Author's Note: I own nothing. Again Wulf's translation will be at the end.
8 Hiding Fugitives
Dani transformed and was quickly forced to reevaluate her stance on the wolf-like ghost. He was being attacked by Walker's head honcho Bullet. They'd briefly met when Walker had her in his prison and he was torturing the poor wolf ghost. Dani swooped after Bullet and the goons he had with him, a blast of green sailed just past her striking the goons, sucking them into a portal that promptly disappeared.
"Really wish I'd known we had that." Dani muttered glancing down. Her father looked like he'd stumbled, Jazz standing next to him glancing between Dani and their father. It hit her then, he hadn't been aiming at Walker's goons. He'd been aiming at her. She sped off a little faster, catching up to Bullet and the wolf-ghost just as Bullet used something on them that wrapped around the wolf's tail. Dani ripped it off sending her own power blast back through the whips sending Bullet whisping through the air struggling to keep his form. Dani grabbed the wolf by the arm and swooped away from the slowly reforming ghost, down into the trees. She pressed a finger to her lips as Bullet flew over them, still only partially formed before flying away. The wolf sniffed her, she raised her hands in surrender.
"Friend? I mean if Walker doesn't like you I probably will." She said laughing lightly. She pointed at herself. "Dani Phantom." She pointed at the wolf. "You?"
"Mi nomiĝas Wulf." They said. Dani frowned.
"Wulf?" She asked and Wulf nodded. "Well nice to meet you Wulf." Wulf licked her face she laughed, though it didn't last when her father popped out of the bush.
"Nobody move!" He raised his hand, in which was the hopelessly tangled Fenton Fisher. "You beasties are going down, as soon as I get this untangled." Dani snorted, unconsciously slipping into the chittering babble that was the way ghosts generally communicated with each other. She and Glooby the bunny had communicated like this often. She already knew that humans couldn't understand ghost speech.
"We're fine, he's mostly harmless. Now if my mom were here."
"Ŝi estas." Wulf said a red dot appearing on his forehead. Dani noticed it just in time grabbing him and swooping away, her mother's shot going wild. Dani didn't hear what her mother was shouting after her but she shook her head, turning invisible. Wulf seemed to understand and turned invisible as well, though she kept a grip on him.
"She is so not getting anything for Mothers Day. Come on I know a safe place." Well relatively safe anyway. Tanya's attic was their best option, Dani couldn't exactly patch him up at her place, not with it being Ghostkateer central. Tanya and Sam arrived, school had been called early due to the ghost attacks. Wulf growled at them as they came upstairs, Dani shook her head.
"No Wulf, friends! Sam and Tanya," she gestured to each in turn, "friends." She emphasized. Wulf sniffed them both nodding slightly before curling back up in the bean bag that was just a bit too small for him. Tanya frowned closing the door behind her.
"And you brought the interdimensional fugitive to my house because?" Tanya asked and Dani rolled her eyes. She was still Phantom which was a bit odd, she hadn't spent this much time as Phantom in a while.
"Sam's house is sort of off limits, with her crazy intrusive parents. My house is ghost hunter central. You're kinda my only option." Dani said. "That and you said one of your mmo's uses Esperanto right?" Tanya nodded.
"I might be able to translate, I don't know much of it but maybe I can rig up a translator." Tanya said. Sam nodded.
"And maybe we can figure out how to get the collar off." Sam said reaching out. Wulf snarled at him.
"He said not to touch that." Tanya deadpanned.
"Yep, I get that." Sam said taking a few steps back. Dani nodded floating towards the window.
"Alright, I need to go get my thermos out of my locker." She said and Sam frowned.
"Doesn't it usually show up on your belt when you transform?" He asked and Dani shrugged.
"Sometimes I think it's only when I transform back to myself with the thermos that it shows up on my belt when I turn back into Phantom." She shrugged. "I have no idea. All I know is I need it and I think they know what Walker's goons are after. Maybe why we haven't seen him yet. If you can talk to him that would be great." Dani said before swooping out of Tanya's house off towards the school. Tanya nodded heading over to her computer.
"Right I have some translation software ready but I don't think it's rigged for Esperanto." She said typing away rapidly. Sam frowned leaning on the desk next to her.
"Well I have to know what people in online gaming are talking about. Plus mom uses it for her Japanese dramas, most of them don't have subtitles." Tanya said typing with a flourish, her computer beeped. "Ok. What's Walker's plan? Kio estas la plano de Walker?" Tanya asked turning to Wulf.
"Vi parolas Esperanton?" Wulf shook their head. Atendu, ke ni ne havas tempon por tio. Walker volas kapti vian amikon. Transformu vian mondon en malliberejon, kiu igos ŝin petegi pri la sekureco de lia malliberejo." Tanya chuckled lightly and Sam raised an eyebrow.
"You have absolutely no idea what he said do you?" He asked and Tanya shook her head.
"Not a fucking clue, but the computer got it. It might take a minute or two to translate though." Tanya tapped on her keyboard, her face falling as the translation flashed across the screen. "Oh, that's not good. How does he plan to do it? Kiel li planas fari tion?" Tanya asked panic creeping into her voice.
"Tion mi ne scias. Li neniam diris la plenan planon ĉirkaŭ mi. Mi scias, ke li vere ne ŝatas ŝin kaj faros ĉion, kion li pensas, ke ĝi ne bezonas, por ke aferoj iru laŭ lia maniero. Ŝi bezonas eliri el la urbo."
"Tanya?" Sam asked, Tanya frowned tapping at the computer.
"It was a lot at once. Give me a minute, even my babies take time." Wulf rolled his eyes. Sam took a deep breath. He hoped Dani was doing ok. With all the ghosts and ghost hunters around she was at more risk now than she ever had been before. Vincent had been patrolling every minute he wasn't in class, both Jack and Maddie were being treated with much more respect than they ever had been before. No longer was the town laughing behind their backs, or only in front of Jazz and Dani. Sam shook his head as Tanya typed away on her keyboard.
Wulf's translation: Mi nomiĝas Wulf -My name is Wulf. Ŝi estas- She is. Vi parolas Esperanton?- You speak Esperanto? Atendu, ke ni ne havas tempon por tio. Walker volas kapti vian amikon. Transformu vian mondon en malliberejon, kiu igos ŝin petegi pri la sekureco de lia malliberejo. -Wait we don't have time for that. Walker wants to trap your friend. Turn your world into a prison that will make her beg for the safety of his prison. Tion mi ne scias. Li neniam diris la plenan planon ĉirkaŭ mi. Mi scias, ke li vere ne ŝatas ŝin kaj faros ĉion, kion li pensas, ke ĝi ne bezonas, por ke aferoj iru laŭ lia maniero. Ŝi bezonas eliri el la urbo. - That I don't know. He never said the full plan around me. I do know that he really doesn't like her and will do whatever he thinks is necessary to make things go his way. She needs to get out of town.
