A new chapter, based on the Order of the Phoenix's chapter, "The Eye of the Snake"
Enjoy! =)

Chapter 15

Danny hated this place; it was eerie and felt completely wrong. This was saying something considering he'd been in the ghost zone many times

While the ghost zone may have been dark, the ectoplasm had lit the realm just enough for everything to be visible. But the department of mysteries was a different story.

The whole place was cast over with unnatural shadow. The only light that illuminated the room was row upon row of crystal balls filled with haunting blue clouds.

When Danny had first seen the prophecy room, he was completely amazed by the huge amount of crystal balls. But, after large multitudes of hours in the room it now had become incredibly dull.

Danny should be thankful that Dumbledore had given him a step up in the Order and was involving him more. But, guard watch two-three times a week was not what Danny had in mind.

Danny floated back to the row he was supposed to guard and checked if everything was alright. The prophecy labelled under Harry Potter was still in place, untouched like it always was.

Danny heard a snort underneath him and saw the sleeping form of Arthur Weasley. He had a hard day at work today so Danny had offered to cover him while Arthur had a snooze. Danny didn't mind to give the wizard a hand; he did have to provide for a large family all by himself.

Danny started to float away from Arthur, making his rounds once again. As he floated by the identical rows, his mind came to the upcoming holidays.

Dumbledore told him that he was welcome to stay at Hogwarts but Danny wasn't sure if he wanted too. No one was going to be at Hogwarts for the holidays, so he would be completely alone...in a gigantic castle.

Even though Danny didn't like the holidays very much, he still didn't want to spend it without his friends, family or even the people from the Order. It had been five months and Danny still felt unwelcome in the Order. Sure they were friendly, but there was still a hidden wall between halfa and wizard. Danny had tried to be as friendly as possible at every meeting but Danny couldn't become friends with any of them. It was those times that Danny realized how bad his social life in Amity Park was.

'Why am I worrying about this? I hate the holidays anyways' Danny thought glumly.

Danny continued to float down the rows of prophecies, watching for any type of intruders, when he heard a distant yell in the distance. Danny turned around and made his way towards the noise. As he floated towards the first noise, a second more recognizable noise came. It was Arthur Weasley and it was a yell in pain.

Danny flew back towards the row Arthur was located and came face to face with a gigantic snake driving its head straight into the Arthur's ribcage. Arthur Weasley was wounded in multiple places; blood flowed freely from the bites and gashes.

The snake must have been 10 feet tall and at least one foot wide. It looked as though it was unnaturally big not like an anaconda that's supposed to 15-20 feet long. This snake was been tampered with, most likely with magic.

The snake turned towards Danny and stared at Danny, as if it was processing its new prey. The gigantic snake's scarlet red eyes glared daggers into Danny's own neon green eyes. As it slithered towards Danny, it tongue stuck out sniffing Danny's scent.

As the snake neared striking distance Danny raised his arms and brought ectoplasmic energy come to his hands. The snake slowed, as it saw the green energy come out of his hands but proceeded towards Danny.

Not wasting any time Danny shot an ectoplasmic shot at the head of the snake. The snakes head quickly veered to the left, dodging the ecto beam.

Using his other hand, Danny shot a second shot at the snake. Just like the first shot, the snake dodged. The snake quickly sprung from the floor aiming to bite at Danny's chest. Danny instinctively went intangible and let the large snake go through him.

The snake landed on the floor behind Danny surprised that it didn't hit its intended target. Using this moment of surprise Danny turned around and shot relentlessly at the snake. The snake recoiled in pain as it got pelted with ecto rays.

The snake hissed as if it was swearing at Danny and started to slither away with great speed. Once the snake was completely gone through the shadows Danny went straight towards Arthur to access his injuries.

Arthur was unconscious with multiple open wounds across his body, blood oozing freely out of the wounds, creating a puddle underneath him.

'I got to cover up those wounds!' Danny thought frantically.

Danny started to begin shredding up pieces of Arthur's pants and shirt to create bandages for the wounds.

'I should have stayed with him!' Danny thought belittling himself.

As Danny covered the wounds with Arthur's fabric Danny realized something, the wounds refused to stop bleeding. The oldest bandages were now completely soaked and started to leak through the bandages.

"Come on! Why won't it stop?" Danny said to himself in frustration.

Danny had just wrapped up another one of Arthur's chest wounds when rapid footsteps were approaching from Danny's side. Danny got up and placed himself in front of Arthur's unconscious body getting ready for whatever was coming.

Danny prepped his ecto rays as the footsteps got louder. Stepping out of the shadows was Kingsley Shacklebolt and Nymphadora Tonks. Once Danny saw their faces he let his arms down and let his ecto energy discharge.

Both Tonks and Shacklebolt went right by Arthur Weasley's side and started to access his health, ignoring Danny's very existence Danny noticed in disdain.

"The wounds won't stop bleeding." Tonks said in fright.

"We got to take him to 's." Shacklebolt instructed Tonks.

They both got up and with a flick of their wrists raised Arthur's body out of the blood puddle and into the air. "Come with us Phantom." Tonks said as she started running.

Danny followed them as they ran through the maze of the prophecy room, following Arthur's body. Danny watched as a trail of blood followed behind Arthur's limp body.

They made their way out of the Department only to meet up with Mad-Eye Moody.

"Blimey, did yeah have to make such a bloody mess" Mad-Eye comment angrily.

"This isn't the time Alastor." Shacklebolt said with anger. "Now can you clean up the blood trail that we made!"

"Fine! And Lupin is making the way to 's clear." Mad-Eye yelled to the running group.

They made their way to the main lobby of the Ministry and made their way to the fireplaces.

"Phantom, take some of the powder in the pot, throw it down and say 's very clearly. Like this." Tonks instructed.

She threw down the powder into the fireplace and declared "'s hospital." A green blazing inferno combusted wildly right where the powder was thrown. Danny shocked by the huge flames instinctively covered his face for protection and watched still awestruck as Tonks walked into the flames with the floating body of Arthur. Once the flames stopped Danny looked at the fireplace and found that both Arthur and Tonks were gone.

"What just happened" Danny exclaimed in surprise.

Danny looked over at the next fireplace and saw Shacklebolt do the exact same procedure, leaving Danny all alone, unsure about what he should do.

'Ok, what did Tonks say for me to do? Oh yeah! Grab the powder from the pot' Danny thought.

Danny went up to the large pot filled with grey powder and grabbed some in his gloved palm.

'Did she say the place first, and then threw the powder or was it the other way around?' Danny thought puzzled.

"Ok, I think I throw the powder first" Danny said to himself.

Danny nervous about what he was about to do took a deep breath.

'Why is all magical transportation insane?' Danny thought to himself

"Here goes..." Danny said in an unoptimistic tone.

Danny threw the powder into fireplace green flames started to flame intensely waiting for Danny to get in.

"'s hospital!" Danny exclaimed and stepped into the flames.

Danny expecting burning heat turned himself intangible when he stepped through the flames, but instead of scolding heat he found that there was no heat resonating from the flames.

Danny was in the flames for only a brief second before he found himself in a completely different chimney in what appeared to be a hospital waiting room. Danny looked around the room and found that it was stranger than it appeared. Danny quickly himself invisible and stared out at the room.

The room was filled with people with some of the strangest injuries or ailments Danny had ever seen.

One man had some sort of green liquid slowly spew out of his forehead, one man was sneezing uncontrollably and one man looked as though he had just grown another arm but it wasn't natural looking at all.

Danny looked over at the front desk and found Tonks talking to someone at the front desk. Danny floated over towards Tonks and eavesdropped on their conversion.

"Maam, we will tell you as soon as possible if he gets better, until then we'll need you to fill out this form." The woman said as she displayed a writing board with a piece of yellow paper attached to it.

"Thanks for the help." Tonks replied as she took the form.

"Don't mention it" The woman said in a bored tone.

Just as Tonks turned around a frantic Molly sprung through the doors and ran towards Tonks.

"Where is he?" Molly exclaimed.

"They took him to the serious bites ward on the first floor." Tonks answered.

"Thank you!" Molly answered running past Tonks.

Danny followed Molly run through the narrow corridors and was in awe at how fast she was running.

They went up the stairs and made their way to the serious bites ward where a waiting Kingsley Shacklebolt stood.

"Their healing him as we speak" Shacklebolt said to reassure Molly.

"Is he going to be OK?" Molly said in frantic, her eyes brimming with tear water.

"They said that the bandages done by Phantom had helped stop Arthur from losing too much blood." Shacklebolt said.

Danny had turned himself visible when he heard this. Shacklebolt nearly jumped when he saw the sudden reappearance of Danny.

"Really?" Danny asked.

Shacklebolt nodded, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'll report the status on Arthur to Dumbledore." He said walking away down the hall.

Molly all teary eyed looked at Danny with a mix of shock and gratitude.

"Thank you, thank you. My family and I are eternally grateful for saving my husband." Molly said with tears streaming down her eyes.

"You don't have to thank me for doing my job." Danny explained. "We were partners in guarding the prophecy."

"But you still stopped that snake from attacking him and bandaged his wounds." Molly explained.

'She does have a point.' Danny thought.

"Look" Danny said slowly. "I've always been here to help stop Voldemort from hurting innocent people, I'm glad that Arthur is going to be okay. But he almost died when I was right there" Danny explained sadly.

Molly looked at Danny with a sad look in her eyes. "Don't beat yourself up Phantom, you saved him, and that's what counts." Molly said reassuringly.

Molly went up and put her hand around Danny's shoulder to help sooth him. And it was working. "You can wait with me if you want." Molly commented.

Danny smiled, "Sure"

Danny sat beside her and turned himself invisible to not attract attention. And they waited.

Hope you like it, I think its pretty good :)
I really hate the dialogue between Molly and Danny, but its the best I could do after countless revisions.

Last chapter I was stunned by the lack of reviews.
What did I do wrong? Was it to bland? Were the character OOC?
I'd really like to know so I can improve and get better as the chapters get more important later on. (and maybe even do a full edit)

So please REVIEW to have your say on the story's progress and my decisions so far. I don't want to be a nag, I just want to be a better writer ;)

Until next time,

Prophet =P