The four of them entered the attic and closed the door. They sat down around the wooden box using it for a table and opened up the game board to get started.
Danny suddenly said jokingly, "I got it! Colonel Mustard in the library with a wrench"
Everyone however just remained silent while he chuckled a little. He cleared his throat and just picked up the dice and rolled a seven which left him only three more spaces away from the end. The message appeared on the gem and he read aloud, "Beware the ground on which you stand. The floor is quicker than the sand"
Suddenly the floor beneath him shifted into liquid and he got stuck waist length in the floor while Dani quickly grabbed the game before it was sunk away. Danny changed into his ghost form but suddenly the floor glowed green and zapped him hard causing him to yelp in pain and change back into his human form.
"Darn it! This is ecto quick sand. It cancels out ghostly energy leaving me useless!" Danny shouted in panic.
"Okay Danny just stay calm and don't struggle" Sam said.
"I'm calm. Sure" Danny said sarcastically.
"Danny grab onto this!" Dani yelled as she held out a hat rack.
Danny grabbed on and Dani started pulling as he continued to sink deeper but it immediately broke and caused Dani to fall backwards. As Billy grabbed a trombone from one of the shelves Dani grabbed the game and rolled the dice to take her turn.
Sam and Billy held onto one end of the trombone while Danny grabbed the other and they pulled hoping to save him as he was almost up to his neck sinking. They pulled and pulled until suddenly the trombone came apart as well.
"STOP GIVING ME THINGS THAT COME APART!" Danny shouted as he was sinking further into the floor.
The message appeared slowly as Sam got on her stomach using an old closet door. Danny's face was slowly disappearing but Sam dug her arms in the sand and managed to pull his face up as he held onto her arms with his hands. Dani read the full message, "There is a lesson you will learn. Sometimes you must go back a turn"
Danny yelped as the floor went back to normal but now the problem was he was still stuck in the floor with Sam's arms stuck as well.
"Ow" He groaned a little from the tightness of being stuck in the floor. Sam asked, "Sorry. Did I hurt you?"
"No" Danny answered as Dani and Billy came up to them. He clapped his hands a little and said, "Oh thank you Dani. Thank you. That was very quick thinking but Sam and I would like to get out of the floor so it's your turn Billy. I'd phase myself out but unfortunately that zap made me a little weak"
"Okay just hang on" Billy said and he and Dani walked over to the game board and Billy rolled the dice taking his turn.
Sam looked down at Danny and said, "I thought I lost you again"
Danny smiled warmly the best he could and said, "Thanks for sticking around this time"
They both continued to smile lovingly at each other as Danny caressed her face with his hand. Billy read the message of the gem, "Need a hand? While you just wait, we'll help you out. We each have eight"
Billy looked up as he heard some kind of small screeching noise and suddenly screamed at the window as he saw a huge medium sized glowing purple and red spider crawling down the window. Dani turned and saw it and screamed as well and found that more ghost spiders had come out and crawled around them.
Sam screamed as she saw them as well. Danny couldn't see very well with his face in the floor and he asked, "What is it?!"
"ARGHH! NOTHING!" Sam screamed. Danny retorted, "We don't go ARGHHH for nothing!"
He looked at a mirror near him and saw the spiders and screamed himself. He turned to Billy and said, "Billy! Uncle Vlad made a powerful ecto-blaster and there's a device that'll capture these spiders in the shed. It looks like a thermos. Hurry! Go!"
Billy immediately took off jumping over one of the spiders. Dani saw the blaster she had used in the morning when the mosquito attacked and grabbed it. She started blasting spiders left and right trying to keep them at bay. Sam screamed as she felt the legs of one of the spiders starting to crawl on her leg.
"SAM!" Dani screamed as she ran over and blasted the spider away.
As Billy ran out the door heading to the shed, Star had arrived and entered the house and was shocked to find all the damage and vines crawling around everywhere, she wanted to scream but it wouldn't come out of her mouth.
Billy picked up the axe that was near the shed and broke the lock on the door with it, he entered the shed to find dozens of old weapons. He picked up the medium sized blaster and the thermos and started heading back for the attic to help the others.
"Dani! Billy!" Star called out as she looked around for them.
She looked up and screamed as she saw Danny's legs dangling through the roof, she went to her bedroom and opened the door to find Wulf in there. He roared and she screamed and immediately shut the door once again.
She heard someone coming and turned to see Billy only to be completely shocked at his now ghostly appearance as he walked up to her. He said, "Star it's me Billy!"
She completely lost it and screamed as she ran backwards and fell into the closet. Billy sighed and locked her inside as he said, "I don't have time right now but I'll explain later"
Back upstairs Danny said to Sam, "Sam! It's your turn. It's your turn! You can finish the game if you roll a seven!"
"I can't roll!" Sam screamed as the spiders continued their assault around them.
"Put the dice in your mouth" Danny pressed. Sam nodded and called out, "Dani bring the game!"
Dani grabbed the game and suddenly a purple plant sprouted from the floor causing Dani to scream which caused the plant to shoot the poisonous barbs straight at her which hit her neck dead on. Billy entered the room and saw Dani near the plant and shouted, "DANI!"
He ran over and blasted the plant with a lightning blast which completely destroyed it as Dani removed the barbs from her neck. Billy turned and asked, "Dani are you okay?"
"I'm fine just help them" Dani said.
Billy nodded and immediately started blasting at the spiders and sucking them into the thermos. Dani bought the game over to Sam and placed the dice into her mouth which she let go onto the game board but unfortunately didn't roll a seven.
Dani stood up and suddenly collapsed on an old mattress, feeling the effects of the poison going through her body a spider was about to attack Dani when Billy sucked it up into the thermos and held his older sister in his arms close.
"You're almost there with much at stake. Now the ground begins to quake" Sam read the message and both her and Danny screamed as a spider came closer to them, it's fangs dripping with venom ready to bite them.
"I…wish….mum and dad…were….here" Dani said weakly. Billy hugged her close and said, "So do I"
Suddenly everywhere around them began to shake and the spiders ran away scared. Danny shouted as the ground shook harder and he saw Dani, "HER ONLY CHANCE IS TO FINISH THE GAME!"
"It's your turn!" Sam shouted which turned into a scream as the floor beneath them began to split apart in half along with half of the house.
Danny held onto Sam tightly as he was freed from the floor and it continued to split apart. The game board was about to fall off the floor.
"SAM GRAB THE GAME!" Danny shouted. Sam shook her head, "NO! I WON'T LET YOU FALL!"
The game fell and landed just on the edge of a floor board. Danny suddenly fell from Sam's grip and screamed as he fell, he grabbed onto a vine and began swinging down as the vine ripped from the roof.
"DANNY!" Sam screamed and immediately began heading downstairs as the earthquake stopped.
Danny continued to swing avoiding Wulf's claws as he tried to swipe at him. Danny changed into his ghost form and flew down letting go of the vine and grabbed the game as he crashed through the glass window of the living room and landed in front of the fire place.
He sat back up changing back into his human form and opened up the game board and picked up the dice, but just when he was about to take his turn he heard a voice roar, "DON'T MOVE!"
He froze at the voice and looked up to see Skulker right in front of him holding his blaster aimed right for him. He loaded a dart filled with blood blossom poison. His suit was sparking from the wet paint but he wasn't about to let his pray go once again.
"Stand up whelp" Skulker ordered. Danny stood up still holding the dice in his hand as he held them up.
"What's in your hand? Drop it" Skulker demanded.
Danny shrugged and dropped the dice onto the board, the first one landed on one but the other bounced off the board and fell down the stairs. Danny knew the dice would land on a number but there wasn't time and Skulker now had him cornered.
"I'm giving a sporting head start prey. I suggest you take it" Skulker said as Sam entered the room and stayed behind the wall.
Danny however stood his ground and said defiantly, "No"
"Aren't you afraid?" Skulker asked as the dice continued to roll.
"Honestly I'm completely terrified but my father once taught me that you should always face what you're afraid of. Even if you're alone" Danny answered. "But I have never been alone"
Skulker chuckled and said as he aimed his gun for Danny's chest, "Good whelp. You're finally acting like a man. So any last words you want to say before you die?"
The dice stopped and landed on the number two. Danny looked down at the board to see his game piece move three spaces onto the gem which began to glow red. He had done it! He had won the game! Now the only thing left to say was, "Ghost Zone"
"What?!" Skulker asked again.
"I said Ghost Zone" Danny repeated.
Skulker's eyes widened and decided to kill Danny now while he had a chance. Sam screamed as she stepped in front of Danny defensively, "NO DANNY! I WON'T LOSE YOU AGAIN!"
Skulker fired the dart but it stopped just at their faces and suddenly disappeared. Skulker's eyes widened as he realised what was happening. Suddenly all the ghost animals and everything that came out of the game suddenly came crashing through the wall as the game started sucking it all back into the Ghost Zone like a tornado.
Danny and Sam held onto each other as Skulker was picked up in the circle screaming as he was being sucked in with everything else. Sam and Danny kneeled down holding each other in a tight hug hoping that everything would be alright. The last thing Danny saw was Skulker's face before he completely disappeared forever and the game was finally over.
TO BE CONTINUED….