Kidnapping in the Snowy Summer
A/N Okay everyone Ice is back but who knows how much help he'll be. (This story didn't turn out quite the way I wanted.)
Ch 5 Tucker's History Repeated
Tucker set the speeder down and put it into park. The trio piled out. Spook lifted his head from the concrete floor and wagged his tail happy to see Danny back home. As Danny turned back to human Spook came running up to Danny.
Danny patted Spook on the head before they went upstairs still in a defeated mood. When Danny went into the kitchen he found Jazz still sitting at the kitchen table looking out for her parents if they got home before he did.
"Mom and Dad still out" Danny asked his sister.
"Yep" his sister answered.
"Looks like I may have to go after the box ghost my self" Danny said.
"You mean after you fly me home before my parents realize I'm missing" Sam reminded Danny.
"Yeh, right" Danny said turning back into his ghostly form "you coming Tucker."
"No I'll walk, let you two lovebirds have sometime alone" Tucker snickered.
"We're not lovebirds" both Sam and Danny said at the same time as they tried to hide the small blush that came to their cheeks at the thought of it.
Danny took Sam's hand as they went intangible then flew up through the floors and roof of the house then took off towards Sam's house.
As soon as he dropped Sam off in her room he headed back home. Danny slipped into the kitchen invisible. Jazz was still at the table writing in a notebook.
"Hey Jazz mom and dad still out" Danny asked coming back to the floor and changing back to human.
"No they got back about 10 minutes ago, they're in the lab trying to 'fix' the tracker" Jazz said getting up from the table.
"And the ghost hunt" Danny asked wanting to know if he had to spend the night going after the box ghost.
"Sounds like a quiet night for you" Jazz said walking out of the kitchen to head upstairs.
Danny grabbed a few sticks of beef jerky when a bang rang from the basement and he decided to retire to a quieter room. Danny and his dog were about to climb the stairs, heads bowed as they were defeated in their mission to find the kids or the ghost responsible for them missing. A sudden voiced stopped them after taking just three steps.
"Sorry I wasn't much help" Ice's voice said.
Danny looked up to see him sitting at the top of the stairs.
"You again" Danny said dropping his jerky that Spook was more than happy to clean up.
After all he was a dog and food is rather distracting.
Danny looked at the ghost seeing he didn't look as weak as before and he wasn't huddled in a corner scared.
"I can only come when she's distracted with the other kids" Ice answered Danny's earlier statement.
"Yeah whatever, while you've been gone I've been…" Danny suddenly stopped. "Wait, what did you say" Danny asked.
"I can only come when she's…" Ice was saying Danny cut him off.
"You said she" Danny said bring up the most important word of the sentence. "Who is she" Danny asked.
"The white maiden" Ice answered. "Everyone has come to call her the White Ice Maiden" Ice finished.
"Now we're starting to get some actually information" Danny said.
"I'm not use to giving information, you're the only one who's listened to me" Ice said. "No one's listened to my warnings before," he said with a hint of sadness "this has happened so many times before, I always tried to warn them but nobody listened."
"This has happened before" Danny asked Ice getting his complete attention.
"Yes, many times before" Ice answered then his head snapped to the right. Ice stumbled to his feet freighted.
"What" Danny asked seeing his reaction?
Ice didn't answer and there was a flurry of snow flakes and the flakes fell to the floor. It's like he was never there.
After Ice's visit Danny knew who to go to look into the new information.
It was night and a summer storm raged outside. Thunder clashed and Lighting flashed all while the rain poured down hard making a clicking sound on the window pane.
"Anything" Danny asked into the cell phone as he sat at his computer.
"Give me sometime I've got a lot of sites to sort through" Tucker said on the other line.
"Haven't you got anything" Sam said on the third line.
"It not that simple apparently White Ice Maiden comes up a lot in all different places from children's stories to jewelry" Tucker explained.
"The internet gives to much information sometimes" Danny complained.
"I think I've got something," Tucker said "sending you guys the link."
All eyes turned to their computer screens as a sudden link symbol appeared on Sam and Danny's screens. They both clicked it and waited for it to open.
"The White Maiden site" Danny read then continued. "White maidens are the ghost of a woman in white. Usually the woman has experience a sudden loss or betrayal before death and in most cases committees' suicide. Once a sprit they seek vengeance on the very loss or betrayal. For example if a woman finds her man being unfaithful she will spend the afterlife finding men who are unfaithful and condemn them to death."
"Okay that was a nice little description" Sam said into the phone once Danny finished.
"Hold on I've got a lot of links for the history" Tucker said as he sent every link he found that related to the event that was happened now.
"This are all cases where kids were taken from their town and they never found who was responsible" Sam asked shuffling through the many pages of information Tucker had sent them.
"All these towns have every kid ages 5-17 missing in the span of 2-3 months" Danny said doing just the same as Sam.
"Well, this has already been going on for three weeks times running out, and there's cases almost all the way back to the 1700's" Sam said.
"Notice there's a pattern," Tucker said "there's a span of 10 years between each case."
"Hold it I see the most recent case was over 10 years it was 12 years ago and 5 of the kids didn't disappear" Sam said.
"Weird" Tucker said.
All three of them went through the piles of information on their screens when one such page caught Danny's eye.
"Guys go to the case of 1883" Danny said.
"What about it" Sam asked.
"Enlarge the picture of the kids in front of the school house" Danny said.
They all clicked on the picture to enlarge it. It showed rows of students in black in white in front of an old fashion one room school house with a female teacher in a floral pattern dress off to the side of her students. All the kids had bland expressions on their faces since it was before the norm of smiling for your picture. The picture was taken weeks before the first kid went missing in the town.
"Kid second row fourth from the left" Danny directed.
"What about him?" Tucker asked as they focused in on that one boy.
"Tint the skin blue, the hair, and give him snowflakes for irises and that's Ice" Danny answered.
"Really" Sam asked.
"With out a doubt in my mind" Danny replied.
"Hm" Tucker said over the phone as he scrolled down the site some more. "Newspaper article says James J. Ashtin, age 15, went missing June 15th 1883 in the small farm town of Feildsville, Minnesota. He went missing on his way home from school. It was the last day of school before summer break. The family realized he was missing when he wasn't home when the sun set. No one had seen the boy after he left the school. After 3 days of searching they found his books and hat in the middle of a corn field with no sign of the boy. Then after the items were found more and more kids started to disappear with no trace and were never found." Tucker finished his shorted version of the article.
The 3 continued their scanning through the information when…
Unknown to Tucker his bedroom window started to frost up. The frost slowly crept over the glass making a light crackle sound as it went. (Like Harry Potter 3 on the train with the demontors.) The sound was covered by the storm outside.
"Burrrr" Tucker said from the other side of the phone.
"You okay" Danny asked.
"Yeah just fells like the AC was put into full blast like a freezer in here" Tucker replied.
Danny and Sam didn't think anything wrong till… A sudden intake of breath came from the other end and after that the sound of the cell phone hitting the hard floor.
"Tucker, Tucker are you there" Danny asked finically.
"Tucker answer us" Sam screamed.
But there was no one there to answer just the empty room with a glowing computer screen. The frost on the window slowly melting away from the heat and rain.
A/N Now it gets critical with Tucker gone. Care to take a stab at what's coming next. And most importantly review. Next chapter Iced past.