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Chapter 2: Operation: HOW?

She took out a napkin from in her lunch box and whipped her mouth. Danny was thinking about something and then finally spoke up.

"So how did you become a..." asked Danny, Katana looked up not understanding at first but then it clicked in her head like a mouse had decided to run on the wheel now after a little break.

"Oh! Okay I'll tell you but we have to be quite so no one will hear." whispered Katana. Danny, Sam, and Tucker all nodded to show they understood that if someone decided to eavesdrop it could mean trouble for not only Katana but themselves too, especially Danny. So Katana explained what had happened as quietly as she could while they all leaned in to hear better.

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Flashback:

Katana was walking down a sidewalk next to a busy road in Clearwater, Florida where she lived at that time unknowing that her parents would suddenly want to move. With out thinking she started to walk into the street and to the middle of the road going northbound.

"So tired..." she mumbled rubbing her eyes. She heard a truck horn beep from behind her. "Huh?" before she could move she was struck by a truck with a skull on the side that was hauling weird chemicals to Boston which was unknown to Katana so it was only a truck with a skull on the side. Since the truck had slowed down before it hit Katana she didn't break anything but was laying unconscious on the floor.

The car that had been driving behind the truck crashed into the rear and made a crushing noise. A green liquid leaked from the truck and started to flow towards Katana because she was south and that's how rivers flow, southwards. It flowed over to her and collected around her and clung to her clothes and skin.

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"Is she alive?" a voice came from above the unconscious Katana. She tried to move but couldn't and instead let out a soft moan.

"Yeah, she has a pulse, but we should take her to the hospital, looks like she's in shock, her hair's white, I've only seen that in extremely bad shock cases." said a paramedic and lifted her up and on to a stretcher. The ambulance doors shut and Katana felt the start of the engine. She felt herself drop all of a sudden, after the shock from the fall she opened her eyes to find she was laying on the road and the ambulance was still heading to the hospital with a now empty stretcher.

"Wha...?" she had time to gasp. A car was coming straight at her and was not slowing down, a cell phone was in the drivers hand. She jumped up quickly.

"Hey you! Get out of the road!" yelled a man from on the sidewalk. Katana just stood in shock, the car came at her and the strangely it was on the back side of her honking it's horn loudly when the driver realized what had happened.

"Ah!" cried Katana "I'm a ghost!" she gasped. Pedestrians stared at her unbelievably and then started screaming and ran away in fright. Katana started running home not looking back. When she got home, Katana opened the door and ran inside her comfortable house, up the stairs, and into the bathroom slamming the door behind her.

She gasped at her reflection when she saw herself for the first time as a ghost in the mirror. She had white hair that was shoulder length just like she always wore it, green eyes in replace of her normally black, and she was glowing with ghost energy.

"Katana, are you okay?" shouted a voice from down the stairs. Katana whirled around and nearly hit her elbow on the edge of the sink but it phased though it instead which just scared Katana more than she was already.

"Yes mom!" she shouted back shaking violently. She turned back to the mirror. "I just want to be normal and alive again!" she shouted in her mind closing her eyes as tears flowed from them and down her cheeks. She started to open her eyes and saw a blue beam pass in front of her and upward. "What was that?" she asked out loud and then saw her now normal reflection in the mirror and sighed with relief only to fall through the sink she was leaning on when her arm phased though.

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"Oh, so that's how?" asked Tucker making a look of comprehension. Sam gave him a evil look that told him instantly that he had said that way to loud since several peoples heads had turned to look in their direction.

"Maybe that truck you said hit you was hauling ghost plasma." said Sam after a moment of silence. Katana gave her a look of confusion and Sam explained that it was what Danny's parents used to make most of their inventions. Katana mouthed "o" .

"Have you fought any ghosts yet?" asked Danny whispering so no one could hear him but the four people at the table.

"Oh yeah! Hey then you most be the person the stupid Box Ghost always talks about!" said Katana excitedly but still with her voice low. She clapped her hands together in pride that she had remembered that.

"Ah, I guess so." said Danny nervously. "You ran into him?" Katana nodded and laughed.

"He's so stupid he couldn't scare a paper bag!" said Katana laughing harder. Tucker was drinking milk and laughed so hard that it came out of his nose.

"Really classy Tucker." said Sam shaking her head in disgust. Tucker whipped the milk away.

"Ready for another story?" asked Katana when Danny pressed about what had happened. They all nodded. "It's boring though..."

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Flashback:

Katana was walking home from her first day at Casper High. Since she had moved her after her parents had decided there was nothing to tie them to her old home she had been totally lost and confused and of course nobody wanted to talk to the "new girl". Her back pack was already loaded up with homework and things to ketch up on.

"Haha!" laughed a voice from behind her. Katana turned around and a stream of blue air escaped from her mouth.

"That's new." mumbled Katana. She spotted what appeared to be a ghost wearing overalls that was trying to frighten a toddler.

"Dada!" shouted the toddler and pointed at the ghost.

"No! I am the BOX ghost! Beware me or face my cardboard vengeance!" shouted the dork of a ghost but the toddler kept repeating the same thing over and over.

"A real ghost? Well no duh, guess I'm not the only one even if I am only half." thought Katana to herself. "Yawn." she said loudly from behind the ghost startling him.

"Who are you to insult the Box ghost?" asked the ghost in his annoying voice after getting over his shock. He made a creepy gesture with his hands. Katana held down a laugh.

"Sword." stated Katana after searching for a name, for now that was the best she could do since her name did mean Sword when translated into English. Two blue rings came from Katana's waist. She finally stood in ghost form ready to kick the ghosts butt if need be even though he hadn't actually scared the kid.

"Ah! Not another one!" he shouted in surprise. The toddler gapped at Katana then ran of screaming bloody murder.

"Don't be scared of me! I'm less frightening then him, which is saying something." shouted Katana after the kid pointing at the box ghost who was holding box's around him with his box powers. "So you were saying?" she asked after turning her attention over to the box ghost.

"You are half ghost, half human. I have battled and lost to another one before. Beware!" said the ghost.

"Oh, that's nice..." she said after a pause. There was another pause as they both just stared at each other. Finally Katana broke the silence again. "So will you be leaving now?"

"Me? Return to the ghost zone and face the ghost warden?!" he cried in his annoying voice.

"Ah, sure, what ever. Could you just do me a favor and leave people alone for a while?" asked Katana practically bored out of her mind.

"What's in it for me?" asked the box ghost curious to what Katana was going to maybe offer.

"Well, we just moved in to the neighborhood and we have tons of empty boxes." said Katana pointing at the ones floating around the box ghost.

"Boxes!" shouted the ghost happily. Katana just sighed and led him to her house by flying to give him the boxes so he would go away.

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