Chapter one: human
Danny: I had just turned 14 and Tucker and I sat at the edge of the pool, our legs in the water, one hot day talking about girls and looking at them. Well, I was. I was checking out the girls, Tucker was busy with his PDA. My favorite was Paullina, one of the most popular girls. Tucker liked Star better, she was Paullina's best friend. I told her about my fantasy about Paullina being my girl friend. I quieted down when I noticed he wasn't paying much attention.
Instead of telling him about it, I imagined what life might be like to sit with the popular students, being able to order Dash around. Shoving Dash into his locker for a change.
Suddenly, I felt two hands on my back shove me into the water. I landed with a splash in the water. I heard a second splash and turned my head to see Tucker swimming to the bottom of the pool to retrieve his PDA which he dropped when Dash shoved him. Kwan stood next to Dash, talking about how stupid I was.
Annoying bully! I thought. I wanted to go up to him and punch him in the face, but he was bigger and stronger than I was and he would break my nose if I tried to punch him. Instead I swam to Tucker who came up with his PDA.
"I really don't like Dash!" He fumed.
"I'd like to shove him into a pit full of burning nettles." I said, my voice full of scorn.
"C'mon lets go to the other side of the pool." I said and began to swim. Tucker followed. We climbed up onto the other side.
"Talk me to me PDA!" Cried Tucker.
"Tracy said once to put wet electronics in a bag of rice."
"Who's Tracy?"
"She sits behind you in science."
"Oh." Tucker hurried away to put his PDA in a bag of rice. Tracy was one of the girls who liked to talk to me from time to time. Two minutes later Sam joined me.
Sam was also one of the girls who would talk to me, she was better then the others because she liked to hang out with me. She was also kinda cute.
Later that evening during dinner, Dad seemed to be deep in thought.
"Guess who called today!" Mom said.
"Who?" Asked Jazz.
"The Ghostbusters! Mr. Spenglar gave me some tips on how to catch ghosts! Guess what more he said!"
"What that you both should stop hunting ghosts?" I said feeling slightly annoyed. All this ghost hunting was cool at times, but so far we had not seen any ghosts. I knew they were real, but they never showed up at Amity Park.
"No, dear. He said that it was possible to build a gateway to the spirit world! Or ghost zone as I call it."
I took another bite of the tuna casserole. Mom was a great cook and anything she made was turned into a delicious meal.
"So what would that look like?"
"According to Mr. Spenglar, it's supposed to be the flipside of our world." Said Mom.
"Hmmm. Could be interesting." I replied.
Suddenly Dad stood up.
"I've got it!" He yelled making us all jump.
"I know how I can build a ghost portal!" Without finishing his dinner he sprinted down to the basement to get to work.
"I swear, sometimes I don't know what to do with your father." Said Mom.
"That makes two of us." I mumbled. Mom managed to get Dad back to the dinner table so we could finish dinner as a family.
That night, Dad spent most of the night busy in the basement. I was jerked from my sleep by a loud banging sound. It sounded like it was just outside my room. It sounded like he was whacking metal plates with a mallet. I covered my head with the blanket but it didn't shut out the annoying sound.
I threw off the blanket and put on the rocket shaped slippers. I made my way down to the basement door. I opened the door and turned on the light. The hammering did not stop.
"Dad?" I called and covered my ears. I walked down the stairs and stepped onto the concrete floor. I turned to see the source of the sound and it was definatly not my dad.
I could not decide whether to run back up to my room or to laugh. It was a small ghost, about the size of a frog, it was bright green, with red eyes. The ghost was busy trying to make something with the metal it was hammering on.
The green ghost suddenly realized it was not alone and looked up at me. The hammering stopped.
"What do you want? Come to mock me for my size? You won't be laughing at me when I finish this high tech battle suit!"
I really didn't know what think or how to react. A ghost using a high tech battle suit? It sounded so silly. Stiffing a laugh, I took the hammer.
"Listen, this isn't the place for building stuff." I then picked up the small green ghost and took him outside.
"Go home before I give you to my dad." I said and closed the door. I really didn't know what else to do with him. My parents were asleep and I didn't want to wake them up. If they were still asleep that is.
