A Woman of shades -Sequal to Lady of Green. (Posted, Danny Phantom FanFiction T)
Summery: No one remembers anything from the last month. No battles won, no secretes told, no friendships made. A brother can only push so far, before he pushes all away. Betray runs through families and trust can be shattered before your eyes. To believe you have gone through everything, that there is nothing more to lose, is a lie you tell yourself to feel better. End, what she wanted all along is not what she cared for. Death can't even sooth her soul. Alone, surrounded by people but still alone. Never to see the world in the same light, no more to trust, no reason to live. But no reason to die. Voices tell her of her true power, she deserves it right? After everything, after being betrayed her entire life? Is it so wrong to want a fight, to want what's yours. Good can only travel so far, but one day, the shades take over...
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**Amity*
Purple eyes shot open by reaction to the morning sun. Sam shielded her eyes from the glare and pulled her blanket over her head. Her shadowy world interrupted by the all bust to cheery family, who in unison said, "Good morning sweaty!"
The black haired girl merely growled a spiteful growl and wrapped herself in to the red and white sheets.
"I'm a creature of the night, doomed to a family of morning people," she hissed.
"Rise and shine," Pamela said oh so joyful.
"Five more minutes," Sam pleaded in a groan.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, it is much too late to sleep in now," Jeremy said.
Sam looked at her bat clock, upon the night stand; the time read 6:35 am.
"It's six, school doesn't start until 7:30," Sam argued.
"Well you know what they say, the early bird catches the worm," Pamela smiled.
"Fine," Sam groaned getting out of bed.
Sam looked annoyingly at her parents who still stood by the window smiling.
"What?" she asked tiredly.
"Sweetly, I thought we'd change the wardrobe up today, a little less dark," Pamela smiled pulling out a pink floral dress.
"After I add one personal touch," Sam said spraying the dress black and cutting it short.
"All right, well just try another time," Pamela said walking out of the room followed by Jeremy.
Sam looked at the newly blackened dress with wonder. Something was strange about it; she couldn't place her thought as to why. She shrugged it off and began to get ready for school, wearing her usual attire and heading out the door to brace the pep squad she calls her family.
**Danny*
Beep
Beep
Beep
A tan hand hit the top of the black alarm clock with a thud. Drooping blue eyes covered slightly by uncombed raven hair. A groan of exhaustion escaped Danny's lips as he stood from his bed. Dragged feet to the bathroom, followed by sleepy attempt at squishing the tooth paste on to the tooth brush; ending with the white and blue substance to cover the counter of the sink.
Danny looked into the mirror of the bathroom and something caught his attention. A small red line came above the top of the boy's PJ's shirt. Danny quickly took off his shirt to get a better look at the strange red markings.
Three lines formed from one point down about a centimeter or two. The farthest left fell into a wide curve going in right. The middle line moved center slightly curved with another line coming off over lapping the first slightly and then curving back in. The last of the three on the far right moved much like the first out and back in, but at less of a curve. The markings were strange and thick, and strange. Danny had never seen anything like them before.
"That's strange," Danny said to himself, "They weren't there yesterday," Danny thought.
But then again he couldn't remember yesterday, he couldn't remember this week, or even this whole month. It was all just a vague blur of memories and actions.
"Ok something is really wrong," Danny said to himself, "Why I can't I remember?"
"Maybe Sam and Tucker know what's going on," Danny said to himself.
Danny ran out from the small bathroom into his. Two blue rings formed at the waist and changed him to his ghostly counterpart. The snowed hair boy flew from his bedroom window, out into the new day.
**Ghost zone*
Clockwork sat at his desk and wrote his daily time updates for the observers. The Clock tower was quiet and peaceful, the time line seemed the be in order, and Clockwork was fairly caught up on his work. The time master began to organize his files again after the disaster that had occurred only a few days ago. He still hadn't restored everything to its rightful place, he did however move his time staff to a more secure area. As Clockwork dug through the papers his eyes came upon a tan folder, he removed the several papers that covered the folder. The file was marked as ML, Clockwork opened the folder and began looking over the information.
"Task: Memory sweep of Serene Elizabeth Dark, and all memory of her existence of the last month.
Importance: Extreme
Reason: Must remain a myth.
Cause: Revealed to all Ghost, and several humans
Order: Personal,"
Clockwork continued to read as a soft step came from his room. He quickly slammed the folder close and covered it with other papers on his desk. Clockwork turned his head to face his sister, Serene stood in her human form, weakly against the doorway between the bedroom and office. Her hair was flat and messed and her eyes were a tried green tint. Bruises and scratches covered her body, and arm and shoulder wrapped in binds and bandages, hung in a sling. The young girl also wore a white stained night gown that was cut off mid thy.
Clockwork flew over to his sister and grabbed her hand and held her unhurt shoulder for support.
"You really shouldn't be out of bed Serene," Clockwork said walking the girl back into the bedroom.
"What happened?" Serene asked weakly.
"That you must tell me," Clockwork said softly helping the girl back into the bed.
"I don't remember anything, I was in a place called Amity, it was March 22 I was brushing by a tree and, everything went black," Serene explained confused.
"That is very odd, I only know where we found you, beaten scratched and well, human," Clockwork said softly.
"Human," Serene said in shock, she placed a hand to her wrist. A genital pulse filled her with immense happiness.
"I'm alive?" Serene asked shocked.
"Indeed, but you still seem to have control of your ghostly haft," Clockwork explained.
"And that means," Clockwork said rubbing his hand along a strain of black hair.
"She's back?" Serene asked worried.
"No need to fret my dear girl, you are perfectly safe here, nothing will cause you anger, now rest," Clockwork said walking out of the room.
The wooden door shut leaving the girl in the dark room alone with thoughts. She smiled and felt her pulse once more and laughed slightly. Her blonde mixed hair hit the soft pillow below, smile on her face, she began to drift off into sleep once more.
But, a thought came into mind, "Promise…."
**Amity*
The cold rush of morning air bit at Danny's face, he enjoyed the cold weather, always had. The city below was still and quite, every so often lights on at houses, parents getting ready for work or kids for school. But all in all, quite, with R=rays of red and orange spread like a blanket across the city from atop the hills. Peaceful, tranquil, serene…
Something caught Danny's eye, a green light flashed above the local jewelry store, and the boy's eyes narrowed.
"Sam and Tucker can wait," Danny said flying over to the store.
The ghost boy landed on the side of the building, he looked into the store window, but the glass prevented Danny from seeing in clearly.
"Try a coming in from below," a voice said.
"Good idea," Danny said looking around.
The world seemed empty, no one was there. This confused the boy, "Who's there?"
"Haven't we already gone over this?" the voice asked.
"Come out," Danny commanded standing in a fighting stance.
"As you wish," the voice said coldly.
A felling of nausea came over the boy, he felt cold and weak. Danny yelled in confusion and slight pain, his eyes shot a red coloring.
"You asked me to come out," the voice said through Danny's lips.
"What did you do?" Danny asked who was just a whisper in his own mind now.
"I'm you remember?" Dan said.
"You are not me, now get out!" Danny yelled.
"Poor boy, can't recall," Dan said in a babyish tone.
"Recall what?" Danny snapped trying to regain control.
"Shouldn't you be protecting the I'm sorry gifts of so many husbands?" Dan asked giving Danny control back.
The boy gasped as his eye turned green again.
"I don't know who you are, but NEVER do that again," Danny said trying to catch his breath.
"Then don't let me," the voice said fading off.
Danny was nothing but confused, it wasn't shock, he knew this feeling. Well he thinks he knows this, it was kind of a blur. But he didn't have time for this now, a blue mist flew from his lips. Danny flew into the ground below and into the building. Jewelry floated upwards from their cases by invisible hands.
"And I thought the merchandise id flying off the shelves was just an expression," Danny said flying fully in.
He shot plasma shot at each of the invisible ghost. The first hit a younger girl, around twenty. She wore a red unitard with black leggings, with a mullet like hair style. The second shot hit a large ghost, he was very muscular, and very big. The next two shots hit a dwarf like ghost and a hooded one.
Danny did not recognize these ghosts, this was strange.
"Hey who are you guys?" Danny asked.
Before he could think, the dwarf like ghost attacked the boy, clinging himself to his face. Danny desperately tried to get the ghost off of his face.
"Hey," Danny said stubbing forward, "I'm not a hat person."
"Especially if the hat is a dwarf," Danny said throwing the dwarf across the room into a glass case.
Alarms will the room, "Better get out of here," Danny thought to himself turning to fly away.
His exit was blocked by the largest green ghost. "Ok, all things concerted, maybe the tiny hat guy was better," the boy joked before being grabbed.
Lifted into the air, Danny was thrown into one of the other ghost who wrapped herself around the pillars. The boy bounced off the girl ghost as if she was rubber sending his across the ground will a hiss. The moment Danny opened his eyes, a red hood blocked his way. The women under the velvet mask was a strange sight. Covered in tattoos from head to toe and hair pointed in spikes. Danny watched as the markings flew from her body and surrounded him. They were not so much harmful as annoying, he stumbled back trying to get the creatures out of his face.
"Ok, I'm had enough of this," Danny thought.
A green mist formed from the boy, he jumped into the air forming a green ectoplasm shield around himself. The green shield spread out, throwing the tattoos into the other ghosts knocking them to the ground.
"You know it's ghost like you, that give ghost like me a bad name," Danny yelled in annoyance.
The sounds of sirens caught the boy's attention for a moment, when he looked back at the ghost there were already flying through the ceiling of the jewelry, leaving the necklaces and bracelets behind for his blame. Danny looked at the jewels that had landed on him.
"Oh no," he thought.
The door swung open wide with the kick of a police officer, "Freeze inviso-bill."
"Although it's hard to come up with a worst name than that," Danny said to himself before flying from the store.
The cold air once again hit the young boys face as he flew. He looked down at the still peaceful city below and with a heavy sigh flew back to his own home.
**Clockwork's tower*
Papers crowed the time keeper's room, scattered across floor and desk. Clockwork had barely gotten through the first millennium and was far behind on his everyday work. Paper work was never his thing, but he understood it far more than electronics so he had no choice but to live with the mountains of rag. A noise made him flip his vision, Serene stood in the doorway once again. She wore a green and golden dress, and most of her bruises were healed, with little if any evidence they were ever there. Her standing was one of more energetic than there last meeting, he rest well indeed paid off.
A single eyebrow rose above the other, "Working hard?"
"Hardly working," Clockwork joked returning to his filing.
"Would you like a hand?" Serene asked in the same tone and look as before.
"I have high drought you could," Clockwork said not looking up.
"Simon, do you really think you've been doing all of the filing around here?" She asked sarcastically.
"I have been," he said changing into his child form.
"Come on, throwing it on to your desk and saying I'll get to it later is not organizing," Serene laughed.
"I always do," Clockwork said changing to his adult form.
"No you don't I just do it for you," Serene said smiling.
"Well if you're so sure of yourself, prove it," Clockwork said changing to his elderly form.
"What do I get if I'm right?" Serene smirked.
"I want," Serene thought tapping her finger to her chin, "A day off."
"What do you mean?" Clockwork said changing into his child form.
"You heard me, I want a day off, out of the ghost zone, away from work, away from responsibilities, away from well you."
"And if I win, you will return to me you staff and cloak?" Clockwork said changing into his adult form.
"What?" Serene asked in confusion, "Since when have I had my staff? Or my cloak?"
"Never mind," Clockwork quickly snapped.
Serene gave a bizarre look at Clockwork but shrugged it off. Green rings formed from the girls waist, changing her from human to ghost. A green mist formed around the girl and her eyes shot a full neon coloring, whisperers escaped her lips and green vines formed from her hands and covered the room, each of the greenery began to grab papers and books, folders, notebooks, and other papers flew from once side of the room to the other, placing themselves into the rightful places.
The neon green eyes of the girl began to flicker, the vines began slowing. A weak sigh came from Serene before falling to the ground, the vines instantly turned brown and crumbled into dust. Clockwork flew quickly over to his dear sister in attempt to catch her before she fully hit the earth.
Clockwork starred worriedly down at Serene.
"I guess I'm still a little too weak," Serene laughed weakly.
Two rings formed from her waist changing her to her human haft once more.
"Can you not scare me like that?" Clockwork joked carrying the girl into the bedroom once more.
Serene was nearly asleep when Clockwork placed her into the bed. She was so innocent, so young, like a small child.
Her neon green eye shut slowly, "Danny," she whispered before falling unconscious.
Clockwork's eyes widened as he backed out of the room.
"How can this be? Her mind should be fully erased!" Clockwork thought to himself.
"Did something trigger it? But there's nothing here!" Clockwork yelled to himself.
Clockwork looked at the files scattered across the ground, a single picture stood out, more than any other. Clockwork floated over to the pile and picked it from the scattered mess. His eyes widened, before bursting from the tower at incredible speeds. Dropping the paper to the ground, the picture of white haired.
**Amity*
"Up next, is your teenage daughter moody, surly? Is her outlook on life darker than her eye liner?"
Sam looked at her parents who merely scowled.
"Take an act of interest in your child, know who her friends are. Learn to recognize a bad influence when it walks through your door."
And on if by cue Danny opened the back door wide and walked in, "Hey Sam, I got that anti youth CD you wanted."
Sam's parents scowled once again.
"What?" Danny asked in a confused tone, "Have you heard my parents reek, that cut rocks."
Only meet with an angry glare.
Music played from the TV. indicating a commercial, all attention was brought to the red vortex that seemed to cut a knife through the tension.
A gothic clown appeared on the spiraled screen with an insane look, "I am Freakshow."
"I'm sure my parent's think so," Sam thought to herself.
Light whispers filled Danny's head, sounds of air rushing as he watched.
"Ring master of the Circus Gothica, were your nightmares come alive.
Circus Gothica! Were the clowns never smile.
Circus Gothica! Come and get your freak on!"
The whispers that formed in Danny's head seem to say "go, listen, follow, dark, now, go ,now!"
"With real freaks, Circus Gothica!
Coming to Amity park,
Cross over to the dark side…" Freakshow finished.
Red spirals were the only thing to fill the boys mind, "I must, now, I, go, now!" Words yelled within himself.
"Cross over to the dark side," Danny said darkly and his eyes changed red.
"Now there's some evil mind pollution we won't be seeing any time soon sweetie," Pamela said turning off the TV.
"But we already bought our tickets," Sam pleaded meet only with stone glares, "We'll be fine, it's just harmless internment , right Danny."
"Cross over to the dark side," Dan said from Danny's lips.
"Hilarious," Sam said lowering her gaze with annoyance.
"Can we leave now? Or do you want to stay and corrupt my grandmother?" Sam asked pulling the boy from the house.
"Will you stop messing with my parents? That's my job," Sam snapped tapping Danny.
"Sam?" Danny thought as his eyes flashed blue again.
"What? Ah," Danny said rubbing his head, "Sorry Sam, I must have gotten a little spacey."
"I was up pretty late last night, I think," Danny said rubbing his head.
"You think?" Sam asked, "Just watch what you say around them, they already think I'm on the road to troubled teen hood."
"Where are you going school is this way?" Danny asked pointing in the opposite direction.
"The circus Gothica train pulled into town last night, I'm cutting first period to watch the opening ceremony at the train station," Sam said cheery.
"Sam," Danny said concerned.
"Take it easy, Tucker is covering for me," Sam said running off.
"Don't blame me if you get caught!" Danny yelled as his ghost since went off.
The boy turned to see the familiar green face of the dwarf from the night before, running with what seemed to be a sack of money.
"And speaking of getting caught," Danny said changing into his ghost form.
"Opening a new bank account don't forget your free toaster," Danny said shooting the ghost, causing him to drop the sack, hitting the car below.
"Curse you ghost kid," came from below.
Danny lowered his gaze in annoyance, "oh great, more fans."
He quickly flew north in the path of the group, the four flew quickly through a circus Gothica poster and Danny froze.
"Go, Now, Obey, Listen, Go ,Now!" Dan yelled from within.
"What's your problem," Danny asked flying through the sign.
Upon the other side laid a blackened sight, full of horrors and freaks, painted in black and red.
"Terrific, the crooks got away, I'm late for school, and I've never seen so many Goths out in broad daylight before," Danny said looking at his surroundings once more.
A voice caught the boy by surprise, "Well look who decided to slum it with the troubled teens," Sam smiled.
The ghost boy floated down, "I'm not in trouble."
Police sirens filled the air.
"Oh yah, you're an upstanding citizen," Sam said sarcastically, "Need to hide from the law?"
"No," Danny said changing behind several oil barrels.
"Come back here invisoBill!" The cops called running past the teens.
"Well were here," Sam smiled.
"Fine, but right after were going to school," Danny said giving in.
"No, stay, forever, listen, stay," Dan said within.
"Will you be quite," Danny whispered to himself.
"What?" Sam asked in confusion.
"Nothing," Danny said.
**Ghost zone*
"Is there anything I can do?" Clockwork pleaded.
"If it breaks, then it does. You should have spoken to us before," One observer said.
"It was my choice," Clockwork snapped.
"And a poor one at that, not only have you jeopardize the future, you have also broken the laws of the ghost zone," Another Observer declared.
"I have done no such thing," Clockwork snapped changing into his child form.
"You have deliberately changed the future of a top four without permition from the council or them without a significant cause." The first observer stated.
"I had cause," Clockwork snapped changing into his adult form.
"Then explain," The second observer said softly.
**Amity*
Metal gates dropped quickly from the gothic train. A flash of red moved forward out into the light of the park, followed by a pale faced man.
"Greetings, fellow outcasts. I am Freakshow, ring master of ceremonies.
Are you ready to smile?
Laugh?
Forget all your troubles, with the pleasant diversions of the circus." Freakshow asked.
A loud roar of no's engulfed the audience.
The man smiled a wicked grin, "Then you've come to the right place!"
"Prepare to be disturbed and appalled by my small assembly of the curls and mysterious world," The man said walking from the train doors, "Of Circus Gothica!"
A dagger like weapon fly through the air, above the people. Danny jumped, and by instinct looked for any indication of trouble. Two bright eyes revealed themselves from the darkness of the train, a young girl, with whitish, gray hair walked in a spider like manner from the train. All limbs twisted and turned, even Danny with his hyphened flexibility couldn't do that. Several other freaks, and entertainers came from within the darkness of the train to the open field.
"Look, now, answer, Listen, now, go!" Danny's mind yelled as he looked over at the red spirals.
The world was black around him, his mind cold and confused. Danny had lost all control of his mind, he hadn't the slightest idea the events taking place, he only knew of what the voice wanted. And the voice wanted the staff, wanted to go and to listen, to obey. A voice broke the silences that was is mind.
"Don't let the ranting of the norms bring you down, show then your true colors, and when I say colors I mean all BLACK! Make then see you for who you are!"
"Make them see us for who we are," Dan spoke.
Eyes flashed red, "Hey everyone over here, were Danny Fenton, and Sam Manson, we cut school and were proud of it!" Dan yelled for all to hear.
A spiked hair man walked up to the boy and spray painted Danny's shirt black, "Your one of us now."
"Sam?" The Mansons questioned.
**Ghost zone*
"This is not one of reason," the green one eyed proclaimed.
"It is enough," Clockwork called.
"A reason of simple, personal as this is does not justify the wiping of a great four's mind, nor the population of our world," another observer said.
"But, in light of your position and work, you will not be punished, and we shall not change what you have done. However, if memory finds its way back, you are not to erase without requesting first," the first observer said.
Clockwork began to fly from the room, but was stopped, "She is no longer a helpless child Simon, and I fear if you continue to push her, you will push her away," The observer said.
**Amity*
"I wanted to experience something horrific and unimaginable," Sam said looking at Lancer trimming his toe nails, "This was not what I had in mind."
"We can always go to the circus tomorrow," Danny said in an almost childish tone, "That is assuming that I'm not grounded and your parents let me in within 200 feet of you."
"Guess will have to settle for the live web cast of opening night," Tucker said looking at his PDA.
"Creatures of the night, unleash your dark side at circus Gothica," Freakshow said.
"Man, I wonder why there are so many Goths anyway, no offence Sam but, do you really think your life is so bad? It sounds like paradise." Tucker said watching the into.
"Say that again?" Sam said as her eyes widened.
"Your Goth is your life really that bad? It sounds like paradise." Tucker repeated.
"I heard that before," Sam said before being interrupted by Danny standing up.
"Unleash your dark side at circus Gothica," he said in a blank tone.
Once he reached the door, Danny was blocked by Lancer, "And just where do you think you're going Mr. Fenton?"
Eye shot red, the boy turned intangible a fly into the grown man, over shadowing him. Lancer walked into the nearby janitor closet, locking the door behind himself. The white haired boy flew from the doors of the closet, pleading cries could be heard from the closed doors.
"Danny, were in enough trouble as it is," Sam said annoyed.
"No such thing as too much trouble, unleash your dark side at circus Gothica," The boy said before flying off.
"Now that was weird, I mean what was up with the red eyes?" Tucker asked.
"I don't know, the last time I saw red eyes like that was with Serene," Sam answered.
"Who's Serene?" Tucker asked.