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The Switch
Chapter 8: Tracking Desiree
Previously
"We must go now..."Starfire said and Sam nodded.
"Yeah, the sooner we find Desiree, the better...'Sam said.
She didn't want to be alone with this alien girl but if it's the only way to get Danny back to normal, she has no choice two girls soon left, both ignoring Danny's frantic attempts to call her,
"STARFIRE! COME BACK! YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!..."Danny shouted when they made it to the entrance of the stairs.
"Don't sweat it man, we'll be here to keep an eye on you..."Tucker said not-so-helpfully, while Danny just went back to call for his girlfriend.
"STARFIRE! KORY! DON'T LEAVE ME!..."Danny called dramatically as his space alien girlfriend and female best friend soon left.
Left to go find Desiree and make her fix this mess!
The girls had just left Fenton Works and were now in the air. Starfire insisted on carrying Sam, who refused but the alien girl convinced her that it would be faster than her going on foot and that they didn't have time to waste.
The gothic girl was now being held onto her rival, and she hated every moment of it.
"I do so hope that we find this Desiree woman the soon and that she can cure Danny..."Starfire said.
Sam sent the alien girl a cold side glare.
" I'm sure she'll cure your wish and then maybe you'll wish for him to give you a foot rub..."Sam muttered under her breath.
Unfortunately, Starfire heard her and stopped flying.
Starfire looked hurt to hear her say that. She then landed on a nearby building and placed Sam down in order to speak directly to her face.
"Why do you believe I would do such a thing to him?..."Star fire said.
"Same reason Danny's obsessed with you..." Sam responded in a cold tone.
"You are making it sound that I have meant for Danny's free will to be taken away?...'Starfire exclaimed.
"Hello! You pretty much did that...I mean look at how he acted! Just what exactly did you wish for?! For Danny to be a lovesick zombie?!..."Sam accused but Starfire shook her head frantically.
"No... I only wanted confirmation... that my feelings were truly reciprocated..."Starfire admitted, looking down in shame.
Sam heard this and raised a brow.
Sam did not like the implications of her words and she kept talking.
"Isn't he already your boyfriend?! What more do you want?!..."Sam challenged.
Starfire looked down and she was silent.
Sam knew deep down what she meant.
She did not like it al all. Starfire is all but admitting that she is in love with Danny and...it didn't sit well with the gothic girl at all.
"Sam...I am aware that you still may not forgive me for...my past actions but I do truly care about Danny and I regret ever making him uncomfortable and had I know that vile woman would have made him like this, I never would have made my wish...'Starfire said, before looking sad.
"I just want my darling back to normal...I don't want him to say that he loves me unless he truly means it..."Starfire admitted as she looked like she was trying hard not to cry.
Sam hated it but her scowled soften a bit when she saw how sincere she looked. The gothic girl didn't want to pity her, especially since she basically has what she technically wanted but-
"Look...arguing isn't going to help us find Desiree faster...let's just find her, change Danny back to normal and then feel sorry for ourselves..."Sam said, not liking that for a moment, she pitied her.
"Agreed..."Starfire nodded as she offered her hand again and Sam sighed.
"The things that I do for Danny..."Sam thought as she reluctantly allowed the alien girl to carry her off and the two continued their search.
Meanwhile
At Fenton Works
While Sam and Starfire continued to search for Desiree, Danny was still crying for Starfire to come back, while Jazz and Tucker stayed put to keep an eye on him.
"STARFIRE! KORY! MY KORY!..."Danny cried as he struggled but even he can't break the unbreakable ghost fishing line.
"Danny, calm down..Starfire and Sam will be back later..."Jazz said, trying to calm down her love crazed, weeping brother who continued to obsess over his alien girlfriend.
"But I want her now!..."He whined loudly.
"Dude, chill out..."Tucker said to his best friend.
"I WANT MY KORY! LET ME GO SO I CAN FIND HER!..."Danny shouted.
"Sorry, little brother but this is for your own good..."Jazz said and Danny now looked mad.
"YOU BOTH DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT LOVE IS!..."Danny shouted but neither released him.
He soon went back to his crying.
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I YEARN FOR THE NECTAR OF KORY'S SKIN!..."Danny shouted as he continue to cry for Starfire.
His sister and best friend looked perplexed by his outburst.
"Yearns for the nectar of her skin? Who talks like that?.."Jazz repeated with a raised eyebrow before noticing what Tucker is doing.
He was filming this with his PDA.
"What are you doing?..."Jazz asked.
"Heh, I figured that thing might come in handy whenever we need to get Danny down a peg..."Tucker said as he repeated the outburst and kept filming.
Jazz would have scolded him, before thinking and smirked.
"Be sure to give me a copy..."Jazz said and Tucker sent him a look.
"Hey, why do I have to be mature all of the time, plus it be nice ammo the next time he leaves the toilet seat up..."Jazz said.
"STARFIRE!..."Danny continued to cry and Jazz rolled her eyes.
"Oh for Pete's sake...fine...I got an idea..."Jazz said as she went up stairs to get something.
Two minutes later, she came back with a magazine that has Starfire's picture on it.
Danny soon went from crying to drooling over the picture in under a second.
It disturbed Tucker and Jazz with just how out of it he is..
"Oh Kory...you are so pretty on the cover of a magazine..."Danny drooled.
"Sam and Starfire better get back soon...I think he's getting worse..."Tucker thought as Danny kept mooning over the magazine with his girlfriends picture on it.
Back with Sam and Starfire
The two girls continued to search all of Amity Park for the elusive genie spirit.
"Are you seeing anything that resembles the foe we search for?..."Starfire asked and Sam groaned.
"Do you always have to talk like that?..."Sam snapped.
"Talk like the what?..."Starfire asked in confusion and Sam groaned.
"Never mind...no...so far, I don't see anything that is close to Desiree's handy work..."Sam said, before her sour look turned sad.
She didn't want to admit it but she was getting very worried, she knew how out of it Danny could get when under a love spell and to be honest, she really rather not have him go through heartbreak all over again.
"I hope that we can find another way...I hate to agree with this space case but-
Sam's thoughts came to a halt when they suddenly heard screams and both looked down. They saw a guy being chased by a pack of dogs and a girl screaming in horror apparently because of a large, hideous looking green beehive hairstyle she had and Sam got a hunch.
"I think I know where to go..."Sam said.
"I am assuming that you that we must head in the directions of the screams?...Starfire said and Sam nodded as the alien carried her in that direction.
At A Wishing Well
Desiree had been taking advantage of the fact that her enemy was...distracted with romance and she was granting as many wishes as she could by a wishing well in the middle of the park.
She granted a boy's wish for a pet dog and got a pack of them chasing after him. She also granted a young woman's wish of a new look and gave her a green beehive that had her screaming her head off.
Hey, wishes are wishes, right...
She remained invisible as another person came here for a wish. It was a guy in a suit, who pulled a quarter out, but looked around first. Desiree recognized him as one of the few people she couldn't grant a wish for due to Phantom's interference.
Well, not this time...
"Okay...seems clear..."He said, as he held the quarter out.
"I wish for a new car..."He said as he tossed the quarter.
Desiree smirked, already knowing how to work with this.
"So you have wished it, so it shall-
"NOT SO FAST, DESIREE!..."Was shouted as Sam and Starfire kept flying in, getting the guy away before Desiree could grant the wish.
Desiree appeared in anger and the guy screamed.
"NOT AGAIN!..."He shouted before he ran away screaming.
"YOU TWO! HOW DARE YOU INTERFERE WITH MY WISH GRANTING?!..."Desiree shouted, furious over what they just did.
"You know why we are here!..."Sam said as she pointed her Fenton wrist bracelet at her, while Starfire's hands and eyes glowed brightly in fury.
"Free Danny from the spell that you have placed on him right now, fiend!..."Starfire demanded.
"I cannot undo a previous wish...but you should be happy, you got what you wanted, a boyfriend who loves you..."Desiree said mockingly.
"This is not what I had wanted, I just wanted to hear Danny say he loves me, but not if he is under a spell..."Starfire said, looking down, before glaring even harder at her foe, who scoffed.
"Well, tough...but be happy...as the ghost child is falling more and more in love with you each minute..."Desiree said mockingly.
"WHAT?..."Starfire exclaimed and even Sam looked shocked by this admission.
"What do you mean?..."Sam demanded, not liking the sound of that.
"My spell has taken the affection he already has for this girl and multiplied it...the longer he is like it, the stronger the affects are...soon he won't be able to think about anything other than his beloved..."Desiree said as she soon turned to a now horrified Starfire... "You will be in his every thought, his every dream and once the sun sets today, the affects will be permanent...he will love you this way for the rest of his life...and be warned...with love comes both jealousy, neediness and dependence...as well as scorn should he be broken up with or abandoned...he will be complete..."Desiree said darkly and Starfire's eyes glowed green as she grabbed her by the tail.
"CHANGE HIM BACK RIGHT NOW..."Starfire shouted in outrage.
Desiree got angry over being touched and fazed out, before turning to the alien girl and the gothic accomplice.
"Just because I cannot overshadow you, it does not mean I will go easy on you!..."Desiree said this, preparing to use her powers on them.
"Neither will we..."Sam said as she was prepared to throw down...or she would have, had Starfire not said this.
"You claim to be a wish granter and that you cannot undo the wish on Danny?...'Starfire said and Desiree nodded.
"That is true, I must grant all wishes that I hear, no matter what they are and I cannot undo a previous one...'Desiree said, but to her surprise, Starfire sent her a strange look.
"Then hear this, fiend...If you cannot undo your own wish, then I wish that you will tell us how to free Danny from this love spell before the effects become permanent and if there is a way without hurting him, the better..."Starfire said quickly.
Sam was surprised while Desiree looked dismayed.
"DARN IT!..."Desiree shouted due to how specific that wish is that she can't twist it around.
"You're smarter than you look..."Desiree muttered as she was forced to give in.
"Fine...there is one way without breaking his heart...I just wish you didn't do this..."Desiree muttered.
"Just spill already..."Sam demanded.
"I cannot undo my previous wish, but there is one such way...it's called an Undo Stone..." Desiree said as she used her powers to show an image of said item, a small, black and green gem stone... "It is a ghostly gem that can undo a ghost's previous spells or hexes, no matter what they are..though they are extremely rare and very hard to find..."Desiree said as the image was gone.
"Where can we find these stones of undo?...'Starfire asked.
"As if, I will tell you..and before you waste your breath, I am unable to bring them here since I have no power over them..."Desiree said smugly, wanting to take them down a peg for making her go through the indignity just now.
"You will, because I wish that you will tell us where we can get these undo stones and fast..."Sam said and Desiree yelled.
"DARN IT! Fine, the closest one is in the Ghost Zone, Clockwork has it in his possession..."Desiree confessed... "I really got to stop granting every wish that I hear..."She muttered.
"Clockwork?..."Both Sam and Starfire said in unison, before Desiree glared darkly at them.
"That's only if you make it there in one piece..."Desiree shouted in anger as she prepared to attack them, only for Starfire to send a blast at her.
"You will not cause any more harm today...'Starfire said mightily as she sent another blast to the genie ghost, while Sam prepared the thermos and sucked her in before she could get away.
"YOOOUUU BOOOTTTHHHH WIIILLLL PAAAAYYYY FOOOORRRR TTTHHHHIIIIIIISSSSS!..."Desiree shouted as she was once again trapped in the thermos.
Once Desiree is in the thermos, Starfire turned to Sam.
"We must get to Clockwork...what is the time right now?..."Starfire asked the gothic girl.
"It's 2:00pm...sunset is four hours away, which means we have that much time to get to Clockwork, get that stone and fix Danny..."Sam said.,
"But I cannot go into the ghost zone, the last time that I was there, my emotions went out of control..."Starfire said in worry, before Sam grabbed her by the shoulders and looked her in the eye.
"We'll figure something out, come on, we don't have any time to waste..."Sam said seriously.
Starfire blinked, before nodding. What matters now is getting to Clockwork and finding that stone to free Danny.
Starfire once again picked Sam up and soon the two were on their way back to Fenton Works to get to the portal.
They had to get that stone and fast, before it's too late.
-To be continued-
Next time on The Switch
Search for the stone
A/N(1): Special thanks to NeoMark and BeConfuzzled Writer for helping with the Sam and Starfire scene. You rock :)
A/N(2): The scene with Danny saying he" yearns for the nectar of her skin" is taken from Mirror Mirror, where the Prince says the exact same line.
REPLIES to my loyal and totally awesome reviewers:
Jebest4781: Thank you :)
Invader Johnny: You were right on that one...
Miss Geek: I hope this and last chapter were up to standards, especially with Sam's reaction.
Krusher: Hmmm...yeah, I can see that...
Dreams Come True 996: Okay, well, don't worry because I don't plan to raise the rating on this story. Also, remember Desiree isn't really a genie, just a genie-esque ghost and I guess those rules don't apply to her. Also, thank you, I try my best :)
:) Till next time beautiful people, remember to read and review :)