I brought my legs closer to my face, resting my pale face on top of my knees. I rocked back and forth rhythmically, my back scraping against the bark of tree behind me. My hands fisted, grabbing the soft grass below, the strain ripping it from the dirt. I flexed my gloved fingers, the dirt slipping through my hand like sand through a sieve.

I frowned, neon eyes squinting in frustration but more so in confusion. I cringed at the pureness of the atmosphere as it entered sensitive lungs, only reminding me of how different I am now. Even from a distance I was noticeably different, the glow of my body easily recognizable as something otherworldly.

I stood up abruptly, twisting around so fast that the human eye wouldn't have been able to see anything but a blur. Following through I punched the tree, leaving a six inch in diameter hole in its wake. I removed my hand from the hole, dull vibrations of pain skyrocketing up my arm. I didn't even flinch as I pulled the splinters from my knuckles, each making contact with the ground with only enough noise for my super hearing to pick up.

"What I would give to be normal..." I murmured, raising my head to look at the starry night sky. Tears rolled down my cheeks, leaving beautiful trails of salty water that reflected the moon's white glow.

I had no idea how long I stood there with my lips firmly set in a frown and my eyes glassy from tears. It could have been hours, but it only felt as though mere moments had passed. I brought my hand up to my face, wiping away the tears. Shaking my head, I took off into the sky, drifting wherever the wind carried me. Usually flying would calm me right down, making it feel as though I had abandoned all of my earthly problems now that the ground no longer rested below my feet. Oh, how wrong I was.

I didn't feel that way now, not even a little bit. The memories surged forward, making me feel as though I was there witnessing everything all over again. My parents grief stricken faces never leaving as I ran up the stairs to escapes their questions. They were trying to be there for me, and what did I do? I slammed the door both physically and mentally in their faces. I should've have told all of them when I first stepped inside of that god forsaken portal, now everything is so twisted I can't tell up from down anymore.

I hated this.

I hated having to lie to my family and friends every day.

I hated what I had become.

I needed to tell them. My breaking point had been reached. I would have never thought this early in my life I would have reached this, the point where nothing made sense, the point that I would grow distant from my family.

To hate... myself.

Stirring myself from my stupor I realized how far I had flown, and where I had flown to.

FentonWorks.

I bit my lip as I touched my feet to the pavement outside of my door, calling the rings to change me back into my human form. I raised my hand to the wooden door, ready to knock. I stopped less than one inch from the door, hand shaking erratically from the mounting fear inside of me. I inhaled, my knuckle barely making any sound against the oak door. I cringed, waiting for their figures to appear in the doorway.

They didn't come.

Turning invisible and intangible I walked through the door, only to find everything pitch black and absolutely quiet. My feet shuffled against the floor as I maintained my invisibility. I carefully explored the bottom level of the house for my family, only to turn up nothing.

With a frown I made my way to the lab door, passing through it as though it wasn't even there. The green and blue hues of the lab filled my eyes as I descended the top stairs. The whirring of my parents experiments filled my ears, resonating at only a pitch that I could hear. I listened closer, invisible hand cradling the railing.

Voices.

"Tell me where your last member of your family is, insolent woman!" A mechanical voice demanded, and I could easily tell that he was ghost by the lingering echo of his voice. I froze, joints locking up in fear.

"Never, you monstrosity!" My body contracted as though I had been shocked with electricity, she had called that ghost monstrosity...and I was one and the same.

Wait, ghost?

Dropping my invisibility I ran down the stairs as fast as I possibly could. My jaw hit the ground at the sight of my parents and Jazz stuck the wall with green goo. Their heads spun to the location of my sudden appearance, and the ghost followed.

"Ah, what do we have here?" He took a step towards me. "Looks like you're my first victim, human whelp!" Several glowing guns emerged from hidden compartments in his arms, causing my eyes to dilate in fear.

"Danny!" My dad yelled in a panic. "Run!" I was frozen, staring at the guns only mere feet from me. I could feel the tremors as they rocked my body, my arms and legs refusing to move.

He fired.

Everything seemed to slow to a crawl. My eyes swept over my family while the ghost grinned madly. Sucking in a breath, my instincts instantly kicked in, turning my body intangibly only milliseconds before impact. I raised my arms to shield my face out of reflex while my eyes remained tightly shut.

The rockets sent broken glass alongside the backside of the lab. Had I not been intangible I would've surely been covered in glass shards. I lowered my arms, dropping my intangibility as I did so. The ghost was paralyzed in shock, and the same applied to my family as well. I lowered my gaze, not meeting their eyes.

"What... was that?"

Crap.

Busy, busy, busy.

I really had a writer's block for this chapter... Inspiration? Episode eight of Code Lyoko. Good show, I recommend watching it :). They're bringing it back too, which if they're doing that for Code Lyoko then that means that there's a chance for Danny Phantom too! :D (It ran for about the same time as DP I think)

Check my journal for what's going on and for why I'm not updating as much as I would like.

But now it is time to be nerdy over the new Spiderman movie.

Nerdy Phangirl is nerdy :P

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