Lost in the Mists

By: Wilona Riva

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.

From the Heart

"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."

"You know he is not like other ghosts, Ember," Desiree said, moving a stray hair off of her son's forehead. "He was born of the Heart."

"The Portal Keeper," Ember said, nodding in agreement. "Or he was until the accident."

"He hasn't been sleeping," Desiree said. "Danielle, what did your brother tell you this morning?" Her attention focused on her daughter.

"He's beginning to remember."

"He's beginning to remember," Tucker explained, once they were out of earshot of any adults. "My PDA picked up a flux in his powers."

"That is strange," Jazz said.

"Agreed," Sam added. "Is there a source to this flux, Tucker?"

"Yes."

"Yes," Desiree mused. "I was wondering when it would occur. The Time Master warned of it happening someday."

"Are we going to lose him again?" Danni asked.

"He is not ours to keep," her mother replied. "Ember?"

"Yes, Honored One?" the blue-haired girl asked.

"Please, be gentle with him. Fire consumes him within and without for all things."

Ember bowed. "Can a wish fix the instability within his mind?"

Desiree's ruby eyes widened with surprise, then dimmed. "If it could, it would have been done by this time. Only the Time Master can help us now."

"I will release Mr. Phantom into your care, O Honored One," Doctor Bert Rand said, appearing an instant later when Desiree explained her desires and concerns. "Only the Time Master will know what to do."

"Only the Time Master will know what to do."

Sam, Tucker and Jazz had managed to distract the teachers long enough to sneak Danny out of school and into Jazz's car, and then past her parents into the lab and the Ghost Zone. They had sought out Frostbite, the Clan-Leader of the Far Frozen, who sadly shook his head.

"What I do know is this," he added, "it was not his parents who caused this strange fracture of his mind."

"Then who?" Jazz demanded.

"It was you, dear one. You, who were forbidden to enter the portal, caused this. The Great One must go to the Heart from whence he came. The Time Master will show you the way."

Author's Note: We're getting close to the truth. Keep reading and don't forget the press the little button below.