Special thanks to Missmeliss and Digidestined7!
Jack drummed on the car seat as he drove down the highway, keeping the beat to Are you gonna be my Girl? He had to admit, Jet had a way with getting your feet moving. It was his second day back on the road, and he should be getting back to his room by midday.
The tempo dropped for a second in the song, then continued with renewed vigor, which sent Jack's head banging, his hair flew into his eyes and over green sunglasses, which were in fact a type of ghost sensor made by his grandfather.
He reached a traffic jam and groaned at having to drive past such a large city during rush hour. Jack sighed and gripped the wheel tightly, sending his ghostly powers into the car; first it turned invisible and then intangible. He pressed on the gas and sped directly through the jam.
I know dad told me not to do it, but if I have to wait here, it's just a waste of gas…right? It was a strange feeling, being intangible that was; the people inside the cars would merely feel a breath of chilly wind and then go back to screaming at each other. Jack was nearly through the line of cars when he lost control of his powers and the car suddenly rematerialized right as it passed through an SUV.
Jack swore as his car fused right down to the atomic level with the other vehicle as it became tangible, the other driver slammed on his brakes and the two cars swerved off the road, into a ditch, and crashed into a tree.
Okay…maybe dad was right about the car intangible stuff…
When Annie returned to her room, she noticed that although everything was still the same, it seemed that someone had been inside and messed with it. She couldn't stop thinking about Reynolds and his strange eyes; with a sigh, she walked to the bathroom and stripped down to take a shower.
She stepped into the wide, mirrored stall and turned the water on; shaking out her hair from the sweaty ponytail she had thrown it into before running into Mandy. As the water reached a lukewarm temperature, Annie pulled the plunge on the side of the head and a stream of water began to shoot out.
As the now-steaming liquid ran down her back and shoulders, Annie gave a sigh of relief and pulled a washcloth from the bin next to the stall; she began to wash away the grime and sweat that stuck to every speck of skin. Once her body was clean, she pulled out the shampoo and lathered it in, then rinsed and revealed her clean, shining brown hair.
Annie reached over to the faucet and turned to pure cold water, enjoying the wakening sensation and shivers of delight that ran down her being. She shut off the flow very quickly and stepped out onto the tiled floor, wrapping a towel around her body as she did.
It was as she dried her hair that she noticed something very strange about her eyes, they had the same depth as Reynolds, the same eerie magnetism as his that pulled her closer to the mirror, the same odd glow, the same gold ring around her pupil as well. She dropped the towel and leaned closer to the mirror to examine her eyes and only stopped leaning when her forehead hit the reflective surface.
Annie shook off the feeling and dried and clothed herself yet again, then stood in the middle of her room and concentrated on her ghost form yet again.
"Ghost power…activate!" She said it not too loud but loud enough, immediately a shiver ran down her body, visibly seen as a ring of green sparks, her ghost half breathed in and then let out the air, "Alright, now for some invisibility!"
She shut her eyes and saw her form in her mind, the turned it slowly into an outline, and turned that into a completely invisible person. When Annie opened her eyes, there was nothing left of her to be seen, a weird sensation, one of ignorance and being ignored, pulsed through her veins. She turned visible again and then tried to fly, but after several failed attempts of jumping and crashing to the carpet, lay on the floor exhausted.
"I thought that flying was supposed to be the easy part," she muttered and sighed, then curled up into a ball to warm herself from her own chilling temperature. She shut her eyes and started to doze, only realizing at that point that she was indeed levitating.
I'm FLYING! Annie swirled around the air before she finally realized how tired she was, her powers suddenly died out and she fell to the carpet, cursing her weaknesses.
"Fused…at the molecular level you say?"
"Yes sir…and they found that no one even noticed the second car come up behind the SUV-"
"Do you have pictures?"
"Of course…" the servant handed over the colored prints to his master, a small smile hidden beneath thick brows. If his master liked the photographs, he just my get a promotion.
There was a rustling of paper and Vlad Plasmius opened the envelope, "Well well…he looks just like his father, it seems that I've found the other Phantom Fenton."
I'm sorry! SORRY! Okay, I had to get a tooth filled, you should pity me! And we're working on matrix inverses…which is tough and I've got to read this book and write about this sculptor guy and write a 3-page paper on him so I'm got my work cut out…I'll post at least every 3 days though!
