AN: Takes place after King Tuck but with a little twist to the time line since I wanted this to take place in the beginning of May (used May 15, 2005) and with Prisoners of Love taking place around May 9th I'm changing it so that the human events of Prisoners of Love take place after King Tuck but the ghost events of Prisoners of Love took place back at the beginning of Danny's freshman year, where it belongs. I curse Butch Hartman for putting the time line of this show as he did.
DANNY: You're just confusing them even more.
AN: Danny, you're confusing.
Chapter 1
The tic tocking of a green ghost analog clock the only sound in the basement lab. The clock read a quarter till one as the Fenton house got its one morning of quietness. No explosions, no experiments, even the ghosts knew this was a morning of peace.
Krack!
I said even then… No one listens to the author, do they!?
The door holding the portal closed found a boned hand slowly working its way through the crack it had made. It made enough room for its partner to appear in the human world before the doors found themselves bend down.
Standing in the doorway, eliminated in the green light of the Ghost Zone stood a skeleton. On his ribs hung meat with threads of skin still attacked, the cords of ligaments and muscles still holding onto pieces of bone. He dropped his skull forwards as he gathered his energy back up before prying his phalanges from the warped metal.
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"Can you believe the preacher's Dad?" Maddie asked. "We need him to play the piano more."
"It did sound better then Peggy's playing." Jack said, a smile on his face as he watched the road.
"I'm just glad they're talking again." Jazz whispered to her brother next to her in the back of the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle.
"You're telling me." Danny smiled.
Heavy drops of rain caught their attention as, before they had even noticed the sky grow gray, they were in a down pour.
"I don't remember them saying it'd rain today." Jack commented as he flicked on the windshield wipers.
"You know the weather men never know what they're talking about." Maddie added.
Jack pulled the RV into its spot next to Fenton Works and the four rushed inside, dodging the rain drops as best as humanly possible. Danny rushed straight to the living room and turned on the Game Cube.
"Danny! Have you finished your school work?" Maddie asked, crossing her arms over her chest as she eyed the boy.
"Yes?" Danny offered, grabbing the remote to turn the TV on.
"So I'm not going to get another call from Mr. Lancer about you not doing it?" Maddie asked.
Danny sighed, sitting the remote back on its spot. "It could use more work." Danny admitted. He switched the Cube off and trudged up the stairs to find Jazz smiling at the top. "What?"
"You're a terrible liar sometimes, you know that?" Jazz smirked.
"Is it wrong just to wanna play some games?" Danny hissed.
"If you want, I could help you with your homework." Jazz offered. "Then maybe the ghosts will leave you alone long enough to let you play."
"I doubt it." Danny grumbled. "But would you?"
"Sure, just let me change real quick." Jazz motioned to her Sunday dress. She disappeared into her room as Danny noticed Maddie coming up the stairs. The boy quickly disappeared in his room, leaving the door opened as he pulled out his history work. He found the sheet he was supposed to have answered and laid it next to his book.
"Have you seen my trench coat?" Maddie asked, sticking her head into Danny's room.
"Not since the last time you wore it." Danny admitted, shaking his head.
"I could've sworn…" her voice trailed off as she disappeared from Danny's doorway.
Danny's ghost hearing let him pick up on a scream from Ed's house across the street. The distance being too far away for his ghost sense to pick up on it, Danny sighed and shut his door. He wrote ghost on the paper, hoping Jazz would see it and cover for him, before going ghost. He quickly flew through the wall and straight through Ed's house to find the old man hiding behind his recliner. Danny felt the cold leave his mouth but couldn't look away from the dark blue skeleton wearing his mom's trench coat and hat.
"Where is John Fenton Nightingale?!" the ghost skeleton yelled, telepathically throwing the man's TV towards him.
Danny quickly grabbed Ed's shoulder and made him intangible, letting the TV fly right through them.
"Calm down." Danny ordered, releasing Ed and the feeling. "Who are you looking for, maybe I could help?"
"The man behind my hanging!" the skeleton called out, shooting a blast from his hand towards the two.
Danny quickly created a shield to protect himself and Ed. "Great, the vengeful type." Danny grumbled, wishing he'd grabbed a Fenton Thermos. Dropping the shield, Danny rushed at the skeleton and grabbed it by the collar of the trench coat. He made the two of them intangible and flew outside, wanting to rather fight out in the rain then in Ed's living room. Danny tossed the skeleton to the road and eyed him. "Look, I can't allow you to avenge you death."
"Then I shall eliminate you before I do so to Nightingale!" the skeleton said, it's eye sockets lighting up a bright blue.
The sound of thunder crackled almost defeating Danny as he found himself dodging a bolt of lightning.
"You can control lightning!?" Danny asked, surprised.
"And so much more." The skeleton said. "You will parish at the bones of John Proctor!" He pointed a hand towards Danny and shot a wide beam of an ecto-blast.
Danny dodged out of the way only to find where he had once stood was now a crater in the street.
"Esh! I could've been Phantom BBQ!" Danny realized, eyeing the skeleton in fear. He gulped down his feeling and charged forwards, putting all his energy into the blasts only to see the skeleton of John Proctor dodging each one without too much of an effort.
Danny reached towards John Proctor, ready to try a fist fight with the skeleton only for a stray shot of an ecto-blast to force Danny back. He glanced in the direction the shot had come from only to see his mom standing in the doorway with an ecto-weapon in her hands.
"Get away from my house your ecto-plasmic manifestation of post human consciousness!" Maddie ordered, pointing the weapon at Danny.
"What about him?" Danny asked, glancing to his right only to find himself alone in the street.
"I'm only seeing you here, Phantom." Maddie said, blasting Danny in the shoulder.
Danny curled down as he held onto his shoulder. He glared through his hair at his mother and quickly noticed she didn't have her goggles on. Quickly he disappeared to the world, knowing her goggles could detect his ghost matrix.
"Aw, did I miss the ghost?" Jack whined as the toilet flushed. The big man's form blundered into the living room as a dripping Maddie walked back into the house.