"He's rather," Janet began turning back to a partially recovered Danny, "oh what's the word?"

"Creepy, crazy, weird?" Danny supplied.

"Generic, it's like he took masterclasses from just about every spoof movie and comic book villain ever."

Danny laughed at this before doubling over in pain; Janet rushed to his side, "how bad is it?" She asked lowering him to sit on the remains of the pillar that hit Vlad.

"I won't be running a marathon any time soon, can't you, you know."

"Nope, I am not allowed to use healing magic until I'm eighteen, except under supervision."

"Does your Dad count?" Danny said pointing at Thom who was tending to Danielle, Tucker and Sam, Janet shook her head.

"Not got the right training, besides, healing magic is not made to be used on half ghosts, I wouldn't really know where to start," Danny sighed.

"Vlad's never done something like this before, he's attacked us, but never Sam and Tucker, he's always left non-ghosts out of it, something's changed."

"People change, the crazy usually get crazier."

"He's also never been that strong before, I mean, last time we fought to a standstill, and agreed a tie, but now."

"You were weakened by Skulker, and he fought you in two halves, I think he might not be as much stronger as you think he is."

"I suppose you're right," Danny limbed over to Thom, "how are they?"

"Danielle should be waking up soon, the goth. Sam was it?" Danny nodded, "she'll wake up within the hour, the other not long after, I've done my best with my limited healing abilities, but they'll have headaches for a while, maybe dizziness and nausea, but they'll be okay. I have no clue how to heal the ghost girl, but she has minor scrapes and bruises, if my diagnosis spell is working properly on her, which I think it is. So what did the crazy want?"

Danny smiled a wan smile "for me to be his ideal son, to marry my Mum, and totally destroy my Dad."

"Oh," Janet said, "so he's that kind of crazy, great," she deadpanned.

"So, what's our next move?" Thom asked.

"We wait, I get some sleep, we let them recover, and surely you must be getting tired."

"Yes, a bit, maybe at fifty percent," Thom said, "but I've been tireder and dealt with worse."

"I'm not tired at all," Janet said.

"Do you remember what I said about a flock of Dragons?" Thom asks Danny whilst smiling at his daughter.

Janet crossed her arms, "we both know I'm telling the truth Dad."

Thom laughed loudly, "I know dear, is a Dad not allowed to tease his daughter?" Janet smiled at him.

"Who's laughing?" A groggy voice asks, they all turn to see Dani sitting up.

Thom put a hand on her shoulder, "easy Danielle, you took a nasty knock to the head."

"Who are you, how do you know my name, where's Vlad?"

"I'm Thom Harker, I'm an Auror, this is my daughter Janet, I'm assuming you know Danny."

"Okay, so that answers my first two questions, but where's Vlad? And what's an Auror?"

"Janet scared off Vlad," Danny said, Dani's eyes widen at this as she looks at the short witch.

"How? Also, what's an Auror?"

"An Auror is like a magical policeman, we deal with supernatural crimes, Janet defeated Vlad because she is a very powerful witch," Thom said.

"One more question, where is everyone? Shouldn't the curious onlookers have arrived by now?" Dani asked before lapsing into unconsciousness.

Janet started, "Dad, do you think that means?"

"A monster, almost definitely, and a powerful one at that to scare off everyone like that," there is a loud and deep snorting, snuffling sound, Thom draws his wand and Janet removes her bracelets, "Danny, get everyone out of here, you are in no shape to fight a monster."

"I can..."

"No," Thom cuts him off, "you can't," Danny picked up the other three and flew off, just as a minotaur lumbered around the corner.

"Well, this will be fun," Janet said as she pressed the eye of her snake bracelet, turning it into a sword, the Minotaur looked around, unable to see them, "Dad, Minotaurs are almost blind and rely on their sense of smell right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, I think this one is having problems smelling through all the flowers in the park," as she said this the minotaur turned towards her, sniffed, bellowed, and charged, Janet shot a stun spell at the minotaur, but it barely fazed the monster, Janet rolled to the side just as the minotaur charged passed her and rammed into a tree. The monster now had its horns stuck in the tree, Janet walked up to the struggling monster, trying not to alert it to her presence, the minotaur started kicking in her general direction. The minotaur pulled its horns from the tree with an almighty bellow, it turned towards Janet and charged again, unable to dodge Janet raised her wand, "protego duo," the charging minotaur bounces off the shield, but the shield shatters and Janet is knocked back a couple of metres.

"Janet," Thom yelled rushing to her side.

"I'm fine, just a bit dizzy," she said pushing herself up, she stumbled a bit, but was able to maintain her footing.

"Let me do it, just rest," Thom points his wand at the minotaur which is struggling to its feet, Thom also snatches up Janet's fallen sword, "flipendo," the minotaur stumbles backwards before falling onto its back. Thom rushes forward, "fumos," a thick, black, oily smelling smoke screen rises obscuring the minotaur and Thom, when it dissipates the minotaur is gone and in its place is a pile of yellowish dust.

"I need to work on my duelling spells," muttered Janet, "let's go back to the hotel, wait where are the weasels?" Three sets of sunglass covered weasel eyes peek out from behind a tree, Janet instantly puts them in a bubble, "oh, there they are, we should sent them to the commissioner."

"Portus," Thom says pointing at an old box; Janet snaps her fingers and the agents become human again. Now free of the bubble they try to run away "petrificus totalus," in short order all three are in body binds, they are then placed next to the portkey, which then activated sending them to a holding cell at the Aurors' offices. "Now let's go back to the hotel."


When they arrived back at the hotel they found an owl waiting for them, Thom gave it a treat and read its message, "she expects Skulker and the agents, she is not going to be happy."

"Tell her about Vlad, that'll get her blood pressure up," Janet said as Thom wrote the letter to the commissioner, he sighed at the immaturity of his daughter.

"I'm sure it will, but what did he mean he had encountered other Aurors?" Thom mused.

Janet dropped her book as she realised something, "the Wisconsin vampire, you know the one two years ago."

"Of course, people described a vampire, but attributed powers to it that no vampires have, some Aurors were dispatched to deal with it, but they didn't defeat it, they described a red eyed, blue skinned vampire who glowed and shot rays at them, the commissioner thought they had been hit over the head too hard. I have to tell the commissioner," Thom started scribbling furiously, when the letter was sealed he attached it to the owl and sent it on its way, "maybe we'll catch it tomorrow Janet."

Janet sighed and got out the chair and walked to the bathroom to prepare for bed.

The next day was also sunny, when they woke up Janet and Thom found an owl delivered letter waiting for them, "she wants to bring in Vlad by any means necessary, and Skulker if possible, also if the Guys in White interfere again she's going to send them all to prison."

"Well, let's get going then," Janet said finishing her breakfast.

Janet and Thom were walking along the street, "you know, it would have been a good idea to give Danny a way to contact us," Thom said as they looked for anything ghostly.

"Well, we can always go to him," Janet said, "we do know where he lives and you can always go talk to the Fentons about ghosts," Thom groaned at the thought.

"I do not want to talk to them ever again, she's sane and clever, but he's missing a few screws."

"Behold, I am The Box Ghost, lord of all things hollow with lids" came a nasal voice from a blue dungaree clad warehouse worker ghost who had just floated into the street, people were screaming and running from the most harmless looking ghost ever, "all will bow before me or be destroyed."

"Speaking of missing a few screws," Thom muttered, "hey ghost, are you going to peacefully go back to where you came from, or have I got to force you?" He shouted at the ghost, who started laughing.


Meanwhile, Danny was in his room on the phone to Sam, "I'm telling you Sam when I got back to the park they were gone, but there was a strange pile of dust. I don't know how their fight with the monster went, they told me to get the three of you to safety, I come back and they'd vanished" Danny said over the phone. "Yes, Dani's fine, my parents left yesterday after they visited, they're going halfway across the country for some paranormal conference, so it's just me, Dani and Jazz... Fine if you want to be pedantic, Dani, Jazz and I." Just then a blue wisp escaped Danny's mouth, "Sam, I've got to go, yes it's a ghost, probably boxy," Danny hung up the phone and transformed from his human form to his white haired ghost form, he phased through the wall and invisibly flew down the street. He soon found Thom and Janet standing next to the unconscious Box Ghost, Danny starts to slow clap, they jumped, and spun around looking for him, Danny turned visible and landed next to them. "Well done, you defeated Boxy," he pointed the Fenton Thermos at the Box Ghost and sucked the ghost inside, "I'll take him back to the zone, Boxy's not a criminal, just a pest."

"Behold," shouted a loud, piercing, slightly robotic voice emanating from a parking machine, the machine shook and a green ghost emerged, he was tall, with long white hair, he was wearing lab coat and green goggles, "I am Technus, Lord of all things electronic," the ghost then began a monologue about taking over the world.

"Do all your villains yell behold when they appear?" Janet asked Danny.

"Just Technus and Boxy."

"What are we dealing with here?" Thom asked.

"Technus controls all electronic devices that aren't properly shielded, he also makes ecto-lightening and ghost ray and shields, he usually monologues for a while, then tries to take over the world, fails and builds a giant robot."

"Then I will use the penguins to destroy the plant monster, leaving me the ruler of the world," Technus finally finished, before launching into evil laughter.

"Technus, how about we just skip to the giant robot?" Danny asked.

Technus' eyes flashed, "that's a brilliant idea, I will build a giant robot and destroy..."

"Stop monologuing," Danny shouted, shooting a green ray at the white haired ghost.

"Ah, the impatience and impertinence and, er, other words beginning with imp of youth," Technus said rose into the air, "I shall raise this city and replace it with a technotopia and nothing can..."

"Descendo terra duo," Janet cast, causing Technus to return to the ground with a bang.

"What happened?" Technus asked dazed and confused, he quickly recovered, "who dares to ground the mighty Technus?"

"Hi," Janet said as she waved a hand at Technus, "Technus, you know that trying to destroy a city with magical powers is illegal, right?"

"Yes, but I'm doing it anyway, because no-one can stop me."

"I'm pretty sure we can."

"You can't if you're aren't ghost as well," Technus shot ghostly green lightning at Janet, who, with a wave of a hand, raised a shield to protect herself, Technus shied back, "so there is a witch, I thought Skulker had finally lost it."

"Since when are you sane Technus?" Danny asked.

'Technus appears to have forgotten about the giant robot when he got angry,' Janet thought, 'if we keep him angry he won't build it.'

"Take that back!" Technus cried as he launched a barrage of lightning at Danny, who blocked with a ghost shield, Danny then flew at Technus, who raised his own ghost shield to block.

"Reducto," Janet cast.

"Conjuro fulguris," Thom cast simultaneously, the two spells raced towards Technus, overtaking Danny, they impacted Technus' ghost shield, shattering it like dropped china, Danny then flew through the shattered shield and straight into the technopathic ghost, knocking him backwards.

"I gasp won't be so gasp easily overcome," Technus muttered as he held onto his chest where Danny hit him, he shot lightning at the ground causing dust and small bits of rock to be blown into the air.

"Depulso," Janet cast, sending the dust cloud away, Technus was nowhere to be seen, "he got away, and the grounding charm will have worn off by now."

"One ghost escaped," said a voice behind them, there was a sudden shock and Janet, Thom and Danny were knocked out, "however we caught a pair of wizards," the Guys in White agent said over his communicator, he signalled to his compatriots and they lifted the three of them and lifted them into a van.

Unbeknownst to them they were being watched from a rooftop by a lone figure, "Danny's going to need help," Danielle muttered before flying off to follow the van.