Lost in the Mists

By: Wilona Riva

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.

Lovely Dreams

The teacher sighed. "Come on, Daniel," Miss Spectra said. "Wake-up!"

"It's no use," the gym teacher, Skulker, said as he came to see what was wrong. "Something is wrong with the whelp. He did this in my class as well."

"I know it's not me; I only siphon off the extra energy when it threatens to spill over," Spectra said. "I don't like this. He needs to see a specialist."

Ember looked up from the floor where she was cradling Danny's head. "It's like he's really only here half of the time."

Both teachers were startled. Could it have been the accident?

"Could it have been the accident?" Sam whispered to Tucker. "We don't know if there were other side effects."

"Possibility," Tucker replied, as Mrs. Fenton finished filling out the forms while Mr. Fenton talked with the doctor.

"Where is he?" Danny's sister cried, running into the nurse's office.

"Where is he?" Danny's sister cried, running into the nurse's office. Skulker had taken charge of the young ghost.

"Doctor Bert Rand is with him at the moment, Miss Phantom," Skulker told her. "You should call your mother."

"I wish my mother was here," Danielle said.

A swirl of pink mist coalesced in the center of the room. A beautiful dark-green skinned woman with ruby eyes and lustrous long dark hair gasped and flew to her son's side. "Daniel, Daniel, I told you to stay home from school today, you silly boy."

"Daniel, Daniel, I told you to stay home from school today, you silly boy."

"He's fine, Jazz," Sam told her, pulling her to the side. Tucker was doing his "modelling agency" chant again in the corner, while secretly peeking at his friend's prone form lying so still on the bed. "What did he tell you this morning?"

"He asked where his sister was," Jazz answered thinking back to that morning. "I told him I was right in front of him, but he said my coloring was all wrong."

"Okay, that was random," Sam said. "I mean he is half-ghost."

Tucker's PDA began beeping, causing all the adults to stare at him. He blushed. "Sorry," he said, "just doing some research for a class. Forgot to turn off the volume."

"Well, take it outside," the nurse told him. "All of you. We'll call you when he wakes up."

The girls waited until the door closed, leaving them out in the hallway. "Okay," Sam demanded. "What do you know?"

"What do you know?" Desiree asked her daughter. "He told you something this morning."

"He told me about this dream world he lives in some of the time," Danielle admitted, hating the eyes that were focused on her. "He told me I was an unstable clone."

"And I was rock star," Ember piped up. "Sorry, Honored One, but he also spoke to me of this other world. Could it have been from the accident? We don't know if there were other side effects."

Author's Note: This chapter has come full circle, and yet, we are still no closer to finding out which world is the real one. Keep reading and have fun guessing.