Chapter 2 of Halloween
Disclaimer: See previous chapter.
The next morning, the three siblings got up, got dressed, and went to school.
Sarah joined Danny on patrol. They had left their supplies with Jazz. Sarah spotted the Box Ghost at a box store. She pointed him out to Danny.
"This is going to be too easy." he said, flying down. He didn't even bother fighting the ghost; he just sucked him up in the thermos. When they saw Tucker and Sam at school, waiting for Danny, they flew down to the corner. No one at Casper High wore a costume, at least none they could see. Sarah ran to get her stuff, then transformed and flew to the middle school. She went to class early and got started on her work. She turned in her homework from the night before. She was rather impatient for school to be over. She handed in her homework and paid attention in every class, but she was really watching the clock. When school was finally over, she met Jazz and Danny at Jazz's car. She had transformed and flown to Casper High. The entire school district is named Casper. She got into the car and greeted Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Jazz.
"I couldn't wait for school to be over. I paid attention and got my homework, but I was really watching the clock."
"We were, too. I was thinking we could go to Vlad's house through the Ghost Zone and TP his house from the inside." Tucker said.
"No. Let's take the Specter Speeder and drive to his house. I mean, the Specter Speeder is recognized as a motor vehicle, right?"
They've driven it on the road before, didn't they? I think I remember that.
"Yeah." Jazz agreed.
"I have some green and gold streamers we could use." Sam suggested.
"We'll need some tape for what I'm planning." Sarah said.
"What?" Danny and Sam asked.
"Layer his front windows with the streamers."
"That'd be cool." Tucker said.
"But we'll have to be quiet, so he doesn't catch us, of course." Jazz said.
"He'd probably just call Mom & Dad if he does." Danny said.
"Or make us clean it up." Sarah said.
"Probably make us clean it up. You said he made you clean up after yourself when you made that mess in your closet and under the bed." Danny pointed out
"He did, he did."
Jazz had backed out of the parking lot and driven to Tucker's house.
"So...we'll meet at ya'll's house, I guess?" he asked, getting out.
"Nah, we'll pick you up."
Jazz drove to Sam's house next.
"So...should we tell Mom & Dad that we're going to Vlad's?" Sarah asked.
"We'll say we're going for a drive, and...But what will we tell them we'll be back? What time?" Danny asked.
"You're right. How about we take the Speeder through the Ghost Zone, but then we sneak out of his house intangibly? Do you think we can pull it off?" Sarah asked as Sam got out, after saying good bye and pecking Danny on the cheek.
They had admitted their love for one another a few weeks before and had started dating. Jazz drove home. The siblings got out and went inside.
"Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad! School seemed to drag on and on as usual!" Sarah called.
"We're going to start our homework!" Sarah and Danny went upstairs and did indeed get started on their homework. At six, Sarah and Danny transformed and grabbed their buckets. Sarah grabbed some tape and toilet paper. They ran downstairs together. Sarah had grabbed the backpack purse that Vlad had given her. Jazz –wearing a brown tweed jacket and horn-rimmed frames-gave them a Snickers® bar, a Milky Way ®, and a bag of Skittles™ each. She also gave Danny some extras for Sam and Tucker. Danny called to his parents, who were still in the lab.
"Dad laid off these since Mom made a lot of fudge." she explained.
Danny and Sarah ran to Sam's first. Sam came out in her vampire costume, with an extra bag of clothes so that she could change out of her costume if she wanted to. She smiled as Danny gave her the candy, showing her fangs. They went to Tucker's street. Tucker came out, also with an extra bag of clothes. Danny gave him his candy.
"We didn't want to start trick-or-treating without you. I mean, it's been tradition since we were in kindergarten." Danny explained.
"Do ya'll remember your earlier costumes?" Sarah asked.
"I do. I was usually a princess or fairy. Once I was a fairy princess. That was before puberty and I started going as a vampire." Sam said.
"I was usually some sort of super hero." Danny said.
"I was usually a super hero as well." Tucker said.
"Of course, this year, I still AM a hero, just not one with things like X-ray vision, the ability to jump over sky scrapers in one single bound, and stuff." Danny said.
"You can still fly." Sam said.
"Let's just hope no one asks you to do that tonight." Sarah said.
"We have to be careful tonight. I think most of the ghosts are real." Danny said. Their ghost sense went off.
"I think so, too." Sarah agreed. They had made it to the first house.
Good thing I put the tape and toilet paper in my purse. Sarah thought.
They were joined by another vampire, a witch, and a mini Skulker.
"Cool costume!" Sarah told the Skulker. "You look just like one of Danny Phantom's enemies!"
"Trick or treat!" they all said as the door was opened. They all got Fun-Sized™ stuff. At the end of the street, they decided to take a short cut to Sam's street.
"I think we can take whatever we run into in the woods." Tucker had a flashlight.
"I'm feeling a little out of character with this."
"Don't worry, Tuck. No one will mistake you for a hard-core Goth." Sam said.
"Just like no one would ever mistake Sam here for Paullina." Sarah said.
"Oh, man. Thorns." Tucker said.
"And there's no way around them."
"But there is a way through them without getting scratched." Sarah pointed out. She grabbed Sam's hand and went intangible. They passed through the thorns and reappeared on the other side. Danny did the same with Tucker. They came out on to Sam's street together.
"My parents can never hear about that." Sam said.
"They never did want me to take that short cut when we were younger."
"True. They also kept warning us not to use it, either." Tucker said.
"Remember that story they used to tell us to scare us away from there?" Danny asked.
"We always fell for it, too. We were so gullible." Sam said. They started toward the first house. They were joined by several princesses, one of which Sam recognized.
"Paula?" Sam asked a tall princess with red hair, green eyes, a pink dress and a purple tiara.
"Sam, I knew it was you. You always used to scare me so when we were little."
"Oh, Paula, we wore the same costumes."
"And you didn't think it was kind of weird that we always did?"
"Our mothers belong to the same garden club. Paula, I'd like for you to meet Tucker Foley, Danny Fenton, and Sarah Fenton, Danny's little sister."
"Hi, I'm Paula Jacobs. Sam and I used to go to day care together."
"I hang out with her when you two aren't available. She goes to Raven High. You know, the girls school."
"Hi, Paula." Danny said.
"You two must idolize the Phantoms. You dressed as them."
"You could say that. You could also say that I'm dressed as Sarah Phantom to annoy my parents, who don't really like the Phantoms, since they always make it to ghost fights first." Sarah said.
"Trick-or-treat!" they said when the door was opened. They held out their bags and buckets and received Mounds® bars. They went to the next house, where they were joined by a gypsy who had tried to look like Desiree.
"Nice costume." Sarah said.
"Trick or treat!" They all said, holding out their bags or buckets when the door was open. They all received Sweet tarts™. They went to the next house. That house was dark. The next house gave them caramel apples. They next house was Sam's. Her house handed out Tootsie Roll Pops™. She got a banana. After they reached the end of the street, Danny, Sarah, Tucker, and Sam went back to Danny's.
"You can trade your Milky Way®, Snickers® bar, and bag of Skittles™ out for some sort of fruit if you want, Sam." Sarah said.
"I know."
"What was that story the Manson's always told y'all to keep y'all out of the woods?" Sarah asked once they reached the Fenton's house. They went in and Sam went to the kitchen to trade her candy for fruit. She came back and said "I got an orange, an apple, and some raisins."
"Okay. I'm sure Dad will be very happy." Danny said. Jazz joined them. She had taken off the horn rimmed frames, and jacket.
"Let's go visit Grandma and Granddad Fenton. I told Mom & Dad what we're doing." She had the keys to her car. Their grandparents don't live very far from their house. First, Tucker and Sam called their parents. Then the group called good bye to the Fenton's parents, and piled into the car. Jazz backed out. Sarah and Danny were still transformed.
"Grandma and Grand dad like seeing us in our costumes."
They reached the house and piled out. Jazz rang the door bell.
"Hi, Grandma! Hi, Grand dad!" Sarah, Jazz, and Danny said.
"Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton!" Sam and Tucker said.
"Hello, dearies." Grandma Fenton said. She had white hair pulled into a bun, a white house coat, white bed room slippers, and wire-rim glasses. Grand dad Fenton wore a red and black plaid jacket, wire-rim glasses, and bed room slippers. He was bald.
"So, what are you kids up to? Anything your parents don't know about?" he asked.
Plenty! Sarah thought.
"No, sir. Mom, Dad, the Manson's, and the Foleys know about this." Danny said.
"All right. As long as we don't get a call from your father demanding to know where you five are."
"So, what have you three been up to?" Mrs. Fenton asked, inviting the kids to sit down on the couch. Sarah sat down, then Danny, then Jazz.
"Do you mind if Sarah and I went out side and changed out of our costumes?" Danny asked, standing up.
"Let me get a picture of you two little dickens. You're all so cute. Why don't you all stand together and let me take your picture?" Mrs. Fenton got the camera. The group, minus Jazz, got up and stood side-by-side. They took the picture, and headed outside.
"Don't worry, no one can see you two in your underwear." Danny told Sam and Tucker. The house was surrounded by trees.
"And no one can see us turn back to humans." Sarah said, transforming. She and Danny waited for Sam and Tucker to change. Danny phased the bags back into the Speeder and they went back in. Jazz was telling their grandparents what was going on.
"Sarah and Danny are doing fine in school. Danny and Sam are dating. Mom and Dad are still hunting ghosts, and I'm tutoring some new kids who just moved here from Pennsylvania."
"Well, we have to go and visit one of Mom and Dad's old college friends, see you later."
"Bye." Everyone said. Jazz, Danny, and Sarah hugged their grandparents. They piled back into the Speeder and headed to Wisconsin. When they got there, Sarah ran to some trees. They heard her unzip her bag, and get something out of it. Then they heard a relieved sigh, coupled with tinkling. When she came back, she said, "Don't worry, the toilet paper will decompose."
They laughed quietly. Jazz wrinkled her nose.
"It was better than my bladder bursting." That's how Tyco Brahe died.
"True." They got to work. Sarah and Danny transformed. Sarah handed out the toilet paper. She got the streamers from Sam and flew up to the windows. She took the tape and started to string the streamers across them. She didn't use a lot of tape. The others decorated the trees.
Hope I don't set off his ghost sense, she told Danny.
Relax, he employees a lot of ghosts, he'll just think it's them.
Danny picked Sam up to help her get the paper on the tree she was aiming for.
"To make sure it makes it." he whispered. Sam smiled. Sarah floated backwards to admire her handy work. Her ghost sense went off, but she thought it was just Danny. She backed into something. She whirled around.
It was Vlad.
"Hello, Ms. Badger. I knew I would get my trees toilet papered, but I didn't expect to get my windows decorated with my favorite colors."
Sarah started to scream, but it was cut off abruptly by Vlad placing a hand over her mouth.
He's out here! He found me! He was expecting this, so he must have come out here to catch whoever did it! She "told" Danny.
"Ms. Badger, why ever did you just tell your dear half-brother?" Vlad purred.
"So he could get away. It was my idea. I talked him, Jazz, Sam and Tucker into it."
"But they still went along with it. They should be punished as well."
Danny had flown to the front.
"Let her go, Plasmius. I'm the one who had this idea."
"No, Danny. it was my idea." Sam said.
"I've already taken the blame, guys. Y'all don't have to lie." Sarah said.
"I'm the eldest. I should have known better." Jazz said. Tucker stayed silent.
A/N: Next chapter- Vlad decides what to do with the group.