"Crap."
I averted my eyes to the tiled floor, mumbling curses while I shook my head. I was such an idiot! Why had I not gone ghost before entering the basement? What would Fenton have been able to do? And now I had just thrown all of that out the window. All of the lies that I had devised to keep them out of the loop, all the injuries I had to hide from them.
Gone.
A simple mistake.
I slowly raised my eyes to face the ghost that had shot at me. I felt my ectoplasm bubble, the heat rushing to my blue eyes and transforming them into a ghostly green. I took a step towards him, my hands clenching into fists. The mechanical ghost merely continued to stare dumbfounded at me, pupil-less eyes frozen in place. His mouth quirked, and one, almost silent word left his mouth.
"...Halfa." I punched him in the chest, sending him into the wall across from my captured family. His body left an indent in wall and a small hole penetrated his chest armor. I cocked my head at the internal circuitry, puzzled at not seeing anyone inside.
"Get out of my house." I growled. The robot groaned, pulling himself from the debris.
"And what are you going to do about it, halfa?" He smiled. "It's gonna take more than one punch to stop me." My anger soared, my breathing shallow.
"You wanna play hardball?" The two white rings snapped into place around my waist, separated, and transformed me into my ghost half. "I'll play hardball!" Green ectoplasm gathered in my hands, hurtling towards the ghost into the form of two ectoblasts. The ghost turned intangible, and smiled evilly at me.
"It's going to take more than that to defeat me, Skulker, the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter!" Several mechanisms in his back opened, and ejected a ghost proof net that trapped against the wall next to my parents.
"Oh, how ironic! The son of two ghost hunters is a ghost himself! Not even in my most deranged thoughts would I have come up with such a thing!" I felt my eyes grow even brighter, my lips curled back into a snarl.
"Shut up!" I yelled, tugging against the net.
"Give it up, prey. Those restraints are ghost proof, meaning you can't get out!" He shouted. I continued to tug at the netting anyways, feeling the netting tear from the wall. With a final pull I fell to the ground, not even bothering to inhale. I looked up at the ghost, smirking as I saw his eyebrows rise.
"I'm stronger then you think I am." I retorted, turning intangible as he tried to land a punch. I remained intangible, slowly floating off the ground. I crossed my arms in irritation, ready to stare down the ghost.
"Why would you capture my family? It's not like they've done anything to you." I asked, furrowing my brows.
"Orders from an employer," He said, his face containing no emotion.
"So what are you, a hitman?"
"A hunter, Ghost Child, and you're my newest prey. I shall have your pelt at the bottom of my bed as a trophy!" He exclaimed. I threw another punch, but he quickly dove behind me, dragging my hand with him. I felt my bone creak as he continued to pull harder, letting go after a sickening pop.
"Ow!" I yelled, left hand grasping my dislocated shoulder. I hissed as I reset the bone, pain skyrocketing throughout my body like an inferno. Using my good arm I pulled myself into a standing position, firing an unexpected ectoblast. The blast hit Skulker in the head, knocking him back into the wall. I frowned, his head didn't recoil back and it even seemed as though it was inflexible, unlike the rest of his body. Gaining an idea, I sank through the ground as he dizzily stood up, no longer sure of my whereabouts.
"Where are you, whelp?!" He bellowed. I sped out of the floor feet first, kicking him hard in the jaw. I winced as I heard metal scrape against metal while wires snapped and sparks flew. The disembodied head bounced off of the ceiling, and rolled towards the Ghost Portal. I hesitantly floated forward, picking up the head for closer inspection.
"Unhand me!" A tiny voice screamed. I smiled, pulling a small, green blob from the inside of the head. I tossed the head to the ground, smiling at the small ghost.
"Ah, so this is your true form. I would have thought it to be strange if you really were just a ghostly robot." I threw him up in the air, quickly unclasping the Thermos from my waist before sucking him in. "And like any other ghost it's back to the Zone for you." I said. Turning around I also pointed the Thermos at the body and head, which were enveloped in a blue light before disappearing from view. I flew over to the Portal, and 'flushed' Skulker back into the Zone. I sighed, closing the portal with my thumb before turning to walk upstairs. I stopped halfway through, forgetting one, very important detail.
My family had just witnessed the entire thing.
I hate writing fight scenes, so not my forte -_-. Eh, oh well, gave it my best.
Sorry for the really late update, but in a nutshell, family issues.
Band Camp starts next week, got ten days to learn the entire show "The Nightmare Before Christmas", reminds me of the DP Christmas episode every time :). So I'll be uber busy for the next two weeks, then school, sigh.
Also, I now have a Beta Account :D.
Thanks for reading!
ForeverHalfa