Yes, I know this is my second story that involves New York.

The Minor's Article

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Sam wasn't normally a morning person. But that day, she felt awake, even though it was much earlier than she'd like to have gotten up.

It was usually her parents' fault when she was up at eight on weekends, and this was no exception. Today, however, she wasn't up because they told her to leave her room; it was more because they told her that she couldn't leave her room until they got back, from wherever-it-was-they-were-going. When her parents said something like that, she knew something was suspicious.

She'd watched their convertible leave the driveway before sneaking downstairs. It was then that she saw it.

Laying with an abandoned breakfast of bacon and eggs, ("Gross," Sam thought,) was the morning paper, an extra-special edition by the look of it.

She didn't bother with skimming the article; the headline alone could tell her it was bad news. She knew she had to tell her friends, so she called, but only got a hold of Tucker.

"Did you see it?" she demanded.

"See what?"

"You didn't see it? How could you not see it?"

"Sam, what am I supposed to see?"

"Look at the cover page of the paper."

"Yikes! Do you think he knows?"

"I don't know. I'm worried about him. What if his parents already saw the article and decided to take it into their own hands?"

"You're right, we better go to his house and see what's going on over there."

"See ya there!"

Sam hung up, grabbed the article and booked it over to her destination. Somehow managing to squeeze through a crowd with signs reading: 'Get Rid of the Ectoplasm!', and 'Exterminate the Ghost Boy!', she got into the Fenton Works and ran upstairs, into her friend's bedroom and shook the bed's still-sleeping occupant.

"Danny!" she shouted. "You've got to see this!"

Several things happened quickly, Danny sat up, Sam shoved the news in his face, and he took it from her, reading:

LOCAL BOY'S THREATENING IDENTITY

Daniel Fenton is a threat to our community. Why? He is a ghost.

Last week, a child endangerment investigation took place that uncovered this information, with the help of a local teacher.

Daniel's teacher, Mr. William Lancer, realized there was something wrong with the boy while filling in for Casper High's biology teacher. In the middle of the human blood unit, the curriculum called for a lab where students would study a sample of their own blood. When Fenton misbehaved, the result was nothing our of the ordinary. He would be the one to demonstrate the lab procedure in front of the class. However, when Fenton's blood went under the microscope, nearly everyone was startled to find active ectoplasm running in his blood.

Fenton shrugged it off, blaming the phenomenon on the high exposure rates in his parents' lab.

Yes, this would seem a likely excuse considering the boy's parents are the local ghost hunters, Jack and Maddie Fenton. Lancer swallowed his story, but took the blood sample to the police, fearing that the Fentons were putting both their children in jeopardy. When they studied the blood, they realized irreversible damage had already been done to the boy; the ectoplasm wasn't just in the bloodstream, it was part of his DNA.

Yes, that means the boy has mutated. He appears to be a hybrid between a human and a ghost. Studying his blood further showed that he's not just any ghost either, he's the highly dangerous and notorious Inviso-Bill.

The Amity Park Police Department is considering its options on Fenton's capture. There has been no word on how the boy's family is reacting to the news, but hopefully, they will be cooperative not only in bringing their son to justice, but in preventing any other child mutations.

Danny gulped.

Reporters and camera crews had joined the protesters in Danny's front yard, and were closing in on the Fenton Works. Looking out the window, Maddie asked, "Hey, Jack? Do you know what all those people are doing in our yard?"

Jack turned to look, just as the first reporter knocked on the door. "I don't know, let's ask."

Opening the door, Jack bellowed, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN OUR YARD?" Heavily startled, the reporters took a step back.

"Haven't you heard the news, Fenton?" one asked.

"Of course he hasn't," their cameraman replied. "Otherwise he'd have his kid disowned by now."

"What?" Jack shouted. "We'd never disown Danny or Jazz, no matter what! Uh, what did they do again?"

"That's the news we're here to cover?

"Whatever it is, we'll talk to our kids about what they've done.. If you're here to see us disown our children, you're going to be disappointed." Maddie replied.

"I don't believe that."

" Listen here, there is nothing more valuable to us than our children!" Maddie yelled. "We're parents before anything else!"

"We'll see about that! Look at your morning paper, you can clearly read it there!" someone said, shoving a paper in Jack's and Maddie's faces. "Read it and tell us what you think, we're ready to provide full coverage on your reaction."

Maddie didn't finish the first line before becoming upset. "You used my son's full name in the paper!"

"We had to, the public had to be warned."

"The public had to be warned against a child? I thought you were supposed to protect minors' identities! Danny's a minor! How dare you do this to my son? I don't care if he's a ghost, he's just a boy!"

"JUST READ THE PAPER, FENTON!" the Manson parents screamed, from under one of the protest signs. "And get our daughter out of your house, we don't want her associating with someone like that monster in there. We saw her run in."

"We'll read the paper, and send your daughter home, Mrs. Manson, but the reporters can forget about the coverage," said Maddie. "And my son IS NOT A MONSTER!"

"Now SHOO!" Jack yelled, "Before I call the police on you! GET OFF MY PROPERTY!"

Regretfully, they cleared out, leaving the Fentons alone to finish reading the main story. "Jack?" Maddie spluttered. "It says that Danny's the Ghost Boy!"