Death Wish: Chapter 2, Sibling Rivalry

A Danny Phantom fic by Dustin Dixon

Disclaimer:Again, every character in this story is a copyright of the fantastic Butch Hartman. Okay, everyone except for the real villain of the episode. This includes the special guest star in this chapter. Go on. Guess who it is. ;) With that said, let's proceed with chapter 2.

Desiree looked down upon the city of Amity Park, smirking as a small black boy in a sweater-vest pulled out a mirror and looked at his bald head.
"Man." he said. "I wish I had hair."
She then appeared next to the black boy and said "So you wish it, so shall it be!"
Wiggling her fingers, she then opened up her hands, exposing her ghostly palms. Then, almost immediately, the small black boy grew an afro.
"Awesome! Hair!" he said, then screamed as it turned green and grew eyes and a mouth. "Not awesome! Ghost hair! Aaaah!"
"Good thing you're not my stylist!" came a voice from behind Desiree, right before she got knocked into a wall. She turned to see Danny floating in midair behind where she was previously floating. He quickly blasted the hair stuck to the black boy's head, andsaid boyran off screaming at the top of his lungs.
"You! What do you want!" Desiree exclaimed angrily. "Revenge!" Danny said, equally enraged. "You killed my sister!"
Desiree simply looked at him like he'd caught the plague, before erupting into laughter.
"What's so funny!" Danny asked.
"You, boy!" Desiree said, grinning evilly. "Have you forgotten that I'm a wishing ghost?"
"So?" Danny said.
"I'm bound by the same laws as genies are! I can't actually KILL someone!" Desiree said. "The closest I can do is switch out her soul for that of a monster!"
"So technically, Jazz ISN'T dead!" Danny asked.
"Not yet, anyway. At noon tomorrow, yeah, she'll be as dead as YOU wanted her to be!" Desiree said.
"That...is NOT going to happen." Danny said.
Desiree's eyes turned away from Danny, noticing a new arrival onto the scene.
"Perfect timing. Boy, I believe there's someone here to see you!" she said, still grinning evilly.
Danny turned around for a second, long enough to see a fist fly into his face, which knocked him into the nearby wall. When he opened his eyes, he was horrified to see the all-too-familiar face of his attacker: his now red-eyed sister.
"J...Jazz!" Danny stammered out. Something didn't feel right. That blow actually hurt. Really bad. "Little brother...you were totally right. I was being overprotective. So I figure I'LL beat on you for a bit." she said, grinning evilly. Her voice was much deeper, more monstrous.
"Can't we talk this out!" Danny said.
"Sure. You talk, I'll wail." 'Jazz' said.
"That isn't you in there, is it? Desiree switched your soul with a monster, like she said." Danny said.
"Well duh." Desiree said. "Isn't it obvious?"
"Well then, that eliminates any guilt I'll have for beating the living crap out of you." Danny said, facing the monster inside his sister's body.
"Oh, there IS a catch." Desiree said. "Any damage you do to that monster will be transferred to Jazz if she ever gets back to her body."
"Damn it, there's always a catch!" Danny said, angrily.
"Have fun, you two!" Desiree called out, as she flew off.
"Come back here!" Danny shouted.
"I wouldn't worry about her." 'Jazz' said, the evil grin not leaving her face. "Because right now, I want you all to myself!" she shouted, throwing another punch at Danny, who turned intangible this time, and successfully dodged it. However, to his shock, the wall behind him actually had become cracked in every direction.
"Okay...note to self. Evil Jazz can crack brick walls with her fists." Danny said, eyes wide. He then flew toward his evil sibling, in the hopes of overshadowing her and trying to expel the monster, then remembering that, as evil as this monster was, it was the only thing keeping Jazz alive currently. The monster sent another punch Danny's way as he became tangible once more, this one hitting him in the stomach. Danny then coughed up some blood. The blow had hurt like hell, and he knew that, strength-wise, he just might be outmatched. What shocked him more than the monster outclassing him, at least as far as physical strength went, was what happened afterwards.
"Danny!" came the voice of his sister, his REAL sister, from inside of her own body For a few minutes, her eyes reverted to their original blue color. "Danny, help!"
"Jazz! You're still in there!" Danny asked, shocked and simultaneously relieved to hear the voice of his sister.
"Yeah, you have to help me!" Jazz said.
"But how!" Danny said.
"I think this thing hates light!" she said, before her eyes turned red again.
"Jazz! Jazz!" Danny shouted, before his sister roared and ran off.

It was evening at the Fenton household. Danny was coming up with a lie to tell his parents in regards to Jazz's disappearence.
"Danny, did you find your sister?" Maddie asked, as Jack was sitting at the table, tinkering with another new invention.
"Uh...yeah! She's, uh...staying at a friend's house tonight!" Danny said, putting on a cheesy grin.
"Jazz has friends?" Jack said, inciting a glare from Maddie.
"Of course she does, Jack." Maddie said, before walking into the living room. There was a long, awkward silence between father and son, before said father spoke up again.
"...No seriously, Jazz has friends?"

It was now about midnight at the Fenton house, as Danny creeped into the lab, looking around for any possible tripwires or anything to alert his parents to his presence in the lab after ten.
"Where'd Dad put that magnifying glass?" he said, as he creeped further into the lab, looking over the tables and shelves, until he spotted the magnifying glass. Just as he grabbed it, though, his ghost sense went off. Desiree phased in through the ceiling, grinning evilly.
"If I can just get that thermos, that brat won't be able to...oh POOP." she said, her eyes narrowing in frustration as she noticed the Fenton Thermos pointed right at her. She let out a scream of horror as he fired the Thermos' special ghost catching beam at her.
"Before you're dragged in there completely, I wish Tucker was interested in technology again!" Danny said.
"I must obey!" she shouted, as she disappeared into the Fenton Thermos. Almost immediately after that, the light to the lab came on, as Jack called out "Who the heck's in the lab at this hour!" Freaking out, Danny went intangible and flew out of the house.
"Who's down here!" Jack called out, as he and Maddie entered the lab in their nightwear.
"I'll give you to the count of three!" Jack called out. He then pointed off to the side, and Maddie nodded, heading in the direction he pointed. He slowly counted, getting interrupted at three.
"One...two...thr--EGADS! The Fenton Magnifying Glass is gone! NOOOOOOOO!" Jack shouted.
"Dear, it was just a magnifying glass." Maddie said, looking over at him.
"But it was a magnifying glass with the word Fenton on it!" Jack said, sobbing pitifully at the loss of his latest invention.

Meanwhile, Danny had flown to Tucker's house, and finally landed in said friend's room.
"Tucker, wake up!" Danny said, shaking him. Tucker slowly opened his eyes.
"Danny?" Tucker asked, groggily. "Do you have any idea what time it is!"
"I know EXACTLY what time it is. Time to get my sister back!" Danny said. "On that note, she kinda vanished when you left her with Sam and me." Tucker said, grinning sheepishly.
"I know, she's been taken over by some sort of light-hating ghost." Danny said. "If we don't get that ghost out of her body by noon, she really WILL die!"
"This looks like a job for my 'Jazz-dar'!" Tucker said, then grinned sheepishly when he noticed Danny's weirded out expression.
"With this, we should be able to pinpoint Jazz's EXACT location."he said.
"Why do you have a radar specifically designed to pinpoint Jazz's location?" Dany asked, his eyebrows arching.
Tucker looked around nervously, then blurted out "No I don't have a crush on your sister!"
Danny looked on, one eye narrowed, the other as wide as it could be.
"O...kay..." he said. "I'll worry about your obsession with my sister later. Fire that baby up!" "Firing!" Tucker responded, turning on the 'Jazz-dar'. After a few seconds, a blip appeared at Casper High.
"Yay, just what I wanted." Danny said, eyes narrowing in frustration. "Afterhours at school. I officially hate this ghost." Danny said, then, after a three-second pause, he continued. "Not that I didn't hate him already, it's just that..." "Just forget it, man. Let's get going!" Tucker said.
"Right." Danny said.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker arrived at the school about half an hour later.
"We brought Sam WHY, again?" Tucker asked.
"Because I'm still pissed off at you." Sam said, her eyes narrowed in anger.
"I dunno, it doesn't feel the same without her around?" Danny suggested. "Okay Tuck, I need your help once again. Find a way to hack into the generators and switch the lights on!" he said.
Immediately after that, Sam switched on the hallway lights, a bored expression on her face.
"OR I could just switch the lights on as we go." Sam said, her trademark sarcastic tone extremely evident.
"Well...yeah. That works too." Danny said, sporting another sheepish grin.
"Now to find Jazz...it looks like she's in the library." Tucker said.
"Of course. Even when it's not during school hours, she's studying." Danny said, a bored expression on his face.
As the three friends headed for the library, Sam felt the need to ask Tucker about his whacked-out radar.
"How can your radar track Jazz?" Sam asked, her eyebrows arched.
Tucker looked around nervously, then blurted "No I did not take a lock of Jazz's hair four years ago and tune a radar to track her with the DNA in said hair!" Tucker said.
Sam looked weirded out for a minute, before brandishing a can of mace.
"Okay, here we are...Sam, the very SECOND I open the door, switch on the lights. That should stun the ghost long enough for me to overshadow Jazz and drive it out." Danny explained.
"I thought you said it'd be fatal for you to do that!" Sam said.
"What other choice do I have? If I stay in her body, that should keep her alive in the event that I knock her spirit out as well. If I only knock out the ghost, then we win anyway."
"You've really put a lot of thought into this." Tucker said, surprised at the semi-complexity of Danny's plan.
"There's too much at stake for me NOT to think about it. Unlike the last time she was in danger, this time I can't just rush in." Danny said.
"Okay, ready?" Sam asked.
"As I'll ever be." Danny responded, and Sam noticed the gravely serious expression on his face.
Tucker turned around, holding a new PDA.
"Hey guys, did you know the odds of us actually pulling this off are one-in-a-million?" Tucker said, inciting a venomous glare from Sam, and a doubtful look from Danny.
"What if I screw this up? If I do, then that's it! I'm out my one and only sister!" Danny said.
"Way to go, Tucker. That totally built Danny's self-confidence." Sam said, very angrily.
"Did I say one-in-a-million?" Tucker said, a cheesy grin on his face. "I meant one-in-ten. How did I misread that?"
"Nice try Tuck." Danny said, a depressed look on his face. Sam simply walked over and examined the PDA.
"He's not joking at all. The numbers actually say one-in-ten." she said, smiling sincerely, which caused Danny to perk up a bit, then his eyebrows arched as he asked, "How could you misread THAT!"
Tucker looked around nervously, then blurted "No I wasn't distracted by thinking about my screen saver which I've never shown you guys and don't want you to ever see!"
Sam and Danny looked on with bored expressions, before Sam swiped Tucker's PDA and clicked on the screen saver feature.
"No, don't!" Tucker shouted.
What Sam saw caused her left eye to twitch in horror.
"Is that...Jazz? In the SHOWER!" Sam asked, the freaked-out look still on her face.
"...No." Tucker said quietly, hoping that they'd believe him.
Danny stood there for a few seconds, before saying "Here comes the lunch monkey!" and turning around, vomiting in the conveniently-placed trash can behind him. Sam then looked over at him, narrowed her eyes, and brandished the can of mace again.
"Not now, Sam." Danny said, weakly.
"Can uh...can we just get on with it?" Tucker asked, looking at the doors to the library.
"He's right. You can mace him later, but we need to do this." Danny said turning to the door...right before a ghostly hand reached through and grabbed his left shoulder, turning him intangible and yanking him through the double-doors to the school library.
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker cried simultaneously, as they burst through the door. They watched as the sneering, possessed Jazz had Danny in a bear hug. She now had pointy teeth.
"What's the matter, Danny? Don't like hugs?" she said, the sneer still on her face.
"If you were actually Jazz, then yeah, a hug wouldn't be so bad." Danny said, as his expression grew angrier and angrier. "But you're not. You're NOTHING like my sister, the one you're holding prisoner inside of her own body. So I'm staging a prison break! Sam, NOW!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. Sam flipped on the library's lights, which caused the ghost to scream, and loosen its grip enough for Danny to turn around and dive inside of Jazz, forcing out the evil spirit. However, it wasn't alone. It had dragged Jazz's spirit out with it. Jazz's body was still technically alive though, thanks to Danny's overshadowing. Jazz's eyes turned from red back to blue, then they turned to Danny Phantom's glowing green color as 'her' lips formed into a smirk.
"Success!" Danny said, from within the body of his sister. "Whoa. This feels WEIRD. And my ankles are freezing!" he continued, the smirk changing to a weirded-out frown.
"Dan--NNF!" Jazz's spirit called, not being able to get the last part of her brother's nickname out before the ghost's hand clamped over her spectral mouth. For the first time, they could see what the ghost possessing her really looked like. It was large, and colored a soot-y black color. It had eyes that burned like red-hot coals, and razor-sharp fangs, as well as large horns which protruded from the top of its head.
"I've devoured nine hundred and ninety-nine souls. Your sister will make a fine, even one thousand!" it said, going intangible and flying through the ceiling, Jazz's muffled screams being the only sound any of them could hear as it did so.
"JAZZ!" 'Danny' shouted, at the top of 'his' lungs, before having his sister's body go intangible and flying through the ceiling as well.
"Sam, find the lights Lancer's planning to use for next year's Spirit Week and wheel them to the roof!" Tucker said.
"What are you gonna do?" Sam asked.
"Hack into the generator." Tucker said, with a smirk. He and Sam then donned a pair of Fenton Phones as they ran off in seperate directions.

Danny raced at full speed toward the roof, and as soon as he got there, he heard Jazz scream "DANNY, LOOK OUT!"
Danny had no time to react, though, before a gigantic black ball of ectoplasmic energy blasted him into the wall. He crumpled to the ground in a heap.
"You stay here, my delicious morsel." the ghost said, dropping Jazz. "I'll be back to eat you as soon as I finish destroying your meddlesome brother!"
"Leave him alone! If it's me you want, then eat me!" she shouted.
"Hmm...very well. I'll devour your soul, so your brother can watch you die!" the ghost rasped, diving at Jazz's spirit.
"NO!" 'Danny' shouted at the top of 'his' lungs, before the door to the roof burst open, and Sam ran through, wheeling a gigantic light in front of her.
"NOW, Tucker!" she shouted into the Fenton Phones.
"Right!" Tucker's voice came back, and suddenly, a horrible, blinding light shined onto the ghost, interrupting him from eating Jazz's spirit.
"AARGH! YOU! YOU WITCH! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS! NO ONE INTERRUPTS SOUL-LESS' FEAST!" the ghost shouted as he shielded his eyes, went intangible, and floated down below the roof, leaving Jazz floating there. Danny ran over to her.
"Sam, that was brilliant!" 'Danny' said, then chuckled a bit. "Heh. Brilliant. How do I do it?" 'He' then noticed that Sam had a bored expression on her face, so 'he' explained 'his' little 'joke'.
"See, it's a double-meaning, cause that was a really smart move, and that light was really bright." 'Danny' explained.
"Yeah, I get it. Bad pun aside, this was Tucker's idea." Sam said.
'Danny' turned around to see his sister's spirit smiling at him.
"How do we get me back to normal?" Jazz asked.
"Just grab my hand." 'Danny' said. Jazz did as she was instructed, and Danny started pulling out of Jazz's body, as her spirit started going back in. Less than a minute later, Jazz was back in her body. She looked down and smiled excitedly. Danny finally turned back into his human half again, and looked over at his sister.
"Danny, are you hurt?" she asked, concerned for him.
"I'll live." Danny said. "I'm sorry." Jazz said.
"Why?" Danny asked, curious.
"If I hadn't been so gosh darn overprotective of you, you wouldn't have been in this mess." she explained.
"None of this is your fault, Jazz. I was being a stubborn ass." Danny said.
"Well technically, it's MY fault." Sam said. "If I hadn't made that observation, you wouldn't have realized it and made that wish."
"I should have never said anything." Danny said. "On that note..." Sam began, "You realize you totally blew your secret, right?"
"I don't care anymore. Jazz, be as overprotective as you want, just...stick around, okay? I don't want to lose you." Danny said, as he walked over to his older sister and pulled her into a fierce embrace, which she gladly returned. She swore she could hear him sniffle as he said "I love you, Jazz."
"I'm not going anywhere, Danny." she said, smiling as the two of them hugged. "And I love you too."
Sam sniffled a bit herself, and smiled, saying "A true Kodak moment."
Tucker then came out through the very door Sam had come through minutes ago. "Looks like he got his sister back."
However, the floor underneath Danny began to crumble, and he ghost known as Soul-Less' hand broke through it, wrapping around Danny's feet and pulling him through the floor, which crumbled away, causing Jazz to fall as well. She grabbed onto the ledge above her and looked down at Danny being dragged further toward the basement.
"DANNY!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"JAZZ, CATCH!" Danny shouted, producing the Fenton Magnifying Glass from his pocket, which he then threw to his sister. Reaching down as far as she could from her position, she grabbed the magnifying glass and held it up for Sam to see. Understanding what Jazz was implying, Sam and Tucker wheeled the giant spotlight over to the hole.
Meanwhile, Soul-Less roared out his glee.
"WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS BEFORE! MY EVEN THOUSAND WILL BE REACHED BY DEVOURING THE SOUL OF THE FAMOUS DANNY PHANTOM!" he roared on, in triumph. Danny noticed that Sam and Tucker had wheeled the spotlight over to the hole Soul-Less had made, and he transformed back into his ghostly alter-ego, smirking and saying "Sorry, Soul-Less, but it's time for you to lose YOUR lunch!" "Let's shine a little light on the subject!" Jazz said, also smirking as she held the Fenton Magnifying Glass out in front of the spotlight, and Sam turned it on, illuminating the entire inside of Casper High with an unbearably bright light. Danny and Jazz had closed their eyes just in time to avoid being permanently blinded by it. Soul-Less, however, wasn't weakened by the blinding light. Instead, blinding light started bursting out of him, and he let out a final howl of agony as he burst into flames. Danny wrenched his feet free from the evil soul-eating ghost's hand just as it caught fire, then he wrapped his arms around Jazz and hefted her up to the rooftop, going intangible to pass through the spotlight that was still shining down into Casper High.
Soul-Less then burst through the spotlight himself, only not intangible, and exploded into a million tiny fragments of light. As those fragments disappeared, the four friends were shrouded in darkness again. Danny then changed back to his human half once again. He noticed that he was no longer shivering.
"I'm not shaking anymore. I think we actually killed him! Him! A ghost!" Danny exclaimed, "Do things exploding, that have been dead, count as dying?" he added sheepishly.
"Either way, it's over. We did it, Danny." Sam said.
"Yeah." Tucker added. "Against one-in-a-million odds, even!"
"I thought you both said one-in-ten!" Danny said, angrily.
"I honestly read one-in-ten!" Sam said.
"I changed it." Tucker admitted. "I wanted to cheer Danny up, since it was my fault he got down about this whole situation in the first place."
"Don't worry about it." Danny said, with a smile.

"Group hug!" Tucker exclaimed, then Sam loked at him with a bored expression on her face and said, in a low voice, "Stay...away."

The four of them were suddenly interrupted by a shout from an all-too-familiar voice.
"MOBY DICK! WHAT HAPPENED HERE!"
"Lancer's here! This early!" Danny exclaimed, panicking.
The four looked around at each other, before Sam said "Run away?"
"Run away." Danny, Tucker, and Jazz said simultaneously.

Author's note: I think this chapter was actually longer than the first. checks length Oh yeah, DEFINITELY longer than the first. Anyway, the next, and obviously last chapter, won't be very long, as it's more of an epilogue-type deal. Hope you enjoyed the story. Peace out, fellow Danny Phantom fans.