Danny Phantom And Storm Banshee- Season One(From The Very Beginning

by GhostWriterGirl-1

Nell sometimes wishes she was normal. But that's really tough when you're half-ghost and you and your half-siblings are necromancers, and you're the adopted kid of ghost hunters. So when Danny activated the portal, any shreds of normality went out the window. When the ghosts start coming, Nell is ready to kick their butts all the way back to the Ghost Zone-and you know the rest...

21. Chapter 21

GhostWriterGirl: I'm ba-ack! And gracing you with the next episode-chapter, "Fanning The Flames"! I hope you enjoy it! Anyway, I don't own Danny Phantom, that belongs to Butch Hartman. I only own this story and my OCs. Also, I do not own the song Haunted, all rights belong to Taylor Swift. Anyway, enjoy the chapter! GhostWriterGirl out!

Chapter 21

Chapter 20: Fanning The Flames

Third Person P.O.V

Within the endless realm of the Ghost Zone, Tucker, Sam, Owen and Dustin(Ava didn't want to come after the last time she was in the GZ)were sitting in the Spectre Speeder, watching Danny and Nell(who were in their ghost forms)get pinned to the ground by a blue-skinned ghost in pyjamas. His name was Klemper, and besides Box Ghost, he was one of the most annoying ghosts in the Ghost Zone; in fact, if Box Ghost wasn't around, he would have won first prize for "The Most Annoying Nuisance In The Ghost Zone."

On their ears, Tucker, Sam, Owen and Dustin were wearing Jack and Maddie's latest invention; the Fenton Phones.

"UGH! GET OFF, KLEMPER!" Danny and Nell both demanded.

"But I just want to be your friend!" Klemper exclaimed in a grating, nasally voice as he picked Danny and Nell up and pulled them into a hug, much to the latter two's annoyance and discomfort.

"Can someone please remind me why this was a good idea?" Danny asked.

"I'm starting to get jealous of Ava staying at home and you guys staying in the Spectre Speeder and not worry about being crushed to death by this nuisance," Nell commented, charging up her hands with electricity in case she needed to electrocute the ghost to get him to let go of her and Danny.

"Hey, you two were the ones who wanted to map out the Ghost Zone," Sam reminded them through her Fenton Phones.

"You're also the only ones who don't have to wear these stupid Fenton Phones," Tucker added, not liking the Fenton Phones.

He pushed a button on his PDA, which began to play this new song called Remember through the Fenton Phones. Sam and Dustin cringed at the song and glared at Tucker while Owen began to hum along. Both Sam and Dustin didn't like this song that Tucker started listening to, though they also knew that Nell didn't mind it.

"Good thing they also work as wireless earphones, because these things are a fashion don't," Tucker said.

"They're not supposed to look good, Tuck; they're designed so that they can filter out spectral noise so that we can communicate with each other while we're in the Ghost Zone," Nell informed Tucker as she and Danny continued to try to get out of Klemper's grip. Klemper pinned them both to the ground and tried hugging them again.

"Like when we say things like 'Help get this thing off us!'" Danny exclaimed as he and Nell used their legs to keep Klemper back.

Sam looked at the Fenton Phones in the Spectre Speeder's rear view mirror and said, "They're not stupid. I think they make great techno-Goth earrings."

"Plus, I think Ava might like them as earrings as well," Dustin commented, looking at the pair meant for Ava and thinking how he would personalise it for his sister; Dustin was also in his true ghostly form, and his spectral glow dimly lit up the Speeder's small cabin.

"Really? Hey, maybe I should give a pair to Paulina?" Danny asked out loud, before Klemper grabbed him by his mouth and Nell by her neck.

"Yes, Danny, that's what I'm saying. Give a pair to Paulina," Sam grumbled, annoyed that Danny didn't get that her comment was directed towards her. Tucker, and even Owen, continued to dance along to the song, Dustin just shaking his head at them.

Danny and Nell finally managed to get out of Klemper's iron-like grip and flew off, their legs fusing into spectral tails. But before they could get very far, Klemper grabbed their hands and pulled them down to face him. He then froze them completely solid with his ice breath; however, Danny and Nell activated their ghostly energy, Nell's energy combined with her electrical powers, and blasted themselves out of the ice. Danny saw a fridge behind Klemper that the pyjama-wearing ghost didn't notice, and his eyes widened. Quickly whispering a plan to Nell, Danny flew off and made Klemper chase him while Nell stood at the fridge, hands charged with electricity, ready to do her part in Danny's plan.

Danny made Klemper follow him to the fridge. He opened the door and quickly jumped out of the way and Nell jumped behind Klemper and blasted a bolt of electricity at Klemper's back, making him shoot off like a rocket into the icy cold realm that was inside the fridge door.

They both closed the fridge shut and Danny blasted the handle off. The two give each other a high-five and flew back to the Spectre Speeder, phasing inside it. They both shivered, thanks to Klemper freezing them, and rubbed their hands together to try to get warm. Nell leaned against Owen to try to get warm, and managed to get warm again, thanks to her strategy, and also to her electric core.

Danny, meanwhile, was still shivering.

"Can a ghost get frostbite?" Danny asked as he continued to rub his hands together and blew on them.

"Oh here, my hands are warm," Sam said as she grabbed Danny's hands.

Danny and Sam blushed and smiled weakly at each other at realising they were practically holding hands. However, they both cringed when they heard Tucker singing, "EMBER! GO EMBER! REMEMBER! EMBER! REMEMBER!"

Nell and Dustin had their hands clasped firmly over their ears to try to block out Tucker's singing. Owen, luckily, had the Fenton Phones playing Remember on his ears, so he couldn't hear Tucker's horrible singing.

Danny chuckled a bit as he took his hands back and placed them on his ears as he said, "I think I'm gonna need my hands for this."

"TUCKER, CAN YOU STOP PLEASE?!" Nell and Dustin asked Tucker in a loud voice, but Tucker kept right on singing.

Sam turned the Spectre Speeder around and headed back through the Fenton Portal where, after she and Nell got out of the Speeder, the two decided to visit Ava to tell her what happened in the Ghost Zone when she wasn't there, Dustin joining them as all. Even though he was dead, his house was still his house, and Ava was still his little sister.

…

At Ava's House

Nell's P.O.V

It was a few minutes later.

Dustin was in his human disguise, holding my hand, as me, him and Sam walked up to the Thornes' front doorstep. I knocked on the door to alert Ava's parents to us being here. I really wanted to talk with my only female friend aside from Sam, Valerie and Star, and I knew Sam wanted to as well. We both wanted to tell Ava how annoying Tucker was as he kept singing(terribly)all the way back home, and how amazing the Ghost Zone was and how she should come with us next time.

A muffled shout of, "Comin'!" and the shuffling of footsteps inside told me that Ava's mom was coming to answer the door. I looked at Dustin and saw that he looked a bit… jumpy. His eyes were looking everywhere and his hand felt clammy in mine; and not just because he was dead. I gave his hand a gentle squeeze and smiled an encouraging smile at him.

"You okay, Dusty?" I asked.

"Yeah; just nervous," he answered. He looked at his old house and continued, "It's just… despite visiting Ava, it's been nearly three years since I've seen my parents since, well… since I died and became a ghost. I'm just nervous about facing my parents again and that they might recognise me."

"But Dustin, don't you want your parents to know that, even though you died, you're not actually gone?" I asked.

"I do. But I want to tell them when I feel like the time is right. Both me and Ava agreed we should tell them together, and when we feel like the time's right," Dustin told me, squeezing my hand gently back.

I gave him another encouraging smile-just as the door opened.

Mrs. Thorne was behind it, a smile on her face and her brown eyes warm.

"Nell! Sam! Dust! What are you three doin' here?" Mrs. Thorne asked us in her heavy Southern accent; Mrs. Thorne was originally from Savannah, Georgia, but she fell in love with Ava's and Dustin's father and moved here to his hometown-good old Amity Park.

Dustin tensed a bit, but relaxed when he saw that Mrs. Thorne didn't recognise him.

"Well, we just wanted to come over and talk to Ava for a bit. Is she here?" I asked.

Mrs. Thorne gave us another warm smile.

"Yes, she is. Do you want me ta tell her you're here?" Mrs. Thorne asked us.

"Nah, we'll surprise her," I answered, the three of us walking inside.

Before we went to the stairs Mrs. Thorne tapped Dustin's shoulder. He turned around, as did I, and we saw that Mrs. Thorne's brow was lightly furrowed.

"Do I know you? From before this, I mean?" she asked.

Dustin tensed again before answering, "No, I'm sure you haven't."

"Mrs. Thorne, this is my boyfriend, Dust Thornton. Dust, this is Ava's mother, Mrs. Thorne," I introduced. I looked at Mrs. Thorne. "I'm pretty sure you guys haven't met before."

Mrs. Thorne's frown disappeared and she gave a friendly smile to Dustin, holding out a hand.

"Hi, Dust. I'm Julie Thorne, Ava's mother. She's mentioned you a bit, though she says you're Nell's boyfriend," Mrs. Thorne introduced back.

Dustin snapped out of his tense state and shook his mother's hand, smiling.

"Hi, Mrs. Thorne. I had no idea that Ava mentioned me. It's good to meet you," Dustin said.

"Well, at least I get to see my daughter's best friend's boyfriend now," Mrs. Thorne said back. She frowned a bit. "Has anyone told you your hands feel a bit cold?"

Dustin's smile faltered a bit, but his smile stayed.

"No. No one's told me that before."

Before Mrs. Thorne could say anything, I aske, "Hey, Mrs. Thorne, is it okay if we go see Ava now? Please?"

Mrs. Thorne snapped out of her confusion and smiled again.

"Oh, of course. Sorry, I shouldn't be keeping you from seein' Ava. Go ahead," Mrs. Thorne told us.

I smiled at her again. Gently grabbing Dustin's hand, me, Dustin and Sam headed to the stairs and walked up them, before going to Ava's room.

We went past Dustin's room(yes, he still slept in his old room, despite being a ghost)and had almost reached Ava's room when we heard what sounded like the beginning of Taylor Swift's song, Haunted.

"What the-" Sam started to say, confused, but me and Dustin motioned for her to be quiet.

"Listen," I whispered, as we now crept to Ava's room, her door halfway closed.

We opened the door a fraction and peeked in just as Ava started to sing.

And I say "sing", I mean "sing".

"'You and I walk a fragile line,

I have known it all this time.

But I never though I'd live to see it break.

It's getting dark and it's all too quiet

And I can't trust anything now.

And it's coming over you like it's all a big mistake.

Oooh, I'm holding my breath.

Woah, won't see you again.

Something's made your eyes go cold.

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out.

Something's gone terribly wrong

You're all I wanted.

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out.

Can't breathe whenever you're gone.

Can't turn back now, I'm haunted.

Stood there and watched you walk away.

From everything we had

But I still mean every word I said, to you.

He will try to take away my pain.

And he just might make me smile.

But the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead.

Ooh, I'm holding my breath.

Woah, won't lose you again.

Something keeps me holding onto nothing!

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out.

Something's gone terribly wrong

You're all I wanted.

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out.

Can't breath whenever you're gone.

Can't turn back now, I'm haunted.'"

We dared to open the door wider and watched as Ava paused as the song's instrumentals began again. Her curly brown hair wasn't in her trademark ponytail and was tumbling down her back. She wore a black Harry Potter shirt she bought when the fourth movie came out, black jeans with white-and-black sneakers, and her glasses were on her desk. In that moment, Ava looked determined, confident, happy, and in her element.

She drew in a breath and began her clear, wonderful singing again.

"'I know… I know… I just know…

You're not gone. You can't be gone. No!

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this!

I though I had you figured out.

Something's gone terribly wrong

Won't you finish what you started?

Come on, come on, don't leave me like this

I thought I had you figured out.

Can't breathe whenever you're gone.

Can't go back now, I'm haunted.

Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh.

You and I walk a fragile line.

I have known it all this time.

Never ever thought I'd see it break.

Never though I'd see it…'"

She clicked off her MP3 before the song could begin again and turned around, smoothing her brown curls down. And it was at that moment she noticed us.

"Nell! Sam! Dustin! What are you doing here?" It was word to word what her mother had said downstairs-save that she said Dustin's full name.

"Whoa, Ava, I didn't know you could sing like that," Sam said to her, still awestruck at hearing Ava's singing voice.

Ava reddened and looked down. "I'm not that good…"

"Ava, are you serious!? You sung as good as Taylor Swift herself-maybe even better!" I told her, not believing that she thought she didn't sound as good as she did.

Ava looked up, a glimmer of pride in her eyes. "Well, I was always told that I could sing a bit better than even the ones singing the sing originally…"

"Darling Ava, where did you get a voice like that? You must be an angel or something," Dustin said to his little sister, smiling at her.

"Dustin, you're my big brother, you're supposed to say that…" Ava protested half-heartedly.

"Ava, both Nell and Dustin have a point. You're really good," Sam complimented. "Have you ever thought of going into the music business after school or something?"

"It has crossed my mind," Ava admitted.

"Then why don't you give it a go? I could write you songs, Dustin could be your background guitarist, and I'm sure Sam has connections in the music business," I encouraged. Sam and Dustin looked at me curiously.

"I want to be a songwriter," I admitted.

"I agree with Nell, Ava. You have real talent," Sam agreed. "Like she said, we could help you become a singer if you want. I have a small recording studio in my house you can use, Nell could write songs for you, Dustin could be a background guitarist for you, and I think I can wrangle up some connections in the music business."

"No," Ava answered, tone firm. "Look, I appreciate what you're saying, and maybe when I'm older, I'll take it. But… I don't think I can have the courage performing for heaps of people, you know? What if I mess up? What if I have one good song and the next one is a dud? No one's interested in a one-hit wonder."

Sam wanted to protest, but I could see we were losing the argument. So we let it drop and instead talked, telling Ava about the Ghost Zone, how annoying Klemper was, how weird Tucker's and Owen's obsession with the new singer, Ember McLain, was, and how bad Tucker's singing was.

Eventually, me and Sam had to leave while Dustin remained behind, and I couldn't help but think that maybe, Ava could have a bright career as a singer, and how I could be her anonymous songwriter, and how she could be more than a one-hit wonder.

But for now, she didn't want to be a singer, and I respected that.

But I had a feeling we would probably need Ava to sing and go on stage sooner than she, or any of us, thought.

…

Tomorrow

Third Person P.O.V

The next day at Casper High, Tucker was wearing a black shirt with a blue flame on it and a purple beret that had the blue flame and the letter "e", which stood for Ember McLain, the mysterious new singer everyone was going crazy for. Owen was also wearing a jacket that had a blue flame going up along the sleeves and sides and a large blue flame with an "e" in it on the back and a black shirt that matched Tucker's.

Sam, Nell and Ava were wearing the Fenton Phones, with Ava's having the green part being an electric purple with a sliver stripe running through the middle(Dustin had painted the green part as a means of personalising them for Ava; he promised Nell and Sam that he would also personalise their own Fenton Phones), deciding that they looked cool to wear.

As the group walked down the hallway to class, Ember's song Remember played loudly on Tucker's PDA. At first, Nell didn't mind the song, but having Tucker and Owen play it non-stop at whatever chance they got made her start getting annoyed with it.

"I don't get it. This Ember McLain comes out of nowhere and suddenly, she's the biggest thing since MP3s. It's so…" Danny began and Sam cut in, "Infuriating how mindless, pre-packaged corporate bubblegum is preventing true musical artists from being heard?"

At that last part, Sam, Nell and Dustin looked at Ava meaningfully and the bookworm of the group blushed deeply and ducked her head, not wanting attention being drawn to her singing hobby.

"I was gonna say 'weird', but okay," Danny said. Sam smiled. Nell added, "I know, even Jazz and Holly are going nuts for Ember. At first, I kinda liked her song, but with Jazz, Holly and Owen playing it nonstop every chance they get, it's gotten kind of annoying."

"And even Star and Valerie like her; they usually hate rockstars," Ava put in as well.

"What about Taylor Swift?" Nell asked.

"That's different; she's a pop star, not a rockstar. There's a difference," Ava clarified.

"Ember's not just about music. She's an expression of my unique individuality," Tucker said with satisfaction.

"Mine too," Owen added.

When they turned around the corner, they all stopped as the group save for Tucker and Owen went wide-eyed as they saw what looked to be the entire school wearing clothes that are related to Ember McLain. There was now even posters that said "Ember" or that Ember rocks or that had pictures of the teen idol, who was seen as having blue flaming hair in a ponytail, crazy black eyeliner, green eyes, and wearing a black tank top that exposed both her midriff and one shoulder, black leather pants, a grey studded belt and grey skull-like combat boots, with one hand covered in an arm-long black glove and wearing black bracelets on her other wrist and a black choker on her neck.

"Oh yeah, you're one of a kind! Every single one of you two," Sam commented sarcastically.

Paulina walked up to the group and noticed the Fenton Phones that Nell, Sam and Ava were wearing. She snickered and asked sarcastically, "Nice earrings. Sale at the Eighty-Nine Cent Store?"

"For your information, Paulina, they're a gift. Danny gave them to me," Sam retorted back.

"Really, he gave you earrings? HEH! Always knew you two losers would end up together," Paulina said. She sneered at Ava and Nell.

"Don't think wearing those earrings makes you two any less of a couple of freaks. Just don't wear those earrings at the cheer practice, Ava," Paulina added snidely at them before walking away.

"WE'RE/THEY'RE NOT FREAKS!" Nell, Ava and Dustin shouted, at the same time Sam shouted, "WE'RE NOT LOSERS!"

"We're not together!" Danny exclaimed.

All five of them cringed as Tucker and Owen sang out loud, "EMBER! GO EMBER! EMBER! REMEMBER! EMBER! GO EMBER!"

Tucker and Owen cringed when Sam and Danny shouted at Tucker, while Nell, Ava and Dustin shouted at Owen at the same time, "WILL YOU TWO KEEP IT DOWN!?"

"Hey, check it out! The lovebirds are ganging up on Foley!" Dash teased.

"WE'RE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" Danny and Sam shouted, looking at each other once before giving Dash a glare.

"Yeah! And that freak and her scary boyfriend are teaming up with hers and Fenton #1's brother's girlfriend to gang up on Fenton #3," a random person called out.

Nell and Dustin gave whoever called out dark glares, not bothering to shout back. However, that sentence seemed to have snapped Owen out of his obsession with Ember as he and Ava shouted at the same time, "WE'RE NOT A COUPLE!", giving each other the same looks as Danny and Sam gave to each other before giving whoever called out their own glares.

…

Later

A few minutes later, all of them were in Mr. Lancer's classroom, but this time they were sitting in front of three computer screens on each of their desks and wearing some sort of helmet.

"As you know, the North-Western Standardised Testing starts in two days, and because my bonus is proportional to your grades, we've installed the Cram-Tastic Mark 5; the latest in state-of-the-art subliminal study and technology. Let the learning begin!" Mr. Lancer announced and clicked the red button on the machine to start it.

Suddenly, instead of educational excerpts from textbooks, the computer screens were showing Ember singing her song Remember from one of her live concerts. While most of the students cheered for their idol, Danny, Sam, Ava, Dustin and even Nell, who was getting annoyed at listening to Ember's song hundreds of times despite liking it, removed their helmets in annoyance.

Mr. Lancer pressed the "Off" button and opened the disc hatch, to see what happened; it was revealed that someone had put a CD of one of Ember's live concerts in there instead of the intended study disc. Mr. Lancer pulled out the CD disc and gave all the students a glare.

But when he was about to say something, loud drums could be heard everywhere. Mr. Lancer looked at Tucker, instantly thinking it was his PDA playing the music.

"FOLEY! Turn off that blasted PDA!" Mr. Lancer demanded as he threw the disc, which knocked the PDA out of Tucker's hand.

"It's not me! It's coming from outside!" Tucker exclaimed and gestured to the window.

All the students in the room took off their helmets and ran over to the window. They watched as a truck with a stage on the back that had a banner that said "Ember" pulled up in front of the school. Suddenly, in a flash of purple smoke, Ember McLain herself appeared on the stage, holding her signature purple guitar. More smoke came and behind her stood a zombie-like drummer and two guitarists.

"'Yeah, yeah!

Ooo, ooo-ooooh!'"

As Ember started to sing and play her guitar, the whole of Casper High came running out, screaming and cheering for the teen sensation.

"HELLO CASPER HIGH! TELL ME WHO YOU LOVE?!" Ember shouted through the microphone.

"EMBER! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER!" the students cheered and Ember threw her head back as her hair started flaring up.

"That's it babies, say my name! Are you all ready for a little youth revolution!?" Ember shouted again, causing the students to scream and cheer for her more.

While Danny, Nell, Sam, Ava and Dustin just stood at the front doors doing nothing but watch, Tucker and Owen jumped into the crowd and got carried up above the crowd's heads.

"WE LOVE YOU EMBER!" Tucker and Owen cheered.

"That's because I fill a void in your empty lives!" Ember exclaimed.

"YOU'RE DARN RIGHT EMBER!" the two cheered back-just as Danny and Nell gasped and their eyes widened as their ghost senses went off.

"Uh-oh," the two muttered as they looked around for the ghost, since they knew it wasn't Dustin who set off their ghost senses.

Mr. Lancer came out into the crowd with a megaphone and stood on top of a fire hydrant; there was no way he was going to let this woman disrupt his students' valuable learning!

"Attention freakishly dressed teen idol! I order you to cease and desist!" Mr. Lancer demanded through the megaphone.

"Desist this, grandpa!" Ember retorted back. She turned the dial of her guitar to a picture of a spiral and strummed the strings hard.

A visible purple, spiralling wave of energy came and hit some of the students, whose eyes turned glowing, pupil-less red. They turned around and growled at Mr. Lancer in anger, looking like they were ready to attack him.

"Pride And Prejudice!" Mr. Lancer screamed in fright and jumped off the fire hydrant.

"Ember's the ghost!? Oh my gosh!" Danny and Nell exclaimed at the same time.

They both transformed into their ghost forms and shouted in unison, "We gotta save Lancer!"

"Wow! This is bittersweet," Danny remarked in shock, before he became determined again.

"Tell me about it," Nell muttered in agreement, while thinking, Ember's a ghost!? And that means I have to suck her inside the Fenton Thermos and send her back to the Ghost Zone. Oh well; she was cool while she lasted.

Getting a determined look on her face as well, Nell and Danny flew off to Mr. Lancer to save him from the hypnotised students.

As the students began to advance on the terrified, out-of-shape teacher, Danny and Nell flew down to save him. While Nell sent out a low-level electric pulse that knocked some-though not all-of the students back, Danny grabbed hold of a still-terrified Mr. Lancer and turned both himself and the teacher intangible. Nell also managed to turn intangible just as the students she hadn't knocked back from her electric pulse ran right through her, Danny and Mr. Lancer. They both turned tangible again and Danny let go of Mr. Lancer and he and Nell flew off to take care of Ember, leaving a now-tangible Mr. Lancer to be confused as to why he hadn't been trampled by the students.

"Alright, now to knock the pop princess off the-" Danny started to say, only for him and Nell to find out that the truck was gone; and so was Ember.

"Charts?" Danny finished, confused.

Sam, Ava and Dustin walked up to a completely dazed Tucker and Owen. They both shook their heads and frowned when they saw Ember wasn't there.

"Hey! No encore? What's that all about?!" Tucker exclaimed bitterly.

…

Tomorrow

The next day, it was far worse.

Nell and Danny had woken up to see that Holly and Jazz were wearing clothes and eyeliner like Ember and Holly had even dyed her normally black hair the same blue as Ember's flaming ponytail; it was starting to freak Nell and Danny out. Nell, Dustin and Sam had begged Ava to record herself singing a song to see if it would beat Ember, but Ava had been adamant that her singing wasn't the thing to stop Ember, but Nell's and Danny's ghost powers and sucking Ember into the Fenton Thermos was, so the three reluctantly stopped, but still hoped Ava would sing to stop Ember, even if it was their last option.

Mr. Lancer was now walking down the hallway at Casper High, holding some magazines about Ember.

"Ember? Ember? Ember? If I see one hint of that woman in school today, I'll-" he started to say, but stopped and froze as he looked and saw that all the students were wearing Ember merchandise and posters and banners were still hung up everywhere.

"Chicken Soup For The Soul!?" Mr. Lancer exclaimed in shock.

Danny, Nell, Sam, Ava and Dustin walked up to Tucker, who was not only wearing his Ember T-shirt, but also wearing black eyeliner styled like hers, skull-like combat boots like hers and a blue flame wig, and Owen, who not only wore his Ember T-shirt and jacket, but also the same eyeliner and a small blue flaming ponytail wig and a black choker like Ember's. Both their Ember-fied outfits, makeup and wigs earned them strange looks from their friends and Owen's adoptive brother and half-sister.

"Tucker, you're starting to scare me-and I fight ghosts," Danny commented.

"Same here, Owe. No offence, but are you trying to be a drag queen version of her?" Nell added.

"It's an Ember thing. You two wouldn't understand it," Tucker said back.

"Uh, you two do realise that she's an evil, mind-controlling spirt from another dimension?" Sam asked them.

"Yeah, but you said the same thing about Paulina," Owen retorted back.

"You know, he has a point," Danny agreed.

"Hey everyone!" Paulina shouted, coming up to them.

"Speak of the devil," Nell, Sam, Ava and Dustin muttered at the same time, glaring at Paulina; who was also wearing an Ember-inspired outfit, makeup and sporting her own ponytail wig.

"Ember's giving away free concert tickets at Bucky's Mega Music Store!" Paulina announced.

She looked at Tucker and Owen and complimented, "Nice hair!"

"Thanks! Nice hair!" Tucker and Owen complimented back.

All the students-excluding Danny, Nell, Sam, Ava and Dustin-ran towards the front doors of the school, chanting, "EMBER! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER! EMBER!"

Mr. Lancer blocked the doorway and shouted, "You people aren't going anywhere except-"

He was suddenly cut off as the students knocked him over as they ran straight out the doors, his cry of, "Detention!" drowned out by the students' continuous chant of, "EMBER!"

Danny grabbed onto Tucker's arm, while Sam held onto Danny, as they tried to pull him back and Nell rammed the left side of her body and placed her right hand on Owen's chest as she shoved him back from the front and Ava wrapped her arms tightly around Owen's middle and dug her heels into the ground and Dustin held onto his sister by also wrapping his arms around her middle, Nell and Dustin using some of their ghostly strength, the five of them trying to keep the two Ember-obsessed boys from leaving the building.

"Must… have… Ember… tix's!" Tucker exclaimed with determination as he and Owen struggled against their friends, Owen also struggling against his sister.

"We're gonna have to deprogram Tucker," Sam said.

"Ditto that for Owen over here!" Nell, Dustin and Ava called out to her.

Danny and Sam looked at each other and saw that Sam's arms were wrapped around Danny. The two immediately let go, whistling in embarrassment. Owen snapped out of his obsession with Ember to notice that Ava's arms were wrapped around him as well, and Ava let go as well and the two also started whistling.

…

Later

A few minutes later, they were all in the room where the Cram-Tastic Mark 5 was.

Sam finished tying up Tucker while Nell finished tying up Owen, both boys seated in front of one of the computer screens each, helmets on both their heads. Dustin turned on the machine and the five let the machine do it's work.

"This is where the healing starts," Sam said. They left the classroom and headed towards Danny's locker.

"I still don't get why we're not affected by Ember's music," Danny wondered as he intangibly put his arm through his locker and started rummaging around inside for his Fenton Thermos.

"Neither do I," Nell agreed, sending an invisible duplicate to get hers, Dustin's and Ava's Fenton Thermoses.

"Maybe because of you two's ghost powers, Dustin being a ghost and my-" Sam began to say, but was cut off as Danny suggested, intangibly pulling his thermos out and turning his arm and the thermos tangible again, "Individuality, or intelligence?"

At that moment, Nell's duplicate had come back, handing the real Nell the three thermoses and disappeared, the energy going back to Nell. Nell handed Dustin and Ava their own Fenton Thermoses as Nell strapped her own to her hip.

"I was gonna say 'Utter disdain for anything popular,' but okay," Sam said, blushing.

"You really think I'm smart?" Sam asked, causing Danny to blush at the question.

"But I still don't know what's keeping Ava from being affected by Ember's music," Nell mused, with Ava suggesting, "Maybe it's the Fenton Phones?"

Before Nell could say anything, and as she and Dustin smirked at Danny's and Sam's blushing, they suddenly heard, "Not so fast!"

They looked up to see a bruised Mr. Lancer glaring down at them as he began, "Your sister, her boyfriend, her friend, and you two lovebirds may be the only students left in the entire school…"

"WE'RE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" Danny and Sam exclaimed.

"But that's not gonna stop me from giving you five an education," Mr. Lancer finished as he grabbed the five of them by their arms and dragged them with him to a random classroom.

All five of them smirked as they trailed behind him. Nell and Dustin turned intangible and invisible, holding not only each other's hands, but Dustin held Ava's hand as well, also turning her invisible and intangible, the threesome shortly phasing out of Lancer's grip. Danny held Sam's hand and turned them both invisible and intangible. They both phased out of Mr. Lancer's grip shortly after, and all five of them flew off and invisibly phased out of the school.

Mr. Lancer entered the classroom and gasped as he noticed that they were no longer with him. He looked at the empty hallway and exclaimed, "Lord Of The Flies! They're slipping right through my hands!"

…

Later

As they flew over to Bucky's Mega Music Store-where there was a cardboard Ember on the store's roof-Danny and Nell were in their ghost forms while Dustin was out of his human disguise, the latter holding onto Ava as he and Nell flew together, Sam holding onto Danny as they flew together as well.

As Nell, Dustin and Ava flew ahead of them, they briefly noticed Sam smiling dreamily at Danny. Danny looked at her and asked, "Are you okay, Sam?"

"Huh? Oh, it's just really nice up here, that's all. Flying's nice," Sam answered nervously and blushed.

Dustin, Nell and Ava shook their heads, smiling knowingly, before turning back and landing on the roof; however, Danny-who had looked back and blushed as well-was distracted and he and Sam crashed into the cutout of Ember and fell on the roof in front of a smirking Nell, Ava, and Dustin.

"Falling stinks!" Sam commented.

"Lovebirds," Nell, Dustin and Ava whispered to each other as they shook their heads at Danny and Sam.

…

A few seconds later

The group phased into the store, where they saw students cheering for Ember, who was standing on a platform above them and throwing them concert tickets.

"TELL ME WHO YOU LOVE?!"

"EMBER! EMBER! EMBER!" the students chanted and Ember's hair flared up even higher as he body glowed green, her hair looking even more like fire as it flared up higher and higher.

"Something tells me they're not going to love seeing their idol being sucked inside the Fenton Thermos," Danny said.

Sam and Ava smiled at each other as they thought of an idea and said at the same time, "I think me and Ava can distract them/Leave it to us. Fly us over to that cardboard Ember over there, please."

Danny and Dustin flew the Goth girl and bookworm over to the cardboard Ember and invisibly hid with Nell, waiting for the right moment.

The crowd kept calling Ember's name as her hair flared up more and more… until they saw Sam draw on the cardboard Ember's face and Ava finish spray painting the cardboard Ember's shirt, glove and choker bright neon pink.

"Hey everybody! Look, it's Ember McLame!" Sam exclaimed, insulting Ember.

"Wearing bright pink and looking absolutely garish in it!" Ava added, also insulting Ember.

Ember glared at the two girls and said, "Oh great, critics. Maybe you two will like my new song better!"

She turned the knob to the wave icon and was about to strum the strings. But before she could, Danny and Nell blasted her with a combined ghost ray, sending her flying.

"Hey, do you take requests? How about 'Beat it!'" Danny shouted.

"How about I just lay out a few power chords instead, dipsticks," Ember retorted back. She hit the strings of her guitar and sent out some sort of skull beam at them, just as Danny was about to uncap the Fenton Thermos.

The beam hit them both dead on and sent them flying back. The thermos flew out of Danny's hand and landed on the cardboard Ember that Sam and Ava were still hanging onto and Dustin was floating next to. Ember laughed evilly and teleported away in a spiralling circle of flames.

"Oh come on, another ghost cam do that?" Nell complained, before she and Danny phased through the roof to find Ember standing there.

Danny charged at her and grabbed her hands as they started to wrestle as Danny said sarcastically, "Dipsticks? HO! HO! Funny! Who writes your insults? The same hack who writes your songs?"

More people began changing Ember's name and Danny suddenly felt himself being overpowered by the flame-haired ghost songstress as she pushed him back. Danny struggled to get his hold back as Ember's hair flared up more. She gave him a grin as she continued to hold him back.

"Chanting… makes her stronger!" Danny realised through his struggling.

"You got that right, baby-pop. And the more kids chanting, the stronger I get!" Ember said as she flipped Danny over her shoulder.

Nell tried charging at her, electro-ghost ray ready to fire, but Ember caught her wrist and spun her around in a circle and threw her into Danny. They both crashed into the large cardboard cutout Ember, making it fall down on the roof, one end hanging over the edge. Danny and Nell both gasped as they saw Ember floating over them.

"You two think I'm strong now? Just wait until midnight, when my concert goes global, and the whole world's chanting my name! Then you'll all be my slaves!" Ember exclaimed. She slammed the strings of her guitar and sent a flame attack that hit them both dead on.

They screamed in pain, before they crashed into the roof, hard. Danny, feeling weak, instantly transformed back into human form, while Nell, whose stamina and endurance was a bit better than Danny's, recovered quickly and flew up to Ember, hands charged with white energy and green-white, crackling electricity.

"Okay, Ember, I liked your song before, but you taking over the world… not going to happen on my watch!" Nell yelled. She held up her hands and fired a ghost ray at Ember, hitting her square in the chest. Charging up another ghost ray, Nell shouted as she aimed an electro-ghost ray at a recovered Ember, "You'll have to take me down first before you take over the world-and I've got plenty of fight in me! Not to mention you seriously ticked me off when you hurt my brother!"

"Bring it on, dipstick!" Ember shouted as she turned the knob to the skull icon. Strumming the strings, she sent out the skull beam again, but Nell quickly put up an electric white ghost shield, diverting the beam. Nell smirked as she put down her shield and saw Ember, who looked furious.

"I guess your 'power chords' are getting a bit weak, Flame-Brain!" Nell taunted.

Ember yelled in anger and sent out another skull beam, but Nell deflected it with a bolt of electricity. She then sent ray after ray of normal ghost rays, explosive ghost rays, electro-ghost rays, explosive electro-ghost rays, electric pulses and electric blasts, but the female ghost either dodged them all or used her guitar as shield. Whenever Nell had finished firing a ghost ray, she had to quickly put up a ghost shield or fire a ghost ray or electric blast to deflect an attack from Ember. Ember sent out another flame attack at Nell from her guitar, but Nell quickly put up a ghost shield, and fired an electric blast at Ember as soon as the flame attack had disappeared.

"Is that all you got, Lighting Rod?!" Ember shouted at Nell.

"I'm just getting warmed up, Flame-Brain!" Nell retorted back, before shooting a ghost ray at Ember.

The two were so distracted in getting the upper hand, that they didn't notice the roof stairwell's door slamming open to reveal Sam and Dustin-back in his human disguise-both holding Fenton Thermoses, Ava right behind them.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM/HER!" Sam and Dustin shouted in unison, Sam running in front of Danny, who was standing up and holding his head in pain.

Ember, seeing an opportunity, sent a flame attack that hit Nell dead on and sent her crashing to the roof. She felt very weak, but stubbornly remained in her ghost form.

Dustin saw this, and his eyes went wide when he realised his girlfriend was probably hurt.

"NELL!" Dustin screamed, running over to her and helping her up.

"Are you all right?" Dustin asked, concerned.

"I'm fine," Nell answered, before she stood up defiantly despite feeling weak from Ember's last attack. The two, along with Ava, ran over and stood beside Sam, but Nell, although strong enough to stay in ghost form, was too weak to charge up even a weak ghost ray.

"Aw, teen love! They say it never lasts, but nothing distracts teenagers more than hormones. And I need to keep you two busy for the next eight hours," Ember said. She turned the dial to a heart icon and continued, "I have more than just music for you. Now that they're chanting my name, my music can affect you! How about a love song!?"

She strummed the strings and the pink-coloured blast hit all five of them dead on. Sam, Ava, Nell and Dustin were blasted, but the latter two managed to fly up above the blast and avoid getting knocked back onto the other end of the cardboard Ember, but Sam and Ava weren't as lucky. As they were flung onto the other end of the cardboard Ember thanks to the blast, the cutout came close to falling off the edge of the building. Nell, feeling extremely weak after that last blast, finally transformed back to human form and almost fell unconscious, falling back on the roof and Dustin landed beside her, looking at Nell with worry and concern.

Once the blast was finished, Danny smiled dreamily and gave a lovesick look to Sam, which earned him confused looks from Sam and Ava. Dustin and Nell gave each other concerned looks before glaring at Ember, Nell changing back into her ghost form, though she still felt weak and stumbled a bit, feeling dizzy. Dustin, seeing this, held Nell steady as she rightened herself, but she accidentally changed back to human form.

"Crud," she whispered, realising she was probably too weak now to stay in ghost form.

"Well, I think I'll leave the new couples alone. Chao babies!" Ember said, before she turned intangible and phased back into the building, laughing.

"'New couples'? What the heck is she talking about?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, the only couple here is Nell and Dustin; and they're hardly a new couple!" Ava agreed. Nell and Dustin only gave each other confused looks, before looking at Sam and Ava on the cardboard Ember, and gasped.

For Danny, who still had that lovesick look on his face, was beginning to crawl on the cardboard Ember towards them.

"Uh, Danny, now might be a good time to go ghost and fly us out of here," Sam said.

But Danny kept crawling towards them. Sam, Ava, Nell and Dustin noticed that the cutout Ember was becoming more unbalanced the more Danny got closer to them. Nell, seeing how much danger they were in, transformed into her ghost form despite still feeling exhausted from that last attack, and she and Dustin flew over to Danny, Sam and Ava, though Nell's flight was slower than usual.

"DANNY, WAIT!" they all shouted in unison, while Sam asked, "What are you doing?"

"Wow! I just never realised, Sam… you're really pretty when you're about to fall off a building," Danny said as he stopped in the middle of the board. He stood up and was about to walk towards Sam and Ava.

"Danny, get back! DANNY!" Sam shouted.

"Danny, stop!" Ava shouted, trying to keep the board balanced as she waited for Nell and Dustin to arrive.

"Don't come any closer," Sam added, her hand outstretched in an effort to tell him to not come any closer.

"But, you're over there and I'm over here. I wanna be over there," Danny said.

Before Sam or Ava could say anything, Nell and Dustin had finally managed to fly over there towards them, Nell's flight a bit more faster than earlier before. Nell grabbed Sam and Danny by their arms while Dustin picked up Ava bridal style. The two turned invisible, also turning Danny, Sam and Ava invisible, and flew over to a deserted alley beside the store, turning visible again. Nell let go of Danny and Sam while Dustin gently put down Ava, the Goth girl and bookworm glad that they were standing on solid ground again.

And not a moment too soon, for the board fell down and crushed the school bus, Mr. Lancer jumping out of the way after announcing everyone was under house arrest, with all the teens thrown into SWAT vans.

Dash and Kwan walked up to the broken board and exclaimed in unison, "EMBER, WE LOVE YOU!"

"Okay, that was close!" Nell said, after she and Dustin turned them all invisible to avoid the SWAT teams.

"Tell me about it!" Sam and Ava agreed.

"What the heck happened back there?" Dustin inquired, looking at Sam and a still dreamy-eyed Danny.

"Well, we got hit by Ember's pink music, as did you guys, and… Wait, I know that look. That's the same, longing, puppy-dog stare you give to Paulina!" Sam started to explain, before recognising the look Danny was still giving her.

"It must be some sort of love spell from Ember's guitar! She's made him think that you and he are a couple and tried to make Nell think she and Dustin are a couple as well," Ava added as she realised what Sam was talking about as well.

"But she didn't know that me and Dustin were a couple already, so her spell didn't affect us like it did Danny," Nell finished.

"Who's Paulina?" Danny asked dreamingly, not hearing a word that Ava or Nell said.

"That's a pleasant side-effect," Sam admitted, smirking. Nell, Ava and Dustin nodded in agreement.

"A really pleasant side-effect," Nell, Ava and Dustin said in unison, before Nell groaned.

"Great. Not only do we have to deal with a mind-controlling Ember, but we also have to deal with a lovesick Danny. Just great," Nell sighed, shaking her head. She turned to Ava, along with Sam and Dustin, the three thinking the same thing.

"Ava, Ember's too strong for me to take on alone; you saw how powerful she is already. I think we're gonna have to try out that idea we talked about earlier to see if you can drown out Ember. You might be the only person who can," Nell told her friend.

"But first, we have to drop off Mr. Lovesick here back home," Sam added, frowning at Danny.

"No!" Danny whined, not liking the idea of being away from Sam.

"Ava, I think I've got the perfect debut song for you to sing," Nell said to her friend. She noticed the uncomfortable look on Ava's face. "That is, if you want sing on stage, right? I won't pressure you into doing it if you don't want to."

Ava looked at her best friend and said firmly, "A part of me doesn't want to go up on stage and sing, but a bigger part of me knows that it's important to stop Ember and her mind-control music. So, I'm in! I even have a costume and a name I've been saving for a while…"

"You, Sam and Dustin go and get started at Sam's house. I'll drop off Danny, get the song, and meet you guys there," Nell told them. She gently grabbed Danny's arm and flew the both of them towards Fenton Works.

Arriving at Danny's/Owen's bedroom window, Nell turned both her and Danny intangible and phased them both inside, where she let go of Danny, turning tangible again.

"Sorry Danny, but until the spell is broken, you're safer here," Nell apologised to him.

"But I want to be with Sam!" Danny whined, giving her a pleading look.

"Danny, I'm really sorry about leaving you here, but until Ember's spell is broken, you're kinda a liability right now," Nell said to him, giving Danny an apologetic look. Turning intangible again, Nell phased through the bathroom that she, Owen and Danny shared and into her room. Turning tangible, she grabbed her songbook and shadow-travelled instantly to Sam's house.

…

Seconds later

Nell's P.O.V

I soon arrived in Sam's room, after shadow-travelling there. Changing back to human form, I walked out and headed to the recording studio, where Sam, Ava and Dustin were waiting. When I walked inside, I saw that Ava was testing out the microphone, and Sam and Dustin were in the booth part of the recording studio.

"Guys, I've got the…" I stopped when I saw what Ava was wearing.

She was wearing one of those Ember wigs that she dyed black with purple and gold highlights, the bottom part in a long plait and the top part styled even more like flames and standing almost straight up. She wore a long dark purple shirt that reached halfway past her thighs, a black circle on it in the centre with the right edge a gold sliver. She wore black leather tights, a black belt that had a charm that was the same symbol as on Ava's shirt and a silver crescent moon. She had knee-high black boots with silver crescent moons going along the sides in a row and that same black-circle-with-gold-sliver-on-right-edge on the front. She also wore a dark purple vest with silver crescent moons also going down the sides and that same symbol, only larger, on the back. Ava wore a necklace with a silver crescent moon pendant, silver crescent moon clip-on earrings and earrings that had that symbol dangling off a short gold chain like some sort of charms. Ava had purple lipstick, silver blush, black eyeshadow with gold shimmer, and she was also not wearing her glasses. She also wore silver and gold bangles on her right wrist and a black leather elbow-long glove on her left hand.

She looked awesome and beautiful. She looked, well, like a pop star.

"Ava, you look amazing!" I complimented, making her jump. Turning around, she relaxed when she saw me.

"Nell, you're here!" Ava cried, flinging her arms around me. She stepped back and twirled around. "What do ya think?"

"I think you look awesome," I said, smiling. I pointed to the strange black-and-gold symbol on her shirt. "What does that mean?"

"This? This is an representation of an eclipse. My pop star name is Diane Eclipse," Ava revealed. I grinned even wider.

"Good thing I chose this song. Just let me change a few lyrics and we're good to go," I told her, already erasing those earlier words I had written down.

After changing those lyrics, I folded the book-it was a notebook-and handed Ava the song, stepping out of the booth. Dustin had already recorded himself playing an electric guitar as a backing track for Ava, so after we finished recording the song, we edited the music to make sure it sounded all right and added the guitar while Sam left to make some calls.

"If we're gonna beat Ember, we need to pull out the big guns," Sam explained to us before going. As soon as we finished editing the song, Sam came back, grinning.

"Okay, I think we're good to go. Here, Ava," she said, before handing Ava a black case.

Ava popped it open and inside were two gold-coloured contact lenses.

"To help strengthen the disguise, I got these contact lenses for you. They're special lenses, so you can still see, even without your glasses," Sam explained. Ava smiled.

"Thanks Sam," she thanked, before covering up most of her outfit with a bulky trench coat and taking off the wig, placing it carefully in a bag, putting her glasses back on.

"Okay then, let's get going. Don't want you to miss your own show," I said, transforming into my ghost form.

"But first, we have to get Danny," Sam said.

"Danny? Isn't he still under Ember's spell?" Dustin asked, confused.

"Yeah, well, we'll need him to help Nell fight Ember after he snaps out of it," Sam explained. "Plus, I still got the Fenton Thermos so that we can suck Ember in afterwards."

"I just hope my singing is enough to stop Ember," Ava whispered. We gave her encouraging smiles, but inside, I agreed with her.

…

Later

Third Person P.O.V

A few minutes later, Nell, Dustin, Sam and Ava were back at Fenton Works. Sam had climbed up a ladder while Nell and Dustin held Ava. Inside, they saw Danny sitting on his bed, meditating, bits of stuff scattered over his bed.

"Sam. Sam," Danny said in a trance-like voice, before Sam knocked on the window.

Danny's eyes snapped open and he smiled when he saw Sam, not noticing Nell, Dustin or Ava.

"Sam! You snuck out to see me! Oh, this is just like Romeo And Juliet, except I'm the one on the balcony, and I can understand everything we're saying," Danny said happily.

"Danny, open up!" Sam demanded. Danny walked over and opened the window and allowed her to come in. Nell and Dustin, remembering that they had ghost powers, turned intangible and phased inside, along with Ava, turning tangible as soon as they were in Danny's room, Nell changing back to human form.

"You want me to open up? Okay! One time, when I was five, I really wanted a puppy, but my parents-" Danny began to say.

"Will you knock it off!? We have to stop Ember's concert before she takes over the world," Sam reminded him with a bit of annoyance.

"Yeah, and it's not like we're here either," Nell grumbled, getting a bit ticked of about how Danny always ignored them and focused entirely on Sam. She knew it was only Ember's spell, but she still hoped it would wear off soon. Ava and Dustin only nodded in agreement.

All four of them turned to Danny's bed and on it was pictures of Sam, notes from Sam that she passed to Danny in class, lipstick from Sam, and even some hair from Sam.

"Okay. Even though a part of me is kind of liking the attention is really freaked out by this," Sam said, weirded out.

"I'm getting freaked out here too," Nell agreed. She looked at Dustin. "You wouldn't have happened to have done the same thing before we became a couple, would you?"

Dustin gave her a look that said "No!"

"No! That would be what a stalker would do," Dustin said. He then gently grabbed Nell's hands. "Anyway, any stuff relating or belonging to you can't compare to you."

Nell smiled slightly. "Normally, this would be the moment where I would pin you to the wall and make out with you, but we've kinda got to stop an evil mind-controlling ghost."

Dustin smiled, understanding, when they both heard Danny say, "It doesn't matter so long as we have each other," and held Sam's hands. Ava looked really uncomfortable and feeling like a third wheel.

"SNAP OUT OF IT! You don't really feel that way about me, and I don't feel that way about you," Sam said as she grabbed onto his hands.

Danny looked down and noticed Sam's hands on his and asked with a smirk, "So why are you still holding my hands?"

Sam looked down and immediately let go and stormed to the door. Danny then asked, "And why are you still wearing those Fenton Phones I gave you?"

Sam turned around and said, "Danny, they're not even real earrings. They're just some stupid communicators that-"

She stopped for a second and continued on in realisation, "Filter out ghost noise."

"Does this mean we're breaking up?" Danny asked.

Nell, Ava and Dustin were at first confused before they caught on as Sam went on, showing her pair of Fenton Phones, "Don't you get it, Danny? That's why neither me, Nell or Ava have been affected by Ember's music; we've been wearing the Fenton Phones the whole time."

"That's right. Those, plus my ghost powers, Dustin being a ghost and us already being a couple kept us from being affected by Ember's spell. Danny wasn't wearing the Fenton Phones at the time, so he got the full effect of the spell," Nell added.

"So I was right? It was the Fenton Phones protecting me, Sam and Nell the whole time? WHOO-HOO! I knew it!" Ava cheered. Dustin and Nell gave her strange looks. "What?"

"So we're not breaking up?" Danny asked. Sam got really annoyed and said, "How can we be breaking up? We were never together!"

Sam grabbed his arm and added, "We're gonna have to deprogram you, like we did with Tucker and Owen."

"Speaking of Tucker and Owen, where are they?" Nell asked as she, Dustin and Ava began to walk out of the room as well. Dustin shrugged.

"Don't ask me. The last time I saw them, it was at school, t-"

However, before he could finish, he cut himself off as he, Nell, Sam and Ava stopped in their tracks as they realised that they completely forgot about Tucker and Owen.

"OH MY GOSH! Tucker and Owen!" Sam, Nell, Dustin and Ava exclaimed in unison.

Sam looked at Ava and said, "You go change. Dustin, could you fly her over to the concert hall? Sneak underneath the stage when you guys get there. I've got some people there that will help. We'll meet you there after we get Tucker and Owen. I can't believe we left them tied up at school!"

Ava nodded in understanding and agreement, watching as Nell changed into her ghost form and Sam made Danny help Nell carry Sam to school, before she got changed into her alter ego of Diane Eclipse. Turning to her brother, she gulped nervously as she took his glowing, pale hand in her non-glowing, tanned one.

"Ready, little sis?" Dustin asked.

"Ready as I'll ever be," Ava answered, before Dustin swept Ava up into his arms bridal style, turned both him and Ava invisible, and flew the both of them towards the stadium.

…

Later

A few minutes later, Danny, Nell and Sam arrived at the school and entered the classroom where they left poor Tucker and Owen tied up in front of the computer screens. They found that Tucker's and Owen's eyes were really wide and their lips were shaking.

"Twelve… hours… of… intensive standardised test prep," Tucker said in a robotic voice.

"Ditto… that," Owen agreed, also in a robotic voice.

Sam removed Tucker's helmet and began untying him as she apologised, "Tucker, I'm so sorry."

"Same here, Owen. So much happened, and we kinda forgot you guys were here. We didn't mean to, we just did," Nell also apologised to Owen, taking off his own helmet and untying him as well.

"It's okay, sis. I would have done the same thing to either you, Holly, Jazz, or Danny," Owen said, smiling at her to show that he forgave her. He frowned. "Where's Ava and Dustin?"

Before Nell could answer, they both heard Danny say dreamily, "You're beautiful when you're racked with guilt."

"Not now, Danny!" Sam said, annoyed.

"Okay, what happened to Danny? Why is he all puppy-dog, lovey-dovey over Sam?" Owen asked, really confused.

"Ember cast a love spell on him that was supposed to affect Sam, me and Dustin as well. Sam was wearing the Fenton Phones at the time, along with me-we found out the Fenton Phones were the real reason why Sam, Ava and me haven't been affected by Ember's music, along with my ghost powers-so the music didn't affect us, along with the fact Dustin is a ghost and me and him are already a couple," Nell explained to Owen, catching him up to the previous events.

"Man, it's about time! Always knew you two would end up together," Tucker said happily, giving Sam and Danny one-armed hugs around their necks.

"We're not together! Ember put him under some kind of spell," Sam clarified, pushing Tucker away.

"So you don't want to end up together?" Tucker inquired.

"I don't know, maybe! But not like this," Sam answered.

"Tuck, we need to break the spell somehow," Nell added with urgency in her tone, coming into the conversation.

"Then let's crank up the study problems and we'll see him in twelve hours," Tucker decided, placing the helmet on Danny's head.

"We don't have twelve hours. Ember's concert starts in fifteen minutes; she gets her power when people chant her name, and with a worldwide audience, she'll be unstoppable," Sam informed him.

"Then we better get down to that show and crank down the volume," Tucker said as Owen took the helmet off Danny. All of them started leaving the classroom, when Tucker and Owen said in unison, "The volume of the sphere equals to the square of the radius of the base times Pi times the height."

"WOW! That thing really works!" Owen added, placing a hand on his head.

"And I spent the first nine years of my school life actually reading!?" Tucker finished.

…

Meanwhile, at the same time…

Ava's P.O.V

After Danny, Sam and Nell left to get Tucker and Owen, Dustin picked me up, bridal style, after I changed into my Diane Eclipse alter ego, and turned the both of us invisible and phased us out of Danny's room, flying towards the stadium. I looked down and almost shrieked when I saw how high up we were, my arms wrapping even more tightly around Dustin's neck.

Dustin laughed. "Relax, sis. Do you really think I would drop you?"

"At this altitude, yes," I retorted back.

Dustin laughed harder. "Oh come on, don't tell me you're afraid of heights!"

"As a matter of fact, Dust, I am!" I shouted back at him, clinging to him even more tightly.

Dustin stopped in midair and looked at me in shock. "Wait, you're serious?"

"Dead serious. And I never mentioned anything before because flying with you, Nell and Danny cured me of some of it, but that doesn't mean it's all gone! And, up here… Dustin, just please fly us to that stadium already!" I said, closing my eyes shut and practically holding onto him for dear life now.

Dustin looked at me understandingly. "Okay; I'll go as fast as I can. Hold on-you might need to."

I snapped my eyes open at his warning.

"Dustin, what do you me-"

Before I could finish, Dustin was flying to the stadium so fast, everything was a blur.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" I screamed, closing my eyes shut again and wrapping my arms and legs around Dustin, holding on so tightly, it might have hurt him if he wasn't a ghost.

Soon, all too soon, we arrived. I practically leapt out of Dustin's arms as soon as he landed.

"HELLO SOLID GROUND!" I exclaimed, going on my knees and hugging the ground, relieved to be back on the ground. Flying was nice, but solid ground was better than thin air.

Dustin chuckled, but before he could say anything, a door started to open. Dustin hurriedly went into his human disguise while I stood up and brushed off any dirt on me.

The door fully opened and a guy wearing a black shirt and a headset asked, "Are you the singer Miss. Manson was talking about miss?"

At first, I was confused before I remembered that this person was probably one of the guys Sam hired to help me make both my singing debut and to help stop Ember. "Yes I am. I am Diane Eclipse, and this is my songwriter's boyfriend and electric guitarist," I introduced, pointing to Dustin.

The guy gave me a smile. "Name's John. Come in, Miss. Eclipse, and we'll get you organised for your big debut."

I nodded, and me and Dustin walked towards John. I looked up and saw, just out of the corner of my eye, five humanoid shapes in the sky, two of which were glowing, coming down to the trees near the stadium.

Then me and Dustin were inside, and the shapes had landed, two flashes of light-one which was also crackling with green electricity-coming from the area.

…

Meanwhile

Third Person P.O.V

Down at the stadium, teens were entering inside, completely oblivious to Ava, Dustin and the other stagehand entering on the other side. Danny, Nell, Sam, Tucker and Owen, meanwhile, phased out of the ground and ran to the backstage entrance, Danny and Nell in human form right now. Tucker and Owen were wearing Fenton Phones now and they all had Fenton Thermoses. The security guard was asleep so Danny and Nell just phased them all through the door. They headed to the control panel, where Dustin was waiting for them(after phasing up from underneath the stage and invisibly entering in there after wishing Ava luck).

"About time," he said, smiling as Nell gave him a hug.

"Ava's ready to go?" Nell whispered.

"She darn is," Dustin whispered back, and the two walked back to the others.

"Tucker, go kill the power. We'll stand watch," Sam told Tucker. The techno-geek of the group headed to the controls. Sam looked behind her and noticed Danny-who was still under Ember's spell-was staring at her with the puppy-dog look.

"Uh, Danny, can you watch something besides me?" Sam asked him with a hint of annoyance.

Danny stopped looking at her, but pulled out a photograph of Sam and stared at that instead. Sam, Nell, Dustin and Owen all gave a groan of annoyance, wishing that the spell was broken already.

"Okay, cutting off the power," Tucker said, but accidentally turned on the PA system and said out loud, "Electrical power equals electrical current times electrical potential. Man, I gotta stop doing that."

They were all unaware that Ember, Dash and Kwan had heard Tucker over the PA system. Dash and Kwan were Ember's security guards, so they followed her backstage where they saw them there.

"WE LOVE YOU EMBER!" Dash and Kwan exclaimed. Ember ordered, "I heard you the twelfth time. Now bag 'em and gag 'em!"

Dash grabbed Sam, Kwan grabbed Danny, three other jocks grabbed Nell, Owen and Dustin, and another one grabbed Tucker and pulled him away from the control panel. They were brought up to Ember, who was standing on the side of stage smiling evilly at them. The lights dimmed in the stadium and the band started playing some music. The concert was beginning!

"On the air in five, four…" one of the cameramen announced, counting down.

"Later, dipsticks! I gotta go rock my world. And when I say my world, I mean my world!" Ember exclaimed as her hair flared up and she began to walk on stage, but before she could go any further, the music that was playing before stopped and was replaced by an electric guitar that was not Ember's guitar!

"What the-" Ember started to say, confused, when the huge screen on the back wall of the stage showed a familiar girl's face with black hair that had purple and gold highlights, the top part styled like flames and the bottom part in a plait. The girl had golden eyes, and she wore black eyeshadow with gold shimmer, silver blush and purple lipstick, with clip-on silver crescent moon earrings and another set of earrings with a strange black circle that had a gold sliver on the right edge. She wore a purple vest with silver crescent moons gong down the sides, a purple shirt with the same symbol and a necklace with a silver crescent moon pendant.

The mysterious girl raised a microphone to her mouth, where everyone could see she wore silver and gold bangles on the hand gripping the microphone, and began to sing.

Sam, Nell and Dustin, even though they were still captive, smirked, seeing theirs and Ava's plan come together.

…

During the same time

Ava fiddled nervously with the microphone in her hands as she stood on the mark John and the other stagehands Sam hired indicated for her to stand on. Dustin had left a minute ago to help the others, wishing her good luck.

Ava knew she needed it.

It was going to be an awkward introduction, as Ava had to remember to introduce herself as Diane Eclipse, and not as Ava Thorne. John had explained to her she was going to interrupt the concert at first by projecting her singing on the big screen above the "Ember" tag on the back wall, while cutting off Ember's audio and replacing it with Eclipse's play. Once she reached the chorus, there would be black, gold and silver smoke going off as she would use the trap door and make her entrance.

It was a lot to take in.

Ava hoped Sam and Nell had managed to get Danny back to normal in order to help Nell take down Ember.

One of the stagehands motioned that she was going to be on as soon as the first chords of Ember's song, Remember, began.

Taking a deep breath, Ava readied herself and waited for her count-in. Another motion from the stagehand, and she began.

The crowd, along with Ember, were completely confused, trying to find the source of the new song that replaced Ember's audio, while offstage, Sam, Nell and Dustin continued smirking as theirs and Ava's plan continued to come together.

As Ava began to sing, her face appeared on the big screen behind the "Ember" tag.

"'You don't see me every day.

But when you do, I'll take your breath away.

Here is the fun,

Where I am the sun.

And I'll also be the moon, but you'll see.

That we are all free.

Because when I'm up here,

I'll shine brighter than any ember.

Because you'll see-e

And you'll hear

That a new singer is here.

And her name is Diane…

Eclipse.'"

Reaching the chorus, Ava felt herself rising up to the stage and once she was fully up, she was met by a stadium full of people cheering… for her. No more cheering for Ember, just cheers for Ava(or Diane)and her music. A large smile spread across the bookworm/cheerleader/ghost-fighter/singer's face seeing them cheering for her, seeing Danny back to normal from the corner of her eye, and seeing him and Nell-after they managed to free themselves from their captors and Owen made them run away by calling a couple of bats to scare them-in their ghost forms and prepared to fight Ember offstage. The plan was working! Ava continued to sing.

"'Yeah, that's me.

I am, I am Diane Eclipse.

I am, I am Diane Eclipse.

As free as I can be.

You'll see me again,

I can guarantee that.

Yeah, you'll see me again.

I will come back.

For I am, I am Diane…

Eclipse.

Hear the angels hark

Shining in the dark.

I'll be the light

Shining in the night.

For I am both the sun, and the moon.

You'll see very soon.

Because when I'm up here,

I'll shine brighter than any ember.

Because you'll see-e

And you'll hear

That a new singer is here.

And her name is Diane…

Eclipse.

Yeah, that's me.

I am, I am Diane Eclipse.

I am, I am Diane Eclipse.

As free as can be.

You'll see me again,

I can guarantee that.

Yeah, you'll definitely see me again.

I will come back!

For I am, I am Diane…

Eclipse.'"

With the crowd cheering for Diane now instead of Ember, the ghost singer could feel her power deplete. Ember ran out on stage, flaming hair diminished, and shouted, "WHAT?! WAIT! NO, STOP CHEERING FOR HER! NO! TELL ME WHO YOU LOVE! COME ON, SAY IT! SAY MY NAME! SAY MY NAMEEE!"

Instead, the crowd cheered, "DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE!"

Ember dropped to the ground, completely powerless, and her eyes began to twitch. Danny and Nell now had no problem taking on Ember now. Nell lifted her towards them with her telekinesis and Danny sucked the female ghost inside the Fenton Thermos. Sam, Tucker, Owen and Dustin cheered in celebration, and Danny and Nell transformed back into human form and joined their friends, brother and boyfriend-in Nell's case-in watching the mysterious singer-or to Sam, Nell and Dustin, Ava-that managed to save everyone from Ember's spell reach the bridge of her song.

"'Ooo-ooo-oooh. Ooo-ooo-oooh.

Yeah… You'll see me again-nn.

I'll be ba-ack.

I'll guarantee that.

Yeah, I'll guarantee that.

Yeah, yeah, I'll be back! Yeah!

Yeah, yeah, that is me.

For I am, I am, Diane Eclipse.

Yeah… I am, I am, Diane Eclipse.

Ooo-ooo-oooh, I am as free as can be.

Yeah, you'll see me again(see me again!)

I can guarantee that(guarantee that!)

Yeah, you'll definitely see me again(definitely!)

I will come back!(will come back!)

For I am, I am Diane…

I am, I am Diane…

Eclipse.

Whoa-ooo-ooo-oooh, ooo-oooh.

You don't see me every day.

But when you do, I'll take your breath away.

For here is the fun, where I am your sun.

Your moon, you'll see me again soon.

For I am, I am Diane…

Eclipse.'"

The crowd went wild with cheers and applause as Ava finished her song. The smile from before was still spread across her face, still present as she beamed in pride, adrenaline rushing through her.

They liked her! They liked her singing!

"Thank you Amity Park! I'm Diane Eclipse, you'll definitely see me again, and I hope you all have a good night!" Ava shouted into the microphone, earning her more cheers.

Cheers of, "DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE!", followed Ava as she exited the stage, heading in the opposite way Sam, Danny, Tucker, Owen, Nell and Dustin were. Sure, Sam, Nell and Dustin knew about her singing and her real identity, and Nell had given her the song, Dustin provided the background guitar and Sam had orchestrated the whole thing, but Danny, Tucker and Owen didn't know, and Ava liked to keep it that way.

Ava headed back downstairs underneath the stage, where the stagehands gave her high-fives in congratulations. And soon enough, Sam, Dustin and Nell met her downstairs.

"You were amazing!" Sam and Nell exclaimed in unison, hugging Ava.

"Thanks," Ava replied.

"Great job, little sis. I'm proud of you," Dustin whispered, giving her a sibling hug and a proud smile.

Ava smiled wider. "Thanks, Dust."

"So, I guess the whole Diane Eclipse thing is going to be hard to make disappear since the concert was broadcasted across the entire world," Nell guessed, a hint of disappointment in her voice. She had loads of good songs, and she wanted to have Ava sing them. Looking at Sam and Dustin, Nell saw that they felt the same way.

"Actually… maybe we can make this music thing work. After being up on stage and hearing them cheer… they liked my singing, guys. They liked your music, Nell. I can't believe it-still can't believe it. Plus, I think they would like an encore," Ava admitted. "And, hopefully, another song. Nell, what do you have for me?"

Nell looked in her songbook, grinning.

"Well, I got inspired by this whole Ember-worship and wrote a song based not only on that, but on the worship received to other singers as well," Nell told her, showing Ava the song.

Ava's lips curled up into a half-smile.

A happy smile appeared on Sam's and Dustin's faces.

"You're going to need a manager," Sam pointed out.

"And a guitarist for your background music," Dustin added.

"An anonymous songwriter," Nell put in.

"And a whole lot of support and encouragement," all three of them said in unison.

A wry smile appeared on Ava's face.

"Good thing I know three people who fit those titles very well," Ava said, smiling. "Sam, I think you would fit 'Manager' really well." Ava didn't need to Nell and Dustin that they both-respectively-fitted anonymous songwriter and guitarist for background music really well as well.

"Alright then, tell me about this new song idea of yours, Nell, while Ava does her encore," Sam said. Ava didn't need to be told twice as she restarted her song again.

As soon as she got to the chorus and felt herself rising onto the stage, she could hear cheers of, "DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE! DIANE ECLIPSE!", which turned into cheering screams as Ava(well, Diane)appeared back on stage.

Ava smiled and started singing the rest of her song again.

…

Tomorrow

The next day, everyone took the test and with no surprise, everyone failed it. Well, except for Ava, who managed to pass after she studied for it before she sang Haunted days ago, and two other students.

Mr. Lancer and Principal Ishiyama stood in front of the class as everyone else sat in front of the computers.

"These standardised test scores are the worst in school history. No doubt to the rampant late night carousing prior to test day," Mr. Lancer announced with a glare, but he smiled as he continued, "However, two students' perfect scores did manage to bring the entire school average up. That's… good news for my bonus! Also, another student managed it pass as well, though not at the same score as the other two students, but enough to pass."

"Therefore, Tucker Foley, Owen Fenton and Ava Thorne are excused from this afternoon's mandatory Cram-Tastic session," Principal Ishiyama finished.

"YES!" Tucker, Owen and Ava shouted, throwing the helmets off their heads.

"This would be an example of irony; a literary device employing the incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs," Tucker said to Danny, Nell, Sam and Dustin.

Two nerdy girls came up and exclaimed, "Tucker, we love you!"

They both leaned on him as he walked out. Danny, Nell, Sam, Dustin, Owen and Ava rolled their eyes as Owen and Ava also walked out.

"I don't suppose either of you could release Ember and get us out of this?" Sam asked hopefully to Danny and Nell.

"Nope. Besides, she's a little busy right now," Danny answered with a wide grin.

What Danny and Nell did when they returned Ember to the Ghost Zone was that they chucked her into the same realm that they trapped Klemper in. Ember was groaning in annoyance as she was followed around by the pyjama-wearing ghost.

"EM-BER! EM-BER!" Klemper kept shouting.

"STOP SAYING MY NAME!" Ember demanded in annoyance and frustration, but Klemper ignored her and kept chanting her name.

…

Meanwhile

Ava was getting her books out for her next class when she heard Tucker playing the new Diane Eclipse song-written by an anonymous songwriter that Ava had credited last night, but didn't reveal the name of-on his PDA. She had a small smile on her face, happy that people liked her voice and were listening to both hers and Nell's music.

"'Baby, you look up to me

I can see it in your face.

Awe me, worship me

I bet you have a shrine of me in your place.

I bet you have all my songs.

All my merchandise, you think you know my rights and wrongs.

But this is just worship.

Because you are just…

Yeah, you are just… starstruck by me.

Yeah, you are awestruck.

Don't tell me you don't feel it.

You have been hit by my fame.

All you know is my singer name.

Because you are just, yeah you are just simply starstruck by me.'"

Diane Eclipse had been the talk of the school ever since the concert. And, after Ava, Nell, Dustin and Sam released two songs, Ava performed an encore of both songs three times and promised that Diane will return after she recorded more songs that her anonymous songwriter wrote, everyone was excited to see more from this secretive new artist and hearing the new songs written for her from her anonymous songwriter.

"My own secret identity. This is going to be interesting," Ava said to herself as she got her books out and slammed her locker shut, leaving for her next class.

GhostWriterGirl: And that's done!

What do you guys think of the new, mysterious singer and now Ember's rival where music is concerned, Diane Eclipse? And just so you know, the songs Diane Eclipse and Starstruck are my own original songs. This is one of my favourite episodes, Ember's one of my favourite characters, I think she's awesome and should have more episodes focused on her. And, Lovesick Danny, he's so cute when he's giving that puppy-dog look to Sam!

Nell: Are you done?

GhostWriterGirl: Yeah, I'm done. Oh, and so you know, this is not the last you'll see of Ava's alter ego, Diane Eclipse, I swear! More songs from her, written by Nell(actually, they just come out of my imagination and onto the screen!)will be shown and sung by her, probably when Ember reappears in "Pirate Radio" or "Girls' Night Out", I don't know! So, stay tuned! Oh, and here's the preview for the next episode-chapter:

NEXT TIME, ON DANNY PHANTOM AND STORM BANSHEE:

Technus is back! And this time, he's determined to take over Danny's, Tucker's, Owen's and Dustin's new favourite game, DOOMED! But Danny has a problem… he has to pass Mr. Lancer's English test or risk failing the entire grade! Can Nell, Ava, Dustin, Owen, Sam and Tucker defeat Technus without the aid of Danny? Will Danny pass the test?

Find out next time on Danny Phantom And Storm Banshee in: Teacher Of The Year.

GhostWriterGirl: I hope you enjoyed that little preview! And no, I do not own Danny Phantom, that belongs to Butch Hartman. I only own this story and my OCs. See y'all next chapter! GhostWriterGirl out!