A young eleven (soon-to-be twelve) year old boy with black ebony hair, laid asleep in his bed. His father a man named Jack Fenton had just checked up on him with a sad smile after checking on his eldest daughter of fourteen a few seconds ago and left him to sleep.
Jack sat down at his desk, working to fix the cogs in a telescope as part of his profession. He stopped and stared at the painting of his wife Madeline who sadly passed away two years ago from an illness. It was hard for him, raising two children on his own; it was even harder on his children Jasmine and Daniel. But that wasn't on his mind at the moment.
His eyes turned and gazed at the clock and watched as the clock stroke midnight. Back in the bedroom of now twelve-year-old son, a bright white aura had surrounded him and he woke up feeling strange.
He started panicking as he saw the light surrounding him and then suddenly, two halo rings appeared around his torso and started going up and down his body.
"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Jack's eyes widened at the sound of his son's scream, he ran down the hallway passing by Jasmine who woke up from the scream as well and started to feel scared for her little brother and followed her father to his room.
Jack opened the door and both he and Jasmine's eyes widened at the sight of Daniel, now with snow white hair and glowing green eyes and he was floating around everywhere.
"Father! Help! What is happening to me?!" Daniel screamed in fright as he continued to float around.
"It'll be alight son" Jack said in a calm manner. Jasmine then panicked, "Father what's going on?! Is our brother possessed?!"
"No Jasmine he's not" Jack said hugging his daughter close to calm her down. He then turned his head to Daniel and said, "Daniel son, listen I understand this is scary but I need you to remain calm so I can help you"
"Father I'm scared! Please help me!" Daniel cried as tears fell from his eyes.
"I understand son but I can't help unless you calm down and listen to me" Jack stated.
Daniel sniffled and calmed down. Jack then instructed, "Okay now just close your eyes and picture yourself of what you looked like before. Picture your black ebony hair, your sky blue eyes and just keep telling yourself 'I am human. I'm not a ghost, I am human"
Daniel did what he was told and followed his father's instructions, he slowly floated down until he was back on the bed and then in a flash of light just like before, he was suddenly back into his normal human self.
Jack then walked over and held onto his son in a comforting hug and then gestured for Jasmine to come over. She walked over and sat down next to Danny on the bed who then asked, "Father what happened? One minute I was asleep and the next, I'm floating in the air and I was different"
"I shall explain everything to you Daniel. I knew this day would come when you were born my son, now both you and Jasmine need to know the truth" Jack answered.
"The truth about what?" Jasmine asked. Jack looked down and answered, "The truth about the curse on our family"
"What curse?" Both the children asked. Jack sighed and then began, "It all began with my grandfather Tobias Fenton, and he was part of the Royal Navy sent to explore the oceans beyond our home. One day he came across an island that was not on any map charts and had gone ashore to explore it, while there he stumbled upon a cave and found a truly magnificent sight, a green gem that only glowed in the dark on a gold chain sitting on a rock that had a terrifying message written on it, 'Anyone who takes the Gem of the Dead from the cave, every second born child in the family shall be curse with the powers of the dead until the gem is destroyed'. But he didn't take the warning seriously and so he took the gem but hid it from his fellow sailors and then returned back to the ship and marked the island on the map. He returned home and had worn the gem around his neck under his clothes, soon he married and had his first son and then his brother who grew up to be my father. On my father's twelfth birthday, he suddenly was changed into some sort of spirit and that's when my father realised that his second son had been hit by the curse. He took the gem outside and tried to destroy it, but no matter what he did he could not destroy it and break the curse, his father then kept on sailing out to sea trying to find a way to end the curse but he never figured out the riddle to the warning of the cave"
"How did you know about your father's curse?" Daniel asked.
"I saw him transform one night and he explained everything to me and gave me his journal which he wrote for the future Fenton children who shall be hit by the curse. My grandfather then hid the gem away and no-one has seen it since" Jack answered. "I wasn't cursed because I was the only son born from my father but since your mother had you my son, the curse has taken its hold on you"
Jack then handed Daniel a journal and said, "This will tell you everything you need to know about controlling these 'ghost' powers. It's the key to controlling your curse. You two must not tell anyone, not a soul about this. If this gets out, the town will want Daniel killed on the spot"
Jasmine gasped and held her little brother tight and said, "I won't let them touch you little brother"
Daniel hugged his sister back and then Jack hugged them both and then Daniel said, "I'm going to find a way to stop the curse. I'm going to finish what my great-grandfather started"
"I can only hope my son" Jack said solemnly. "I can only hope"
