"Well done wizard," a new voice said, a bald man in a white suit with sunglasses, and an oversized gun, he was flanked by two other identical men, "but we'll take it from here," he signalled for his cohorts to move.

Thom moved to block their path, "I don't think so, as a magical creature Skulker is to be tried in wizard court, as are his rights."

The agents laughed in unison, a hard, mirthless bark of a laugh, "they are ghosts, they have no rights, they're freaks of nature, mistakes to be studied and destroyed," the agent levelled his gun at Thom, "now step aside."

Janet stepped in front of the agent, "no, you won't hurt the ghosts, they're not mistakes, they're sentient spirits."

The agents laughed again, "run along little girly, go play with your dollies, leave the law to us adults."

Janet growled and narrowed her eyes "under the International Convention on the Rights of Magical Creatures, all sentient magical beings and spirits, including ghosts, ghosts are entitled to a fair trial before being punished, except in a couple of exceptions, none of which apply here. That convention was codified into America's Bill of Rights for Magical Beings and Spirits. Also, it is not a good idea to anger a witch, even if I am short."

The agents looked at each other, "we have our orders the ghosts are coming with us," the ghost hunter shot at Janet who barely had time to raise a shield, reaching blindly behind herself with her magic she found Danny and released him from the spell that was binding him.

"Run Danny, get your friends, and Skulker to safety, we can defend ourselves."

"I wish you wouldn't do that," Thom muttered as he fired a stun spell at an agent who blocked it with his gun, before diving for cover "it's not good for my ego," Janet only nodded in reply, she was too busy maintaining her shield.

"I'm bored Dad, can I turn them into animals now?" Janet asked after several minutes of stalemate.

"I was wondering why you hadn't."

"You told me not to at the airport."

"I forgot about that, fine, you can turn them into animals."

"Yes," Janet pumped her arm in excitement, she clicked her fingers and the agents turned into albino weasels (with tiny sunglasses).

"Okay," Danny said flying over to pick up the angry weasels, "remind me to never make you angry at me," Janet chuckled.

"I thought I told you to get out of here," Janet said as she and Thom walked over to where Danny landed, where Janet took the weasels and put them in a magic bubble.

"I got everyone out of here, and then I came back, you know, to see if you needed help."

Janet laughed, "me, need help, hardly."

"She wouldn't admit she needed help even if she was facing a pack of dragons," Thom said pulling Janet into a one armed hug.

"So, what do we do with the three stooges?" Janet asked looking at the floating weasels.

"Well, we could take them to the Auror commissioner, I'm sure she was thrilled to hear about them, she'll be even happier to meet them."

There was a hooting behind them, they started and turned to see Thom's owl carrying a message, "bet that's her now."

"I bet it is," Thom unattached the message and read it through, "she was unaware of the guys in white."

"I'll bet," Janet butted in, "she's not the type to let something like that happen."

"She's furious about it."

"When's she not?"

"Our orders are to capture on sight."

"Done that."

"And send them to her, along with the ghosts."

"Well, looks like we'll need a portkey."

"That's easily achieved," Thom said burning the letter in his hand, "we should go, where'd you leave Skulker?"

"In the park, I left a duplicate to guard him."

"Duplicate?" Thom said raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah," Danny said as a second Danny appeared next to him, "like that," they said in sync before merging.

"Fascinating," Janet said rubbing her chin, "I wonder."

"No, you are not trying to make a second you," Thom said before turning to Danny. "I will never understand you zone ghosts. normal ghosts I can understand, I mean I was taught history by one, but zone ghosts confuse me, I know the theory, but the powers confuse me."

Danny shrugged, "anyway, let's go get Skulker."

"Wait," Thom said as he summoned a quill and parchment, he wrote a quick note and attached it to the owl before releasing the owl, "to see if we need to make your friends forget about us," they start walking towards the park with Danny flying overhead.

They arrived at the park to find other Danny, Sam and Tucker unconscious and a short girl ghost fighting a vampire ghost, and losing badly. Danny ran to his clone who merged back into him, "hey, fruitloop, ready for round two?"

"Ah Daniel, so here's the rest of you, good, I was getting bored of the knockoff and the photocopy," he shot a purple ray into the short girl who collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Where two white rings formed around her middle, then one slid to her head and one slid to her feet, changing the white hair to black, the tan skin to pale skin, and her hazmat suit to baggy beige shorts, a blue hoodie and a red beanie hat.

"You guys go check on Danielle, I'll deal with Plasmius," Danny said, anger burning in his voice, Janet was about to argue when Thom stopped her.

"They're obviously arch-rivals, let them fight it out, we'll step in if things go badly."

Janet sighed, "right Dad."

"If you've finished talking over there," Plasmius called, "the scary ghost wants to fight Daniel."

"I suppose you won't let us arrest you, on four charges of assault, will you? Mr..."

"Plasmius, Vlad Plasmius, and, no I won't."

Thom shrugged, and started walking towards Danielle, "he's all yours Phantom."

Danny flew at Vlad, who blasted him with a purple beam, Danny dodged and punched Vlad, who caught the punch, and punched back with a fist glowing with ectoplasm, sending Danny tumbling. Danny corrected himself and blasted Vlad, who raised a purple shield, Danny flew at Vlad, who shot up and blasted into Danny's back, Danny screamed as he crashed into the ground.

"Need some help?" Janet said, it was more a statement than a question.

"Yeah," Danny croaked, "he's stronger than I remember, be careful, he's a halfa"

"Skulker did his job well," Vlad gloated, "now, what to do with the cop and the little girl, I suppose, standard procedure would be to get rid of witnesses." Vlad raised a glowing fist, "goodbye little pests," he released a beam of energy.

The beam shot towards Janet, where it met an invisible wall, "nice try," Janet said smiling at the halfa, "but not the best idea. So, how does coming quietly sound now?"

"Bah, witches, I hate witches, so that means that the man in tweed is an Auror, oh well won't be the first time I've fought off Aurors."

Vlad flew at Janet, straight into an invisible wall, "did you forget about that?" Janet asked condescendingly, "you've been a bad boy, now you're grounded," Janet raised her wand, "descendo terra duo," a confused Vlad crashed to the ground.

When Vlad stood up, his hair is now out of place, and he is struggling to rise, "you are strong witch, but I am stronger," he phased and broke the spell.

"That's impossible," Janet said as the ghost flew at her at top speed, he crashed through the barrier, Janet only just managed to roll out the way. "Note to self, stronger shields," Janet said as she stood.

Vlad laughed, "did you really think you could defeat me little badger?"

"Yeah, kinda," Janet said as she clicked her fingers, 'if normal magic is not working, I will just have to use Greek magic,' she thought. A large pillar of rock shot out of the ground, straight into Vlad's chest, the ghost is sent spiralling into the side of a building. Vlad was not out yet, the older halfa shook his head, growled and flew straight at Janet, "descendo terra duo," Vlad crashed into the ground again, creating a small crater, he shrugged off the spell again.

"Bah, I shall retreat for now, but I shall return, and I shall have my revenge," Vlad flew off before anyone could stop him.