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Here is chapter 16, hope you enjoy it and remember to review after reading =)
(and sorry about taking so long)
Chapter 16
St. Mungo's was an unnerving place. The odd assortment of sounds that went on in the hospital made it seem more like a torture chamber. And the bland colour choices made the whole place seem dull.
The healers also didn't help with the mood of the hospital, with dull attitudes and lack of hop in their step.
Once Molly left to Grimmauld Place to see her family and Harry, Danny was given the tiresome job of watching over Arthur Weasley. The others said that he was the most ideal candidate because of his ability to turn invisible.
'BS' Danny thought frustrated. 'They just didn't want to stay the night here in this hell house!'
Danny's patience was truly tested as he sat invisible at Arthur's side, watching as he slept peacefully.
Sure he was glad that Arthur was all right, and that he'd helped save his life.
And this is how the Order rewards him, with more guard duty?
Danny took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. 'I'm still the new guy; I just need to wait it out.' Danny thought.
Danny continued to sit in the room when he heard a distant scream from the stairs. Danny sighed as he realized this was the fifth time Danny heard a scream.
As Danny sat in the chair, his mind thinking back to the revelation of how the Order knew of the attack. It never did quite occur to him how they known so quickly, he was just too relieved that somebody had come to help.
Finding out that the snake that attacked Arthur and Danny himself was Voldemort's snake unnerved Danny. Then he found out that Harry had seen the whole thing in a dream, had Danny in shock.
Not literally shock. No, just that feeling that you could not comprehend something, like a hard scientific topic, or a hard algebra question.
Danny has been trying to find a logically reason of how Danny could have seen the events from miles away at the exact time they happened elsewhere.
'Stupid magic, why do you have to be so complicated?' Danny thought in frustration.
Danny continued to stare off into space when he heard Arthur Weasley start to move in his bed. Danny got up from the chair staring at Arthur as he slowly opened his eyes and inspected his surroundings.
Danny turned himself visible, making Arthur jump in fright, holding his chest trying to calm his heart.
"Blimey Danny, please give me some warning" Arthur Weasley exclaimed.
Danny smiled as he saw Arthur seem to be in pretty good shape, despite the wounds he had gotten. "Sorry about that...How are you feeling?" Danny pondered.
Arthur started to look over himself and seemed satisfied with the bandages and his health.
"I feel great!" Arthur said enthusiastically.
Danny smiled once more, happy to know that the man before him was going to be alright.
Arthur face hardened and stared at Danny once more. "You saved me didn't you?" Arthur questioned the young halfa.
Danny smile stopped and he stared into Arthur's eyes. "Yeah, you really got beat up by that snake" Danny said softly.
Arthur seemed to be at a loss of what to say before he looked back at Danny. "Well I guess a thank you is in order." Arthur said enthusiasm.
He stuck out his hand for a shake. Danny grinned and shook his hand. At the contact Arthur's eyes widened and once Danny phased his hand out. Arthur was shaking his hand, blowing on it with deep breathes.
"Blimey that's cold!" Arthur exclaimed.
A few hours passed slowly. Danny had to stay invisible as Arthur sat reading the paper. Nothing interesting happened as Danny tried to not fall asleep after staying up for...
'I don't even know anymore' Danny thought glumly as he started to nod off again.
Danny's eyes fluttered again, his invisibility fading ever so slightly making him appear as a fog.
His visibility grew more and more when a ring of light had appeared at Danny's waist, then the door banged open.
The ring around Danny disappeared instantly as Ginny, Ron, Fred, George and Molly Weasley walked in alongside Harry. The noise of their entrance caused all of the patients in the other beds to look their way. Danny panicked as he quickly went invisible.
Arthur eyes lit up as every member of the Weasley family ran towards him, each of them giving turns for a hug. Harry watched from the side looking lost as he watched the family affection, Danny couldn't help but feel the same.
"How are you feeling Arthur?" enquired. "Your still looking a bit peaky"
"I feel absolutely fine. If I could take off my bandages" Arthur answered his family.
"Why can't you take them off Dad?" Fred asked.
"Well, I start bleeding like mad every time they try." Arthur said cheerfully.
Arthur reached towards the table and grabbed his wand, waved it and made six chairs appear out of thin air.
Everyone took a seat, listening intently.
"It seems there was some rather unusual kind of poison in that snake's that keeps wounds open. They're sure they'll find an antidote, though; they say they've had much worse cases than mine, and in the meantime I just have to keep taking a Blood-Replenishing potion every hour. But that fellow over there," Arthur said, dropping his voice and pointing to the man across from them, looking like he was going to throw up at any second.
"Bitten by a werewolf, poor chap. No cure at all" Arthur said sadly.
Danny looked at man. Though his face looked like it had a tint of green from puking every couple of hours, the man looked normal enough. He looked up at the ceiling, looking as though he was in deep thought, and completely miserable. Looking at the man, brought back painful memories for Danny when he was dealing with his ghost powers, the confusion and the panic Danny had for a few months after the accident. The man sleeping in the bed across from him looked like he was exhibiting these things, which made Danny hope the very best for the man.
"So, are you going to tell us what happened, Dad?" Fred asked. This turned Danny's attention back towards the party in front of Arthur Weasley.
"Well you already know don't you?" Arthur said looking at Harry. "It's very simple; I had a very long day, dozed off, got sneaked up on and bitten"
"Is it in the prophet, you being attacked?" Fred said pointing to a newspaper on the side.
No, of course not" Arthur said bitterly. "The Ministry wouldn't want everyone to know a dirty snake got"
"Arthur!" Molly warned with a glare.
"-Got-er-me" Arthur finished awkwardly.
"So where were you when it happened, Dad?" George enquired.
"That's my business" Arthur said proudly. Arthur turned towards the newspaper on his side table and snatched it. He started to shake it open.
"Did you know it was Willy Widdershins who's been behind all those regurgitating toilets back in the summer? They found him unconscious covered head to toe in-"
"When you say you were 'on duty'" Fred interrupted. "What were you doing?"
"You heard your father." Molly distressed. "We are not discussing this here!"
"You were guarding it weren't you with Phantom?" George hissed softly. "The weapon? The thing You-Know-Who's after?"
"George, be quiet!" Molly snapped
"Didn't you say You-Know-Who's got a snake, Harry?" Fred asked looking to Harry. "A massive one? You saw it the night he returned, didn't you."
"That's enough" Molly exclaimed, silencing the Weasley children. "Mad-Eye and Tonks are outside, Arthur. They want to come see you. And you can all wait outside."
They all trooped out of the ward. As the teens left, Mad-Eye and Tonks walked through the doorway.
Tonks marched up to Arthur and gave him a big hug, while Mad-Eye stood beside Molly and huffed. Mad-Eye then moved his fingers to towards Arthur, indicating for everyone to move towards Arthur.
Danny inched himself forward towards the Order members listening in. "Good, everyone's here." Mad-Eye said sharply.
"What about Phantom?" Tonks asked.
"Don't worry he's here" Mad-Eye said while his magic eye stared at him.
Tonks shrugged, knowing that Danny was beside them.
"They searched the whole area but couldn't find the snake anywhere. It just seems to have vanished after it got hit by Phantom, but You-Know-Who can't have expected a snake to get in, did he?" Tonks whispered.
"I reckon he sent it as a lookout" Moody growled. "Cause he's had no luck so far. No, I reckon he's trying to get a clearer picture of what he's facing, if Phantom and Arthur weren't there the beast would've had a lot more time to look around"
Mad-Eye looked at everyone, even Danny invisible.
"So, Potter says he saw the whole thing?"
"Yes" Molly said worriedly. "You know, Dumbledore seems almost to have been waiting for Harry to see something like this."
"Yeah well there's something funny about the Potter kid, we all know that" Moody said as though it was fact.
Danny's face frowned at the information. 'Dumbledore's been expecting this?' Danny pondered
"Dumbledore seemed worried about Harry when I spoke to him this morning" Molly said frowning
"Course he's worried, the boy's seeing things from inside You-Know-Who's snake. Obviously, Potter doesn't know what that means, but if You-Know-Who possessing him then he could be a liability." Moody said with hardened hiss.
"Surely you can't believe..." Molly whispered.
"How else did the boy see what happened?" Mad-Eye growled softly.
Danny was finally relieved of staying with Arthur Weasley. Danny couldn't wait to get back to Grimmauld Place and sleep in a bed, regardless of how old and dusty the mattress may be.
Danny was floating idly in the middle of the subway invisible. He looked at all of his peers in the subway and noticed a strange mood about them, he couldn't place it but something had happened to cause them to be spooked. The one leading the charge was Harry who looked deathly pale as he sat in his seat.
Molly Weasley noticed Harry's strange behaviour, "Are you all right, Harry, dear? You don't look very well. Are you feeling sick?"
Everyone looked at him; Harry looked back at all them and shook head violently indicating a 'no.'
Molly looked unconvinced and asked again. "Harry, dear, are you sure your all right?"
"I'm fine ." Harry responded with a croak.
Danny just stared at Harry not believing that the young man was anything but all right.
They finally made it back to Grimmauld Place, he made himself visible, making everyone jump at his sudden appearance. Danny looked them all over and stated very simply, "I'm going to bed, no one bother me."
Danny remembered the layout of the dusty home and went back to the room he had taken in the summer.
When Danny fazed into the room, he looked around and found that nothing has been moved. The layer of dust on the dresser indicated that no one had even entered the room for multiple months.
Danny quickly brushed off all the dust on the bed and dropped his whole body onto the bed, not even making the effort to change back to his human half or even putting on the bed sheets.
Danny woke up completely disoriented. He blinked his eyes trying to gather his wits and remove the blurriness from his eyes. He got up and looked over himself. He wore his signature white tee-shirt, blue jeans and red tennis shoes.
'Lucky, no one came in to see my human form' Danny thought to himself.
Danny felt for the familiar inner cold core in his chest, transforming himself into his alter-ego, Danny Phantom.
Danny turned himself intangible making his way to the kitchen. When he finally made it inside the kitchen he found everyone putting up Christmas decorations, Sirius was singing Christmas carols as he hung up the reefs onto the walls with his wand.
The others all looked quite perplexed at the sight of Sirius singing and dancing with glee instead of his much darker but carefree nature.
When Danny floated down to the level of everyone he noticed a lone occupant was missing. Harry.
They all stared at him not knowing what to say. It took Molly to end the awkward silence.
"Good morning Phantom" she said cheerfully. "You have a good sleep?"
"Yeah, it was great!" Danny said with a smile. "Is there anything to eat?"
"There's some toast on the counter"
Danny nodded and floated over to find some toast. He took it and sat himself down at the main table, biting into the toast.
As he watched all of the witches and wizards decorating the room with the decorations, terrible memories from past holidays came to mind. The constant arguments about the existence of Santa had made the holidays more of a depressing time, 'than time of good cheer.'
He hated how his parents had always ruined Christmas for him. Watching his peers through his childhood happy over the holidays, made Danny completely miserable as he knew his Christmas was going to be stressful and miserable with his parents arguing.
He even remembered the years where Jazz would try to take him somewhere fun to try and lift his spirits. Like the park or the movie theatre. Danny didn't realize how much he'd appreciated his sister doing that until now.
Danny continued to watch them put up the decoration even when he was finished his toast.
As he watched he remembered the spooked expression on Harry's face yesterday. 'What was it that caused him to be like that, Harry's never like that.'
Just when the others had went on to decorate the dusty front hall the doorbell rung making Mrs. Black to start screaming at the top of her lungs just as always.
Danny immediately covered his ears and flew into the front hall. Everyone had their ears covered as the woman in the painting continued to curse at the top of her lungs.
Seeing all the Christmas decorations made him annoyed, now the screaming caused Danny to be angry.
Danny tried to block out her screams, covering his ears desperately, but found that it had no effect against Mrs. Black's shrill voice. Green ectoplasm started to spark inside of his palm creating a ball of ectoplasm in one of his hands. He faced his palm towards the painting as threatening as possible, "Shut up!" Danny screamed.
Mrs. Black ignored Danny's order, continuing to scream. Danny couldn't understand why he was so angry, but it didn't really matter.
Danny aimed and launched the ectoplasmic ball right into Mrs. Black's painting. The ball of ectoplasm impacted into the painting causing Mrs. Black to scream and curse at Danny as the painting was burning away because of green flame that was slowly engulfing the painting.
Mrs. Black screamed as her existence burned away slowly catching a flame at the bottom and reaching the top of the painting. Soon the whole painting was on fire with the strange green flame.
The parchment of the painting started to curl up as it burned out of existence and fell on the ground. The paper still burned on the ground slowly turning to ash.
The front door banged, Danny looked over to the source of the noise. Hermione stood with snow in her hair, her cheeks rosy red from the cold outside staring at Danny in shock.
Danny felt nervous as he noticed the multiple people all looking him over. The first person to move was Sirius; a look of uncertainty was on his face as he approached Danny.
"Why didn't you do that the first day you arrived, it would have lifted the burden of having to listen to that rotten hag!" Sirius said smiling joyfully.
The twins cheered at this, fist pumping in the air. Danny just continued to stare dumb struck, "I didn't even know that would happen." Danny sputtered.
"And it doesn't really matter! The wicked witch is dead!" Sirius cheered.
Danny smiled at Sirius's happiness. The others smiled as well, realizing that they won't have to hear Mrs. Black scream over the holidays and forever.
I really don't like the end but its the best one I wrote out of three versions.
The next chapter is probably not going to be as long of wait and not as long in length.
I'm also very pumped about what I have planned on chapter 18 and I want to work on it right away!
Now on my profile is a poll for what you guys would want for me to work on next.
The descriptions (or summary) for each story is at the bottom of the page and it would be greatly appreciated if you voted =)
Until next time,
Prophet =P