Author's Note: Sorry for updating so late again, but school is starting for everyone so the next chapter might take some time. I will try to get it done as fast as I can.
Chapter 5: Lost in a World
Dani and Jin were walking the streets of Los Vegas during midday. They have spent the last few days in the city by using Dani's ghost powers to sleep in empty rooms in the hotels. They would easily sneak into the all-you-can-eat restaurants without being noticed. During this time Dani and Jin have gotten to know each other very well, and became very fond of one another, but neither one told the other how they got their powers. For the first time in Jin's life he was actually happy, and Dani was happier than she's ever been, but what will happen when Jin tells Dani the truth about his powers.
"Wow it's such a beautiful day, don't you think Jin," Dani said as they walked along together.
"Yes, it seems to be, but there is something I need to tell you. About how my powers came to be, and how I know so much about ghosts," Jin said looking and sounding very serious, however that is how he acts most of the time.
"Wait, I should tell you how I became a halfa, or more the point how I came to be," Dani said sounding very serious like Jin. "You see I was never born, to say, like most people. I was made by a madman. He used DNA from this half ghost half human boy, I'm sure you heard of him, Danny Fenton/Phantom. Anyway he used his DNA to try to clone him, but he got me instead, and well he tried to use me to get to Danny. But I found out that he never cared for me, and so I saved Danny, and later on Danny helped save me. So now that you know the truth I hope you don't think of me as just some failed clone, and I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, but I was just scared you wouldn't, well like me that's all."
For a moment Dani looked into Jin's eyes with a very sad look on her face, and then she looked away seeming to wanting to take back everything she just said. Jin looked shocked at what he heard as he thought, Wow so she must also know what it is like to feel as if you don't have a place in this world. To think that I came to Los Vegas to kill off people who deserve to die, but what I find is someone who is suffering like me. But should I tell her who I am. Yes, of course I should, she did tell me her secret.
"Dani," Jin said as he put his hand on her shoulder. "Believe me I understand what it feels like to be a loner in this world. I myself am a loner just like you. You see my powers come from a powerful ghost that my father found on one of his expeditions. Well he didn't find the ghost to say, but he did find the container the ghost was trapped in for what seemed like since the drawn of time, but I wouldn't really know because I never exactly seen it. You see my father used this and some spells to seal the ghost within me when I was still in my mother's wormed. My father wanted power and nothing but. However, he did not want to risk his own body so he used his only son's, me. Very sick he was.
"But I'm getting off the point of my tale. When I was born my mother died because of the ghost within me. Unlike you, where you are half ghost, I am full human, just with a ghost within me; through it is separate from me. He messes with my mind, causing me to get very little sleep, and my father saw how unstable I, or his weapon, was becoming, so he tried to get me killed. However, instead of him killing me, I killed him by accident when he attacked me. After my father was dead I soon learn the truth about what I was, and about ghost. You see I search my father's files and documents, and so from that point on I became lost in this world.
"I hope you don't hate me for what I've done, Dani, and I'm sorry I didn't tell you when we first met, but I didn't want you to hate me."
"I don't hate you Jin, and I'm sorry about what happened to you. We really do understand each other," Dani said giving Jin a hug with tears in her eyes.
"Yes, I think we do," Jin said as they broke apart from the hug still holding each other as they looked into one another's eyes, and slowly they both closed their eyes leaning in to kiss the other, and as their lips met all their troubled lives seemed to disappear, and for that moment the only thing that matter was each other.
They suddenly broke away from the kiss when technus shows up blowing apart the unlit street light they were standing under.
"I technus will rule over all of Los Vegas' electrical power and what not, and I will use all that power to spread my reach slowly across this planet," Technus said as he revealed his ghost self from the street light.
"Oh look who it is technus, you are so going to pay for interrupting our moment," Dani said as she changed into her ghost form, while Jin summoned some of the power from the ghost within him.
Technus jumped from lamp post to lamp post absorbing the electrical power until he came to a casino where he transformed the building into his own to attack Dani and Jin. Dani shoot at the building with no effect as Jin used his inner ghost to destroy the building with one blast. Technus came flying out, but Dani uses the Fenton Thermos that Danny gave her a few months ago, and she used it to trap Technus.
"So is there no limit to your power," Dani said as she landed next to Jin.
"Well to tell you the truth I don't know where that blast came from," Jin said looking slightly nervous.
Jin and Dani spend the rest of the day talking about each other. They wondered how Jin was able to use a ghost ray when he never had that power before. They talked about Dani's life into full detail, and told each other everything. The only thing they did not mention was who the ghost sealed within Jin was because they both knew that the ghost had to be evil if it was trapped since the beginning of time.
The sun was going down, and both Jin and Dani were hungry. They decided to sneak into an all-you-can-eat restaurant again. Dani turned into her ghost form and grabbed Jin's turning both invisible and intangible. Together they walked into the restaurant, and went under a table of an empty booth, and went back to normal. The restaurant was full of so many people that no one took notice of them. They made their way to the food and drinks, and then both sat down to eat yet another free meal.
"I can't believe the food today, it's amazing," Dani said taking a bite of the pork sirloin.
"Ya it is, kind of like you," Jin said to Dani.
Ever since their kiss Jin has been acting different around Dani; he has been nicer to her, giving her complements, and listening to her more intently than ever. He has never really liked anyone before until she came into his live; there was just something about her he could not explain.
"Thanks, you'll pretty amazing yourself," Dani said as she eats more of her food.
While Jin and Dani enjoy eating their meal Skulker in a new suit is watching them from a distance planning something.
"Last time my suit failed me, but perhaps if I get someone to upgrade it to be stronger, faster, and more stable than before I will be able to capture the halfa and the human boy that somehow can use ghost energy," Skulker said thinking out load. "But how do I get what I need for my upgrade."
Skulker looked into his night vision goggles and saw that Jin and Dani were fading out of the restaurant and flying into a near by hotel. Jin and Dani looked in a few rooms using Dani's ghost powers to be invisible and intangible to see if any of the rooms were empty, luckily they found an empty room very quickly and settled there for a bit. The room had two twin style beds, a dresser, a television, a chair, and a night stand by each of the beds. The room was dark, but Dani quickly turn on the lights and headed to the bathroom to take a shower.
Jin sat on the bed thinking that he does not deserve to be happy like this. The feeling was so new to him that he felt sad about being happy; it just did not make since to him. His mind wondered about this, but another side of him, the ghost within him, was struggling to grow free. The seal was beginning to break again due to Jin's confusion about his past and present selves. His old self used the ghost within to kill evil people and ghost, but now ever since he met Dani he wonders if this real is the path for him, but then what is his place in this world. Jin's confusion also blinded him of the breaking of the seal, which allowed the ghost to slowly start to free itself from Jin's body, but only when Jin used its power.
Jin rested down on the bed as sleep for the first time in weeks slowly took hold of him. His blood shot eyes closed as he drifted off into a dream. Suddenly Jin saw himself with ghostly arms fighting a teenaged boy version of Dani; he thought it must be the Danny Phantom she was cloned form, and a blue flame haired teenaged ghost girl using a guitar as a weapon. Before the battle was over darkness came in a form of a black cloud that he thought was alive. He saw the darkness cover a vast land, but the dark cloud was not finished it spread across all of Earth until the planet blended into the blackness of space. Little could be seen of Earth as Jin was now looking from the moon, but shadows were seen like clouds moving, trying to rebel against whatever caused this.
Jin then looked away from the blacked planet to what he thought would be the vast ends of space, but instead he saw a young teenaged boy in a dark fog under a dead old tree. The features of the boy were hard to tell, but light from what Jin thought to be the boy's eyes and hair was coming out of the shadows. Jin could not make out any more, or even the color of the light because Jin's eyes went from compete darkness to a bright light, and when his eyes started to adjust the boy was gone and he found himself floating in the sky of normal Earth. He looked down to see a mighty battle raging on. He saw Danny and the ghost girl that he saw himself fright in a past vision he saw moments ago. He looked down at battle field for a second spotting himself fighting along side Danny and the ghost girl, and also with them he saw Dani and an orange haired teenaged human girl using guns to fright with us. However, before Jin had a chance to look out to see who they were fighting he woke up.
"Hey Jin are you awake?" Dani said looking down at Jin.
"Ya, where am I, what time is it?" Jin said slowly as he got up and looked around the hotel room.
"So you must have fallen asleep then, and to think I was beginning to think you never slept. Every time when I would go to bed you were awake, and then when I woke up you were still up like you never went to sleep."
"Well I really don't get much sleep, only an hour or two at most a night."
"So that's why your eyes are always bloodshot with bags under them."
Jin went to the bathroom to wash up knowing that after that dream sleep was out of reach for some time so he might as well enjoy the peaceful night. As Jin washed up Dani went out to the balcony and gazed at the clear night sky. The moon was no where to be seen in the sky, so the stars took full shape over the sky. However, the lights from Los Vegas over powered most of the stars. Dani looking below to the city streets, which were still very busy, thought, I can't believe all this. Jin seemed to come out of no where and he turns out to be lost like me. It's only been a few days, but it seems like we known each other forever, and this feeling I get when I'm around him, I never want to let it go.
Dani turned from the sight of the city streets to the room they were going to stay for the night. She sat down on the bed Jin did not fall a sleep on. She removed the Phantom Thermos from her bag and looked at it for a bit thinking, Danny I don't know what you been up to lately, but I hope you find someone that makes you feel this great. I know you think Sam is the girl for you, but I know she's not. You may be happy around her, but the way I'm feeling when I'm around Jin is different than that, it's far better.
Jin came out of the bathroom, and sat down on his bed looking at Dani as he said, "So you'll thinking about the ghost boy who shares your DNA."
"Ya, I haven't seen him since he gave me this. I didn't think I'll need it, but he wanted me to have some protection now that I'm known to ghost as a way to get Danny Phantom without really getting Danny Phantom, if that makes any since," Dani said putting the thermos away.
"You know when I was asleep a few minuets ago I think I saw him in my dream. I can only vaguely remember because the dream kept shifting and changing, but I think I saw him. If I remember right he looked like an older boy version of you, and he was with some blue flamed hair ghost girl who was using a guitar as a weapon."
"That's him alright, and the girl you saw him with must be Ember, Danny must have been in a fright with her," Dani said looking a little exceeded.
"No, they weren't fighting each other, I think they were fighting together against something else, but I couldn't see what, and even if I did the memory of it would have been gone by now."
"That's one unusual dream for someone who doesn't sleep. Danny and Ember are enemies and they would only work together under the most direr events" Dani said jokingly
"Ya and it's even more unusual because when I do dream, which is rarely it usually comes true."
"So do you think Danny is in trouble?"
"I don't know. The dream doesn't have to come to past, but that doesn't mean it won't. Anyhow there is no need worrying about it now we might as well as rest here tonight," Jin said as he gave Dani a quick good night kiss and got up to turn off the lights.
Dani laid down and went to sleep as Jin went out to the balcony to look out into the night like Dani did before. The night did not change much from when Dani looked out, but Jin noticed something in the distance watching them. Jin glared at the spot, but could not determine what or who it was. He then turned back to the room and headed for bed.
Jin laid motionless with his eyes close listening and waiting for whatever was watching them. Hour after hour past to no sound until Jin heard something land on the balcony. Jin did not want to reveal to whatever it was that he was still wide awake because he wanted to know what this thing wanted with him and Dani. The thing barely made any sound as it went into the room. Jin opened his eyes to see what was happening, but saw nothing. He knew it was a ghost, and so he decided to make his move. The ghost revealed himself to be Skulker when Jin woke up Dani. Skulker had taken something out of Dani's bag, and left with whatever it was.
"What was that about?" Dani said looking at Jin for the answer.
"I don't know, but he took something from your bag," Jin said looking at Dani's bag.
"Let's see," Dani said looking through her bag. "No, he took the Fenton Thermos. But why would he need the thermos he already has a place to capture ghost."
"I'm not sure, but I think it may have something to do with Technus."
"But what would Skulker want with Technus?"
"I don't know, but I think Skulker has been spying on us. You see I think I saw someone from a distance looking our way. I pretended to sleep in order to see what or who it was, and what he or she was after. It's my fault that Skulker got the thermos I just wanted to see what he was after."
"Don't blame yourself it's not like you took the Phantom Thermos. We'll just have to find Skulker and get it back."
"Ok then, there is no time to lose."
Dani in her ghost form flew out of the room into the city streets carrying Jin. They searched for a few hours, but did not find a sign of Skulker until he revealed himself to them. Skulker was different through; his normal armor was black and it contained Technus within it.
"Hello children, today is a glorious day. It will be the day when Skulker the greatest ghost hunter in all The Ghost Zone," Skulker said as Technus finished his sentence, "and Technus became one know as Skulktech."
"Together we will be known as the greatest hunter of all time," Skulker said as Technus added on, "and we will beat you two and use you as bait to capture the ghost boy known as Danny Phantom."
"Good job telling them our plan," Skulker said.
"What it's not like it will matter anyway, they are no match for us," Technus said.
Skulktech then attacked Dani and Jin with full force which caused them both to go flying. Skulktech came after them again, but this time Dani fired a ghost ray at them. The ghost ray sent them falling into a building. Jin got up and summoned his power and punched them so hard that they went through a few building before stopping. Skulktech was damaged so they decided to disappear into the night knowing they have a lot of work ahead of them if they really want to become all powerful.
Dani and Jin search for them until sunrise, but found nothing so they decided, or at least Dani decided to go to back to sleep until noon. They headed back to the room and Dani quickly dose off to sleep, but Jin laid awake all morning thinking of many things, and trying to remember the parts of his dream that he forgot.
Author's Note: So there's Jin and Dani's chapter, they don't come back until chapter 8. The next two chapters will have Danny, Ember, and Jazz. Thanks for reading and reviewing.