Sam and Tucker reached the front doors of the school first. Tucker tried the door to find it locked. Sam shoved him aside and pulled out lock picking tools from her jeans pocket. Jamie joined them, huffing breathlessly.
"What are you doing?" he wheezed.
"The school's locked. And since we can't phase inside, Sam learned how to pick locks. The town understands and as long as we don't take anything, they don't mind," Tucker explained. There was a soft click and Sam tucked her tools into her pocket and pushed the door open.
"Come on," she called as she stepped inside the dark, silent school.
"This is creepy," Jamie whispered nervously as they walked through the dark, empty halls.
"What is?" Sam asked evenly.
"Being in a school, at night. It's creepy," Jamie elaborated. Sam and Tucker laughed.
"If you think this is creepy, you don't stand a chance in the ghost hunting business," Tucker chuckled. Jamie frowned but didn't reply. They walked in silence, the guardians keeping their distance so they wouldn't distract Jamie and make him look crazy to the ghost hunters.
Sam and Tucker navigated the halls with ease and eventually came to two double doors standing wide open.
"Hmm. Invitation much?" Sam muttered. Tucker nodded and pulled a small metal gun with green inlay. Sam did the same.
"Jamie, you should probably stay back. We don't have any extra weapons with us," Tucker suggested. Jamie shook his head.
"You can't see him. I can," Jamie reminded him. Tucker nodded, but he didn't look happy with the situation. The trio stepped inside the large room.
Sam and Tucker gasped as they spotted a younger girl. She had shoulder length pure white hair tied back into a pony tail with a fringe. She had glowing intense green eyes. She wore a two piece black and white suit, showing her mid-rift, with gloves, one white and one black and large white boots. She had a small "D"-like symbol on her chest. But what shocked the ghost hunters was that the ghost was bound to a chair by jet black bindings and she was trembling in fear. Her usually happy, relaxed eyes were wide with terror.
"Dani!" Sam cried and she and Tucker ran over to the ghost girl and began to untie her, starting with the one gagging her.
"Guys, you have to get out of here. There's this thing somewhere close by. He did this and he said something about me being bait. Get out of here," Danielle whispered, voice shaking with her fear.
"We're not leaving you Dani," Tucker replied and began to tug hopelessly at a black rope around one of her arms.
"I can't phase out Tuck, you have to go," Danielle retorted.
Jamie watched Sam and Tucker trying to free Danielle Phantom, he was excited to meet the ghost girl but concerned by the circumstances. This was a trap. Who for? Sam and Tucker? The guardians? Danny? Jamie blinked in realisation. Danny! These were some of the people he really cared for. Jamie was just about to suggest getting help when the sound of clapping echoed around the room.
"How admirable? But not good enough," Pitch announced. Jamie turned around and saw the guardians running forward but the door was suddenly blocked by a wall of black swirling sand.
Pitch then walked calmly out of a shadow and grinned at the four people. Danielle and Jamie shivered at the sight of that cruel smile. Sam and Tucker frowned and looked around. They saw the black wall and Danielle and Jamie starting to look frightened at a space in front of them.
"What's wrong? Is that ghost here?" Sam called. Pitch laughed.
"Ghost? You need to broaden your horizons. Allow me to show you," Pitch announced gleefully. Pitch then created two balls of black sand in his hands and tossed them at Sam and Tucker. Jamie and Danielle didn't have the time to warn them and the sand hit them in the chest and flowed into their bodies. Their confused expressions melted away into sheer terror and they backed away from the suddenly visible Pitch Black.
"Who… who are you?" Sam stammered. Pitch smiled and bowed theatrically.
"Pitch Black at your service, king of nightmares and the boogieman. But you aren't who I'm after. He should be here any minute now," Pitch answered loudly and then snapped his fingers. Nightmare sand erupted from the shadows and wrapped around Jamie, Sam and Tucker, pulling and binding them to three more chairs which were placed beside Danielle.
Yeah, the trap is ready for Danny now. Let me know what you think so far.
Until the next chapter.