Now that we were ready to battle Voldemort and the Death Eaters, Rip unfroze time and we walked up the cliff towards the entrance. As we reached there we could hear voices:
"It'll be a while before the Blooper-wolves arrive," One voice, a Death Eater no doubt, said. "What extra surprises should we set up?"
Even though we were a little insulted, we couldn't help but smile: looks like I was right about Voldemort expecting us later. Before any other enemy could answer the Death Eater, we leapt out of the entrance. Boy did Voldemort and the three Death Eaters that were there looked shocked! Voldemort's fur, since he was still in wolf form, was even almost standing on end! It was also back to being black, obviously the white look was just to make himself look like a ghost.
"How did…?" Another Death Eater said; we could tell it was a different one just by the voice.
Actually the first one sounded like Crabbe and this one sounded like Goyle – we can't tell who's who when they have their masks on.
"Call it reverse-reverse-psychology." Harry smiled.
"Give it up," I said to our enemies. "You're out numbered, it's eight to four!"
"Eight?" A third Death Eater, Lucius, said. "You mean seven."
"Actually she means ten." Rudy smiled, holding out his wand. "Penny, Snap, come out here please."
Penny S and Snap did…carrying their very own wands! Apparently Rudy conjured them up without us noticing.
"No one, not even Ollivander the best wand maker ever, has been able to do that!" Ron W said, amazed.
"Mudblood wizards?" Voldemort laughed; I growled loudly at that. "Please, they won't be a match for us despite what this one here has done in the past!"
Of course he meant Rudy when he said that.
"Superwolves attack!" I ordered; Harry, Ron W, and Hermione did. "James, Lily, Sirius, and Rudy you stay behind to protect the others. Penny, Snap, you too, you'll need magic practice first before you fight. I'll let the four of you join in later."
I attacked the remaining Death Eater, since Harry got Voldemort and Ron W and Hermione got the other Death Eaters. James and the remaining protectors moved everyone else near Hades's throne to hide. Things went well at first, until the Death Eater I fought, Lucius, used a spell to send me to the opposite wall! I crashed into the wall and fell unconscious onto the ground! Blood trickled from my head and mouth, I was dead!
Lucius then turned on our friends. James, Lily and Sirius prepared to counter-spell, but then a rock hit Lucius at the back of the head! Lucius turned around, and he and the Superwolf Friends saw Rudy! Apparently Rudy had sneaked over there earlier without anyone noticing.
"Leave them alone!" Rudy ordered, throwing another rock.
Lucius dodged this one, and went to attack Rudy…with a sword! You can only imagine the team's surprise. Then they realized that my insulting him during The Lion King Adventure must've hurt his ego and so he got a muggle item to show us that he can use them.
Rudy intercepted Lucius's sword with his own. He and Lucius fought and fought, and Lucius was a bit amazed to find that Rudy was more than a match for him. Rudy even managed to hit Lucius's sword in the air and catch it as it fell! Lucius unfortunately snuck out his wand as Rudy waited to catch the sword and used his wand to blast Rudy off his feet! Rudy managed to hold on to his own sword but he dropped Lucius's. Lucius picked up his sword and used it to hit Rudy on the cheek just as Rudy got up! Penny S, Snap, and a few others booed and hissed at this unfair strike! Rudy, with a long cut on his cheek, rejoined the battle and this time fought with more anger and determination than before.
They continued fighting, until Lucius kicked Rudy off his feet and this time struck Rudy on the side as he got up! Now this time Hercules and the Superwolf Friends shouted angrily at Lucius, but he ignored them. Clutching his cut side in pain, Rudy struggled to get up, but Lucius blasted the top of the wall, sending rocks down on top of Rudy! Convinced that Rudy was too hurt, if not killed, to fight Lucius turned back to the others to finish them off.
"Avada…." Lucius began.
James and the other wizards raise their own wands….
Unexpectedly, a lager rock hit Lucius at the back of the head! Rudy had survived! As we found out later, he used his wand to protect himself from the rocks by conjuring a magical shield.
"I told you to leave them alone!" Rudy said angrily, throwing more rocks at Lucius.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Lucius cried, sending the spell at Rudy!
Rudy blocked the spell with his sword so that it reflected into the ceiling and created a hole! He then slid down the rock pile on a flat rock and continued dodging the killing curses until a slab of rock magically protruded itself from the wall! Rudy turned the opposite direction, but another slab of rock appeared and both slabs slowly started moving towards Rudy, he was about to be crushed! Lucius prepared another killing curse….
"Excuse a moi you stupid roach!" Snap, well, snapped, running past Lucius and causing him to spin around quickly.
Snap then went over to Rudy.
"Bucko you have to get out of here, now." He said to Rudy.
Rudy hesitated, worried that Lucius might kill Snap.
"NOW!" Snap cried, pushing Rudy toward the others.
As Rudy slid towards the others, he bumped into Lucius, causing him to spin around quickly again but this time in the opposite direction. The slabs of rock slammed themselves on Snap!
As soon as Lucius recovered, he turned back to the others to finish them off. James weakened Lucius with a spell, knocking him over, but Lucius wouldn't give up. Suddenly, rocks from the ceiling fell down over Lucius. There was a sound of disapparating as the rocks reached the ground. Obviously Lucius wasn't going to let himself be killed by mere rocks – speaking in his perspective of course. Since Lucius never reappeared, it was assumed that he had finally given up. Someone else reappeared though: Snap was on top of the rocks from the ceiling!
"How did you survive getting crushed?" Eddy asked, almost rudely.
"He's 2D dummy!" Jonny said bitterly.
As Snap explained it: he had sneaked up the ceiling, entered the hole, and found that there was a small hollow area that reached over to where the Superwolf Friends were. Snap then used his wand to help him send rocks down on Lucius.
Soon, more sounds of disapparating were heard: Crabbe and Goyle had given up the fight. Hermione and Ron W went over to our friends and they all prepared to check on me as soon as Harry was done. They didn't have to, I got up and went over to them instead! They stared at me with shock and horror: blood still trickled from my mouth and head!
"What?" I said, noticing them staring at me.
"Are…are you feeling all right?" Numbuh Two asked awkwardly. "I mean, how's your head?"
"Fine, I'm fine, why…?" I had put a paw on my head in a confused manner but stopped as I felt something wet on my head.
I looked at my paw and saw blood on it!
"Where'd this come from?" I asked, confused.
Hercules, Hermione, Ron W, and the team continued staring at me. I suddenly smiled a mischievous smile.
"Psyche! Its just ketchup!" I laughed, using my wand to clean myself off.
Most of them groaned, but a few of them laughed. I did this trick to prevent Lucius from killing me for real so that I could help the team later after I regained consciousness. The team thought it was a pretty clever trick, but not too clever since the movie industry has already done the same thing in a way. Suddenly Harry was blasted towards us! We looked and saw Voldemort looking quite beat up.
"You." Voldemort hissed. "You're more powerful than I thought."
Hercules, the team, the other Superwolves, and I were a little confused at this.
"He couldn't of meant me, could he?" Harry asked.
The rest of us shrugged, except for Rudy who looked a little scared.
"Actually I think he meant me." He said nervously. "Goodbye!"
As Rudy ran away, Voldemort smashed his head into the ground in front of us in a failed pounce. Unfortunately Rudy was right, Voldemort got up and started running after him! Rudy continued running away, until he tripped! Voldemort sailed through the air towards Rudy as he got up, but Rudy ducked down just in time. Voldemort missed, and smashed into the wall opposite us.
"I wonder when villains are going to realize that we always duck when they do that?" Rudy smiled.
"Maybe around the sixtieth of February?" I joked, causing all of us to crack up.
Some of us suddenly stopped laughing.
"Look out Rudy!" Ash cried.
Too late, Voldemort suddenly grabbed Rudy, leapt into the air, and slammed Rudy into the wall that we were in front of! A few of our friends screamed in horror!
"NOO!" Penny S and Snap cried, watching as Rudy and Voldemort tumbled down along with some large rocks!
Voldemort unfortunately landed almost unharmed, but Rudy lay still on a small pile of rocks! It was all right though, because before we could turn from shocked to sad, Rudy got up onto his knees!
"Why do villains have to use painful ways to get rid of people?" Rudy muttered bitterly, taking out his magic chalk. "Okay that's it…."
But before Rudy could do anything, Voldemort used his wand to cause more rocks to tumble down on top of Rudy!
"NOOO!" Penny S and Snap cried again as the rest of us gasped.
Only Rudy's arm, the one holding magic chalk, was visible. It struggled a little and then relaxed, dropping the chalk so that it broke in half on the ground. Rudy's arm lay still and pale. He was dead!
"RUDY!" Penny S and Snap cried, running towards Rudy. "YOU MURDER!" They screamed at Voldemort, pointing their wands at him. "CRUCIO!"
The spell hit Voldemort, causing him to scream in pain and wriggle on the ground. Hercules and the rest of the team looked glad that Voldemort was in pain. However, instead of being happy about this, the other Superwolves and I were nervous.
"We have to get away from here!" I ordered, herding my friends towards the middle of the throne room. "Go! Go!"
"What's wrong?" Penny P asked.
"You all know that Voldemort is a demon now right?" I explained. "Well torturing a demon for too long can cause disastrous results."
I then noticed that Penny S and Snap were still at the torturing.
"PENNY! SNAP! Get over here now!" I ordered.
Voldemort suddenly stopped screaming and started looking as if he was going to explode! Penny S and Snap, noticing this, stopped, and looked at him nervously.
"Er…I think we overdid it." Penny S said to Snap.
Snap nodded, and they then both ran away towards us.
"That's…." Voldemort started, his anger rising. "ENOUGH!"
He suddenly did explode! Well sort of, he was still in one piece, but an explosion fire erupted all around him. The force of the explosion reached us, but fortunately we were too far away to be harmed by it.
"You weren't kidding about 'disastrous results'." Molly said, looking horrified about something.
She had every right to be horrified, because a large fire surrounded Voldemort so that he looked like a fire demon! As we started to run away, he breathed a huge mass of fire towards us! Unfortunately, we ended up between a rock and a 'hot' place…we were trapped between a wall and Voldemort! Turning around, we saw that the fire Voldemort sent at us had become a humongous serpent entirely made out of fire! Interestingly, that triggered my memory about that weird dream I had about the fire serpent in ancient Greece a long time ago. Boy talk about ironic, that dream was meant to be a warning!
"We're sorry for causing this." Snap said.
"No need for an apology," I replied. "No one blames you for your reaction at all."
"Well, good-bye everyone." Casper sobbed. "I have a feeling only a ghost can survive this."
Suddenly Danny ran toward the fire serpent!
"Danny, where do you think you're going?" Eliza asked, shocked.
"Going ghost." Danny replied.
Sure enough, two rings of light suddenly appeared and covered him from his middle to his head and feet! When the rings disappeared a black and white one-piece-suit was on Danny, who now had white hair! When he turned back around to smile at us, my friends saw that he also had glowing green eyes! As my friends stared at him, speechless, he suddenly put his hands together as if he was pushing something, and a purple colored portal opened up in front of him!
"G-g-ghost powers!" Sam said, getting her voice back. "He has ghost powers! No wonder he didn't want to tell us, it was…." She paused for a minute. "It was never us at all, he didn't want his parents to find out because they're ghost hunters." It sounded as if Sam was feeling a little guilty. "Oh boy…."
"Actually," I corrected. "He's half ghost…." I frowned for a minute. "I've never seen that power before I wonder what it is."
Hercules, the rest of the team, and the other Superwolves and I thought for a minute.
"It's a transportation portal!" Kim finally said.
"How did you know that?" Felicity asked.
"A fellow student of ours built one." Ron S explained.
"'A transportation portal'?" I repeated. "I never knew Danny could do one."
"To…be perfectly honest…I didn't either…until…I had to take out the trash…one day." Danny said, sounding as if he was having a hard time with his power.
Hercules, the rest of the team, and the other Superwolves and I were amused at how he discovered his new power, but then I looked worried.
"When was that?" I asked.
"About…a week…before the adventures…started." Danny answered.
"And you haven't practiced it since then?"
"No, it left me…a little tired last time," Danny explained. "So I thought I'd…take a break from it."
"Uh-oh." I said.
"What is it?" Kit asked.
"Doing a new power full blast without practicing it frequently is very dangerous." I explained.
"How dangerous?" Scrappy asked.
Suddenly Danny's knees buckled, he looked as if he was losing energy!
"Oh, that dangerous." Scrappy said, wide-eyed.
"Come on Jenny," Stitch said. "You and I are the most indestructible here."
Jenny and Stitch both ran over to Danny and started helping him hold the portal up!
"Thanks." Danny said weakly. "I needed that."
Jenny and Stitch both helped Danny even further by using their extra appendages. Stitch has a pair of extra arms and Jenny has multiple clawed attachments.
"I wonder where that portal leads." Lilo thought out loud.
"I'll find out." Jenny said, stretching her neck around the portal.
Once there, she saw that the fire serpent was disappearing into the portal – along with Voldemort's firepower apparently – and then she saw something else, something that was in the portal.
"OW!" She said. "That hurt!" She cried, pulling her head back in and shaking it; she then used an appendage to rub her eyes.
"Are you all right?" Brad called. "What did you see?"
"I'm fine," Jenny called back. "I just saw multi-colored shapeless clouds without any sense of direction that's all."
Everyone except for me winced. I didn't wince because that started to get me thinking: that description seemed familiar.
"Ouch, that can hurt your eyes all right." Jimmy N agreed.
"What kind of world is that?" Carl asked.
"Chaos!" I suddenly said. "I thought that description sounded familiar, Boss told me that Chaos was the universe before matter or time existed!"
"No wonder this is using a lot of energy." Stitch said.
Jenny nodded in agreement, and then she looked around the portal again. She quickly brought her head back in for obvious reasons.
"You can stop now Danny," She said. "Voldemort's fire power is gone."
Danny stopped the portal, and we saw that Voldemort had collapsed with exhaustion. Jenny and Stitch walked back to us, almost slumped over.
"Are you two all right?" T-Bone asked.
"Yeah we're fine," Stitch replied, almost out of breath. "Just a little tired, that certainly is one powerful power you have there Danny."
No answer. We looked and saw that Danny was panting and almost kneeling over.
"Danny?" Jenny said, worried.
"Danny, are…are you all right?" Alex asked.
"I…I think so." Danny said, catching his breath.
He turned to walk over to us, but then he suddenly doubled over. Clutching his heart, he gasped and winced with pain…lost consciousness and fell to the ground! Dead, he was dead!
"Danny." Alex sobbed.
"Oh no." Sam sobbed.
We hung our heads sadly, but then suddenly we heard whimpering.
"Gee Hermione," I said, sounding a little amused. "I never thought you'd ever whimper."
"What're you talking about?" Hermione replied, confused.
I was about to ask if she was the one whimpering, but then I realized that she couldn't talk and whimper at the same time! And the whimpering was certainly continuing.
"Don't look at me, I'm not whimpering." Harry said as Ron W shook his head in agreement.
We then found out that the other dogs weren't whimpering either.
"Guys we've got a visitor." I said.
"AIIEE-YAA!" Uncle suddenly cried.
With good reason, Voldemort had recovered and was charging at us!
"Incoming demon!" I cried. "Help! Andale!"
We ran to our left as Voldemort leapt into the air at us…and suddenly Danny flipped onto his legs so that he managed to kick Voldemort into the wall!
"Danny you're…!" I stopped, noticing that he was clutching his heart in pain again. "You're not really all right are you?" I finished a little sympathetically.
"N-no, not quite." Danny choked out.
Unexpectedly, a large wolf wearing a lime green hooded sweat suit ran – on two legs I might add – over to Danny and gently picked him up!
"Wulf!" I laughed. "So you were the one who was whimpering."
"Wolf?" Rolph repeated, eyeing Wulf suspiciously.
"Wulf! Not wolf, Wulf, it's his name." I corrected. "And he's a friend of Danny's so wipe that look off your face!"
"Sorry." Rolph said; then he noticed that most of the others stared at him. "Being the son of a shepherd Rolph usually doesn't trust wolves." He explained.
Everyone understood, but some disapproved of his attitude.
"Wait…isn't he a ghost wolf?" Sheen asked.
Wulf said something that no one could understand.
"He speaks an ancient unused language." I explained, taking out my watch and fiddling with it. "According to my watch's translator, he said he's really a spirit, or a ghost that was never alive."
"Oh, 'cause otherwise I was going to guess that he was a werewolf." Sheen said, sounding a little disappointed. "I like werewolves."
Wulf actually seemed a little amused.
"So Wulf," I began. "How did you happen to get here in the first place?"
Wulf said something in his ancient language. I of course used my watch again.
"A…stone…wolf…helped…." I read from my watch. "Oh! Boss helped him through by opening a portal!"
"Wait a minute," Sheegwa said. "Earlier Miranda said 'an…andale,' what does that mean?"
"It's Spanish for 'hurry up'…." Josefina explained. "Wait you speak Spanish?"
"Not really but I know a few words." I explained. "That one I actually learned from Speedy Gonzales."
"Also, you were calling for help?" Hermione repeated, amused.
"He caught me off-guard all right!" I said testily. "He caught all of us off-guard for that matter."
"Right, sorry."
Suddenly, Wulf started growling towards where we were a few minutes ago. We turned to where he was growling, and saw that Voldemort was in the air coming towards us!
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry cried, using his immortal-killing wand.
Obviously, Voldemort exploded as soon as the spell hit him. After Voldemort was gone, we suddenly remembered something important.
"Rudy." Penny S and Snap sobbed, running over to the rock pile that killed Rudy.
The rest of us ran after them, and I gently dug Rudy out of the rocks. When Rudy was laid onto the ground, we saw that he looked awful. He was bleeding almost all over, including the mouth! A few of us sobbed but I noticed two things: one, if he was dead how come he was still bleeding? And two, I heard a faint thumping sound coming from inside him. Realizing that Rudy had another chance to live, I healed him with my wand. Penny S and Snap also got the same realization, and they both gently tried to wake Rudy up after he healed. He woke up! Overjoyed, Penny S and Snap hugged Rudy and he hugged them back. Quite a few of us shed tears of happiness…except me, I giggled.
"What's so funny?" Clover asked.
"Nothing!" I laughed. "Most people show their happiness by crying, I show mine by laughing. Actually I associate crying with sadness, so I think that crying when you're happy is silly."
Everyone else smiled back, actually they were a little amused at that, and then Rudy noticed Wulf and Danny.
"Whoa!" He gasped. "Danny has ghost powers!"
This time I really did laugh.
"You're the first one to recognize Danny in his ghost form!" I laughed.
"What?" Quite a few of my friends cried.
"But Danny almost looks the same as both a human and a ghost!" AJ said.
"Folks back at Danny's world don't believe that humans can't get ghost powers." I explained.
"So then how did Danny get ghost powers?" Jade asked.
Before I started, Wulf handed Danny over to Jackie and Uncle and said something in his ancient language.
"He said that he wants to be 'free-pawed' so that he can fight any attacking ghosts that come by for Danny." I translated, of course using my watch again.
"Good idea." Jackie agreed as he and Uncle both gently propped Danny up.
I then explained how Danny got ghost powers: His two best friends Sam – short for Samantha – and Tucker both wanted to see the lab that belonged to his parents. Danny showed them the lab, which included a ghost portal that didn't work. Danny was a little nervous about getting caught, but Sam was interested in the portal and wondered what was on the other side. Danny got interested too, so he put on a special black and white jumpsuit and walked in. As he was inside, he absentmindedly hit the 'On' button, and a blast of ghost energy hit him. When he walked out, he was in his ghost form! The suit also changed so that black ended up white and white ended up black. As he started to get control of his powers, he realized that he can use them to battle evil ghosts so he did.
One of his enemies, a ghost named Walker, wanted revenge, so he overshadowed – another way of saying possessed – the mayor of Amity Park – the name of Danny's hometown – and made Danny look like the enemy of the town. That was when Danny met Wulf, who was a prisoner of Walker. Danny, realizing that Wulf was trying to get away from Walker, helped Wulf. He brought Wulf over to Tucker's house, and later Tucker used his PDA to free Wulf of the electric collar Walker had on him. Wulf and Danny have been friends ever since, though this was only the second time Danny has seen Wulf. After Wulf freed the mayor from Walker with his claws he allowed both himself and Walker to be captured by Mrs. Fenton in Danny's place. Everyone was amazed by the story…and angry with Walker.
Unexpectedly, a black electronic box formed itself around Danny and Uncle and Jackie!
"Oh no." Danny moaned weakly. "Not now."
"Ghost-neutralizer, great." I said dryly. "Skulker's here."
"Skulker?" Grim repeated.
"Skulker." I repeated, pointing to our left.
Hercules, the rest of the team and the other Superwolves looked and noticed a robotic muscular-looking-ghost coming out of a portal, the very portal Wulf apparently had come out of. Some weapons appeared from his arms. He chose a glowing blade and put the rest of the weapons away. Wulf started to attack, but I stopped him with an arm.
"Wait a minute Skulker," I said. "Do you want a headless pelt or a full-body pelt?"
Skulker put away his blade.
"Darn," He muttered. "I need to think on that one."
"Okay, go ahead." I said to Wulf.
Wulf attacked, without Skulker having a chance to fight back!
"I'll get you for that!" Skulker yelled to me, realizing that he'd been tricked.
"What an idiot!" I laughed.
"Nice trick…pelt? Yuck!" Eliza said, realizing that pelt was supposed to be from Danny.
"Gross!" Darwin agreed.
"Skulker calls himself 'ghost zone's greatest hunter'." I said the last part sarcastically. "But he's really more of a poacher. Now we need to get Danny and the Chans out of that box."
"Well gosh and golly gee, looks like you three could use a speck of help there don'tcha know?" Someone said above us.
A little startled, we looked and saw a short royal ghost! Apparently he came through the portal too.
"The Dairy King!" I said, happy to see the royal ghost. "What are you doing out of your castle?"
"I just went out for a breath of fresh air, when I stumbled across that portal back there." The Dairy King said. "Even those who don't breathe need to get out now and then don'tcha know?"
The Dairy King used his ice cream cone topped cane to hit the 'open' button on the box, freeing Danny and the Chans.
"Thanks." Uncle said, kicking the box away.
I then used my wand to destroy the box.
"Well not all ghosts are evil right?" The Dairy King replied. "Some of us just want to be left alone don'tcha know?"
"I second that!" Casper agreed. "Except for the 'left alone' part…."
"'Don'tcha know'?" Cleo said, confused.
"It's sort of a Wisconsin catchphrase." The Dairy King explained.
"Oh."
"Say," I said. "Usually whenever Danny's weak or unconscious he goes back to human form, I wonder why he hasn't…."
I stopped because Danny had just gone back to human form. He also had his eyes closed, apparently he was too weak to keep them open.
"Danny! Hold it!" Someone unexpectedly cried.
Whoever it was ran up to us and tossed a medallion around Danny's neck, tripping in the process. We immediately saw that it was my brother Jack.
"Geez Jack you startled us." I said, a little amused. "Why…oh you finished the medallion!"
"Yup, I did." Jack smiled, getting back up.
The medallion had brought Danny back to ghost form! I explained that Danny has an archenemy named Plasmius, who invented a device that short circuits ghost powers for three hours. Since Plasmius has had about twenty-one years with his ghost powers while Danny has only had about one this was really unfair, so Jack built the medallion to work as a counter-attack to the device. Everyone then noticed that this was the exact medallion that kept Jack occupied during the previous Adventure!
"So what is the name of that device that Plasmius built?" Jimmy N asked.
"The Plasmius Maximus." I replied.
"Should've known on the Plasmius part." Clover added, rolling her eyes. "So why did you use the medallion in this case?" She asked Jack.
"Danny has a better chance of recovering in ghost form." Jack explained.
Hercules, the team and other Superwolves and I started to leave, until I saw Pain and Panic on the stairs that lead into the throne room.
"Oh! Guys!" I said to my friends. "We almost forgot about Hades and the Fates!"
A few members of the team faceplamed at that. We all started to search, wondering what kind of hiding places could exist around here. I then noticed a stump-shaped rock, which is what Hades uses to plan out attacks and other things like that. Seeing that it looked a little burnt, and that the model of Mt. Olympus was tipped over, I thought for a minute and then started to push on the top of the side. Suddenly the top feel off, and there was Hades! I helped him out, untied him, and asked him about the Fates.
"Voldemort hid them behind my throne." Hades said. "I caught him and the Death Eaters in the act, that's why they tied and hid me."
Hades and I freed the Fates – Hades found their lone eyeball as well and gave it back to them – and they thanked us. Hades then noticed Hercules, and vice versa, and they gave each other the cold shoulder.
"Oh, uh, Hades." I said, pointing at his head.
"Whoa is my hair out?" He said, feeling his head.
Sure enough he was bald. Hades put his thumb in his mouth, blew on it, and his fiery blue hair came back.
"Whoa cool hair-do!" Sheen said.
"Thanks, I've always liked my hair." Hades said. "I think it makes me look 'hot'."
No one laughed at his joke. It was one of those 'old' types after all.
"What is this an audience or a statuary?" Hades joked dryly.
This time a few of us chuckled.
"You're right, he does have a good sense of humor." Numbuh Two said to me.
A few others nodded, but Hercules coldly walked back to his compartment. Jackie and Uncle also moved Danny to his compartment so that he could rest.
"Oh here," Sam said as she and Clover gave the Fates back the life strings they had rescued. "We saved these from the Death Eaters."
"Thank you." One of the Fates, Lachesis, said. "Don't worry the rest of the strings are safely back where they belong."
Alex then started to give them the life strings she saved, until she noticed something.
"Hey guys!" She said. "Look at this one!"
In her hands was the glowing white string…except this time it seemed to be fading on and off! The Fates explained that a glowing white string meant someone with ghost powers, and if the glow was fading it meant that the person was exceptionally weak. We immediately knew that the string belonged to Danny! But there was something wrong here, how can a ghost be 'exceptionally weak'?
"Jack!" I called sternly behind me.
Startled, the rest of the team turned around and saw Jack trying to tiptoe away.
"Was there something you forgot to tell us?" I asked seriously.
"Danny's…." Jack hesitated, and sighed. "I don't want you…."
"Jack!" I snapped; Jack gave in.
"Danny's dying." He finally said; we all gasped! "He used too much power at once and strained his heart."
"'Strained his heart'?" I repeated, turning nervous.
The rest of the team however winced. Except for the other three Superwolves that is, they looked shocked...
"Well that's not too much of a problem," Ron S said. "You guys can just use a healing potion or spell…what?"
I was shaking my head.
"I'm sorry guys," I said sadly. "But neither Jack's healing potions nor the Reparo spell can help with harmed organs. Both the potion and spell work fast and that's dangerous for organs because they're too delicate. If an organ heals too fast it can heal improperly."
"Like how?" The Dairy King half-sobbed; he too had become a good friend of Danny's
"Well, arteries and veins switching places for one thing." I answered sadly.
Everyone gasped!
"That's why I'm giving Danny twelve hours to self-heal in ghost form," Jack explained. "If he hasn't made good progress by then…then there's no hope of him surviving, he'll die."
"Friend!" Wulf cried, overhearing Jack.
He went over to Danny and nuzzled him. We noticed that a few tears fell from Wulf's eyes. Despite being weak with pain Danny opened his eyes and gave Wulf a comforting smile. After Wulf returned the smile Danny closed his eyes again.
"That's the only word Wulf knows in English isn't it?" Rudy said, a little moved.
"Sort of." I nodded sadly; I could tell that also touched the rest of the team.
We then remembered about Skulker, so we turned to look at him…and noticed that all of his metallic parts have been torn off, leaving behind a puny green ghost almost the exact size of his robotic head! A few of my friends laughed at Skulker's size as I took out a thermos from Danny's compartment. I explained to my friends that this was an invention of Danny's parents: a Fenton Thermos that contains ghosts until they can be sent to the Ghost Zone. I gave the thermos to Stitch, since he can figure out how to work anything, and Stitch captured Skulker with the thermos. I then returned the thermos to Danny's compartment and – since Jack already went inside – got onto Rip.
"Twelve hours." Rip said, remembering what Jack said. "That gives us until noon then."
"It's midnight?" AJ said, sounding surprised.
"That's amazing," Chester said. "Kids in our world automatically fall asleep at nine o' clock."
"Sounds like a curse to me." Numbuh Four said.
"It isn't really." Timmy said. "Although it can get annoying."
"Speaking of sleep," I said. "I'd say it's time to take up Pocahontas's offer of a sleepover."
Everyone nodded, very tired. Almost all of us went back into our compartments.
"Wait," Hermione said. "What about the Stone Gods? Couldn't they heal Danny without any problems?"
"They could…." I cautioned. "But we can't just ask them to, they'll do it by their own decision. No one can order the Stone Gods around."
"Darn." Hermione muttered.
"Hey Alex come on!" Sam called.
Confused, we turned and saw that Alex was still near the Fates. We also could see that she seemed to be silently crying. She nodded at Sam's words and, looking miserable, gave back the Fates the strings she saved and headed towards us.
"Hold it!" Another one of the Fates, Atropos, said. "We're missing one."
They were right, and it wasn't just any life string it was Danny's!
"Alex give them back Danny's string and come on!" I called.
"NO!" She said defiantly, holding Danny's string out of the Fates' reach! "I won't give them back Danny's life string until they promise not to cut it no matter what!"
We all dropped our mouths open in shock!
"Alex," Sam warned. "You know the Fates now have all of the strings back, including yours…."
"I don't care!" Alex snapped. "Danny saved our lives so we should repay him!"
Danny opened his eyes again and shook his head at Alex.
"No Alex." He said weakly. "I don't want you to die, or any of my other friends for that matter."
"And we don't want you to die Danny." Alex pointed out, even though Danny already closed his eyes again. "Your town must have lost their brains to think of you as an enemy."
"Alex." Clotho said. "We promise you we won't cut Danny's life. He did a selfless thing and so doesn't deserve it."
"Gee, this I didn't really expect." I said, a little surprised. "I thought you three took your job seriously."
"We do." Atropos said. "But we're fair. We only wanted your life strings so that we could keep an eye on your health. Literally."
"And of course we were only going to cut the strings if your friends were too hurt to be healed, you didn't need to add that part." Lachesis said. "We never really expected to cut their strings until they died of old age."
We smiled as she said that, but Alex still refused to give them Danny's life string.
"Don't worry Alex." I said. "The Fates would never break a promise no matter what."
Alex finally gave in, gave the Fates Danny's string, and returned to her compartment. We rose into the air to prepare to leave.
"It's time for us to go to, thanks again for the rescue." Clotho said.
They then left by raising their only eyeball into the air and, with a spin, disappeared into it. The eyeball then flattened into nothingness with a pop.
"You and Mickey were right when you guys said that the Fates don't disapparate…." Kevin said; he stopped because he noticed a portal opening in front of us. "Wait a minute, we could've used the portals the entire time?"
"Out: yes, in: no." I replied. "To use the portals to get in would be like busting through a locked gate and then a locked door…and I mean the kind on a mansion."
"Oh."
Note: as you know the Fates can see into the future, but despite that no one asked why the Fates allowed Voldemort and the Death Eaters to capture them. The answer was obvious: they knew that we would win the battle and they didn't want to waste energy in a fight that they knew they would lose at anyway. They don't have the Death Eaters' strings, and obviously Harry is the only one who can kill Voldemort. Actually the burnt marks came from Hades when he was fighting for his freedom, he didn't know whether we would win or not but he was hopeful that we would.
Wulf and the Dairy King went through the trapdoor in Danny's compartment. Hades waved good-bye and also said, "Thanks for the rescue." as we left. The portal we left through led to Hercules's home so that we could drop him off, then another portal opened so that we could go to the Pocahontas World. When we got there we saw that a huge tent had already been set up for us to sleep in, and that Pocahontas was waiting for us at the entrance. Being a Superwolf Watcher Pocahontas needed no explanation for what happened, so she wished Danny a recovery – a 'speedy recovery' didn't look possible here – and we all said goodnight.
As we entered the tent we saw that it had been walled off so that there was a section for girls in the front and a section for boys in the back. In both sections there were separate rows of cots, one per person/animal/robot/alien – well you get the idea. Rip entered the tent, rested near the doorway between the two sections, and attached a lantern that Jack handed him to the top of the doorway. Wulf got out to gently lay Danny into his bed – each cot had a separate name on it – and then lay down onto the ground next to him. The Dairy King hovered near Danny's cot too.
"Oh…um…one of the Superwolf Rules is that the Superwolf Watchers aren't allowed among us." I said to them. "Emergencies are exceptions to that though so I don't think Boss will object to the two of you being here until Danny recovers. Our protection abilities are a little limited though so I think it would be best if you two took separate hour-long shifts."
"But you can't harm a ghost – except emotionally of course but still…." Casper said.
"Yes but you can never tell, something might come that would actually be a threat to the Dairy King or Wulf." I said. "Walker might even come to re-capture Wulf or something. Knowing Danny he would fight to protect Wulf despite his condition, and since the Dairy King is not even a fighter Danny would also protect him as well as Wulf."
"Royal Protocol." The Dairy King agreed. "Kings don't fight they send others to fight for them…not that I would send Danny in this situation of course."
I loaned the Dairy King and Wulf a coin to flip and Wulf picked heads – we could tell because Wulf tapped his own. Tails came up on the coin.
"All right," The Dairy King said. "I'll take the first shift."
Wulf left through the trapdoor in Danny's compartment and we all got into bed. Rip turned out the lantern and we fell asleep right away. Camera entered his recharger and fell asleep too, except he left his hearing device on.