Danny returned back to the house invisibly and sighed in relief. He walked up to the others who were staring out the window keeping an eye out for him, he turned visible and asked, "Whose turn is it?"
"It's my turn" Dani answered as they all sighed in relief. Sam then started, "You could have told us there was a ghost in there that hunts people"
"Well I didn't know okay. It's just a roll of a dice" Danny said sarcastically.
"Is he the reason you didn't want to play?" Dani asked as they headed back to the library. Sam stopped and scoffed as she heard that.
"You didn't want to play either? You Mr oh we started something twenty-two years ago and now we gotta finish it?" Sam asked as they continued.
Billy and Dani sat down at the table while Danny and Sam continued talking, "So what's the deal with this guy?"
"He's a hunter Sam. He hunts and he either collects or kills things and right now he wants to hunt and kill me" Danny answered.
"Why you?" She asked. He shrugged and answered, "Me? I don't know. Other the fact that I'm half-human, half-ghost everything about me he finds offensive"
"You ever thought about sitting down and talking about your differences?" Sam suggested. Danny looked at her in disbelief, "Are you crazy?! The man has a gun…"
"Don't ever call me crazy Danny!" Sam snapped with a frown. "Ever! 'Cause everyone in this town has called me crazy ever since I told the cops you were sucked into a board game"
"Maybe you should just take your turn Dani" Billy said as the two watched them argue.
"You know what it's like to be known as the Goth girl who saw Danny Fenton murdered? Do you think anyone besides Tucker showed up at sixteenth birthday party?" Sam continued.
"Look I'm sorry all that happened to you but think about what I went through Sam" Danny said. "I never asked to be given ghost powers. I had to spend every single day trying to survive the next day praying that someone out here would get me out and when I finally get out I find out that my sister died and also my father and the last thing I said to him was I hated him. How do you think that makes me feel?"
As the two continued Dani rolled the dice and after the game piece moved she read the message on the gem, "Don't be fooled, it isn't thunder. Staying put would be a blunder"
They both suddenly heard a rumbling noise coming from the bookshelf. Danny and Sam stopped arguing and Danny slowly walked towards the shelf and listened carefully as the noise got louder and the room began to shake. Some books started falling off the shelf.
Danny turned to them and shouted, "Run! It's a stampede!"
Dani, Billy and Sam immediately ran out of the room while Danny quickly grabbed the game and followed just as the entire shelf exploded and dozens of different ghost animals from giant snakes, wolves, tigers, lions, elephants, squids and everything came stampeding through the hallways.
"DON'T LOOK BACK!" Danny shouted as he ran.
They all quickly jumped into another room as the stampede broke right through the walls at the end of the house and out to the streets of Amity Park. One ectopus suddenly landed in front of them and before they could do anything, it grabbed the game and flew off.
Danny changed into his ghost form and flew after the ectopus as he shouted, "Why didn't you grab the game Billy?!"
Billy looked down thinking it was his fault but Sam said, "Just ignore him honey"
"Where are you going?!" Sam called out to him. Danny called back, "He'll head for water!"
All three of them followed after him unaware that thanks to the stampede the portable shield and Danny's ice barrier had been broken and now Undergrowth was heading for the streets and forests of Amity Park already growing back stronger than ever.
TO BE CONTINUED…