Chapter 7
The next day was Sunday, and Ivan huffed as he got out of bed and stretched then did his exercises. Great, now I gotta find another girl. Ivan kept on mumbling about how hard that was going to be as he finished exercising and took his shower. Sure, he could have any girl he wanted, but he read an old study that said that couples got more action than single people. After dressing in jeans, brown boots, a green shirt and his leather jacket Ivan scrambled downstairs and had some cereal for breakfast. He smelled nail polish and saw his Mom and little sister Selma painting their nails.
Chloe's were black, as usual, and already starting to dry as she helped her daughter paint her own nails a bright shade of blue. Ivan's other sister Greta came down from her room already in her Ghost Form, green skin with red eyes wearing a white jacket, black shirt with a design that looked like an animal had clawed white stripes on it and black pants and white shoes. Greta turned back into her Human form, skin turned white, eyes brown, while her jacket turned black, shirt turned white and black and her pants turned blue denim with dark red shoes. "Why do you have to be so girly?" Greta said. "Because I am a girl," Selma said matter-of-factly.
Chloe then said, "Ivan, you have to watch your sisters today. Your Father and I are needed at an important Fighter Meeting." "Why not Eve?" Ivan griped. "Eve volunteered to help at the Hospital today, and before you ask, James has Capoeira lessons today," Chloe told her son. When she turned back to doing Selma's nails Ivan punched the air a few times, imagining it was James, that little punk! Ivan sighed and sat on the couch to read a book on his phone, Badass Heroes of Cinema. After waiting thirty minutes Selma's nails were done and Chloe left to go to Foley's Fighters HQ. Ivan watched Selma go Ghost, her skin and eyes turned green as her teeth turned to fangs and her nails turned black while like her once pink pants, shirt, and shoes before going Ghost himself, turning his skin green and eyes red while his pants and shirt turned black and boots and jacket turned white. Greta then went Ghost herself and the three of them flew off.
"Where are we going?" Ivan asked. "The Pet Store!" Selma excitedly yelled and flew in that direction. "Of course," Greta said.
Ivan and Greta followed her to the Pet Store where Ivan had to remind an overly excited Selma to turn back into her Human form before going in. Selma was nearly everywhere, looking at the puppies and kittens, fish and snakes and lizards, petting hamsters and gerbils. Ivan just thanked his lucky stars that she wasn't being talkative, Selma once spent three hours in a pet store because she kept on talking about the animal's genus and phylum and kingdom, along with their history related to humans. Ivan's thoughts were interrupted when all of a sudden his and his sisters' Ghost Sense went off all at once and a loud crash resounded by the street. "Fuck me," Ivan sighed, "Come on Selma, or that ghost'll hurt the animals," Greta then told Selma. "Oh shit!" Ivan yelled, too late, both his sisters went Ghost and flew off towards the noise.
Ivan ran out the shop and went Ghost, only to feel weaker than ever, what the Hell? He then jumped up to fly only to fall on his feet. "Fuck me sideways," Ivan said then got on idea, putting both feet on the building next to him he saw that he could still stick to buildings. Ivan ran on the sides of the buildings and soon saw the ghost; it looked like a rock giant. He watched as Selma dodged one of its fists then blast away at its armpits. "Don't hurt the animals!" Selma yelled. Greta used her ice ray to freeze one of its arms…for about three seconds. Selma then flew between its legs, blasting away, the rock giant didn't even notice. This thing's gonna take forever, they're too fast for it to hit, and it's too tough for them to hurt.
Ivan jumped off the side of the building and landed on the rock giant's head. He then built up power in his left arm and slammed it down hard on the rock giant's head, turning it into rubble. Ivan, Greta, and Selma then spent ten minutes clawing open portals and throwing the rubble back into the Ghost Zone before Greta and Selma carried Ivan to their Great Aunt Jazz's house.
After 3 hours of tests, Great Aunt Jazz finally let Ivan put his clothes back on and sit at her dinner table while she and his Great Uncle Chris got everyone else he was immediately related to in their house, including his Grandparents. They were talking about him, and he really didn't care, Aunt Jazz had gotten a mega-bacon burger from The Nasty Burger for him to eat, and right now that's what he was doing. It's not like his life was in danger anyway, nothing bad ever really happened to people in his family…right? "Ivan, we need to talk," the teen heard his Dad say. Roger sat down next to him in his human disguise. "What's going on?" Ivan asked. He heard his Dad mumble, "Gott, warum hast du das zulassen." Oh shit, Dad's talking German, this is bad.
"Ivan, no matter what, you'll always be my son," Roger started. Ivan swallowed then yelled, "What is it!?" "Ivan, calm down," Roger told him. Ivan took a few deep breaths and his Dad continued, "That laser those anti-ghost MORONS used was an advanced version of the Plasmius Maximus. It doesn't take away all your powers temporarily; it's destroying your ghost DNA, getting rid of your powers one by one," "NO!" Ivan yelled, jumping up. "NO!" It took everyone in the house to hold him down as he kept on screaming for three hours afterwards.
