Chapter 16

-Hunter POV-

Strolling into the enormous ballroom, I noticed some guy wearing a cheese hat on top of his head. I snickered, which earned me glare from him.

That's when I heard Dad shout, "Hey Harry!"

A black-haired lady, dressed in a green suit, was eating some food and ended up spitting it out because of my dad's booming voice. She muttered something to herself and walked over to us.

"Jack, Maddie," She addressed my parents in a high, shrill voice, "How nice of you to come."

"Boys, meet Harriet Chin. She's now a big shot reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, but back in college, she was just Harry," Dad introduced her, gesturing to 'Harry'.

"Harry chin!" Dad snickered, "Get it?"

Maddie turned to Harry and sighed, "I'm really sorry Harriet."

"You married him sweetie, you should be," Harry answered with an eye roll. Harry and Mom smiled and Dad suddenly perked up.

"HEY MADS, IT'S OUR SONG! LETS DANCE!" He yelled, grabbing Mom and running off to the middle of the dance floor.

"Okay, I'm officially mortified," Danny moaned, a dreaded look on his face.

Harry rolled her eyes and asked, "What took so long?"

I smirked and earned my second glare for the night.

-30 minutes later-

I sat at a table with Alex and Danny. We were watching some guys with cheese heads pogo to the music, (you can imagine Alex was filming every second of it) when Mr. Masters leisurely sauntered over to us.

"You're looking much better," He said, which had Alex and I staring at him in confusing

"I was wondering if you boys could go fetch a present I got for your father," He continued.

"Oh sure Mr. Masters," I immediately answered, secretly excited.

"Alright then, go to my lab. It is located on the second floor and it's the first door to your left. The present is to be found there."

"Kay," I said, beckoning Alex and Danny, who quickly followed.

-After a long 45 minutes of wondering-

I opened the door to what I finally found to be the lab and walked in.

"Present? I don't see a present," Danny muttered, puzzled at our situation.

I marched over to a table and noticed a familiar looking picture resting there.

"Hey Alex, do you still have that picture of Dad with a mullet?" I asked.

"Heck yeah!" He yelled.

"Hand it to me please," I suggested. Alex passed it over to me and I fitted the ripped piece into the picture located in the frame. A perfect match…

Alex and Danny stared at the picture in my hands.

"Whoa! No way…" I said in bewilderment, backing away and dropping the picture in the process.

Our ghost senses went off at that moment and I instantly turned and transformed. My blonde hair converted to black with purple tips, the bracelet I wore was transported to my head and it now bore the letters HN, and my chocolate brown eyes were changed into a dark, deep blue. The red tux I'd been wearing was altered into my jumpsuit (just to clarify it's not a hazmat suit, its normal clothes made to look like a jumpsuit!) with bright stars and clouds covering it all and sealed with a dark purple belt. Lastly, my dress shoes were turned into black boots.

Danny also transformed and his gray tux was at once converted into his regular white and black jumpsuit, with his raven black hair now a snowy white and his icy blue eyes turned an unearthly green. Alex's black tux was also transformed into a black jumpsuit, except with bright green swirls moving about, kind of like the Ghost Zone, and the scar on his left cheek was now visible.(Sorry, I forgot about that detail until now :P)

A couple of tentacles took hold of us and I cried out in surprise.

Ecto-pusses

Danny managed to kick one and Alex kicked the other away as well.

"Those ghosts, they were some of the very first ghosts we fought," Danny said.

Alex rolled his eyes and with sarcasm dripping from every word, said, "Thank you for the pointer Captain Obvious."

"And I don't think they're alone!" I shouted as a net hit us and I cried out… Again. A larger and evil looking ghost with a green flaming Mohawk came out of the shadows with a wicked grin.

"I've been looking forward to hunting you three little whelps," He spoke, a malicious gleam in his toxic, pure green eyes. I rolled my eyes.

"And your name is…?" I asked, signaling the twins to break out while I distracted him.

"Skulker, the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter!" he declared with pride.

Alex and Danny slashed through the net and both kicked his robotic body at once.

"Dude, you shame the name," I said floating up and preparing to attack.

Skulker rolled his eyes and before I had a chance to react, he grabbed my left leg and threw me across the room. Before Alex and Danny could retaliate, Skulker did the same to them.

"A little present," He stated with a smirk and threw a black and glowing green box at each of us that looked high tech.

Alex rolled his eyes and asked in a mocking tone, "Who are you? The Box Ghost?"

Each box we held suddenly grew in size and trapped each of us within it. It sent an electrical shock out to each of us and we unwillingly turned back into our human forms.

"ENOUGH!" I heard Vlad shout out, out of nowhere.

"I didn't free you to kill them. You may be on your way now," He said dismissively, causing Skulker to fly out.

"The ecto-pusses, the new ghost, and now you? I don't understand," Alex decided confusion clear in his voice.

"Of course not. You're what? 14?" Vlad questioned him in a scornful tone.

"To young to drive and not in college yet," He mused, while circling our boxes.

"I sent those ghosts and others to test you, to see if you had your father's skills, but imagine my surprise when I found some fellows human/ghost hybrids."

"What do you mean by fellow?" I demanded suspiciously.

Vlad smirked.