"I really don't want to do this," Jazz muttered to herself as she looked at the closed porthole door leading to the Ghost Zone. "And Have I mentioned that I really don't want to do this?" She sighed. There just wasn't another way around it. She needed to "practice" badly, so she could gain at least a little more control. Taking a deep breath, she put her hands up, with her thumb and forefinger touching, as if she were meditating.
"I can do this," she said to herself. "I am calm...I'm fine...and...I'm a ghost..." The ring appeared, bringing with it a cold chill. Funny, her heart didn't stop beating like Danny said his did. With a shake of her head she banished the thought temporarily, and concentrated on the task at hand. With a deep breath, she raised her hand to touch the button that opened the Fenton Portal.
Her hand had barely brushed it, when it sparked. "What the..." she started, but soon cut off as a large beam of energy surged through her body. She felt like she had suddenly been doused in fire, and she couldn't help but scream. Finally, the surge stopped, and she stumbled backwards with a hand on her forehead. She felt the change back to human come over her unwittingly, and sighed.
She glared at the door, still trying to analyze her thumb print and DNA, and turned to stomp up the stairs. Just as she turned the corner into the kitchen, the screen by the door spoke.
"Jasmine Fenton: ID confirmed. Please proceed." The door opened swiftly and silently, and remained open. For a few minutes nothing happened in the lab now doused in green light. Then a white wisp of mist came from the porthole, and sank into the ground.
xoxoxox
"Danny," Jazz opened his door with a glare. He once again woke up. Why was he sleeping so much? "How do you get INTO the ghost zone?" Danny looked at her like she had suddenly turned crazy.
"The Fenton Portal," he said slowly.
"It zapped me," she interrupted. "And it hurt. AND it didn't open." She didn't care that she wasn't using proper English, she just found herself uncharacteristically upset at a simple machine, and wanted to fix the problem.
"You hit it in ghost mode, didn't you," Danny smiled knowingly. "It'll try to electrocute you (because mom and dad just put in some sort of protection thing that only works with ghosts), but it'll still open. It just takes longer."
Jazz suddenly felt utterly foolish. "Oh," she said. "Thanks." Danny shook his head and flopped back onto the pillow as she left. "Sisters" he mumbled before sleep took him again.
xoxoxox
The red-haired teen thumped downstairs, suddenly feeling grumpy as well as embarrassed. The thing was, she couldn't decide wether these feelings were her's, or something that accompanied Danny's own powers. She also couldn't help but feel annoyed at the fact that she kept running back to her little brother at any problem. He'd figured it out on his own, why couldn't she? And her grades remained strait A's.
She was so caught up in her thoughts, that she almost didn't notice the stream of blue mist that suddenly left her mouth. Suddenly her resolve hardened.
"Right...I'm a ghost," she said the line that triggered her own transformation. She'd go over it later and find something better to say. Of course Danny's own battle cry wasn't much better.
For the second time in the last fifteen minutes, she felt her body go cold and change. After a few seconds, she stood as a ghost in the middle of the front room. Thankful she'd been able to send her parents off on their little errand, she realized the ghost sense told her to go down. So, she took a deep breath, and dived into the floor, heading for the lab.
As soon as her head poked through the floor, she saw the ghost...a very pretty ghost dressed in a harem outfit. She looked somewhat like a genie with long, black hair. Jazz realized that the ghost had come through the porthole because SHE had been too impatient to wait and see if it did open. Mentally she kicked herself, suddenly feeling far more stupid than she had before. The genie glanced up towards her, and she told herself to stop. Panic soon replaced the feeling if inadequacy when she realized, that her body wouldn't respond, and she continued to speed towards the surprised ghost below.
