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18 Returned

Dani stumbled as she landed and transformed back into herself. She let out a breath and looked around. She spotted Sam and Tanya who were both looking at her, worry in their eyes. Tanya grinned as Dani looked at them.

"Blue eyes! She's back!" Sam grinned as Dani shook her head laughing lightly.

"I love how that's your measure of if I'm possessed or not." But then she looked down. "What the actual fuck am I wearing! I look like my grandma!" Sam laughed and nodded.

"Just a little. Between that and the eyes we sorta figured something was up. Come on you can fill us in on what happened while we tell you what Sidney got up to for the past few days."

They filled her in as they made it to Fenton Works and Dani got changed into something more comfortable. Tanya lamented that she hadn't gotten to do much against the ghost.

The next few days were blissfully free of major ghost attacks, though the Ectopuses showed up again but they were easily dealt with. Dani thought she had dealt with the genie ghost at the carnival too, discovering a new power. She could now shoot a beam of light out of her hand. It was familiar too. She went though her parents files again, it was actually pretty easy to hack, especially since the password was literally just JackFentonRocks. According to the files the blast of light she was capable of shooting was an ectoplasmic blast, they called it a ghost ray. That was far too cool.

Dani learned the hard way that the genie ghost hadn't been dealt with when Tanya started showing ghost powers after their trip to the movies. What was worse was she had to deal with it on her own. Sam was down with a bad cold, as were Dani's parents. Something she discovered by running into one of their newest invention, the Fenton Ghost catcher. She'd only flown about halfway though it and the feeling had been awful, like she'd been pulled apart with hot tongs. It was horrible, she was going to have to avoid this invention like the plague. But Tanya was just getting worse, and stronger so Dani took the inquisitive route and went back to the carnival. The old lady at the stall that had originally had the lamp the genie had come from smiled at her.

"I knew you would come young one. You seek answers." She said and Dani raised an eyebrow at her.

"Is this because you saw the ghost or because you're psychic?" Dani asked a bit skeptically, clearing her throat in an attempt to rid it of the need to cough. She was pretty sure she was catching Sam's cold but she wasn't sure that was actually possible for her anymore.

"Madame Babazita knows many things child. You seek a cure for a misled wish." The old woman said with a gap toothed grin. Dani nodded. "Ah but first you must know your enemy. The one who troubles you has had troubles of her own. In life her name was Desiree she was the most favored girl in the sultan's hareem. Everything she wished for she was granted. The sultan even offered her a kingdom of her own for her love. But his jealous wife found out their plan to have her assassinated, so Desiree could take her place as queen. So she hatched a plan of her own."

"The plan was to poison the old queen, as no knife or rope was allowed near her royal person unless wielded by a royal guard. So the Queen had a loyal handmaiden switch the goblets meant for her and Desiree. Desiree died in agony, watching everything she wished for slip away from her."

"Damn, that's terrible." Dani said, Babazita nodded.

"And it gets worse. After death her spirit wandered, granting wishes, but since her great wish backfired on her every wish she grants has consequences, some more dire than others. If your friend has fallen to one of these wishes time is limited. Recapture Desiree and you may stand a chance of reversing the spell she has cast." Dani nodded her grip tightening on the Fenton Thermos clipped to her belt. She raced off to find the ghost as Babazita sat back in her chair leaning closer to a crystal ball that sat in front of her. "You have no idea of the destiny that lies ahead of you young Phantom. I only hope you can bear the weight of this world." The image in her crystal ball swirled green for a moment before an image resolved, a burning crown in endless darkness.

Dani managed to catch Desiree and lure Tanya through the Fenton Ghost Catcher, successfully separating her from the malevolent ghost that had been growing from her wish. With that taken care of she dragged her friend up to her room to talk.

"Tanya, please tell me what's going on." Dani said around a cough. Tanya frowned at the floor.

"I was jealous. You and Sam both have something. Sam's go the whole goth voice of the people thing going on, and you have fucking ghost powers! What do I have, a PDA." She grumbled. Dani shook her head.

"Not at all true, I would never have beaten Technus without you! Sam and I never thought to check the blueprints and notes for the portal to figure out what happened, that was all you. You're literally the brains of the operation, Sam's the moral compass and I hit things." That made Tanya laugh loudly, though she did end up coughing at the end of her laughter.

They were both down with a cold for a few days after that, Sam shook his head at them when he came over with some chicken soup for them.

"Do you guys have to share everything?" He asked and Dani grinned at Tanya.

"You don't know the half of it." She grinned and sneezed into her elbow.

Summer break was a breath of fresh air for the three of them. They had all the time to hunt ghosts and learn more about Dani's powers that they needed as all of their curfews were extended. Dani was still pretty bad at meeting hers though, since she tended to be the one targeted by the ghosts. But she sort of preferred it that way since it meant that they would focus on her instead of her friends and family, which was why it sort of disturbed her when the three vulture ghosts showed up hunting her father. They had a photo and everything, like someone had put out a ghostly hit on him.

But it also meant she was late for curfew again. Jazz sort of got her out of trouble, if one could call getting loaded into the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle with all of her family and driven to a twenty year college reunion in Wisconsin wasn't a punishment. But they made Jazz come too so at least it was fair.