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Author's Note: I hope that this chapter is where- (stops self from revealing- stops self from stopping self from telling-) OK shut up already! -cough- sorry, going crazy here. And to friend: Hi LF (linkfreak, typing LF is easier), look at me! I have six chapters, but you have 8. Read her story! I already did. Is good! It is called 'The Purest Heart Of All' people. In the words of Walker revised "Know it, Read it, obey it." Apologies for going crazy. On with the fic!
Chapter Six: The Beginning
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As the darkness quickly stole the light that remained within the sky (he he! That's slightly from Vanessa Carlton!) Danny's parents had left for two weeks to go to Yale (haunted) Port Tobacco in Maryland (haunted) stay at Grove Park inn at Asheville, NC (haunted) Presque Isle Lighthouse in Lake Huron, Michigan (haunted) The Myrtles House B & B in St. Fransisville, Louisiana (haunted) and The New Orleans French Quarters (also haunted). Jazz didn't want to stay for the 'excitement', so she stayed at a friend's house. That left Danny, Tuck, Sam, and Ri with the house to themselves. That gave them plenty of time to search for information on the Black Miko. They had been searching for about six hours and they only found websites on some guy named Tomas Miko, or some website about anime or the black list, or some other nonsense. By the time it was 10:48 at night, they started getting hungry.
"Danny, we've been searching for hours. Can we get something to eat?" whined Tuck.
"I don't think my parents left enough money for us all to eat, just me 'n Jazz" Danny answered.
"But I'm starving over here!" Tuck still complained.
"Here, you guys keep on searching, and I'll go make us something to eat" Ri said. She was getting annoyed with Tuck's whining.
As Ri left Danny's room, Sam shouted out to her "Make sure mine doesn't have meat in it!"
"OK" Ri called back.
"See?" Tuck said to Sam. "How come you never made us something to eat like Ri does?"
Sam grabbed a pillow and threw it at Tuck's head. She did it so hard, she knocked him off his chair.
After an hour more of searching, Ri came up with four plates in her arms.
"Here" she said. "Come take a plate and relax for now.
"What the heck is that stuff?!" Tuck asked in horror.
"It's called 'Stir-fry'. Don't worry, I put chicken in it for you and Danny, so don't worry" she answered.
They ate it up (surprisingly it was good) and when they were done, Ri had brought in some tea.
"Is this stuff edible?" Tuck asked.
"Yes, this will give us more stamina to do some more research" she said handing him a cup of the brown liquid.
As they drank their tea in silence, Ri asked Danny a question that was burning up inside her.
"Well Danny, explain to me why you were so restless earlier when I was talking to your father?" she asked him.
"It's just that, well, he's kinda- OK, he's obsessed with ghost" he answered.
"So? I like ghost too. Maybe not as much as he does, but come on, be happy that he cares for you. You're very luck to have even both parents. I would be so happy to have parents like yours."
Unaware of everything else Ri said, Danny asked "Do you really like ghost?"
Sam let out a cough of disgust. Tuck threw a dirty look at her. Neither Danny nor Ri noticed. Ri returned the plates to the kitchen and they resumed work.
As the seconds turned into minutes and the minutes turned to eleven o' clock at night, Ri became restless.
"What's the matter Ri?" Sam asked.
"Right now, I think I should have stayed home" she said nervously.
"Why do you say that?" Danny asked her. She had freedom from cleaning her house and serving her father and she was saying that being there was a bad idea?
"It's just that, well, the last time I got to stay out late, a few months later I lost my best friend. I just don't feel it safe."
"Look Ri" Tuck said, eyes still glued to the computer screen, searching through the websites. "Relax. You're probably overreacting."
"But then the same thing happened when I lost my teacher-"
"Overreacting-"
"And when I lost my brother-"
"Over-"
"Tuck, maybe she has a point" Sam said cutting him off.
"Look, if it will make you feel better, we'll go to your house to see if things are alright OK?" said Danny trying to calm her nerves.
"At this time of night? Who knows what kinds of loons roam the streets at eleven!" Sam protested.
"Calm down Sam" Danny said. "I'll be there and so will Tuck-"
"Who said I'll be there?" said Tuck defensively.
"I did. We'll all go OK?"
"Fine" Tuck and Sam mumbled.
As they walked out of Danny's room, a dark image lurked in the shadows, watching their every move, every step, every breath, every heartbeat, and every thought that ran within their head.
Yes child, fall into my grasp. Come to me my dear young one. Remember this moment for it shall be your last…
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The moonless night made things harder to see. The street lights were out and they didn't bring a flashlight. There were no cars out, and it seemed that they were the only people left on Earth. But they weren't. They could see the occasional upstairs light turn off of the people turning in for the night. Then there was dead silence. No trace off a scurrying mouse in an alley, or the sound of a cricket calling for company. No sound of the distant owl hooting to alert everyone of its presence. No sound of a seed falling from a tree. No sound of a stray cat jumping on a trashcan. No sound of a living soul. No airplane passing over head. No sound of the wind that was making the leaves rustling. They were silent. They couldn't even hear the sound of their own breathing or heartbeat. Just the sound of the silent night pressing against their ears.
Then, all of a sudden, the already dark sky got darker, swallowing the Earth in an abyss of darkness. The shadows took form into a cloak.
"Greetings children. I have come for my prize."
It was the Black Miko. She looked more sinister than ever. She still talked the same way and she still had the same outfit, but she was different. More evil.
"You're not getting anything!" Danny yelled at her transforming into his alter ego.
"Hmm. The Danny Phantom I fought before is none other than an adolescent? Ha! Don't make me laugh! You foolish child. You bother yourself with such lowlifes when you can have better. That is why I am here. Foolish people such as them put me here. And now, they are going to pay."
She raised her hands up and a bow and arrow appeared in either hand. She took aim for Tuck and shot.
He really didn't know it was heading to him until he saw Ri's hand come out and catch the arrow just before it hit him.
"Whoa!" Tuck shouted stumbling backwards.
"That's my friend you shot!" Danny yelled at her.
"No kidding. That is why I aimed for him. But that little brat caught my-. Wait a minute, your hand!" the Black Miko shrieked in horror, pointing at RI's hand.
Ri looked at her hand, rotating it.
"What? I don't see anything" Ri said calmly.
"That is my point!" the Black Miko cried. "You hand is not burned like it should be!"
"She's right! The last time she shot an arrow at me it had poison in it" Danny noticed.
"Well that will explain why he wants you" the Miko said.
"Who wants who?" Danny glared at her.
"That I cannot say. But I am free to take her at my will!!!!" She placed her hands together and made the largest sphere of light Danny had ever seen. The Black Miko through the light at them. Danny grabbed his friends and pushed them out of the way onto a trashcan in the alley.
"-Groan- Oww, my head" Sam moaned.
"Your head hurts? I was the one who almost got killed with a metal on a stick!" Tuck groaned.
"Look, I don't have time for this!" Danny shouted at them. He was hoping it would all be over. That someone would come. If one thing was for sure, she hated too many eyes on her. At least those of a human…
"Such foolish thoughts Mr. Phantom. No can save you. At least not now. Soon your worst fear shall be here. But not now. Soon, and it will be all so satisfying" Miko said.
"Danny!" Ri shouted from the safety of the alley way.
"What?" he responded.
"I feel the eyes of someone. They're watching us!!"
Who would want to watch-? Wait a minute Danny thought. Ri's father would want to see us…
Danny's train of thought was disrupted by another large sphere of energy hitting him and throwing him into the pavement and his head into a stop sign and hitting the side walk. The Black Miko hovered over him. Danny tried his hardest to open his eyes. He was not about to give her the satisfaction she wanted. The pain in his back surged throughout his body practically paralyzing him. Of what he saw through the gap in his eyelids, she was smiling, laughing.
"Such a precious child. Such a foolish one. You did not prepare like I told you to did you? Well, that does not matter now. I wish to kill you and I can if I wanted to. You didn't put up much of a fight now did you? You talk too much for a child. Children should stay quiet and do as they are told. Well adolescent, you need not worry. I will not stay for long."
Danny let out a sigh of relief, but apparently his rib was messed up from the blast, causing him to yelp in pain.
But the Black Miko was not done. "I'll just take what I need and leave."
She threw a tether of energy at Ri and pulled her into the emptiness of her cloak.
"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Danny shouted reaching out to her, but only grabbing on to her memory.
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Ri woke up to find herself alone in the dark. She tried to move, but she couldn't get away from the slimy, cold, stone grey wall she was pinned to. Her entire body was numb from the coldness that surrounded her. She looked around seeing nothing at all. She was alone, in the dark, with no one at all. No bugs, no mice, no nothing. She strained her ears to listen for any noise far off. But she did not have to do that. Danny was shouting her name, but it sounded as though he shouted it into a microphone and her ear was on the speaker that the volume was turned all the way to MAX…
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Ok! I'm sorry! I know that this chapter wasn't good either! I failed all of you! I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. I could have done better. I'm sorry. Trying to make the next chapter better, Signing Off. PS: I went looking on the internet, and the cast of Danny Phantom lives in Pennsylvania. There's some park park named Amity.