The VCR tape was playing their children at the museum. Some of the children looked happy, some looked bored, and one looked worried. Everyone was watching the child that looked worried very carefully, his name was Danny Fenton. The little introduction ended and the TV turned black, the parents were freaking out. They wasted all of their time waiting for this VCR, when they could have been searching for the kids.
The parents looked down in defeat, even the police officers and were about to leave, when they heard a noise. One of the noises came from Jack, but the other noise that combined with his came from the TV. Quickly everyone turned around and ran back to the couch where they were before.
On the TV it showed all the kids on some type of beach, but now all looked worried. Sam and Tucker were crying and the rest were surrounding something. The camera moved pass everyone and showed a lifeless body on the beach, that body was the boy that looked worried in the museum. Maddie and Jack burst out in tears thinking their baby boy was gone, but soon enough he opened his eyes and the screen went black again.
The parents were very confused. How did their kids end up on that island? Which island are they on? Is there anything dangerous on that island? What happened to the Fenton kid? Before anyone could ask those questions Jack spoke again saying the same thing, but this time everyone heard him, "ghost".
"Of course you would say ghost. You are a ghost hunter and blame anything on ghosts" Pamela said.
"No I saw a ghost on the screen when the kids were in the museum. That's why Danny boy looked so worried because he most likely saw that ghost too, and he's terrified of ghosts".
Before anybody could make any more arguments the screen came back again. This time the screen had the kids fighting a moving tree for a few seconds then it changed to Danny getting tortured. At the part Danny was getting tortured a voice came over all the screaming. "Find me the ring and I will return all your kids, either dead or alive, the time counts. If you don't find my ring then it is up to these kids, and the ghost kid in the back screaming right now is my main target for getting this ring. So you better hurry or this kid, or any other might not live". A dark laugh was heard then and the screen went black again.
Maddie was crying her eyes out, worried for her little boy, Jazz was doing the same, but also thought that he wouldn't die like that because he's a hero. Jack on the other hand was looking at the screen confuses. He finally said out loud "ghost boy, what is that supposed to mean? And why is he chosen"?
"Don't worry parents, we will find the son of a bitch who's doing this and we were bring him in for justice" the lieutenant said. The parents just looked at him and shook their heads up and down, too upset to say anything.
After all the family's and police officers left, the Fenton family was home alone again. Jack and Maddie didn't want to build any inventions, Jack didn't want any fudge, and they were just left there to stew in their own thoughts.
Maddie was thinking how bad of a mother she has been. She has noticed how distant Danny has been and how he has changed. He has been coming home past his curfew, he's been coming back exhausted, been lying, and sometimes there's a random cut on his arm. She doesn't know what he's getting himself into, but she needs to figure out and she needs to help him through it. So when Danny comes home she's going to help him in any way she can and will figure out what's wrong with him. All she wants is her old baby boy back, the one that would tell her everything. He would always tell her what's on his mind, would want mother and son time, and would come to me if he got hurt to bandage him up. She hopes that after this incident it won't make him even more distant, but instead will let him come closer to her.
Jack just sat on the couch staring at the screen, was this his fought for being in the ghost business? Is that why that person called him the ghost boy? So many questions he has, but he might never get an answer for those questions if he doesn't find his son. His son is a good boy and always has been. Yes he has come home late a couple of times, but other than that he has always been sweet to everyone and protective mostly to his two best friends, Sam and Tucker. Those two were like a second son and daughter for him. They were always around and they always cared for one another. They were Danny's go to people if he had no one else to talk to. They know all his secrets. Jack just wishes his son would be that open to him and hopes that when he does come back alive that he will be more open to him and would want some father son bonding time.
Jazz was up in her room thinking about the tape, clockwork and Danny. She knew Danny would make it out and save everyone because he was strong and wouldn't let anything happen to anyone. The true question though that she had to figure out was where are they? She knows that they are on an island that looks like it has animals on it, so it's not inhabited. It also has to be not too far away from the museum and it deals with ghosts. She already went to clockwork for help and all he could say was that he couldn't help, some kind of guardian he is. Jazz just sat there for another five minutes before she sat strait up thinking of an idea she had. Jazz quickly recited what clockwork said to her in her head "I said I cannot tell you where he is because I simply don't know. The only way I wouldn't know if he's not here". He is the time ghost, he can see everything in the world and everyone. The only way he can't see anything id if they're not in his view. So either this ghost that has all the students and her brothers and sisters really powerful or they are somewhere else, like a different dimension. So that means that the ring the ghost is looking for might have caused that or gives him power so he trapped them somewhere that no one will find them till he gets what he wants. So if they are still near the museum as she thinks then that's the place to look and hopefully they will find them.
Jazz ran downstairs to her parents who were sitting all glum on the couch and told them her theory, of course she left out the part about clockwork being Danny's guardian. Maddie and Jack were mad at first that she went into the ghost zone, but that didn't last long because they were too excited to care since they wanted their son back. They quickly got into the ghost assault vehicle, called the police, told them about their clue and then drove off to the museum which they hope will either give them another clue or they will find their son and everyone else's kids.
Jazz's point of view…
Driving felt like it took forever even if my dad does drive like a crazy maniac. I was just so anxious to get to the museum that I nearly jumped out of our vehicle and sprinted inside. I was at first side tracked by all the amazing art, sculptures, and artifacts that were in there. It was just so fascinating to see objects that are so old and objects that I have always wanted to see. Like this one in the literature section, India palm leaves. Before paper was invented humans wrote on rocks, clay, wax, and even animal hides, but the material that we write on now was invented in China about two thousand years ago The palm tree leaf was used to make many things from mats all the way to roofs, but also was used for paper. The writing is etched into the pages and rubbed with black soot or oil to make the words visible. The pages were mainly used to write hymes and prayers which is what I'm looking at right now.
See I'm getting side tracked again, ok back to finding the spot Danny and the class was last seen. I went into many sections of the museum until finally I found the painting. I called mom and dad over so they could help me find a possible clue. Right behind them were the cops also trying to help?
Everyone looked for a while until one of the detectives called us over. He had brown hair, blue eyes and about in his mid-thirty's, his name is Oliver. We all ran over to the spot he was at and looked at the spot he was pointing his index figure to.
The spot he pointed to was on the corner of the wall and somewhat on the floor, it was blood with a hint of green in it. Right away I knew it was Danny's blood, but no one else knew it was his since they don't know his secret identity. The thing though that caught all of our eyes was the piece of paper on the floor folded into a small piece, and covered in blood also.
Oliver put on his gloves and picked it up, slowly, so he didn't tear it, he opened it up. Inside of the paper it was blank nothing there. How could we go through all this trouble to find everyone and all we found was Danny's blood and a neatly folded piece of paper that the perpetrator took his time on?
Why would someone or something do this? Maybe it's because their crazy or maybe for revenge, but why? I kept on scrummaging through my mind, trying to make sense of everything, thinking of every finally possibility that could be it. I started out from the beginning of the tape. We watched the tape, drove here, I got side tracked by the paper, then found the painting. What am I missing? Wait, that's it, the India palm leaves. This paper has nothing on it because it's invisible. Ghosts are old and this one so happens to still use the old paper.
I quickly told the police hoping they can get the words uncovered. The police looked at me at first confused, but finally they got some oil from a car and put it on the paper, and let alone words started to appear. I was amazed how that worked, and how a ghost still used that considering it's a very unique and old style.
Once all the words were visible Oliver read it out loud 'some things are ghostly, most things are not, but some can intertwine. You can figure out some answers by figuring out this riddle if you dare to find out the truth'. I knew right away that when Oliver read the first part the intertwine part meant Danny, saying somethings combine.
Oliver kept on reading out loud 'I always run, but never walk, often murmur, but never talk, I have a bed, but never sleep, I have a mouth but never eat. What am I? No legs have I to dance, no lungs have I to breathe, no life have I to live or die and yet I do all three. What am I? Until I am measured I am not known, yet you miss me so much when I have flown. What am I? I have different colors, red, white, green, blue, brown, I have water and food, I can go dark and be bright, but also I can be cold and hot, but I am not alive, I change constantly, never the same, I am unique and am made to have different appearances, but I am all the same. What am I? If I am unique, where am I?' Great I thought now we have to solve riddle in order to save everyone, what a great day this is going to be.
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