The Oath of the Heroes.

I will always think of others before myself

I shall never ever think about personal gain or the gratitude I get from others.

I shall always try to save people. No matter what they think of me or what I think of them

I will follow the path which saves the most people without hesitation.

Finally, I shall never kill another living being. For as long as I exist, this is what I promise.

Danny Phantom took this oath the very day he survived his future self's attack. The Oath was one which Danny respected dearly and through all consequences, fought to uphold. It was part of his hero syndrome, to help all others before helping himself, if he though about himself at all. Every time somebody got hurt it was his fault, every time somebody felt bad he was the one to help them. This caring nature, though valued in upmost respect to many, was sadly a weakness for his enemies. He fell into traps all too often because his friends had been captured and laid out as bait. The bait which Danny eagerly took no matter what the consequences were to him.

Danny had gotten up early one lazy Sunday morning and decided to go downstairs and watch some TV. He walked down the staircase in his normal street cloths, pausing only to grab a box of cereal from the kitchen. The sofa was a welcomed Danny as he turned the television on with his free hand. He switched through the channels endlessly before deciding that nothing exciting was on. After contemplating going back to bed for a few hours, he chose to turn over to the news to catch up on current events. He laid the remote down on the ground and popped some cereal into his mouth.

"Yesterday Jump City was saved once again from the teen heroes internationally known as the Teen Titians." Danny snorted. How he wished he could have the bliss of not having his secret identity. "The potentially destructive volcano has been prevented from erupting by the Titans and surprisingly the hero turned villain called Terra." The volcano on the screen was replaced by an image of Terra. Fully adorned in her Slade battle suit. Danny let the cereal box drop of his hands and his jaw drop. It wasn't like him to be transfixed by somebody this much but he just couldn't help it. He saw so much of himself in Terra. The pain, the anger and confusion that she didn't know what she wanted to be. It was like a female version of himself that he saw in Terra's watery blue eyes. The news reader jolted Danny back to the real world.

"We have been told by the Teen Titans that she supposedly gave her life to kill Slade and prevent the eruption. It is true that we owe this girl our lives. The Titan's member Beast Boy had this to say." Beast boy appeared on the screen. You could see from his eyes and posture that he was in great emotional pain. "Please," he said, quietly and pitifully. "If anybody has any information on where she may be. If she has survived… call this number." Danny didn't wait for the number to appear, he was already in the air, flying at full speed towards the volcano. If she was there he was going to find her. A person who had sacrificed herself to help her friends was worthy of a second chance in Danny's books. God help the person who tried to deny her that which Danny was trying to give her. Life.

Within half an hour the Volcano was in view. Danny slowed down for the next few miles, using his heightened senses to gain an edge in searching for something, anything which could prove that Terra was alive. After another ten minutes Danny was getting frustrated. He had searched all around the volcano and he could see nothing to indicate Terra had survived. His shoulders fell in defeat. Maybe she hadn't survived. But then he saw something, a glimmer of metal in the morning sun. Danny shot towards it with a speed which rivalled a top of the line fighter jet. Landing on the small beach he looked for the source of the metallic glimmer. A hand was protruding from a large pile of rubble and debris. He began pulling apart the rubble with gained strength and determination; only thinking that perhaps she had survived, perhaps he had saved her. After a good five minutes of pulling apart the rock tomb he found her. Terra lay at an odd angle on the sandy ground and her arms and legs were twisted in weird ways. However Danny could see her chest rising and falling and let out a sigh of relief. She was still alive, injured maybe, but alive never the less.

Terra groaned quietly and started to regain consciousness. She felt so weak but she still remembered everything. Slade using her against Beast Boy, her turning against Slade in the volcano and preventing him from destroying the city. She tried to move but a jolt of pain told her that she wouldn't be doing anything of the sort for a long time.

"Don't move. This may hurt a little but you have to trust me." Terra was terrified. What was going to happen to her? Was one of Slade's lackeys going to finish her off for destroying their master? She tried to speak her thoughts but found that she could make no noise but a slight whisper. Unbearable pain shot through her nerves and she let out another cry of pain. Danny had just set the bone straight in her left leg and was about to do the same to her other limbs, saying words of comfort all the time he did it. It pained him to hear her screams but he threw it all out of his mind. This girl was going to be saved whether she liked it or not.

"Who are you?" she managed to say before blackness crept into her vision. The last thing she saw was a teenage boy with snow white hair gazing down on her, a spark of contempt and admiration vivid in his neon green eyes.

"I'm Danny Phantom. You'll be with your friends soon." With those words Danny picked up her frail body and set off towards the Titan's Tower. He smiled. It felt good to be a hero.

Don't blame me if you find that I didn't get many of my Titan facts right. I don't know much about the series. Reviews would be greatly appreciated.