Danny Phantom And Storm Banshee- Season One(From The Very Beginning

by GhostWriterGirl-1

Nell sometimes wishes she was normal. But that's really tough when you're half-ghost and you and your half-siblings are necromancers, and you're the adopted kid of ghost hunters. So when Danny activated the portal, any shreds of normality went out the window. When the ghosts start coming, Nell is ready to kick their butts all the way back to the Ghost Zone-and you know the rest...

25. Chapter 25

GhostWriterGirl: I'm back! And here is my very, very, very late Halloween chapter! But, because it's always October 31st in this chapter, to a certain OC…*starts singing "Happy Birthday" badly* 'Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Ne-ell, happy birthday to yo-ooo-u.'

Nell:*has hands clasped firmly over her ears*Can I die fully now? And, do you know you sound like a dying cat when you sing?

GhostWriterGirl: Aww, thanks for the compliment. Anyway, here's the chapter-episode "Fright Night"-AKA, Nell's birthday! YAY! Anyway, I don't own Danny Phantom, that belongs to Butch Hartman. I only own this story and my OCs. Now, because she asked for more of my wondrous singing…

Nell:*balks when she realises that GhostWriterGirl is going to start singing again*Oh no. Oh God, please don't have her singing again, please do-

GhostWriterGirl:*cuts in and begins singing again, even more loudly and more terribly* 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU-!'

Nell:*hands firmly against her ears as she cringes*CAN YOU STOP SINGING ALREADY!?

GhostWriterGirl:*ignores her and continues singing* 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR NE-ELL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YO-OOO-U!'

Nell: can I die now? Please?

Chapter 25

Chapter 24: Fright Night

Nell's P.O.V

When I woke up this morning, instead of my alarm clock waking me up, or Danny's powers acting up(it happened, every once in a while)a different sort of alarm came-in the form of really, really, really loud shouting.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

"WHA-AAHH!" I screamed, bolting upright, eyes flashing red-silver before fading back to normal, panting really, really hard. I was clutching the sheets so tightly, my knuckles were going white, and just one look at me told you that I had been a second away from flying out of my bed from being startled awake.

I loosened my hands out of their killer grip on my innocent bedsheets and used them to rub my eyes, asking, "Wh-what's going on?" And couldn't you have given me five more minutes of peace? I added irritatingly in my mind.

Looking, I saw Mom, Dad, Holly, Jazz, Josie and a still-sleepy Owen and Danny in my room. Uh oh. This wasn't a good sign.

Actually, there were a few not-good signs.

1: Everyone was in my room, even though we all made the agreement that only a few people could be in my room at once. 2: Mom and Dad were here, instead of being in the lab working on a new invention. 3: Everyone was still in their pyjamas, even Mom and Dad, despite the fact that it was a school day. And 4: Holly looked happy for once-and she was usually grouchy in the morning. Which could only mean one thing…

I jumped out of bed and pulled the curtains apart. Looking out, I could see pumpkins, red-and-gold leaves, skeletons starting to hang in the trees, and fake cobwebs, spiders, bats and bedsheet ghosts hanging from trees and houses. And signs, staked everywhere on people's lawns, saying the two words I hated more than anything else:

"Happy Halloween!"

Halloween was coming, which meant one thing…

My birthday was nearly here.

Yay.

Crazy, right? A half-ghost necromancer, who fights ghosts and could raise the dead, manipulate the weather and can control and create electricity, had her birthday on the spookiest night of the year. For me, yeah.

My biological mom and stepdad used to joke about how ironic how my birthday is on this certain night, considering who and what I was. It didn't really bother toddler me then, but as I grew up, I had to learn to live with two birthdays. To keep up the pretence that me, Owen and Danny were triplets, we shared his birthday, which was on the 21st of August, then we had our separate birthdays on the actual days we were born on. And, as I grew up, I found it annoying about how I just had to have my birthday on freaking Halloween! I started to hate the holiday with a passion, and started to dread my real birthday. Because, whenever Halloween was here… my birthday was also here.

Goody(insert sarcasm here).

"Uh, Dad, last time I checked, Halloween"-And my birthday-"is well over a week away," I reminded my parents, retreating back to my bed and folding my arms.

"I know, Nelly, but don't you remember? We always have the early-morning practice before your actual birthday!" Dad replied, beaming at me.

I winced; okay, now I remembered. Every year, a week before Halloween-and, consequently, my birthday-arrived, Dad, Mom, Holly, Jazz, Danny, Owen and Josie would wake me up early so that we could practice for the actual thing.

It was also one of the many reasons I hated the holiday and the day I was born.

"Sorry. Must have slipped my mind," I muttered as I prepared to get off my bed and get dressed-only to be stopped by my mom, who gripped me in a hug.

"Mom!" I protested. "What are you doing!?"

Mom pulled back and gave me a huge smile, eyes tearing up a bit.

"In a week or so, you'll be fourteen, Nell!" Mom exclaimed, gripping me in another hug.

That was also another thing; me and Owen had to pretend that we were the same age as Danny when he had his birthday until we actually became that age as soon as our real birthdays came.

I gently pulled myself out of Mom's bone-crushing grip and said, "Yeah, I know. Uh, could you guys leave, please? I need to get changed for school, and Dust's coming here to pick me up so that we can walk"-in other words, fly-"to school, and I don't want to meet him in my PJs."

Mom nodded, in understanding.

"Okay honey. Just tell me or your father that you're going before you guys leave," Mom said, before she herded everyone out.

Breathing a sigh of relief, I flopped onto my bed, groaning.

"Oh joy. My birthday is coming, on the same day as Halloween," I muttered, before I buried my face into the pillows, groaning into it, "I hate Halloween!"

In answer to my sour mood towards the holiday, the sky rumbled and turned grey as rain poured down in a torrent, where just seconds ago, there had been autumn sun.

…

Later

A few minutes later, I managed to get dressed and trudged downstairs, grabbing my backpack sullenly and snatching an apple from the bowl, biting into it hard. Danny and Owen saw me and recognised my grouchy mood.

"Uh-oh. Hurricane Nell is back," Owen teased, smiling at me lightheartedly.

I scowled darkly at him. "Will you stop calling me that, Owen? I'm seriously not in the mood."

As if in answer, a crack of lighting and a growl of thunder could be heard outside and the rain poured down even harder.

Danny's eyes widened. "Whoa. Di-did the weather-"

"Just change with my mood?" I snapped at him, cutting him off. "Yes, yes it did. And as you know, this is because my least-favourite day of the year is coming!"

A bolt of lighting struck a pumpkin on the neighbour's step, completely destroying it. A few ghost-shaped lights Dad had hung on the RV shorted out and even the lights above us flickered dangerously as outside, the wind roared even harder and the rain poured down harder and harder. Danny and Owen looked around worriedly.

"Uh, Nell? I know this isn't a good time, but maybe you should calm down before this thunderstorm becomes a hurricane and you accidentally cause a blackout," Owen advised.

I looked outside and at the flickering lights, noticing what he meant. Taking a deep breath, I calmed down-and in seconds, the storm was gone and the lights had stopped flickering.

"Sorry," I apologised, turning to face them. "I sometimes forget my powers can go out of control now and again if I'm not careful-and especially when it's coming."

Before Danny or Owen could say anything, the doorbell rang. I ran to the door, flinging it open to reveal Dustin in his human disguise standing on the other side.

"Hey Nell, ready to-" he started to say.

I grabbed his cold arm and practically dragged him down to the pathway, grumbling, "Yes! I darn am."

"Geez, what's got you in a mood?" my ghostly boyfriend who happens to be my best friend Ava's dead older brother asked me.

"Three guesses-and it's all around us," I answered as I stormed to school, dragging Dustin behind me, and managing to keep the weather from changing and causing a blackout, thanks to my black mood at learning my most-hated holiday and birthday were coming soon.

…

Later, at lunch

"Wait, wait, wait. Your real birthday is on Halloween?" Tucker asked me. "How ironic is that."

"Thanks Tuck for reminding me," I grumbled dryly as I bit into my sandwich. "Thanks for reminding me that the day I was born is on my most-hated holiday."

"But you get free candy!" Tucker protested.

It was lunch at our school, and me, Danny, Sam, Tucker, Ava and Owen were having our lunch outside, minus Dustin. I had just finished telling Sam, Tucker Ava and Dustin that my real fourteenth birthday was on Halloween.

"I don't care about free candy! I hate Halloween, I hate having my birthday on it! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!" I ranted. Above us, thunder rumbled and lighting flashed across the sky, before I remembered to calm down. The clouds disappeared, but I was still in a stormy mood-pun not intended.

"Whenever Halloween comes around, normal Nell becomes Hurricane Nell," Danny told our friends. "Grouchy, stormy and angry. No matter that her birthday is on that day as well."

"But Nell, why do you hate Halloween? I mean, your birthday is on the same day. It's every Goth's dream to be born on either Halloween or Friday the 13th," Sam asked.

I glared at the jack o' lanterns starting to appear on the football field and all the Halloween banners as I answered, "Try having nearly every single necromancer you know and don't know sending you e-mails and letters-in the case of the Councils and the Ancients-reminding you that the day you were born is on one of the most sacred days in the necromancer calendar, and staying up at midnight to do some sacred necromancer ritual every time October 31st comes. And, to top it all off, every day is Halloween when you're a half-ghost necromancer and you're fighting ghosts, it's another day where I don't have a clue as to who my biological ghost dad is, and my adoptive parents wake me up at freaking five AM on not only my birthday, but today as well to 'practice' for the real thing!"

I stabbed my chicken sandwich and as if on cue, thunder rumbled again and lighting came down, hitting three jack o' lanterns and striking a few banners to ashes simultaneously. It disappeared again as soon as I took a bite from my mangled sandwich, eyes as dark as the now-gone clouds.

"In other words, you really hate Halloween," Tucker observed.

"Geez, wasn't it obvious?" I retorted back dryly, still glaring.

Ava shook her head. "I can see why you call her Hurricane Nell when Halloween comes around."

I shot one of my infamous death-glares and Ava looked down uncomfortably.

"I think I can brave this storm, if it means I can kiss you," Dustin remarked, before kissing me on the cheek. My mood lightened a little at the kiss.

"You sure, Dusty?"

"I'm sure, Dell Nell."

At that, I pulled his lips to mine and began to kiss him, long and deeply. He kissed me back, with as much passion as me, until we were making out, forgetting about Danny, Sam, Tucker, Owen and Ava, who were probably feeling uncomfortable, just me and Dustin in our own little bubble-

Until my ghost sense went off.

"Darn it!" I exclaimed, glowering at the white mist snaking it's way out of my mouth. And during this week…

Looking at Danny, I could see his own ghost sense going off as well, the blue mist finishing drifting away from his mouth.

"Well, I guess we better get to it," I sighed, ducking underneath the table, Danny following suit.

The transformation rings came, changing us into our ghost forms. There were two bright flashes of light, and me and Danny, in our ghost modes, phased out from underneath the table and flew towards where the ghost was.

Somehow, something told me this week and next week were going to be interesting-and not because it was Halloween or my birthday coming soon.

…

A few minutes later

Third Person P.O.V

Minutes later, Nell and Danny were fighting the ghost that had alerted their ghost senses. It was some type of eel ghost, and it always evaded their attacks, making Nell's mood even more sour.

The eel slammed them down onto the ground, causing them to face-plant into a couple of jack o' lanterns, making them break. They glared at the eel as Nell spat out pumpkin juice, scowling at the broken vegetable.

"Pumpkins. We had to land in pumpkins," Nell muttered as she and Danny wiped the remains of pumpkin juice off their faces and faced the eel again.

The eel growled at them before taking off, Danny and Nell taking to the air and chasing after it. Danny reached out and clutched it's tail, while Nell hung back, shaking her head; she knew what was going to happen next.

A second later, the tail slipped out of Danny's hands. He tried several attempts to grab it again, but it kept on slipping out of his grasp. The eel whacked Danny's head and stopped, floating several metres away.

Danny stopped as well and floated in front of it.

"You're one slippery ghost eel, but I bet you don't know this trick!" Danny said with a smirk.

He lit his hands up with ecto-energy and fired a ghost ray at the eel. The creature itself smirked as it was hit by the ray. As soon as it was hit, the ray didn't appear to have any affect on it, as the eel's eyes glowed deep crimson red, smoking slightly.

"Okay, maybe it does," Nell said, joining in the fight again. Flinging up her hands, she created a disc of electricity and flung it at the eel, but the eel also absorbed the electricity, making it's eyes glow an even intenser red, it's eyes now sparking with electricity.

"Darn, it had to be an electric eel, didn't it?" Nell asked sarcastically, before she and Danny were hit dead on from the red ghost ray fired from the eel's eyes, sending them flying towards the school.

"DANNY! INCOMING BUILDING!" Nell shouted as she quickly turned intangible. Danny also managed to turn intangible, the both of them phasing into the building without any lasting damage. They hit a ladder and transformed into their human forms, landing on the ground. Unfortunately, they also managed to knock over an uncapped tin of purple paint and it landed on their least-favourite person, Dash Baxter. He growled in anger as he looked at them, instantly realising who the culprits were that made the paint fall on him.

He turned around and he picked them both up by the front of their shirts. He shouted in anger, almost in their faces, "Defacing my letter jacket!? That's a violation, punishable by wedgie!"

Nell scowled at him and wrested herself free from his grip, exclaiming, "Dash, calm down, seriously! It was an accident! And honestly, I'm not in the mood for you giving me and Danny wedgies because we accidentally spilled paint on your jacket!"

As if in tuned to Nell's stormy mood, the light flickered above them as thunder rumbled outside.

Dash just sneered at her and snapped, "I don't care! Accident or not, you're both gonna get it! You two Fentons are not gonna weasel your way outta this one!"

He grabbed her shirt again and pulled her back up, prepared to give out their "punishment" for having paint on his jacket when a voice demanded, "Grapes Of Wrath! Break it up!"

They turned around and Dash put them down when they saw Mr. Lancer standing there, and he looked mad.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't suspend you three for fighting on school property?" Mr. Lancer asked.

"Uh… I'm a football star?" Dash asked hopefully.

"True. Still, I must at least pretend to be fair, and you three need a more creative outlet for your aggressions. As you know, every year one of the faculty puts together a haunted house party at the abandoned Townsend place. This year, it's my turn. And I am bound and determined to decorate it better than Ms. Tetslaff did last year," Mr. Lancer told them.

Speaking of said sports teacher that looked more like a man than a woman, Ms. Tetslaff stood there in front of them with a smug look as she showed them a picture of her costume and theme last year and said, "Fat chance. You'll never outdo my Franken-Girken-Stein Monster."

Sam, Tucker, Dustin, Owen and Ava watched as she left and they, along with Danny, Nell and Dash, looked at the determination in Mr. Lancer's eyes as he said to the latter three before leaving, "Welcome abroad Team Lancer, kids. Scariest room avoids detention, and just to make it interesting, whether Danny or Nell win, both of them can avoid detention. Football star or not."

"Great! I hate Halloween, and now I've got to down a scary room for a haunted house party. Oh joy," Nell muttered sardonically, glaring.

"Cheer up, Nell. Maybe you can get some inspiration from some of the more scarier rituals in the grimoires and our necromancer powers," Owen whispered to her, in an effort to cheer her up.

Nell glowered at him as she hissed, "Oh, and let's not forget, I'll have to make up some excuse for either Lancer or Holly since both the party and the annual ritual start at midnight! Plus, it's my birthday on the same day as Halloween! Is there anything in there for me to be happy about?"

Owen wisely just kept his mouth shut, knowing that he didn't have an argument against that.

"Scary? Haunted house? This is great! We are so gonna totally kick his butt!" Danny bragged.

"At least someone's happy about doing a scary room for a haunted house," Owen muttered.

Nell glared at him darkly and used her electrical powers to shock him. "OW! What did I say?"

"You think so, Fen-Tons-O-Fun? How about a little side-bet?" Dash offered with a devious smirk.

"Sure. If either me or Nell win, you have to… run through the school parking lot in your underwear," Danny betted with complete confidence; this was his chance to get one-up on his bully and probably get a way to blackmail him in the future.

"Okay. And when you two taste defeat, Nell has to do my math homework for a month, and as for you, Fenton #1, you will have to eat these!" Dash exclaimed, while pulling out a ripped pair of old, smelly, tightey-whitey underwear from his jacket.

They all screamed at the sight-even Dustin, and he's a ghost!

Tucker commented, "I don't know what's scarier-the underwear, or the fact that he carries them around in his coat."

"I can't believe he's the guy that almost every girl in school falls for," Nell also commented, disgusted.

…

Tomorrow Afternoon

The next day, late afternoon, Danny, Nell, Tucker and Owen were in Danny and Owen's room, trying to figure out what Danny was going to do for his haunted house room. Even though Halloween was Nell's most-hated holiday, she had managed to come up with a haunted house room, but so far, only Owen knew about it, as Nell wanted to keep it a surprise.

Nell was leaning against a wall, throwing up an ecto-ball and catching it, Owen was spinning around on his desk chair and Tucker was sitting on Danny's desk chair; all three of them were bored out of their minds.

"What if we did something with skeletons?" Danny asked the bored teens, showing them a picture he had drawn of Dash being choked by a skeleton. "See? How scary is that?"

"On a scale of not to ten, not," Tucker answered, still bored.

Danny crumpled up the page and chucked it into the bin-which was already overflowing with his previous ideas for his haunted house room.

"How about this?" Danny suggested, changing into his ghost form. He turned intangible and phased through his bed. When he came back up, he was invisible and the sheet was on him, looking almost like a ghost.

"Ooo-ooo-oooo," Danny wailed.

"Lame," Sam commented flatly as she, Ava and Dustin entered the room-or in Dustin's case, phased into the room.

"Seriously Danny?" Ava asked, eyebrow raised. "Floating bedsheet? How is that scary?"

Danny turned visible again and pulled the sheet off him, turning back to human form.

"Oh man. Halloween's a week away and I still don't have a clue for what I'm gonna do for my haunted house room," Danny moped, sitting on his bed. He looked at Nell, who had made the ecto-ball disappear. "Nell, what are you going to do for your haunted house room?"

Nell glared at him firstly at the mention of Halloween-and her birthday-being a week away, before saying, "It's a surprise. You'll find out at the party-which I'm probably not going to be at." She gave a reassuring smile to Danny. "Cheer up, Danny. I'm sure you'll find some inspiration for it, like I did, and from doing research."

"Exactly, which is why I picked this up from the old bookshop where I like to Skulk And Lurk," Sam said, pulling a book out of her purple spider backpack and handing it to Danny. He took it and read out the title, "'Chronicles Of The Fright Knight'?"

He opened the book, where there was an illustration of a flaming knight riding a pretty scary, armoured pegasus. In his hand was a flaming sword that sent shivers up Nell's spine.

"He's the age-old spirit of Halloween. Legend has it, that if his sword, the Soul Shredder, cuts through you, you get teleported to a dimension where you live out your worst fear," Sam explained.

Danny turned over to the next page, which showed a drawing of the Fright Knight's supposed lair. At seeing the drawing, Danny thought that it looked familiar.

"Wait a minute," Danny said. "I've seen this before. Nell, can you get out the map please?"

"Sure," Nell said, going over to Danny's drawer and pulling out a folder that said MAP OF THE GHOST ZONE(IN PROGRESS). She handed the folder to Danny, who pulled out the map and laid it out next to the drawing in the book. On the map was several landmarks-including an island labelled "Skulker's Lair", another labelled, "Walker's Prison", and another labelled, "Klemper's Realm". However, in the middle of the map was a castle that looked very similar to the castle in the book.

"Look familiar?" Danny asked.

"It matches the map we've been making of the Ghost Zone," Tucker answered, he, Sam, Ava, Owen and Dustin coming to the same realisation as Danny.

"This is great! He's a ghost, and he's the spirit of Halloween! That means I can take the best ideas from this guy, and fuse them into my haunted house room," Danny said, now knowing what he was going to do.

At hearing that, Nell's head whirled around to face him and she shouted, "No!"

"No?" Danny repeated, confused. "Why no?"

"Because, Danny, don't you realise how dangerous this is? Gosh, this is another reason why I hate Halloween!" Nell yelled. "Every year, some idiot who doesn't know what he's doing or how dangerous it is tries to summon a ghost from the Ghost Zone! And every year, me, Owen, Holly or some other necromancer has to either stop those idiots or put that ghost back before they do any damage! All because those numbskull morons think it will be 'fun', when it actually isn't! You trying to invoke the spirit of Halloween, even for ideas, just screams chaos."

"Nell, you're overreacting. I'm sure nothing bad will happen," Danny brushed off.

"Believe me Danny, coming from the girl who's spent nearly every Halloween putting ghosts back into the Ghost Zone because some idiot got lucky and managed to summon one, I'm not overreacting; I'm just trying to warn you about how bad an idea this is," Nell retorted back, before grabbing her bag.

"I'm heading to the mall to hang out with Valerie and Star," Nell informed, storming to the door. Before she left, she turned around and asked, "Ava, do you want to come?"

"Sure," Ava accepted, grabbing her bag as well and joining up with her friend. Nell opened the door and the two girls left, Nell almost slamming the door closed behind her.

Owen looked at Danny and said, "You know, it might be wise to listen to Nell, Danny. People have managed to summon ghosts on Halloween, and it almost always ended in disaster. Maybe you should choose a different theme for your haunted house room?"

"Owen, the Fright Knight is a good idea. I'm sure nothing bad will happen," Danny said back.

Owen groaned. "Why do I feel like you just jinxed us?"

…

Meanwhile, at Amity Park Mall

At the mall, Nell, Ava, Valerie and Star were having something to eat. They had already gone shopping and were now chatting and catching up a bit. Nell was having a really good time with her friends-until the topic steered towards her least-favourite subject at the moment.

"So, Nell, what are you going to do for Halloween?" Star asked her.

In response, Nell death-glared at her plate as she ground out, "Hopefully, nothing."

"Nothing?" Star repeated, confused. "But Nell, it's Halloween! There's parties, and free candy, and-"

"And Halloween also happens to be my most-hated holiday!" Nell shouted, interrupting Star.

The blonde girl looked at her, shocked, while Valerie asked, "Nell… why do you hate Halloween?"

"A lot of reasons," Nell responded back. Some I can't name because of my secret, she added mentally. "Like how my actual birthday is on the same day, and-"

"Your birthday? But Nell, I thought your birthday was on the same day as Danny's and Owen's," Star cut in, confused.

Nell winced, before explaining, "Yeah, well, truth is… me, Owen, Holly and Josie are actually adopted. Our biological parents died nine years ago in a house fire, and we were adopted by the Fentons shortly after. Sorry that I didn't tell you before now."

Star, who had been quiet for the most part, gasped and hugged Nell.

"Oh my gosh! Nell, I'm so sorry about what happened to your biological parents! I had no clue," Star sympathised, pulling back.

"It's okay," Nell said back, before resuming glaring at her plate. "But yeah, my real birthday's on Halloween, which is one of the reasons why I hate it so much. And nothing will change that."

Before anyone could say anything else, Nell's phone went off. Pulling it out, her eyes quickly skimmed over the text that had been sent to her. Typing a quick reply back and sending it, Nell put her phone away as she said, "I've got to go. Holly just texted me saying that I should come with her to help her find a costume for Josie so that she can go trick-or-treating. Yay."

With that, Nell grabbed her bag and the stuff she had bought, and said a few goodbyes to three of her closest friends before she left.

As soon as Nell was out of sight, Star turned to Valerie and Ava, smiling secretly.

"Girls, do you know what I'm thinking?"

"That even though her birthday is on the same day, Nell really hates Halloween?" Valerie guessed. Star rolled her eyes.

"Close; I'm thinking that we throw Nell a surprise birthday party! Wouldn't that be fun?"

Ava gasped, grinning excitedly.

"Oh my gosh, that would be awesome!" Ava exclaimed excitedly. "I can just imagine it!"

"But won't Nell be angry at us for throwing her a surprise birthday party?" Valerie pointed out. "After all, she just told us that she hates Halloween-and therefore, her birthday."

"Val, if we change Nell's mind about not hating her birthday, then we've gotta take that chance!" Star told her. "I don't mind that Nell hates Halloween, but I hope us throwing her a surprise birthday party might change her mind about hating her birthday just because it's on the same day!"

"You know, when you put it like that… I'm in," Ava said, grinning.

Ava and Star turned to Valerie, who sighed and said, "Okay, I'm in. I just hope Nell doesn't kill us for this."

"Trust me Val, she'll be too happy to even think about being angry at us," Star assured Valerie, before the three girls left the mall and headed to Fenton Works and told Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Holly, Danny, Owen, Josie, Sam, Tucker and Dustin about throwing a surprise birthday party for Nell.

…

A Week Later-Halloween

"…. And by 'fuse', you meant 'totally rip off'," Sam remarked dryly, comparing one of the drawings in the book to the dummy Fright Knight that Danny made, unimpressed.

It was now Halloween, and both Danny, Nell and Dash had finished their haunted house rooms. Nell was even more grouchy and angry now that Halloween was here. She still remembered when her parents woke her up at five this morning, and that they wanted her to come home at midnight for a "special" surprise, though Nell was a bit wary about the surprise.

In Danny's haunted house room, there were sack dummies with bones painted on them and ropes around their necks to show that they were being hanged, rubber spiders and stuffed toy heads on spikes.

"Where did the stuffed toy animal heads come from?" Nell asked. Ava nodded.

"I think that's the only part of your haunted house room that disturbs me, Danny," Ava said to him. "But seriously, where did you get them?"

…

Meanwhile, in Jazz and Holly's room…

It turned out, Danny had gotten the stuffed toy heads from Jazz's toy animals, ripping their heads off of their bodies. Right now, Jazz just discovered her stuffed toy animals no longer had heads-and she immediately guessed who the culprit was.

"DANNY!" she shouted angrily.

…

Back at Danny's Haunted House Room

"It's not aboutbeing original-it's about not eating Dash's underwear and Nell not doing his math homework," Danny said back to Sam.

"Danny, no offence, but your room kinda looks like where you might hold a little kid's Halloween party. It's not really very scary," Nell said to Danny, wincing a bit.

However, Danny didn't hear her, as he walked up to the Fright Knight dummy. Changing into his ghost form, he overshadowed the dummy.

"I am the Fright Knight! Tremble before the Soul Shredder!" Danny yelled in a gruff voice as he pulled out the "Soul Shredder"-which was just a blowup balloon sword.

"It slices, it dices, it creates your worst fear. Now how much would you pay?" Danny asked, sounding a bit like a salesman.

"For this thing? About fifty-nine cents," Tucker responded flatly. "Now, if you excuse me…"

The dummy sat back on it's "throne" and Danny phased out of it, changing back to human form and standing besides Sam, Nell, Ava and Dustin.

"I'm a little late to start scamming for some free candy," Tucker went on, picking up a pumpkin basket. "Got my route plotted out for OCP-Optimum Chocolate Payload. You wanna steer clear of the Red Zone. Nothing but fresh fruit and granola bars in the Red Zone."

"So where's your costume?" Sam asked.

In response to her question, Tucker just put on those glasses you get at the news agency with the fake nose attached to the lenses.

Danny, Sam, Nell, Owen, Ava and Dustin shared a confused look.

"Uh, Tuck, that's not really much of a costume," Owen pointed out.

"Exactly. Gotta travel light if you want to maximise your haul. Come on, baby. Hit me with something sweet," Tucker said, going to the door and opening it-only to be covered in green goo.

Standing outside was Jack and Maddie; Maddie was holding the Fenton Finder and Jack was holding a silver-coloured metal gun with green accents that had a silver metal tank attached to it via a silver metal cord. Jack and Maddie went inside-or in Jack's case, leapt inside.

"Ah-ha! Look at that! The Fenton Foamer works like a charm!" Jack exclaimed.

"I know! There was a ghost reading in this very room seconds ago, and now the room, is clean!" Maddie announced.

"Speak for yourself," Tucker grumbled, still covered in glowing green goo. "If anybody needs me, I'll be at a different door every thirty-eight seconds." He shortly left afterwards.

"Isn't he a little old to be walking around in public in a stupid costume?" Jack asked Maddie.

"Mom? Dad? What are you doing?" Danny asked.

"Good question," Nell agreed.

"Decontaminating the area, kids," Maddie answered.

"You know how ecto-storms always flare up around Halloween," Jack added.

"See what I mean?" Nell hissed to Danny. "It may not be 'ecto-storms', but the meaning's still the same; bad idea to summon ghosts or do anything ghostly on Halloween!"

"I get your point!" Danny hissed back, before saying in a louder tone, "This is all very riveting-and by riveting I mean dull with a capital 'D'-but you guys need to leave before Lancer sees you and thinks you're helping me or Nell."

"Lancer? Hey, this isn't some sort of anti-detention project, is it?" Jack asked suspiciously.

Nell mentally face-palmed.

"No! No, no! Um, we're just finally starting to get interested in ghosts, like our old man," Danny lied. Nell nodded and added, "Yep. And even though I hate Halloween-with every single bone in my body-me and Danny are thinking of doing some ghost hunting in the cemetery later tonight."

Both her and Danny gave smiles that they hoped were convincing.

Jack smiled happily and exclaimed, "Finally! If I didn't consider it a sign of weakness, I'd weep with joy."

Jack started to cry, happy that his son and adopted daughter were getting into the family business, and left. Maddie smiled happily at Danny and Nell and said, "Like your father, I'm happy you kids are getting into the family business, but don't be too long at the cemetery; remember, we still have your special surprise, Nell. Bye!" Maddie shortly left.

"Yay," Nell commented sarcastically. She turned to Danny, glaring. "You so owe me, Danny."

Danny shrugged, before smiling a determined smile as he transformed into his ghost form.

"Decorated room, faked out parents. Only thing left to do is check out what Dash's lame theme is, and spend the rest of the night, gloating," Danny said with complete confidence.

"Care if I join?" Nell asked, transforming into her ghost form as well.

"Sure," Danny answered, before he flew down and grabbed the balloon sword. Turning intangible, he and Nell phased out of his haunted house room and flew towards Dash's haunted house room. Phasing their heads through the door, they looked at Dash's room.

Nell had to admit, she was impressed.

There were dummies being crushed by sports equipment, skeletons running on treadmills and cardboard bullies hitting cardboard nerds with towels, and two skeletons were duking it out in a boxing ring, before one of them hit the other's head off. In the middle of it all was Dash, who was dressed as a zombie coach, and Mr. Lancer, who was holding a clipboard.

"The Spa Of Doom? Quite impressive, Mr. Baxter. And I must admit, your knowledge of auto-animatronic technology is very impressive," Mr. Lancer praised Dash, writing everything down on his clipboard. "What else do you have for me?"

"A twenty-minute presentation about the horrors of athlete's foot," Dash answered as he and Mr. Lancer walked away to a giant shoe. Behind them, an invisible Danny and Nell watched.

"Well, let's make this snappy. My guests arrive at midnight and I still have to judge two other scary rooms, you know," Mr. Lancer said to Dash as they sat in the shoe.

"You'll love the Tunnel of Fungus!" Dash promised as the giant shoe drove down a track.

When they were out of sight, Danny and Nell turned visible again.

"Man, that is cool!" Danny exclaimed. Looking down at the balloon sword-which deflated-he added, "And man, that is not! I gotta do something or it's tightey-whiteys for dessert and you doing Dash's math homework, Nell."

"Danny, there's still my room to be judged," Nell pointed out. But Danny, after looking at the sword, got an idea-an idea that Nell immediately guessed.

"Oh no, please no! Tell me you're not thinking of doing what I think you're thinking of doing," Nell pleaded.

"What do you think I'm thinking of doing?" Danny asked back.

"You're thinking of taking the Fright Knight's sword!" Nell answered.

"Maybe…"

Nell groaned. "Since I can't stop you, I'll come with you to make sure you don't get killed."

Danny grinned at her.

"Thanks Nell!" Danny thanked, turning intangible and phasing out of the house.

Nell groaned again.

"I hate Halloween," she muttered, before turning intangible as well and phasing out of the house, flying after Danny.

…

Later

In the Ghost Zone, Danny was looking at the map made of the Ghost Zone(so far)to get to the Fright Knight's castle. Nell was behind him, in a grouchy mood.

"This is a terrible idea, Danny," Nell grumbled.

"No, this is a great idea," Danny said back. "Borrowing the Fright Knight's sword-"

"And by 'borrow', you mean 'steal'," Nell interrupted.

"Borrowing the Fright Knight's sword," Danny went on, "will guarantee that I can beat Dash!"

Nell glared at him. "Danny, you taking the Fright Knight's sword, plus it's Halloween-and he's the spirit of Halloween-equals disaster!"

"Nell, you worry too much," Danny brushed off.

"And you worry too little," Nell returned.

The rest of the flight was in silence. Soon enough, they arrived at the Fright Knight's castle; and even Danny had to admit, it looked really, really scary.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures," Danny said to himself as he and Nell flew into one of the windows.

Now inside the castle, Danny and Nell landed. Seeing a staircase leading up to a door, Danny and Nell flew up to it.

However, there was a sound, and the two halfas saw four swinging blades heading straight towards them!

"DANNY!" Nell shrieked, regretting coming with Danny.

They ducked so that the first two blades missed them, but when Danny used spectral bodily manipulation to lengthen his torso and Nell turned intangible to avoid the last two blades, they got cut by them.

"AH!" Danny and Nell yelled in pain as Danny's torso returned to normal and Nell became tangible again. Danny was clutching his side and Nell was pressing her left hand to her right arm. When they looked at their hands, sticky green ectoplasm(the ghost version of blood that replaced their normal human blood when they transformed into their ghost forms)was on their gloved hands.

"Oh, right. Rule number one: In the Ghost Zone, ghosts can be hurt," Danny said, remembering, before he and Nell continued on. They were soon met, however, by more swinging blades. Ducking and dodging and doing some pretty simple-but impressive-acrobatic tricks, Danny and Nell managed to avoid being cut into ribbons from the blades.

The door at the top of the staircase opened of its own accord, and Danny and Nell went in, where it closed shut behind them, a blade slicing into the door.

Standing back up-and somehow missing the part of the blade that went through the door(AN: Seriously, how did Danny-in the actual episode-miss not getting cut by the freaking blade in the door!?)-they soon found out that this room was just as dangerous as the staircase; the walls suddenly grew spikes and began to move forward, threatening to crush Nell and Danny!

"DANNY!" Nell shrieked, red-silver eyes wide as she death-glared Danny. "This was a terrible idea! In a few seconds, we're going to be dead-fully dead!"

Danny couldn't disagree with Nell's point there.

Still, he flew through the slowly-closing pathway towards the door at the end of the rapidly-shrinking hallway, Nell reluctantly flying after him. A few seconds later, she realised something.

Wait, if ghosts get hurt in the Ghost Zone, then that means…

"Danny!" Nell shouted, getting an idea. "Change back to human form!"

Danny did what Nell told him and changed back to human form as Nell did the same, a split second before the walls fully closed. But phasing harmlessly through the wall was a now-human, unharmed Danny and Nell.

"True, ghosts can be hurt here… but humans have it made. While we're human, we're the ghosts here," Nell explained with a smile.

"Great thinking, sis," Danny complimented, also grinning.

Nell gave him a glare. "Though, I still think this is a terrible idea, Danny."

"I'm sure nothing will happen," Danny casually said back as they walked to the door. "I mean, what's the worst that can happen?"

"A lot," Nell muttered to herself as she followed Danny. "Especially when you're messing with the spirit of Halloween on Halloween."

Opening the huge door, Danny saw skeletons lying down on the floor-and in the centre, the Soul Shredder in all it's glory, glowing green and sheathed in a purple pumpkin.

As soon as Nell saw it, the bad feeling that she had ever since she first saw the place increased.

"Danny…" Nell warned as Danny walked forward towards the sword, following after him. He accidentally stepped on a skeleton, cringing. Going up to the sword, Danny looked at it before he grabbed it. With Nell being this close to the sword, she could practically feel the power, malevolence and downright evilness from it.

When he saw that nothing bad happened, Danny grabbed onto the sword with both hands and began pulling.

"Uh, Danny, like I said before, maybe this is a bad idea," Nell warned, but her warning came too late.

The sword slid out of the pumpkin and Danny stumbled back a bit, before he smiled triumphantly. Nell, however, wasn't feeling so victorious as she glanced around nervously; she just knew something bad was going to happen, even before Danny pulled the sword out of the pumpkin. And now that he had pulled the sword out…

"This place gives me the creeps-which means it'll scare the pants off of Lancer!" Danny exclaimed, still grinning victoriously.

"Okay, you got the sword, can we go now?" Nell practically begged, still looking around nervously.

"Nell, nothing happened when I pulled out the sword, I'm sure nothing bad will happen now," Danny assured her. Nell shot him a look.

"Then why do I have the feeling you just jinxed us?" she asked back-just as she heard growling.

Looking behind her, Nell nearly screamed when she saw the skeletons-who had previously been lying on the floor lifelessly-were now standing.

"DANNY!" Nell shrieked for the third time in a row-only this time, it was from fear. "L-look b-be-behind you! The skel-"

Before she could finish, Danny-who had been walking towards the door with his eyes closed-now opened his eyes as he also saw the standing skeletons.

Danny and Nell jumped back as the skeletons lunged forward, before they stood again, blocking off the way to the door.

Looking at the sword, Nell had a hunch that Danny pulling out the sword was what had animated the skeletons.

"You guys need to eat a little more red meat," Danny suggested, before he and Nell transformed into their ghost forms. Taking a karate pose, they shouted in unison, "HI-YAH!"

Instead of attacking, the skeletons bowed down in front of Danny-or so he thought. Nell thought they were bowing to something-or much rather, someone-else.

"Uh… that's right! You know badness when you see it," Danny said cockily, before he and Nell heard a rumbling sound.

"I don't think they were bowing to you, Danny!" Nell shouted as the rumbling continued.

Turning around, they gasped when the pumpkin exploded into green smoke and standing before them… was none other but the Fright Knight himself.

"GAHHH!" The Fright Knight yelled.

"DANNY!" Nell screamed. "WHAT DID YOU DO!?"

Rethinking over what she said, she added, "Oh wait, I know what you did… YOU UNLEASHED THE FRIGHT KNIGHT WHEN YOU PULLED OUT THE FREAKING SWORD! Guess what, Genius, the worst is now happening!"

"Uh… oops?" Danny said weakly. Nell just death-glared at him.

"Fools!" Fright Knight shouted, drawing Danny and Nell back to the other ghost in the room. "You have released me. Return to me my sword, so that my reign of terror can begin anew!"

"I can bring the sword back by midnight, but the 'reign of terror' is kinda a deal breaker," Danny said.

"It was not a request, whelp! It was a demand!" Fright Knight shouted, before leaping towards Danny. He flew out of the way just as the Fright Knight punched the ground where Danny had previously been standing. The Fright Knight turned to Nell, who said, "You know, I tried to talk him out of pulling the sword out, but you know how teenage boys are-almost nothing can get through their thick skulls. Anyway, so, since I don't want a reign of terror as well, I'm going to keep the sword away from you. So, uh, bye!"

With that, Nell flew up besides Danny, glaring at him all the way.

"Nell-" Danny started to say.

"Escape first, me yelling at you for being a complete idiot and pulling the sword out when I told you it was a bad idea at the very beginning later!" Nell interrupted, simmering with rage.

Wisely not disagreeing with that, Danny and Nell continued to fly away from the enraged ghost. Seeing a window up ahead, Danny and Nell blasted a ghost ray each at it, shattering the window, and giving the two half-ghost teens a way to escape.

Flying out of the now-broken window, Danny and Nell flew as fast as they could back to the Fenton Ghost Portal.

Back inside the castle, Fright Knight picked up a pumpkin and smashed it against the wall, unleashing his ghostly mount, a pegasus named Nightmare.

Leaping onto the ghoulish winged horse, Fright Knight immediately gave chase to the two teens who released him and stole his sword.

…

Meanwhile

Back in the real world, Holly was finishing up taking Josie trick-or-treating. Josie was wearing a light green, pink and purple sparkly dress and matching pink and purple wings with pink flats and white tights and fake white daisies in her loose honey-blonde hair. In her hand was a sparkly pink wand with purple and green ribbons wrapped around it. Josie was dressed up as a fairy princess.

As they came past the park, Holly saw that their adoptive parents were there.

"Oh no," she groaned; Holly so didn't need anyone seeing her with her parents tonight.

"Whoa!" Maddie exclaimed at seeing the readings on the Fenton Finder. "Ecto-storm's flaring up."

"Better alert the local townsfolk," Jack said, before he shouted into a megaphone, "CODE FIVE, CODE FIVE, CODE FIVE! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

"Weird costumes," a kid dressed up as Robin Hood commented. "What are they, plumbers?"

All the kids laughed at that while Holly groaned in embarrassment.

"Is this thing on?" Jack asked.

Josie grinned when she saw her parents.

"Mommy! Daddy!" Josie yelled, waving and grinning at her parents and catching their attention.

Maddie grabbed the megaphone off of Jack and said through it, "Hi, sweeties! How's the trick-or-treating going for you, Josie-Rosie? Ooo, you look so adorable in your costume!"

Josie beamed while Holly face-palmed in embarrassment as the kids laughed harder at her and Josie.

…

Meanwhile

Back in the Ghost Zone, Danny and Nell were flying towards the portal as if their lives depended on it. Behind them, slowly gaining on them, was the Fright Knight.

Fright Knight shot a ghost ray at them from his eyes, which Danny and Nell managed to swerve out of the way from, continuing on their way.

A second later, they gasped as they saw, just up ahead, the Fenton Ghost Portal.

"Yes!" Danny and Nell exclaimed in unison. "Home sweet home!"

Turning around, Danny shot a ghost ray at Fright Knight, making him fall off his horse. However, he managed to grab onto the reins, yanking Nightmare back. Getting back on, Fright Knight resumed his chase after them.

But by now, Danny and Nell were already through the portal and back home. Hearing Nightmare behind them, Danny and Nell realised that they were seconds away from the Fright Knight entering through the portal into the real world.

"DANNY, CLOSE THE PORTAL!" Nell shouted at him. "HURRY!"

Danny rushed to the portal's controls and immediately closed the portal-just as Fright Knight was about to enter through it.

"Phew," Danny and Nell sighed out in relief. Danny grinned at the sword and was about to leave when Nell said, "Danny?"

Gulping, Danny turned around and Nell continued, "Just so you know… OF ALL THE FOOLISH AND IDIOTIC IDEAS YOU COULD HAVE HAD, PULLING OUT AND STEALING THE SOUL SHREDDER AND UNLEASHING THE FRIGHT KNIGHT ON HALLOWEEN WHEN I TOLD YOU IT WAS A BAD IDEA TO BEGIN WITH IS THE MOST IDIOTIC OF THEM ALL! ARRGHH!"

Storming away from Danny, Nell took in a deep breath before resuming her yelling at Danny.

"I told you-I told you-that messing with the spirit of Halloween means chaos, and you taking his sword and unleashing him plus when it's Halloween tonight equals complete and utter disaster! Of all the…"

Yelling fading to muttering, Nell marched over to the wall and began punching it with all the strength she had-which was a lot. And every word she said was punctuated with a furious punch.

"I. HATE. HALLOWEEN!" Nell shouted, throwing a series of mini-punches when she said "Halloween" and punctuating it with a massive punch, leaving a huge crater in the wall.

"Okay, okay! I may have made a huge mistake, but Nell, the portal's closed and there's no way the Fright Knight can escape if the portal's closed. Besides, I'll return the sword back by midnight after the bet with Dash is over. I mean, what's the worst that can happen until midnight?" Danny said to a now-calm Nell.

"As long as you put the sword back and not do anymore stupid ideas like taking the sword thanks to a bet with Dash, I'm okay with that," Nell said back. "And a lot can happen before midnight!"

With that, she and Danny flew out of the house and back to the house where Danny's haunted house room was, Nell hoping that the portal could keep the Fright Knight inside the Ghost Zone.

But luck wasn't on Danny's or Nell's side, as the Fright Knight managed to pull the portal doors open, enabling him to escape into the real world and go after his sword.

…

Meanwhile

Back in Danny's haunted house room, Sam, Ava and Dustin were getting worried; Owen had left an hour ago because he played a key part in Nell's haunted house room, and Mr. Lancer was coming to judge Danny's room, and Danny wasn't here.

"Where is he?" Sam wondered out loud.

Behind her, Danny phased an intangible hand out of the floor. Turning it tangible, he tapped a finger against Sam's combat boot, freaking her out.

"AHH!" she yelled in fright.

"You think that's scary," Danny said, phasing fully out of the floor and turning tangible again, "get a load of this."

He showed off the Soul Shredder to Sam, Ava and Dustin.

Behind Ava and Dustin, Nell invisibly phased through the roof and floated behind them. Turning her hands visible, Nell placed one hand on Ava's shoulder and the other on Dustin's. Feeling something on their shoulders, Ava and Dustin looked down… and screamed when they saw a seemingly disembodied hand each on their shoulders.

Laughter could be heard from behind them and Ava and Dustin whirled around to see Nell return to visibility, clutching her stomach.

"You… should have… seen… your… faces!" Nell gasped out between guffaws of laughter, and Ava and Dustin knew now that it had been Nell who scared them.

"Ha ha, very funny," Ava remarked dryly, before turning back to Danny, who was still showing off the sword to Sam.

"You went into the Ghost Zone and stole the Fright Knight's sword!" Sam exclaimed. She turned to Nell.

"And you went after him and didn't try to stop him!" she added.

"Hey! I tried to warn him, talk him out of it and tried to convince him it was a bad idea, but he wouldn't listen!" Nell defended herself as Danny responded back, "Stole, borrow, schematics. You worry too much, like Nell does."

"Uh, Danny, that worrying that Nell does might have been good to listen to," Ava said. "Maybe you should put the sword back before something really bad happens."

However, her warning came too late, as Danny stuck the sword into the ground. As soon as it was, the sword began to glow an ominous green colour. Danny let go and stood beside a shocked Sam, Ava, Dustin and Nell. Green light shot out of the sword and blasted a hole into the ceiling. A green, swirling vortex-like cloud formed above the house and green lighting went through one of the windows and struck the dummies in Dash's room, transforming them into real-life zombies!

As soon as Mr. Lancer left and Dash closed the door, he gasped as he saw that his dummies were now zombies!

"AHHH! ZOMBIES!" Dash screamed, which was heard by Danny, Nell, Sam, Ava and Dustin.

"D-Danny," Ava stuttered, staring wide-eyed at the sword and the light it projected. "Wh-what did you do!?"

"Maybe I should get this thing back," Danny said to himself. Nell glared at him and exclaimed, "Now you realise what a terrible idea it was to take the sword!?"

However, a shout of, "Mr. Fenton!", came as Mr. Lancer entered Danny's haunted house room.

"It's time," he added. "As soon as I judged your brother's room, it will be your turn, Miss. Fenton."

Sam leapt in front of Danny while Ava and Dustin skidded in front of Nell as she and Danny transformed back into their human forms.

"Right after Lancer judges my room!" Danny added. "Besides, what's the worst that can happen?"

Nell face-palmed.

A lot, she thought to herself. A lot, a lot, a lot, a LOT!

…

Meanwhile

A bolt of green lighting struck the ground and who should appear? The Fright Knight, mounted on his horse.

"Free! And once I regain possession of my sword, I will transform this world into my own personal pantheon of terror! And then, I. Will. Rule!"

He took to the sky and began his search for his sword.

…

Meanwhile

Back at Danny's haunted house room, Danny, Nell, Sam, Ava, Dustin and Mr. Lancer were watching as the real-life zombie jocks that had previously been stuffed dummies from Dash's room advanced on them.

"Uh, Mr. Lancer, I don't know if it's safe in here," Sam said worriedly to Mr. Lancer.

"That's right, Sam!" Danny said, before he quickly shoved the zombies out of the room and shone a torch light on his face as he went on, "Nothing is safe inside… Danny Fenton's Room Of Doom! Enter if you dare."

He pressed a button on a tape recorder that began to play fake thunder, he flicked a light over Mr. Lancer's head that flickered on and off, and used a fishing line to lower rubber spiders next to an unimpressed Mr. Lancer.

Squeezing one of the spiders, Mr. Lancer said, "I'll have you know I don't fall for cheap theatrics."

However, another green lighting bolt struck a box of rubber spiders, causing it to glow green.

"And I don't scare easily," Mr. Lancer continued. He felt something poke his shoulder and turned to see a massive, frightening spider behind him; the result of the transforming lighting bolt striking the box full of once-harmless rubber spiders.

"But you're off to a promising start," he said as he smiled and wrote it down.

"Uh, heh heh, all part of the show," Danny lied nervously as he looked at the very real giant spider standing in the room.

…

Meanwhile

Outside, Dash was running down the pathway, scared out of his mind and screaming, "ZOMBIES! GHOSTS!"

The Fright Knight-at hearing Dash's screams-exclaimed, "I know that terror! It carries the scent of my blade!"

Flying down in front of Dash, Fright Knight demanded, "You! Tell me: Where are you running from?"

"9/17 Maple Street," Dash answered, pointing to the house where the swirling vortex-cloud was.

"Yes! Upon yonder hill lies the instrument of my ultimate ascendancy! My Soul Shredder!" Fright Knight yelled as Dash ran away.

In town, the lighting continued to strike at everything and whatever it touched, it turned into monsters; cars became flying one-eyed monsters, mailboxes suddenly became sentient and started biting and stop signs became octopus lady creatures. Everyone screamed as they were chased by these and many other monsters; a giant blue monster, a vampire-like monster, an alien-octopus monster, a purple monster, a lake monster and an alien monster. Flying overhead was Fright Knight, who was enjoying the terror inflicted on the citizens of Amity Park.

"This is only the beginning!" Fright Knight yelled.

"Hey Danny!" Tucker called up, mistaking the Fright Knight for Danny. "Is that you?"

"Child, you may show a little more respect for your future ruler!" Fright Knight demanded.

"Yeah, yeah, very scary," Tucker said, unimpressed. "That horse is pretty neat though. What's it made of, flaming bedsheets?"

"Flaming bedsheets of death!" Fright Knight shouted.

Tucker's PDA beeped and he pulled it out while saying, "Oh, I'm running late! I gotta be at the Hendersons' in five-"

Before he could stay anything else, Fright Knight grabbed him and said, "I am the Fright Knight, the spirit of Halloween."

He shot a ghost ray out of his eyes at Tucker's basket, melting the candy on top.

"Oh man! Why'd you do that?" Tucker asked, annoyed that the Fright Knight-or, as he believed it to be, Danny-melted his candy.

"And once this ecto-storm touches every corner of this globe, all these transformations will be permanent"-as Fright Knight said that, a bolt of lighting struck a couple of dumpsters, transforming them into a blue monster-"and this, shall be my new domain! Now, take me to my sword!" Fright Knight demanded, revealing his plan to Tucker.

"You're not Danny, are you?" Tucker asked.

…

Meanwhile

In another part of Amity Park, Holly and Josie were fighting the lighting-transformed monsters with their necromancer powers; Josie was using her gifts to transform into swarms of ravens and bats and to make shadow-weapons for herself and Holly while also making shadowy bonds and ropes.

"What happened!? These used to be ordinary objects; now they're monsters!" Josie yelled.

"I'll give you one guess," Holly said back, fending off a monster that used to be a mailbox with a shadow-spear.

Josie's eyes widened.

"The Fright Knight!? But I thought he was just a scary story meant to teach me a lesson to not mess with ghosts on Halloween!"

"Jose, the Fright Knight is reall; he's just been trapped. But now, someone's pulled out his sword, the Soul Shredder, and released him! The sword's the reason why all these ordinary objects are now monsters!" Holly yelled back. Expertly swinging her spear, Holly swung it at the monster's head, dazing it. "Though I don't know who the absolute idiot that pulled the sword out is-or why he thought that taking the Fright Knight's sword on Halloween was such a great idea!"

The monster resumed it's charge against them, and almost crushed them if Holly and Josie hadn't shadow-travelled out of the way.

"If we survive this, I'm going to kill the moron who pulled the sword out and caused this!" Holly vowed, before she and Josie charged again with battle yells.

…

Meanwhile

Back at Danny's haunted house room, Mr. Lancer was now covered from his feet to his neck in webbing; he was beginning to get impressed with Danny's room.

"This has potential. Sticky, gross… I like it!" Mr. Lancer said. In front of him, the spider growled, getting ready to eat him, but Mr. Lancer thought this was all part of Danny's room.

"Danny, you and Nell might want to end this before things spiral out of control!" Sam advised worriedly.

"Yeah, like putting the sword straight back into the Ghost Zone and ending this before something bad happens to Lancer!" Nell advised as well.

"We will, Nell, as soon as Lancer declares either me or you the winner," Danny said back.

The spider came closer to Mr. Lancer and roared in his face.

"Okay, I'm mildly impressed. A few more surprises, and you might have this thing wrapped up," Mr. Lancer said. "But make it quick, as I still have Nell's room to judge."

"Yes! I'll take mildly impressed. That's my cue to clean up," Danny said with a smile.

Grabbing the Fenton Foamer his parents left behind, Danny blasted a stream of green ectoplasmic goo at the spider. As soon as it made contact with it, the spider reverted back to being a harmless rubber spider. Sam, Nell, Ava and Dustin were trying to push the door closed, but the skeletons who were trying to break in were making that difficult.

"Sam, catch!" Danny exclaimed, throwing the weapon to Sam, who grabbed it as the skeletons burst through the door. Sam, Ava, Nell and Dustin were flung back, and they gasped at the skeletons running up to them. Nell managed to shoot an inconspicuous ghost ray from her finger, blasting a few skeletons back and enabling Sam to shoot them with the Fenton Foamer and reverting them back to stuffed dummies.

"See? I told you guys I had everything under control. We've got enough Fenton Foamers to keep Lancer safe, and as soon as he says the words, 'Danny wins'," Danny said to Sam, Nell, Ava and Dustin, taking the Fenton Foamer off of Sam and shooting a blast at a monstrous rat, transforming it back into a chair.

"Me and Nell will toss the sword back into the Ghost Zone," Danny finished.

"I wouldn't be so sure, Danny. What about the Fright Knight? He'll probably be looking for his sword," Dustin pointed out.

"I closed the portal after me and Nell got out of the Ghost Zone; there's no way he could have escaped," Danny said back confidently.

Suddenly, there was a crashing sound, and they all gasped as the Fright Knight entered the room, carrying a frightened Tucker as he floated in front of them.

"No way he could have escaped, right?" Nell said sarcastically back to Danny, glaring at him. "Guess what, Danny, he has, and is now floating right in front of us!"

"I didn't know that he could escape the Ghost Zone!" Danny yelled back, defending himself.

Nell groaned. "Why did it have to be Halloween? Why?"

"Hmmm… that's one fancy flaming robot," Mr. Lancer commented, still thinking it was all part of Danny's room.

"GUYS! Whatever you do, don't let him get the sword!" Tucker shouted.

"SILENCE, WHELP!" Fright Knight shouted in anger. He threw Tucker across the room, and the techno-geek ended up landing on the web.

"Hi! Come here often?" Tucker asked Mr. Lancer.

"TUCK!" Danny and Nell yelled in unison.

Nell grabbed the Fenton Foamer off of Danny and aimed it to release Tucker from the spider web, but the Fright Knight blasted it out of her hands with his ghost rays. Danny and Nell looked at the sword at the same time the Fright Knight did.

"My sword! At last!" Fright Knight exclaimed.

He flew towards the sword and Danny and Nell ran towards it as well. Both Danny, Nell and Fright Knight grabbed the sword at the same time.

"HA!" Danny exclaimed triumphantly, but he and Nell were lifted up as Fright Knight pulled the sword out of the ground and tried to shake Danny and Nell off it. Nell let go of the sword and instead jumped onto the Fright Knight, hooking her legs around his torso as she grabbed his arm in an effort to help Danny.

"That's certainly exciting, but is it scary?" Mr. Lancer asked.

They all grappled and struggled for possession of the sword, coming closer and closer to Mr. Lancer and Tucker. Fright Knight swung his sword in another effort to throw Danny off and the blade cut Mr. Lancer. He glowed green for a second and was instantly gone!

Danny and Nell both noticed that their teacher was now gone.

"Lancer! Where did he go!?" Danny and Nell asked in unison.

…

Meanwhile

"Yes, it's scary; it's very scary," Mr. Lancer said as he was surrounded by blackboards with complicated-looking maths equations on them.

One of the equations came to life and grabbed Mr. Lancer, dragging him to the blackboard from which it came to life from. As soon as his hand made contact, the equation made Mr. Lancer's hand do the universally horrible sound of fingernails on a chalkboard.

"Too scary! AHHH!" Mr. Lancer screamed; his greatest fear was complicated maths equations and the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard.

…

Meanwhile

Back in Danny's haunted house room, Fright Knight had managed to throw off both Danny and Nell, and they looked at the webbing that had previously trapped their out of shape teacher.

"Mr. Lancer!" Danny yelled at the webbing, but of course Mr. Lancer didn't respond.

"Where'd he go?" Nell asked Danny, before they both realised there was one person who would know-the person who sent him there in the first place.

"What did you do to him!?" Danny and Nell demanded in unison, glaring at the Fright Knight as they stood up from the ground.

"I sent him to where all who feel the sting of my blade are sent-a dimension where his worst fears come to life," Fright Knight answered.

Danny, at hearing that, got really excited and exclaimed, "YES! This contest is so mine!"

He looked and saw that he had earned glares from Sam, Nell, Ava and even Dustin. Changing his mind, Danny demanded, "Uh, I mean, bring him back you fiend!"

Danny and Nell charged at the Fright Knight, transforming into their ghost forms. Jumping, Danny aimed to kick the Fright Knight, but the spirit of Halloween swatted him away, making Danny crash into the wall and creating a huge hole in it. Nell attempted to electro-punch the Fright Knight, but he saw her coming and grabbed her, flipping her over his shoulder and sending her flying, landing underneath the hole Danny made.

"Listen to the sound of your doom! Soon, my storm shall consume this planet, and the world will be forever transformed! And no one can stop me!" Fright Knight yelled, holding his sword up high.

"Not if we can help it!" Danny and Nell exclaimed in unison determinedly.

They got up and charged, slamming into the Fright Knight head on. However, they were bounced back by his really tough armour, landing on the floor.

"Which, apparently, we can't," Danny said.

The Fright Knight walked up to them. Raising his sword, he prepared to send Danny and Nell to their greatest fears.

However, Tucker, who had been helped out of the web by Ava, saw what the Fright Knight was going to do.

"Guys, look out!" Tucker warned. He ran in front of Danny and Ava ran in front of Nell, taking the hit intended for their half-ghost friends. Tucker and Ava glowed green before they were transported to their worst fears.

"TUCKER/AVA! NO!" Danny and Nell screamed in unison.

…

Meanwhile-Tucker

Tucker was transported to an island, where all sorts of technology were there. Suddenly, they all disappeared.

"No phones, no games, no PDAs! And no clothes!" Tucker exclaimed in terror; his clothes also disappeared, leaving him wearing only his underwear, beret and glasses.

"All my technology! Useless!" Tucker yelled dramatically.

There was a flash of green light, and Tucker gasped in horror as a giant notepad and pencil floated there.

"NOOOOO!" Tucker yelled; his worst fear was being stuck on an island with no clothes and no technology and being forced to write.

…

Meanwhile-Ava

Ava was transported to a dark space. Looking around, Ava called out, "Hello? Danny? Nell? Sam? Tucker? Owen? Dustin?"

Laughing came and Ava recognised it as Owen's laughter.

"Owen! Thank goodness! I-" Ava started to say in relief, but stopped when she saw Owen, her secret crush-laughing with another girl!

"Oh, Owen!" the girl cooed. "You're such a charmer!"

"Maybe I'll charm you right now," Owen flirted, tipping the girl's chin up.

Ava watched, as the worst sight she could ever see happen-Owen kissing another girl.

Ava felt her heart breaking as she ran away, sniffling. She ran further into the darkness, until she stopped; so far, she hadn't see any of her friends or her brother, aside from Owen.

"Wh-where's everyone? I'm… I'm all alone!" Ava shouted, panicking. Her heart raced as she stood up and frantically ran back where she came from-only to crash into a wall.

"OW!" she yelled, falling back. Looking around, Ava started to freak out even more, running around in every direction to only be met with more walls.

"I'm… I'm trapped! I'm trapped!" Ava shrieked, beginning to hyperventilate. Feeling a rumbling beneath her, Ava looked down-only to see she was high above ground-very high above ground.

"AHHHHH!" Ava screamed; her worst fears were seeing Owen kissing another girl, being all alone, trapped in small spaces and heights.

…

Meanwhile

Back in the real world, the Fright Knight roared as he charged at Danny and Nell. The two combined their ghost rays, sending a combined explosive ghost ray at the spirit of Halloween. However, Fright Knight deflected it with his sword, sending the ghost ray back to Nell and Danny, hitting them dead on and causing them to crash into a wall, making another hole.

"Doesn't anything work on this guy?" Danny asked in annoyance.

Sam opened the book and flicked through the pages, scouring through them for anything on how to defeat the Fright Knight, saying as she did so, "There must be something in this book that tells us how to beat him!"

However, she stopped as her eyes widened and she looked up to see the Fright Knight standing right in front of her, sword raised high.

"Perhaps. But you'll never find it!" he yelled as he raised his sword above his head, preparing to cut Sam and send her to her worst fears.

"Sam, look out!" Danny warned as he and Nell turned themselves and her intangible as the sword swung down and sliced the book in half.

Flying away, Danny and Nell carried Sam as she complained, "Darn it! That bookstore has a 'No Return' policy!"

The Fright Knight yanked his sword out just as Danny and Nell landed behind a chair, letting go of Sam as they returned to tangibility. Dustin, who was also hiding behind the chair, was fiercely hugged by Nell.

"Thank goodness he didn't cut you with that sword and sent you to your worst fear!" Nell exclaimed happily.

"Me too!" Dustin agreed.

"I'm so sorry guys. I wanted to win so bad-but not this bad. I should have listened to you when you said this was a bad idea in the first place, Nell. You were right; messing with ghosts and especially the Fright Knight is not a good idea on Halloween," Danny apologised, now realising his mistake.

"Stop beating yourself up and start beating him. It's the only way we'll be able to get Tucker, Ava and Lancer back safe and get everything back to normal!" Sam said to him.

Danny and Nell flew up to attack the Fright Knight while his back was turned and Sam ran off, Dustin going with her.

Danny charged the Fright Knight, but the spirit of Halloween saw him coming and swatted him away, sending him skidding across a table and crashing against a wall. Nell invisibly flew up behind him and tried for a roundhouse kick, but the Fright Knight felt her presence and grabbed her leg. Nell, shocked, returned to visibility as the Fright Knight flung her across the room, making Nell crash into Danny.

Sam, meanwhile, was desperately looking through the now-ripped up pages, Dustin helping her, the both of them hoping that they could find the Fright Knight's weakness.

"Come on, show me a weakness; a vulnerability; anything!" Sam said as she looked through more pages. Dustin held up a page and exclaimed in triumph, "A-HA!"

"What is it?" Sam asked, moving over to him as they read out in unison, "To cease the storm, to end the fear, the sword must sheathe in pumpkin near."

"Pumpkin near! Guys, you got to put the sword back in a pumpkin!" Sam yelled up to them.

"A pumpkin!?" Danny and Nell asked in confusion.

"There are no pumpkins in the room," Danny pointed out as he threw a grandfather clock at the Fright Knight and Nell blasted the Fright Knight with an electric blast, both the clock and the electric attack hitting the spirit of Halloween dead on.

"No pumpkins in the room? Uh, Danny, have you forgotten? It's Halloween!" Nell reminded him, annoyed. "One of the reasons this whole mess started in the first place!"

Danny's eyes widened and he face-palmed himself for being a bit of an idiot at forgetting that.

"You guys have to find another pumpkin fast! That's the only thing that can stop the sword's power-and, possibly, the Fright Knight!" Dustin yelled up to them.

They looked around the room, until Nell's eyes landed on Tucker's pumpkin basket, sitting on a small table.

"Danny, Tucker's pumpkin basket!" Nell pointed out to him. Danny saw it and said, "It'll have to do!"

The Fright Knight stood up from the wreckage, growling and seriously angry. Flying up, he grabbed Danny and Nell and flew out of the room. Releasing them, he swung his sword at them in an attempt to cut them and transport them to their worst fears, but Danny and Nell dodged each blow, running on the roof to escape being cut. The Fright Knight swung one more time, only to miss as Danny and Nell flew out of the way.

"Strike six! Way to whiff, Mr. October!" Danny taunted as he and Nell fired a combined ghost ray, hitting the Fright Knight dead on and blasting him back into the room.

The Fright Knight fell and crashed into a table, breaking it upon impact. Danny and Nell flew into the room and jumped straight on him.

"Come on, guys! You can do it!" Sam encouraged.

"Come on, guys! Kick his rusted metal butt back to the Ghost Zone!" Dustin encouraged as well.

Danny punched the Fright Knight in the face, only to have the ghost punch him back. Nell stomped on the Fright Knight and used her elbow to elbow him, but the Fright Knight grabbed her neck and flung her to the ground. She kicked him in the chest with all her strength, but the Fright Knight didn't let go. Raising his sword, Fright Knight prepared to cut her, but Danny flew in and grabbed the sword's edge with both hands and began to struggle as the sword sent it's energy into him. Nell phased through the floor phased back up again to stand beside Danny, also grabbing the sword with both hands, struggling as well as the sword also sent it's energy into her.

"To cease the storm… to end the fear… the sword must sheathe… in pumpkin near!" Danny and Nell shouted in unison, reciting the book.

Danny and Nell, who had previously been glowing green with the energy of the sword, now glowed white with their own energy as they grabbed the sword's handle and flung the Fright Knight over their shoulders, yelling as they did so. The Fright Knight landed, hard, on the ground as Danny and Nell now held the sword. With huge battle cries, they plunged the sword into the pumpkin basket, before they were thrown back by the force and energy of the sword, now sheathed in the pumpkin basket.

"WHAT!?" Fright Knight shouted in shock.

Danny and Nell landed on the ground beside him and they shouted in unison, "Trick and treat, Bucket-Head!"

"Told you I'd have it back by midnight," Danny added as he and Nell grinned, knowing they had won the battle.

"NO! NO! NOOOO!" Fright Knight roared as he ran up and tried to pull the sword out, but was knocked back from the raw energy coming from the sheathed weapon.

The storm began reversing directions as outside, Maddie said as she looked at her readings on the Fenton Finder, "This ghost front is coming from the direction of… 9/17 Maple Street."

"9/17 Maple, hey? Hmm, I could have sworn it was coming from that spooky house with the big swirly cloud overhead," Jack commented, pointing at the ecto-storm caused by the Sould Shredder was.

"OH! That's where Danny, Nell and Owen are!" Maddie realised.

"Then let's get tail-feathered, momma! Our kids are in danger!" Jack yelled as he and Maddie shouldered Fenton Foamers each and ran toward the house, determined to "save" Danny, Nell and Owen.

…

Meanwhile

Out in town, objects that had become monsters became normal objects again; a mailbox monster that was attacking a screaming Star became a normal mailbox again; an octopus lady and a goblin-like monster became, respectively, a baby's teddy bear and a baby mobile again. The bottle dropped in front of the baby and the baby immediately began drinking the milk inside.

All around town, ghouls, ghosts and other monsters transformed back into the objects they once were: a dog, a TV, a car, a bathtub and a lamppost.

The monster that Holly and Josie were now fighting against reverted back to being a regular car again.

"What happened?" Josie asked Holly.

"Looks like Nell, the idiot who pulled the sword out in the first place or the both of them sheathed the sword back in a pumpkin. Everything's reversing back to normal," Holly explained. She held Josie's hand as they walked out of the alley they had been fighting the monster-turned-back-into-a-car and walked back to Fenton Works. "Now, time to get ready for Nell's surprise birthday party."

Josie grinned at that.

…

Meanwhile

Back inside Danny's haunted house room, Nightmare neighed wildly before he was sucked into the vortex.

"It's sucking everything into the Ghost Zone!" Sam exclaimed as she, Danny, Nell and Dustin grinned happily. "It's working!"

Suddenly, Sam screamed as she was beginning to get sucked inside the vortex too.

"SAM!" Danny yelled, grabbing her arm and pulling her back down. Dustin felt himself getting sucked inside the vortex too, but Nell grabbed onto him, pulling him back down as well. Letting go of Nell, Dustin turned his hand intangible and grabbed one of the pipes in the basement, his free hand holding Nell's waist as she held onto Sam as well. Danny and Nell turned their free hands intangible and phased them through the floor to grab the pipes in the basement as well.

"I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE! MARK MY WORDS!" Fright Knight vowed. The purple flames around his head went out and his head broke into pieces as he too was sucked into the vortex, the vortex itself disappearing as the pumpkin with the sword still sheathed inside disappeared back into the Ghost Zone, the nightmare finally over as the storm ceased at last.

Tucker and Ava popped back into the real world and Tucker pulled out his PDA and hugged it tightly as he exclaimed, "YES! Sweet beautiful technology, you're mine once again!"

Ava, meanwhile, flung herself to the ground as she too exclaimed, "Ground! Solid, seeable ground! And open space! I'll never take either of those things for granted again."

Beaming, Ava stood up again and hugged Tucker-who was celebrating over having his beloved technology back again-and tackled Danny, Nell, Dustin(who had phased their hands back out of the ground and returned them to tangibility)and Sam, exclaiming, "GUYS! I'm so happy to see you again! Danny, did you and Nell defeat the Fright Knight?"

Before Danny and Nell could answer, Mr. Lancer popped back into the real world as well. Danny and Nell quickly transformed back into their human forms and had wide grins as Mr. Lancer looked back at them.

He walked up to Danny and said, "Mr. Fenton, I have to say that was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. You win! Which is good news for you also, Miss. Fenton."

"Ah, ha ha! YES!" Danny cheered.

"Take that, Tetslaff!" Mr. Lancer said triumphantly as he left.

Danny hugged Sam, Nell, Ava and Dustin, but he looked down guiltily before looking back up and saying, "Mr. Lancer, wait up!" He ran after him.

"I can see it now, Tetslaff," Mr. Lancer said, before he blew a raspberry.

Catching up to him, Danny said, "Mr. Lancer, wait. I had to be honest-I cheated."

"Cheated?" Mr. Lancer asked him with a frown.

"Well, I borrowed… stole some of my parents' technology," Danny said.

"You mean this stuff? Like the Fenton Foamer, which causes a psychosomatic reaction to whomever's exposed to it, causing them to experience their worst fear?" Sam asked with a lie. She, Tucker, Nell, Ava and Dustin smiled nervously.

"Yeah! That," Danny said.

"Daniel, the good news for you is that I don't care. I have so far two scary rooms, and it's midnight. Let the party begin!" Mr. Lancer exclaimed.

He opened the doors to hear Jack and Maddie shout, "NOBODY MOVE!"

Mr. Lancer was suddenly blasted with ectoplasmic goo from the Fenton Foamer and he, Danny, Nell, Sam, Tucker, Ava and Dustin were covered in green goo. Mr. Lancer glared at Ms. Tetslaff as she said, unimpressed, "Nice theme, Lancer! Early oil spill! Come on, let's get out of here!"

"I changed my mind. Dash wins. I'll see you two in detention, Fentons," Mr. Lancer said to Danny and Nell with a frown.

Ms. Tetslaff and the other students laughed as they began to walk away, but stopped when they heard a sharp, taxi cab whistle that would make any New Yorker proud.

Turning around, everyone saw that Nell had done the whistle, as she still had her fingers in the position. Dropping them, she yelled out, "Ms. Tetslaff, wait! This is not Mr. Lancer's theme! Now, as you all have probably forgotten, there's still my room to be judged, and I didn't go to all the trouble I did to put it together for a school party of my most-hated holiday just so that you guys can leave before Mr. Lancer can judge it! Now, since you're all here, I may as well present it to all of you."

They all stood silently as Ms. Tetslaff and the costumed students entered the house. Jack exclaimed with a frown, "What!? This was some sort of anti-detention scheme! Well, you're both in a lot of trouble!"

"Mom, Dad, I promise I'll explain later, but right now can you please give me a few minutes?" Nell pleaded. They nodded, accepting that compromise, and left.

"Now, if you'll follow me," Nell said, almost impatiently. They followed after her as she lead them to her room, the Room of Nightmares.

"Enter… if you dare," Nell permitted, letting a tiny bit of an echo from her ghost form to come to her voice to give her last words a spooky effect as she opened the door. Everyone entered the room, where it was revealed to be a room lit only by a couple of candles. Black drapes hung around the room and in the centre was a figure in a black, hooded cloak with sleeves. Where the figure's hands could be seen, they were encased in black gloves. The figure was kneeling in front of a circle of glowing white stones, where there was a couple of sticks inside it. The figure was muttering something from a foreign language as he looked at some sort of book. The costumed students and even Ms. Tetslaff were feeling a bit uneasy.

The figure looked up, and everyone could see a glimpse of pupil-less red eyes and a deep male voice hissed, "Who dares?"

Then the room plunged into darkness.

Everyone screamed, while Ms. Tetslaff glanced around uneasily. Suddenly, there was a burst of green light as some sort of green fire rose up from the sticks of wood. All the students gathered behind Ms. Tetslaff and who was in front of Ms. Tetslaff? The cloaked, hooded figure.

The figure was glaring at them, glowing, pupil-less red eyes making his glare even more terrifying, and the fact that no other features except for his red eyes could be seen made him more scary.

"Who dares to enter my lair!?" the figure shouted. "WHO DARES TO ENTER?!"

Pulling something out from the folds of his cloak, in the figure's gloved hands was a scythe-a scythe that looked dangerously sharp.

"YOU WILL PAY!" the figure roared, raising the scythe above his head. "YOU WILL PAY FOR ENTERING THE DOMAIN OF A NECROMANCER AND DISTURBING MY SACRED RITUAL! RAWRRR!"

The figure swung his scythe down and Ms. Tetslaff screamed, as did everyone else. However, the blow never came, as there was a burst of shadow and the figure was standing at the other side of the room, still holding the scythe.

"Now," he said, raising a gloved hand, "you shall pay!"

The ground trembled and bursting out from within and around the circle were skeletons. They groaned and growled as the advanced forward and the figure-the necromancer-chuckled darkly as he commanded, "GET THEM!"

The skeletons ran forward and Ms. Tetslaff and the costumed students ran out of the room, screaming. Ms. Tetslaff slammed the door closed, and you could hear skeletons crashing and banging against it as the figure's evil laughs continued until they faded away.

"That… was… terrifying! Miss. Fenton, how did you do those special effects? They were so lifelike," Ms. Tetslaff asked Nell.

Nell shrugged, grinning secretly.

"A magician never reveals her secrets," Nell replied mysteriously; in actuality, the figure-who was Owen-used his necromancer powers of shadow-travel and raising a couple of skeletons from the dead and Nell had created an invisible duplicate to douse out the candles and to create the "green fire"-which was, in fact, the result of an explosive ghost ray making contact with wood.

"Mr. Lancer, I have changed my mind! As much as I hate to admit, you've outdone me. Let the party begin!" Ms. Tetslaff admitted.

Mr. Lancer smiled and said, "I too have changed my mind as well. Miss. Fenton, you win and that means you win as well, Mr. Fenton. I'll be seeing Mr. Baxter in detention tomorrow."

"YES!" Nell and Danny cheered in unison, giving each other a high-five. Nell turned back to Mr. Lancer and said, "Mr. Lancer, Ms. Tetslaff, don't think this means I'll be doing another haunted house room for next year's Halloween party. As I said before, I hate Halloween and doing a haunted house room for one Halloween party is enough for me."

"I respect that, Miss. Fenton," Mr. Lancer said as he went back to the room where the party was being held.

Owen, after placing a robotic dummy in his place, shadow-travelled to where Danny, Nell, Sam, Tucker, Ava and Dustin were, grinning at Nell.

"So, I guesss Operation: Evil Necromancer worked, right?" Owen asked Nell and they also high-five'd each other.

"It did, bro," Nell confirmed. "It did."

Nell looked at the grandfather clock in the hall and exclaimed, "Shoot! I'm going to be late for my surprise! See you guys tomorrow!"

With that, she left the house.

Danny, Sam, Tucker, Ava, Dustin and Owen gave each other knowing smirks. Owen shadow-travelled immediately back to Fenton Works while Danny grabbed Sam and Tucker and Dustin picked Ava up bridal style. Danny and Dustin turned themselves and Sam, Tucker and Ava intangible, phasing through the roof where Danny quickly changed into his ghost form and Dustin dropped his human disguise, resuming his true ghost form.

Getting a better grip on their friends, Danny and Dustin flew back to Fenton Works, where they turned themselves and their friends/Dustin's sister intangible again and phased through into Danny and Owen's room, where Danny and Dustin dropped their intangibility. Danny changed back to human form and Dustin went back to his human disguise. Owen was already there, grinning.

"Have you guys got Nell's presents?"

Pulling out their respective bags, Danny, Sam, Tucker, Dustin and Ava showed their respective presents they bought for Nell.

Owen grinned again as he too pulled out his present for Nell.

"Come on, we gotta get downstairs before Nell arrives."

The group nodded and followed after him, managing to put their presents with Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Holly, Josie, Star and Valerie's(the latter two had managed to get to Fenton Works even with all the craziness that had happened)presents for Nell and ducking behind the couch as Jazz and Holly flipped the lights off.

A few seconds later, everyone could hear Nell arriving and opening the door.

…

Outside

Standing in front of the door to her house, Nell slowly and apprehensively opened the door. Letting it swing open, she looked inside… only to see that the house was totally pitch-black inside.

"Mom?" Nell called out, stepping inside. "Dad?"

Before she could say anything else, the door swung shut, the lights turned on and she heard a group of people shouting one word…

"SURPRISE!"

Looking up from where her arm had shielded her eyes from the near-blinding light, Nell gasped at what she saw.

In front of her was her adoptive parents, Jazz, Holly, Danny, Owen, Josie, Sam, Tucker, Ava, Dustin, Star, Valerie and her dad. They were standing behind the couch, chair, and other noticeable hiding places. There was a cake in blue icing and covered in red, silver and black decorations and green-white striped candles were on top. On the cake, in white letters, was "Happy 14th Birthday, Nell!" Above the cake was a banner that had the same message on it as there was on the cake. Piled around the cake were wrapped objects; obviously birthday presents for Nell.

"Guys, wha-" Nell started to say, but Star cut in as she said, "Happy birthday, Nell! We didn't tell you, but me, Ava and Valerie threw this surprise birthday party for you! I hope you don't mind."

"Star, this is…" Nell began, an unreadable expression on her face. Star, Ava and Valerie looked at each other uncertainly; maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

However, their uncertainties were put to rest as Nell looked at them, a smile on her face, as she finished, "This is amazing! You guys planned a birthday party for me?"

"Well, yeah. You're our best friend, Nell. We want to make sure you have the best birthday today," Ava said back, smiling as well,

"Now," Star said, grabbing Nell's hand and dragging her to where Nell's presents were. "Time to open presents!"

Nell eagerly complied and started opening her presents. Sam had gotten Nell a new songbook, Tucker had gotten her a new video game, Ava had gotten her a badge that said "Ghost Girl" with a cartoon ghost that Nell pinned to her jacket, making sure that it was hidden, Owen had gotten her some ripped black jeans(in his defence, he didn't know what to get her!), Star has gotten Nell a genuine diamond bracelet that matched the silvery white floor-long formal dress that Star has also gotten her, Valerie managed to scrape by and got Nell a midnight blue scarf to match her dreamcatcher shirt, and Maddie and Jack had made Nell a bracelet that doubled as a wrist ray.

"To protect you against those ghost kids," Maddie explained, with Nell and Danny shooting each other a look; little did Jack, Maddie, Valerie, Valerie's dad and Star knew, Danny and Nell were those "ghost kids".

Jazz had gotten Nell some songwriting lessons for the summer, Holly had gotten Nell a book and Josie had drawn Nell a picture to give as a present for her.

"Aww, thanks Josie-Rosie," Nell thanked, hugging her little sister.

The last presents to come were from Danny and Dustin.

Danny had gotten her a custom-made T-shirt that had a cartoon depiction of the Box Ghost shouting "Beware!" in a speech bubble to a girl that looked almost like Nell typing on a phone as she said, her words in a speech bubble, "Yeah, whatever." Nell had laughed when she saw it, and when she showed it to the others, Sam, Tucker, Ava, Owen and Dustin laughed as well, though Star, Valerie, Valerie's dad, Jazz, Holly, Josie, Jack and Maddie were confused.

"Uh, what's the joke?" Jack asked.

"Nothing, just an inside joke between me, Danny, Sam, Tuck, Ave, Owe and Dusty," Nell answered. She smiled. "Thanks, bro. I love it."

Danny smiled back.

The last present was Dustin's.

Nell opened it… only to see that it was a necklace. It looked simple, but Nell saw that the pendant-a storm cloud with a lighting bolt attached to it-seemed to glow, and the lighting bolt looked to be hollow.

With a secret smile, Nell pulled the pendant in close, flicked the glass case open, and filled the hollow space with the tiniest bit of electricity.

Flicking the case closed, Nell held it up so that everyone could see as she exclaimed loudly, "Oh my gosh, Dust! I love it!"

Flinging her arms around Dustin's neck, she whispered into his ear, "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Dustin whispered back.

When Nell pulled back, she turned to the others and said, "Okay, let's get this party started!"

With no objections, everyone started dancing to music as Nell danced with her friends and family, enjoying her birthday night.

"Star, Val, Ave, this is the best birthday party ever! Thank you so much!" Nell exclaimed, hugging them.

"What are friends for?" Valerie said back as they continued to party, until it was time to stop.

…

Tomorrow

"Got the video camera ready, Tuck?" Danny asked Tucker.

It was the next day. Nell and Danny had managed to explain their project to Maddie and Jack. Understanding, they decided to not ground Danny and Nell after all. Now, Danny, Nell, Sam, Tucker, Ava, Owen and Dustin were in the school parking lot, grinning. Nell was wearing the custom-made T-shirt that Danny gave her for her birthday instead of her grey undershirt and dreamcatcher shirt, and her badge, cleverly hidden underneath her jacket so as not to gain attention that might have people figuring out hers and Danny's secret identities.

"Right here," Tucker answered, grinning as he held up the camera.

"I'm so gonna enjoy this," Nell said with a smirk. Turning to Ava, she asked, "Did you bring the popcorn?"

"Yep!" Ava answered, showing seven huge bags of popcorn. At seeing Danny, Sam, Tucker, Owen and Dustin's stunned looks, Nell explained, "A moment like this, why not celebrate it by having a little snack?"

"Actually, that's a great idea," Danny said, grabbing a bag. Soon, Danny, Nell, Sam, Tucker, Ava, Owen and Dustin had a bag each.

"You ready Dash?" Danny asked with a grin; he was so going to enjoy this blackmail.

With a groan, Dash ran out and every single student in the parking lot began laughing, and a nerd named Mikey yelled, "I'll never respect him again!" He was also recording this on his phone.

"FENTONS! YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!" Dash shouted.

Danny, Nell, Sam, Tucker, Ava, Dustin and Owen just laughed even more hysterically at Dash's misfortune, continuing to eat their popcorn. Even though the Fright Knight escaped and it was Nell's most-hated holiday, it turned out to be one of the best Halloweens ever.

GhostWriterGirl: "Fright Night" is done! Hope you enjoyed it and next chapter is "Maternal Instincts". Here's the preview for it:

NEXT TIME, ON DANNY PHANTOM AND STORM BANSHEE:

Maddie, in an attempt to bond with her emotionally-distant son and adopted daughter-especially Nell-she decides to have her, Danny and Nell go to a mother-son-and-adopted-daughter science seminar in Florida, California, much to Danny and Nell's displeasure. However, they soon found out the whole thing is orchestrated by none other than Vlad and Daria Masters-AKA Vlad Plasmius and Electra, Danny's and Nell's archenemies! When their powers stop working, Danny and Nell are left defenceless, especially when Vlad and Daria sic a pack of mutant ghost animals on them… or are they? Will Danny, Nell and Maddie make it out of the woods alive? What is Daria's next clue to Nell about the mystery that is Nell's biological, ghostly father? Will this trip make Nell remember certain things from her past?

Find out next time on Danny Phantom And Storm Banshee in: Maternal Instincts.

GhostWriterGirl: I can't wait for that chapter, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I had fun writing this chapter, especially Nell's hatred towards Halloween.

Nell: That makes sense. I mean, all those reasons for why have been outlined, and I really don't like that you made my birthday on Halloween, Ghosty.

GhostWriterGirl: I know, but anyway… MERRY CHRISTMAS 2017 EVERYBODY! I know this is the Halloween chapter, but since it isn't actually Halloween, but Christmas, I had to say the proper holiday wishes. We're nearly through the year; just a few more days until 2018! Come on, Nell, wish everyone a merry Christmas! Come on, Nell, come on, come on, come on!

Nell: Okay! Merry Christmas 2017 everyone. As GhostWriterGirl has pointed out, we're almost through the year. Hopefully, 2018 is better than 2017.

GhostWriterGirl:*protests*Not true. This year has been a great year; it's the year I first joined fan fiction! I'm thrilled about this year, to be honest.

Nell:*grumbles*Of course you're thrilled.

GhostWriterGirl: Anyway, I do not own Danny Phantom, that belongs to Butch Hartman. I only own this story and all my OCs. Now, please read and review! See y'all next chapter!

GhostWriterGirl out!