Disclaimer: I still don't own Danny Phantom or any of the characters. Danny Phantom is the property of Butch Hartman, Nickelodeon and Viacom International.

The story takes place in 2007, since that's when Danny Phantom ended.

Cupid's Wrath

Chapter 4: Ember's Crisis

Ember soon reappeared in her realm and tried to ignore the migraine she was getting.

"Ugh!….I hate teleporting..."Ember muttered as she tried to ignore her nagging headache she received from her impromptu departure.

She was one of the few ghosts who had the ability to teleport between both the human world and the Ghost Zone, it was even how she managed to enter the human world for the first time until she learned of the existence of the Fenton Ghost Portal. Many ghosts would love to have the power to go in between worlds, but it always took a lot of her power and always left her with a horrible headache that took forever to go away….which is why she always preferred sneaking through the Fenton Portal whenever she could, it was more exciting to sneak past Phantom's stupid's parents and it didn't result in her having a monster of a headache like right now.

But Ember didn't have time to worry about her dizzy, throbbing head….something more alarming was happening to her and she had no idea why. She didn't know how or why, but she was feeling something different towards the half ghost boy and she didn't like it...She didn't like it at all.

"What's happening to me?! What the Hell came over me back there?!...'Ember shouted as she paced around her realm, feeling a mixture of bewilderment and anxiety.

Ever since yesterday, she's been acting different in regards to the half ghost, goody-goody-pain-in-the-butt that has always caused her nothing but grief! And she didn't even know WHY!

Just yesterday morning she was fine and normal, hating the half ghost loser and she was more than willing to use him as her punching bag to blow off steam but now she couldn't even bring her self to fight him all of a sudden! If anything she wanted to...wanted to…

"UGH! Why couldn't I bring myself to beat up that dweeb?! Why did the sound of his voice make me freeze?...and why couldn't I even look at him in the eye?.."Ember muttered in disbelief as the previous events replayed in her mind over and over again and she couldn't explain any of it.

The moment she crossed path's with that dipstick, the weird feelings from yesterday returned but they were even stronger than before….she was literally shaken to the core.

She wanted to forget about Danny Phantom and go back to her plan to rule the world with her music, to listen to people cheering her name and enjoying the power that she gained from idol worship but the sound of Phantom's voice….even the mere thought of that dork made her think and feel things she never expected to think in regards to that idiot hero….although he was a handsome idiot.

"AH!...Not again..."Ember yelped in dismay as the more she thought about her enemy...the more her thoughts were heading in that direction.

She thought about him in a way she never did in regards to Skulker and even her other ex-boyfriends, though admittedly Danny was better looking than Skulker by a mile, and that was while he was wearing that bulky suit of his….even her other ex's couldn't measure up to the white haired ghost boy who was being deemed by the humans as the "Number 1 Teen Heartthrob" ...and she could see why.

Danny looked really good in that tight black suit of his that couldn't hide his toned figure and that handsome face of his.

"No! Stop it...He's your enemy Ember! Nothing else..."Ember insisted as she tried to forget those thoughts.

Danny Phantom was her enemy...He was an overgrown boyscout with a hero complex that insulted her, defeated her and humiliated her time and time again! He was a pest! A nuisance! A jerk! He...He...He was really, really cute!

"He almost seemed worried about me….'Ember thought with a squeal as she recalled the previous event in a new light. The ghost kid might be annoying...but he really seemed to care about people...even his own enemies, hard to believe.

Ember blushed as she recalled being in such close proximity to him, and felt a strange tingly feeling all over as she remembered the brief moment of feeling his arm before he pulled away….Despite some previous insults, Phantom was definitively not a wimp...or at least now he wasn't.

Ember felt those feelings become stronger as she remembered looking into his green eyes and looking at his strong chest...she really wondered what he looked like without his shirt on….She really wanted to see what he looked lik-

Ember realized what she was doing once more and recoiled in shock…

"Oh man! Why am I like this?...and why towards him?!...'Ember thought as she sank to her knees, trying hard to make sense of this very bizarre situation.

The moment she laid her eyes on that dipstick Phantom, heard his voice or even thought about him, she felt something come over her, something she couldn't even begin to explain. She felt a strange feeling surround her, especially in her heart, despite the fact that it stopped beating a long time ago. The last time she felt something like this was when….was when…..

She was still alive…

FLASHBACK: 30 years ago in September of 1977

In the cold month of September, a young girl walked through the halls of Casper High by herself, just as she's always done. The girl had long red hair that was in a high pony tail, she had blue eyes and she was wearing a light green sweater, a long brown skirt and matching shoes. This girl was known as Amberline Mclain, though she preferred to be called "Ember"….not that many people knew that, most of the time she was unnoticed by her peers, to the point that they didn't even remember her name half the time.

The girl known as Amberline stopped dead in her tracks and felt her heart speed up and her stomach did some somersaults.

It was him, David Parker.

He was the boy she's fancied since freshman year. David was the most popular guy at school and every girl was madly in love with him, he was tall, good looking, rich, cool and everything a girl could ask for in a man.

"David..."Amberline blushed as she admired the boy from a distance, she noticed she wasn't the only admirer since, as always, David was being surrounded by a flock of other, much prettier girls who adored the blonde dream boat.

Ember chose not to notice them, she was simply fixated on the man of her dreams….David was very handsome...movie star handsome and he was really muscular, he had perfect teeth and flawless skin, and he had the dreamiest blue eyes ever.

She would have given anything to have them on her and no one else…She wanted so much to up and talk to him, she wanted to date him but he didn't even know she was alive….she was just a geek to him.

She wasn't gorgeous, she wasn't rich and she definitively wasn't popular...she was just a quiet student with a big dream of making it big as a rock star...but until then, she may as well be invisible to him...just as she was to everyone else.

But one day things were going to be different for her.

"David...one day you will notice who I am….one day you'll remember my name..."Amberline thought determined, still admiring the handsome boy who was oblivious to her existence.

Unknown to the young girl, she would never be able to fulfill that promise...at least not while she was alive, because as tragic as it was, young Ms. Amberline Mclain would soon be gone...and nothing but ashes would remain.

END OF FLASHBACK

In the present day, Ember tried hard to shake away the memories of her old, human life as well as the unexplainable feelings she was having toward her stupid enemy Phantom.

Her old self was a loser! She was a shy, frightened mess and a victim of the popular kids, especially by a mean, stupid rich girl known as Alexandria Green, she was evil incarnate and made her high school experience a living hell! She was also David's on again, off again girlfriend...That alone should have been a big tip off.

Her old self was a lovesick, weak fool who was everyone's doormat and couldn't see the writing on the wall. It was her foolish infatuation that ended up costing her life in the end...David had asked her to the movies and she remembered being so happy and excited about it, she had thought that maybe things were looking up for her...she was such a fool.

She waited for him for hours, but David never showed up, he never intended to, and she waited for him like an idiot...She was so sad and humiliated she ran back home crying and basically collapsed on her bed, crying her eyes out until she exhausted herself into a bitter slumber...and she never woke up to see the flames that took her life.

Ember's fist clenched as she tried to forget about those awful, painful memories, she wasn't that stupid, weak little girl anymore, she was Ember Mclain now and she was strong, powerful and popular, anyone who tried to fuck with her always ended up getting hurt...and badly.

"The last time I felt anything remotely close to this was with David...but that was years ago.." Ember thought to herself until her eyes suddenly widened as realization struck her like an oncoming bus.

"NO! No...No...No...No...No!...It can't be!...Not with him!..."Ember was practically hyperventilating right now.

The strange warm, feelings, the lack of desire to hit Phantom and the sudden desire to be close to him and the many weird but nice thought's she's been having about him since yesterday all pointed out towards one direction…

But she wasn't going to admit it...There was just no way...It was impossible.

She couldn't be falling for Danny Phantom!

"This is crazy! We're freaking enemies and a just yesterday I tried to use him as a punching bag..."Ember yelled to herself.

How could she go from hating and wanting to beat Phantom to a pulp to suddenly becoming a giggling, lovesick fool?...in less than a days time no less!

How could she go from trying to use him for target practice to suddenly wanting to embrace him?!

"I'm...I'm probably just coming down with something?...Yes, that's it..."Ember said in a hesitant voice, trying to convince herself more than anyone.

Ember tried to get her mind of things and went to write a new song...That always made her feel better, writing a new song and the chance of singing it to a crowed of adoring fans would put any singer in a better mood.

"Alright...new song...new song…."Ember said as she picked up some papers and a pencil and tried brainstorming for a new song.

Ember closed her eyes and tried to clear her mind, waiting for inspiration to take over her and do the rest…. She smiled as an idea came to her and she found herself putting pen to paper.

"Hmmm...Hmmmm…."Ember hummed as she was scribbling down her ideas, and feeling a little better. She was like a machine, just writing her thoughts non-stop, not stopping for a moment until she was half way done and needed a break.

"Whoa...Okay...Now let me see what I got so far..."Ember said as she glanced at her handy work...only to drop it in shock once she realize what she created.

Ember couldn't believe it. It was a love song...with Danny's name on it!

Ember stared in horror at she read the final words she wrote in her half finished song and the name that inexplicably winded up there and what it represented. It was pretty much a sappy creation about that dipstick!

"No..No..."Ember said as she immediately burned the paper of the horrific song, leaving nothing but ashes as it's remains.

Ember was shaking in disbelief and terror….Now whatever was happening to her was affecting her song writing and she knew what it meant, her songs often expressed her thoughts and feelings, she sometimes didn't even realized what she's written until it was done, sometimes surprising herself in the end with what she's created.

But nothing compared to right now.

She couldn't accept it...She didn't want to...but she was terrified she didn't have a choice anymore.

"I...I...I think….Could it be?...Am I….Am I really falling for that dipstick?…."Ember whispered in disbelief as she stood there.

Was she really falling in love with the half ghost that she always viewed as her worst enemy?

Amity Park, that same morning

Fenton Works

Danny used invisibility and managed to sneak back into his house, happy that the majority of his fans apparently got tired and went home, leaving a few dozens, though he knew it would be temporary and soon they would all be back in masses.

Even among the few remaining fans which of course included Paulina.

"She's never going to leave me alone, is she?…"Danny thought in dismay as he tried to ignore the vain fan girl who was seriously getting on his nerves now.

Danny soon entered the living room but stopped dead in his tracks and tried to keep himself from laughing at what he saw..

It was Paulina's statue but it was different than when he last saw it. The marble statue of the girl who he used to have a thing for and was currently his biggest pest was vandalized in the most hilarious degree possible.

The face was covered with the same kind of make up you would expect from a clown, along with a rainbow wig, also someone used a magic marker to doodle a mustache and goatee combo, along with some glasses, not to mention the miniature graffiti on the body with words such as "Desperate", "Hussy", "Delusional" and so forth…

He knew who the culprit of this funny little stunt was. It was a little half ghost girl who thought of herself as a comedian.

"Dani...'Danny called out to his clone/sister who entered from the kitchen, looking innocent but he knew better.

"Care to explain?...'Danny said trying to sound serious, but could feel a grin forming on his face.

"Come on bro, it's funny...'Dani said, not even trying to deny she was the little culprit.

"I agree it's funny, but I was going to send it back…."Danny said to the little ghost girl.

"Then send it back...It's not like I broke it or anything..."Dani said with a shrug, though Danny noticed the mischievous smile form on her face.

Apparently she anticipated this and wanted him to send it back like this….she wanted to give Paulina a little surprise. Danny sighed and shook his head, as funny as it would be for Paulina to get her rejected gift back, along with the little extra, he knew he couldn't bring himself to do it.

He knew Paulina would somehow find a way to use it to pester him even more, probably by saying he was being "cruel" to her or whatever and he didn't want to give her a reason to badger him day in and day out...she's already doing that without the extra motivation.

"You're cleaning this up, you got it...'Danny said while Dani pouted and grumbled a bit. Danny shook his head and pulled out his phone, causing the little ghost girl to blink a bit at his actions.

"What?...As you said, it's funny and Sam and Tuck will get a kick out of this..."Danny said as he took the picture and Dani grinned a mile wide…

"But you still have to fix it, I want to be rid of it by the time mom and dad come home to send all the gifts back..."Danny ordered and Dani deflated as she realized she was stuck undoing her masterpiece.

"Dani..."Danny thought with a chuckle as he made his way to his room, needing some time to unwind by himself.

Though his mind went back to his "fight" with Ember….If you can even call it that.

Even by his standards, she was acting very strange...during the entire fight she didn't hit or yell at him like she always does, and with the exception of calling him "dipstick", she didn't even throw an insult at him.

It was very strange.

"It's so weird, it was almost like she was...happy to see me...'Danny thought in curiosity as he thought about the ghost villainess and her strange behavior today.

"She's probably just acting out or something...or she was trying to psyche me out..."Danny thought as he lied on his bed, replaying the previous event in his mind.

During the entire time, Ember never once behaved like the wild, dangerous foe he's clashed with countless times, today she was acting very out of character...if anything she was acting friendly with him and that was a sign that something was up.

He knew Ember would never act in such a way toward him unless she was either delirious or it was a ploy to get his guard down….it was the only explanation after all.

Hopefully whatever was happening with Ember was temporary and she'll likely go back to her normal, dangerous self in no time.

Suddenly a cold, blue mist escaped his mouth and Danny groaned as he knew what this meant.

"I'm going ghost..."Danny muttered as he transformed into his ghost form and flew out of his room, ready to face whatever foe that wanted to spoil his day.

-To be continued-

Next time on Cupid's Wrath

A maiden's heart

Who' is the ghost Danny is going to face? Find out next time on Cupid's Wrath

A/N: Chapter edited on 2/11/2018.

A/N (2): Since this story involves Ember, I may be using some more songs in the future, if you know any good ones, feel free to send me them via PM or review :)

REPLIES to my loyal and totally awesome reviewers:

Invader Johnny: I feel the same way but you have to admit it's very in-character for her to be stubborn and deluded about her non-existent relationship with Danny.

rebfan90, nightmaster0000 and Mr. R3M: Thanks everyone, You're comments are very much appreciated :)

samdragon57: Thanks for spotting that, I'll try to fix them in the future.

Memmek10k: No, this isn't the same Cupid from the Fairly Odd Parents, it's an OC. In the first chapter, I gave a description on how THIS Cupid looks like, as a child-like ghost with red eyes, ghostly green skin, wings, a diaper and everything….They are two separate characters, I don't intend to make this a crossover story.

Wiseguy2415: No, the man who Cupid helped wasn't Mr. Lancer, it was just an average Joe citizen of Amity Park that may not appear again in this story...or he may, I haven't decided :p

:) Till next time beautiful people, remember to read and review :)