Chapter 3: Realization
Stephanie continued to stare at Danny with wonder. The face, the hair, the eyes…I recognize them from somewhere. I don't know where though, she thought.
Danny noticed how Stephanie gazed at him curiously through her beautiful blue eyes and he realized at once that she was hiding something from him. Just the way she looked at him told him that she had something that she was keeping from him. Just then, Danny gasped and a blue mist escaped from his mouth. He didn't even notice the purple mist that slithered from Stephanie's mouth.
"Uh…I need to go do my homework!" Danny exclaimed, sprinting off. Stephanie stood.
"And I need to…go to the bathroom!" Stephanie cried. She slipped on her sneakers and ran to the bathroom hurriedly, leaving Jazz and Maddie behind to wonder. Stephanie sighed with relief, and then began to concentrate. A purple ring appeared at her waist and separated from there. The ring that went up transformed her T-shirt into a black and silver belly shirt, her blonde hair into white, her blue eyes into a ghostly green, and her arms were covered over with silver elbow-long gloves. The ring that went down morphed her overall bottoms into black lab suit pants, her sneakers into silver boots, and a silver belt appeared at her hips. Stephanie grinned. "Oh, yeah. I'm ready for action…bring it on." She turned herself intangible and soared out of the roof.
Stephanie laughed happily with delight as the warm summer breeze tickled her face and played with her long white hair. It had been a long while since she last became her ghost half. Her parents never let her do it around them or in public and when something went wrong, she'd get in trouble. Then, Stephanie's powers were not in control. But now, after years of practice, she had mastered and equipped all different kinds of unusual, yet amazing ghost powers. At that moment, a disturbing thought entered her mind.
"What do you want from me?" Stephanie asked with fear alive in her voice. Her uncle laughed menacingly.
"Your powers. Without them, you can't stop me from forcing young Daniel Fenton to renounce his father and join me," he had responded. Stephanie had gotten frustrated with him.
"Who's Daniel? Do I know him?" she questioned. Her uncle nodded slowly. "From where?"
"Don't you remember those college reunions at all, my dear? You were best friends with Daniel, always sneaking into different rooms in my castle and causing havoc. I always got angry with you two troublemakers, but who would have thought that you two would become my worst enemies? That's another reason to take away your powers, dear Stephanie. So that you cannot become someone who can defeat me and get in my way!"
Stephanie was really angry at that point and her eyes had begun to glow a radiant green.
"Do you actually think I'd give up my powers for you? The person who murdered my parents? Forget it! I'm not as stupid as you thought, Uncle Vlad!" After that, she had fled from her uncle's castle to Amity Park…
Stephanie gasped in realization. Daniel Fenton…Danny Fenton…the boy she thought she knew! That's why she recognized him. They were best friends growing up and whenever Uncle Vlad invited their families to college reunions, she and Danny would go find something to destroy. Right now, Stephanie didn't regret the time Danny and she smashed Vlad's precious picture of his true love.
A cry distracted her from her thoughts and caught her attention instantly. Below her, a black-haired girl was being cornered by what Stephanie knew to be a ghost.
"Awesome! Just what I need!" Stephanie exclaimed with a small grin, becoming immensely excited for the upcoming battle. She swooped down gracefully, her heart and mind ready for action. She needed the practice anyway…
Another cliffy, but I'm tired and need to rest so I'll try to write the next chapter as soon as I can! Thanks for the reviews!
