Chapter 8

Rosa and Danny smiled at each other softly. Just then both were sent flying by a plasma blast. Danny looked up from his place on the floor and saw Aries standing there, an evil gleam in his eyes. Danny clenched his teeth. He instantly hopped up to his feet and transformed into Danny Phantom. "Aries listen to me! Calm down!"

"Why should I?! I've been simmering under the surface ever since you stole her from me!" Aries yelled, throwing multiple blasts at Danny, catching him way off guard. Danny, in a frantic attempt to save himself, tried to put up a shield, but one blast grazed his arm, he cried out as another hit him in the leg painfully, he gasped as he saw 5 blasts heading straight towards him. Rosa quickly shoved him away and got hit by the blasts, causing her to cry out in agony. Her badly injured form collapsed to the ground for a second time in the fight. Danny gasped. "No!" His green eyes now glittered an even brighter green; there probably wasn't a right name for the color his eyes were now glowing. Aries' own lime green stared at Danny's, taunting him. Danny shut off his mind and let his body control his movement from now on. He ran to Aries and sent a flurry of punches and kicks at the red halfa. Aries sidestepped and dodged each hit. Finally, Danny couldn't take it and formed a green plasma blast in his hands that glowed a radioactive green, he threw it in Aries face, which caused the other boy to stumble back with his head impacting a nearby wall. He stumbled to the ground and groaned.

Danny was about to relax, when Aries head snapped back up, his eyes narrowed in rage. His whole body glowed a dangerous red and he placed his hands together as they formed an ectoplasmic ray and he launched it straight at Danny.

Danny's arms instantly shot up around his head and a green tinted shield surrounded him, causing the blast to ricochet off and into the ceiling, pieces of it crumbling to the floor below.

"Aries listen to me! I don't want to hurt you!" Danny tried to reason.

"I'm sure you don't, but I want to hurt you!" He held up his hands and a pulsing red orb appeared between them. He smirked at Danny's shocked face and threw the orb straight at poor Danny. Danny bit his lip and tried to strengthen the shield around him, but the blast ate right through it and slammed hard into Danny's body. He screamed in massive pain as the red blast seemed to stick to his suit and skin, burning it almost. He frantically used all of his powers to get the thing off. An ectoplasmic ray did the trick and Danny looked down at the torn suit and gloves, where burn marks resided. He looked up at Aries evil face, shocked. Aries had never tried to hurt them, especially him, that bad before. He didn't even know Aries had that power! Danny's eyes darted to Rosa, who was still lying unconscious. He took a couple steps back as Aries formed another blast.

As Aries saw him back away, he smiled, then he held out the blast, and let it fly out towards Danny, who quickly dodged and took a tumble on the ground until his back made fierce contact with a wall. He bit back a scream and went to stand up, when Aries appeared out of nowhere and slammed his foot on Danny's chest, causing Danny to lie back down in the same position he was before. He glared up hatefully at Aries.

Aries smirked down at the defenseless and weakened Danny. "Aw, why such a hateful glare? After all, this is your entire fault. You and her!" Aries pointed to Rosa, still unconscious on the floor. "You both had to forget about us your friends! That's how it always happens! The friends take a backseat as the couple get together! You have no time for us anymore! Star and the others may be too afraid to say it to your face, but I am not! You are killing the group, so for that! I will kill you! And keep Rosa for myself!" while saying this, he formed an orb, at the last word he threw it down towards Danny. He turned intangible and disappeared through the floor as the blast hit the ground with such force, it made a crater. Aries, teeth clenched, looked around for Danny. Danny soon came back up fast and punched Aries hard in the jaw. The force sent Aries flying into a wall. He groaned and instantly transformed back to human mode as he became unconscious.

After making sure Aries wouldn't do any harm, Danny ran over to Rosa and shook her awake.

Rosa's head bobbled a little as he shook her, she groaned but finally opened her one eye the hair wasn't covering. "Danny?" She whispered. She put a hand to her head and managed to sit up on her own. Danny had transformed back to his human self, but Rosa could still see before he had that his ghost self was hurt badly. She transformed herself back as well and looked over at him. He wasn't looking at her. He was staring at the ground.

"Danny? What's wrong?" She looked at his face.

"Rosa.. I don't think I can keep doing this.." Danny said softly.

"Doing what?" Rosa whispered.

"Aries said, were tearing the group apart. I feel so guilty, so selfish." He put his head in his hands. "But I don't want to hurt you…"
Rosa had her eyes firmly shut, but then she put a comforting hand on Danny's shoulder. "Danny, I will understand if you want to break up." Rosa replied, quivering. Danny bit his lip. He caressed the hair out of her other eye. He looked for the first time, through both of her eyes and looked deep into her soul. She did the same thing.

"Guys?" the voice snapped them back to reality and both glanced over at Aries, who was struggling to his feet. Both quickly ran over and helped him up.

"I'm so sorry.." Aries whispered. "I didn't mean for him to come out, but this girl…"

"Who?" Danny asked.

"She said her name was Morganna.." Danny's eyes narrowed.

"Morganna?" Rosa blinked.

"That's the girl who kissed me…and her brother kissed Rosa." Danny said.

Rosa gasped. Suddenly things were beginning to make sense! "We have to find those two!" Danny nodded, and together, the three went in search for the twin troublemakers.

Brooke was walking home from school, though at a snail pace. She was scared admitted. She didn't want her father to kill her. She bit her lip, it seemed as if either way he would try, but one way she would be old enough to fight back or run away and start a new life. But she was beginning to realize she couldn't take 4 more years of this torture. She closed her eyes and remembered what her father told her, when she was old enough to know.

"You're mother!?! Your mother was a halfa too! That's why you're one, and you make me sick! Your just like her, and she loved you more than even me! That what makes me pity you. You worthless brat, she said she loved you, but she instead went and got killed, by YOUR birth! No matter how many times you say you're sorry, it wont bring her back!" With that, Brooke came out of her trance. Her father hated her because she caused her mother's death, and mother was also a halfa as well. She had wondered to that point why she was a halfa. She reflected that moment in her mind over and over again. Her father never said anything after that. However hurt Brooke was in this world though, she wouldn't apologize to her father for being born. It wasn't something she could control. She hated though the abuse he put her through, and wished to god that someone would help her. She was getting weary of everything, even finding her own mother in the ghost zone. She finally made a decision, she would tell Mr. Lancer. Tomorrow.

Sam was at her house, holding the vial in hand. She looked at it thoughtfully and placed her finger on the spray nozzle and turned the bottle towards her. She thought anxiously, 'You don't have to do this, you and Danny can just stay friends! Who knows what this stuff does to you.' Her other side reasoned. 'I still don't know how I feel, but if I get Danny to notice me, maybe I can figure out and tell him after the spell wears off him' Finally, after arguing with herself for a hour and a half she took a deep breath, and sprayed the strange smelling liquid into her skin. The smell drifted through her nose into her system. Suddenly she dropped the bottle as a strange misty look came over her face. She closed her eyes and a few seconds later opened them, to reveal her eyes a dark shade of purple. She smirked and looked around, then walked over to the phone and dialed Danny's number. Vlad was watching with an evil grin. "Foolish girl, she never even considered that the spell would be on her, instead of Danny. Now she will ruin her friendship with him forever, and be the final straw for Danny and Rosa.." he laughed evilly and disappeared.

Star and Tucker, the seemingly forgotten part of the team in the chaos, spent the night at a movie marathon at the Movie Complex. Both had a lot of fun and went home laughing.

The others couldn't find Morganna or Morgan so they decided to call the search off, and went to their own separate homes. School was long over and Danny knew he was going to face his parent's angered faces. He sighed while walking home, surprisingly, he wasn't too upset about his parents, but more with his relationship with Rosa. He did love her, but their love wasn't accepted between families nor friends. He sighed, his black hair was being caressed softly by the wind. It almost felt like when Rosa did it. He smiled softly, thinking of this. He finally saw his house in front of him and he walked up the steps to the front door. He opened it, to find chaos. Danny's father was running after the Fenton Ghost Weasel, which was dangerously out of control. It was making a mess and Jazz was complaining to her father about it as he continued to chase it, screaming something about ghosts. Danny only blinked, then walked inside and closed the door behind him. "Yup, a normal day.." he said dryly. His mom was in the kitchen talking on the phone. She looked up and saw him, she smiled softly, then said. "Wait, he's right here." She handed over the phone to Danny. "Its Sam, she sounds urgent."

Twenty minutes after the phone call, Danny stood by Sam's front door and rang the bell. Sam came to the door and smiled at Danny, then let him enter, both then went to Sam's room, which was quite large. She sat on her bed. "So, Danny.." she started.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"How do you feel about me?" Sam asked.

"Um, Sam, we have been through this, I love you, but I love Rosa too. I don't want to ruin our friendship either."

Sam stood up, that's when Danny realized she was wearing a short skirt. He gulped, as she walked closer to him. He backed up into a wall and Sam followed until their bodies were mere inches from touching. She looked at him with an truly evil smile and her eyes were radiating darkness towards Danny. That's when he knew he was in trouble. Then she whispered.

"Are you sure?"