Chapter 6

"VLAD! DANNY FENTON ARE YOU INSANE!" Danny's good friend and fellow halfa, Emily Link, took her best friend and shook him hard by the shoulders, nearly losing her balance in the process. Danny gently pushed her back upright.

"No, Emily, I am not insane. It's either join Vlad, or die by the Purists. And I think you'd rather I was alive, wouldn't you?" Emily sat down rather harder than she meant to, producing a muffled FWUMP from her bed.

"Ow." she said absentmindedly, rubbing her sore bottom. She stared into space for a moment, thinking hard. Finally she let out a scream of frustration.

"There's got to be another way!" she yelled. Danny shook his head.

"No. I thought over all possible loopholes. There's no other way."

"Danny, you can't join Vlad, you just can't! May I remind you that he kidnapped me for my healing powers!" Danny shook his head still more vigorously. Emily saw a tear forming in his eye.

"I haven't forgotten. But I don't want to die, and I know you don't want me to die, and Tucker and Sam don't want me to die...so the only option is to save my life and join Vlad. He would've done it eventually anyway."

Emily vigorously scrubbed tears from her own eyes as she tried to keep her voice steady.

"Oh Danny...I couldn't stand it if you died...I love you so much." Danny felt a lump forming in his throat. He had forgotten about the romance that he had had with Emily. It was he who had given her her first kiss.

But you love Sam, that nasty little voice inside his head reminded him. But he thought he had loved Emily...Both girls were his best friends. Which did he love, and which one was just a friend? He banished the thought from his mind...at least for the moment.

"So are you going to join my army or not?" he asked, a little more harshly then he meant to. Emily gave him a withering look.

"Duh, Danny. You're my best friend, for starters. Second, I'm a halfa, too. So that means the Purists are after me, too. And, like you, I don't want to die. So, yes, I will be in your army. Plus, if you really are going to join Vlad, it may be the last time I see you normal. There's no telling what Vlad will do to you."

"Do you still have those ghost crutches I gave you?" Danny asked. Emily grinned.

"Of course." Emily got up and crossed the room with the awkward stride that was a result of mild cerebral palsy. She opened the closet door and an avalanche of things came pouring down, knocking her over. Among these things was everything from clothes to books to a tub of clay-like stuff labeled THERA-PUTTY. The pile shifted and Emily emerged, looking disgruntled. She laughed when she saw the look on Danny's face.

"Yes, I know, I'm a packrat." she said, laughing. She held out the pair of ghost crutches that Danny had given her last year. They looked like ordinary forearm crutches, but if you pressed a button on the grip, the crutches were connected by a metal platform that helped Emily keep her balance when ghost fighting. The crutches also had an assortment of ghost weapons.

"Now, where exactly are we going to fight these Purists?" Emily asked, pulling her hair back in a ponytail with a pink hair scrunchie. Danny smiled.

"Easy." he said. "Where they've been coming all along. The place where all this started. Where there are so many people, I'm not surprised they came to it first. Casper High."

Emily finished tying her hair back and her eyes glowed a bright blue as she activated her ghost crutches and the ghost platform slid under her feet.

"Let's go kick some Purist butt." she said, and with that she zoomed out of the room on her crutches. Danny watched her and felt the lion of love stir in his heart once again. He loved Sam...didn't he? But what about what he felt for Emily? And how the heck were Sam and Emily going to react when they found out that he loved both of them?

A/N: Oooh, I love fanfiction, as I've said many times. I love writing about Emily. She just might be my favorite OC in all my stories. And, she's been named the "BEST OC ever" by Guardiangirl1! Thanks! And now I've created sort of a DannyxSamxEmily love triangle! Oooh I can't wait to write the next chapter!