Chapter 7

The next day, everyone was weary going to school. Danny was for waking up in the middle of the night, still upset over Star's call, Rosa was for crying herself to sleep after finding out her parents were splitting up, Brooke for being badly beaten and trying desperately to hide the marks on her body with makeup, Aries for fighting all night with his evil side, constantly trying to make the good stay in control, and Sam for waking up several times from nightmares about her friends.

Star and Tucker were the only ones that didn't look worn out. Which pretty much scared them to death when they compared the others to walking zombies. When Rosa and Danny saw each other, Rosa collapsed in his arms and told him everything. Danny held her close and whispered that everything was going to be alright. He petted her hair, hoping to calm her down. But she just continued to tell him the story while sobbing. Star, Aries, Tucker, Sam and Brooke stood by as they saw Rosa breaking down.

"We can't do this.." Aries whispered. "Not now."

"Her world has turned upside down." Brooke noticed.

"We can't wait with this.." Star tried to reason.

Tucker snapped. He turned abruptly to Star. "Look you, I know you hardly care about our feelings but you really should leave Rosa and Danny alone for a while!"

"Don't you dare say I don't care about Rosa!" Star glared straight through Tucker. "You have no idea how much I care about you all! That's why it has to be now, before we all split up and the group is forever destroyed! Rosa's parents are splitting up, they aren't dead. If is this is how hard her life will get, god bless her. Because she will never face the horrors I have. None of you will!"

While Star was rambling, Brooke stared at Rosa and Danny, and briefly wished she had someone to comfort her when she had been badly beaten. As the bell rang, she turned around and ran to her class, without so much as a goodbye.

After Star's speech, Tucker looked stricken, then the bell rang and Sam managed to usher him away from Star and Aries. Star closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then told Aries to follow her.

Danny and Rosa still stood in the same place. He held her in his arms and neither of them noticed the bell. Rosa just cried on him. Everything she had been feeling lately, everything that's been happening to everyone, finally caught up to her. But she had no idea that it was going to get worse.

"Why am I so emotional?" Rosa sobbed.

"Because you're going through a lot." Danny said softly. "And I'm afraid I don't have good news for you either. Star and the others say they will break off from the group if we don't split up."

Rosa looked up at Danny wide-eyed. "Danny no! Don't make us break up." She grasped his shirt and looked into his ice blue eyes. "Don't break my heart."
"I wont." Danny answered truthfully. He wiped a tear from her eye. " I never will."

She smiled softly at him. "You promise?"

"I promise."

They hugged each other tightly, then noticed they were the only ones in the hall.

"Lancers gonna kill me!" Danny gasped, then he ran towards his classroom. Rosa felt herself giggle a little and shook her head. She started to make her way through the hall when she saw a young boy who almost could be Danny's twin, except for his green eyes. And the Goth clothing. Her gaze shifted downward to his black pants and T-shirt with a skull in the middle. He also had a pale face, which did freak Rosa out. She found her gaze once again into his eyes, which were now staring back at her. She felt herself froze instantly. She tried desperately to move, but her legs were rooted to the floor. Panic hit her as she remembered this familiar feeling with Aries. He was hypnotizing her! She again tried to shut her eye or move or do anything! She willed anything to move, but it remained still. The boy was walking toward her now, an evil smirk dominating his features. As he finally reached her, he put his arms around her waist and held her close, she felt her limbs finally move, but instead of running away, she was leaning in to kiss him! The hypnotic trance finally dominated her mind, and all she thought about now, was to kiss this boy in front of her, and break her boyfriend's heart.

Danny gasped as he saw the two lip lock no more than two feet away from him. He dropped the book he ran back to get from his locker and felt a shiver run through him. How could she do this? How could she betray him? Tears started to form in his eyes, soon they were distorting his view and he closed them to let the water run down his shocked and stricken face. His fists were clenched as he walked towards the couple. Then, he suddenly stopped as the boy walked away from Rosa, leaving her dazed and very confused. Danny didn't know why he didn't go talk to her, instead he just hid behind the lockers and watched as Rosa, shakingly got up, then ran to the girls bathroom and tried to calm down.

"Doesn't it hurt?" a Girls voice asked.

Danny turned sharply to see a girl with green eyes and long black hair. She wore a purple T-shirt and black skirt along with black boots. She looked the splitting image of the boy, only a girl.

"What?" he asked innocently.

"To be betrayed? My brother has the ability to make girls weak at the knees." The girl smirked.

"Who are you?" Danny asked cautiously.

"I'm Morganna, that boy who kissed your girlfriend was Morgan. I think she might actually have feelings for him." Morganna smirked.

Danny frowned. "No! He must have taken advantage of her! I wont believe that Rosa did that on her own free will!"

"Oh misguided Danny…you really believe you know Rosa? You need someone better…" Morganna's smile turned evil as she crept near Danny. One kiss was all it would take. She pinned him to a wall.

"And I have exactly what you need." She whispered. Her green eyes were sparkling with evil mischief. She pressed her lips against his, at first he tried frantically to push her away, then he felt himself fall under her spell and he instantly relaxed and his arms encircled her waist. As they kissed out in the open, Rosa emerged from the bathroom, wiping her eyes. Then she saw the scene before her, and she stopped dead.

"Oh god.. no Danny." Rosa whispered.

Danny suddenly found his sense back and pulled away as he heard Rosa's voice. He gasped and looked at her disbelieving face.

"Rosa… No.. You see, I.." Danny tried to say, none of them noticed Morganna disappear.

Rosa ran over to Danny and slapped him. "How could you?!"

"How could I? How could you?! I saw you kissing Mr. Dark and mysterious!" Danny yelled, rubbing his cheek.

Rosa looked shocked, then growled. "He hypnotized me! I was too weak to resist!"

"Well duh, don't you think it's the same to me?! She pinned me against a wall!" Danny yelled, throwing his arms out in the air.

Both stared at each other and an uneasy silence filled the air. Both stared away from each other, ashamed and upset. Finally their eyes met and a strange connection washed through them. Rosa, tears in her eyes, ran into Danny's warm arms and hugged him tight. "I would never betray you.." She whispered.

Danny rested his head on hers and stroked her hair softly, his blue eyes filled with compassion. "I would never either."

"It didn't work." Morganna hissed.

"Oh it did." Vlad smirked.

"What?" Morgan asked.

"It split a wedge between them both, all they need now is a dangerous catastrophe." Vlad smiled wickedly and looked at the two kids beside him.

Aries walked away from his friends to his next class. He stared at the ground hard, he hated to see everyone hurting so much. But this was a tough time. Rosa's parents were splitting up, a new girl was added into the group who had serious problems of her own, and now Rosa and Danny's relationship was causing everyone to fall apart. He closed his eyes in a desperate attempt to keep evil Aries at bay. But he was getting stronger, he wasn't sure if evil Aries came out next time, that he couldn't stop him, or anyone else for that matter. He wished that evil Aries was gone from him. He opened his eyes again to see a girl in front of him. He gasped and stopped. She had green eyes and long black hair. She also wore dark clothes and looked unnaturally pale.

"Who are you?!" He asked.

The girl smirked. " I am here to set you off.."

"What?!" Aries asked, confused.

Morganna smirked again. "Doesn't it bother you so much that Rosa is with Danny?" her green eyes sparkled into his own brown ones. He gasped and took a step back. He shook his head frantically. "No! You can't wake up evil Aries!"

"I am and I will…" Morganna walked closer to Aries, spewing out more comments about Rosa and Danny. "Don't you wish she could be yours?"

"No!!!" Aries put his hands over his ears, but he could still hear her.

"He doesn't deserve her, you do! Take her! Make her yours! She's waiting for you to save her!"

Something snapped in Aries, he gasped as he transformed into his ghost half. His eyes were shut tightly. His hair turned bright red and his clothes transformed into a red and black suit. He was in the same position, but he opened his eyes now. The goodness was gone from his eyes, all that was replaced was hatred and deceit.

Sam walked to her next class with her friends, then noticed a strange boy who looked a lot like Danny, nearby. He had his back to her, so she couldn't tell. She broke off from the group and walked over to the boy. He turned around and she gasped. It wasn't Danny, he was too pale and instead of calm blue eyes, the stranger had piercing green ones.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were.." Sam tried to say.

"Danny Fenton?" The strange man smirked. "I seem to get that a lot lately."

Sam nodded and started to go on her way, but then he stopped her.

"Wait..take this.." He slipped a strange bottle in her hand. "it's the newest potion, Danny will fall head over heels for you, all you have to do is drink it." The boy smiled.

"But how-" She looked at the strange potion and then looked up, only to see the boy gone. She inhaled sharply. She stared at the bottle before her. Did she really want Danny this much to sink to such levels? After a few minutes, she made her decision.