Chapter 3
Danny went later that afternoon to see Sam in the hospital. Tucker had refused to come.
"I'm not setting foot in a hospital, not even for Sam." he had said. Danny didn't blame him. After the whole ghost virus thing, Danny was not all that eager to see the inside of a hospital either. But he had to do it for Sam...he loved her. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the one you love.
"Oh, Sam." Danny said, sitting by Sam's bedside. She showed no sign of being able to hear him, but he kept on talking.
"Sam, I love you so much. This whole thing is the fault of some stupid ghost. If they kill you..." Danny balled his hands into fists. "I'll never rest. Oh, Sam, I couldn't survive without you. Please Sam, please don't die. Please don't die..." And just as he leaned in to kiss Sam on those beautiful lips of hers, a pair of hands yanked him backward. Danny had just enough time to feel that weird air spot again. But this time, instead of passing through harmlessly, he passed into a whole different world.
He thought he must be in the ghost zone, although it was not a part of the ghost zone he'd ever been in before. He was in a dimly lit room, with a tiled floor. It looked like it may have been an old schoolroom, though he couldn't be sure. A good sized group of ghosts were in front of him.
He immediately went ghost. The ghost in front, who was obviously the group leader, snickered.
"God, that was easy." The words hung in the air for a minute before Danny got up the courage to ask.
"Who are you?" The lead ghost smiled even more widely.
"We are the Purists. We seek to destroy human life and make the world purely ghosts again. Once, the world was purely inhabited by ghosts. Then there were humans, and our control of the world slipped from our grasp. The Purists are dedicated to eliminating all humans and regaining control of the world. Which includes eliminating even half-ghosts, Danny Phantom."
Danny fired a photon blast at the group, but the ghosts simply moved aside so the blast slid harmlessly past them and hit the far wall. The leader smirked.
"Do you think you can beat us, Danny? We, who possess an ancient magic stronger than anything! And you think you can beat us! Ha." The ghosts laughed in unison, a cold, harsh sound that rippled through the air.
Then the lead ghost fired some sort of strange blast. The blast stopped in mid-air a few inches from Danny, then began to circle around him. Within seconds, a bright blue bubble had formed around Danny, trapping him inside.
"Oh, imagine how the other ghosts will react!" The leader said with glee. "Imagine when they find out that we, the Purists, have managed to kill the infamous Ghost Boy at last! And it was so easy! You were so infatuated with that Goth friend of yours that you failed to realize that one of the Purists was behind you! I would have thought a half-ghost would be smarter...but, I guess I was wrong. Oh, imagine how we will be revered! We will be treated as heroes; we will be legends for finally killing Danny Phantom."
Danny suddenly realized that the bubble was sucking oxygen from him and his surroundings, making it very difficult to breathe. He tried phasing out of it, and firing a photon blast at it to break it. Neither attempt worked. His vision swam.
"You...will...never kill me...Purists." he panted. This made the Purists laugh heartily.
"Oh, no? What about your girlfriend, the Goth? You know, Danny, sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the one you love." the lead ghost said, echoing Danny's own thoughts that he had had earlier. Danny had just enough time to think of his eternal love for Sam before the room spun, and all went black.
A/N: OK, so I lied. I didn't update soon. I apologize. You are free to throw heavy objects now. ducks. There. Are you finished? Thank you. Anyway, as I was saying, I didn't update all that soon because I was swamped with homework. But today I only had Spanish, and that's easy, so by 4:00 I was finished. How'd you like the chapter? Review, as always!