I'm sorry for not uploading anything yesterday! The site was down and I couldn't access my profile to upload anything. I might not upload much today either, as I'll be pretty busy. I'll try to get out more than one chapter today, though!
The very first day that Danny and I were together, people caught on that summer, Youngblood decided to annoy us. Really, he was just an annoyance most of the time, but no one else could see him. Even Jazz thought we were acting crazy. But Jazz was barely a year and a half older than we were. She was only 17. Jack decided that we needed to go camping to get rid of our "ghostly mindset which was causing us to see ghosts" so three hours of sleep after trying to get Youngblood to go away the entire night later, we were in the Fenton Assault RV driving towards what could very well be the middle of nowhere.
Maddie tried to tell stories about how she and Jack had met, but all three of us "kids" immediately found something else to do.
"Sorry, Mrs. Fe- er, Maddie," I apologized, catching myself on what to call her, "but none of us are really interested in knowing what you and Jack did together before you got together."
"Oh, alright," she relented. "Do you remember when you used to take pictures all the time, Rose?" she asked suddenly.
"Huh?" I thought for a moment, and finally pulled up the fuzzy memories. "Oh, yeah. Back before you guys moved away from Wisconsin. I remember when I made Jazz pose with Danny for a picture and Jazz was having none of it before I told her she was a bad sister."
"Hey!" Jazz protested as Danny cracked up.
"Oh yeah, I remember that, Rose!" Danny ruffled my hair and I muttered fiercely at him as though I was calling upon my mother's magic, and he stopped with wide eyes.
"Just kidding," I snorted. "My mother never taught me any of her mumbo jumbo."
Danny rolled his eyes and messed up my hair more before turning back to teasing Jazz about being a "bad sister". Both of our ghost senses went off not a moment later, and we claimed that we needed to do something in the back of the van. Maddie rolled her eyes and Jack tried to tell us not to do any "funny business", but Jazz just muttered at us that there were no ghosts way out here. Danny fiercely whispered under his breath to her that the ghost sense doesn't lie.
We changed forms and moved outside the van, having to constantly fly to keep up with the vehicle. Youngblood was laughing it up on the roof of the RV, thinking it hilarious that no one believed us. I crackled with electricity in anger, hitting Youngblood not once, but three times.
"They think you two are crazy!" he cackled at us, and I dove downwards in an attempt to grab him. He shifted at just the right time and I nearly hit my head on the RV. That would have alerted Jack to us and then we would have been toast. I wasn't sure if it was a halfa thing, but neither Danny nor I liked toast. We'd loved toast when we were younger.
Danny made a wild ecto-ray blast and almost hit Youngblood. Instead, he hit the canyon wall. Growling, there was a very audible snap as my patience broke. Danny turned his green eyes on me in fear, but he saw that I wasn't glaring at him. No, I was shooting my death stare at Youngblood. Landing on the roof, I didn't bother hiding my footsteps.
Thump
Youngblood shifted backwards, away from my tendrils of lightnings.
Thump
I stopped a weapon from opening and my lightning shocked Youngblood.
Thump
Thump
Thump
Paralyzed in fear and wonder at the electricity dancing in my eyes, Youngblood almost didn't notice when I pinned him down with my foot. Almost. His gaze broke when his back hit the RV and my electricity danced along his sides, grazing him but never really touching him. The wind blew my hair out of the way of my eye socket, and I might have scared him. Might have. Only if the RV hadn't suddenly turned and I'd lost my balance and fallen.
Danny caught me, but my core was no longer producing as much electricity as it had been. My anger had turned to surprise when I fell, and it would take a while to regain that anger.
"Oh, I get it now!" the young pirate ghost said. "You two are together! ...Ewww! You two are growing up!"
"Eww is right," I said, wrinkling my nose at him. "You smell terrible. When was the last time you took a bath?"
Youngblood screamed like I'd stuck him with a thorn, and I laughed.
"It never gets old when you tease younger kids about bathing," Danny chuckled, and we forgot about Youngblood for the moment. In that time, Youngblood made himself scarce. I saw him flying back a few paces and then going invisible. We went back down into the RV and turned back into our human forms, settling back down next to each other.
"What took you two so long?" Maddie asked us, suspicion dancing in her eyes. It took us a moment to realize what she was asking about.
"Oh, gross!"
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The camp was set up by nightfall, but neither Danny nor I could relax again. We'd noticed Youngblood again, and now we were edgy.
"Oh stop it, you two," Jazz finally snapped at us. "There are no ghosts out here!"
"Easy for you to say, oh 'big and powerful adult'," I retorted. "You don't see him because you don't think you're a child. We aren't crazy."
"But I am!" Kit suddenly cakled from right beside us. I yelped and jumped, and Kit very quickly came into view. "Well, I think I'll be safe here from the asylum. Right, Cobalt?"
"Right," Cobalt answered, settled on his twin's shoulders. Kit laughed, and Jazz only looked confused.
"Uh, I hate to ask this, but who just said 'right'?"
"Cobalt did," Kit informed her, a crazy smile plastered on his face. "Only ghosts can see him, but everyone can hear him. At least, everyone within a five feet radius."
"I'm surprised you know what radius is, Kit," Cobalt said, raising one eyebrow. He knocked on his twin's head, smiling crookedly as Kit batted his hand away. "Looks like your head isn't empty after all."
Kit suddenly looked up, toppling Cobalt off of his shoulders, and sighed. "Aw, man. They've got the helicopters this time."
"Helicopters?" Danny and I asked incredulously. In all the time I'd known Kit, the asylum had never ever employed helicopters to go after him.
Cobalt nodded. "Yeah, helicopters. This is a first."
Kit sighed again. "Oh well. It was nice seeing you three! Including you, Jazz," he grinned. Jazz's eyes widened in surprise. "I just know stuff," Kit told her before she asked.
Cobalt grabbed his twin, and very suddenly they were gone. I nodded. "Teleportation. Must be a nice power to have."