With Aria dead and Compton tied up, all Danny had left to do was to find Horrick and battle him. Once Horrick was beaten, Danny would finally be able to get on with his life, knowing that he gave three creeps exactly what they deserved. (Except for Aria, he didn't think she deserved the painful ending she had to suffer)

After running through the seemingly endless hallways for a while, Danny found Horrick in a room. The room was full of dangerous and toxic chemicals, as well as a few gas hoses and valves. Heaters were lining the sides of the room.

"Hey Horrick, where did you pick up your guards, at the 99 cent store?" Danny screamed as he burst in. "Compton just got beaten by me in two seconds-flat!"

"What?...but, I told Aria to kill you!" Compton yelled.

Danny's irritated and angry face immediately changed to one of sorrow and pity. "Horrick, I'm not even kidding. I seriously hate to tell you this, but your daughter's dead."

Horrick started laughing at the remark, but Danny kept the serious look on his face. "I'm serious! She and I were fighting, and she tried to crush me with a mace! Just so she wouldn't, I put the mace on a top shelf and she had some earthquake move that caused the mace to fall off the shelf and smash her head!" He sounded really distraught as he explained this, even if it was to his enemy.

"Stop lying!" Horrick said, now seeing that Danny might be telling the truth. "My Aria wouldn't fall to someone like you!"

"She did!" Danny yelled, trying to convince Horrick he wasn't lying.

Horrick looked like he was ready to burst. Finally, he just screamed loudly and full of fury as he pounced on Danny and began kicking the snot out of him. Danny was stuck on his back as Horrick started firing heavy punches into Danny's face. "Liar!" Horrick yelled as he continued to attack.

Once Danny had been beaten up enough, Horrick jumped off of him and ran in the direction of the room where he had ordered Aria to kill Danny. Danny got up after moaning for a while and tried running after him, doing his best not to let the pain in his mouth distract him.

About half way down the hall, Danny stopped when he heard Horrick scream, "ARRRRRIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAA!" from a room a while away. Danny froze up when he heard the scream, now that he knew Horrick had seen his daughter's unfortunate fate during the fight between them.

A second later, Horrick flew out so fast it was as if he just popped up out of nowhere. He was in front of Danny and grabbed him by the front of the jumpsuit and kept as solid of a grip on him as he could.

"You murderer!" Horrick yelled, looking now like a deranged serial killer in a horror movie. His once calm face was now bursting with fury and showed no mercy.

"I told you, it was an accident!" Danny yelled, still with a sorry look on his face as he struggled to free from Horrick's steel grip.

"No, me reaching down and pulling out your throat…THAT'S the accident!" Horrick yelled.

Danny wasn't sure he had ever seen someone get as angry as Horrick was now. Just as Horrick was about to smash Danny against a wall with the intent to snap his neck, Danny made a sharp fly upwards that Horrick wasn't expecting. The end result was Horrick letting go and Danny getting free.

"Dude, I can understand you being angry," Danny yelled, "but you gotta understand that I'd never actually want to kill someone."

"I don't listen to cold blooded people like you!" Horrick yelled. He fired a blast of ectoplasmic energy at Danny, but Danny dodged it at the last second. The blast instead hit the ceiling and created a hole in it.

"All right, I've tried reasoning with you," Danny said, "but if you just want to blindly fight, then be my guest!"

Danny started by firing some ectoplasma at his enemy, and Horrick evidently suffered a lot of pain from it. Danny ran over to Horrick and started throwing random punches at him.

Yes, Danny felt guilt about just killing Horrick's daughter (or as he said it, an accident) but he had tried being reasonable, but Horrick was still understandably angry about the entire thing. Now all Danny wanted to do was beat him once and for all, and it looked like it was about to happen.

"You realize I don't want to fight you after what just happened to your daughter," Danny assured. "But I gotta defend myself too, you know."

Horrick tried getting up, but Danny just fired more ectoplasma at him. Horrick rolled over and began moaning. He was now defeated.

Danny walked over to the slouching Horrick, who seemed to have absolutely no energy left. Being angry took enough energy out of him, so getting hit by two of Danny's blasts was sure to leave him with little strength left to battle.

When Danny was only inches away, Horrick looked up and looked like he was dying. His voice was shaking, and he could barely finish a complete sentence.

"Erg…all right, you've beaten me," Horrick admitted. "Please…kill me now so I don't have to suffer anymore."

"You don't know the meaning of the word," Danny disagreed. "Besides, I'm not going to kill you. And I told you, I didn't kill your daughter either. A mace fell on her after she made a small earthquake, so it's her own fault."

Horrick looked furious with what Danny was saying. "Fine…" he choked out as he looked like his life was about to end. "If you won't finish me, then…I SHALL FINISH YOU!"

Horrick suddenly got a huge adrenaline spike and lifted both of his legs up. He crushed Danny's head between his calves, and then flipped Danny of his head with it.

As Danny fell on the ground, Horrick jumped up and started running away. Danny quivered for a little bit before he got up and stared off in the direction Horrick ran. "Well, so much for finishing me."

Danny started walking in the direction that Horrick ran off to, and saw him standing at the front entrance to the mansion, which was the only way out. Standing right next to Horrick was Compton.

Obviously, when Horrick found Compton tied up, Horrick released him. Now, they were both staring at Danny angrily.

"Oh boy," Danny said to himself as he saw his two enemies giving him a savage look.

"Horrick told me what you did!" Compton yelled. "Why would you be cruel enough to kill his daughter? I only hunted ghosts so they wouldn't hurt others, not to put them through pain and suffering!"

"You got it all wrong!" Danny yelled. "Aria did that to herself! It wasn't my fault!"

"Save it, Danny!" Compton yelled. "Horrick and I are now in this together against you. We both agreed to drop a mace on your head to see how much you like it!"

"Um…how about no?" Danny said.

"I will avenge Aria!" Horrick yelled. "I am going to ensure you go through the same pain as you die that I'm going through now!"

"And I'm going to ensure I get out of here before either of psychos shut up," Danny said. He fired a blast of ectoplasma at the door and flew out of it. He passed through the hole and was now out of Horrick's mansion, never wanting to have to go there again.

Meanwhile, inside the mansion, Horrick and Compton ran to the door. Horrick put his head out of it and yelled to Danny as loud as he could, "WE WILL FIND YOU! WHEN WE FIND YOU, THAT WILL BE THE END! I WILL AVENGE MY DAUGHTER!"

Danny didn't even reply to it as he flew away. He found his way back to the portal to his house, trying to take in everything that just happened. The entire flight back he had a hard time swallowing what Horrick threatened him with as he was leaving. It was hard going to be hard sleeping at night, now knowing that there was a ghost and a ghost hunter who were after him, making sure he wouldn't live to see the next day.

As Danny finally saw the portal back to his house, he phased through it and found himself back in his house's basement. As he landed in it, he changed back into his human form and ran up the stairs.

"Mom! Dad!" he yelled, running frantically around the house. He searched around for a few seconds before he found his parents in the living room.

"Danny, what's wrong?" Maddie asked, fear and worry being visible through her red goggles.

"Mom, dad," Danny repeated, out of breath, "I just had to fight this ghost named Horrick, and he had a daughter, and I had to fight her. (he was saying all of this on the same breath) His daughter actually died while I was fighting her, and now Horrick and Mr. Compton want to kill me!"

"Shhhhhhh," Maddie said, putting one finger over her lips as she tried to calm her son down. "You must be going crazy, because you just said Mr. Compton was trying to kill you."

"He is!" Danny insisted. "For some reason, he and some ghost are now trying to gang up on me, and…well, you know…"

"Danny, you have absolutely nothing to worry about," Jack said, standing up. "We're going to protect you, no matter what. If Mr. Compton tries to give you trouble, you just tell me and I'll teach him a thing or two."

"But you don't understand," Danny said, starting to sound very whiney. "Horrick and Compton are after me!"

"So? We got the equipment necessary to beat both of them!" Jack yelled with pride. "You don't have a thing to worry about, son!"

This soon plummeted when Maddie tapped Jack on the shoulder. "Jack, we threw all our ghost hunting stuff away, remember? It's sitting in the town dump now."

Jack's face turned to one of panic, but he tried not to show it. (Although he did a terrible job) "Well, don't worry. I'm sure we can find some way to make sure neither of them lay a finger on you."

"That's right," Maddie said, putting on the fakest confident smile Danny had ever seen.

All Danny could do was stare at his two parents with depression and fear running through his mind. He knew there was nothing they could to protect him or themselves if Horrick and Compton came over looking for him.

That night, Danny was sitting in his room. It was well past the time he should go to sleep, but he had so many things to worry about, it was downright impossible to. He lay awake for the longest time, thinking about how much of a danger he was now to his family and his friends. Horrick and Compton could pop up anytime, and if he was around his loved ones when that happened, what would he do?

There was only one solution Danny could think of. After debating it for a while, Danny got up and looked around the room. Instantly, he ran over to the corner of his room and pulled out an overnight bag that hadn't been used in a long time. He then quickly ran downstairs and packed some things that didn't require cooking to be able to eat, and he stuffed them into his bag.

After making sure there was a little bit of food in his bag, Danny ran over to his backpack and pulled out a pen and a notebook from it. He forcefully tore a page out of it and took it over to the table. He sat down at it and started writing on the paper.

Dear mom, dad and Jazz,

I love you all so much, but I can't stay with you guys any longer. Compton and Horrick will always be after me now, and as long as I'm here, I'm only putting you guys in trouble. If either of them ever hurt one of you guys, I would never forgive myself.

Jazz, you've been a pain sometimes, but you were only thinking of me and trying to make my life easier. Thank you very much for that. And mom and dad, even though you've humiliated me on more than one occasion, if it weren't for you and your hunting, I never would have gotten this privilege of defending people in the first place.

Danny stopped writing and stared at what he wrote. His eyes immediately started filling with tears. He had never actually called having his ghost powers a privilege before. Struggling to get his mind back on track, he continued writing.

I'm so sorry to have to do this, but you need to be as far away from me as possible. Dealing with Horrick and Compton is my problem now, and you guys suffering is the last thing I want to happen from it.

I love all of you, and I always will. This will always be my home; you will always be my family, and not one day will pass where I won't think of you guys.

I'm hoping you guys are going to miss me, but please, whatever you do, don't come looking for me. I'm fourteen, and I can survive on my own. I took some food from the kitchen, hope you don't mind. If worse comes to worse, I'll just use my powers to take something from a grocery store, but only enough to get a meal. So please, don't worry about me.

Once again, I love all of you and will miss you. Mom, dad and Jazz…please take care. I love you all. Tell Sam and Tucker I wish them the best of luck.

Love Always, Danny.

A tear dropped from Danny's eye and landed on the paper, creating a small wet spot between two of the straight blue lines. He read it over to make sure it said everything he wanted it to say, and when he was sure that was the letter he wanted his parents and sister to read, he got up from the table.

He looked at the clock. 1:00 in the morning. This was when Danny's life was going to change forever, but he wasn't sure he was ready for it.

Danny slammed the letter down onto the table and picked up his overnight bag. He walked towards the door and quietly opened it. Trying his best to not cry, he turned around and looked at his living room one last time.

Somehow, everything seemed so perfect now. He always thought of his living room as a shabby place that he resented. It seemed so plain and lifeless, but now it actually seemed like somewhere he couldn't wait to return to it.

"Do I really want to do this?" Danny asked himself, staring at the room and taking in everything about it as if he were seeing it for the first time. "It's taken me up until now to realize what a great life I've had. Do I really want to leave it now?"

Danny continued staring, but the tears continued to swell up in his eyes and come down on his face.

Then, he got reminded of something. He suddenly heard Horrick's voice screaming in his head, "WE WILL FIND YOU! WHEN WE FIND YOU, THAT WILL BE THE END! I WILL AVENGE MY DAUGHTER!"

Remembering Horrick's threat was the last straw. Danny had officially made his decision after that thought passed. He couldn't live with the thought of him putting his own family in mortal danger.

"There's no other option," he moaned. He turned away and walked out the door. With the overnight bag slumped over his shoulder and his eyes closed, he slowly took a hold of the doorknob and shut the door, not once looking back.