Chapter 4

GH

Mai silently watched as Lin, under the role of Shibuya Kazuya, explained to the Fenton's about the ghost they had sealed away. Mai would never forget it. The ghost was once known as Teramoto Kenta, a daimyo who ruled over part of the Mie Prefecture in the Kansai region during the Nara Period, he lived roughly between 730 A.D. and 786 A.D. according to the Western Calendar. Teramoto Kenta was a fierce lord, who ruled over his fiefdom with an iron fist. He was also said to have been an invincible warrior in his time, having slain 54 warriors on his own at the age of fifty. The secret to his power was said to have been his reliance on the darkest of magic, that he had sacrificed many of his own people in the pursuit of power.

In time, word of his atrocities spread to Emperor Kanmu, who then ordered the surrounding lords to destroy Teramoto. Teramoto's forces were besieged for three years before at last the united armies of the surrounding fiefdoms at last took his castle. But Teramoto refused to surrender, and before his death performed a powerful ritual of black magic that bound his soul to forever walk the Earth. For the next twenty years his ghost haunted his former fiefdom, until Emperor Heizei summoned the most powerful monks of Japan to seal Teramoto's soul into a tree. The tree turned white as ash afterwards, and for centuries monks would repeat the ritual to keep Teramoto's soul inside the tree.

But as time passed, the sect assigned to perform the ritual forgot why they had to do this, Teramoto passed into legend, until at last the last monk that knew the binding ritual passed away last year. And Teramoto awoke once more to wreak his vengeance. By the time Shibuya Psychic Research had arrived, he had already claimed 37 victims, their bodies carved with ancient symbols. It had taken all their combined strengths to seal Teramoto into the vase, and yet they could not destroy him. Mai watched as the Fenton's looked at Lin as if he was crazy, at first, but then he showed them the pictures of everyone's injuries, and their tone changed a lot. From what Mai could see, the Fenton's were willing to lend them their weapons; they just needed Teramoto Kenta's jar. The Fenton's then apparently bid them goodbye and SPR left.

Along the way Mai heard Naru tell Lin, "It seems that business has improved for the Fentons." "But honestly, how could that oaf have had a hand in those weapons!? I've seen smaller sumo," Ayako said. "Looks can be deceiving," John pointed out. Masako was silent the whole way back to the Hotel though, and Mai was concerned. Once they were back in their room Mai asked the medium, "Masako, what's wrong now?" She looked at her and said, "The Fenton's son, there is something different about him. He didn't feel…human." "What are you talking about? Of course he was human, we all saw him, and he didn't seem different from any other teenager to me," Ayako said. "But I had the strangest feeling as I touched his hand, like he was a ghost. The feeling was almost like…static on a TV," Masako said. Just then Masako yelled, "SOMETHING'S HERE!" And the temperature dropped thirty degrees in one second.

DP

After he left his house Danny headed straight for Tucker's house. The technogeek wasn't doing anything important, just fiddling with his PDA when Danny showed up in his room. "Yo Danny, what's up?" Tucker asked him. "I need your help, another ghost hunting gang's showed up," Danny told him. "Think you can tell me where they're staying?" "Why?" Tucker asked. Danny told him, "I'm tired of always being in the middle of fighting a ghost when some bozos show up and try to blast me. This time, I'm gonna hit them first, and run them out of town," Danny punctuated his statement by pounding his right fist into his left palm.

"Now you're talking," Tucker told him, "So who are these guys?" "They call themselves Shibuya Psychic Research, they're Japanese, I think, except for this one Catholic priest, their boss is this tall guy who calls himself Shibuya Kazuya," Danny told him. Tucker clicked on his computer and found them, "Got it, they're at that Praffer Hotel on Eagle Drive, Floor Seven, Rooms A4-6. Says here they got Ghost Insurance, which means you can go to town." "Thanks Tuck, now it's time to kick some Ghost Hunter butt!" Danny crowed as he flew straight to the Hotel.

Danny got to the rooms and wondered, "Who should I scare first. Eeny, meeny, miney, MOE!" Danny flew into the room and saw the three girls from before inside, talking in Japanese. Danny focused the power of his Cold Core and right as the Dark Haired Girl in the kimono yelled something in Japanese, he made the whole room temperature drop. He then blasted a weak ghost ray into the wall and spelled out, 'GET OUT!' He phased into the next room to see the Catholic Priest and some Monk with a pony tail reacting to the screams. Danny phased through the door to their room and pushed against it as the two men tried to leave; his superior ghost strength prevented them from leaving even when they both shoved against the door.

Danny went to the last room and saw Shibuya Kazuya and the Pretty Boy. The Pretty Boy said something in Japanese and Shibuya Kazuya whistled with both fingers, and all of a sudden Danny was knocked down by three white spirits of some kind. Danny was now visible and looked at the two of them, then turned his attention back to the spirits. Danny punched one away then grabbed a second by its tail and hit the third with it, then threw it at Shibuya Kazuya who dodged it. Danny then turned invisible again and lifted up one of the beds in the room and flipped it. He then again carved into the wall with his ghost ray, 'LEAVE!'

Just then the Priest and Monk charged into the room and the Monk chanted something and all of a sudden Danny felt like an explosion happened in his head and he turned visible again screaming in pain! WHAT WAS THAT! Then the Priest threw holy water on him, burning his chest, NO WAY! The panicking Phantom then flew back to the girl's room, and then the Brunette and Red Head waved their arms and did another chant, and then Danny was knocked right back into the Monk and Priest's room, slamming into the wall and cuts appeared all over his body. Oh SHIT! These guys have superpowers!? This was a bad idea!

Danny had to focus to keep from turning Human right then and there, when the whole group burst into the room. Danny backed away from all of them, he never felt more hunted in his whole life! Danny then desperately focused his power and yelled, "GET AWAY!" and blasted ecto energy all around him in a semicircular burst, knocking them all back and everything in the room when a jar standing on a table fell and shattered into pieces, and a dark blue fog blasted out of Danny's mouth. He then turned to see the ghost; it was a tall Samurai warrior in full armor, black and red atop a white horse with all black eyes. The horse snorted and the Samurai ghost laughed, and then burst through the window. Danny flew after it and used what little power he had left to blast it with an explosive energy disc, and the ghost was knocked down then disappeared into a red portal.

Danny was barely conscious and remembered that Sam lived nearby. He flew to her room and phased in, Sam jumped from her bed and yelled, "Danny what happened!?" "I messed up," Danny managed to say then passed out.