Awesome, I have now officially moved on to the rewriting stage of my goals. I'm rewriting this story now!
Chapter 1
The Portal
"Come on, Danny, who knows what kind of cool things are on the other side of that portal?" Sam asked, looking at said portal and trying to convince Danny to go in. I rolled my eyes.
"Danny, come on… I wanna check it out too," Jamie insisted.
"Fine, fine. Okay," he said, beginning to pull on a jumpsuit. Black and white. Jamie pulled on another, just like it, intending to go in a little behind him. He looked up and nodded. She pulled it on over her orange tank top, skinny jeans, and took off her orange converse, replacing them with the jumpsuit's boots. Finally, she pulled her black hair into a ponytail. Then she straightened up and followed behind him, hurrying just a little, since he had already gone in.
He was feeling his way, hand on the wall. She had just gotten all the way inside the portal, beginning to run her hand along the wall, when she heard a 'beep'. Her eyes widened as the portal began to power up.
"Danny!" she called, worried. She was about to turn and run out when the portal finished charging. It made this apparent by a loud whining sound, and then suddenly surging with ecto electricity. She remembered the color from the times she had watched her parents fire it from their guns, as well as from the time she had accidentally swallowed some liquid ectoplasm as a toddler.
Then, pain. Excruciating pain flooded every part of her body as the portal zapped her and her brother. She screamed, long and loud, body stiff. She vaguely noticed her brother screaming too. Absolute agony flooded through their bodies for at least five more minutes before they both stumbled out, dazed. They looked at each other once, not really registering what they saw, then collapsed, right next to each other, passing out.
When they woke up, half an hour later, they groaned in unison. Sitting up painfully, they looked at each other again.
They gasped.
"Jamie... your eyes. Hair. Jumpsuit, too. All changed," said Danny, dumbstruck.
"Danny... same. Hair, eyes, and your jumpsuit inverted," she replied, shell-shocked.
She took a deep breath, panicking. Then she registered that nothing had actually happened when she tried, and yelped. "Mirror…" she muttered.
He nodded, glowing green eyes wide, overlong snow white hair falling into his panicked eyes. "Come on."
She got up and hurried toward the mirror, and Danny followed. Sam and Tucker were both just staring at them, completely unsure of what to do, shocked.
When they reached the mirror, they both stood side by side, looking at it. A moment of shock passed, and Jamie would have gasped loudly if she was currently capable of taking a breath.
Danny's black hair had gone stark white, his ice blue eyes poisonous green, his haz-mat suit inverted.
Jamie's black hair had gone snow white, her ice blue eyes an identical green, her haz-mat suit green where it had been white and white where it had been black.
Then Jamie's mirror image vanished. Jamie screamed. Her image reappeared.
"Zhei reni heffikit…" she mumbled. Then she froze, exchanging a shocked look with her brother. She had just spoken another language, one she barely recognized, and she understood it.
"What just happened?" Danny translated, stricken. "Jamie… not to state the obvious, but I think we're… Dead. Ghosts."
She nodded, stunned. "Yeah… So… That must have been Feuglacian. Ghost language…" she muttered.
They both turned to their friends.
"I wish we were alive again," Jamie almost whimpered. As soon as the thought crossed her mind, two rings formed at her waistline, and swept over her. She turned back to the mirror. She had regained her former appearance. A moment later, so had Danny.
They exchanged glances, looking afraid.
"Well… What are we?" whispered Jamie.
"I don't know," muttered Danny.
They made eye contact again.
"Half ghost," they concluded in unison, for once not grinning at the perfect unification of their twin-liness.
Danny flashed invisible, then visible.
"This might take some getting used to."
Danny turned to Sam and Tucker, followed by Jamie.
"Um… could you go? We gotta take care of this from here… Our parents are away for the weekend; Could you please come back later? No offense to you guys, but we really gotta handle this…" said Jamie awkwardly. Without another word, Sam and Tucker nodded and left.
A few awkward minutes later, Danny and Jamie each went up to their respective rooms.
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