Um well, thanks to everyone that sent me reviews!!! Chapter 9 will be coming soon!! Sorry for the wait for this chappie!! Just so you know, when I put someone's name in italics, it means that you go to that person.
Danny walked home quickly after receiving an urgent message from Sam. It was short; all she had said was that Ember needed help with something and that someone had phones his phone while they were at school. He hadn't quite heard all of what she'd had to say because she had just yelled the message down to him on her flight home. It didn't really matter though; he could always just phone her when he got home.
As he walked in the door, Ember rushed over to him. "Danny, someone called Raevyn Kuper called from the WWHL, and she said that they needed you to check for the email they sent. He wouldn't tell me what WWHL stood for, but she said that they would tell after you'd sent the email back to them."
"Huh? How did just any random person get my phone number? Well, I'll go check it and then I have to phone Sam to ask her something."
"Okay…but what should I do in the meantime?"
"Um… Can you go and see if Jazz is home? I need to ask her something too."
"Okay" she said again and retreated down the hallway. With a sigh, Danny glanced after her bobbing ponytail. He still wasn't used to her, but he'd better hurry up. He had a feeling that all of this mess that they had suddenly been pulled into wouldn't be hard to escape from.
Opening up his email, he saw that he was still logged on and grumbled to himself. With Ember here, he would have to be more careful about such things in the future because he still didn't quite trust her entirely. After all, she had tried to take over the world, hadn't she?
The email was one of the strangest he had ever seen. It was sort of like those bio quizzes people sometimes sent him, but then again, who sent emails asking if there were any other Halfa's that he knew? Who did this Raevyn person think she was? He filled it out anyway, putting Sam and Ember's names in the any other known halfa section, though he didn't include any addresses.
"Ember? You still here?" he called having not heard from her in the last half-hour.
"Where else would I be? By the way, I have just discovered why you humans are so obsessed with these television things!!" she called back. He sighed and then turned to his homework.
A loud THUNK distracted him and he glanced up in time to see a large black bat slide down his window. When he opened it, Sam fell in rubbing her head.
"Wow, I really need to get used to those landings!! She muttered and watched his grin.
"Yup, you sure do!" he said and dodged her elbow.
"Anyway, no more funny business. So I assume that you also received an email from some lunatic from the WWHL? What kind of person would send you something like that and not put who they work for or where they're from?"
"Mmhmm."
"Humph. That wasn't much of an answer. Did you fill it out?"
"Did you?"
"Danny weren't you ever taught not to answer a question with a question?"
"Look who's talking." He muttered under his breath and then said: "Yes." A sudden beep from his computer made them both jump. Raevyn had sent back another email. "Hmm… now we'll get some answers hopefully." He said and opened it. It was simple and short, only saying that they had to go to the park next weekend.
After Sam had gone home, he walked downstairs to find Ember curled up in an armchair, eyes glue to the TV. "Earth to ember, come in!" he said.
"Oh, hey Danny, By the way, I couldn't find your sister anywhere." She muttered without looking at him.
He sighed and went to fix dinner for everyone. He was starting to get worried; Jazz hadn't been home for two days and usually, she would have been right in the center of everything, asking who Ember was and where she'd come from, and how long she was going to stay, but this time, there was only silence. "What had happened to her? Had she been taken hostage by ghosts? He smiled at the thought; no ghost had ever had the brains to think of doing something like that, but then again there was always Vlad… No, even he wouldn't do something so far fetched as that." He thought to himself and put the stove on high.
Maddie and Jack walked in. "Oh, Danny, we forgot to tell you that your sister went on a week trip to a survival camp. She'll be back in four days." Said Jack as he helped himself to a large portion of food.
"Thanks for telling me finally!" he burst out. Ember walked in with a sleepy look on her face to see what all of the commotion was about.
"Danny, who's this young lady?" asked his mother.
"Oh… Um… She's an exchange student from the U.K. Is it okay if she stays with us for a while until I find somewhere she can stay? Sorry for not telling you sooner." He said hoping the lie would be believed.
"That's fine dear. You can stay as long as you want." She said kindly.
Ember blushed and accepted the offer, saying that they were too kind. Danny rolled his eyes and then went to get some food for himself.
Three, days later, Danny, Sam and Ember gathered around the gates of the park. "Did she say where in the park to go?" pondered Sam.
"Nope. I guess we'll just have to look around and see if there's anyone here." Danny answered, and just as he was ending, a young girl about three years older than them with straight navy blue hair stepped out from behind a tree.
"I trust that you must be Daniel Fenton, Samantha Manson and Ember McLaine?" her voice was soft and pretty sounding, as if it might break with the tiniest touch, but the rest of her said something different. She wore a black jacket and skirt with high heeled shoes, having somewhat the look of a business woman. "I'm Raevyn Kuper." She let her gaze wander over all three of their faces when she heard a sharp intake of breath from Ember.
"Yes, that's who we are." said Sam.
"Follow me then please. Just for the taking, have you ever traveled by jet before? I hear that it can be quite sickening for people that aren't used to it." She remarked with a sly smile. After hearing a supposedly satisfying remark from all three of them, she brought them into the backyard of an old house. There stood a jet, shiny and new. Danny's mouth dropped open and the sight of it. Raevyn got in and glanced at the faces of the teenagers. "Are you coming?"
"Well, shouldn't we tell our parents about this?" asked Danny.
"No, that's already been taken care of. Your parents believe that you'll be spending the next month on an overnight field trip to Dimmsdale. (I couldn't think of anywhere else to put!!)" All three of them got in and Raevyn started the jet with the push of a button and had it zooming down a hidden racetrack before any of them could say anything.
19 minutes later on the jet, Ember walked up to the front and sat beside Raevyn. "Um, I was just wondering, what does WWHL stand for?" she asked shyly.
"It stands for the world wide halfa legion." Came the short reply.
"Oh… What part do you have in all of this mess?"
"Well, since I have powers, then I'm included. Everyone who isn't normal is allowed to participate under their own free will. They don't have to if they don't want to."
Ember frowned. "What powers do you have?"
"I have psychic powers. You know force fields, turning invisible and stuff like that, but I would rather just be normal again."
"I know what you mean, so would I…" with that, she turned and walked back to the back of the jet to resume her seat with Danny and Sam.
11 minutes later, they heard Raevyn's voice in the P.A. system. "We're setting down, so please put your seatbelts on!"
As Danny stepped off the jet, he gasped at what lay before them. It was the biggest building he had ever seen; being at least 30 stories tall and quit wide. He walked up beside Raevyn. "What is this place?"
"This place is the headquarters of the WWHL. You'll be spending the next month living in here." She grinned at their surprised looks and led them to the door. "Please turn look away. There are strict orders for me to only let staff know the password; only they're allowed out of here without permission." They looked away and when Sam heard the door hiss shut behind them, she turned on Raevyn.
"So you mean we're trapped in here for the next month? We have to ask to get a breath of fresh air?" she said angrily.
Raevyn smiled. "No, you just have to ask to go outside, so that someone always knows where you are."
"Humph." She walked with them quietly for a minute and then asked: "Do we have to ask to go on the roof?"
"Unfortunately, yes, you three do because I know what your powers are, and what kind of ghost can't fly?" Sam gave her a sour look and turned away.
A couple of minutes later, they turned a corner and walked into a hall with doors on each side. They stopped in front of one and Raevyn took a long chain with keys on it from her neck to open the door. They walked in and there was yet another hall with doors, but this time, there were plaques with names on the front of them. "Okay, I need you to find the door with your name on the front. There are so many, I can't keep track of where everyone is." Raevyn called out.
"Everyone gets their own room?" Ember said.
"Sure, that is if we don't get any more people. Some of the first people to come are already sharing, and since there are only four floors for dorms, then you 'll probably end up with someone else by next week or sooner." Raevyn answered.
Just then, a tall girl with long pink hair opened a door and squished Raevyn against the wall as if she had know Raevyn would be there. "Oops! Sorry Raev, didn't know you were sneaking 'round my door with a couple 'o newbies!" the new girl obviously liked to make fun of Raevyn, but she seemed nice and friendly, like the kind of person you knew you could trust. Oddly enough though, she had the exact same voice as Raevyn.
Raevyn grumbled and rubbed her crushed arm. "Well, since she's here, I guess you'd better meet her. Danny, Ember, Sam, this is Sara, my twin."
Sara grinned at their open mouthed faces and giggled a little when she was the girl with short black hair had grown a tail from the amazement.
"You're twins?" Ember asked.
"Unfortunately, yes. But she's the evil one!" Sara said, pointing an accusatory finger at Raevyn. "Don't mind me if I get o your nerves though. I tend to joke around a lot and be annoying."
"How come you're here Sara?" asked Danny.
A shadow flickered behind Raevyn's eyes and she glanced at the pink haired girl beside her and then let her gaze wander back to Danny. Well, that monster Vlad turned me into a necromancer with one of his little devices." She motioned to her belt, which was filled with little pouches. "Raev here thought I would be useful to the team so she let me come along."
"Oh…" then something came to his mind. "Do any of you know of someone called Jazz or Jasmine Fenton? She's my sister and she supposedly went on a field trip to a survival camp but I hadn't seen her since two days they were supposed to leave."
Raevyn took out a clipboard from her bag and started flipping through the pages. "Jazz, Jasmine… Nope, sorry Danny, your sister isn't here."
They were suddenly interrupted by a scream. A large black tiger fought to get its way out of a ghost-proof net. The ends of the net were held by Skulker. "Well, I guess this pelt will adorn m fireplace quite nicely instead of yours!" he cackled at Danny. Danny tried to fly after him, but something grabbed his ankles and pulled him towards the ground before he could fly away. When he looked back over his shoulder, there was nothing there except Sara. Ember, he suspected had gone into her room to check things out before Skulker had even showed up. "Hey!!! Why did you stop me?" he yelled at Sara in confusion.
"Huh? But I didn't do anything!" she yelled back as Skulker cackled evilly iun ther background and Sam screamed faintly.