Phoenyx eyed the offending piece of metal warily.
"I'm not to sure 'bout this Theus. Remember what happened the LAST time you attempted to time travel?" Phoenyx reminded Prometheus. Theus winced.
"I can't forget that because you keep reminding me! Trust me Nyx, when have I ever been wrong?" Theus said confidently
"...You know, I'm not going to even answer that." Phoenyx deadpanned,"Now, if you excuse me, I am going to go get a ninth coffee. And when I come back, everything will be just as it was when I left. Activate that death trap, and I will make you regret ever coming to 1712."
"This is MY lab thank you very much. Who was the one who had the genius to build the lab UNDERGROUND so that we wouldn't be cast out as, and I quote, 'The Devil's Spawn'."
Phoenyx turned around, and glared at Theus.
"I have EARS you know. And, also, if you weren't my friend, I'd be hurting you right now. Now, I NEED MY COFFEE!" Phoenyx yelled, and stomped up the stairs. Heading to the kitchen, she kicked the door open. Phoenyx grabbed a mug from the counter, and started up the expresso maker. She stared at the expresso machine. If you told her that she'd be using a coffee maker a year ago, she'd have told you to go to the village doctor. The only reason she knew this stuff, was because of Theus.

Theus was from 2009, time-traveled to 1930, and finally landed in 1712. He was a child genius in his time, but no one really cared about him, they only cared about his brain. Theus was 4'1, despite the fact that he was 14, and had medium brown hair that was almost always colored black with ash, due to more than one invention exploding, and he had hazel eyes. Theus always wore brown deer-skin pants, because he thought it "looked cool". He also wore a brown leather jacket, with a baggy white shirt underneath. He wore leather boots as well(Seriously! He was, like, OBSESSED with leather). He was the one to teach them how to speak modern English, as well as several other languages as well. Phoenyx had taken a liking to Australian English, while Theus had a Russian/Asian accent. Jacqueline spoke American English, street-cred style. Aur and Emily spoke with a Greek accent.

Aur (pronounced A-UR) was a hyper 10 year old, who was only three quarters immortal, but her human quarter was killed not too long ago. A year, at most. With dirty blonde hair in a pixie cut, and Amber/ Gold eyes, she didn't look like much of a threat. She wore white pants that flared at her ankles, with a cute gold t-shirt with gold sandals. She did have a family, but only one of them even knew she existed, her eldest sister, Artemis. Her other two twin older brothers were more like older bothers. One was an Evil Idiot and the other didn't know who she was. Aur was a spirit, one of the first to be formed, but since she died a child, she would forever more be a child. She had freckles splashed across her nose, which seemed to compliment her face with the tarnished gold colored hair, which seemed to glow softly in the light. Aur never really stayed in one place for longer than a week, but she had a standing invitation to Theus's home and Emma Overland, Jack and Jackie's younger sister, was Aur's best friend.

Emily Overland was the most normal of all of them. Emily was 3'9Emma and Jacqueline were disowned when Jack drowned, being blamed for his death. Jacqueline was Jack's twin sister, and they both had full heterochromia, meaning that they had little to no color in their hair (save for a natural electric blue streak behind their ear's) and two different colored eyes, one icy blue, the other stormy gray. Her sister looked a lot more normal, though. Excluding her long, wavy black hair, and pretty emerald green eyes, she looked like any other girl in the village. The only difference between her and the rest of the girls in the village was that NORMAL girls weren't trained in Jeet Kune Do, karate, wushu, or 3 types of hand to hand combat. Emily and Jackie were disowned by their parents, so they didn't really have a home, but they were living with Theus until Jackie could get a job. Jack died by protecting Emily from the spirit that called himself Pitch. Pitch pulled Jack under, making it impossible for him to escape, so Jack had drowned. Phoenyx swore to avenge his death. Jackie was the next to die. She was suffocated under the earth, by the same man that killed Jack. She was turned into a spirit, though, and was the spirit of balance. Emily, despite all the precautions that they took, was killed by the shadows. The shadows strangled her, in her sleep. She too became a spirit, the spirit of hope, new beginnings, and spring. Prometheus was a spirit, he was just better at passing off as human. Aur was the spirit of daydreams, and happiness, and Phoenyx was the spirit of courage and revenge.

Phoenyx was killed by being electrocuted, trapped in the darkness, unable to see or hear anything. She was the spirit of courage and revenge, and certainly lived up to that title, with her ferocious temper. She had been disowned by her parents at age 8 for being a dirt stain their family. Phoenyx couldn't have cared less. She was abnormal, yes, but she didn't care. The Dark Dork- Aur's older brother- was the one who killed all of them, including Aur's human quarter, but Phoenyx wouldn't live her after-life hiding from fear, it wasn't in her nature. Phoenyx had a beautiful pair of angel wings, covered in soft, downy, jet black feathers, except for the tips, which where icy blue, and could be set on fire, as a defense. Her wings acted like a shield, as they could block a lot of magical and non magical attacks. Most of the time, though, her wings were retracted into her back, as they attracted odd looks in public. She was around 5'9, despite the fact that she was 14. Phoenyx had jet black wavy hair with icy blue streaks scattered randomly through out, and one side bang that covered nearly half of her face, causing her hair to be in a pony tail more often than not. She wore a ice blue tank top, black jeans that flared out at the ankles, black combat boots, an open black jacket, with pockets on the sides, and a black and ice blue messenger bag. That bag held all the necessities for her, should she ever get trapped. Everyone who lived in Theus's house had one, and thanks to Theus's inventions, the bags had to be used excessively. Once they were transported to Madagascar, and almost killed by a fossa. Phoenyx chewed Theus out after they (Jackie, Emily, Aur, Theus, and Phoenyx) got back home. And no matter what, Phoenyx always kept a bo-stick with her as a weapon, seeing as she was attacked so often. Theus always said it looked like Darth Maul's lightsaber, except instead of a the red beams at the ends, there were handle-less swords made from celestial sliver, the properties of it made it only possible to kill evil, because otherwise, Theus would be dead right now.

Phoenyx was brought out of her musings by the soothing sound of the expresso machine beeping, an in a cool metallic voice, Eli (yes, Phoenyx named the expresso machine. That's how obsessed she was with her caffeine) said,
"Triple strength caffeine, triple chocolate, jumbo size." Eli's door opened, and Phoenyx grabbed the coffee that was the size of a jumbo popcorn bag at the movie's, and said gratefully,
"Thank you Eli, I don't know what I would do without you... Or your coffee."
Eli didn't say anything, Phoenyx didn't expect her to. Eli was programmed by Theus's to make coffee, not conversations. She inhaled, and the aroma of mocha, chocolate, and spice mingled together. This was real coffee should always be like. Phoenyx raised the cup to her lips, and took a sip, only to spray it out, when she heard the silky british accent behind her.
"It's a shame, isn't it Chama?" Placing a lid on the coffee, and carefully tucking it away into her messenger bag, she turned to face the menace that snuffed out so many lives in his mad quest for power, to bring this planet back into the realm of shadows, where there was only night, but no moon or stars to reassure anyone that anything would be alright. The realm of despair, sorrow, death, and destruction. The place where not even hope survived. The place where the planet had resided in partially in the dark ages, by all the greed and slaughter mankind had brought upon themselves. The Arabs however, somehow found a way to find the light of invention in the darkness all around them. For them, the light of invention shone upon their land, helping the Guardians bring the Earth back out to the world of reality, where the Shadow-man was all but powerless. Now, though, there was enough fear, chaos, and disorder to bring him back to half he was in the Dark Ages. But Phoenyx was prepared for battle. She had been ever since she died. Everything after when she lunged at the Shadow Man, was bits and pieces. Shadow dropping into the ground, into the shadows. Racing downstairs. Jackie and Theus, cursing in Russian and Siberian, respectively. Aur and Emily screaming. Slamming her hand onto the red button that activated the Time traveling machine.
Ten, nine, eight
The cold hard metallic voice toned.
Seven, six, five.
Shielding Emily and Aur with her wings.
Four, three, two.
Closing her eyes, waiting for the inevitable.
One.
Phoenyx's world exploded into millions of deadly bits of gold and bronze light. Phoenyx felt like she was being suffocated, being ripped apart, and steamrolled. She felt like she was being electrocuted, reliving her own death. Phoenyx laughed bitterly, as she felt like she was dying. Jack had given his life to save all of their's, giving them the chance to live and grow up, the chance that he, himself was denied. And what did they do with his sacrifice? They went and got themselves killed. They were spirits, yes. But now they were going to be lost in time. They were essentially burning themselves alive. Phoenyx couldn't help but let out a bitter chuckle at the irony of it all. She was being burned alive, like her name sake, but she would never rise from the ashes. She closed her eyes to try to block the pain, and said,
"I'm so sorry I couldn't protect them, I really am." She slipped into the blissful darkness that awaited her, to stop the pain. Phoenyx snapped her eyes open for one last glimpse of the world, before everything went
Pitch Black.

A/N- Disclaimer. I don't own RoTG, or Danny Phantom.

Please review, but flames will be used to light Theus on fire. My muse is VERY stubborn, so expect another Chapter in a week.

Many thanks to my awesome beta, Sushi4427!

Peace OUT!

AJ Skye