Disclaimer: Well I finally finished the chapter so here it is! Thanks to my reviewers broken0dream, uula, Writer's-BlockDP, Phantom Shade, and watshiwapikushidesu! You all are amazing!

So here you go… Lamia had fun with this.

Chapter 3

Danny put on a brave face.

"I don't know who you are, but no one hunts people in this town!" He powered up and ecto-blast and waited as the ghost's attention was drawn to him.

"Aah… the Phantom child," she let out a breath like a hiss and continued, "and the Manson girl." She let out something resembling a chuckle, "And the Foley boy, how quaint." Her leer revealed gleaming fangs as she fixed them all with her cruel, dark purple eyes, her enormous bat-like wings unfolding behind her like someone stretching their arms after a rest. "You didn't notice those parents of yours sneaking away perhaps. I'm supposed to kill them." The specter's grin widened. Danny felt sick looking at her. The girl radiated blood lust like an invisible aura, and she only looked around sixteen years old. Her raven hair fell in waves to bare shoulders with obvious burn marks on them from her battle with his parents.

"You're not touching them," Danny spat, looking with loathing at the ghost.

"Oh, but I already have child," she hissed, flying herself backwards to crouch on the top of a lamppost that had survived her assault, "I just need to finish the job." She balled a fist and it glowed a near-black purple and gave him another toothy grin.

"Child?" Sam whispered, "She looks our age, maybe a year older at most!"

"So, boy, will you dare to stand in my way. I am not ordered to destroy you."

"Yea well, you don't get to destroy my parents either!" Danny hollered, letting loose the charged blast directly at the girl's head. But the specter simply raised a protective dome around herself.

"As you wish," she hissed and, faster than lightning, launched herself at the young halfa. Danny launched another attack at the ghost, clipping one of her wings, but she had already seized the teen by the shoulders and flew him into the side of a building before he could power up another beam.

"Get off of him you overgrown bat!" Sam yelled, chucking a rather large piece of broken metal at the ghost's head, making contact. The girl looked over her shoulder at Sam, a hungry look in her eyes. "Oh how I will enjoy feasting on your flesh!" she shrieked, flying at Sam, hands outstretched to seize her prey's neck.

"Sam!" Danny screamed, but a blast from nowhere sent the ghost hurtling towards the ground.

"Step away from the minor ghostie! You're going down!" Jack Fenton hollered, him and Maddie standing protectively in front of Sam and Tucker. Danny took the opportunity to send a larger-than-necessary ecto-blast at the girl, launching her into a massive pile of debris; Danny's parents looked up at him.

"You're next ghost kid!" his mother yelled as she readied her weapon and pointed it at the ghost. Danny took that as a signal that they were working together…

At least, for now.

"Take this spook!" his dad cried, running straight for the ghost with the Jack-O-Ninetails while Maddie covered him with gunfire. Jack released the weapon at the ghost when he was in range, the tails wrapping around the girl's arms. Danny flew down as the teen struggled against her bonds like a caged animal.

"Bye bye batty." He powered up a blast and let it go, point-blank, in the ghost's face as Jack released her, sending her hurtling into a building. She shook herself off and growled threateningly, "You'll pay for that humans!" and powered two ecto-blasts in each hand, her eyes glowing a… darker purple if that were possible.

But then she powered down, glancing at the black band on her left wrist.

"Already? Damn," she looked back at the ghost hunters, "I'll have to feast later I'm afraid. Until then…" Two smaller blasts were launched in the group's direction as the ghost took to the skies and flew off, launching one last larger attack over her shoulder, Danny forming a shield around the entire group to block it.

His mom glanced up at him.

"Get out of here Phantom, before I change my mind."

Danny took the hint of anger in his mom's voice and sped away at top speed, changing into Danny Fenton around the corner and jogging back again.

"I just saw Phantom fly around the corner! What happened?"

"Another attack by that bat girl, but we scared her off!" Jack said proudly, "And that Phantom kid too!"

"Awesome dad." Danny faked enthusiasm in his voice, sharing a glance with Sam and Tucker. "Well we better get back to the house."

"Danny, why didn't you go there when we told you to?" his mom asked, giving her son a disapproving gaze.

It was Tucker who thought quick this time.

"We were but she attacked us and chased us back here. Well, me and Sam at least. She had blasted Danny into some dumpsters. We tried to get to him but she was too strong! That's why he's so beat up."

Danny and Sam gaped at the tech geek as Jack and Maddie surrounded their son. "Oh sweetheart! Are you alright? Did that ghost hurt my baby boy?" His mother hugged him to her chest as his father clapped him on the back. "Aww not much can keep down a Fenton huh? Still healthy as a horse! Look at 'cha you're already healing!"

Danny looked down at his hands, some of his smaller bruises were already gone; he panicked.

"Yea well, lotsa white blood cells and all that… uhh… gotta go um… do some… stuff! Bye!" He wriggled out of his mother's grip and ran out of the destroyed street with his friends close behind.

Back at Fentonworks Danny paced his room, Sam sat on the bed, fiddling with the sheets, and Tucker was leaning on the closet door, a thoughtful look on his face.

"Who was that ghost?" Sam wondered aloud, looking up at her two friends. Danny spun as he reached his wall. "I don't know, but we need to find out why she wanted my parents!"

"Maybe… maybe it's just 'cuz they, you know, hunt ghosts, so the ghosts fear them and want to, I don't know, get rid of them?"

"By eating them? That's harsh and inhumane!" Sam insisted, crossing her arms across her chest.

"That ghost is going to try again, I just know it."

"Are you sure? Maybe she's gone for good," Tucker suggested.

"Tucker she practically said she'd be back! Remember? 'I'll have to feast later.' She's going to be back."

"And we'll be ready," Danny said, his eyes glowing green; Sam nodded. "She seemed to have left 'cuz she was being called back."

"Maybe she's hired by someone else," Tucker suggested. "Vlad perhaps?"

"But she was trying to," Danny paused a moment before continuing, the thought still making him feel sick, "eat both of my parents. Vlad only goes after dad; he leaves my mom alone."

"So than who?" Sam asked looking worriedly at Danny, "Who else has a grudge against you or your parents and has the ability to hire someone to do the job and recalls them?"

"The Guys in White?" Tuck suggested.

"They certainly have the means to hire a ghost but… would they? And to eat my parents? I don't think so." Danny shook his head. "What about Walker? We haven't seen him for a while. What's he been up to?"

"Walker seems the type to take matters into his own hands or send his goons after you, not send someone he's hired to off your parents." Sam crossed her legs and bit her lip in thought.

"Freakshow?" Tucker wondered aloud, looking between his friends, "He could have done it."

"I think after last summer he's locked up in the GIW's evil ghostaphobic clutches," Danny chuckled. It was fun infiltrating the GIW headquarters. They really had almost no ghost defenses; it was a walk in the park to get in.

"What about a totally new enemy?" Sam suggested, getting an inspired look in her eye. "Or a whole group of new enemies out to destroy all ghost hunters or something!" She waved her hands in the air to add to the effect but Tucker just chuckled.

"Come on Sam, a group of ghost hunter hunters? A little bit conspiracy theory don'tcha think?"

"Well I don't see any other options," Sam said, crossing her arms over her chest. "And it's not a conspiracy theory!"

"Well there's no way to tell for certain what's going on," Danny concluded, "So we just have to wait it out for now and hope we can stop whoever it is.

"Before they get to us," Tucker muttered. Danny and Sam shot him a look. "Well I'm just saying!" He let out a yell when Sam chucked Danny's pillow at him and fell over trying to get out of the way. "I will destroy you!" Tuck cried, his voice cracking oh the "you." Sam and Danny burst into laughter and Tucker joined in moments later.

"Kids! Time for lunch!" Mrs. Fenton called up the stairs and the trio all scrambled up and out the door, knowing that Danny's dad was probably bolting down half the food that very moment and wanting some for themselves…

So long as Maddie hadn't made it ghost proof or something…

An hour and half a dozen evil cheeseburgers later Tucker, Sam, and Danny rushed out the front door of Fentonworks and down the street headed for their favorite house of mindless videogames.

"Got them in my sites Xanir," a girl said as she agjusted a com link in her ear, watching the trio intently from the top of a building, "Should I move in now?" Her muscular legs tensed, ready to leap down onto the teenage girl's shoulders.

"No. Bossman wants us to stay where we are Boa. Observation only. And keep your distance; that ghost sense of his has a nice sized range."

"Fine," Boa pouted, crossing her arms over her chest, "But this is getting boring. Can we at least frighten some of those humans while we're sitting around?"

"I agree with you there but no. We gotta watch the kids as his Highness commands Silvertips."

"I'm sure he wouldn't mind-"

"Maybe not for you, but he's not nearly as fond of me. He'd have my head sweetheart," the boy said. Boa jumped over a few more roofs to keep an eye on her targets.

"I'm not your sweetheart," the girl muttered, and there was laughter over the other end of the com. "Shut up."

The laughter stopped slowly, as though Xanir was fighting to regain control of himself. After a few moments he spoke again. "Alright, Nix is in position at the house. We've got an all clear here sweetheart; time to move in!"

"I'm not your sweetheart!" Boa protested, but Xanir just chuckled again.

"Come on Silvertips. Three… Two… One… Go!"

A knife came speeding down from one of the buildings opposite the Gaming place, shattering the front window. Xanir rocketed down from his perch and through the open window. Boa phased herself through the back wall and into the chaos of fleeing nerds.

Time to cause some damage…

Nix stretched her wings as the alarm went off in the Fenton's house, surveying the small living room with distaste. Humans and their dwellings…

Jack Fenton burst into the room, guns blazing and Maddie not far behind. They skidded to a halt at the scene before the while Nix tightened her hold on their daughter. Jazz struggled but there was no contest; the Fenton was no match for her.

"So are you going to come quietly, or will I have to eat her?" the ghost tasted the sweat of the teen's face and grinned menacingly at the adults.

Both parents took no longer than a second to throw their guns at her feet.

"Perfect…"

Yea, kinda a filler chapter later I know but necessary to move the plot. I didn't much like it but my muses say it has to be there so…

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