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Author's Note: The last chapter was really boring. But I had to do it. I have a format where I type up my fic on the Word Document first and then I save it on Web Page so I know how many pages I typed up. Surprisingly, chapter four was already six pages. So that is why chapter four was so boring. Thank you Mr.M7 for reviewing. Heh, Mr.M. Heh, 7. Sorry. One of my past lit & sci teacher's e-mail address is mrmar65. That is why I'm laughing. And I don't like Hello Kitty either. Sorry LF! She might be cute and cuddly, but that's a sign of evil!!! Well, on with the fic!
Chapter Five: Spirit Speech
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They finally reached Danny's house, and after some serious threats and bribes, Sam finally got Tuck to shut up about the whole thing (misa won't tell you how).
When Danny opened the door-
"HEY DANNY!! I just added something to the Specter Speeder! Come check it out!" Jack shouted from the lab.
"Who was that?" Ri muttered to Danny.
"My dad'" Danny replied. "Dad, not now, we have to do something. We'll be upstairs-"
"Wait a minute," Jazz said from the kitchen.
How could this get worse? Danny asked himself.
"Who's your new friend? It would be nice if you gave us an introduction."
"sigh, fine, Ri, Jazz, Jazz, Ri. There, can we leave now?"
"Danny, you are so lucky you're not in the East", Ri said under her breath.
"A new friend, eh?" said Danny's dad coming up from the lab. He walked (in a cartoon, it's running up to a person) up to her, stared her straight in the eye, and asked, "Do you like ghosts?"
Ri shot a glance at Danny who had his head in his hand from embarrassment.
"Yeah, why?" she asked. Danny removed his head from his hand and stared at her.
She likes ghost? Well then- no never mind.
"Have you ever seen one?"
"I have yet to see a real one," she answered, slightly looking at Danny when she said that.
"How much do you know about them?"
"Enough."
"How much?"
"Why? Are you some kind of parapsychologist?"
"A what?" Jack asked. Finally, something stopped him, Danny thought.
"A parapsychologist. That is a person who studies paranormal. Paranormal such as ESP, out-of-body experiences, UFO's, ghost, Bigfoot, vampires, and other such things."
"No, why?"
"Just curious. So what are you then?"
"Finally, someone who will appreciate what I do. Well if you must know-"
(D) And she does…
"-I hunt ghost for a living."
"Hunting them? Sounds easy."
"pfft Ghost hunting is not easy."
"What's there to know? What's there to need? All you need to do is find a place where someone died or a place that's at least fifty years old landmark."
Silence filled the air. At first, everyone thought that she had insulted him. Then…
"Go on."
"Any place that someone left a strong impression is probably haunted. In fact, you don't even need high tech equipment."
Silence, then…
"Go on."
"All you really need is an electromagnetic field detector, and a digital thermometer."
silence
"Go on."
"When something is dead, its body can't hold its body heat. So it gets cold. A ghost will give off essences of coldness. So that's what you need the thermometer. But not the contact one, they take too long. Use the field one. Then, ghost give off electromagnetic waves. The more energy a ghost's presence has, the more waves they give off. So that' what you need it for. Even so, I read once in a book that you can get rid of a ghost by annoying it. That's what Loyd Auerbach does. Or there are ways of purifying and praying to get rid of them. But be careful with hunting ghosts. Many ghosts are deadly."
silence
"Why?"
"Well, while watching a TV show called 'Beyond Belief', one of the true stories was of a few British ghost hunters who never had luck catching a ghost on tape. So they hired a psychic and went to England's most haunted house. The house was home to a murderer who had killed his wife. They were able to see the murder being reenacted by the ghosts. The psychic told them the murderer was getting angry at them and she told then to shut off the camera. The camera man who was also the leader of the whole thing said that he wouldn't turn the camera off but if it made them feel better that they would leave for the night. They started to load thing in the car. The leader started the car while everyone else, including the psychic, picked up a last few things. They went out to the car to see that the leader had been strangled to death by the film they got of the ghost. And it's a true story. Even though ghosts are mind over matter, they can do a lot."
"Well I'm not scared of some dumb ghost."
Danny slightly glared at his dad, but Jack didn't notice.
"You'd be surprised what they can do." She noticed. "Haven't you heard of the Winchester Mystery House? Sarah Winchester built the house because the spirits that were killed by the Winchester Rifles threatened her that they'd kill her if she didn't. The things the ghost can do. You've been to the Winchester House right?"
silence
"No."
"How about the Whaley House?"
silence
"No."
"The Devil's Backbone in Texas? The East Coast? San Francisco? Alcatraz? The Myrtles house, the most haunted house in the U. S? Anywhere that's haunted?"
silence
"No."
"Oh, I see."
"Hmm, there's so many places that there's ghosts in."
"Where have you been recently?"
"Only to Alabama and Wisconsin."
"YOU"VE BEEN TO WISCONSIN AND HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN A GHOST? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!"
"Why?" he said hesitantly a bit.
"Wisconsin has more ghost a square foot than an entire state does! It's the most haunted state in the U.S. It's even more haunted than Virginia and all the original 13 states, and that's saying something since the Civil War took place there. So not even there you didn't see an actual ghost?"
"Well-"
"Well we have to go now!" Danny said cutting in to there conversation. There was too much information being distributed. The last thing they needed to be talking about was Vlad, the ghost that his dad really saw.
"You're right. And once your mother gets home, we shall leave on a road trip to any haunted house we could get to."
"WHAT?" Jazz all of a sudden shouted from the kitchen. She startled everyone because they forgot she was there.
"You can't go! Who would watch the house?"
"Jasmine, your mother and I have left you guys alone with the house once and it will only be two weeks."
"You didn't even talk this over with mom."
Like she was waiting for her cue, Maddie walked into the house.
"MADDIE! Just the person I was looking for! Meet me in the lab and I will explain everything!"
Jack ran to the lab like a child chasing candy. Maddie just shrugged and followed him.
Jazz shot an evil look at Ri and said, "I will so get you for this. Why did you tell him that?"
"Well let's see" Ri sighed. "I gave you the benefit of being alone in the house with out having to worry of 'Hey Jasmine! Come check out what I just invented!' Or 'Was there ghost involved?' Or 'We'll be staking out you school because we think it's haunted.' So in reality, you should be thanking me."
Jazz was silence. Then she said, "You're right. I don't have to worry about my crack pot parents talking about ghosts. I finally get a break I deserve!" Then she walked right back into the kitchen.
"Shall we go upstairs then?" Ri asked them.
"Sure" Tuck answered.
"You know, I agree with Jazz" Danny muttered to Ri. "Why did you tell my dad that? Now he has more gadgets that will make keeping my secret harder."
"No," Ri said in defense. "In fact, it should be easier. You right now should have the temperature and the electromagnetic wavelength of a human. But when you're in ghost mode, since you're half human too, you'd be in the middle. So I saved you too." She walked up a few more stars leaving the three of them behind her.
"Aren't you guys coming?" she said to them.
"Yeah we're coming" Sam replied.
Soon, a voice in the wind blowing outside said.
Yes, this chapter was as eventful as the last one, but the things ghost related were true. Creepy huh? They might not seem true, but they are. Please people, may you review? The only reasons these chapters are uneventful are because I'm getting up to 5 pgs. on the Word document. But I promise that the next chapter shall be eventful. If I fail, feel free to hate me. Until next time, Signing Off!!! PS: It will take me a while to update. I'll go quicker if you review (puppy dog pout).