Soooo sorry this is soooo late. I just kinda got into amatuer voice acting and am currently in production of a radioplay. I won't name any sites, but here's the long-awaited, yet very short, next chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own either "Danny Phantom" or "Pirates of the Carabbean". Most of the characters you see are either property of Nickelodeon or Disney. Some others are my own.

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The Spirit of the Ship

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Chapter 10: Niether

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His vision was blurred as Danny went back to reality. It was still the Hairy Turtle he last remembered being on. He hoped it only to be a dream at that point, but alas, it's still a long way from his home, time and distance. He got up out of the Hairy Turtle's only bed he was lying in rubbing his eyes.

"Ah, you're awake." Danny looked over to see Don watching him. "We were really starting to worry about you."

"I'm surprised I'm in one piece, too," Danny said. A quick thought of panic came to Danny, which led him to say, "What about-"

"They're all safe," Don told him. "Adriana said you saved us all. It's a pretty amazing feat what you did for us all. I owe you my life, Danny."

"Thanks," Danny said, pretty flattered. "Hey, how long was I out?"

"Oh," Don said, wondering to himself, "about a day."

"A whole day!" Danny repeated loudly in great shock. "Geez. I just never did that to anything that big, with all the people inside and all. I see why I passed out for so long, now."

"You know, Adriana told me exactly what happened that day, like those wild waters and the waterfall and the end of them. Hunting after Jupiter's forbidden treasure will do that to an ocean. And those women singing to us: those were sirens.They hypnotize sailors to their doom with their voice. The only people inaffective to the siren's scream are women. I've always wondered how you managed to remain sane. I think I know why now. Sirens sing men to their doom. Maybe the only reason you weren't affected is because you already met your doom."

"What?" Danny said in pure disbelief, jumping out of the bed. "That's not possible. If I already met my doom, why am I still standing here?" Without warning, Danny switched to his ghost form. His powers sometimes had a mind of their own, and this was a case that proved it.

"That," Don shortly answered.

"I'm not a total ghost," Danny pointed out, "I'm half-ghost. Half-human, half-ghost. Do the math, Don. I'm still alive!"

It took Don a moment think the way Danny did. He rubbed his chin and then bursted, "I think I've got it! By being half-human, you're also half-living. By being half-ghost, you're half-dead. Your dead side kept you immune to the sirens' song. You can think of that as an advantage to being who you are."

"Yeah, but what does that make me, now? Living or dead?"

Don took a few moments to wonder, and then answered, "That's quite difficult to say. You can't be alive if you're dead, but you can't be dead if you're alive. They cancel eachother out. The best answer is you're niether."

"Niether?" Danny repeated. He had never really thought that being half-ghost meant being half-dead as well. "I'm just gonna go up deck and... think." He floated up through the roof, leaving the fat Italian to himself.

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Danny looked at the sea, pretty deep in thought, which is actually different from what Danny's used to doing. "Well, if it isn't the great hero from yesterday!" Jack walked up to Danny from behind. "And here I was thinking you would never wake up." Danny didn't respond. "Are you alright? You're not still tired, are you?"

"You have no idea," Danny said.

"Lad," Jack said, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. What you think I don't know, I do. You've got problems, everyone does. So what's wrong?"

"For one," Danny started, "you're sounding like my sister. And two, I'm really wondering whether I'm really living or not. Don said I'm not really living or dead. Almost like niether."

"I know people who've been there, mate," Jack said. "Miserable people, they were. They were cursed. They showed themselves to be flesh by day, but when the moonlight hit them, they were revealed to be deteriated. Not a pretty sight, mate. They were niether as well. You're different from them, you got good intentions."

"Jack," Danny said, "the best intention I have is getting out of here. So, how close are we to the treasure?"

"I hoped you'd asked that," Jack said. "I can sense some pirate in you! Anyway, from what Don said, the next trial is of those who fell to the other obsticles. Don described that as the dead. They'll come up to the ship, take it hostage, cut us up into ribbons, and make sure the only land this ship sees is the land hidden under the ocean."

"So, bad things in general?" Danny said.

"Basically," Jack answered, "however, Jupiter has a sense humor and decided that these dead blokes only attack at night. He seems to want to give people the upper hand. If you time the journey just right, you can pass this obsticle altogether."

"Man," Danny said, "I hope that's our case."

"By the way, just because you were sleeping, don't think you're going to miss any swordplay lessons." At that, Jack pulled a sword out from under his coat and tossed it to Danny, who fumbled it a little before getting a good grip on the hilt. "This lesson is about using the environment to your advantage.

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Man that's short. This may not be the best chapter, but expect some great action in the next one.