Chapter 4

(dannys pov)

She was beautiful, more beautiful then I remembered. Her hair was longer and straighter. You could tell three years had past since I last saw her because, well, her body was more girlish, if you catch my drift. But her big eyes were the same, they were the big brown ones that looked at me as she fell. I just stared into them, thinking I was seeing a ghost, which would be a normal day for me.

"Ashley?" I asked again.

"Oh, I um.." she mumbled as if she was debating about whether or not to tell me something. "Its complicated. What about you? Or should I say what are you?" Now it was confession time, she saw me change, there was no way to hide it but at the same time, I wanted to tell her, maybe if I trusted her, she would trust me and tell me whatever she was hiding that allowed her to kick Skulkers butt and survive a 1,000 foot drop.

"There was accident, in the lab. I'm half ghost." I said calmly as possible. I expected her to look at me with disgust, but she didn't. She looked calm, like she delt with this type of stuff everyday.

"Cool." She said. Now I had to ask.

"What are you doing here?" she took a deep breath.

"It's a long story." Suddenly the ground began to shake and Plasmius, yes Plasmius the halfa I had thought I left floating in space, appeared in the window. He swooped in and grabbed Ashley.

"I'll take that."

"Get away from her!" I screamed, I had lost Sam, Tucker, and Ashley once, I wasn't going to let it happen again. I transformed into my alter ego Danny Phantom and flew after them.

Chapter 4

(Ashley pov)

That jerk Vlad swooped in and grabbed me.

"Let me go!" I screamed. I tried to grab him but I went through his hand. How could I touch these ghosts? I knew that once I could touch them my slayer strength to kick his butt. The ghost took me back to his mansion, I was hoping to find Bill there but no luck.

"I will give you one last chance girl! Blood for the man. That't the offer."

"Forget it!" I shouted "I don't know what you want my blood for but it cant be good."

Vlad grabbed me by the throat and lifted me up, choking me.

"Fine! Then I'll just take it the old fashion way. By killing you!"

"I told you to get AWAY!" Danny came flying through the window knocking Plasimus into the wall as he dropped me. I took a deep breath trying to regain the air I'd lost. Suddenly I felt hands around my waist. I looked and found Danny putting some sort of belt around me.

"This is the specter deflector." He said "It will protect you." By this time Plasmius was up and zapped Danny with a pink ecto blast. Danny hit the wall and with a touch of a button Plasmius activated some sort of holding device that strapped heavy metal bands against Danny's wrists and ankles pinning him to the wall. He tried to go intangible but when he did the bands shocked him. They shocked him for a good two minutes until he finally was so exhausted that he changed back into his human self. Now I knew I had to help him. Maybe this strange belt could let me touch ghosts. It was a crazy idea but if it would protect me from them then maybe it's shield generating power could be used as a sort of offense instead of just defense. I was the slayer, it was worth a shot. I turned the belt on and raced over to Plasmius.

"Ayy ya!" I kicked the remote out of his hand. It worked! I could touch him. he tried to blast me but I ducked, then I slide on the floor and jabbed him in the ankle with my high heeled boot.

"OW!"

"Ashley!" Danny cried, still bound to the wall. "Stop it! You don't know what he's capable of!"

"You don't know what I'm capable of Fenton!" I shouted back in between punches with Vlad. He was using the same rough fighting style that the man who attacked me in the alley tried to use. Obviously he was used to his battle being farther apart. So I did what I do best. I kicked him bellow the belt and as he went down I grabbed his pointy hair and jabbed him in the face with my knee. He was lying face down now crying in pain. I thought I'd won but he shot up, now floating in mid air but obviously weakened.

"You little brat! All I wanted was your blood, your DNA, but now you'll never get your friend back! He's lost. I threw him into the ghost zone and you'll never find him again."

I growled at him.

"You'll never win Plasmius!" Danny shouted from the wall "You'll never get my blood."

"Why Daniel, whatever made you think I wanted your blood." And with that he disappeared before my eyes.

I ran to Danny and unhooked him. He was still weak and as the binders released he stumbled into my arms. I set him down on the ground, his head in my lap.

"Are you okay?" I asked. He tried to sit up but failed.

"Yeah," he finally managed to say "Ghosts heal faster than humans, I'll be okay in a few minutes, just let me regain my strength." I sort of patted his head.

"Ashley," Danny said after a few minutes.

"Yeah?"

"What are you?"

"What do you mean?"

"You surviving the drop, and then kicking Vlad's butt. Him wanting your blood not mine, what gives? Your not normal, no offense but your not. And who's the friend he's got?"

"Your right, I'm not normal. I survived that fall because a vampire named Angel caught me. He told me I was a vampire slayer. A girl chosen to protect the human race from the forces of darkness, a job you stole from us. They sent me to live with Bill, a friend of my parents, he raised me and I owe him everything. He's the one Vlad's got and I have to find him!"

"I'll help you."

"Danny," I began to protest.

"No!" he said sitting up now "I had no friends and no reason to fight anymore, but now you come along, a person I believed dead, with a mystery and a chance for me to feel like a hero again. I kind of need that right now."

"What do you mean no friends? What happened to Sam and Tucker?" Danny looked down at the ground.

"Sam's dead, Tucker barely talks to me anymore." I touched his shoulder.

"I'm sorry."

"Stay with me. I'll help you find Bill and you can stay at my house."

"I don't know Danny."

"Vlad said he's in the ghost zone, I'm a ghost. Face it you need me."

"She does." Said a voice behind me. I turned and nearly fainted at the sight of the handsome, vampire standing behind us.

"Angel." I breathed. I ran to hug him. "What are you doing here?"

"I brought you something." He said and gestured behind him. a girl maybe a year or two older than me stepped out from behind him. she had long red hair and she was smiling. I recognized her immediately but Danny said it first.

"Jazz?"

"Hello Danny." She said. I remembered Jazz, Danny's older sister, the brainy know-it-all who always seemed like she couldn't care less about ghosts or magic but I stood corrected.

"She's your watcher." Said Angel

"No! I told you I'm not going to be a slayer." I said

"You want to save your friend?" Angel said

"Yes." I said quietly

"Good. Jazz good luck."

"I won't let you down boss." She said sweetly and then Angel was gone.

"I hate it when he does that." Jazz and I said in chorus. Then we both laughed. I looke over at Danny who was still in shock.

"Jazz, I thought you went to college." He said

"I did. The Watcher's Academy in England."

"But I thought you wanted to be a brain surgeon?" he said, Danny seemed hurt for some reason.

"Danny," Jazz sighed "when I found out you had ghost powers and that all this stuff was real it got me thinking, what else is out there? So I researched and I found out all about vampires and magic and vampire slayers. That's when I realized I could do so much more good for the world if I was a watcher. So I went to the watchers Academy and here I am."

"Jazz, this isn't you!" Danny shouted now, "You're my brainy sister, you want to be therapist or a brain surgeon and you hate ghosts! Don't throw your life away because your trying to be better than me at everything! Including ghost hunting!"

"Danny I'm not doing this to be better than you! I can't go on living a normal life just being oblivious to all the horrible things going on in the world! There is so much more bad out there than just ghosts. Sure they're apart of it but do you know how many people die from vampires each year? Three meals a day times 365 days a year times as many vampires there are in the world. I know your bad at math but that's a big number! And I cant fight very well and I don't have super powers but this I can do! Using my love of books to train slayers and help them rid the world of evil. This is my life now." Jazz sighed and put her hand on Danny's shoulder. "I would never dream of trying to take ghost hunting from you. I just need this." Danny seemed to smile a little bit. Then Jazz turned to me.

"Come on Ashley. We've got a lot of work to do!"