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"Ugh," Tucker muttered, standing up.
"'Ugh' is right," Sam said, getting up off the floor.
"Are you all alright?" Maddie asked everyone.
A series of "Yeah"s, "Yes"s, "Yep"s, "I guess"s, and one "Do I look okay to you? My hair is completely messed up, and my clothes are all wrinkled!" answered Maddie's question.
"Wait a minute," Jazz suddenly spoke up. "Where's Danny!?"
"What!?" Maddie exclaimed.
Everyone immediately began to look around the Fenton Bus.
"I found him!" Valerie called.
She pulled Danny out from under one of the Fenton Bus's seats.
"He must have fell under there when we fell," She said.
Maddie rushed over to her son.
"Oh, dear. He is going to have a bruise on his forehead. He must have hit something and got knocked out," Maddie informed everyone.
"Ow," Danny suddenly moaned.
He sat up and looked around at everyone. He smiled sheepishly when he noticed they were all staring at him. He reached up to scratch behind his neck, which was his habit when he was nervous or uncomfortable, but he flinched when his hand came in contact with the sore skin.
It'll heal really quickly, seeing that I am half ghost, Danny thought.
He stood up and made his way to the door of the Fenton Bus.
"Where do you think you're going?" Maddie asked him.
"I'm just going to look around," Danny replied without turning around. Before anyone could stop him, he had opened the door of the Fenton Bus and hopped down onto the natural path.
"Hmm," Danny muttered to himself.
Sam came out and stood beside him.
"Recognize anything?" she whispered quietly so that no one could hear her but Danny.
"No," Danny answered just as quietly. "Time to call a Team Phantom meeting."
"Definitely," Sam agreed. "Hey, Jazz and Tucker! Come out here! We need to talk!"
Jazz and Tucker quickly joined them and they started to walk away from the Fenton Bus.
"Daniel James Fenton. Get back over here," Maddie commanded.
"Mom, I'm fine. Just give us a minute. We need to talk," Danny said.
Maddie hesitated. "Fine, but only a minute. I am going to keep an eye on you," she told him.
"Thanks," Danny said before he and Team Phantom moved down the natural path where it went over a small island. They sat down behind a large rock to talk.
"This is an official Team Phantom meeting, in case you were wondering. Okay, so I don't recognize this place, how about any of you?" Danny started.
"No. We wouldn't recognize it any better than you. You have been here more than any of us," Jazz answered.
"Alright, so we don't know where we are, and no one will listen to us if we try to take the lead. Got any ideas?" Tucker stated.
"Actually, yeah," Sam said. "We let your parents take the lead. This path crosses the route we were taking, so that means that, unless it turns, there isn't a way to get back to the Fenton Portal from here. So, it doesn't matter too much which way your parents decide to take us. We just keep moving until you recognize something. Then you take the lead, only explain that you have been here a "few" times if you need to, and lead us out of here. What do you think?"
"Wow," Tucker said. "Did you just come up with all of that?"
"Not really," Sam answered. "I thought we might need a plan if something went wrong. I just never thought we would have to travel on foot."
"Well, it is a pretty good idea," Jazz commented. "I like it."
"Wait, wait, wait," Danny said. "What if my parents decide that it is better for us to just stay in the Fenton Bus?"
"Well, then you will just have to convince them otherwise," Sam stated.
"This should be interesting," Tucker said as a smile grew on his face.
Danny gave Tucker a fake glare. "Fine. I'll see what I can do, but you better help me out if I need to convince them to walk on a path through the Ghost Zone, where any ghost could see us and attack."
Team Phantom smiled as they headed back to the Fenton Bus.
"So what's the plan?" Danny asked his mom casually.
"Either we stay here, or we travel on the path that we landed on. I am still not sure which would be the better option," Maddie answered.
"Well if my vote counts for anything, I say that we should go on the path," Danny said. "I don't really care which direction we go in."
"I don't know, that would be rather dangerous," Maddie said unsurely.
"Well, if we stay here, we will run out of food and water eventually," Danny stated. "No one will realize that we are missing for a week, and we only brought food and water for that long."
"Well, we brought extra in case someone was extra hungry, or if we wanted snacks," Maddie said.
"Still, we are in the Ghost Zone. It will be rather hard for someone to find us, even when they do realize that we are missing," Danny told her.
"You have some good points. I would almost say that you were trying to persuade me to have everyone walk on the path!" Maddie said, laughing slightly, "I will think it over, then talk to everyone about the choice that I make. Possibly with the help of your father… but probably not. Until then we will just have to stay here and keep our eyes open for ghosts."
"Yeah," Danny muttered as he walked away towards the back of the crashed Fenton Bus. "We definitely need to keep our eyes open."
Maddie waved Jack over to her. Danny could hear them talking in the front of the Fenton Bus with his enhanced ghostly hearing.
"How did it go?" Sam asked when he joined Team Phantom at the back of the bus.
"I think I convinced her rather well," Danny answered, staring out the window.
"What is it Danny?" Jazz asked, noticing his far off look.
Danny glanced at her then looked back out the window.
"Who knows what ghosts we are going to run into?" Danny said quietly.
"Probably all of them," Tucker said like it was nothing. "Just kidding," he added after getting a glare from Sam.
Danny then glared at him.
"Did you seriously just say that?" Danny questioned. "Dude! You just jinxed us! First Sam jinxed us, and now you have! Jazz will jinx us next!"
"Come on Danny," Jazz said, annoyed. "Jinxes aren't real."
"Told ya," Danny moaned. "You just made the jinx more… What's the word? Solid? Well you just made it so that we are definitely jinxed. Now I know something bad will happen."
Just then, Maddie and Jack walked into the main area of the Fenton Bus.
"We have decided what we should do," Maddie began. "But we would like to know what you all think. We have decided to walk along the strange path-like structure that we have landed on, in hopes that we will be able to find the Fenton Portal."
This caused an uproar.
"What!? Are you crazy!?"
"I am not leaving here!"
"What makes you think that that is a good idea!?"
"I agree with them…"
"You expect me to walk a long distance!? Do you know who I am!? You must be insane!"
"Ugh… This noise is giving me a headache."
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! WILL EVERYONE PLEASE SETTLE DOWN!"
At their teacher's voice, everyone did as they were told. They quieted down. Mostly.
"Ooooh! Do you think we'll see the ghost boy out there?" a girls dreamy voice carried through the otherwise quiet Fenton Bus.
Ignoring Paulina's comment, Maddie began to speak.
"Now, my husband and I have talked about it and we think that this is our best choice. If we stay here, it will be a week before anyone notices that we are gone. If we leave, we may be able to make it back to the Fenton Portal with food to spare."
The class thought her words over slowly. Then, one after another, they slowly nodded.
"Alright, we will gather our things from the compartments under the bus and decide which direction to travel in," Maddie ordered.
"Yeah! Including the fudge you packed!" Jack's excited voice cut through the air.
Everyone filed out of the bus, talking in groups. The last to leave the bus was Team Phantom.
Everyone began opening different compartments of the bus, finding their luggage, and then walking away from the bus slightly, so that they weren't in anyone's way.
Maddie was standing apart from everyone, examining each direction that the path lead.
"I think that we should go this way," Maddie said finally, pointing to the right from where everyone was standing.
Danny looked that way. He then looked the other way. He didn't see anything different between the two. Why did his mom pick that direction? He was about to voice this question when someone else spoke up.
"Why should we go that way?" Dash asked in an annoying voice. "It doesn't look different at all."
"Well, if you look closely, you can see that there are less doors floating around, which means there are less ghosts to run into," Maddie stated.
No one argued with her. They started walking in that direction. Mostly everyone had brought a backpack or rolling suitcase, so it wasn't too much trouble to carry those. Jack, Maddie, and Danny had volunteered to carry the food and water. Maddie wouldn't let Danny carry anything at first, for she didn't know that he had ghostly strength, but after a while of Danny annoying her to let him carry something, she finally gave in.
They hadn't been walking for long when people began to get bored.
"I wish that something interesting would happen!" Paulina shouted, getting irritated that nothing interesting had happened since they started walking.
Purple mist suddenly filled the air. A ghost that looked like a genie emerged dramatically from the heavy purple smoke.
"So you have wished it, so shall it be!" She said with an evil smile on her face.
Suddenly, she disappeared, leaving behind the purple mist.
"Oh no… Why didn't I think to warn people not to wish for anything?" Danny muttered to himself.
As if a gust of wind had blown through the Ghost Zone, the purple mist swirled gracefully before disappearing.
In its wake, it left three ghosts that Sam recognized immediately.
"Nightmerica? Femalien? Terminatra? But-but-" Sam stuttered.
"But you all vanished right in front of me," Danny finished. "Well, except Nightmerica, who I sucked into the thermos."
"Yeah, well, if your girlfriend over there was able to wish us up once, Desiree was able to bring us back again to, as your friend wished, 'make things interesting,'" Terminatra answered in a hoarse voice.
"Alright, bring it on," Sam said as she reached into her backpack and pulled out a Fenton Wrist Ray.
Danny also pulled out a wrist ray, while Tucker pulled out a thermos.
Nightmerica was the first to attack. With green claws extended, she lunged at Sam, who was closest to her.
Terminatra made a dash at Danny, while Femalien attacked Tucker.
Suddenly, a new person joined the fight.
"Valerie?" Tucker asked as she expertly kicked Femalien's side.
"Yep," Valerie answered simply before leaving Tucker to take care of Femalien.
"Oh, hey Val," Danny said casually as he blasted Terminatra with his wrist ray.
"One question," Valerie said as she punched Terminatra's left side, preventing her from dodging Danny's blasts. "How do you know these ghosts?"
"Oh, um," Danny started. "Well, long story short, Desiree, the wishing ghost, casts a messed up version of any wish she hears. One time she overheard a wish that Sam had made, and these three ghosts were the result."
"Danny, catch!" Tucker called. He had sucked Femalien into the thermos already, so he was planning on letting Danny use it now. After making sure that Danny had heard him, he threw the thermos to his friend.
Danny caught it and hastily sucked Terminatra into it.
"Thanks Tuck!" Danny called before going to help Sam with Nightmerica.
While Sam kept Nightmerica busy by dodging her attacks, and sending some of her own, Danny snuck up behind her.
Sam saw what he was doing, and kept Nightmerica's attention on herself.
"Hey, you really need to get your nails cut," Danny commented when he was right behind Nightmerica. Nightmerica turned around, only to get sucked into the thermos by a swirling vortex of blue light.
"Not again!" she groaned before being completely sucked into the thermos.
"Nice job Danny!" Sam congratulated, giving him a high five.
"You too," he replied with a smile.
They both turned to find a group of people with their mouths hanging open.
Ugh, Danny thought to himself. How come I always forget that people are watching me when I fight ghosts?
"Uh… We should probably get moving…?" Danny said, but it came out more like a question than he intended it to. "Oh, and as a side note, please, nobody say the words "I wish," followed by anything."
"Oh… Yeah…" Maddie agreed.
I seriously need to have a talk with him. Maddie was thinking as they started walking again.
They were walking for some time before Danny suddenly spoke up.
Within view was an icy realm.
"I recognize this place! It's Klemper's realm!"
This sudden outburst made everyone stare at Danny in shock.
Then almost everyone spoke up at once.
"WHAT!?"
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