Hope the kid is okay on his own.
Sebastian loaded an Explosive Bolt into the crossbow. These were the best to use when there were multiple enemies and it eliminated them quickly. But it didn't help eliminate his worry.
Can he really do it, though? I saw after I met him he never cried or seemed scared, just what makes him fearless?
Then an idea came to him,
After I kill these guys I'll go check on him. Does he have some secret weapon he uses to fend for himself and I just don't see it?
Meanwhile..
"Whoo hoo!"
Danny was enjoying himself, beating these monsters to a pulp and eliminating them one by one. Even teasing them. Sometimes he would stand and not do a thing while one would try to slice him with an axe, and go intangible before it hit him, then disappear. This confused the zombie momentarily, then angering it. They would look for him for while so he'd re-appear and land on their shoulders, knocking them down to the floor.
"You guys are all looks but no scare. You're like something from a bad music video." He chuckled with delight.
He ran up a staircase, and noticed there was a bomb on the wall. He froze for a second. It started to beep and flicker from its light. He quickly ducked. He sighed in relief.
"Whew, that was-"
It exploded. He was three feet away from it. He barely managed to make himself intangible in time before it went off. He grunted. Some debris had hit his face and arms and some of the fire from the bomb hit his face as well. It hurt!
"Aughhh, ow..." He moaned.
The creatures were getting closer.
He quickly ran to get more space.
"What made it go off? I ducked!" He groused.
Then he could see why: Someone had thrown a hatchet at the bomb and it set it off. It happened so quickly Danny missed it. Now he was mad because he got minor injuries from all his messing around. He punched himself in the arm, instead of tapping his face like he usually would, there were burns on his face.
"I've got to be careful...it's time to really put these guys down."
His eyes began to glow a soft blue. He was reaching down to his core, the center of all ghosts; he was calling upon his Ice Powers.
"It's time for you all to chill out." He hissed.
He raised his arms and hands, ice and cold air came out from his palms. After it hit his targets they briefly screamed as the ice began to cover the floors and encase the bodies. They stood lifeless. Danny ran and blasted them with his Ecto Rays, continuously kicking them with all his strength. They broke and shattered to pieces until there were none of them left.
After finally beating them all, he panted and rested his hands on his knees as his eyes reverted back to green.
"Hey! You alright Fenton?!" Sebastian's voice faintly called.
Oh crud!
Danny gasped and panicked. He was still in his ghost form. He looked at the door which was 8 feet away from him, he could hear Sebastian about to enter. So he flew up, his legs turned into a ghostly tail. He hid himself by standing on top of the catwalk and quickly turned to his normal form, it made a bright flash.
"Fenton, where are you- what the hell is all this in here?!"
Sebastian saw the melting ice on the floor. Danny winced.
I forgot about the ice. Now I'm really in big trouble.
"I'm right here."
Danny started to walk down the stairs, making contact with Sebastian's eyes, trying to not look suspicious and letting him know he was alright.
"What happened here?" Sebastian's eyes then widened in horror, "Oh God, what happened to your arms and face!?" He cried.
He went to the teen and wrapped his hands on his arms, Danny flinched from the pain. These were taking a little longer to heal, he thought.
"I got blasted by one of the bombs in here, but I'm alright." Danny smiled reasurredly, however doing this made him jump from the pain, the burns on his face didn't like it.
"Where did this ice come from?" Sebastian let him go and looked at the room. The ice was beginning to rapidly melt and drip water.
Danny didn't answer, instead he made a pleading expression, his eyes started to lightly water. He was terrified.
Sebastian saw this, Danny expected him to start being cold to him again, but instead he showed concern.
"Can you tell me, please? I won't scold you." He said sincerely.
"How do I know that for sure? All you've done is order me around, and treat me like an outsider."
Sebastian didn't answer.
"I still can't tell you; I'm afraid of being hunted, that's why." Danny spat, and grit his teeth at him.
"Why would I hunt you? You've been the bravest kid I've seen. You've got more balls than some of the other guys I work with and been so helpful."
"Because...Seb,...I'm not human." Danny made a light whimper.
Sebastian blinked his eyes and snapped his head.
"Are you saying that, just becuase of Leslie? He's sick, remember? He doesn't know what he's doing."
"Well guess what? He's right. To you I'm just another monster we fight at the end of the day...!"
Both went silent. Danny just looked at the floor in shock, shocked by his own words.
"Fine then. You don't have to tell me now, let's go. The way out isn't blocked anymore."
After he heard this Danny snapped out of his trance.
"Okay." He said quietly.
Both walked out of the room, not saying a word. They both reached the door. Sebastian had his gun out, just to make sure there was noting that could attack them.
It was another long hallway. Both adjusted their sight and could see there was another doorway and a room at the other end. They walked in, Danny saw a door to the right, and attempted to open it, but it was locked.
While he did this, Sebastian's thoughts wandered,
What did he mean back there? Another monster to hunt down? He must've been ranting about his own insecurities. And admits to not being human. It must be what he's hiding from me. I wonder if I'm getting close to some truth...
"You think there's something in there?" Danny had his head turned at him and pointed.
"There might be, let's see."
Sebastian entered cautiously, gun ready. There was nothing. Then he looked at Danny and made a nod.
"It seems safe."
Now both were in. It was safe, but a mess. Blood had been splattered on the floors and walls. A single dead corpse laid on the floor further in the room.
"This is ethier a morgue, or a surgical room." Danny suggests, taking a few steps toward the drawer like lockers on the right side.
"Look at this."
Danny turned. Sebastian had found some shotgun bullets on a table. He picked them up.
"Oh, Fenton, there's jar of the green juice over there, can you pick it up for me?" Sebastian pointed across the room.
Danny saw it. Then he remembered back in the basement, could this liquid really be ectoplasm? There were only a few ways to find out.
He walked over to get it.
Suddenly something came crawling out of the floor, and both heard a blood-curdling scream. Both eyes on the new creature grew in horror. This thing had long legs, overgrown claws and long black hair. Blood splattered about as it crawled out out of the floor.
"What is that?!" Danny screamed.
He kept his eyes on the new enemy as well as the jar.
"Don't stand there, let's run!" Sebastian cried.
Danny disappeared instead.
"Danny?! Oh shit."
The female like monster was headed straight for him. Sebastian tried to shoot it, but it missed and "teleported".
"Damn it!"
"Let's go!"
Sebastian saw that he had the jar of the green juice in his hand. Danny pulled roughly on his sleeve. It stunned the detective, where'd he come from?!
Sebastian put his questions aside and started to run like hell. Danny looked behind him, the thing he could see had 6 long arms, and blood all over its body.
"Shit, we gotta get out here!" Sebastian yelled and panted
"What's it look like I'm doing, Mr. Genius!?" Danny shot at him irritably.
Then they realized: there was no way out of the hallway. They were trapped. All doors were locked. The one they had come from was locked as well. Both panted in fear as the monster got closer and closer. Suddenly the door on the closest right opened; a zombie had busted in. This caught the pursuers attention and it grabbed it with its arms and started clawing it and bashing its head into the floor.
"That's our chance, go!" Sebastian ran to the door, Danny followed.
They continued to run, turned left and found another dead end. Danny could faintly hear the monster behind them, "she" made loud ragged breathing sounds and it was creepy.
Sebastian hit a button on the wall, one to close a door. He hoped that would buy them some time.
"What do we do now?" Danny asked, nervous.
"Over there, there's a ladder going down." Sebastian pointed and led.
Both went to it, and as they did, red smoke started coming from the ground. They didn't notice until then that there more dead bodies laying around. The red smoke appeared from one of them, and "it" came through it.
Danny grimaced and went down after Sebastian. They got to the lower floor. They could hear her coming and crawling down the ladder.
"Keep your body down, there's more traps." Sebastian warned.
Sure enough there were two string traps. Both carefully bent down to avoid them. Up ahead was an elevator, it automatically opened for them. They wasted no time and went in. It closed right as the creature behind them tried to grab their legs. Another dead body was in the center of the elevator floor.
"I think...think we lost it." Danny panted, trying to catch his breath.
"I shouldn't celebrate just yet."
Sebastian held out a match. He lit it up and dropped it on the dead corpse.
"Why did you do that?" Danny asked curious.
"I think she's able to teleport by going through dead bodies."
"Um..ew."
The elevator opened. And as soon as it did, red smoke was coming from a corpse a few feet away.
"Oh, COME ON!" Danny moaned loudly.
"That door, there!"
They ran to the left and opened it and slammed it shut. A door ahead of them was threatening to close them off.
"Run for it now." Danny said.
With the last of their strength, the dived under it and made it in time before it shut.
"Augh, that was close."
"No kidding." Danny said flatly.
They were in a tunnel,with a staircase below them. They started walking down.
"Think we got rid of what-ever-that-thing-was for good?" Danny wondered.
"Can't be sure, this place just keeps messing with us. It's unpredictable."
Then Sebastian slowed down a little. And he looked at him.
"More importantly; what the hell did you do back there? You vanished into thin air. I saw it with my own eyes."
Danny paused.
"Are you one of those things that can turn invisible too?"
"I-" Danny began.
A figure behind them appeared in their peripheral vision; Ruvik was walking towards them!
Both started to run back up the stairs. They ended up back where they were in the beginning. Ruvik had disappeared.
"Please Danny, I need to know-!"
The platform and staircase started to shake and quiver from under them. It was going to fall apart!
"I'll tell you this! That green stuff you see lying around, it may be ectoplasm and,-"
Both struggled to keep their balance, but it was impossible.
"Ectoplasm?! What-"
They fell.
Sebastian fell as his expression fell to horror.
No! If I don't catch him...he'll fall to his death!
"Seb!" Danny cried, he dived his body weight head first and stretched out his arms.
I HAVE TO!
Two bright rings formed in front of his torso, as they shifted his clothing he felt the cold energy rise from within. Thinner and tighter black clothes replaced his shirt and jeans, his eyes to green, and raven hair to snowy white.
Sebastian saw it, a flash and then the teenager's appearance transformed dramatically into a different person before his eyes. He could see Danny's face full of desperation. Danny flew past him and then under him, then caught him under his armpits, slowing down his fall. Sebastian on the other hand, saw that on the walls, things were sideways, giving the illusion that they were falling upwards instead of down. He was less than 50 feet from certain death. Danny slowly brought him down until they touched solid ground, then he let go.
Sebastian panted and tried to slow down his panicked heart. Danny flew around him and landed on the floor gracefully and quietly. Danny bit his lip and tightened his fists. Now he was nervous and scared. What was the detective going to say, now that he's seen him in his form?
"Are you alright, Sebastian?" Danny tried to place his now white gloved hands on his shoulders.
Sebastian flinched and jumped back, still in shock from the fall and the new look of the teenager.
"You...is this..what you've been hiding?" He asked gruffly.
Danny looked away shamefully.
"Yes..I didn't know what to do."
Sebastian grabbed his gun, and aimed at Danny. Danny gasped in fear. His worst fear was coming true, Sebastian was afraid of him.
"You will tell me. Everything. From how you got here, and who you're working for...if you refuse; you're dead. And just what the hell are you?"
