"Jess, Sam, go down to the basement, grab your Fenton Bazookas, but only use them if I look like I'm in trouble. Danny, I'm gonna need your help."
"Got it."
"Going ghost!" I yelled as two blue white rings passed over my body, changing me from Danny Fenton to Danny Phantom.
"Ah, you have an apprentice."
"More like a protégé."
"You're going down, uh, uh…" Danny started.
"Skulker." I muttered.
"…Skulker!"
"Stay out of this, whelp! It's your father I want, not you."
"Well it's me your gonna get, anyway." Danny said, firing two ecto shots from his right hand and one from his left.
"I didn't want it to come to this, pup." He said as he fired a bullet from his gauntlet. As fast as I could I flew to save my son's life, catching the bullet in the stomach. Unable to stay airborne, I collapsed on the ground in a heap as the two white rings came out and turned me back into Danny Fenton.
"DAN!"
"DADDY!"
"DAD!"
My children rushed to my side, Jess calling the hospital, as Sam fired her bazooka, sending Skulker back into the ghost zone. She dropped the gun and rushed to my side, cradling me in her arms as she knelt beside me.
"Sam, I'm so sorry."
"Dan, don't talk like that." She says, her voice betraying her true feelings.
"Yeah, dad, you'll be ok."
"They're right, daddy, I've just called the hospital. The ambulance will be here in a few minutes. They'll take you to the hospital, find the bullet, close the wound, and you'll be home by the weekend."
They tried to comfort me, but I could feel the life ebbing from my body. I'm healing, because I can't feel the pain anymore. As a matter of fact, the last thing I could feel were Sam's warm tears falling on my face like a spring shower.
"Sam, I think I'm gonna be fine. The pain's gone." I say as I cough up something green on my shirt. Blood. My blood.
"Danny, come closer." I say, weakly.
"Yes, dad?"
"This is a big day for you, Danny, because you're gonna be the man of the house soon. That means you're going to have to help look after your mother and sister in my stead."
"Dad, that's crazy talk. You heard Jess, you'll make it."
"Jess, you'll always be daddy's little princess." I said as I took her hand. "Sam?"
"What is it, Dan?"
"I'll always love you." I said. She drew my head close to hers for one last kiss before everything went dark. The last things I heard were the sobs of my family fading in and out as though someone was slowly turning down the volume on a radio. Good bye, my family. I will always love you.