#also i forgot the prompt said she's actively hunting down danny

[chaos-deimos-et-eris]

It starts off slowly, a few blobs ghosts past midnight that need to be taken in before the Fenton's get to them. It's werid that Phantom doesn't show up to help, but there has been to occasional night where Skulker had to scream loudly enough to wake the entire street before Phantom could tear his gaze away from the night sky so they could fist fight in the streets. Valerie liked Phantom on days of promised clearer night skies, the excitement coursing through the ghost's body making him seem more alive than in the throes of battle.

Her far favorite was when the occasional news of a rare celestial show hit and Phantom could be seen staring at the sky since sun set, siting on a roof. He didn't react to anything other then attacks and ghosts tended to take a single look at him and go away. It allowed her to look at Dani's cousin and see all the good she saw in him despite on how he and his mutt ruined her life.

Little specks of light surfaced on tan skin in tandem with the stars in the nightsky, constellations glowing green. Pulps stretched out into cartoon stars and his harsh glow bleed into his hair, a soft reflection of silvery moonlight, no matter if the moon was even there.

Valerie liked to sit with him and watch. At first she had started to find out weaknesses, but the only things she had found was young he looked still and not fighting. She remembered when she was young and trusting and blind with hatred in times like that, watching the ghost do nothing but stare.

She remembered Dani slowly melting and how frighted she was. She remembered Phantom screaming while she stared, naively confident in the lie that he could not actually feel pain. She remembered how he begged for her to save Dani because she was human, like she would only help the living. She remembered and hated that back then, he had been right.

She thought of Dani and how she would run to her cousin at the first sign of trouble for comfort, but always leave at the end of the day. She thought of Phantom, who would never go with her. She thought of Plasmius who was half dead and half alive, and Dani who was too. She thought of Dani who was afraid of him more then she was angry, of Phantom who seemed to follow Plasmius where ever he went to throw down.

She remembers how the Fentons say that ghosts get stuck in patterns formed in life as while as obsessions formed in death and wonders if Phantom spent so much time in life protecting one little girl from a deranged man trying to create more of his kind that he couldn't stop being a shield even after he died. Valerie, on nights like that, would promise unseeing eyeing and unhearing ears that as soon as Masters lost his chockhold gripe on her life, she would expose him and allow a scared little girl to curl up to her protector as they both sat on the roof each night to watch the stars.

Those nights always made betrayal sting more when he got slam dunked into her desk at school the next morning.

Honestly, he's been dead for at least two years now, how hard was it to feel yourself go flying and go intangible?

Anyway, that's to say that no matter how much she had grown, the Red Huntress wasn't above taking potshots at Phantom when his little fights resulted in her whole class having to retake their pop quiz after school. He could take them. Her health quiz on the other hand, could not take being frozen, defrosted and then burned.

Their little game came to an end with a few shots of green light. It had immediately put Valerie on guard. The ghost had been captured, Phantom has more or less turned her little shooting secession into an improved sky wrestling match. She was pretty sure he let her win sometimes, and as much as it burned afterwards, sometimes a win of any kind was what she needed.

But their play fight had been high up, too high up for any humans to aim. Besides the Fentons would have created enough noise to run away the dead and the GIW had been run out by her classmates last week, rallied under Sam of all people, who apparently lost a rare rosebush to a stray explosion and had shown up to school with an echo gun in her hand, blood on her face and vengeance in her eyes.

Its all to say life had been trying recently and the Justice League's arrival had seemed like the break she had been waiting for. With their training, she could learn to fight better and finish fights quicker with less property damage. She could learn how to manage her time better so she could better keep up with school. She could use their connections to get her father a job that didn't rely on Masters and would have people in power that would believe her when she exposed him. She could find how the ghosts were coming or why they were so attracted to Amity and afford more nights where she didn't fight but instead tracked down two figures glowing sliver, concent with just looking above and lay down to look with them.

When the Justice League apologizes for distracting her from capturing Phantom, she stares at them slightly confused before replying that it was alright, Phantom would be back. By routine or obsession, Phantom would be back. But getting the League's attention, that was once in a lifetime. As much as she hated and pitied him in equal measures, her failure to capture him would not result in the same terror and tragedy then if she failed to capture any other fighting ghost. Even if it was a bummer she had lost this round of their little game.

Three days pass without worry. The fourth night meteors fall from the sky and as soon as her homework is done,  she puts on her armor, becomes the Red Huntress and goes out to find the rooftop Phantom settled on for an relaxing night of star gazing.

Instead she has to settle down a screaming Ember that was demanding her Baby-Pop to come and fight her. A quick reminder of the meteor shower had the rock star paling and fading from view with a quick, "Don't tell Baby-Pop I forgot."

Red Huntress combs the sky all night. Valerie never finds Phantom.

The next morning, bleary-eyed, she runs though different plans on how to look for Phantom while still protecting the town instead of focusing on her lessons.

As Valerie takes her seat in a math class she won't remember, she makes a quick mental note to go visit the Fentons afterschool before starting her search. Danny been absent sick for a few days. A quick visit would be a welcome break before she dives in to rescue Phantom.

Prompt

The justice league FINALLY investigates Amity, and realizes that they’ve made a grave mistake by letting a burgeoning hero shoulder a large problem without any training or support. They rectify this immediately by offering a position in the JL along with an assortment of mentors and other teen heroes to bond with. 

Red Huntress receives this invitation in front of Phantom, while actively trying to hunt him down.