Chapter 4: The War Begins

In the Courtyard of Pariah's Keep

Dressed in the close he set up the day before, Jake stood in the middle of the courtyard staring above him to the balcony in the tower in front of him at his parents who looked at their son with an expressionless gaze. Then with a silent flick of his wrist, Fright Knight summoned fifty of his skeletal minions. It didn't take a genius for Jake to figure out that his first test had begun. Jake watched as they drew their weapons and advanced to him, and with a smirk on his face. He charged forward at them and dropkicked one and within a fluid motion, he took its war lance, swinging and twirling it around, batting aside each of his skeletal targets like flies. In a just a few short moments, Jake was surrounded by ectoplasmic bones. Smirk still in place, Jake spoke up in an arrogant tone,

"Can I get a better challenge father, or is this the best rivals I'm allowed to have at the moment?"

As soon as he said those words the bony bastards of Fright Knights horde came back together for round two. Looking around himself, Jake smirk grew more Now this should be interesting he thought as kicked up an ecto-steel shield into one of his hands. Raising it in front of him with the war lance held sideways behind him, Jake fought on for hours. In the midst of his fighting Fright and Spectra looked onto their child as he trained, thinking of his progress as Jake was decimated three more with an eyeblast.

He will make a fine warrior for the Rebellion, he is developing faster than I ever have hoped for. Thought Fright Knight.

My baby is growing up into the monster I want him to be, as soon as he is ready we will send him out and crush Daniel beneath our feet. Penelope thought maliciously as Jake defeated the skeletons for the fifth time that day. Soon Fright Knight raised his right hand, slowly closing it to a fist then one by one the skeletons sunk underneath the surface. Unscathed from his training, Jake looked to his father expectantly.

"My son," said Fright Knight "I know as much as you do that it might be time for you to go to the next level of your training, so present to you one of our commanders."

Soon a gate was being raised up from the front door of the castle, and out came Skulker the greatest hunter of the ghost zone. Strolling toward the child, Skulker unsheathed his wrist blades and attacked Jake. Quickly raising his shield up, he blocked the blow and pushed Skulker back, trading blow after blow Jake and Skulker went till the hunter grabbed the haft of the lance pulling it and Jake to him with his fist waiting to make contact. Raising his shield up to block the blow, the metallic fist met ecto-steel with a loud clang. Sensing that Jakes' grip on his weapon became weak, Skulker yanked the lance from him and snapped it in half. Looking up from his little task he was met with the shield smashing across his face. Momentarily stunned from the blow, Jake leapt for his chance as he tossed his shield into Skulkers' midsection followed by a barrage of punches to his chest, a flying left side-kick to the face and a right haymaker decking Skulker to the ground. Quickly onto his feet, Skulker blocked another blow his way, swiftly sending Jake a left uppercut and a right jab to his face followed by a spartan kick to his chest.

While the two ghouls sparred, Fright Knight walked away in search of one his commanders. On the other side of the keep, Nicholai was readying his troops as they drilled countless times to ready themselves for war. Hearing footsteps approaching him, he turned to see that Fright Knight was making his way towards him and following after him was Vortex.

"What an honor to be in your presence my lord. I hope that my troops up to your standards so that we may begin." said the tech genius.

With quiet glance, Fright Knight nodded his head and walked away to gather his other commanders to make plans of what to do. Once he left, Nikolai called out to his followers in a loud voice saying,

"Attention my subjects, it is time to bring battle to the Phantoms. Time to show everyone who is the true king of the zone. It is time bring death to our enemies, to lay siege to Amity Park."

The ghastly soldiers roared in agreement and malice at destroying Danny Phantom, so gathering their weapons and equipment they took off into the abyss of the ghost zone to find a portal to the human world to take down their most hated foe. Meanwhile Jake just finished his spar with Skulker after he threw an ectoball at his back causing a hole to appear in his suit. Jake tried apologizing but all he was met with was a grunt from the little green glob while it was doing repairs. So, he walked away to find himself something to do, as he wandered he found an unused library. Thinking nothing of it he walked inside, and looked around and all he saw were dusty old books moth eaten curtains and cobweb covered seats with a few dirty rugs here and there. But then he notices a white and gold book on one of the selves. Walking over to it, he pulls it out and he notices that it has no title and he opens it up and he couldn't see the title cause it was faded, driven by curiosity he began to read and the more he read the more he begun to understand. The book he was not just some ordinary book, but a code book, a book of the Warrior Code. Reading it, memorizing it till he knew it by heart. Putting the book back where he found it with a small smile on his face, he walked out to go back to his room thinking of the warrior code and how it filled him with a sense of responsibility and honor. Jake kept running these thoughts in his head until he bumped into something.

"HEY WATCH YOUR GOING ASSooooh." He shouted.

Right in front of him was the half ghost half robot, Terminatra. Instantly regretting what he said, he looked down in shame. After the events of the Disasteriod, many ghosts have heard tale of how the she robot began her infamous campaign as the most lethal bounty hunter of the entire Ghost Zone. Her red and dark blue eyes staring into his soul made him even more nervous. Raising an eyebrow at the young shade she asked,

"What're you doing?"

"Nothing, nothing at all. What're you doing?" Nervously replied Jake as he looked her straight in the face trying to hide his fear. Giving him a glare that said don't bullshit with me, or I'll beat the shit out of you, she looked Jake up and down began to think. The shade has grown again, astounding to think that yesterday he looked like a child but now he looks that of a young teenager. Shaking her head, she responded,

"None of your business, shade now go back to your training."

"Sorry I can't Skulker's battle suit is badly damaged from our spar, and part of that is my fault."

"Really?"

"Okay it was my entire fault, but I wanted to dad how good I am."

"Yeah you did but it's not going to be good enough for him at least."

After saying that, she began to walk away till she heard Jake mumble something under his breath. Turning her head sharply at him, she asked,

"What was that?"

"I said wanna bet?" Retorted Jake.

A few moments passed, till Terminatra slowly nodded her head, so making their way through the halls into the courtyard. Once in the center they took ready stances, as the chilled air blew by them and as soon as a few short moments came by they charged towards each other as their right hooks clash together.

Meanwhile at Amity Park

Danny and the gang were strolling along the street, enjoying their ghost free day until they noticed a ghost portal appear overhead. The people of Amity Park looked up into the sky, as the eerie green doorway between the realm of the living to the dead grew. Silence was all around, till the maniacal laughter of evil spirits was heard as hundreds of ghosts flew from it as they were armed to the teeth. Taking quick action, Danny yelled out to the people to run and hide as he and his daughter went ghost to meet the new threat to their home. Tucker called every available ghost hunter he knew in town to help against the fight that was about to begin the two phantoms flew toward the poltergeist army.

From every punch, every kick, every blast that they sent in the army's way, they just coming till Danny finally made a plan.

"Dani cover your ears!"

Quickly doing as her father said, Danny took a deep breath and unleashed the Ghostly Wail upon them. The ghouls tossed back by the screaming shockwave coming from their most hated enemy, were tossed aside till none were near him. As soon as they were out of sight, Danny saw a metallic object with a red button on the ground. Pressing the button, it turned out to be a holographic recording of the one and only Technus.

"If you are getting this message Phantom, I hope you enjoyed the life you have left because after today you and your family will be destroyed. Why you might ask, quite simple really, word has spread in the ghost zone that you will be our new king. Well not while me and my powerful colleagues have any say in it, so looked to the sky in terror as you realize that war has begun."

Looking above him he saw a green dome covering over the city as all around him his home became a prison.