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Chapter Eleven: Snake

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It felt as if he was going to die of stress. Halloween came and went along with Thanksgiving. It seemed as if it was yesterday he had asked Kelsie if she knew anything about the disappearance of Ri. The wounds on his neck had healed, but it was hard to go through the day, having to lie to everyone about the red blood-like stain on the back of his shirt. Lucky for him, no one from his family was home and he was able to change shirts and throw the blood stained one out. His only escape from reality was on the weekends when he was able to just lay down on his bed and leave the real world behind. The website he had gone to about two months ago (which by the way, that site does exist) had no other information on the Black Priestess. He had tried to keep his eyes open for her, he went scanning Amity every chance he got. There was no luck for him. He ate less and less every day, soon he wasn't eating at all. His friends and family was worried about him. He was thin around corners and he looked weak. He tried to hide his misery from them, but he wasn't succeeding. He was quiet most of the time, especially around Sam. He still was embarrassed to say even two words to her. There was so much that was wrong he felt as if he would explode.

The December weather came filling the air. Now it was Christmas that everyone was talking about. They had finished so much in the past few months. They finished To Kill a Mocking Bird and now started on The Pearl, they had already finished five chapters in history and science and Algebra 2, but the one thing they hadn't finished was finding Ri.

"Danny, eat something" Sam said, shoving a slice of cheesecake under his nose. He stared at it, but didn't acknowledge its presence.

"Danny, you need to eat something!" Tuck told him.

"I'm not hungry" Danny muttered. He shoved the cake back to Sam.

"Danny, would you just eat the stupid thing! When was the last time you ate?" Sam asked.

"Dunno, yesterday morning, maybe the evening the day before that?"

"Danny, we know you're still grieving about Ri's disappearance, but we did all we could do. All we found was that stuff on that site we saw and that was what, two, three months ago?" Tuck said.

Three months? Three, I heard that. WAIT! I KNOW NOW! Danny remembered from the voice that has not left him alone since September. He remembered that it told him he would have to remember everything in December. But when would it happen? It was about three weeks until they would go to Christmas vacation then the year was almost over. What could happen in three weeks? Nothing (o-O). He suddenly lost all hope again. He buried his head in his crossed arms on the table and closed his eyes. He wished he could just wake up and the whole thing had been a dream. He opened his eyes and looked up at his friends. They had a worried look on their faces. He knew very well this wasn't a dream, but he wished so much that it was.

He still hadn't told them about the brief encounter with Ri or the voice in his head. He didn't tell them a lot of things anymore. That was so unlike him. They had been the first people who knew he was a ghost; they were the people he went to when he needed help. They were practically his personal psychiatrists. But now, he hardly told them anything. He felt bad. Even though he knew they would help him, he felt as if they might think him weird. But he didn't think it. Someone made him think it. And yet, he thought of it on his own. He didn't know what he thought.

Kelsie was sitting across the cafeteria from them. He had tried to avoid her since October. He did succeed, but he still needed to talk to her. She was what they suspected the Black Priestess. Kelsie coped with the school very well. She had no friends, but there were people that talked to her and she answered in her usual 'educated' manner. There was so much to complete he didn't know were to start.

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One place he could have started was finding Ri. She had been still secluded from the world. She had no one to talk to. She couldn't remember how she got out the last time. She had willed to break free the last time. She tried the same thing, but she had failed. When she was working as a slave for her father, she felt fine. She felt no sign of weakness. But now, she felt as if she was going to die. She felt so weak and assumed that it was because of lack of food (o-O). Darkness filled her inside out. She wanted to see the light of day. She wanted to see everything she missed. Sam, Tucker, and Danny…

She saw an image, and then another until there was six images in front of her. She couldn't make the details of them (cause she's half blind), but to her they had wings like fairies. They all liked different, one sort of looked like her. They were a sort of red, white, silver, orange, yellow, black, purple, blue and brown. They stared at her.

"Don't look at me with pity" she said to them. The orange/yellow one that looked like her knelt before her. This creature was very pretty. She wore her hair like she did except that her bangs framed her face. Her hair went from yellow to orange slowly. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't have noticed. The creature wore a spaghetti strapped dress that went to her knees. The top and bottom of the dress was about two inches of orange and the rest was a goldish yellow. Her eyes were a beautiful gold color that seemed to sparkle even with the lack of light. Her boots were gold with straps that went crisscross up her legs stopping at her knees. The person placed her hands over Ri's head and muttered something in Japanese. Ri was able to catch some of her words: "… free this equal… my equal…" Ri's shackles disappeared. The woman lifted her up off the ground. The rest of the winged creatures disappeared along with the one that helped her. Ri too was disappearing.

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Danny, Sam and Tuck left school for the weekend. As they walked up to Danny's house, they heard a noise coming from the alley.

"Did you guys hear that?" he asked them.

"Sounded like it was coming from that alley" Tuck noted (o-O).

"Should we go look?" Sam asked.

"Well, we either don't look and there's something important there, or we look and get ourselves killed" Danny said.

"I like those odds. Lets go see what it is" Tuck said (moron).

They went around the bend to see a dazed person coming out the alley. The person looked like…

"Ri?" Sam called out. She turned to them and collapsed on the street.

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Ri woke up to find herself in Danny's living room. Danny, Sam and Tuck hovered over her (déjà vu).

"Ri, are you okay? What happened?" Tuck asked.

"Shouldn't she be asking that?" Sam asked.

Danny was sitting on the couch next to hers. He was overwhelmed with happiness, yes, but he was worried about RI. She was in critical condition and who could they tell?

"What happened while I was gone?" RI asked.

"Nothing much" Sam answered. "We got a few new students."

"One really creepy one" Tuck added.

"Creepy? As in coincidental appearance?" she asked.

"Yeah, how did you know?" Danny asked.

"I guessed."

"How'd you get out" Sam asked.

"I really don't know" RI said. "All I remember is some vague images."

"How many where there?" Danny asked.

"'Bout six maybe?"

"What'd they look like?" Tuck asked.

"I don't know. One wore orange and yellow. The others were an assortment of colors."

"Interesting" Danny muttered.

Danny had never heard anything like that. Well, he hasn't fought many ghosts, so that's no wonder to him. RI closed her eyes and rested on the couch.

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"Hmm, hmm, hmm" laughed a voice. A computer was on illuminating the face that belonged to the voice. It was a man whose hair fell in his face (o-O). He had thin rectangular glasses on. He had brown eyes and a small scar on his left eyelid. He was typing something on the computer.

"Once this thing is done, that filthy hanyou, Danny Phantom will be executed":

Dear Casper High Newspaper,

I hope you take interest in this research paper.

'Halfa discrimination
By Hebi Ama

A demon hybrid walks among the halls of Casper High. The ever famous 'Inviso-Bill' is local Sophomore Danny Fenton (in correction, it's Danny Phantom.) A while back, around a year and a half ago, a freak lab accident caused this teen to undergo a DNA change. The 'ghost' energy charged his DNA and nearly killing him. He is still half dead, thus letting him be a ghost. In human form, life is in control, but when transformed into the famous Danny Phantom, death overcomes. He has obtained ghost-like powers and uses them to destroy other ghost. Others who know are Samantha Madson and Tucker Foley, two of his best friends. They help him in catching the ghosts that remain around Amity, Pennsylvania (o-o)…'

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Dum, dum, dummmmmmmm! You shall see more of him in a future chapter. He has a major role in that one. Then you see him again, but only briefly, and then you never see him again. The next chapter is when things start hopefully. I think. I know that this chapter was no good, but I still needed to get things out of the way first. I don't know if Danny's taking Algebra3. I'm taking A1 (clue), so I'm just assuming. And I'm going by my sister's schedule for HS. She goes to a public school. Signing Off! PS: here is the 'dictionary to the symbols:

'-': new scene

o-O: remember this

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