A/N: I forewarn you: this is the shortest chapter yet, and it's nothing at all like I expected.
/2. P1. C11. Phantom
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He had hair the color of sugar and spider webs, and glowing green eyes that were like nothing in the human realm- at least, nothing living. His skin was surprisingly tan for a ghost, although it couldn't be called bronzed; his form was strong but lean. He wore a black jumpsuit; a big, white belt; long, white gloves; and white boots that were even bigger than Sam's. His name was Phantom now, although it hadn't entirely been that before… before what?...
...He had to protect, and that meant he had to fight. So he would fight.
He would fight them all; and he did.
He won.
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They were like toys to him, or the medals that Human children always won. It was a game, and it went like this: Ghost attacks Human, fight Ghost (to protect Human?), Human survives healthy, WIN. That was all; what the Human thought about the whole thing didn't really matter. Then he left the Human wherever it happened to be at the time, because he was done with it; much like the makeshift bases in a children's impromptu baseball game (stick, stone, old glass bottle, pile of dirt).
Except for one, of course, but that one was Gone (dead; gone; worse than a Ghost, and they all thought and said it like that, with a glaring capital to make listener look up and pay attention, shivering because what if they went Gone?).
Yes; they were like toys to Phantom, except for the one who was Gone.
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This time was, might have been, should have been no different than the other Games. The Ghost attacked two Humans walking in the park, and Phantom knew in the way that he often did, so he went to fight. It was an easy fight, just Technus again (honestly, in a park; how stupid was he?), and the Humans were so frightened that they didn't get in his way (they sometimes did, trying to attack him help him get his autograph). They were strangers, so he assumed that it must be the first time they'd ever seen a Ghost.
Then, as he flew away, the male Human said, "Wait until Danny hears about this!"
It should have been no different from the other Games, but it suddenly, frighteningly, heart-stoppingly was.
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The ghost spun around so quickly that Tucker flinched, afraid that it was going to attack him. "Who?" it hissed, hovering so closely to Tucker that he was afraid to move lest he touch it.
"Wha'...?" Tucker slurred, his mind blank.
"Danny who?" it repeated, threateningly tense.
"Danny Fenton," said Sam, "whose parents, by the way, are ghost hunters, so you won't be able to-"
Phantom never found out what he wouldn't be able to do, however, because he had vanished.
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