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Chapter 14: Fright Night
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The forest was slightly misty, the air was cold enough for your own breath to be seen, on the tall cliff lays the Phantom manor, worthy of been call a haunted house the place had once been a clinic for the young mentally ill but it was more of a dumpster for the embarrassment of most families, a place where they could just throw away their mentally challenge children and only be remind of their existence every year when the bill of their "treatment" came over.
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The Ravenhill Mental Institute was known for their medical breakthroughs and high success rates, it was said to be a place of salvation, but in reality, all who walk through its gates were never seen again.
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This so call clinic was more of a prison than a health institute, the patients were treated like animals been victims of horrible experimentation and unnecessary procedures, as the years went by their cruelty had only increased so much it finally caught the attention of the media that expose their evil and their perversion, the institute had stand for almost thirty years such a long time of inhumanity but its gates finally close. It would take more than one hundred years for them to open once again for two young trespassers who chose to make it their home.
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In the middle of the night a group of strange looking soldiers over watch this once house of horror on a small hill, in command of this militia is a young female Captain that carefully lead them through the trees taking cover behind the bushes, Sam took out her binoculars and carefully examine the madhouse exterior, five floors and some sort of bell tower on the farthest corner to the right, soon she saw on the fifth floor a room with the light turn on, the only room with light as for the many other were in dark. It was clear for the MIW hunters that their target awaits in said room yet wisdom would tell to tread carefully if they didn't want history to repeat itself.
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- "Ma'am, are you sure about this? the command clearly said to stand down."- said a man dress in tactical suit with armor like traits wearing the insignia of a sergeant to a young woman that unlike him carry the markings of a Captain.
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- "You worry too much sergeant, just do as I say and all will be swell."-
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- "I'm so sorry for taking so long, my love but now I finally have the strength to save you from that wretched witch" thought the female captain as another soldier come to her.
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- "Ready when you are, Captain Manson." Said the MIW soldier.
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"Strange, there's no guards of any kind watching this place"- said Captain Sam to her second, who was a strange girl with dark bob like haircut.
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- "Well, Sherry you know the drill"- continue Sam to her second in command.
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The girl kneels and look up to the sky soon blood pour out of her eyes as this turn completely black, - "I see the two angels in the lighted room... They're having a lot of fun, jejejeje. There are no guard in the hallways and..."- Sherry couldn't finish as the pain was too much for her to bare.
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she grabs her still bleeding eyes and apologize for not been able to see more, Sam dismiss her by saying "that's good enough", she made a gesture with her hand and both teams push forward. As they reach the base of the cliff they saw an entrance to an untended garden cover with weeds and tall bushes as well as some scary looking trees.
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The MIWs were unsure if this garden was once enjoyed by the patients or just by the doctors that were more insane than the madmen that were lock here, as they reach the end of the eerie garden they spotted a stairway leading straight to the first floor though it would at least be fifty meters stair climbing before they even reach said floor.
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- "Captain, look"- said an emo looking MIW as he pointed to an old rusty metal door, heavily cover by vines.
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Sam order her men to open the metal door as she turn her eyes to the four "gifts" she was granted, they were young and unproven no older than sixteen, it was their first time in the field but each one of them was highly recommended as they all had prized eyes and remarkable skills.
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Sherry the black hair girl, could see into any building from far away as if she were watching through a camera she was quiet almost emotionless, the emo boy named Jack could sense any ghost just like Danny Phantom as expected he's shy and reserve.
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Then there is Cindy who sports blonde hair tied in two braids according to the file says she can she into the future, something Sam kindly doubted but she seems like a spoil rich girl and finally was Tiberius a tall dark skin teenager said to hold on to any ghost even if they went intangible, if true he could prove to be quite the adversary for any ghost, he unlike the others seem more like the fighter type.
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Soon the door open with a loud creak yet it didn't bother them in the least for they knew no one else but the "angels" live in here and they were too far to hear anything. Pass the door they found themselves in front of spiral stairway leading down, confuse and worried for the oddness.
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- "Let's see if the rumors are true, what can you see Cindy?"- said Sam as she looks straight into the girls puzzled eyes.
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- "... I'm not some sort of TV you can just turn on. Ok"- reply Cindy as she places her hands together.
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Her eyes glow a pure white light, Sam was fascinated to know that such people actually exist outside comics and movies but she couldn't help but feel sorry for those who were taken by the government and other institutes like the MIW.
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- "I see myself alone, in a long dirty hallway, the windows oversee the forest, it's raining... The male angel is outside looking for something, there's lights shining above him, there's someone at the end of the hallway looking at me not the girl..."- soon her eyes started to bleed follow by an intense headache, Cindy fell to her knees as she clinches to her head.
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- "I guess she can only see the future that affects her and for a brief time at best... Not very useful..."- thought Captain Sam.
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She orders her men to go down the ladder figuring that it would be for the best to go inside the building through the basement rather than gain entry by climbing in the open, at least they knew their might be a battle on the upper floors thanks to Cindy though it seems fairly obvious. Once they reach the base of the ladder they meet with a long dark corridor and at its end a large blast door.
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- "Its ancient, we can cut though it quite easy"- said an MIW soldier to Sam as she gave her "go ahead."
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- "It looks like a very early model, can't be too hard"- thought the Captain.
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Both Jack and Tiberius stood guard far from the others as they were looking at their captain with concerned eyes while she watches her men cut through the blast door with blowtorches, - "was it really necessary? What we did at the Phantom church."- ask Jack in whisper to Tiberius who look at him with stern.
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- "I don't know, but those were the orders. We just do as she says... That's all"- reply the dark skin man who clearly disapprove of their doings. Earlier that night Sam and her men raided the church as were the orders of Commander Bradley yet they didn't find weapons or combatants just believers but all of the sudden two specters walk in.
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- "Hey guys, thought we swing by and say hi..."- said a ghost biker as he walks in with an arm over his girlfriend shoulder, both entities look confused at the armed people.
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- "Well if it isn't Johnny 13 and his cute girlfriend Kitty, fancy meeting you here"- said Sam with a kind smile.
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- "Sam is that you? Wow, I didn't recognize you in that stylish outfit, I heard you disappear a few years ago after Danny dump you for his own sister, what a bummer"- continue Johnny 13, his girlfriend started to shake as she pointed to Sam´s breastplate, the biker squinted his eyes and finally made out the mark on it.
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- "What's that on your chest?" question the ghost teen with terror in his eyes.
- "The mark of my new friends" answer Sam as she lifted her favorite rifle and shot both ghost straight through their chest. Johnny and Kitty both felt hard on the floor soon to be cover in a puddle of their own ecto-plasma.
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- "Sorry guys I don't like this anymore than you do"- Sam said as she walks over the fallen ghost bikers. The pain was unbearable but even so they couldn't scream, they just look at the strange soldiers that walk to them with an enlarge version of the Fenton thermos.
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- "I don't know the science behind this but well... Good bye"- continue the Captain as her men activated the thermos and pull them in, soon muffled screams could be heard. The cultist watch as the MIW pour out green ashes that were once Johnny 13 and Kitty.
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- "I think the Captains a little crazy"- whisper Jack to his dark skin companion.
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- "Nah, after shooting down the cultists I think she's bat crazy"- Said Tiberius.
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Both teen recall how their leader shot a church member if they didn't tell her the whereabouts of Phantom and his lapdog even after getting the information she just murder the survivors, she had high hopes that MIW would cover everything for her like many other times in the past.
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The blast door was finally open and within an antique laboratory, - "what is all this"- said Sam to no one in particular as she and her men walk in, tables with dusty surgical tools, cages of all sorts and strange machines decorated the interior but the most surprising of all was on the far wall. Sam look at the old rusty device.
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- "It can't be... A ghost portal"- though Sam as she realized that the Fenton weren't the only one researching the ghosts and where they came from, after all there had been sightings of specters and other entities throughout history.
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- "Rally up... Listen what follows will be a very dangerous mission but we only need to terminate the female angel ghost thing, as for Phantom he will not attack us once the female is destroyed"- Captain Sam explain to her men as they ask why it was so important to kill the guardian angel, their leader smile.
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- "Well according to Commander Bradley, the female angel control Phantom through some sort of mind spell after all he is a hero yet she wants to conquer the world with Phantom cult"- Sam explain to her soldiers, of course it was a lie her men believe to the last word as they all made preparations to attack.
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- "Wow, Danny that was intense"- Jazz congratulated her lover, for they had made love for the third time that night, even though it was late nearly two in the morning.
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Phantom step into the shower, sleep was something they needed very little with just three to four hours per night was more than sufficient for them, while Phantom shower his elder sister laid on the bed as she relaxes, suddenly the phone rang, cursing the device she stood up and walk up the machine.
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- "... Hello?"- answer Jazz with a cold and scary voice. The warm water that bathe Phantom was a heavenly luxury he enjoys normally in the company of Jazz yet as he showers he couldn't shake off an uneasy sensation that slowly overwhelm him.
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- "Danny, we got problems. Some maniacs kill a group of people in one of our churches and set it ablaze"- said Jazz as she steps in the bathroom still holding to the phone.
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There was anger in her eyes, for she was friends with some of those who were murder. Danny was equally enraged as Jazz explain how some madmen broke into the church and gun blaze everyone, she also said that some of the priests were on their way to see them.
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Both Phantom and Jazz got dress in record time as they step into their dark hallways, their visit would arrive soon even with the pass of years Danny still wore his hazmat suit though now he had added a breastplate, with metal boots, very similar to a knight this of course was an idea from Jazz who took her role of guardian to heart.
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The Halfas dress in similar fashion walk down the hallways to their foyer, Danny was still unused to wearing such an armored like clothing but it was especially uncomfortable for him to wear the church symbol, one he still didn't accept but couldn't refuse, as they walk down to the third floor a strange force field block their path behind them.
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- "What the..."- said Danny as he realized that he and his sister had walk into a trap, a trap in their own home.
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Jazz immediately took hold of Phantom's hand and pull him back, just a second later a strong explosion shook the hallway, tossing both Halfas to the floor. Their eyes blur and their ears ring, yet as they rise their heads, Danny distinguish the unique armored soldier that stood threateningly in front of them.
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- "Guys in white or was it the Men in White, it's been so long I can't seem to recall, I thought you guys just chicken out and disappear"- said Phantom with sarcasm as he stood up without taking his eyes of the first MIW in front, they all wore a less bulky white armor unlike the first Men in White enforcers yet they still sported the creepy skull like mask.
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In front of the two teens were at least seven soldiers, three in upfront and four more on the back, behind the Halfas were three more who had activated a Fenton brand ghost shield, both kids were trap yet they didn't even consider themselves in any kind of danger as they could easily get rid of all the Men in White with almost no effort.
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Danny soon notice Jazz shock expression as she pointed behind the last line of MIW, there she was the grand and fearless leader with her henchmen to her side. It took more than a moment for Phantom to realize what Jazz had in a second.
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- "Sam... What's the meaning of this, why are you wearing that armor?!"- yell Danny with anger rarely seen, he knew of the girls fights but he never thought his best friend would now stand against him dress in his enemy's colors, it was beyond believe even sickening.
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- "Danny it's been so long since I last saw you... Don't worry sweetheart I won't fail you this time, i will rescue you my love. Now I'm strong enough to stop that witch."- said Sam with cheer in her voice as she pointed to Jazz yet her men even her minions were shock to see their Captain like this, their stoic, cold even cruel leader was all of the sudden talking about rescue and love with a cheerful voice.
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- "What are you talking about Sam, I don't need any rescue"- continue Danny as Jazz took a battle stance.
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- "She's completely insane, Danny"- continue Jazz as Sam turn her eyes at her with an unending blood thirst.
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- "As we planned boys, Fire!"- yell the MIW captain.
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Danny and Jasmine were engulfed by the barrage of bullets but thanks to their metal hard wings they somehow manage to withstand the attack, the gunfire had stop as the gunners quickly reloaded the rifles. The MIW were shock to see the result, lots of blood and ecto-plasma spouting out of their wings.
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- "See... They're not angels, just wicked ghost, resume fire!"- said Captain Sam. Years ago she had convince the high command to dump away their weak semi plasma guns in favor of real military grade rifles with her personal upgrading, a combination a lead bullets with anti-ghost ecto-plasma, a perfect choice for ghost elimination.
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The former goth girl look with pride as her men were ripping the prize wings of this so call angels, she was convinced that once Jazz was death Danny would be liberated of whatever spell he was in; hence he would finally see with his own eyes the woman he should have love since the beginning.
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Both Halfas were being push to the ghost shield as they cover with their wings, same ones that were being slowly ripped to pieces, it pains Sam deep in her soul to have to hurt her beloved Danny but it was a necessary sacrifice if she wanted to rescue him.
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Captain Manson could already envision her future with Phantom once she had rescue him from the evil clutches of Jasmine, first she would quit the Men in White, then she would fulfill her long awaited dream to marry with Danny and eventually have children of their own, soon the gunfire had stop, her men started to reload for the second time as one prepare the large Ghost Thermos. Danny and Jazz were on their knees cover behind their blood stain wings.
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- "Concentrate your fire on the female but don't let the other stand up"- order Sam biting her lips as she had to fight back the urge to run to Danny and comfort him from the pain she and her men had induce.
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- "You know what to do sweetheart"- said Danny.
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As Sam kept on ordering the attack yet a very familiar scene came to Sam's eyes as Jazz flew at full speed breaking through the MIW lines grabbing tightly to the young Captain, dragging her across the hallway and crushing her to into the farthest room.
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Sam's personal squad were left shock at the sudden attack, without given them the opportunity to compose themselves Danny use his energy ray to break the ghost shield that was supposed to confine him and Jazz in their deadly trap yet just like glass it shatters into pieces, soon he aims and destroyed the enlarge Ghost Thermos.
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Without a doubt in his mind Phantom began his own siege against the MIW soldiers having long abandon his hero antics to a more "mature" way a battle, the troopers had finally realized what it meant to fight a real monster.
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- "uh, that brought back some nasty memories, still haven't learn any new tricks, have you?... Well a dog only knows how to bite and no more"- said Captain Sam as she stood up.
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Drawing her so prefer SAR 21, behind Jazz the captain could barely distinguish the gunfire follow by terrifying screams fill with pain, she now understood just how much she underestimated this winged monster and the control it held over Danny.
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Bravely captain Sam began shooting at her fearsome adversary but once again she met with an eerily familiar scene, Jazz had invoked an energy shield to block of the gunfire, shape in the same fashion as the one she held five years ago.
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Sam heart skip a beat as she notices she was been cornered, - "I was quite merciful with you five years ago and yet you came here looking for another beating"- said Jasmine with a deep and imposing voice while she ready an energy bomb on her hand, a trick she learns from her beloved Danny long ago, with a smile she raised her hand above her head, a second before she manages to attack a huge energy web trap the girl on the spot, soon she was under fire by the MIW who run back to their Captain.
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- "Boss we got her now!"- yell the commander of the second team as he orders to fire.
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- "Hurry up and kill it before the other one comes here"- said Tiberius while the other three of Sam minion kept shooting at Jazz with more despair than before.
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Sam quickly counted her men, she was missing seven from team two, though everything was going according to Captain Sam planning, part one was to separate the two "angels" in order to kill the female yet she didn't count on losing so many of her men so soon.
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- "Sargent where's the rest of the men?"- Sam question her Sargent.
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- "That monster kill five and the other two manage to hold him down with the energy web, I hope your right about this girl"- answer the Sargent clearly worried of the outcome if they fail. They had already lost most of team two, therefore part two of the plan would be very difficult to complete; capture the male angel.
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- "Watch out Captain!" scream Cindy at top of her lungs, Jasmine had broken the web and lunged at the goth with murderous attempt but instead of dodging Sam charge straight at her attacker by some miracle she got hold of the winged creature yet it came with a price as her armor broke into many pieces and the pain was unbearable.
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- "See, you're just a dog that can't learn anything new"- said the Captain as a string of blood came out her mouth.
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Jazz smile has she took hold of the goth sides lifting her from the ground as she began crushing her ribs. - "Don't shoot, you might hit the Captain"- yell the Sargent as Tiberius ran towards the girls.
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- "Stupid bitch, what was she thinking, catching the monster like that"- said Tiberius as he hit Jazz with a very powerful stun gun.
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The shock was so intense the winged girl was thrown to the side letting the captain crush on the floor with a loud thud, moving quickly both Sherry and Cindy drag their wounded leader away from the fallen beast as Jack and Tiberius along with the surviving MIW form a fire line in between the girls.
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- "What are you waiting for? shoot!" order Sam in her commanding voice.
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- "... Sir, look..." said the sergeant as he pointed at the dark hallway they came from, Phantom walk out dragging two MIWs cover in blood.
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- "I think you forgot this"- said Danny with a smirk as he tosses the two dead guys over to their once friends. Sam was almost hyperventilating as she glues her eyes on Danny, she watches carefully as he picks Jazz up, right before she could do another suicide charge, Jack place a hand on her should.
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- "look at their wings"- captain Manson slowly move her eyes over to the wings of her enemies, they were unscathed she was sure they had almost ripped them off, on a closer look she notice that all the wounds on the angels were closing.
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- "Dear lord, they're monsters"- said the Sergeant almost pissing his pants as he too saw how all the wounds were healing unnaturally fast.
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- "Damn, I lost half of my force in less than twenty minutes, the other half is terrorized, the trap we set fail miserably and to make things even worse we didn't even hurt them, well there's no point in crying over spilled milk"- thought the captain as she regain her stance, Sam notice how it had begun to rain she soon remember what Cindy said in her vision of the future.
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- "The ghost boy will be outside in the rain with lights shine above him but the witch is nowhere in sight... There will be someone else here, damn it..."- fill with despair Jack lunged against Danny unsheathing a bizarre looking energy sword, the young MIW stuck with all his force but his blade was stop by Phantom as he held the teens wrist in a bone crushing grip.
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Jack yell in agony as his sword fell to the ground, the winged ghost boy was consumed in rage, blood drunk. Jack was a young teen completely new to ways of war but now at least he knew was true fear felt like.
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Phantom blasted the teen away with a powerful energy ray, pieces of armor rain to the ground along the boy, all was left in silence as Danny turn his head over to the remaining invaders yet both Phantom and Jazz attention were drowned to the floor as a pair of cans roll to their feet, out of nowhere a blinding light follow by small explosions cover the teens as the MIW ran out leaving their fallen comrade.
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The white soldiers took refuge on the second floor in some sort of library fill with dusty book, the decor was in shatters and the paint was peeling off, clearly it had not been used in years. - "Call the command and tell them we need immediate evac"- order Sam as she realize she had once again lost the battle.
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- "Captain, Command says they'll pick us up at the base of the hill"- said Cindy while Sam order them to move into the hallways.
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- "Sir, the monsters aren't following us"- said Tiberius as he wonders if his friend Jack was still alive, yet their Captain only reply with a "stay alert."
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The heartbeats echo throughout the entire hall, overcoming the noise made by the heavy rain just outside the windows, the sudden thunders that illuminated the dark corridor through the tall windows made their slow walk even more terrifying, still looking back in case the "angels" dash towards them yet they didn't come at all. A little calmer Sherry sped up her pace against common sense as she was about to reach the end of the hallways, having nothing in front of her she could see herself going home.
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A loud thunder hit the ground giving out a strong white light revealing the winged monster who stood no more than five steps from Sherry, she feels how the cold sweat drenched her, how her heart stop beating, those bizarre red eyes pierce through her like a knife on warm butter.
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- "It's Phantom!"- yell the bob hair girl as she started to shoot completely forgetting her training.
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As expected the specter use his large wings to block out the gunfire, in utter terror the girl pulls out a stun grenade as she steps back nonetheless she trip on her own clumsy feet letting her grenade roll towards her allies. With a loud bang all the MIWs were blinded by the explosion, Phantom lifted Sherry by her ankle as she screams in full horror, sending shivers to her allies especially to Cindy.
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Cover in fear the blonde girl started to spray and pray with her rifle, unfortunately rather than hitting Phantom she guns down the last two members of the second team barely missing her own Captain and Sergeant; Tiberius and Sherry were spared just because the blonde had run out of bullets, as she regain her vision she saw how she had murder her own teammates and the monster remain unhurt, the girl looks straight into his insanely scary eyes the very same that made her shiver like a little girl.
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- "Cindy pull yourself together! That's an order!" commanded Captain Sam as she also regain her sight.
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- "This is impossible, I can't do it!" Yell Cindy in fear while tears pour out of her future seeing eyes, the blondie turn around and left running as she scream her lungs out, Sam and Sherry could only watch how their teammate abandoned them.
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- "Pay attention freak!"- yell out Tiberius as he tackles Phantom forcing him to let go of Sherry yet he couldn't throw Phantom to ground.
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- "Nice try boy but not good enough"- taunted Danny as he turns intangible.
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- "You really think so?" reply the tall dark skin man as he lifted the ghost boy even in his intangible form, yet the MIW soon felt how Danny began to part his mighty grip, without been able to clearly think his actions thorough the MIW ran out the window still tightly held to the ghost boy.
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Both teen fell from the second floor into an enlarge balcony overseeing the garden the Men in White had walk through, - "A little suicidal, aren't we?"- said Danny as he stood up whipping off some of the rain that made his hair stick to his scalp.
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Tiberius look up to the window they fell from, surprise to be able to even stand after such a long fall. His attention came back to Danny has he rise flight just about to attack, the dark skin man's eyes open wide as Phantom charge against him connecting a powerful punch throwing the teen far away even as he rolls on the floor he manages to place Danny in between his iron sights quickly spraying ecto-bullets at the ghost boy who instantly answer with a mighty specter shield.
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Almost as if the teen was waiting for him to block the gunfire he tosses a grenade above Phantoms head, the strange bomb exploded with blinding white light but soon was surrounded by dozens of smaller explosions, with deafening sounds. From within the lights come out Tiberius wielding the same sword Jack had use.
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Barely dodging the blade Danny felt it touch his throat with the tip, even with his inhumane speed the ghost boy had a truly hard time dodging the incoming blade, his adversary was no ordinary man yet Phantom was used to near death situations, quickly understanding the attack pattern he started to dodge with far more ease.
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Tiberius try a thrust but missingmiserably, the ghost boy took this brief momentum to knock the sword out of the teens hand, Tiberius look straight into Danny´s demon like eyes, unable to move he receive a series of boxer like punches one after another, Phantom finish him off with his classic ecto ray sending him far into the edge of the balcony. The rain could do nothing to ease the pain from such an assault even so he stood up making Phantom retake his combat stance.
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Dizzy, bruise and with a bleeding nose, the teen stood like a new born deer slowly drawing his handgun, - "Weak but brave I'll give that much"- said Danny with triumph in his voice for he knew that victory was a sure. The young MIW shot the ghost boy, yet he witnesses how all of his bullets just bounce off the monster's armor.
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- "Tell me kid, what are they paying you, for you to fight so hard?"- question Danny as he stares into his opponent's eyes.
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- "... Simple revenge"- answer Tiberius back as he whips off the blood from his nose.
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- "Revenge... For who?"- continue Danny while walking slowly around the teen.
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- "When I was a kid I use to admire you, you were my hero. I always wanted to be like you even after you went crazy and kill ghost X"- said the boy as Phantom realize that he meant Skulker.
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- "Then one morning my mother got a call, the guy on the other side said that my father was murder by you!"- yell Tiberius while aiming his useless gun toward the ghost boy who only stare at him.
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- "... I'm sorry about it, who was your father and when did this happen?"- question Phantom wondering if he really killed this child's father.
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- "He was a Captain with the Men in White, his name was David Valentine, you murder him five years ago at Casper high auditorium, you blew his head off"- almost cry the tall dark skin boy. Phantom quickly realize of who he was talking about.
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- "I'm sorry for your father's death but if memory serves he took my parents hostage, he tortured them and tried to enslave my sister even so I didn't kill him, it was someone from the Phantom Church"- explain Danny yet the reply he got was expected.
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- "LIES! You murder! One way or the other I will kill you monster"- scream Tiberius at top of his lungs.
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- "Killing is not something we take pride in, we consider it as sad and shameful even if it's absolutely necessary. No matter what you will stop at nothing, right? Said Phantom as his enemy move his head in affirmation still aiming his weapon.
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- "I understand your anger and hate, I've been there myself... I have a family...someone I must protect, I'm sorry but I can't play the hero forever"- continue Phantom, as he came to terms that having a someone with a personal vendetta come after him would be too risky, with just Sam was more than enough, as soon as he finishes his sentence he shot an ecto-ray straight to the teen face.
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Tiberius saw the green light came towards him almost in slow motion yet he knew how fast the ray really was, he knew there was no way for him to dodge it. - "Don't worry son, you did a fine job. I'm proud of you"- said a man in a MIW tuxedo.
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- "Dad?" whisper the teen as a small tear came out his eye.
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The green ray took the teens head clean off, slowly Danny walk over the corpse ashamed of his action, the ghost boy kneels and whispers - "for so long you chase the wrong person, at least now you may rest. Sleep well my enemy"- said the Phantom.
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At the same time Danny was in combat with Tiberius, Sam and the MIW sergeant recover from the attack their terrified comrade had ensued on them by accident - "Sergeant go after Cindy"- order the Captain as she ran towards Sherry who's a complete mess, shivering in fear and unable to make any sentence Sam understood that even with their magic they're still just kids being force to fight a monster.
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- "Relax, let's find Cindy and get out"- said Sam with the sweetest voice she could muster while the rain and gunfire just outside made the background music, Sherry only knotted with her head as they both stood up.
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- "Boooo" said a silver hair ghost girl as she phases half her torso through the floor holding in a bone crushing grip the ankles of both girls and pulling them down.
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With a quick spin Jazz throw Sherry into some dusty couches while still holding to Sam, - "Surrender now and may bestow some mercy upon you and your allies"- said Jazz with a voice that seem to come from beyond the grave.
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Sam answer back with her handgun, shooting straight into the girl's head. Jasmine could barely dodge the bullets losing her grip on the former goth girl letting her fall unto the ground where she quickly took a defensive position behind a pillar.
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- "Tell me, do you like my home? it's not very new or clean but it's a home although it does have a quite a history to it"- question Jazz as she softly landed on the ground.
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- "Yeah I heard the stories behind this madhouse, fits you well freak"- reply Sam while she took aim with her SAR 21, just a few meters away was Sherry still shaking even so she did her best to hold a steady aim.
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- "There's something a been wanting to ask you for a long time" ask Jazz once more, - "Do you really love Danny?"-
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The question took the girl aback, it was the first time someone ask her about it though very few knew about her feelings for the boy, - "of course I love him"- reply the woman sure of herself. Jazz walk over to a dusty couch and slowly sat on as she observes her adversary still behind the pillar and the girl with the bob haircut trying to take cover behind the sofa.
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- "I think you're a shallow girl Sam, that you were only interested in Danny's powers"- said Jazz in a calm voice.
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- "What are you talking about, what does a freak like you know about me and Danny, you're just a monster that brainwash him!"- reply Captain Manson so very angry yet Jazz remain in her sit unflinching.
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- "Think about it girl. Why were you two friends?"- question the eerie angel girl.
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Before Sam could come up with an answer Jazz spoke again - "I heard from Danny how you two first met, it was because of a school project you were force to do together but before that you two never cross words, not even once"- Sam's heart skip a beat as Jazz spoke of their past so nonchalantly.
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- "Your relationship wasn't special, just two kids doing homework together but you became friends, why? Because you didn't want to be part of the A-list or the nerds, Danny didn't belong to either group, he was different."- continue Jazz while Sam was left speechless.
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So many memories ravage the young goths head, the good moments and the bad ones, the sad and the happy. - "but your friendship wasn't mean to last, after all you're a super-rich girl and Danny is middle class boy, you would have bored of him very soon but then there was the accident that gave him ghost powers, then everything changed, right? - Said Jazz in playful voice.
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- "Nooo! I was his friend because of him not his powers"- yell out Sam while stepping out of her cover only to find that Jasmine wasn't on the couch anymore.
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- "b-boss, over there"- said Sherry in creaking voice while pointing to the far window.
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- "Your friendship would have died before long if it weren't for Danny ghost powers, let's face it you two have nothing in common, you think very different from him, you're a vegetarian while he is basically a carnivore even now. Tell me how many times you tried to change him for him to fit more of your taste?"- Jazz kept her monologue as she watches the rainy sky wondering how her brothers fight was going.
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- "I never once tried to changed him, I accepted him the way he is"- reply Sam with a scary and venomous voice.
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- "Really? you did throw him away like a used tissue after I hit on you"- said a white hair teenager behind her.
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-"Gregor? Why are you here?"- question the captain clearly shock.
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- "I came to take you back home, you can stop playing soldier now"- continue the teen.
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- "No, I still have to rescue Danny"- answer Sam in a stern voice.
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- "You can't be serious, you just want what you can't have, you're a selfish bitch"- continue Gregor with a creepy smile.
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- "After all you believe every single lie I told you before even when your dear friend saw right through them, you prefer me a complete stranger over your dear friend, so like before take my hand and let's go."- said the white hair boy.
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Gregory's words pierce through the MIW woman like a knife, it was all true she did turn her back on Danny for the first goth like boy that talk to her even when Danny tried to protect her from him, she didn't listen.
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- "Oh, sweetie lets go home, there's no place for you here"- Sam was beyond shock as she turns to see her mother and father.
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- "Please listen to your family, go home"- said Tucker as he came out from the shadows.
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Sam lower her rifle as she looked around seeing not only Gregor but her mother, father, Tucker, even Paulina, Dash and Kwon were all there, all around her. From the shadows came out an old small lady, making the brave MIW captain's heart freeze.
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- "Please dearie, let's go home you have done enough"- said Sam's grandmother in her sweet caring voice.
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- "I'm sorry grandma, I have to help my friend, I can't go, not yet"- reply Captain Manson as she turns back to Jasmine.
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- "Haven't you hurt enough people for your own selfishness, you damn spoil brat!"- yell out Sam's grandmother making the girl turn to her in pure shock.
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- "where did we go wrong? Continue her mother while crying.
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- "I guess I spoil you too much"- said Sam's father with disappointment, all of the sudden all present started to rant about how horrible she is, each and every one of them yell all kind of obscenities but what hurt her the most was her grandmother who in sheer anger call her a murder.
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- "No! This is a lie, none of you are here!"- scream Sam at top of her lungs as she began shooting at all the apparitions yet they all remain in their place with a wicked smile.
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Sam swiftly turn to Jazz unsheathing her energy sword and lunging at her with full speed, the captain could feel how the blade went into the girl's flesh making her lower her head, Sam could finally taste victory after so long.
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- "Ahh, so, you saw through my illusions but tell me, how much of it was a lie?"- said the silver hair girl as she lifted her head.
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Sam witness that she was staring at her own face, in fear the goth girl let go of her sword while she steps back into the multitude of people that stare at her with maniacal eyes. She soon felt her mother's hand on her shoulder, her father stood next to her eventually her grandmother pulls her down making the girl kneel, for some reason Sam felt at ease even if she knew that this people were but a mere illusion, it still made her feel so relax.
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The old woman guided Sam's hand to her holster drawing out her handgun, the girl wonder about the things she did in the past, how many innocents did she kill, of how many she step on, love made her insane, turn her into a murder, she lost the right to be with Danny after all she had become into the very same thing Phantom stood against, her grandmother help Sam place her gun to the side of her head.
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- "It's the right thing to do, sweetheart"- said her mother.
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- "It'll be over soon"- continue her father. A mere second before pulling the trigger Sherry jump over her Captain as she drops many stun grenades.
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A blinding light involve the room, the illusions disappear and without a doubt in her mind Sherry pull Sam by her hand away from the monster's grip, - "Come on snap out of it, let's get out of here!"- yell the black hair girl as she drags her leader into the dark hallways.
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Sam woke from whatever trance she was in and realize what she was about to do, in matter of minutes both girls reach a lock door that let into the foyer, their way out. Captain Sam kept an eye on the hall they came from even though she now understood that Jazz could come out from almost anywhere.
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- "We have to go back and find the others"- said Sam while Sherry kick the door with all her might.
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- "Screw the others, they're death anyways"- reply the bob hair cut girl.
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The large double door finally started to break, - "listen boss, I don't really care for what just happened but I need you to pull yourself together. Once this door is open we're gonna run to the evac point and that's final"- basically order Sherry.
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- "Tell me Sherry why you joined the Men in White?"- question Sam.
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- "Listen Tiberius came here for revenge, I don't know about Jack and Cindy but as for me, I just wanted money and the MIW offer me a truck load of it"- reply Sherry as she kicks the door open, yet instead of a way out she was standing in front of a line of people wearing white hoodies and long capes, the girl's heart almost stops as she was being cover in red dot lasers.
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- "Why didn't I see this coming?"- whisper Sherry as she gave up her ghost.
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- "Found one, fire!"- said a man from within the foyer.
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A rain of bullets ripped through the girl's armor, the sounds of metal breaking along with disgusting sounds of flesh been ripped echo through the hallway, Sam who was hiding behind the wall next to the double door stare at the lifeless body of Sherry who lay in puddle of blood, her eyes were still open.
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- "Find the others"- said a man in the foyer.
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The Captain's heart nearly stops at this, she looks to her right only to witness flashlights from the other end of the hallway on her left she knew that Jazz would be waiting for her, but in front of her just outside the windows she saw helicopters, her reinforcements or maybe the police, whoever it was she could use the commotion to escape but that meant jumping out the window.
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- "Sorry Sherry, I'm a lousy captain"- said the goth girl as she throws her last stun grenade into the foyer blinding her enemies.
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Sam jump out the window rolling on the hillside various meters until she hit the ground, even with the excruciating pain from the fall she ran into the woods. Up on the fourth floor Cindy was walking with an extreme caution holding tightly to her rifle, soon the search light from the helicopters caught her attention she looks at them until she finally realizes they were from the MIW, Cindy smile was so big it was almost cartoon like but her smile slowly fainted away as she saw how Phantom glided towards the choppers.
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- "There's the ghost boy, open fire" said the squad leader as they started shooting with their chain guns.
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Phantom took a deep breath and use his ecto-energy rays to knock down the choppers, one by one they fell in a ball of fire to ground, Cindy watch in horror how her rescue was now a mass of fire, she watches how Phantom was looking around outside in the rain, she suddenly remembers her own prediction, she was sure that once she turns to her side she would see someone. Almost hyperventilating the blonde turn around, indeed someone was there.
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- "Finally found you, let's go. The cultist just arrived, if we stay here we're dead meat"- said the MIW sergeant as he took hold of Cindy's shaking hand.
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- "Do me a favor, look into the future. I just wanna know if there's something I should look out for"- continue the sergeant.
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The blonde girl put her hands together, her eyes glow, - "I'm running through the woods, you're nowhere in sight, I see the highway and there's darkness now"- said Cindy with her eyes still seeing into the future.
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- "I can't see anything else!" yell the girl so very scare.
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Never before had her vision fail, she was sure she was still using her magic a full. The sergeant opens a window as he tied a rope to a staircase, with so many Phantom cultists around the best way out was by rappel.
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- "Lord Phantom, the men are currently searching the premises. We'll find this heretics"- said a priest standing next to the local police chief who in turn said.
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- "I got my best men on it, they won't escape"- Phantom found it curious as how such a man turned out to be so extremely religious but he was thankful for his help.
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Jazz phase from the floor next Phantom who quickly embrace her in a tight hug. - "My lord, about the people that attack our church"- continue the priest. Phantom look at him with a sad stare as he passes a log book.
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- "I took this from an MIW I fought, they were order to attack the church but not the manor, tried to get one alive and find out why they came here. If you don't mind we're going to our room"- said Phantom as he excused himself into his quarters along with Jazz.
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- "Do you think this was Sam's plan or the MIW order her to"- question Jazz as she started to run a bath.
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- "I don't know, I'm still holding to the idea that she's been used by the MIW but that most likely isn't the case"- answer Danny as he looks outside the window.
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- "Come on sergeant, run we're almost out"- said Cindy as they both ran out of the woods.
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Soon they saw the highway from there it was a short run to their evac point, the moment she took a step into the street a soundless bullet pierces her head killing her in an instant, she didn't even know what happened, the sergeant tried to take cover but he wasn't any luckier than his ally as the sniper was far too skill for either of them. The sun raised like every morning, the cultist and police search high and low for more MIWs but all they found were the death ones but Sam wasn't among the fallen.
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- "So, tell me what happened back there"- question Commander Bradley to the only survivor that manage to elude capture and execution.
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- "I'm sorry sir, I did my best I even brought some of the female ghost's blood"- said Jack as he almost pisses himself.
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- "What did I ask you?"- reply the commander.
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The poor emo boy was shaking in his spot as he did his best to explain or more likely to blame everything on Captain Sam although he could only tell until he was beaten by Phantom. - "that's all?"- question his commander in a sore mood as Jack only nodded in affirmation.
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- "Get out"- continue Bradly making the teen leave the office in shivers, moments later a funny looking man walk in.
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- "May I sir" said the man.
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- "what do you got doctor?"- reply the commander.
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- "We confirm that the ecto blood is female, it's a strange mixture of human blood and ghost ecto-plasma, I still don't know how they mix they should be like water and oil, but one thing is for sure and I run the test up to five times."- said the strange doctor.
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- "Well, what is it?"- continue the commander more intrigue.
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- "Well, she's pregnant"- answer the man in a sheepish voice shocking Bradley.
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Almost two days had pass since the siege at Phantom Manor needless to say it was all over the news everyone blame the MIW for the sudden increase of ghost attacks afterword's, it was around 9 in the morning when a rundown pickup truck park in front of the Manson residence, the driver rang the bell and only a few moments later Pamela Manson open the door, she still dress in fashion but the years weight heavy on her.
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- "Hi mom"- said Sam, almost immediately the older woman hugs her long-lost daughter.
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To be continue