A woman's gasp sounded and Danny turned around quickly to see Sam being lifted up by an unseen force. Her hands clawed at her throat and her legs kicked madly. She phased through the bars of black fire as if it was nothing.

Danny inhaled his breath sharply through his teeth as Sam made sputtering chocking noises. Physically exhausted or not, Danny's anger got a grip on him and caused him to transform.

A wind picked up out of nowhere and his hair fluttered in it as he transformed with a flash. His eyes began to glow an eerie green, his irises seemed to melt into the whites and coat his eyes in ectoplasmic green.

"Let her go,"

A gasp came from Sam followed by a small click. Danny's fists clenched. Bending at the knees, Danny shot up as fast as he could, his fists outstretched as he barrelled towards the malevolent ghost. The full ghost anticipated this and grabbed Danny by his neck.

The half ghost was ready for this, however, his temper overcoming his thoughts of reason. Danny concentrated all his energy into his frozen core.

He remembered Frostbite's words. He remembered well what the Yeti had said as he narrowed his eyes and shot out all his frozen energy into the ghost holding him. He, as well as Demois' arm froze. Demois lost his grip on Sam and she fell limply to the floor.

Demois screamed and brought out his own elemental. Lightning danced on his shoulder and down his frozen arm, playing over the sheets of ice and melting it where it landed. Eventually, the ice cracked off of his hand, and he let Danny fall with a thud to the floor.

The ice around Danny began to crack, and the humans watching the fight feared that when the ice split, Danny would go with it. Suddenly, hundreds upon hundreds of birds shot out of the ground, accumulating around Demois and merging with him. His now unfrozen arm dangling limply at his side; the birds merging with him caused him to grow in height and bulk.

The ice block that was Danny was now shaking madly. Maddie, Jack and Fenton hugged while watching their son, eyes wide with fear. Tucker was staring at Sam, who was coughing and sputtering as she forced herself to her knees.

Demois finished merging with his birds; he was now at least ten times his original height as he waited for Danny to break free.

The ghost boy in question shattered his self-imposed prison and glared up at the powerful ghost. He felt a twinge of fear at the ghost's new height, and the power he could sense pouring out of every pore on his body.

The ghost reached towards Danny but the smaller ghost zipped out of Demois' outstretched hand and it closed in thin air. The ground rumbled in reply to the ghost's growl of frustration.

Danny zipped over to Sam, who was rubbing her neck and watching the ghosts. "Are you okay?" He whispered, putting his hands on her shoulder as she kept an eye on Demois.

"Duck!" Sam said, holding onto Danny who turned them intangible and phased them through the floor, just as a blast exploded where their heads were.

Before they could get far, a hand reached out and grabbed Danny by the back of his shirt, pulling him and Sam up. Demois turned them around so he could look them both in their eyes, a frown plastered on his face.

"Ah ah ah," The ghost tsked him, taking Sam in his limp hand and holding tightly onto Danny. "It wouldn't do to have you and your girlfriend escape."

Danny expected some argument from Sam about not being his girlfriend, but she remained silent. Looking over, Danny noted that she was unconscious, little zaps of electricity playing along her body, tracing up to the ghoul's shoulder.

"Stop hurting her!" Danny's eyes were an electric green now and his teeth were clenched in anger. Demois threw his head back with a bark of laugher.

"Just what I was waiting for!" Danny felt something coursing through him. Lightning played along his suit and he could feel something that felt like the pricks of many claws tearing into him, Danny gasped in pain and started to struggle. He could feel his head starting to swim, his powers draining.

Danny started to pant; he weakly flexed his muscles, straining against the over-sized fingers that bound him, his powers were extinguished and he turned human, his head lolling onto his chest as he struggled to stay conscious as lightning left small burn marks on his body wherever it touched.

"DANNY!" His mother screamed. Jack held her by her upper arms as she struggled to get to her son, and his sister held onto her father, watching her brother with scared eyes.

Tucker turned to Valerie, who had been watching the whole thing, stunned. "Valerie! Please!" Tucker was able to reach through the bars and grab a hold of Valerie's sleeve. She turned to him, still in her Red Huntress outfit. She frowned at her old friend.

"Valerie- you're the only one who can help Danny and Sam. Come on, please!" Tucker looked at her, his eyes glazed with fear and worry. "You have to help him. He's not just a ghost- he's my best friend."

Valerie, her frown still plastered on her face gently peeled Tucker's hand off of her suit. Her eyes were shadowed by her goggles, so Tucker couldn't tell what she was thinking. She passed a hand over her face with a deep sigh, "Tucker, I swear." She mumbled pressing a series of buttons on her suit to bring out a large gun. "If it weren't you, I'd never agree to this crazy mess."

Valerie shot the base of his cage with her gun, and Tucker shielded his face with an arm. "Hey! A little warning would be nice next time you know!" When the dust settled, he noticed that the cage was gone. He looked around and saw the Fenton's cage disintegrated too. He trotted over to join them as he watched Valerie speed up to the impossibly tall ghost.

Demois was laughing, waiting for Danny to wake up as he held him. It was much more fun to suck the energy out of him if he were awake to scream. Something suddenly hit him in the side of his head and he turned, his red eyes narrowing as he dropped Sam to swat at whatever had hit him, like one would with a mosquito.

Valerie ducked the hand that was swung at her, before speeding down to Sam. "Hang on, Sam!" the Red Huntress called, "I'm coming!"

Valerie caught Sam just before she hit the ground and flew her over to Tucker and the others. The fall had caused her to wake up. Tucker ran over to the two and helped Sam find her balance. "What just happened?" Sam asked, rubbing the bleeding nicks in her skin.

"You and Danny were knocked out," Tucker explained, watching Valerie fly on her hover board back up to Demois to try and get him to drop Danny. "I convinced Val to help."

"Wow Tuck, what did you do? Woo her like you woo'd Amelia?"

Tucker rolled his eyes and took a step back from Sam, now that she had her balance. "No, I just asked her to save you and Danny, since he's my best friend and at least half human,"

Sam looked up. "…Here's hoping she'll be enough to get him back on his feet."

"She won't be," Sam, Tucker, and the Fentons turned to the new voice, their gazes ripped from the battle going on above their heads.

From a rip in reality stepped Wulf, followed by herd of yeti-like ghosts. "She won't be enough alone, but with us," A large yeti with a navy blue cape and an arm made of ice said, standing next to Wulf, "Thanks to Wulf we're able to get here and help him."

"How did you get out of prison, Wulf?" Sam asked, rushing over to give the wolf a hug.

The ghost smiled up at her, "You cannot keep a wild animal imprisoned, child, you should know that."

Sam smiled and said she did, before watching the new allies line up.

Tucker cupped his hands over his mouth and yelled up to Valerie. "Val! Vamoose!"

Valerie looked down just as the Yeti ghosts started to glow an eerie blue. Val looked desperately at Danny, who was still out and clutched in the demonic ghost's strong hand. "I can't get Danny!"

"It's okay!" Frostbite shouted up at her, "The Great One is an ice type ghost- like us, freezing will not kill him."

Valerie looked unconvinced but she quickly moved away from the poltergeist as the large ghost glared down at the Far Frozenites. "What are these pesky ghosts doing?"

"Defeating you," Daniel Fenton looked up at the ghost from his position trapped in his hand- he was panicked on the inside. No one knew that his ghost half had been virtually sucked out of him, and that he was just an empty core of a human. He didn't let his fear show and he looked down at his family and friends.

Danny locked eyes with each member of his family, with Tucker and Val, and finally resting on Sam.

A wave of powerful emotions hit him as he stared at her scared eyes- realization came first. Realization that he loved her, despite everything else, he wanted to be with her. Anger; anger at not being able to tell her; to kiss her; to hold her and stroke her hair when she was upset; anger at not beign able to see her walk down the ailse and say "I do". Sadness that he was leaving her and so many others; fear at dying and losing everything he knew. And finally, love.

Danny kept his eyes on Sam as the ghosts below charged their ice powers, casting everything in a blue wave.

Danny smiled assuredly at Sam and mouthed, "I love you," before the ice crept up and encased him. His mouth was stuck forming "you" and his eyes locked on Sam's as the poltergeist's hand was removed from his body by the Yeti Ghosts.

Spider web cracks made their way through Demois' ice encased body, before bursting into tiny snowflakes.

The hand holding Danny was carefully chipped away before three Yetis grabbed the boy and started towards a portal Wulf carved.

"Wait!" Sam cried, running forward to Danny, her face wet with tears- he'd just announced his love for her! "Where are you going with him?"

"To the Far Frozen" Maddie and Jack crowded behind Sam, their faces equally worried. "He needs to be de-iced and stabilized before we can revive him."

"I'm going with you." Sam made a determined face.

"So are we," Maddie and Jack frowned at the ghosts, unsure of letting Danny out of their sight.

Frostbite looked at each of them, and then nodded. Sam, Tucker, Jack, Maddie and Jazz were granted permission to go in with them. Valerie denied going, and was escorted home by Wulf.

Danny was placed in the de-icing gel, where his carefully chipped away prison of ice was slowly melted. Eventually, Jack and Maddie had to leave for work, and Jazz stayed a little longer, before leaving. Tucker had left first to get back to his classes before too much time had passed and he flunked out.

Sam was the only one that remained. She didn't care if her grades suffered, she didn't care if her parents worried. Danny wasn't going to be left alone, no matter how often the ghosts insisted she get rest.

Sam slept on a chair next to Danny's tube. Once the ice had melted enough, the Yeti's stripped Danny down to his boxers and threw his clothes in a washer.

A Far Frozenite was almost always present, checking the gel, watching for signs of Danny's revival. When it was Frostbite, Sam would chat with him, to try to get an idea of what was happening.

Frostbite drained the fluid from Danny's tank, though the human still wasn't awake. "Frostbite?" Sam started, watching as Frostbite laid Danny down on an examination table adorned with heavy blankets. "Do you remember what Demois said? That he wanted to absorb Danny's powers? Do you think it's possible he absorbed Danny's ghost power… and when you froze him, he wasn't actually connected to his ice core?"

The yeti didn't answer right away as he gently attached a heart monitor to Danny, and an IV drip specifically designed to feed both his human and ghost form with vital nutrients. Why a ghost would have a heart monitor, Sam didn't know.

"It's possible, as much as it pains me to say it." Frostbite finally said, turning the monitor on and waiting for it to catch Danny's heart's signal. Slowly, a blip was heard followed by others. Danny was still alive.

"But I believe this comatose like state is caused from both his powers being drained, and the shock of being frozen." Frostbite turned to Sam now, "I believe his ghost half is restoring his human half. Give him time, he will recover." Sam nodded and looked at Danny, hoping he would wake up soon.

Danny eventually did wake up. He was groggy and confused. When he had opened his eyes, Sam had been at school. Frostbite had been there, however and had had him practice things, to make sure the freezing hadn't damaged anything important.

When Sam came back, she was greeted by a smiling Danny, who was sitting up on a small chair Frostbite had found for him. Sam had nearly burst into tears. Danny had stood and embraced her as she fought sobs of joy at seeing him awake again.

Sam and Danny returned home, where his parents were as overjoyed to see him as Sam had been.

Things gradually went back to normal. Danny and Sam finished the year at college and after some explaining to Danny's teachers, they both passed.

Everything went back to normal for Danny until one day.

Danny was in his room, cleaning for once, when time froze. Danny didn't notice it until he felt a heavy weight around his neck. Looking down, he saw a cog-shaped medallion. At the same time, the halfa shivered and his ghost sense appeared. Immediately, the two rings of transformation that had become so familiar to him washed over his body, inverting his colours and bringing out Danny Phantom.

"Whose there?" Danny asked, looking around suspiciously. He didn't notice that the dust he had been sweeping had frozen in midair.

"Calm down, Daniel." A wise voice spoke and out of nowhere a hooded figure appeared. Danny watched curiously as the ghost shifted from a child, to an adult to an old man, apparently unable to hold his state for longer than a few moments. "I'm not here to hurt you, quite the opposite, in fact. My name is Clockwork. I am the Master of Time."

Danny relaxed his defensive stance, but kept his ghost form. Clockwork didn't seem to mind too much as he continued with whatever he had wanted to say. "There is a great evil coming." The ghost paused, "Or it has come, depending on how you look at it. My employers say you are a turning point to what could become the greatest disaster the Ghost Zone and human world has seen yet.

"There is tell of a powerful ghost. I have seen him and I know of his great strengths. But you, young Daniel, are the tipping point between that future, and another." Danny cocked an eyebrow at Clockwork as the purple-clad ghost told him about all this.

"There is not much I can say that will not negatively affect the time line, nor influence you, so the help I can give is limited. I can, however, tell you this will not take place within the next few months. No, it will be a few years. When, I cannot say, but I will come back and to call upon you when the time has come."

"Why say anything?" Danny asked, confused. "If this isn't going to happen for years, why would you say anything now?"

"Because, young Daniel, you must train. Train long and train hard." Child Clockwork changed into adult Clockwork as he spoke, "You and your two friends, Samantha Manson and Tucker Foley must be ready for anything. You must all train until you are exhausted."

Danny swallowed nervously. He didn't like where this was going. "I will see you soon, Daniel Fenton. Sooner than you know."

And with that the mysterious ghost was gone. Danny suddenly coughed as dust floated up to his nose and he looked around. That was very odd.

Danny looked down at the medallion around his neck nervously. He really hoped that Sam, Tucker and he would be ready for whatever it was that had Clockwork so spooked.

Clockwork left Danny to ponder in his room as the ghost teleported down to the Fenton's lab. There, contained under a ghost proof shield, inside of the Fenton Thermos; sat the other tipping point, safe and sound.

This put the ghost's mind into motion. The Observants would not take this as proper assurance that the disaster was avoided. The sheer proximity to the other half of the equation would have their single eyes filled with dread.

But Clockwork knew better.

"Everything is as it should be," the wise ghost murmured to himself as a large clock stamped itself over his figure. The minute hand did its circuit abnormally fast and the ghost disappeared back to his lair.

Waiting for him were two of the Observants. "Did you kill the boy?" The first one asked, stepping forward.

"Don't worry," Clockwork said, already annoyed with the Obervants constant meddling. "I've taken care of things."

"And what of Plasmius?"

"He is safe within the Thermos. He is not going anywhere."

"You left it there?" A look of horror passed over the Observants demeanour and Clockwork would have laughed if he didn't already foresee the consequences of doing so.

"Of course. He will not open it."

But the Observants thought differently. Anger welled up in them and caused Clockwork to smile over their simple, one-timelined minds.

"You must destroy him!" The two ghosts said at the same time, their eyes intensely watching Clockwork. "That future," They waved their hands at an active viewing portal. It showed several crushed buildings, piles of dead bodies, and fire springing up everywhere. "Must never come to pass!"

"All in due time," Clockwork said, watching the screen as one man continued to reign destruction over the crumbling city. "Daniel will perish in due time."

A/N: I have no excuses as to why this was late, aside from being in doctors appointments all day Friday and work yesterday. :'D So sorry, poppets.

Anywho. I hate this chapter. I hate this story... And yeah. :3 So it's done. The new one will have a slight delay coming out, as I'm reviewing the first few chapters. (I'm not very far into it yet...)

anyway

bye!