Chapter 3

Brooke clutched her books tightly. "What do you want?" She asked.

Bertrand was circling the defenseless girl before him; he felt streams of misery start to flow from her and into him. He smiled widely, now gaining power.

"What do you think little girl?" He asked, grinning. Brooke had just realized she felt incredibly weak. Her mood darkened and her eyes changed from sky blue to a deep ocean blue. They stared out, almost deprived of any happy thought. Then she closed her eyes and shook her head. "Stop it! Leave me alone!" She tried to run from the cougar ghost but he would jump at every way she would take. Then he herded her into a corner. She gasped as her back hit the wall.

"Now, how miserable are you?" He smiled wider as he got closer to her.

"No!" She cried, closing her eyes tightly and pushing herself as far as she could go into the corner. Depressing thoughts rang through her mind. Her father, her life, her death, her mother. Tears welled up in her closed eyes and some escaped from her overflowing eyelids and they rushed down her face. "Stop it! No!"

"I'm doing nothing Brooke. You want to be miserable the rest of your life! That's how it's always been; you're scared of being anything but miserable. Cause you know you will die." Bertrand was close enough to her that she could smell him.

She opened her eyes, still a dark blue. "How do you know about me?" she whispered.

"I know a lot of things about you Brooke. From your mother." Bertrand smiled widely as he saw her shocked face.

"My mother?" She whispered. "You know of my mother?"

"More than you could ever know."

"Where is she?" Brooke demanded.

"In the ghost zone. It's in Danny Fenton's house. Ask him to show it to you, then enter, I will meet you there." Bertrand suddenly disappeared.

Brooke's head swam with information. She would actually see her mother again? How would she act towards her? What would she say? She often wondered what her mother thought of her. Brooke was scared, but it was better knowing, than to never know at all. Gathering all her courage, Brooke started to walk to her next class, waiting for lunch to come. She knew that Danny Fenton was dating Rosa, the girl who invited her to lunch. She would sit and eat with them, then ask Danny to go to his house. It was perfect.

Vlad noticed that Bertrand and Spectra were interfering, but he decided they were well enough away from Danny and Rosa, that he could do what he wanted, without then messing things up as always. They were after Brooke, and that was fine with him. He smiled wickedly and pressed a button a strange machine before him. Lights and other objects on the machine blinked and turned on. The whole thing made a noise of a cross between a semi Truck and a power drill. The gizmo itself had no definite shape and was vibrating aggressively. Finally, after it seemed like a eternity of waiting, the machine gave a big lurch, and then went silent. Vlad pressed another button, which caused a door nearby to open and smoke to pour out. A dark figure stepped out of the machine and smiled wickedly. The figure stepped out of the machine and looked at Vlad with piercing green eyes.

"Hello, Master." The girlish voice said and she bowed to her new master.

"Excellent, Morganna. You are perfect." Vlad touched her long black hair in wonder. She was around the age of fourteen with very pale skin and she wore purple attire. A dark purple shirt, black skirt and black boots. Her long black hair lied limply around her and some pieces were even down her shoulders.

"Now, lets make your brother." Vlad smirked. He began looking at the machine again in pure wonder. This machine could literally create the perfect girl or boy for whoever wanted to find a mate. He also added, that they were pure evil. They could never be for good. He started calculating in what he knew about Rosa, to make her perfect mate. First he would send out Morganna to do her work with Danny…then, he smirked. He knew the rest of the plan by heart almost. He would destroy both Danny and Rosa from the inside, out.

Star, Tucker, Sam, and Aries sat in class, all in one line in the front row. Rosa and Danny were a few rows behind them. Holding hands under the desk. Everyone in the front row felt sick. All four could see the two in the corner of their eyes. Now they were hardly paying attention to the teacher, both were staring into each other's eyes with the same goofy expression on both of their faces.

Star mentally told herself that when she got home, she would remember to whack herself over the head many times with a waffle iron, until she could get that picture out of her head. She looked over at Tucker.

"Gross huh?" She wrinkled up her nose in distaste.

"I just wish they wouldn't do that in public." Tucker joked, rolling his eyes behind the thick frame of his glasses.

"This is public?" Aries added.

This caused the three to almost burst out in giggles. Sam was watching with a sour face and one eyebrow raised.

The two love birds behind them looked at their friends strangely. They wondered what the three found so funny. Both glanced at each other in slight confusion, then shrugged their shoulders and leaned closer next to each other. Danny had to move his desk, without it making that dreadful squeaking noise across the freshly waxed floor. He then slid his arm around Rosa's waist and smiled at her gently.

By this time, all four had their eyes behind them at the two, who were obviously to in love with each other to notice the four pairs of eyes gazing at them. It was a miracle the teacher didn't notice all the commotion in his classroom. Especially when the four started to whisper.

"Can you believe that?!"

"My eyes are burning!"

"Are they nuts?"

"I hope they get in trouble for this."

Sam stared at then two, anger boiling under the surface. Jealousy unfortunately started to consume the young teen girl. Her pure amethyst eyes seemed to turn a dark shade of violet. She now knew that Danny hardly even cared for her. If he did, he would at least try to show some self-control! She was angry and hurt at them both. In that instant, Star took it upon herself to speak.

"Get a room you two!" She yelled, turning everyone's attention on a now very embarrassed Rosa and Danny.

The three were sent to the principal's office, Danny and Rosa still had faces as red as cherries. Star was walking behind them, her arms crossed over her chest in annoyance.

Halfway there, Danny turned and stopped, the two girls stopped as well, his blue eyes gazed into Star's green.

"How could you do that?" He demanded.

"Oh I'm sorry if I ruined that precious moment, but some of us were trying to keep their breakfast down." Star hissed.

"God Star, what's with you?" Rosa was seriously steamed. "First you're happy for us, then all of a sudden your angry at me dating Danny? Your mood swings are worse than the weather changes in Nebraska!"

"Was that suppose to be a joke?" Star asked mildly. "And for your information I'm not the only one who feels this way. The whole gang thinks you both are getting too carried away! It's affecting school and even ghost catching! I haven't seen either of you after school for the last two weeks!" Star yelled, her green eyes flashing with a strange fire.

"We've been busy!" Rosa defended.

"Yeah, busy kissing him!" Star pointed to Danny. "I'm your friend Rosa! And I'm telling you right now, that this isn't good for either of you!"

"Your just jealous." Rosa whispered.

"Jealous? JEALOUS?! What a bunch of crud! But I will tell you who is, Sam is majorly jealous of you two! Or have you not noticed that?" Star spat.

Rosa and Danny glanced at each other, the anger fading from both of their eyes.

"She is? But I talked to her about this-" Danny stuttered.

"Face it Danny, She will never be over you. She likes you possibly more than a friend. And that scene in there, nearly tore her apart." She glared at the two. "Please try to understand, I really think you two should stop going out. At least for a while."

The anger flared up in Rosa's blue eye again. She stared hard at Star. "What?! No way! If you can't accept us, then I guess we aren't friends anymore Star!"

Star looked shocked, then mad. "You can't mean that!"

"I do! Get away Star! I hate you!" Rosa was already on a roll, she had no control over her actions.

Star stood there, a slight smirk plastered across her face, but her eyes trembled. She had water in them. "Fine, but don't expect for me to come back when you need help." With that, she phased out of the school.

Rosa closed her eye and cried on Danny. He had his arms around her, he held her close to him as she cried.

Ruby Sector was home sick with the flu. She winced slightly as she heard the front door slam. Father was back, and by the sounds of it, he wasn't happy. That was the best time to stay away. The past few weeks, her parents had been fighting. She thought they'd get over it, forgive each other like always and live happily ever after again. But this was not to be. Instead of getting better, the fighting only got worse. Her sister had hardly been home the past few weeks, so she didn't know about the crisis in her own home. But Ruby did, and she didn't like it at all. What was worse, the reason they started fighting was because of Rosa. Dad didn't like the guy Rosa was dating, mom said for him to not be so tense about it. That Danny was a good boy and would take care of Rosa. But dad didn't believe her, thus mom got angry that dad didn't trust her judgment, soon the fight escalated into them hating everything that they did. The way mom cleaned the plates, the way dad burped without saying "excuse me", etc. Ruby had been hearing the whole fight, since she had been sick since last week. The flu she had was terrible and she couldn't quite get over it.

Finally deciding that a peek at her parents wouldn't hurt, she crept from her bedroom to the banister on the second floor that overlooked the first floor living room. She sat down and saw her two parents arguing. She listened hard for what they were talking about.

"Joe I cant take this anymore! All the fighting and everything! I'm sick of it! And so is Ruby!" Her mother yelled at her father.

His mustache twitched at Ruby's name. His green eyes also held some genuine concern.

Maybe this was it, Ruby thought excitedly. Maybe they would finally forgive each other.

But the truth was, she couldn't have been farther from the truth.