"There's no answer on the phone." Mom said, calling nana and papa on her cell as we flew through the air, dad holding onto mom by the hand.
"That's right, they're on vacation. Well, at least we won't have to explain Wulf to them. Or, well, me."
"What if the Ghost Shield's up?"
"Relax, they gave us a key."
Thank God he did, or we would have had to find another place to sleep. Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a couple figures watching us, but as I decided to investigate, I saw nothing there. Odd. I thought as I turned human and walked through the door and deactivated the ghost shield for certain members of our party.
"Actually, Danny, Wulf and I don't need sleep, so we'll keep watch outside, so you can put the ghost shield up. Just to be safe, though, I want you and Jess to take alternating four hour shifts guarding the place from the inside, and I want you to patrol every inch of the place. Should anything happen, I want you to use these." He said, handing us some weird type of headphones.
"Got it, daddy." Jess replied.
Danny, Sr's POV (the Esperanto in this scene will be presented in English enclosed in parentheses.)
I watched as my family walked through the door.
(So, how did you get incarcerated?) I asked as we circled the area.
(Lupyne decided it would be fun to pick a fight with some Ursolupo of a warring tribe, I was only there to convince him not to go through with it. When the authorities came, Lupyne lied and told Walker I did it and, well, the rest is history. You know that scar over his eye?)
(Yes?)
(That was how he got it. He always was the immoral one. In our tribe, the immoral are considered insane and are subsequently rejected, the ultimate punishment, and many do go insane from rejection. Now, thanks to him, I've also been rejected.)
(So, if he knew where you were, why didn't he try to do this sooner?)
(Because he attacked a fellow Ursolupo, but he managed to evade capture in the fringes of the Ghost Zone, where the law often fears to tread. He was simply lying low until the heat was off.)
(You can't die, right?)
(Right.)
(So why are you so afraid of him?)
(Because he threatened to sell me to Skulker, and he has ways of controlling ghosts whose strength you can't even begin to imagine. However, if I bring him, the most wanted criminal in the Ghost Zone, before Walker, I may be able to use him as a bargaining chip to secure our parole.)
"Hold it right there!"
Danny, Jr.'s POV
My shift in guarding the house was nearly up, so I was just making a few last minute checks before I went to wake up Jess. As I was finishing up in the basement, I tripped over some loose wire. As I caught myself, my thumb hit a button, causing the Ghost Portal to spring open, Lupyne waiting on the other side. Before I could close it again, he walked into the room.
"Dad!" I shouted into the headphones. No answer. "DAD!" I repeated. Again, no response, so I changed the channel. "Jess!"
"What?" her voice replied, groggily.
"It's Lupyne! He's in the basement! Wake mom up and get out!" I yelled as I grabbed a Fenton Thermos, turned ghost and phased through the ceiling.
"How'd he get in?" Mom asked as we bolted through the front door.
I explained the whole scenario. As I was finishing up, a flash of light appeared before us as twin sets of claws slashed through the air like it was a sheet, Lupyne stepping out from the rapidly closing hole.
"Danny, vi batali ilin, vi mosto zorgi pri Lupyne." Wulf said as he came to help us as he left dad to deal with Walker and Bullet.