Chapter 6

I dressed quickly, and Danny left a note for the doctors. Went for a walk, it read, should be back within a few hours. Emily and Sam.

I raised my eyebrows. "A few hours? Don't you think it'll take longer than that to save Emily?"

"Ghost Zone time is different from regular human time." Danny explained, going ghost and taking me by the elbow. "A few hours here might be a few days in the ghost zone.

We went intangible and slid through the wall of our room. Once outside, we flew to Danny's basement, where we stood there for a moment just staring at the ghost porthole. I knew that both of us were wondering the same thing: whether we would ever see Emily alive again.

Danny gulped. "Here goes." He pressed his thumbprint to the console in front of us, and the ghost porthole doors slid open. We stepped inside, both anticipating and dreading the journey to come.

In another part of the ghost zone…

Emily twisted and turned, trying to get free. Every part of her body except her hands had been bound and tied tightly. The ghost of a wounded soldier lay in front of her, his wound open and ghastly.

"Now," Vlad commanded. "Heal, heal, heal!" Emily let her trembling hands go intangible and started to furiously massage the ghost soldier. But even as she worked, she knew it wasn't working. Her healing had absolutely no effect. The soldier moaned and rolled over, spraying Emily and Vlad with bits of ghost blood.

"You stupid child!" Vlad yelled. "You will heal this soldier, and all the other soldiers I will need for my ghost army, or face my wrath! I need that ghost army so I can hunt your friend Daniel down, merge his powers with mine, and become the most powerful halfa in the world!"

Emily tried again, but it was no use. Her powerful healing powers seemed to have disappeared.

Vlad sighed in impatience. A mega photon blast, ten times more powerful than a regular photon blast, shot out of his palm. It hit Emily square in the chest.

Pain as she had never known it before shot through her body. Emily had known muscle aches as it pulled tightly on the bone. She had known horrible muscle cramps that nearly made her cry. But she had never known anything quite like this. Emily gasped for her every breath and the ghost zone before her started to swim. She was so weak…she couldn't fight as another mega photon blast hit her in the side. Her powers short-circuited, and she started to fall. Just before she hit the ground, she saw Danny Phantom, her hero, her friend, speeding towards her with Sam at his heels. Is this an apparition? Emily wondered vaguely. But she didn't care.

Danny sped forward and caught Emily before she hit the ground. Her breathing was shallow and uneven. He cradled Emily in his arms. "I gotcha, Emily!" he gasped.

Just before she passed out, Emily looked up at the face of her rescuer. She saw in his face a mixture of worry, concern, relief, and…love? But she was too lightheaded and dizzy to think about it right now. She passed out in Danny's arms.

"Emily? Emily, wake up!" The voice sounded so far away…

"Emily!" The voice was now on the brink of tears. "Please wake up! We need you!"

Emily opened her eyes. Everything was so blurry...She blinked and the room slowly came into focus. Sam was leaning over her, her eyes brimming with unshed tears. Sitting in a plastic hospital chair beside the bed she was in was Danny, looking anxious and worried.

She was in her old hospital room…so much had happened in that room, she realized. She took a shallow breath. It was very hard to breathe. All her memories came rushing back to her in a stomach-sinking swoop.

"How…long…have I…been…unconscious?" she gasped. Sam's face relaxed into an unmistakable expression of relief. "Almost a day now." She answered.

"Did…you…get…Vlad?" Danny held up the Fenton Thermos and smiled. "I'll keep Vlad in there for a long time…for your sake.

Emily smiled. But one thing was still bothering her.

"I tried…to heal…that ghost soldier." She told them. "But I couldn't. Even with the threat of that mega-photon blast, I couldn't. But yet, I healed Sam. Why?"

Danny and Sam exchanged looks. "We talked about that while we were waiting for you to wake up." Danny said. "We think its because your healing powers only come into play when there's dire circumstances…and also it has to be a person you really care about. You really cared about Sam, so you could heal her." Emily pushed herself into a sitting position.

"Wow…I never thought of that." Emily paused for a minute, and then added, "You know, I'm kinda like a ghost contradiction. I mean, nobody would expect someone with a physical disability, or any kind of disability for that matter, to be half-ghost, and fight ghosts alongside Danny Phantom…"

"But you proved them wrong." Sam finished. Emily nodded. "That's what I do. I love proving the world wrong. And I love showing them just what I can do."

A/N: Sorry I left you at such a huge cliffhanger for so long! I've been busy with school…uggh. Anyway, how did you like this chapter? I don't have a very clear idea about what I'm going to write next for this story, so it may be a while before I update again. Don't you think this could be a real Danny Phantom episode? I think so…That's how I've been picturing it in my mind…anyway I'm as usual, rambling on, so I'll stop here. Please review!