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DarkDragonQueen: The sequel to The Black Phoenix: Life After Death is here. This one is going to be good and we find out exactly what the crystal Sam always has around her neck does. That's all I'm giving you. You figure out the rest. So here's the full summary since I'm not sure it will fit under the link. It won't be as long as it's preceder, so it won't take as long.

Okay, this is important. Do not expect an update for the next month or so. Why? Well we're moving into a new house and although I'm sure the cable and internet will be on knowing my mother I won't have the time to sit down and update let alone type. That's also why this is so late. My mother is frantic and I haven't been on the computer for days. So just expect another update no sooner than July 20th. Good now on with the rest of this.

By now you guys are probably like, what the heck is wrong with Sam? Yeah I know. She's different isn't she. I find this story fun to write and I know exactly how it's going to go, but I can't wait to write the next one. You'll like that one for sure.

So without any futher interuptions, here is the third chapter of The Black Phoenix: Humanity.

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Figuring Things Out

By

DarkDragonQueen

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Six people sat in the computer electronic filled room call the Phoenix Nest. They only actually came together like this when it was an emergency and the last time that happened was when the whole race of undead were judged. However what they were about to discuss was, as Aly might say it, an emergency major to the tenth power squared.

"Okay I think we all know why we're here." Aly sighed.

"Sam's strange behavior?" Everyone said at the same time.

Aly nodded.

"Okay so what do we know?" asked Jazz with a sheet of paper.

"A few weeks ago, Sam started acting rather..." Danny started looking for the right word

"Un- Sam like," Tucker suggested.

"I guess you could call it that." Toya put in.

"So the weird behavior started, when?" Tucker asked recording things into his PDA.

"It started little," Aly said. "She a bit less embarrassed by certain things and a bit more shameless in her answers to particular questions..." Aly trailed off.

"What do you mean?" Danny asked and Aly, Tucker, and Jazz exchanged looks.

"Nothing!" they all said and Danny looked confused.

"Oh you mean that day you all went to get those tickets and at breakfast Aly asked her-!" Toya was cut off by Aly who quickly put her hand over the girl's mouth with a sheepish grin.

Danny looked at them questioningly but didn't comment on it. "Okay, what else?" he asked

"She didn't save that boy at the park and if it weren't for you he would have died." Tucker put in.

"She stopped her heroine ship although she'll never admit that's what it was." Jazz added as she wrote.

"And her dress although still Goth is a little less more conservative than it used to be." Aly remembered.

"So that's basically it." Jazz asked. "It's not as bad as I thought."

"That's not it," Danny said and ticked his fingers as he went. "She stole from the museum two nights ago, a while before that she told me she doesn't stop conflicts anymore and that she watched them in amusement, she snaps at anyone and everyone-"

"Besides you." Aly put in.

"And to top that off she's starting to freak me out because she sounds like Celosia." Danny exclaimed

"Oh, Allison." Aly laughed. "She called the other day and Sam just about cussed her out."

"Getting back to the point," Jazz steered. "So did anything happen to her in the last few weeks that could have caused some sort of change in her character?"

"Well, let's rule out any kind of assault. She can take out a whole army with that Phoenix Cry of hers." Tucker punched things into his PDA.

"So what could have happened?"" Jazz asked

"Nothing basically that could have caused this type of sudden change." Silver Moon decided. "Do you now something Danny?" Everyone looked at Danny expectantly.

"Why me?" Danny asked. "How should I know any more than you do?"

"Oh I don't know, maybe because Sam spends just about all her time with you." Toya replied in an obvious dry tone. She was beginning to take after Sam a bit.

Danny sighed and thought back to before all of this started. He didn't know what could have happened. They had their usual night outings battling ghost and sometimes they would cross each other's paths when she was doing her thing, but nothing had happened to cause such a drastic change in his friend that fast, except maybe...

"The crystal," he murmured

"What?" Tucker asked.

"Her crystal. That jewelry thieving ghost, Sabrina, took it." Danny said louder. "I bet that has something to do with it."

"So it was right after her crystal was stolen she started acting strange?" Jazz asked all the while writing everything down.

"Yeah," Aly exclaimed. "The next morning she came downstairs and me and Toya thought something was different about her but we couldn't place it. She said the crystal was stolen and we asked if that had something to do with it. She dismissed it and said it was no big deal."

"So you think it's the crystal?" Jazz asked

"Yes," Danny, Aly, Tucker, Toya, and Silver Moon replied.

"Oay, but then that brings us to the next question." Tucker stated thoughtfully. "What did her crystal do?"

"I think there might be someone who can answer that question." Danny spoke up and everyone looked at him. "Celosia."

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Aly sat at her computer putting her hands through her long dark brown hair. She had been sitting here four hours and still nothing. It was around one in the morning now. It had been settled when they had their meeting that Danny would take Toya and they would teleport to Atlanta, Georgia to see Celosia. All though Danny thoroughly loathed Celosia as much as he did Vlad, he hated the way his friend was acting and was willing to sit for what might be a few hours and get the answers from Celosia (provided he didn't end up in battle with her of course.).

Aly rubbed her forehead. She had been on the internet looking up anything that could possibly help her find something about the crystal which Sam usually wore around her neck. No matter what she searched, no matter how detailed or vague she tried to make it nothing came up. She closed her eyes and felt herself slip into the depths of her mind in a bright flowery field. It wasn't hot, yet not cold and not dark or light. Ember sat under a tree fooling around with her guitar.

Aly stalked over to her dead aunt and sat next to her.

"What are you doing here this late?" Ember asked playing a chord on her guitar.

Aly sighed. "I'm worried about Sam. She's been acting so different lately. We now think it had something to do with her crystal, but we can't be sure about it until Danny goes and sees Celosia."

"You mean that dumb crystal Goth girl wears around her neck all the time?" Ember asked looking ahead and playing a light tune on her guitar.

"It was stolen."

"Really?" Ember asked with no emotion.

"I told you that weeks ago." Aly sighed. "Remember?"

Ember shrugged. "You might have mentioned it once." she replied "But like I was saying you said something about a woman named Alesia giving her that when she brought her back to life right?"

"Yeah," Aly replied. Ember had to be going somewhere with this or she wouldn't be asking all these questions. So yeah, she was a bit mean when she wanted to be and insulting but despite that she could be very helpful. Most times though, she did it so it seemed like she was getting something out of it though she really was trying to help. Aly didn't blame her aunt though. Ember was a hypnotizing punk rock star ghost and was just trying to keep up the reputation she had developed. Ember would never admit it, but she really had taken a liking to not only her but Sam too.

"There's a legend about that in the ghost zone. I heard bits and pieces of it a while ago. Something to do with the gods not wanting Alesia to bring back anymore people who died unfair deaths because of something it did to their heads. I don't know, but it might have something to do with that crystal." Ember relied and went back to her guitar and Aly knew she was saying nothing else, but that was all Aly needed to know to start to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.

She drifted back into control of her body and searched the internet one more time and then. "The Jouji Crystal."

Aly gasped and printed out what she had found before going to bed, telling Ember to make sure she woke up before nine o'clock. The night came and went and soon she was running down the street to Danny's house where Toya had flown earlier that morning. She hoped she wasn't too late.

Lucky for her she caught Danny and Toya right before Toya was about to teleport them away.

"Aly, what are you doing here?" Toya asked.

"Danny," she said panting. "I'm coming with you."

"Why?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow.

"Because, I think I have an idea of what the crystal did, but I need to check and see if Celosia knows the real story." Aly said and Danny nodded.

The cotton candy pink eyed girl dropped her disguise and a cotton candy pink smoke appeared teleporting them to the place Celosia called home. Alanta, Georgia.

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Okay. There's that chapter. There might be three or four more chapters after this. I'm not really sure... Don't give me that look, I told you it would be shorter than it's preceder. Here's your sneak peak:

"Okay, Sam's been acting... rather weird lately." from that point Danny explained Sam's odd behavior and then... "We think it has something to do with the fact that her crystal she wears around her neck was stolen a few weeks ago."

Allison frowned. "You mean the one that was given to her by Alesia the night she died?"

"Yeah, that one." Toya replied sipping her sparkling juice.

"Oh dear," Allison replied and standing up. "Follow me."

The three stood up with Toys taking the sparkling juice with her as she sipped it. They followed Allison two flights of stairs and then they went all the way down the hall to a locked door which Allison unlocked and went inside a room with vast amounts of nice jewelry.

"Don't touch anything." she said just as Aly tried to try on a piece of jewelry behind her.

She went over to a chest in the center of the room and unlocked it. Inside was a red crystal shaped just like Sam's. It had a slight glow to it. Allison looked at it and then turned to the two teens behind her.

"It looked like that right?" she asked.

Danny and Aly nodded while Toya being the curious ghost child she was looked at all the jewelry tempted to touch it.

"Well there's a long story to that. Come on." Allison sighed...

Yay, so close to the end. Hope you enjoyed. R&R.