So far Delilah's day had been the same as any other day she wasn't in the Ghost Zone. Downtown Amity was the same run down collection of failing stores and warehouses with their roofs caving in. Nothing should have been any different from any other day. Though as she rounded the corner to go home she was greeted with some ghost using the door to her lair as a shield from what appeared to her as an ecto-blaster.
Huh, I guess the Fleshies have come a ways from vacuums strapped to their backs she thought idly. It was nice out, the sun setting behind her so she turned invisible and watched as the Ghost Boy of Amity Park fought against the two fools in bright colored jumpsuits. The fat one in orange bellowed that they were going to rip him apart molecule by molecule.
What's the boy's name again? she thought Inviso-Bill? No. Maybe it's-
"You can't hide behind that door forever, Phantom." the orange ones yelling snapped her out of her thoughts. They shouldn't be able to see that, and neither should the boy! She panicked, no one should see the door to her lair, it was her lair and she had made sure that it was protected from the sight of others. Though, she remembered, someone can. As soon as the thought entered her head she bolted in the opposite direction, flying to the first place that can to mind. Who ever they were, it was of no importance to her and if that was what she thought, then it's pretty screwed up anyway. Not that she wasn't.
The urban area gave to trees and rocky roads, houses peering from behind the trees every few miles . She veered onto the path leading to a small abandoned house. The outside was chipped and cracked, the inside was far worse but regardless she made her way to the basement. The wooden stairs splintered under her feet. She hit the concrete surveying what was left of where she had been raised.
"Yep, just the way it was left." She said to herself. Computers lined the wall to her right, they were basically dinosaurs having not been touched in the last five years. Delilah's old bed was still stuck hidden underneath the stairs. Bloodied clothes and a plush rabbit toy still in its spot.
"God, there is so much blood." she murmured. The far left corner was caked with dried blood. Hers, she remembered with distaste. While most of the of the blood was contained in the corner there was a puddle in the very middle of the room. She grabbed what she needed, floated out the top, and got ready to set the the old house on fire.
A quarter past midnight sirens wailed down the country road. The fire department had been alerted that an old house on the outside of town was on fire, the case was soon taken over as the fire died and a body was found in the basement. The officers ran over the room looking anything that could help the case. They managed to open the door opposite the computers, the one that Delilah wanted to burn the most, and they knew that they were in for a very long night.
Danny was having a bad day. Two tests, four missing assignments, three ghost attacks not including the Box Ghost and Klemper. To top it off his parents, Jack and Maddie, showed up at the school to pick up him and his sister, Jazz, saying that there was urgent family business to attend to. His dad drove off at top speed to get them to the police station of all places.
The station was busy, everyone had somewhere to be or some role in the new case. When the Fentons arrived they were whisked away to a big office type room to talk with the Captain and the leading Investigator. Jack and Maddie took the two seats in front of the desk while Jazz stood by her mom and Danny stayed by the door.
"Mr. and Mrs. Fenton" The Captain started "I'm afraid we have some bad news about your daughter, Delilah-"
"Who's Delilah?" Jazz and Danny asked immediately, their parents sighed.
"We haven't told you about her yet, but we should have." Maddie said as Jack seemed distracted by what was going on outside. "She was, or perhaps is, Danny's twin sister, she went missing from the hospital the day you two were born."
The Investigator spoke up "we have a new lead as to where she could be."
Jack perked up "After all this time?"
"We don't want to get your hopes up just yet but last night we had been called to investigate a house fire where we found a body. We believe that it was her captor." He continued "In the basement we found blood and some old surveillance videos, we called you as soon as the reports came back." The Fentons were shocked, though all for different reasons. Silence followed as everyone waited for someone else to start talking, hoping to avoid speaking themselves. After few awkward moments Danny spoke up in favor of making a whole new kind of awkward.
"Why didn't you tell me I had a twin sister?" He asked completely lost. Why would they not tell him had a sister? And why is she missing? Jack and Maddie were at a bit of a loss for words. Their missing daughter might be coming home after all this time. sure Danny and Jazz were a little upset and confused with this revelation but it was great news all the same, the only real problem was explaining it to them.
"Well-" Maddie started only to be cut off by her husband.
"We didn't want you guys to worry that's all, it's not the kind of thing you needed to know about."
"We didn't need to know!" Jazz exclaimed "But a part of our family is missing and we didn't even know!"
"Maybe that's the point, you never had to feel like you were missing out on a complete family." A voice supplied from the door. It belonged to a young girl with icey blue eyes and long choppy black hair handcuffed to a police officer.
"Um, I'm sorry to interrupt" The officer said "but we found her in the woods burning some evidence for that new case, no one knows who she is."
"Well maybe if you asked nicely I would tell you. The name's Delilah. And I wasn't burning 'evidence' I was burning my childhood now may I please leave I have things to do and places to be." She said snarkily.
