Chapter 21: The Ghost Zone!
As the portal closed on her, Allyson found herself in a dimension completely unfamiliar to her. It was a vast area covered in swirling colors of green and black. Scattered all over the place were floating purple door and various places such as houses or jungles.
"Wh-where am I?" Allyson asked herself. She looked around and suddenly realized she herself was floating. When she looked down, the vast swirling colors never ended, it was as if there was no stopping point of this place.
She let out a small shriek and heard:" BEWARE!" She shrieked even louder as a stout little man with blue skin in a light blue shirt and navy blue overalls came up to her.
He had a navy blue beanie cap on which covered most of his hair. To most, he wouldn't seem like much of a threat, but since Allyson had never seen something like this before, she was terrified.
"I AM THE BOX GHOST! I CONTROL ALL CUBIC ITEMS OF ALL WORLDS! Now tremble, as I bestow upon you, the horror of my BUBBLE WRAP!" the man, the Box Ghost, cried as he pulled out a large roll of bubble wrap.
Allyson shrieked and covered her head. "Wow, you're actually scared? AWESOME! Which means, I AM A THREAT! MWAHAHAHA! BEWARE!" the Box Ghost cried in triumph.
"Oh please! You? A threat?" came another voice. Allyson turned and saw what looked like a mechanical man with green fire for hair and a goatie. He had all sorts of high-tech equipment all over him and he had bright glowing green eyes.
"Like you could even scare a fly," the mechanical man said. "I am so a threat! I scare her," the Box Ghost said pointing to Allyson.
"HA! In your dreams. She should really fear me, for I am Skulker, the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter!" the mechanical man, Skulker, said.
"So what? You may have a lot of fancy weapons on you, but you do not haunt with CORRUGATED CARDBOARD and the occasional BUBBLE WRAP!" the Box Ghost said.
"Oh please, you haunt people with file cabinets," Skulker said. "Yeah! Because the papers could easily give you a paper cut!" the Box ghost said.
"And lunch boxes," Skulker said. "The sandwiches can totally clog your arteries!" the Box Ghost said.
"In forty years," Skulker said. "IT IS A SLOW DEATH! And at least I'm not a little green blob," the Box Ghost said.
"What did you just call me, whelp?!" Skulker asked. "A little…green…BLOB!" the box Ghost said stretching out each word.
"You little nuisance!" Skulker boomed. The two started to argue about how one was better then the other.
Allyson watched them argue and was no longer scared of them. They were getting pretty annoying actually. "Um, excuse me," Allyson cut in.
The two beings stopped arguing and looked at her. "I'm kinda new around here, but, um, do you know a way out, I kinda don't know how to open the portal back up," Allyson said.
"Couldn't you see that we were talking?" Skulker asked. "Yeah, it's not polite to interrupt people when they're talking, I AM THE BOX GHOST!" the Box Ghost cried.
Skulker pushed the Box Ghost over and the Box Ghost shoved him back,. Then the two started shoving each other constantly and completely forgot that Allyson was there.
Allyson slowly slipped away from the two and was soon out of their sight. "What is this place?" Allyson thought out loud.
Just then, she saw three formless beings with glowing red eyes floated in front of her. "Hey look, it's one of those human things," one of them said.
"Heh, it looks soft," the second one said. "It's tiny, isn't it?" the third one said. The all sounded like gangsters.
"Uh, excuse me, where am I?" Allyson said gathering up all her courage to ask the question.
"Where are you? HA! HA! HA!" they all laughed. "How could anyone, even a human, not know what this place is?" the second one asked.
"Uh…" Allyson started. "Humans are gettin' kinda stupid, aren't they fellas?" the third one asked.
"HEY! I'm NOT stupid!" Allyson snapped without thinking. "Oh you're not huh? Well we're so sorry, it's kinda hard to tell when ya ask STUPID QUESTIONS LIKE THAT! HA! HA! HA!" the first one shouted mockingly in Allyson's face.
"Well, you guys seem pretty stupid yourself!" Allyson said summoning all her courage. She tried imagining they were three copies of Sarah.
"What'd you say kido?" the first one asked. "Well, there's an example right there, you don't use proper English, you sound like you came from some kind of street gang," Allyson said.
"Hmmm…..so that's what we were before we came here," the third one said, They all laughed again.
"Hey kid, why dontcha find someone who cares?" the second one said. "Well, maybe I will!" Allyson said.
She started off then turned back and said: "Good bye!" As soon as she was gone, the second one said: "Freak!"
Allyson wandered over to a frozen area. It seemed to be a safe place to hide for a while, until Danny came to get her anyway, if he even was going to come get her.
She walked around, looking for a cave or something she could hide in, when all of a sudden, hundreds of the floating beings in white she saw earlier at her house where floating around.
Allyson gasped and ran into a nearby cave. "Maybe they wont find me here," Allyson said breathlessly to herself.
Just then, she heard a low growl. Allyson turned around and froze. She could've sworn her heart skipped a beat.
She saw behind her a yeti like creature that was completely covered in white fur, expect for the gray part of it's face. It had two ice horns and an arm made completely out of ice. Allyson was shocked to see it's bones through said arm.
It had yellow eyes with purple pupils and wore some sort of blue tribal clothes. Allyson shook in fear, the thing was huge compared to her, probably as big as two Danny's, one on top of the other.
It growled and said: "GO AWAY!" "I-I-I…." Allyson stammered. She couldn't bring herself to say anything.
"GO AWAY! LEAVE ME ALONE!" it shouted. Allyson didn't say anything. She curled up into a ball and started crying.
"I'M SORRY! I didn't mean to disturb you, I just…" Allyson said through tears. She was shaking violently.
The yeti's angered face melted into a face of remorse, It bent down to Allyson's height and said: "What's wrong?"
Allyson didn't answer, she was shaking too hard she wouldn't have been able to say anything anyways.
"Come on, what's wrong?" the yeti asked. Allyson absent mindedly threw herself against the yeti and started crying in it's arms.
"I'm scared, I don't know where I am, my dad's probably looking for me, I was run out of my house by two freaky things, and I'm not sure if I can trust my only friend!" Allyson said still crying.
Instead of pushing her away, the yeti pulled her in and hugged her. "Who was your friend?" it asked.
"I don't wanna talk about it," Allyson whimpered. "Come on, it can't be that bad, maybe I can help," the yeti said.
"You'll help me?" Allyson asked looking into the yeti's yellow and purple eyes. "If you want me to," the yeti said smiling at her.
Allyson wiped her eyes and said: "His name's Danny." "Danny what?" the yeti asked. "Danny Phantom," Allyson said.
The yeti looked at her in awe. "What?" Allyson asked. "You know Danny Phantom?" the yeti asked.
"Yes, why?" Allyson asked. "He's my friend too," the yeti said. Allyson's eye grew wider. Danny was friends with a yeti? Maybe this guy could explain what was going on.
"Excuse me, Mr.…uh…" Allyson started. "Frostbite," the yeti, Frostbite, said. "Okay, Frostbite, is-is Danny evil?" Allyson asked.
Frostbite looked at her with a confused expression on his face. "Of course not, what would make you think that?" he asked.
"Because he killed all those people! And I asked him why, but he wouldn't tell me, he said I wouldn't get it, but I don't know if he's telling the truth!" Allyson said starting to cry again. She buried her head in her hands.
Frostbite was shocked. Danny would never do something like that. "Calm down now. I have absolutely no idea where you got the idea that Danny killed anyone, but I assure you he isn't evil," frostbite said wiping Allyson's eyes.
"Danny told me he did himself, but he wouldn't tell me why! He just said I don't know enough about the Ghost Zone," Allyson said wiping her eyes as well.
"Well, have you ever been here before?" Frostbite asked." What?" Allyson asked. "This is the Ghost Zone, this whole place! It never ends, but there are a few portals to the real world around here," Frostbite said.
Allyson gapped at Frostbite for a second. "You mean, you're a ghost too?" Allyson asked.
"Indeed," Frostbite said. Allyson was in awe. "I don't get it," Allyson said finally after a while.
"You don't get what?" Frostbite asked. "When people talk about ghosts, they always seem to say that they're evil, horrible, deadly creatures who destroy anyone or anything they see," Allyson said.
"I don't know why, but I don't think that's something an eight year old girl should worry about," Frostbite said.
"I'm eig-," Allyson started. She just realized Frostbite said her age right. "You said my age right," she said.
"Well, you look eight, but what do I know, I've never really noticed age difference. I figure if they're much shorter then I am, they must be in your age group," Frostbite.
Allyson giggled. "No one ever gets my age right," she said. She was smiling widely and Frostbite smiled back.
"Frostbite," Allyson said. "Yes…uh…" Frostbite started. "Allyson," Allyson said. "Yes, Allyson," Frostbite said. "Can you tell me more about Danny?" Allyson asked.