The moment Danny saw Jake and Rotwood disappear through the wall, he started to fight back a little. Not enough to beat any of the ghosts attacking him, but just enough to stop them hurting him too much. The collar was repressing his powers so he couldn't use his ghost ray unless he concentrated really hard and there was no way he could use his ice powers. Within a few minutes, Danny and his enemies were encircled in a ring of spectators. Guards rushed to the ring and attempted to break up the fight. With one punch to the cheek and a kick in the ribs, Danny fell on the ground. Then his enemies were detained and his body was once again racked with pain and electricity.
The fight stopped immediately and all of the ghosts, bar Danny, were carted back to their cells. Walker walked into the cafeteria and scowled at Danny recovering on the floor.
"You'll be happy to know that your human friends got away," Walker growled. Danny looked at Walker and smiled.
"Good. After all there must be a rule somewhere that humans can't be in the Ghost Zone, right?" Danny remarked. Walker frowned.
"There isn't. But perhaps there should be a rule against bringing them here," Walker murmured quietly and pulled out a small white rule book from his pocket and briefly thumbed through it.
He sighed and put it away.
"However, you will be unhappy to know that I'm angry. Which means I have to punish you," Walker continued and pulled out the remote and pressed the button before Danny could do anything. He screamed and writhed in agony and could tell he was close to passing out. The electricity stopped and Danny collapsed in a slump at Walker's pointy feet. He pulled Danny up to eye level by the back of his jumpsuit and glared at him.
"You are never getting out of here," Walker growled in Danny's face. He then tossed Danny across the room towards two guards.
"Throw him in cell 439," Walker ordered them and smiled as they dragged a barely conscious Danny Phantom away. Walker finally had the ghost boy exactly where he wanted him and all it took was two humans and a shock collar.
Jake flew as fast as possible through the Ghost Zone. He wasn't paying attention to where he was going as long as it was away from Walker's prison. Rotwood shouted warnings from below in Jake's claws about incoming rocks. After a while, Jake landed on a rock and dropped Rotwood. He stood there panting for a few minutes before daring to look around. The guards hadn't chased them for long. It was almost like they didn't really want to catch them but then again that was probably the case, after all, they had Danny.
"Wait up Wulf!" a familiar voice boomed and two ghosts appeared. One was Frostbite and the other was a black ghostly werewolf wearing green clothes, reminiscent of prison uniform. The werewolf stopped in front of Jake, still in dragon form, and Rotwood. It sniffed them and growled.
"Amiko," the werewolf muttered and made to run off again.
"Wulf, stop! You can't break into Walker's prison by yourself!" Frostbite reasoned and placed his hand on Wulf's shoulder. Wulf growled at Frostbite but stopped.
"I know you want to help your friend but we need a plan first," Frostbite continued. Wulf snarled but sat on the ground and muttered something in another language.
"You escaped Walker's prison? Where's Danny Phantom?" Frostbite asked Jake and Rotwood. Jake changed back to his human form, earning a glare from Wulf, and shook his head sadly.
"Danny's still in prison. He created a diversion so we could run for it. He told us that we could run through the walls and we did. Danny couldn't come because Walker put some kind of shock collar on him," Jake explained and Wulf leapt up to his feet and said something in rapid fire Esperanto. Rotwood backed away slightly, pale and shaking uncontrollably.
"Wait Wulf. Calm down," Frostbite attempted to calm Wulf down again.
"Can you understand him?" Jake asked curiously, wary that he had said something to upset the frightening ghost. Frostbite shook his head.
"Unfortunately not. I can only understand his emotion behind the words. In fact it took a lot of convincing to get Wulf to come, but once Wulf knew what I was saying, Wulf was more than happy to help," Frostbite answered with a shrug.
Jake considered the situation. Chances were Danny could communicate with Wulf, after all they were friends. However Danny was stuck in prison, probably being tortured. Jake shook the thought out of his mind. He turned to Rotwood and saw how scared the teacher was. Jake couldn't fight ghosts and two ghosts against an entire prison, wasn't going to do much. Besides Jake didn't really know much about the Ghost Zone and how it worked. Jake nodded to himself. They needed back up and to dump Rotwood somewhere safe.
"Can Wulf make a portal to a specific place in New York?" Jake asked Frostbite. It seemed that Frostbite could understand Wulf a lot better than he or Rotwood could. But then again, Rotwood was a snivelling coward at the minute, he could probably barely understand English.
Again, I know how bad Jake seems but he's not running away, he's making a tactical retreat. Reading back over the story, I can see that Jake wasn't shown in a particularly good light but he does redeem himself, promise.
Until the next chapter.