Chapter Six; Lesson Learned

The Doctor parked his car inside the parking lot before he quickly leapt out of the driver's seat and Clara hopped out of the passenger's side. "Boy, I sure wish that Shadow was here." The Doctor began quickly slamming the door behind him. "He could track down Peter's scent." He said when all of a sudden his face lit up. "Hey wait a minute, why don't I summon him for help?" he questioned.

"You're telling me that you want to go all the way back just to get the dog!?" Clara exclaimed. "Why didn't we just take him with us in the first place!?" she cried.

"How many times do I have to tell you Clara? Shadow is not just any ordinary dog, he's a time dog which means that he can travel in time as fast as I can, he just can't operate the TARDIS." The Doctor told her before he placed two fingers in-between his teeth and whistled loudly. "Shadow!?" he called. "Here boy!" he cried with another sharp whistle as Clara watched with disbelief. Sure enough a few moments later the dog magically appeared and she widened her eyes with astonishment and bewilderment.

Shadow barked excitedly before leaping up on his master wagging his tail. "Good boy Shadow!" The Doctor exclaimed scratching him behind the ears before he leapt back down on the ground. "Alright boy, go find Peter." He told him as he watched as the dog started sniffing the air before staring straight out into space. His eyes got extremely blue as a silver gadget appeared over one of them and started turning around.

"What is he doing?" Clara asked.

"He's going to show us where Peter is with his ETS." The Doctor told her.

"His what!?" she exclaimed with uncertainty.

"His ETS." The Doctor repeated. "It's like a GPS for aliens. It stands for Extra Terrestrial Sensory." He explained.

"Oh." Clara said simply with a nod when all of a sudden a huge screen appeared in front of them.

"Wait a minute, I think he's found something." The Doctor said when suddenly sure enough Peter appeared on the screen outside the cottage. "I knew it! Good boy Shadow! Now take us to him." He said as the gadget disappeared and Shadow placed his nose to the ground and started sniffing before sprinting away. "Come on Clara he's on the trail!" The Doctor called back to her with a wave of his hand before he ran after it.

"This is stupid." Peter said to himself. "There's nobody here!" he cried. "It's just an old abandoned house!" he exclaimed when all of a sudden he saw a bright light out of the corner of his eye. "What's that!?" he cried with a gasp before he whirled around to see a lantern levitating in midair. Peter gulped as he stood frozen inside his spot. Then it suddenly occurred to him that somebody was just playing a trick on him. It must have been one of the boys since he knew for a fact that ghosts didn't exist and nobody was going to tell him otherwise.

"Ha, ha very funny guys!" he exclaimed nervously when suddenly he heard a low moaning noise and then all of a sudden the apparition of an old man appeared holding the lantern out in front of him with one hand, and a shiny red axe in the other one. "G-G-GG—Ghost!" he yelled shakily while pointing an unsteady finger at him. Peter turned around and started to run away as fast as his legs could carry him and that's when he ran into Shadow.

"Shadow?" he questioned him. "What are you doing here?" he asked when all of a sudden The Doctor emerged out of the darkness.

"I brought him here to find you." He began. "But the real question is what are you doing here?" he questioned with a cross look on his face as Clara stepped out of the darkness beside him.

"Dad, Ms. Oswald, there's a ghost back there! A real live actual ghost!" he cried.

"First of all that's an oxymoron Peter. And second of all, maybe now you've finally learned that that it doesn't always feel so good to be scared." She said while folding her arms and shaking her head.

"Oh, you mean the spider." He began.

"And the snake and all of the other countless pranks that you've pulled on people." His father added.

"Gosh guys I'm really sorry. I just thought that it was fun." Peter apologized.

"It isn't so fun when the other person isn't laughing about it." Clara told him.

"I'm sorry, I promise that I'll never do it again." Peter began with a shake of his head. "But what are we going to do about the ghost back there?" he asked them as his father just simply grinned at him.

"Oh, I think that I've got an idea. However first you've got to promise me that you'll clean up the mess that you made with the houses and the pumpkins." He said.

"I promise," Peter began with a nod. "now what are we going to do!?" he cried.

"I think it's time to do a little ghost busting." The Doctor said with another grin.