Chapter 3
A plan is made
Danny stumbled up the stairs to Fenton works. His fuming parent's greeted him at the door, just having received a call from Mr. Lancer. Their son literally collided into them in his fearful rush. "Danny what are you -" His mom stopped in mid-sentence. "Honey, you look a bit peakish, is everything okay?" She asked, lifting his chin for a better view. "I'm fine." He snapped stubbornly, pushing her hand away. "If you need me I'll be in my room. "Son you look like you've seen a ghost," said Jack with a hint of humor. Danny rolled his eyes at the bad pun and escaped to the stairs, his parent's concerned stares followed every step.
He halted by Jazz's door and gave it a quick check, nothing, she wasn't home. The young halfa slowed his pace and thought back to the recent events. "There's some type of ghost wolf on the loose," he thought to himself, "It almost looked as if she knew him. How did she know the Fenton Thermos was dangerous? I mean, wolves don't just go around deliberately knocking soup containers out of people's hands." He stepped into his room and locked the door behind him, as the teenager had predicted, his computer was gone.
"The ghost wolf obviously isn't a coincidence, it was there for something." Danny began to pace. The situation was similar to when the ghost puppy had escaped from the ghost portal a year back, looking for it's toy, but wild animals were way beyond him. The teenager stopped at the sight of himself in the mirror. His mom was right, he did look unwell, the color had drained from his face after the fright the wolf gave him. At least it was starting to return to it's normal pinkish shade. Why did the she scare him so much? It was those eyes that seemed to stab him like a knife, every time she looked at him her gaze seemed to lock Danny into space and send fear pulsing through his veins. The animal greatly disturbed him, he usually had more courage than that, but something about this wolf was unnatural, maybe it was the eyes, or the alarming size and shape of its teeth. He lay back on his bed and gazed out the window. For the first time in his life, Danny wished Jazz was there so he could talk to her. She always understands, even on those rare occasions when he didn't understand himself.
A stone bounced off the window screen. Danny hastily sat up and opened the window. Tucker was giving him an offended stare from the alleyway below. "We have a door ya'know." Danny told him with a hint of annoyance. "You promised me you would meet me at the arcade fifteen minutes ago! What happened?" Danny gave a tired sigh as he remembered the meeting they had arranged at lunch earlier that afternoon. "A lot of things happened, look, come around out front and I'll meet you there.
Danny finished explaining to Tucker everything about the mysterious wolf a while later back in his bedroom. "Wow, Sam's gonna want to hear this." Tucker said fishing a sleek looking cell phone out of his pocket. Danny was watching Jazz pull into the driveway. "What was that? Oh, right, tell her to meet us here as soon as possible, Jazz just got back, I want to have a little meeting. "Meeting?" Tucker echoed, confused. "Since when have we held meetings?" "Since wild ghost wolves started appearing in alleyways Danny replied, heading for the door, only to open it and find Jazz already standing there. "Hey, Danny can I borrow your-" "Good, you're here, come in." he interrupted straightaway and pulled her into the room by a shoulder. "Danny, don't be so rude!" She complained, pushing him away. "Ow! Jazz! "He whined pushing her back. " Oh, grow up both of you!" Tucker said pushing between them "I just talked to Sam, she should be here soon" "It's not my fault you're so immature!" the two siblings told each other at the same time. Tucker gave up and began fiddling with his cell phone in Danny's chair. "How am I the immature one?" They both protested together again.
When Sam came, she was greeted by two bickering teenagers and Tucker playing downloaded games on his phone. She shut the door behind her, everyone looked up in surprise. Nobody had noticed her walk in. "Finally, now let's get down to business," Danny said in his bold voice. "Who made you boss?" Jazz muttered. He shot her a glare before continuing. "Something really weird happened today, Tucker already knows about it…."
The rest of the afternoon was spent explaining and planning. Everyone agreed this wolf was a problem and needed to be removed somehow, and after some talking even Jazz and Danny began to cooperate with each other. Sam suggested they use the 'Boo-merang' to track the wolf, it instantly became a popular idea. The kids planned and arranged until a simple plan was agreed, they would meet after school the next day, Jazz would bring four Fenton Thermoses for everyone and Danny used his power's to sneak into his parent's lab and swipe the Boo-merang. The task took much longer than he had expected, a lot of time was spent rummaging through disorganized piles of lab equipment and tools until Sam, Tucker, and Jazz finally came down to see what was taking so long, defeating the entire purpose of being secretive. Luckily Jack and Maddie never noticed the parade of teenagers in their lab. Danny was to bring the Boo-merang with him to school tomorrow. That way it could be used to track the wolf, and hopefully the fully armed kids could take her down together.
Hours later Danny and Jazz saw Sam and Tucker to the door, said their farewells, and departed. After the door shut Danny instantly headed for his room, Jazz caught up with him in the hallway. "You didn't seem yourself today, is everything okay?" "I'm fine" he growled defensively, pushing past her. Jazz glared at him as he stormed off. Typical.