By Nyassa Kaiba
Feralae reacted instantly. "SKULKER!"
Danny screamed as he was thrown backward into the nearest steel structure.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Jazz shouted, she dug into her nearby backpack and pulled out a Fenton Thermos. She tossed it significantly in her hand. "Let him go, or I suck you in."
Skulker growled. "Stay out of this human!"
"He's MY little brother!" Jazz growled. "And I'm not going to let you do what I know you're about to do." She picked up a nearby strut.
"JAZZ! GET BACK!" Danny shouted. "It's okay." He said softly, sadly.
Danny's mother and father had pulled out a pair of plasma cannons. "Put my son down monster!" Mrs. Fenton shouted.
"Jazz, when we say go, fire the Fenton Thermos!" Mr. Fenton told his daughter.
"Gotcha dad!"
"Hit me, and you'll take the ghost child with you!" Skulker growled.
"Ghost child? But that's silly, Danny's not a ghost." Mrs. Fenton said with a laugh.
"Danny on three." Feralae told him. "We'll do it at the same time."
"Do what? What are you talking about?" Mrs. Fenton demanded.
"You got it… one… two… three… GOING GHOST!" Danny growled as he transformed.
At the same time Feralae pulled off her pendant and shouted. "By the grace of the Gods, by the grace and power of the dragon masters, REVEAL MY TRUE NATURE!" Her key extended into a sword.
Both adult Fentons gawked as their son phased right through Skulker's hands. "At least I have one victory. I revealed myself by choice, to defend my family. YOU never forced me, and that is something I will NEVER regret!" Danny growled up at him.
"GO FOR IT BRO!" Jazz cheered like a mad soccer supporter. "KICK HIS BUTT!"
"Hello, Skulker isn't alone here."
"Hi Ember, fancy seeing you in these parts." Feralae smirked. "Think your little team up is going to change anything? You failed, Danny came forward on his own. He transformed by his own free will and that's nothing you can take from him."
"Oh but there's something I can take from you." Ember smirked.
"Feralae what's going on?" Mrs. Fenton asked. "What does she mean?"
Ember cackled. "I've already taken it. I have your real name, and now Black Velvet can work the darkest of curses the ghost zone has ever known. All aimed at you."
Feralae growled. "WRATH OF NEMESIS! HELP ME BRING ABOUT THE FORCES OF KARMA!" She levitated after Ember as the music ghost flew away. "I'm going to get you for that Ember! I'm going to stop you before you can get to Black Velvet!"
"TRY AND CATCH ME!" Ember cackled as she flew in a circle around Danny's house.
"Can you get her Jack?" Mrs. Fenton asked as she kept a bead on Skulker.
"She's too fast! I need to slow her down!" Mr. Fenton growled. "Where's a Fenton Fishing rod when you need one?"
"We left them all down in the labs." Mrs. Fenton cried, distressed.
"No need." Feralae grinned as she busted out her favorite Titan attack. Under her breath, so as not to confuse the two adults, she muttered. "Azarath Metion Zinthos." Ember halted mid air
"Hey, what's going on. I can't move!"
"No, because I paralyzed you." Feralae replied. "Now its PAYBACK TIME!" She growled, bringing her knee up into Ember's stomach.
Ember phased, becoming intangible and STAYING that way. "At least you can't hit me!"
"No, but this can!" Jazz growled, activating the Fenton Thermos.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ember cried as she was sucked in.
"Skulker you have until the count of five to get out of here before I team up with my PARENTS and go ghost on you..." Danny was about to add a couple of curse words but his mother glared at him.
"Clever, yes I think I'll take that offer."
"DANNY DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!" Feralae cried, zooming after him and trailing black energy as she did so.
"What… why…" But it was too late. Skulker was gone.
"My real name…" Feralae said, with considerable anguish. "Skulker got my real name, and now that he has it, he can work horrible black magic on me. That's why I didn't want him to get away." She fell to her knees, horrified.
"I'm sorry… I didn't know…" Mrs. Fenton was horrified, both at her son's revelation and Feralae's anguish.
"Right, now that the cats out of the bag, here's what happened." Danny stated. "I'm what ghosts call a Phantom, half human, half ghost. A slang term for what I am is a Halfa."
"And I am part of a group of interdimensional guardians called Gatekeepers." Feralae told them. "My assumed name, my TAG name is Ostara. We HAVE to use TAG names. If a ghost or witch or other evil monster gets my real name, it means they can work black magick against me."
"Danny? You… you never talked to us or told us or anything?" Mrs. Fenton had tears in her eyes.
"Son, you should have talked to us." Mr. Fenton commented.
"You mean you AREN'T going to use me for science experiments?" Danny asked worriedly.
Mrs. Fenton's eyes widened, horrified. "How could you even THINK that? We're your PARENTS Danny, its our job to PROTECT you, not use you!"
"I knew Danny." Jazz told him. "And aside from Feralae I kept my mouth shut."
"WHAT?" Mrs. Fenton demanded. "YOU KNEW? Jasmine Fenton you are GROUNDED! GO TO YOUR ROOM NOW!"
"Okay that is not fair. I protect my brother for almost a year and you GROUND me?" Jazz demanded.
"That was a year that WE should have been protecting him." Mrs. Fenton growled. "Now do as I say."
"Fine, I'll just go work on my report." Growled Jazz. "See you in the morning."
"Now, I was hoping you could fill me in on what's been happening to you this past year." Mrs. Fenton told Danny. "And Feralae, after he's done you can tell us your story."
Danny blinked in surprise, both at his mother's sudden outburst and the fact that there were tears running down her face. "Well, it started one day, almost a year ago exactly, when you were finally ready to activate the Fenton Portal. When it didn't work I went to investigate. I wanted it to work, so that all your work on it wouldn't be for nothing. So I pulled on a protective suit and went inside. That was when the accident happened, I leaned on a control panel near the door and…"