The three impatiently waited for it to get dark and when everyone was asleep they snuck out of their dorms. When they got to the common room Danny saw Trevor, Neville's frog, on one of the seats, "Son of a bitch."

Ron spoke, "Trevor, shoo, you shouldn't be here."

Neville leaned forward in the arm chair he was sitting in, "And neither should you, you're sneaking out again aren't you?"

Danny spoke, "Yup, if you think you can stop us I encourage you to try."

Neville shook his head, "No, I won't let you, you'll get Gryffindor into trouble again, I'll, I'll fight you."

Danny laughed a little, the sound sent chills up everyone's spines, "If you think you can beat me in a fight then come at me, I'll even give you the first swing."

Ron and Hermione were looking at him like he was insane, again, while Neville looked confused before he tried punching Danny. The halfa easily caught his fist and moved behind the boy before hitting a pressure point and Neville dropped like a rock. Danny caught him and put him on one of the chairs before looked at Ron and Hermione, "Let's go."

Ron looked at him, "Your a little scary sometimes, do you know that, brilliant, but scary?"

Danny smirked, "I'm well aware."

The three then left the Gryffindor dorms and they used the invisibility cloak to sneak through the halls of the castle. Danny lead them through to where Fluffy was and Hermione unlocked the door before they got inside. There was a harp playing in the room and the three took off the cloak once the door was closed.

Ron spoke, "He's snoring."

Danny looked at the trap door, "One of his paws is on the door, I'll move it."

Before the two could protest Danny easily picked up the dogs paw and set it down next to the door. Danny opened the trap door and looked at the two, "You guys go first, if Fluffy wakes up I don't want you two getting hurt." Then Danny noticed something, "Why is it so quiet?"

Hermione spoke, "The harp, it stopped playing."

Something then landed on Ron's shoulder and the three looked up to see that Fluffy was awake. Danny looked at the two, "Go, now!"

The two jumped and Danny jumped after them, he landed in a pile of what appeared to be vines. Ron spoke, "Woah, lucky this plant thing was here really."

Several of the vines then started getting closer to them before wrapping around them and Danny groaned. Hermione spoke, "Stop moving, both of you, this is devil's snare, you have to relax, if you don't it'll only kill you faster."

Ron spoke, "Kill us faster, oh now I can relax!"

Danny spoke, "I don't think I've ever relaxed in my life." Despite the situation he sounded calm, this didn't scare him, he decided to give it a shot and he stopped moving. Hermione went through the vines of the plant and Danny was close behind her, that was when Ron started freaking out.

Hermione spoke, "He's not relaxing is he?"

"Gee, did you figure that out by the screaming or the fact that he isn't down here too?"

Hermione looked a bit mad, "We've got to do something."

"Sure, any bright ideas?"

Hermione's eyes widened, "That's it, sunlight, devil's snare hate's sunlight."

Hermione then case a light spell and Ron fell through the vines, Danny spoke, "It was a figure of speech but okay." Danny then helped Ron up, "You okay?"

Ron looked at him, "Yeah." Ron looked up at the plant, "Lucky we didn't panic."

"We're more luck that Hermione pays attention in class, I completely spaced on the devil's snare thing."

Danny then heard what sounded like the flapping of wings and Hermione spoke, "What is that?"

Danny spoke, "It sounds like wings or something, come on." The three walked over to the door and Danny opened it, when they walked inside there were what, at first glance, seemed to be birds.

Hermione spoke, "Curious, I've never seen birds like these."

Danny shook his head, "Those aren't birds, they're keys, and we've got to find the right one."

They then saw a broom in front of them and Hermione looked confused, "What's this all about?"

Danny thought for a second before he sighed, "God damn it."

Ron looked at him, "What?"

"We've got to use this to catch the key for the door."

Hermione groaned, "What are we going to do, there must be a thousand keys up there."

Ron spoke, "We're looking for a big old fashioned one, probably rusty like the handle on the door."

Danny pointed to one of the keys, "It's that one, it has a broken wing." Danny looked at the broom, "It's too simple." He sighed, "Well, fuck it, what do I have to lose?"

Danny grabbed the broom and the keys immediately started zooming around the room and many of them swarmed around him. Danny chose to take off rather then deal with the keys and he started chasing the key, he grabbed it and threw it down to Hermione. The girl caught it and put it in the lock while Danny tried to stay ahead of the keys that were chasing him.

As soon as they opened the door Danny headed straight for it and the two closed the door once he was inside. He could hear the keys hitting the door and they headed to the next room, when they opened the door they looked around. Hermione spoke, "Where are we, a graveyard?"

Ron spoke, "This is no graveyard." He walked farther into the room before he stopped, "It's a chess board."

Light then started filling the room and they could see that it was indeed a chess board, Danny and Hermione walked onto the board as well. When they spotted the door they tried walking over to it but the pawns on the board took out swords and blocked their way. Hermione spoke, "Now what do we do?"

Danny spoke, "We play the game." Danny looked at Ron, "You're the wizard's chess expert, we'll follow your lead."

Ron nodded, "Alright, Danny, you take the empty bishop square." He looked at Hermione, "Hermione, you'll be the queen's side castle." Hermione nodded, "As for me, I'll be a knight."

They all took their positions and Hermione spoke, "What happens now?"

Ron spoke, "Well, white moves first and then we play."

One of the white pawn moved and just like that the game started, Ron shouted where he wanted the pieces to go. Danny eventually got almost all the way across the board and he looked around, "Wait a minute."

Ron looked at him, "You understand right Danny, once I make my move the queen will take me, then your free to check the king."

Danny shook his head, "Don't you fucking dare."

Hermione looked at him, "What is it?"

Danny looked at her, "Ron's going to sacrifice himself."

Hermione looked at Ron, "No, you can't, there must be another way."

Ron looked at her, "Do you want to stop that stone from getting stolen or not?"

Hermione stayed silent and Ron looked at him, "Danny, it's you that has to go on, I know it, not me, not Hermione, you."

Danny nodded before he smirked, "Good luck soldier."

Ron took a deep breath before moving to H3, they all watched as the queen moved closer to Ron and destroyed his piece. Danny growled a little and when Hermione tried to move he looked at her, "Don't move, we're still playing."

Hermione moved back and Danny moved closer to the king, once he stopped he spoke, "Checkmate." The king's sword fell from his hands and onto the ground, when it did Danny and Hermione ran over to Ron.

Danny looked at Hermione, "Get Ron out of here, once you do send a message to Dumbledore and tell him what's going on, I'm going to finish this."

Hermione looked at him, "You'll be okay Danny, your a great wizard, you really are."

Danny laughed a little before stood up, he started walking to the door before he stopped and looked at Hermione. "I'm a complete screw up Hermione, I haven't done one thing right in my entire life, that's the truth. If I don't make it out of this then no one's going to care, well, maybe one person, and they'll know I died doing something either brave or stupid, this is both."

Danny then opened the door and smirked at Hermione before he yelled, "See you in hell!"

Danny then closed the door and started walking down the long flight of stairs and he wondered what was down here. His question was answered when he saw Professor Quirrell standing in front of the mirror of Erised. Danny paused before he spoke, "Well god damn it."

Quirrell looked at him and Danny continued, "I should have seen it before, it makes a lot of sense. Why Snape was threatening you, how your the one that 'found' the troll, I'm guessing you were the one that tried to kill me."

Quirrell smirked, "Clever boy, yes I tried to kill you, and trust me, if Snape's cloak hadn't caught fire and broken my eye contact I would have succeeded, even with Snape muttering his little counter curse."

Danny smirked, "Don't be too sure about that, I'm tougher then I looked, but thanks for letting me know that Snape tried to save me, I'll have to send him a gift basket."

Quirrell glared at him, "I knew you were a danger to me right from the off, especially after Halloween. Snape, unfortunately, wasn't fooled, while everyone else was running about the dungeon he went up to the third floor to head me off. He, of course, never trusted me again, he rarely left me alone, but he doesn't understand, I'm never alone, never."

Danny's scar then started to hurt and he rubbed it a little to try and get it to stop but it wouldn't. Quirrell looked at the mirror, "Now, what does this mirror do?" He paused for a second, "I see what I desire, I see myself holding the stone, but how do I get it?"

Danny then heard a new voice, "Use the boy." Danny wondered where the hell that voice was coming from.

Quirrell looked at him, "Come here Phantom, now!"

Danny looked at him, "You could try saying please." Danny walked over to the man and stood in front of the mirror.

Quirrell spoke, "Now, what do you see?"

Danny saw himself in the mirror, his mirror self took the stone out of his pocket and winked at him before putting it back and he felt the stone in his pocket. He then saw what he'd seen every time he looked in the mirror and it put a hand on his shoulder, Quirrell spoke, "What, what do you see?"

"I'm shaking hands with Dumbledore, I won the house cup."

The voice spoke again, "He lies."

Quirrell yelled, "Tell the truth, what do you see?!"

The voice spoke again, "Let me speak to him."

Quirrell's eyes widened a little, "Master you are not strong enough."

"I have strength enough for this." Quirrell then unwrapped the cloth around his head and Danny saw a face on the back of Quirrell's head in the mirror.

The face spoke, "Danny Phantom, we meet again."

Danny spoke, "So your Voldemort, good god, you're ugly as fuck, holy shit."

Voldemort looked mildly irritated, "Yes, you see what I've become, see what I must do to survive. Live off another, a mere parasite, unicorn blood can sustain me but it can not give me a body of my own, but there is something that can."

Danny rolled his eyes, "Can we not do the whole villain speech thing, I already figured it out anyway. The stone can give you a body and make you immortal so when you come back your reign of terror can last for eternity."

"Yes, and it, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket."

Danny immediately turned to run, "Time to go!"

"Stop him!"

Quirrell snapped his fingers and Danny stopped before turning to the two, "Do you really think this is going to stop me?"

Voldemort spoke, "Don't be a fool, why suffered a horrific death when you can join me and live?"

Danny shrugged, "Yeah, been there done that, the whole death thing actually isn't that bad, a bit annoying but not bad."

Voldemort laughed, "Bravery, your parents had it to, tell me Danny, do you want to see your mother and father again, together we can bring them back."

Danny looked in the mirror and the same figure put a hand on his shoulder, he was less disturbed by it now. He hummed, "No thanks, I think that would be an awkward family reunion."

Voldemort shouted, "Kill him!"

Quirrell practically tackled him and Danny fell on the floor before the stone tumbled out of his hand. Quirrell grabbed him around the throat and Danny grabbed Quirrell's wrist, the man let him go and started yelling in pain as his skin seemed to hiss. Quirrell looked at his hand which was crumbling to dust, "What is this magic?!"

Voldemort shouted, "Fool, get the stone!"

Quirrell tried to go for the stone but Danny held him back and touched his face, smoke came from his skin and the man once again yelled in pain. Danny let him go and the mad started turning to dust, Quirrell tried reaching for him but he fell and crumbled before he could. Danny looked at him, "Huh, that was kind of anti-climactic."

Danny shrugged before he picked up the stone, then he felt a presence behind him and Voldemort appeared. He looked like a cloud of smoke and he yelled as he went through Danny, the halfa fell to his knees and clutched his stomach. He wasn't hurt but he felt really tired now, he spoke, "What the fuck was that?!"

He quietly sighed before he got up and left the room, he teleported so he was just below the trap door and he flew out. Fluffy growled at him when he saw the halfa and Danny glared at him, "No, bad Fluffy, bad!"

Fluffy whimpered and curled in on himself a little, Danny felt a bit bad and he scratched behind Fluffy's ears. "It's okay boy, just don't try to kill me and we'll call it even."

All three of Fluffy's head's suddenly looked very happy and they all started licking his face. Danny smiled before he lightly pushed the dog's heads away from him and walked over to the door before he opened it. He was surprised to find several of his professors, including Dumbledore, standing on the other side of the door.

They all stared at him when they saw him and Danny huffed, "About fucking time you got here! So Quirrell's dead, he tried to take the stone but I managed to stop him and let's just say some crazy shit happened." Danny tossed Dumbledore the stone, "Have fun with that, I'm going to go to bed because I'm hella tired."

Danny then walked past his teachers but before he could reach the door his vision started going dark and he passed out. When Danny woke up he found himself in the hospital wing and he immediately sat up and looked around. He didn't have any bandages so he wasn't injured, he probably just passed out from exhaustion.

Then he felt someone's hand on his shoulder it felt like the hand of that thing from the mirror. When he looked to see if it was there he didn't see anything and he soon felt the hand slide off his shoulder, it was gone. He wasn't afraid though, for some reason it felt almost familiar, like an old friend he hadn't seen in years.

Danny got up and left the hospital wing as soon as he could and made sure no one saw him, he didn't even notice the gifts people had left for him. He wound up running into Ron and Hermione in the halls when they looked down and saw him from the stairs. Danny smirked, "So your not dead yet."

Ron smiled, "I'm alright, you?"

Danny shrugged, "I just snuck out of the hospital wing so Madam Pomfrey might be coming after me but I'm good, how are you doing Hermione?"

Hermione smiled at him, "Never better."

He then heard someone yelling his name and he looked at where the sound was coming from, "Oh shit, run."

He ran up the stairs and the three followed, they made it to the dorms without running into anyone else. When they got there Ron and Hermione laughed, Danny smiled and shook his head, at least everything was okay now. The next day it was the last day of school before everyone would go back home and the dining hall was decked out in Slytherin colors.

Everyone was talking and eventually McGonagall tapped her glass, everyone stopped talking before Dumbledore stood up and spoke. "Another year gone,and now, as I understand it, the house cup needs awarding and the points stand thus. In fourth place Gryffindor with 312 points, in third place Hufflepuff with 352 points, in second place Ravenclaw with 426 points, and in first place, with 472 points, Slytherin house."

At the announcement of each place and how many points they had people clapped, Slytherin cheered the loudest when they found out they won. Danny honestly didn't care, he didn't expect to win so he didn't feel bad about this, even though it was partially his fault that they lost.

Dumbledore continued, "Yes, yes, well done Slytherin, well done Slytherin, however recent events must be taken into account, and I have a few last minute points to award." Everyone looked confused and Dumbledore looked at Hermione, "It Miss Hermione Granger for the cool use of intellect when others were in grave peril, fifty points."

Everyone but the people at the Slytherin table clapped, "Second, to Mr. Ronald Weasley for the best played game of chess that Hogwarts has seen these many years, fifty points." People clapped again, "And third to Mr. Danny Phantom for pure nerve and outstanding courage I award Gryffindor house sixty points."

Danny looked beyond confused, he could understand giving Ron and Hermione points but not him. Nonetheless people clapped and Hermione spoke, "We're tied with Slytherin."

Dumbledore spoke again, "And finally, it takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies. But a great deal more to stand up to your friends, I award ten points to Neville Longbottom." Everyone, aside from Slytherin, cheered and Neville smiled a little, Danny felt happy for him.

Dumbledore spoke, "Assuming that my calculations are correct I believe that a change of decoration is in order." Dumbledore clapped once and the decorations changed to the Gryffindor colors and emblem. "Gryffindor wins the house cup."

The Gryffindor table erupted into loud cheers which hurt Danny's ears but he still smiled a little. Before he knew it the next day rolled around and it was time to leave Hogwarts and Danny's stuff was loaded onto the train. Danny looked at Hagrid when he was about to board and Hermione spoke, "Come on Danny."

Danny glanced at her, "Give me a minute."

Danny quickly walked over to Hagrid and the tall man spoke, "Thought you were leavin' without sayin' goodbye did you?" Hagrid then took what looked like a photo album out of his pocket and handed it to him, "This is for you."

Danny looked confused but he took it and opened it to one of the pages, it was a picture of him as a baby with his parents. He didn't know how to feel about it, he had tried avoiding conversations about his parents for so long it was weird to see a picture of them. He couldn't help but be happy though, he looked at Hagrid and smiled, "Thanks Hagrid."

Hagrid smiled and held out his hand, for the first time in Danny's life he shook someone's hand. He then moved before either he or Hagrid knew what was going on and Danny hugged the taller man. Hagrid looked like he might cry and he hugged Danny back before letting go, "On with you now, on with you."

Danny smiled and Hagrid spoke again before he could move, "Oh, and Danny, if that dolt of a cousin Jazz gives you any grief you can always threaten her with a little bit of magic."

Danny crossed his arms with a smile on his face, "Aren't we not allowed to do magic away from the school?"

"Yes, but your cousin don't know that does she?" Danny smirked and he waved goodbye before going over to Ron and Hermione who were waiting for him.

Hermione spoke, "Feels strange to be going back home, doesn't it?"

Danny shook his head, "That place was never my home, but I think I've got somewhere I can call home now." The two gave him odd looks and someone blew a whistle as a signal to get on the train, Hagrid waved to them as they went inside. Danny closed the door to the cart and waved goodbye to Hagrid as the train left the station, he couldn't wait for next year.