Here's the next chapter. I'll probably be basically inactive for the next week, with school and all.


Jazz looked up when she heard Mr. Lancer mutter some book title under his breath. He was staring at her, surprise filling his eyes. She cocked her head to one side, and he jumped back. "Mr. Lancer, is something wrong?" He nodded slowly.

"You're not Miss Fenton, are you?" Jazz furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, then realized what had happened. Sure enough, a compact mirror she had in her purse revealed that her head was invisible.

"Mr. Lancer, I can explain!" Even though I'd rather not.

"Fine, let's hear it, 'Jasmine,' if it's really you." Might as well tell the truth, he's obviously able to see when I'm lying tonight.

"You know how I said the ghost portal was working again, right?" He nodded. "Well, I happened to be inside the portal when it happened." She then proceeded to tell the story. "So I called Lila and told her I couldn't come, and I had to get out of my house before Mom and Dad got home. Their ghost hunting equipment isn't exactly gentle, it'd probably kill me."

Lancer smirked. "Right. Now, tell me why you wanted to tell Danny. Is it because telling the real Jasmine would give everything away?" Back to square one, what do I do now?

"I can't make you believe me, you have the right to believe whatever you want. Also, I wanted to call Danny because he's the only one in the family that would understand." Lancer's eyebrows furrowed. "In that, I mean he wouldn't try and attack me, of course. I told him not to comer looking for me until tomorrow though, he was taking the evening off from his job to hang out with Sam." Lancer raised one of his now-unfurrowed eyebrows.

"Right. I'm so sure that's what happened, miss Fenton. Next time though, come up with a better story." As he finished the sentence, an alarm went off. It was the ghost alarm, signaling at least five ghosts in the school. Ok, that's me, Danny, and three others. It doesn't count ghosts in the thermos, so it couldn't be Ember.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lancer, but I've got to go. I can't be caught here. Please don't tell anyone, especially not my parents. Let me know on Monday that we had this chat, and nobody else. Thanks, bye!" She ran through the door, leaving a confused Mr. Lancer to pick up the pieces.

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Meanwhile, Danny was chasing Skulker down the hall, hitting him with ectoblasts.

"Fine, Ghost Child. I will come for your pelt another day, seeing as another hybrid lurks these halls, a weaker target." He silently disappeared. Another hybrid? The only other one I know of is Vlad, and he's 20 years my superior. Unless by some chance I've gotten stronger very quickly, there's another... His thoughts were interrupted by a scream. He realized with a sickening feeling that it was his sister's. Jazz's. Why's he going after her? She's not a hybrid. He flew through the walls between him and the sound, going as fast as he could. He flew into a classroom just as Skulker put his blade against his sister's throat.

"Jazz!" Danny yelled. He flew towards her, getting her out of his way just in time. He looked at her, her eyes full of panic. "Jazz, what are you doing here?"

"I had to get out of the house as soon as possible, and I wasn't going to the party. Hurry, Mom and Dad'll be here soon. They'll blast you the first chance." Not to mention me. I can't tell him that yet though.

Danny looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "Uh huh. Jazz, something's up. Why don't you just tell me?" She shook her head. "Jazz, this really isn't the time! Skulker's coming!" Indeed, the hunter was closing in.

"Wonderful, I can have both your skulls at once!" He was smiling and waving a gun between his fingers. He aimed it at Jazz and fired. Danny grabbed Jazz and made her intangible, right as the bullet would've pierced through her. She looked at him, scared. Great, I'll be doing this for the rest of my life? Why couldn't I have been born to normal parents that don't accidentally turn their children into ghosts!

"Thanks." Mr. Lancer ran into the room, to see the ghost kid holding Jazz. Skulker glanced over.

"Look Ghost Child, you've got more help. If she wasn't enough to start." He laughed as he said this. Danny rose back to his feet, eyes glowing more brightly than ever.

"Don't ever say anything like that about her!" He grabbed Skulker and pulled him through the wall, content his sister would keep Lancer from following. Though I still have about a million questions to ask her. He took a deep breath and used a ghostly wail on Skulker, making sure to aim it away from any buildings. As he finished his wail, he changed back into human form. He collapsed to his knees and took the Thermos off his back. He aimed it at Skulker and fired, capturing the hunter. He then collapsed to the ground.

Jazz, in the meanwhile, was staring at Lancer. "Uh, he saved me."

"Are you really Jasmine Fenton?" He still couldn't get it through his head what had just happened. She nodded.

"Yeah, but now Phantom needs my help, I think I just heard a ghostly wail, that means he'll need to get out of the area as soon as possible. It weakens him a lot. See you on Monday!" With that, she ran through the wall, just to see her brother collapsed on the ground. Making sure nobody was watching, she transformed. Wow, that was easy? She picked Danny up and flew away, though only a few feet off the ground. Lancer glance out the window to see her flying, but only saw a silhouette outlined by the moon.

"What have these kids gotten themselves into?" He asked himself, and decided he wasn't going to stick around any longer. In fact, he was out of the school in under a minute, rushing to his car.

Jazz looked at her brother, fainted in her arms. "Thanks, little brother." He looked so peaceful. He started to stir about halfway to Sam's house. He opened his eyes and looked at her. "It's ok now." She cooed. He's only half awake, I need to soothe him into calm, so he doesn't jump out of my arms and try to fly away. He's not in any condition to do so.

"Who are you?" He asked, eyes half open. She smiled at him.

"A friend. You'd collapsed, so I'm bringing you home."

"I can't go home, take me to Sam Manson's." He was starting to gain a sense of reality again.

"Ok, I will." She had been planning on bringing him there anyways, just she couldn't blow her cover. She flew up and phased through the second-story window to Sam's bedroom, where she was reading a book. She looked up as the two entered.

"Danny! What have you done to him?"

"I didn't do anything, I found him like this. He told me to bring him here, so I did." He looked back up at his sister, eyes wide.

"Who are you?" He asked as she set him on Sam's bed.

"You'll know soon enough." In her mind, she added, my brother. She flew out the window and out of sight. Sam looked at Danny.

"What happened?"

"Skulker attacked the school, along with a few other ghosts. I got two of them, and then Skulker said something about a weaker hybrid. For some reason, Jazz was there, and Mr. Lancer. I got Skulker outside and used my ghostly wail. The next thing I knew, that ghost was bringing me home. I told her I'd rather be here." Sam nodded, though she was obviously troubled.

"I wonder who she was."

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Jazz looked at her watch. 9:45. "I might as well say I got tired and decided to go home early." She flew back to her room, where she grabbed her party clothes. She changed in an alley and flew her other clothes back to her room. "The outfit I'll be in forever. Better this than something like that Paulina girl wears." She walked to the front door and opened it.

"Jazzypants! You're home early! Did you have fun?" Jazz nodded.

"Yeah, but I got tired and decided to come home early." She felt her arm trying to become invisible, and she quickly added, "I'm going to bed now, good night!" She rushed up to her room.

"I wonder what's gotten into her, she didn't seem all that tired." Maddie remarked to Jack.

"I'm sure everything is a-ok, Maddie!" She nodded. I haven't seen anyone so jumpy since Danny's accident the first time the portal...Jazz? Did she have an accident in the lab too? I'll ask her in the morning, she really didn't want to talk about it tonight.


Please review! If there's anything you'd die if you didn't see on here, go ahead and request. If I like your idea enough, I'll add it. These first few chapters and a few after it were actually based roughly on a dream I had.