Disclaimer: If I was the owner of Danny Phantom, I would've created Paulina just for the joy of killing her (I do not like Paulina at all if you cannot already tell). Paulina is still alive, therefore I am not, I repeat, not the owner of Danny Phantom. Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman.


"Ha! I win again, sister!" Colle said triumphantly. She was playing a game of chess with her little sister and won five out of five rounds. Her sister playfully glared at her.

"Only because I let you!"

"That's what you said the last four times!"

"No—" Her sister was cut off when their mother entered the room. Her face had a calm expression, but it didn't fool Colle—her eyes told a different story.

"Ok, girls," Her mother said with a small smile. "Time for bed."

"But it's only seven." Colle pointed out, tilting her head to the side. "Bedtime's not till—"

"Don't—argue—with—me." Her mother's composure shattered like a window that was hit by a baseball. "You have to hide—now. A bad person is trying to find out family. I want you two to go to your room, lock the door, go into the bathroom, lock that door, put your hide and seek skills to the test and hide under the sink. Go!" Colle and her sister dashed off.

"Colle, wait. I want you to have something." Her mother pulled something out of her purse as Colle turned back to her. She gave it to the nine-year-old child. Upon inspection, Colle saw that it was a family photo that they had snapped just a couple of months ago.

"Now, go. Hide with your sister." Colle ran off, putting the picture in her pocket. She locked the bedroom and bathroom doors and hid under the sink with her sister. After a while, there was a commotion downstairs.

"That's a lot of noise down there." Colle said, "Let's go make sure Mom and Dad are okay."

"Are you sure about this?"

"Of course," Colle reassured her, giving a small smile. "And if there's something bad down there, I'll protect you. I promise." Colle climbed out from under the sink, her sister following. They went downstairs. Even with the lights off, Colle could tell everything was trashed. The T.V was cracked and broken; there were scorch marks all over the walls. Then Colle saw Mom and Dad. They were pinned to the wall with glowing purple handcuffs.

"Mom! Dad!" Colle's sister cried out, running towards them.

"Wait!" It was too late. Glowing handcuffs pinned her to the wall alongside Mom and Dad.

"Ah, dear Nicole." A voice said behind her. Colle spun around on her heel. She couldn't see the intruder's face, but she could see glowing red eyes in the darkness.

"Who are you?" She demanded in the bravest voice a scared nine-year-old girl could muster.

"I'm deeply sorry, young Nicole, but that is a question for another time." The mysterious stranger gently said. "Now, come with me. I've come to take you back home."

"What are you talking about? This is my home! And I'm not leaving my family!" The eyes flashed menacingly as she spoke.

"Then maybe you will come if you have no family." A hand rose in the darkness, and purple electric energy came out of it, heading straight for Colle's family.

"No!" Colle bolted into an upright position. Sweat beaded her forehead, her breathing was uneven and came in gasps, and her heart was pounding in her chest. She stared around as her heartrate slowed, finding herself in the alleyway in Amity Park that she deemed as her home, laying on her cloak as if it were a bed. Colle realized that her stomach was growling in hunger. She hadn't eaten in a few days. She could see the first few streaks of light in the sky that signaled the approach of dawn. Colle stood up, put on her cloak after shaking it off, and walked down the backstreets. She'd found a fruit and vegetable stand just yesterday. Maybe she could smuggle something. A bright yellow ring appeared at Colle's waist and split in two, one going up her body and the other going down. Her blonde hair turned pitch-black and her normally blue eyes now glowed scarlet. The homeless orphan named Colle Spencer was no longer there, but in her place stood a ghost—and her name is Colle Specter.


It was Saturday. Danny and his friends were in his room, trying to find information on the ghost girl Danny keeps encountering on the computer. Not very easy when you don't know her name or where she originated from.

"Dude, why don't you just try to hang out with her more and find out that way?"

"No," Sam replied sharply before Danny could say anything. "She's dangerous. From what Danny said about her electric powers, she's at least as powerful as him when he's in ghost form."

"Actually, she seemed pretty friendly towards me," Danny told Sam, spinning the chair around to face his friends. "She seems to only attack if I attack first, or if she thinks I pose a threat, like that first time I met her. The second time, she only zapped me because I was 'staring at her for two minutes'." Then Danny remembered the conversation that had happened on Thursday, two nights ago.

I am not a person…

I am not a ghost, either…

They were simple sentences, but what they meant was nearly impossible to figure out. Why had the cloaked 'ghost' girl said that? If she was neither human nor ghost, what could she be? A demon? A witch? A vampire or werewolf? Most people deemed these things as nonexistent, but ghosts were considered nonexistent as well until Danny's dad built the Fenton Portal. Does that mean all those other things are real, as well?

"… Earth to Danny. Come in, Danny." Tucker's voice jolted Danny from his thoughts.

"Huh? What?"

"You've been having a staring contest with the wall." Sam told him. "The wall won." She added with a bit of sarcasm.

"Uh, sorry, guys. It's just…" Danny hesitated. He hadn't told his friends of what the ghost girl had told him before she disappeared. "Well, the ghost girl, last time I saw her, she said something to me."

"Which is?" Sam tapped her foot impatiently.

"She told me that she was not a person or a ghost."

"Well, she must have been lying, then." Sam concluded. "She's obviously not human, so she must be a ghost."

"That's not what she—"

"Danny, do you believe a ghost over me?"

"Um, guys?" Tucker tried to interfere. "Let's just drop—"

"Zip it, Tucker!" Sam snapped before turning back to Danny. The look on her face reminded Danny of the time Sam had 'gone dragon' when she found out that Paulina just wanted to take him away from Sam. Danny must have had an alarmed look on his face because Sam seemed to cool off.

"I'm sorry, Danny." She apologized sincerely. "I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but I just don't want you to throw yourself into danger. You are only half-ghost—she could still kill you."

"It's okay, Sam." Danny said before puffing out his chest in an arrogant manner. "Remember? I'm the Savior of the Ghost Zone. I can handle myself." Sam sighed in defeat.

"Are you sure about this?"

"Of course," Danny reassured. "And if she turns out to be an evil ghost, I'll protect you. I promise."

"So you'll protect Sam but not me?" Tucker made them both jump. Danny had forgotten he was there.

"I'll protect you both."

"Danny!" The voice of Danny's mother sounded from downstairs. "I need you to go to that vegetable stand two blocks from her and get some carrots and potatoes for the soup I'm cooking for dinner later!"

"Ok, mom." Danny said with an annoyed groan. He changed into Phantom.

"It'll only take me about five minutes." He told his friends before flying off. Two blocks later, he switched back into his human form in an alleyway. He made his way over to the stand and picked out a few carrots and potatoes and paid for them. Right when he was going to walk away, he saw movement. He saw a girl with blonde hair at the end of the alleyway he was just in, huddling in the corner where a dumpster was perpendicular with the wall of a building. She was wearing a very old-looking black cloak, and her jeans were threadbare. She looked half-starved. Danny's 'hero instincts' kicked in.

"Can I have an apple, as well?"

"Sure thing." The vendor replied, putting an apple in the bag Danny had before Danny paid for it. He looked back at the alleyway. The girl was still there. He started to approach, "Hello? You okay?" Danny called. The girl looked at him, recoiling like a snake that was getting ready to strike.

"I'm as 'okay' as I can get when I'm starving and homeless." She hissed.

"Then here." Danny pulled out the apple when he was within arm's reach of the girl. "When I saw you, I bought this. You look like you need it."

"What'd you do to it? Poison it?"

"Well, one, I don't have any poison on me at the moment, and two, I just bought this about a minute ago." Danny pointed out. "If it's poisoned, it's not because of me. Take it." The girl slowly and unsurely took the apple out of Danny's outstretched hand. She seemed to inspect it before taking a small bite out of it. She looked back up at Danny.

"Thanks."

"No problem." As Danny walked away, he could feel the girl's blue eyes following him until he was out of sight. Making sure he was alone, Danny transformed behind a dumpster and flew off towards home. Later, at dinner, his mom made some soup that was so acidic it burned a hole through the bowl it was in.


Danny was on patrol as Phantom, flying above the city. Though he was alert for all ghosts, he was extra watchful for the ghost girl. Then, there was an explosion so loud that a deaf person could have heard it. Phantom went off course.

"Hey, guys, did you hear that?" He said through the Fenton Phones he had on.

"Dude, how could we not?" Tucker replied.

"I feel sorry for the people who might've been near it." Sam said.

"I'm going to check it out." Phantom told them. It came from the direction of the park. What he saw had his jaw drop.

"If I can't have Danny Phantom, I'll just take you as a trophy."

"You're messing with the wrong girl!" The ghost girl was in the middle of a fight with Skulker. She powered up an electrified ecto-energy ball and threw it at Skulker. Said electric ecto-energy ball hit Skulker in the chest. Skulker's metal battle suit conducted the electricity and electrocuting him greatly, weakening him.

"And it's really not nice to imprison others." The blue-skinned ghost girl said with a glare. "Goodbye." She kicked Skulker in the face. Phantom stayed silent for a moment.

"I'm going to file you under 'do not mess with'." The ghost girl spun around to face him, putting up a defensive stance. Once she realized who it was, she lowered her defenses.

"Oh, it's you." She let out a breath. "You're Danny Phantom, right? That mechanical ghost was talking about a ghost boy he couldn't ever catch, and the only one I could think of was you."

"Yeah, I'm Danny Phantom." He clarified. "The 'debatable' ghostly hero of Amity Park."

"I'm aware that I haven't told you my name yet." the girl said to him. "My name is Colle Specter, the 'living circuit'."

"Living circuit?"

"Yeah," Colle said with a nod and a smile, revealing sharp, vampire-like fangs. "Think of my electric core as the battery, my veins as wires, and my powers as the lightbulb."

"Ghosts don't have veins."

"Most ghosts." Colle argued with Phantom. "I have ectoplasmic vein-like structures that conduct the electricity like metal wires from my core to the rest of me and vice versa like a complete circuit."

"You sure are smart when it comes to electricity."

"I have to be, or I wouldn't be as powerful as I am." Just as Colle finished, Phantom saw Skulker trying to stand up.

"Skulker, didn't I just put you in the Ghost Zone just a couple of days ago?" He got out the Fenton Thermos. Even though Phantom had no intention of capturing Colle, he could still see the red-eyed ghost stiffen. Skulker didn't have time to do anything before he was sucked into the thermos.

"Thanks?" It came out as more of a question than a statement of gratitude.

"You're welcome." Phantom looked at his watch. "It's time for me to go. I don't want to stay out past curfew. My parents will kill me."

"You're already dead." Phantom realized his mistake.

"Oh, um… well, my parents definitely won't be happy." He corrected. "Bye, Colle." He flew off rather quickly, trying to get back to his house before he forgot any of the information Colle gave him. Maybe his dad would know about ghosts with electric powers. He is a ghost-hunter, after all. Phantom also needed to add Colle and the information he knew about her to the ghost files. He got to his house in a record time of thirty seconds.


Colle's only thoughts all day were the black-haired boy and Danny Phantom. They seemed to have a lot in common with each other. In fact, Colle couldn't find anything different between the two, apart from different eye and hair color and the way they dressed. It was rather peculiar how Phantom had just flown off like he did. If Colle didn't know any better, she'd say that he didn't want to be around her, just like everyone else on the planet. She walked down the alley crestfallenly with similar thoughts running through her head. She got to her 'home' behind one of the dumpsters and took off her cloak, laying it down on the ground like a pallet. She reluctantly laid down on it, dreading the nightmares that were sure to come.

"What are you talking about? This is my home! And I'm not leaving my family!"

"Then maybe you will come if you have no family." A hand rose in the unlit room, and purple electricity crackled as it headed in the direction of her family.

"No!" Colle cried out as bloodcurdling screams, earsplitting and agonizing, filled the room. She tried to run towards them, but the stranger grabbed the back of Colle's shirt while still electrocuting her family.

"Stop! Don't hurt them!" Tears rolled down Colle's cheeks as she sobbed.

"You have to be strong enough to let them go, my dear. Forget them. You have a power that only three people in the whole world have, not including yourself. If you come with me, you can use this power to your advantage."

"I'm never going!" Colle struggled harder against the man's grip. He put more volts into the purple electricity. Colle could see the pain in her parents' eyes subside, and they stopped moving. Colle's sister was all that was left. The expression on her face pained her—but Colle's heart shattered into a million pieces when the look in her sister's dying eyes told her everything she was thinking.

'You promised me…'


It took me two weeks to figure out a good last name and backstory for Colle when I first thought of this story. Anyway, we get a little bit more of Colle's history in chapter through some nightmares that Colle experiences. Interesting...

Fun Fact: I had originally made Colle full-ghost. It took me a week after creating her ghost last name to realize 'Specter' sounded very much like the last name of a kid at school, 'Spencer', and about twenty ideas popped into my head at the time. With this observation in mind, I decided to make Colle a halfa.