Chapter 17
Watson
After Daniel made his announcement Holmes immediately asked, "How can you use it?" Daniel looked at him with a smile, "I can go back to my time, get some gadgets to help us track Orion and when we find him, we can finish him off for good." Daniel explained. "And then maybe we can go back and save Tucker too!" he then excitedly yelled, his eyes filled with desperate hope. I looked over to Samantha and saw that she was more reserved. "But first we need to stop Orion here and now," she told Daniel. "Right, right, sorry," Daniel apologized. "Alright, I'll go, I can fly and travel the fastest and grab what we need. I'll be back as soon as I can," Daniel said.
He then gripped the staff with both hands and transformed, the white halos flying up and down his body, turning his suit into his strange black clothes with white belt, boots, and gloves and symbol on his chest as his raven hair turned pure white and his blue eyes turned a glowing green. His eyes glowed bright as he gripped the staff and a white light surrounded him. Then in a brilliant flash of white light, he was gone. Holmes, Mary and I could only look at each other in shock at this spectacle then Holmes turned to me and said, "Watson, you will never be able to sell this to the Strand. No one will believe that any of the events we have experienced actually happened."
Samantha laughed at this and said, "Don't be too sure about that, Sherlock. Trust me; people are a lot more gullible than you think." "How so?" Holmes asked her. "Well, without getting into details that could mess up history, let's just say that if you live long enough you'll see a lot of things people once thought were impossible, and a lot of people will believe in crazy ideas that you'd think no one would believe and leave it at that," Samantha said. Then suddenly Samantha floated in the air and immediately flew right for the wall opposite of her!" Mary screamed at this and Holmes put on the Ghost Gauntlets as I drew the ecto-blaster. Suddenly the same invisible force that attacked Samantha struck us both, sprawling us. Samantha activated her Ghost Peeler weapon and blasted a ray of light and we heard a scream of pain.
It was Orion, in the form of a purple ape with four arms. Before Samantha could fire again the foul beast grabbed Mary and placed her between the three of us and him. "Give me staff, or she die!" the creature growled. "We don't have it!" Holmes yelled, I tried to aim, but I couldn't find an angle that wouldn't strike Mary. "One hour I return, if no staff, I tear her!" the monster roared, and then disappeared. "MARY!" I screamed. I rushed out of my house and yelled her name again, praying for a response, but received none. "Watson, she's gone, but we can still find her," Holmes told me as he pulled me inside. A brilliant light then appeared in my living room and Daniel manifested from the light, a large gun of some sort like the ecto-blaster strapped to his back, the staff in his right hand, and another device that looked angular and white. "Sam!" Danny exclaimed when he saw her and helped her up. "What happened?" he asked.
"Orion took Mary!" I cried out. "Did you see which way he went?" Daniel asked. "He disappeared after demanding the staff, he said we had an hour to give it to him," Holmes told Daniel. "Damn!" Daniel yelled. "Wait, can you take us to the street where you fought Orion?" he then asked. "Yes, but what good is it for us? That monster will tear Mary apart if it doesn't have the staff in an hour!" I yelled in despair. "Watson, calm yourself; Daniel has a plan, we will save Mary, I promise," Holmes assured me. I struggled to calm myself and let Daniel speak. "Okay, this," Daniel held out the strange angular device, "Is the Booomerang, a device my Dad made that can track any ghost, no matter where they are. All we need is a sample from Orion to give it, and the Booomerang will guide us to him. We need to go back to where you fought and injured Orion; we might find a blood sample to give it."
We all agreed on this and Daniel quickly returned to his Human form. After ensuring that Samantha was able to fight Daniel then held onto the rifle-like weapon and made it invisible while he held it. Holmes and I quickly made it to the alley-way where we fought Orion. Luckily for us no one was there aside from some stray dogs. "Here is where we fought," Holmes said, indicating an area in the middle of the alley-way. Daniel looked around until at last he saw a dark black substance that looked like tar. Daniel dipped his hand in it and felt it with his hands, "This is definitely ghost blood." Daniel then took his device, the Booomerang, and slid a small opening in it and put some of the ghost blood in it. Daniel then transformed back into his Ghost Form and suddenly, there were three Daniels! "Alright, I'm going to have to carry you to follow the Boomerang," Daniel said.
The three Daniels grabbed Holmes, Samantha, and myself, and the one holding Samantha threw the Boomerang. The device flew through the air and the Daniel's went airborne to follow it. I suddenly felt a strange shivering throughout my body and then I realized that we were invisible. On through the night sky we flew, I would have felt a sense of childish wonder had my wife's life not hung in the balance as we followed the Booomerang. We soon were flying out of London proper and on we flew, following the device.
Sam
We flew real far away from London, and soon I looked down and saw total darkness almost. "Where are we?" I yelled to either Watson or Holmes, I wasn't sure which would answer. "Unless I'm mistaken, we are over farming country now," Holmes told me. Luckily for us the Booomerang was so bright white that Danny could follow it even in the dark. Finally the Booomerang went down and slammed into a house wall and stopped. Danny's Ghost Sense went off and he turned visible again and absorbed his copies then grabbed the Booomerang and turned it off. "I don't hear anything," Holmes whispered. "That's not good, the barn is right over there, yet I don't hear the animals," Watson commented. Danny handed him the ecto-rifle and Watson gave his ecto-blaster to Holmes.
"The people in there might already be dead. We need to ignore whatever we see in there and focus on rescuing Mary, then destroying Orion once and for all," Danny told us, his eyes glowing with anger and power. "Take the back, Watson and I will try the front. Attack him from two sides," Holmes told Danny and I. "Got it," Danny said and I activated the Ghost Peeler and Danny grabbed me and turned us intangible. We phased through the back door and waited. Soon we heard Watson yell, "MARY!" Then Holmes yelled, "WATSON ON THE CEILING!" and the sound of Mary screaming while the ecto-rifle went off.
We flew in and saw that Orion had turned into a boa constrictor and was squeezing Watson and Holmes. "ORION!" Danny yelled and blasted at his head with a ghost ray. Orion's released Holmes and Watson then turned into a chimpanzee and flew right at Danny and bit his arm hard enough to draw blood. Danny screamed as he pounded on the ghost's head then Holmes, with the Ghost Gauntlets glowing, grabbed the chimpanzee and tore him off Danny and threw him down on the ground. Watson blasted him with the ecto-rifle, then Orion turned invisible and Watson was sent flying into the wall, dropping the ecto-rifle. "JOHN!" Mary yelled as Watson's nose broke. "SHOOT HIM!" Danny yelled as he blasted an ice ray at the invisible ghost, making him visible. Mary grabbed the ecto-rifle and blasted three times at Orion, making him let go.
Danny caught Watson then Sherlock punched Orion in his goat face, Orion had turned back into his Devil-looking form. "I have him!" Sherlock yelled as he grabbed Orion's arms and turned him towards us. Mary blasted away with the ecto-rifle while I used the Ghost Peeler. We watched as Orion screamed in pain and slowly black cracks appeared in this form. "DON'T LET UP! KILL HIM!" Danny screamed as he blasted a massive ghost ray from both his hands and eyes at Orion and the cracks grew as Orion screamed louder. Watson was dazed as he got up and saw the ecto-blaster on the ground and grabbed it then blasted away at Orion as well. With one last roar and an explosion of black energy, Orion disappeared, destroyed once and for all. Danny quickly made copies of himself and we all flew back to London.