Chapter 7

"I guess your right." Said Clara, she was finally smiling. "Well I think we should get home before you get in trouble." Said Jason and so they began to walk home.

"Jason, I think you're really nice, and I would like for you to come on patrol tonight." "Well I don't think I would be much help, I don't have many things to well fight a ghost with." "Well I could borrow a few things from Danny's house." "No, that would be stealing." "I said Borrow, we would BORROW a few weapons from their lab and return them when the night is done." "No, maybe tonight I could finish my prototype plasma blaster. I don't want to borrow their things, even if it were only for a night." "Yeah I guess that is a better idea." Clara stopped at her house's drive way. "I'll see you tonight?" Clara asked, "I'll be here."

Clara took that as a good bye and headed into her house. When she entered her parents were finished with the whole house. "Clara! Where were you and how was school today, did you make any friends." Said her Mom coming from the kitchen. "I went to the park after school, just to look around the new city, and school was okay I guess, and I guess I made some friends." Clara answered her mother. Clara threw her bag on the couch and sat down, her mother joined her. Clara picked up the remote but her mother took it from her and set it down, "What?" asked Clara, "Can we talk?" "Sure, go ahead." Clara didn't know what to expect but she was ready anyway. Crystal sighed. "Well for a start, who was the boy you were hanging out with on your way home?" "That was Jason." "Um, well Clara I feel something is different about you, like your hiding a secret, back in the mountains you stayed out so late, your father and I thought we need a constant search party, where do you go?" Clara knew exactly what she was getting out and she didn't plan to tell her either. "Mom, those days I stayed out late, I was playing and I always lost track of time." "Clara, your friends almost never came over to the house after that trip to your dad's friend's house, why did you run away?" "Mom, please I didn't run away!" "Then what were you doing, Clara you left for three days we were worried sick."

"I don't know I just left for three days." "That's it you are hiding something." "MOM!" "What?" "I'm your daughter why are you questioning my like this, I would never hide something from you! I love you, I wouldn't do that." "Then why can't you tell me why you left?" Crystal demanded to know why, but to Clara's rescue the phone rang, Clara picked it up. "Hello?" "Clara?" "This is her." "Hey it's Danny, can you come byin a few minutes." "Uh…" Clara looked at her mother; she covered the phone with her hand, "Mom I know this is a bad time but one of my friends needs some help." Crystal sighed again, "go, well finish this talk later." Crystal turned away and stared at the TV with her head in one of her hands, this made Clara really guilty, but she wanted to get away. "I'm coming over right now." Clara hung up the phone without a good bye and walked right out the door.

She didn't bother to fly, so she continued to walk, when she reached the Fenton home she knocked on the door. Jazz answered, "Hey, is Danny here." "Yeah," Jazz closed the door and called for Danny, who came down stairs and let Clara in, she followed him up to his room. "You rang," she said. "Yeah, I need you to let me fight ghosts tonight." He said. "Hmm, well thanks for asking me first, and I don't know I'm still worried about you." "I feel fine." "Danny I'm not kidding I saw your eyes that night, they were red and green." "How about you come, and if anything IS wrong then you can stop me and then I'll know for sure that something is wrong." Danny really wanted to go out tonight. "Why do you want to go out so bad?" "I have to visit a certain someone." "Danny wait no you can't!" Clara said putting her and out. She remembered Jason's vision. "You can't visit Vlad tonight." "I wasn't." Danny bit his lip. "Your lying Danny, you got to promise me that under any circumstances you won't go to Vlad's." Clara knew he was going to anyway. "Danny! Please you can't, I would be worried sick if you did." "Okay! I won't visit Vlad's tonight, I'll just go to Sam's or Tucker's." Danny looked like he was a criminal. Clara walked over and closed the door, "Clara?" "I'm going out tonight." She transformed into (Please if you have a name for her ghost self, please I'm open for any suggestions) "Something must be done." She said Darkly, thenleft through the roof. "Wait what are you doing!" Danny yelled after her but she was gone, Danny transformed as well in attempting to follow her but when he looked over the town she was gone, he decided to go to her house. He changed back to normal behind a bush and proceeded to the door. He knocked and Crystal answered, "Oh hello, your Danny aren't you, I didn't know you lived in Amity Park, that's great! Clara is on her way home you can wait for her though." (Yes, Parents can be weird sometimes.) Danny stepped into the house, and looked around, "Danny can I ask you something?" asked Crystal, "Yeah," Danny answered wondering why she was asking him. "It's just, something is different about Clara, she's acting so weird lately, (Dais-ya-voo, I think I have written that before!) Danny, I was wondering if you knew what was wrong with her, I mean you are they only friend she has besides Jason." "No, I don't know why she would be acting weird, I uh no, nothing, don't have anyidea." "Oh, well, I was just wondering. I'm going to talk to her later, she seems so different, like something has completely changed her, she stays out late and she ran away once, and she won't talk to me, and when I ask her she gets nervous, like she's hiding something."

As Danny reached the stairs to wait for Clara in her room, he looked back to Crystal; she was headed in the right path for a dead end. She can't tell her that's all…is what Danny last thought. He walked up the stairs wondering what it would be like if he told his parents. What would they do to him? Would they even understand?

When Danny reached Clara's room he was almost afraid to tell his parents because of the thoughts he had been thinking. He opened the door to reveal a nice clean room, with boy band posters, stuffed animals, sky blue wallpaper with a white line across the middle, and a bed comforter that was dark deep blue, with a snowy beaded dragon on the pillows. The room was truly a girl's room. He looked at the posters of the Rocky Guys, and a picture of Hilary Duff, also Kelly Clarkson. His eyes brought him to the tack board full of pictures; there were many of Clara's old friends and all the times they had together. There were pictures of her small family, and pictures of Clara's birthday parties, he noticed so many pictures of flowers and trees, also one of a fish in a stream and three of butterflies. He finally finished with the tack board and looked over two framed pictures, the first one was of beautiful mountains, the picture over looked so much, he saw a prairie dog out in the distance, then he looked way in the back of the scene and admired the snow capped mountains. The next framed picture was of him and Clara. They were flying, they were also holding hands, she was smiling and he was smiling back. They were flying over town. This moment Danny realized how much Clara meant to him, she was the closest thing that he could ever have, he didn't know her a much as Sam and Tucker, but still no one could know him like Clara could, she could actually under stand the importance of being part ghost how dangerous and how secretive it is. Just then Danny realized a second important thing. Jason!He was just like Sam and Tucker to him, Danny was filled with angry, he thought that Jason was going to take Clara away from him, he is a guy and she is a girl, that speaks for itself.

Danny felt hot, burning waves came over him, he was so mad, how could Clara replace him? How could she, she hasn't even well, how could she change so much? What, Did the camping trip mean nothing to her! Danny looked into Clara's mirror. He saw himself; he saw a little red in his cheeks. But he froze solid, a thing about him paralyzed him, he didn't want to think that it was possible but something was terribly wrong. He stared, and stared, the sight stiffened him. He couldn't move he didn't want to move anyway. He finally got the thoughts from his head and was able to think about it. He looked once more into the color of his eyes. It was for sure, they had turned red. Danny leaned into the mirror to get a closer look. When he wasn't so angry and more scared, they turned back to normal dark blue. He shivered, just shivered from panic. He couldn't tell Clara, she would freak out; she would never let him fight ghosts ever again. He decided that no matter how much Clara begged, he had to defy her. He was going back to the evil ghost man, to solve this; he wouldn't let Clara know either.

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AN- keep track of what Jason says, just to make things clearer. Also I'm still waiting for a name for Clara's ghost form, i can't keep saying 'she changed into her ghost self ' i need a name!