Hellbreaker, maybe...or maybe someone a little more clueless and gullible will fall for the trap...
Sam was the first to test the power of the dome, her eyes narrowing as she grew closer to what could very well be their new cage. With a cry of shock she hit the green wall and fell, catching herself before she hit the ground. As she rubbed her head Valerie took off, her board surfing against the wind as she picked up speed before heading back toward the Fright Knight. Her attempt was swatted away, like an annoying mosquito. With a cry she landed, her head hitting the ground hard enough to knock her out, causing the suit to disappear right before the whole school. The good thing was that no one saw it, Sam was sure, from the distance the others were at, but being that she was a good person she rushed to the aid of the other teen, Vlad muttering something under his breath before saying with mock concern, "that poor child."
"The sword is sunk, your dye now cast. The sword removed shall signal fast. Make reappear the ring thou hast or the next day shall be your last." Sam was lost on what this ghost was talking about, but seeing as he was looking at Vlad and Vlad always did seem to be stealing something she would place all her money on him being the one with the missing item. Both ghosts stood over Valerie, protecting her from any more harm, but the Goth had an idea that there was more to come.
With a poof of smoke and a dozen black bats the Fright Knight disappeared. Over the town the flew, over the ghost skeletons that were frozen, over the empty streets as Sam looked to Vlad.
"The ring thou hast?" she whispered questionably toward the male next to her. He looked at her, sheepishly grinning with a shrug, but she still believed that he had it or knew of where it was.
"Citizens of Amity!" came a woman's loud voice, a familiar SUV looking vehicle rushing over the asphalt.
"Mrs. Fenton?" Sam questioned.
"Maddie?" Vlad asked as he too watched the woman he loved usher all the people under the dome toward Fenton Work, the ghost shield the hunters had sure to be the reason. Sam and Vlad split, the Goth sure that her best friend's parents might recognize her or worse, shoot her while Vlad knew they wouldn't hesitate to take him down. As she reverted back to her human form behind a nearby tree the Fenton Assault Vehicle stopped just shy of Valerie, Maddie jumping out to check on the fallen teen.
Sam chose that moment to walk up, the pair of adults looking at her in what could only be a mix of confusion and disappointment. Why? She wasn't sure. Maybe it was because she wasn't banged up while the other teen was, but that was no reason to look as if she had done it instead of the ghosts.
"She was attacked," Sam supplied with her chin up. She had no reason to be ashamed, it wasn't like she had harmed the other teen, nor was she responsible for protecting the other girl. Besides, Valerie hadn't wanted her trust or her help, she had just wanted to dispose of the threat, the one that was more imminent than Sam or Vlad.
"Welcome back to big scary dome watch day one," a perky looking red head said from the TV screen, a pair of teens watching from the floor a few feet away. "My name is Snow Blizzard, and we are on our forth hour of captivity and Amity remains cut off from the rest of the world." The pair of males looked worried, their eyes wide and their faces sullen at the dreary news report. She directed the TV audience to another reporter, Lightning Lance, a blond male who was looking rather upset with being outside.
"Why do I have to do this? I am just a weather man," he grumbled. When he realized that he was being filmed live at that moment he changed his tune, talking about how the people behind him, some with handheld drills the size of bazookas, other sitting with larger drills, were trying to pierce the dome, but having no luck. "This is Lightning Lance, wishing I had taken that job in Oklahoma. Tornadoes would have been better than this." Watching from the lab was Sam and Valerie. They watched as both Vlad and Maddie worked on the exoskeleton, hoping to have it operational to defeat the hoards of ghosts waiting to take down the human race...unless someone forked over this item that the Fright Knight was upset about.
"This is our only hope to punch through the dome," the red headed female said, pulling back her goggles to look at her husband. Vlad wiped his forehead looking a little worn out from his hard work. "But I doubt we can do anything about the neural receptors..." She looked disappointed, the thought that even though the suit would be able to help them, it was too dangerous for anyone to use.
"That is why I will be wearing the suit!" Jack stated. "I shall be the one to beat back that ghost into the Ghost Zone!" he continued, standing up so fast that he became dizzy, his hand coming to his head as he sat back down. The pack of ice on his head shifted forward as he leaded down.
"That is not a good idea," the red head stated, her eyes narrowing at her husband. "You are still wiped out from the last time." As the adults continued their discussion the pair of teens headed upstairs where Danny and Tucker were still watching the news. As Valerie sat down, Sam coming to sit next to her on the other side, Tucker inquired as to the health of the teen before him.
"I am fine," the dark skinned girl stated. "Not sure why you care though, you guys don't like me anyway." She looked to Sam. "Not even you like me, though you helped me out earlier because I helped you." Sam's amethyst eyes flashed.
"I helped you because you did help me, but you can't blame us for being wary of you. You hated us and were down right ugly to us for no reason other than we are not popular." Danny's mouth fell open, but at that moment he noticed a particular ring on the other teen's hand, one that looked as if it were glowing.
"Where did you get that ring?" he asked, the teen before him becoming even more cold as she covered it up with her other hand.
"None of your business, Fenton," she snapped.
"Um, can I talk to you?" Danny asked Sam, yanking the Goth by her wrist before proceeding to do the same to Tucker. The trio entered a nearby closet, the door slamming with a resounding thud. They were in the dark for about a second before Sam found the light switch.
"Sam, what was that about?" Tucker inquired. Danny wanted to know the same thing. The Goth had just gone off on the other teen without even taking a moment, then again the other teen had bit off Tucker's head when he had expressed concern at her injuries.
"More important," the former halfa stated, interrupting anything else Tucker wanted to say. "Did you see that ring?"
"Ring?" Sam inquired, her brow raising. "Concerned she might be taken, Danny?" The dark haired male looked at his friend, then at Tucker, whose eyes were now boring into him.
"No, I was looking at the glowing green skull on it!" he hissed. "You said something about an item, a ring, that they Fright Knight was looking for."
"It might just be something her father got for her," Tucker stated, but Sam looked less than convinced. Valerie's father had been rich and even with him making minimum to what he had been making she wan't sure he would buy, much less that she would wear, something cheap. Pushing Tucker aside she peeked her head out of the closet, her amethyst eyes narrowing on the ring in question, the one that Valerie had revealed now that no one was asking questions.
"I have to side with Danny," the raven haired beauty stated ducking back in, the door clicking behind her. "That doesn't look like some cheap plastic toy, and she would never wear such a thing to begin with unless-"
"She was holding it for someone," Danny finished. "She has to be holding it for Vlad. There is no other explanation."
"Now we just need to figure out why the Fright Knight needs that ring," Sam stated. That meant that the trio needed to go and talk to some ghosts...ghosts that were not going to be easily swayed into helping the group, unless they were something they would get out of it. Then again they had seemed rather upset about this Pariah, the King of Ghosts. Maybe that was incentive enough. Transforming into the Phantom, Sam grabbed the pair of teens and disappeared out of the closet leaving a clueless Valerie in the room wondering what the trio was doing so long in the closet.