So here we are! Another installment of "Thesis Statement!" :O Do I have any witty quips to put up here today...*thinks* Hm, well...you guys are off the hook this time. *evil glare* XD

Legal Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to 'Danny Phantom'. I own my Wii, a few souvenirs, some clothes, a T.V., a game cube, some games...*goes on forever*...anyways, point is, I don't own the characters. Sad, innit? I know. But, ah, such is life, no? :I

"The...the what?" Danny choked out, still unable to register what was happening.

"I said," the figure stood up completely, taking its eyes off of Danny, "Welcome to the Ghost Zone."

"The...Ghost...Zone?" Danny slowly asked, confusion entirely taking the better of him.

"Yes, now please, get up, its embarrassing having someone stare at you from the ground."

Danny obediently responded and stood up, brushing himself off of some dust that had found its way to his clothes.

"So...the Ghost Zone..."

The figure shot Danny an evil glare, "Are you going to say that all day?"

"Sorry, sorry..." Danny said before snapping out of his trance-like state, "Hey, wait! You look exactly like me! You look like my brother!"

The Phantom sized Danny up and down.

"Yeah...we do look alike," he replied, almost uninterested.

"So are you him? I mean, are we...I mean..." Danny was so caught up in the moment he couldn't speak.

"Yes, technically we are twins..." the ghost-boy responded, before adding, "But...seeing as how I died and have no body, it's not the same."

"But...you're my twin! My brother! Doesn't that mean something to you?" Danny was now angry and upset; after all, he had just met his dead twin brother's ghost, and he seemed completely unphased that they had been related.

"Yay?" the ghost responded sarcastically.

"Yay?" Danny glared angrily at the ghost, "We meet after you die 10 years ago, and all you have to say is a sarcastic Yay? You're nothing like the Dan that Jazz was telling me about yesterday. You're just some empty shell of what he once was," he scowled, completely unafraid that the being before him was a ghost.

"Well excuse me!" the ghost growled back to him, "Why don't you try getting hit by a truck, getting blown up, and then being forced to live without the people you love for 10 years! See how you turn out!"

Danny's eyes almost immediately went sympathetic and he sighed.

"Listen, Dan..." the ghost interrupted him,

"Why do you keep calling me that?"

"Dan?"

"Yes, that," the ghost's lip twinged.

"Because it's your name, isn't it?"

The spirit thought about the implications for a few moments, "Technically...but that was my human name. Everybody here calls me Phantom."

"Phantom? Isn't that a little bit...generic a term?"

Phantom shrugged, "I suppose, maybe. But it's what they call me."

Danny sighed at the ghost-boy standing before him, "So we really are quite different."

Phantom nodded, "Yeah."

The two sat in a silence for a while, before Danny quietly asked with a sheepish grin, "So...how've you been?"

After their awkward silence finally came to an end, Phantom began to show Danny around the Ghost Zone.

"Here's what we call the Ice Island," Phantom gestured around, snow covering most of the area.

"Nnn-nn-nice..." Danny replied, trying to sound sincere but his shivering making his response distorted and pained.

"Oh yeah..." Phantom had a mirror image of Danny's previous sheepish grin, "I forgot that you can't control your body temperature as well as I can. Here," he held out his hands, a green light circling around them.

"Wha---?" Danny attempted to protest, but before he could finish the light was around him, warming him up slowly but surely. When Phantom was done, Danny gave him a puzzled look.

"What was that?" he asked, noticing Phantom's hands were now back to their previous color.

"Just a perk of being a ghost," Phantom grinned at him, a sweet and cute, but slightly scary, gesture.

"Thanks..." Danny said, the tiniest tinge of color coming around his cheeks.

"Let's get out of here," Phantom suggested, "There's a ghost here named Klemper that's really annoying. He keeps trying to force everyone to be his friend."

"That doesn't sound too bad..." Danny replied kindly.

"If you say no he tries to freeze you," Phantom rolled his eyes.

"So...when're we leaving?" Danny sheepishly smiled.

"Now," Phantom grabbed Danny's arm and began to fly, getting much protest and babbling from Danny.

"Wait, what!? You can fly?! I mean, I kind of figured you could, since you could do that other thing, but...you can fly! And you can do some weird light thingy and..." Danny continued on and on, listing everything he found amazing about his twin at the current moment.

Phantom gave a small smile, unwilling to admit he was getting happier and happier each minute he spent with Danny (especially when the boy was praising him as much as he was right now.)

"You're just...awesome!" Danny shouted out as he finished his list, hugging his brother mid-landing.

The two stumbled and Phantom landed on top of Danny.

"Oh, whoops...Sorry..." Danny blushed, embarrassed.

"It's okay..." Phantom replied nervously and laughing as a hint of color touched his own pale cheeks.

"Hey, if you're a ghost how come you're not super-cold or pale or anything?"

Phantom gave Danny an annoyed look, "Not everything they say about ghosts is true. Like, for example, I can touch you, as you already know," for effect, he pinched his brother's cheek, "and I can also walk and hold stuff," he demonstrated this quality as well, "So yeah. Don't believe everything people have told you."

"Okay..." Danny responded, before realizing his brother was still on top of him and blushing further.

"Oh, right..." the ghost-boy rubbed his neck sheepishly, "I should get off of you."

He stood up and brushed some dirt off of his outfit, before extending a hand for his brother on the ground. Danny graciously accepted the hand and brushed his own clothes off as well.

"Hey..." Danny said suddenly as he finished.

"Yeah, Danny?" his ghost-brother raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry about what I said before. You really didn't deserve any of that..."

"It's okay. It's my own fault...I really am glad I got to see you today."

"Hey, how long was I out for anyway?"

"Oh, I dunno. The Ghost Zone doesn't really have a passing of time. Well, we do, but Clockwork is the only one that cares about it really." With that, the Ghost of Time appeared next to Phantom.

"Excuse me, Phantom," the ghost tapped the boy on his shoulder, "you weren't just implying that time doesn't matter, were you?"

Phantom had a frightened look on his face. Now, he wasn't one to get frightened, not even of Clockwork, usually, but when the Ghost of Time comes tapping on your shoulder out of the blue, there's either something dire going on, or you're in a load of trouble.

"Uhm..n-no," he lied, trying to get out of the stick situation.

The Ghost of Time stared at him, before turning his gaze to his human twin.

"Who's this?" he asked, already knowing the answer.

"He's...my brother?" Phantom responded, trying to not have any more questions asked.

"I wouldn't linger too long, Daniel," the ghost spoke to Danny directly, already knowing his name, "Some ghosts here don't take kindly to humans."

Danny's spine shivered, and he immediately knew he shouldn't fight with the ghost, "Uhm..r-right!"

With that, Clockwork disappeared as quickly as he had come, leaving Danny and Phantom there all alone.

"Right..." they said in unison.

"Well, Clockwork's right," Phantom admitted, sighing.

"I guess..." Danny sighed, agreeing. He didn't want to fight with his brother.

"I better get you out of here."

"Okay..." Danny said, before adding, "Wait. Where is here anyways? How do I get out of here? How did I get in here?!" Danny began to panic; had had been too caught up with meeting his brother that he barely even realized he had no idea how he got there.

"Well," Phantom said, leaning against a rock jutting up from the ground, "some of the other ghosts here think that there are portals between our two worlds. Like, the Bermuda Triangle for example."

"Oh..." Danny whispered, "That must be how I got in, then! Mom and Dad brought us on a cruise that was passing through there, and it must have happened there. But...why was I the only one brought here?" Danny puzzled.

Phantom shrugged in response, "Who knows. Point is, you're here and we got to meet each other. Dreams just aren't the same."

"Wait," Danny backed up a little, shocked at the revelation, "That was you in my dream?"

"Kind of. It's a long story. Point is, it wasn't the same as us meeting like this," Phantom smiled.

"Okay."

"Now, to get out of here we have to find the portal that matches up with the one you created when you left."

Danny nodded, "Alright."

Phantom grabbed Danny and began flying towards the floating portals and doors of The Ghost Zone, looking every which way for where the one Danny had come out of was.

"Hey, what about this?" Danny pointed to a triangular portal that had blue ocean waves in it, "Could this be it?"

"Yeah, it might be," Phantom smiled and nodded, "Let me see..." he stuck his head into the portal, causing it to disappear promptly, and Danny's look to go shocked.

"Okay," he said, pulling his head out, "this is definitely the portal."

"Alright..." Danny said, making to get out of his brother's arms before stopping suddenly, "Hey, Phantom..."

"Yeah, Danny?" he raised his brow at the younger boy before him.

"Are..." Danny put his head down, "are we going to see each other again?"

Phantom smiled once more, the most he had done so in the past 10 years, "Oh, is that all?" he teased.

"Hey, be serious!" Danny's eyes were red when he looked up.

Phantom's look turned serious, and he quietly responded, "Of course we will. I'll come see you one day soon, I promise."

Danny smiled as tears softly fell from his face, "Okay, I believe you."

"Alright, you better get going. I hear once a temporary portal is activated from The Ghost Zone, it disappears soon after."

"Okay," Danny smiled, untangling himself from his brother's grip, "I love you, Da---ergh---Phantom," he smiled, laughing.

"I love you too, Danny," Phantom kissed his brother's forehead, causing the younger boy's cheeks to tinge red, "now, hurry up!"

No sooner did Danny get through the portal than did it close suddenly, leaving Phantom in his solitude once more.

"...Good thing I didn't tell him that Walker would never let me..." Phantom sighed as he floated off.

"Oof!" Danny groaned as he landed on the poop-deck of the cruise ship, "What happened...?" his head was sore with a growing pain.

He stood up and his muscles felt weakened.

"Why do I fee---" he stopped, remembering everything, "Dan!! I mean, ergh, Phantom!!" he corrected himself.

He looked around to notice it was still the dead of night, his look going confused, "Why is it still so dark out? Wasn't I there for a few hours?" he looked around for any sign of the fog from before, "It did all happen, didn't it?" he quietly choked out, unassuredly.

He sighed and decided to think about the matter more after he got some sleep. He headed back into the cruise ship and made his way towards his room, his previous hunger completely gone due to the excitement of meeting his brother. When he laid down onto his bed, Danny's eyes got heavy and sleepy. He fought back the feeling as much as he could until finally he gave in to the world of sleep's charms. However, what he was blissfully unaware of was the fact that ghostly eyes were now watching his every move, making sure that he wasn't going to disrupt the flow of time itself.

"This boy is dangerous," the Watcher replied to his fellow councilmen, "He's met up with his ghostly brother, and the boy has broken the rules."

"Yes, we must watch them with the utmost care," a fellow Watcher agreed.

"Clockwork didn't stop them when he had the chance," the first began once more, "What shall we do?"

"Excuse me," Clockwork broke in, appearing as if out of nowhere, "but I am the Master of Time. I see time as it may be, as it was, as it could've been, as it now is, as it will be."

The Watchers all turned their gaze to the ghostly God of Time.

"You," the Watchers began in unison, "are you to do as we say."

"Let me ensure you that the possibility of time being disrupted by his appearance is possible. However, it is one of but many possibilities for the future, I assure you. And Walker, the Ghost Warden, will he himself attempt to keep Phantom within the boundaries of The Ghost Zone."

"And if he fails?"

"If he fails, there are still many futures yet to see," Clockwork continued, unphased by the Watcher's stares.

"Very well," they agreed, slightly lessening their gazes, "but know this, Clockwork. The boy is your responsibility, you---"

"are to take care and ensure he and his brother do not destroy the balance that exists between our worlds, right?" Clockwork finished his statement for him.

"Yes, but how did you..."

"As I said, I see time as it may be, as it was, as it could've been, as it now is, as it will be. I see everything. I know everything."

AN: Well! Here it was :O Chapter 3 of Thesis Statement~ Whootah. Also, thank you so much for all the kind reviews! :3 I really really appreciate them :3. I don't like this Chapter's ending as much, but it was kind of like "NO I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL NEXT CHAPTER COMPLETELY!!" So I ended it kinda suddenly :3 It's gonna get good though ;). Anyways, please tell me what you guys thought of it! Also, I know Danny is kind of emotional, but eh. He's a teen. Teens do that. XD Also, Phantom is like, XD Idk. He's a cool cat. Omfg. I didn't, did I? XD No, but he's meant to be like, Cold, but gradually becoming warmer the more he's around Danny. In fact, he's going to be quite cold whenever Danny's not around. Lesser and lesser as the story goes on, but definitely not as nice as he is to Danny. But yes. Anyways, back on the review thing, I just want to thank Jessica01, spiritmind675, Queen Skellington, and the Ghost Superstition for the kind reviews. :D You guys'r awesome =D

Anyways, enough of my babbling on. XD You're probably sick of it by now. So, anyways, I just want to say again, thanks for reading, and---OH! Before I go! I just want to get a general opinion...Do you guys want it to be DannyXPhantom? (XD Funny fact. The first time I wrote that sentence I wrote 'SoraXPhantom'. Now THERE'S some crack. XD) Anyways, yeah. I just want to make sure you all want it/will be okay with it. Also, if there's any questions you have about the story, my writing, or just w/e, feel free to pm me or contact me via AIM or w/e. =D I like hearing from new people. Okay, now that I have this giant wall of text, I'ma get going. Thanks again, everyone. ~Shin-Shui~