In this chapter, we're going to learn that Kari Feratu/Anemia has a connection to Frank Romero. You're probably wondering what that is.

Incidentally, it's rather similar to Vlad Master's connection to Jack Fenton...I believe one reviewer said that Kari Feratu needed a cat, just as Vlad Masters does...not a bad idea.

Chapter 8: Former Friendship

Though they were still wondering why their daughter was missing out on all the fun, her parents were still enjoying the party regardless. Kari Feratu had certainly invited a lot of guests. This party was going to be huge.

They decided to look outside because the stars were in the sky. If they were lucky, a shooting star would show up and they could make a wish.

Taking a closer look, they noticed that it was a full moon outside.

"Oh, would you look at that...it's a full moon tonight." noted Pam.

At that very moment, the party started to get rather...frightening.

All of a sudden, the guests that were in the party began to transform. As it turned out, many of them were werewolves. Others happened to be zombies. Some of them were vampires similar to Kari Anemia herself.

"What's going on?" asked Jeremy.

As it turned out, they were going to be the main course at the party.

"I'm so hungry right now..." noted one of the zombies.

"You're always hungry. You're a zombie." pointed out one of the vampires.

"Oh, right." remembered the undead monster. Since when was a zombie ever satiated?

"Let's eat!" exclaimed one of the werewolves.

Immediately, Kari Anemia's monstrous friends began to approach Pam and Jeremy.

"Aah! Let's get out of here!" bellowed Pam.

"Can't let you do that." answered Kari's butler from outside the mansion.

Immediately, he locked the door so that Pam and Jeremy could not escape the mansion.

"Very good, Abraham." applauded Kari.

Suddenly, Kari Anemia herself appeared. To Pam and Jeremy, she actually looked much more terrifying than the monsters that formerly appeared to be human beings.

The werewolves, vampires, and zombies began to cheer. Many of the monsters that were from the Monstronomicon looked up to Kari Anemia...though it hadn't always been that way.

"Why are they cheering like that?" asked Pam.

"It's Kari Anemia...one of the most powerful vampires in the history of ever!" exclaimed one of the vampires. Even the strongest vampire guest was not nearly as strong as Kari Anemia was.

Jeremy gasped. That did not sound good to them.

For some strange reason, this vampire lady seemed vaguely familiar to them. Had they met her somewhere before? Maybe it was in their nightmares.

However, at that very moment, Danny Fenton was noticing what had happened.

"Time for me to be a hero...again. I'm going ghost!" exclaimed Danny.

Immediately, he transformed into a ghost.

"Darn it! We can't eat ghosts!" complained a zombie.

"Too bad, isn't it?" taunted Danny Phantom.

Immediately, he launched ectoplasmic rays at the monsters that were attacking Sam's parents.

"I can't let you orphan Sam, now can I?" said the ghost boy.

Quickly, the monsters noticed the ghost boy who was trying to save the day.

"Hey, it's that kid who was on the news!" exclaimed a zombie.

"They call him Danny Phantom, right?" asked a vampire.

"Where are Mr. and Mrs. Fenton when you need them?!" questioned a werewolf curiously.

"Funny you should mention them." answered Danny.

Immediately, he resumed attacking the various monsters that were at the party.

Unfortunately for them, since he was a ghost, their attacks seemed to be going right through him.

"Darn it! Why can't we harm him?" asked one of the zombies.

"Being a ghost has its perks, doesn't it?" inquired one of the vampires.

"You bet." nodded Danny as he punched the vampire in the face.

"Ow, I think you broke one of my fangs!" exclaimed said vampire.

"He broke one of my claws!" bellowed the werewolf.

"Maybe we should retreat and head to some other party." remarked the zombie.

"Leave? But you just got here..." said a voice.

Curious, Danny decided to take a look to see who it was.

It was none other than Kari Anemia.

"So, you're the one who set this whole thing up." answered Danny.

"Of course! But it appears that I have a party crasher...I guess I'll just have to crash into you..." remarked Kari Anemia.

Immediately, she lunged towards Danny and slammed into him with her fist.

"Oof!" exclaimed Danny.

"As you can see, I've honed my vampire reflexes for quite some time...people say that I can teleport...but technically I can't." answered the vampire.

Danny noted how fast Kari Anemia was. She might even be faster than Vlad Plasimus.

"So, you think you can stop me, do you? I will admit that I'm rather impressed you managed to take on my friends and were winning as well...but I'll have you know that you're a teenage boy while on the other hand am an adult. Can you guess whose stronger?" asked Kari Anemia.

"You remind me of my nemesis..." answered Danny.

"Do I? I suppose maybe I'll have a nemesis one day...but I don't you're it. You're not even a vampire." answered the vampire.

Immediately, she shot an ectoplasmic ray at Danny.

"Oof!" exclaimed the ghost boy. Much like Vlad Plasimus, Kari Anemia's rays really hurt.

"Guess what? I've met a lot of ghosts before you...and I've feasted on their ectoplasm. You'd be surprised what I can do with their powers." answered Kari Anemia.

Immediately, she created a sphere of spectral energy before tossing it at Danny.

Danny narrowly ducked underneath it, and it exploded, bursting through the wall.

"Oh dear, it looked like I just vandalized my own haunted mansion. But not to worry...I can fix that." answered Kari Anemia.

"Your haunted mansion? Wait a minute...you're Kari Feratu!" exclaimed Danny.

"Whoops. I might have let the cat out of the bag for this one. But no matter. I have ways of keeping people quiet." stated the girl.

"Good luck keeping ME quiet!" shouted the boy.

Immediately, he used his Ghostly Wail.

"Impressive. That's actually something a lot of ghosts would love to possess, even if they haven't been too successful at it. I know that the banshees invented it for one. But I have ways of countering it." answered Kari Anemia.

Suddenly, she let out a bat-like screech. And unfortunately, it was even louder than Danny's Ghostly Wail and it countered it completely.

"Gah! My ears!" exclaimed Danny.

"Now you know what it's like to be on the OTHER side of that attack. I think after this scuffle I think I'll train my new apprentice in the technique...assuming that she's willing to give me a hand." noted Kari Anemia.

Immediately, she grew claws on her right hand and used it to slash into Danny.

"Ugh! She's too strong!" bellowed the phantom. Personally he wondered who would win in a fight...Kari Anemia or Vlad Plasimus?

Meanwhile...

"This is boring. I'm stuck inside a circle with nothing to do." answered Sammi Bloodsucker.

Suddenly, Frank Romero appeared carrying a broom.

Immediately, he used it to dust the anti-vampire mandala away.

"Thanks, Frank Romero. But how did you know where to find me?" asked Sam.

"Danny told me that you were going to Kari Feratu's mansion...how I wish that you didn't enter this place." stated the phantom.

"Who is Kari Feratu, anyway? She didn't tell me much about herself...though she did reveal that she's half-vampire, just like me." noted Sam.

Frank Romero sighed.

"Do you...two know each other?" asked the girl.

"As a matter of fact, we do. She used to be...my monster hunting partner." answered Frank.

"What?!" exclaimed Sam. Apparently, this was how she knew about the Monstronomicon.

This probably also had to do with the ripped portrait in Kari's mansion now that she thought about it.

"Yes. We used to go around hunting monsters so that we could make a world a better place. Together we designed a book that can be used to trap monsters inside, as well as gather information about them." explained the monster hunter.

"Sounds like you were a hero." answered Sam.

"That we were. Kari and I made millions off of the monsters that we caught. People even made statues of us...though I suppose none of them are in Amity Park, are they? Anyways, while I typically spent the money designing more monster-hunting equipment, Kari spent most of the money on herself. That's how she managed to afford this mansion. And it's not even her only household, either." said Frank Romero.

"She's rolling in the dough, isn't she?" questioned the girl.

"Yes. She's stopped spending so much nowadays, though every now and then she still purchases something precious. For the several years of our career together, things stayed pretty much the same. The monsters gradually learned to fear us, and eventually they stopped pestering the humans entirely. We were just about to retire, when we got a request about a vampire that was drinking the blood from the innocent. Apparently he hadn't gotten the memo that we were hunting monsters and that he should scram. Apparently he was either very brave or very stupid, or simply misinformed." noted the man.

"I see..." nodded Sam.

"However, just when we were about to send the vampire inside the book where it would spent its sweet time there...something unexpected happened." answered Frank Romero.

"What happened?" asked the girl.

"The vampire bit Kari." explained the ghost.

"It bit her?" inquired Sam.

"Yes, it did, and shortly afterwards, everything began to change." said Frank.

Sam was starting to get the feeling that she wasn't going to like where this story was headed.

"She started treating the monsters not like they were enemies but that they were friends of her instead, even when they were inevitably rampaging throughout cities or causing other civic disturbances. She just didn't seem enthusiastic about hunting monsters anymore. I then realized that the vampire bite had caused vampire DNA to merge with her bloodstream, and she was now half-vampire." noted the man.

"So that's how she got her vampire powers..." answered Sam.

"One day, Kari Feratu approached me. She asked me to give her the Monstronomicon so that she could use to it to release the monsters that we had taken from the book, and then rule over them so that we could use them to conquer the earth...maybe even the galaxy." explained Frank Romero.

"I guess she went mad with power." stated the teenage girl.

"Yes, she did. I immediately refused. I told her that she had gone mad with power, that there was no way I was going to allow her to use the Monstronomicon for evil, and that she had turned into the very thing that she had sought to protect the world from, both literally and figuratively." said the ghost.

"So, what happened then?" asked Sam.

"She said that our partnership was off. We weren't going to work as a team anymore. In fact, she didn't seem to want anything to do with me anymore. Knowing that she wouldn't rest until she found the book, I decided to hide it in a tomb where I believed nobody would ever find it. That's where you proved me wrong." answered Frank.

Sam rubbed her hand behind her head.

"Afterwards, I went home, and the next thing I know...I was a ghost." said the man.

"Maybe you died from despair? I know a ghost that died like that..." noted Sam.

"Now that I think of it, I probably did...I certainly don't think a monster finally did me in...though I certainly had some close calls. There's a reason I didn't try to take on all the monsters alone." remarked Frank Romero.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of ectoplasmic rays being fired.

"What's going on down there?" asked Sam.

"Hmm, it looks like Kari has found your friend. You're going to have to go down there and take her on. I doubt that Danny is going to be able to take her on alone. She's grown quite powerful from drinking so much blood over the years...and yet she keeps coming back for more. Truly her thirst is insatiable." acknowledged Frank.

"I can see that." nodded the goth.

"Mm-hmm." answered the ghost.

"Wait, are you going down to take her on too?" inquired Sam.

"That is something I plan to do...but not today. Farewell. I'll see you once you've gathered more monsters in the book." stated Frank.

"Goodbye." said Sam, giving her farewells.

Frank flew out the open window.

"Huh. I was wondering why it was starting to get cold in here." remarked the girl.

Immediately, she went downstairs to go fight Kari Anemia.

Meanwhile...

At the party room, Danny Phantom was getting thrashed. None of his tricks seemed to be working. Apparently, Kari wasn't kidding when she said that she had consumed the ectoplasm out of quite a few ghosts.

"Sorry Danny Phantom, but I assure you, I ain't afraid of no ghost!" exclaimed Kari Anemia as she kicked Danny Phantom to the ground.

"You do realize that if my teacher were here, he'd be all over you for using bad grammar." remarked Danny.

"Oh really? Maybe I should drink some of his blood. I'd like to see what he would put on my report card then." taunted Kari Anemia.

Immediately, she got ready to launch another ectoplasm ball at Danny.

"I'm going to knock you straight to the Ghost Zone!" exclaimed Kari.

"Hold it right there!" shouted a familiar voice.

Curious, Kari turned around to see who had said that.

It was a surprise.

It was none other than Sammi, who was going out for blood once again.

"Oh, would you look at that? It looks you managed to find a way out of the mandala I set up for you...it looks like I was right to choose you to be my apprentice." remarked the vampire lady.

"I'm still not budging." answered Sam.

"Stubborn, now are we? I guess I'll just have to knock some sense in you." remarked Kari Feratu.

"Oh no you don't!" exclaimed Danny.

Immediately, he fired an ectoplasm ray at Kari.

However, she blocked it with her hand.

"Talk to the hand, or maybe my fist. I'd like to punch you in the face personally. Maybe I'll loosen your gums." answered the vampire lady.

Suddenly, Kari Feratu was surprised when Sam fired another ectoplasmic ray at her, forcing her to use her other hand to block that one as well.

"Teaming up against me, are we? Well, I will admit that you seem much more formidable when you're working as a team instead of when you're apart. But I still think I can beat you, even if it's two against one." noted Kari Anemia.

"Don't bet it on it, Kari!" exclaimed Sam.

Immediately, Danny Phantom used the Ghostly Wail while Sam let out a bat screech.

The results were evident, and several windows shattered. Kari Anemia staggered a bit.

"Darn it! Those were nice windows...I guess someone's picking up broken glass tonight." noted Kari Anemia.

Kari's butler sighed.

Danny decided to use his ice abilities to toss icicles at Kari Anemia. Maybe in order to defeat his opponent he needed to make some ice cream.

However, Kari Anemia dodged every single one.

"I honestly thought you were faster than that." said Kari.

Suddenly, Sam dropped a chandelier on Kari.

"What?" asked the vampire lady.

She decided to look up.

"Oh, would you look at that." noted the vampire.

Immediately, the chandelier fell on top of Kari.

If she had been in her human form, that would not have been a pleasant experience at all. But since she was in her vampire form, she simply grabbed onto the chandelier and tossed it aside before dusting herself off.

"You know, maybe I should take you to court. You'll probably respect my property that way." said Kari Anemia.

"YOU'RE the one who deserves to be locked up!" exclaimed Sam.

"Oh sure. Put me in a cage in the zoo where all the other bats are. I bet they won't mind the company." answered the vampire lady.

Suddenly, she noticed that the moon was going down. It was going to be daylight soon.

"Oh, what's this? Hmm, it looks like I'm going to have to wrap up the party. My guests, you are all dismissed." said Kari.

Immediately, Abraham unlocked the door.

Shortly afterwards, all the monsters attending the party went outside.

"Thanks for the party! It was a blast!" exclaimed a zombie.

"I assure you that I'll throw another party once I manage to get my hands on the Monstronomicon, however long that takes. Anyways, I think it's time for me to take my leave as well." answered Kari Anemia.

"Isn't this your home?" asked Sam.

"I'm just retiring to my bedchambers. That coffin of mine is rather comfy. But just between you and me, don't assume that this is going to be the last time that we're going to sea each other. I assure you that we're going to meet again. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not this week, but sooner or later we're going to be crossing paths again. I promise you that." promised the vampire lady.

"Whoopee." remarked the teenage girl.

"Well, see you later! Tomorrow I'm going to be going shopping!" exclaimed Kari in a girly voice.

"I'm not into that." said Sam.

"That's too bad. Farewell!" shouted the vampire lady.

Immediately, she turned into a bat and went to her coffin to go to sleep.

Shortly afterwards, the sun went up.

Jeremy and Pam gazed at the sunlight.

"Was it all a dream?" asked Jeremy.

"Yes...let's go with that." answered Sam.

"We should really avoid reading so many scary bedtime stories..." noted Pam.

"I never liked them." said the girl. In fact, she had experienced a scary bedtime story.

Immediately, the four of them decided to head back home.

"Well, it looks I have a nemesis...just like Danny does. I guess we have a lot in common." thought Sam to herself.

It seemed inevitable that she was going to cross paths with Kari again...on the lighter side, she had Danny for her protection. But she got the feeling that she should work on her vampire abilities a bit more just in case. Kari Feratu knew her vampire strengths inside and out after all the years of being a half-vampire.

She was going to have to brave when the time comes.

Her archenemy would not rest until she had the Monstronomicon.

She was going to have to protect it from her.

Also, what was she hopping for? Jewelry?

"Personally I think she needs a new dress...that one's getting torn." said Sam.

Immediately, she drove away home along with her parents.

Well, it looks like Sam wins, for now. But I assure you that's not going to be the last that she sees of Kari Feratu...that's what she said after all. But for the time being, she's safe.

However, in the next chapter, Danny's nemesis is going to appear as well. Yes, I'm aware that Sam is the star of the show this time instead of Danny, but that doesn't mean that I couldn't include Vlad Plasimus as well. Though he's not the main antagonist of the show, he's actually going to be a major antagonist. So expect him to show up more than once as well.

I hope that you enjoyed the show...even if Pam and Jeremy didn't enjoy the party. It was a monster festival!

Bye bye!