Jazz wouldn't be completely convinced until she had solid proof that Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom were one in the same. Honestly, she didn't really want proof. For the first time in her life, she wanted to be ignorant…because, if they were the same person that would mean that her little brother killed those people. Maybe he was controlled, maybe not, but, either way, he was capable of murder. That petrified Jazz.
Finally, Jack and Danny's friends got back, taking Jazz out of her head as Sam tossed her a thermos which she filled with the ghosts she had been subconsciously fighting. Sam's eyes widened when she saw how many more ghosts had joined the ranks. "When did all of these get here?"
"A half hour ago…There's no telling how many more will be sent," Danny told her.
"Sent?" Maddie questioned. "Who is sending them?"
Danny swallowed uncomfortably, then, saved by the bell, a ghost jumped on top of him. It was none other than the Box Ghost. "BEWARE!" He merely pushed the ghost off and caught him in the thermos.
"Danny. Do you know?" His mom looked concerned, not knowing how he would know, but having a strange feeling in her gut that he did.
"Well, they wouldn't all group together like this on their own accord…That isn't normal, right? Ghosts usually terrorize individually, not in masses."
Jazz stared at Danny, imagining him as Phantom and, for the first time, really realizing just how similar they looked. Is he like Vlad? Is my little brother evil?
Maddie hesitantly nodded. "Yeah, you're right. But we've never taught you things like that." A ghost came up beside Maddie, but she punched it in the face and swiftly used her thermos on it.
"I told you…I catch on fast."
His mother still wasn't buying it, but ghosts started attacking more forcefully, and she let it go just like that. But Jazz definitely didn't. She would have a stern talking to Danny after this battle ended.
Danny remembered about Dani and ran over to where he had left her, only to see that she was gone. "Huh?" He looked over at the fight and saw she was battling Jazz who was about to stab her in the stomach. Danny, out of sight, went ghost and flew at full speed to grab Dani from the fight.
Jazz gasped as she saw Danny - or Phantom or? - take the ghost girl. What is it with him and that girl? It is impossible that they are related if my theory is correct, yet they look like they could be brother and sister or at least cousins. She even had that same symbol across her chest…
"Sorry, I'm going to put you in this thermos. It is unpleasant but you will be safe."
Dani sighed. "Okay, just do it then before I hurt you."
Danny then went back to the fight in human form again.
They fought with the ghosts for hours, emptying and refilling the thermoses too many times to count, but more and more specters showed up. The sun was even beginning to set.
Tucker and Danny were now side by side in the battle.
"Hey Danny?"
"Yeah Tuck?"
"This fight is clearly not going to let up anytime soon, and everyone is getting really exhausted."
"I know…What should we do?"
"Maybe you could go ghost and do your ghostly wail. Then all of the ghosts will be weakened for at least a few hours."
"That's a good idea. Get everyone to stand down," Danny told him, running behind a tree and transforming.
Tucker, who, as mayor, had developed fantastic public-speaking skills, told everyone to take a break. Everyone was so tired and agreed they needed to eat and rehydrate since their fighting was becoming weaker and lazier in their forms by the second.
"We have food and water back at the RV!" Maddie said.
Everyone followed and Tucker gave Danny the thumbs up.
On the way to the RV, Jazz looked around for her brother. "Where's Danny?" She asked around, but no one knew. She then got to Tucker and Sam. Surely they know. "You guys, where is Danny?"
"Oh, he's -" Tucker started. Suddenly, a loud noise broke out and shook the ground. Everyone covered their ears in discomfort.
"What the hell was that?!" Dean yelled when the wail ceased.
Jazz recognized that noise…The ghostly wail. Phantom'sghostly wail. Danny's nowhere to be seen…Phantom is near… hmm…
"Amity Park's alarm system. They are warning citizens to stay inside their houses at all costs," Jazz explained, quickly. Tucker and Sam's eyes widened.
"Strange…I've never heard the alarm make that noise," Jack said.
"I think it just sounds different because we are in a different area of Amity than usual," Sam said.
Everyone was too beat to disagree with that idea and they continued to get food out of the RV. Danny finally caught up with the rest of them, seeming very exhausted.
"Where have you been?" Jazz asked.
"I was taking a bathroom break," he said simply.
Her eyes narrowed, but she didn't say anything else. Instead, she swiveled around and pulled a bottled water out of an ice chest her dad brought out of the van and chugged. She hadn't realized how thirsty she was until now.
"How long do you think they'll be out?" Sam quietly asked Danny before chomping down on a protein bar.
Danny took a bite of his own bar then replied, "An hour or so."
Danny gasped, and, just as he did, an earsplitting cry ran out through the park. Danny and his friends exchanged worried glances. "What was that?" Tucker raised a brow.
Green fire blasted along the entrance of the park, blocking the hunters from reentering. "Dammit!" Danny yelled. "He has reinforcements." His hand tightened on his bar, causing it to crumble and fall to the ground.
"Reinforcements in addition to the plentiful reinforcements he seems to have?"
"He has his fingertips on virtually any ghost in the Ghost Zone, save for Clockwork and the Observants. He has millions of reinforcements," Danny told his friend.
Wings flapped above them and Danny caught sight of Princess Dorathea, in dragon form, flying over to another part of the city. Hunters dropped everything they were doing and shot up at her unsuccessfully.
"Where's she going?" Sam wondered.
What is in that direction? Danny thought.
"The dragon is headed for the command center!" Jazz yelled. "It's going to try to disable the ghost shield! I'll head over there to stop it."
Danny's eyes widened. "I'll come with you," he said. He couldn't let his sister go against Dorathea alone. That woman is far too powerful.
Jazz nodded. "Works for me." Jack and Maddie pulled some things out of the van to put out the fire.
Sam and Tucker joined the two siblings, and the four took off in the Fenton RV to the Fenton household where the command center was. They stepped out of the car and Danny saw Dorathea breathing fire onto the command center in an attempt to shatter the window.
"Oh no! We can't get all the way up there!" Jazz looked up. "But Danny Phantom can." She turned her gaze at her brother to see what his response was to that.
"Actually, I think there's a jet pack in the RV!" Danny said, running back in and bringing it out.
"Do you even know how to use that?" Jazz put her hands on her hips.
Danny looked at the thing doubtfully. "I'll figure it out," he said, putting it on his back like a backpack.
"Wait!" Sam took the jet pack off of him immediately, noticing it said BUILT IN SPECTER DEFLECTOR on the side of it. "This is a bad idea."
"We have to do something! Dor - the dragon is going to disable the ghost shield and we will be screwed if that happens!"
"We can shoot at her. It won't be enough to injure her, but it'll be enough to distract her."
"How do you know that the dragon is a- ugh, nevermind. We have a Fenton Thermos, right?" Jazz asked.
None of them had their thermoses. Then Danny remembered: he had one in his room. "I think there's another one in the house!" He ran in.
But all the one's we had were in the RV. Save for the one that Phantom stole… Jazz thought. Sam tossed a gun to Jazz and the three started shooting at the princess who growled, flew down to them, and blew fire at them. They hopped out of the way.
Danny came back out with his Fenton Thermos. She blew fire at him. He jumped out of the way. There were dark green scorch marks on the sidewalk from the blast. She blew again at him and Jazz pushed him out of the way, getting a nasty burn on her right shoulder. She cried in pain. "Jazz!" He turned to Dorathea, eyes glowing green. He struck her with green ectoplasm, sending her to the ground. Jazz saw this, and thought he must have a gun, but she remembered that all he had in his hands was the thermos. She looked at his right hand and saw greenish tinted smoke coming off of it as if the ecto-blast had come from it. That's when she looked at his eyes and saw that they weren't blue but actually bright green just like Phantom. And that's when she knew for sure that her theory must be the truth.
The dragon suddenly shrunk and turned into a woman with green skin and blonde braided hair. Danny activated the thermos, and she shrieked as she was sucked in. Danny capped it and knelt down at Jazz's side, eyes now back to normal. "Are you okay?" His voice was muffled as Jazz's thoughts were all over the place.
She nodded slowly, unable to take her eyes of him now that all her fears and suspicions were confirmed. How had I never figured this out? Why didn't he trust me? Am I untrustworthy to him? Did he think I wouldn't be able to keep his secret safe? Has he actually really been in the Ghost Zone this past year? Is he okay? Reallyokay? So this is it? He's a halfa like Uncle Vlad? Is he good? Is he bad? What. The. Hell. My brother is half-ghost.
"You sure?"
"Huh?"
"You sure you're okay? We should get this patched up…"
She felt like she may faint but it wasn't because of the wound. She barely even felt the pain. Danny took her in his strong arms and brought her to the bathroom. Sam and Tucker said they would stay at the car.
He patted some cold water on the burn with a towel and then Jazz felt the stinging. She cringed, yet her gaze was still locked on her brother. He looked at her with concerned eyes. "So you are sure you are okay?"
"Yeah," she answered, grimacing.
"Thanks," he told her.
"For?"
"Pushing me out of the way."
"Oh, um, you're welcome…Danny, we really need to talk," she said as he covered the burn with cling film. She then did something he wasn't expecting for the second time that day. She pulled the bandage off the back of his neck and felt the cold skin. There was no wound anymore. She scratched her head.
"Talk about what?" He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
"Something has occurred to me…"
Danny looked away from her. "Oh?"
She shrugged. "I don't even know how to say this."
"Just say what you need to say," Danny said.
"No…you say what you need to say. Because I'm pretty sure you should be the one telling me what's going on."
"What?" He turned back to her.
"Don't pretend like you don't know what I'm talking about. Danny, I need answers. I'm not falling for any more of your dumb excuses. Tell me the damn truth, and don't skip on any details," Jazz demanded.
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