AN~ Wow that was so hard to write. It took me forever to get my thoughts straight I had to write out 3 outlines before I could start it. I'm sorry it took so long to update other than the fact this chapter was hard to write I also had tons of school work. Finals are coming and teachers are throwing in so much homework and last minute projects I just wanna scream! Okay now that I'm done that here's Chapter 5.

Disclaimer- No, I do not own Danny Phantom.

Chapter 5

Brainstorms

"How is that even possible?" Lancer asked very confused and awed at the same time.

Phantom looked at him; his eyes were blank and not seeing. He looked as though he may have been going into shock when he whispered "I don't know. I don't think it should be" he sounded so confused and very scared.

Lancer pulled himself together for the boys sake and said in the calmest voice he could muster "Okay, we just have to think logically and figure out what is happening to you and how to fix it. I take it nothing like this has ever happened before?" He asked looking at the boy next to him when the boy show his head Lancer went on "Okay then we need to put together all of the facts we have and try to figure out the cause then the solution." His teacher side was quickly taking over as he went over to his desk grabbing a stack of blank paper and a few pens and pencils. He dropped all of them on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

"Okay so what do we know so far?" He asked himself and the boy.

"You mean other than the fact something is seriously wrong with me?" The boy asked his voice dripping with disdainful sarcasm. Lancer ignored the tone understanding that the boys emotions were sure to be up and down from fear and worry.

"Let's just write out the facts okay?" He said. "Now what can you remember before you went through my window?"

"Um…I remember sensing a ghost…" Phantom looked up at Lancer and quickly looked down at the ground again (which was just in front of him considering the carpeted ground was now 3 feet under) "then I remember seeing Technus… this is where it starts getting fuzzy… he didn't even say a stupid speech like he always does which is probably how he caught me off guard… I know he was holding a glowing dagger and he never had it before and it didn't look electronic…. I don't know… I think that's when he flew at me and I moved but he must have caught my side with it… the next thing I remember was him laughing about seeing me in 6 hours and then waking up in your room."

"Hmmm." Lancer thought through this a minute writing down important points from what the boy told him. "Okay. After you landed in my classroom you were unconscious and still glowing and bleeding green." Lancer tried to recall any more specific details and continued "Your glow blew out like a light bulb," Phantom stared at him clearly not understanding. So Lancer added "I don't have a better way to explain it. It was like all of a sudden your glow was flickering and then grew terribly bright before going out completely."

Phantom stared down again a thoughtful look upon his face. "Well I already figured I was losing my powers, but now I'm wondering if that dagger was poisoned. I remember Technus saying something about losing them and not being able to go to my…uh… some people for help because I'd be stuck.

"Stuck?" Lancer asked him. The boy wasn't making much sense.

"Don't worry about it. Your helping me so that's one thing I have going for me." He said now looking as though he was thinking very hard about something.

They both sat there a few more minutes still trying to sort out their thought when Lancer broke the silence. "I have an idea. I'm not really sure if I'm correct but it's worth a shot."

"What is it?" Phantom asked obviously trying to cover the hope in his voice but Lancer still caught it with a wave of pity.

"Do you think you can make a list of all your powers?" He asked the hopeful boy.

The boys eyebrows furrowed as he said "okay…" not liking this but not daring to pass up a chance of getting better.

He leaned over, grimacing from the pain in his side, and grabbed a pencil and some paper.

Do you think you could write it in an order? Some way that it is important to you or anything like that?"

"I guess I could write which are weaker to which are stronger and how much energy they take up." He said with a shrug and started to write the list.

When he was done he looked down at it and said to Lancer "You know, that was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I'm not usually the one to keep track I just use them."

"Then who usually does keep track?" Lancer asked curiously.

The boys eyes widened suddenly as he frantically looked around the room his eyes landing on a clock on the desk. "Oh My God I am so DEAD!" He exclaimed standing up all of a sudden ignoring the pain and dizziness. Lancer stared at him in shock from the outburst and what the outburst said. He ignored the wording figuring he must have used it as a figure of speech and instead asked "What's wrong?"

The boy, suddenly realizing what he had just done looked down at Lancer, who seemed more like he was sitting on the floor than the sofa, his eyes widenened even more then he made himself appear calm and said "nothing… nothing's wrong. Um…uh…. Can I use your phone? I know it's a strange request coming from a ghost, but please?"

Lancer staring dully at the boy, reached in his pocket and handed his cell phone to the boy, who in return gave a small smile then asked "Could you tell me where the bathroom is?"

"Ghosts use the bathroom?" Lancer blurted out not thinking.

"Uh not usually…" Phantom said looking very uncomfortable having this conversation.

"Down the hall to the right but I really don't think the toilet will be available anymore" Lancer said indicating the mud that was not limited to just the living room but the whole house.

"Yeah…" Phantom said then walked slowly but steadily in the direction Lancer had told him.

Lancer looked down at the list sitting on the coffee table and read through it his eyes growing wide at what he saw.

Intangibility/ Invisibility

Fly/ Telekinesis (connected?)

All Ecto Abilities (connected?)

Ice

Fire

Teleportation (still uncontrolled)

Duplication (X5)

Wail

Then What?

Lancer read over the list a few more times in complete awe. How could someone so small hold so much power? And how could that same someone control all of this in such a positive way.

Lancer had already come to the conclusion the Phantom was indeed the good guy/ hero. Now looking at the list he was surer than ever. The boy had so much power and he only used it when others were in danger from other ghosts. Lancer was amazed. A few of the abilities on the list confused him never seeing a few of them and never seeing of hearing of one.

Lancer looked over down the hall wondering if the boy was alright, he had been gone for nearly 10 minutes.

Lancer decided to go check on him and walked, bent over trying not to hit his head on the now low ceiling, down the hall till he heard the urgent voice of Phantom who must have been speaking to someone on the phone.

"No listen to me! I can't just come home I'm stuck like this! ... No you guys, I just can't and I know you just want to help but I don't see how you can, not now anyway. Just make sure they don't suspect anything until we figure all this out. I don't know when we can get in touch again I don't have my phone on me I left it in my bag. Oh by the way did one of you grab it for me?... Good I don't know how I could explain some of the things in it…" Phantom laughed softly at whatever the person(s) on the other side said then replied "Yeah you're telling me, just make sure to cover for me and keep your phones close I'll call you guys if I figure anything out…" Lancer could hear the boy sigh before saying "I know you worry about me and right now I'm worried about myself too but I'll be okay everything will be fine." He sounded more like he was telling himself this more than anyone on the phone and he sniffed. Is he crying? Lancer wondered taking a few steps closer trying to hear better when he tripped over a root that was in his hallway connected to a tree that was now growing in his bedroom.

"Guys? I got to go, I can't talk anymore I think he's coming." Phantom whispered into the phone. "Don't worry I will be and don't worry too much…" He swallowed hard and loud before saying "I love you guys too. I'll talk to you soon." Lancer heard the sound of the phone flipping closed and then saw Phantom step into the hall spotting Lancer sitting on the "floor."

"Are you okay?" He asked Lancer making his way over to him and helping the man up the best he could in his weak state.

"I'm fine. How are you doing?" He asked the boy noticing the shadows under the boys eyes and the slight redness to his eyes.

"Yeah I'm good…well you know, considering…" He shrugged and made his way back to the sofa. As he sat he said "So…did you look at the list?"

"Yes, I did and I have to say I'm very proud of you."

"What?" Phantom's head snapped up looking at the teacher with wide eyes not expecting that.

"I said 'I'm very proud of you' and I am. You have all these abilities and you don't abuse them. You use them to help people, humans. You don't have to do what you do but you do it anyway despite the way people react to you and I'm proud of you for it."

The boy just stared a little longer then slowly looked down but not before Lancer caught the small smile on the boys face as he said "Thank you" in a small voice "that means a lot to me."

Lancer smiled and sat by the boy. He picked up the list and mentioned one of his thoughts. "What about the glowing and bleeding? I think we should add those to the list."

Phantom shrugged again and said "I never really thought of any of that as powers but I guess it's still a part of me and I obviously can lose them. I guess you should add healing too then."

"Healing?"

"Yeah, usually as soon as I get hurt it begins to mend itself. I've noticed it has gotten a lot strong over the years, like when I first noticed it I healed a bad burn in a little over a day now it happens in a few minutes or less depending on the injury."

"Wow." Lancer breathed out. The boy just kept amazing him.

"Yeah, but obviously I lost that ability too." He said looking down at his side.

"We really should change that bandage." Lancer told him looking at the darkening gauze around the boy which was now a covered in the rusty brownish red.

The boy waved a hand and said "we'll do that later what was your idea?"

"Well I was thinking that you are losing your powers and the way that ghost told you he'd see you in 6 hours I figured maybe that's how long till you lose all your abilities. I wanted you to write down a list of your powers to see how many you have and if there is certain timing to when you lose them."

"That makes sense I guess… I don't really know I was only ever a C student when I was in school." Phantom said making a face; Lancer was amused by the boy's attitude toward school reminding him of a few of his students. Then everything changed. The boy stiffened, his eyes growing wide again, his face was back to expressing full pain. Lancer put a hand on the boys shoulder not sure what more he could do when all of a sudden he was lifted into the air along with every free piece of furniture and tons of mud, all floating around in a circle like an indoor tornado, Phantom and Lancer being the center.

Lancer clung to the boy scared out of his mind the boy Had his eyes closed tight holding back a scream but unsuccessfully. Everything around them was moving faster and faster until finally it seemed to be stopping. He was wrong.

The boy's eyes snapped open and a sudden pulse came out of him. The pulse was huge. It was completely clear but looked like a strong wind in heavy rain; Lancer could see it for only a second when it hit him sending him flying across the room into a wall. All was still.

I Hope ya'll liked it. BTW did anyone notice on the phone conversation how he kept saying "guys?" I felt so weird typing that! I know in the show he says guys, and sense I'm from southern Louisiana I always say "ya'll" so "guys" is like a foreign word to me and I don't like it. Lol oh well.

Please review I really like hearing what people have to say and I like when people try to guess at things. It's fun! Ha ha.

Thanks for reading!

~Mia