Danny kept his eyes shut and listened intently for Sam to start directing him.
"Danny, drop now!" Sam exclaimed suddenly. Danny immediately allowed himself to fall through the air for a few feet. He felt the air brush past him as he dodged an attacker.
"Fly right," Sam told him and he complied and again he felt air brush past him as his attacker flew past him. Danny realised that there was more than one attacker. Gus or Vlad won't have had the time to set up another attack in the time between the attacks. Danny gritted his teeth in annoyance and anger.
"Fly up and left," Sam ordered him and Danny quickly followed the order. He felt a crackle of energy this time and realised that he had dodged a ghost ray.
This continued for a long time. He was beginning to tire and the attacks were getting harder to dodge. Sam had to tell him to drop and turn in a direction and then fly up again within seconds. Soon there wouldn't be enough time for Sam to react and tell Danny what to do and for him to comply.
"Up and right. Then drop!" Sam commanded. Her voice clearly conveyed her stress. Danny flew up and to the right. He then dropped and caught himself a few feet later. He scowled with his eyes shut. He wished he could just open them for a second and check on how things were going.
However the Fenton phone crackled back into life and instead of Sam's voice. It was Kim's.
"Sam, Danny's parents attacked me. I had to redirect them on Danny. But I have sunglasses, tell me where to go and I'll hand them to Danny," Kim explained. Danny realised that Kim didn't know that Danny could hear her as well. However before he or Sam could reply, he was hit from behind. Hard. He lost control of his flight and fell. He slammed into the ground and made a large crater in the street.
Danny slowly picked himself back up of the ground and stood up straight, still blind as he kept his eyes shut. He was painfully aware that Gus could be anywhere waiting for the opportunity to hypnotise him.
"Sam, I need you to give me a quick idea of the layout. What direction is Kim in? What are Vlad and Gus doing? Can you see my parents?" Danny questioned quickly. He needed Sam to snap out of whatever trance she was in.
"Right… er don't know where your parents are. Vlad and Gus are directly above. Kim's coming out of the shop now on your left. You're only a few feet in front of the Speeder. Wait… Danny dodge right!" Sam explained. Danny immediately jumped to his right. Sam's tone told him all he needed to know. Something had been coming at him and fast.
The moment he hit the ground he heard something slam into the ground beside him. Then he felt a jolt of electrical ecto-energy hit him. Sam hadn't had the time to warn him. That or her view was blocked. He yelled in pain and instinctively scrambled away from his attacker. Then he felt a rope wrap around him. He tried to phase through it but instantly realised that it must be the Fenton Fisher. He was tied up, blind and trapped.
Kim emerged from the shop and saw Danny struggle to his feet. She noticed that he still had his eyes shut.
"Sam, I need you to give me a quick idea of the layout. What direction is Kim in? What are Vlad and Gus doing? Can you see my parents?" Kim heard Danny say. She realised that the Fenton phones were all connected and felt a little guilty as she understood that her telling Sam her situation had distracted Danny from dodging his opponents.
"Right… er don't know where your parents are. Vlad and Gus are directly above. Kim's coming out of the shop now on your left. You're only a few feet in front of the Speeder. Wait… Danny dodge right!" Kim heard Sam inform him. Kim looked up and saw Vlad diving sharply at Danny. Danny instantly jumped out of the way and barely missed Vlad's body slam. But before Kim could react Vlad lifted an arm at Danny and shot a pink ghost ray at him. Danny yelled in pain and scrambled away.
Then out of nowhere a light blue string wrapped around Danny's arms. Kim followed the string and saw Jack staring blankly at Danny holding a strange looking fishing rod. Kim turned back to Danny and saw that he couldn't escape it.
"What's going on?" Kim asked, not realising that her Fenton phone was still on.
"It's the Fenton Fisher. Danny can't phase though it," Sam voice explained, she sounded a little stunned. Kim nodded in understanding. Gus descended leisurely and landed beside Danny. Danny continued to struggle against the ghost proof fishing line.
"Give it up Phantom. You can't hope to defeat me," Gus gloated loudly. Danny turned to the noise and snarled.
"I haven't lost yet Gus," he growled back.
Kim snapped out of her trance and realised that Danny needed help. She turned to the Fentons standing to the side, watching the exchange. She nodded to herself. She mightn't have experience fighting ghosts but she did have experience in fighting humans. She knew that if Danny could see, he'd be able to handle the ghosts without a problem. She took out the sunglasses and bit her lip in thought. Glasses were all well and good, but if they fell off like the other ones, Danny would be in the same situation. She had to modify the glasses. She turned back into the shop thinking and spotted another display, partially destroyed, with headbands on it. She grinned and jumped back into the shop and tied a long hairband to the arms of the sunglasses. She tested it on herself and tied the knots tighter. This would work. It would make the sunglasses into googles for Danny.
She then returned them to her pocket and launched herself at Danny's parents. She kicked the Fenton Fisher out of Jack's hands and kicked him once again in the chest. He fell down hard and hit his head. He obviously hadn't expected the attack. She turned to Maddie and smirked. Maddie didn't react for a moment until her gaze switched from the trapped Danny to Kim.
"Danny, Kim knocked the Fisher out of your dad's hand. You can get away," Sam informed Danny through the Fenton phones.
Danny smiled.
"What are you smiling about?!" Gus demanded angrily.
"You really need to keep a better eye on my "little friends" Gus," Danny taunted as he shot up into the air, dragging the fishing rod with him. Once he was in the air, he managed to swing the rod in a way to undo the line around his shoulders by spinning quickly in the air. The fishing rod was flung off down the street and Danny grinned when he felt the weight of it disappear.
"Kim's on your left Danny, but Vlad is coming from below fast," Sam warned him.
"Directly?" Danny asked.
"Yeah," Sam answered immediately. Danny nodded and pointed a fist straight down and fired a ghost ray. The yelp of surprise and the slight thud below told Danny that he had hit Vlad.
He shot off to his left and heard a scuffle below him.
"Kim, I'm above you. Toss it," Danny called down.
"Gus is behind you," Sam warned him. Kim glanced up and pulled the sunglasses out and threw them straight up. Danny opened his eyes and managed to catch them. He noticed the modification and he smirked. He pulled the glasses on and secured the hairband behind his head. The sunglasses were pulled tightly into the bridge of his nose, but if it meant he could took take a hit without losing them, then it was worth the discomfort. He spun around and fired a ghost ray at a fast approaching Gus.
"Thanks Kim, great idea. Thanks Sam," he thanked them and then shot off towards Gus. He was ready for round two.
So Danny can open his eyes without danger of being hypnotised. But just a reminder… he doesn't have a thermos…
Until the next chapter.