Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Note: My chapter lengths are going to be varied depending on where I feel they would best be left off. I am putting this chapter up early because I will not be able to update during the weekend. Sorry. I did it in a hurry so I apologize if there are any grammer or spelling errors. I'll fix them next week if there are.
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Agony
by Kalika
Chapter 3
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Danny jerked awake when his head slammed into his math books on the table in front of him. He rubbed his forehead angrily and glared at the pages in front of him. It had been three hours already and he hadn't retained anything. He was too exhausted, and he was still in pain from the fight the night before. He held his ribs and groaned softly in discomfort. He went to take a deep breath and ended up gasping out a puff of blue mist.
Oh, damn it. He swore softly before running into the bathroom. He quickly changed to ghost and phased himself through the wall and out into the street. He took a quick reconnaissance and soon spotted a disturbance in the park across the road.
He flew over to find a very large ghost tormenting a young child. The child was sobbing in terror and nearly panicked when Danny swooped down to grab him and carry him to safety. Danny dropped the boy off a safe distance away and hurried back to confront the entity.
Now that he didn't have to worry about innocent bystanders Danny took the time to get a good look at the ghost across from him. The specter was built like weight lifter. He was almost six and a half feet tall, and appeared to be made of nothing but muscle. He had bright purple hair and was wearing a muscle shirt that had the name Tank printed on it.
So . . . Tank. You like picking on children do you? Danny growled angry. He couldn't stand bullies. He hated them. This ghost was not only something he hated but he was also eating up valuable study time. Just get ready to go back where you came from.I don't think so, Tiny. I could crush you with one hand. And since you ruined my fun I may just have to do that. Tank cracked his knuckles menacingly before launching himself at Danny with a terrifying force.
Danny wasn't expecting that and tried to dodge too late. Tank's fist glanced off the side of his ribs. Danny nearly screamed as all the pain from the previous night came blasting back into his chest. This distraction gave the huge ghost the time to strike another blow, this one was to Danny's back.
Danny was knocked to the ground. In his distraction he didn't make his body insubstantial and he struck it very hard. He decided to take another tactic and ran. He forced himself to fly faster than he ever had before. He could hear Tank right behind him laughing the entire way.
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That. . . that arrogant, obnoxious little . . . Jack cut off to angry to finish his thought. He had been stomping around the lab ranting ever since Marcel had left. He was absolutely furious. The man had done nothing but insult them.
Now honey, calm down. He's gone now anyway, and we'll never have to see him again. Maddie spoke softly trying to cool her husbands anger.
Of course we'll see him again. Jack crowed. We'll see him when we shove the ghost that we catch first right in his face.
Maddie groaned. Jack I am not going to help you do this if it's only to show that jerk up. You can go and hunt as many ghosts as you like, but I won't have any part in this little competition.
Jack seemed to cool a bit when he heard this. He nodded thoughtfully and said, Well if I'm going to be doing this alone I'd better get going. He grabbed some equipment off the various tables and ran up the stairs shouting a farewell back to his wife.
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Marcel Jacobs swore angrily as he once again checked his equipment. He had followed the energy trail right to this spot, but now it seemed to be moving away. Marcel would have been furious were it not for the fact that the energy now seemed to be twice as strong as he had originally thought. Perhaps he had finally found something important. Some sort of ultra powerful ghost.
He turned the corner slowly and parked in front of the library. His equipment was picking up a lot of residual readings from the ghost. As far as he could tell it had burned off a lot of it's energy in this area.
He focused his gear on the actual tracks and tried to work out it's exact path. He followed the trail into the library and was surprised to find that it just seemed to stop dead in the washroom. He shrugged it of and decided to follow the trail in the other direction.
It led across the street and into the park. He was still following the one trail when it ran across another. Marcel's first thought was that it was from the same ghost, but there were subtle differences in the energy readings. It must have come from a different ghost. He continued to scan the trails and discovered that they both headed off in the same direction.
Marcel let out a whoop of joy. Two ghosts! He could really shove it in that jerk Fenton's face when he brought both of them back to gloat. That would certainly put the masquerading ghost hunter in his place. With a gleeful laugh he ran back to his car and sped after the energy signatures.
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Jack growled and smacked the Fenton Ghost Finder with his fist. It was too confusing. First the ghost signal was three blocks to the west, then the next second it was two miles south. It had taken him almost an hour just to get the Finder working properly. He was now following a definite trail. He had managed to lock onto it near the library and was now following it to the southwest.
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Danny phased himself through another wall. It had taken some time and a lot of painful encounters, but Danny had finally managed to get control of the situation. Tank was now trying to get away from him, but Danny wasn't going to let him go off to torment more innocent people.
It took Danny a few moments to realize that Tank was no longer in front of him. He looked about in confusion and was knocked forewords by a powerful punch to the back of his head. He barely had time to phase through the door in front of himself, rather than crashing straight into it.
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To Be Continued
Note2: I just realized that my scene breaks have not been showing up properly. I have fixed the other chapters. There are now indicators for when a scene has changed. I apologize for any confusion.