A/N: I'd just like to take a bit of time out of the story to say hi to my reviewers. Specifically LovelyxBunchaxCoconuts comment on what exactly Alex is: "i still don't know what alex is. is she a fourtha or a halfa or a three-fourtha? this is the question that haunts me...lol. that was a really bad un-intended sarcastic pun. lol update ASAP!" I couldn't stop laughing at the phrase three-fourtha! Anyway, thanks to all my reviewers, I won't list them here as it's now 16 for the last chapter, but you know who you all are, and I love yeh!
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Alex pushed off of the window ledge with her feet and flew out of her window, she was enjoying the cool night flights more and more these days. Though the pests that she was facing were becoming more and more frequent and rampant. Just the other night she had begun dealing with urban legends and people were starting to be able to see them now as well, she could now attest to the fact that vampires were no fun!
But luckily tonight seemed to be a quiet night, she was staying high up in the air, people had started seeing her and getting more than a little unnerved and scaring people was the last thing that Alex wanted to do. Unless they were cheerleaders of course, in which case, they were fair game.
Not too far away from Alex, Danny Phantom was flying over the industrial part of town when he got the biggest ghost sense that he'd had in his life, his breath fogged so much he was barely able to see in front of his own face! He narrowed his eyes at a building below him that looked somewhat suspicious and glowing at the windows. He swooped low becoming intangible and poking his head through the ceiling. Danny's eyes widened, Skulker, Desiree, Technus, Ember and Walker were all in the room below him!
"We know you're there ghost child come down." Skulker sighed without looking up, Danny drifted angrily down towards the floor.
"I'm like, 35! I'm NOT a child!" Danny fumed, "Urgh, I wish-" Danny stopped himself short when he saw Desiree's eyes light up, he knew better to use the word wish in front of her.
"Spoilsport." Desiree growled grumpily at being denied her wish.
"What are you all doing together anyway?" Danny asked suspiciously.
"As much as this is against the rules, we're concerned about a new ghost child." Walker commented coldly.
"What? A NEW ghost child?" Danny blinked genuinely surprised about this.
"Here is a picture." Technus offered handing Danny a photo and proudly stroking his new and questionably acquired digital camera. Danny looked at the picture in his hands, the girl was indeed a child, probably no more than Alex's age but she looked almost like a skeleton… or some kind of flying zombie.
"So… what about her? I've never seen her." Danny shrugged.
"Well she's striking fear into the hearts of mortals and ghosts alike. It's not good!" Skulker huffed.
"He screams like a girl." Ember laughed, Skulker glared at her but said nothing.
"Apparently she's out to destroy the world, ghost and moral." Desiree said smoothly as she sidled up to Danny.
"And that would be bad. Well at least this explains why you're not all attacking each other." Danny admitted. This didn't sound good, even if they were lying, which was likely, this deserved at least an investigation on his part.
"And why you should stay out of our way. It's in your best interest as well." She coaxed him.
"I don't co-operate with you, you're the bad guys remember?" Danny frowned before flying through ceiling with the picture in his hand.
"He'll co-operate." Walker grinned evilly.
"I don't care, as long as he doesn't get in my way then the hunt is on." Skulker agreed preparing his traps.
Danny flew high above Amity Park keeping his eyes open for any sign of ghosts, especially this new one. He glanced back down at the picture, entirely green eyes, black and white skin. The girl's face was mostly obscured by a long mass of hair, it almost reminded him of Desiree's except it was white. He sighed again and looked back up at the clouds, could he really trust any information that came from that lot? But at any normal opportunity they would be at each others throats, including his, the fact that they weren't was strange enough; but was it strange enough to believe them? A white and black shape flitted across his vision in the corner of his eye and he instinctively took chase.
Alex swirled in the air, lost in her own world, she rolled and tumbled through the air just enjoying the sheer joy of flight, banking sharply upwards she broke through the cloud bank and hung in the air marvelling at the moon shining serenely among the clouds. The world was peaceful and calm and was at the most beautiful as she'd ever seen it.
"Wonderful isn't it?" a voice from beside Alex sighed happily. Alex flinched startled at the sight of a rosy-skinned woman with long red hair and a bandage over her eyes.
"Are… are you blind?" Alex asked cautiously.
"Yes. Love is meant to be after all." The woman smiled as she turned her head towards Alex.
"Then… how can you see all this?" She asked curiously.
"I see inner beauty. And this, this is beautiful." Love sighed.
"Yeah. You know, I'm kind of getting used to this; meeting people that I thought were just figures of speech, you, the tooth fairy, death." Alex continued.
"He's a sweetie isn't he? Not nearly as mean as he makes himself out to be. I see he gave you a gift, he must like you." Love smiled referring to Alex's whistle.
"Yeah. Can I ask you something?" Alex said suddenly as she turned to Love.
"Of course, is it about that boy you like?" Love smiled knowingly.
"I- no. Something else." Alex blushed.
"Go on." Love nodded as her red hair danced in the wind and clouds around them swirled.
"After… after the reshuffle is over. Will I loose my powers?" Alex asked worriedly.
"I'm not sure. Probably, as you won't be assisting the system anymore." Love admitted, Alex felt sad and gazed around the landscape of clouds, moonlight and night sky, behind her Danny Phantom stealthily flew through a cloud and watched her.
"This is so beautiful, I guess I won't see it ever again when this is all over." She murmured out loud. About twenty feet away Danny gasped, maybe Stalker and the others had been right after all.
"Don't be sad. You're doing your job well." Love comforted Alex unheard to Danny's ears.
"I destroy more of them each day, I'm sure the end of all this is getting closer." Alex sighed before disappearing through the clouds, Love looked sadly at her before fading away.
Danny clenched his fist, he wasn't willing to let some ghost destroy the world that he fought so hard to protect! Even if it did mean co-operating with the other ghosts, but first he'd rather try taking this ghost girl down with his father.
Alex padded through the kitchen the next morning, exhausted from her late night ghosting, she poured cereal and milk into her bowl and pulled a spoon out of the drawer. Suddenly her eye caught on the open door to her father's office which was glowing slightly, she nudged the door open with her foot whilst trying to keep her bowl steady to avoid cereal and milk loss. Her father was slumped over his desk snoring loudly, he'd obviously been pulling an all-nighter, Alex rolled her eyes, her father was terrible for this whenever a big ghost problem appeared. She idly shifted her gaze to her father's top ten most wanted ghosts, the usual ones on the top of the list were either Skulker, Walker or Technus, whichever was causing him the most problems at the time. Alex knew their abilities as well as Danny did with the amount of information he kept on them.
But her eyes widened, there was a new ghost on the top of the list, in fact almost all the others, especially the ones usually in the top ten had been erased leaving just the #1 wanted ghost. Her bowl clattered to the floor as she gazed at her own pale skin and long white hair of herself in ghost form. The scribbled writing in marker under it said:
NAME: Unknown
POWERS: Unknown
GOAL: Destruction of the known universe!
STOP AT ALL COSTS!
Alex fled the room and ran out of the front door in blind panic. The sound of the front door slamming woke Danny up, he sat bolt upright and blearily looked around the room after removing the piece of paper stuck to the drool on his face; he frowned at the upturned cereal bowl on the floor in puzzlement.
"Alex?" He called to the empty house.
