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The Ghost and the Kitten

Chapter Two

Reunion

Kari sighed as she entered her small apartment. She had rented it when she first started pretending to be human. Although renting wasn't quite the right word for it. It was more like each month she would hypnotize the landlord into thinking she had paid him. It was dishonest she knew, but she was no angel. She never would be. She was the daughter of the queen of all demons. She could only do what come naturally to her. Well in some things anyway. She wasn't like other demons, because she had the ability to love and to feel empathy for others. She would sink herself to the level of trickery, but she could never bring herself to kill or harm another being. She had run away from her world at the age of fourteen. She had hidden in the Ghost Zone for months until she heard about the one they called the Halfa. Some called him Halfa; others called him the Ghost Child. What ever they called him, it didn't matter to her. He sounded interesting and she had to learn more about him. She had snuck out of the Ghost Zone using the Fenton Ghost Portal. From there she stayed invisible and watched Danny Phantom and his friends fight ghost. She lost track of them for a couple of days when the Nasty Burger had some kind of explosion. She never did find out what had happened. Then she had finally gotten the courage to show herself three years later. When Danny's parents had died. She didn't speak to him again though for sometime, when he started acting reckless. Cheer him up and share stuff with him.

Then one day her mother's minions found her and drug her back to their world. She had stayed there until she gained the strength and courage to break free once more. Too bad it had taken so many years. When she saw him again after his fight with the first demon, she felt her breath catch in her throat. He was so handsome now. He was cute before, but now. She had almost swooned. She had decided then and there to confront her mother. To tell her to leave Danny alone. It didn't go well though and she only succeeded in getting blocked from the human world. She was surprised when her mother finally told her she could go back. If she could save Danny, she'd never bother him again. If she failed, well she'd be doomed to remain in the human world and watch the Halfa slowly and painfully turn into a demon.

Of course her mother knew she'd never make it. Now she was stuck. She had to find a way to destroy the seed. There had to be a way. Each demon carried seeds in their blood, that way if they bit someone or done anything else that would swap blood, the normal person would turn demon. She could take a sample of her blood and see if there was a way to destroy the seeds. It was she could think to do.

Shacking herself out of her thoughts, she walked over to her bed and pulled some lab equipment out and some syringes. She'd start testing right away. Danny only had a few days left. If she didn't do something quick, he'd become a demon. Every demon that is not born a demon is a slave. They have no will of their own. She couldn't bare the thought of the ghost becoming a mindless slave. He'd still be him, but not him. It would be all wrong. Kari shook her head again. She was getting too distracted with her thoughts. She placed the lab equipment on a nearby table and got to work.

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Danny awoke on the couch in his parent's old house which now belongs to his sister, Jazz. His chest felt like it was on fire. He couldn't remember why at first, but when he did, he quickly jumped from the couch and looked around for Jazz. He found her down in the lab working on something or other.

"How did I get here?" Danny asked.

Jazz sighed and turned around.

"Gee. Hi, Danny. How are you?" his sister responded sarcastically.

"Sorry, Jazz. I don't have time for pleasantries." Danny remarked.

"So grouchy. Sam called me after her reception and told me what had happened at the wedding. She said you took off after the ghost or whatever and then you didn't come back. I used the tracking devise that I keep in your shirt and found you on the roof of an apartment building.

"You have a tracking device stashed in my shirt! For Christ sakes, I'm twenty one, not twelve!" Danny exclaimed.

"So I guess you wanted to sleep on the roof all night? You can thank me later. What happened anyway?" Jazz asked.

"Long story cut short; I was attacked by demons. They put a seed into my body and in a few days I'll turn into a demon." Danny said as if it were nothing.

"What!" Jazz exclaimed.

"We have to find a way to get the seed out. Until then Kari told me to stay in my ghost form." Danny said.

"Wait. Kari? That imaginary friend you had after Mom and Dad... Oh, Danny." Jazz said with sympathy in her eyes.

She walked over to her younger brother and hugged him tightly.

"You know what the psychologist said about..." She began.

"I'm not imagining her! She's real! I saw her tonight." Danny yelled shoving his sister off of him.

"Danny..." Jazz began.

"You gonna help me or what, Jazz?" Danny asked impatiently.

"Fine, Danny. What do you want me to do?" Jazz asked in a defeated voice.

"I want you to find a drug or machine or something that will make it where I have to stay in ghost form weather I'm awake or unconscious. I need it tonight. This can't wait." Danny said with urgency.

"Alright. I'm on it. First give me your arm." Jazz instructed.

Danny did as he was told and held out his arm. Jazz tied a band tightly around Danny's upper arm, and then swabbed the bend of his arm with alcohol. She grabbed a syringe and stuck the needle part into the area she had swabbed. She filled the syringe with his blood, then pulled the needle out and handed Danny some cotton to hold to his arm. She then put the blood into a vile and then put it in a machine.

"Alright. Give me two hours and I'll have it ready. What ever it will be." she said with a smile.

Danny nodded and walked back upstairs to wait and maybe grab a bit to eat. He heard the front door open then slam close. He was about to yell down to Jazz and ask if she was expecting someone. He didn't get a chance as two corpses lurched into the room. Danny stared in horror at the remains of his parents. He felt bile rise into his throat and quickly tried to swallow it back down. He backed away slowly from the two gruesome creatures. They looked somewhat decomposed. His mother looked worse than his father. Half her head and face was missing. What was left was rotten looking. He could see her teeth because she no longer had lips. Green slime was dripping from between her teeth as she approached. Her clothes were rags and her feet bear. His father on the other hand had his whole head although there were chunks of flesh missing here and there. The really disgusting thing about him was the gaping wound in his belly. Danny could see straight to the other side of the room through it. Danny backed away, whimpering gibberish as he went.

"My baby boy. Come to Mommy. I missed you so much." Maddie said holding out her decomposing arms to her son.

"No. You're dead." Danny murmured as he finally backed into the wall.

He pressed himself against it, momentarily forgetting that he wasn't in his ghost form and could not go through it. His eyes were wide with fear as he shook and stared at his dead parents. Maybe he was crazy. Maybe he was in the lab still unconscious and dreaming. He hoped he was. He closed his eyes tightly for a few minutes, in hopes that when he opened them that the corpses would be gone. He opened his eyes, but they were still there. If anything, they were closer.

"Come on, Danny. Give your old man a hug." Jack said getting closer.

"Oh, god. You're really here. You're not just my imagination." Danny said as a crazed and fearful look came over his face.

"Well of course not sweetie. Don't be silly." Maddie said.

She was now right at Danny and reached her hand out to touch him.

"Stay away!" Danny screamed.

He turned into his ghost form and fell through the wall and into the kitchen. He stood and composed himself then flew back into the room to see the corpses staring at the empty place he had once been standing.

"You're not my parents. You're just their reanimated corpses. So that means I won't be killing my parents. Just finally letting them rest." Danny said with the crazed look still on his face.

The fear was gone, but not the wild look in his eyes. He descended upon the two corpses and savagely tore them apart. They never stood a chance. A bloody mess was left in their place. Danny leaned against the wall giggling and mumbling to himself. He kept saying again and again, "Not my parents. Just two zombies. Not my parents."

A scream finally broke through to him and he came out of whatever mental break down he was having. Standing in the doorway was Jazz. She was screaming as she stared at the carnage on the floor.

"Oh. What have you done, Danny? What have you done!" Jazz screamed in hysterics.

"It wasn't them, Jazz. It was just two zombies. I had to destroy them." Danny said calmly and numbly.

"It wasn't who? What was it? Zombies? Did those demons send demons after you!" Jazz exclaimed.

She had apparently not seen who the corpses were and now there was nothing left to identify.

"Cl...clean this up. By the time you're done, I should have something for you." Jazz said trying not to throw up.

She staggered back down the stairs to the lab, leaving her brother to clean up. An hour later, Danny walked down stairs still in his ghost form.

"It's cleaned up." he muttered.

He flounced down on the couch and waited to see what his sister had come up with. A few minutes later, Jazz turned from her work table and looked at Danny.

"Alright. Hold out your arm and pull up your sleeve." Jazz instructed.

Danny did as he was told and watched as his sister once again stuck a needle into his arm, only this time she was putting something in rather than taking something out. Danny winced as he felt pain shoot up his arm. Then the pain quickly spread throughout his body. It grew worse and worse until it was unbearable.

"Wh...what the hell did you do to me!" Danny yelled at his sister as he hugged his middle and doubled over.

The pain seemed to last for an eternity, and then it went away just as fast as it had come. Danny sat up slowly glairing angrily at Jazz.

"It will suppress your human side so that you're unable to change back. It's not permanent. I'd have to kill you for that. Hee hee." Jazz said with a laugh.

"You damn near did." Danny grumbled.

"Ugh. Men are such babies. Anyway, you'll have to take these shots every four hours until I can find a way to kill the seeds in you." Jazz said with a smile.

She handed a small pocket sized case to him. Danny pocketed it, then shocked Jazz by hugging her.

"Thanks." was all he said, and then he flew up through the ceiling and out of the house.

"Be careful little brother. Fight whatever it is that is trying to take you from me. Be strong for both of us." Jazz said as tears slipped down her face.

To Be Continued...

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Next: The Ghost and The Kitten: Chapter Three: The Meeting

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