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Claimer: yes own Trixie, Zilla, Itzal, Sean, Kachina, Dark, Spirit, other DPP, other SP, so-called "Zee", so-called "Kris"

Just noticed that the line breaks that I placed weren't showing so a string of DPs will be the line break

Chapter 5- ) SCARRED FACES

Tucker and Sam were finally able to enter room 72.

The rain had stopped suddenly. But the two were still soaked. It was a while until the secretary had allowed them to go past and even longer for them to get her to say which room belonged to Itzal.

"Maybe Danny left already." Tucker said.

"Danny would have called us then for the information, Tucker," Sam stated as she opened the door.

Sam gasped and ran to Danny, who was still unconscious.

"Uh, Sam?" Tucker asked from another part of the apartment.

"Yeah, Tuck?" She replied, relieved to find Danny still breathing.

"Call the hospital." Tucker answered.

"Why? We can't bring Danny there," Sam said. "They may find the ectoplasm with his DNA. You know that,"

"It's not for Danny."

Confused, Sam walked to the room where Tucker was in. "What do you-" She began before she saw the markings that ectoplasm rays made around a fallen girl. "Zilla..."

Tucker looked at the Goth. "She didn't attack Danny, Sam. She's not strong enough to have knocked out Danny with one hit. And Danny wouldn't hurt any human besides Vlad."

The Goth sighed. "I hope you're right, Tucker." She took out her cell phone.

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"It's been a month," Trixie said.

It had been a month since they had brought Zilla to the hospital. Danny and Sam would check on her whenever they could, and sometimes, like today, they would manage to get Tucker to come too, since she had no one left after Itzal's "disappearance."

"She's still has a faint heartbeat and cold temperature." Trixie told the teens. "And since she has no more known relatives, we decided to have you three chose to continue her on the life support or not."

"What?!" The teens said in unison.

The doctor nodded sadly. "I know it's hard so you have a week to decide."

"Keep her on the support." Someone said.

They turned and saw a female and male in the doorway of the building.

The female looked fifteen. Her hair was blond, bangs like a turned crescent moon and the rest of her hair was shoulder length. Her eyes were paler then Danny's. She was about an inch taller than the friends. She wore a plain black top, knee-length blue skirt, black sneakers and a gray belt worn at an angle. She had a scar from her left eye to her lip.

The male was about twenty. His brown hair is a centimeter long all around. His eyes were golden like a hawk's. He was about five inches taller than the friends. His clothing was simple: a black shirt that said "I dOn'T sUfFeR iNsAnItY; i EnJoY eVeRy SeCoNd Of It," black pants, black sneakers and a tag that said he- or someone in his family- was in the army. He also had a scar from his left eye to lip.

Trixie blinked. "I'm sorry, only guardians, or in this case, these three, can decide that."

"I'm Sean, Itzal's cousin on his dad's side." Sean flashed his ID only long enough for them to clarify who he was but not long enough for them to check on any other information. "This is my step-sister, Kachina Destiny."

Kachina just nodded her response.

Trixie opened and closed her mouth several times, as if trying to say something, before turning to the three friends. "I guess you three are 'off the hook.'" She turned back to Sean and Kachina. "And I guess you can be her guardian for now. Do you have a place to stay? They won't let anybody rent her apartment, not even Zilla herself, because they think it's haunted. As if,"

"We have a place," Sean stated.

Kachina stood on her toes to say something to Sean. Tucker, who was the closest to them, didn't hear anything. Sean then nodded and Kachina entered the room where Zilla was being treated in.

Sean looked at the doctor and friends. "Kachina can't really talk. She suddenly became a mute five years ago," He stated, seeing the slightly confused face on Tucker, who nodded.

A soft, musical sound came from Zilla's room. The five moved to the window so they could see what was going on, though it seemed like Sean knew it already.

The blond was holding a fire opal gem shaped like wing above the comatose girl. She had also intertwined a dandelion with a strand of Zilla's hair. Kachina was humming/singing or something as she moved the gem up and down her body.

"What in the world is that girl doing?!" Trixie yelped as the gem suddenly lit on fire while Kachina held it less than two inches away from her face.

The oldest male laughed. "Relax. She knows what she's doing. She even did it to me when I was in a coma."

The other four stared at him uncertainly before turning back to what Kachina was doing.

Blondie did seem to know what to do, even though the expression "dumb blond" was in the doctor' and friends' mind before. Kachina's once closed eyes suddenly snapped open just as she placed the flame under her left wrist. She suddenly sounded as if she was having trouble breathing as she held the flame there.

For a while, the four thought they heard Kachina talking. They thought that she was saying:

"Let this girl be shown to the Sacred Souls in order to be judged. Show her which path to take on her long journey to her fate. If she shall be gone, I shall be gone too. Save her in order to save us and bring her back!"

As they "heard" Kachina say "back," her eyes opened wide in fear, turned all white, her mouth opened wide. It seemed like she was screaming.

"Why is she still doing that?!" Tucker wondered, the friends and doctor wincing as Kachina yelled her silent yell.

"Don't try to stop her." Sean ordered as he saw Sam, Danny and Tucker move towards the door. "This is all part of her ritual. She decides she must suffer like the person she is trying to help in order heal them." He restrained himself from smirking as he saw the friends stay.

Finally, after a minute or so, though it felt like an hour, Kachina stopped yelling. Her eyes were now closed again as she let the jewel drop onto Zilla.

Beep... Beep... Beep... The five that were outside listened to Zilla's monitor keep the same steady beat.

Beep.. Beep.. Beep.. The friends and doctor tensed as the monitor sped up, getting closer to the continuous beep of failure.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Beepbeepbeep... Trixie quickly entered the room, reaching toward the phone, about to get on a PA and order a crash cart to be brought immediately.

Beep. Beep. Beep. The doctor slowly moved her hand back away from the phone as the six conscious people heard the beeps slow.

Beep.. Beep.. Beep..

Beep... Beep... Beep...

The doctor sighed as saw that the heartbeat was back to normal. She checked to see if the temperature had risen and it had. "She's all right."

And as if to clarify that, one brown eye opened, then the other. "Where...?"

"Hospital. You just got out of a coma, much faster than I had expected it to be," Kachina mouthed.

"Coma?" Zilla repeated.

"For one month." Sam stated. The others had entered the room, minus Sean.

Zilla groaned before noticing that the girl who had told her what had happened and the male outside were people she had never met. "Who are you?"

"Oh, right." Tucker said. "That's Sean outside. He's Itzal's cousin on his dad's side. And this is Kachina, Sean's step-sister."

At the mention of her attacker, Zilla winced. "Whatever," She muttered, trying to forget the betrayal. "Just get me out this place. I've been here long enough."

DPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDP- later

"Hey, it's two more new girls," Someone whispered.

It was about another month later. A few weeks before the dance, actually.

Two girls were walking up to Casper High. One seemed strangely familiar to some, but to others, she seemed to be a new girl.

Both girls had black hair, though the second one's hair looked like it was dyed. The first girl had brown eyes and the other had bright blue ones. The first girl's hair style was waist length and her bangs looked a bit like Danny Fenton's but a bit more messier; the second girl's hair was shoulder length and her bangs looked like a turned crescent moon. The first girl wore a tank top that was red at the top and became lighter until the end of the shirt was yellow and long black pants; the second wore a black long sleeved shirt and a simple knee length blue skirt. The second girl had a scar from her left eye to lip.

"Losers!" Someone called.

Suddenly, the first girl was gone from the side of the second girl and holding the collar of the shirt belonging to the person who had called her loser. And guess which one of the popular people it was.

Paulina.

"Oh my gosh!" "What is she doing?!" "She's standing up to Paulina!" Students crowded around the two girls, surprised that someone actually had the guts to stand up to a popular kid. The other girl that was with the first pushed her way through to get to the front.

The girl's knuckles whitened. "Now, Paulina, I'm sure you don't want this"-she showed the popular teen her other hand in a fist-"to meet your pretty face, do you?" Paulina shook her head, under shock that some new girl was standing up to her opinion. "Then leave me, and my friends, alone!" While she said "alone," the girl's fist came into contact with Paulina's eye, making the teen fall backwards. "And that was just to make sure you got the message," She replied as she walked away. "Come on," She told the girl she was with as they made their way towards the double doors, leaving behind a crying popular girl.

DPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDP- Lancer's class- English

"Hello, welcome to my class. Since you two are new, I'll let you off the hook." Lancer said as the two girls from before entered his classroom. "But, however, I have been told you had fought with Paulina." He glanced at the said teen, which now clearly had a black eye. "So you will have to have detention this afternoon."

The first girl groaned at the mention of detention but the second girl fought to smile at Lancer saying that they- or just one of them- were new when they-or one of them- wasn't new.

The girls glanced over the classroom, looking for two empty desks. They found them on the other side of a sleeping Danny- Sam and Tucker were on the other side. The first girl sat closest to Danny and the second girl sat on the other side of her.

"Mr. Fenton!" Lancer snapped. Danny's head quickly was lifted up, a piece of paper stuck to his cheek. "Do not sleep in my class!"

"Yes sir..." Danny muttered. He looked at the girls who were on his left. "Do I know you two?"

The two girls almost laughed at his remark. "Maybe you do, maybe you don't," The first one replied.

Lancer sat down behind his desk. "Now, we have two new students... Miss Destiny and Miss Payne..." He looked at the two girls, but mainly the first one, the one who people thought looked familiar. "You wouldn't be related to a Dawn Payne, would you?"

The girls tried not to laugh again. "I may, or I may not," Payne replied. She twisted a strand of her long black hair around her finger.

Lancer stared at the girl. "That attitude won't work here." He glared at Payne. "You two wouldn't mind telling about yourselves to the rest of the class, would you? And I'm sure that everyone knows that Miss Payne had hit Miss Sanchez this morning,"

Payne and Destiny stood and walked to the front of the class then faced the rest of their peers.

"I'm Zee Payne and this is my friend, Kris Destiny. Kris is mute, but time to time, it may seem like you can hear her. If you can read lips, then it'll be easy to talk to her, but if you can't, you may want to have me help. We've actually been living here for a month- or longer, in my case- but our guardian, Kris' step-brother, decided to let us get used to the town a bit before starting school. I know most of you, and Kris does too, so that's how I already knew who Paulina was... What else? I think that's it. What about you, Kris?" Zee replied.

Kris shrugged. "Let's just go back to our seats," She mouthed and the two sat back down.

DPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDP- lunch (sorry if this is in wrong order, i get confused sometimes, so if lunch is before English, oops)

Tucker, Sam and Danny were sitting at a table outside, Sam eating a salad while the boys stared at the pile of goop that was today's lunch. They were talking about the "fight" between Zee and Paulina, the entire school still having their minds on that fact- well, Sam and Danny were talking about that. Tucker was scanning the school grounds for two certain people.

"I'll be right back," Tucker said before his friends could ask him if he was all right. He stood and disappeared into a large crowd that was surround against two people. Who is that girl fighting now? For some reason, he was positive that one of them was Zee.

And indeed, one of them was Zee.

Tucker stood behind Kris, who was at the front of the crowd. "What's happening?" He couldn't tell just yet who Zee was facing now.

Kris turned around quickly. She took out a piece of paper and pen, scribbling words quickly. She showed him the paper. "Zee got called a loser again."

The Techie rolled his eyes. "Obviously. Who?" Kris, instead of writing it on the paper, pulled Tucker to the front row so he could see. "Oh man..."

"I dare you to." Zee was saying. "I mean, if you bully all of these people who aren't popular, and I'm not popular, why won't you just hit me?"

The bully was silent. "I..."

Zee rolled her eyes at him. "Come on, Dash. I dared you. I'll go ahead and chose a spot for you." She pointed at her eye. "I gave your girlfriend a black eye, so go ahead and give me one. Payback, right?" She stood still waiting.

Dash started punching Zee, making sure not to hit her upper chest area. By the time he decided it was enough, Zee was checking her fingernails.

"What?" Zee looked up at the popular kid. "Done already?" She then shrugged. "Oh well, might as well do it," She swung her right fist and hit his cheek. "Now, if anybody calls me a loser again, then that's what you'll meet, though I'm sure I had made myself clear with Paulina." She then walked back to Kris. "Oh, hi Tucker. Do you mind if we sit with you, Sam and Danny?"

Tucker stared at Zee. She only had one cut on her face, though he was sure Dash had hit her more than once. He then saw her blistered hands. That must be what Dash ended up hitting. He just shook his head. "Just please, don't do that to us." He said as they walked back.

"Tuck, you were the first person I trusted here before I met Kris. Why would I?" Zee smiled innocently as they reached the table.

Tucker- plus Sam and Danny, who heard her- stared at the bleeding/blistered girl, confused.

What did she mean by that?

DPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDP- after school

It had been a ghost-free day, ignoring the Box Ghost, and most of the teens stayed away from the trio when they saw that Zee was with them.

"Where are you guys going now?" Kris asked the trio as the five exited the high school.

"Over to my place, I guess," Danny replied after Zee told them what Kris had said.

Zee suddenly had a glimmer in her eyes. "You don't mind if we go with you, would you? I mean, Kris' step-brother doesn't expect us home until, like, seven."

Sam and Danny shrugged, saying they didn't mind, but Tucker blurted out what he was thinking while he was.

"As soon as you tell us who you two really are."

The two "new" girls suddenly stopped and stared at the Techie, as well as his friends.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Zee asked, placing her hands on her hips.

The other three also looked at Tucker, all waiting for an answer.

"The first time I met you, Zee, was at Lancer's class. And then, you already knew Kris. Then, later at lunch, you said that I was the first one you trusted before Kris. So that means, I must have met you before you started calling yourself Zee." Tucker replied. (Tucker knows! I know! Anybody who's been to my updated website probably knows!)

"Yeah, it's like we've seen you two before." The Goth stated.

Kris looked at Zee in the eye. "They already know, so we might as well."

Zee sighed. "I'm not just related to Dawn Payne, like Lancer suggested. I am Zilla. And I think you guys remember Sean and Kachina."

Kachina nodded. "We're living in the same apartment building as Valerie but on the floor below." Kachina stated (this was one of the times where they "heard" her.)

"I guess you two can still come, but you're going to have to try to hide from my dad. He may start talking about ghosts and I don't think he'll stop until you two leave," Danny said.

Zilla almost laughed. "All right, but hopefully, he's not there."

DPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDPDP- inside Fenton household

"Hi, Danny." The five some were greeted by Jazz. "Sam, Tucker. And who are you two?"

"I'm Zilla. This is my friend Kachina." The two girls shook hands with Jazz.

"Are dad and mom home?" Danny asked. "They want to look at some of their ghost hunting things,"

Sam nodded. "We figured since they're becoming our friends, and since ghosts try to get us a lot, that they might as well figure out how to use some equipment."

Jazz shook their head. "They're out looking for some ghosts or getting some fudge. I forget,"

"Fudge." The friends and Jazz decided.

"Thanks, Jazz," They said as they headed towards the basement.

"I'll tell you when they come back!" Jazz called after them.

"What's this?" Kachina asked, pointing to what looked like a dream-catcher.

"It's the Fenton Ghost Catcher. It separates any ghost energy from a person." Tucker answered, remembering what had happened with Desiree before.

Zilla and Kachina exchanged quick glances. "And if we told you a ghost merged itself to one of us, would it remove the ghost from the person?"

Danny nodded. "It's happened before,"

Kachina whispered something into Zilla's ears (the three friends still wondered how Sean and Zilla knew what Kachina was saying if they couldn't see her lips). Zilla nodded. "Later," She whispered softly.

What the heck are they planning?

Over 3000 words! Wow!