She was woken by her little sister shaking her. She was crying as she tried to get Ariel to move. Ariel opened her eyes and Skye hugged her tightly. Ariel smiled, but she was still tired. Jason had peered out of his hiding spot to see if his big sister was alright. Ariel smiled at him and motioned for him to get back into his hiding spot. Ariel squeezed so there was enough room for Skye to hide with her. She sighed as she looked at the monitor, the man was now laughing at the dead bodies that were gathering up on the streets. She wanted to scream when a long row full of tired and hungry people were chained and used as slaves. She once again controlled her anger and settled down for a nap. She hadn't slept for what felt like days, but she knew she had slept only a few hours ago.
"I'm going to go to sleep, wake me if anything happens," Ariel whispered to her younger siblings they both nodded and hid. Ariel slept uncomfortably as she remembered what it was like to sleep in a bed, only two weeks ago. She opened her eyes and sighed. She couldn't fall back asleep. She signaled to her siblings and they fell asleep as Ariel watched the monitors.
She had muted the volume since most of it was just screams, but she turned it up a little when someone on the screen started fighting back. She watched in hopes that that person would be able to destroy the ghosts. The person was shot and flew into the brick wall of the school. She changed the screen before she started crying. She watched as the military retreated into bunkers that were 'ghost-free.' A sign hung on the doorway of a blown building saying, "Goodbye, my love. Meet me in heaven." Ariel had just finished reading it before another blast shot it down.
Ariel looked away when someone possessed by a ghost was shot at. The ghost left the body without harm, but the person fell forward and died. Ariel still held back her tears. It was a war out there, and a war to hold back her tears, but she had to make sure if someone they knew needed their help. She closed her eyes and bit her to keep herself from crying. She muted the volume and looked at another screen.
In this screen, a ghost was standing in a white suit, holding up an innocent little girl. The girl looked like Skye. Ariel glanced at her sleeping sister then turned back to see the ghost laughing at her. Ariel couldn't hold down her rage anymore. She took deep breaths and looked away from the screen, but her siblings were staring at her. They were staring at her gritted teeth, her set jaw, and her neon pink eyes.
Her little brother stared at her for a while until Ariel could get her anger under control. She numbed her body until all emotion was void. Then she thought back to her times watching Skye and Jason. She smiled at her siblings, but they still stared at her as if she were a ghost.
"Your- your eyes changed color!" Jason wanted to jump in joy. "You have Danny Phantom's powers!"
"What?" Ariel was dumbfounded, would her siblings pull a trick on her while under attack?
"It's true!" Skye exclaimed. "You eyes were pink!"
"And glowing," Jason added.
"Stop it, you two, or we'll get caught." Ariel hissed. The two children quieted down and Ariel shook her head as she crawled back into her hiding spot to watch the monitor. "It isn't possible because Danny Phantom does not and has never existed," she reassured herself.
She watched as her two younger siblings stared at her until she motioned them to get some sleep. They laid down, but they didn't sleep. Ariel shook her head and turned back to the monitor once more. Nothing had changed except the girl was gone and the man holding her was gone. Ariel figured that he took her to his master. She flipped through some of the screens to see the girl again, being held up to a ghost with black hair, diseased-looking skin, and a cape. The man smiled at the girl when she started screaming. He said something, but Ariel had forgotten to turn off the mute and didn't hear what he had said.
He threw the girl at the white-suited man and he chained her to one of the slave lines. The girl hugged the person in front of her, it must have been a relative, or maybe a friend, but they hugged until the whip smacked their backs. Ariel looked away, she had felt that whip, it wasn't normal either. It left you feeling empty, heartless, like you had become the person who hit you. Skye rubbed her arm where she had blocked it from hitting her mom. Her mom then pushed her out of the way when the whip came back down. Ariel ran from the man after he whipped her mother on the face and came after her. She hid in an alleyway before sneaking back inside the only safe place in Amity Park.
Ariel felt a tear fall down her cheek at the thought of her mom. Heart broken and sick, she was taken away and never seen again. Ariel clutched the last thing her mom had touched before she was taken, her favorite necklace that her father had given her mother then to her. She wiped away the tear and thought of hateful memories to replace the sadness, she could control hate. Hate would never control her.
"Ariel?" Skye asked after she watched her sister reach up to her necklace. Every time her big sister thought of her mother she let one tear fall before changing from sadness. Skye crawled onto her sister's lap and let her sister hug her dearly.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me. Just worry about yourself." Ariel smiled. Skye smiled back and crawled back to her hiding spot. Ariel crawled into hers and watched the screens again. There wasn't anything else to do. She saw a ghost woman with flaming blue hair and white skin kiss the man who had thrown the girl at the white-suited man. She sighed and crawled into her hiding spot a little deeper to sleep.