Angel of Darkness

Chapter 4: Two in One

It was probably the worst day of school I ever had to deal with! First of all, everyone was probably in the best of best moods, which of course made me in the worst of worst moods; the reason for this was because Danny Phantom was at our school that day. Second of all, there were cameras in the school now. And third, we now had police patrolling the hallways. How long would this keep up!? Would this still have happened if I had killed Angela somewhere else? Anyway, it was annoying the hell out of me!

I kept my hands in my pockets to hide the fact that my hands were claws at the moment, I couldn't help it, with all the commotion I was on high alert. I had yet to see that Phantom, but I could feel his presence everywhere in the school. I just had to avoid where all the students were hanging out, because of course they were all gathered around their 'savior' and admiring him! It was disgusting that people could basically worship someone like him!

All Danny Phantom ever did was catch ghosts and put them in someplace called the Ghost Zone, I managed to find that information on my mom's computer. And people praised him for that? Okay, so the ghosts were making people miserable and they tried their best to become stronger. Am I the only one who finds this completely pointless? How are ghosts different from any of these humans? Humans are greedy, they want more and several of them make people miserable! It is natural for people to strive to do better, in other words, become stronger. So basically, Danny Phantom ruined the ghosts' lives! They are still human! He of all people should know that!

I'm the bad guy here, everyone thinks I'm the villain! However who was the one that decided to create hero and villain? They've been taught all their lives that villains do evil and destroy things; the heroes are the ones that save others and make things better. That's what these humans have been taught since they were young, they don't look outside of what they've been told. Can I really be considered the villain here? I'm trying to make this school better! Ever since those bitches were killed, the other 'popular girls' have stopped picking on others, they finally have to deal with the tragedy of losing a friend.

I've seen people that hated those now dead girls walk up to their friends and tell them that they are sorry for their loss. Sympathy has become a daily feeling these days, sympathy for the loss of a friend. Danny Phantom is trying to take this feeling away? I won't let him! I won't let him ruin all of my work!

It was later that day; I had excused myself from class to go to the restroom. With my hands still in my pockets, I walked down the hallway with my head down. It was completely silent there. My mind thought back to that night with Angela and I felt a slight smile creep up to my lips. My goal was to make this town better, and I sure loved doing it! Killing someone, feeling powerful gave the body a sort of thrill that it never experiences! Each time was more exciting, and I definitely wanted to do more!

A powerful force hit me; I inhaled deeply and brought my head up, immediately wishing that I hadn't. In front of me I saw the one man that I loathed with a burning passion, Danny Phantom. I bit my lip really hard; control yourself, I told myself. I clenched my hands, my nails dug into my palm, causing blood to ooze out.

He looked down at me, tilting his head just slightly, almost as though he were confused. His hair was white and messy, just like I had seen it in my mother's photo album. Those piercing green eyes bore into my own like knives. He was very well built; I had assumed this much considering that he fought for a living. In my mother's pictures though, he was quite scrawny, now he had rock hard muscles showing from his black and white outfit. The Danny Phantom outfit, exactly the same colour and everything as it was when he was a kid.

"Hey." Danny gave a light wave to me in greeting.

Does he not know who I am? I don't think so, he seems too casual, but he doesn't know what his own daughter looks like!? "…um…hi?"

There were two police officers a few feet behind him, I had only just noticed, I was too focused on the person before me. Which made things somewhat worse; I couldn't really start yelling at him with those cops there! The cops can't get involved.

"I just wanted to ask you a few questions, you understand right?"

I nodded, "but…I was already questioned by the police earlier." Does he notice something about me? Is he onto me? If that's the case, I would have no choice but to kill the cop witnesses! I would really hate to, but if necessary I will.

"Yes, but some new things have come up. I'm sorry." He narrowed his eyes at me slightly before continuing, "Has your school had any ghost problems in the past?"

Why was he narrowing his eyes at me? Oh, I do look a lot like my mom, maybe he is thinking about that. Hopefully that's the case. "What do you mean by ghost problems?" What should I say? I mean, other than the occasional ghost flying around not really. But should I lie? Would that make me suspicious? I have to make this convincing. "Well, it's not like we've been attacked by any ghosts, that I know of at least. So if that's what you mean, that no our school hasn't had any problems."

"I see."

"Why do you ask?"

"It's confidential."

I narrowed my eyes, a normal person wouldn't just accept that answer right? "D-don't we have a right to know!? People are being killed! If you know something, we should know too!" I forced my voice to hitch a few times, sounding like I was panicking a bit. "Did a ghost kill them!? Is it going to kill everyone here!?"

"Hey, hey, it's okay." Danny silenced me calmly, "don't worry, I won't let anyone else be killed. I really wish I could tell you more, but nothing has been confirmed yet."

"How do you know that you'll be able to catch them?" I had to bite my tongue; I almost said 'How do you know that you'll be able to catch me?' That would've been a horrible slip of words!

"I will, I promise." He smiled confidently at me.

We'll see about that! I thought to myself. But I nodded at him with a forced smile, it seemed like this conversation was over so I started walking again, going around my father and past the police officers. Damn it! I need to cool my head off. Instead of going to the restroom, I walked out of the school and broke into a sprint. I knew that the cameras would catch me leaving, but I really couldn't care less. I thought about going into the restroom and transforming before flying out of there, but if the cameras never saw me come out of the bathroom…that would be a bit odd.

I ran the whole way, not stopping to rest at all. I forced my legs to keep going, feeling my muscles cramp up; my lungs hurt my ribs from me breathing so hard. Sweat began to drip and fly off of my face. Damn it! I hate that stupid man! Stupid father! Stupid hero! He caused nothing but trouble for my mother and me! How can he act so happy! Why hadn't he come to visit mom? Some father he was! I gathered a mouthful of saliva in my mouth and spit it out on the sidewalk, wishing that I could spit it at Danny Phantom! I hated him!

So caught up in my thoughts and feelings, I didn't notice that I pushed my body past its limit until I reached the door to our apartment. I paused for a moment, heaving in and out, bending forward and placing my hands on my knees. "Shit." I gasped, wiping sweat from my face with the back of my sleeve. All the running somehow made me feel better. I should go run more often, I told myself.

After a minute of resting there, I stood up straight and opened the door to the apartment. "Hey mom, you here?" I didn't know if she was at work or not. She worked part time at a store down the street, she really didn't have to though; the money that her parents gave her was more than enough! I could feel a presence, "Mom!? I'm here…oh!" I stopped. I had started walking to the living room expecting to see my mom but instead I saw that woman from the other day. "It's you."

"Hi, sorry, your mom went down to the store to buy some food. She should be back any minute." The woman, her name was Danielle, said to me.

"Oh, okay."

"Soooo," she sat back in her chair, it seemed as though she had just been sitting there doing nothing, "what are you doing out of school? It's not over yet, is it?"

"Um…" I looked at the ground.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to call them." She laughed. She had a nice laugh, gentle and soft. But I still had this weird feeling about her… "I couldn't care less about school. That's probably not something an adult should say, right?"

"Probably not. But things got a little tense there. With all the police and cameras…and Danny Phantom…I just wanted to get out of there."

"I get it, I totally know what that's like. Sometimes there are some situations that are just uncomfortable, right?" She laughed before continuing, "and yes, I can imagine that having Danny there would make things a little crazy. He is sort of a celebrity…in a weird way…"

I nodded. "So…how do you know my mom?"

"Oh, I've been friends with her for years. We've been catching up lately; we haven't seen each other in a little while. She's talked a lot about you," I blushed slightly at that. "She definitely loves having you around."

"I love having her around too." I smiled. I opened my mouth to speak again but the front door opened at that moment.

"Sorry that took me a while!" My mom called into the place, "there was a huge line!" She came into the kitchen with a few bags of food, "Trin'! What are you doing here? School's not over yet!"

"Sorry mom," I quickly apologized, "I just needed a breather."

Danielle cut in, "don't worry, Sam, we've been having a great time talking! You're daughter is very nice."

At that statement I looked down at the ground, I was nice? I didn't often have someone tell me that. What was it that I did to make her say I was nice? I will never quite understand humans emotions… they're so confusing.

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The next week was when I made my next strike! Things had calmed down just a bit over the past week, and I knew that I couldn't wait too long. It was two in the morning, it might've been a school night and I knew I wouldn't get any sleep, but this was totally worth it! It wasn't the perfect night, but it was a calm night with a slight breeze, there were a few clouds covering the moon a bit, giving it a darker feel that I liked.

Jennifer, a seventeen year old blond, another girl that I've hated for years, even in middle school she acted like she was the best! She always caused trouble, I had followed her and this was so easy! She was on her way to meet her boyfriend when I cornered her in an alley. I had heard about this power and was eager to try it out.

I jumped toward her, but rather than crashing into her my body seemed to melt inside of her own. There was a struggle between our minds, she fought and fought to keep me out but after a few moments I gained control. It was an odd feeling to take over someone else's body.

Jennifer's body had tears running down her face, I couldn't do anything about that. Even though I was in control there was no doubt that she was still there somewhere, still fighting against me. I raised our hand up in front of our face, and using my powers I managed to release my talons through her body, putting our hand up to our neck. "How would it feel…" Jennifer's mouth moved, but my voice still came out, "…to be killed by your own hand?"

"Please stop." Jennifer begged me, "I-I don't know what you want! But please! Just leave me alone!"

"You didn't answer my question." I put our index finger right against our throat's skin, poking just hard enough to draw blood, "what would it be like?" I whispered with a small hissing tone. "What are you thinking of, Jennifer? Your family? Your friends?"

Our body was trembling with fear, "It…would be terrible!" She wailed. "Get out of my body!"

I smirked, pulling our hand back, "fight against me then, if you really want your body back, show me that you want it!"

"I-I can't!"

"You're pathetic, your other friends would've made an effort in this position. Angela had a strong will, she was just too physically weak. Are you weak too?"

"Leave me alone!"

I laughed before pulling myself away from Jennifer's body, she immediately fell over and I stood over her. So weak, I thought, they're all so weak. My foot swung forward, kicking Jennifer in the ribs, a small shiver of excitement ran up my spine at the disgusting crack, at her glass shattering scream. It was so nice. I opened my mouth into a wide grin, showing off my fangs before lunging forward, grabbing her shoulders and throwing her up against the wall.

While keeping her pinned there, I lowered my face down to her neck, resting my lips over the skin like a soft kiss. I could smell her lavender perfume, and the flower scented shampoo on her hair, mixed in with the sweat that dripped down her face from running away from me. She shuttered beneath me, I let my tongue dance across her skin just before I dug my teeth into her flesh. I don't suck blood like vampires, but I did love to get a taste of that blood.

Jennifer went pale with horror, not moving at all. While my face lingered at her neck, I used my hand to grab her ankle; with a quick flick of my wrist I shattered the bone. "You're not going anywhere." I assured her.

I bit her neck once more, this time grabbing as much flesh as I could with my teeth and while they were still clenched together I pulled away, tearing a good chunk of her out. The artery was obviously touched by my teeth; it was only a matter of seconds before her shoulder and arm were dripping with blood on the side of the neck I tore open. "You won't last long." I chuckled.

I didn't see it coming, I should've been a bit more observant of my surroundings, but I was thinking too much about Jennifer at the time. I suddenly hissed with pain when I felt something hit my back like a hot frying pan. With my extremely exposed skin, it only made things worse. As I've always had, I only wore a short skirt an odd shirt that seemed more like just a bra considering that it only covered my breasts and wrapped around my back to hold it there, then of course I had my long boots that came up almost to my knees. My back, stomach and thighs were completely bare.

I twisted around, snarling angrily. "Who's there!?" I barked. Was it Danny Phantom? That would definitely make things difficult for me; it was definitely ghost powers that hit me! I know that for sure, a human weapon wouldn't be able to hurt me like that. Plus, if it was a human I most likely would've heard their breathing or footsteps, so they were obviously floating.

"To think," a female voice spoke from the darkness, "that it was a young girl behind all of this! Disgusting!"

"Are you going to hide from me or are you going to get your ass down here and fight!" I chuckled. Who was this? Their voice sounded a bit familiar.

I focused on my hearing, figuring out where her voice came from. She had to be using invisibility, but she can't stay like that forever, I said to myself.

"Why are you doing this!?" The woman demanded to know.

Gotcha. I reached my hand out up toward the sky just a bit to the left and fired a bright red ball of ectoenergy at her. I knew that I hit my target when I heard a scream of pain, I quickly flew up to where she was still floating but she was also recovering from my hit. I went up above her and with a wide swing I kicked her out of the air, she plummeted down with a cry and struck the cement below. I followed after her; seeing that she was on the ground I landed beside her, my hands glowing threateningly. "You can't beat me in a fight of powers."

The woman's invisibility dropped, revealing herself. I gasped. She was Danny Phantom! No, wait, she was just dressed like him? What!? She had an outfit nearly identical to Danny Phantom, she had the phantom symbol, hell she even had white hair! "Who are you?" I asked.

"I should be asking you that." The woman threw herself up into the air, a good distance away from me where she charged her hands with green ectoenergy.

"What's with the Phantom get-up?"

Rather than answer, the woman launched herself at me, releasing a battle cry. I narrowed my eyes, watching closely at her attack. She was strong, that was for sure, but she was reckless, I concluded. She attacks and doesn't even know my own powers; she's either an idiot or she's very confident. I raised my arm, blocking her attempted punch, I grunted from the blow. While she was punching, I was too slow in seeing her leg fly at me.

I moved out of the way just barely, she still hit me in the hip, it hurt but it wasn't too bad. What the hell!? I twisted around, raising my arms just in time to block an attack from above by the same woman! I looked out of the corner of my eye; she was in two places at once? Duplication? Only very powerful ghosts can do that move, I was impressed.

I assumed that I could teach myself to duplicate, but I hadn't given it much thought before, I didn't really have to ever use it against humans. But now is when I regret not learning how. "Shit!" I snarled when a third woman attacked from my side. Before I knew it, I was pinned against the wall.

"Not as tough as you claim you are, I see." The woman taunted me.

I chuckled, "I'm not even getting serious yet!" It was sort of true, I hadn't gone all-out quite yet, I had been hiding my ectoenergy deep inside me so that it was harder for ghosts to detect me, such as Danny Phantom. Now was the perfect time to release that built-up energy. I reached deep inside of me, focusing on my stored energy and pulled it out, letting the warm feeling flow through my limbs, I had a quick head rush from it.

The two duplicates that were holding me disintegrated from sight. I roared, letting the feeling settle in my bones before looking at my opponent. "Die." My muscles twitched, my blood pulsed, my pupils dilated with complete power. I brought my hand up and slashed the air before me, creating a strip of red energy to appear in the air and fly forward at the Phantom woman.

Her eyes widened with horror and I watched as my attack struck, throwing her backwards against the wall, a moment later she dropped to the ground, I wouldn't let her have a chance to get up! I rocketed downward, bringing my fists in front of me and running them into her while flying at two hundred miles per hour! Even a ghost would find that painful!

She coughed and gagged from my blow to the stomach, I quickly jumped back up. Snarling and growling like a wild animal I sat on top of her, resting on her lower belly with my knees on either side of her. Extending my claws to their sharpest points I brought them down repeatedly, slicing again and again, blindly cutting her wherever I could! All the destructive energy I pulled out needed to be used, it wanted more blood!

Her clothes were in shreds; there was more green blood on her chest than there was skin! I stood up, picking her up by the neck. "Will you answer me now?" I chuckled, "who are you?" Her eyes were barely open, and of course I had to make sure that my victims saw the true me! A black ring formed around me, splitting in two and trailing up and down my body, turning me back into my human form.

The woman coughed another few drops of ectoplasm. A ring appeared around her waist, and began to work its way up and down her body. I watched with wide eyes as the woman that resembled Danny Phantom suddenly turned into my mother's friend, Danielle.

This was…impossible! I stood there for a good several minutes, this couldn't possibly be happening! How the hell was this woman my mom's friend!? Why did she even look like Danny Phantom? Was she half ghost? She had to be! There are more half ghosts than just my father and me? I growled deep in my throat, "You!?" I may be in my human form, but that didn't change my strength or my power!

I hadn't really planned on actually killing her, but at this point if I let her live, even if she's barely conscious, I showed her my human half! I couldn't let her reveal my secret! "Damn you! I don't know what the hell is going on here!" This is ridiculous! I decided that I needed some answers! I would definitely have to ask my mother some more about Danny Phantom, and about her friend!

"I knew something was off about you, but I never would've expected this." I said to Danielle, "goodbye, Phantom." I lifted her up a bit higher, pulling her toward me before slamming her into the nearby wall with as much force as I could. I heard the sick sound as her head hit the building wall, her head gaping open in the back, blood began to soak the back of her shirt and her black hair. I let go of her body, letting her fall to the ground with a thud.

Before I flew away, I glanced over at Jennifer. She was long gone. Damn it, I was hoping to watch her death! Stupid Danielle, you just had to interrupt! I leaped into the air, leaving the two of them in that alley and flying home for a few hours of sleep before school.

A/N: Okay I know that it's part of the story, but I really hate insulting Danny! Seriously! He's a great guy, I love what he does! But in order to keep Trinity in character I have to insult him, just know that it pains me to do so. =(

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