A/N: This book has gotten lots of reviews, and I'm sad that this is the last chapter in it. Especially because it will probably be a while until I think of what to write next in AIA. If you have any ideas, please let me know. I just need to think of some fillers until Danny escapes for the last time. Okay, I'm gonna stop before I give you too much info on that. Anyway, I just wanted to thank all the wonderful people out there who stuck with me through this story, and I'll give a prize to whoever can give me a good filler for AIA! Please?
Okay, well, I'll see you after the chappy! By the way: this chappy is kinda dramatic/angsty/sad especially for Danny and the Larsons. So, have some tissues in hand.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the plot…wait, yes, I do! It's the Danny Phantom series that I don't own. I also don't own any lines from Miss Congeniality (good movie, by the way!)
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"Hellen!" the twins and Danny yelled.
"Yes," Plasmius said, "she'll be fine if Daniel would kindly come here."
"I'll come," Danny said, "but it won't be kindly!" All three changed to their ghost-modes.
"Hellen," Flare said, "remember that movie we saw? S.I.N.G.!"
Hellen, smiling evilly, elbowed Plasmius in the stomach, then stepped on his foot's instep, turned around, punched his nose, and kicked him between the legs. Plasmius fell down, but he got up again quickly. Hellen ran over to Flare and they hugged. The boys snickered.
"May I help?" Hellen asked.
"Sure!" Flare replied.
"Element: Wind, Hurricane!" Hellen yelled. A big wind started and spun around her, transforming her into Hurricane. When it disappeared, she was wearing an outfit almost identical to Flare's, only every red thing was green.
"Let's go!" Tide yelled. He fired off some water at Plasmius, Flare blasted some fire at him, Hurricane shot some high-powered wind, and Danny attacked with some ectoplasm. Plasmius raised a shield and deflected all the blasts. The others ran for cover as Plasmius barraged them with ectoplasm.
"This isn't going too well!" Danny said.
"DUH!" the siblings yelled. Hurricane peeked out to see if the coast was clear because there wasn't any more ectoplasm flying. A stray blast hit her dead-on, and she changed back to normal.
"Oh no!" she said. She ran behind Flare.
Plasmius laughed, "One down, three to go!"
Danny got very angry. He jumped into the air and started fighting Plasmius like a madman. Flare turned to Hellen and said, "Go over there and stay over there!" Hellen obeyed and stayed by the wall.
Flare and Tide flew up to help Danny, but they could see he didn't need it. He was beating Vlad!
Then, Plasmius sent a very powerful blast of ectoplasm at Danny, who was caught off-guard and sent flying into a wall. Danny thought that Hellen, Tide, and Flare had left, so he charged the biggest ball of ectoplasm he could. He closed his eyes to help him concentrate.
Meanwhile, Tide charged his own beam at Plasmius from the side. Hellen crept away from the wall and behind Plasmius so Tide wouldn't hit her. Little did they know….
Danny shot his beam at the same time Tide did. Tide's got there first because he was closer. The beam hit Plasmius and knocked him into a wall. Danny's kept going past Plasmius. A loud scream from Hellen made Danny realize his mistake.
"No…," he said, "HELLEN!"
Flare had seen the whole thing from the sidelines. To her, it looked like Danny had done it on purpose. She started crying and shoved Tide away when he tried to comfort her. She ran over to Hellen as Vlad stood up. Flare cradled her poor, dear, now :sob: dead sister, whom she had always loved more than she showed, in her arms.
"Son," Plasmius said, looking at the two girls, "you will pay for hurting my family!" He flew off.
"Danny," Tide said, "what happened?"
Danny sank to his knees as he went back to human-mode. "I—I don't know," he whispered, looking at the sobbing Flare and the late-Hellen, "I just don't know…"
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A few days later.
The ride home had been very tense and very quiet, which was strange considering the vast amount of people in the car. Fé and Danny had sat as far away from each other as possible, each staring out the window the whole time. They both were deep in thought, though each were thinking very, very, very, very, VERY different things.
Danny was thinking, What did I do? How could I destroy their family like that? They hate me now. I need to be more careful next time. What am I thinking? There shouldn't—no, can't be a next time. I need to make sure no one else is around if I ever try something like that again
Fé, on the other hand, was thinking, How dare he! He hurt my family! He hurt Hellen! He hurt me! Oooh, he's gonna pay, I'll make sure of that! The whole thing is his fault. Daniel Fenton, you'd better watch out, because if dear Uncle Vlad doesn't kill you, then boy, I will. And trust me, it won't be pretty. It won't be clean, either. I'm a gore-fan, and it really shows when I fight. So watch out, Fenton!
When they had gotten back home, Ty was the only Larson kid to say good-bye to Danny. The others thought he was as responsible for Hellen's death as Fé did.
Danny told Sam and Tuck that Vlad had killed Hellen. He couldn't stand lying to his friends, but he thought them hating him would be worse. This afternoon, the Larsons left Amity Park without saying good-bye to anyone. Danny wasn't surprised, but Sam and Tuck were.
"Why'd they just leave?" Tuck asked. "I thought they were our friends!"
"Yeah," Sam said, "friends don't do that! They don't go and stab you in the back like that for no reason!"
Danny felt a pang of guilt and yelled at Sam, "Maybe they had a good reason! Maybe they couldn't stop it!" Here he got quieter, "Maybe it wasn't their fault…"
"Danny, are you okay?" Sam asked.
"No," Danny answered, "I'm not. I'm gonna go home, okay? See you tomorrow."
"Bye Danny," Tuck said quietly as Danny ran home.
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Danny's house.
Danny ran into his house and slammed the door behind him. He leaned against it and sighed. I won't tell them, he thought. They won't understand! No one will ever understand… I told them it was an accident. Why didn't they believe me?
FLASHBACK (Danny's POV)
It was the day we were leaving Vlad's house. It was the day after "The Accident," as I officially named it. I wanted to tell Ty and Fé that it was all a big mistake, so I walked around the castle looking for them.
When I finally found them, they were with all their brothers and sisters. Fé was telling them what had happened.
"Ty was trying to weaken Vlad," she was saying, "by shooting him from the side. Neither of us noticed Hellen behind Vlad. Danny shot at Vlad from in front, but since Ty's bot to Vlad first, Danny's kept going and hit Hellen. That's how she died.
"I've got this feeling, though, that Danny knew that Ty's shot would get there first. I think Danny meant to kill Hellen!"
From where I was standing outside the door, I yelled, "NO, I DIDN'T!" I clapped my hand over my mouth, but the damage was done. Everyone had heard me and came outside the room.
"What do you mean, 'No, I didn't'?" Fé asked.
"I mean," I began, "that it was an accident! I had closed my eyes to concentrate and didn't see Ty's shot hitting him! I didn't know that Hellen was behind Vlad! IT WAS ALL A BIG ACCIDENT!"
"Yeah, right," Fé said, "you did it all on purpose! You never did like Hellen—"
"I didn't even know Hellen! I had only just met her, so I hardly knew her at all! Why can't you trust me?"
"Because you killed Hellen!" Fé screamed. "Fenton, you will PAY!" I ran out of there as fast as possible.
END FLASHBACK (Normal POV)
"It wasn't my fault," Danny whispered to himself. "It was all just an accident. They'll see that soon enough. I highly doubt she'll keep a grudge.
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Voldy's lab.
Danny hugged his knees to his chest and cried upon remembering the accident from last year. "It wasn't my fault…," he whispered as he cried himself back to sleep.
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A/N: Okay! That was The End for this story:Sob, sob: I'll miss you all! Anyway, I'll get back to writing AIA as soon as I think of how to start the next chappy for it. Luv y'all! Bye!