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This is the first chapter where you get to see Danny in action, not just as a very curious adventurer, but also as a hero. So, enjoy!
Oh, and I forgot to change the last scene from chapter five to italics, so when I do my editing next year, I'll fix that. And I changed one of the sneak peek words from 'flyswatter' to 'spoon,' and you'll see why.
Chapter Six
"Consequences? What invention?" Tucker asked.
"You went home after that, remember? And my dad…my dad showed off his little project. He'd been working on it the whole day apparently," Danny said.
"What invention?"
"You'd never believe what happened that day…"
"Bye!" I stood in the doorway along with Danny and we waved to Tucker as he drove off with his mother.
"Hey Danny!"
We both turned around to see Jack Fenton mentioning us towards him. He was standing next to a very large object that was hidden by a white sheet.
"Do you and your little friend want to see something?" he asked excitedly.
Danny glanced over at me. "Sure."
"Yeah," I said at the same time.
"Jazmine, Maddie, come in here please!" he shouted when we walked towards him.
Jazz came in, licking at a spoon. "What is it daddy?" she asked.
Danny put on a quiet, high pitched girl's voice and rolled his eyes, making the oddest faces. "I'm a fairy princess who's the queen of baby bugs."
I laughed and looked over at Jazz, who didn't look like she'd heard what he'd said, but still knew he'd said something. He smiled and pretended to not notice. She walked over to us, her eyes narrowed.
"Maddie?" Jack called again.
"MOM!" Jazz shouted behind us, very loudly.
Instinctively, I put my hands over my ears and Danny did the same, glaring at her. She licked at the spoon, her attention towards the kitchen.
"Thank you, princess," Jack said, rubbing his ear and blinking several times.
"Yeah, thanks for making me deaf," Danny muttered.
"Oh, get over it," she said.
"What?" he asked, pretending he didn't hear her.
Maddie walked inside the living room. "What is it dear?"
"Maddie, it's completely ready," Jack said quickly.
"What's ready?"
Jack stood in front of the object again and then steadily drew the sheet off of it. Whatever it was, it looked like a mini elevator with antennae. It was very large, like several people could fit into it, and silver all the way around. A group of green buttons, with one red button, was on a panel in the front.
"I call it the Fenton Transporter," Jack said happily.
"What does it do?" Maddie asked, raising an eyebrow.
I edged over to Danny, who looked really excited, staring at the invention, his eyes wide. "It looks like one of those time machines," I said.
"Yeah, isn't that cool?"
"No, it's not, it's stupid," Jazz muttered.
"I wish Tucker could see this," Danny said.
"Oh, too bad," Jazz said sarcastically, whacking him with her spoon. He kicked the back of her knee and she fell forwards onto the carpet.
"Oops," was all he said.
"Jack, dear, are you certain…it'll work correctly?" I heard Maddie ask warily.
"Of course it will. Have I ever made something that didn't work correctly?" Maddie cleared her throat and Jack caught it. "I meant…recently."
"What does it do?" Jazz asked, shoving Danny aside.
"It locates a ghost, summons it, and traps it inside this box here, Jazzy pants," he said. "That way we can study what it looks like and what it will do. And they can't phase out of it because of the protected walls."
"Can I go in there?" Danny asked.
"Can we keep him in there?" Jazz asked.
Danny shoved her back. "Please?" he pleaded.
"I'll tell you what, after we try something out, then you can get in there, okay?" Maddie proposed. He nodded happily.
Jack spoke with Maddie for a few seconds, but I didn't care to listen. I followed Danny over to the side of the box and looked inside. The walls seemed to glow a luminescent blue.
"Hey, what does this button do?" he asked, reaching for the red button on the side.
"Danny, what did I say about touching things?" Maddie asked, catching him just in time. He pulled his hand back, making a face. "Dear, your curiosity is going to get you into trouble one of these days."
"What does it do?" he asked instead.
"I'll show you son," Jack said, heading over to us. He held a silver remote in his hands and held it out in front of him so that we could see it too. "This is the same red button that will do the exactly same thing that one will do. And as soon as we--" He pressed the button.
"Aw, I wanted to do that," Danny grumbled.
Jack waited expectantly for something to appear inside the box, but nothing happened. The whole room was silent for a moment, waiting.
"Okay...if you need me, I'll be up in my room," Jazz said.
Suddenly, the lights flashed off around us and the whole house gave a jolt that sent Jazz and I toppling. However, Danny caught me, and helped me back up.
"I didn't touch anything," he automatically said, holding his hands up in the non guilty pose.
"I know you didn't touch anything Danny," Maddie's voice came from somewhere in front of us. It sounded like she was moving. "Jack, what happened?"
"I'm not sure," he said, sounding oddly different.
Jazz screamed suddenly. "Something just passed by the window."
Danny, Jack, and Maddie rushed over to where she pointed and I heard three gasps (Danny's seemed like he was very impressed while his parents' were all concerned.)
"Danny, get away from the window," Maddie said, quickly pulling him away.
"That place is so cool. Where are we?" he asked.
"All three of you go downstairs in the lab," Maddie said. Without another word, she gathered us all up in a group and led us very fast back into the kitchen. We tromped down the stairs, but Maddie didn't follow us.
"You three stay here, and don't come back upstairs until your father or I come back downstairs to get you," she said. "Jazmine, you're in charge."
"Mom, where are we?" Jazz asked.
"We're in our house dear, don't worry. Your father and I are working on it," she said. She headed back up the stairs and closed the door behind her.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"I don't know," Jazz replied. She grabbed onto Danny's arm. "What did you see?"
"It was creepy," he replied, still looking excited. "Really creepy. But there were doors all over the place and they were just…hanging there."
"Oh, whatever. You just made that up," she said, shoving him.
"I did not," he protested. "And there was these creature thingies."
"Shut up! You're lying you little brat," she said.
"Spas," he retaliated, his blue eyes narrowed. His eyes then turned around and brightened. "Hey, Jazz and spas rhymes. Jazz is a spas, Jazz is a spas!" he chanted over and over.
"Cut it out you little--"
She never finished and the two began wrestling on the ground. I watched them, not sure what to do. All I knew was that one of them would have to eventually win.
"God, Jazz annoyed the crap out of me," Danny said. We finally reached his house.
"You were pretty bad too," Tucker said, thinking along the same lines I had been.
"Yeah, but she was annoying. I just annoyed her. I didn't annoy anyone else really," he said, pulling open the door.
"You drove me nuts a few times," I said. I had barely walked past the door when it suddenly closed very fast behind us. Danny's sixteen year old sister stood behind it, her blue-green eyes narrowed.
"Jazz…hi," Danny greeted oddly. His tone automatically let me know he'd done something to tick her off. I raised an eyebrow. Now that we were flashbacking, I could actually pay attention to these fights more.
"Give me my cd, now," she said. "You little thief."
"Jazz, I just borrowed it," Danny said. He started backing up as she advanced towards him.
"Without asking!" she exclaimed incredulously.
"How about I make you an extra copy?" he suggested.
"That is my cd. Seventeen Days is my favorite you little bug," she said. She tossed a pillow at him from the couch and he laughed.
"Spas," he said.
"Twit," she retaliated.
"That was so my word," Danny protested.
Jazz looked confused. "What?"
"Of course, I haven't used it in about…six years," he said.
"What are you talking about?'
"It's funny how people kind of forget these things," he said. "Oh my god."
"What?" all three of us asked at the same time.
"I suddenly just remembered something," he said.
"What?" Jazz and I asked at the same time. Danny had the oddest look on his face and I was suddenly reminded of his nine year old self.
"Shut up, or I'll forget," he told us.
"Doesn't take a lot," Jazz muttered.
Danny and Jazz got off of each other at last, but both kept giving each other dark looks. I inched over slowly to him.
But he suddenly looked around. "Is it cold in here to you?"
"No," Jazz and I said together.
"I has an idea," Danny said.
"I has an idea?" Jazz scoffed. "Oh, this is going to be intelligent."
"I think we should--"
Something shattered over on the counter and I jumped, and Jazz screamed. Nothing had even been close to that.
"What was that?" Jazz asked, jumping closer to us.
"Get down," Danny said. I got down on my knees and Jazz did it just as fast. Danny did the same, but slower. He turned to us. "I'm going to go over there and get that weapon thing that mom uses."
"What for?" I asked, my eyes wide.
"There's something here," he said.
"What?" Jazz asked.
"What else would have done that?" he asked, pointing to the lab counter.
"That just means that whatever it was, is over there," Jazz hissed.
"So?" he asked. "I'll just walk over and get it."
"Don't."
"I'm going to."
"Don't."
"I'm going to."
Before she could protest, he crawled away from us and towards the lab tables.
"Danny!" Jazz said.
I wondered why she was whispering. What was so scary? I know that there seemed to be some pretty random things…but we weren't in danger…were we?
"Shh!" he said. He looked up and carefully reached his hand on top of the table. He grabbed something that looked like a green and silver baseball.
"Get back over here!" she yelled.
"Okay, okay," he said.
There was a very loud laugh from the corner and I froze; Jazz screamed beside me. Danny flipped around clumsily and stumbled onto his back.
And that was the first time I ever saw a ghost.
Yes, that is a cliffhanger for this story, ha ha! One of my first actually for this particular story. Actually, it depends on how you judge them really.
Just think, you are now only two chapters from when she writes the note. The next chapter is action (and of course humor) and then the chapter following is all humor (and based off of a scene from Freeze Out)
Ready for Danny to save Sam? Ready for Sam to write the note? Ready for my interpretation of the 'ghostly wail?' Ready for all of this? See it in the next chapter!
Please R&R! Here's your sneak peek!
Chapter Seven
"Danny, Jazz, Sam, are you alright?" Maddie suddenly rushed into the lab, closely followed by Jack. "Are you okay? What's going on, I heard screaming."
Danny gently sat me down and I stood, looking around wildly. I had barely let go of him when Jazz suddenly ran over to Danny and threw her arms around him. His blue eyes looked down at her oddly.
"Danny saved us," she said, kissing him on the cheek.
"Ewww…" he said, getting away from her and rubbing his cheek with his hand.
"From the ghost," she added.
"What?" Maddie and Jack said in unison.
Tomorrow's Updates (SO SORRY!):
New: Mirrors, A Cross Between Crimes, Chosen
Updated: The Phantom Rogue, Fiction 2, Virtuality, Could It Be Any Harder?
Lateraina Wolf