Chapter 5

Rosa gasped and instantly concentrated. The pinkish rings around her transformed her into her alter ego, Rosa Specter. She got off her bed and looked around her darkening room, looking for the presence that said those words. Soon she saw Spectra walking from the dark depths of her room. She was in her ghost form, her red eyes narrowed basically to slits, and her mouth twisted into a cruel smile. She floated closer to Rosa, who had clenched her teeth tightly and formed glowing pink blasts in her hands. She was crouched low as if ready to attack Spectra with everything she had. She felt something strange burn inside her briefly, her body felt momentarily blazing with a unknown rage, but she snapped out of it instantly and blinked and looked at herself in a strange way, as if she hardly recognized her own body.

Spectra smiled widely at this. "Did you feel that? That was you and power you possess within freak."

Rosa glared up hatefully at Spectra. "I am not a freak!"

Spectra's face remained the same. "Poor loser Rosa. She couldn't even get a boyfriend, especially one as easy as Danny Fenton."

Rosa felt the rage start to build up inside her again, she started to quiver as she felt something alien flow through inside her blood stream, circulating through her heart and flowing up to her brain. She closed her eyes tightly. "Stop it.." She warned with her teeth clenched so tight she thought her jaw would break.

But Spectra didn't. "Aw what's the matter? Did you get your feelings hurt?" She mocked. "Poor little princess. If you can't deal with it than you should stay cooped up and alone in your little hole."

Rosa could feel the green glowing liquid invading all of her body parts, she started to lose control of her own body as the rage and depression began to take her over and the liquid simmered within her, through her system and finally ending up in her brain. She couldn't take much more, her body was doubled over with pain and it took every ounce of her goodness to stay standing and not tear Spectra up into little bits, which was the image flashing before her eyes as she glared hatefully at Spectra above her, while panting and trying not to fight Spectra. She knew if she did, she would lose herself, forever.

"You just can't get a clue can you freak? No one wants you! No one would care if you lived or died. No one loves you. Especially not Danny! That's why he dumped you, that's why he left you alone in the cold!"

"NO!" Rosa yelled, she had finally snapped from within, it was all too much. Her body glowed a really bright pink, so bright it was starting to turn a reddish white in color. Her body jerked up and she screamed and let flung out her arms and the power instantly filled the entire room. The whole neighborhood seemed to shake for a brief moment, as the light dimmed, there stood Rosa Specter, her eye glowing bright red, no pupil, no white iris, just a glowing bright red eye, a snarl formed on her face. Her long black hair flowed around her body as she walked closer to Spectra, who was getting up from the blast sent towards her from Rosa. The wind blew away her hair from her lizard eye, which shone a bright red as well, the pink parts of her suit seemed to turn a blood red also. It was as if the goodness, was banished from her body forever more.

She grabbed Spectra by her neck and held her up with amazing strength, still glowing a faint reddish pink color. She tightened her grip on her neck and stared at her with an evil smile formed on her ruby colored lips.

"You wanted me, so here I am." She said in the darkest voice imaginable for Rosa's high-pitched sweet voice.

Spectra grabbed for her hand, trying to get Rosa to release her. But her grip only tightened. Then she swung her other arm back and formed a pink swirling blast of light, which then turned bright red in color.

Spectra's eyes widened for a brief moment. "You wouldn't dare do this to the one who awakened you, would you!"

Rosa seemed to think for a minute, then her features suddenly showed she came to a conclusion. She smiled, showing her teeth, which were starting to turn sharp, almost vampire like.

"Yes, I would." Rosa then slammed her fist through Spectra's ghost body, the red blast consuming the dark form of Spectra within it. Spectra screamed in pure agony and tried to escape its pull but it was useless. Spectra was sucked into the ball of red, then the ball shrunk until it disappeared altogether. The air around her was silent. She turned around and looked out at the pitch-black sky as clouds covered the moon. Rosa was gone.

Danny cried out as the buzzing of his alarm woke him up from the dream he was having. His eyes which were for a second wide open, instantly closed halfway and he looked over to his alarm clock as it continued to shriek and wail. The red numbers on it red Seven Thirty. He groaned and grabbed the pillow he was laying his head on and slammed it down over his head. A few minutes later, the alarm finally turned off and Danny thought he could finally go back to sleep.

Until that is, his sister opened the door, yelling at him to get up or he would be late for school.

"Alright! Alright Jazz! I'm up!" he whined as he threw the pillow off his head and almost unconsciously dressed himself for school. A few minutes later he was out the door and running for Casper high. Then he stopped for a second and seemed to blush. He had forgotten he could transform and fly to school. He quickly looked around and transformed into Danny Phantom. Then he took off into the air and flew towards Casper High.

Star and the others had the same idea apparently, he caught up to Star, Brooke and Aries as they were flying to their school.

Danny did notice that one was missing. "Where's Rosa?"

Star shrugged. "Dunno."

Aries and Brooke gave Danny the same answer, by Aries shrugging his shoulders and Brooke looking at Danny with a blank face.

Danny frowned. "I hope she's alright, she went through a lot last night."

"I'm sure she's fine." Star encouraged. "She probably took the opportunity to take this as a day off."

Danny laughed. "Yeah, you're probably right."

They finally made it to school and prepared for a boring day ahead.

She floated down through his castle. She wasn't afraid or upset. Her face showed almost no emotion. Her red eyes looked around her briefly, then saw two double doors before her. She gave a small smile and kicked open the doors, which started the man behind his desk. She floated inside the room and to the desk where the man sat, looking at her with at first a shocked expression, then he smiled.

"Welcome my dear. I see Spectra did her job." Vlad said as he stood up and walked over to her. When he got close she held up an arm with a red blast in it at him.

"Yes, she did. But don't think you can control me. One more step and I will blast your human body into so many pieces they wont be even able to tell you're dead." She threatened.

Vlad blinked, then smiled. "Ah yes, I see that fluid worked rather well on you then. Why are you here though if you are such a free soul?"

Her red eyes narrowed. "I wanted to inform you, that Spectra is no longer around."

"Ah well, she did serve her purpose. Like two others I know of." Vlad smirked and looked at her with almost proud eyes. "You certainly aren't like your counterpart at all."

She snorted. "Rosa goody goody Specter? I would hope not! That girl is so darn sugary sweet she makes me want to gag!" She noticed that Vlad was circling her, so she grabbed him by the neck and slammed him hard into a nearby wall. "Now what did I say!" She yelled at him in a threatening manner.

Vlad tried to gasp in air, but she held him tighter against the wall. He transformed into his halfa self and phased through her grasp and appeared behind her. She turned and her eyes flashed with untold rage.

Her body tensed and she started to attack him when he held up his hands.

"No no my dear, it isn't me you want. Isn't it your so-called friends?" Vlad stood still as Rosa stopped, mere inches from him. She thought about it for a second.

Her friends, Danny. She clenched her teeth and fists on either side of her. How they all betrayed her. Danny most of all. He broke her heart when she loved him. Especially after her father and Ruby left. Her eyes burned unnaturally as the thoughts raced through her mind. They would pay, all of them. But first, Danny would. He killed her heart, now she would kill him.

Danny was snoring in his last class, Chemistry, while the teacher blabbed on about their midterm, which was next Wednesday. Sam glanced behind her and saw him start to drool on his desk, which made her smile slightly and roll her lavender eyes. She turned around and went to shake him when the bell rang and he instantly woke up with an " IT'S A LIE! IM NOT A GHOST!" in which everyone in the room turned and stared at his now embarrassed face. He grinned innocently and shrunk back into his seat. That was the most embarrassing thing he had done all day. He sighed and started to put his Chem. book and notebook back into his backpack. He heard people giggling and felt a lot of people staring at him. His face still remained a pinkish red as he left the classroom with Sam, who was trying not to laugh as well at what he did.

He saw her trying to hide her smile in the corner of his eye.

"Thanks for the support" he muttered.

"No problem," she said, finally getting her face to behave.

Danny sighed as he and Sam exited the school building into the afternoon air.

"Oh come on Danny! You've been gloomy all day!" Sam said. "Usually that's my job!"

Danny gave a hint of a smile at that last comment, but his eyes now were focused on the ground, namely his feet as he walked. "I know, but I have this very bad feeling about everything for some reason. Especially that Rosa wasn't at school."

"Danny come on, you can't be worried about her all the time, she can take care of herself." Sam said.

"She couldn't yesterday, Vlad has her within his grasp and I couldn't do anything." Danny sighed. "She's such a danger magnet, sometimes it feels like she's doomed, no matter what I try to do to save her."

"Danny, Rosa doesn't always need to be saved you know. And besides, you need to save more people than her." Sam was getting frustrated talking about Rosa.

"I know, I dunno why, I guess I have her on the brain today." He gave Sam a weak smile. But instantly saw now she was the one in a bad mood. She was staring ahead, her eyes narrowed and her purple lips formed in a stern frown.

"I'm Sorry Sam, I forgot you didn't like to talk about Rosa.." Danny hung his head lower in shame. He just couldn't do anything right today.

Sam looked over at him and her features softened. "No, its okay Danny, its not your fault. I know how much you like her. Even after you two broke up." Sam sighed. "its just sometimes I wish they hadn't come into our lives, everything is so messed up."

"And its about to get worse." A girls voice said from behind them.

Both turned abruptly and saw a girl in black and red lab suit clothing, she had red boots, black tights, a red skirt, black shirt with red gloves and the rose symbol on her chest was also bright red. Her black hair flowed down her figure and across one eye. The other was also bright red, but it had no pupil or iris or any white within it. Both Sam and Danny tensed up.

"Rosa?" Danny whispered, not believing what he was seeing.

She turned her head at him and smiled heartlessly. "Not anymore."