Hello! Thanks to everyone reviewing! They made me smile and thanks for the suggestions but I plan out my stories ahead of time! Thank you anyway though Samantha-Girl Scout, your idea was really good, I would have used it if I didn't already have a plan. Yes I saw the episode Flirting with Disaster and no it will not have an affect on this story, Valerie wasn't in it to begin with so I plan to stick with my plan. Oh and just so you know all of the plants I mention are actual plants. Azra microphylla is a white chocolate smelling tree from Chile.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or anything else famous in this fic.
"No, it can't be." She said and put the papers down in disbelief. She was internally struggling with herself to accept this fact when Vlad Plasmius phased through the ceiling.
She looked up in surprise and automatically got into a fighting mode.
"Oh please, don't even think about. Stop! And freeze while your at it." He commanded. She looked at him as if to say yeah right but her expression turned to surprise when she realized she couldn't move.
"Excellent the curse has been on long enough to control body movement. Well I'm glad to see it's been spreading quickly." He said and floated around the movie an evil smile on his face.
"What did you-" She started to say.
"No questions my dear please be quiet, as in no talking." He said. A small hmmph came her mouth instead of the words she wanted to say. She gave him an angry look that would have sent any human running away with nightmares.
"Really? Did you think that would scare me? Anyway I came here to see if I could stop you. I should have figured you're smarter than half the idiots in this stupid city but I didn't. So now I have to fix this mistake myself." He said and walked around the room picking up some her personal objects and fiddling with them.
"You are a huge part of my plan and I can't have you figuring out his alter ego. Trust me I would much have you emotionally ripping yourself apart to accept the boy, but it doesn't fit in, not yet anyway. There will be enough pain and suffering later but for now we need to fix this." He said.
She looked at him with complete hatred, if she could move there wouldn't be a piece of him big enough to see with a microscope.
"The curse has been on longer than a few days and you have had excellent progress so it should cover mental thoughts by now. You are going to forget that Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom, you have no clue that they are the same person and my visit here was to…fight you, for your necklace. You know nothing about the spell I put on you." He said looking straight at her.
Suddenly her vision was cloudy, she felt like falling over and she had a weightless feeling to her and then she passed out.
"And just to make sure she doesn't figure it out again I'll be taking these." He said as he scooped up the sketches.
The next thing she remembered was feeling her cat's whisker's on her face.
"Wake up. Hello are you in there? Get up now!" Rook screeched.
"Owww don't yell I'm up." She said putting a hand to her forehead.
"Well I'm glad to sleeping beauty is up. We tried everything and you wouldn't stir. We were ready to call Danny and have him kiss you to see if you'd open your eyes." She said looking at her. She jumped off of her stomach and watched her slowly pick herself up.
"Haha very funny." She said sarcastically. "Wow, I feel like I've been squished." She said, moving herself into a sitting position.
"Really? What's the last thing you remember?" Rook asked a little concerned.
"That ghost from before, he came back and tried to steal something…….I think it was my necklace." She said fingering the star around her neck
"Well it's still on your neck and nothing looks ruined so I guess it's fine. Come on your needed downstairs." She said and left.
Breanne got up and made her way down the stairs holding on to the railing for dear life. She stepped out of her closet the lightheaded feeling slowly fading away. She walked into the kitchen to see her mom and her family mixing every kind of potion.
"Rook said I was needed." She said to them unsure of what for.
"Oh yes we really need it. The council called and wanted more healing, liquefying combustion, morphing, growing and melting potions along with 3 others that only you and I can do." Her mom said. Because the air in the fall months was normally crisper and cleaner, it was the best time for mixing potions. The council did their yearly check and stock which caused her mother and 3 other healers to be incredibly busy making thousands of them for over the 21 hundred magical creatures in the realm.
"What do you want me to do?" She asked.
"Well your sister and your father are helping me with potions for the humans, but the other doubled order was needed for animals." She said measuring some tye dye liquid.
"Animals?" Breanne questioned as she went to the cupboard to get some beakers.
"Yes. Apparently unicorns, griffins, every type of dragon even Cerberus and the Kraken needed some help this year. No one knows why but they say mother nature and father time must be taking a fit." She said. "And you're the only one left who could help with this, there are minors working with others but ever since Ty left you've been doing twice the work."
Breanne's face saddened as she remembered Ty. She shoved the thought off and got to work.
"Ok, Tom and Jon we're going to work with dragons first, so this is what we need." She said giving them a list.
"We don't have any Dragon Arum." Tom said.
"Go up in my room, there should be some in the window box." She said adding some living stones plant to a potion. He vanished up the stairs and a ripping noise was heard.
"I didn't know what was what so I brought the whole box down." He said placing the huge box on the counter.
"This is going to be a long day." She said.
The dragons, griffins and every other potion went fine until they came to mythical equestrians.
"Ok Tom slowly add Bronze funnel seeds and Jon you have to Wolfsbane, I can't touch that." She said backing away slowly.
"Right, hey we still need bone healing for winged horses." Jon said.
"Ok I'll get the carrion flower." Breanne said reaching in the cupboard. The swinging of the door caused a vile on the counter to fall over scaring Tom who dropped 4 vials on the floor. The reaction caused them to bubble and smoke. The smoke swirled in the room and the plants that were mixed caused Breanne to cough. She felt weak and couldn't hold herself up anymore.
When the smoke cleared she was trying to hold herself up by leaning on the counter.
"What fell?" She choked out.
"I don't know Jon's checking right now." Tom said bending down to help her.
Jon came in with another odd looking liquid and gave it to her.
"Listen go up to your room and take it easy." He said gravely.
"Why? What spilled?" She asked more fiercely this time.
"The Passiflora, Azra microphylla, Wolfsbane and Cinnamon. The combination of the smells should have knocked you out, the Wolfsbane, Cinnamon and Azra are dangerous to your magic type." He said as she drank it.
"Well duh I think I know that!" She yelled.
"Look just relax upstairs." Tom said.
"Don't tell me what to do!" She yelled and went into the living room.
She sat on the couch and closed her eyes.
"I need to take a walk." She thought. Her attitude got meaner and every passing moment made her want to hit something. By the time she had walked past Danny's house her fury had simmered down to a headache. She decided to sit down on a bench and take a breather.
Danny was inside his bedroom talking to Sam. She needed to tell him something important, something to Danny Phantom's advantage.
"Hey Danny listen I was reading that book from the library and I found some weaknesses that might help you." She said with the book on her lap.
"Really? Thanks Sam, I don't know what I'd do without you." He said. Sam blushed and smiled.
"It says if you cut her off from nature or hold her somewhere she can't get in touch with dirt or grass or outside or something like that, then she'll be greatly weakened." She said flipping the pages rapidly looking for the ones she'd marked.
"Like my basement?" He asked curiously.
"I guess so. If you catch her what do you plan on doing with her?" She asked curios at his answer. She herself could think up a few cruel and unusual things she'd do to the girl who'd caused Danny so much worry and pain.
"I don't know. I can't toss her into the ghost zone, maybe Jazz will have an idea." He said.
"Hmmm, do you have any wolfsbane, cinnamon or Azra michrophylla?" She asked scanning the pages.
"No?... Why?" He asked curious.
"Because if you had them you could kill her." She said flatly.
"Sam!" He yelled.
"What?" She said
"I don't want to kill her, I'm a ghost capturer not a killer." He said.
"Well some enemies are too strong to be contained, besides how do you think you're going to get rid of Vlad?" She asked.
"I don't really know. I try not to think about that." He said laying down on his pillow.
"Ok fine, we'll leave that one alone. But there is something you can do. She should have like a necklace or a bracelet or a charm or something. It holds her power, if you get that away from her and say "Etino fa enchantrea" you take her power away from her." Sam said.
"Ok, but how do I get it off of her neck?" He asked.
"That is up to you." She said.
"Oh great. It's never easy." He said.
"Of course not it's your life isn't it?" She said sarcastically.
"Too true, alright I'll see in 2 days." He said absent mindedly looking out the window.
"Danny, I'll see you in school tomorrow." She said smiling at his absent mindedness.
"Oh right. Ok I'm going to do my homework." He said taking out his book.
"Well I'll leave you to do your homework." She said.
"Bye." They said simultaneously.
He ended his conversation with Sam and 2 minutes later when 2 obnoxious little ghosts came into his room, pulled his hair and flew out of his window. They didn't care about Vlad's warning, Vlad would have to catch them first before he could do anything, so teasing Danny was a fun way to pass time.
Aggravated, Danny went ghost and chased after them. After winding through alley's and streets he caught them by their little ghostly hands.
"Do you promise to not bother people anymore." He said in a fatherly sounding voice.
"Yes Mr. Phantom sir." Said the little boy his baseball cap almost falling off of his head
"We promise." The little girl said ending her brother's sentence. They were adorable when they weren't causing trouble and he had a soft spot for them. Danny smiled and let them go feeling happy. As he watched them go he realized he that maybe one day he would seriously consider having kids. Content with himself he started back home not realizing Breanne was sitting a block away from his house. She noticed him and let her disguise down (she didn't need to transform because of the spell in the earlier chapter)
Danny was flying home when an eerie feeling washed over him. He felt like he was being watched. As an instinct he turned around and saw her, and her yellow eyes.
"Uh oh here we go again." He thought to himself. He flew toward her so they were 7 feet apart.
"Scared?" She asked coldly.
"Me? No." He said clearly lying.
"We'll see." She said and smiled. She also leaned back a little and relaxed a tiny bit. Her experiences consisted of a lot including being flipped, hit, spun, kicked and every way shape or form of her hitting the floor. The reason was because she made the first move.
Do not make the first move.
So of course that's what Danny did. He leapt into the air above her and fired.
"Hey we're in a city, that means you can't use your powers." He said and circled above her.
She ducked and raised her hands. They were glowing a faint blue.
"It may be harder to work them but I can still use them!" She shouted as the pavement groaned and creaked. Vines shot up and grabbed an off guard Danny. They were dragging him down when he blasted free and fell to the ground. He immediately picked himself up and dodged the fireballs she was throwing at him. He went intangible just as one went right through his heart.
"That was a little too close for comfort." He thought.
He fired back with an ectoplasmic ray that cut her shoulder, to any Danny Phantom fan you could tell he was getting stronger, than his first fight.
She clutched her shoulder and winced. She took her hand away and let it fall freely against her side. The earth shook as she concentrated on him and under his feet it split in two. She shakily pushed a strand of brown hair as Danny fell into the crack. He felt the stable earth underneath him vanish and it took him a couple of seconds to realize he was falling.
He went intangible and realized she would be standing over the whole waiting for him so he went intangible and came up next to a tree. She figured that trick out almost a second too late He was about to fire he heard the splintering of wood and felt his skin being jabbed. The tree was wrapping him up and he felt the branches trying to force their way through him.
His arms pinned to his side he flipped his palms backwards and fired into the tree. It groaned as he felt the bark breaking and he was let loose. He looked her way and dodged two more fireballs, but one hit him, it burned through the shoulder of his suit before he could extinguish it. When it was out he felt a stinging pain in his shoulder. He rubbed it and dodged more of her attacks.
A quick look in back of him made him realize she was pushing him into the park.
"I can't let her go in there." He thought.
He flew right toward trying to lead her away from the park. She took the bait and turned into a cheetah as she raced after him. He was a good distance away from the park when he felt claws rake into his back. Surprised by the pain he dropped and hit the pavement. She lost her footing and skidded back, losing her cheetah form. Her jeans met pavement as they were being worn down by friction. They both laid on the ground for a while waiting for the pain to pass. Danny got up first feeling small drops of blood form on his back. She got up next letting her head stop spinning and barely steadying herself. They both stood there, both in pain, both loathing each other and both too stubborn to give up.
"I hope you've had your rabies shots." He said, trying to take the seriousness out of the battle. It worked a little.
"No, I haven't visited my vet yet." She said and smiled. There was an awkward silence as they stood there trying to catch there breath, then Danny disappeared. She looked around in confusion and waited.
"Come out come out wherever you are." She said. Danny was beside her trying to grab the necklace from her neck. She closed her eyes and listened. She stuck her arm out and grabbed Danny by the neck forcing him onto the ground.
"Don't breathe so loudly next time." She told him taking her hand off of his neck and waiting for the fire in her palm to grow.
"I'll remember that." He said and phased through the pavement. She looked around in confusion.
"Intangibility, I keep forgetting about that." She said and scanned the area, mentally slapping herself. Out of nowhere she hit the ground as she felt a pain in her back come from nowhere. Danny was behind her his fist still smoking green from the ectoplasmic blast that had been fired from it.
She pushed herself up and grabbed Danny's wrist before he fire another one. He grabbed her wrist and they both tried to flip each other, causing them both to fall.
"You know you're more powerful than you look." He said picking himself up.
"You too, who knew that cute face could be so dangerous." She said and pushed herself up. He was surprised by the comment and didn't notice the vines wrapping around him, these he couldn't split like the tree. They held him still and he felt a little light headed form the pressure on him.
She walked over to him, hurt just as much as him but much happier.
"I really meant that you know, you are cute." She told him smiling. Her smile faded though as he looked at her with a look in his eye, of sadness, remorse and something else, it made her heart ache. She'd seen that look before, she never wanted to see it again and here it was, but who had she seen it on? Suddenly her head throbbed, it felt like someone was trying to crack her skull in half. She backed away from Danny falling to the ground as pictures swirled in her head.
Danny took advantage of this as the loss of her concentration caused the vines to loosen themselves. He knew she wouldn't be on the ground for long, so from where he was he inhaled and opened his mouth as if to scream, just as her headache was subsiding.
She didn't know what hit her. She was thrown back by the force of it and she landed on the sidewalk. The eerie sound faded as she closed her eyes, she had just got a taste of the ghostly wail. Her body ached, but it also felt like jello, a liquefied shaky feeling and she knew that as hard as she tried she couldn't get up.
Danny put a hand to his head to try to steady himself, he didn't return to human because he didn't use more than 7 seconds of the ghostly wail. He was shaky and as he walked over he realized he had finally beaten her at her own game. Now he had one problem, what was he going to do now?
He looked down the street, not that far to his house maybe he could carry her into his basement and have Sam and Tuck help him brainstorm on ideas. He walked over to her and picked her up. She looked kind of peaceful when she wasn't trying to blow his head off.
She was still breathing, so he knew he didn't kill her. He looked around at their fighting arena. The street was torn up, things had been shattered and were still smoking. Somewhere something groaned and fell with a crash of glass as a car alarm went off. He didn't want to look anymore, they had caused more damage than he thought. He winced with pain as he went into his house. With the little power he had left, he went intangible and phased through the floor to the lab. Luckily no one was down there so he placed her in the right corner of the room. There were this electrical like cage invention that his dad had made that ended up shocking anything living if was used for more than 8 hours so it was deemed a failure. He dragged it out and set it up around her. He knew the effect the ghostly wail had, and if it had hurt his older self she wasn't going to wake up while he was setting it up or in the next hour.
He called Sam and Tuck to see if they could come over Sam was in the shower and she'd be over in 10 minutes and Tuck was at the store so he'd be there in 15 minutes. So he was left alone with her for 10 minutes, shouldn't be that hard, she was unconscious. He had just hung up the phone when he turned around to see her sitting up somewhat awake. He head and backed were leaning against the wall and her eyes were closed.
"You're awake?" He asked in disbelief.
She opened her eye slightly and looked at him. She smiled and lifted her head off the wall. "You know there's a very good sarcastic comeback to that stupid question but I'm too tired to insult you." She said.
She looked at him as she tried to figure out what had caused her to get that tear-your-skull-in-half-feeling. Then it hit her, that look in Danny Phantom's eye had triggered something in her subconscious, and because she was in her magic stage it hurt. Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom had that same look, not to mention, voice and height. The same ghost she was trying to hunt down was the same boy who she had a crush on. Oh the irony.
A/N: The pain was obviously caused by her subconscious overwhelming the curse. Sorry just thought I'd clear that up. And if your wondering she still doesn't know about Vlad's spell. Ok I'll leave you to your reading.
Now fully depressed she sighed and started to try to heal some of the cuts on her shoulder.
"You shouldn't be awake, I used the ghostly wail on you." He said looking at her.
"So that's what thing was. Well I'll tell you what it packs one heck of a punch, I didn't know what hit me." She told him. "Are you going to let me go?"
He turned around to look at her. "That's funny, I'm going to let the crazy, psychopathic witch who tried to kill me go free. In other words, not a chance." He told her. "The only reason your still here is because I don't know what to do with you."
She looked around, she was in his basement, with every doorway to fresh air sealed up, even the door was closed. He obviously knew what he was doing.
"Why are you after me anyway?" He asked grabbing a chair and sitting down.
She merely avoided the question with a comment. "You know I can see your struggling to keep yourself in ghost mode, you can turn into your human form if you want." She said looking straight at him.
"How do you know about that?" He asked hurriedly.
"First of all calm down, it's not like it's a secret, well not in the ghost zone. Second I know a lot about you." She said trying to keep him from freaking out.
"Like what?" He asked suspicious of what she knew.
"I know about as much as Walker." She answered leaving it up to him to decide what she knew. "You can turn back into a human, I can't really do much to you."
He eyed her and after a couple of seconds changed back into Danny Fenton.
"There, was that so hard." She said. "You probably feel better."
"Yeah I do and it's not like you can come after me, I mean I have your necklace." He told her tying to convince himself he made the right choice. Upon hearing the words she bolted upright and searched her neck for it. She looked up to see Danny swinging it gently in his hands.
"You took my necklace?" She asked frantically. Just then Sam walked through he basement door.
"My mom said you called what's………….." She said trailing off as she looked into the electric cage. "You caught her! You did it, I knew you could! Way to go Danny." She hugged him and smiled.
She turned away from Danny and went up to the cage. "Serves you right. How could you hurt him?" She asked.
"Trust me, I plan on leaving Danny Phantom alone." She told her. Her tone grew increasingly sad as the realization of what she had done hit her. "Look can I have my necklace back, it's really important." She asked him trying to make him realize what it meant.
"No, with it who knows what you'd do to me or this town." He said.
"You don't understand, it keeps my powers in check, it-"
"Will you die?" He asked cutting her off.
"What?"
"You heard me, will you die?" He asked again.
"Well no bu-"
"Then your not getting it back." He said in a matter-of-fact tone. She sighed and slumped back. If he did anything to the necklace every time she goes near it, her illusion will fade leaving him to know she's the enemy who had been haunting him. Why did she let pig talk her into using that spell?
Now she was getting panicked. She had about a quarter of her magic left at her use and she was trapped.
Tucker was Danny's nightmare and the answer to her prayers. He came down loaded with all sorts of technical stuff.
"Hey Danny look at all of the cool stuff I got." He said shoving all sorts of electrical equipment in his face. He finally turned around and noticed the cage. "Hey you caught her. Dude that's awesome, can she talk?" He asked.
She rolled her eyes and looked at him. "Of course I can talk moron. Besides English I can speak Spanish, Italian and I can read Latin." She told him.
"Oh." Was Tucker's reply. Danny and Sam began discussing what they could do while Tucker stuck around to ask questions and be annoying.
"You don't look dangerous, how long did it take Danny to defeat you?" He asked.
"None of your business." She said her tone breeching on pissed off.
"Touchy subject I see. Why, is he the first one who's ever defeated you?" He asked smiling. She looked at him narrowing her eyes at him. He was getting really annoying really fast.
"No. I just didn't expect this." She said. She liked Tucker, he was a good friend, he just didn't know when to back off.
"Oh well you know-" He started to say.
"Look, keep talking and I'll turn you into a rat." She said perturbed.
"You're in there, you can't do anything to me." He said defiantly.
"It's an electric cage not a magic stopping cage." She said walking to him. "Do you feel lucky." She smiled that lovely demonic smile. Tucker backed away and started talking to Danny.
"Hey Danny can I show you the stuff I got?" He said holding his armload of electronics.
"Sure." He said still preoccupied with his conversation with Sam.
"Cool, I just need to plug a few things in." He said and started plugging in his PDA along with a portable DVD player, a Gameboy micro and all sorts of various objects.
The lights flickered and Danny realized what Tuck was doing.
"Tuck no! You're going to overload it and blow out the-". The lights went out, and so did the electrical cage.
"Oops." Tuck said from the corner. Upon seeing the lights go out she knew this was her chance to escape, she turned into a bat and high-tailed it out of there.
"Danny, the cage!" Sam screamed from somewhere.
"Tuck you fix this, I'll be right back." He said and transformed. He flew outside and looked around. Nothing. He checked every corner, every alley. When the realization that she probably turned into a bird or a bat and flew as far away as possible hit him, he gave up. He flew back to his house, greeted by Sam and Tuck.
"She's gone." He said walking through the doorway.
"Danny I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to, I thought the lab had backup power." He said leading him to the kitchen table to sit down.
"It's ok, I'm just nervous now. What if she comes back for revenge like they all do. I can't be with you guys in case she decides to take it out on you." He said looking at Sam.
"Danny, it's ok I can take care of myself, besides you have her necklace." She said putting a hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
He smiled a little bit. "Hey do you guys want to watch a movie?" He asked.
"Sure." They replied simultaneously. Then they headed off to the living room to try to forget everything that happened.
Tom was in his room reading when a bat flew through his open window and downstairs through his door. He didn't flinch or freak he merely got annoyed.
"Breanne and her stupid animals, now it's bats. I hate bats." He said as he flipped the page. "Hey B, keep the flying rodents out of my room!" He yelled. He didn't expect an answer he just wanted to tell her.
The flying rodent flew right into her room and changed back. Her pets had covered for her by making it seem she had come back form her walk an hour ago with a holograph simulator she had been given as a present. The second she actually walked through the door they all flooded in to see if she was ok.
Shouts of "Where were you", "Are you ok" and "What happened" filled the room. She looked at them and told them everything. She expected them to yell at her but they didn't.
Every girl there comforted her.
"You poor thing, your heart must be broken." Rook said.
"It's ok, you must feel so depressed." Jinx commented.
"So Danny's that horrible ghost boy? Well maybe if you talk to him you can straighten it out." Paws her white cat said.
"Don't worry about it, everything will straighten itself out." Her bird added. When the rest of them were done comforting her the boys told her what was on their minds.
"What is wrong with you?" Spiral barked.
"Your NECKLACE! You need that!" Pig yelled.
"Are you insane, that's your power." Spark said.
"What are you going to do now that you are helplessss." Capricorn demanded.
She sighed, she knew they were right. She just didn't know what to do now.
"Look I can still hold a small amount of magic within me." She said.
"The tesst issss sssstill monthssss away. You are not allowed to hold all of your magic within you now." Capricorn told her.
"He's exactly right, your test to see if you are responsible enough with your power isn't an option. In the meantime you can't hold more than a quarter yourself. Now what do you plan to do if he comes back for revenge or something?" Pig said.
"He seems very passive most of the time, he didn't want to fight. I'll leave him alone and he leaves me alone." She said.
They didn't have an answer to that.
"Fine. Now you look more hurt than you feel, we'll bring up some Tylenol and maybe a healing balm or two." He said. He walked up to her and put his furry nose on her leg.
"You don't know what you're doing to me. I love you though, like a daughter. It's just hard trying to keep track of you." He told her and crawled onto spiral's back.
Ten minutes later they came back up and she tried to relax. She was laying at the foot of her queen sized bed watching TV with her cats curled up next to her, her dogs beside her. A ferret, a rabbit, a hamster and a guinea pig in her arms, and birds and snakes on her ceiling fan. She was healed, physically and mentally and a little happier but internally she wouldn't be ok with what she had learned until she talked with Danny.
It made her feel guilty that she knew his secret and he didn't know hers. But on Wednesday everything would straighten out.
With Vlad
Vlad thought everything was going well. He'd check up on them on Wednesday and on Friday he'd close the trap door on Danny. Yes everything was going perfectly, maybe he would treat himself. Maybe buy a hotel or a restaurant. He would have love to flown to California maybe talk to some stars or to New York to persuade that other stuffy billionaire he meant business. Yes New York sounded good, he just needed to be back by Wednesday. Who was he kidding? He's Vlad Masters he could do whatever he wanted.
He smiled as he picked up the phone. What could happen in 2 days?
Ok what did you think? There's only maybe 2 chapters left, I hope you enjoyed this one. Please review! I love your reviews.