A ghost with green skin and gold clothing and jewelry flew through the streets of Amity Park. She glanced back and forth in search of where she left it.
"She's getting away! After her!" A boy with dark skin in a yellow sweater yelled. He had a constantly beeping device in his hands.
He stopped in the middle of a crossroads. A girl with short black hair and a boy with white hair caught up to him.
"Are you sure that ghost detector isn't broken?" The girl asked.
"My parents built that thing themselves. It detects me just fine." The white haired boy stated, his feet replaced with a ghost tail as he hovered above the sidewalk.
"Then it's probably detecting you instead."
The boy in the sweater shushed the others, pointing the ghost detector in different directions.
"Sam's right. All I'm picking up is Danny's signal." His phone began ringing. He took it out of his pocket and answered it.
"I think I got all the ghosts in this section of town." A third boy informed, "What about that ghost woman you chased after?"
"Lost her. We're heading back."
The woman had been long gone. She found a portal in the wall of one of the buildings. The green light outline slowly closing in on the portal, causing it to shrink. The woman slipped through the portal just in time. Away from the strange world outside, but stuck inside the dark void once again.
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A girl with short light brown hair, hazel eyes, and fair skin took the cardboard from her father.
"Careful, Kaetlyn. It's a little heavy." Her father said. The man had curly, light brown hair with tanned skin and hazel eyes. He wore a green t-shirt and beige pants.
"I got it dad!" The girl called back as she walked through the front door, dodging her mother as the woman walked out to take a box herself.
Kaetlyn placed the box in the living room. She heard a stomach growl. She took a strip of jerky from the plastic bag in the front pocket of her dark blue jacket. She tore off a piece for herself and tossed the rest into her hood. She wasn't saving it for later, because a little wolf kwami had already eaten it all.
"Can I have another piece?" The white kwami with topaz eyes asked, popping her head out from the hood.
"No. And put your head back down!" Kaetlyn hissed, "What if my parents see you?"
"They're outside moving boxes right-"
"Kaetlyn?" Her mother asked, walking in with a box, "Are you talking to someone?"
"Uh… Just… calling Sam! We wanted to meet up later once we finish unpacking!"
Her mother smiled. She brushed her hand through her black hair after placing the box down on the kitchen countertop. Her blue eyes were just like Kaetlyn's. Actually, Kaetlyn had the same eyes as her mother.
"Well, if you go now, you might be able to see her before your dad catches you off duty."
Kaetlyn's face lit up. She rushed to give her mom a hug before rushing out the door. "Thanks, Mom! Love you!"
Kaetlyn Shire: A girl born in Amity Park and grew up with her friends, Tucker Foley, Danny Fenton, Sam Manson, and Reid Forman. Halfway through her freshman year of school, her father found a better paying job in Paris, France. Her first semester of school definitely helped with learning French.
During their time there, a lot has happened. New friends, new sights to see, some new superheroes, and a lot of supervillains. But, it got too dangerous for the likes of her parents, so they moved back over the summer, hoping it would be safer.
Kaetlyn arrived at the doorstep of Sam's house. She rang the doorbell and waited a few seconds. It opened to reveal a girl with a short black ponytail on the other side. She wore a black sleeveless crop top, choker, and boots with metal soles. She had purple leggings underneath a black and green plaid skirt with a bracelet on each wrist.
Her purple eyes widened with excitement and surprise to see her friend.
"Kaetlyn! I didn't know you were back!"
"Sam, come on! Let's go get Danny and Tucker!" Kaetlyn took her friend by the wrist and dragged her to each of the boy's houses. Both were just as shocked to see their friend from France.
They headed to the park to catch up. They hung out beneath the leaves of a tree.
"I can't believe it's been so long! So, what's been going on while I was out of the country?" Kaetlyn asked, leaning against the trunk.
The three teenagers exchanged a strange look, as if trying to figure out what to say.
"Oh, uh...nothing much." Tucker said, shrugging his shoulders. He had dark skin with turquoise eyes; wearing a yellow sweater and green pants.
"Really? I remember Sam complaining about Paulina when I first got to France. Are you dating her yet?" She teased.
"Uh… well, you know… didn't work out so…" Danny mumbled. He had spiky black hair, blue eyes, and wore a white t-shirt with red lining and blue jean pants.
Kaetlyn giggled watching Danny find an excuse. "Come one, I bet you couldn't even talk to her!" Paulina was a pretty and popular girl in school. She was the one every guy fell for.
"Dropping the subject: how about it in Paris?" Sam asked.
"Well, akuma attacks got kinda bad…" Akumas were supervillains in France. It hard to explain to someone who hadn't experienced a supervillain attack themselves, but akumas were just normal Parisian citizens who gained superpowers from negative emotions. Explaining that to her friends lead to a few scratching heads.
"Well, it's not like it's an ability.. There's a rare species of… moths that cause it?"
"Well, we're not in Paris, so let's not worry about it. Besides, I don't feel like thinking anymore." Danny said.
"Yeah, summer is for forgetting about the worries of mental labour and catching up on the hours of sleep school robs its students from!" Tucker added, crossing his arms.
"You have a point, but I don't know if I'd phrase it like that."
The four teenagers spent the next hour or so catching up on what's happened over the course of half a year. While Kaetlyn dealt with magical powers and superheroes and villains, her friends have been dealing with ghost attacks.
"Oh, yeah. That's right. Wasn't there a ghost called Inviso-Bill or something?" Kaetlyn asked. She remembered Sam telling her something about a ghost boy that went around helping people.
"I think that name is stupid. Can't people come up with something better?" Danny complained, crossing his arms while Tucker stifled a laugh. Kaetlyn smiled. It was nice to have some friends to share history with. She had made some friends in Paris, but it wasn't the same as her childhood friends. They shared a deep connection.
Before things got too sappy, Danny got nervous and said he had to leave. Tucker followed.
Confused, Kaetlyn asked, "What's that about?"
"Ah, who knows. Boys are boys." Sam replied, "You know what, I actually remembered I had to...study. Yeah! Study! See you!"
"But it's summer! What are you studying for?!" Kaetlyn yelled as the emo girl ran off.
Lunna -The white kwami from before- popped her head out of the girl's hood. "Your friends seem interesting." She said.
"They're a special bunch. I say I'm the weirdest for deciding to be friends with them." Lunna giggled at the girl's response.
Kaetlyn walked back home. They couldn't get their old house back, but it was close enough to be in walking distant from her friends, as proven before.
"Watch out!" The voice of a teenager boy warned. Kaetlyn halted to a dead stop when what looked like an overweight man came flying through the walls of the building, but the bricks didn't crumble from the impact. Did he phase through somehow?
Not long after came a boy with white hair, seemingly phasing through the wall as well.
Kaetlyn looked back at Lunna, confused. The kwami only shrugged in response.
"I think we should go check this out."
"Sounds like a plan."
Kaetlyn looked around, making sure no one was there. "Moon, Rise!"
With a flash of blinding white light, Kaetlyn's clothes changed into a skin tight white suit with a white mask covering the upper half of her face, wrapping around her head, and two wolf-shaped ears on the top of her head, which were attached to a headband hidden under her hair.
Kaetlyn admired the outfit. It's been a while since she's had to transform. Her expression turned disappointed when looking at her feet and hands. She forgot about her broken miraculous. Instead of gloves and boots, she had grey bandages, and the tail to finish off her wolf-like costume was a tattered grey cloth wrapped around her waist. If her miraculous wasn't broken, her outfit would look so much nicer.
Kaetlyn leapt onto the roof, looking for where those two guys could have gone. She heard shouting in the distance and followed it.
"My house!" She exclaimed. She looked into the window and saw the man and boy duking it out in the kitchen. The man floated above the flooring, using some sort of magic to make the moving boxes float? No, ghosts were a thing. It was never really confirmed to her, but it had to be, right? Unless these were a pair of strange akumas.
Kaetlyn opened the door, but swung it shut to dodge a small box that was thrown. She peeked inside, then snuck in. She didn't know if both of these people were villains or not.
She constantly scrambled to catch the items and boxes thrown from the fight. Just where were her parents during all of this?!
Having enough of this destruction, Kaetlyn shouted, "Why don't you freaks stop destroying other people's property?" They stopped and turned around, confused. "You know, I never believed ghosts really existed. But then again, we got magical superheroes, why not ghosts, too?"
"And...you are…?" The ghost boy with white hair asked. Kaetlyn recognized him a little. He seemed familiar…
"You can call me Lune. What about you?" It sounded more like a statement than a question.
"I am the box ghost! I have power over all containers cardboard and square!" The man the boy was fighting said in the most stupid sounding voice ever. Was he doing that on purpose, or just an actually idiot?
The man used his ghost powers to lift the boxes all over the house. Lune and the ghost boy stood back-to-back, waiting for what's going to happen next.
"I swear if anything in these boxes break, I'll break you." Lune told the ghost boy menacingly, clenching her fist.
"Jeez, calm down. This guy isn't that big of a problem anyways." The boy's hand glew with green light, then he shot the light at the guy who called himself 'the box ghost'. The boxes fell to the ground, Lune caught some, the ghost boy caught the rest. His power of flight certainly comes in handy.
While Lune tried putting all the boxes into the room they were labeled for, the ghost boy took out a green and silver thermos and pointed it at the box ghost. The thermos sucked up the ghost, then the boy closed the lid.
Lune punched the boy in the face. She caught the thermos he dropped and pointed at him.
"Okay, I don't know entirely what's going on, but I know you're a ghost, and ghosts are supposed to be evil!"
"That is totally bizarre logic!"
"Well, I'm kinda new in town. And just because you defeated that ghost doesn't mean you're not evil, too." Lune opened the lid. The boy raised his hands in surrender.
"Okay, okay! Just put the thermos down and I can explain!"
"You nearly destroyed my- Er… This person's house! Not to mention what else you could have damaged on your way here!"
"I can tell you I don't mean to destroy anything, but what can you do with ghosts, right?"
"Tch." Lune lowered the thermos, yet gripped it tightly in her hands.
The ghost called himself Danny Phantom. Looking at him, he was who Amity called Inviso-Bill. Phantom was the crime fighting ghost that went around Amity Park, searching for ghost baddies and sending back to where they belonged. As long as it didn't cause any problems anywhere else, Lune didn't bother asking where he brought them.
They heard a car park in the driveway. Without a word, Phantom phased through the floor and disappeared. Meantime, Lune had to scramble up the stairs and hop out her future bedroom window.
She leapt across the roofs of buildings until she got a few blocks down. She hopped down into an empty trashcan and transformed back into Kaetlyn. She hopped out the trash can and casually walked down the sidewalk.
"Great, now I smell like garbage…" She complained.
"You didn't have to hide in the garbage can, though." Lunna said from her hood.
"Where else did you want me to hide? I know almost everyone in this side of town. If they saw me transform back, it'd be worse than just some random person seeing me."
"How?"
"Well…"
"Kaetlyn!" Lunna hid and Kaetlyn turned around at the sound of a boy's voice.
"Oh, Reid! Hey."
Reid had messy black hair and brown eyes. He wore a light blue jean jacket unzipped over an orange pullover. His dark blue jeans rolled up to his ankles and his orangish-yellow sneakers had black designs and white soles. He and Kaetlyn became friends in Casper Middle school. He studied abroad in France towards the last quarter in school, then went back to Amity around the same time Kaetlyn got back.
"Glad to see you're okay. I hope no ghosts attacked you."
Kaetlyn smiled. He had no idea. "Yeah. It's still hard to believe they're real. I just thought Danny's parents were fanatics of the supernatural."
Reid laughed. Danny's parents -Jack and Maddie Fenton- were ghost hunters. Yep. They still got paid for it, though. Now they wouldn't seem like the town's crazy people...half the time.
They walked back to Kaetlyn's house. Reid walked right in, greeting her parents as they opened the bags of fast food of Nasty Burger: the common hangout of Kaetlyn and her friends.
They were such close friends that as long as one of the Shire's were home, Reid was always welcomed in.
"Hey, Reid!" Her mother greeted, "Sorry, we don't have anything for you to eat. We would've gotten an extra combo for you if we knew you'd stop by."
"It's fine. I had some steak my Mom cooked. I just came to see if you needed help or anything."
"We're good." Kaetlyn said, walking over to the temporary foldable dining table to steal a fry, "Why don't you go find Danny and the others. They ran off earlier. Don't know if something was wrong."
"Oh, okay. If you're good I'll just head off. Nice to see you." Reid waved goodbye as he walked out. These quick little drop bys were very common, so the family didn't think much of it.
"Okay, bye!" Her father waved back. The family then sat down and dug into their burgers, which were delicious despite the restaurant's name.
Reid knocked on Danny's door. When her older sister, Jazz, answered, she called for him and walked off.
"Hey, what's up?" The Fenton boy asked.
"I just talked to Kaetlyn. You know, you wouldn't have to worry about sneaking around when you sense a ghost if we just told her about your powers." Reid said.
Danny quickly shut the door and shushed his friend. "Keep in mind my parents are in earshot of us! I mention of the word 'ghost', and you know the damage they'd cause."
"I'm just saying, Kaetlyn lives here now. It'd be easier to just tell her you're half ghost than all of us sneaking off. Maybe just you coming up with an excuse to leave the scene would work, but all four of us?"
"I know, I know, but how do you think she'll react? You were there when the accident happened, it's a little harder to believe when you're just telling the story."
"She lived in France with supervillains and magical powers for half a year. I think she'll be able to handle some ghosts."
"It's not only that." Danny rubbed the back of his neck, "You know that superhero from Paris you talked about? Lune I think?"
Reid nodded.
"Well, I kinda ran into her when fighting the box ghost."
"What?!"
He motioned his hands to keep the volume down. "It looked like her. White suit, ears, tail, everything. She spoke fluent English, too. The accent was spot on!"
"Okay… That's weird…"
"Tell me about it."
Reid sighed, "Okay. We'll worry about all of this later. Honestly, I just want to enjoy my first few weeks of summer with as little ghost problems as possible."
"If anything, I should be the one saying that."
Reid waved goodbye and walked back home. Danny went back inside. Even though the group was reunited, it might be the weirdest summer yet.
