Here we are with the Halloween chapter!
Please keep in mind that I am not centering this around Pariah Dark or the Fright Knight.
I have added some black leggings to Dannie's She-Ra costume, because I don't like how short the dress is.
TBKitty00; Um... thanks... I think.
I only own my OCs.
Mount Justice
October 31, 19:34 EDT
Dannie covered her ears, pressing cushions against them as Wally attempted to get Wolf to howl with him.
"Really?" the redhead asked. "You're not going to join in at all? What kind of Wolf are you?"
"Wally, stop howling, it's torture!" Dannie begged. "Connor isn't the only one with sensitive ears!"
"Aw come on Dannie! If you're not going as a classic like Snow, the least you can do is be in the Halloween spirit." Wally stated.
Said brunette glared at the redhead. Snow was going as Frankenstein's Bride this year, which was a big change from the Cinderella dress she'd worn last year. However, she didn't like that Wally was bringing her in on the plans for her cousin's torture.
"Not if being in the Halloween spirit kills my hearing!" the halfa retorted.
Robin entered the room on his way to the Waterfall Room, and said, "You okay Dannie?"
"Wally has been slowly murdering my ears for the past 30 minutes, so not really." she deadpanned.
Robin chuckled. "Well, I'm going to be in a meeting with Batman, Kaldur and Red Arrow tonight, so I'll see you tomorrow."
"Okay, but you're making it up to me for missing my favorite holiday." Dannie replied, placing a light kiss on her boyfriend's cheek.
"I will; promise." Robin assured as he left the room.
Recognized: Artemis, B-0-8, Zatanna Zatara, A-0-3.
"Oh hey Zatanna." Artemis said. "You look great."
"Oh thanks," the magician thanked. "You too. Oh look, zombie Captain Marvel; that's... hilarious. Is the Justice League having a party, because my dad didn't mention it."
"No, no, no, no, see... Fine, I'm going trick-or-treating." Cap finally admitted, and Dannie rolled her eyes. Sometimes his age got in the way of his maturity.
As the champion of Shazam went through the zeta, Dannie thought it was most likely to Fawcett City, he added, "And I'm not sharing my candy."
Dannie sighed. Cap really needed to act more maturely.
"So," Zatanna drawled as Dannie walked up to her cousin, "How long have Connor and Megan been a couple?"
"Couple?" Artemis scoffed. "No. They're not-" but the archer cut herself off when she saw that the magician was right.
Arty started off for the tubes again, and Zatanna and Dannie shared a look before chasing after the blonde.
"I-I'm sorry; it just seemed so obvious. I-I didn't realize that- Wait, the dance." Zatanna stuttered.
"Not in the mood." Artemis replied. "Course sitting at home with my mom doesn't sound any more appealing."
"Well," Zatanna drawled, "There is another option. Egnahc sehtolc otni ruo smrofinu."
Smoke engulfed Zatanna and Artemis, changing them into their uniform as Dannie fell to the ground; unlike Zatanna and Artemis, the magic had zapped her.
"Are you okay?!" Artemis asked.
"Freaking magic." Dannie muttered.
"Um... girl's night?" Zatanna suggested, rubbing her neck. "Sorry, I forgot that you're half ghost."
"Don't worry about it Zee. I can change myself. Going ghost." Dannie replied, smirking as the halos appeared and placed her into her uniform.
When Zatanna brought up the bikes, Dannie said, "Heck no. I am not riding one of those death machines. I am flying; end of discussion."
Her friends shrugged, and they were soon on their way.
Robin
"Computer, secure the room." Batman said once everyone was in the room.
"Secured." The computer stated.
"I'll cut to it; do we believe there's a mole within the team?" The Dark Knight asked.
"I am convinced there is none." Aqualad replied. "When Sportsmaster claimed he had an inside source, he was merely sowing dissent."
"His intel could easily have come by comparing notes with the other villains working for the 'Injustice League.'" Robin added. "And think about it; if anyone on the team was working with those creepoids-"
"He or she would have betrayed us during our fight against them." Aqualad finished.
"I'm not convinced." Red Arrow put in. "Sure, you 2 and Kid Flash are above suspicion, but I know Artemis isn't shooting straight. For starters, she's not Green Arrow's niece.
"What?" Aqualad asked.
"Well, yeah." Robin replied. "In fact, she's related to-"
"Enough." Batman interrupted, gripping his protege's shoulder. "Artemis's relations may indeed make her a suspect, but she's still entitled to a secret identity. I'm more concerned about Superboy. We still know very little about what CADMUS programmed into their weapon. Connor could be the mole, and not know it."
"And what about Miss Martian?" Red Arrow questioned. "She is Manhunter's niece, but he told Black Canary he has a few hundred nieces and nephews, and the first time he met M'gann was 5 months ago, when she stowed away on his last trip from Mars to earth."
"This changes nothing." Kaldur put in. "I have fought side by side with these people. None are traitors."
"I'm not as convinced." Red told the Atlantean. "In fact, I'm least convinced about Phantom. We know next to nothing about her origins, she never talks about her daily life-"
"Well neither do I." Robin said in an attempt to defend his girlfriend.
"Another thing; how is possible that she's only half ghost? Being half ghost would imply that she's only half dead." Roy continued, ignoring the Boy Wonder. "For all we know, Phantom could be the mole; normal lie detectors don't work on her."
"She wouldn't do that." Robin replied. "I know her, and she isn't the kind of person to do something like that."
"Robin." Batman interrupted. "If Phantom is a mole, you can't let your feelings about her get in the way."
Robin slumped into his chair. It would be hard convincing everyone else that Dannie wasn't the mole.
Suddenly, the Boy Wonder knew how to convince them. "Does anyone here know what a ghost's obsession is?"
"It is the reason for a ghost's existence, why?" Tornado asked.
"Because Dannie's is to protect the ones that she cares about. Still think she's a mole?" Robin replied, glancing around the room.
Roy remained stoic, Batman had the same emotionless face, though his eyes had narrowed, RT was obviously the same, and Aqualad was smiling, because one of his friends had most likely been proven innocent.
Manhattan
October 31, 19:57 EDT
As the girls pulled up in front of the Metopolitan Museum of art, Dannie frowned. Whatever had happened here was long since over, and to be completely honest, she was peckish for some action. Amity had been quiet for the past couple of days, and she needed action.
"Whatever happened here is over." Artemis moaned, voicing her cousin's thoughts. "I want some action."
"But maybe you need to talk," Zatanna retorted, "About Connor and Megan or... whatever."
Artemis looked away from the magician and sped off on her bike.
"Artemis doesn't talk about her feelings." Dannie explained as they tried to catch up. "She just trains until she's drop-dead exhausted, or takes things out on her enemies."
"In that case, I feel sorry for whoever we fight tonight." Zatanna mumbled as they finally caught up with Artemis.
"What I need is something to beat up." Artemis told her friends.
As they passed a mugger near an ATM, Zatanna chanted, "Taeh taht s'nopaew latem!"
When he dropped his gun, Artemis shot several arrows and pinned the mugger to a tree.
Dannie frowned at her companions. "You didn't leave anything for me to do!" she whined.
"You can help with the next bad guys." the archer promised.
As they went on, they saw a pair of burglars starting to leave a store they'd robbed, and while Artemis nailed one to a wall with arrows, Dannie froze the other to a tree.
Continuing on to Central Park, the three girls saw a jogger about to get attacked, and Zatanna extended her hand to cast a spell as she said, "Etativel reh!"
As Dannie went after one of the men that had attacked the jogger, she looked to the resident magician and said, "Zatanna, you might change my opinion on magic yet!"
Zatanna smiled and gave the currently white-haired teen a thumbs up as Artemis walked back over, having finished her fight.
"There were easier ways to take them." Zatanna pointed out.
"They had it coming; no harm done." Artemis shrugged off.
"No harm done?" Dannie asked. "You should never say something like that around me; it's a bad idea."
The bikes then blew up in front of them, throwing the girls back.
From the flames emerged a man with white skin and a dark brown mullet, wearing a light gray lab coat that had holes at the shoulders with brown slacks and hunting boots, paired with a brown leather strap across his chest and a large sword. Across the left side of his face, he had painted red stripes that looked like scars going across his left eye.
"No indeed." He agreed. "Harm is not done. Much Harm left to do."
"Anyone else get the feeling that this guy's name is Harm?" Dannie questioned quietly.
"The it's cannot escape Harm." he stated.
"Escaping isn't on the menu." Artemis retorted as she shot arrows at Harm, which the latter quickly deflected with his sword.
"Its arrows do not impress." Harm said, evidently bored.
"Fine," Zatanna stated, "Taeh taht s'nopaew latem!"
"Neither does Its magic." he said. (Seriously, why does he talk like that?)
"How about this then?" Dannie asked, firing off a blast of ecto-lightning at the man.
"The Its ghost power does not do any good against Harm, who wields a magical sword." he smirked, and Dannie's eyes widened as Harm narrowly missed her with a blast of magical electricity from his sword.
"The it's must do better, or suffer Harm." he stated.
"We get it; your name is Harm." Artemis moaned.
"Their ridiculous garb and rudimentary skills indicate instruction from Green Arrow and Zatara. Strange though; the ghostly one seems to be entirely self-taught, other than minimal instruction from Captain Marvel." Harm mused. "Harm will study these three to learn methods for killing their mentors."
Dannie's eyes widened, and then quickly narrowed in new-found anger and hatred towards the white skinned(Literally) man.
"If you even so much as think about hurting Cap, you'll suffer the consequences!" the snowy haired girl growled.
"You did not just threaten my dad!" Zatanna agreed. "Etativel drows ot em!"
Harm's sword shook, but nothing else happened and Dannie frowned. Maybe she should've just gone trick or treating with Mayla, Sarah and JM.
"It wants Harm's sword?" the brunette man questioned. "Very well."
And then he threw the blade, narrowly missing Zatanna.
"Big mistake Harmster!" Artemis shouted, firing an arrow while Dannie went from behind to try and overshadow him.
Dannie stayed invisible from behind the maniac and then turned intangible, going inside Harm's body.
After a few moments, she cried out in pain as pure, absolute pain coursed through her veins and forced the halfa out of Harm's body.
Dannie laid limply on the ground, unable to move as her consciousness faded in and out.
She finally rose to full consciousness when her ghost sense went off.
"On second thought," she heard Zatanna say with superhearing, "Running."
"Yeah, to regroup." Artemis agreed.
Zatanna looked to Harm and held her hand out, casting her spell. "Erif nrub, nordluac elbbub!"
The fire surrounded Harm and created a cage around him, though Dannie knew it would only stall him, so she added a layer of her ice around the fire and left a duplicate behind as well.
"Nice!" Artemis complemented.
"Something I've been working on since Red Vol-"
"Wait." Dannie interrupted the magician as she spotted a girl dressed completely in white. "Who the heck is that?"
The three female heroes continued running, flying in Dannie's case, and Zatanna asked, "Do you care right now?"
"Not really; just curious." Dannie admitted as her ghost sense went off again.
They followed the girl and ended up in an alley way with a,
"Dead end." Artemis stated. "Where's she go?"
Suddenly there was a clanging, and Dannie looked up to see a fire escape with the girl in white at the top.
Zatanna smiled at her friends, and Dannie grinned. "I like her already." they chorused.
While Artemis and Zatanna climbed up to the top, Dannie was content to fly up as her ghost sense alerted her once more, but she ignored it because there weren't any ghosts around; at least none that she could see.
"Thank you for the help, but who are you?" Dannie asked her.
"Secret." she replied.
"Not gonna cut it," Artemis interrupted. "Do you know Harm, and does he have any weaknesses?"
"Secret." she said more urgently, and she pointed behind them to show that Harm was coming... UGH!
"At least they make the hunt interesting." Harm mused. 'This guy would probably get along well with Skulker.' Dannie thought.
He started waving his sword around, and Dannie actually got a little scared.
"He's fast; I'll give him that." Artemis stated. She notched an arrow and proceeded to fire it at a water tank behind us, causing to spill out tons of water.
Dloc dniw wolb!" Zatanna chanted over and over again. The water froze around Harm, but then of course he had to go and use his sword to bust out.
"Running sounds like fun right now." Dannie told her friends.
"Where'd little miss Secret go?" Artemis asked.
Looking around, I noticed a figure on a rooftop. "There!"
"Okay, these boots, adorable, but for a chase sequence, lacitcarp raewtoof won!" Zatanna chanted and the heel on her boot disappeared.
As they ran away from Harm, he threw a dagger at them and broke Artemis's bow string.
The archer looked to her cousin and friend as she said, "Hold him off while I restring."
Dannie and Zatanna nodded, both taking battle stances.
Dannie went to pull out her ecto pistols before she remembered, "Crud! Left my pistols at home! Why did I do that?! I love my pistols!"
Dannie settled instead for using Martial Arts. 'Thank you Black Canary.' she thought.
However, the upper hand didn't last long before Harm pushed the two ravens back, and Artemis jumped in with a crossbow. Sweet!
She held the arrow in the crossbow in Harm's face and he held the tip of his sword to her neck.
"You wanna play without the toys?" Artemis asked.
Harm smirked. "It tries to bait Harm; leave Harm weak," Harmster threw put his sword in the ground, "But Harm has no weaknesses."
Arty smirked and put ehr crossbow away, beginning to fight the brunette. As Artemis fought with the villain, Dannie and Zatanna walked over to the sword, but it shocked them when they tried to take it, Dannie more-so than Zatanna.
"Zatanna, Spirit!" Artemis called out to her friends.
Arty was then knocked down by Harm.
"And it cares for others," the Spirit heard Harm say. "Another weakness."
She numbly stood up and looked Harm dead in the eye... right before she passed out.
It started out like the same dream she always had when she had been knocked unconscious; a little family barbecue with Dick and Bruce joining in. But when Dick was about to kiss her, the dream shifted to show Plasmius.
"How did you get into my dream? Wait, are you real or just an image?" She questioned fearfully.
"Oh, I'm real Daniella. And I have something of interest to you." Dannie seriously didn't like the way that fruitloop was smiling.
He pulled an image of an easily recognizable 12 year old girl from behind him, and the snowy haired girl gasped.
"Danielle?! What are you doing to her?!" She growled.
"She's unstable little tiger. I put her in a pod that keeps her from melting like the other clones of you and your brother, and do remember that there is no reason for me to keep that mistake alive." he said with a scary grin.
"What do you want? I'll do anything to save her." Dannie said to the older halfa.
"Simple. All I want from you is information." the younger halfa looked up with wide eyes, filled with fear. "I want you to be a mole."
Dannie looked down. The only thing she wanted was to prove she wasn't a mole; to have her teammates and friends trust her, but if she didn't agree to this, her cousin-no, her daughter-was going to die.
She looked back to Plasmius. "I'll do it."
Fruitloop smiled and handed her a com link with the Vlad Co. logo on it. "Any time that you have new information, you call me with this; do you understand?"
"Yes sir." Dannie whispered.
"Good."
When Dannie woke up, it was because she felt a shock of magic course through her body.
Her eyes jerked open, and she tried to speak, but there was duct tape on her mouth.
Regular duct tape and ropes; that was what Harm had used to contain her.
The halfa rolled her eyes and phased out of the ropes before phasing the duct tape off.
She turned to her left to see Zatanna and Secret.
The magician rubbed her neck and said, "I'm guessing that your opinion about magic won't be changing any time soon."
"Nope, but what are you doing with her; she clearly led us into a trap Zee." Dannie said to the magician.
"Then why did she help me, and wake you up?" Zatanna asked.
"Wait; Secret woke me up?" the halfa asked. "How?"
"I don't know; she just touched you, and you woke up." Zatanna elaborated.
"Wait; all she had to do was touch me?" Dannie questioned. "When I was coming to, it felt like a shock of magic was coursing through my body. Secret must have a low-level magical around her, just strong enough to wake me up by touching me."
"Maybe." Zatanna thought. "Come on; let's get Artemis."
The halfa nodded and said her trademark phrase, "Going ghost."
The halos appeared, and Dannie Phantom had soon replaced Dannie Fenton.
They ran into the hallway and met up with Artemis before running to the cellar, where they found Secret.
Artemis lifted her crossbow, but Zatanna said, "Wait!"
"Zatanna! Dannie! She's his partner!" Artemis screeched.
"Then why did she help us?" Dannie asked.
"Don't know; Secret." Arty mocked.
Harm blasted a hole underneath the three heroines and they fell into the kitchen.
Dannie looked around. Old gas stove, plenty of gas... Oh, she was in explosives heaven.
"Zatanna, Artemis, turn all the dials on the stove to their highest setting while I hook up the gas." Dannie instructed. The other girls gave the halfa a confused look, and she sighed. "If we do that, it'll make a bomb powerful enough to blow up the kitchen. Arty, you would need to shoot an arrow at Harm as we were leaving to distract him long enough for us to make our escape."
Zatanna and Artemis nodded, turning up all of the dials as Dannie hooked up the gas canisters.
As they were leaving, Artemis shot an arrow at Harm, and Dannie faintly heard Harm say, "Oh, that little-" He didn't get to finish because of the explosion, but the halfa was fairly certain he was going to use a cuss word.
They left the house and found themselves in a backyard, where Dannie spotted... a grave?
She knelt down beside it and read off the tombstone. "'Greta Hayes, Beloved Sister.'"
As if on cue, a white light rose out of the grave, and became Secret as Dannie's ghost sense went off once more.
"This... is your grave." Zatanna realized. "This is your secret. This is you."
"I get it now." Dannie said, and everyone, including Greta, looked to the halfa.
"You get what?" Artemis asked.
"My ghost sense has been going off all night, yet if she's dead, she has to be full ghost, so the normal appearance can't come from being half ghost. And when Greta woke me up, it felt like there was a shock of magic going through me." Dannie explained. "It makes sense now, because Greta must be a perfect infusion of ectoplasm and magic. It's extremely rare, but it's possible."
Zatanna got off the ground and said, "H-How did you die?"
Greta held her hands out, and a blue light appeared until it formed the shape of a dagger.
"Harm's dagger!" Artemis exclaimed.
Suddenly, the man in question came out of the cellar and said, "They defile Harm's holy place!"
"We defiled it?" Artemis asked. "You did this; to your own sister!"
Harm smirked, and Dannie charged up ecto-blasts in her hands as she said, "You're proud of it? And you had the gal to write 'beloved'!"
"Not gal, truth." Harm corrected. "She was the only thing Harm ever loved. That's why she had to go. Harm's heart had to be pure. Greta had to be cut out; excised like an infection."
Greta appeared from the grave once more, and Harm gasped, shock staining his face for a few moments before his look changed to self-confidence.
"It casts another illusion spell." he said in self-assurance. Dannie wasn't sure who he was trying to convince; them, or himself.
"Except, I didn't speak." Zatanna told him. "Harm knows it can't cast a spell without speaking."
As Greta walked up to her big brother, Artemis said, "You asked how we found this place? Face it Harm; your secret's out."
"No!" He pulled out his sword. "Harm's heart is pure! Harm's not sorry! I'm not!" Did he just start to talk normally again?
The blade passed right through Greta, and if the moment weren't so tragic, she would've smiled at how comfortable Greta was using intangibility. The girl reached towards Harm's heart and pulled out something orange. Ew!
Harm started to attack, but the sword fought against him and went back into its sheath.
'Finally!' Dannie thought. 'I hate magic swords!'
"I don't need the sword!" Harm shouted.
Dannie stepped aside as Artemis took her anger to the cause of it and replied, "So unfocused! It can't fight us without fighting itself!"
Harm was quickly taken down, and Zatanna held her hand over him as she said, "Egnahc Sehtolhc otni sgnidnib."
Harm's clothes turned into ropes that bound him, and they looked to Greta to see her going back to her grave.
"We'll make sure you receive a proper burial." Zatanna promised. "We won't forget you Greta."
Greta smiled softly and said, "Secret," before disappearing into her grave.
"I can't believe anyone could do that to their own sister." Artemis said, and Dannie almost thought that her cousin was ready to cry. "I mean if my-" She cut herself off, and Dannie knew exactly why. As much as she loved the magician, like a sister, that wasn't something that they could talk about; not yet at least.
"Your what?" Zatanna asked, and Artemis turned away. "Artemis, talk to us. Secrets don't stay buried; obviously. It's better to bring them into the light."
Arty looked back to the raven and said, "I don't have any secrets." Then the girls heard police sirens. "Cops are coming."
Dannie smiled dreamily. "The neighbors must have heard our beautiful explosion."
Zatanna laughed. "If you think explosions are beautiful, there is something not quite right about you Dannie. Awesome, but not quite right."
"Hey, I'm a bit of a Tomboy; I like the thrill of blowing things up." Dannie shrugged.
Artemis walked over to the fence and then called out, "DP, Zatanna, look!"
The magic shop across the street only had one word lit up; secret. Dannie's stomach dropped.
"Must've been the last thing Greta ever saw." Artemis said sadly.
Dannie looked down. She felt so empty right now.
Amity Park
November 1, 00:15 EDT
Dannie threw the door to Fenton Works open and shouted, "Jazz! Jazz, are you home?"
The redhead in question came downstairs and said, "Oh hey Dannie. I was just studying for a test. What's-"
The oldest Fenton child was interrupted when her little sister thew her arms around her. Jazz paused in shock for a few seconds, but then she proceeded to hug back.
"I'm sorry." Dannie whispered as new tears fell down th already present tear tracks. "I'm sorry for calling you a fink; I'm sorry for every foul word I used against you."
Jazz rubbed her sister's back and said, "What has you so worked up?"
"You remember that me and Danny are half ghost, right?" the raven asked.
"And that you both are superheroes? Of course I remember. Why?" the redhead questioned.
"Artemis, Zatanna and I, we had a girls night out tonight, and we went to fight some small crime in Manhattan. While we were there, we ran into this psycho called Harm. He killed his sister for a sword. Said that his heart needed to be pure, so his sister had to be cut out; excised like an infection. It really got me thinking about... about much I care about you." Dannie explained, wiping away her tears.
Jazz hugged her sister tighter and said, "I know how much you care Dannie, and I know that you would never do something like that. You're my little sister, and I love you. Caterpillar in the tree, how you wonder who you'll be; can't go far but you can always dream. Wish you may and wish you might; don't you worry, hold on tight. I promise you that there will come a day; butterfly fly away."
"I don't want to fly away anymore." Dannie sobbed. "I want to stay with you. I want to stay with you, and mom, and dad, and Danny for as long as possible."
"You're never going to blossom if you do that." the redhead reminded her. "And besides, you've got that team of yours to worry about too. You think of them as family; I can see it in your eyes when you talk about them."
What Jazz didn't realize was that her sister was already asleep. She took notice and carried the 14 year old to her room, depositing her on her bed. She heard whimpering when she tried to leave, and faintly heard Dannie murmur, "Jazz... don't go."
The 16 year old looked conflicted before laying down next to her sister. Dannie immediately responded to the extra warmth and cuddled closely to her sister.
Jazz smiled. She missed the feeling of being a big sister.
OMG! I am so sorry for the late update! School is starting soon, and I have been working through some personal stuff too, so between life, school starting soon, and this, there aren't enough hours in the day!
UGH!
Anyway, I have finally gotten to work on writing a story that reflects on the five year time skip; it's called 'What Happened During the Skip?'
Signing off,
-MckennaTennyson-Harper12