Danny and Sam got to Fenton Works without too much trouble. Danny couldn't walk very fast- he was too cold, but Sam encouraged him and they got to their destination eventually.
Because Sam had called ahead, Maddie was waiting outside holding an electric blanket. Danny smiled at her as she placed it around his shoulders. "Thanks, mum." Danny said with a sneeze.
Maddie had on her normal turquoise jumpsuit. She pulled the hood and goggles off of her head as she led the two of them into the house. "How long since you got out of the hospital have you been cold, Danny?"
Danny shivered again and looked over at his mother, "It c-c-came on slowly." Danny confessed, pulling the blanket tighter around him. "B-b-but it's gotten worse over the last few days."
Maddie led Sam and Danny down to the basement, keeping Danny talking to try and distract him from where he was going. Once Danny was almost down all of the stairs his legs started to buckle. His fright was taking over him and he looked at Sam pleadingly. "Do I have to go down there?"
"Come on, Danny, it's not that bad." Sam coaxed, standing on the basement floor three steps down from where Danny had froze. "We're just trying to help, and there's nothing down here that will attack you. Your parents know better than to use their weapons on you."
Danny swallowed nervously, but continued down the steps. "I k-know they're not going to h-hurt me." Danny said through his chattering teeth. The blanket was helping, slowly. "It j-just feels like death down there and it creeps me o-out."
Sam leaned back a bit to look into the lab and at Danny's parents. "Come on, Dan, it's not so bad." She coaxed him. "The portal's closed, at least."
Danny sighed, keeping the blanket close as he finally gave in and walked into the lab. His parents stood by an examination table which was covered with a thick blanket. "Come on, Danny-boy." Jack said, patting the table. "Get on here, and we can do some scans on you, maybe find out what's causing the chills."
Danny hopped up on the table after giving a wary glance at all the ghost equipment in the room, paying particular attention to the ghost-sheilded Fenton Thermos that contained Vlad. They still had to figure out what to do with that.
"Can you go ghost for us, sweety?" Maddie asked as she typed away on a computer activating a machine next to the table.
Danny tore his gaze away from Vlad's prison and looked over at his mother before allowing himself to change into his ghost form. The form took some of the powerful cold feeling away from him. He allowed the blanket to slip from his shoulders with a sigh. "Why do y-you need me to be in g-ghost form, mom?"
"It's easier to test and see if it's your ghost form doing this, or if it's some sort of sickness you've acquired if you're in ghost form," his mother explained turning around to face him. "Lie down please."
Danny did what he was told and stared at the ceiling. Sam came over and stood by his side, in case he needed a friend nearby. Danny took a deep breath and closed his eyes as his mother passed a machine over him; it's beeping intensifying when it passed over Danny.
Everyone was concentrated on either Danny or the computers calculating the results, and didn't notice the rip in reality that happened near the portal. A snout poked out of it, sniffing the air cautiously as two green eyes followed. The creature crept out, ears pointed forward in caution. The animal-ghost crawled out of the tear completely, looking around.
It stood on its two, short hind legs as it locked on the four people. Out of the ripped jumpsuit it wore, it pulled out a tattered drawing. Looking at it, then at the man laying on the table it mumbled something under its breath.
When the ghost had come out of the portal, Danny's sense had gone off, but everyone attributed it to the cold that was plaguing his body. The ghost was able to creep closer. Sam was the first to notice it and she gasped in fright.
"Uh- guys? Ghost at three o'clock!"
Maddie and Jack turned around immediately, and Danny, who sat up in shock, ended up bumping his head on the scanner and falling back down with a groan.
"No!" The ghost held up its hands imploringly. "I am not here to hurt you! I'm here to help!"
The three humans that were standing frowned at the ghost. "What did it say?" Jack asked, looking at his wife and his son's friend.
"I don't know," Sam admitted, "It's speaking a foreign language."
"I wish more people spoke this language…" the ghost sighed, still warily watching them with his hands up. "My name's Wulf, I wish you could understand me." Wulf did not dare make a move. "I'm here for the ghost-child, I've been sent to retrieve him so we can help him."
Suddenly, Maddie leapt to the side, grabbing onto a Fenton bazooka and aiming at the ghost. "Go back to where you came from, you vile creature!"
Wulf yelped, and tore open a portal in front of him and jumped in, dodging the blast Maddie sent out. The elder Fentons let out a sigh of relief before turning back to their son.
Sam gasped as she saw Wulf standing next to Danny, an apologetic look on his face as he glanced at the three humans. He slipped a paw under Danny's head and opened another portal. He picked up the ghost-boy and jumped in.
"DANNY!" Sam and Maddie yelled in horror as the portal closed behind the ghost and Danny disappeared into what they assumed was the ghost zone.
"We have to find him!" Sam turned to Maddie, panic accenting her features.
"I'm on it!" Maddie jumped on the computers searching for a way to find Danny. Jack paced the room, worry apparent on his face.
Danny had fainted when he had hit his head against the heavy metal of the scanner, now he was slowly waking up. He didn't remember much from the time that Sam announced the ghost, to now. But when he found himself floating in a gel, he flipped out. He struggled, trying to find a way out of the tube he was in, almost dislodging the oxygen mask he was wearing.
He almost died from fright when a yeti-like creature with a frozen arm wandered up to Danny. He looked almost like an anthropomorphic polar bear, with icicle horns and wearing a navy blue cape with a golden clasp.
His golden belt had a crystal stud on it which held up his loin cloth. "You're awake!" Behind the yeti stood a werewolf-like ghost, his green eyes looking at Danny as if begging for forgiveness.
Danny looked at them, utterly confused. "Where am I?" he asked and then noticed that he was stripped down to his under garments. "And where are my clothes!" he asked in shock, allowing himself to curl up and hide himself.
"Relax, Phantom." The yeti said, "Your clothes are just over there, they would interfere with the gel's powers if they were still on." He explained, waving at a clothes hanger a little ways away. "You're in a de-icing gel, pre-paired specifically to warm up your core and allow you some peace. Normally used when you're covered in ice, but this was a special case."
Danny allowed himself to straighten out, still watching them cautiously. "How did you know I was in trouble?"
"I have my ways, Great One."
"Great One?" Danny's suspicion rose. "Why are you calling me that?"
"You'll find out," The yeti waved him off before pressing some buttons that drained the gel out of the tank. "You may now phase through that and get dressed, Great One."
Danny did what he was told and pulled on his jumpsuit, glad to be dressed again. The werewolf was sulking nearby as Danny turned back to the large yeti. "What's your name? And why does he look like he just robbed a bank?" Danny asked, pointing at Wulf.
"My name is Frostbite." Frostbite explained, giving Danny a small smile. "And Wulf is feeling remorse, he stole you away from your friend and your parents, and he regrets his actions, even though I was the one who begged him to do it."
Danny looked at Wulf, "You took me?" he asked the werewolf before turning to Frostbite, "You do know that my parents hunt ghosts, right? They'll be in here faster than you can say 'boo'!"
"Your parents do not know where you went." Frostbite assured him, "And Wulf will escort you back as soon as we've helped you, Great One." Frostbite led Danny and Wulf outside and into the courtyard. "The reason you are freezing, Great One, is because at the core of your power, you are ice."
Danny blinked and looked at Frostbite. "I'm ice?" he asked.
"Yes," Frostbite said, standing in the middle of a large court. "You're like us, an ice type ghost." He held out a paw and allowed a crystal to form on his hand. "Unfortunately, you've been unable to tap into it and it's slowly been overtaking you.
"This is why you're body's been shutting down, you've literally been getting frostbite from the inside out. Your organs couldn't control what was happening, and were beginning to freeze over, unable to adapt. You were only able to let it out in the smallest of doses: when you sensed a ghost, for example, and your breath comes out visible.
"For now, you're safe because you were submerged in the gel. But now I'm going to teach you how to use your powers, so that you may return to your family in the Real World and not go back to the danger you were in." Frostbite turned to Wulf and motioned towards the bleachers around the courtyard.
"Wulf, if you please would go and sit with my people, Danny and I will get on it." Frostbite spoke in the ghost's native language.
"Alright, Frostbite, but be careful, he's little more than a pup and he is confused and scared," The werewolf scented the air as he began to move off.
"What language was that?" Danny asked as the werewolf hopped onto the bleachers and made himself comfortable around the yeti-ghosts.
"Esperanto," Frostbite clarified, "Few ghosts know it, and even fewer humans understand it."
"Oh," Danny said, still watching Wulf.
"Come on," Frostbite said, motioning Danny to prepare himself, "Lets train you."
Training went by quickly for Danny. Frostbite was the one who suffered some casualties from Danny's training, which included him being frozen solid. When training was done, Frostbite smiled warmly at Danny. "Good job, Great One." The ghost congratulated him, gently patting Danny on the back.
"Can you please tell me why you call me the Great One?" Danny asked as he and Wulf followed Frostbite inside the Yeti's ice-hut.
"Frostbite," Wulf piped up, curling up near Danny's feet after the man had sat down. The werewolf was able to understand when ghosts spoke English much easier than when humans did. "Do not reveal all of the tellings," he warned, "If he knows too much Clockwork will be angry- not to mention the fact that things will not go as they should."
"We should not even know about it, Wulf," Frostbite spoke back quietly, and Danny huffed and leaned his chin on his fist as he stared at the wall. He didn't like being left out of conversations. "Clockwork only told us because we were needed to make sure the boy does not die on us." Frostbite motioned to Danny, "And we have fulfilled that- he does not need to know about… him. Not yet."
"So what will you tell him?" Wulf asked, flattening his ears against his head in distaste- he did not like keeping secrets, especially from someone as powerful as Danny.
"Just what he wants to know," Frostbite assured the werewolf, before smiling at Danny. "You would like to know, Great One?" he asked, "Alright." Frostbite walked over to the bookshelf he had in the small room as Danny shifted his position to watch the older ghost curiously.
Frostbite took out an old book and brought it over to the small coffee table in front of Danny and placed it down. The book opened of its own accord, flipping to the page it needed to be at. Danny leaned forward as Wulf raised his head and looked at the dusty old book.
The page it opened to had a crude drawing of Danny's ghost form punching another ghost out of the picture. Danny couldn't see his face, but a bunch of ravens fluttered around it, casting an eerie vibe on the whole picture.
"There are certain tellings of you vanquishing powerful ghosts," Frostbite motioned to the book and the page turned to Danny fighting Vlad.
"I already fought him," Danny said, peering at the picture and noticing his parents tied up in the background, an almost exact duplication of the battle he had been through. "How does this old book know of it?"
Wulf looked at Frostbite, and Frostbite explained, "It's a very special book, Great One." He motioned for the book to turn pages again, and it landed on its original page. "You are the Great One, the one who is powerful enough to send some ghosts into their eternal afterlife." Frostbite paused when Danny looked at him confused, "The Eternal Afterlife is where ghosts go when their ectoplasmic energy runs out, and they die again."
Danny swallowed nervously, looking down at the book and scratching his head, "You really think I can do that?" The book's page turned again, and Danny could see him fighting a ghost, one that looked much more powerful than Vlad or the raven page. This one was very muscular and had a head of flaming white hair. Danny frowned, the ghost seemed familiar somehow. Frostbite noticed this and slammed the book closed before Danny could get a closer look.
"We do," Wulf broke in, even though Danny couldn't understand him, but his look was clear. "Frostbite, it is time to return him to his pack." The werewolf said, standing on his hind legs, "I will return him to the Far Frozen in due time," Wulf said turning to Danny and smiling kindly at him.
"Wulf says it's time to go," Frostbite said, picking up the book. "He says he'll bring you back to the Far Frozen when it's time for you to return."
Danny looked at Wulf then at Frostbite, "Will I ever understand his language?"
"I think so," Frostbite said, putting the book back before turning to look at Danny again, "I believe someone you know knows how to speak his language quite efficiently. If you explain to your family that Wulf is of no harm to you or them, maybe he could stay in your land while you figure out who it is that knows it." Frostbite walked over to Danny and put his hands on the young ghost's shoulders. "Do not be frightened, Great One, you're going to be fine."
Danny smiled up at Frostbite. "Thanks Frostbite, for everything." Danny said, turning to Wulf, "I'll see you soon."
Wulf ripped open a portal and motioned for Danny to get in. Danny looked at Wulf, and then walked through the portal. Wulf turned to Frostbite and nodded farewell before walking in after Danny.
"We'll get that ectoplasmic scum!" Jack was shouting furiously as Danny and Wulf stepped through the portal and into the Real World. Danny allowed himself to change back into human as his parents fought over how to enter the ghost zone.
"Jack, dear, we have to be careful with how we approach them," Maddie was trying to reason with her husband, "With weapons like these!" She pulled out two automatic ecto-guns.
Sam was clipping a Specter Deflector belt on when Danny walked up to them, "And what do I get to use against these baddies?" he asked, putting an arm around his mom's shoulders as he leaned in to inspect their weapons.
"How about a – Danny!" Maddie said, shocked, "When did you get back?"
"Did they hurt you!" Jack asked, sweeping his gun around and looking like he was ready to tear the lap apart.
"Calm down, guys," Danny walked back over to Wulf, who was standing cautiously to the side. "Wulf here brought me to someone named Frostbite who—DAD NO." Danny stepped in front of the ghost as his father aimed his blaster at the ghost. "He brought me to Frostbite to help me!"
Jack's frown softened, but he didn't lower his gun. "He helped you? But he's a ghost!"
"So am I," Danny said, crossing his arms and still standing in front of the werewolf. "He speaks Esperanto, a language that no one really speaks anymore, which is why you didn't understand him when he was trying to explain things to you."
Sam looked at Wulf, then at Danny, "Tucker knows that language." She said, "I remember him babbling on about it one day, something about his friends all knowing it so he learned it too."
Danny tilted his head and nodded, "Frostbite did say something about someone knowing it around here, so that makes sense."
Maddie finally got Jack to lower his gun, and Wulf found the courage to cautiously step out from behind Danny. "Anyway, as I was saying," Danny rolled his eyes at his dad who bared his teeth in a goofy grin, "Frostbite lives in the Far Frozen- a place in the Ghost Zone that's completely covered in snow and ice," Danny motioned to Wulf, "Frostbite and Wulf knew, with the aid of a special text, that I was in trouble, so Wulf came to get me.
"He brought me to the Far Frozen, where Frostbite told me that I'm an ice ghost." He smiled at his parents and Sam, "Which was why I was freezing. Apparently I've not been letting enough of it out, and it was building up and was slowly killing me." Danny laughed sheepishly at that, rubbing the back of his neck.
Maddie looked at the werewolf and smiled at him, "Thanks for saving my son," she said, taking a cautious step towards the ghost.
Wulf smiled up at her and gave a small bow, "My pleasure. One such as he is rare in the Ghost Zone."
Seeing as of how no one could understand him, Maddie smiled pleasantly, "You're welcome to stay here, if you wanted to."
"Thanks but no," the werewolf denied her politely, "I'd rather be out under the stars," He looked up at the ceiling, hoping the family would understand that.
"I think he wants to be outside," Sam observed, and Wulf thumped his tail against the floor in agreement, "Are you just going to wander freely, then?" She asked him, crossing her arms over her chest. When Wulf shook his head, and motioned upwards, to try to symbolize growing things.
"The sky?" Danny asked looking confused. Wulf didn't look like the kind of ghost that enjoyed flying.
When the werewolf shook his head, Danny shrugged, "S'all I've got." He admitted, turning to his family.
"Just promise you won't go and terrorize Amity Park, you're free to go." Maddie said, "Thanks for healing my son."
Wulf smiled at her, and turned himself intangible, running through the wall and away from them. Danny didn't believe it was the last he would see of the animal-ghost.
"I wonder where he's going," Sam pondered out loud, watching the spot Wulf disappeared into.