Kudos to wildchild00 for making an educated guess about the Observant. He is indeed the one Plasmius stole the Ghost DNA from. Read on!

Chapter 11: Safely Home

Rebecca woke up in her room and took a moment to gather her thoughts. She remembered the battle and then remembered her father catching her after she had become exhausted from the battle. She now got up and stretched as much as she could without causing more pain to her tender muscles which were still sore from the battle. She opened the door and found Frostbite guarding her door and he looked pleased to see her awake.

"Rebecca, you've awoken!" he said cheerfully, hugging her gently as he remembered she was still a bit sore from battle. She hugged him back.

"Where are the others, Uncle Frostbite?" she asked him.

"Off at their lairs and your family is waiting for you in the viewing room."

Rebecca let her uncle carry her there and set her down to open the doors. She went in and spied her father, mother, and sister all smiling at her. Tears in her eyes, the young girl flew forward and hugged her mother hard. Phantina returned her daughter's hug, relieved she was alright. Clocktina was happy her big sister was back and hugged her happily.

Then Rebecca turned to Clockwork and just about knocked him over when she tackled him in a hug. "Daddy," she said, shaking a bit as her muscles were sorer from her moving around and Clockwork caught her, holding her upright and sitting down so she could sit in his lap.

"My little Rebecca, I'm so proud of you," he said.

"As am I," said Phantina.

"Me too," said Clocktina.

Rebecca would have responded except she felt something was wrong and quickly moved to the time window, letting it play the scene of where the Observants were. What she saw made her eyes widen in horror.

"No," she said. "We need to get to the Observant's court. Fast!"

Sensing the urgency in his daughter's voice, Clockwork immediately sent out telepathic requests for Ghostwriter, Frostbite, and Nocturne to help them. All three agreed and Amelia and Emma came over, agreeing to watch Clocktina so that Phantina could go too. Without time to spare, no pun intended, the five ghosts and young halfa headed for the Observant's court.

The Observant that was chained to the floor now looked up to see the other Observants glaring at him and another, the head Observant, was looking at him with sympathy.

"Elijah, my brother," he said. "The court has found you guilty of interfering with time by alerting Clockwork and the halfa known as Phantana about the dangers. Do you have anything to say to that?"

The chained Observant, Elijah, now stood as tall as he could while in chains. "I was trying to preserve the future, and I'd do it anytime for Phantana," he said.

The court was in uproar and the head Observant looked grimly at Elijah. "Then, by the powers vested in me…,"

"STOP!"

The sharp command instantly made all the Observants freeze as they saw Phantana come flying in with five other ghosts behind her, two of them being her parents.

"Outrage!" said one Observant.

"They are not welcomed here!" said another.

"SILENCE!" Rebecca shouted as she transformed from her Phantana form to her human from. "Head Observant, I cannot let you do this."

He looked curiously at her. "And why so, young one?" he asked, curious as to why she'd stop the court.

Rebecca took a deep breath. "Because this Observant is my great-grandfather," she said, earning stunned gasps from the other Observants. "Vlad Plasmius stole Great-grandfather's DNA to create my grandmother and my mother. Therefore, he is part of my family."

The court was in shocked silence as the Head Observant looked at his brother. "Is it true, brother?" he asked him.

"Yes, Joshua. It is true. Rebecca, better known as Phantana, is your great-great-niece," said Elijah.

The Head Observant, Joshua, came down to his brother and his niece and looked at Rebecca, his expression unreadable, but then Rebecca saw him nod and she had a feeling he was smiling.

"Then, you were right, brother," he said and turned to Rebecca before saying out loud so everyone would hear. "Elijah is found innocent and no one is to lay a hand on him or Rebecca!"

The stunned Observants quietly withdrew after that, being escorted away by Ghostwriter, Frostbite, and Nocturne. Elijah looked at Rebecca and gently brushed back some of her hair.

"Just like your mother and grandmother," he said fondly. "By the way, about the terms of agreement we agreed to when my colleague and I first warned you of what was coming."

Rebecca smiled. "You and Great-Uncle Joshua are always welcomed as far as I'm concerned," she said.

"I concur with my daughter," said Clockwork. "Welcome to the family."

So, two Observants join the family. Also, their names are just something I came up with.

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