Hey guys! So, I'm stuck. Most people haven't done the poll I put up on my profile, which is understandable. Some people are too busy or don't like to go onto profiles or simply don't want to vote. That's totally fine with me. I will be taking down the poll because I've actually decided on what I want to do after this story. When this story is done, I'll be taking a break from Rose's story and instead I will be working on entirely new story for Danny Phantom. The next story will have absolutely nothing to do with this one. BUT THIS STORY WILL BE FINISHED FIRST! And yes, there will be a sequel to this story at some point when it's done. Also, we're actually getting close to the end of this one.
A major plot point will come up in this chapter! BE ON THE LOOKOUT! Also, this chapter is very short and I'm sorry for that. I'm just busy at the moment.
Kitty and Johnny did a pretty good job of not making themselves noticeable as ghosts. Sure, they looked a little outdated, but they enjoyed the movie silently. I knew this because I checked up on them at one point, just in case.
It was a few days before I saw Kitty again. I was out with Danny, Sam, and Tucker at the park; we were trying to find ways to channel my electricity into something useful. I almost destroyed Tucker's PDA, the electricity arcing away from my body after holding it for nearly a minute. Sam said that the electricity was almost cartoonish; it had come off of my body in a bright yellow.
I finally got frustrated and without even thinking about it, I made a ball of ecto-electricity in my hand and threw it at a tree fifty feet away. It exploded, and the tree sort of got burnt to a crisp.
"Nice aim, kid," Johnny said, chuckling. "Try not to destroy other trees though, wouldja?"
"Da- Johnny!" I laughed. I nearly called him 'Daddy'. I used to call him Daddy, though, before I got old enough to not need to.
"Hey, kids. Listen, there's some trouble comin' around. You two-" Johnny pointed to Danny and I. "-might wanna keep to your human form for a while." My foster ghost father looked almost... scared. I'd never seen him scared.
Before any of us could ask him questions, he was gone.
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"I bet it's Plasmius," Danny growled the next day at school. "He's always trying to make my life miserable. Now that you're with me, he'll probably try to do the same to you."
I nodded a little. "He's a bit of fruitloop, isn't he." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.
"Yeah." It was Sam who answered, looking annoyed. I'd never seen her look so murderous before.
Danny's ghost sense went off, but mine didn't. We looked at each other, and then mine went off a moment later. We were reacting to each other's ectoplasm again. We shrugged it off and went to class.
Mr. Lancer did not appreciate that neither Danny nor I had done the homework, though I told him it was because we tried to do it together and then one of the Fenton inventions went off and blew it up; that was actually the true story.
"I need proof, Mr. Forrest," Lancer scowled. I showed him the scorched remains of the papers.
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Mrs. Tetslaf did not appreciate my lack of energy in Gym. She asked me what happened today, and I told her it was because the thunderstorm had gone away. She narrowed her eyes and didn't say anything. Dash absolutely pummeled me in dodgeball, which probably made him feel good about himself. He also shoved me into my gym locker after class. Danny let me out, though I would have gotten myself out with intangibility if we'd been alone.
We shared a quick kiss before we left the locker room. Or at least tried. Kitty appeared and stopped me, sobbing. She clutched my shirt and I held her, unsure of what was happened.
"What happened, Kitty? Why are you crying?" I panicked. My core sped up and I felt myself hiccup.
"I'm sorry," she sobbed. "I'm so so sorry. The man who took you away, that Vlad Masters man - he burned out your eye-"
"I know," I said, hyperventilating. "Don't cry about that-"
"He's gathered up all your enemies," she whispered. "They're attacking Amity Park tomorrow. I'm so sorry. I couldn't stop him."
My core stopped. My vision went blurry. Plasmius was going to attack Amity Park. And he had all of my enemies. My vision darkened, and then I heard one last thing before I went fully unconscious.
"Rose!" Danny's voice.
I dreamed. I saw Johnny's broken body; I saw my own core outside of my body, shattered into a million pieces. It was trying to repair itself, but I wasn't paying attention to that. Everything hurt so much. So much. My ghost glow dimmed and died; without my core, I couldn't change back. I was stuck as a ghost. I wasn't worried about that. I was worried about Danny.
Plasmius was walking over to his crumpled form. Jack and Maddie were staring at their son in horror; I faintly realized that he was almost completely powerless, the last of his energy being used to maintain his ghost form. I staggered over to Danny and planted myself in front of him.
"Rose, no!" he shouted, panicked; he knew what I was going to do. Jack and Maddie's expression became more shocked; they knew about Danny and I, but no one else did. They knew what I was going to do.
I turned back at Danny and smiled painfully. "Don't worry, Danny. I'm going to protect you now. Everything will be fine." I looked back at Plasmius. He was smirking; he didn't think I could defeat him. But I knew I could; there was one attack he didn't know I had. "Say goodbye, Plasmius."
This was for my father, Johnny 13, who would be crippled for life. This was for my mother, Kitty, who was losing her only child. This was for my friends, Ember and Sam and Tucker, who had fought valiantly beside me. This was for Jack and Maddie, who were afraid of Danny and I. This was for Jazz, who had coached me through my mental breakdowns in the days leading to now. Most importantly, this was for Danny, who would be losing me.
I took a deep breath, summoned up the very last of my energy,
and
screamed.
Because what's a good Danny Phantom story without Plasmius being a butt, right?