Hi! I'm sorry it took so long for the next chapter to be posted. I didn't want to write trash so I spent a lot of time on it. Hope you liked the cliffhanger!
Sophie: Of course they didn't.
Oh god, now I'm hallucinating. *flops head down on table* Well, I hope you enjoy the chapter and please review! Even if you hated it it's just tell me you hated it! *Sees people exiting her story* No, don't leave!...
Sophie: if you hadn't kept rambling they wouldn't have left.
Shut up. (not you, wonderful fans!...)
Sophie: Right…
(...*sigh*. Looks like I've reached the stage every fanfiction writer does: seeing their own characters talk to them. At least I'm not alone…)
Author's Note: In the first chapter I realize that I wrote that the coaster went 256 mph…I realize that that is impossible…please ignore my ignorance. I didn't revise it too closely…
Chapter 2
Riiing!
It was the end of the day at Casper High. Danny, who wasn't at all a model student every day, was even more distracted today because of that girl! Ever since he had seen her, he had spent every waking moment thinking about her: who she was, why she had been there, and where she had gone when she disappeared.
"So do you have any idea at all who this girl is?" Tucker asked.
Danny, who had already told Sam and Tucker about the weird happening last night, looked up at Tucker and said, "Yeah. I had never seen her before. And believe me her getup was way too fancy to be an ordinary costume.
"Maybe she was going to be a part in a play?" Sam asked without any real conviction.
"Yeah and maybe the Box Ghost is scary." Danny said dryly.
"You know I hadn't thought of this before but what if she was a ghost!" said Tucker enthusiastically.
Shaking his head Danny said "No I had thought about that but my ghost sense would have gone off if she had been one. Whoever she is she is most definitely human." He finished grimly. "And that just makes things all the weirder."
After a small pause in the conversation Sam said "Hey can you describe what she looked like again?"
"Uh, um…well she was like all fiery and had a black suit and uh, orangey eyes and some hair in a ponytail." He said.
Sam raised an eyebrow at his description but began to scribble furiously. When she was done she passed it to Danny and asked "Sort of like this?"
Looking at the doodle he frowned.
"No, the hair was more like this." He said while making a revision to the drawing.
"What's that, an eel?" asked Tucker as he craned his neck to stare quizzically at the remade drawing of the mystery girl.
"Here let me try!" he said as he took the paper from Danny.
After a period of two minutes he stopped and said proudly, "Done!"
Both Danny and Sam made a grab for it. Sam reached it first and looked at the paper, only to frown at it and asks, "Where's the head?"
Snatching it from her Danny looks at it and says "I think it's that thing lump that's right there. But why is she shooting laser beams from her eyes?" He asked as he stared at his friend in confusion.
"And is she spewing lightning bolts from her mouth?" said Sam disbelievingly.
Shrugging Tucker answered "I thought it looked cooler that way."
Giving her friend a withering glance Sam took back her paper and said "Well at least she's unusual enough so that we'll know who she is when we see her."
"Yeah…" said Danny getting a frown on his face again.
Seeing her friend brooding again, Sam said "Oh cheer up! She was probably just passing through the neighborhood. We probably won't see her again. And you can't do anything about her anyway. Also you'll just end up brooding for every waking moment and feel so miserable that you wish you could just drown yourself. So you know…cheer up!"
Laughing Danny said "Sam, not to offend you but that was one of the worst pep-talks I've ever gotten-eh but um," He stuttered as Sam glared at him, "It definitely wasn't the worst."
"Smooth." Tucker whispered to Danny as Sam continued to look displeased.
Danny was about to reply when he suddenly bumped into something-something with 6-pack abs.
"Hey Fentonio!"
"Oh no." groaned Danny. He looked up and found he had guessed right- it was Dash, a stereotypical blonde football player, who enjoyed bringing misery onto others, especially Danny.
"I'm not in the mood Dash." Sulked Danny as he attempted to push past the bigger boy and of course, not succeeding.
"Did you hear that boys?" Dash asked the other jocks. "He thinks he has a choice!" Laughing, he bent up double, but then quickly straightened up again. "You know, we could really use some football practice though…"
"Then leave! Go! Just be anywhere but here!" blurted Danny.
"…why don't we let Fentonail here join? It'll be beneficial for both of us." Finished Dash with a grin.
"Yeah! And he can be the most important part…the ball!" sniggered another jock.
Sam and Tucker tried to step in front of Danny, but got pushed back. They could only watch helplessly as the jocks slowly closed in on Danny.
Danny felt panicked. But mostly he was just angry. He couldn't even use his ghost powers here, when they could easily see him. He wondered, Why me? I didn't do anything wrong in my life... Um, unless you count the time when …oh why am I thinking about this right now!
"Time for your daily whaling Fenton!" Said Dash as he got ready to punch. Danny, preparing himself for the blow, put his arms up in an attempt to protect himself.
Suddenly a girl stepped out of the crowd that was rushing by. Nobody took notice of her. She was slight and had a skinny frame. Even if she had the muscle to do something, nobody expected her to. It was an unwritten rule to let the jocks do whatever they were doing to the poor soul who got chosen to be tormented that day and in return, they won't have to hurt anybody else-for the moment. Nobody had ever broken the rule before. It just wasn't done.
She stepped right in front of Dash and punched him.
The force of the punch was so strong that the surprised football player flew back several feet before falling to the ground with a heavy thud.
The silence was so thick, it felt palpable. Everybody stared in disbelief at the girl, who just smiled and said, "That was satisfying." Nobody spoke or moved a muscle.
Then utter chaos broke.
The jocks either ran as fast as they could away from the small girl who could beat up quarterbacks, or ran towards her. But they stopped in their tracks when she pinned an icy stare at them. They were as frozen and cold as a winter morning, but inside of them you could see an inferno blowing. She said in a colorless voice, "Leave.". Later, eyewitnesses said you could almost see imprints of the jocks in the air, as they ran as fast as their legs could carry them away from the strange girl. Tucker, Sam and Danny huddled together at on the wall to avoid being trampled by the football players. People in the hallway screamed as they too tried to avoid being stampeded by the oncoming football players. Then they also started to run out as fast as they could. In the process, people were jostled, feet stepped on, and backpacks swung to hit people in the face. Soon the hallway was empty except for Danny, Sam, Tucker and Dash (who was still unconscious) and of course, the girl. Then things got even weirder.
The sound of footsteps rang through the now empty hallways as two people ran towards them. Spinning around the girl tensed, only to relax again as she saw who it was.
"Hey! You guys found me!" She said with a grin.
"Sophie! I'm so glad we-"another girl stopped her gleeful reunion speech, when she saw Dash's still form on the ground. Groaning she said "Oh Sophie…can't we leave you for two minutes without you knocking someone out?" She said with the exasperation of one who had experienced the same scene often.
The boy who had been next to the other girl also exclaimed happily when he caught sight of "Sophie".
He didn't seem as surprised to see the prone form on the ground though. In fact, he actually grimaced in sympathy, as if he had been in the same situation himself, which, Danny concluded, wasn't unlikely with a friend like "Sophie". He went over to the jock and grunted as he dragged him into a sitting position, where someone could find him easily.
Meanwhile, the other girl brushed her brown hair out of her eyes to anxiously say to Sophie, "We'd better get out of here. You've already brought too much attention towards yourself. The sooner we leave the-"She stopped when she finally noticed Sam, Tucker, and Danny.
"Better?" Tucker finishes.
"I-I-um, we-uh-"Stammers the girl.
Everyone stiffens when they hear footsteps. And this time, it's teachers. They hear Mr. Lancer and some other teacher talking as they slowly draw closer to the group.
"There's no time to argue!" Hisses the boy, who pushes the two girls forward to snap them out of their fear-stricken frozen state. Really, he thought as he rolled his eyes. They're competent in all other times except now, when we're in real danger. Typical.
Thankfully this shocks everyone into action and, together, they all make a run for it. Bursting out of the front doors, they run as fast as they could away from the school.
When they deem that they are far enough not to be suspected of harming Dash, they stop and rest as they try and catch their breath. Sophie recovers first and looks around the area.
"No one's here." She said satisfactorily.
Everyone nods, still too winded to say anything. Walking towards an abandoned factory, she looks over her shoulders when nobody follows her. "Well come on!" she says impatiently. Somehow, they all manage to drag themselves into the run-down building, where they promptly flop down to gasp like fish. Looking worriedly at them, she starts searching for something in the junk piles that covers most of the floor.
She then seems to pull out of nowhere a bottle of water. Instead of drinking it herself, she offers it to the group. Surprised, Danny takes it without complaint and gratefully swallows the water. He then passes it on to the rest of the gang. As he sees her about to exit the door, he raises a hand and yells, "Wait!" Getting up he marches over to her and says in a firm voice, "You're not going anywhere until you tell us who you are and what you're doing in our town." He can't help but flinch as she turns her smoldering glare to him. He instinctively wants to run away from her but stood his ground: she owed them an explanation.
"We were just passing through." She says in a surprisingly calm voice, despite the fact that she was shaking with the effort of trying not to blow up on the spot.
"Yeah and I'm and I'm a large purple caterpillar that sings and dances." He retorted back. "Tell us the truth."
Eyes flashing she was about to tell him the truth about what she thought about him-when a soft voice whispered, "Sophie."
The brown-haired girl slowly rose to stand between Sophie and Danny and put a hand on the angry girl's shoulder. The effect was instantaneous. She blinked, as if she had just woken up from a dream, and relaxed.
"Sandra…" she started, as she came to her senses.
"You should be the one lying down right now you know." The other said with a smile.
With a smile of her own she said with a chuckled, "Not just yet." But to please her friend she did sit down next to the boy, who smiled cockily at her, and didn't stop when she shot him a glare. Instead he smiled all the harder. Rolling her eyes in defeat, she settled down with a sigh, only to sneakily push him over. Judging by the yelp that he let loose when he fell, he didn't expect it. Laughing uproariously, Sophie rocked back and forth, and stopped when she was pushed over as well. Soon it turned into a full scale brawl, with plenty of pushing and shoving.
Sam and Tucker stared. Then they yelped as they were unwillingly dragged into the fight. All four shouted and tussled as two tried to untangle themselves from the mess, and other half seemed only more determined to keep them in.
With a smile, the one known as Sandra, turned to Danny and said, "Isn't it just beautifully annoying?"
Although it sounded like a strange choice of words, Danny found that he felt himself agreeing. "Yes," he laughed, "it is."
I'm so glad that's done. I didn't make this a cliffy! I bet you're all excited about that right? *silence* How I love fanfiction… Ok but tell me if the story is too cheap! Or if you really liked it. Or if you're just plain out confused. Again please review! Please!...
