Lost Prologue pt 2

"So what're we doing here?" Harry asked, taking a seat in one of the many booths of the Nasty Burger.

"Uh, just hanging out really," Sam said, giving Harry an odd look. "You've never just pulled back and hung out with your friends before on a summer afternoon?"

"Um, not really," Harry said, looking down. "I don't really have that many friends to hang out with really."

"Well, uh, I don't quite know what to say to that," Danny said as he too stared at his distant relative. "Er, um, well, how long will you be staying over?"

Harry shrugged. "Dunno."

Danny, Tucker and Sam stared at the child wizard for his lack of conversational input, which didn't go unnoticed by Harry. With another sigh, he pulled out the Fenton Ghost Identifier out of his pocket, which had been beeping randomly ever since he had gotten the thing. "Can someone please tell me why this thing has beeping ever since I got it? Its really starting to get annoying."

Pointing it to Danny, who would seem to be the one to know more about the thing, it started to chime even louder.

"Ghost detected," came the feminine robotic voice. "There is a ghost within five feet of this device. You would have to be a complete moron to not see the ghost."

Harry raised an eyebrow. "Um, what?"

Just as if to save Danny from answering the awkward question, all the hamburgers in the Nasty Burger started to glow with a eerie green light, flying outside the windows and swarming around a lone figure, a somewhat female one. Harry couldn't tell what she was wearing, but saw that she had a raised hand where all the meat was circling. What freaked him out the most was that the meat was beginning to stick onto the person, one piece after the other, until it resembled the Hulk from that cartoon that Harry had seen on the plane.

"WARNING! WARNING! HOSTILE GHOST DETECTED!" The FGI beeped. "PLEASE RETREAT TO A SAFE LOCATION OF ABOUT SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET."

Just as he was looking at the device, he was temporarily blinded by a flash of light. When he looked up, he saw that Danny was gone, and Sam and Tucker were there standing as if this was a normal occurrence, although Tucker did have some kind of weird looking thermos in his hands.

"I AM THE BURGER LORD, RULER OF ALL THINGS MADE OF BEEF! YOUR SO CALLED 'BURGER KING' IS NOTHING COMPARED TO MY POWER! NOW, FOR YOUR INSOLENCE OF EATING MY SUBJECTS, I SHALL DOMINATE YOU FOOLISH MORTALS!" it roared.

"Um, where's Danny?" Harry asked.

"He went for a bathroom break," Tucker said quickly, pointing to the small wet spot that was right next to his person.

"Tucker!" Sam hissed. "That's disgusting!"

"What? He said he had to go!" Tucker retorted.

Just as Harry was about to comment on how there was a spilled cup of soda right on the table that was leaking onto the seat and how that was a pathetic lie, another being came rocketing on the scene. It was black and white, that much was obvious, and a resembled a ghost. There was a 'D' emblazoned on his chest, and its two hands were glowing with spectral green energy.

"You! Phantom!" the meat monster thing yelled. "I knew you'd arrive!"

'Phantom' said nothing as he raised one of his glowing hands and released a beam of energy, shaving off a good portion of the meaty skin. "Please, was this the best you could do? You'll be back in the Ghost Zone in no time!"

"Wait!" the meat possessed monster said, holding an arm out. "This was the only way I could get your attention!"

"For what!?" Phantom said, charging another blast.

"The Ghost Zone is changing," the meat monster said. "New strange creatures have arrived, slowly eating at the very essence that makes up a ghost, our souls." As it spoke, the meat slowly peeled off, which confused all in the area. "Heed this warning: Everything in our realm will slowly spill into your own if this threat does not stop." With that, the last of the meat fell to the ground, leaving behind a large pile of cooked and uncooked meat, which all the local dogs were trying to get at.

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It was nighttime, and there was a slight problem in the Fenton the household. The problem was that they hadn't taken into account that there would be another person coming along with the Dursley's so there was a lack of room.

Of course, Harry was the one uncounted for.

When Maddie suggested that he bunk with Jasmine, the latter glared at her mother and then at then at the blushing boy, who while liked the idea of bunking with a cute girl, he didn't relish the idea of getting accused of being a pervert.

Just as Danny suggested Harry could bunk with him, Vernon had cut him off and asked to allow Dudley to bunk with him, leaving Harry to be either in the couch or the basement. Petunia continued and requested he be in the basement, as to not wake him if someone went down to the kitchen in the middle of the night. It was granted without thought by Jack and Maddie.

That, as it turned out, is the true beginning of our story.