Wow, my first week of boarding school has been quite the adventure, but if I explained it all of it would be longer then the chapter. Hey! What I will tell you is that I experienced my first "tropical storm" and survived it! Woot!

Chapter 16

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-Hospital-

Jazz, Sam, and Tucker ran to the check-in counter. "We're here… to see… Danny Fenton." Jazz panted. The nurse nodded and made them sign in at a little check board. As soon as they were done they ran to his room, already have memorized where it was. They were all at Danny's side in minutes.

Jazz took out the tiny vial and a shot she had run back to get before they left. She took the stopper out of the vial sucked in the contents in to the shot. "I hope this works…" Jazz said as stuck the needle in to the IV. Soon she pushed every drop out and the pinkish liquid flowed in to the main stream and in to Danny's wrist.

After a pause Tucker said, "Now what?"

Sam pulled up a chair. "We wait." She replied.

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Danny was still tired from the "wind attacks". He knew it was lame to call them that, but he wasn't quite too sure what to call it when the wind intensified. When he first called it that, it just stuck. But he kept going, determined to pull through.

When he thought about it, he was in a really weird situation. He wondered if all the people that fought against death went through this, and if so why the people that lived didn't say anything about it. He blinked. They probably didn't remember it. When someone wakes up after twenty years, they still think it's the next day. Danny froze. What if he has been asleep for twenty years? He didn't know how much time had passed since he first arrived. It seemed like forever ago.

Then another thought crossed his mind. What if he died? He wasn't scared of death, but he didn't want to die… far from it. He suddenly thought about what his funeral would be like, if he did die. He knew his parents would be there, along with his sister and Sam and Tucker. They would probably all be crying and miserable. That's another reason to not die. He didn't want everybody to be miserable over him.

Who would he miss the most? Probably his family, but it was hard to think about because he still had so much in life he wanted to accomplish.

Second though… would probably be Sam. At first he thought about a tie with Tucker, but Tucker couldn't relate to Danny on the same level that Sam could. He and Sam had been best buddies even before Tucker came in to the picture. But sometimes he had to think… could it be more?

Every time he thought that he immediately pushed it to the back of his mind. She probably wouldn't feel the same way back, and he hated to think that even more.

Suddenly something brought him out of his thinking frenzy. He noticed the wind slowing down. What the heck? He kept walking, looking around and hoping to see some sort of clue. He didn't.

The wind was steadily decreasing. Did this mean they found the cure? Was he going to live? Danny smiled and started running. Soon it didn't feel like there was any wind at all. He felt energized for the first time he got here. He slowed to a walk and looked down at his cut. It's glowing was going away.

Then something happened that confused him. The wind started again, but it was going the opposite way, so his back was to the wind. Clockwork told him to fight against the wind… did that mean he had to do it now that it changed directions? He stopped. He remembered his wind indicator theory. Now that it was blowing the way he thought where the land of the living was, did that mean he had more of a chance of living now?

The wind picked up. He knew he had a fifty/ fifty chance, either he would die, or he would live. He closed his eyes and hoped he was right, and kept walking the same direction as the wind was blowing.

-Hospital-

It had been forty-five minutes since they first gave the shot to Danny. They started to notice his heart rate pick up a bit, but that was all. Danny still lay there like a vegetable. Sam sighed and started reading her Goth Weekly magazine again.

There was faint thunder somewhere in the distance. Good. Sam liked thunderstorms. She looked out the window, but all she saw was stars. 'Well that's weird.' She thought and went back to reading. The thunder was getting closer, and closer. Sam looked up again to see if the cloud causing all of the noise had passed over yet. Nope. As the thunder became louder another sound met Sam's ears.

"Do you guys hear that?" Jazz asked.

"Yeah," Tucker replied. "It sounds like…"

"Screaming…" They all said at once, then all rushed to the window.

They looked over the city. A few blocks away they could see people scattering. They didn't see the cause though.

Then Sam moaned, "Oh no…" as the thing rounded the corner. "Look familiar?" Sam asked.

"Ohmygosh!" Jazz exclaimed. The three legged, four armed, thee eyed monster tore the roof off of someone's house and picked up a bed from inside of it and threw it across the street. The people that lived in the house sprinted out in to the mess and joined the ciaos.

"Danny you need to wake up soon and save these guys!" Tucker said shaking his friend. Nothing happened. He quickly gave up sat down again, taking out his PDA to play a game. Sam sighed at him, shaking her head. As she turned to look back out the window, the monster grabbed a man off the streets and held him upside down. Jazz and Sam could only watch the monster in horror.

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Danny could blearily keep his feet on the ground the wind was blowing so hard. He looked ahead and saw a light. "That wasn't there before…" He said out loud. He ran towards it, thinking about getting out of the dark place but suddenly he stopped. He was heading towards the white light. In all of the novels, that is the way you go to die. Before he could think anymore he started hearing voices. That wasn't in the novels.

He couldn't quite make them out. He thought he could have heard Jazz… and Sam… maybe Tucker. He couldn't really tell because of the wind in his ears.

It felt like a tornado was sucking him towards the light. It actually lifted his feet off the ground at one point but he forced himself to fall back down. He wanted to be in control, just in case he discovered it was not where he wanted to go.

Soon the light was close enough to momentarily blind him. It was taking all of his strength to keep on the ground and not fall face first in to it. He looked closely at the light. It seemed to be almost like a water stream, yet upright. He could see images in the ripples.

It looked like a birds eye view of a hospital room. Just as he thought, he saw Tucker, and he was playing on his PDA and glancing at the window occasionally. Sam and Jazz were at the window, looking intently at what ever was going on out there. What he found weird though was that he saw himself, lying on a hospital bed motionless. Every now and then Sam would look back at him, worry shown clearly on her face. Sam. He didn't realize how much he missed her during this whole adventure. Suddenly the wind picked up another notch, and it took him by surprise. He stumbled forwards, trying to catch his balance, and the tip of his nose touched the surface. He suddenly felt weightless; almost as if he was in ghost mode. Before he could blink he was forced in to the picture, head first. Then he knew no more.

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Sam gazed out the window horrified as the monster got closer and closer to the hospital. Sure, the police already came but since when were they able to do anything? Jazz used the TV in Danny's room for the first time and turned it to CNN.

The reporter there had said that the police's attempts were futile and they sent a plea to the army and if they weren't able to do anything, they were all doomed. That seemed like a cheery newsperson.

Sam glanced back to check on Danny. No change so far. She turned back to watch the beast terrorize more towns people when she heard a groan. She whipped her head back around to Danny. He brought up his arms and rubbed his eyes, mumbling something about ungodly times to wake up.

"DANNY!" Jazz, Sam, and Tucker yelled at the same time. Jazz ran over to give him a hug.

"Oh Danny, we've been so worried! You could have died if we didn't find a cure! I'm so glad you're awake!" She nearly yelled.

"Jazz- need- air- crushing- lungs..." Danny practically whispered, turning blue.

"Oh yeah- sorry," She said sheepishly.

Then before he could say anything Sam took her place and hugged him gently. "Welcome back." She whispered and Danny, who still didn't know what was going on, hugged her back. After a moment she drew back. Tucker slapped him on the back in a friendly gesture, but Danny winced. Tucker didn't notice.

There was a pause. "Uhh… What happened?" Danny asked.

"Well…" She started. "Do you remember going to Starbucks with Lancer for detention?" Jazz asked.

Danny thought. "Sorta…" He said wincing as he thought.

"You do?" Jazz asked surprised. He nodded.

She looked confused. "Do you remember the ghost attack?" She asked.

Danny looked at her blankly at first but then his eyes glazed over and his face drained of color. "Oh no… Oh my gosh… Jazz! I- I transformed in front of everyone… they all know... ohmygosh! They all know!" Danny exclaimed, panicked.

"No! No, no, no. Listen Danny." Sam said, holding his shoulders. "They decided that they owe it to you to keep it a secret. Nobody knows except the people that saw you in Starbucks."

Danny looked in to her violet eyes. "You mean they didn't tell anybody?" Danny asked. Sam shook her head smiling slightly. Danny breathed a sigh of relief. "They really didn't tell anybody?" He asked again, not really believing it.

"No they didn't," She said laughter in her voice. She was just so relived that Danny was awake.

"But how do you remember? Normally people don't remember what happened… that's what the doctor said anyways…" The trio just let her ramble. Then Danny realized he forgotten to ask a vital piece of information.

"How long have I been out for?" He asked.

"Five days." Tucker stated.

"Oh right, ha ha Tucker, you can't pull it off twice, so how long have I really been out?" He asked looking at Sam and Jazz.

"He's telling the truth. You've been here five days." Sam replied. Danny's eyes widened, and his mouth opened and closed like he was going to say something.

"Well it's not that bad, considering how the doctor said that you could have been out for twenty-five years…" If possible Danny's eyes widened even more.

"WHAT!" He yelled. "What was I in a coma or something?" He asked.

"Actually no… that's what we thought at first, but then we discovered that the poison on that dagger was actually killing you, and you would have only had a few weeks to live. Good thing we found that antidote huh?" Tucker replied.

"What? What poison? What Antidote? Ugg, my head hurts…" He said but before he could say anymore the hospital started to shake lightly. Danny looked around confused. "Uh- anyone else feel that?"

Jazz, Sam and Tucker ran to the window. The monster thing was making a beeline for the hospital. "Heh… sorry to burst your bubble Danny, but I think you need to do the whole superhero thing pretty soon." Tucker said, gesturing to the window.

Danny tried to get out of bed to see what he was talking about, but then remembered his oxygen tubes and IV painfully. He slipped out of the oxygen tubes and wheeled the IV stand over with him to the window. There was currently tanks firing missiles at the monster, but it didn't seem to be slowing him down. He stared at it. "W-What is that thing?"

"Death Tolls weapon against the city… we are guessing this is why he needed you out of the way… because right now, it is sort of unstoppable." Sam replied.

"Wait… but I captured Death Toll in the thermos…" He said, confused. Sam and Jazz turned to Tucker.

"Hey! Don't look at me like that! There was nothing I could do!" Tucker exclaimed, putting his hands up in surrender.

Danny groaned, "Tucker freed him, didn't he?"

"Yes." Sam replied, but then Jazz stepped in to defend him.

"Well, he just wasn't keeping a very good eye on him… that's all." Jazz explained.

Danny glared at Tucker, but then sighed. "I have to go take care of this, if the doctors come in, cover for me." He said, ripping the IV out of his arm.

"Eww! You could have given me some warning man!" Tucker said shivering.

Danny ignored him though and shouted, "I'M GOIN' GHOST!" Two familiar rings appeared around his waist, transforming him in to Danny Phantom.

"Uh… just be careful Danny." Sam said awkwardly.

Danny paused. "Why the sudden concern?" He asked.

She blushed. "Well… um… I don't want you hurt again, and I just need to— I just need to be able to talk to you later." Sam said, willing the blush to go away with all of her might.

Danny looked at her for a second confused, and suddenly he blushed too. "Okay, I'll try my best." He said going intangible and flying off. Sam sighed and just stared at the place where Danny used to stand.

"Ohhhh- someone's got it bad for Danny…" Tucker said smiling.

"What do you mean by— wait…never mind, I don't even want to know." Sam said turning back to the window.

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Danny flew up the monster. First he checked to see if anyone was in danger. Well, lets see. Three out of the four clawed hands had a person in them and the thing was currently trying to smash a bus. Danny quickly took action and flew down to the bus about to be smashed turned it intangible right as the foot went through it. As soon as the bus was a safe distance away, Danny made it tangible again and flew back up to the monsters arms.

He zoomed to one, intangible and invisible and slipped the screaming woman from his grasp. He flew her to the ground and then went back up to rescue some guy he recognized working at the Nasty Burger, and surprisingly, his next-door neighbor. As soon as the monster realized his victims some how slipped from his grasp, he threw a fit.

"HEY SHORTIE!" Danny yelled, flying up to his face. This got the beast's attention. "I want to introduce you to my fist!" He exclaimed and fired up and ectoball for more strength. He punched the monster in the nose, and the thing stumbled backwards. This got it mad. It roared at Danny, but Danny mistakenly stayed where he was, and he got hit with a wave of horrible breath.

"Gross! Man, have you brushed your teeth in the past year? That's disgusting!" Danny yelled waving his hand in front of his nose.

The monster ignored him and swung his semi-sized hands at Danny's head. Danny flew under the first one, over the second, but he had forgotten the thing had more than two arms and barely had enough time to go intangible for the third.

"HA! You missed!" He yelled but he forgotten about the fourth one. It sideswiped him and he was flung towards a building. He quickly went intangible and went flying through a series of different rooms before skidding to a stop in a dark room.

Danny stood up, his back cracking several different times. "Then again… maybe he didn't." Suddenly someone screamed behind him. Danny whirled around to see a boy, maybe eight years old, sitting straight up in bed and screaming his head off.

"Sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean to wake you up. I'm leaving, see?" He said and quickly and flew out of the building. He saw the bedroom light flick on out of the corner of his eye but he had more important things to do.

He flew up, invisible, and went back to the monster. The thing was making his was over to the building Danny was just in, to see if he had gotten him out of the way, but then Danny rammed in to the thing's side as hard as he could. It was as if everything turned slow motion as Danny tried his hardest to push the beast over. He was heavy! Finally gravity took its toll and the monster fell down with a huge crash, sending what felt like a mini earthquake through the city.

"Take that!" Danny yelled. The thing was able to quickly figure out what happed and it got up, anger than ever. Soon Danny was dodging a blur of claws. Danny quickly sidestepped all of them but the last one clipped him in the shoulder. He flew out of range and looked down at the pool of blood that was forming.

He grimaced and fired up a large ectoball. As soon as it started getting bigger than one of his parents guns, Danny had to fight for control of it. At the last second he threw it at the monster with all of its might. It hit the beast in the chest and it stumbled back in to a building.

While Danny was recovering from the energy the blast took up, the monster retaliated by whacking him to the ground. Before Danny could regain his bearings, the monster picked him up and used Danny as some sort of bat, swinging him at building, cars, anything. Finally he threw Danny back to the ground and out of all of the places to land, Danny hit a fire hydrant, knocking it clean off the sidewalk. Water spurted up where it used to be.

Danny skidded to a halt in a snow bank. He didn't move for a while, to consumed in pain. People who he hadn't noticed watching the fight started murmuring, shifting uneasily when he didn't get up. Then, telling himself he couldn't just lay there, he rolled over and pushed himself to a sitting position.

The monster, obviously not finished yet, started to head towards Danny but as it crossed the water, it started making a terrible noise. It sounded like a dieing pig. It quickly got as far away from the water as possible but it still seemed shaken.

Danny suddenly had an idea. He slowly got up, using the building for support and took off. Once again he got right in the monsters face. "Catch me if you can sucker!" he yelled, flicking the things nose and took off around the corner, still going slow enough so the thing would follow him. Sure enough, the beast took after him, infuriated. The thing wasn't that fast, that's for sure. Danny was going at cruising speed, and the monster behind him was running as fast as his not-so-little legs would take him.

Sometimes Danny slowed down so the beast would gain on him. He would take a couple of swipes, but then he would pull ahead again. Soon he arrived at the place his little idea would commence, at The Docks.

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"The army has already arrived on the scene and claim that they are taking care of it but our sources tell us other wise." Lancer tuned out the television for a second and popped another piece of popcorn in to his mouth. Some people eat popcorn to watch movies, but he liked to make popcorn to watch the news. Why watch some not real nonsense when you can watch what's going on in the world around you?

But in a way it can be like a movie, sometimes there is sad news, sometimes there is exciting news, some times there is suspenseful developing stories, sometimes there is scary news, sometimes there is funny news, sometimes there is surprising news…

"Just in, Danny Phantom joined the fight against 'it'."

It took a second to register, but as soon as it did Lancer jumped up, spilling his bowl on popcorn that was on his lap on to the floor. "Walk Two Moons!" he nearly yelled.

"Here is some footage taken minutes ago…" The newsperson said, with clips of Danny getting thrown around and the monster stumbling back from the water. Lancer just watched the whole thing in shock. 'He's awake?' Lancer questioned himself.

He quickly grabbed for his cell phone, getting ready to call the Fenton's to ask, but suddenly he stopped. His parents wouldn't know.

Then he debated if he should go to the hospital to check or not. He decided not. First off it was past visiting hours, and he would have to be with a family member to get in and second, he didn't want to remind the nurses to check on Danny or something.

He sighed and started to pick up the spilled popcorn from the floor. He felt hopeful that Danny might be awake now, but now he was stressed all over again that if it was him, he was out there fighting "it".

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TBC…

Okay people, in three days they take away my computer for 2 weeks and I already don't have good Internet service here, so be glad I updated. I am really short on time so I can't reply back to you like I normally do, but I will list all of my reviewers. So sorry!

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