The next day was the same as the one before. Except Vlad and Rosalie didn't cause any scenes. The day went by very fast. They had their regular classes like science, math, history, and English. Then they had their other classes like art, health, and things like that. Then before Vlad knew it, school was over and everyone was leaving…except Rosalie. This was it. He would soon find out what she was, and she would know what he was. He sat at his desk trying to act as normal as possible. He heard the clicking of heeled boots coming over to his desk. He looked up to find Rosalie right in front of his desk.
"Ah, Rosalie. You said you needed help on your science?" he said.
"Yes, I guess that's what I said."
Vlad raised an eyebrow.
"Well then, go get your book."
She left to get her book and was back before he could even get his.
"Shut the door please." Vlad said glancing over at the door.
After Rosalie shut the door she grabbed a seat and sat down right next to Vlad.
"I uh…I have some questions for you first." He said.
"Alright, fire away."
"Ok, can you read people's minds?"
"Uh…" their eyes were locked.
Rosalie couldn't look away. There was some kind of reassurance in his piercing hypnotizing blue eyes that told her she should tell him the truth.
"I uh…yes, actually I can read people's minds. But only certain people." She remembered yesterday during history.
"Do you have super powers?"
Rosalie was taken back by his question. It was like he could see right through her.
"Uh, maybe. Do you?" she said nervously.
"You've no idea." Vlad flashed a seductive evil smirk.
"What are you?" Rosalie whispered in shock and fear, even though she already sort of knew the answer to that question.
"The real question is, what are you?"
That was it. Rosalie finally snapped.
"You wanna find out what I am? Then meet me later tonight around midnight on top of the tallest office building in town. In your other form."
Then she left.
"But, what about your science?"
Rosalie looked over her shoulder and gave him the same evil seductive smirk he gave her.
"Oh, don't worry. We have chemistry." She said. Then she left.
Vlad just sat at his desk. What did she mean by 'we have chemistry'? The science chapter they were learning was about weather, not chemistry. He ignored it though, and left the school to go back home to his humongous mansion. He needed to think before he left at midnight. He then realized something he hadn't realized before. Rosalie had read his mind. She did know that he was a half ghost. Vlad sat in a chair at a small table in his underground lab. What was he going to do if this girl was some kind of bounty hunter that wanted to kill him? If she was, then how was he going to be able to teach at her school with her there? So many things were running through his mind. Then a grandfather clock struck twelve. Vlad sighed and went ghost. His platinum hair turned jet black and was in a style that resembled horns with one thick white streak running down the middle, his ears became pointed with a small gold hoop in each one, his skin turned a light shade of blue, his eyes turned blood-red, he now had fangs, and his clothes turned into a white suit with black boots, black gloves, and a white cape that was red on the inside. He went intangible and flew through the wall and out of his mansion and into the night.
He was about half way to the tallest building when two big black birds that were obviously ghosts, started to mess with him. He got irritated and shot them with an ecto-blast. The birds started to mess with him even more. He didn't realize it, but they were leading him to the building he was supposed to be at. The birds landed on the building, as did Vlad. Then out of the shadows and darkness, someone with heeled boots on walked out. Vlad recognized it to be Rosalie. She looked the same as she did earlier. Her blonde hair was down and hung to the middle of her back, she wore the same white button up shirt and long tight jeans and her black leather biker-chick jacket. She suddenly snapped her fingers and the birds disappeared. She walked closer to Vlad with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Vlad Plasmius. I've heard of you before, but never got the pleasure of meeting you…until now." She said.
Vlad noticed that her eyes were dimly glowing and flashed red then back to blue.
"Yes, I'm Vlad Plasmius, half—"
"Ghost. I know. You're just like that one ghost-boy, Danny Phantom. Except you're the villain."
"I am not a villain." Vlad said through gritted teeth.
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "Whatever. That's what they all say." She said.
"You know what I am, now tell me what you are."
Rosalie smirked and backed up until she was right in front of the edge of the building. She stepped onto the very edge and held her arms out like she was an airplane.
"Wouldn't it be better if I just show you?"
Then she fell backwards off of the extremely high building. Vlad lurched forward to catch her, but it was too late. He could hear her laughing. To him it sounded sort of…evil. It echoed off the walls of the other buildings around them.
He leaned over the edge and watched Rosalie fall. Then just as she was about to hit the ground, she did a back flip and did something Vlad would've never imagined. Two black twin halo rings formed at her feet and her head. One moved up and the other moved down. Her hair changed from blonde to black and in the places that had been black before was now white; her hair was now in a messy bun with two black chopsticks in it that had red jewels on them. Her blue eyes turned red, she now had fangs, and her ears became pointed. Her clothes changed to a black long strapless dress that had splits on either side (left and right sides) that went up to the mid thigh with red trimming, the top part was like a corset except without strings, she had black fingerless gloves with red lace trimming, a belt that was basically a thick black string and had red gems that looked like broaches on it, a black hooded cloak that had red on the inside, and black knee-high heeled boots.
She flew back up to the building and landed on the very edge.
"Wanna take a wild guess at what I am?" she said with that same evil seductive smirk.
Vlad just stood there wide-eyed. "You're a h-half…a half ghost?!" he said.
He couldn't believe there were more than just him and Daniel in the world that were halfas.
"Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! You're correct! And guess what you're prize is!" she said sarcastically.
Vlad furrowed his eyebrows and just stood there. Then before he could do anything, he had been pinned down to the ground by Rosalie's heeled boot. His neck was in between the heel and the flat part of her boot. He noticed that both of her necklaces she was wearing were the same ones he had seen the day before and they were dimly glowing like her eyes. He struggled to get free of the boot, but Rosalie pulled out one of her chopsticks from her hair. Suddenly it became longer like a bow staff, and a sharp point came out of it. She held it to his neck, prepared to kill him at any minute. Vlad stopped moving and became very nervous. He gulped.
"They call me The Serene Thorn. But most people…or ghosts, I should say, just call me Serenity or Thorn. Take your pick." Rosalie said.
Vlad cleared his throat and weakly smiled. "Would you mind getting that thing away from my neck?" he pointed to the deathly bow staff.
"I'd rather not. Now, I have some questions for you."
"Fire away. Your questions! Not your, uh…deathly bow staff."
Thorn smirked. "Where is your ghost portal? I know you have one." She said.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Because I can't get to the Ghost Zone anymore. I used to be able to get to it with this," she looked at her bow staff, "But it's not working for some reason."
"Why should I tell you?"
"Because if you don't, I'll kill you."
"Then what? You will be the number one suspect in my murder, if you do kill me." Thorn moved the sharp point closer to his neck. "Just tell me." She said with anger.
"Fine. My portal is in my mansion."
"Where is your mansion?"
"I'm not going –"
"Yes you are!" she ever so slightly moved the point across his neck, causing a small cut to form and blood to ooze out of it.
"A-alright! Alright, I'll tell you! But you have to follow me to get there."
"Fine. No tricks, though."
"Done." Thorn took the bow staff away from his neck and took her heel away also.
She stood back as Vlad got up. He put his hand to his neck and wiped the blood away. He looked over at Thorn and saw that she still had the deathly bow staff's sharp point facing him.
"You can at least put the point away." He said.
She touched a red jewel on the top of it and the point disappeared.
"Follow me and don't leave my sight." Vlad said as he and Thorn flew off of the building.
Rosalie couldn't decide whether she liked Vlad better in his human form or in his ghost form. They both were very attractive. She made sure she flew right next to him the whole time. For some reason she felt very safe around him. She decided that she didn't need her bow staff any more and touched a red jewel on it. It went back to its original size and she put it back into her hair. She moved her bangs that were a mixture of long and short, out of her face. She looked over at Vlad who had a look on his face that said that he was thinking about something. She looked away from him and stared straight ahead. All of a sudden she had the urge to do something. But she held the urge for later.
Then when they were almost there, something flew past Thorn's head and into a tree. She looked up and saw that it was a gold dagger. She gasped and whirled around to see someone she didn't want to see.
