The cool Autumn afternoon loomed over Amity Park as its ghostly hero-slash-public enemy smashed into a carved pumpkin, for the coming holiday of Halloween as described across Casper High, and stood back up to confront a ghostly eel giving him trouble. The ghost took off as Danny gave into pursuit, trying to catch the creature, but it was actually slippery before it smacked him and he frowned as the distance was made between them as Danny spoke. "You're one slippery ghost eel, but I bet you don't know this trick!" He gathered energy into his palms before blasting it to the eel's glee, it absorbing the energy before the green eyes turned red and Danny commented in both frustration and determination. "Oookay. Maybe you do."

The eel wasted no time blasting Danny back as he was launched right at the school where prep work was being made for the upcoming holiday, the eel distracted suffered a Thermos capture by Talia in ghost form as she called out.

"Danny!" He flew through the school and slammed into a ladder, dumping paint on someone as he reverted back to being human, dazed from the blast before he was lifted up and found himself face to face with Dash as the letter-man jacket was painted with purple as he growled.

"Defacing my letter jacket? That's a violation punishable by wedgie!"

"Give me a break, Dash..." Danny blinked a few times as he commented. "I can't feel my head and the three of you is making it worse..." Before Dash could sock Danny, another person came into play.

"Grapes of Wrath, break it up!" Both of them glanced up to Lancer standing behind them as he looked not pleased to see their antics as he demanded. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't *suspend* you both for fighting on school property?" Dash stumbled with a simple excuse as Danny roused himself to full focus, rubbing his temples for the relief.

"Uh… I'm a football star?"

"True." Lancer answered as Danny rolled his eyes a bit at the favoritism as Lancer raised the clipboard on hand as he continued to explain. "Still, I must at least *pretend* to be fair, and you two need a more creative outlet for your aggressions." The two glanced at each other before back to Lancer as he spoke with a roguish smile as well, showing the plan on the clipboard for the two to take heed of. "As you know, every year one of the faculty puts together a haunted house party at the abandoned Townsend place." It even had a picture of the large structure and the face who would be behind its haunted house time. "This year, it's my turn." He continued to lecture as the two looked at him with some blank stares. "And I am bound and determined to decorate it better than Ms. Tetslaff did last year." The trio looked down the way to find Ms. Tetslaff, the gym teacher, who countered with a crack of the hand and raised brow.

"Fat chance." She held up a photo of what must have been her like a Frankenstein monster or something. "You'll never outdo my Franken-Gurkard-Stein monster." She walked off to Cedric, Sam, and Tucker behind her as Valerie was doing some late-shopping with her dad for the daily rite of 'Trick-or-Treating' as Lancer commented.

"Welcome aboard 'Team Lancer', gentlemen. Scariest room avoids detention." Dash leaned back as Lancer pointed a finger at him. "Football star or not." Danny spoke to his friends as he made a plan.

"Scary? Haunted house? This is great!" Danny beamed as he finished the statement. "I am going to totally kick his butt!" Dash cut in as he exclaimed.

"You think so, Fen-tons-o-fun? How about a little side-bet?" The smirk on Dash was something of concern as Cedric huffed to Danny's idiocy to agree.

"Sure. If I win..." He paused to think of a good idea to force on Dash. "...you have to run through the school parking lot in your underwear!" Cedric face-palmed as Dash accepted without pause and offered his punishment if Danny lost.

"Okay." He reached into his jacket for the prize. "And when you taste defeat, you have to eat THESE!" He pulled out a pair of unwashed, disgusting pair of boy briefs, clearly his underwear with his name on them as the trio screamed at the horror of it before Tucker remarked in terror.

"I don't know what's scarier. The underwear, or the fact he carries them around in his coat!" They turned to Cedric as he seemed to glare at the pair.

"The THREAT of detention should have been enough for you two, clearly making a bet is going to bite both of you in the rear." Both flinched as Cedric continued. "But as it stands, we are involved in this and I will be making my own horror room for the contest, I may not be gunning for punishment, but I know my bet in the end and this is the most terrifying one." He smiled and sent chills down their spines. "Should I win, you two WILL play nice, that means you help each other with homework, you practice sports together, and you DON'T cause too much trouble across the school for TWO WHOLE weeks." The held up fingers gripped into a fist as Cedric finished. "Got it?"

"Cr-Cr-Crystal, sir!" Both Dash and Danny stammered in salute as Cedric huffed and walked off, Dash and Danny watching him go before Dash spoke with underwear in hand. "...We are going to be in trouble..."

"You got that right..." Danny's choice to fight would also bring forth a spirit that embodies Halloween itself, the fear as well...


The trio headed to Fentonworks to discuss the plan in action, Jazz also learning about the bet and only had a few words to say. "You are in deep trouble now, you got Cedric involved." Tucker and Danny headed up to his room to talk tactics as Danny drew up skeletons and Dash getting choked by said skeletons.

"What if we did something with… skeletons?" He showed it to Tucker for his opinion. "See? H-How scary is that?"

"On a scale of not to 10? Not." Tucker gave a disappointed one to Danny who tore out the page and crumpled it up before tossing it, hitting the mountain of paper that had built up before Danny made for another plan.

"How 'bout this?" He thrusted his arms in the air and went Phantom before phasing through the bed, Tucker giving a skeptical look with left brow lowered before the bed sheet arose and started to make spooky sounds as Sam stepped into the room as Danny continued the sounds before Sam spoke unaffected.

"Lame." The bed sheet stopped as Danny phased back to reality as he moaned.

"Oh, man!" With the ring formed around him again, he reverted back to Fenton as he landed on the bed and groaned. "Halloween's a week away and I still don't have a clue what I'm gonna do for my haunted house room." He exclaimed with a pondering look before Sam joined the chat with pulling off her pack and going through it before she found what she was looking for.

"Which is why I picked this up at the old bookshop where I like to skulk and lurk." She handed over a tan and brown colored book as Danny read the title.

"'Chronicles of the Fright Knight'?" He cracked it open to a imposing figure in black-and-white, atop a nightmarish horse, blade raised high as body of both horse and man were engulfed in fire as Sam added more to it with glee.

"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." She smiled to the idea with the motions in tow as Danny flipped to the next page of what the lair looked like before Danny paused in recognizance.

"Wait a minute…" He glanced up from the book as he continued. "I've seen this before!" He quickly pulled open his nightstand to a series of papers and a folder that read 'Map of the Ghost Zone (in progress) - Trio's map' before he filed through it and pulled out a similar appearance of the book's design, the familiarity matching up as he spoke in glee. "Look familiar?" Tucker and Sam saw the same as the geek exclaimed in amaze.

"It matches the map we've been making of the Ghost Zone!" Danny turned with praise as the plan was made with the basis being the Fright Knight.

"This is great! He's a ghost and he's the spirit of Halloween?" He plucked the book up and took it all in for the mission in mind. "That means I can take the best ideas from this guy and fuse them into my haunted house room!" The set-up was fairly simple as they grouped up and delivered the goods to the manor, it was menacing from the distance and up close as Sam compared what Danny came up with for his room as she remarked.

"And by 'fuse'-" The room was a terrible compare altogether with hay-stuffed skeletons, a make-shift layout, and a poor attempt of the Fright Knight sitting a throne, basically it was scary for kids, but not for adults. "-You meant 'totally rip off'?" Tucker just stared blankly at the mess with the stuffed skeletons, Sam giving a face of neutral displeasure of the bouncing purple rubber spiders, and Danny just beamed with the staked heads of Jazz's stuffed animals, Jazz furious to find her toys beheaded in such a way as Danny remarked while going through the motions of disregard.

"Well, it's not about being original, it's about not eating Dash's underwear." He stepped over to the mockery before going Phantom and possessing it, making it move and he using a gruff voice to get the point across, despite it just being a cheap knock-off of the original fable. "I AM THE FRIGHT KNIGHT! TREMBLE BEFORE THE SOUL SHREDDER!" He pulled free the balloon sword and swung it about Tucker as he adapted a salesmen pitch into the motions. "It slices, it dices, it creates your worst fear! Now, how much would ya pay?" Tucker remarked as he squeezed the balloon toy with a lack of amaze.

"For this thing? About fifty-nine cents." He turned and left the fake scene as Danny dropped the model back into place. "Now if you'll excuse me…" Danny flew out and reverted back beside Sam as Tucker was pleased with an actual plan. "I'm a little late to start scamming some free candy." He turned with an empty pumpkin in hand before showing off his PDA that had a map routed out across Amity. "Got my route planned out for OCP. Optimum Chocolate Payload." He pointed out the red zone of Amity with some restraint. "You want to stay clear of the red zone. Nothing but fresh fruit and granola bars in the red zone." Sam then asked, based on the plan that Tucker had a costume to be scrounging for candy.

"So where's your costume?" He held the pumpkin bucket in hand before putting on a fake pair of glasses with a big nose and a mustache as he remarked, the pair exchanging looks of uncertainty.

"Gotta travel light if you wanna maximize your haul." He turned toward the door and pointed the way as he walked toward it and cheered. "C'mon, baby!" On que of reaching the door, he continued the cheer. "Hit me with something sweet!" He paused before he was knocked back with a stream of green foam as Jack and Maddie stomped in and Jack cheered at the success of his little device as his lens cleaned up to blue from green.

"Haha! Look at that, baby!" He turned to look at Maddie as he continued. "The Fenton Foamer works like a charm!" Maddie agreed as Jack grinned with the nozzle in hand while she held a sensor in hand as she glanced to Jack, the ceiling on the other side, and back to her device.

"I know! There was a ghost reading in this very room seconds ago, and now the room is clean!" Tucker grumbled back as he had gotten back up while covered in the foam before he spoke in resign.

"Speak for yourself." He glanced to his friends as he continued with walking past the parents of ghost hunting. "If anybody needs me, I'll be in a different doorway every thirty-eight seconds." Jack leaned over to Maddie as he gave a frowned look about Tucker with her sharing it as he pointed it out.

"Isn't he a little old to be walking around in public in a stupid costume?" Danny took the moment to inquire to the presence of his parents there.

"Mom? Dad? What are you doing?" Maddie had a simple answer as the two of them explained.

"Decontaminating the area, son!"

"You know how ecto-storms always flare up around Halloween, Danny." Danny started to speak as he explained the situation lightly.

"This is all very riveting..." He glanced down as he quickly said under his breath. "...and by riveting, I mean 'Dull' with a capital 'D'..." He glanced back up in the motion of leaving before someone comes back. "...but you guys need to leave before Lancer thinks you're helping me." That caught their attention as Jack questioned.

"Lancer?" He made to puzzle it out as to why Lancer would care before his mind hit the correct conclusion. "Hey, this isn't some sort of anti-detention project, is it?" Instead of accepting it and saying as much to explain it out, Danny moved on deflecting to a picked-up hobby.

"No! No, no, no!" Danny made to push his parents out as he used the excuse to get out of the trouble. "Um, I'm just starting to get interested in ghosts, like my old man!" Jack beamed in joy as he exclaimed.

"Finally! If I didn't consider it a sign of weakness..." His lip trembled and his eyes watered up as he glanced toward Maddie. "...I'd weep with joy!" He continued to cry as the goggles wiped them clean or something as the door closed shut and Danny breathed for he took to being Phantom once more, taking flight as he commented to Sam as his only witness.

"Decorated room, faked-out parents…" He beamed as he finished up the thought. "Only thing left to do is to check out what Dash's lame theme is, then spend the rest of the night gloating!" He said with crossed eyes and closed eyes before he swept over to the model Fright Knight and snatched the balloon sword to carry with, zooming through the manor until he arrived to Dash's room and peered his head in to a sight.

Dash's room was a lot more scary with dummies of individuals working out that have suffered punishment or death at the hands or weights of their equipment, a skeleton on an eternal run on a treadmill while being held up by strings while two boxed it out and one 'literally' knocked the skull off one before said skull was kicked out of the way by Dash in a green attire and hat as he matched a stitched-up figure as Lancer judged the place with a hum and wrote it down in his clipboard. "The Spa of Doom?" He took it all in with amaze. "Quite impressive, Mr. Baxter." It also had a robotic-motion structure of a jock whipping a nerdy kid on the back with a towel as Lancer took it all in, Danny knowing that Dash had help from the geeks in the first place. "And I must admit, your knowledge of audio-animatronic technology is very impressive." He turned and asked for more. "What else do you have for me?" Dash had the thing as he explained with a walk over to a motorized track and a giant shoe.

"A twenty-minute presentation about the horrors of Athlete's Foot!" Danny followed the pair as they got into the shoe with Lancer remarking.

"Well, let's make it snappy. My guests arrive at midnight, you know." The shoe took off as Dash commented.

"You will love the Tunnel of Fungus!" Danny turned visible as the pair left and moaned in disbelief, compared to this, his room was a kid's dream.

"Man, that is cool!" He looked down to the inflated sword and it blew out just as well in loss as he grimaced. "And man, that's not!" He glanced to the side to see the terrifying underwear in a glass container. "I have to do something fast or it's Tighty-Whiteys for dessert." He glanced at the deflated sword and got an idea, if he wanted scary, he would get scary, the sword, just as easily, replaced with the real thing...


Having made his way into the Ghost Zone through his parent's portal, Danny flew through the Zone and checked his map of the dimension before spotting the lair where the Fright Knight lived, the surrounding rocks believed to be homes of the others ghosts, but now he couldn't be sure about it as he flew closer to the ominous castle as he mused to himself, thunder striking out over the castle. "Desperate times call for desperate measures." He slipped into the dark and landed at the bottom before heading up, gasping as traps were engaged and he yelped as one of the swinging axes cut him as he groaned in a repeated lesson. "Oh, right." He pulled the hand away to the cut and the green blood that pooled in his hand. "Rule number one: In the Ghost Zone, ghosts can be hurt." He gripped the fist in determination as more traps came for him and he evaded to jump through another door, lucky as one of the axes pierced through it before the walls of the corridor that was filled with skeletons of pumpkin, blade, and bone suddenly erupted spikes and started to close in as Danny took flight to escape before he remembered another factor to the Zone.

"Wait a minute! That's right!" He adjusted as he spoke some more. "Ghosts can be hurt here…" The rings formed around him as the walls closed on him, but he stepped out as Fenton and a smile. "…but *humans* have it made!" He walked on through to another chamber, this one littered with skeletons, but more importantly, was the Soul Shredder implanted in a pumpkin as he closed the gap to the glowing green blade, scared that one of the undead may arise to stop him before he stood before it and, uneasily, reached out a hand and gripped the hilt. He paused with a glance about before he huffed and gripped it with both hands before pulling the blade free, the purple guts of the pumpkin dripping off to radiate in its full green glory with a smile. The skeletons stirred alive as Danny glanced about a bit as he remarked with the blade in hand. "This place gives *me* the creeps..." He beamed as he held the Soul Shredder upright. "...Which means it'll scare the pants off of Lancer!"

He turned to leave, but stopped as the skeletons towered over him in double the size, the sword rather light in his hand which was strange with how implanted in the pumpkin it was. He leapt back as the skeletons seemed to have tried to crush him before he stood right back up and spoke in counter of them. "You guys need to eat more red meat." The rings formed around him and Phantom showed off some makeshift stances in readiness to fight before the skeletons raised their arms and bowed to Danny's confusion before deciding to play along with it. "Uh..." He took on a bold and disciplinary face as he answered with nose held high. "That's right! You know badness when you see it." The room shook and Danny gasped with a turn from where the quaking was coming from. "What?"

The violet pumpkin erupted in a green vortex before a column of green erupted and the ground fragments before a figure formed from the green mist that bellowed, armor dark as night, gauntlets blazing just like fire in its gray-black color, with violet flames around the helm and as the cape while soulless green peered back at a shocked Danny as the Fright Knight bellowed, green smoke still fuming from the point of revival. "Fool!" He pointed a finger at Danny before lowering the outstretched arm. "You have released me." He extended out a hand as he inquired of the sword. "Return to me my sword so my reign of terror can begin anew!" Danny countered with uncertainty.

"I-I can bring the sword back by midnight-" He affirmed himself as he glanced back at the Fright Knight. "-But the 'reign of terror' is kind of a deal-breaker."

"It was not a request, whelp!" He crouched ready as he shouted. "It was a demand!" He jumped and Danny leapt away from the sheer impact of the Knight as he took flight, blasting out one of the windows and getting away, but the Knight was not without his steed of Nightmare as he grabbed one of the smaller pumpkins and hurled it, it erupting into the form of the monstrous creature as Knight mounted up and took flight with the beast as they gave pursuit.


The streets of Amity were flowing with kids and teens alike as Maddie and Jack were on the mission of safety about before Maddie exclaimed to her device suddenly flaring up. "Whoa!" The device displayed a growing funnel toward the sky as she continued. "Ecto-storm's flaring up." Jack hunched over before he remarked with a megaphone in hand.

"Better alert the local townsfolk!" He straightened up and called out for warning to everyone there. "Code five! Code five! Code five! This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill!" Unfortunately, they were not so taken seriously as the kids just laughed at the 'plumbers', Jack clueless to the insults while Danny was in a flight of fear as the Fright Knight pursued with vigor as the knight fired with eye-blasts, Danny dodging and gasping in relief to the swirling green of the Portal.

"*Yes*! Home sweet home!" He turned for a brief moment to blast the Knight off the Nightmare, both pulling back to stabilize themselves as Danny passed through and closed the portal shut with a 'closed' button on the side of the way, the pair of ghosts closing the gap, but not enough to get through as Danny breathed and, with Soul Shredder in hand, took off to show Sam, heedless of the Knight's impossible feat of opening the portal as he glared out across the lab in anger.

Back at the Townsend Place, Sam paced as she questioned. "Where is he?" Danny surprised her from under the floor as Sam yelped in terror as Danny phased fully out in remark and hands behind his back.

"If you think that's scary-" He put out his hands with Soul Shredder laid out before Sam's eyes as he finished. "-get a load of this!" The sword gleamed as Sam exclaimed in disbelief.

"You went into the Ghost Zone and stole the Fright Knight's sword?" Danny answered with pride and confidence.

"Stole, borrowed. Semantics." He shrugged as he held the word point down over the floor as he mused. "You worry too much." He plunged the sword into the floorboards and it somehow activated, blasting a torrent of green into the sky and forming plumes of greens high above as Danny's hand left the sword as they watched it do just that, heedless of its effects as the clouds grew and surged, energy fluxing into the manor and bringing things to life as they caught a brief scream of Dash.

"Zombies!" Danny finally spoke as he realized that he may have bitten off more than he could chew.

"Maybe I should get this thing back." The moment was interrupted by Lancer as he entered the room.

"Mr. Fenton. It's time." Thankfully, Lancer walked in with eyes closed which allowed Sam to jump in front of Danny and hide his transformation back into Fenton as he exclaimed in joy.

"Right after Mr. Lancer judges my room! Besides, what's the worst that could happen?" Those are the same terrible words one should never say as a bolt struck the ground in the distance and the Fright Knight appeared in all his glory as he exclaimed into a monologue.

"Free! And once I regain possession of my sword-" The ghost's eyes narrowed as he spoke on. "-I will transform this world into my own pantheon of terror! And then, I will *rule*!" The horse took flight as the Fright started the search for his sword...


On the other side of town, from the Townsend Place, Sam stammered in fear as the zombies of Dash's room flood into Danny's room. "Uh, Mr. Lancer?" The zombies got closer as she found the words to continue. "I don't know if it's safe in here." The two exchanged looks as Danny made to play it off.

"That's right, Sam." Just as quickly, Danny pushed the zombies out and shut the door to keep the zombies out as he monologue for effect. "*Nothing* is safe inside…" He grabbed an object and made a spooky noise of the effect. "...Danny Fenton's…" It was a flashlight and he used it for the classic fear tactic as he finished. "...'Room of Doom'!" He tried in vain to make it very scary, but just was failing so bad as he finished. "Enter if you dare." Lancer made his minor boredom apparent as he remarked to the lack of fear in the room, kids could get scared, but not adults as he remarked.

"I'll have you know, I don't fall for cheap theatrics." Lightning struck the box of spiders in the back as Lancer continued. "And I don't scare easily." A giant leg begged to differ as Lancer glanced up to the monstrous behemoth of a spider that was more abomination than anything as Lancer quickly scribed in his clipboard. "But you're off to a promising start!" Danny thanked the statement nervously.

"All part of the show." Dash, on the other hand, was in a panic as he screamed in terror and booked it down the sidewalk.

"Zombies! Ghosts!" The Fright Knight, having been watching the escaping boy, exclaimed in recognizance.

"I know that terror. It carries the scent of my blade." Nightmare soared down and crashed in front of Dash, as the Fright Knight bellowed in demand. "You, tell me." He pointed a finger at the terrified jock. "Where are you running from?" Dash brokered no argument as he exclaimed while pointing down the way.

"Ninth Seventeenth Maple Street." Fright Knight glanced up and exclaimed the same to the growing ecto-storm and lightning strikes across.

"Yes. Upon yonder hill lies the instrument of my ultimate ascendancy! My Soul Shredder!" Dash quickly jumped the wall with the Fright Knight blocking the way as the storm struck out across the city and people screamed to the mere objects turning into monsters without delay as the Fright Knight took to the air once more and continued his spiel, interested in observing the terror going on. "This is only the beginning." Unfortunately, one was not so spooked as he greeted the Knight as a friend, much to the Knight's confusion.

"Hi, Danny." Tucker walked on over to the foreboding being as he continued. "Is that you?" The pair swooped down as the Knight made his spiel at the unafraid teen.

"Child, you may want to show a little more respect to your future ruler!" Tucker was unfazed whatsoever as he countered.

"Yeah, yeah, very scary." He focused on Nightmare as he inquired its appearance with head bent toward him with a menacing glare. "The fake horse is pretty neat, though. What's it made out of? Flaming bed sheets?" The horse's head raised as Fright Knight exclaimed.

"Flaming bed sheets of death!" Still, Tucker was not afraid or terrified as he checked his PDA and spoke to the beeping.

"Whoa! I'm running late." He smiled as he made to explain it out. "I gotta be at the Henderson's in five-" Anymore was lost when the Fright Knight grabbed him and lifted him high as he made his speech.

"I am the Fright Knight. The Spirit of Halloween!" He melted the candy in Tucker's bucket and scorched it as the geek moaned in disbelief.

"Aww, man! Why'd you do that?!" But the Knight was not stopped as he explained the storm's power.

"And once this ecto-storm touches every corner of this globe, all these transformations will be permanent! And THIS shall be my new domain!" His eyes narrowed as he demanded once more. "Now,-" He pulled Tucker close for this to stick. "Take me to my sword!"

"You're not Danny, are you?" Sadly, Danny was contending with something else as the whole place was enveloped in the storm as Lancer was still not cluing in on the danger to his life as he was webbed up with his remarks.

"This has potential. Sticky, gross. I like it!" The spider drew closer to the aged teacher as Sam MOTIONED on the side of 'GETTING THINGS UNDER CONTROL'.

"Danny? You might want to end this before things spin out of control!" Danny didn't acknowledge that as he pointed out.

"I will, as soon as Lancer declares me the winner!" That time was ticking away as the spider made to make Lancer a drained corpse or the like as the teacher spoke for the certainty of the contest going to Danny's favor.

"Okay, I'm mildly impressed. A few more surprises and you might have this thing wrapped up." Danny pumped his fist in victory.

"Yes! I'll take 'mildly impressed'. That's my cue to clean up!" He quickly grabbed a Fenton Foamer that Jack left behind and fired on the spider, covering it in the form and reverting it back to the rubber spider before he spotted Sam having trouble with some boneheads. "Sam! Catch!" He tossed the Foamer to her to which she caught it, just as the skeleton busted through, only to get doused in foam, reverting them back into the stuffed skeletons as Danny explained it out.

"*See*? I told ya I had everything under control." He reached off and took the Foamer off Sam's hands as he explained. "We've got enough Fenton Foamers to keep Lancer safe and as soon as he says the words, 'Danny wins'..." He fired, hitting the rat about to munch on Lancer and reverting it back into a chair. "I'll toss the sword back into the Ghost Zone." The moment was ruined when the ceiling rumbled to an impact and the two glanced up to find the Fright Knight had arrived with busting through the ceiling with Tucker on the saddle as well, Lancer amazed by the 'flaming robot' as Tucker exclaimed.

"Danny! Whatever you do, don't let him get the sword!"

"Silence, whelp!" Tucker was tossed with a bounce onto the webbing as he greeted Lancer as Danny exclaimed.

"*Tuck*!" He aimed the Foamer to get Tucker out of the web, only to have the Fright Knight knock it out of Danny's hands and glance upon the Soul Shredder as he exclaimed.

"My sword. At last!" The Knight soared for his blade as Danny made a break for it as well, both gripping the sword as Danny uttered a 'hah' before it was apparent that the Fright Knight was far stronger as he swung Danny around to fling him off as Lancer watched the exchange with ponder.

"That's certainly exciting, but is it scary?" The transaction continued before the Soul Shredder slashed through Lancer, going through him like a slash of air before he glowed green and disappeared altogether, into a dimension where all the equations on blackboards FORCED him to claw at the board, to make the horrible sound of nails on chalkboards as Danny shouted.

"Lancer! Where'd he go? He was tossed off and recovered from being thrown and demanded with the cocoon in hand. "Mr. Lancer? What'd you do to him?" The Spirit of Halloween answered that same question.

"I sent him to where all who feel the sting of my blade are sent. A dimension where his worst fears come to life!" That just fueled the fires of victory in Danny as he cheered for the part.

"*YES*! This contest is SO MINE!" On the other hand, Sam glared at him with an evil eye and Danny quickly took to be a protector again as he stammered before launching himself into battle. "Uh, I mean-" He took to the charge as he exclaimed in a heroic tone. "Bring him back, you fiend!" He transformed into Phantom and made to deliver a solid kick, but was backhanded into the wall as the Fright Knight called out in praise.

"Listen to the sound of your doom!" The storm raged on as the Knight lectured. "Soon, my storm shall consume this planet and the world will be forever transformed! And no one can stop me!" The Knight praised with sword high up as Danny pulled himself out of the wall in counter.

"Not if I can help it!" He took flight once more, but slammed into the chest plate that felt like five tons of bricks to him as he flopped on the floor and voiced his dismay. "Which, *apparently* I can't." The Fright Knight towered over the fallen Danny and made to sentence him to his worse nightmare before Tucker, having gotten free from the web, exclaimed in saving his friend.

"Danny! Look out!" He stood over his friend for the Fright Knight to slash him and sentence him to a deserted island with no tech or clothes, except boxers and the only way off was through pencil and paper as Danny cried out.

"Tucker! *No*!" Danny got his ground back as he fired to knock the Knight backward, but with the swing of the Soul Shredder, Danny was blasted into the wall again as he grumbled for an answer.

"Doesn't *anything* work on this guy?" Sam quickly cracked the book open as she sought for the answer to their problem.

"There must be something in this book that tells us how to beat him!" She stopped as the Fright Knight loomed over her as he answered with truth.

"Perhaps." He raised the sword in a overhead slash stance. "But you will never find it!" Danny quickly got to Sam's side as he shouted.

"Sam, look out!" He clasped his hands on her shoulders and used his intangibility to make the blow miss, but it was not quick enough as the book was slashed down in half and Danny pulled Sam out of the way in flight as she scowled, looking back as they returned to the visible spectrum.

"Darn it! That bookstore has a no-return policy!" They quickly hid behind the makeshift throne as Danny apologized for letting things escalate into the mess they were now.

"I'm so sorry. I wanted to win so bad!" He glanced back and down in regret as he finished. "But not *this* bad."

"Stop beating yourself up over it and start beating him!" They glanced from behind the throne in terror of the ghost. "It's the only way we'll be able to get Tucker and Lancer back safe and get everything back to normal!" Danny nodded as he took to the air once more in the fight, but the Fright Knight was impossible to even land a hit on in the first place while Sam was allowed to search for an answer, anything to even stop the terror as she spoke to herself in shifting through the pages. "Come on, show me a weakness, a vulnerability, *anything*!" She quickly found something that could help as she exclaimed with a 'ah-hah'. "'To cease the Storm, to end the Fear, the Sword must sheathe in Pumpkin near.'" She clued in to the meaning as she exclaimed with the page in hand. "'Pumpkin near'! Danny! You've got to put the sword back in a pumpkin!"

"A pumpkin?" Danny questioned with a grandfather clock in hand. "There are no pumpkins in the room." He hurled it at the Fright Knight before realized it himself with how stupid he just said it. "'No pumpkins in the room'?" He face-palmed to the notion that there would be no pumpkins on Halloween. "It's Halloween! What am I, an idiot?" Sam called out as she continued to gesture to the paper.

"You have to find another pumpkin fast! That's the only thing that can stop the sword's power!" Danny turned back to the room to find a pumpkin and... was that melted mass of candy and charred bucket Tucker's? He didn't think about it for long before the Fright Knight arose from the rubble and quickly snatched Danny to pull him to the sky, invested in sending Danny to his nightmare, but Danny's evasion was impressive as Danny channeled his power in a taunt.

"Strike Six! Way to whip, Mr. October!" He fired a condensed blast and blasted the Knight back down into the room as Sam called out to him.

"C'mon, Danny. You can do it!" The two exchanged blows with each other as Danny finally could stand up to the threat before he was hurled to the ground and the Soul Shredder was raised high, Danny quickly jumping for it and caught the blade between his hands to the Knight's surprise as he chanted the verse, his aura glowing thicker and more green.

"To cease the storm…" He pushed against the force with all his might. "To end the fear…" The Knight tried to push the blade down on Danny to no avail as he glanced to the melted mass. "The sword must sheathe…" The storm raged on as Danny shouted with his aura turning white. "In pumpkin near!" He shifted his grip to the gauntlet hand and tossed Fright Knight over his shoulder and into the ground, ripping the Soul Shredder out of his hands before making a leaping jump for the carbon-scored pumpkin, planting the sword into the pumpkin before getting flung back to the Knight's surprise as he gasped.

"What?" He took in the sword in pumpkin as Danny exclaimed with landing by the ghost.

"Trick *and* treat, bucket head!" On a more gentle note, he admitted the intent. "Told ya, I'd have it back by midnight." The Fright Knight ignored Danny as he rushed over to pull the sword free.

"No! No! *Nooo*!" He was blasted back as the storm start to recede before reversing itself and turning everything back to normal as the Fenton parents finally noticed the ecto-storm and moved to 'save' their son. The horse of nightmares was pulled into the vortex as Sam exclaimed to the serious updraft going on.

"It's sucking everything into the Ghost Zone! It's *working*!" She yelped as the updraft was also trying to take them as Danny snatched her wrist to keep her grounded.

"Sam!" He held fast before pulling her down, phasing a hand through the floor and keeping them there with a hand gripping a piping under the floor boards as the Fright Knight raged.

"I will have my vengeance! Mark my words!" The flames disappeared as the helmet fragmented to nothing before the remaining suit was pulled upwards into the fading storm before it cleared away, the sword and pumpkin disappearing as well as Tucker reappeared and cheered with tech in hand.

"*Yes*!" He held it in hand as he cheered. "Sweet beautiful technology, you're mine once again!" Lancer reappeared as well and Danny quickly reverted back to Fenton as Lancer whipped about to his innocent face as Lancer started.

"Mr. Fenton, I have to say that *was* the *most* horrifying thing I have ever seen." Danny stared blankly at the decision before Lancer beamed. "You win!" Danny pumped his fists in victory as Lancer exclaimed. "Take that, Tetslaff!" Sam came over to the smiling Danny and they shared a hug before Danny started to think about the whole thing before he called out to Lancer.

"Mr. Lancer? Wait up!" But he was in a monologue as he spoke.

"I can see it now, Tetslaff." He rasp-berried as he continued before Danny called out again.

"Mr. Lancer, wait." Lancer turned to the Fenton as he explained. "I have to be honest." Lancer listened as Danny continued. "I-I cheated."

"Cheated?" Lancer questioned with narrowed brow as Danny explained to the best of his ability while avoiding the ghost part.

"Well, I borrowed-eh-uh, 'stole', some of my parent's technology."

"You mean this stuff?" Sam added to the matter with the Fenton Foamer in hand with Tucker behind her as she gave a reasonable explanation. "Like the Fenton Foamer? Which causes a psychosomatic reaction in whoever's exposed to it, causing them to experience their worst fears?" They grinned with innocence as Danny played along with it.

"Yeah! That!" Lancer added to it as he explained with a smile of victory.

"Daniel, the good news for you is that I don't care." He motioned with his hand as he continued. "I have two scary rooms..." He glanced to his watch as he finished. "...and it's midnight!" He paused as he believed that he must have missed something completely, but he dismissed it as he cheered for celebration. "Let the party begin!" He rushed over to the doors to open them for the big night, but he was, just as quickly, doused.

"Nobody move!" He was quickly drenched in foam as Maddie and Jack smiled in 'purging' the area, but stopped as Lancer was covered in the foam with Danny, Sam, and Tucker as the night was made worse when Tetslaff scoffed at the poor quality of the house.

"Oh, 'Early oil spill'." She turned to the students that came for the party as well. "Come on. Let's get out of here." Before any could, a bell rang out and the people looked up as Lancer whipped about as one of the other doors slammed open as Cedric's voice rang out.

"What's going on here!?" All tensed up as he crept forward in a robe and cowl, like a wraith across the floor and scoffed. "A rip off of the Fright Knight?; The 'Spa of Doom'? What half-baked ideas were these!?" He extended a hand and the Foamers simply fell to pieces to everyone's surprise as Cedric continued with a haunting smile. "If you want fun and terror, come and see, meet the Hex Girls that I have 'invited' for the show." He faded back into the house as Tetslaff scoffed.

"This is dumb, it's clear Lancer lost so let's..." She froze from her departure as standing between her and the gate were gnomes... GNOMES that came out of nowhere and the people drew back in surprise as Tetslaff stammered. "L-L-Let's check the Hex Girls, please!"

"Oh, I forgot about Trace's room, I was so caught up in Daniel's room that I neglected the third room." Lancer rubbed his temples as he moaned. "Let's hope that it is very scary that I could win this contest of the teachers." The collected party headed in and the rooms seemed to grow eerie as they soon arrived and the door swung open to a set up.

It was expansive as one was the setup of a garage site, another was a gypsy area of Arabian lands and the last was a large stage from the windows with the whole rig of a concert. They all jumped as Cedric reappeared from the pluming mist that shrouded the room as blue lens gazed back. "Welcome, I know that you may not be afraid quite so, but I assure you that some of these attractions are not for the faint of heart, like our lovely couple from the grease and bikes over here." From the section described, a bad girl stepped out and glanced at the party as she spoke.

"Oh, joy, people to see what we can do, but I can't complain, I really wanted to make some fun this holiday." She stretched with a groan as Danny felt like he recognized the girl as she walked over to a built brick wall as she mused. "No one really realizes it, but sometimes people bury things in the walls around them and, as fortune would have it..." Without warning, she plunged a fist through the wall, the people gasping as it just slipped through instead of bruising and she pulled back before opening the hand to a jeweled necklace. "Not every corner of this place was cleaned out of its former wealth, dare me to be wrong?" She stepped away from the wall and gestured to it. "Then try to go through." One of the more daring students did so and pushed... against solid brick as he frantically tried to find some trick, some illusion before he yelped.

"There's no hole, it's just solid brick!"

"As it should..." Another voice spoke as a greaser-looking guy stepped away from his maintenance of a motor bike and stepped over as he used a light push from a fist to get the kid away from the wall. "My girl is such a nasty pickpocket that she just seems able to slip into places, me, on the other hand..." He spread out his hand and the brick seemed to shift before he pushed with his palm, the wall crumbling back to reveal a chest of stuff, ranging from the wealth of gold and jewels, to the remembered of toys and the like. "My touch is believed to be unlucky, like REALLY unlucky as this standing model can attest." The girl came back with a autonomy doll and the guy rested a hand on it before it just fell to pieces. "I just have the bad luck on my tips." He smirked as he returned to his work, the people speechless to the event before another voice came.

"Honestly, you would think that Rimpu would be more easy on those around us." They quickly turned to the Arabian setup, to find a young woman sitting on a mat before a crystal ball, her face hidden and Danny VERY confused as none of them actually looked familiar, but sounded familiar for some reason. "Still, we are not the most common of people and we are more than average." Tucker took the chance as he made to flirt with her.

"Hey, how's it going tonight?"

"No, the future is always in conflict, I have no idle time to be wasted on such mortal affairs."

"Ah, come on, I can see my..." The girl straightened up before the robe fell away to everyone's surprise of nothing inside, like she had disappeared completely and the ball started to float as a misted face spoke up.

"Like I said, tech-driven one, I am in tone with the future and have no time for mortal needs." The bell flew about the party as Lancer breathed to the 'illusion'.

"Funny, as if a crystal ball hanging by..." He swept a hand over it and gasped as he didn't touch a wire, it only met empty air as the ball continued to fly. "Artemis Fowl! It's flying on its own!"

"Ah, but that is not the finale, no, for this night to end..." The ball rested on the pedestal once more as the robes arose again and outstretched hands over it once more. "By the song of soul and rock, you will all fall under her sway." Before any could protest, a guitar start to strum out and their attention was suddenly drawn to the stage as smoke and mist clouded the wood before, out stepped a girl of robin-blue dyes of a witch's attire as she strummed with the bass line following and a drum beat to boot.

"I'm gonna cast a spell on you. You're gonna do what I want you to. Mix it up here in my little bowl. Say a few words and you lose control!" They fell under her sway as she called out with an accompanying vocal chord. "I'm a Hex Girl and I'm gonna put a spell on you! (I'm gonna put a spell on you!) I'm a Hex Girl and I'm gonna put a spell on you! (Put a spell on you!)" The people swayed without motion, even Jack who couldn't help but be dazed to some form of fog in his mind.

"You'll feel the fog as I cloud your mind. You'll get dizzy when I make the sign. You'll wake up in the dead of night. Missing me when I'm out of sight!" It pumped up once more as she called out. "I'm a Hex Girl and I'm gonna put a spell on you! (I'm gonna put a spell on you!) I'm a Hex Girl and I'm gonna put a spell on you! (Oh yeah!)" She stopped as she used her vocals to great effects with minor gesture of witchcraft.

"With this little cobweb potion. You'll fall into dark devotion. If you ever lose affection. I can change your whole direction!" It picked back up as she sung with the guitar her power. "I'm a Hex Girl and I'm gonna put a spell on you! (I'm gonna put a spell on you!) I'm a Hex Girl and I'm gonna put a spell on you! (We're gonna put a spell on all of you!)" She raised her arms in victory as an inferno consumed the stage and she vanished as it died down, only for Cedric to emerge from the mist.

"That was the Hex Girls, now please, make your ways home and remember, on this Halloween, the mystery is if you know fully of what has truly occurred..." With that, he disappeared as well and Danny shook off the haze that got him before he spoke.

"What just happened...?" He glanced to his hands to find a telescope in hand and yelped as everyone did the same to a number of items in their hands, he near panicked before finding a note on the side and read it. 'Everything you have now on hand is properly paid for, but your minds will not remember it, I will let you all waddle in a bit of self-doubt about this, this is a fear in of itself." Danny huffed as Tetslaff yelped that Lancer wins completely. "Gosh darn it, Cedric..."


Danny was expecting to be serving detention with Dash for both of their failures in comparison to Cedric's and he admitted to using his parent's gear to make it more scary, but the charges were dropped for a more terrifying punishment. He was pushed into service of working out, which was one of his weaker points, but he was relieved for the most part that Dash's own mind was not that able to handle hard equations, making him a successful tutor in the subjects, especially with his improved grades.

The only downside was that there would be NO interactions with the others, NOTHING, outside the study sessions and sports training and any excuse that Danny could make to go after ghosts was STRICTLY vetoed while the members faced off with the rampant ghosts themselves, even a new member joining the crew, though Cedric would have to make introductions later, something about her just seemed familiar... At least he wasn't eating Dash's underwear...