A/N: Sorry it took so long to up-date! I wasn't in writer's-block, just that I couldn't quite focus! But ehre's your chapter!

Chapter Six

That Ghost!

Danny picked Sam up a few minutes after leaving his house. The walk to the movies, at least, would be a quiet one. Nemisis would teleport into different places during the walk. Sam and Danny talked about what they thought the movie would be like: Danny saying it would be cheap, Sam saying it would be interesting. Either way, it was mostly small talk. And when it stopped, Danny would get a little spacey and distant. "Something on your mind, Danny?" Sam asked as they entered the mall.

"Not really," Danny answered in reply, but looked around the mall, almost as if searching for someone. It was only 7:48 PM. The mall should still have been filled with people. But it wasn't exactly as he'd thought. It was somewhat vacant. "Wow," he mumbled.

"No kidding," Sam said. "But look, no one at the ticket counter." She pointed at the lonely counter where two bored looking teenagers stood leaning forward onto the marble base of the counter, chewing on some gum.
And the theater is bound to be empty."

"Whatever you say, Sam," Danny said and walked with her over to the ticket counter to get their tickets for the movie.

"What can I get you?" the teenager at the counter said.

"Uhm, two tickets for the movie...Insane Rider?" he said, taking out his wallet all the while he spoke and eyed the screen behind the teenager on the wall that said all the movies and the times they would be starting.

"That'll be sixteen," the teen said. Danny held out the money and was handed two tickets in return for it. "Thanks."

Danny gave Sam her ticket and grasped her hand. "Talk about gentleman," Sam mumbled. "I was going to buy my own ticket."

"I don't think so," he said, smiling. "Listen, we should head over into the theater already."

"Okay, sure," Sam said. She grabbed hold of his hand and both went running towards the movie theater they were supposed to be in. The movie would start in about fifteen minutes - counting previews - and they hoped that, since it was the premiere of the movie, it wouldn't be packed. Someone at the door of the theater took their tickets and they went inside, walking around the wall that surrounded the side of the seats. As they came around, they could see that the seats were about half-way full. "Not bad," Sam mumbled. "Come on, there are two seats empty at the back!"

They climbed up the stairs at the side and moved along towards the center of the row to the seats they planned to occupy. The previews were near ending by now, a few more minutes left. They hadn't gotten any popcorn or anything, but they were glad to have gotten these seats seeing as later on, more and more people began to clamber into the cavernous room in search of seats and to no avail. Then, finally the movie began and nearly scared the bejeebers out of Sam. She jumped as a face suddenly came on the screen. She chuckled nervously seeing as she had grabbed on to Danny's arm in her fright. "Sorry," she whispered. Danny grinned. He didn't care.

Nemisis giggled to herself. She was sitting in the small window where the movie was being shot out from. She sat in front of the camera-thing, intangible and invisible. Watching the couple made her laugh. This boy, despite all the anger building inside him, had a girl friend. It would be interesting to see what precautions he would take when he found out the truth.

Along the movie, Sam jumped a couple of times, others screamed, Danny laughed silently at their reactions. Compared to all the things he'd seen, this was nothing. And for some reason, the gory scenery in the movie almost made him want to laugh, as if, and this may sound a little strange, as if he enjoyed watching it. Sam was scared out of her mind in the middle with Jacob, or the 'Insane Rider', chopped off the head of his best friend Maria and lit it on fire. Danny only held her hand as she clung to his arm for dear life. His amusement, however, was short-lived when a very familiar cold sensation filled his entire body and, in the darkness, he noticed a thin wisp of smoke escape his lips. Sam felt a cold then, Danny's ghost sense leaving her chilled too. She looked at him. Danny looked serious, angry even. "Go ahead," she said, when he turned to glance at her.

"I'm sorry," he whispered.

"It's alright, just make sure you teach that ghost a lesson," she said, smiling. Danny grinned and stood, making his way out of the row, down the steps, and out of sight. Sam settled into her chair to watch all the gory images on the movie screen. Above near a small window, Nemisis watch Danny leave the theater. She teleported out of there, and quickly followed.

Danny ran out the theater, glad that the mall was almost empty of it's clientele. He ran into an empty hall and was about to transform, when certain sounds caught his ear: screaming. And he was sure it wasn't coming from the theater. This was real, agonized and frightened screaming. And he knew exactly where it was coming from.

Forgetting to turn into his alter-ego, Danny ran forward out of the movie place and towards the railing to the look down at the first floor of the mall below. He leaned over and his eyes widened as a small gasp escaped his throat. "No way," he whispered. The ghost...THAT GHOST!

His teeth clenched as the few screaming people that were shopping in the mall began to scatter, trying to reach the outside of the mall and free themselves of this evil's grasp. But the ghost clad in black and white merely brought one fist up, which glowed an eerie red color and doors slammed shut all around Danny, who looked in the direction of the loud claps of doors slamming shut. Scream still rang out, more frantic than before.

Then, the ghost finally looked up towards Danny and grinned a fanged smile wickedly. Danny bared his teeth in challenge and jumped onto the ariling, bent on jumping over the edge and transforming as he went. The ghost seemed to expect this, but before Danny could do anything, he found a hand on his shoulder pulling him. He yelled out as he was pulled backwards and out of sight back into the halls of the cinema. The ghost on the first floor frowned as his quarry vanished. "What's the big idea!" Danny shouted out. The two teenagers that used to be at the counter were now gone.

"You can't fight him yet!" the familiar voice shouted in reply. "He'll only lead you into causing more chaos!"

"Let me go!" Danny pulled himself out of the girl's grasp and turned towards her. He glared at the ghost before him. "Don't get in my way." His hands were tight fists and his eyes flashed green before returning to their original baby blue color.

"I was hired to do so," she said. Not a single soft or warm look passed over those cold, ice blue eyes.

"I won't tell you again," Danny said and began to walk away back towards the screaming crowds, when the girl grasped both shoulders and pushed him backwards towards a wall, pinning him down.

"No, you listen to me!" she said harshly. "I'm telling you it's a bad idea. He's trying to steer you in the wrong direction. By picking this fight, you'll only be making his job easier!"

"You don't know anything about me!" Danny said.

"I know you better than you know yourself." Nemisis's voice had a sharp edge to it that made Danny hesitate. Her eyes revealed nothing but knowledge to him. A stern weariness that told him she was not a normal ghost. The screams began to die down and a small explosion was heard. Both teens looked towards where people were running out from the movie theaters and into the regular mall.

"Oh no..." Danny whispered as the crowd frantically ran out in search of escape. "Sam..."

E/N: I don't like to use the same form of bait more than once (meaning Sam getting kidnapped or something) So 'dun worry 'bout that. Anywho, hope you liked the chapter!

--Airamé Phantom