I just want to say this real quick and we can get on with the story...I won't be doing EVERY episode from each season. I'm going to skip some episodes so this isn't a long story. So the episode after "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale" is "Splitting Images" with Poindexter. I'm skipping that episode and going to the next one after that (depending on if I like that one or not).
BUT, I will say that I am working on an original episode to replace an episode just for this story. Whenever that is finished and up, you'll know. But I will say that I'm making it a musical episode (shocker, I know lol).
Anyway, enjoy!
A few weeks have passed since Technus attacked...and apparently a haunted locker that Danny got assigned? I was out with a cold that day, so I wasn't apart of it. So, Tucker told me what happened.
Basically, Danny decided to pick on Dash and the other bullies by pranking them with his ghost powers which got the attention of the ghost of Sydney Poindexter, the last owner of locker 724. He ended up taking over Danny's body which in turn made Danny go back to the time Poindexter was from...in the Ghost Zone. Thankfully, in the end, everything went back to normal.
And I'm glad he learned not to use his powers for the wrong reasons after this. I had to learn that the hard way myself when I first got my powers. I lost a couple of friends back in Ohio because of it. But some were still loyal like Danny, Sam, and Tucker. So I guess I can't complain.
It was a Saturday afternoon. I was in my room playing my guitar when I heard someone walk in. I thought it was my mom at first.
"Not now, mom! I'm doing my 'one thing'!" I exclaimed as I kept playing the music to my new song. It took me weeks to finally have the music figured out. Usually it wasn't this hard for me to come up with music. But then again, when it comes to a song about Danny, I can't help but have trouble.
Also, 'one thing' was invented by my mom, so that way we wouldn't but each other when we're busy.
"Your 'one thing'?" I heard a voice say, causing me to stop and look up to see a girl with long bright red hair and green eyes. She was pale with some freckles dotting the bridge of her nose. "What's that?"
"Robin!" I exclaimed as I placed my guitar down and ran up to her, hugging her with the force of a thousand suns. Robin Carr was one of my best friends back in Ohio. She was there when I lost my father and got my powers, and was the one to stay even after I apologized for going crazy on the "bullying" with my powers. She and her twin brother were the only two who knew about them back in Ohio.
"Hi, girly," Robin said with a giggle as we released each other.
"What are you doing here?!"
"My dad got a job as Casper Elementary School's new principal, meaning..."
"You guys moved here?!"
"Yep! Edwin's outside if you're willing to hang out for a bit," Robin's smile lit up the room as I nodded with excitement.
"Sure! Let me just write something down real quick," I exclaimed before rushing back over to my songbook and writing down what I was just playing.
"Still writing songs?"
"You bet! I'm actually writing one for this boy I like," I said with a blush.
"Oh, my! Spill!" Robin sat on my bed, waiting for me to say something. I just giggle as I sat down on my window seat.
"His name's Danny," I said. "Me and him have been friends since we were 4 and ever since I came back to Amity Park, he's been nothing but wonderful to me."
"Aw," Robin giggled.
"But, he likes this other girl named Paulina. She's such a shallow witch that I don't get what he sees in her!"
"Oh, that's harsh. Have you told him your feelings?"
"I will...someday," I giggled nervously as I rubbed my arm. "I'm just waiting for the right time."
"Nothing is better than the present," Robin said with a smirk, which I knew exactly what she was planning.
"No," I said sternly. "You're not setting up anything for me and Danny. Remember how that went with Edwin and Monica?" Her smirk fell instantly as she crossed her arms.
"How was I supposed to know she was taken?!" I giggled at her retort.
"Speaking of Edwin, he's probably waiting for us. Let's go!"
I raced out of the front door and tackle hugged Edwin from behind, making him stumble some and catch me. "Edwin!" I laughed as he just rolled his eyes and let me down.
"Hey, B," He returned as he turned around, showing off a new eyebrow ring above his left eye. It took me by surprise, which must have shown on my face since he just sighed. "I got this after you moved away."
"Oh!"
"Yeah, mom wasn't too thrilled at first, but she got used to it after a while," Robin said with a smile.
"Was grounded for at least a month," Edwin sighed. "But it could have been worse."
"Well, I think it looks good," I said with a smile. "Now come on! I think Danny and Tucker are at that Swap Meet right now."
"Who?" Edwin asked confused.
"I'll explain on the way."
We got to the Amity Park Swap Meet in no time, and I saw Danny and Tucker immediately at one of the tables grabbing something off it. "There they are," I said with smile as we walked over.
"Two for me, two for you?" Danny asked Tucker as I now got a glimpse that it was skateboard wheels.
"Sounds fair," Tucker replied as they both gave a share of their money to the owner before going to walk away.
"Danny!" I called as I raced up with Robin and Edwin. He looked at us and smiled back.
"Hey, Briar! What are you doing here? I thought you had to write," Danny asked me.
"I was, but then two old friends from my time in Ohio showed up," I answered. "Danny, Tucker, this is Robin and Edwin Carr. And yea, they're twins."
"Hi!" Edwin said with a smile.
"Hi, nice brow ring," Danny said.
"Thanks."
So far, so good, I thought before I noticed Robin looking at Tucker with a blush. He was just smiling at her. You know that one where he tries to pick up girls? Yeah, that one.
"Hi, I'm Tucker Foley. That's TF for too fine," He said, making me slap my forehead. Here we go again.
"Tuck, that's the most stupidest pick-up line I've ever heard!" I yelled as Robin giggled.
"It's fine, Briar," She said. "It's nice to meet you, Tucker. You, too, Danny."
"You as well," Tucker retorted as we started walking over to this table with lamps that could have been used for the Disney movie 'Aladdin'.
"A genie in a bottle? I don't think so. Thanks anyway," Tucker said as we continued on our way and went passed a cotton candy vender. I heard a little kid begging for some crazily.
"I think you've had enough sugar for today," The mom said. Good parenting there. But the kid kept begging and begging...until I heard something break behind me and my ghost sense went off.
"Oh, fudge sauce," I said as I noticed Danny's ghost sense go off as well. We turned around to see a genie ghost as she took the cotton candy machine and made the pink sugar go everywhere like it was water.
"Uh..." Danny began as he looked at Robin and Edwin.
"Briar, now might be a good time for you to go ghost!" Robin yelled with fear.
"What about two ghosts?" I smirked as I looked over at Danny, nodding my head as a way to say that it was alright to tell them. So he just nodded and got ready.
"I'm GOING GHOST!" He then changed into his ghost form and flew up.
"What?! He's half-ghost, too?!" Edwin asked with surprise.
"Yeah. Don't tell anyone, okay?" I retorted, which the twins nodded immediately as their way of showing support.
"Now, cover me," I then got behind my friends, changed into my ghost form, and flew up after Danny, shooting a beam from hand and missing. "I really need to focus on my powers more."
"I am Desiree," The genie ghost began, "What is your wish?"
"None of your business, candy pants!" Danny yelled, though I could see a faint blush on his cheeks.
"I'm pretty chill right now," I remarked as I crossed my arms.
"Surely, there must be something," Desiree said as she reached a hand towards me and Danny.
"Hey, get away!" Danny yelled as he got in front of me and held his hand back. It glowed green. I stared in surprise as he shot his hand forward and blasted Desiree away from the area.
"What the heck?!" He called as he looked at his still glowing hand.
"YAY! You got a new power!" I exclaimed with excitement, which caused Danny to chuckle nervously.
I know I said I would train Danny with his powers, but when I asked him, he said he was fine and that he could figure them out on his own. But he didn't mind me sharing things that I knew about my powers that could help him someday. I think I told him about the ecto-beams. I can't remember.
"That was slamming!" Tucker said from the ground, making us float down to him, Robin, and Edwin. "Whatever that was, you got another power?!"
"I guess," Danny said.
"I've had that power since the start, Tucker!" I said.
"You didn't when you first became Stardust," Robin smirked, making me make one of those ecto-rays in my hand and she shut up instantly. Edwin just chuckled.
"Man, that's the cool thing about your powers! There's no downside!" Tucker exclaimed. "Give me five!"
Danny went to give Tucker a high five when another beam of his ecto-ray hit him and sent him flying into a pile of cotton candy. We all gasped in concern.
"I'm okay!" Tucker yelled as more cotton candy fell on him.
After that mess, Robin and I were heading over to the school for the big game. I had scored tickets from Kwan. For some reason, I think he likes me. But I'm not into jocks. I find them so full of themselves and don't care about their grades. If you ask me, they should since they most likely won't be able to get into college if not.
"So, why couldn't Edwin come with us?" I asked as I was looking in my bag for the tickets.
"Mom wanted his help with some of the moving boxes. And dad told him to," Robin answered. "Plus, Edwin is not much of a sports guy."
"Good point," I giggled before pulling out the tickets and handing one to Robin. "Also, good thing. I only was able to score two."
"I won't tell him," She whispered as she took her ticket and making us both laugh. It felt so nice to have Robin back in my life. She was an angel of a person, always thinking of others and always trying to make someone smile. That's why we got along so well back in Ohio and how we are going to get along just fine in Amity Park.
"So," Robin started, making me look at her with confusion. "Is Tucker seeing anyone?" I could tell she was having trouble with that question. She rarely felt anything for guys, but when she got hit in the heart by Cupid...it was real.
"Wait...did that pick-up line he gave you earlier today actually work?" I asked with surprise, making her giggle.
"No! But I did find it cute," She replied.
"Well, he's hit and missed every girl in the school," I stated. "So it's safe to say that he is single. I hope you like nerds and tech. That's all he talks about."
"Oh, I'm okay with that," She said with a giggle. "I find people like that adorable."
To be honest, I didn't see this coming. I for sure saw Sam and Edwin getting along, but Robin and Tucker? That's kind of cool.
As we made it to the school, I stopped when I saw Sam leaving. She looked terrible and had a blanket drapped around her. "Sam? I thought you had a cold!"
"I do," She said before sneezing away from us. "I'm heading home. Tell Danny I'm sorry." And she was heading home.
"Aw, poor girl," Robin said with a sigh. "I hope she gets well soon."
"I think she has the same cold I had," I said with a hand to my chin. "Anyway, come on. We're missing the..." I stopped when I saw Danny, in his ghost form, flying away with the thermos. "Oh, boy. Danny!" I called, making him stop and look at me and Robin. I waved him over and he flew on over to us.
"Hey, you missed the fun!" He exclaimed with a smirk as he landed on the ground.
"I bet. What happened?" I asked.
"That genie ghost happened! She gave Dash the ability to become a giant green monster!" Danny answered, making me look on with surprise.
"What?!"
"Who's Dash?" I heard Robin ask.
"No one. Just some bully," I answered with a wave of my hand.
"I need to get this ghost back to the lab. I'd ask if you wanted to come with but-"
"It's fine. Go. I'll go find Tucker," I said with a smile, which he returned before heading back to his house.
Well, that game was a big waste. We lost and I found Tucker had taken over mascot duty, and that only meant he got a beating from it. Luckily, Robin and I went in and saved him in time. And Danny called me that night to tell me the ghost was back in the ghost zone as well as his parents new invention that was like a dream catcher, but for ghosts.
Made a mental note to steer clear of that one.
Anyway, we decided to go to the movies on Sunday and watch this movie the boys wanted to see. I didn't mind, and with Robin, she liked that sort of stuff anyway. So, I guess it worked out. It was a shame that Edwin wasn't here.
"Again I ask, why couldn't Edwin come?" I asked Robin as we walked into the theater and finding Danny and Tucker right away. Danny was on the phone, but he still waved to us. He was probably talking to Sam who was still as sick as a dog. And knowing her parents, they must have hired doctors and nurses to watch over her.
"He had some pen pals here in Amity Park, and they had plans to hang out whenever he showed up here. Well, that time has come, so the twin bond is starting to break." Robin sighed, making me pat her on the back.
"Sometime twins need to have their own space," I said. "And yeah, it can severe the twin bond, but in other times, they can strengthen. I can see you and Edwin having a strengthened relationship as twins."
"Who are you?!" Tucker yelled. "Jazz?!" I stopped and slapped my forehead. I really did sound like Jazz just then.
"I'm hanging too much at Danny's place," I said, making Robin giggle.
"It's fine," She said. "I appreciate the pep talk." I smiled at her as Danny hung up the phone.
"Wow. Sam's gotta be sick if she's missing Dead Teacher IV," Danny said as he put his phone away.
"This Time it's Personal," Tucker added on, making me giggle as we walked passed this Sayonara PussyCat advertisement. I wasn't a big fan of it. But it didn't take long to see Paulina there. I should have known. I just rolled my eyes as I went to grab my money from my bag. But Danny's hand stopped me, making me look at him with confusion.
"Don't worry. I got it. It was my idea to see this movie," He said with a smile, which I returned.
"You don't have to, Danny," I said.
"I know...but I want to," He scratched the back of his neck, as I heard Robin say 'aw' in a mocking way next to me. I just swatted her arm as she laughed and I blushed. Thankfully, Danny didn't notice as he bought my ticket. Tucker must have bought Robin's. I guess he does have his gentlemen moments.
We then walked over to the arcade games...when my ghost sense went off. Great. Can't ghosts just let us be for at least a day?
"Hey, everybody!" Paulina's voice spoke up, making me spin around with Robin, Danny, and Tucker. "What do you think of me?!" Paulina was now small with a big head and eyes, and little stubs for hands and feet.
"We love you, Paulina!" Everyone (but my friends and I) shouted.
"Look at me! I'm so cute and cuddly and ever so wonderful! Don't you think?!" Paulina said with excitement.
"We agree! We love you, Paulina!" Everyone cheered again.
"Paulina?" Danny said with surprise.
"Attention movie goers," A voice spoke through the intercom above us. "Gugle-Plex Cinemas has officially declared it 'Happy Fabulous Paulina Day'!"
"Oh, gag me!" I exclaimed, making Robin giggle.
"I don't know what to say!" Paulina said. "Why squander my popularity here? I'm so adorable. I bet I could become super fairy queen of all teenager-dom! Isn't that luscious!?" Everyone cheered for her, as I looked over at Danny, who was looking at Tucker and Robin.
"Tucker, I-"
"Do what you gotta do," Tucker said, sounding very depressed if you asked me as he handed Danny the thermos. I thought he wasn't allowed to handle the thermos. "I'll go find us some seats."
"Need some help?" I asked as I gave Robin a sorrowful look. But she just brushed it off with a smile...a real smile.
"Thanks," Danny said as he took a stance with the thermos in his hand.
"I'll meet you guys later," Robin said before rushing after Tucker.
"I think she likes him," I said quietly, which Danny smiled at.
"About time some girl did," He retorted, making me giggle before we got serious again. We changed into our ghost forms and flew off towards Paulina, who Danny grabbed and took away from the crowd. We ended up in the back alley with Paulina and just floated in front of her.
"Hi! I'm Paulina! I'm adorable, and swell, and full of big headed anime goodness!" She exclaimed, making me roll my eyes before Danny shot a beam of of his new green ecto-rays at her forehead.
"Bye bye, kitty!" I said before a tiny green cat came out of Paulina. I just stared at it for a moment before Danny sucked it up into the thermos and capped it shut. It didn't take long for Paulina to go back to her normal state.
"Cool, it worked!" Danny said with a smile, which always lit up his eyes. I'm sorry. I can't help but notice these things about him! "I can't wait to tell Tucker!" We soon flew through the wall and made it to the theater our movie was going to be playing in. We transformed back and walked out of our hiding spot, seeing a worried Robin sitting by an empty seat.
"Hey, Robin," I said as I sat down next to her with Danny beside me. "Where's Tucker?"
"I don't know," She sighed. "I know he came this way, but when I got here he was nowhere to be seen!"
"Huh," Danny began, "he must have taken off." I looked back at Robin and patted her hand to reassure her. And it didn't take long for the movie to start up. Boy, was I glad Danny was next to me.
After the movie was done, the three of us left the theater when my ghost sense went off with Danny's. We looked at each other before looking up to see the genie ghost again.
"Geez, lady! Don't you ever take a break?!" Danny yelled, before we both noticed a flying car in the air.
"A flying car?" I asked confused. Danny quickly raced behind the ticket booth and turned into his ghost form. I looked over at Robin with sorrow, only to have brush it off yet again.
"Go save the world," She said. "I'm going to head home anyway. Edwin's probably home by now, too. I'll see you later, B!" And with that, she was gone. I hid and changed into my ghost form as well and flew after Danny.
"Hey! Slow down, Jeff Gordon! You're going over the speed limit!" Danny yelled as he was flying next to the car. I wasn't too far behind.
"And the height limit!" I added on. The guy just looked freaked out as he was frozen in fear. He screamed in fear as his car went crazily fast passed us.
"Don't sweat this one, Danny," I heard a voice say. "I'm on it!" I watched as I saw Tucker fly by with a ghostly tail.
…
Wait...
I stopped dead with Danny in shock as we watched Tucker chase the car.
"TUCKER?!" We yelled in unison.
Over in the car, Tucker flew through the roof and sat in the passenger seat, a smirk on his face as I sat in the back, smirking the whole time. I'm good at flying and I'm pretty quick when it comes TO flying. So I went ahead of Danny and Tucker, and found myself in the car.
"Chill, dude," Tucker began, "Tucker Phantom's on the case!"
"Tucker Phantom!?" Danny yelled as he popped in from the seat beside me.
"I personally like Stardust better, but that's just me," I said with a smirk, making all three men look at me.
"How'd you get here so fast?!" Danny yelled.
"Again...4 years...I've been like this for 4 years longer than you!" I exclaimed with sigh. "Anyway, ignoring the total unoriginality of that name," I turned to Tucker. "How'd you get ghost powers anyway!?"
"Who knows," Tucker said with a smile. "And more importantly, who cares!"
"Me!" I rose my had quickly. "I care!"
"Now if you'll excuse me," Tucker began as he took the wheel from this surfer dude, "I have heroic exploits to attend to." Danny immediately grabbed the wheel himself as I sat back and just rolled my eyes.
"Tucker, we're too young to drive!" Danny yelled.
"I would have said that, but Tucker's being a jerk right now. So-" I stated with unamusement.
"Not helping, Stardust!" Danny yelled to me. Good...he remembered my ghost name.
"Let go of the wheel!" I grabbed onto the seat as the car was flipped and twirled around thanks to my friends. "This is serious!" Danny was then knocked back as I looked and I looked, seeing that we were heading towards a glass building.
"Remind me to get my license before you two," I said as I made the car go intangible and we phased through the building all the way to the other side.
"Oh, sure! Phase the car through the building! You just had to save the day, didn't you?!" Tucker yelled to me as I made the car and all of us inside tangible.
"Hey, don't talk to me like that!" I yelled angrily.
"Yeah! And a car smashing into the twenty-eighth floor of anything, is BAD!" Danny yelled with anger as well.
"You two are just jealous!" Tucker exclaimed. "Because there's somebody else to grab the spotlight now!"
"Yo! Hallucinations! Focus!" The surfer dude yelled, gaining my attention.
"Whenever have we grabbed the spotlight?!" Danny yelled.
"Uh, guys?"
"How about right now for instance!?" Tucker yelled back.
"GUYS!" I yelled right as we crashed into a silo of corn and came out of the door at the bottom of the silo.
"Tucker, please!" Danny said as we floated out of the corn. "This is stupid!"
"Yeah," I said as floated next to Danny. "You're our best friend. We're not jealous, we're just concerned."
"Well, don't be!" Tucker yelled. "This town is big enough for more than two ghost kids." He started to fly away.
"Tucker, wait!" I called, but he didn't listen. He had flown away from us at a super fast speed.
"Whoa! I can't fly that fast," Danny said.
"Okay, now I'm really mad! It took me a year to get that power!" I yelled angrily.
"Wait," Danny began, grabbing my arm in shock, "is he getting more powerful?"
"Seems like it," I answered, just as worried and shocked as Danny. "I mean, it was the same for me when I became Stardust. But, it was gradual and yearly. This is happening too fast for him! I'm worried about him."
I walked into the school late the next day. My mom kept me up most of the night with her inventions. I swear, it's like she wants me to get sick again. Thankfully, after being half-ghost for as long as I have been (won't say the year again...you all know it) I've developed a good immune system. I only had that cold for a day with the Poindexter incident.
But how I wish I had it again now, because I could see everyone was laughing at Lancer as his pants fell down. Oh, boy. It didn't take long for me to notice Tucker laughing around a corner as Danny walked up, looking sick.
Again...oh, boy.
I walked up to them quickly as Robin followed me with Edwin
"What's going on?" She asked.
"Tucker got ghost powers and is being a jerk now," I said. "I don't know how he got them, but-"
"So now there's three of you?" Edwin asked with surprise.
"Don't ask," I sighed as I gave Danny a empathetic smile.
"Nice trick," Danny said. "Do you do kid's parties?"
"Dude, relax. I'm just having fun," Tucker said as he turned to Danny, looking surprised as he did. "You okay?"
Now he decides to be nice again?! I thought as I clenched my fists.
"I may be catching Sam's cold, but that's not important right now," Danny answered.
"I thought you looked sick," Robin said.
"Boy, did we pick a bad time to move here," Edwin retorted, making me stifle a giggle. "We'll see you later, B." And with that, Robin and Edwin were gone.
"Anyway, Danny's right," I declared. "No offense."
"None taken,"
"Tucker, look-" I began when Tucker stopped me in mid-sentence.
"No need," He said. "You two can keep that superhero jazz to yourselves. I'm in this for the kicks."
"I was afraid of that," Danny said. "I hate to do this, pal. But I need to see what's going on inside of you, and there's only one way to do that."
"Wait, what?" I asked shocked as I watched Danny go intangible and phase through Tucker. I backed up as Tucker's eyes went red and his skin turned green. And eventually, he shot Danny out faster than a bullet, sending him into a closet close-by. I watched as Tucker walked over to it and opened the door, angrier than angry.
"Don't ever do that again," He said dangerously towards him. "Get it!"
"Got it," Danny said.
"Good!" And then Tucker was off. I raced over to help Danny out of the closet.
It was now almost the end of the school day, and I was beat. I kept finding Tucker doing crazy things and one of them was almost sad since he tried to prank me once today. Maybe twice. But I noticed he never went to Robin. I did see him try to do...something, I'm not sure, but he would just stop mid-way and head off.
Something told me he liked her in return.
Anyway, Danny and I were outside on campus together. I was writing in my songbook when he looked over at me.
"What are you doing?" He asked, making me look at him.
"Really? You see the songbook and are asking what I'm doing?" I asked playfully.
"Oh, that's your songbook? I thought it was a normal notebook," He said with a nervous chuckle.
"It's cool. I got that a lot back in Ohio," I said with a smile. "But to answer your question, I'm writing a new song."
"Oh, inspiration strike?" He asked with a smirk.
"I guess you could say that," I said nervously. If only he knew the song I was writing was for him. But that's when our ghost senses went off. We looked over to see Tucker eyeing up Paulina, which I rolled my eyes at.
"Oh, no," Danny said. I was about to go back to writing before I felt Danny grab my arm and pull me up from the ground. Thankfully I was able to keep a vice grip on my songbook and pencil. We walked over to the spot Tucker disappeared and phased through Paulina. Oh, this ought to be fun.
"I just wanted to let you know, I'm gonna start dating Tucker Foley!" Tucker said through Paulina as we walked up to her...or him? I'm confused. "He's much cooler than you are, so stop chasing me."
Yes! Please stop! I thought to myself.
"Tucker, get out of there," Danny said annoyed.
"Why don't you make me?" Tucker said back.
"Fine! I will!" I watched as Danny phased through Paulina as well. I backed up slowly as I watched the two fight verbally through Paulina's eyes. It was starting to freak me out.
"Tucker, you're turning the whole school upside down! How about giving it a break?!" Danny said.
"How about getting off my back and letting me have some fun?!" Tucker shouted back.
"Because your "fun" is kind of mean," Danny said. "Now get out of Paulina!"
"I was here first! You go!"
"No you!"
"You! Babazita's genie gave me these powers and I'll use them as I want!" Tucker yelled, making something click in my head as I saw Danny phase out.
"Then maybe I need to have a word with this Babazita," He said before grabbing my arm and flying us away quickly. But I was still able to make out what Tucker said in return.
"Fine! But you and I aren't friends anymore, Danny Fenton! And Briar Winthrope!"
"Of course I'm an afterthought again," I sighed as I went ghost and started flying with Danny.
"So, that's how Desiree became who she is now," Danny said as we walked in the park to the fountain.
"Yeah," I replied. We were in our human forms again. "Who knew that she was once promised a great kingdom, only to be banished by the jealous queen. I kind of feel bad."
"I guess same?" Danny smiled nervously, making me glare at him for a moment. But I could never stay mad at this lovable dork.
Danny sniffed a little, which I knew he had Sam's cold now, as he held a quarter. "And if you're trying to snag a wishing ghost, what better place than a wishing well?"
He then tossed the quarter into the fountain, while I silent made a wish in my mind. I didn't want Desiree to just appear and grant me my wish of true love. That could come at a price. But sadly, nothing happened.
"Dang it," Danny said before sneezing away from me. "Sorry."
"It's fine, Danny. Everybody gets sick once in a while," I said as we started to leave. But I stopped him the moment I heard a guy wish for a million bucks. Phrasing is in order, dude. I spun around with Danny as my ghost sense went off and saw Desiree trying to grant the wish. We quickly went ghost and flew in, stopping the wish.
"Oh, no you don't!" Danny yelled.
"Young intruder," Desiree began, "you dare to interfere with my spell binding!?"
"Money isn't everything!" The guy said before he raced off.
"Could have told you that!" I yelled to him before turning back to Desiree.
"Listen, Desiree, I want you to take away Tucker's ghost powers, pronto!" Danny exclaimed.
"I cannot," She replied. "By noon tomorrow, your friend's fate will be sealed."
"Uh...what?" I asked wish shock.
"His jealousy will transform him forever into the most powerful ghost boy in the world!" Desiree laughed evilly as I looked on in shock and realization. Tucker was jealous of Danny's powers, as well as mine. He felt inferior because of them and wanted to one-up us. It makes perfect sense now.
"Tuck?" Danny said surprised. "He's not that jealous." I slapped my forehead at this comment. "Is he?"
"More than you know," Desiree said with a smirk. "Tomorrow his jealousy and frustration will cement into rage and rebellion. He will be complete." She went to fly away when Danny caught her by the tail.
"You change him back!" He yelled with anger.
"You dare lay a hand on me!?" Desiree exclaimed. "No man may lay a hand on me unless I WISH IT!"
"Yeah?! How about a fist?!" Danny yelled as I punched her and sent her flying back some. But it didn't do much.
She then made her hand into a rope and tossed towards us, grabbing me by the waist and tossing me away. I ended up hitting a bench and breaking half of it. The other half was still being occupied by a little old lady feeding non-existent birds. How she didn't get hurt is beyond me.
"Stardust!" Danny yelled as Desiree was coming at me, but he raced in front of me and shot an ecto-ray at her. "Get back!" It hit her and sent her to the ground. He flew to me and helped me up before we flew back over to Desiree quickly. Desiree then made her hand go big and she shot it at Danny and I, but somehow I got caught and was slammed down on the ground. How was I the one to always get hurt in these battles?
I struggled to get out of her grasp as I winced in sore pain as her hand was glowing, keeping me from using my powers. Danny flew over to help me get out but couldn't. She was too strong, and I felt way to weak all of a sudden to struggle more. That is, until we noticed the thermos next to me.
"You can't do anything unless I wish it!" She yelled.
"Or I do!" Danny yelled as he grabbed the thermos and aimed at Desiree. "I wish you would disappear inside this thermos!"
"What...NO!" She yelled as Danny uncapped the thermos. "I must obey!" She was then sucked up into the thermos, saying that we will pay for this someday. Here's hoping that someday would be ways away. Danny then capped the thermos quickly.
"If I weren't a C student, I would have thought of that five days ago." I giggled weakly as I laid there on the ground, gaining Danny's attention. "Briar!" He quickly raced up to me and helped me sit up. I leaned against his chest as I let my breathing slow down. He was lucky that little old woman decided to leave and that no one else was around. "Hey, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," I said with a grin, just embracing the fact that I was in Danny's arms. "Just a little weak is all. Desiree sure can be powerful."
"Seems like it," He retorted. "Here. Let's get you home." He soon put his free arm under my knees and picked me up bridal style before taking to the sky.
"You know I can fly, too, right?" I said.
"I know," Danny said, blushing from what it seems like. "But you're hurt. Once you're safe, I'm going to go find Tuck."
It was a quarter to noon the next day and there was still no sign of Tucker. After a good night's rest, I felt much better. I almost have my song for Danny done and the only thing left to do was finish the music and record it. That shouldn't be too hard. So, I figured focusing on Tucker was the best route to go on. I was just glad Robin and Edwin decided to stay home today to help their mom unpack some more.
I have no idea where their father is.
Danny saw me walk up to him and smile. "Hey, are you feeling?" He asked as his ghost sense went off, along with mine obviously.
"I'm fine. But let's deal with Tucker first," I said in return before we turned to the school records room.
"I should have guessed," Danny said unamused.
"Couldn't find him either?" I asked, making him look at me. I knew immediately what he was about to ask me. "Yeah, that's why you didn't see me much today! Let's focus!" We went ghost and phased through the door, seeing Tucker changing his grades in the system to all A's. Though sewing and computers were already A's. Why he was in sewing is beyond me.
"Tucker, you're changing your grades?!" Danny exclaimed. "That's cheating!"
"I like to think of it as academic enrichment," Tucker said. "Want me to do yours?"
"Funny," I smirked with unamusement.
"No way!" Danny yelled. "Tucker, you're in real danger." He went to reach out to Tucker, when all of a sudden, Tucker's skin went green, his ears were pointy, and his eyes were red. Oh, boy. Danny immediately pulled his hand back.
"Take it easy, Tuck," I said as I backed up some myself.
"Yeah. We're friends, remember?" Danny added on.
"We're only friends on your terms," Tucker said. "But now I make the rules around here. And my first rule is, no more Danny Phantom!"
"Oh, and I'm a forgotten thought this time. Totally okay with that," I said sarcastically right before Tucker blew fire from his mouth and shot Danny through the wall.
"Danny!" I called as I got ready with my own attack.
"Try all you want, Briar! You won't be able to stop me!" Tucker yelled as he shot me with some ecto-beams, making me fly through the wall as well and hit a locker. Thankfully this time, I didn't bounce my head off of it. It was still bruised from that meat monster rampage.
Soon, I watched as Tucker flew out of the school records room and grabbed me as he pinned me to the lockers. I struggled against his grip, but he was stronger now. Stronger than he ever was before. That can't be good.
"You know, Briar," Tucker began in a whisper, "I know something about Danny that you don't." I froze and stopped what I was doing. I looked at him with confusion before he leaned forward and whispered in my ear. "He likes you the same way." I let my shock show as he made us intangible and flew us through the wall. I didn't have much time to process this.
Danny likes me? I thought. Danny likes me the way that I like him? I couldn't help but smile a little until I realized something...Tucker could be under a mind control that made him tell me this. It could be false since Danny likes Paulina. So even though I wished it was true, I kept that in the back of mind, telling me to ask Tucker this again when the right time came.
After a moment, I noticed Danny was standing up from hitting a chalkboard. I had to break free from Tucker. I had to help Danny. So I quickly shot some of ecto-beams at him and he let me go, making me quickly fly over to Danny and float next to him.
"Tuck, please!" Danny stated. "You've gotta listen to me, there isn't much time!"
"You got that right! Your time is up!" Tucker than shot a stream of an ecto-beam at Danny and I, which we dodged by flying up to the ceiling. We dodged more by going around in the air and then we were behind him. Danny flicked off his hat and we dodged more attacks quickly.
Eventually, we were behind a table with beakers on them and Danny tossed the skeleton at Tucker. But he just went intangible and back to make the toss go through him. All while having his hat back on his head.
"HAH! Is that the best you can do?!" He yelled as I sat on the ground with Danny following after me as Tucker shot more beams at him.
"Unfortunately, yes," He said. "I can't get through to him." That's when something clicked in my head."
"But I know what can," I smirked, which Danny immediately thought of, too. After this we both jumped out of hiding.
"Catch us if you can, Sucker Phantom!" Danny yelled before we both went intangible and phased through the floor. Tucker hates it when he's called Sucker. And I could hear him saying it's Tucker Phantom.
We were flying through the girl's locker room before phasing through a locker. I grabbed a bra from it and waited as I heard Tucker fly in.
"The girl's locker room," He said. "So this is what it's like in here." I quickly attacked with the item and dragged him with me and Danny out of the room, and into the gym. I slam dunked him through the hoop before noticing the time. It was almost noon.
"Only five minutes left," Danny said, before winking at me, telling me he had a plan still. I blushed as I winked back, saying I will follow his lead. "HAH! You got no game!" Right after that, Tucker went beastly as he grew larger and his eyes were now completely red. This was definitely not good.
Danny and I quickly flew through the wall and out of the school, and I can tell that Tucker was following us. I tried my best to think of what could help Tucker before noon, when Danny disappeared. This made me get hit by one of Tucker's rays and fall to the ground. I didn't black out, but I pretended to be for Danny's sake.
I'm sorry, Briar, I perked up slightly in my head. I forgot half-ghosts could communicate telepathically (it only ever works when you're in your ghost form).
"Where are you?! Where?!" I heard Tucker yell.
"What's the matter? Can't catch what you can't see?!" I heard Danny yell before I finally opened my eyes and shot back up to the sky. I disappeared at the same time as Danny and we reappeared above Danny's house.
"Where is he? He had to have followed us!" Danny said.
"Yeah, it's almost no—OON!" I yelled as I was grabbed from behind by Tucker.
"Yeah! What's the dizzle fizzle!" He yelled before he attacked Danny and sent us all flying into the basement of Danny's house. That's when I noticed the dream catcher as I fell in front of it. Thankfully not through it.
"No! Don't throw me into the Ghost Zone! Please!" Danny yelled with such bad acting, which caused me to roll my eyes. An astronaut is definitely more his speed.
"I was going to, but that is a great idea!" Tucker yelled. I noticed the time on the wall: 11:59.
"Hurry, Danny!" I yelled before getting flung back by Tucker slicing his sharply nailed hand and cutting me as I flew back. I hit the wall and landed on my side, clutching my wound.
Briar! I heard Danny say in my head. I gave him a grin and a nod, telling him to do his thing.
"I only have one shot at this!" He yelled as he let his hands glow green...and then he sneezed right in Tucker's face, making him let him go.
"Hey! Cover your mouth!" He yelled right before he shot Tucker with them and made him go through the ghost catcher (that's what I'm calling it. Don't know if that's the name). Soon, the normal Tucker was back and the ghostly one was floating right above him.
"Is-is that me?" He asked with fear and sorrow. It almost made me wish I could go over to him, but I was in so much pain, I couldn't even move. Can I just ask, what is with me and getting hurt in these battles?! I know I always say that, but it seems every battle with a ghost, I end up hurt. I guess that's just the job requirement.
Soon after, Danny sucked in the Tucker's monstrous form into the thermos and capped it. "No, Tuck. It's not you. Not anymore." He said.
"Ah, man," Tucker began, "Danny, I'm sorry. I couldn't control myself."
"Dude, don't worry about it," Danny said. "You were under the genie's spell, and you broke it."
"Yeah, but none of that would have happened if I wasn't jealous," Tucker said, making me grin.
"Or if I wasn't much of a showoff around you," Danny added. "Friends?"
"The best," Danny and Tucker shook hands before they finally noticed me as I tried to stand up. "Briar!" Danny yelled as ran over to me and fell to his knees beside me. Tucker did the same. "Briar, are you okay?"
"I'll be fine," I said as I showed off the tiny cut from the monstrous Tucker ghost. "Not too bad, but my back is sore." Danny just grinned, glad that I was okay.
It was a week from the Saturday that Danny and Tucker got sick. They had Sam's cold after all and broke it by that Monday. Crazy, right? My back was still sore, but it wasn't as bad as it was when I first banged it up. Thank God for that.
Sam had the chance to meet Edwin and Robin after she got well, and they seemed to have hit it off quite nicely. Especially Edwin and Sam. Robin even asked Tucker if they could hang out, just the two of them. He was so stoked to have a girl basically ask him out on a date that he immediately said yes. No hesitation. I was so glad.
But now came the weird part.
It was Friday, and instead of at Danny's locker, I was at Tucker's. I was waiting for him for a while. I had to ask him if what he said was true. I told you, I was keeping that in the back of my mind. Since Tucker was under the genie's spell, he could have just been telling me that to get my mind off the battle. Such a shame it didn't work (#sarcasm).
"Briar?" I looked up to see Tucker walking over. "What are you doing here? Don't you normally hang at Danny's locker?"
"Yeah, but, this can't wait," I said before taking a deep breath and going right into it. "Tucker, when you were in that monstrous form of a ghost, you told me something about Danny. Something that maybe he was supposed to tell me."
"Oh, no. What was it?" Tucker asked worried.
"Oh, it was nothing bad. Just--" I stopped for a moment and sighed. "You said he liked me back. You know, in the way that I like him?" Tucker just blinked a few times, showing no sign as to remembering that...until he sighed in defeat.
"You mean I told you he has a crush on you, too?" He asked.
"Yeah," I replied. "I just want to know...is that true? I don't want to have false hope for my feelings to be returned right away." Tucker sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck, debating on whether to tell me or not.
"I'm sorry, Briar," He said. "But I really think that's something you should ask Danny personally." I smiled, already getting my answer. His eyes held a glint that told me everything.
"Well, I appreciate your answer," I said. "You up for breakfast?" I changed the subject instantly, which seemed to have made Tucker ease up and smile.
"You know it!" He declared as we laughed and walked over to the cafeteria.
~THE END – END OF CHAPTER 5~