It was recently brought to my attention that the Original Phantom Holiday Trilogy was deleated by CDON. So as they no longer exist on this site, I feel no guilt in reposting my re-written versions of them on here. I found some free time today and will be using some of it to post on this site as well as continue writing some. Hope you all enjoy.
A maple tree with many leaves missing wafted in the wind as a chilly November air blew across Amity Park. One of the tree's many dead leaves fluttered in the wind before breaking free from the branches. The wind carried some for quite a distance as they crossed town. One broke off from the others and blew through the streets as people went about their days.
It eventually made its way to Fenton-Works and descended before another gust of air blew it through an open window as Jazz read a book as she stood next to the oven. A close up of the time on the oven revealed that it had about thirty seconds before whatever she was baking was done.
Jazz looked up from her reading as the leaf was blown across the kitchen from a light gust of cold November air. She put down her book and grabbed the leaf right out of the air. "Hmm," she hummed as she examined the leaf. Suddenly, the light bulb in her head went off. She turned and crushed the leaf in her hand before she let the pieces drop into a bowl of potpourri.
She picked her book back up and began to continue reading as she hummed to herself. The timer on the oven slowly counted down until it reached zero and let off a buzzing noise. Jazz perked up and set her book down once again before she put on oven mitts and opened the oven door before removing the freshly baked pie.
She took in a deep sniff of the pleasant aroma from the hot pie. "Ahh," she said with a delighted sigh. "Rhubarb pie; the only way to let a pie this good cool is to let it cool like they did in past times." She walked across the kitchen with the pie in hand. She placed the pie on the windowsill and looked outside. "At least until the weather turns bad," she groaned. She looked around suspiciously before she stepped away from the window and disappeared from sight.
As soon as Jazz was gone, Danielle, the Fenton's new houseguest, poked her head out from around the corner of the house. She sniffed the air as the cold November wind blew the aroma of the pie her way. She smirked and snickered as she slunk towards the open window.
She took in another deep sniff and sighed with delight. "Ahh, Rhubarb, my favorite." She looked around nervously before she eyeballed the pie. She took in a deep breath and imitated Jazz's voice. "Hey Danielle, you wanna taste test my pie?" She then returned to her normal voice. "Why not at all," she replied to her own question with a smug look of self satisfaction.
She reached for the pie with a sinister smirk, but she was caught. Jazz jumped up from underneath the windowsill and grabbed the window with both hands. "Gotcha!" she yelled as she pulled down on the window.
Danielle's eyes widened in surprise before she pulled her hands back and jumped in fright as Jazz slammed the window shut, forgetting about the pie in the window sill. The pie was smashed in the frame, sending pieces of the pie all over the two girls. They were both covered in bits of rhubarb, cherries and crust.
Jazz blinked a few times before she glared at the little girl through the window which was also covered in bits and pieces of crushed and splattered pie. Danielle had been hit with more of the pie than her older cousin. Her face was covered from brow to chin in pieces of pie.
She wiped away some of the cherries so she could see. She blinked a few times before she looked down at her sweater. She took a piece of crust that had become stuck to her sleeve and tossed it into her mouth and began to chew. "Hmm, I detect a bit of cheery; now THAT is a good pie!" she exclaimed with delight.
"AAARRRGGGHHH!" Jazz yelled in anger from the other side of the window as Danielle took off laughing.
She ran into the park and hid behind a tree; leaning against it as she tried to catch her breath. She watched to make sure Jazz wasn't chasing after her; she went intangible and the pieces of pie fell to the ground. After regaining her tangibility she looked up into the trees; their leaves turning yellow, orange and red.
Another cold November breeze blew through the park, fluttering the tree's leaves and wafting through Danielle's hair, blowing it across her face. She had to grab her red beanie to prevent it from flying off in the wind. The sky was growing darker; a storm was rolling in quickly.
She readjusted her beanie as a flock of geese flew overhead as they flew south for the oncoming winter. She took in another deep breath of the autumn air. "Ahh," she sighed. "My first Fall, it is a beautiful season." Then a gust of cold air made her shiver. She grabbed her arms and weathered the bitter cold. "Although this cold feeling really is quite different from the summer months," she added.
Then to add to the bitter cold making her shiver, her ghost sense went off, sending more shivers down her spine.
"A ghost?" she questioned, spinning around in the direction her ghost sense went, indicating the direction of the ghost. She went ghost only to find nothing behind her. "But, there's nothing here," she said in confusion. Then a thought hit her. "Perhaps it's just so cold I'm actually seeing my own breath," she figured.
Her ghost sense went off again, causing her to look up just as a dark ghostly figure came up out of the ground. It didn't have any particular form; it just appeared to be made of a mossy green gas.
"YAAAAH!" Dani screamed as she backed up and tripped over her own feet; landing on the ground in a heap as the gassy ghost loomed over her and snickered to itself evilly.
"Well, look who we have here?" the ghostly entity asked in a dark and sinister tone that sent chills deep into the girl's bones. "After my capture, it would appear that Vlad actually went through with his cloning experiments." The green gasses wafted around the girl as a pair of solid, crimson colored eyes examined the girl. "Although, not a perfect clone of Danny; but physically stable and with a mind capable of thinking for herself. A failed experiment," the green gas cloud ghost figured with a snort as its eyes squinted into slits.
Fear began to fill the ghost girl's eyes. "How do you know who I am?" she whispered. "And that Vlad cloned me from Danny?" she asked quietly.
"Let's just say, I'm a huge fan," the gaseous ghost snickered evilly as it took a more humanoid form but remained in gas form. "Of both Phantom and Vlad's research," it added.
"Who-who are you!?" Dani asked fearfully. She began to tremble as the ghost took on a more physical form.
Its final, physical form had snake-like skin, pointed ears and piercing red eyes. Its hair appeared to be white flames. It was quite muscular and appeared to be a very powerful ghost. It wore a black and white suit that closely resembled Danny's and even her own. He even had a cape that flowed with the wind. Dani gasped when she noticed the DP symbol on his chest.
"Your worst nightmare," the dark entity sneered with a wicked grin. The scene zoomed in on Dani's fear frozen expression before blacking out.