Daniel Plasmius

Jazz had had a number of peculiar occurrences occurred to her in the last 24 hours. For example, finding out Danny's mother was a living hologram. All the same, she wasn't certain precisely what she was dealing with right now as she lay confined within a box with an eerie virescent energy force field keeping her captive inside it.

All she knew at that moment for sure was she was trapped beyond this unearthly green energy barrier. Moreover, Danny Masters, the teenage rich boy she had befriended had transformed from an attractive fashionable dressed lad into now looking a lot like a sexy white haired anime boy with glowing green eyes.

Jazz wasn't one to follow cartoons or anime or traditional things a majority of adolescent kids were into. On the other hand? She wasn't so dense that she'd be that far removed from pop culture either. Just because she preferred to study psychology plus had to be the sane adult in the family, she did, in fact, have some general knowledge of what most teens were into.

Maybe she didn't have the complete encyclopedia knowledge numerous other kids had on ordinary teenage pop culture or of what typical interests were. Although she was still a teenager herself despite having to act like an adult. So she would have desired somebody to give her more credit then they did.

"Are you okay, Jazz? Is this a little too much for you? I mean I know this isn't something your expecting..." Danny was talking a little nervously on the other side of the force field.

"What? That you somehow changed your appearance to look like a Yu-gi-oh character?" Jazz asked in a matter fact way that was actually funny the way she phrased it.

He looked at her for a full minute and then broke out laughing and he was floating in midair as he did that. Danny was laughing till he was in stitches and tears coming out of his glowing green eyes.

"What? What's so funny?" she failed to see what was amusing here.

"Well, one you actually know something about anime. And two you sound just like my girlfriend Prima. Because she is constantly teasing me about looking like a cross between Atem, Yugi, and Kaiba! I guess it really shows great minds think alike!" he subsequently stops laughing only to grin happily.

"What is funnier here? That I do know normal teen stuff or the fact you did transform into what are you exactly?" Jazz was getting a little annoyed and tapping her foot in annoyance

"Well, I'm sincerely amazed you do recognize regular teenage material granted what you told me about yourself. I suppose I should have given you more credit," the white-haired boy admitted sheepishly.

"Yeah, you should've. So should the rest of the world. Now back to the question. What are you exactly?" she asked in a direct voice in no mood to beat around the bush anymore.

Sighing he floated back to the ground and sighed again. "What am I? Well, I guess I'm a paradox. I mean Mom calls me a miracle. But I guess I'm a paradox and an oxymoron," he sort of was talking in circles and playing with his hands, hair, and cape all at once. He was most unquestionably nervous without a doubt. She got the feeling he never shown himself like this to anyone else before.

"Can you just tell me a straight answer please?" she asked him as delicately as she could to try and calm him down.

He sucked in a deep breath and tried once again to clarify who and what he was. "I'm both living and dead. I'm both a human and a ghost at the same time. I'm literally a living limbo. I'm called in the Ghost Zone a "Halfa" I mean I'm a hybrid really," he was still rambling at this point and it was getting really confusing.

"Huh?" Jazz was still thoroughly confused therefore Danny just told her flat out.

"I'm half human and half ghost. I was born this way," he said in a rush with his cheeks burning as red as her hair.

"How can you possibly be born half ghost?!" she exclaimed in a flabbergasted tone. Whatever she was expecting it wasn't that.

Danny studied at the alloy tiles apprehensively before he took a deep cleansing breath. No going back now. Time to tell the truth. "This isn't an easy story to tell and I only hope I can explain it entirely before the riot gets out of hand. Also before Dad makes the biggest mistake of his life. But just so you know this is all your dad's fault!" he roared at Jazz fiercely with his arms crossed and his green eyes burning vividly and she appeared visibly taken aback.

"My father? What did my father do to make you like this?!" she was floored. How was her father accountable for this boy ending up like this?

"The accident. The one from 20 years ago is why I'm like this! And why my mom is DEAD!" Danny was scarcely able to contain himself and his gloved fists were radiating with some type of green energy. He seemed ready to erupt but was able to calm down though it was narrowly.

"No, I can't tell you all this and make you understand by blowing a hole in the wall. Need to be calm. Nor do I have the time to inadvertently set off a new power. I know one on the verge of coming out and this would be the worst time for it to emerge," he murmured to himself.

He took a few deep breaths then proceed to recite the Serenity Prayer which is what his mother did whenever she got furious. Doing all that ultimately calm down him down.

After a few more moments he gazed up at her and comfortably spoke to her again. "I apologize about that. It's extraordinarily hard to think about what precipitated my father and me to end up like this and your father devoid of either of us aspiring to go off like a bomb."

"Why don't you go slowly? And please take your time. I do want to understand, Danny. But don't blow the roof off the castle, please." Jazz said in a sympathetic tone and he seemed to trust her more when she spoke that way. Hence he commenced his tale from the beginning because honestly where else do you start?

"Okay. 20 years ago thanks to the accident your father caused with that pronto-portal which gave my father ecto-acne it altered his DNA. He became half ghost as a direct result..." he began to explain when Jazz rudely interrupted.

"Mutated his DNA? How is that even conceivable? Aren't ghost deemed to be the spirits of dead people? How can they possibly have a DNA structure?" she inquired in bewilderment at his story already.

Danny didn't appreciate being interrupted but already figured he was gonna be interrupted a lot. Consequently, he took another deep breath then he started to slowly explain the answers to her questions and expected Jazz would be gracious enough to be quiet and listen. Or at least hope she just sits back and listens.

"Ghosts are not as humans assumed they are, Jazz," Danny began in a powerful patient voice as he began to reveal the accuracy about his species or half his species to be more specific. " Humans don't have a clear perception at all on who, what and where Ghost is or where they come from. Not all of them are the spirits of departed souls, Jazz. Some are BORN ghosts. All my friends were BORN ghost.

Consequently yes, ghosts are sentient living beings with their own unique genetic structure, physiology, and biology. However, that would take WAY to long to explain at the moment. Just trust me here and now ghosts DO have DNA, okay?" and seeing her nod and that she wasn't interrupting he continued on.

"Okay so now that you understand THAT, understand this part. Ghosts? They exist in their own universe called the Ghost Zone which is the flip side to Earth. It, in fact, goes on for infinity. Furthermore, the fundamental laws and physics that govern the Ghost Zone are both immensely diversified than those that bind the Earth together. Time, Space, Logic and Reason are thrown out the window when it comes to the Ghost Zone. Thanks in part to the Council of the Ancients."

"Who are the Council of the Ancients?" Jazz inquired respectfully.

"Well, they are patrons of the Ghost Zone and each embodies a different aspect of the universe and governs it. We learn about them and the 12 Ancient Laws we are all bound to when we first go to school. Similar to how you study the Constitution and Presidents? That's what we study in Grade School!"

"Wait a second?! First, you say Ghost are living sentient beings who have DNA. Now you say they go to school?!" Jazz sound so much like how his father did when he was first introduced to his whole new world. Then again so would anyone finding this whole new world. So Danny cut her some slack.

"Yes, please try and keep up. I'll start by telling you about the Ancients and then I'll tell you more about the Ghost Zone, plus some of the things that will really surprise you. IF you promise not to interrupt," he added in a heated tone.

"Okay. Please explain and I'll hold my questions to the end," she promised and Danny hopes she keeps it.

"Okay. Alright, you have a whole line of asinine unsightly white men who have governed the USA for the last 200 years? They get voted in even though the votes never really seem to count? Like honestly from what I can tell from the human government it's really screwed up and rigged and no one gets helped in the end," Danny voiced his viewpoints on politics which are hard enough to try and understand.

Furthermore personally, it did seem every time there was an election it was nothing more than exaggerated high school popularity contest about who could slam the other more with people thinking about who had the most empty promises.

When they should be focusing on the candidate character and conduct. That would determine what kind of leader they'd be. Not what they could promise but by their actions. After all, actions speak louder than words. And if a person shows their true character and its downright an ugly even human-like demon then that will tell you what kind of leader they will be.

Still, Danny didn't desire to speculate about human politics at the moment. He was only 14 anyhow plus too young to vote. And beside unlike some other billionaire at least his father was truthful about his taxes and didn't do illegal criminal activities when came to his company. Getting out of his brain fog he went on explaining about the Ancients that he learned as a child.

"So anyway the Ancients are the following. And this is exactly how we learn about them.


Name: Clockwork

Element: Time

Gender: Male

Color Scheme: blue, purple and red

Special Item: Time Scepter and Time Medallions

Abilities: Complete control over time.

Personality: Fatherly, Wise, Cryptic

Name: Vida

Element: Life

Gender: Female

Color Scheme: White, yellow, green

Special Item: Staff of Life (can bring anything it touches to life)

Abilities:

Personality: Thoughtful, caring

Name: Cronos

Element: Death

Gender: Male

Color Scheme: Black, Grey

Special Item: Scythe (kills or destroys anything it touches)

Abilities: Make sure souls make it through when they die

Personality: Bleak, negative

Name: Dimensie

Element: Dimensions

Gender: Non-binary

Color Scheme: Green, purple

Special Item: Portal Staff (can open a portal to anywhere in the universe/multiverse)

Abilities: Watches over the multiverse and other dimensions

Personality: Mysterious

Name: Dynama

Element: Energy

Gender: Female

Color Scheme: Orange, yellow

Special Item: energy staff (is an endless source of energy if stolen)

Abilities: Telekinesis, can control kinetic and potential energy

Personality: lively, happy

Name: Cognite

Element: Wisdom

Gender: Non-binary

Color Scheme: Dark blue, Grey

Special Item: Book Staff (can bring up any text/knowledge that ever existed)

Abilities: Knows every language, knows specific facts and figures

Personality: Serious, wise

Name: Discord

Element: Chaos

Gender: Male

Color Scheme: red, black

Special item: crow staff of chaos (dark staff with a black crow at the tip)

Abilities: causes chaos, balances out peace, can turn into a crow to visit earth

Personality: cunning, hyper

Name: Harmony

Element: peace

Gender: Female

Color Scheme: white, light purple

Special item: dove staff of peace (beautiful staff with a little white dove on the tip)

Abilities: causes peace, balances out chaos, can turn into a dove to visit earth

Personality: calm, gentle

Name: Tempest

Element: air, water, earth, fire (elements)

Gender: Male

Color Scheme: blue, orange

Special item: weather staff (can cause natural disasters/change the weather)

Abilities: controls weather on the earth, causes seasons to change

Personality: intelligent, strong

Name: Enchantra

Element: magic

Gender: Female

Color: pink, purple

Special item: a magical wooden wand that can levitate objects and allow her to teleport anywhere in the ghost Zone or on earth

Abilities: keeps the world in balance, watches over magical items (such as reality gauntlet and infinity map)

Personality: Stern, lonesome, introverted"


"So they are they immortal or something?" Jazz asked for clarification to which Danny answered with the ready answer of what he learned all the way back in kindergarten.

"They've existed since before time itself came to be. Furthermore, they are the absolute and undisputedly leaders of the Ghost Zones. They've kept it from being complete anarchy since it came into existence. On the other hand? Almost no-one has seen them in person in about the last ten thousand years or so. The Ancient Ghosts don't permit themselves to be witnessed frequently as they work more behind the scenes and in secluded locations. The only more public appearing one is Clockwork. I know him well and everyone knows his wife."

"Ghosts get married?!" the redhead asked with her jaw opened wide in surprise. She could've caught flies with it open like that. Danny was amused by that but quickly answered the question.

"Yes. Again we fall in love, get married and have families. We can even die again. But a "ghost death"? Well, it's not quite the same as human death. But if a ghost is fatally injured and loses its life force energy they will temporarily die.

But they will come back to life the next day. It will just hurt like hell and each time you die and rise again will hurt worse than the last time is all. So far none of my friends and I've had to deal with our first "Deaths"

But all my friends have had a least one relative who has died once. Prima's parents of course gone through it many times in their long lives together. And they've time-danced quite a few times together. That means they've traveled through the timestream many times," he added to explain what the term "Timedancing" mean to Jazz.

Jazz had one question answered and decided to ask another. "And Prima is who?"

"My best friend and girlfriend, daughter of Clockwork and Lilith who is the Ghost of Life and Death and Keeper of the Spirits. She sort of a record keeper who when she was alive was born with the most powerful Ghost Gene ever.

She was a prodigy with her capabilities and it generated for her a number of predicaments when she was living. Cursed to be as beautiful as a goddess plus having supernatural gifts at the same time? Not a good combination. Especially not two millennia ago with all the racists' supernatural nutcases who like to assassinate souls for being different or things of that nature," he added bitterly.

He looked quite hostile moreover odious at that concept for a few moments. Jazz was actually terrified for a few seconds. Then it passed as he went on explaining Lilith's life story to the young girl kept behind the force field.

"Clockwork discovered her and brought her to the Ghost Zone and instructed her in the use of her powers. They fell in love and after she died subsequently became a Ghost then the Ancients gave her her mission in her afterlife.

To use her inherent capabilities to keep track of everyone and also to tutor others born with Ghost Genes. Furthermore, keep them under something comparable to witness protection. Therefore both humans and renegade ghosts wouldn't do them wickedness and they all be protected from persecution."

"What's a ghost gene?" Jazz was getting more incredibly frustrated. Just when Danny seem to answer one thing he only left her with more questions than answered and he seems to be frustrated trying to explain things that he lived with his whole life. Still, they were working together to get this story out even if both were not good at this communicating this particular subject.

He thought for a few moments how to explain this and only one idea came to mind. "Think of it like the X-Gene from X-Men. It's a mutation in humans that results in giving them supernatural abilities that are related to ghosts. You may call them psychics, sensitives or seers. Though in reality, they are almost like a sub-species of ghosts. You actually know one."

"I do?" she blinked in surprise.

"Your adopted sister. Dominique. I do know her. She and my adopted cousin Brooke? They are both the first two prodigies since Lilith and Lilith lived 2000 years ago! That's what those so-called "After-school Honor Classes" are. They are being trained at my girlfriend's house in secret to control their endowments. Both of them are the first prodigies since Lilith herself. As a result, she's got to work extra hard with them and they require extra protection because of how influential they can be."

"This is too much, give me a moment to absorb this please," as Jazz held her head as her rational brain was seeking to wrap around all this irrational absurdity into it. Yet her teal eyes were looking at the young teenage boy before her who was currently performing a few small tricks with his powers she knew seeing was believing.

"Okay, so ghosts can do all of it? Walk through walls, disappear and fly?" she couldn't help but ask about basic ghost powers that any idiot knew about.

"Well, again we'll get to that in a moment. You need to know the laws we are governed by so you know what we are allowed to and not to do. Again we have our own laws and they are punishable by the Ancients and all ghosts even myself and my father are bound by them.

There are 11 Ancients Laws and the 12th Taboo law. The 11 laws of the Ancients are as followed.


The Ancient Laws of the Ghost Zone.

1. Everyone will respect each other boundaries. Meaning everyone has their own home and space that their own and the other ghost will respect their boundaries and space. Like how here on Earth we can't trespass or things of that nature.

2. Every Ghost is allowed a certain amount of Ghostly Money per month and it's illegal to steal money or exceed that amount by any means not approved by the Ghost Bank and the Miser. Like how we are supposed to obey our own financial rules and not commit fraud.

3. Ghost Children are required to attend each of the ghost schools and obey the rules of their schools.

4. No ghost kid can be out after curfew which is the Ghost Zone hour of 10:00

5. Birthday Truce. Same rules on a ghost's birthday as Christmas. Meaning on that ghost's birthday no one can harm them or do violence and at their birthday party, they must be truly treated as a guest of honor.

6. Christmas Truce we know that one

7. Forbidden Locations are forbidden for a reason and are made well known from the earliest age and why people aren't to venture there.

8. Love Laws. All relationships are accepted in the ghost zone and marriage is legal to anyone unlike earth and wedding days are also truce days.

9. Zero Tolerance- can't bring illegal human stuff like drugs, alcohol or smokes or other truly dangerous items back to the ghost zone from the human world.

10. Children become Legal adults like humans at age 18.

11. Is a Ghost court of justice which is used in extreme cases but again only in extreme cases if the ancient laws are broken only."


"What is the 12th Taboo Law?"

"It's part of the Ten Commandments and part of human law and written into the very fabric of the universe and the human soul? Thou shall not kill? Even a ghost is not allowed to commit murder, Jazz," Danny was deathly serious when he said this and she was struck how serious a 14-year-old could be when he was speaking about this.

"A ghost will instantly suffer death if they kill another ghost or human and then they have to face the Ancients. Murder is an act against nature and splits the soul in two. Even Ghosts frown upon murder. If you heard what like before the Ancients implicated the Ancient Laws? And the 12th one against murder? The days of true anarchy in the Ghost Zone? Well, it wasn't pretty and it was closer to hell than any war on Earth. Even WWII didn't compare to it!"

"So what is the Ghost Zone like? You said Ghosts weren't like people thought they were?"

"Again we live like humans in countless ways. We do have an actual economy. Our currency is called EVP Dollars and our coins are K2 coins. Your paranormal investigators took our copyrighted money terms for their equipment," shaking his head and then actually showed her some ghost money he had on him.

"Here a $1. Vida $.5 Cronos $ 10. Dimensie $20. Dynama $50. $ 100 Cognite. K2 coins. Yellow-penny- Discord Orange-nickel-Harmony Green-dimes-Tempest red-quarters -Enchantra"

"Do you actually have a bank for all this?" she asked a rather naive question and he rolled his eyes and quickly nodded his head.

"Yeah, the bank run by the Miser aka Scrooge. Yeah, he was an authentic fellow, not some feeble-minded character that Charles Dickens made up. My dad works with him at the bank and as the biggest account at the Ghost Bank.

A lot of famous people became ghosts and live and work in some capacity in the Ghost Zone. Like the Ghost Zone, Mental Health Clinic is run by The Therapist aka Sigmund Freud."

"Wait you mean the Sigmund Freud? He's a ghost and runs a mental health clinic in the Ghost Zone?" Jazz looked like she faint at hearing that the guy famous in psychology was a ghost and had his own clinic.

"Yeah, every ghost sees him at some point or another. I see him every other Friday along with Dad at 4:30. My appointments are from 4:30 to 5:30 and his from 5:30 to 6:30. My friend Vanity's mother Spectra is apprenticing under him with her husband as her assistant."

Also my nanny as a child, Nanny Anna? She was the same woman from the movie "The King and I!" Moreover, all my school teachers are the greatest minds ever to live on Earth! Let's see? My current teachers at my high school?" he thought about it for a moment.


"Okay, their names are as followed and who they really are. The Genius- Albert's Einstein's Ghost. He teaches Math which by the way is my worst subject.

The Storyteller- Charles Dickens's ghost English Lit and it's so cool since we are reading a book right now that won't be released for over a decade from now!

The Stargazer- Galileo- Astronomy, which by the way is my best class since I know everything to do with space.

The Artist- Da Vinici- Art, which my friend Techna does remarkably at since she's so fabulous with graphic arts. I mean for a techno ghost she amazing with graphic arts designs. You really should see them some time they'll blow your mind.

The Philosopher- Plato- Philosophy which is a snore fest. Everyone finds him so monotonous we rather hibernate through his class then pay attention.

The Composer- Mozart- Music, He's stuck in the past in a bad way! However, my ghosts friends and I do normal band things with more modern day things off school campus. Also, we all are fans of the human band Dumpty Humpty by the way.

The Actor- Shakespeare- Drama, which is Vanity's favorite class and where she excels the most at. She gets all the leads in all the school plays. The girl may be a spoiled brat but she is an extraordinarily talented actress.

The Inventor- Edison- Science and workshop- Hunter loves this class. A good way for him to work out his aggression and he's actually quite book smart for a jock

Lunch Lady Ghost- runs the Lunch Room. Don't ever try to change the menu or you'll raise hell!

Inferno and Icy they are "P.E." Teachers. But it's not "Physical Education." it's Powers Education. Its where we are trained in the use of our powers and that's more of a workout than any gym class!

Technus- Computers and he's Techna's dad. Her mom Pixel works writing computer software to protect highly dangerous and sacred items to the Ghost Zone. Like the Reality Gauntlet, Infinity Map and a few other things, but they are unmentionable.

Also, my friend Desire spends more time in this class updating her blog than actually doing what the class is teaching. She's gotten detention a few times for updating her blog and not doing school work.

Ghostwriter, he's the part-time school librarian. His house is actually the Ghost Zone library and has a section where you can get books that will be released in the future. Best Sellers or books from authors that have the potential to be great.

Which is why we are reading a book from the future from his future releases for English Class. It not due to be released until 2017. It's called "Karyana's Journey Upon a Star: Tome 1" by Sebastien Busque.

It is mind-blowing awesome! I honestly hope when it is released in the future he sells enough to write the rest of the series and we find out what's next for Karyana and Demyan! It's way too good for it to be just one book!"

And last but not least there Ms. Hauntly my school principal. Extremely friendly lady and she's a charming woman and continuously nice to me."


"Wow, that must be amazing being taught by the greatest minds that ever lived! You must learn so much! I find it be so cool and educational and thrilling!" Jazz sound so excited and Danny snorted and tossed his long hair over his shoulder before correcting her.

"Well, you think that at first but it's actually quite the opposite, Jazz. These "great minds" are so far behind the times! They've got ENORMOUS egos and are frozen in the times they'd died in!

It's literally almost impossible to get them to get with the current century! It took life and limb along with coming hell or high water just to read a more modern day book for English Class!

My friends and I are sometimes just thankful that we do have Spoiler Night Weekend at the movie theater at the Haunted Mall or that we do have cable and internet which by the way is way better in the Ghost Zone then Earth."

"Hold on a second! Do ghosts have malls? Along with cable and internet? Why? And how?" this was one of the most shocking revelations yet of the night.


"Again we are not so different in some aspects of humans. Again we've got our unique physiology with our own DNA and even instead of blood we have ectoplasm which comes in ecto-types which I'll get to in a minute," Danny took a moment to catch his breath because it wasn't easy talking so much and he needed a breather. After he got it he picked up where he left off.

"But again we've got a lot of the corresponding locations you do, along with countless of the same things you do as well. Banks, Mental Health Clinic, Schools, Hospitals, and yes Malls.

Though our store names are parodies of your stores. The list of stores at the mall included the following. Instead of The Gap its The Chasm, instead of J. C. Penny, its R. I. Peace, Sears is Sneers, Starbucks is Triangles Coin Coffee.

Deals and Disloyal would be your Barns and Nobel, Painless Shoes would be Pay-less Shoes, Defeat Secrets- Victoria Secrets. There the Scream Food Court complete with Tombstone Ice Cream.

We've got a Grave Jewelry rather than a Kay Jewelry. There is the Haunted Theater Movie Theater where all the ghosts related to show business make movies and special weekends we've spoilers of future movies using the Omni- Camera that can show hit movies from Earth future.

We also have Cold Spot rather than a Hot Topic. Grave Snips not a Great Clips Scratches is the Nail salon and lastly, Spectral Pets is our Pet Store instead of Pet Smart.

And due to having the Ghost Zone bend the rules of reality along with time and space that's why we get such great cable and internet service or again get 'spoilers' for things not gonna be seen or online for years or decades!" he exclaimed with excitement and passion at having the ulimate spoiler at his fingertips.

"Do all these spoilers play a small part for your dad's success?" questioned Jazz with an eyebrow raised and Danny flushed confirming her suspicions.

"Sometimes it's come in profitable. But how anyone gonna charge him with anything since no one believes we've had an occasional glimpse into the future or the whole half-ghost thing?" he asked her and she had to concede he had a point.


"You said before you explain a little more about ghost physiology," returning their talk to an earlier part of the conversation.

"Yes, again we've DNA and our genetic makeup and bodies are radically different the humans. That's true. And instead of blood types, we've got ecto-types. And yes ghost needs to go to a ghost doctor for both ghostly illnesses, medical treatment and need ecto-transfusion or operations.

We aren't immune to any of those simply because we are ghosts. We can and will get hurt. So we need doctors and nurses. So we've ectoplasm drives and yes even as odd this sounds our own version of organ donors.

In my Dad's company we've got monthly company-wide blood drives and its' almost company policy, you've to be a donor in some capacity. Money, blood, organs. Something to give to others."

"What is ecto-types?" she asked curiously wanting to understand everything in Danny's life.

"In Ghosts, our ecto-types are X XY- XY+ and XYZ- which are the counterparts to A, B, AB, and O. X is the counterpart to O. XY is the Counterpart to A, XY+ is the counterpart to B and XYZ- is the counterpart to AB+

For me? As a human, I'm O- the universal donor type meaning as a human my blood can go to anyone. But my ghost ecto type is XYZ- Which is the Universal recipient so anyone can receive any ecto type."


"Can you tell me a little more about your friends and their parents?" longing to know who made up the people in his life and he seemed happy to tell her about his friends and their families.

"Well, again their my girlfriend and her parents. Prima the Ghost of Fate and Destiny. Or at least she will be when her full powers kick in. She's still too inexperienced for her full powers to have developed yet. All of us are in fact. We all still have ways to go before we reach our full potential and powers.

Yet she's destined to one day become the ultimate Spirit Guide and help guide everyone Ghost and Human alike to their fate and fulfill their destiny. Though right now her true powers aren't yet awakened yet."

"What 'true powers?"

"Her mother Lilith knows that Prima full powers will one day included when she touches someone she'll see their whole lifetime. Past, Present and Future. Along with the great power of persuasion. Plus showing people what their lives could've been for a short time.

She's already gradually mastering her hypnotic capabilities which are still a significant struggle for her. Although she did master telekinesis by the time she was ten. Her offensive power is she able to shoot her fingernails with deadly precision and they can temporarily paralyze someone if they break the skin.

She's also a black belt, though to be fair all my friends and I are black belts. In addition, to be taught in P. E. how to control our powers, we are also thoroughly trained in self-defense. Just in case we encounter renegade ghosts or worst those racist ghost hunters, and need to fight our way out if they disable our powers somehow," he explained as he hissed out angrily that last part.

Jazz was surprised Danny used the word "racist" again. It seemed since he used it twice that even ghosts held some type of ideas of what racism, prejudice and those concepts in their culture were. Though she wasn't understanding what constituted it. And he didn't go back to the subject either. Instead, he finished telling her about his friends and their parents.

He went on to explain the importance of Prima's mother Lilith's job of Keeper of Spirits. She had to keep all ghosts accounted for, their powers, their location and make sure there was no unauthorized traveling between rules. While at the same time still training humans with ghosts genes and being a wife and mother.

His friend Hunter Skulker parents who were in a common law marriage as they were currently too busy to make it legal used to be hunters but had changed from being hunters to protectors.

Hunter's father Skulker now hunted other hunters who wish to do harm to endangered creatures both here and for Danny's father on Earth he'd helped lead a team to catch poachers.

His common-law wife Huntress who Danny said looked and acted like a ghost version of Laura Croft used her skills to hunt down the most dangerous and elusive fugitives both in the Ghost Zone and again on Earth.

He already told her about his friends Vanity and Techna's parents. So he told his friend Desire's mother Desiree who now had complete control of her powers had her own charity foundation and grant people wishes for purely good reasons. Again both in the Ghost Zone and for Vlad's company.

Jazz was taken aback that Ghosts would want to help people on Earth or do what seemed like double shifts but they didn't seem to mind. Danny said since he and his father were both human and ghosts they had really changed things in the last 20 years and it was for the better.

Everything Danny was telling he was unbelievable and she just couldn't believe this world of his existence and yet he was living proof. Plus he was still showing off his abilities while he was telling her this story as he wanted to make sure she understood.

"So um this my class picture," he said as he went over to the corner and came back with a framed photo. "Some of the technology that is in here is actually from the Ghost Zone and my friends and I tinker with it occasionally," explaining why the photo was in here.

Jazz was able to see quite clearly even with the green energy walls the photo. It was pretty much your stander class photo. Danny pointed out who was who in the photo though it wasn't necessary. Jazz was able to guess based on names and the few clues alone who was who.

"They mean a lot to you, don't they? Your friends?" she asked him and he nodded with a smile.

"Yeah, we grew up together. Birthdays holidays the whole shebang. Know each other since we were in diapers. We all got babysat by the same ghosts when my Nanny had her vacation and all our parents wanted a night out. Pandora," and he raised a hand to cut her off at the pass.

"Yes, she's not a Greek myth. She a real ghost who as long as you don't touch her box she's a really sweet lady who very good with children. The only ghost was stupid enough to touch the box some 22 years ago was a dumb ghost named The Box Ghost."

"The Box Ghost?"

"Yeah, he's more of a nuisance than anything. He was a guy who worked in a warehouse in life and died by having a bunch of boxes fall on him back in the late '80s. All he really does is try to be scary. He says "Beware!" a lot. Really again he's an annoyance more than anything.

He gets a lot of citations for disturbing the peace for being more of pest. 22 years ago in an attempt to be taken seriously he stole box and caused a near-apocalyptic event. The Ancients had a hell of a time cleaning it up and a lot of people with Ghost Genes had to do a lot of minds erasing to cover it up. He was sent to Walker's Ghost Prison for 10 years for that," Danny recalled that particular event in Ghost Zone history.

Jazz looked very taken aback by the story and also uncomfortable about something he mentioned. Therefore she asked a chilling question about something he said."What do you mean mind erasing?"

"Well, all people born with a Ghost Gene have multiple endowments Jazz. As I'm sure you heard what Psychics who broke the law and use their powers publicly, instead of staying in Witness Protection say they can do.

To simply put the answer to your particular question? Individuals born with Ghost Genes have the power to remove any and all memories of anything related to ghosts from a person's mind unless there has been a certain circumstance that prevents that grant human from having their mind being wiped."

"You mean all you just informed me of? People like Dominque or like the Men in Black could use something to just wipe my memory just with a flash of light?"

"Well for ghosts we worry about Guys in White but it a little more technical than that but yeah. Though I'll make sure you don't forget what I'm telling you."

"How? And why?"

"I won't explain the how but the why is I love you like a sister."


Jazz then realized something. "You have been longing your whole life to just tell all this to one other person, haven't you? Just to let someone known the truth about you? Haven't you?" she asked him as she placed a single hand on the force field which didn't get burned or anything. He touched the hand with his own and they shared a moment. He gradually nodded looking sorrowfully at her then at his feet and was crying almost uncontrollably.

"It's not been an easy life, Jazz. I love my parents, I love my friends. I love Prima. I've had a great childhood and I know I'm lucky in so many ways," he whispered so softly she almost didn't hear him as he bares his soul to her.

"But it's still so lonely. To be different, to be alone, to not have anyone truly understand what you're going through. To really have no one to confide in. Someone who truly loves and understand you.

Again I've always wanted an older sibling. Someone to love and watch over me and just help and guide me. I always felt there was one piece in my life missing and that's what I felt was missing.

Someone to be my protector at the same time be my friend. Someone who loved me in a way no one else could. Just to have the special relationship siblings have and just so I will never be alone. I just felt all my life that's what I was missing," he finally confessed his secret feelings to her.

Jazz sank to the ground on the side of the green energy wall and cried a little herself. She had felt the exact same way her whole life. Slowly she whispered to him. "Even if I was only two at the time I was so thrilled to find out I would be a big sister. I didn't know precisely what that would mean. Or if I would be a good one.

I would imagine maybe there would've been times my brother and I would've fought or we might have grown apart or he might have gotten annoyed with me. But I would've given anything in the world to have had one day with him."

"Is that why you tried to be the perfect big sister to Dominique?" Danny asked her if her adopted sister was like what his adopted cousin been to him. Someone to fill a void they didn't want to admit was there but the person they needed to fill it was missing.

"I guess so. I think sometimes I tried to hard or might have pushed her away at times. I notice she wasn't always open to me or didn't know how to talk or act with me." Jazz admitted honestly as she pulled her knees close to her chest and cried a little.

"Well she had a part of her life she couldn't share with you and it's not like I could do everything for Brooke either. I mean at the end of the day Brooke and Dominique are each other best friends." Danny acknowledging that both girls really had each other as best friends and both he and Jazz were still missing someone they really needed.

"True enough. They do have a special bond. I'm glad they do have that bond of friendship." Jazz acknowledged herself though she at least wasn't bitter about it.

"Me too. So care to tell me what exactly happened to your brother? As I've told you pretty much everything and the ins and outs of the Ghost Zone?" he asked curiously wanting to know more about Jazz and her pain. Wanting to comfort her. Jazz slowly started to recall her painful childhood memories which had been locked up so many years.

"My mom had a typical pregnancy. Dad was his typical childish scatterbrain self. Coming up with several ghosts related dangerous items that were not safe to a baby. He did forget many times when Mom needed him to come to the doctor.

But that's just how the relationship works and that's just how my dad is. He's human and he's flawed. You got to remember Danny, no one is perfect we are all flawed."

"Yeah," he rolled his eyes at that and she frowned but continued. "Danny was born around 5:58 that night. We had only one moment with him as a family before he was returned to the Nursery.

At exactly 6: 17 a city-wide blackout happened and by the time the power been restored to the whole city 5 hours later, we discovered Danny had been abducted. There was no forensic evidence and no CCTV. They put out an Amber Alert but nothing ever came off it. He just disappeared off the face of the Earth. And well I told you the rest. What about you? How did your birth go down?"

"My birth wasn't an easy birth, Jazz. Again given my mother's illnesses and my unique DNA. Plus the fact it was a home birth and the complication that followed. She was in labor for over an hour before she dilated enough to have me.

So I was born at 8:57 and my mother officially died at 9:13. Dad was so caught up in his grief and all the emotional trauma the doctors said he was in shock. That's why he didn't call the hospital till an hour later when he finally came out of it."

Jazz seemed extraordinarily sad for a moment then looked at Danny with a serious expression and took a deep breath. "Danny, can I ask you a question and do you promise not to take this the wrong way?"

"Sure, Jazz, ask me anything."

"Are you absolutely sure you are who you think you are?"

He fell out of the air at that question and really slammed his head into the metal floor and was seeing stars. "OW!"

"Sorry! Are you okay?" she asked with so much concern in her voice it shocked him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. But I've not fallen out of the sky since I was three! I'm like the best flier in all the Ghost Zone! Okay, maybe not the Ghost Zone but at least at school!" he said in wounded pride.

"How fast can you go?" Jazz honestly wanted to know.

"My top speed? 125 mph! I'm also a very good stunt flier! Yeah, I know pride is wrong to have but I can't help but like everyone is so jealous of my flying talents!" he again spoke in a voice with someone who's pride taken a slight hit.

"Sorry, didn't mean to wound your pride. But I had to ask."

"Sorry, but what do you even mean if I'm sure if I am who I am? What kind of question is that?" he demanded to her with his eyes narrowed and arms crossed.

"I'm just starting to wonder if you could possibly be my long lost brother is all," she softly admitted and he looked at her shocked.

"What?! Why would you even think that?!" he demanded both in confusion and incredulously

"Just all the little coincidences?" she started to present her case doing so slowly so not to make him mad or make things worse. "The fact you have the same name and birthday and were born roughly around the same time. Again the fact your father hates my father. The fact there was no evidence left behind when my brother disappeared. How it was so convenient a blackout happened that night?" she had stated a very logical case. Neither spoke for a few moments and then she spoke again.

"All I'm saying is in life there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a coincidence is all. And the fact you and I both seem to feel such a strong connection? Like you felt something was missing in your life? Well can you dismiss all that?" she asked him pressingly and Danny shook his head no.

"But how is that even possible?" Danny countered to Jazz's suggestion, " I mean my mother did give birth to me. And we've photos and videos of her. There were ultrasounds and everything. So she was a living person.

So how do you just dismiss my mother? And if she wasn't a real person why would my father go to such lengths for her? To give her the White Lady room? Build her the atrium? Try to save her life in a Hail Mary effort? Or all he did to keep Mom alive?"

"I don't know. Maybe Magdalene really was expecting his child and she miscarried? Or the child died and he took my brother to get even with Dad and to make your mom happy and to make himself happy? I don't know! But I do know I can't live any longer unless I know for sure or not if you're my brother." Jazz said in a way that bore no rebuke

"I don't know what to do! I can't really fight your words and I need to stop Dad from exposing us. But to think he would've done that or lied to me? I don't know." Danny looked really rattled now as well as confused.

"Danny? Honey what's wrong?" spoke the musical voice of his mother. Danny jumped high and was clutching his heart before he whirled around to face his holographic mother. "Mom? I thought you left?"

"I've been monitoring things downstairs. Things are about to go south if you don't intervene soon. What's been going on up here?" she asked seeing both teenagers under distress.

"I told Jazz everything and she told me something that is shocking," Danny answered his mother.

"What?"

"Magdalene please don't take this the wrong way. I don't mean to speak ill of you or your love. But my little brother was kidnapped the day he was born. The same day your Danny was born. I can't help but wonder if they are one and the same and somehow Vlad pulled off the perfect kidnapping. Please, I must know."

Magdalene looked at the two teenagers for a few moments in silence and then said something unexpected. "Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part, You will make me to know wisdom. Psalm 51:6

Father,

You call me to live in truth. You know me. I may be able to fool others but cannot fool You. You know my shortcomings, my sins, my half-truths, and my evasions. You are merciful and forgiving. But You are also a just God. You will not leave me in my sins or encourage my bad habits. You challenge me to follow You from my deepest heart. You show me the way of truth is the way to life everlasting. Amen."

Jazz was greatly puzzled by what Magdalene just said but Danny immediately understood. "I may not like what I may or may not hear. But the truth will set both me and Dad free. And God needs him to say whatever the truth is."

"Yes, if he's committed a sin he must ultimately acknowledge it to the Lord, son. To know he knows he's sinned and he's ready to repent. I know your father has done much in his life to make up for all his sins.

However, honey, if he's committed a sin he's not confessed to the Lord? The only way he'll make his peace with God and himself is if he confesses. Nevertheless, again remember this Danny. Whatever is said downstairs remember to not seek vengeance. To not act in anger but seek forgiveness."

"Yes, I know, Mom. As the Bible says about anger "Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. James 1:19-20

"Father,

Your love guides me in all my relationships. Most of the time, it's those I love most who stir up my angry emotions. Thank You for quieting my heart and helping me to see the underlying cause of my anger-whether it is exhaustion, anxiety, or fear. Thank You for reminding me to consider the person I am in conflict with. When You help me in these ways, You enable me to act wisely, measure my words carefully, and preserve rather than destroy my most important relationships. Amen."

"And always remember to forgive my son," as she kissed his forehead before reciting to him another passage from the Bible and prayer. "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow. Isaiah 1:18

"Father,

You forgive me. My heart is heavy because of what I have done and because of what I left undone. I have not loved the others the way You loved me. I have judged and belittled them. I have not done the things I wanted to do. I have done what I now wish could undo. Yet when I come to You, I have not turned away. Instead, You forgive me, cleanse me, and give me mercy so I can begin anew. Amen."

"Can someone please explain what with the prayer circle?" Jazz wanted to know as suddenly the walls came down. "C' mon we've got to stop our dads from making the biggest mistakes of their lives and then we can get your question answered," as Danny scooped her up in his arms.

"Um, what's going on?"

"We've got a mission we need to complete. I hope you ready for things to get a little weird. Warning you are about to walk through walls, disappear and fly. So please enjoy the ride." and the next thing Jazz they had become both invisible and intangible and were sinking through the floor and zooming off as a bullet shot out of a gun.