GHOST 3
Danny sluggishly arrived in class the next day his parents up at the front happy to be working a few samples of ectoplasm and one of blood. Danny blinked. Even after the earthshattering news of the "rare possession" case of Vlad Masters by the Wisconsin ghost, and Vlad leaving abruptly all of the money in his bank accounts withdrawn before word could travel too fast, the school still went on as normal. Danny wondered if they'd accept him like he was if they knew, or would he be forced into hiding like Vlad had. Danny rubbed his eyes sleepily and tried to concentrate on his parents.
"What is one way to tell a ghost and a human apart?" Jack asked. A few people raised their hands, after getting a stern look from his mom Danny raised his too and Jack beamed.
"Yes Danny boy!" Jack said. Danny put down his hand.
"They are dead." Danny said, his mom gave him a scowl but Jack nodded.
"Yes, they are, any others?" Jack asked. A few other people raised their hands again.
"They glow?" Someone asked.
"Any others?" Jack asked.
"They have bad skin!" Paulina yelled out. A few people laughed.
"Ok, they can fly!"
"They are scared of the sun."
"No square head that's vampires."
"Oh."
"They are scary!"
"They are cold!"
"Oh! They like to move your keys and stuff around so you can never find them when you need them!"
"They smell like feet!" Danny paused at this one and smelled himself. Ok he didn't smell like a basket of roses but feet was a little harsh.
"No the ghost boy smells good."
"They like to steal and take over my tech." Tucker joined in.
"They think Tucker is a great damsel in distress." Sam said rolling her eyes at Tucker.
"They can't stop talking about themselves and shouting out their evil plans." Danny added.
"They have weird skin colors."
"They go oooooooo at night!"
"They are scary!"
"You already said that!"
"So they are."
"They are evil."
"They-"
"Alright I think that's quite enough." Maddie said calling the class to attention, "A lot of you have given some pretty good ideas. Most of the biggest ones are they are cold, they glow, and they have special powers. Ghosts, also have more stamina than humans for the most part. The stronger the ghost the more stamina. Ghosts also feed of the living, so if a ghost was near you, you might feel unexplainably tired." Maddie said, "We are going to do some testing with ectoplasm today." Maddie said.
Jack came for the with a small beaker of ectoplasm.
"Ectoplasm is what makes up a ghost, it is through ecto-energy that the ghost continues to exist. Now ecto-energy can run at different frequencies and intensities depending on the ghost. A ghost can usually control and alter these energies and frequencies and manifest them into a beam of energy we call a ghost ray." Maddie said. "The ecto-energy is supplied by a ghost's core similar to a human's heart you could say. The core is the source of all their power. Most of the ghost's powers is just done by manipulating the ectoplasm in the ghost's body. Since a ghost can created different attacks and defense from the same energy that creates them it is a wonder how this energy can hurt another ghost. If a ghost adjusts the frequency of the energy they can then disrupt the rate at which the other ghost is monitoring their own thus causing a harmful effect on the afflicted ghost that some humans may confused with pain."
Danny grumbed at this remembering all the times he'd been hit with an ecto blast.
"Our own ghost weapons run on this theory, the frequency of the ray is out of synch with a ghost's own frequency and can disrupt their flow till we subdue them. Because a ghost is just ectoplasm with ecto energy holding it together if their energy was cut off they would melt. If they were in the ghost zone it is possible that the energy would break down the ectoplasm and scatter it among the energy already in the ghost zone, though a case has never been heard of since a ghost is usually stronger in the ghost zone." Maddie said. She passed the beaker of ectoplasm around.
"Ectoplasm is generally pretty cold and it evaporates at just over the common human temperature, 102.2 and all though that does seem pretty high some of our summer days are hotter than that. A ghost sucks all the energy from the air and the humans around him to sustain both their flow of energy when manifested in the human world and to keep them from evaporating into nothing." Maddie explained, "This defense mechanism is quite foolproof and we have yet to figure out a way to heat a ghost up so hot short of inflicting it with a virus, and since a ghost can't get sick, it would be rather ridiculous to do so." Maddie joked, Danny looked into the beaker the ectoplasm swirling around in it. Danny felt sick and he passed it back.
"Any questions so far?" Maddie asked. Dash raised his hand.
"Couldn't you just throw a ghost into a fire or something a burn him up?" Dash asked. Maddie nodded.
"We considered the possibility, the defense mechanism of drawing the energy around them to keep them cool works up to five hundred degrees, however we were unable to test any higher for fear of causing something to break, we were surprised we got up to five hundred without something going horribly wrong." Maddie said. Danny put his hand on his desk. Maddie pulled out a thermos and let out a small ghost grabbing the leash.
"I AM THE BMMMZXX GHHSST!" The rest of the rant was muffled as Maddie stuck a thermometer into BG's mouth. Maddie pulled it out and read the temperature.
"38.2 degrees." Maddie said. Everyone was engrossed. Maddie smiled then put the box ghost back into the thermos.
"I need a volunteer." Maddie said pulling out a clean thermometer. Paulina walked up to the front butt swinging like a pendulum the whole way. Maddie gave her the thermometer then pulled it out and read it like she did with the box ghost.
"98.5" Maddie read. A few others went up including Jazz all of which had in between 98.4 to 98.8. Danny started to space out and began doodling the box ghost onto his paper bored, then gave the box ghost a moustache.
"Danny dear." Maddie said. Danny jumped then looked at Maddie.
"Huh?" he asked. Maddie gave him the look.
"Come up here, we're taking your temperature." She said. Danny looked around frantically.
"Now Danny." Maddie said firmly causing a few people to snicker. Danny blushed then went up to Maddie and took the thermometer hoping it wouldn't show up. Maddie smiled at Danny then took the thermometer then frowned down at the result.
"This can't be right." Maddie frowned. Danny blushed deeper.
"What is it?" Kwan asked. Maddie shook her head.
"Something must be wrong, I'll try again." Maddie stuck the thermometer into Danny's mouth once more, it beeped and Maddie looked down at the result looking for something different then frowning when she didn't get it.
"68.4" Maddie read. She then dug through her bag and cleaned off a regular thermometer sticking it into Danny's mouth.
"My digital must be glitch." Maddie smiled. Danny tried to smile but ended up grimacing.
"68" Maddie read again. Danny blushed and shuffled his feet. The bell rang but nobody moved except Danny who dashed to his desk picking up his stuff before he and Sam and Tucker raced out of there.
That's a good enough place to end it.