A/N: Gasp my comp works now! YAY! Anyway, major thanx to my brother for messing with it earlier, 'cause now it works! W00T! Um, yeah… the Plasmius that was at their house was evil Danny, just to let you guys coughcakreut12cough know. ;) ON WITH CHAPPY 13!

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He must have heard me, because he looked over at us, smirked, and said, "Hey, kids, c'mon in." I knew that smirk; it was a scary smirk, a smirk that obviously said, "This-smirk-is-to-say-just-try-to-go-against-me-and-I'll-kill-you." Clearly, my friends knew that, too. We all trudged inside. As we did, I noticed Mom's car was gone. I also remembered that the book was downstairs.

"You should have cast it earlier, Alex," Alan hissed at me.

"I know, Alan," I whispered back.

"You kids should go downstairs," Plasmius said, "except you, Alex." Alan stopped, too, and the others went downstairs. "Just you."

"I'll be fine, Alan," I whispered to my twin, "just get it ready!" He nodded, then went downstairs, leaving me alone with Plasmius. "What do you want?"

"A fight," he answered, "one-on-one, and you don't have your spell book to help you."

"I don't need my spell book to beat you."

"You seem to forget that I have had my powers for twenty years. (A/N: Seem familiar? ) You can't beat me!"

"Just watch me." My eyes glowed light blue, and I went into ghost-mode. The weird thing is, it wasn't my normal ghost-mode. I had on a black dress that went down to the floor. (Even when I was floating!) A piece of light blue fabric was sewn to the waist and covered the skirt. The top was strapless and came up to my neck where it wrapped around like a necklace. The back was bare to my mid-back, and I had white gloves on that went from my shoulders to my middle finger, which they wrapped around like a ring. From the wrists, the same kind of light blue fabric from the skirt hung down. I also had light blue slippers. My white hair was swept up in a tight ponytail that went down to my thighs and was extremely curly. A few wisps of hair framed my face, the shorter ones light blue and the longer ones black. I felt extremely strong, and I couldn't have been happier when I saw a slight flicker of fear from that confident smirk. I ran forward and threw a punch, but Plasmius dodged. I actually had to pull my hand out of a five-inch crater I left in the wall.

"What on earth—? What's going on?" Plasmius yelled.

"Let me explain, my name is Erai Phantom."

"No! You're not supposed to be this powerful until you're sixteen!"

"Alexandria made an exception." I blasted him with a beam sooo strong, it knocked Plasmius through the floor into the basement. I flew in behind him and yelled to the others, "Hold him down! I need to cast it!"

From upstairs, I heard a car door open and close then the front door. It was beginning to rain. "Hello? Anyone home?" it was Mom. "OH MY GOSH, WHAT HAPPENED IN HERE?" She had obviously just seen the room I had trashed fighting Plasmius.

"MOM, COME DOWN HERE!" I yelled. She nearly ran down the steps towards me. "Look, I need your help to cast it." I put out my right hand. "Hold onto my hand with both of yours and close your eyes." She did as I said. I could see Dad in the Mid-Portal. "Alright, here it goes.

"Long thought dead, now we shall see,

"You can come back using the powers within me,

"With help from the one who loves thee,

"I ask you know to merge with he!

"But not just merge, for he is bad,

"For you to become like him would make us sad,

"So now, I hope, you'll make him mad,

"And return to the body you once had!"

Dad glowed light blue, as did Plasmius, but suddenly, Dad screamed and the floor beneath him fell away. He grabbed onto the edge of the Portal with his fingertips. "DAD!"

"DANNY!" Mom yelled. We both ran to the Portal and got on our hands and knees. I could see Dad holding on as tightly as he could. There was a distant look on his face as he stared up at the sky light. Turning around, I could see the rain pouring onto it. Suddenly, a song popped into my head.

Staring out at the rain with a heavy heart

It's the end of the world in my mind

"No, Dad!" I yelled. I turned to Mom, "Help me pull him up!" Back to Dad, "C'mon, Dad, we can do this!"

Then your voice pulls me back like a wake up call

I've been looking for the answer

Somewhere

I couldn't see that it was right there

But now I know what I didn't know

"One, two, three, PULL!" Mom and I pulled, but it didn't work. "C'mon, Dad! You've gotta believe in yourself! You can do this, I know you can! One, two, three, PULL!"

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky

We pulled again, and this time, Dad helped. He landed on the floor of the lab, still glowing, as was Plasmius. Then, it was Plasmius's turn to scream as he was pulled towards Dad. (Kinda like the way ghosts are pulled towards the Fenton Thermos.) The rain outside stopped. Dad glowed bright white, then he was back to normal. Except, of course, for one thing.

"I—I'M ALIVE!"

It's alright, I survived, I'm alive again

Cuz of you, made it through every storm

"C'mon, Alex, Sam," Dad said, grabbing the two of us by our wrists, going ghost, and phasing us through the ceiling and into the night sky. "There's sooo much we could be doing! But first, I think we should have some kinda family trip! Or—or—" Mom silenced Dad by kissing him. As they pulled apart, Dad gasped, "Or, we could do that."

What is life, what's the use if you're killing time

Dad turned to look me straight in the eye. "You're really amazing, you know that? Everything you did, everything you went through to get me out of there. Almost like you're my… guardian angel." He turned to Mom, "Both of you."

I'm so glad I found an angel

Someone

Who was there when all my hopes fell

I wanna fly, looking in your eyes

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky

Because you live, I live

"I thought I had lost the most important battle of my life! But, you guys pulled me through." I could tell Alan was hovering behind us. "I'm gonna make sure nothing bad happens to anyone in this family, ever again."

Because you live there's a reason why

I carry on when I lose the fight

I want to give what you've given me always

"Look," Mom said, "you can see the stars!"

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky

There were thousands of stars, even a few shooting stars, but, by the look on Dad's face, he could see a LOT more than we could.

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has everything I need to survive

Because you live, I live, I live

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A/N: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, what a happy ending! How cute! Well, keep your eye out for the Epilogue: Where Are They Know? By the way: I do NOT own the song "Because You Live", it belongs to Jesse McCartney, it just fit REALLY well in this chappy! Bye, y'all!