Authors Notes: So… here we are again.
Yay! I can't believe it! I'm doing so well! *free virtual cookies for everyone!*… Don't eat those… they taste really bad. It's more like a gesture than a real gift… that you hold in your heart for however long it makes you happy.
Anyway… I noticed my line brakes disappeared for some odd reason last chapter- don't know what caused it- but I will fix it, eventually… I also forgot about the whole time and place thing I was doing… I will fix that latter too…
No more talk, excuses, promises, or happiness! I must continue the story!

Okay… Happiness is fine. I will allow that…

Surviving the Titans

Chapter 18: Fright and Two Freaks

Outside Casper High: Sunday

The bright end of Maddie's ghost staff landed with a solid 'ZAP!' as it hit its target. The small ghost rabbit let out a distraught scream as it vanished. Smiling with a feeling of zeal and triumph she looked to her husband Jack who for a moment was covered in ghost, before his energetic nature and Fenton Gloves sent the specters flying. The two renowned *chough* hunters where fighting their way thorough a small mob of ghost outside of Casper High.

"Jack dear we've been gone a long time I think we should wrap things up!" She said. "I still need to make dinner."

"Gotcha sweet thang!" Jack said spinning and sending a large platypus like ghost colliding into a giant blob. "Oh yeah! I'm rocking tonight!"

Maddie smiled as she watched her husband- all but a couple of strong ghost had fled her wrath and she was only half paying attention as she slayed the brave ones. Her eyes went wide though as a frightening ghost rose out of the ground a glowing blade in his hand. "JACK!" Maddie cried just a moment to late as the green blade cut through her partner. With a flash of light the man was gone.

"The deed is done- now come quietly." The ghost said, as he swooped in and picked Maddie up, taking her into the sky.

"You're the Fright Knight!" She said in surprise. "Bring Jack back this instant!"

"Sorry no can do- He'll die living out his worst nightmares." The ghost said as she struggled.

"Not if I can help it!" She said, and clapped her heels together. Suddenly the ghost was empty handed as a blast of energy sent Maddie flying out of his grip. Quickly she regained her composure as she fell and did an aerial flip landing with grace. Straitening and holding a fighting pose she dared the ghost to come at her. "Bring it on Spook."

"Very well." The Fright Knight sheathed his sword.

Old abandoned Movie Theater: Sunday

Jazz peeked into the projection room keeping low, as she listened to the two men argue. "Look if you do that all it'll do is turn them into a brainless zombie." A man said, it sounded like he didn't breathe through his nose very well.

"So?" A shrill voice said to the other. "What's wrong with that?"

"We don't want brainless. Mindless is okay- because it means no free will- brainless means all they'll do is drool on you."

"Ew. Okay. Brainless bad, mindless good. Got it. So Control Freak, what do we need to do to get this thing working?"

Jazz gasped when she saw the familiar form of Freak Show cross the room irritated. "Freak Show." She whispered then paste herself against the wall outside of the room. "He's here to get revenge on Danny!"

"If these pieces were stronger- or if we had more of them-

"No, no." Freak Show said to his partner in crime. "I already looked- that's all that was left."

"Too bad it got busted- if I had the whole thing I bet I could-

"Well you don't have the whole thing, now do you?" Freak show growled, as he watched the pudgy man with long balding red hair waddle his way over to the pizza. "I can't believe-" Freak Show stopped holding his head in his hand frustration clear on his face. "Do you know what will happen to us if we don't succeed in creating a device that can wipe a ghost's free will completely?"

"We'll probably just end up back in jell." The big man said shrugging a bit as he swallowed. Then setting the pizza down he whipped his hands on his already greasy gray shirt and walked back over to the device they were working on.

"We should be so lucky." The thin man muttered. "I don't want to go back either way."

"Don't sweat it dude. I think I have an idea on how to fix this. Hey… Where is that tech ghost anyway- I'll need his help if we're going to complete this.

"Oh- he said something about power and took off all excited like. Like I care." Freak show said bitterly. "We just need to get this done- those children know how to really grind these things to a halt. I don't like the fact that they captured them so soon when we still have all this work to do."

"You mean I have all this work to do- all you ever do is complain."

Freak Show gave Control Freak and agitated look before stalking toward the door. "I'm going to go check on the little urchins. Keep working."

Jazz held perfectly still her insides trembling like crazy- she had no time to hide- she just hoped the man would walk strait to his destination without pause. Somehow even when the man did stop, to get a look around, he did not look her way before he headed down the hall. Jazz watched intently as he moved a movie poster revealing a staircase going down.

"Found you." Jazz said sneaking forward.

Gasping and obviously worse for wear the Fright Knight finally succeeded in knocking the wild beast known as Maddie Fenton out with a swift back chop to her shoulder. Picking up her limp form he wobbled into the sky and took off. Grumbling to himself about working under jerks.

AN: And now for something a little different…

Jack and Maddie fight ghost
so good they chose to boast
as the night fell, unbeknownst to them
their children were waking in hell

Strong and just Maddie did fight
Till out of the sky's came the Fright Knight
Under the blade glowing green and slim
Jack did fell to the knights spell

Maddie lets lose a cry from her throat
For the Fright Knight fly's with her in tote
To where the huntress can only guess on a whim
Soon she'll find herself unwell
Trapped within a fruit-loops spell

*cough*

I can't rime at all… so my poems always suck… but as I was uploading the last chapter I was writing some quick notes on what I could remember happening next and what I wanted to happen next. Being too tired and lazy to write full sentences I was just writing short connective words, and when I looked it over I thought it kinda felt like a rime… so I ran with it. Picking it up by its random strings and did my best to tie it together… I guess Jack and Jill kind of influenced the tone but I really don't do poems.

If you can't tell… Maddie kind of took over and refused to go quietly… I kind of fill bad for the Fright Knight. Having to take such a woman hostage is not an easy feat…