Chapter 6 - Well, that must be it!
"How did you do that?" Danny asked with his mind and voice.
"I don't know!" I replied in the same way.
"I think I might know," Sam said, brandishing the machine she got from the lab.
"Okay, Sam," I said. "If you know then tell us!" Suddenly I felt rather nervous, whether I was feeling my emotions, Danny's emotions or a mixed up jumble of both I didn't know.
"Right," Sam said. "You know how earlier, I said you guys were half-ghost?" She asked gesturing to the four of us. We nodded. "Well I know this because of this machine." She held the device up and turned it on.
Four ecto-energy beings located Announced the device. Sam looked at the display and it showed 4 bleeping dots surrounding the centre point of it. She then held it out to Danny. He took it from her. I felt a sting in my hand, that wasn't mine. Danny dropped the device.
I lunged forward and caught it. The stupid thing zapped my hand! Passing it to Sam, I nearly dropped it.
"And there's the rest of my proof," Sam said.
"What exactly just happened?!" I asked.
"When Danny took it from me, it registered that he was half ghost, same thing when you caught it," Sam answered. "Probably the reason it zapped you."
"When did you become a ghost know it all?" Mollie asked, I had told her a lot about all of my friends in Amity Park.
"Secretly," Sam said a little awkwardly. "I have been since I found out Danny's last name."
"Why?" Danny asked.
"Because I thought you would be!" Sam said rapidly.
"Wow," Danny said, confused. "Why didn't you tell me?" We were all a little shocked, Danny more so than the rest. He didn't know about... Clueless! I thought to him.
Who? He asked. Wait, what do you mean?
"My point exactly!" I said outloud.
"Guys you're doing it again!" Steven said.
"Oh, Sorry," I replied.
"Hey, guys," Mollie interrupted. "Can we get out of here now?" She paused. "Perhaps you could give me a tour of Amity Park and it's surrounding woods?"
"Great idea!" The other four of us said, all but Danny and I were slightly out of synch.
At that moment my Mum came down and said, "Danny, where are your parents?" At her heels was Stan, the Plummer Terrier (It's a Jack Russell cross), and behind her were Dad and Tucker.
"In the lab," Danny answered.
"Mum," I said. "We're going to take Mollie on a tour, is that okay?"
"Yeah, sure, go ahead," Mum said, she wasn't really paying attention. Grabbing her HAZMAT suit, she turned away from us. Stan started to bark at the four of us.
Just to clear this up, Stan has been trained to bark at ghosts, or rather the scent of Ectoplasm. There are only two humans he barks at, my older brothers Kenny and David (More so David than Kenny... Not sure why that is...). Aside from the twins, Stan only barks at ghosts and he growls at humans.
We're screwed! I thought to Danny.
Yep! Danny Thought back.
"Stan, shut up," Mum said. "We have an emergency, we can't go ghost hunting now!"
"Kids," Dad said. "Have you got your ecto-weapons?"
"Yeah, Dad," We all replied. I absently picked up my phone as I thought to Danny, We have to get out of here, now!
Yeah let's go, was Danny's silent reply. "How about we go for that tour, now?"
"Yeah, sure, kids," Mum said as she pulled on her purple jumpsuit. Mum then sprinted down the stairs at full pace.
"Just be careful!" Dad added before pulling on his black jumpsuit. He attached a magnetic lead to Stan's collar and followed Mum down to the lab.
"Well lets go then," I said looking up..."Hang on, why is everybody so tall?" I looked down at my feet...my legs...my thighs! Argh! I screamed in my head. Everyone in the room flinched. I was too scared to notice I had just projected my thoughts to everyone in the room, not just Danny. "Help!" I said outloud.
Sam and Tucker, the only solid and grounded two left, grabbed my outstretched arms. Danny was on the ceiling, Mollie was only half visible and Steven was trying to pull himself from the wall. Sam and Tucker yanked me out of the floor and I concentrated on my legs being solid.
"Can somebody get me down?" Danny said.
"Concentrate on coming down slowly!" I said as I did the opposite. I concentrated on rising to meet Danny, I had no idea how this would help, but at the time it felt like a good idea!
As I drew level with him I grabbed his arm and helped keep our decent steady and slow, but not too slow. Whilst we descended I kept a steady stream of calming thoughts flowing between the two of us. When we felt the solid ground beneath our feet we ran to help Mollie.
I found her shoulder, the right, in all it's invisibility. Unsure of what to do I asked Danny. Almost before I asked a reply came through our link. Finding her other shoulder, Danny looked at me. Together we nodded and looked at were we thought Mollie's head was. "Concentrate on your upper body being visible!" We told her together.
I felt a slight movement in her shoulder, a nod maybe, then she said, "Okay!" As soon as the word was out of her mouth Danny and I thought hard about Mollie being visible. Slowly, she flickered back into visibility.
"What are we going to do about Steven?" Mollie asked, when she was sure of her own visibility.
"I don't know," I replied. Danny, on the other hand, was acting on impulse (meaning I had no idea what he was doing) and stuck his upper body through the wall! Suddenly, barely a second later, both boys tumbled out of the wall.
