The Light Behind Your Eyes

Danny Phantom

The boy lay still hardly breathing. His chest aching with every labored breath. He whimpered in pain. The puddle of blood under him was quickly spreading. An odd color for blood. A mixture of green and red. He was alone. Oh how he wished he wasn't alone. He wanted someone to be with him. It might've been selfish. He shouldn't want anyone to see him like this. It would hurt them too much. He glanced to the side where a full Fenton Thermos lay. He smiled but it looked like more of a wince. It looked like Skulker had finally achieved his goal. He had beaten the young halfa. Sadly Skulker could not claim his prize since Phantom had trapped Skulker in the thermos.

Flashback

"I have you now welp. Soon your pelt will hang on my wall." The floating ghost approached the boy who lay on the ground on his stomach propped up on his elbows.

"never" the boy said flipping around exposing the thermos and sucking the ghost hunter into its depths. The thermos fell from the boy's hands as he collapsed onto his back on the cold pavement. The boy sighed coughing up blood. Rescue wouldn't be coming. Sam was on a trip with her parents that she had been forced to go on and Tucker was at a Comicon. They had both been planning on going but the boy had been grounded for missing curfew. Which meant there was no one to call. He couldn't even call his sister because his Fenton phone had gotten smashed in the fight.

End flashback

The boys eyes were closing as shadow jumped to claim the light that was left. It would be alright he reasoned. They would move on. And they would keep the town safe. But he didn't want to die. He wanted to live and grow up. Tell Sam he loved her. Hang out with Tucker. Go to college. Tell his parents his secret. Now it would be too late. He felt the life leaving him and he became scared. What would happen now? Would he become a full ghost? Or... just disappear? He forced himself to relax. No matter what he wanted. He wasn't going to make it out of this one. His final fight. Sam would kill him for dying. The whit haired boy smiled softly closing his quickly dimming green eyes. He let out a breath. His chest didn't rise again. As he came to rest a flash of light appeared around his waist. In his place was a boy with black hair matted with blood. A lifeless body in a pool of green and red blood. His crystal blue eyes to never open again.

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It had been a year since Danny had died fighting Skulker. He had managed to defeat him but he had died in the process. She hadn't even gotten to say goodbye. She tried to stay strong but it was hard. She kept looking in the hallways for his goofy smile. She just wanted to see him one more time. She wanted things to be like the way they were before. Why did it have to be Danny?

Why did his best friend have to die. He tried to be strong for Sam and Jazz but he was cracking. He wished that he could see Danny one more time. If he had only he had stayed in Amnity he could have been there for him. Maybe not saved him but at least not let him die alone. wouldn't be dead. Leaving him and Sam and his family behind.