The Black Mirror

Chapter 4: Encounter

It was morning. My sister gets up and prepares breakfast for us to eat. It's kind of lonely without our parents, but we still have friends to talk to. I am never alone at all.

After eating breakfast that Jazz made, we went downstairs to the lab to check out the black mirror. I felt a difference when I look into the black mirror. Everyday, I usually look at the ghost portal as my entrance to enter the ghost world. This time, the black mirror changes everything. I have to go after my parents. Bring them back from the past. It seems impossible for me because how do I get this mirror to work?

We have no control over this mirror. The black mirror could possibly bring us to a different timeline like the American Revolution or the Cold War or bring us back further from the present. I sat down on the chair and think. Jazz was saying nothing and she has no clue about this mirror. She went upstairs to research something about the mirror.

An hour later, my friends arrived; I stand up from this chair and look at them as a team group.

Tucker look at me first, "So what's the plan, Danny? We have to get your parents back or otherwise…they'll be claim as missing!"

"They're gone, Tucker, but we need a sign. I have a dream last night about two figures warning me about the mirror or…a shee."

Sam asked me, "What is a Shee?"

"It's possibly related to the four-winged creatures that I fought," I look at them, but I was not exactly sure, "But we still need to know who they are and where they're from."

"Are we going to try the mirror again?"

"I don't know. I tried so many times and it wouldn't respond to electricity anymore. I think there is a crack in the obsidian glass."

"Wait, if the mirror is made of obsidian glass," said Tucker, "Maybe it could be from a volcano."

I sighed and shrugged my shoulders that I had no idea. I went to the machine again to work with the mirror. When I pulled the lever, nothing happened. I was very frustrated and sat down on the chair with my arms crossed.

The black mirror made a sound. It sounds like a whir. Tucker and Sam heard it and they both look into it. I stared at the mirror again and saw a black hole coming up again. The same black hole that swallow my parents. I keep my friends away from the black mirror because I don't want to lose them. I am going to take a risk inside of going into this mysterious mirror. "I'm going first guys." I walked inside of that black hole of the mirror and suddenly someone pushed me out of the mirror. I fell backward toward to the floor.

My friends step back away from the mirror. They thought they are going to get attack by the same four-winged creatures again, but this time…I saw it was something else.

Two figurines were walking out from the black hole and reveal themselves in the light. One was shorter than the other. They appeared to be teenagers. They both have same fair skin tone and purple eyes. I look curiously at them. We were all silent. The mirror closes the black hole behind them.

The short guy was wearing a black jacket, black and purple stripe shirts and has a brown bang covering his right eye and he looked at me with no emotions. As for the other one, he looks taller than the brown haired guy, wearing glasses, short gray spiky hair, and wore a green long-sleeved shirt that says "V". He looks at me with the same expression as the other one.

I was speechless and nervous at the same time until silence broke out.

The short one turned to the taller one, "Hey Victor, this is Danny Phantom, right?" So the brown hair spoke and the tall one was claim to be Victor.

Victor nodded to him, "Yes, Varen."

We all heard their names and I tried to speak to them or something, but I no idea what to ask them.

Varen looked at all of us and strangely smiled, "You must be Danny Phantom and his friends. Right. How interesting," in his very sharp tone, "Well, looks like you need some help around here."

I asked them some question out of nowhere. The question just came to me, "Who are you? Where are you from? What are you?"

Victor answered my questions in a flat tone, "We're the…" suddenly he was cut off by Varen's whispering to his ears and then he finishes the sentence, "We're Victor Ewell and Varen Ewell. We're cousins. Don't think us as brothers. Varen is fourteen and I'm sixteen."

"Varen and Victor, you are welcome here, but how did you know I'm Danny Phantom?" I asked them if they know anything about me. They could possibly be from the future or my future kids or somewhere. I don't why I think them as my kids, but they don't look related to the Fenton family.

Varen shrugged his shoulders, "We just know. Danny Phantom is still popular in the future. We're from the future approximately from 50 years ago. We're the fourth generation of the Ewell family. We've been following another family on that timeline, but we got bored."

"Which family?"

Victor said, "We cannot give out those kind of answers. It's a secret."

"What kind of secret?"

Varen yawned, "I'm bored," he turns around and stares at the mirror, "Man, do you got anything to do?" he turned around at us, "You seem …a little clueless about us."

"I am clueless and you said that I need some help around here and yes I need help," I said to them in a sharp tone so they could just pay attention a little. They seem to mess with my head. About their secret, what secret are they hiding from us?

Victor looked at Varen and he look at me, "Well, okay…what type of help you need?"

"I need to get my parents back and they're stuck somewhere in the 1920s."

"You look determined to save them," Victor looks at me and strangely smiled, "That'll be risky," he walked toward me and then to my friends, "You have nice lovely friends here. Hmm, it seems to be we don't have any friends in the future."

I'm starting to think Victor can be kind of weird, but he's from the future you know. It's not the same as the present. "So why do you don't have any friends?"

Varen answered, "Our past is a tragedy. We both lost our parents. My cousin, Allison, is still alive somewhere," he yawned, "So we cousins look after for each other."

"Yes, two murderers kill all of our parents, so don't think we're going to be nice to you. We've been living like brothers, but we're actually cousins. I don't like people sometimes too. They're much a bother to us," chuckled Victor, "I don't get people."

Sam smiled and puts her arm around Victor's neck, "Well, you just got to know. I think you're isolated from people."

Varen added, "For nine years."

Everyone in the room was shock. Sam puts her arm away from Victor. Varen scratched the back of his head and look at his cousin.

I nervously laughed and asked them, "Anyway, do you know anything about Shees? Are they like Banshees or something?"

Victor's eyes widened, "You know something about Shees? Great, I'll jump on information you need to know," he suddenly pulls out a chalkboard out of nowhere. I thought this could get any weirder than I thought.

Victor scribbled everywhere on the chalkboard and explained some stuff about Shees, "Here, Shees are four-winged horned creatures. They are the almighty annoying creatures that live in a weird-changing dimension called the so-call, "Dung paradise" and I don't really care a single thing about them." He yelled loudly in the room. He kicked the chalkboard down to the floor and we all nervously sweat drop.

Tucker nervously laughed, "Uh, is that going to help us anywhere at all? Do you have any clue about the Shees or something? How did you know they were four-winged creatures?"

Varen smirked, "We created them in our head and thinking what Shees might be." I was guessing, they kind of guessed that Shees were the four-winged creatures, but I'm not exactly sure. Do they know about them or they just kind of guess it at us?

Someone, a distant tall invisible figure made a sudden movement and knock over the test tubes. I have a bad feeling they made someone angry here. My ghost sense didn't come out. I waited and until I heard someone was breathing behind me. I slowly turned around and tried to peek, I was scared to look one of those creature's eyes.

The orange skin, yellow demon eyes, red four-winged horn creatures look at me and evilly smiled, "Boo." I jump a little from that reaction.

The creature laughed and he walked in front of Varen and Victor. He spread his four red wings and snarled at those Ewell cousins, "You dare to mock us?"

Varen scoffed and he dared to speak to him, "Autumn, you're not gonna ruined anyone's life here in this timeline."

I was right. There are creatures coming in order of seasons. Autumn was the next one. My heart raced again and I stuttered, "A-Autumn?"

Autumn turned around at me and he wore ragged brown clothing, "Yes, I am Autumn. I am a seasonal shee. There are many kinds like us beside the seasonal shees," his smile was so evil and I was shaking in fear. Then he comes closer to my face by bring his head to me, "So do you have any ideas what Shees are?" then he look at my friends, "Anyone?"

I come closer to my friends and tried to keep them safe. We all responded to him no by shaking our heads.

Varen frowned, "How pathetic."

Autumn made a fake cry, "Boo-hoo-hoo, looks like you don't know anything about us. I'll tell you who we are," he grabbed Tucker and Sam's arms fully by his long hand and then threw them inside of the black mirror when he opened it. "Say goodbye to them!"

I heard my friends screamed and I tried to go after them, "NO!" Sadly, I couldn't make it in time because the black mirror closes the black hole so quickly. I was so astonished that it took my friends like the same way it did to my parents because all of those SHEES! It makes me wanna beat them up. I turned around and growled at Autumn.

Autumn taunted me, "You're gonna try to hurt me? I'm so scared and all withery like season Fall," he was just mocking me, just trying to fool me. I'm not gonna let him try to take my friends like this.

I went ghost without another thought, "GOING GHOST!" I immediately lunged at him by my flight and he grabbed my neck and I choke.

"Phantom, powers like yours are not gonna beat me. Did you know…Shees are half angel, half demon?" he hissed at me and then he threw me back against the wall very hard.

How? How could I actually believe Shees are half angel and half demon. They don't look like it. How are they related to the mirror? He can open the mirror by using his own powers without using electricity. I tried to think back when I was in Clockwork's Lair of why the Summer shee didn't freeze by Clockwork's powers, but I had no time.

He picked up my head and whispers into my ears, "Mortals can use the mirror only by manmade stuff, as we use it by crafting it and using our time traveling powers through space and time." He banged my head against the wall really hard. It really hurts.

I tried to stand up by my own foot, but then Autumn clawed me through my chest with his own hands and I fell down again. Autumn keeps attacking me multiple times by using his red wings to shoot feather missiles at me. It stings me through hell. It smells like fresh autumn leaves that take me back into the time of Halloween. I groaned a bit and look at the Ewell cousins.

Autumn panted and then he turned and points at Varen and Victor who did nothing to help me. "You two are going in an awful a lot of punishment after this. If we don't take his love ones, you're going to pay 10 times more than this on our favorite games."

Varen yelled, "I don't care how much you tortured us to hell! That same old game "Catch the Prey" won't affect us anymore. We hate you."

I heard them arguing and it looks like the Ewell cousins has to do something with them.

Autumn crossed his arms, "Well good then…I'll see you in the Shee's paradise once the story is completed." He opened the mirror and this time the mirror did not show a black hole. It was a colorful one with odd landscapes. He flew into it and the portal closes behind him.

Varen and Victor came to help me stand up. I coughed and moaned. Victor look at me and suggested to me in his calm voice, "You should take a break, don't mess with the Shees. We know how to handle them."

Jazz returned from the library with few of her books in her arms. She dropped the books on the floor when the moment she saw me bruises and cut. "What happen Danny? Where are your friends and who are these guys?"

Varen answered to my sister, "An autumn shee attacked Danny and his friends went into the past again. I don't know where, but the shee was very mad because we mocked them."

Victor added, "We're the Ewell cousins. I'm Victor and he's Varen, so yeah."

Jazz looked at me with fear, "Sam and Tucker are gone?" she look at Victor, "Do you have any idea to bring them back?"

"Sadly we can't, once they went through the black mirror like the same way it did to your parents, we can't bring them back. Only time can be defeated by love," said Victor.

"And by love, we mean real love," Varen added, "Time goes around in circles, Danny, you know why Dan Phantom still existed?"

Jazz and I both gasped because they knew something about my evil self. I nervously asked them, "Why?"

Varen answered, "Because you created him…and that is the alternative version of you. You see how time works right? All around in a circle like a clock. Actions get repeated over and over again and that's why Clockwork didn't erase Dan from the timeline. For shees, they don't have ANY alternative versions. They're just one being that lives in a timeless world."

"A timeless world where time ghosts can't go through?"

"Yes, time ghosts can't go through there. If they did, they will never come back to their home again, same for humans and ghosts. The Shee's paradise is a dangerous place to wander around. They have many black doors leading the past and future. They can travel anywhere they want. They are time travelers and they're invisible to everyone because they are half angel, half demon."

"What makes them half angel and half demon," I wondered, "Are you a shee too?"

Varen look at me and he ignored my last question, "What makes them a half and half? Let's see…there was a 5 billions years ago stories about the beginning. Seraphim with six wings and a demon married to each other and created a half angel, half demon. That first shee was a six-wings and then is descended to four wings like the seasonal shees. There are only one shee with six wings and it is the powerful one in the Shee's paradise. Then the seasonal shees starts making contract with humans if they want to become a shee or not. It's only by every first eldest child's decision to become one and their names have to start with the main letter of the first ancestor who signed the contract with the shees."

"But wait, what makes them timeless?" I still didn't understand what they are.

"What makes them timeless is when angelic and demonic powers combine and it becomes a timeless traveling powers. Shees don't have any powers from the demon or angel side, only time traveling. They can master time and space. Time powers for manipulating the timeline and creating mess. Like I said, no alternative versions of himself or herself neither from past, present, or future. You can't find a past shee in the past because they don't exist in the past. Space is for traveling from one timeline to another," Varen explained and he asked, "Are there any more questions left me to answer?"

I tried to think of any and then I asked something I heard about the contract part, "Wait, why shees want to sign a contract with the first human ancestors?"

"Because they wanted more shees in their world, a human has to decide whether to become a mortal or shee. The decision isn't made until a human stays in the Shee's paradise forever or the human dies and pass along with the first eldest child and then the next one and the next."

"Are you a shee?" I asked them again.

"Victor and I are not shees," he stated firmly to me, "that's final. If you want to get your friends back, you're gonna have to go through with us because we're kind of lost."

Jazz and I face palmed, but Jazz asked them if they were hungry. They said yes because from a long time traveling. I gotta remember what they explained to me. I need to know what Shees are. They're stronger from than the dead, but not stronger than angels and demons. I hope Jazz gets all of the information I needed. I walk upstairs carefully because of the pain of the autumn shee attackd me, and then I look back at the mirror silently. I'm starting to feel a little lonely without my parents or friends. I only have a sister. My sister is going to be the next victim. I know it.

When I came upstairs to eat dinner, I saw Jazz's face was like a ghost. She's alone. I can tell it from her expression. I look at the Ewell cousins and I read their faces. They have no emotions toward Jazz or me. Now, I am beginning to wonder why the Shees took my family away by using the mirror to take them somewhere in the future or past and why the Ewell cousins are here for.