yes, Jazz?" Maddie asked, turning around to look at her daughter in the back seat.

Jazz actually didn't know what she wanted to say, and she really didn't feel like talking about how it didn't feel right to say good-bye to Danny this early. She really wasn't ready.

"It's nothing," Jazz said, looking out the window as the trees and the road and other cars seemed to race past them.

Maddie gave Jazz an "are you okay?" look, but quickly resumed looking ahead and getting to the cemetery.

It wasn't long after when they finally got to the cemetery. Jazz got out of the car and glumly stood away from the car and her parents as they got out.

Jazz watched as the three caskets were unloaded and moved over to the graves where they would sit forever, hopefully in peace.

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"Yeah…" Danny said after a while of Tucker explaining. "Maybe being dead won't be so bad if it's like this."

"My point exactly," Tucker said. "I mean, it's just us, right?"

"No school, no homework, no chores…" Sam started, actually smiling a little.

"No more bullies, no more parents, no more waking up at the crack of dawn…and if a ghost comes around causes trouble, I'll have you guys to help me out now, right?" Danny stated.

"Of course," Sam said.

"Anything for you, man," Tucker said.

For the first time in a long while, Danny felt completely relaxed. He felt like he had nothing to worry about now. He thought that if he could just live as a ghost without any problems (aside from the occasional fight with another ghost) then maybe he'd be able to enjoy himself for once.

All three of them were caught up in the moment. For a small instant, all of them were happy and had nothing to worry about at all. They were the happiest they could ever remember being. They all had each other and they had no more things to worry about.

Life was going to be great from here on out for them.

Then, Danny's smile suddenly faded. He looked like he was really concerned about something.

"What is it, Danny?" Sam asked.

"Well, I'm just remembering something," Danny said really lowly, looking at the ground. "When this whole thing got started, I was told by Mist something about ghosts that I already knew, but…"

"What is it?" Tucker said. "What are you talking about?"

"Well, at the very beginning of all this, Mist told me that in order to become a ghost, someone has to have a strong will or a strong desire to do something when they die," Danny explained.

Sam and Tucker weren't sure where Danny was getting this.

"What's that got to do with anything?" Tucker asked.

"You see…I'm an exception because I'm already part ghost," Danny said. "So when I die, I was going to have a ghost anyway. But you guys didn't have that; you had to have a strong will or a strong urge to do something in order to become a ghost."

Sam and Tucker looked like they were a little concerned. They now thought they knew what Danny was getting it.

"So…what was it?" Danny asked. "What did you guys really want or really want to do that kept you from being able to just rest in peace if you got killed?"

"Well, I really wanted to win the science fair!" Tucker said brightly. He pulled his voice distorter out of his pocket. "I really thought I could win with this!"

Tucker put the voice distorter up to his mouth and started talking into it. "Don't you think I could have won with this?" he asked, his voice totally changing into something that sounded deeper and raspier.

"Yeah, I guess I…wait, was that the voice you had when you were passing yourself off as that cloaked Deathbringer?" Danny asked.

"Yeah," Tucker said. "You'd have recognized our voices in a heartbeat, so I thought I'd use this to disguise it. It worked rather well, if I do say so myself."

"Heh," Danny snickered. "I was wondering how you got your voice to sound that like."

Danny turned to Sam who looked really nervous.

"Well, Sam, how about you?" Danny asked. "What did you want to do that kept your spirit from resting?"

"Actually…" Sam said very uneasily, "It was something I kinda wanted to tell you. I've wanted to tell you this for a long time, but I never actually found the guts to."

Danny started listening very carefully to what Sam wanted to say.

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Jazz was staring at the open caskets of Sam, Danny and Tucker. Their graves were right next to each other, which was (once again) what the parents thought the kids would like the best.

Sam's casket was the first to be closed. Sam's parents were standing over the body in the casket as they said their final, tearful goodbyes to their daughter. When they said they were ready, the casket closed up, creating a loud and final sound as the wood came into contact with the main part of the coffin.

Danny came next. Jack and Maddie hovered over their son's open body in the casket and said their final goodbyes and how they were really proud of him and how they were going to miss him so much.

"Jazz?" the priest asked, who had accompanied them to the burial, "Is there something you'd like to say?"

"Yeah," Jazz said. She walked over to her brother in his casket.

"Danny…" she started. "I just want you to know that I'm going to miss you very much and I'll always be here for you. Always. You were a great little brother-the best I could have asked for. We may have had our agreements and disagreements over the years, but I love you and I always will."

Jazz didn't know what else to say. There was so much more she wanted to say, but she thought it was all summarized in what she had just said.

"Is that all?" the priest asked.

"Yeah," Jazz boldly said.

The priest nodded and went over to Danny's casket and closed it. Jazz watched as the last bit of Danny was separated from her sight by the wooden door on the casket.

"Good-bye…Danny," Jazz said softly.

"Mr. and Mrs. Foley?" the priest said, smiling as he turned to Tucker's parents. "Your turn.

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"Really?" Danny asked. "What did you want to tell me?

Sam gulped and she looked like she wasn't ready to tell Danny what she wanted to tell him, which was the only thing that kept her ghost from not existing.

"You see…I…" Sam stuttered.

"Hey, what's up with the machine?" Tucker asked.

Danny and Sam looked up and saw the machine Arkov had used to extract all the power from the dead ghosts was starting to act strangely.

"What the?..." Danny asked. "I thought Arkov broke it…"

"Guess not," Sam said.

Danny got up and went over to the machine and started inspecting it. The machine was shaking and was making a few random beeps and other clicking sounds.

"What's this?" Danny asked as he looked at a small knob.

"Danny, what is it?" Sam asked.

"It looks like this thing got beat pretty bad and…whoa, whoa, whoa, what's this?"

Danny looked at a knob and saw it was set to ABSORB.

"Is this for absorbing power?" Danny asked. Suddenly, his eyes widened. He looked like he had a great idea.

"Wait a minute!" Danny yelled. "This thing can take life from ghosts, right?" he said excitedly as he turned to Sam and Tucker.

"Yeah, that's what it's for. Why?" Tucker asked.

"There's a reverse knob on it!" Danny yelled.

"What?" Sam asked. "Why would they put a reverse knob there?"

"It must be in case one of them got carried away with absorbing power. I guess the other Deathbringers didn't trust Arkov with this too much, either," Danny said. "In case he went too out of control, they'd have the ability to take the power from him!"

"Danny, what are you getting so excited about?" Tucker asked, starting to smile.

"Guys, don't you see?!" Danny yelled even louder with more excitement. "If this thing has the power to take life from a ghost then…guys, get over here, quick!"

"What?" Sam asked. "What are you talking about?"

"Just get over here! Come on, hurry!" Danny yelled, beckoning them to come to him.

Sam and Tucker ran over to Danny and grabbed onto his hand. Danny started fiddling with the machine and set everything on REVERSE that could possibly go to that setting.

When everything was set, Danny hit the START button.

Instantly, the machine started up, but it seemed to be acting very different now. As Danny, Sam and Tucker were touching it, they all started to glow the same blinding shade of white that Arkov's blasts of energy were.

"Danny, what's going on?" Tucker yelled, starting to get a little scared.

"It's putting life back into us!" Danny yelled with excitement rising in every syllable. "It's restoring us!"

Suddenly, the bright light consumed all three of them, and they all disappeared in the blink of an eye.

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"…and so we bid farewell to Tucker Foley," the priest said sorrowfully as they closed the lid on his casket. Now all three caskets were closed and ready to be buried.

But just as Tucker's casket closed, a bright white light was seen coming from inside of it.

"What the…?" the priest asked.

"Hey! Someone open up this thing!" came a voice from inside Tucker's casket.

Everyone's faces dropped and their eyes widened more than ever. They flipped the casket open and saw Tucker in there, alive and smiling at all of them.

"Hey! Did ya miss me?" he asked.

Tucker's parents shrieked with glee and happiness as they pulled their son out of the casket. They all started giving him hugs. Then something happened.

"Hey! Don't forget us!" a voice called from Danny's casket.

Jazz gasped. She ran over to it and opened it up and Danny was alive in his as well.

"DANNY!" she yelled, tears running down her face.

Jack and Maddie ran over to their son as well and helped him out of his casket. When he was back on his two feet again, they all gave each other a warm hug that seemed to last forever.

Hoping for the best, Sam's parents ran over to her casket and opened it up. They opened it up and Sam was in there, but she shielded herself.

"Hey! Don't let that sun in here!" she said, trying to keep the sun out of her eyes.

"Sam!" they both yelled. They pulled her out of the casket and hugged her as well.

All six parents were happier than they had ever been. They were hugging each other non stop and the smiles never disappeared from their faces for even a split second.

Jazz ran over to Danny and gave him a big hug. She gripped him so hard he thought she was going to break them in half.

"Yeah, yeah, I love you, too," Danny plainly yet lovingly said as he put his arms around her.

After that, Danny went over to Sam and Tucker and they all gave each other high fives and hugged one another as well.

This was the happiest moment that any of them had ever experienced. The hugs and the tears didn't stop for a very long time.

The priest was in disbelief, but he was smiling as well. (As well as very, very confused)

The kids knew how they were back to life, but the parents didn't. And they honestly didn't care.

"Guess it was a mistake all along?" Tucker said, trying to explain how they came back to life.

The families still continued hugging and embracing each other. All the tension between the Mansons, the Foleys and the Fentons was gone. The families were finally at peace again.

For five minutes there was nothing except hugs and smiles. Finally, it stopped and everyone just looked at one another.

"This calls for a celebration!" Jack said.

As if expecting something, all the parents started following him back to his car like he was taking them somewhere.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Tucker yelled as he ran after the parents.

Sam started walking after them as well before Danny stopped her.

"Wait, Sam," he called as he put his arm out.

"What?" Sam asked as she turned around. She walked back over to Danny until they were only inches from each other's face. "What is it?"

"What was it that you wanted to tell me?" Danny asked.

THE END

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There you have it. There's Deathbringers as it comes to its close. I hope you all enjoyed reading it. It was fun to write and makes for one more story under my belt.

Thank you very much to all my reviewers. You guys really gave me the motivation to want to continue and I owe all my motivation to you guys. Thank you for all your reviews. While it came to a disappointing total, the feedback you guys gave me felt really good to read.

Now I think I'll launch into my obligatory lecture about how I came up with the idea for this story. Back in September I thought about a story that would really grip everyone's attention after how I was able to do it with Revelations and Revenge. But I didn't have any ideas, so I thought about having Sam and Tucker get killed off at the very beginning and have the story take off from there.

And around August, I watched a parody video on the internet that made fun of a group of villains that I liked a lot, and I thought to myself, Hmmm, instead of having a bunch of separate villains, why not have them all working within one group towards a common goal? And then I decided to give all the members of the group (It didn't take me long at all to come up with the name "The Deathbringers") their own unique personality. I realized I had made almost every single villain in any one of my DP stories a scary and intimidating looking figure, and if you ask me, when you do that over and over, it loses its charm. So I instead decided to make the bad guys different (except Arkov-he stayed true to the way I normally made villains) to make them more interesting.

I just continued planning everything through, but in July I saw the ending to a story that looked like it would have a "kind of" happy ending, but at the end one last twist happened that made the ending very happy.

From then on, I thought, "Hey, why not make the ending like that? What's wrong with having a very happy ending every once in a while?" So like with Revelations and Revenge, I used the work-backwards method where I started with where I wanted the story to end and I tried to make everything leading up to how I wanted it to end.

I decided that to do that, I'd have Danny, Sam and Tucker all dead. That was where I got inspired to "kill" Danny off around the middle and have them all be together in death and look like it was a happy ending, but then make one last thing to make it one of the happiest endings I've written.

Well, I think that's enough ranting now. Now for some more serious news. For a lot of you this probably won't matter too much, but to my long time reviewers, (particularly Leppers and Christoph) this might be a bit of a shocker. I'm done with fanfictions.

Please understand guys. Don't get me wrong. I've had a lot of fun writing here for fifteen and a half months and realizing the kind of stories I'm capable of writing. These have been the longest and most processed stories I've ever written, and I'm proud of them. But then I became upset when I truly realized that I was making these with somebody else's characters. That was an upsetting thought. I wanted to go back to writing original stories, and writing The End of Time in October made me remember the fun days of writing with my own characters.

But that wasn't the main driving force. To be perfectly honest, I've had my mind made up since August that I was going to be done with fanfictions. I was going to leave after writing Tales of Tiberia, but I remembered that I promised everyone back in May I'd write one more Danny Phantom story. So, here it is. I didn't want to say anything about me leaving, though, out of fear that maybe you guys wouldn't be able to enjoy the stories as much if you knew they'd be over.

But I'm not done writing at all. In fact, thanks to fanfiction and you guys, I'm just getting started. I'm just going to a different site, is all. (that site is I'll now be writing for that and I'll be keeping my pen name of Velkan the Impaler. I look forward to writing there, which hopefully will be very soon. (Although first I've got to get an idea formed, and trust me, I have a LOT of them)

Once again, thank you very much to all you guys for reviewing my story and thank you to Leppers and Christoph for sticking with me for over six months. If you guys don't review my stories on fictionpress (I have no idea when the first one will go up) then I want you guys to know I'll miss your reviews and that I'm very grateful for them.

Don't think I haven't had fun writing Deathbringers, because I have. It's been a lot of fun, but now it's time to move on.

Thank you so much everyone.

Yours truly,

Velkan the Impaler.

Saturday, December 16, 2006. 6:45 p.m. EST