OK, the goal of five reviews was reached rather quickly, so behold! Chapter 8! The next one, you'll just have to wait for me to finsih it. This is kinda short too though.


Chapter 9

Danny quickly looked between the two, thinking fast. Lancer wouldn't stand a chance against a the Box Ghost, let alone Skulker. So just letting him do the honorable-fight thing was out of the question. But Skulker had to think that Lancer was doing it, lest he either make up for it by making the town miserable, or stalk Lancer until he caught him alone and fought him then. So what was left?

Fool Skulker. Fight, using a duplicate, in Mr. Lancer's body, without ghost powers.

Great.

So Danny pretended.

He relaxed his muscles and stood straight up, bowing his head in 'submission', while really hiding the green glow of his eyes as he created an invisible duplicate.

"Sorry, Mr. Lancer. You're on your own, I can't do anything." Or so Skulker will think.

Mr. Lancer screamed – in a very adult-y, manly way, of course. "What?"

Danny looked back up. "Sorry."

Skulker smirked at him, giving Danny's duplicate the perfect opportunity to overshadow Lancer and cut off the green glow, with no one any the wiser. As Skulker's eyes were on Danny, he missed the momentary stiffening and eye-glow, as well as the telltale gasp.

Skulker then turned back to the now-overshadowed Lancer. "And now, human, we fight."

The two slowly started to circle each other, Skulker in midair and Danny-Lancer on the ground. Danny had to admit it was an odd sight, even from the eyes of his original.

Then Danny remembered something. "Lancer, catch!" he whispered, rolling the Thermos toward them and teleporting somewhere else so it seemed like he hadn't done it. Lancer picked it up and continued to circle.

They proceeded to fight as Skulker took out his blade and slashed it at Lancer. Danny decided to use Lancer's admittedly suicidal-seeming tactics; he rolled under Skulker, jumped up, and latched onto his back, where Skulker immediately began to flail in a very undignified way as Danny, as Lancer, attempted to unscrew his head. Skulker eventually threw Lancer into the ground, but he barely winced, and then repeated his tactics, with the event repeating itself twice more before Lancer actually managed to unscrew his head so it fell off. Lancer then managed to pluck out the little frog-sized ghost and suck it into the Thermos.

Lancer landed on his bottom on the ground and Danny's duplicate flipped out of him, phasing straight into Danny's human body. His eyes glowed green for a moment as his body reabsorbed the energy.

Lancer looked straight at Danny.

"What just happened?"

Danny laughed. "You didn't honestly think I expected you to fight Skulker all on your own, did you?"


Heh heh heh... How many of you saw that coming? XD HEART-STOPPING MOMENT! XD R&R!