Day 23! :D I'm going again! Well… not really. I had this done for quite some time now. Anyway, Family is today's theme! So let's take an interesting perspective, shall we? ;) Enjoy and please review! ^^

(rated K, Family, Jazz Fenton, 674 words)

Day 23: Family

Jasmine Fenton came from a weird family.

She was absolutely sure -without doubt- there wasn't any family in the whole world that was weirder than hers.

It had started even before she was born, and it had never become less through the years. Her parents were obsessed, yes obsessed, with ghosts.

They had met in college, both studying paranormal activities. Her mum also studied science and material arts next to it. Her dad did engineering as a second study. Those second studies didn't seem to have any bound to the paranormal, yet her parents succeeded in using them for it anyway. By the time they graduated from college, they were hopelessly in love and married soon after. Moths of resurge made them move to the most haunted city in the U.S.: Amity Park. Buying a house on the corner of the street in the middle of Amity Park they started their own business.

FentonWorks they called it. And they transformed it from a normal house into the weirdest building in town. FentonWorks looked like a UFO had crashed upon their roof. That 'UFO' was called the Orb Centre. It could disconnect from the house and change into a blimp and jet. And that was not even all. There was also a lab in the basement and various equipment hidden through and in the house. A real ghost hunting business. Well, not totally... besides designing and building weapons they also did research, and worked on a special project: a portal to the Ghost-Zone. It was a theory they came up with.

"Ghosts have their own world, or rather their own dimension. This dimension is connected to ours and in that way connected to Earth. Portals are the doorways that connect both worlds."

So they tried to build one themselves. Jazz had felt creeped out by her parents work from a very young age. Things got worse when she started school, becoming the laughing-stock because of her weird house and parents. She wanted to say he parents had normal jobs, she wanted to be proud on them. But until high school she had no reason for that.

Everything changed when she saw her baby brother, the one she always used to protect and help, was a ghost. And not just a ghost, but the ghost that saved Amity Park form all the other specters who invaded the town.

Becoming a secret companion of her brother, Jazz got wrapped up in the world of paranormal like it was meant to be that way. Danny wasn't a full ghost, but only half. He was a halfa, a human-ghost hybrid. The perfect connection between Earth and the Ghost Zone.

Jazz learned how to fight, how to cover for Danny, she learned first aid and witty banter. Spending more time with her parents she became more capable of handling ghost weapons, material arts, engineering and science. The paranormal was in her blood and part of her she found out. And even stranger, she liked it.

Especially the psychological part, the part where she discovered the obsession of a ghost, how they came to be, what drove them.

Friendly ghosts appeared and Jazz didn't care anymore about people who laughed about her or her family.

Their laughing ended when Danny saved the world and Ghost-Zone from a gigantic asteroid. Ghosts got accepted.

Her family got accepted.

And Jazz felt free for the first time in her life. Her family was still weird, with obsessed ghosthunters as parents and a half ghost as brother, but she accepted it now.

But of course things got strange again when her brother brought home a little girl. She was a halfa just like him and to make things complicated; also his clone. Long story short, Dani became part of her family too, no matter how strange her existence actually was.

None the less, her family was her family and Jazz loved them dearly. Never again would she wish for a more normal one. She was perfectly fine with this on, no matter how strange.