Chapter Four: A Story and a Fight.
Danny, Sam, Tucker, Valerie and Jazz were sitting in Danny's room. Also in the room was Alicia, and she was about to tell them her story.
"Well, where do I begin? My family has been using magic for centuries, ever since the days of the middle ages. The magic is passed down to the female members of my family. Although the males can carry the gene, they just can't use it. We have been using our power to protect the world from the forces of evil, such as monsters, ghosts, and evil magic users. It is our sacred duty to defend the human race." said Alicia.
"Whoa, so your family is like a team of super heros." said Tucker.
"Yes, I guess you could say that, but we are only doing what is right, not to get noticed." said Alicia.
"When did you find out about your families secret?" asked Danny.
"I found out about it on my twelfth birthday." said Alicia.
"So you've had these powers for two years? You must be very good at it by now." said Jazz.
"Actually no, magic is complicated, and it takes many years of training to get it right. Plus, I'm sort of clumsy when it comes to using it sometimes." said Alicia.
"Sounds like Danny." said Jazz.
"Hey!" said Danny.
"She didn't mean it." said Sam as she gave Danny a kiss.
"Anyway, back to Alicia. What have you been using your powers for?" said Valerie.
"Mostly I use them for fighting evil, but sometimes I use them for pranks. Remember when I told off Paulina and her crew, I was the one who make the sign fall and trip them so they fell in the mud puddle." said Alicia.
"Cool, I would like to have the power to make Paulina look bad." said Sam.
"That was you, you really shouldn't use your powers for pranks." said Danny.
"I know, but there are some people in this world that deserve to get pranked. I knew from the moment I saw her aura that she was a bad person." said Alicia.
"Wait, her aura? You mean that you can look at people and tell if they are good or bad." said Jazz.
"Yes, around every person there is a energy field, their aura, and I can tell by the color of it if they are good or bad. Most peoples auras are blue, and the darker the blue, the worse they are. That was what I was doing when I was staring at the class." said Alicia.
"Why did you spend so much time up there?" said Tucker.
"Well, when I was looking at you guys I noticed a weird thing with Danny's aura, it was half blue and half green. The only time I've seen a green aura is around ghosts, so I didn't know what was up. But now that I know Danny is half ghost, it explains it, it figures that if he is half ghost, half his aura would be green." said Alicia.
"I have one more question, what did you do to Skulker to make him freeze when I was fighting him earlier?" said Danny.
"It was a anti-ghost immobility potion, I have a lot of potions and spells that work on ghosts." said Alicia.
"Cool, maybe you can help us fight ghosts." said Valerie.
"Maybe, but right now I have to shutdown the ghost portal and seal it." said Alicia.
"What! Why!" said Danny.
"Its like I said before, it is a danger and it must be sealed." said Alicia as she started to stand up.
"But how will we put back the ghosts that get out?" said Valerie.
"Once I seal the portal, the ghosts will be trapped, so we won't have to worry to much about them." said Alicia.
"Unless they get out through the other portal." said Sam.
"What other portal?" said Alicia.
"Well, you might want to sit down, I think it's time we told you some of our secrets." said Danny as Alicia sat down again.
"There is another portal besides the one in the lab. It belongs to my archenemy, Vlad Plasmius. He, like me, is a half ghost half human hybrid, and His real name is Vlad Masters." said Danny.
"Wait, you mean the Vlad Masters, the rich billionaire, the guy voted affluence magazines billionaire of the year, that Vlad Masters." said Alicia.
"Yes, he is a halfa, but unlike me, he is completely evil. He got his powers when my dad was testing the proto-portal in college twenty years ago. He blames dad for the accident which put him in the hospital with a case of ecto-acne. He also blames him for stealing my mom away from him. He has sworn to kill dad and get me, my mom, and Jazz to join him as his family." said Danny.
"That guy sounds like one crazed up fruit loop." said Alicia.
"That's what I said." said Danny.
"Do you have any other enemies?" said Alicia.
"I have a lot of ghost enemies. You already meet Skulker, he's the "Ghost Zones greatest hunter." he wants to capture me and either skin me or throw me in a cage, he seems to not be able to decide which one he wants to do. He also has an ego the size of Cleveland." said Danny.
"Yeah, he seemed like a jerk." said Alicia.
"Another of my enemies is Technus, the ghost master of technology and gadgets. But if you ask me he is the master of long winded speeches. He wants to use technology to take over the world. One of his attempts was to take over a computer in space, I had to blow up the satellite to stop him. Before that he took over the computers in my house and made it walk around." said Danny.
"The next is Ember, the ghost rocker. She uses her voice to hypnotize people into doing her biding, she also wants to take over the world, and have everyone say her name and listen to her music. She once made me fall in love with Sam. The next thing she did was work with a ghost named Youngblood to steal all the adults from town to power his ship." said Danny.
"I think I've heard of ghosts like that, they're called siren ghosts, they can be dangerous if they get too many people under their control." said Alicia.
"Tell me about it, I didn't think I would be able to beat her if it weren't for Tucker's lousy singing." said Danny.
"Hey! I have a great singing voice." said Tucker as he prepared to sing, then Valerie's, Jazz's, and Sam's hands covered his mouth.
"Danny, please go on before Tucker here drives her away." said Sam.
"Right, another one of my enemies is Walker. He's the warden of the Ghost Zone jail, and he's obsessed with rules. He likes to throw people in jail for violating his crazy rules, many of which he makes up while he's arresting them. He wants to throw me in jail for violating the rules, and he's the one who made it look like I was attacking the Mayor, just so he could turn the town against me." said Danny.
"The next one is Desiree, she is a wish granting ghost who likes to turn wishes against people. If you make a wish to her she'll find a way to turn it into a nightmare. She got this way because she never got what she desired in life, and she wants to make sure noone else does either.
"Spectra is another of my enemies, and a dangerous one at that. She uses her powers to make people miserable, then she feeds off of that misery. The reason she is dangerous is that she I willing to kill to get what she wants. When she should up the first time, she tried to permanently depress everyone in school by killing my sister at the spirt week ceremony. The second time she showed up, she infected a bunch of kids with ghost bugs and tried to suck DNA out of them, and the bugs would have drained them of their life." said Danny.
"She sounds like a bad customer, I really hate people who think they can do whatever they want with people, even play with their lives." said Alicia.
"The rest of my enemies are not as dangerous as the others. The first is Johnny 13 and Kitty. Johnny is a ghost who rides a motorcycle, he has a bad luck shadow that causes bad luck to occur, and it causes machines to and other things to break and fall apart. Kitty is his girlfriend and a very protective one at that, she hates it when other girls come near Johnny. It doesn't help that Johnny likes to look at other girls. She overshadowed Paulina and made her be my girlfriend, just to make him jealous.
"Yeah, that was the worst day of my life, I hated seeing Paulina hanging all over Danny." said Sam.
"Don't worry, I don't care for her anymore, I love you." said Danny.
"Oh you better." said Sam as she kissed him.
"Uh, any more enemies I should worry about?" said Alicia.
"There is the lunch lady, she uses meat as a weapon. She seems nice at first, but if you give her the wrong answer when she asks you if you want food she will fly into a rage. She likes to gather meat around herself to form a giant meat monster." said Danny.
"You forgot to mention that it was Sam changing the menu that brought her here in the first place." said Tucker.
"I thought we were never going to talk about that again." said Sam.
"Sorry, buts its true." said Tucker.
"And last and certainly least, is the Box Ghost, he is the least powerful of them all. He has control over boxes, and he likes to shout it out when ever he shows up." said Danny.
"I think that was the ghost I ran into when I was in the lab." said Alicia.
"Yeah, he has this annoying habit of showing up all the time, no matter how many times I throw him back into the Ghost Zone." said Danny.
"Is that all of them?" asked Alicia.
"Yeah, that's it." said Danny.
"I have one last question, how did you get your powers anyway?" said Alicia.
"Well, it was several months ago, my parents were building the Fenton Portal and tried to turn it on, but it would not work. They went back upstairs leaving Sam, Tucker and me alone in the lab. Sam suggested I put on a jumpsuit and go into it and pose for a few pictures. I went inside and accidently pushed the on button inside the portal." said Danny.
"Why was the on button inside the portal?" asked Alicia.
"My parents never told me why, even when they found out about my powers when Vlad tried to take over the world. Anyway, when I pushed the button the portal turned on, and I was bombarded with ghost energy, it combined with my DNA. It altered my genes and made me a human/ghost hybrid." said Danny.
"That is one interesting story, I'm still sorry that I attacked you, can we still be friends? I can help you fight the ghosts. Said Alicia.
"Sure, we can still be friends, and we could always use some help, especially if some of the more powerful ghosts show up." said Danny.
"Good, but now I have to get home, my parents probably will start to look for me if I'm not back soon." said Alicia.
"Hey, do you want to hang out at the mall tomorrow, to make up for tying you up and all." said Valerie.
"Sure, see you tomorrow." said Alicia as she went back home.
"She seems like a nice girl." said Jazz.
"Yeah, I just wish she hadn't left before we needed to clean up the lab." said Danny.
"Well, we did assault her and tie her up, we couldn't ask her to help clean up on top of that." said Sam.
"Whatever, lets just get this cleaned up." said Tucker as they began to clean.
The next day was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, it was a perfect day. That is until there was a loud boom and smoke cloud that emanated from the Szivos house.
"Benjamin Lawrence Szivos, what in the world are you doing up there!" shouted Robert up the stairs.
"Nothing dad, I'm just working on a new experiment." said Ben.
"Well be carful, and stop using volatile chemicals." said Robert.
"Oh ok, I'll try to keep the next one from blowing up." said Ben as he went back into his room.
"Sometimes I swear he was replaced with the child of a mad scientist." Robert said to Sarah.
"Don't worry, he's careful, most of the time." said Sarah as another loud boom came from upstairs.
The experiment blowing up next to her room jolted Alicia out of bed. She decided that this was as good a time as any to get up and meet Danny and friends. So she got dressed, and decided to bring her magic spell book, she decided to show it to Sam, who had called asking if she could see it.
"Mom, Dad! I'm going to the mall with my friends now." said Alicia.
"Ok dear, just be back by 4:00 pm." said Sarah.
"I will, see you later." said Alicia as she walked out the door.
Alicia walked up to the Fenton's front door and was about to ring the bell when a large boom came from the house. Alicia recovered from the shock and rang the door bell, a few minutes later Danny answered the door.
"Hey Alicia, you ready to go to the mall?" said Danny.
"Yeah, uh, what was that noise that came from your house?" said Alicia.
"Oh, that's just my dad working in the lab, he causes a lot of explosions when he's working down there, mostly because he gets so caught up in it and he isn't careful." said Danny.
"You just described my brother, he has problems paying attention to safety when he's working." said Alicia.
"I take it that was the noise coming from your house." said Danny.
"Yeah, lets get out of here before something else happens." said Alicia, just then another loud boom came from the Fenton's house.
"Maddie, get the Fenton fire extinguisher, stat!" bellowed Jack.
Danny and Alicia beat a haste retreat, they meet up with the others and headed toward the mall. The mall was not very crowded that day and the friends started to make their way to the food court. They all sat down at a table.
"So Sam, I brought my spell book for you to look at." said Alicia as she brought it out.
"Cool, can I hold it?" said Sam.
"Sure." said Alicia as she handed it to Sam.
"This is so cool, look at all these spells and incantations, a lot of them are even written in English." said Sam.
"Yeah, the book has a spell on it that allows the text to change to the language of the reader. My ancestors did this so that we would always be able to use it, no matter where fate may have landed us." said Alicia.
"Do you think I could learn some of these?" said Sam.
"Sam, how can you use them, your not a witch like Alicia is." said Tucker.
"I'll let you in on a little secret, anyone can use magic, there are only two things that limit the power they can weld. Their willingness to learn and the tools that they use. So yes Sam, I think I can teach you how to use some of them." said Alicia.
"Thank you, it means a lot to me." said Sam.
"Your welcome." said Alicia.
Then suddenly a large commotion came from the other side of the mall. A whole bunch of people came running out of the Electronics Warehouse.
"I have a feeling that a ghost might be in there, and I think I know which one." said Danny.
"Technus, looks like our day off is over. You want to help Alicia?" said Valerie.
"Sure, lets kick this ghosts butt." said Alicia as they went to find a place to transform.
They transformed and went into the store, and who should they see but Technus, already in a giant robot suit.
"I, Technus, ghost master of all things beeping and electronic, will use the technology in this place to take over this town and the world!" said Technus.
"Does he always shout out his plans?" said Alicia.
"Oh yeah, I think he loves to hear himself talk." said Danny.
Then technus noticed our tiny heros.
"Well, well, if it isn't the ghost child and the hunter girl, and who is that girl next to you?" said Technus.
"I'm Ali Kazam, and we're here to stop you." said Alicia.
"You can not stop me, you are tiny, while I have this huge robot suit, you can not defeat me." said Technus.
"We'll see about that ghost geek." said Valerie as she fired at him.
Our heros began to attack the battle suit, trying to weaken Technus. Danny sent ectoblasts at the suit, knocking holes in it. Valerie used her bazooka to knock huge pieces off of the suit. Alicia used her magic to cause pieces of the machine to malfunction and fall apart. But no matter how fast they knock pieces off, Technus would just bring in pieces in to replace them. Finally Technus knocked our heros out of the air and across the store.
"Ok, this isn't working." said Danny.
"I know, every time we knock some of that suit off he just gets more from the store." said Valerie.
"We have to come up with a plan, anyone have any ideas?" said Danny.
"I might, if I can get back to my spell book, I might have a spell that will help us." said Alicia.
"Great, where is it?" said Danny.
"Its with Sam on the other side of the store." said Alicia as she pointed past Technus.
"Ok, so we just have to get by the homicidal robot. Here is the plan, me and Valerie will distract Technus while you go get the book." said Danny.
"Right, lets go." Valerie said as she and Danny went to fight Technus.
While they were keeping Technus busy, Alicia made her way to the other side of the store. She got to the cash register area and began to look for Sam and Tucker. She found them hiding behind a impulse items display.(AN: you know, those ones near the checkout with the candies and sodas and junk on them.)
"Sam, Tucker over here." said Alicia.
"What is it?" said Tucker.
"Sam, I need you to give ne my spell book, maybe there's a spell that can help us." said Alicia.
"Ok, here you go." said Sam as she handed it to her.
Alicia quickly looked thru the book of a spell, any spell that could help them, finally she found it.
"Ok, I hope this works, phantos technos isolationium." Alicia said as she read the spell.
Suddenly the stream of technology that had been flying into Technus stopped. The items then lost their green glow and fell to the ground.
"What is happening, why can't I manipulate these devices?" said Technus.
"It's one of my spells, all the technology here is now protected from your ghost powers, so you can't use it to replace the parts we blast off of you." said Alicia as she came back to the fight.
"Uh oh, this could be trouble." said Technus as Danny, Valerie, and Alicia resumed their attack.
Without the ability to replace the parts that were taken off of him, the teenage heros made short work of the robot suit. Soon the regular ghost form of Technus was exposed.
"Your going to hurt me now aren't you?" said Technus.
"Wow, you must be psychic." said Danny.
The three teens started blasting Technus, making quick work of the technology ghost. Then Danny sucked him into the thermos with Technus vowing revenge. The heros then landed back with Sam and Tucker and turned back to normal.
"Well, that was fun, good job Alicia, you did well for your first major ghost fight." said Danny.
"Yeah, that spell book of yours really came in handy." said Valerie.
"Thanks, I really appreciate the compliments." said Alicia, then they heard a gasp from over behind a bush.
"Oh my gosh, Danny Fenton is the ghost boy, and Valerie is that hunter girl, and that new loser is some other hero, I have to tell everyone." said the shocked Paulina.
"Wait we can explain..." said Danny, then Alicia cut him off.
"Don't worry, I'll handle this. Hey Paulina, look at this pretty jewel." said Alicia as she swung it back and forth.
"Wow, its so pretty and..." was all she could say before she fell asleep.
"What did you do to her?" said Danny.
"I knocked her out, this way I can use a memory erasing spell to make her forget she saw us change back." said Alicia as she looked for the proper spell.
"Before we bring her out of the trance, do you think we can do a few things." said Sam with a evil smirk on her face.
"Sure, I think we can do that." said Alicia.
Paulina awoke to find herself in the middle of the mall, and she did not know how she got there. There were a whole bunch of people laughing, and they seemed to be looking at her. She looked down and saw she was wearing a clown suit and clown makeup, Paulina ran screaming and crying as the people kept laughing.
"You are a cruel, cruel girl Alicia." said Danny.
"Hey, it was Sam's idea, and I think credit should be given where its due." said Alicia.
"Still it wasn't very nice, funny, but not nice." said Danny.
"Its like I said, some people in this world need to be pranked." said Alicia.
"Do you think we can get Dash and the others later?" said Danny.
"We'll see about that." said Alicia as they laughed at the fleeing Paulina.
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Me: Take that Paulina, you evil, Danny manipulating, witch!
Ember: That was fun, I like to see stuck up girls like her made to look stupid.
Me: Don't we all.
Me: And now a important message.
Well, it looks like Alicia and Danny have cleared up a few things, they now know each others stories, and Alicia is now going to help with ghost fighting. It also looks like they are going to be friends. Alicia also seemed to handle herself well in her first ghost fight. But what will the future hold, not even I, the great and powerful author, can say for sure. The only way to find out is to read the next chapter of the Life and Times of Alicia Szivos.
Ember: Now that that's over lets go on that date you promised me.
Me: Be right with you, until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review, and no flames.