Chapter 31: Colors Flying

"What exactly are you suggesting?" Wenn enunciated slowly as he took a few steps closer to Danielle.

Danielle took a deep breath and tried not to be scared. "I suggest you let Danny and I go." She said proudly.

"MAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!" Wenn cackled. He looked back at Danielle and saw it in her eyes that she meant it. "Oh you were serious?"

Danielle scoffed. "What am I doing? You're a psychotic sociopath and I'll never be able to convince you to let us go."

"That's right." Wenn said confidently. He sat down on a nearby chair and the vulture sat next to him.

"So we're just going to…sit here?" The vulture looked up at his master.

"Yes." Wenn said defiantly.

A few minutes passed.

"Are we going to do anything to them?" The vulture asked Wenn. "Anything evil? Sinister? Terrifying? Deadly? Or are we really just going to sit and wait around…"

"Vlad told me not to touch any prisoners I may acquire. Vlad wants to do that all himself." Wenn boasted.

A few more minutes dragged on. The room was oddly silent. It was creepy. Danielle shivered, but put on a brave façade.

"When is Vlad coming?" The vulture spat impatiently.

"For heaven's sake I don't know!" Wenn exploded. He stood up and began to pace around the room.

"You should at least let the girl go because she's not the one you were told to catch. And I know Vlad is very specific with what he tells you to do. You have to do things exactly the way he wants or you could lose this job." The vulture pointed out.

Wenn sighed angrily. "Allright, allright. I'll let her go." Wenn turned to Danielle and she looked at him with hope. "But I'm not going to just let you fly around and destroy this place, or even worse: me." Wenn stepped into another room for just a moment and he brought out a shot with a long pointed needle. He had a mask on.

Danielle was horrified. "Wha-wha-what's that going to do?"

"It's going to neutralize your powers for a few days."

"Days?"

"Yes. That is the only way to capture a ghost. But don't worry; it won't hurt a bit." Wenn injected the shot into Danielle's stomach and she tried not to look but she couldn't help herself. She was surprised to find that it really did not hurt at all. Even when he pulled it out, there was no pain and no blood. It was like it was never there.

Then, Wenn put the needle back and he opened Danielle's shackles and she fell to the floor. She tried to stand up, but she was weakened. She suddenly felt like she had gained sixty pounds. She looked down and her body was still the same size as it had always been. She just had no ghost powers, and apparently no muscles either. Danielle suddenly had a massive piercing headache. She felt her forehead. "Why haven't I changed back to human form if my powers are gone?

Wenn shrugged. "The only halfa we've ever used it on is Danny over there and within a half-hour he was out cold." Wenn looked at the vulture. "You, take her back out of here and make sure she's nowhere near this building."

The vulture obeyed and picked up Danielle and flew her back outside where he set her gently on the ground. She slowly made her way back to the Specter Speeder.

The vulture returned to his master. "Ya know, as time goes by, I thought I was beginning to understand you and the rest of the Tossi. But there's just something about you that throws me off every time."

"You made it very clear that I had to let her go."

"No, not that! It's the fact that you didn't let her feel the pain of the injection."

Wenn looked away. "That would have been inhuman." He said quietly.

"What did you inject her with anyways?"

"Only some ecto-waste from the lab. She only thinks that her powers are gone. Remember, I can make people think things or feel things."

"Yes, yes, you've bragged to me before. You're just that kind of Tossi."

"I'm the best kind of Tossi."

Outside, Danielle explained everything to Cecelia and Tucker. Danielle started up the Specter Speeder's engine.

"What are you doing? We can't just leave Danny at the mercy of those villainous monsters!" Tucker whimpered.

"He'll die!" Cecelia exclaimed, horrified.

"Believe me, I understand your reasoning. But think about it, what do we really have to fight them against? I was just thinking we could go and get Garth, and then—"

"I think if we smash into that little house with this Specter Speeder, we can take them down!" Tucker said.

"No, that's not going to work. But I have another idea." Danielle turned to Cecelia. Tucker looked at her too.

"You have powers. You could fry Danny's shackles."

"I'll give it a try." Cecelia braced herself.

Danielle landed the Speeder near the house that Wenn came from.

"Are you sure it's this one?" Tucker questioned. "They all look exactly the same with their long skinny windows and red lights…"

"This is the one—I swear." Danielle made Tucker and Cecelia get out. Before Tucker exited, he grabbed a Fenton thermos and tucked it into his belt. Danielle drove the Speeder away to a safe distance so that she would not get caught.

Cecelia gulped.

"This is it." Tucker said in a timid voice. "Are you sure you're brave enough to face a Tossi?"

"Absolutely not." Cecelia's voice was shaking as the two of them walked up to the door. "But this is Danny's life we're talking about. I have to."

Tucker brought his fist close to the door as if to knock, but then he chickened out and made Cecelia do it.

"All I have is a thermos. So, the most I could do to help you is capture any bad ghosts that may be lurking around. Thermoses don't catch Tossi." Tucker announced. "You'll have to handle him yourself."

It was Wenn who opened the door. He looked at Cecelia in a strange way. "You! You're like us! But…you're not a Tossi!"

"Did I miss something?" Tucker looked back and forth at the two of them.

"We're here to save Danny and we know you have him!" Cecelia said bravely.

Wenn looked at Tucker. "You will go home." He commanded.

"I will go home." Tucker said and he walked away stiffly.

"What did you do to him?" Cecelia asked Wenn.

"I'm psychic. I can make people do things."

"Where's Danny?" Cecelia asked. Her hands glowed with her fierce and unforgiving electrical energy. She glowered at him. "Give him to me. Now." She said lowly.

"Whoa, whoa, now." Wenn backed up cautiously and Cecelia only took more steps toward him because she could see he was scared. "You didn't have that power before when we met." He was trembling slightly and didn't realize it.

"Right. So?" Cecelia raised her arm as if she was going to strike at him. The electricity ball grew bigger and stronger as she fueled more energy into it. It was big enough to cause a small explosion. "So what if I have powers. You're not scared. Are you?"

Wenn cringed. "Your unique electricity makes you almost as powerful as a Tossi. There are two types of Tossi: there are the psychic ones like me and then there are the electrical ones…you resemble them."

"What exactly is a Tossi?"

"We are composed of generations of people that meditate deeply on our own inner power and strength. And then we eventually develop one power or the other. It's a phenomena unique to the Tossi families. Vlad took note of that and that's why he made this little town: just for us."

"That's a little weird. Can't you see that Vlad is using you!" She roared. Her power was fueled by her outrage that anyone would dare to harm Danny. She slashed her hands closer and closer to her face, purposely missing him just so he'd quiver.

"He'd never let any harm come to us! But you are threatening me. And that's why if he finds you here, he'll destroy you."

"For the last time, he's not coming back!" Cecelia put her arm down and Wenn slowly relaxed.

"I can't alter your mind because that electricity is blocking me. It's almost as if you were a Tossi."

"Well, I'm not. I'm not evil like you. I'm one of Danny's best friends. So…let Danny go and I won't hurt you."

Wenn glared at Cecelia with his malicious eyes. He didn't want to give in. He wanted to please Vlad. But he knew it had to be true. Vlad really was in jail. And that meant he wasn't coming back. "I'm not letting the halfa go." Wenn protested foolishly.

"Very well then." Cecelia said. She touched her hand to Wenn's shoulder and a bolt flew through his body.

"Ooowww!" He said as the shock wave forced him to make a dent in the wall. His hair stood on end and he groaned.

Cecelia passed him and went down the three flights of stairs just as Danielle had said. Wenn followed closely behind.

When Cecelia saw Danny, a wave of compassion overcame her. She ran over to him on light footsteps. She zapped each of the shackles and they opened. Danny fell to the floor because he was still unconscious. Cecelia held him in her arms.

She brushed the droopy, lifeless black hair out of his face. She shook him, but he would not awaken. She felt his cheek and it was warm. She pressed her ear against his heart and there was a small soft beat. She sighed in hot relief. He was alive and breathing for the moment.

She smiled weakly when she studied him there…all helpless and silent when he was only just asleep. She was so close to him. Suddenly, she ached for a day when he was awake and healthy and she could hug him then…and he would hug her back. She cried a little and wiped her tears in his shirt.

Cecelia heard Wenn's footsteps and she looked up to see his piercing eyes glaring down at her. With a firey temperament, she carried Danny up the stairs. Wenn followed her, but it was obvious he was not trying to catch her, or harm her.

He stared at her intently, as if he was a trying to make his powers work on her. But trying was futile.

She ran out of the house quickly. She didn't even look back. She just had to get away. What seemed like hours were only minutes of walking before she came to where Danielle had parked the Speeder. There, Cecelia was relieved to see her friends Tucker and Danielle seated inside.

Tucker got out of the Speeder and helped Cecelia carry Danny into the back, where they laid him across three seats. The two of them stayed back there with him. Tucker poured some water from an old water bottle onto a rag and put it on Danny's forehead. Cecelia rubbed Danny's shoulders.

"I hope he wakes up soon." Cecelia said hopefully.

"Me too, Cecelia." Tucker said quietly.

Danielle drove them all back to Amity Park to return the Speeder to its owners.

"I'm just so glad he's okay!" Danielle said.

Tucker and Cecelia cradled sleeping Danny and they kept trying to wake him up but nothing was working.

"Oh, let him sleep. He needs it." Danielle said.

The group returned to the Fenton house and Cecelia and Tucker carried Danny to his bedroom where they laid him on his bed and wrapped the blankets around him. Danielle set the Speeder back to the way it was. And then she realized that Sam and Garth had not come back yet. In all the hours that Danielle had been gone, had the battle not finished yet?

In the ghost zone, Sam Manson stood staring at bloody Garth and Lyon as they had battled. One was now standing slightly more stable than the other. And the other, well he was the victor.

"All bow to your new Prince and my chosen successor: Prince Lyon." Everybody in the audience—except Sam—bowed. Sam considered only Garth. There he stood, all hurt from the battle and now he was about to be hauled away to prison. Apparently, Aragon had made it illegal to challenge a Prince. This rule was created after the Prince had been challenged.

Soon everybody began to exit into the foyer. Sam waited until most of them were gone before she spoke to Garth. "Are you allright?" She asked him with worry and compassion in her voice.

"I'll be fine. You need to go home. Call Danielle and have her come pick you up." Garth said grimly.

"Garth, you can't go to jail!" Sam whined loudly.

Garth changed back to human form and he gave Sam a hug. And then he went into the foyer where a tall white ghost had been waiting for him.

"That's Walker." Sam whispered to Garth. "He's ruthless."

"You've been breaking the rules, son?" Walker eyed Garth angrily, trying to intimidate him. "Rules are made to be obeyed, not broken. By the end of the day, the rule won't be the only thing broken." Walker chuckled deeply.

Sam shot a glare at Walker.

Garth eyed Walker with his own furious, firey eyes.

"I'll be takin' you in then." Walker bound Garth in handcuffs and Garth did not even fight it. Sam, who was horrified, tried everything she could to get Walker to let Garth go.

"Isn't there any way to get him out before his due time? And what is his due time, by the way?"

"Only someone with a sort of ruling power can release Garth before his dues—and he'd be a servant to whomever. Actually, it'd be more of a "slave" sort of thing. And his due time is 500 years."

"500 years?"

"I might recall that you have feelings for him, isn't that right, little goth girl?"

"How could you "recall" anything? You've never met Garth!"

"That might be so, but I have a way of figuring these things out. And it's all history now how you and your boyfriend the ghost boy split up. Everybody knows this stuff and they love that kind of drama."

Sam turned away with slight embarrassment. Her cheeks were scarlet. Her eyes were starting to get salty from little tears.

Walker hauled Garth away into a prison barge vehicle.

Sam pulled out her cell phone and gave Danielle a call. Sam explained everything. Sam hung up right before her voice started breaking and then came a small flood of tears. She went in the bathroom where nobody could see. She put her face in a towel to dry it off. And then she came out once she had composed herself.

Danielle came over to Sam the moment she spotted the goth.

Danielle knew that Sam had been crying and she patted her comfortingly on the shoulder. "Don't worry. We'll do something about this. We'll break him free. I know that my brother won't let them keep Garth in prison."

"Thanks Danielle." Sam sniffled a little.

Danielle and Sam got into the Specter Speeder and flew back to the Fentons' basement.

When Sam got out of the vehicle, she smiled broadly to see Danny standing there. "Danny!" She gave him a tight squeeze.

Danny looked around. "Where's Garth?"

By Danielle's reaction, Danny's face turned into a frown.

"Well, where is he?"

Cecelia and Tucker came into the room.

"Danny, you're awake!" Cecelia laughed enthusiastically and she hugged him. Tucker joined in and made it a group hug. But the cheer soon died down into a solemn mood.

"I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news." Danielle made a face.

Together, Danielle and Sam explained everything to their friends, and then Danielle explained all about Wenn and how he wanted to turn Danny over to Vlad.

"Sometimes, I just have that feeling where I wish everything was normal." Danielle said.

Most people wouldn't be able to handle these kinds of situations, and that's exactly why Danny was their leader. He sighed and looked at his comrades with solemn eyes. "I'm not going to give up. So I really hope you guys won't either."

"We won't." Tucker and Danielle said in unison. They smiled at each other.

"There's nothing in this world that can make me give up." Sam bragged.

"You can always count on me." Cecelia said. She smiled at Danny sweetly.

"Good." Danny smiled halfway.

"But it's only fair to tell you that I have to leave for France in three days." Sam said to Danny. "So you're going to have many adventures without me."

"Gosh, I totally forgot." Tucker face palmed.