Chapter 4

Rosa stood up and sighed, pacing around her carpet that seemed to be growing darker as the sun set. She looked back at Danny, with a longing, but hurt face. The sun was reflecting off of his white hair and side of his face, it made him look even more handsome than she remembered. She closed her eye and turned away. Shut it Rosa, she chilled herself. You can't fall in love with your best friend when he has someone else. She felt her body give a slight shudder. When did it suddenly get so cold? She crossed her arms around her, to keep herself warm. Danny seemed to notice that she was shivering and stood up and reached out to touch her, but when his gloved hand touched her shoulder that was covered with the black fabric she had been used to, she jumped away.

"Rosa, why are you so afraid of me?" He asked, worried.

Rosa again turned to see him. The mixtures of yellow and orange were coming straight through her window and onto him, while she was left in the darkness of her room. The light totally outlined half of Danny. The left half of his body. It tinted the color of his suit and eye, but it still looked like Danny. She silently wished he didn't look so cute. But he did. Rosa finally couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to be in the dark anymore. She wanted to be in the light, with him. She had to come clean. Even if it meant an end to their friendship.

She took an unsteady deep breath and looked at him with her one eye.

"Danny, I think I'm in love with you.."

Sam took a deep breath as she walked towards Tucker's house. She wasn't going to enjoy it much without Danny. Sure, she loved Tucker, despite his eating habits. He was one of her best friends. But it wouldn't be the same without Danny. She still wondered why he hadn't called her. She thought for sure they were getting closer after Danny's last encounter with Vlad. Danny sure was shaken up about it. Especially since Rosa almost died, again! What was that girl? A death magnet?

That wasn't nice, her inner self said.

Sam snorted.

I can talk about her the way I like.

Are you a little jealous?

NO!

You sure seem that way to me. She seems to always get his attention.

Well she's special to him, plus she's a halfa too!

And she always almost dies, not to mention that eye of hers..

So it's different! I think people should be different like her and me!
Listen to yourself. She seems to be your friend too.

But she's been so close to Danny lately.

She needs him now.

How do you know?

Because that's what you know.

Stop confusing me!

Sorry.

Sam sighed and realized she had gotten to Tucker's house. Her head was pounding and she looked a little worse for wear. When Tucker opened the door, he noticed how awful she looked and let her inside. Sam sighed and sat down on the couch. Tucker sat next to her.

"What's up?" He asked. He obviously knew something was wrong.

"How do you think Danny likes Rosa?" Sam asked.

"Like she's part of the group. That she has always been around." Tucker said.

"Do you think.. he...loves her?"

At that, Tucker was dead silent.

"Tucker?" Sam glanced at him. Instead of seeing a smart alack face she expected to see, his face was with shock, and instantly turned pale. Sam frowned.

"Tucker what's wrong?" Sam turned to what he was looking at and what she saw made her scream.

Aries chuckled to himself. Sam and Tucker had been so easy. They hardly even made a sound as he led them out of Tucker's house. It helped that he had found his dad's gun in the tool shed outside of his house. All the way, Sam had demanded what he was doing. He merely smiled and said, "taking care of business."

He led them to an abandoned house and tied them both up. He also gagged them and made sure they wouldn't find some way to escape. He then smiled at the two, waved and walked out. Now he was on his way to the Fenton home. He knew that Rosa was going to spill the beans. So now what he would do was kidnap his sister. He smirked as he walked to the door. He pressed the doorbell and waited a few seconds before Jazz had opened the door. She blinked at him.

"Who are you?"

"I'm a friend of Danny's. Can I talk to you for a second?" His hand was behind his back, the gun tightly clenched in it.

Jazz nodded slowly, and exited the house, when she did he drew the gun on her. She gasped.

"Now don't even think of running away. If you don't want anything to happen to your brother, or his friends!" Aries threatened.

Jazz, against her better judgment, stood still. She didn't want Danny or anyone else to get hurt. "What do you want?"

Aries chuckled slowly. "I want my love."

Jazz's eyes widened. "Who is your love?"

"Rosa Sector."

Star sighed as she sat down on a bench. She had to think. Everything the past few days made no sense! She had to figure out what was going on, there was only one way to do that. Star stood up, and changed back to her human form. Then walked towards the street where Aries lived. She had seen him walk down it a million times while walking to her own. She finally got to the house and knocked. The woman who answered the door seemed in her mid forties, with black curly hair that reached past her thigh and brown eyes to match. She seemed like a typical mom, not too thin, not too fat and she wore jeans and a yellow flannel shirt.

"Can I help you?"

"Is this Aries Meedavo's house?" Star asked, uncertainly.

"Yes it is, are you a friend of his?" the woman asked.

Star nodded. "Yeah. He told me to come over. Is he home?"

"No I'm sorry, he's out. Would you like to come in and wait?"

"Sure." Star smiled and entered the house.

"So, what's your name?" His mother asked.

"Star Vost." Star answered, glancing around.

"I'm very glad to meet you Star. It's a shame, after what happened to poor Aries in London, we thought he'd never get any friends."

"What happened to him?" Star asked.

His mother sighed. "Come with me."

His mother led her to another room and indicated her to sit down. Star did and his mother pulled out a shoebox from under the couch.

"If you are to be his friend, you should know what happened to him. When we were in London. He got into a serious accident. A car hit him, we feared the worst. He wasn't dead yet, but still he couldn't breathe on his own and he was in horrible shape. We both knew he should have died. But for some reason. He didn't." His mother opened the box and pulled out a couple of newspaper clippings. She handed them to Star. Star eagerly grabbed them and read what the newspaper said.

"After the incident, he had some strange abilities. He could lift objects without having to think about it. He could do all sorts of things. But soon they left him. But that didn't stop the teasing. He fought back in school many times. We thought he was mentally ill. But then all of a sudden he'd change, saying that his evil half was making him doing these strange things. That the angel who saved his life, also told him that he would forever be split in two."

Star blinked.

"He has told me a lot about your group Star. Danny, Sam, Tucker, and I think he likes Rosa. He never seems to stop talking about her."

In that instant, his father walked in. "Honey? Have you seen my pistol?"

Star's eyes widened. Finally, everything clicked. She instantly jumped up. "I'm sorry but I have go, nice to meet you, bye!" with speed she never knew she had, Star ran out of the house and into the street. She had to find Rosa, before Aries had finished with his plan.

Jazz gasped. "No." Was all she could say.

"Yes, Rosa will be mine!" Aries yelled. He held the gun to her head. "Now move it!" he ordered. Jazz, unwillingly followed. Halfway to the abandoned house, she fought back. She tried desperately to get the gun away from him. But he was way stronger than she was and knocked her to the ground, and out cold. He sighed, annoyed and picked her up and took her the rest of the way to the house. There, he tied her up and put her with Tucker and Sam. He smiled as the two looked at him hatefully and tried to struggle from their bonds. He only smiled at them. "Don't worry, as soon as Rosa is mine, you all will feel no more pain." He laughed evilly.

Suddenly though pain entered his head and his eyes turned bright green.

"No! you can't hurt them! Especially not Rosa!"

"Aw, does Aries have a crush on Rosa?" Brown eyes.

"No! but you have no right to do this to people!" Green eyes. He struggled to control the body and untie Jazz, Sam and Tucker, when instantly brown eyes took over.

"No! I've worked too hard for you to ruin this! Go back to your hole!" After a couple seconds, he smiled his evil smile. Tucker and Sam glanced at each other in confusion. What the heck just happened?