Chapter 7

Rosa smirked as Brooke's eyes closed and her body fell limp. She pulled her hand away from the fallen girl, it was still sparking red electricity. She looked up and saw Danny's terrified eyes. He looked at her in shock, in fear. She craved it.

Unfortunately, the place they decided to battle had become quite popular, as thousands of citizens had walked out of their houses to stare as the ghosts fought each other. Danny knew his parents wouldn't be far behind. He had to get Rosa and himself as far away as possible. He noticed Sam, Tucker and Jazz in the crowed and knew they would make sure Star, Aries and Brooke were all right. He jumped up into the sky and Rosa followed.

"Catch me if you can!" He taunted, then flew off as fast as he could. Most of the crowed looked after the two in the air, but Tucker, Sam and Jazz ran to the fallen halfas. Tucker wrapped his arm around Aries and put his arm around his neck and pulled him up that way, Sam did the same with Brooke and Jazz with Star. All noticed that the three were hurt badly, so they decided to carry the three to Danny's house, and have Jazz fix them all up. As they all looked up, each had their own thoughts about how Rosa was acting and if Danny would survive this.

Tucker wished that it hadn't happened, but now that it did, he tried frantically to find any such humor in it. Maybe a crack about how Danny would think twice about pissing off a girl with such power like Rosa had. Then he thought twice about it and remained silent. Once great friends, boyfriend and girlfriend even, were now ultimate enemies, Tucker knew there had to be some sort of moral squished within the madness of all of this, but he didn't really want to go too deep into metaphors or stuff like that. He really wasn't much of a heavy thinker, and he wanted to remain that way.

"So, how long you think before our arms get tired and we have to start dragging them?" Tucker chimed and looked at the other two, who were struggling with their own halfas.

Sam rolled her eyes in annoyance. How could Tucker be so peppy? Their friends are going to try to kill themselves and they were useless to stop them! Vlad must have planned this from the start. Danny told them about how Vlad had her within his grasp, then suddenly letting her go into Danny's arms. They should have known! Maybe then they could have stopped her from turning evil.

But you like it.

What!

You want Danny all to yourself don't you? You may not act like it, but you do.

No! He is just my friend!

But you got so jealous when he paid attention to only Rosa, never you.

I like the attention, I hardly get any with Paulina and Rosa around.

So, you don't love him?

No! I mean, I don't know…

Ah, I see

Shut up, talking to myself is the first sign of insanity!

Well then, you must be one insane gal.

Sam then promptly shut off her mind and fumed for a minute. But her blunt side was right. Whether she cared to admit it or not, she did like Danny more than a friend, and it seemed as if everything would have been better if none of the halfa's came at all. But she knew neither she nor anyone else had the power over time. She wouldn't dread on the past, only hope better for the future.

"Shut up Tucker." Sam ordered. Tucker blinked, but remained quiet.

Jazz was trying to think about this in her usual way. She knew Rosa had turned evil abruptly for almost no reason. But she knew otherwise, there had to be a trigger. Rosa had all of this energy that was being suffocated in her body, all this emotion after her and Danny had broken up. Whatever Vlad had done to her, had worked ten times fold. She was evil now, and determined on killing everyone. She just hoped that Danny could stop her. She only hoped that Rosa didn't get killed in the process.

All finally got to Danny and Jazz's home and lied the three halfa's down. Jazz quickly ran to get bandages and other things, Tucker and Sam waited for the three to finally wake up.

Danny headed to a nearby mountain on the outskirts of Amity. He hid behind a rock to catch his breath and come up with a plan. But she instantly knew where he was and slammed her hand into the rock, which crumbled into dust, revealing a petrified Danny Phantom.

"Rosa.. please, you don't want to do this.." Danny said carefully, floating a few feet backwards.

She smirked and floated towards him. "Yes, I do."

"Rosa I know this isn't you! I mean, your anger and depression caused this, but I know this isn't who you are. You are good!" Danny looked at her pleadingly.

"Goody Rosa may have been all those things, but I am still her. This is still me Danny! This is only the side of me you haven't seen!"

" I wont believe that!" Danny yelled. "Bring her back!" He glowed bright green and formed a ectoplasmic energy orb in his hands and launched it at Rosa.

She waved her hand and a red shield appeared around her. The blast bounced harmlessly off the shield. "Pathetic." Rosa taunted. She held up both of her arms over her head and formed a large ball or red ectoplasm. She slammed it into him and Danny quickly held up a shield to block the blast, but it quickly consumed the shield and slammed him into a wall of a mountain. He groaned and quickly got himself back together. Then stood up and faced her, to only see that she was holding another blast similar to it at him. Danny's eyes widened as she launched it at him, sending him spiraling backwards into the mouth of a nearby cave. He landed hard on the ground and groaned and quickly stood up as Rosa floated closer to him.

She landed on the ground and walked towards him. "You know Danny, I really thought you did care about me, but I guess that was all an act, to get my trust, to make fun of the freak. You break my heart, I break your neck."

"Rosa, I still do care about you. But we had to, we had to keep the group together."

"Liar." Rosa hissed, coming closer to him and starting to glow a bright red that lit up the whole cave with a reddish tinge. Danny blinked as his eyes adjusted to the light. "You never wanted me. You helped turn me into this half ghost freak. You are your darn parents and their portal!" Rosa launched a large blast of energy to Danny, who instantly dodged and tumbled on the ground until his back made contact with a wall of the cave. He closed his eyes and clenched his teeth in pain. Then opened his eyes and instantly stood up.

Rosa was getting too close to comfort now. "No Rosa, I did, I did love you. I still do."

"Shut up!" Something snapped in Rosa and she launched another blast at Danny, it hit him and hurt him quite badly. But he got up anyways, now knowing how to fight her.

"I love you." He whispered softly. His eyes looked into hers and she felt tears start to form. At the same time her eyes started to dim to her original pink and yellow eyes.

"SHUT UP!" Rosa screamed and threw another blast and another. Danny could hardly stand, his suit torn and burns and wounds now surrounding his body, wounds that someone he cared about deeply inflicted. But all he could say was. "I love you Rosa. I do."

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Rosa shrieked throwing more power on him, but it was less powerful and didn't hurt Danny as bad. Tears were streaming down her face and Danny walked over to her and hugged her. "I love you."

Rosa fell limp in his arms as she sobbed uncontrollably into his shirt. The red glow around her disappeared, the red parts of her suit faded to pink. Danny held onto tightly as she continued to sob on him, and he never let her go.

Star fluttered her eyes open and instantly sat up. "What?" A few seconds later, she realized sitting up, was not a good idea. She winced as she felt pain in her left side. She looked down and saw a white bandage wrapped around her waist. She looked at herself and realized that she was still in ghost form. She instantly changed back to human form and looked down to see the bandage still around her waist. She lied back down, trying to remember exactly what happened. Then it hit her, Rosa. She was evil and willing to destroy whoever walked into her path. She glanced around the room and saw Aries and Brooke lying down as well, with bandages around them, but unlike them, Star was awake, and alert.

She struggled to stand, instantly regretting it, since her side was beginning to burn and sting with massive pain. But she ignored it and limped over to the window and gazed outside. "Vlad." She growled, her eyes turning yellow for a brief second.

"I can't believe it!" Professor Blank shouted as he saw Rosa return to her normal form. "That liquid was unstoppable!"

"Well, it obviously was stopped." Vlad replied, annoyed. He sighed and put away the glowing ball of light that showed them Danny holding Rosa.

Professor Blank growled, and his brown eyes seemed to radiate fire. Then he sighed and seemed to calm down somewhat. "So what do we do now?"

Vlad smirked and looked at a small object in the shadows.

"Well… we do have a plan B."

After a few minutes of crying, Rosa pulled away from Danny and wrapped her arms around herself. She was breathing hard and she was a total mess. Her hair no long half over her face, instead it showed her fully, the reptile eye and all. She could only look at him with disbelief, then her gaze shifted downward to the floor.

Danny looked at her with concern and pain. He looked down and noticed some of his wounds were actually serious. He stood up and walked over to her. "Can you stand?"

She didn't answer, she just stared down.

"Rosa, please I-"

"Why?"

"What?" Danny lifted an eyebrow at her question.

She looked up at him with hard eyes.

"Why didn't you kill me?"