Kidnapping in the Snowy Summer
A/N This chapter is really long. (This story didn't turn out quite the way I wanted.)
Ch 10 City Hall Sleepover
~Fenton works~
"No ghost tries to kidnap Jack Fenton's son" Jack announced as the Fenton family was busy cleaning up the glass from the floor.
Maddie was duck taping plastic over the hole in the window.
"Good thing Spook was around" Jazz said as she stood up from kneeling to hold the dust pan as Danny swept glass into it.
"If it was a ghost why didn't it just phase through the window instead of breaking it and leaving a mess we have to clean up?" Danny asked as he started to sweep more glass into a pile.
"Danny you nearly got kidnapped, I think that's a little more important" Jazz shot back at her brother.
"Jasmine is right Danny" Maddie said finishing her handy work turning her attention to her two children.
"But don't worry son we'll be checking up on you often so next time we'll rip that ghost apart molecule my molecule" Jack said giving his son a pat on the shoulder.
"O god shot me now" Danny muttered his head dropping.
~Afternoon~
"I can't take it" Danny said into his cell phone to Sam. "Every ten minutes they check on me."
"I kinda know what it's like to have parents like that" Sam answered.
"I know but you can't go ghost, and now neither can I" Danny said.
"What about Jazz" Sam asked.
"She's trying but mom and dad, for the first time, are being really attentive parents" Danny answered. "Why weren't they like that when I needed them to be when I was little?"
"I don't think I can help you, now I gotta go, I'm sure my parents are probably wondering what I'm doing in the bathroom for so long" Sam said.
"What you're talking to me in the bathroom" Danny said.
"My parents won't let me out of their sight either, and this is a bit of private call" Sam explained.
"Well, bye Sam" Danny just replied.
"Hope to hear you latter" Sam said hanging up.
"Sammy-kins are you okay in there" Mrs. Manson asked.
Sam gave a groan at the name her mother used then replied "Fine, I'm just fine mother."
Danny sighed tossing his cell on the dresser. He sat back on the bed; Spook saw his partner's sad attitude. He came up to Danny's side and put a paw on his knee in an attempt to calm his restlessness. He pet Spook on the head as if to say thanks for trying.
"Well if anything good has come out of this confinement I'm getting so close to the answer there's just a few blanks I have yet to fill in" Danny said getting up and walking to his desk.
His desk was piled with papers along with the laptop on. Danny started shuffling through the papers once again trying to see if he missed anything that would fill in the blanks.
"Finally" a tired voice announced behind him.
Danny turned to see none other than Ice. He looked rather worn down and he was supporting all his weight on his left leg, as what looked like a series of puncture wounds, were on his right leg that was leaking etco plasma, a ghost equivalent to blood.
"What happened to you?" Danny couldn't help but ask.
"As you say in this decade I got my butt kicked by an 8 foot tall monster made of ice and snow" Ice answered.
"Yeah I've had days like that" Danny muttered.
"I'm just glad you're still here I figure one reason for the beast was to distract me, so I figured she be after you" Ice explained.
"She tried but my guard dog kind of chased her off" Danny said mentioning to Spook.
"Good news for once" Ice said. "Listen…" was all Ice got out before there was a knock on the door.
"Danny…" his mother's voice said before the door started to creak open.
Danny slammed up against the door closing it and said "Don't come in I'm… naked.
Danny would of slapped him self, that was the best he could do.
"Quickly" Danny said a bit quietly to Ice.
"You'll know when she's coming because where ever she goes it suddenly gets cold" Ice said then disappeared like he always did.
Danny removed him self from the door and opened it to his mother.
"You okay" Maddie asked.
"Yes mom I'm fine like I was when you checked on me 10 minutes ago" Danny answered sounding a bit irritated, which he was.
"Just wanted to make sure," Maddie defended her self "why don't you come get dinner."
"You took time from your busy schedule of fixing the ghost finder and checking on me to cook" Danny asked.
"No Jazz offered to cook so we could continue to work" Maddie told her son.
"But Jazz can't cook" Danny said in a panic. 'Of course I doubt she could bring the food to life like mom may do a few times' Danny thought.
"Hey I made roast" Jazz said as Danny came into the kitchen.
"It looks like roast but how does it taste like roast" Danny asked.
"Come on I'm not that bad of a cook" Jazz shot back at her brother.
"May I recall the event of the Thanksgiving mash potato incident" Danny retorted.
Jazz just kept quiet at that statement.
"Welcome to the 6 o'clock news" the reporter's voice on the TV broke the silence.
"Right now the police are desperate and are asking for any with information about the kidnappings to come forward" Tiffany said.
"And if any one has a plan to catch the one responsible for this will be given the full support and corporation of the city officials" Dave finished.
"Yep there very desperate" Danny said listening to the news report.
"Also when we come back we'll be looking into conveniently placed news reports on the TV that move the story along" Tiffany started. "But before we go Jack look out for that screwdriver on the floor."
"Maddie have you seen…" Jack got out before tripping on a screwdriver and wiping out on the kitchen floor.
"That was weird" Danny said.
~Tomorrow afternoon~
"Danny, mom wanted me to tell you to pack" Jazz said rushing into Danny's room.
"Pack, pack for what" Danny asked.
"Mom and Dad submitted a plan to the city to catch the ghost and the city is doing its all to put it together" Jazz said.
"What plan and why do I have to pack" Danny asked not getting the answer he wanted.
~City hall~
Danny went into city hall a sleeping bag under his right arm and his backpack slung over his left shoulder. He looked around inside the building with out all the chairs and people it looked a lot bigger then he remembered it.
The only people allowed in the building to make the plan work were a number of police and the parents of the children who had yet to disappear. There was also a number of police outside of the building.
Danny thought the plan may actually work. All the kids in one building with the entire police force armed with ghost weapons keeping watch out and inside.
"Danny" Sam called as she came up to him carrying her own black sleeping bag and backpack.
"Nice to see you made it" Danny tried to joke.
"I was kinda forced here" Sam said. "If it wasn't my parents I would have been forced by the members of city hall."
"Can't fight city hall" Danny said not thinking of anything better to say.
"Yeah, I don't suppose your parents told you this plan they have" Sam asked her best friend.
"No," Danny answered "But jazz did."
Danny dropped his things and grabbed Sam's wrist. In turn Sam dropped her things as Danny lead her to a more secluded area of the room.
Danny and Sam crouched down on the left hand side of the stage.
"It's rather simple really," Danny started. "She's only going after kids but there's no pattern so no way to tell what kid she's going after next. So get every kid into one spot and she'll come to us. The police guard inside and outside armed with ghost weapons, provided by my parents, and I think the plan explains it self from there."
"I you with your ghost powers couldn't get her I don't think the police and your parents are going to make this plan work" Sam answered.
"In my and others defense there was no way to know where our kidnapper was going to hit and no way to track her" Danny explained.
"But now they're getting her to come to us" Sam said. "Just one problem if things go wrong there's too many people around you won't be able to go ghost."
"Let's just hope nothing goes wrong" Danny answered.
Danny and Sam got up and walked back toward the center of the crowed room.
"I can't believe there are only 10 kids left" Danny said looking around at the few kids left.
"11 actually," Sam said "You forgot to count your self."
Besides Sam there was only one other kid their age out of the lot. This had to work it wouldn't take long for the ghost to snatch 11 kids.
Danny and Sam picked a place to unroll their sleeping bags and were doing their best to find a way to occupy them selves. Sam was lying on her stomach on her sleeping bag reading a book she got from the Sulk and Lurk. Danny was playing some kind of video game on his game boy or at least trying since he frequently paused it to look and scan the room.
"Having trouble relaxing" Sam asked looking up from her book to see Danny once again scanning the room.
"I'd feel better if Spook was here" Danny said.
"A boy and his dog is there a tighter bond" Sam said.
"FYI, Spook attacked the ghost before I was even aware she was there and stopped her" Danny explained.
"Rethinking the plan without your dog" Sam asked.
"No, but give the canine a little credit," Danny instead "I mean currently he's doing a lot better then any of us."
A few hours later another problem arises when Sam said she was leaving to the rest room only to return next to Danny 10 seconds later.
"I thought you were going to the bathroom" Danny said not looking up from his magazine he was currently reading.
"How am I suppose to do that," Sam yelled "you can't go the without an armed officer with you. I go to the bathroom for some alone time and privacy."
"Sorry but I can't help you" Danny said not able to say anything to calm his friend.
The sun had set and Danny was even more anxious then he was before. It was the calm before the storm and it was attacking Danny's nerves.
"What's the matter" Sam asked her friend.
"What do you think" Danny said. "I've got this bad feeling, the whole calm before the storm thing is going on. If any one asks where I am, lie."
Danny snuck off and ducked down behind a curtain by the stage and transformed into Danny Phantom.
"You see a flash of light" a random officer asked another.
"What you say I was reading the paper" the other officer responded.
Danny turned invisible and intangible then flew up through the roof. Danny could see the many men holding ecto weapons waiting for the elusive ghost to make an appearance. Danny scanned the rest of the outside area stay invisible so no one holding a weapon would attack him. Not seeing anything out of the ordinary he went back inside. He was phasing from room to room still not finding anything. Danny saw that everything was normal. Danny phased into the boy's bathroom locked a stall door and changed back.
As Danny was walking out of the stall a voice stopped him from leaving the bathroom.
A/N I had to add that sudden news report becuse otherwise it would of been a page of Jazz and Danny back and forth not going anywhere. I forgot to mention this earlier but the story got the second most votes. And most importantly review.
