Lost in the Mists
By: Wilona Riva
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.
Light in the Window
"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."
Jazz mulled Frostbite's words over in her mind. She didn't understand. She sighed.
"Jazz, don't sweat it," Sam told her. "Clockwork will know what to do. How's Danny?"
Jazz looked over at her little brother, who lay propped up with pillows on a makeshift cot. He had a strange expression on his face. "He looks like he's going home," she said, after studying him for a few minutes.
"Weird," Tucker said, shutting the door and starting the engine. "Sam, get the map out and give me the coordinates, please."
"Here," she said.
"Here," she said, as they materialized on the doorsteps of Clockwork's tower. "He is expecting us."
"How do you know?" Ember replied.
"There is a lamp on the topmost floor," she said, pointing. "One light indicates we are welcome, two if we are not. Also they are glowing a sunshine gold, not a luminescent blue."
"The colors indicate his mood," Danny murmured, not opening his eyes.
"Phantom, shhh," his mother murmured. "Rest."
"I'm not whole."
"I'm not whole."
"Danny?" Sam asked, turning around in her seat. "We're taking you to Clockwork; he will help you."
Danny opened his blue eyes and looked over at his sister, who squeezed his hand. "I'm not whole," he repeated.
"I'm sorry," she whispered. "It's my fault, Danny. I don't know what I did, but I'm sorry."
"We're here," Tucker announced a little while later. Danny had lapsed once a sleep-like state. "We're not the only ones here though.
"Who is there?" Jazz asked from the backseat.
"Danni, Desiree, and Ember," Tucker replied, then he gasped.
"What is it?" Sam queried, peering into the emerald gloom of the Ghost Zone.
"They've got Danny with them."
"That's impossible!"