This is my first fanfic. No flames. You get a cookie if you notice the book quote I used here and tell me what book it's from. Also, this is like 5 chapters, because I'm really dumb and just figured out how to work the site, sothere probably won't be a lot of chapters this long. OK, on with the fanfic!
Ruby Myers woke up. Her black-brown hair was all over her face. She yawned, put on her glasses, and looked at the clock. It had gone off ten minutes early again.
How nice, she thought. She reluctantly got out of her warm bed and threw on some blue-green pants and a red shirt. The only time her clothes ever matched was an accident. She tried to pull a comb through her ratty hair. She failed.
Oh well...I look fine. Ruby dragged herself downstairs and ate a bowl of cereal. It was her first year at her high school and she felt like she was already a loser. Not that she cared. What's the point of being popular anyway? All the popular people were idiots. Her alarm clock went off again. She had to set one to leave for school because she was so... absentminded.
She sighed, got her coat and backpack, and trudged to the corner of the street.
There were ten boys Ruby's age on her street, and no girls. Sometimes she wished she could just go to a friend's house and talk, but that didn't happen. Her only two friends lived across town. When the bus came, Ruby waited for everyone else to get on, just like every other day, then went and sat in her seat in the back of the bus. She leaned her head against the window and let her thoughts wander.
Nothing ever happens to me, thought Ruby gloomily. I lead the most boring life ever. Just then, out her window, Ruby saw a faint greenish glow coming toward the bus.
A boy with bright blue eyes and raven hair was running to his school.
"Yes! For once! I won't be late today!" The boy, whose name was Danny Fenton, yelled. The second he touched the door of Casper High, a blue mist seeped from his mouth. Oh, great...
"I am Technus! Master of all things mechanical and-"
"Can I have one day, ONE DAY without being late?" Danny yelled. "Going ghost!" Two blue rings slid over his body. When they disappeared, he had white hair electric green eyes, and a black and silver jumpsuit. He jumped into the air and started firing green bolts at the ghost.
Two kids saw Danny change from inside their classroom. One was a gothic-looking girl, wearing a purple and black sleeveless top, and a plaid miniskirt. The other was a boy with a darker complexion, who had on a backwards red cap, baggy pants and a yellow shirt.
"Mr. Lancer, may I use the restroom?" they asked in unison.
"Fine, fine," their teacher sighed. This was the fourth time in three days.
They both jumped out of their seats and ran outside to the battling ghosts.
"Tucker, Sam, why aren't you in class?" Danny asked.
"You know, we were, but then we saw you from Mr. Lancer's room and decided to tell you," Tucker said.
"What! Very ba-"
The ghost, Technus, took that opportunity to knock Danny out of the air. Then he sped away.
"Well, at least he's not right in front of Mr. Lancer's room anymore," observed Tucker.
Danny sat up and rubbed his head. "Pretty obvious there, Tuck. Well, I'd better follow him..."
"Don't worry, Danny. We'll cover for you," Sam said, and she helped him up. Thank you, Sam, THANK YOU," Danny said. He flew away.
He followed Technus for a long time. After a while, Danny started getting tired. He wondered if he was even in his state anymore. Just then Technus dove. He had spotted a school bus full of kids about Danny's age. He flew into the engine.
"Hey! What are you doing!" shouted Danny. He pulled out the Fenton Thermos and took the cap off. Technus was sucked inside, and Danny flew away. But it was too late. A little flame flickered in the engine, and soon the whole thing was ablaze.
Ruby saw all of it. She had been looking out the window, bored, while everyone else talked and played around. Then she saw the two - things, they reminded her of ghosts, but that was impossible- fight. After the boy had done something to make the other go away, he'd flown off. Ruby just sat there, gaping out the window. Then her brain turned on.
That was amazing, whatever it was... WAIT THE BUS IS ON FIRE!
By now the inside of the bus was getting hot, and a few of the seats had caught fire.
"EVERYONE GET OFF THE BUS! Ruby yelled. Everyone stared at her. They looked at the bus driver to see what it was about, and caught sight of the engine. Half the kids started screaming, and the other half turned chalk white. The bus driver whistled.
"EVERYBODY! We will calmly get off the bus NOW." she said, in a commanding tone.
All the kids looked at her. Then, they stood up shakily and started getting off. Ruby, having sat in the last seat, like always, was last in line to get off. She was just about to step onto the stairs, when she slipped in a big pile of glowing green goo. It covered her and she blacked out.
After school, Danny sighed and dropped himself on his bed. He'd been grounded for a month for disappearing from the first four periods of school. He could hear his parents watching the TV downstairs.
"-school bus about 100 miles south of Amity Park caught fire in a freak engine accident. It's not apparent what caused it but there was one girl reported missing..." Danny stopped listening. That sounded like... DUH!
Why didn't I turn around before flying off! I am so STUPID!
Danny went ghost and flew off in the direction he had that morning, to look for the missing girl.
Ruby slowly woke up. She had no idea what time it was, or how long she had been out. The bus was charred and black. Wait... the fire... she remembered that...
If there was a fire and I fainted, why aren't I dead?
She stood up and looked around. Only then she noticed she was invisible.
"AAAAAAHHHH!" she yelled and jumped about a foot in the air. "I don't want to be invisible! Why is this happening!" She popped back to normal. But it wasn't really normal, was it? She was wearing a jumpsuit, not too different from the one she saw that boy wear, but hers, instead of being black and silver, was dark orange and red. It also had a little flame on the chest. Ruby shook her head.
This is a dream; there's no WAY this is really happening to me...
When she shook her head, she saw the tips of her hair. They were blonde.
Huh? What the... Ruby was really confused now. She pulled out a hair. It was deep red at the top, then it faded to orange, and finally to blonde at the bottom.
Now she just felt like curling up in a corner and crying. "What happened to me?"
Ruby sobbed. Then she saw something come through the blackened roof of the bus. It was Danny.
Danny looked at Ruby curiously.
"Are you the girl that was on the bus this morning? Why are you wearing that?"
"I don't know," Ruby replied. "Why are you? Wait... I remember you! You're the thing from this morning! You set our bus on FIRE and DIDN'T EVEN TURN AROUND TO SEE IF WE WERE GOING TO BE ALRIGHT!" Ruby was screaming as loud as she could at Danny now. "I SHOULD-"
WHOOSH
Danny jumped about two feet in the air and took a step backwards. Ruby was still yelling. "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" She glared at Danny.
CRACKLE CRACKLE
"Y- your hair..." Danny trailed off. He had seen ghosts, certainly, but this girl didn't look like a ghost. His ghost sense hadn't gone off, either. What had startled him was that while Ruby was screaming at him, her hair had burst into flames.
"Yeah, Iknow it's the wrong color!" She pulled some from behind her shoulder. "Even I can see-" Ruby had finally looked at her hair.
"AAAAAHHH!" she yelled and, her hair went out.
Danny broke in. "Look, before you scream at me again, I'm sorry. I didn't know the bus was on fire. I just wanted to get to school on time... for once..."
"Okay, fine," said Ruby. "I just want to know what happened to me... or you and me... this is just so confusing..." Ruby leaned against the wall of the bus, sat down and sighed. As soon as she hit the floor, she turned invisible.
"AAH! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME!"
Danny was staring as he watched this. It was exactly how he had felt when he got his powers. He sat down next to Ruby.
"I'm Danny Fen-Phantom. Um... well, I think I might have some idea of what happened to you. I was turned into a ghost by a machine, and it looks like you have some of the same powers as me. I have no idea where the fire came from though, so don't ask me." Danny said. He didn't see a reason not to tell her. She was going through the same thing he was, and even if she did tell anybody, nobody believed in ghosts anyway. "What's the last thing you remember before you blacked out?"
"How did you know I fainted?" asked Ruby suspiciously.
"Duh," said Danny. "If you hadn't blacked out and gone invisible, you would have gotten off the bus, and you wouldn't be all over the news as "MISSING'."
"Oh. Well, I remember slipping on glowing green goo, the fire getting closer, and that was it."
"Oookaay..." Danny said slowly. "Umm... maybe that goo- it's called ectoplasm- it probably gave you the ghost powers, and then the fire gave you the fire powers. Does that make any sense at all?"
"No," said Ruby. She had the concept, but she was still completely confused. "But then, neither does anything else that's happened to me in the last day, so I'll accept that."
"Good." said Danny. "Well, I can't help you with the fire, but it would be good if you had some basic control over your powers, don't you think?"
"Yeah..." Ruby looked down through her invisible self. "It'd be pretty bad if I did this at school..."
"I had problems with that, too. How about we work on that first. See, this whole ghost thing just happens when you think. You think about being invisible, it happens. You think about going back to normal..."
Ruby appeared. "That's cool! What else can I do?"
"Not sure exactly." Danny said. "But we can try the powers I have." Danny was thinking how much easier it would have been if he had someone to tell him how to use his powers. "I've always liked flight." He rose into the air and smiled.
Ruby jumped into the air -and fell with a big THUD.
"I guess I don't have that one," sighed Ruby.
"I think you're trying too hard," said Danny. "Just think about it. Don't jump."
"Okay." Ruby closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and rose into the air.
"I CAN FLY!" Ruby was really happy. She had always wanted to fly.
"Fine. The next one I can teach you is intangibility." Danny put his hand through the charred bus seat in front of them. So did Ruby, with no trouble at all.
"That one is easy," she said. "Is that all?"
"One more," said Danny, "assuming you didn't plan to wear that to school," he said, pointing to her jumpsuit, "and your hair isn't normally three colors."
"Yeah. So what is it?"
"To change back, you concentrate hard on your human self and you'll-"
Danny was cut off as two blue rings slid around him as they did that morning, transforming him back into Danny Fenton. Two seconds later, they came back, and he was a ghost again. He looked completely shocked.
"OOPSsorrythatwasn'tsupposedtohappenOKBYE!"
(Authors note: If you understood that, you get a cookie.)
Danny flew away looking startled.
Ruby sat on the floor. She had seen about two seconds of a boy with bright blue eyes and black hair.
Ruby blinked. He'd gone so fast... Ruby shook herself.
So if that wasn't a dream... then I can do this!
She slid through the wall of the bus, and landed on her back.
Ow... That was cool. It was all concept. Very kung fu. If you wish it, it shall be. And now I fly home! Ruby thought happily.
"THIS IS GREAT!" Ruby screamed. She'd always wanted to fly, and it was great. Ruby giggled as she circled and flipped her way across town to her house. When she got there, she collapsed onto her bed and concentrated on herself as a human. Two flaming rings passed across Ruby. Surprisingly, they didn't catch anything on fire, though. Ruby had dark brown hair and normal clothes on again. The last thing she remembered thinking before falling dead asleep was,
Well, I definitely can't say I live the most boring life on earth now...
"YOU TOLD HER WHAT!" Sam and Tucker yelled. They were on the phone with Danny, and he had just told them the whole story of what happened.
"What?" Danny asked. "All I told her was that I was turned into a ghost by a machine. I didn't tell her my name or anything."
"You never think, Danny," Sam said. "There are not many people who own u anything</u that can do that, even by accident. So naturally, she would think the people who have a machine that could accidentally turn someone into a ghost, are the same people who have a house that looks like a UFO landed on it."
"Ohhh... I'm so DUMB..." Danny groaned.
"Oh, don't worry, Danny," said Tucker. "What are the chances of her even coming over to Amity anyway?"
Ruby woke up and yawned sleepily. She pushed her hair off her face and looked at her clock. It was only 8 a.m. Why was she up so early on Saturday? She remembered what happened on the bus.
That was an amazing dream, she thought, as she put one foot out of bed. It didn't touch the floor.
What the... Ruby looked over the edge of her bed and almost screamed. Her foot was going through the floor. She pulled it out and sat up on her bed.
So it wasn't a dream...
Yay for my first fic! R&R OR ELSE! I am not continuing till I get 5 reviews. Or a week. Yeah, I am the least patient person in the world.