Okay so I saw the midnight premiere for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. It's perfect! Everything was done perfectly! All the actors were exceptional, the action scenes were amazing and all the important scenes were done like the book. I recommend that everyone watch it as soon as possible, regardless of reading the book or not!

Now that my rant about the Harry Potter movie is over, on with the story!

Hope you all like the chapter!

Chapter 27

He heard voices, all unrecognizable and muffled like a blur. At first that was all Danny could recognize. The sun started beating down on his heavy eyelids, getting his attention. Pain then started to pulse through his body as his nerves began to work again. All his muscles felt sore from overuse and strain. As his head started to clear of its fogginess he noticed the sharp pain from his back and shoulder. Danny would have groaned in pain if his throat hadn't been so dry and sore.

Minutes passed and his hearing finally started to come out clear. He tried to open his eyes, but they felt like they were glued shut, not having enough energy to open his eyes.

"He's the 'boy who lived' again now? Not such a deluded show-off any more, eh?" Someone said deep and low voiced, most likely a man.

"Yes they're very complimentary about you now, Harry. 'A lone voice of truth ... perceived as unbalanced, yet never wavered in his story ... forced to bear ridicule and slander...' Hmmm funny how they don't mention the fact that it was them doing all the ridiculing and slandering in the Prophet"

'It's Hermione!' Danny recognized.

"You-Know-Who's Last Attempt to Take Over, pages two to four, What the Ministry Should Have Told Us, page five, Why Nobody Listened to Albus Dumbledore, pages six to eight, Exclusive Interview with Harry Potter on page nine, The unveiling of a Mysterious New Half Human Species, page ten" Hermione finished reading with a sigh.

Danny just listened trying hard to process what Hermione was saying but the pain in his body with his head refusing to take in any information.

Danny forced his eyes open; the light from the open windows blinded him. He brought his arm up to his face, acting as a shield from the light. He heard someone gasp from across the room but he just ignored it.

His eyes slowly got accustomed to the light, giving him the opportunity to see where he was.

He seemed to be in some sort of hospital, by the looks of all the hospital beds around him. A group of six teens looked over to wear he was lying in the corner bed of the large room. Danny noticed five of six teens. Lying in beds just like Danny was Ron and Hermione. Hermione looked unscathed while Ron had some markings on his head and neck. Harry sat on the end of Ron's bed and the boy from the ministry battle, Neville, was sitting on a chair on the side his nose kept in bandages. Ginny sat beside Neville on a chair as well. There was also a blonde girl who was reading a book upside down, which confused Danny. In the bed across from him was Professor Umbridge, who looked dazed and completely out of mind.

The teens all stared at him apprehensively, some in fear and some looked curious about him. Danny was used to this behaviour of most people towards ghost. But it was discerning for Danny because most of the teens in the group knew and trusted him from his summer stay in Grimmauld Place.

Nobody moved an unbreakable silence seemed to talk over the room as Danny tried to process everything around him.

A second later, he noticed something strange on his arms or the lack of something strange on his arms.

His arms were completely bare, no familiar black hazmat covering his arms. He raised his hand up in front of his eyes looking at bare skin instead of a silver glove.

He felt his heart beat fast as panic started to set in. He put his hands on his head and put his long bangs of his hair over top his eyes. The hair was black.

"Oh no" He said out loud to himself.

"Danny..."

He looked up and saw Hermione standing in front of him looking concerned.

"What happened?" Danny said distressed.

"Well...you got your mind possessed by You-Know-Who at the Ministry. Do you remember that?" Hermione asked.

Danny shivered as he remembered all the visions he had seen. His hands shook as he thought of the painful memories and gripping fears come to life.

"Then what?" Danny said, his voice stuttering.

"He left your body, everybody saw him before he apparated. Now everyone knows that He Know Must Not Be Named is back." Hermione said solemnly.

"What happened to me?" Danny asked impatient.

"When You-Know-Who left your body you went unconscious and..." Hermione paused looking at Danny in fear.

"You better show him" Harry said from behind.

Hermione nodded and took the copy of the newspaper in her hands unfolded it, flipped the pages and passed it to Danny.

Danny took the newspaper and looked at the article in front of him.

The page had a large moving picture of a slumped looking Danny Phantom bleeding from his chest, looking utterly exhausted. The Danny in the picture then had his head slide back and white halo rings surrounded the picture of him. The rings travelled up and down his body, transforming him. A moment before he was looking at Danny Phantom, a second later he saw a picture of Danny Fenton on the floor unconscious. On the top of the page was the title, 'The unveiling of a Mysterious New Half Human Species'

"I'm sorry Danny, but-"

"Everyone knows! They all know what I am!" Danny said on the brink of theatrics.

"Yes, they do. But, everything is going to be-" Hermione started before she was interrupted.

"This, this can't be happening." Danny said holding his head with his head, trying to keep the room from spinning.

'What am I going to do?' Danny panicked in his head.

"Danny!" Hermione said loudly, getting his attention. "Everything is going to be alright."

Danny just sat in his bed silently thinking everything through. Everyone in the room might as well as just been shadows to him. It was terrifying to him that anyone in the magical world could look at him and know all about his powers, how much of a freak he was.

"So, how are you half-ghost?" Someone asked from Danny's side.

Danny wrenched from his terrified inner thoughts turned to the other and saw Ron looking curiously at him.

"Ron, don't be a-"

"I wasn't born this way if that's what you're asking." Danny said darkly.

"You were a muggle?" Neville asked

"Yes, I was born a muggle." Danny answered.

"But then, how did you become a half-ghost?" Harry asked curiously.

"It's complicated." Danny answered darkly, his head still hurting.

"Guess he obviously doesn't want to answer your questions." Hermione told them, trying to save him from the questions.

"That's not fair Hermione, you already knew about him." Ron said in a whiny tone.

"He's been through a lot and-"

"It was an accident" Danny interrupted.

Everyone turned to him, getting their attention fixated upon him.

"My parents are ghost hunters, even though they'd never seen one. And they thought that by building a ghost portal they would finally be able to study one." Danny explained. Everyone silently listened to him. "When they finished and tried to turn it on, it didn't work, so I thought it was safe enough to go in."

Every one of the teens eyes looked like they resembled a deer looking at incoming car headlights, large and dazed with fascination.

"It turns out the on switch was inside the portal and I had accidently pressed it, while still inside." Danny explained, trying to find the words to continue. "Somehow I survived the shock and stepped out of the portal in my ghost form and was able to transform back into my human form. Nobody knew, but my closest friends."

Everyone looked at him not sure what to do.

"Time and time again, I saved my town from ghost attacks, and sometimes world domination." Danny said quietly, saying it as though it may help.

His mind then thought of his dark future as Dan Phantom. He wondered what had become of the United Kingdom and even what happened with the magical populace of the world. Had there been a resistance? Did Dan tear his way through any magical spell or creature willing to face him?

He was silently grateful to Clockwork letting Danny have that second chance.

"Wait... maybe I could get Clockwork to change this." Danny quietly said to himself.

Cogs turned in Danny's head as an idea to fix everything came to mind. Danny got himself into a sitting position and slowly got out of the bed. Danny then made his way to the exit of the hospital wing.

Hermione then stepped in front of him blocking his way. "Danny you're still injured, you've got to rest"

"Get out of my way Hermione" Danny said with no patience.

"No Danny, your still injured."

The halfa just sighed in annoyance and turned intangible, stepping through Hermione.

All the other teens stared at Danny in wonder at the display of one of his simplest powers.

Danny then wordlessly turned into his ghost form, still wrangled and injured but looked like there was some improvement. The ghost boy flew to through the ceiling of the hospital wing and flew into the morning air. He looked around and noticed that he was at Hogwarts.

Danny scowled at his surroundings. 'It's going to be a long trip' he thought annoyed

He looked around from the high vantage point in the air and found where the forbidden forest was. 'Ok, if I go past the forbidden forest I should make my way to London and then I'll have to cross the ocean. Then I'll get to Amity Park'

He started to fly swiftly over the dark lake below and went overtop the forbidden forest, making sure that he's out of the reach of any monsters lurking in the forest.

"Time Out."

Suddenly Danny froze in mid-air his hands outstretched, and his ghostly tail in a whipping formation. His white hair was blown back, his eyes glowing with determination.

Suddenly a sparkling blue portal formed beside Danny's frozen form and out of the portal was a tall blue ghost, wearing a purple cloak with a hood overtop his head. The ghost's eyes glowed red with a scar running over top the right of the ghost. He also carried a long staff that held a clock on the top. The ghost would constantly morph between being a child, an adult or an old man.

Clockwork, the master of time had appeared through the portal.

He drifted in front of Danny, and with a swish of staff another blue portal appeared in front of Danny.

"Time In" Clockwork said, tapping the top of his staff.

Danny then started to go into motion once more, flying through the blue portal without any time to dodge it.

Once he was on the other side of the portal he looked around confused.

'Wait... This is Clockwork's tower.' Danny thought in amazement.

Clockwork then drifted through the portal looking at the halfa with a small smirk.

"It's nice to see you again" The master of time said, greeting Danny.

Danny looked around the large clock tower noticing that nothing had changed since his last visit. The clock's still ticked, giant clock cogs turned with no signs of rusting and multiple images appeared over the large screens in the centre of the tower.

"How did you know I was coming?" Danny asked.

Clockwork just raised his eyebrow at Danny.

Danny then slapped his forehead, feeling pretty stupid. "Oh yeah, you know everything."

Clockwork just chuckled, morphing into his elderly form, "Now, you wanted a request?"

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I'm going away in two days for four days so a one and half week update may not happen if writing the next chapter doesn't go smoothly. Though, I'm confident that I'll be able to finish in good time.

Until next time,

Prophet =P