Her Own Legend

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Chapter One

'Vlad'

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Disclaimer- I do not own Danny Phantom or Eragon. I own some of the characters in chapter one, but that's it.

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I got this idea a few months ago, but wasn't really sure what to do with it until now. Don't expect very long or fast updates, because I have no idea how it's going to end. So yea, that's about it.

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Full Summary- Dani has been on the run for a year and a half, since the last time she saw her 'cousin' Danny. But now it seems she has no choice but to go back to Amity Park, because she's having trouble going into her ghost form- in fact, she can't do it at all. Unfortunately, she has no money, and she's stranded halfway across the country from where she needs to be. When a mysterious woman gives her a strange orange stone, she thinks her problems are solved- she can sell the stone and be back in California within a week.

But then things go horribly wrong, and Dani is thrown into a whole new world, where she's going to have to find the secret of her stone fast- or die.

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"Dani, did you finish the homework for Science?"

Dani slammed the purple door of her locker shut to see her friend Alyssa leaning against the locker to her right.

"There was homework?"

Alyssa sighed and said, "You forgot?"

"Don't you mean you forgot again?" Zach asked from the locker to her left.

Dani stamped hard on his toe, causing him to drop his books. As he bent down to get them, Dani grabbed the lock from his locker and twisted it around before clicking it shut.

Zach looked up at the sound.

"Oh man, you butterflied my locker!"

"Well maybe if you weren't doing it to everyone else people wouldn't do it to you," Alyssa pointed out. Dani gathered up her math and science book from the ground and the two headed upstairs.

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Five minutes later, Dani slipped into the science classroom, waving a good-bye to Alyssa, who was headed for History.

She was met with the unpleasant sight of her science teacher bearing down on her.

"Miss Fenton, would you care to explain why you are late… AGAIN?!"

"I was in the bathroom," Dani muttered, trying to step past her.

"Attempting to finish you homework, no doubt," said the teacher (whose name was Ms. Riche- Not Miss Riche, not Mrs. Riche, Ms. Riche, and heaven help you if you slipped up and said anything else), grabbing the offending piece of paper from her pupil. "Yes, just as I thought," she said, holding up the slightly ratty piece of paper up for the class to see, "BLANK!"

The class jumped as Ms. Riche screamed the last word.

"Go to your seat," she said to Dani.

"Yes, Mrs. Riche," Dani muttered, slinking to her spot in the very back.

"THAT'S MS. RICHE TO YOU!"

Dani might have made it through the rest of the class without further incident, if Zach had not chosen that particular moment to come into the classroom.

Ms. Riche closed her eyes and looked to the ceiling as if in silent prayer, and said, "Why are my students conspiring to kill me before I reach the age of forty-five?"

The ceiling didn't answer, but Zach took the opportunity to attempt an escape to his desk at the back of the classroom, but Ms. Riche noticed.

"Will you please explain to me why you decided to be late to my class this morning?"

Zach muttered something.

"I'm sorry; I couldn't hear that, would you please speak up?"

The class shivered as one. Ms. Riche being nice was somehow even worse than Ms. Riche being mean.

Zach said something else, still too quiet to be heard.

"I said speak UP!"

The class breathed a unanimous sigh of relief. That was the science teacher they had come to know since the start of the school year.

"I had trouble opening my locker," Zach muttered, barely audible. Obviously, Ms. Riche heard him.

"And why did you have trouble opening your locker?"

"Because someone butterflied it," Zach answered with a quick, guilty glance at Dani.

"And who, pray tell, did this? For the love of God, do I have to drag the story out of you?"

"I don't know," Zach answered, dropping his gaze to his feet.

"Yes you do," said Ms. Riche, "I can tell, I can always tell. Now tell me who. Butterflied. Your. LOCKER!"

The class flinched again.

"Dani," Zach muttered, shooting another glance at the girl, this time an apologetic one.

"I see," said Ms. Riche, "I see… Well, Dani, I'm very surprised at you…"

Dani rolled her eyes, ready for another lecture about responsibility or… some such nonsense.

"I doubt that Daniel would have done something like this to a classmate, no matter how much they offended him."

Dani's jaw dropped.

Ms. Riche groaned and crumpled to the floor as something shot out of her. A moment later the 'something' had solidified itself into the shape of Vlad Plasmius.

Most of the class screamed, too shocked to even try to run for the door.

"Missed me?" Vlad hissed at her.

"An entire year I have been searching for you (I must say you have done a very good job hiding), and now at last have found you.

Dani glared at him, ready to go ghost, surrounded by classmates or not, but almost as if he sensed her intent, Vlad had flown down, jabbing something into her side.

She screamed as an electric pulse shot through her body- every limb, every cell, and every strand of borrowed DNA felt like it was on fire. She felt her feet begin to turn to liquid and fought hard to solidify herself again.

Vlad grinned cruelly as the young girl dropped to her hands and knees in pain, removing the device.

"You like it?" He whispered in her ear. Dani flinched away from his cold breath, but he grabbed her, holding her close, "An improved version of the Plasmius Maximus, specially made to strip a clone completely of their ghost powers- it works too. I've tested it. So don't expect to be getting out of here any time soon."

Despite the lingering pain in every molecule, Dani staggered to her feet, and whispered hoarsely, "Catch me… if you can…" And she was off, running towards the door, wrenching it open, Vlad (who had not expected her to be in good enough shape to do anything, much less attempted escape) cursing, and flying after her, only to find her gone by the time he got to the door.

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Dani was just lucky that the door to the staircase near her locker was right next to the science room, and that Vlad had expected her to show no resistance and had brought no guards.

But even with her head start, she knew it was only a matter of moments until he found her, and this time he would be taking no chances.

'I have to get to my locker…' Dani thought desperately. When she had… visited the Fentons a year and a half ago, she had taken with her a thermos.

Which she had taken to school in her backpack every day since the start of the year.

This was now in her locker.

By the time she sensed Vlad come through the ceiling behind her, she was already fumbling with the lock.

Three numbers…

"You know," Vlad hissed, "If you're really trying to make a fast escape, you shouldn't stop at your locker."

Two numbers…

Dani ignored him, concentrating on finding the last two numbers in her combination.

One number…

"And why, pray tell, are you trying to open your locker?"

"To get… This!"

She had turned the last number, grabbed the lock, thrown it carelessly aside, opened the locker door and grabbed the thermos from inside. Opening and activating it quickly, she pointed it at Vlad.

He tried to resist, but in the end it was futile. Dani capped the thermos. She had escaped from Vlad, but she still wasn't safe. She had to get out of that school.

Fast.

Wow, that was a fun first chapter to write. Bet you weren't expecting Vlad, were you? Well, neither was I. Anyway, I may not update for a while, the semesters almost over at school, which can only mean two things- way more homework, and second quarter portfolios. (Shudder). Plus its Christmas tomorrow, this may slow me done a little in my typing. Maybe just a little. So anyway, please leave a review.