Hello everyone. I apologize for the long time it took to update, but I've been very busy. There's barely anytime to myself anymore. Hopefully this is only temporary.

Disclaimer: Do I own Danny Phantom? HECK NO!!! Wish I did, but I don't. All I own is the idea for this fic and the made-up characters.

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Chapter 15 –Tongue Tied

"I don't understand it. It makes no sense."

The doctor exclaimed t himself as he entered Danny's room with Tuck and Sam still visiting.

"What makes no sense?"

Tuck asked first as the doctor looked Danny over rather confused

"What makes no sense is you shouldn't be here."

"You mean I can go?"

Danny asked hopefully. His answer was the doctor's nod.

"Why, yes. According to your latest test, you're at 100 percent health. I am confused though. Yesterday you were coma bound."

"Miracles happen."

Danny shrugged. Only to get the doctors skeptical glance.

"I suppose so."

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In just one hour later, Danny, Sam and Tucker exited the front doors of the hospital, forever grateful that they did not have to stay any longer than they had to. Tucker and Sam were filling Danny in with the details at what has been going on at school and with his family during the past four days.

"I still can't believe your own dad tried to kill you."

"Knock it off Tucker. It was an accident."

"Yeah, so he says..."

Tucker was instantly lifted off the ground by his color held by Sam.

"Do I have to beat it into you?! Show some compassion for once in your life!"

"I do everyday...with computers..."

Sam threw Tucker to the ground and he landed with a heavy thud about ten feet away.

"Jerk."

"I heard that!"

"Hey, you two. Quite."

Danny hushed his two friends suddenly. His Phantom Breath escaped his mouth, but before he had a chance to do anything, a strange rope appeared out of nowhere and ensnared Danny within a crushing grip.

"What the?"

At the other end of the rope, was a strange half snake, half man ghost. It was then Danny knew what the rope really was. It was this Ghost's tongue!

"Eww. That's just gross."

Sam commented seeing Danny literally tongue tied.

"Fear me Phantom. I am Thrash. Your slayer."

Danny felt squeezed as the long tongue around him tightened.

"Urk... I don't think...so."

With a quick flash. Danny went ghost. He struggled for a moment, and then noticed something wrong.

"I can't go intangible."

"That's right Phantom. I am a Ghost Consumer. Phantasmic energies have no effect once my tongue catches its prey."

Tucker reached into his backpack, however, before he could grab the Fenton thermos, a green blast of ghost energy exploded under his back, knocking it some thirty to forty feet away.

"Try anything, and your friend gets hurt."

Both Sam and Tuck froze. It was bad enough to endure Danny in the hospital once. They do not want to tolerate it again.

"Sam...Tuck...Get back..."

Danny ordered under the influence of the incredible crushing force of the ghost's large tongue. How could his body withstand it?

-Damn... It hurts... more than I thought...how can I... break free...?-

He felt himself move as the tongue drew him closer to its owner's mouth. Like a snake, the ghost unhinged its jaws to take all of Danny in at one time.

"STOP IT!!!"

Sam screamed, tears swelled in her eyes.

"Let him go! Stop it!"

"You, child, are in no such compulsion to order anything from me."

"Damn it! I said let him go!"

The ghost then looked at Sam with intent. Something about this girl struck a unique interest in him. But still, she was human. How could she express such emotion for this ghost he was about to devour?

"Can this boy really mean that much to you?"

He asked keenly, already knowing the answer.

"Well not to worry. Very soon you will join him very soon indeed. He won't be alone in purgatory."

"NO!!!"

The moment Sam screamed, the moment Thrash had Danny inches from his jaws, the moment Tucker turned away, mortified, all time froze for the span of an instant. Green fires erupted about Thrash like a series of miniature volcano chains. Ghost energies flooded upward to shower Thrash within its might. Many things happened at once. As Thrash was thrown back, he lost his hold on Danny Phantom, who slipped free from his capture. A series of green fireworks were displayed along the ground as Thrash threw his arms up and wrap himself within the safety of his tongue in order to endure the attack. As the green energies subsided, Thrash uncoiled himself and burned his eyes at Danny.

"HOW DARE YOU STRIKE ME SUCH A WAY!!! I WILL ENJOY CRUNCHING YOUR FACE OFF!!!"

-But I didn't do that.-

Danny was barely able to get to his feet when Thrash was standing over him, ready to strike the fatal blow.

As Thrash's mouth opened wide once more, again, green fires exploded around him. This time, it was far more than a warning. Green ghost energies burned around the snake ghost and ignite at his body. Thrash threw his arms up to smolder the fires around him.

"Heed not my warning foul one?"

A really familiar voice said as a cloaked ghost materialized above the ground several feet from Thrash, his hands at his sides, pulsating with phantom energy.

"Now the gates of Hell threw themselves upon you!"

TO BE CONTINUED

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Sorry to end it so short, but I have work to do. I'll get the next one up as fast as I can get it. Please don't hate me for taking so long to update.

Until Next Time

Theo