Ariel shoved the last of it in the trunk and checked on her siblings. They were both awake and staring. "Got enough stuff?" Jason asked.
"I hope so, only half of it has the word 'Fenton' on it," Ariel joked loud enough so Danny could hear. She had made fun of everything that had the name 'Fenton' on it for more than five times. The equipment was great, but she still liked to make fun of Danny.
"Give me a break, will you?" Danny pleaded after Ariel was done laughing. Jason didn't get it, he didn't know his hero's last name or that his parents liked their last name a lot. Ariel got in the drivers seat and looked at Danny. He had his hands crossed and shook his head, "I'm driving."
"But it was one mistake!" Ariel complained.
"I'm driving this time, so we won't get into another accident." Danny argued. Ariel moaned as she moved over and Danny got in the driver's seat. Danny started the car and hit the wall behind them.
"Won't get into another accident," Ariel mimicked.
"Shut up," Danny grumbled as he put it in forward and drove into the ghost zone. Ariel laughed as she saw Skye and Jason yawning. They had taken over half of a day to load the vehicle. Ariel wondered how long the stuff would last.
Ariel tried to point out where to go, but she got Danny completely lost. She noticed a door she had passed when entering the ghost zone, but Danny pointed out that they floated and moved. Ariel yawned as another half a day went by finding Vlad's portal. They found it, but decided to sleep first.
Ariel slept with Danny across the two front seats. Danny and Ariel kept blushing as they tried to move into a more comfortable position in such close quarters. They finally were able to fall asleep. Danny and Ariel had to hold each other so Ariel (being on the outside) wouldn't fall and hit her head. Ariel fell asleep before Danny. Danny couldn't sleep right away, and looked at Ariel's beautiful face. Danny never got bored looking at it, but he became tired and slept.
A wolf's howl from nearby woke Danny. He didn't move, not wanting to wake Ariel or her siblings. He realized just how close Ariel was to him. He could feel her breath on his chest and feel her heart beat at the same time his was. He kissed her forehead gently and snuck away without waking anyone.
He was curious about the wolf's howl. It sounded familiar. He looked around to see his friend, Wulf, running at him. Danny looked behind Wulf to see Cujo, the little puppy dog that had wanted the squeaky toy and caused so much trouble when he turned into the big dog. Danny almost laughed at the mismatched two. The little puppy was still holding the squeaky toy in its mouth. (A/N: The puppy really didn't have a name, but Danny had called it Cujo, and it stuck with me. Look up Cujo's name, he's from a horror flick where he got rabies and terrorized the town!)
Danny laughed at the weird pair as Ariel came up behind him. She didn't say anything, but Danny's ghost sense told him she was there. "That's Wulf and Cujo, their friends of mine." Danny smiled. Cujo saw him and started running faster. He changed into the big form and pounced on Danny, licking him all over. Danny made his way free of the excited, big puppy. "Cujo's almost trained," Danny tried to smile again through the dog spit, but it was just too disgusting.
Ariel was laughing when Cujo started licking her. She put up her arms to block the sea of spit as it smothered her face. She changed into her ghost form and slipped out. She was gasping for breath as Danny laughed at her. She wiped her face and through the dripping spit off her hand and hit Danny. She started laughing as Danny did the same. Wulf watched as the two had a short spit fight before being too disgusted to go on.
"Friend." Wulf nudged Danny.
"Wulf, this is Ariel. Ariel, this is wolf." Danny introduced.
"Friend?" Wulf asked. His English still wasn't good, but he could say some words he had learned from other ghosts.
"Yeah, she's a friend." Danny nodded then turned to Ariel and added, "Covered in dog spit."
Ariel growled at Danny before wiping her face one last time. She walked over and wiped the spit on Danny's shirt and smiled evilly as he tried to get it out. Wulf put his hood down on his sweatshirt and studied the strange girl. She could change like Danny, but she changed a different color.
Skye and Jason came out of the vehicle and Wulf growled at the two until Danny told him they were safe. They ran to Ariel, afraid of the giant, torn-shirt wolf thing. Cujo ran over to the little kids in his puppy form. Ariel watched them closely so they wouldn't drown under dog spit as Danny told Wulf what was going on.
Wulf knew something bad was going on when he saw Walker leave the Ghost Zone and found no ghosts at Walker's penitentiary. Danny explained what was going on and Wulf agreed to help. Danny realized they couldn't fit Wulf in the vehicle, which Danny noticed looked a lot like the Specter Speeder. Wulf just slashed the air and said something in his other language. Danny knew what it meant, but Ariel had no idea.
"He can cut between Earth and the Ghost Zone with his claws," Danny explained. Ariel pretended she got it, but she really didn't believe him. She pulled her sister out and let her breath before letting go and making sure Jason was breathing. The puppy still hadn't turned into the big dog yet, but Ariel wasn't going to let it out of her sight.
"I go. Check safe. You stay. I be back." Wulf slashed a hole in the air and jumped through it. Danny waited as Wulf was gone to make sure it was safe enough near the portal for them to cross. He watched Ariel laugh at her younger siblings who were laughing from being covered in Cujo's spit. Danny smiled and couldn't help noticing how beautiful she looked when she laughed.
Danny didn't realize Wulf was back right away, but he noticed Wulf when he growled. Danny looked to see Wulf nearly frightened from his little trip. Wulf wouldn't say anything for a while.
Ariel came over to comfort Wulf. She gave her own motherly charm she had learned from the months spent in the ghost chamber. She hugged him and rubbed his back, like her mom used to do to her. She waited until Wulf had caught his breath before she spoke to him. Her voice was so serene and gentle. It made even Danny and Cujo feel calm and happy. Ariel smiled when Wulf started saying what had happened.
"Many, many, many, fight, lose!" Wulf made out, but couldn't figure out any other way to say what he saw in his new language. Ariel seemed to understand.
She repeated what he said in more detail. "Thousands of ghosts, we could fight them, but we would surely lose." Ariel looked back at Wulf as he nodded.
"Trap, fight, lose," Wulf tried to say more, but didn't know the words.
"It's a trap, we need to find another way through," Ariel translated. She left out the part when he said that they would lose. She didn't think she needed to repeat the inevitability of winning, and they needed to know.
"Lose! Lose!" Wulf insisted, but Ariel didn't understand. She tried to translate that they would lose the fight, but Wulf shook his head. Ariel didn't know what he meant.
"Wulf, could you get us to Earth from one of your portals? We can go back towards Amity Park and stop halfway. You could make a portal there." Danny nodded and pointed in the direction of Amity Park. Wulf nodded and tried to warn the friends again. He insisted saying 'lose,' but nobody understood what he meant.