It struck Danny and he fell to his knees. He tried to hold it in, but his scream of pain could be heard through most of the neighborhood. "AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH."
Pain flooded his senses.
Ron rushed over to Kim and tried to rip it from her hand. "KIM! Stop it, You're killing him."
She remained rigid. Danny dropped to all fours and rolled ontoo his back. Blue smoke started to drift from his body. His ghostly form changed to the visage of Danny Fenton.
Still the blue smoke poured off of him. It slowly took form in the air. Ron froze in horror and Jazz finally reacted to the unexpected turn of events.
She rushed over to where her brother lay on the floor.
"Now don't fret Daniel. I'm sure you'll have all sorts of free time now."
The boy on the floor unsteadily got to his feet looking for the source of the voice. His first instinct was to blast. That was when he noticed his ghost half fighting against the beam of light emitted from the canister. It was then that he realized where the voice had come from.
It had come from Kim.
"A foolish mistake Daniel, and Danny Phantom's last." A figure stepped out of Kim's body.
Vlad Masters stood staring at the four teens. "Feel free to come after me. There's nothing you can do." Black rings shot out of his waist and changed him into Vlad Plasmius. "See you in Wisconsin." His body turned blue and he flew out of the room.
The venomous voice shot through the room. "Vlad." Nothing but hate could be heard from it. Then Danny Fenton slumped to the floor.
Danny opened his eyes to see four figures staring down at him.
One look at Kim's face brought most of the days events back to him. He rolled off of Kim's bed where they'd placed him. "Where's Vlad?"
Jazz placed her hand on his shoulder. "He got away. I'm sorry." Danny's head swam for a minute before he managed to focus. He tried to summon the power that slept dormant within him.
He sensed that the power that had been part of him for most of a year, was gone. He felt weak, useless. He felt like he was only half alive.
He almost laughed at that. He'd felt most alive when he was half ghost.
His legs wobbled as he dropped to one knee. He took a deep breath before trying to stand back up. He started to fall again before Jazz grabbed his arm and helped him over to the chair. "Thanks Jazz."
Ron walked over to him. "Are you okay?" The worry in his voice was obvious.
"I'll, be fine. We need to worry about Plasmius. We can't let him get away."
Kim looked steadily at him. "He's gone, he flew through the wall."
"Then we have to go after him. I doubt he'll leave us alone now that I'm normal."
"But how can we fight something we can't even touch?" Everyone looked at the source of this comment. Jazz stood there smirking. "What? You think you're gonna leave me behind?"
"Jazz, it's too..."
"What? Dangerous? I don't know if you've noticed, but you're just as human as I am."
"But I've been fighting ghosts since the accident. And I know Vlad's weaknesses."
"And he knows that you can't fight him. You can't do anything. It's one way or the other, Either you're staying, or I'm going."
A steely look appeared on Kim's face. "Who says either of you are going?"
"No offense Kim, but you don't know what you're doing. I've fought him and I know how he thinks. I know what he'll do. You don't. I'm going and that's the end of it."
Jazz slowly came to understand that these three were different from any other person she'd met. For the first time in her life, Jazz understood what made a hero. It was someone who no matter what would do what it takes to help others. They were the beginning of a legend. They would be remembered in the pantheon of heroes. They would be alongside such legends as King Arthur and Robin of Locksley. Even those who'd never existed could go down in history.
She knew what she had to do. "Danny, I'm proud of you. Do what you have to do."
"Guys. I hate to say this, but she's right. How are we going to fight a half-ghost, which by the way, is sick and wrong."
"HEY!"
Ron gave Danny an apologetic smile. "Sorry."
"Anyway, you all forget. We're a family of ghost hunters. The stuff is probably all at our new house."
Jazz smiled for a minute before it was abruptly wiped from her face thanks to a sudden realization. "Which we haven't seen or been told the address yet."
"Not a problem." Kim pulled out the Kimmunicator and pressed a button.
"Whatcha need Kim?"
"I need you to find the address of the Fenton family."
"On it." Wade took a sip of his drink before proceeding to locate Danny and Jazz's new home. "I'm sending you a print out, now."
Kim took the small piece of paper and studied it. "Thanks Wade. Do me a favor and post on the site that we're going on hiatus. We've got a personal mission to take care of."
"Understood Kim. Anything I can do to help?"
"Yeah. Start looking for a ride to Wisconsin." Kim glanced over at the siblings. "Make it for three."