Goodbye to You

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Chapter 3: Surprise Attacks

The city of Amityville was once again hit by another cold spell. The citizens had to once again endure the temperature as they waited for spring to come. To make matters worse, clouds had moved in, completely blocking the sun. Also, a light snow had begun and was slowly to fall. As the afternoon soon came to the city, the snow had begun to stop, but the cold still managed to have a hold on them, so, most of the populace coming from school or other locations began to hurry it their next stop.

"I can't believe we missed the bus," Tucker said as him, Sam, and Danny walked from the corner of one street and headed down the sidewalk. "Well, you were the one who decided to wait for us." Sam stated. "That was because I thought you would be five minutes, but instead turned out to be fifteen." "That's what you get for having to do extra work for Wecklsler." Danny said. "Why did you guys have to hold off on that work? I mean, I got it finished in a hour last night." Tucker said as he buttoned his coat up more. Sam pulled the hood down from her sweater and said," Maybe that's because we aren't geniuses with no lives."

"Hey, I have a life." Tucker said as he wiped out his palm pilot. He took out the stylus and clicked on a few things until the picture of the paint covered Dash. "Thanks to our good friend Danny yesterday, an anonymous user has gotten copies of this picture all over the web. "So that's why Dash had a hard time showing his face today." "I guess that was the crowning moment of your school year." Sam said. "Well, that and the other hundred times I humiliated him." The three of them laughed at his comment as they rounded the corner. "Okay, good humor aside," Tucker said," let's hurry up. I feel like I'm going to freeze to death." "Well that will be a relive," Danny began," at least it will finally be quiet again." Him and Sam laughed as they walked in front of Tucker, with him in the back saying," Yeah, that's funny."

As the three of them headed down the next street, Tucker then stopped in front of the entrance to Amityville Park. He then said" Hey guys, let's just head through the park." "Why?" Danny asked as he looked over to where Tucker was. "It's quicker. Besides, I want to get to my house and get refugee from this cold." "All right. Danny, we better go. Tucker's complaining again." Sam remarked. "What ever. I'm gone." Tucker said as he headed into the park with Danny and Sam entering behind him. As the three hurried through the snow-covered grounds and trees, they had no idea they were being followed. "I knew they would cut through here." Paulina said as she watched them walk down the path through a bush. She was wearing her rogue jumpsuit and hood. Through her goggles, she watched the three move in front of her and then move further down the path. She quickly ran ahead of them, being careful not to step on any of the fallen twigs or branches as to not alert her targets. She then moved behind a huge rock that was jutting from the snow and hidden by two bushes. She looked down the to see Danny beginning to come up with Sam next to him and Tucker in the front. "Perfect." She said as she reached behind her back. Holstered by two shoulder straps, she brought out a silver rifle with a long barrel and a scope on the top. Where the ammo casing should be, there was a cylinder running underneath that area and it was glowing pink. "With all that ghost DNA in him," she said to herself," this should kill him off even if he is still in human form." She then rested the barrel on the top of the rock and looked into the scope. In the crosshairs, she could see Danny's head square in the center. "I can't believe how easy this is." She said as her hand slowly began to apply pressure to the trigger.

Around the time Paulina was getting the rifle off of her back, the sun had finally managed to break through the blanket of clouds. The rays illuminated light on the snow-covered ground, which in turn reflected the light off the ground. "Finally. I was getting tired of the whole dark and cold mood." Danny said. "Hey, when you've been in my shoes, you get used to it." Sam replied as she looked around at the light covered park. "That will be the day." he remarked. "Hey, it's not all-" she stopped then stopped suddenly mid sentence. "Its what?" Danny asked as he turned to look at her. She didn't replay as she looked ahead of them towards a clump of bushes. She thought she had seen something gleam from light through the bushes. Now, she saw the flash again and could determine what the gleam was. "Danny, watch out!" She yelled as she threw herself. The two fell to the ground as a beam of pink light shot overhead.

"What?" Tucker yelled as he quickly turned around. He then saw Sam lying on top of Danny; her arms planted flat on his chest. "What the hell was that!" Sam asked as she lifted her head and looked in the direction the beam had shot towards. "Well. I see you two can't don't have the patience to get somewhere private." Tucker said, his arms crossed in front of him and a smug smile on his face. "Of your information, I juts saved Danny's life," she began," I am not trying to flirt with him!" "Hey, Sam. Could you get off me? Danny asked. Sam turned her head and looked down into Danny's, realizing that she was still on top of him. She blushed as she got up and said, "Sorry about that." "I'll just head home. I see you two can't keep your hands off each other." Ticker remarked as he hurried of down the path. "Nothing is going on!" Sam yelled out to him as Danny brushed snow off of his hoody. "Forget him," Danny said," thanks for the help back there." "Well, I guess you owe me." Sam said, laughing at this. "I'll take you up on that. Anyways I better get home." Danny said as he walked off. "Wait Danny," Sam said," let me go with you. I'm heading off where you're going anyway." "All right." He replied as the two walked off.

"Who do you think that was?" Sam asked as the two walked together. "Most likely Paulina," he stated," she's the only one who has weaponry with pink energy beams." "I don't think so. She doesn't know who you are." Sam said. "Maybe she got smarter. I don't know. I pretty much had every ghost in the Ghost Zone on my ass." Danny said. "You took them down either way," she replied," you can handle this." "You're right," Danny began, "you always the one person who knows the right thing to say." Sam couldn't believe he had said this. Is it possible that Danny had feelings for her? Could she posses the same feeling for him. Sure, she had tried to ignore them. She had tried to ignore them for some time. But, deep inside her, she felt those feelings waiting to burst. 'This is so hard,' she thought to herself,' can I really tell Danny these things I fell? Is it possible-' "Sam, we're back on the street." Danny's voice said, breaking her out of her deep thought. She then looked around and saw that they were on the sidewalk, the entrance behind them and cars passing on the street that lay in front of them. "All right," she began," thanks for the walk. I have to go." "See you later then." Danny said as he walked off down the street in front of her. "Danny, wait." Sam called back as he turned to face her. "Be careful." Sam said. Danny smiled and called back," I will." He then waved his hand as Sam called back, "Later, Danny." As the two walked their separate ways, Sam continued to think, 'Can him and I really feel the same way for each other?'

She wasn't the only person thinking this. For as he walked down the street towards his home, Danny's mind was circulating the event that had occurred. He was grateful that Sam had pushed him out of the way of the attack on his life. Of course, something troubled him. Why had he waited so long to tell her she could get off of him? 'And the thing is, I enjoyed feeling her against me.' He thought. He blushed slightly at thinking this, but it still remained something he could think about. Did she enjoy being that close to him? He didn't know. Did the two of them really fell those feelings for each other? 'No, it can't be," Danny thought,' we have friends since we were kids. We could never be a couple.' Still, he couldn't kill what he now felt.

He refocused his train of thought as soon as he came to his house. It was like all the other houses: a two-story brick house. Of course, it had a huge dome on the top and a sign that read, "Fenton Ghost Hunters." Here Danny lived and here his mom and dad ran their ghost hunting operations. While it was strange, here was where he had acquired his ghost abilities. Here his parents' experiment turned him into the so-called, "Inviso Bill", the town's mysterious ghost boy. To, these powers may be a curse. But to Danny, the powers he had flowing in his body where what helped him defend others from the ghost that were flowing in and out of this town. While some wanted to hunt him, including his parents, he still remained a hero in his own right. He loved where he dwelled. He even loved it as an explosion was heard going off inside the house. "Home, Sweet home." Danny commented as he walked up the steps and opened the door.

As soon as he opened the door, a cloud of black smoke hit his face and began to move through the open door. He coughed as he made his way into the living room. "Are you ever going to try and not kill us!" Jazz's voice yelled through the smoke. "You at least still breathing!" his dad's voice called out. Danny then heard a window open and saw the smoke move out to his side. The smoke then cleared and he could get a clearer view of his house and his sister, who was now fanning the last of the smoke out and closing the window. "he's going to waste all the heat if I keep doing this." Jazz said to herself as she walked from the window. "What happened here?" Danny asked. "Hi, Danny. Dad just tried to blow us up again." She walked over to the stairs and said," I have work to do. You can go see Dad if you want your entire body fried.

Danny walked over to the kitchen, where he had heard his father's voice. At an open window was his father, Jack Fenton, wearing an orange jumpsuit and black gloves. At the table was a cylinder with a rectangular box on the bottom. It was opened to reveal a complex jumble of wires and parts, and various tools lay scattered around it. "Hey, Dad." Danny said. "Danny! Did you see what just happen?" his dad asked as he turned to him. "I heard something." He replied. "What you saw was your sister and here problems with my work," he said as he walked over to the table," this device is what is going to help us defeat the ghost scrooge. I call it the Fenton Targeting Recticle Assault Projectile, or the Fenton TRAP, for sort." "That's great. Anyways, I have some homework to do-" Nonsense. I want you to see this baby in action." His dad stated. "Okay, Danny said as he walked over to the fridge and leaned against it. He then noticed that the dishwasher now had a huge, scourge hole in it. "Was that that weapon's last target?" Danny asked. "Had some miscalculations. Luckily, you're mom is out shopping and will be late, so that gives me enough time to ditch the evidence." He then walked over to the device and placed wiped out a tripod which he placed it on. "The Fenton TRAP contains ghost signatures floating in it," he began as he closed up the openings, "I hit my remote for it, and it automatically picks up the nearest signature and unleashes a massive energy ball of concentrated plasma energy that will completely disintegrate the target. I better see if the targeting is working." He then picked up a black square from the table and pushed a red button on it. The machine glowed green and hummed to life as it quickly turned on the tripod at Danny. Danny looked down the barrel to see a green light start to build down at the cylinder's bottom. Jack noticed this and quickly pushed the button again, causing the machine to die down. "Thought I had it working this time. Sorry, Danny." Jack said as he turned his back towards Danny and opened up the machine. "No problem." Danny said, but his dad was lost in thought over what was now in front of him.

Danny then felt a shiver run fall on him. 'Better close that.' He thought as he walked towards the open window. Just then, something ball shaped was thrown through the window and landed in between Jack's legs. He didn't see what was underneath him, but Danny sure did. The ball was steel and was glowing a faint pink. Danny knew this as being one of Paulina's anti-ghost grenades. He crouched down and quickly grabbed the grenade as his father still rambled to himself. As he held the weapon, the ball then began to flash pink even faster. He threw the weapon out the window and closed the window as a huge bang was heard that rattle the windows. "What was that?" Jack asked as he turned around. "Car backfiring," Danny said, "I have my work, I'll see you later." "Okay, Danny. I better get a new dishwasher before I get killed." His dad called out to him as Danny left the room. Danny walked towards his room as he thought, 'Paulina's really trying to wipe me out. She's putting my friends and family in danger. I have to be on my guard.' He opened his door to discover his room draped in shadows. His hand reached for the light switch, but he stopped cold as a voice from the darkness said, "Hello, Inviso Bill." Along with the voice, he felt the cold barrel of a gun press against the side of his head.

Can Danny get out of this mess? Find out in Chapter 4!