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Chapter 5

At the Fenton Works...

Maddie stood at the sink washing dishes, separating the broken plates from the good ones. The last meal was contaminated with ectoplasm from the ecto-powered microwave which resulted in the usage of ectoguns during dinner. Then wiping the dishes dry, she frowned and rubbed the cloth she held harder at a green speck of goo stuck tightly on one of the plates. Unable to remove the goo, she threw the plate into the box labeled 'Contaminated' which was already half filled with multicolored goo coated objects. Jack was sitting in the kitchen, fixing the Fenton Ghost Detector, ignoring the wires sparkling with electricity.

"Mom, Danny said that he would be a bit late tonight doing researches for his report. He also said that he already ate dinner outside so that you won't have to cook for him." Jazz was standing with a phone in one hand while the other was holding a book and some notes.

Maddie paused from her work and thought for a moment.

Finally she shrugged and answered, "Okay Jazz, tell him that he could be a bit late but remind him to return before ten or else he would be spending his next month, grounded."

"Okay mom. I'll tell him."

"Okay, now that I told my parents I would be late tonight, I won't have to worry about getting in trouble. Well, at least if I returned home before eleven." Danny said to himself, dodging another ectoblast from a wolf-like ghost while putting his phone back into his pocket.

Danny then kicked the ghost and flew to a nearby parking lot. While waiting for the angered animal ghost to follow him, Danny closed his eyes and concentrated, his hands glowing slightly blue. Soon the ghost appeared around the corner of the last building, running at a fast speed, its mouth open wide, fangs bared. The creature leapt across the parking lot and towards Danny with it claws spread wide apart and fangs bared, eyes filled with anger, gleaming crimson. Danny frowned for a second, his hands turning brighter blue before opening his eyes, also of the same color, to look at the attacking ghost. He quickly raised his arms towards the ghost and spread his hands wide apart. Sparkling cold blue ray emanated from both his hands and hit the enemy at full force, freezing the ghost instantly. Danny slightly drained, flew back towards the way he came and looked for his friends. Finding one of them, he silently dropped in front of his friend, earning an angry glare.

"Tucker, could you pass me the thermos?" Danny asked quickly; then added, "Uh, why are you glaring at me?"

"Dude! You nearly scared me to death! Next time, warn me first. Or just at least make some noise so that I know you're here. Here's the thermos." Tucker said, annoyed and tossed a thermos from his backpack. "By the way, what happened to your thermos?"

"Let's just say that it's now in too many small pieces to count. And thanks for the thermos again. I'll give you a new one tomorrow at school. Meet me at the parking lot, tell Sam too." Danny hurriedly said, before taking to the air again. From there, he saw Sam running out onto the sidewalk from another corner. 'Probably taking a shortcut' Danny thought to himself.

Then quickly, not to lose time, Danny urged himself to fly faster back to the parking lot. Arriving there, he opened the thermos and sucked in the frozen ghost before it could escape. Quickly surveying the area for damages resulting from the fight and finding none, Danny invisibly flew into a dark alley to change back to human. Once done, he ran out to meet his two friends.

"Thanks for the help guys. I guess we're done here. You two could go home now. I'll go patrolling one more time before returning to the Fenton Works. And Tuck, I promise I'll get you another spare thermos tomorrow."

"Bye dude, see ya two tomorrow at school. I'd better run home before I get grounded again." Tucker said before running home.

Sam turned to Danny with a worried expression and said, "Danny, before you return, to the Fenton Works, just be careful okay. About your dad's new invention, I have a bad feeling about it."

"Don't worry Sam. If it worked, my parents would've come after me already right? The invention didn't work, and I'm still here, not in a cage or on a dissecting table. See, you don't have to worry too much. We'll all be fine. See you tomorrow." Danny said, going for his last patrol. Soon, he was just a dot in the horizon among the many stars in the night sky. Sam looked at him until she could see him no more and said quietly, "I hope you're right Danny…"

Finally, another chapter is done. The next chapter should be more interesting. I also just noticed that my line breaks weren't included in my previous chapters when I uploaded them. So I went back and use straight lines for it instead. It should make things easier to understand. Thank you for all the reviews.

~Blue Wolf Moon