6. Feasibility

"Yeah… No, I am listening. Darrel… Darrel!" Danielle flew through the park without really looking where she was going, screaming to her phone while passing through bushes and trees. "Listen, I'm kinda in the middle of something right now, I can't pick up the baby, but if you could take it to my place, I'll be glad… No, I didn't mean... I know, it's my homework too... It'll only be alone for barely a couple of hours… It can't crawl away, it's just a package of flour!" The girl suddenly stopped and an ectoblast almost hit her "I'm not just flying around!" She exclaimed. "I know it isn't the issue here..." Several ectoblasts came her way and she hid behind the fountain "That's it, I can't wait for tomorrow to finally divorce you…! It's just a class assignment, don't be dramatic!"

"There you are, ghost girl!" Skulker growled with excitement when he saw Dani.

"Oh, shoot! Talk to you later!" Great, just great. The same morning she had recaptured Skulker, Mr. Lancer catched a cold, and the substitute teacher confiscated her Fenton-Thermos and freed them all. Just Perfect. Now Ember, the Ghost Box, and, at least, a hundred more spooks were running wild through the city. What could be better than skipping last period to go fight against the Lunch Lady ghost? Perhaps being able to actually take notes! Really, she should just bring a camera to the classroom and let it roll in her place. Now, the hundred minor ghosts were easy, Jack and Maddie could take care of them during lunch-break. Box Ghost could wait a day or two. Ember had snapped all her guitar's strings the last time, so she was no immediate treat.

Currently it was just Skulker and her, half chasing and half running away from each other the rest of the afternoon.

"You can fly, but you can't hide" The hunter threatened her.

"Drop it, you're not my mother!" He aimed at her with a special view that could track her even while turning invisible; then she felt several shots missing her for millimeters.

"Danny, dear brother, why did I inherit your sour luck for ghost enemies?" She muttered to herself as she glanced to the partially clouded sky. "From all the things…! Danny, really, if not a spaceship, why didn't you leave me, at least, your Doom password? I could really do with all the stuff you got the last time..." She kept muttering to herself; as she kept flying a clear among the clouds opened and flew to that direction with Sulker following close. Her chaser couldn't really see her with the sun in his eyes, so the moment the hunter ran out of ammo, she suddenly turned and opened the thermos, not giving him time to stop his inertia. "I can't believe that worked!" Exclaimed the triumphant girl, still flying backwards due to the inertia. "Yeah! Green pancakes for dinner… OUCH!" She collided with an inconspicuous pedestrian, better said with his umbrella, which made them both fall "Hey! Careful with the umbrella! Gee..." She complained as she touched the sore spot where her lower back had hit it. What kind of weirdo went to the park with a beach umbrella at evening hours?

Without bothering seeing the poor pedestrian in the floor she floated away and checked time. If she rushed, she could find Darrell midway to Fentonworks and take the fake baby home, make some dinner, and…

Her ghost sense went off and she took a defensive stance. Was it Ember? Box Ghost? (Please not Spectra, she always gave her a pounding headache! )How weird, usually she would hear the alerting scream of somebody or the maniatic laugh of the culprit. She turned invisible and scouted the park, looking for trouble.

Nothing. No movement, no people, not even a sound.

Weirder.

Usually there were still some noises at the park at this hour (people walking their dogs, stray animals making noise, birds, squirrels and other fauna moving in the bushes; heck even the moths around the streetlights were audible! Moreover, the street lights were not as bright as they usually were, they seemed dim and (how ironic) ghostly. Something was happening around her. The air was too light, it was a bit difficult to breath; and mist came out of nowhere.

"Alright, whoever you are..." the girl murmured to herself "... I'll just take care of you and I'll leave". She felt a shiver climb up her spine. What was that? She was a ghost, if she was in human form, that could be explained, but not like this. She turned around and catched a white flame in the distance.

"Remind me again, if I'm gonna be charged with this boring job, why take all that training?" A deep voice asked.

"Precautions." The other, a feminine, younger one, replied. "Mother's got enemies you could not defeat with how you were before. Now, do your job"

"Yeah, sure" Danielle stopped behind a bush as soon as she had reached the owners of those voices. One was a hooded female, the other a tall muscular ghost with flaming white hair. "Where?" He demanded.

"There, that rock will be fine. Many portals open naturally in this part anyway" The ghost took a strange white sphere and phased it through the rock.

"Perfect" The female said.

Danielle took out her phone and, with as much zoom as it could manage, took a clear snapshot of the two. Unfortunately, the sound gave away her position. She turned invisible again and tried to go intangible and escape by going underground, but a strong hand snatched her by her ankle moments before she could had done so.

"What do we have in here…?" The ghost with red eyes asked mockingly.

"Let go you-!" The teen demanded, surprised to see Danny's iconic "D" on this guy's torso and charging some ecto blasts in her hands and eyes.

"Or what?" Danielle shot, but the bigger ghost moved his head, dodging her attack. "Behave yourself, brat!" He exclaimed and threw Dani to the ground, not giving her time to phase through it. The girl felt pain all over like she hadn't in a while, but still tried to break free from his hold. Why did this guy looked so much like Plasmius? Once again, she tried to blast him while still being trapped in his hold, but he blocked it with his arm. The mysterious ghost seemed to grow mad like someone being bothered by a mosquito, and decided to blast the girl directly on the chest. Dani screamed in pain, and then she was left to fall to the ground, limp.

Her aching body ordered her to stay down and give in to the black of unconsciousness, but she kept fighting the need to close her eyes. She was so concentrated in staying conscious, that she never realized when she let the white energy rings appear by her midsection and turn her into her human form.

"Hm… Seems like there is another one around…" She heard the ghost say, clearly a bit surprised, yet unimpressed. "Hmp! Doesn't matter. I can take you. I already did"

"Don't do anything rash" the female with him intervened. "Remember, our presence must remain secret".

"With this mist, no-one will know what happened here… UGRH!" The ghost grunted as something collided with him and made him fly into a nearby tree.

"Who's there?!" The woman called, her too being attacked by the same thing. Danielle could barely keep her eyes open, but she could still notice the blur of something attacking the two. Whatever it was, it could also produce ecto blasts, which left both the ghost and the girl drained.

"Our mission here is done. Let's get out of here!" The female yelled. The other ghost, rather reluctant, came beside her, and they slowly vanished in the depths of the mist and the dark.

Exhaustion almost took over Danielle when she saw the blur from before moving closer. What was it? Her eyelids were feeling so heavy, she couldn't concentrate neither in keeping them open nor in deciphering what that was. She closed her eyes and tried to get enough strength to, at least go intangible. She couldn't. Even worse, she lost consciousness for an instant. When she opened her eyes again, she recognized the blur of gray from before, except for, as she opened her eyes and her vision became clearer, and the shape more defined, she found something familiar about it. The halfa girl blinked and, among the few traces left from the mist, she distinguished a human figure dressed in black clothing, glowing softly like his snow-white hair and toxic green eyes"

"Danny?" Dani called weakly, and feeling strangely giddy, despite being covered in dust and bruises. The other, who had kneeled beside her, removed her bangs from her face, so she could see clearer. Yes, it was Danny! "Danny, it's you! Why haven't you talked to us? Where have you been?" The other didn't respond, just looked at her with a sheepish smile before getting back on his feet. "No, wait...!"

He turned around and flew away.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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-First, a message from Yami-Horus-

Well, this was tome two for you people, I'll update in a week! See you!

If you're wondering:

Zugzwang is "a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage".

Sam's ringtone is the song "Blood on My Hands" by Xandria.

Dani's ringtone is "Red Like Roses" from RWBY

P.S.: As always, any doubts, comments, suggestions, dead threats...? Write a review.