Chapter 3. Cold Heart

Nothing is colder than a Phantom heart.


You want to know what's more boring than listening to a lame teacher is?

Listening to a lame teacher lecture about a god damn mountain. Danny was slowly finding fewer and fewer reasons to not bash his head in to avoid listening to his teacher prattle on about the Heatherfield Mountain. On the bright side they were going to have a field trip to the mountain, which means snowboarding. The down side is the group of potentially hostile magical girls attempting to spy on him.

'I guess the girls have something to do with that giant snake guy and that other world. Whatever it is, it isn't my problem anymore, it's the girls. After what happened the other night, honestly, screw them. Maybe I should have killed them in the alley when I had the chance.' It took several seconds for Danny's conscious to catch up to that wayward thought.

'Wait, What?! Why am I thinking about killing them?' Danny thought to himself as his hand went to his chest and squeezed down the on the ring. "It's you." Danny said quietly to the ring.

Suddenly everything went black around him, the class was gone, only darkness remained.

"They say that the worst kind of Hell is nothing." The Ring said in his older malevolent voice. The voice had no humanity to it, it was so dark that it was even bringing chills to the new Ghost King.

"Show yourself!" Danny demanded the malevolent voice.

"As you wish." Suddenly the Ring of Rage's chain snap and tore itself away from Danny.

"Of course it was you." Danny said as he went to his ghostly form.

Two black lines appear on the Ring of Rage similar to Vlad transformation. It began to show an older version of himself, he had icy blue skin, red eyes, and flaming white hair with a flaming pony tail, his clothing was similar to the young Halfling's jump suit but with a different style and he also had a white cape.

"What are you?' Danny asked, his dark older self.

"I'm you, someone who you destine to be, and someone who you will become." The Dark Danny said as he walked towards his younger self.

"You're lying!" Danny shouted as he shot ecto-energy at his dark self, but the blast only phased right through him.

"Your destiny is to rule Tartarus as their king!" Dark Danny said as he continued approaching.

"No." Danny quietly said as he was moving backwards.

"You will steal all the hearts in the universe!" Dark Danny said as he was moving closer

"No." Danny quietly said to himself

"An ocean of blood of those oppose you will cover the Earth, the oceans will dry up and leave behind nothing but ruin husks, the skies will turn red, the white clouds will bleed upon the soil and saturate it with the blood of the tortured souls that you . You will send this universe into eternal damnation. Like Lucifer and Cain you will fall from Grace and become the dark king. A new era will be born, the era of the Phantom King." Dark Danny finished as he phased right into at Danny and as the ring back where it was, around Danny neck.

"NOOOOOOO!" Danny shouted with all his lungs as he kneeled down the floor, wishing his life was over.


"Danny! Danny! Danny wake up!"

Danny's eyes shot up and he began breathing heavily, wiping away the sweat running river down his face. It took him a few seconds to calm down, but eventually he became aware enough of his surroundings to recognize Will as the one who woke him. Instantly he was on guard, he had been watching his back ever since the attack and had been avoiding the red head as much as possible. Likewise the girls seemed to be watching him, constantly surveying him, as though he was a dangerous creature that they felt needed to be under constant guard.

The class was empty, Danny had slept through the entire period. The only people left in the room were the two supernatural teens.

"You alright?" Will asked, concerned for the ghost-boy.

"I'm fine!" Danny snapped as he got up from his desk and made to leave the classroom.

But Will stepped forwards and grabbed his arm, preventing him from leaving.

"Really because you keep mumbling 'no' over and over again while you were sleeping."

"Sorry warden, but I'm not in the mood, feel free to try another time, like never." Danny said as he shrugged off Will hand.

"Danny I'm just concerned, it's what friends do" Will said to the ghost-boy. That brought Danny to a halt. The Halfling turned back around slowly, complete disbelief on his face.

"Friends? Friends? Are you serious? If we're friends, then tell me 'buddy', what's up with you guys randomly attacking me in that ally? Why are you and your little fairy oddpals following me around like you expect me to rob a bank, steal candy from a baby, and kick a puppy on my way out the door? What kind of friend are you to treat me like that?"

"Danny," Will said in a concerned tone.

"Just leave me alone." Danny said downhearted as he left the room.

Will only looked down at the floor with sadness in her eyes, believing she just lost on of the only true friendships she had made in this town.


At the school courtyard Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Hay Lin, and Elyon were all having lunch. The girls were talking about the new transfer student from Switzerland, some girl named Sondra. Everyone except Will who was too glum to even eat her food.

"You alright Will?" Taranee asked the red hair girl.

"Huh, what? Yeah, I'm fine." Will said as she got out of her daze.

"Really, because you seem less focused than you usually are." Irma said adding a little joke.

Before Will can response the new exchange student appear at the cafeteria. The girl's beauty got the attention of every boy at the cafeteria.

"So that's the new exchange student? She doesn't seem so hot." Irma said clearly jealous as more and more guys surrounded the girl, even Irma's personal stalker Martin.

"This is going to be a long day." Will said as the rest of the girls exchange glares at the new student.

Suddenly Danny arrived with a book in his hand and sat up against a tree on a tree and began reading. When the ghost-boy arrived it got the attention of Sondra. She walks up to the Halfling this got W.I.T.C.H. attentions.

"Hello," Sondra said in a Swedish accent.

"Hi," Danny said not paying attention to her and continue reading his book.

"I was just wondering if you would carry my books to class?"

"Don't you have man slaves for that?" Danny joke, not setting his eye on the transfer student.

Will giggle a bit at Danny's joke and Sondra left with Danny with a huff.

"Wow, never thought you turn down a Swedish babe." Danny's eyes shot open and he turned to see a familiar looking teen sporting a yellow shirt and red beret behind him.

"Yeah, well, I stopped being shallow last year Tucker."

"Really? Then dibs!"


Afterschool Danny and Tucker were walking down the street catch up with their life.

"So your dad got a better job at Heatherfield, sweet!" Danny said in happy attitude, even though there a punch of pixie girls spying on him one old friend can make you forget all about it. "So, how was Spain?" Danny asked his best friend.

A mental flashback came from Tucker mind as he remembers all the girls that slap him for hitting on them.

"Let just say I'm well known to the ladies." Tucker said proudly.

"They give you that new indent on your cheek?" Danny asked, quirking an eyebrow up in amusement when Tucker flinched.

"You can't prove that!" Tucker shouted in a comical way.

The two boys began laughing telling jokes as they head off to their homes.


Today is the day, the field trip to the Heatherfield Mountain. Danny and Tucker couldn't wait. Not only were they heading up to a ski resort, but for the first time in months the two got to hang out as normal teenagers, no longer having to fear any ghost threats. There was nothing to do but sit down and relax. Even Jazz was happy to come along, she was dying to get out of the house.

Right now everyone that signed up for the field trip was standing outside of the bus, waiting impatiently for the trip.

Before Principal Knickerbocker can start the trip, she rounded up the students.

"Students before we can start the trip, I would like to assign you to partners so we won't have any accidents or lose anybody." Knickerbocker said, leaving groans and complaints to the rest of the students. "Now that's enough, ever since last year incident with the bathrooms, we are on thin ice at the community." Mrs. Knickerbocker finished as the rest of the students complied.

For about fifteen minutes Knickerbocker was pairing up every student for the trip.

"Elyon and Cornelia,"

The two girls cheer.

"Irma and Taranee,"

They both high five each other.

"Hay Lin and Jazz,"

The two girls shake each other hand, introducing each other.

"Tucker and Sondra,"

Tucker combs his hair in a cooled way and Sondra just face palms herself.

"Danny and Will,"

Danny and Will look awkwardly away from each other.

'This is just going to be great.' Danny thought to himself as the students walk towards the bus.


It was the middle of a storming night when a girl known as Jane Arkensaw heard a loud noise in her living room. She decided to check it out and began walking, passing straight through an intangible Will in her guardian form, her body was transparent, unable to interact with the world around her. She was just an observer to see the events taking place.

Jane was walking slowly through the living room as she searched her house over, however she never saw the shadow shift behind her. There was a loud crack as the assailant struck the back of her head and the young woman collapsed unconscious.

Will only needed a single glance to identify the intruder. Tthe infamous Jeff the Killer, the most wanted psychopath in the world. Will grimaced at his appearance, that white bleach skin, that long greasy jet black hair that covers his face, the crimson red, lidless eyes, and the awful, horrible smile. He cut the cheeks of his face upward, making him look like the Joker.

His appearance hadn't changed in the slightest since Will last saw him.

Before Will can react to the killer the scene suddenly changed and all three of them were in Jane's room. Will wanted to stop Jeff and save this girl, but even if it wasn't a vision she was too afraid, she stood petrified like when a predator captures his prey.

Jane was all tied up in her bed, still unconscious, but she was slowly beginning to awaken.

"Good you're awake," Jeff said as got up from his chair.

"Oh God, oh God, you found me. You're Jeff," Jane said with fear in her voice as tears were forming in her eyes. She knew that she was about to die.

"The one and only," Jeff said in a sinister tone as he gave Jane a small bow.

"This… this is all just a dream," Will mumble to herself. "I will just wake up soon. And it will be over all be over." But a soft pink glow around her neck told her that the Heart of Kandrakar wasn't done showing her things.

"Don't worry, when I kill you, I promise I'll send your family to join you, but they are a bit tied up right now." Jeff said as he walked towards Jane.

"You were right, okay," Jane said as she continued crying. "I see you in my dreams every night and you tell me the exact same thing. I should have gone with you. I should have gone with you. You were absolutely right, we're the same. I should have…" Jane was about to continue, but Jeff cut her off.

"I'm sorry, who are you again?" Jeff said as he lights up a match. "I guess it doesn't really matter. Go To Sleep." Jeff said as he was about to drop the match.

Before could complete the deed a blast of ecto-energy slammed into Jeff's hand, destroying the match.

Jeff tightened his fists are his two butcher knives, bringing them up towards the new arrival.

"It's about fucking time you show up." Jeff said with a gleeful smile on his face, like a child during Christmas.

Out of nowhere, Jeff was tackled from the behind by Danny, Danny from one year ago. Jeff crashed through the window and landed with an audible crunch two floors below.

"Call the police, don't worry about your parents, they're alright," As Danny said suddenly summoning a massive green jagged sword to his hand to cut the ropes that tied Jane up.

Jane was still trying to comprehend, what's happening, laying stunned as she took in her otherworldly savior.

"Now!" Danny shouted, to get Jane out of her daze. It works and she left the room.


Down at the alley Jeff had recovered his fall and his eyes was glowing, full of joy.

"All this just for me, Jeff? I'm kind of disappointed." Danny said as he walks towards the infamous ghost.

"What can I say, being patient isn't my strong suit and I was dying all over again for a rematch." As Jeff spoke his two butcher knives were covered with green flames. "Good To Sleep!" Jeff shouted as he launched himself towards Danny, trying to stab him.

Danny blocked Jeff knives with his sword and countered by flipping behind him landing a kick at the psycho's back.

"This ends now Jeff," Danny said with determination in his eyes as the blade of his sword was covered with green flames. "All of it."

Danny swung a downward towards Jeff, but the killer halted the attack with both of his knives. Danny pressed the attack with a hard shove, knocking Jeff down towards some trash cans. The undead murderer got up and started throwing his glowing flaming knives at Danny, laughing the whole way.

Danny dodges the attack with a midair backflip, only for the knives to explode like some kind of a grenade. Jeff kept throwing his exploding knives at Danny and in return Danny did all kinds of backflips trying to dodge until he was cornered at a wall.

"End of the row!" Jeff said with a great joy, years of hunting the knight had finally paid off, he was finally about to complete his most epic murder to date.

"Yeah, for you." Danny said as he phased through the wall.

"You aren't going anywhere!" Jeff shouted

Jeff phased through the wall as well, entering an abandon warehouse. It was dark and moldy, just how he liked it.

"How long are we going to play this little dance of yours, Jeff?" Danny shouted as he kept himself hidden in the shadows.

"Come on Danny! Don't tell me you're not having fun, with our little game."

"Little game!" Danny shouted with anger in his voice. "You tried to kill my sister, she's in the hospital because of you!" Danny raised his voice again, his eyes glowing green.

"She was getting in my way." Jeff respond as he brought out more of his ghastly knives. "Let me tell you what you lack Phantom Knight. What you lack is bloodlust, and I have lots of it." Jeff punctuated his words by launching a trio of knives into the shadows towards the sound of Danny's voice. The killer approached the spot to survey his kill, only to find that he hadn't hit anything except the wall.

"You want to know what you really lack? Skill." Danny's ecto-energy blast burst forth from the darkness and pierced the madman's chest. The scarred freak fell to his knees, staring dumbly down at the green blood rushing out of his body

"And having good aim never hurt either." Danny finished saying as he reappeared in front of Jeff and summoned his black jagged sword. He slowlu brought it up to the maniac's throat, debating internally. He could end it right now, for all the pain Jeff has caused, all those people he killed he could avenge them with just one stab.

"What's the matter, you came here to kill me right? So do it!" Jeff shouted towards the Phantom Knight.

He was right, Danny wanted to kill him so much, but still he couldn't finish the job. 'I'm doing this for Jazz.' Danny mentally thought to himself. 'Jazz wouldn't want me to kill out of revenge, especially if it was for her.'

"I'm not like you Jeff. Never have been. Never will be." Danny's blade disappeared from his hand and he walked past Jeff, leaving his back towards him.

Jeff was angry, no furious, all of his attempts to push the ghost-boy over the edge has failed, all that time and effort gone. Jeff pulled out his last knife and rushed towards Danny with all his might, ignoring the pain from the gaping hole in his body.

The move was too sloppy, too slow, and too desperate to have any chance at success. In a single fluid movement Danny sidestepped the attack and placed a Fenton Thermos into his opponent's gut.

But before he could pull the trigger, a massive blast of pure white ghostly energy struck Jeff in the back. The killer let out a startled gasp before his body began rapidly aging, centuries past in the blink of an eye and Jeff collapsed into a pile of dust.

"You didn't have to kill him," Danny said as a middle age Clockwork appeared right in front of the Phantom Knight.

"I was aware you could handle Jeff by yourself." Clockwork said with a gentle smile.

"Did you just smile, you never smiled!" Danny said in a surprise tone.

Clockwork just sighed and ignored the comment.

"Jeff and his order caused you so much pain, and when you had the chance to take your vengeance, you spared his life." Clockwork praised the ghost-boy, shocking the teen.

"Okay, but then why did you kill him if you wanted me to spare him?" Danny asked the ghost of time.

"Jeff and his order have killed hundreds, their actions couldn't be ignored any longer. However I didn't want you to kill him because that's not what you are." Clockwork finished as he opens a portal to the Ghost Zone.

"Wait!" Danny shouted the ghost of time, stopping the ghost track. "What am I?" Danny asked the ancient ghost.

Clockwork turn to his old self and answered the ghost-boy. "A knight of justice is what I see, but you have to find answers from within." Clockwork finished as he made his way to the ghost portal.

Danny was left at the warehouse with more questions forming in his head, and Will was left to wonder at what she had just witnessed.


The first thing the red headed teen noticed when she woke was that she was resting her head on Danny's shoulder. Her face turned a deep crimson as she sat up, then nearly turned purple when she saw the small drool stain on the boy's shirt. Luckily Danny was asleep as well, his head resting on the window. Partners on this trip were expected to send the entire day together no matter what. It really was too bad that this particular pair weren't on speaking terms.

Will suddenly flinched in pain, feeling the Heart of Kandrakar burning against her chest. "Ouch, ouch, stop it!" Will mentally shouted, pulling the jewel out of her winter clothes. The Heart was shining like a pink star.

Will rushed to the bus restroom. She wouldn't be caught talking to the Heart of Kandrakar.

"Can you give me a break? You were the one that showed me all that." The Heart dimmed down and the heat disappeared. "Geez, someone woke up on the wrong side of the veil today," Will grumbled as she rubbed at a hole that had been burned in her clothing. Underneath, the slight pink mark on her skin quickly disappeared, almost as if she had never been burned at all.

The Heart of Kandrakar was angry, that much Will could tell, it had been since the girls had faced Danny and lost. "Is that it? Are you being a sore loser?" Will said, shaking the jewel back and forth. But it didn't answer, it never did.

Will gave up and sat down on the toilet seat, thinking about her Heart and it's hatred towards Danny and the Ring of Rage. It didn't match with what she had just been shown with Danny saving that girl. She couldn't get that dream out of her head. Danny had seemed so... she didn't even know how to describe it. Noble maybe?

But he couldn't be noble. Yan Lin had given them all a good summery of Ghosts, and the negative energy the radiated from him spoke for itself. But the boy was still stirring up feelings inside of her, feelings she didn't recognize. She didn't want to think about it anymore, but she doubted the other girls were about to drop the subject.


At the Meridian castle throne room, Phobos was in a meeting with Cedric, discussing their attempts at locating his sister and about what they knew of the Mark of Cain.

"One of the villagers must know what happens to my sister thirteen years ago," Phobos said as plans were forming in his head. "For now we put the search for her aside, you must divide the guardians, keep them separated, then slay them at the first opportunity."

"I shall go at once." Cedric replied, giving the dark prince a small bow.

"I admire your enthusiasm Cedric, but I was talking to the Tracker."

On cue the Tracker appeared from the shadows of the throne room.

"You heard the plan you know what to do," The Tracker didn't respond, he only nodded, understanding his mission. He failed to kill the girls twice, he couldn't fail again.

Back at the school field trip the students arrived at the Heatherfield Mountain, and were assigned cabins to spend the night in before they could begin skiing in the morning.


Back at the school field trip the students arrived at the Heatherfield Mountain, and were assigned cabins to spend the night in before they could begin skiing in the morning.

Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin were in the lounge with Blunk, who somehow managed to stowaway on the trip. Luckily Hay Lin saw Blunk eating garbage outside before the little being froze to death.

As usual, the gang was talking about a certain Halfling.

"So what should we do about Danny?" Will asked the group.

"You're right, we'll have to figure out a way of getting rid of him," Cornelia said missing the point.

"That's not what I meant," Will said in grimaced a little as she saw the confusion in their eyes. "Danny could help us with taking down Phobos." Will finished testing the waters.

The others did not appear receptive to the idea. "Will, are you insane! Are you forgetting that he isn't even human? We can't possibly trust him... No offense Blunk." Taranee said, glancing at the small green creature who was too busy eating garbage to pay attention.

"But he hasn't done anything to hurt anybody and you saw how strong he was. He beat all five of us at once." Will pointed out.

"And that is supposed to make us trust him more!?" Cornelia said incredulously. "What if he tries to attack us during the trip?"

"He wouldn't!" Will shouted back. "I know he won't, I can feel it!" Will immediately regretted her choice of words.

"Feel? Will, please tell me you aren't willing to risk our lives with this ghostly weirdo just because he's making your heart flutter." Irma said with a tinge of desperation.

"What!? No!" Will shouted as her face turned the same shade of red as her hair.

"I think you two look nice together," Hay Lin's remark earned her a glare from the rest of the girls.

"Yeah, it's every girl dream to have the Ghost King as a boyfriend." Irma sarcastically joked causing Hay Lin to rub the back of her neck in embarrassment.

"Guys, I don't have a crush on him! I just think that he could really help us if he knew what was going on!" Will protested. But then she gave a little yelp and pulled out the Heart of Kardrakar which was burning like a torch.

"Well, it looks like the Heart disagrees with you," Cornelia said crossly.

"Thanks a lot," Will grumbled to the Heart.


The next morning saw everyone on the mountain, skiing, snowboarding, or just playing at the snow. As Will walked along she spotted Danny heading out the cabin and began to make her way over towards him.

She didn't care that the girls thought Danny was evil. She knows deep down Danny was one of the good guys, he had been nice to her when she first got into this crazy town and he saved her from Cedric. Even though he doesn't want anything to do with her, the least she could do was say thank you.

"Hi, there Danny. How's it going?" Will said sheepishly.

"Oh, hello there Will." Danny said stiffly.

There was a long, awkward silence, but before either could get a chance to speak Sondra suddenly appeared, shoving Will aside to get to Danny.

"Oh! There you are Danny. Who is your little friend?" Sondra asked in her Swedish accent.

"It's Will Sondra," Will said in an annoyed tone. "We're in the same history class, math class, science class,"

"Well, I can't remember every face and you must realize that you are far too bland to stick out. Surely you don't ski with those little legs," Sondra insulted Will lighting a fire in the guardian's eyes.

"As surely as you can talk with that tiny little brain." Will said in an angry tone.

There was a collection of gasps and snickers from the nearby kids from the insult. The two girls glared at one and another and Danny looked nervously between the two. This is not going to end well.

"Okay, let's just take a step back before we do something…" Danny said, trying to calm down the storm.

"Stay out of this!" Will and Sondra shouted, cutting Danny off.

"You and me one on one, we race at the track." Will said in a confident tone.

"Fine, the loser will have to carry the winner's luggage all weekend. Deal?" Sondra said just as confidently.

"Deal."


"Have you lost your mind?" Danny shouted at Will while the two were alone at the track.

"She started it." Will said defensively.

"What is this, the first grade? Will, she is a ski champ and you can barely know how stand up on the things." Danny said, trying to reason the red hair girl.

"I have my ways." Will respond.

Danny immediately understood what Will was planning to do while at the same time desperately hoping he was wrong.

"Please don't tell me you're going to use your powers to win the race." Danny said in a solemn tone.

"What? No!" Will denied quickly, unable to look Danny in the eye.

"Will take it from a guy, who cheated before. It doesn't end well, I ended up eating someone's underwear because of it, and worse I put other people in danger." Danny said as he closed his eyes and remembered the terrors of his encounter with the Fright Knight, all because he wanted to beat Dash.

"I don't think I need you telling me how to use my powers," Will said rudely to Danny.

"Fine do whatever you want, just don't expect me to save you this time." Danny finished as he left the track, just in time for Sondra and everyone else to show up.

Quickly Will turned into her guardian form and hid the transformation beneath her winter clothing.

"Ready to be humiliated little girl?" Sondra sneered as the race was about to begin.

Will only grunted as she began to focus on the race. But the thought of Danny and his words echoed in Will's mind, bringing a worried expression to her face.


At the cabin Blunk was digging through the garbage, hunting to find anything shiny he could trade with the people of Meridian. He came out with a big old smile on his face as he pulled a pair old ice skates.

Before he could take two steps the Tracker appeared behind Blunk and wrapped his hands around the tiny creature's throat. Nobody could hear the gasp of fear of the dwarf like being as he was pulled away.


Back with Danny, the Halfling was heading back to the cabin, hoping to spend more time with Tucker. Unfortunately, the geeky teen was more interested in the race and the impressive array of teen girls in the vicinity to even consider the possibility of leaving the crowd.

"HELLLP!"

Danny was shocked out of his inner monologue to see an out of control Hay Lin moving at a high speed on a pair of unstable skis, heading directly for a cluster of trees. With a burst of green energy, Danny flared his telekinesis, stopping the girl in her tracks and setting her gently down into the snow.

"You alright?" Danny asked Hay Lin. The teen didn't respond, instead she just stared at the ghost boy with a look of complete shock.

Danny sighed at the girl's reaction, it was just like back home. Whenever he tried to save someone he was repaid with fear and mistrust. Just as he was about to leave, Hay Lin snapped out of her dazed state and grabbed his sleeve.

"Wait, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you," Hay Lin apologized to the ghost-boy.

Danny only shrugged her off and kept walking.

"I hate this world." Danny quietly said to himself.

'Wouldn't it be better to just destroy it all?' The Ring Rage mentally said to Danny as its usual sinister tone, but this time instead of hitting the ring, Danny only smiled. The halfa walked off into the woods, avoiding anybody else, just enjoying his solitude.

Danny only snapped out of his trance when he saw the Tracker drag Blunk towards the cave and seal the entrance. Danny turned invisible as the hunter left the area, avoiding a confrontation.

Once the coast was clear Danny turned visible again cleared away the barrier, freeing Blunk.

The little trash addict burst forth from the cave and tackled Danny into a big hug.

"Ghost-boy free Blunk, ghost boy is Blunk friend." Blunk said as he let Danny go.

"Wait you're not afraid of me?" Danny asked the humanoid toad, ignoring his smell.

"Why would Blunk be afraid of ghost-boy?" Blunk asked Danny. "Ghost-boy safe Blunk twice."

"What no discrimination towards ghosts?" Danny asked the toad.

"Blunk no like discrimination, everyone looks down at Blunk like a warthog butt, on Blunk and people like Blunk. Ghost-boy is friend, he's not evil. Is friend to Blunk." Blunk said as he offer his hand.

"Yeah we're friends, call me Danny Blunk." Danny said, shaking Blunk's hand.

The small guy understood what it likes to be looked down at. Who would have thought that a Passling would understand the Ghost King?

Suddenly there was a big explosion that could be heard from the cave.

"Well that looks bad." Danny groaned. "Blunk hide, I'll handle this!"


Danny headed towards the explosion, about a mile away from the track. The Tracker was making his way towards five powerful Aether signatures spread out and buried within a great mass of snow, it looked as though half of the mountain had come down from the blast.

'So that was the plan, he captured Blunk to prevent him from warning the girls and then uses the small avalanche to separate and kill them, one by one.' Danny thought to himself.

The Tracker had reached Will's icy prison, the girl was buried so deeply that she wasn't even aware of the blade that was about to pierce her body. Right before the Tracker could complete his stab, a green blast knocked the blade flying away from him.

"It isn't Halloween pal, come back next year," Danny said as he reach down his pocket and brought up a short bar that with the push of a button extended into the Fenton quarterstaff.

The fight began as the Tracker summoned his army of bats to distract Danny. The ghost boy only merely flared his ghostly aura, scaring the bats so badly that they all either fled or fainted.

The Tracker ran towards Danny with an upper swing from his flaming sword, but the teen easily parried the blow with his staff. He followed up with a kick to the stomach, knocking the hunter sprawling. Then Danny rushed towards the Tracker, knocking his sword away and hitting him with an upward blow towards the jaw that sent the man's head swinging backwards. He finished up the combo with a massive punch that doubled the hunter over, clenching his stomach.

"You know what I am and you know how this going to end, so you can either run, or die." Danny said, his eyes flaring green.

The Tracker threw a cluster of pellets towards the ground and vanished in a puff of smoke.

"I thought so." Danny said to himself.

Danny then walked towards where the guardians were buried under the snow. With a burst of cryokinesis the snow was all blown away, freeing the teens trapped beneath.

"Whoever moved the snow? Thank you," Irma said as she hugged herself to try to stay warm.

"Your welcome," Danny said as he began helping Will up. The other four guardians exchanged looks of alarm and quickly got ready to defend themselves from the Ghost King. The Ghost King however, barely even spared them a single glance.

"Thanks for the save," Will said as she transformed back into her regular self.

"Still don't believe that cheating doesn't end well?" Danny said as he let Will go.

"Point taken," Will said as she began scanning the area. "Hey, where's the Tracker?" Will asked the ghost-boy.

Danny gave a confuse look, "You mean the Halloween man? He probably trying to figure out how he's going to sit down with how badly I kicked his butt."

"Thanks Danny, we owe you one. I'll talk to you later, I promise." Will said as she made her way to her friends and they began looking for the portal the Tracker came from.


By the time they found it the Tracker was long gone, Will merely closed the portal and headed back to the cabins.

That night everyone was in the lounge to hang out for a few hours before bed. Tucker and a plethora of other guys were helping Sondra lay down on the sofa. She was complaining to anyone within earshot how she had apparently broken her leg during the race, despite the doctor's claim that it was only a strained ankle.

"OW! Careful, you doofus that hurt!" Sondra yelled at Tucker, breaking her Swedish accent.

"Your ankle's only sprained, but I think your accent is broken." Will said smugly

The Hay Lin came towards Sondra and looked over her sweater. "Dry clean only. Grandma goat hair huh." Hay Lin said as she let go of the 'goat hair.'

"Yeah, we should get you to the больница." Taranee said with a glare.

"And what does that mean?" Sondra asked with annoyance.

"Hospital, you said you spoke Russian. Oh, by the way, no cashmere goat at Switzerland, unless you're from the Himalayas as well." Taranee said smugly.

"Oh, who cares?! As soon I reach my parents, I'm switching school anyway!" Sondra responded with her arm crossed.

Everyone left the lounge except for a small group of desperate guys who just continued making goggling eyes at the pretty little liar.

Will was about to go to her room when she spotted Danny on the lounge balcony.

"There's one thing I don't get." Will said as she made her approach to Danny, leaning up against the balcony beside him.

"What's that?" Danny asked.

"Everyone was drooling over Sondra, everyone except you. She even personally seeked you out, and you didn't even react. Why?"

Danny only looked up at the stars for a moment before he gave his explanation.

"I already passed the whole shallow phase a long time ago, I figured out that those kind of girls only really care about themselves and just use you, whether to get something they can't get or to use some poor sap as the punchline to a joke. That's definitely not what I'm looking for in a girl." Danny said as he look over to Will. "I'm sorry about how I acted yesterday, you were only trying to help and I acted like a jerk." Danny said sincerely.

"I should be the one to say that." Will said as she look back at Danny. "First we attacked you for no good reason, and then I didn't trust you when you tried to give me some advice to help me out. You were right, it bite me in the butt. I'm pretty sure you were entitled to be a bit snappish with me."

"So, forgive and forget." Danny said to Will.

"Yeah, I like that." Will said to Danny

"Even though your friends are still going spy on me and treat me like a criminal," Danny continued.

"I might be the leader of the group, but I can't really do much about their opinion about you, sorry."

"Well, I don't care what they think of me, I care what my friends think of me. We are still friends, right." Danny asked Will.

Will look up at the ghost-boy with a smile on her face, glad that their argument could be put behind them.

"Yeah, still friends." Will said as she and Danny made their way to the lounge.

"You ate someone's underwear?" Will asked the ghost-boy.

"We are not having this conversation!" Danny said forcefully.

Will just laughed at the ghost-boy reaction.


Alright everyone chapter 3 is done sorry it took me so long. I spent much time making this chapter as well making sure there no mistake this time.

Jeff the Killer and Jane the Killer

Are property of Creepypasta from YouTube, I change the origin of Jane so instead of being a killer she get to live her life at peace. There be more Creepypasta villains showing up, but I won't spoil anything.

Danny not being shallow anymore, is Danny maturity he doesn't want be any girl puppet, I'm talking to not only Sondra but also Paulina and even Cornelia. I really hate those girls.

Danny black jagged sword is the same sword Kaien Cross wields at Vampire Knight.

As for what Tucker is here well he's the tech guy, you find out why I have him here.

Also I added Blunk about racism towards ghost because he understand being discriminated as a Passling by other people, I'm looking at you Caleb.

If you wondering if that was Dan from Danny nightmare, it was.

If there any question PM me. Until then, have an awesome day.

P.S. My Beta Heroman45 is awesome and you should check out his story Escalation, it's really good.