Chapter Four

"A Huntress' New Toys"

"I don't see anything wrong with the Fenton Ghost Crammer," Jack said as he overlooked said device but he had the nozzle pointed at Danny.

"Dad!" Danny said slightly afraid as he ducked out of the nozzle's way. "Point it the other way!"

"Sorry, Danny," Jack apologizes as he points the nozzle the other way.

They were all in the living room. Jack was trying to fix the "malfunctioning" Fenton Ghost Crammer, Jazz was reading a child psychology book, and Danny and Danielle were both present to explain what had happened earlier with the said devise. Maddie had entered the room and she had an envelop in her hand as she walks up behind Danny and Danielle.

"I have something for the two of you," she says to them as she holds out the envelope in which Danny takes it.

Danielle shares a side-glance with Danny unsure what her Aunt Maddie meant. She didn't have a birthday, other than the date she was created, and she shouldn't exist; however, due to certain events beyond their control; she somehow existed in this world. If she could choose when her birthday was; she would choose it as the same day as Danny's since for some reason she felt that they were kindred spirits.

Danny opens the envelope and there were tickets to the Dumpty Humpty concert for tonight but it wasn't the tickets that caught his eye.

"How'd you get these tickets?" he said suddenly while he snaps Danielle out of her thoughts. "Even Sam couldn't get us this close!"

She takes the envelope to see four tickets but these tickets were front row center!

"We won them at a dance contest and we got the chance to choose which band we to see. So we chose your favorite band for your birthday and a welcoming present as well as a birthday present for Danielle." Maddie replies before she leaves the room.

Danielle was now on the verge of tears and she had to abandon her chair just as Maddie had left the room. Danny quickly followed her just as she started up the stairs and Jazz took her nose out of her book long enough to follow them leaving behind Jack.

"I got it!" Jack shouted before realizing that he was alone in the room. "Where is everyone?"

Danny couldn't catch Danielle in time since she had closed the door to her room locking him out.

"Danielle, open up," he says gently but receives no answer.

"Please open the door Danielle," Jazz also said gently.

"Go away," they heard her say.

"Please, Dani, open the door," Danny said.

"Dani," Danielle thought as she leans against her locked door. "He only calls me that when he is being sincere, worried, or concerned for me. Why do I feel so different when he calls me that outside of being Dani Phantom? No, I didn't just say that!" as she blushes slightly.

She lets them in before relocking the door as she leans her head against the door as she tried to hold back her tears.

"Danielle," Danny says as he puts a hand on her shoulder.

She turns to face him as tears begin to stream down her face before she lunges at him pulling him into a hug as she begins to cry.

"This seems all too much for me!" she bawled.

"What do you mean, Danielle?" Danny asked unsure what to do as he carefully returns her hug since her back was scarred.

"First," as she pulls away from him while stifling her cries, "getting stabilized that helps me live a semi-normal life. Second, getting the family I always wanted and I'll always consider you family even if your parents didn't take me in. Last, having a birthday even though I was created," she pulls him into a tighter hug as she cries harder into his shoulder.

Jazz, who was keeping herself distant from them, approached them putting a comforting hand on Danielle's shoulder.

"Danielle," she says sincerely, "you are a living, breathing creature who has a normal life despite what happened in the past. Even Sam would agree with what I said because of her beliefs. No matter what anyone says; you are your own person."

Danielle stares at her for a few seconds, "I hope you're not trying to psychoanalyze me!"

"No," she shakes her head, "this is coming from the bottom of my heart and it has nothing to do with psychology."

She leaves Danny to hug Jazz as she cries into her should while Jazz returns her hug.

"Dani," Danny says as he puts a hand on her shoulder and she faces him as he gives her a comforting smile, "Jazz is right. No matter what anyone says; you are the only you. You are a true friend, a great cousin, a loyal teammate, and a real sister, in a sense, that knows how to get on my nerves."

All Danielle could do was stare at Danny as she tried to stop crying while she thought about what he had said. Everything that he had said was true about her. She was his friend, his cousin, his teammate while fighting ghosts, and he calls her his sister even if they don't call themselves that other than when they were in their ghost forms.

"Thank you, Danny," as she turns to hug Danny again. "You are the first person to see me for who I am despite my origin. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Jazz was busying herself by looking out the window as she tried to hold back her tears. She always cared for her brother even before he told her of his ghost powers. She was also glad that he had found someone else he can connect with who also had ghost powers; excluding one seriously crazed-up fruit loop. Friends and family can only go so far when it can come to understanding some things; however with Danny and Danielle's case, their kind of understanding was one of a kind since they can truly understand each other. It could be the clone thing that helps them understand each other, but there is a lot of differences that make them unique.

Danny may be stubborn but Danielle seems to be even more stubborn than him. Danielle is the mischievous of the two while Danny doesn't go that route very often. Jazz had always mentally called them 'kindred spirits' since they were; in a sibling-type relationship that is similar to that seen in twins.

"Jazz, are you okay?" Danny asked snapping her out of her thoughts.

"I'm fine. I just wanted you two some time alone to help Danielle," she replies as she leaves the room leaving two very confused cousins.

"What was that about?" Danielle asked Danny.

"I don't know and what should we tell Sam and Tucker?"

"I was thinking along the lines of surprising them," Danielle replies while giving a mischievous smile.

"I'm not sure about that," he replies just then his cell phone rings. "Hello," he answers it.

"Hey, Danny," it was Sam. "Are you still up for the concert tonight?"

"We'll see you later tonight, Sam."

"Okay, bye."

"I guess we should get ready?" Danny said as he hits 'end' on his cell phone and Danielle nods at his statement.

Jazz drove them to the concert hall where they would meet up with Sam and Tucker. Sam and Tucker were already there when they had arrived. They were both dressed with their favorite Dumpty Humpty shirt and they approached Jazz's vehicle when they arrived.

"Call me if you need a ride and have fun!" Jazz said as they got out of her vehicle.

"Sure Jazz and thanks for the ride!" Danny replied before she left.

"Lets go guys," Tucker said as he fiddled with his PDA, "we have exactly forty-five minutes to get to our seats and it's going to take about ten minutes to get through the crowd. Plus I want to check out the merchandise before they are sold out."

"How close could you get us, Sam?" Danielle asked her.

"Row ten and I could've gotten closer, but the first nine rows were already sold out," she replied.

"Really," Danny asked acting surprised before pulling out the envelop that held the tickets he got, "how about sitting front row center?"

"Dude, did you say--" Tucker said surprised while taking his eyes long enough off from his PDA giving them a surprised look.

"Front row center and Sam," he added knowing that she was about to yell at him, "I didn't know of these tickets since Mom just gave them to me earlier."

"You could've told me," Sam said resentfully.

"I convinced him to make it a surprise," Danielle confessed as Sam just shrugged at her statement.

They entered the concert hall where they looked at all of the merchandise being sold. They all bought what they could which included a Dumpty Humpty's newest CD and a few tees. It didn't take them long to reach their seats but they didn't count on meeting Dash and his friends.

"The geek seats are that way!" Dash yells due to the noise in the place while pointing near the back of the hall.

"We have seats that are front row center, Dash!" Danny snaps back as they past him taking their seats not too far from them.

"That was unexpected and how do you think they got just good seats?" Tucker asked as he shifted his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose.

"I don't know," Sam replied with her arms crossed.

Danny looked towards Dash and he spies Paulina among them. He just remember that he, as Danny Phantom, was going to have a talk with her, but for now he just wanted to enjoy the concert despite having the popular group sitting near them. The concert hall was soon filled and the lights started to dim just as Danny and Danielle's Ghost Sense went off.

"Not now," they both groaned.

A slight explosion came from the stage and a figure appeared. It was a female with flaming blue hair dressed in black with an electric guitar in her hands.

"Good evening, Amity Park!" she shouts only to have the crowd boo at her.

"Danielle," Danny hissed to her, "get out of here while I take care of her."

"I'm going with you and it's going to take much more than a few cuts to stop me from helping you!"

"Fine," they both phased through their chairs to transform and fly towards the stage.

"You dare boo at me!" she shouts as she plays a chord on her guitar causing everyone to cry in pain due to the decibels caused by her guitar.

This was enough to cause panic as everyone tried to escape from the hall causing a bottleneck effect to happen as everyone tried to escape. People started to trample over others as they tried to escape.

"Hey, come back here!" she shouts only to be hit by a blast.

"Hey, Ember!" a voice spoke. "It's not your show tonight!"

The girl turns to the source to see a figure floating down towards the stage.

"What do you want, dipstick?" she shouts only to get hit by another blast.

"Wrong one, Ember," another voice spoke but this one was deeper.

"What?" Ember shouts as another figure joins the first one. "Two of you?"

"You're ruining the concert for everyone with your presence!" Danny shouts.

"I would've had them in my power if you two didn't show up!" she plays another chord on her guitar but the two Phantoms dodge the attack.

Danny launches an ecto-blast at Ember causing her to go on the defensive. Dani takes the time when Ember was on the defensive to swipe her guitar and destroy it with an ecto-blast of her own.

"No!" Ember shouts as her attention turns towards Dani only to be sucked up into Danny's Thermos.

"Are you okay?" Danny asked her as he approaches her.

"I'm fine," she replies.

They were both soon hit out of the sky and the sound of a jet soon followed.

"I got you now, Ghost Twins!" it was Valerie and she was flying towards them.

They just turn invisible and fly away but they were soon hit again.

"Going invisible won't work and neither will intangibility!" she shouts just as they hit the ground.

"Not good," Danny said as he puts up a shield just as Dani stood up wincing in pain as she stood up. "Can you fly?"

Dani nods and Danny hits Valerie in the head with an ecto-blast blinding her so they had enough time to retreat. Valerie soon was on their trail and she was firing on them as they flew above the city.

"We need to split up!" Dani suggested.

"No!"

"But--"

"Duplication!"

"But Danny," Dani complained as they both continued to dodge Valerie's attacks, "we haven't mastered that yet!"

"I did it once when I was fighting the fashion-crazed ghost and I think I can do it again! You must believe in yourself that you can do it!"

Dani wasn't sure if she could duplicate herself but she forced her doubts out of her head saying to herself that she can do it. Slowly the two began to separate trying to make a duplicate of themselves while they tried to dodge Valerie. They did it but Valerie constantly attacked the originals.

"Now what?" Dani asked.

"Split up!"

"She knows-- wait!"

"What?"

"We confuse her by shuffling ourselves up before splitting up!"
"I get it! Like the spin cycle in a washer and she couldn't blink if she wanted to get us!"

The four flew in close quarters with their duplicate at their opposite as they began to spin with their chests facing the center of the circle. They spun faster and faster as Valerie halted her assault since she didn't know who was real or fake. They were spinning so violently that they just resembled a single vortex before they split of in four directions leaving a now infuriated huntress behind.

The two original Phantoms met up just outside the Nasty Burger back in their human forms.

"Great, where did she get those weapons?" Danielle asked as she caught her breath.

"Three guesses who," Danny replied also catching his breath.

"Vlad," they both said just as Danny's cell phone rang.

"Hello."

"Are you okay?" it was Sam.

"Yes Sam, we're fine and it seems that Valerie has come with new additions to her suit."

"What?"

"I think that Danielle and me need to be more careful around her since she can now harm us even if we went intangible or invisible."

"Do you think Vlad gave her some new additions?"

"Yes and what about the concert?"

"Cancelled and now there's a riot. Tucker and I just got away from there just before it started. You two better get home before the news gets-- never mind. They're here."

"Danielle and I are heading home before we have my parents worrying about us."

"I already called my parents and they'll get Tucker home. What about you two?"

"I just say that we walked home and I hope--" the sound of a car horn was heard and they turned to see Jazz in her vehicle. "Never mind, Jazz is here. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye."

He hits 'end' on his cell phone and they both climbed into her vehicle.

"What happened?" Jazz asked them terrified that they weren't at the concert.

"We'll tell you on the way home," Danny tells her as they get into her car before heading in the direction of home.

Post Author's Note: Most people see Dani as a Mary-Sue but I don't. I decided to put that opinion down by giving her some emotions. If you hadn't forgotten; she almost had an emotional breakdown in "Kindred Spirits" when Vlad yells at her to follow his orders.