Season 1 Episode 15
Hallow's Knight
"SPOOK-tacular!"

It was almost Halloween in Amity Park, since it was a week away when everyone began to decorate for the special tradition.

Outside of Casper High, Dani Phantom's head got face-planted on a Jack-O-Lantern while her face got covered with pumpkin juice and seeds. She glared before she wiped the contents off and stood back up against a slimy ghost eel that hovered above her. It growled at her before it turned away while it snapped its tail as it flew away. Dani chased after it and tried to grab it, but it was so slippery, its tail kept on sliding through her grips until it slapped her on the head, making her freeze and hold her head as it turned back to her a few feet away.

"You're one slippery ghost eel, but I bet you don't know this trick!" Dani said with a smirk before she fired her ecto beam at it, but it merely smiled as it absorbed her energy attack and its eyes began to glow red. "Oh-kay...maybe you do."

It fired red powerful eye rays, blasting her dead on as she flew back to Casper High with a surprised shout.

Inside the school, the students were in the hallway while they placed Halloween-related decorations like banners, bat chains, fake cobwebs, and other decorations on the walls and lockers. The school cheerleader captain and bully of the school, Daphne Baxter (or as her classmates liked to call her, Daph), was painting on a poster saying 'Happy Halloween' before she placed the brush in a purple paint bucket that was on a ladder and began to tape the poster to the wall.

Just then, Dani suddenly phased through the wall and hurdled straight towards the ladder when she slammed into it as she changed back to Dani Fenton. The paint bucket toppled off the ladder and spilled its purple paint all over Daph's back, surprising her before she growled with rage. Dani rubbed her head until Daph angrily grabbed her by her shirt as she glared angrily at her favorite target.

"Defacing my cheerleader uniform?! That's a violation, punishable by face-punching." Daph exclaimed angrily as she glared at her favorite target with rage.

"Grapes of Wrath! Break it up!" Ms. Lancer exclaimed, catching the girls' attentions as she approached the girls with a frown on her face. "Give me one good reason why I should suspend you both for fighting on school property."

"Uh…" Daph smiled innocently as she shrugged her shoulders. "I'm a cheerleader captain?"

"True." Lancer glanced down at her clipboard. "Still, I must at least pretend to be fair and you two need a more creative outlet for your aggressions!" Dani and Daph both exchanged confused glances before Lancer showed them both a picture of an abandoned house and her picture by it. "As you know, every year, one of the faculty puts together a haunted house party at the abandoned Townsend place. This year, it's my turn, and I'm bound and determined to decorate it better than Mr. Tetslaff did last year."

They turned and saw a muscular man with short red hair, white top, red shorts, and sneakers standing in front of them, cracking his knuckles, who was Mr. Tetslaff, the gym teacher.

"Fat chance, you'll never outdo my Franken-gurken-stein monster." He said as he held up a picture of himself dressed like a frankenstein before he walked past Sam Manson and Tina Foley, Dani's best friends.

"Welcome aboard Team Lancer, ladies! Scariest room avoids detention, cheerleader captain or not." Lancer said before she walked away.

Dani turned to her best friends with a bright and excited smile. "Scary? Haunted house? This is great! I am totally going to kick her butt!" She said to them confidently.

"You think so, Fen-toenail?" Daph asked as she cocked an eyebrow before she smirked at her favorite victim with her hands on her hips. "How about a little side-bet?"

Dani arched an eyebrow as well while she smiled cleverly back at the cheerleader, also with her hands on her hips. "Sure...if I win, you have to eat my mother's newly invented ecto-patties she made to lure ghosts into her traps with hot sauce…" Dani then smiled even more at Daph. "Ghost pepper."

Sam and Tina gasped and recoiled in horror with wide eyes. Daph briefly grimaced like she was trying to hold in a gag before she quickly hid her disgust with a confident smile.

"Okay...and if you taste defeat, you have to eat these!" She pulled out a rotten, over-odored bra with her name on it, straight out of her shirt as she smirked even more.

Now it was Dani's and her friends' turns to scream in horror at the sight of it as they recoiled.

"I don't know what's scarier: Mrs. F's disgusting bait meat with ghost sauce, or the fact that Daph actually carries that bra under her shirt." Tina muttered to Sam while they both still cringed from the bra's nasty smell.


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)


After school that day, determined to not eat an over-odored bra, Dani returned to Fenton Works and began creating ideas for her haunted house room in her bedroom with Tina present as well. Sam went off somewhere else, but he told them that he would meet them at Fenton Works later on.

"What if we did something like...skeletons." Dani said as she drew a skeleton choking Daph to death and showed it to her friend. "See? How scary is that?"

"On a scale of not to ten? Not." Tina said boredly, not looking impressed at all. Dani frowned in annoyance as she ripped the paper out of her notepad, crumpled it up, and threw it to an overflowing trash can.

"How about this?" Dani stood on her bed and she held out her arms as she changed into her ghost form before she phased through her bed. Tina cocked a skeptic eyebrow until the sheets suddenly rose to the air while Dani mimicked an invisible phantom. "OoooooooOoooooo!"

Sam walked into the room with a flat look. "Lame." He said unemotionally. Dani dropped her arms before she turned visible, looking down miserably and she threw her bedsheet off of her head.

She changed back into human form and dropped onto her bed with her legs criss-crossed, looking completely hopeless. "Oh man, Halloween's a week away, and I still don't have a clue what I'm going to do for my haunted house room!"

Sam grinned as he dug through his purple spider-styled backpack. "Which is why I picked this up at the old book shop where I like to 'Skulk and Lurk'." He pulled out an old brown book.

The goth boy handed it to Dani as she examined the cover in confusion. "'Chronicles of the Hallow Knight'?"

Dani opened the book, showing a female knight with an armor outfit that consisted of black full-body armor, with gray shoulder guards, purple flaming cape, hood of fire, gray flaming gauntlets, and flaming boots, and she wore a white skull at the center of her waist and a metallic skirt. She was also carrying some kind of double-edged sword in her hand. Her horse, Nightmare, was a bat-winged pegasus with razor sharp teeth, a long horn at the top of its head, and flaming manes and hooves.

"She's the age old Spirit of Halloween. Legend has it, that if her sword, the Soul Shredder, cuts through you, you get teleported to a dimension where you live out your worst fear." Sam explained with eeriness in his voice while he gave his friends a somewhat dark smile.

Dani flipped a page as it showed a picture of the Hallow Knight's castle, and she made a look of recognition when it looked a little familiar to her. "Wait a minute...I've seen this before!" Dani reached for her drawer beside her bed and pulled out a map of the Ghost Zone, the one she and her friends have been making (which was still a working progress). She then compared the castle in the book and the castle in the incomplete Ghost Zone map. Dani grinned as she looked up at her friends. "Look familiar?"

"It matches the map we've been making of a Ghost Zone!" Tina said out loud as she and Sam smiled up at Dani.

"This is great! She's a ghost and she's the Spirit of Halloween? That means I can take the best ideas from her, and fuse them into my haunted house room!"


A week later after setting up her haunted house room, it was finally Halloween night as every kid dressed up in their costumes and ran around home-to-home for candy. While at the Townsend place, Dani and Daph have each finished decorating their rooms, and Dani didn't know what her rival was doing yet, but she thought it was going to be dumb.

"And by fuse, you mean totally rip off?" Sam asked sarcastically as he compared the book of the Fright Knight's throne room to Dani's haunted house room.

Dani's model of the Hallow Knight's throne room looked like something an elementary school kid could design even better than. The Hallow Knight model was crafted with buckets stuffed with hay and with a balloon rubber sword. Tiny stuffed skeletons were filled with hay and hanged by their necks with ropes, rubber spiders bounced around, and even had the heads of the stuffed animals from her older brother, James', bedroom (she knew he would kill her later). The whole room was not that great with a sign that read a simple orange 'BOO!', a cardboard fireplace with cardboard fire, and blanket cobwebs everywhere.

Dani and Sam have both changed into each of their costumes for Halloween. Dani has dressed herself up like Akko Kagari (from Little Witch Academia): consisting of a blue witch hat with a pick strap around it, a blue long-sleeved mini dress/cloak with a hood, white undershirt with a black tie, a pink belt, and wore blue knee-high boots with pink straps and toe ends pointing upward.

Sam has dressed himself up like Tom Lucitor (from Star vs. The Forces of Evil): consisting of a red shirt with a torn collar, sleeves, and on the bottom while it had a bright red star on his chest, navy blue shorts that ripped to his knees, and red combat boots with black laces, while he even gelled his hair up with two horns and one long black lash under each eye.

Tina, however, has not yet changed into a costume.

"Well it's not about being original, it's about not having to eat Daph's bra." Dani said with a shrug. She then walked up to the poorly decorated Hallow Knight model as she jumped up, changed into ghost form and, possessed it into rising from its seat with a fake womanly voice. "I am the Hallow Knight! Tremble before the Soul Shredder!" She began to hit Tina with the balloon sword while she just stood there and remained unfazed by this. "It slices, it dices, it creates your worst fear! Now how much would ya pay?"

"For this thing?" Tina asked as she pressed on the balloon, making it squeak. "About fifty-nine cents. Now, if you'll excuse me…" Dani placed the model back on the chair throne before she phased out and changed back into her human form, next to Sam. "I'm a little late to start scanning for some free candy." Tina held out her PDA while she showed her friends a map of the neighborhood with black and red areas. "Got my route plotted out OCP, Optimum Chocolate Paylow." She then frowned when she pointed at the red areas. "You wanna steer clear the red zone: nothing but fresh fruit and granola bars in the red zone."

"So where's your costume?" Sam asked in confusion.

Tina remained silent with a smile before she immediately sprinted into a room while Sam and Dani could hear zips being pulled from the inside. She then opened the door, now wearing an orange/white jumpsuit like a fox, with black elbow-length gloves, knee-length boots, and a v-shaped collar, and she even had an orange-white mask, a bushy fox tail, two long fox ears, and tied her hair up in a ponytail. Tina has dressed herself up like Rena Rouge (from Miraculous Ladybug).

Dani and Sam blinked at her in confusion, not really knowing what to say about her fox-themed superheroine costume.

"Hey, a woman dressed like a trickster heroine, so she has got to say trick or treat, or get hexed." Tina said with a shrug before she run up to the door. "Come on, baby, hit me with something sweet!"

When Tina opened the door, she suddenly got blasted back by green foam by Dani's parents, Matt and Jackie, who had their goggles on (Jackie's lenses being blue). Jackie was holding a large gun while Matt held onto the Fenton Finder.

"Haha! Look at that, baby! The Fenton Foamer works like a charm!" Jackie said as her goggles wiped the green goo off the lenses.

"I know! There was a ghost reading in this very room seconds ago, and now the room is clean!" Matt said with amazement as he examined the Fenton Finder.

"Speak for yourself." Tina said bitterly, covered with bubbling green foam as she frowned at her best friend's parents in annoyance. "If you need me, I'll be in a different doorway every eighteen seconds." She then walked past the ghost-obsessed couple and out of the room to go trick-or-treating.

"Isn't she a little old to be walking around in public in a stupid animal-themed costume?" Jackie asked her husband by his ear while they both made looks of somewhat weirdness.

"Mom, Dad, what are you doing?" Dani asked as she walked up to them and frowned a little.

"Decontaminating the area, kid." Matt replied.

"You know how ecto-storms always flare up on Halloween, Dani." Jackie added sternly.

"This is all very riveting-and by riveting I mean dull with a capital 'D'-but you guys need to leave before Lancer thinks you're helping me." Dani said to her folks.

"Lancer?" Jackie and Matt both frowned at her daughter with suspicion. "Hey, this isn't some sort of anti-detention project, is it?"

Dani panicked a little when her eyes went wide before she quickly shoved her parents to the exit. "No! No, no, no, of course not! Um, I'm just starting to get...interested in ghosts, like my own mother."

Jackie then smiled when she took it as a complement while she began to form tears in her eyes. "Finally! If I didn't consider it a sign of weakness, I'd weep with joy!" She began to cry as her wipers wiped her goggle lenses again before she and Matt left their daughter alone.

Dani made a little flat look until she crouched before she changed into her ghost form and smiled as she hovered above Sam, who smiled up at her with his arms crossed. "Decorated room, faked out parents. Only thing left to do is see what Daphne's lame theme is, then spend the rest of the night gloating."

Dani flew while she took the balloon sword with her as she phased out of her haunted house room and poked her head through the door into Daph's 'Spa of Doom'. There were dummy skeletons with dumbbells either choking them and seemingly ripped their arms off their sockets. The room looked simple, but it was much more creative than Dani's. There was even creative animatronics, like a skeleton on a walking treadmill, a jock whipping a boy with a towel, and two skeletons boxing each other until one punched the head off as Daph kicked the skull away with a large grin.

Like Dani and her friends, Daph was also wearing a costume for Halloween as well. She replaced her regular cheerleading uniform for a green-and-purple one and had a fake scar on the side of her cheek. Lancer was already present as she looked around her creative haunted house room.

"The Spa of Doom." Lancer said. "Quite impressive, Ms. Baxter, and I must admit, your knowledge of audio-animatronic technology is very impressive...yet quite surprising to me." She then hid her brief confusion when she then smiled down at the cheerleader. "What else do you have for me?"

"A twenty-five minute presentation about the Horrors of Athlete's Foot." Daph said as they walked into a coaster car with it designed like a sneaker while Dani continued to watch invisibly.

"Well, let's make it snappy, my guests arrive at midnight, you know." And the coaster moved forward into a tunnel.

"You will love the Tunnel of Fungus!" As the coaster disappeared into the tunnel, Dani turned herself visible and looked amazed yet confused by her arch-rival's room.

"Man, that is cool!" She said to herself until she looked down at the balloon sword before it deflated with a hiss. "And man, that's not. I'm very surprised that Daph could even build a coaster, she couldn't even build a birdhouse four years ago without tipping a nerd and threatening them into helping her." Dani then rolled her eyes at the thought. "I gotta do something fast or it's odor bra for dessert."

Dani glanced at a container with Daph's rottnest bra with a sign that read 'Reserved for Fenton'. She looked back down at her deflated balloon sword until she smiled with an idea that clicked in her head.

With desperation on her hands, Dani quickly flew back to her home, Fenton Works, where she headed into the lab and entered the Fenton Ghost Portal to enter the ghostly dimension of the Ghost Zone. She did remember to bring her map along with her, just in case she got lost, despite the fact that it was still incomplete. She examined her map while she looked at the Hallow Knight's castle, she then glanced ahead and saw the red castle floating there. As she stared up at it in fearful awe, lightning struck in the background while she floated closer to the castle.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Dani said with a gulp before she hovered through a window.

Dani descended down to the floor inside while she looked up at the large staircase that swirled impossibly to the top before she tucked her map into her jumpsuit and then hovered up the stairs. She wore her same stoic expression until she suddenly heard a click and gasped in shock when she saw a set of axes swinging right at her. She quickly ducked her head from one and then elongated her midsection, but an axe sliced at her hip, making her shout as she clapped her hand onto her side and returned her body to normal.

Dani then removed her hand from her gashed cut, showing green ectoplasm stained on her white glove. She knew that ghosts didn't exactly bleed actually blood, but ectoplasm instead, because it was what all ghosts are made of, and every time Dani turned into a ghost, it went for her as well.

"Oh, right. Rule number one: in the Ghost Zone, ghosts can be hurt." Dani said to herself before she continued to fly up the stairs.

Unfortunately, more axes clicked from nowhere, making her gasp again when even more axes came swinging right at her. Dani quickly flipped, swung, and dodged all of the incoming axes with amazing agility and reflexes that could give an olympic athlete a run in for his money. She finally flipped through a door as it slammed shut just when an axe sliced through the door. Dani pinned her back on the door before she looked ahead and saw a hallway full of skeletons with pumpkins, but suddenly the walls sprouted spikes, even through the skeletons and pumpkins.

To make matters worse, they began to close in. Dani quickly tried to fly to the other end of the hall to avoid getting spiked, until she remembered something else.

"That's right! Ghosts can be hurt here…" Rings appeared at her waist and light emitted just as the walls closed completely, but luckily Dani changed back into her human form (in her costume) and phased through the walls, completely unharmed while she smiled at her quick thinking. "...but humans have it made!" She remembered that ghosts could be hurt in the Ghost Zone, but she remembered from the last time she visited that humans can phase right through stuff in the Ghost Zone unharmed. Dani has gotta love the loopholes for being only half-ghost.

Dani opened the door to the throne room, where she saw limp skeletons littered all over the floor and then saw a glowing green double-edged sword, the Hallow Knight's Soul Shredder Sam once talked about earlier, in the center of the room and sheathed in a purple Jack-O-Lantern. She cautiously walked across the room while she accidentally stepped on a skeleton's arm and crushed it. Dani approached the sword and stared intently at it, she knew that Sam also warned her that one cut from this scary, eerie sword could teleport her to her greatest fear and possibly never return, even with sanity. She slowly lifted her hand before she quickly grabbed the hilt while she braced herself, but she looked around and saw that nothing wrong has happened.

Dani then grabbed the hilt with both of her hands before she struggled to pull it out while she grunted, until she finally managed to pull it out and she toppled from the weight while she regained her balance. Dani stared at the Soul Shredder in awe before she smiled that she has retrieved what she was looking for, but she was unaware that the skeletons began to come to life when they growled and raised their heads from the sword being pulled out.

"This place gives me the creeps, which means it'll scare the pants offa Lancer!" Dani said to herself as she held the sword in glee. She then turned around and sauntered carelessly to the exit, but froze and gasped in fear when she saw the skeletons blocking her way as they towered over her. Dani yelped as she jumped back in surprise when they crouch at her and she fell to the ground before she stood back up. "You boys need to eat more red meat." Dani changed back into her ghost form and did a couple of Kung-Fu poses with the Soul Shredder. "Hi-yah!" However, the skeletons all bowed down, much to her confusion. "Uh…" Dani then tired to look bold and disciplinary. "That's right! You know badness when you see it." Then the ground began to quake and ruble, surprising her again. "What?"

Dani turned her head around and stared the purple Jack-O-Lantern as green smoke rose and spilled before the altar suddenly broke into debris like someone was trying to break out. Lightning stroke before bats flew away and the Hallow Knight in person cried in freedom. She was everything that Sam's book dispatched, even her flaming gauntlets, purple flaming cape, and purple hair flames over her helmet.

Dani stared at her as she gaped in absolute fear, knowing that she was definitely in big trouble now.

"Foolish girl, you have released me." The Hallow Knight said as she pointed at the ghost girl before she extended out her hand. "Return to me my sword so my reign of terror can begin anew!"

"I-I can bring the sword back by midnight, but...the 'reign of terror' is kind of a deal-breaker." Dani said as she narrowed her eyes while she kept on clutching the sword.

"It was not a request, whelp! It was a demand!"

The Hallow Knight jumped to the air, but luckily Dani flew away before she punched the floor so hard, it cracked and the skeletons went flying. Dani flew to a window with her legs as a spectral tail before she fired an ecto beam at it when the window shattered and quickly flew out of the castle. The Hallow Knight picked up a small Jack-O-Lantern and threw it as it exploded into her steed, Nightmare. She mounted her and the horse neighed before she rode to the air and chased after the little thief who stole her sword.


Meanwhile at Amity Park, the kids were all walking around the neighborhood, wearing costumes and holding candy baskets as they walked from door to door. Jackie and Matt were both standing at the center of the neighborhood as they checked for any signs of ecto-activity.

"Whoa, ecto-storm's flaring up." Matt said, looking down at his ecto-detection device as it showed a graphic funnel.

"Better alert the local townsfolk." Jackie said in somewhat alert before she held up her megaphone and shouted into it. "Code five! Code five! Code five! This is not a drill! Repeat: this is not a drill!"

Jackie interrupted the kids' businesses when they immediately turned to them in confusion. "Weird costumes. What are they, plumbers?" One of the cosplaying children asked sarcastically before they all laughed hysterically.

The ghost hunting couple were confused by their hysterics while Jackie looked at her bullhorn again. "Is, uh...is this thing on?"


Back inside the Ghost Zone, Dani continued trying to flee away in fear with the Soul Shredder in her hands as the Hallow Knight gained up on her with her horse. She fired purple beams from her eyes, but luckily Dani dodged them and then she found the Fenton Portal right in front of her.

"Yes! Home sweet home!" Dani said to herself.

She turned around and then fired a ghost beam at the Hallow Knight. She got blasted off of her horse, but grabbed onto the reins, which made Nightmare whin as she fell back from the weight and they attempted to stabilize themselves before they continued their pursuit. Dani flew into the lab before quickly found the 'close' button and pushed it as the portal closed while the Hallow Knight and Nightmare try to pass, but too late. Dani exhaled in relief and then smiled with glee at the Soul Shredder before she flew back to the Townsend place.

Unfortunately, the Hallow Knight phased her hands through the doors and forced them open with her might as she screamed with determination.

Back at the old abandoned Townsend house, Sam paced around Dani's haunted house room, getting a little worried that his half-ghost friend hasn't even returned yet. "Where is she?" He asked himself.

Dani phased her hand through the floor and she tapped on Sam's leg with her finger, making him yelp in fright as he looked down before she phased through the floor completely with a laugh. "You think that's scary, get a load of this." Dani said as she held out the Soul Shredder.

Sam examined the sword and then glanced back at his friend with disbelief. "You went into the Ghost Zone and stole the Hallow Knight's sword?"

Dani shrugged a little carelessly. "Stole, borrowed, semantics. You worry too much."

The ghost girl then stuck the sword to the floor, which made it suddenly glow brightly. Dani released the sword and back away from it as she and Sam stared at it in awed, gaping silence. And then, it suddenly fired a beam into the air, making a giant, green hurricane-like cloud over the whole house as the beam feeds on the cloud and it grew.

Inside Daph's 'Spa of Doom', lightning struck on two of her exercise dummies as Lancer wrote on her clipboard before she left the room. Daph closed the door and walked away with a job-well-done look on her face, but then froze and gasped in shock when she found out that two of her dummies have been transformed into living zombies as they moaned at her.

Daph shrieked to the top of her lungs. "ZOMBIES!" She cried out in terror, loud enough for Sam and Dani to hear from the other room, catching their attentions'.

"Maybe I should get this thing back." Dani suggested reluctantly as she and Sam gaped back at the beam being projected by the sword.

"Ms. Fenton, it's time." Lancer said as she entered her room, and she was luckily too occupied by her own clipboard to see her in her ghost form.

Sam quickly jumped in front of Dani to hide her as she changed back into her human form (in her costume). "Right after Ms. Lancer judges my room. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"

Outside the Old Townsend house, lightning struck from the green storm cloud overhead and then, from a lightning strike, the Hallow Knight appeared on her horse in a flash.

"Free! And once I regain possession of my sword, I will transform this world into my own personal pantheon of terror! And then, I will rule!" She shouted before her horse whined as she shot to the air and flew into the neighborhood.

Back inside the abandoned house, all of the zombies and ghosts from Daph's haunted house room moaned as they approached and surrounded Dani, Sam, and Lancer (who was still oblivious to the whole thing).

"Uh, Ms. Lancer, I don't know if it's safe in here." Sam said nervously.

Dani tried to hide her worry with a smile. "That's right, Sam!" She said before she shoved all of the zombies out of her room with a 'there's nothing wrong' smile and slammed the door shut. "Nothing is safe inside Dani Fenton's Room of Doom!" She held an active flashlight under her face, giving herself a creepy effect. "Enter, if you dare."

She flipped on a light switch as a lamp flickers on and off, but Lancer looked bored, even when she pressed on a thunder recorder, only to get a small crackle of thunder. And then she reeled on a roller and spiders dropped from the ceiling, but Lancer still looked unfazed.

"I'll have you know, I don't fall for cheap theatrics." Lancer said when she pinched a spider as it squeaked. A lightning then struck on a box of spiders, making it glow. "And I don't scare easily." A leg tapped on her shoulder, catching her attention before she turned around, and they all saw a giant green spider with green skulls on the abdomen, green legs, seven asymmetrical eyes, and large green fangs as it hissed. While Dani and Sam appeared a little terrified by the spider, Lancer looked a little pleased as she wrote on her clipboard. "But you're off to a promising start."

Dani chuckled nervously as she smiled weakly. "All part of the show."

Outside, Daph sprinted down the sidewalk in absolute terror. "ZOMBIES! GHOSTS!" She shrieked, loud enough to catch the Hallow Knight's attention when her eyes widened.

"I know that terror: that carries the scent of my blade." She said to herself before her horse whined and flew in front of Daph, making her freeze her tracks and scream even more. "You, tell me. Where are you running from?"

"917 Maple Street!" Daph replied as she pointed at the Townsend house with the large, green ecto-storm above it.

"Yes. Upon yonder hill lies the instrument of my ultimate ascendency! The Soul Shredder!" Daph stared at her in scared confusion until she quickly leaped over a brick wall in an attempt to get away from both the house and the knight woman.

From the ecto-storm, lightning struck on a minivan when it changed it into a monster with a real face and bat wings before it flew off into the air. Another lightning flash struck a mailbox, turning it into a ghoul, but then it coughed up a letter. An ordinary stop sign turned into a ghoulish lady with tentacles for legs before it growled as it walked off. The trick-or-treaters began to run for their lives from the monsters as they screamed and chaos ensured.

"This is only the beginning." The Hallow Knight said.

Her helmet twitched in surprise when she heard a non-terrified voice. "Hey, Dani, is that you?" Tina asked as she walked up without a care, holding her pumpkin basket full of candy.

"Child, you may want to show a little more respect to your future ruler."

Tina looked unfazed by this. "Yeah, yeah, very scary. The fake horse is pretty neat." Nightmare gave her a menacing glare. "What's it made out of? Flaming bed sheets?"

"Flaming bed sheets of death!"

Rapid beeping was heard when Tina pulled out her PDA and quickly glanced at it. "Whoa, I'm running late. I gotta be at the Henderson's at five-" She got interrupted when the Hallow Knight grabbed her by her costume and lifted her to the air.

"I am the Hallow Knight! The Spirit of Halloween!" She fired purple ecto beams from her eyes and melted all the candy inside Tina's basket, making her glare at the ghost.

"Aww man, why'd you do that?!" A lightning struck while it turned a news box into a monster before it opened its mouth wide as it made the kids scream and run away in fear.

The Hallow Knight ignored Tina's question. "And once this ecto-storm touches every corner on this globe, all these transformations will be permanent, and this shall be my new domain! Now...take me to my sword!"

Tina now actually looked frightened when she stared at the Hallow Knight with wide eyes. "...you're not Dani, are you?"

Back inside the Old Townsend house in Dani's haunted house room, Lancer was currently trapped inside a cocoon made out of cobwebs. However, she still looked completely unfazed and oblivious to the fact that she really was in actual danger.

"This has potential. Sticky, gross...I like it!" She said with a smile as the spider approached and towered over her.

Dani and Sam watched the sword still generating ghost energy with cautious fear as their hairs began to flutter from the wind. "Dani, you might want to end this before things spin out of control!" Sam said with worry.

"I will, as soon as Lancer declares me the winner!" Dani said with a self-assuring as if she had everything under control.

The behemoth spider approached the now surprised-looking Lancer as it hissed and saliva dripped from its mouth. "...okay, I'm mildly impressed. A few more surprised and you might have this thing wrapped up." Lancer said.

"Yes! I'll take 'mildly impressed'! That's my cue to clean up." Dani grabbed a Fenton Foamer gun from the ground and blasted green foam at the spider, making it glow and turn it back into a rubber spider before Lancer became snack. Sam tried to hold back the door as zombies tried to get in. "Sam! Catch!"

Dani tossed him the Fenton Foamer before he caught it, but got catapulted from the door when the zombies barged into the room. Sam aimed the gun and blasted more foam at them as it changed them back into rubber skeleton dolls. The goth boy then walked up to Dani, who crossed her arms and smiled confidently.

"See? I told you I had everything under control." She said before she took the foamer again. "We've got enough Fenton Foamers to keep Lancer safe, and as soon as she says the words 'Dani wins'..." Dani fired more foams at a giant mouse that was about to attack Lancer, but changed into a ornately carved red plush chair. "I'll toss the sword back into the Ghost Zone."

However, they all suddenly heard crashing from above them, taking them by surprise. The Hallow Knight rode on her horse through the ceiling, sending debris falling everywhere, and had Tina laying on her stomach helplessly on her lap.

"Hmm...that's one fancy flaming robot." Lancer said cluelessly as she smiled at the Hallow Knight.

"Dani, whatever you do, don't let her get the sword!" Tina cried to her friend.

"Silence, whelp!" The Hallow Knight said before she threw her off her lap.

She was hurdled straight across to the end of the room until she safely stuck onto the cobweb next to Lancer. She smiled at her teacher casually. "Hi, come here often?"

"Tina!" Dani cried before she aimed her Fenton Foamer at the Hallow Knight. She fired her own eye beams at her, blasting her weapon out of her hands as she looked up at her in fear of being disarmed.

She then went wide eyed at her sword that was still generating energy for the ecto-storm. "My sword! At last!" She said before she lunged for her Soul Shredder while Dani, looking determined, ran up and grabbed the sword's hilt before she did.

"Hah!" Dani smile then dropped when she was forcefully lifted up. The Hallow Knight began to shake Dani off her sword three or four times while she grunted each time and tried to keep herself from losing her grip on the ghostly sword.

"That's certainly exciting, but is it scary?" Lancer asked with an unimpressed look.

As Dani and the Hallow Knight struggled for the sword, they stumbled towards the teacher and the sword then sliced through a surprised Lancer, luckily without a gash. She immediately began to glow green before she suddenly poofed out of existence, her web cocoon now completely empty.

"Lancer?! Where'd she go?" Dani asked out loud in worry.


In an empty world, Lancer appeared on a tiny rock spire with a tile floor as she looked at the darkness around her.

"Yes, it's scary." She said as six blackboards appeared and surrounded her with hundreds of complex math equations, making her more frightened. "It's very scary!" A part of a pi symbol came off and reached out for Lancer when it wrapped around her wrist. With a trembling scream, it forced the teacher near the blackboard and scratched her nails over it as Lancer cringed from the awful sound. "TOO SCARY! AHHHHHH!"

As the legends of the Soul Shredder Sam once told both of his friends are true, Lancer has been teleported to a dimension where her worst fears of complex math equations and fingernails on a chalkboard would come to life.


Back in reality, Dani looked into the empty cobweb cocoon Lancer was trapped in. "Ms. Lancer?!" She shouted with worry before she glared demandingly at the Hallow Knight. "What did you do to her?!"

"I've sent her to where all who feel the sting of my blade are sent: a dimension where her worst fears come to life!" She said as she thrusted her Soul Shredder up in her rightful hand.

Dani threw the cocoon over her head in triumph with a bright smile. "YES! This contest is SO MINE!" Sam then gave her a correcting glare, which made her go back to the situation at hand. "I-I mean...bring him back now!"

Dani changed into her ghost form as she ran and then she flew up, but only to get hand swapped by the Hallow Knight before she crashed through a wall with her legs sticking out. "Listen to the sound of your doom! Soon, my storm shall consume this planet, the world will be forever transformed, and no one can stop me!"

Dani raised her head from the hole as she scowled determinedly. "Not if I can help it!" She flew out of the hole and charged at the Hallow Knight, but she merely stood there unfazed and motionless when she clinged onto her stomach, face-first, and fell onto the floor in front of him with a grunt. She stared up at her with wide eyes. "...which, apparently I can't."

As the Hallow Knight raised her sword above her, readying to stab Dani, Tina slid off the cobweb. "Dani, look out!" She shouted as she quickly ran over to her.

Tina stood over her best friend, risking her own sanity to save Dani, by taking the stab and was sent to an alternate dimension where her worst fears will come to life, the same way that happened to Ms. Lancer. "Tina, NO!"


In another alternate dimension, Tina was standing in a middle of a deserted island with all of her tech until they suddenly disappeared from her hands and legs without a trace.

"No phones? No games? No PDAs? And no clothes?!" Tina cried out in terror, now suddenly in her bra and undies. "All my technology! Useless!" The ground in front of her suddenly broke apart when Tina cringed before she looked up in terror-stricken disbelief. A giant notepad and a giant pencil hovered right above her. "NOOOOOOOO!"

Tina's worst fears were having absolutely no technology and having to write notes, which she really hated.


Back in reality, the Hallow Knight jumped into action with a battle cry. Dani fired an ecto beam at her, only for her to swipe it with her sword as she deflected it back to Dani instead, which sent her flying as she shouted and crashed into another wall while making another hole.

"Doesn't anything work on this woman?" Dani croaked in annoyance to Sam from inside the hole.

Sam urgently flipped over the pages of his book in search of some valuable information. "Come on, come on! There's gotta be something in this book that tells us how to beat her." He muttered to himself.

The Hallow Knight towered over the goth boy before he glanced up at the spirit with a nervous expression. "Perhaps, but you'll never find it!" She said as she raised her sword.

"Sam, watch out!" Dani exclaimed as she grabbed him while she turned them both intangible before the sword sliced the book in half and they flew away from the Spirit of Halloween.

"Darn it! That bookstore as a no-return policy!" Sam grunted to himself in frustration before they hid behind a chair.

"I'm so sorry. I wanted to win so bad, but not this bad!" Dani looked down in regret for what she has done.

The goth boy narrowed his eyes at his shameful ghost friend. "Stop beating yourself over it and start beating her!" Sam and Dani peered over the chair, staring in sheer terror at the Hallow Knight. "It's the only way we'll be able to get Tina and Lancer back safely and get everything back to normal!"

Dani then made a look of determination while she silently agreed with him before she flew back into action. The Hallow Knight swatted at her again with her hand when she sent her flying and shrieking again. She slid and skimmed over a table, sending glass and plates flying everywhere.

Meanwhile, Sam leafed over his book's torn pages in desperation while his friend tried to keep the Spirit of Halloween distracted long enough for him to find the solution.

"Come on, show me a weakness, a vulnerability, anything!" He mumbled to himself urgently, until he finally found something when his eyes went wide and he smiled. "Ah ha!" He began to read it out loud:

To cease the storm, to end the fear

The sword must sheath in pumpkin near

Sam's eyes went wide when he found a way to defeat the Hallow Knight. "'Pumpkin near'! Dani, you've got to put the sword back in a pumpkin!"

"A pumpkin? There are no pumpkins in the room." Dani said before she threw an old grandfather clock at the Hallow Knight, sending her to the floor. She then made a look of realization. "'No pumpkins in the room'? It's Halloween! What am I, an idiot?!" Dani facepalmed herself for being clueless.

Sam began to wave around the page urgently. "You've got to find another pumpkin fast! It's the only thing that can stop the sword's power!"

Dani looked around frantically around the room until she finally found Tina's pumpkin basket with her melted candy. It wasn't a real pumpkin, but it was the only thing she had to set everything back to normal, at least until she manages to get the Soul Shredder away from the Hallow Knight first. The ghost rose from the clock debris before she then flew up and dragged Dani as they crashed through the ceiling and outside to the roof.

As the Hallow Knight swung her sword, Dani dodged her attack before she pinned herself to a window and then back-flipped to the other side of the roof while she avoided her other swing. She then sprinted across the roof as she jumped from two of the knight ghost's blows until she finally flew into the air while she entirely missed her again with a spin-swing.

"Strike six! Way to whip, Mrs. October!" Dani retorted before she fired a ghost beam and blasted her dead on as she crashed back into the room with Dani following to finish her off.

"Come on, Dani! You can do it!" Sam encouraged his friend with a confident smile.

Both Dani and the Hallow Knight began exchanging blows as Dani punched the knight before she gave her an uppercut in return, she slammed on top of her with a double kick, and then the ghost grabbed her throat and pinned her to the ground. The Hallow Knight lifted her sword up, but Dani quickly jumped to her feet and caught the sword by the blade with her bare hands, taking the knight ghost by surprise.

Dani's entire body began to glow green while she began to gather her ghost energy to increase her strength and she strained to overcome the Hallow Knight as she felt the sword's energy on herself.

"To cease the storm...to end the fear…" Dani began to recite while her eyes began to glow green. The Hallow Knight grunted with effort, but the ghost girl only overcame her even more. "The sword must sheath...in pumpkin NEAR!" Her whole body glowed brighter as she pushed even harder until she finally managed to grab the hilt of the Soul Shredder.

With a loud shout, she thrusted and flipped the Spirit of Halloween over her shoulder, forcing her to release the sword as she landed on the ground by her back. Dani glared at the ghost before she jumped high into the air and shouted again as she sheathed the sword deep into the pumpkin basket.

Just as she hoped for, it actually worked when the sword flashed brightly green and blew her away with its raw force.

"What?" The HallowKnight said in sudden revelation as she stared at the sword while its power began to short-circuit.

Dani landed on the floor next to her and grinned up at the knight. "Trick and treat, bucket head, and that's called girl power! Told you I'd have it back by midnight."

"No! No! NOOOOOO!" The Hallow Knight tried to grab the sword, but it glowed brightly as it short circuited even more and forced her off while Dani and Sam watched in awe.

Outside the building, the ecto-storm began to swirl counterclockwise when the sword began to take its power away.

Meanwhile, Matt Fenton looked at his ecto-detection device when it showed a graphic of a vortex over a house. "This ghost front is coming from the direction of...917 Maple Street." He said to his wife.

"917 Maple, eh? I could've sworn it was coming from that spooky house with that big, swirling cloud overhead." Jackie said as she rubbed her head before she pointed at the old Townsend house that was engulfed under a green ecto-cloud.

Matt gasped in realization. "That's where Dani is!"

"Then let's shake a tail feather, papa! Our girl's in danger!" They immediately brought out their weapons before they charged for the mansion.

Meanwhile, everything around the neighborhood that has been turned into a monster all changed back into normal motionless objects. Everyone ceased their panickings and fears when they realized that everything was returning to normal at last.

Back inside the old Townsend mansion, the ecto-storm began to suck up everything as Nightmare got sucked to the center with a whin. Dani and Sam stared up at the stormcloud in victory while their hairs waved madly from the strong wind.

"It's sucking everything into the Ghost Zone! It's working!" Sam exclaimed over the wind, until he yelped when he was about to be sucked in as well.

"SAM!" Dani exclaimed while her smile dropped.

She quickly grabbed her goth friend and pulled him back down before she held him close to her. She then phased her hand through the floor and grabbed a pipe underneath to prevent themselves from being sucked in.

"I will have my vengeance! Mark my words!" The Hallow Knight declared out loud before her helmet broke into pieces and then her body flew into the cloud. The ecto-storm disappeared without a trace before the Soul Shredder inside the pumpkin basket vanished as well.

Tina suddenly reappeared back in the room with a shocked expression (and back in her Rena Rouge costume). She immediately brought out her PDA with a joyful and relieved smile, knowing that she was finally back home and out of her own alternate dimension where her worst fears came to life. "Yes! Sweet beautiful technology, you're mine once again!" She hugged the PDA close to her cheek.

Ms. Lancer suddenly reappeared in a state of shock, just before Dani quickly changed back into her human form (in her costume) again. She smiled sheepishly when her teacher turned sharply to her. "Ms. Fenton, I have to say that was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen!" She said to her student. Dani only blinked in confusion, not really knowing what to say until she suddenly made a bright face. "YOU WIN!"

"YES!" Dani shouted as she threw her arms up in the air in triumph.

"Take that, Tetslaff!" Lancer turned and walked away.

Dani shared a platonic hug with Sam, who was looking happy for her that she both didn't have to eat Daph's nasty odared bra and that she has managed to fix everything.

However, after Dani released her friend, she then made a look of realization and looked ashamed of herself. After her experience with the Hallow Knight, she realized that her major desire to win her little side-bet with Daph has put everyone in Amity Park in danger again, and she probably did deserved to eat some bra as punishment. If that Soul Shredder had actually teleported her to her greatest fear, it wouldn't be just losing, but also losing the people closest to her and putting them all in danger.

With her mind made up, she made a determined face and ran after her teacher. "Wait! Ms. Lancer!" She called

"I can see it now, Tetslaff!" Lancer then turned around and saw her student catching up to her.

Dani looked down in guilt. "Ms. Lancer, I have to be honest...I-I cheated."

Lancer cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "Cheated?"

"Well, I burrowed-eh-um...stole some of my parents' technology."

"You mean this stuff?" Sam asked sheepishly as he held up the Fenton Foamer weapon while Tina followed him. "Like the Fenton Foamer, which causes a psychosomatic reaction in whoever's exposed to it causing them to experience their worst fear?"

He and Dani then both shared innocent expressions. "Yeah! That!"

"Danielle, the good news for you is that I don't care. I have two scary rooms, and it's midnight!" Lancer said proudly as she opened the door. "Let the party begin!"

Dani's eyes went wide when she immediately saw something. "Lancer, look out!"

"Nobody move!" Jackie and Matt shouted in unison.

Luckily, Lancer opened her eyes in time and shouted in surprise before she ducked from green foam that flew over her head, as did Dani, Sam, and Tina. They all looked out in surprised as they got up and stared at the ghost hunting couple, who both looked equally surprised.

"...I also found a nerd locked inside a closet in Daph's Spa of Doom." Tina told everyone sheepishly while she shrugged.

On cue, Mikaela, the school nerd, hopped out of the house look gratefully at Tina. "Thanks a bunch, Tina! Tell Daphne that she can't refund her cash!" She exclaimed as she sprinted down the sidewalk.

Mr. Tetslaff and some of the other teens in their costumes watched Mikaela run off before they all looked mildly impressed when they turned their attentions back to Lancer. "Nice theme, Lancer. That's some cautious girl you've got there. Nice costume, Fenton, it suits you well." He said before he walked away.

Lancer was more surprised by the fact that a nerd just ran out of the mansion, until she narrowed her eyes like her own suspicions were proven correct. "Well that certainly explains why everything in Ms. Baxter's room was absolutely perfect. It's a good thing you warned me about your folks and that your friend exposed Daphne's uncreative mind, Danielle. Otherwise, I would've had to change my mind. Daphne's disqualified as the winner and I will be seeing her in detention." Lancer said as she glared at nothing in particular until she smiled at Dani in gratitude. "See you tomorrow at school, enjoy the rest of your Halloween night."

As Lancer walked away with a smile, Matt and Jackie looked surprised until they frowned in realization. "Hey, wait a minute, this was some anti-detention project!" Jackie said as she narrowed her eyes under her goggles before they turned sternly to their daughter. "You're in a lot of trouble, missy!"

Dani sighed as she slumped a little. "I'll call this night an even match." She said mostly to herself before she managed a small smile that everything was back to normal.


Although Dani got grounded by her parents for lying to them, she had still won her little side-bet with Daph fair and square. Apparently, the cheerleader captain was exposed as the real cheater for the haunted house room since she paid and blackmailed a nerd into helping her with the roller coaster and animatronics, whom Tina found locked inside her closet inside the Spa of Doom. As punishment for her dirty cheating, Daph was ultimately disqualified by Lancer as the winner, was given detention, and now had to eat Jackie Fenton's ghost bait food.

So Dani just called the Halloween contest an even match for both herself and Daph.

The next day at Casper High, Daph (who was back in her normal cheerleader uniform) sat on a table in the cafeteria with a shocked expression while her friends began to hand her multiple things to prepare her.

"Salt." Kwyn said when she handed her one.

"Pepper." Paul Sanchez said when he handed her one.

"Ten gallon water." Kwyn slid a large gallon jug of water next to Daph.

Dani (who was also back in her regular attire) slipped a covered dish in front of the cheerleader captain and lifted the cover off, revealing a burger with a green pattie meat and red sauce inside of it, steaming and bubbling a little as it boiled. Dani once promised that it was made from ghost peppers, the hottest kind, and her mother's invented ghost bait, the ecto-patties, were probably going to taste really gross.

"Enjoy it while it's still there, Bax-of-wax." Dani mocked with a smirk while Sam and Tina (also back in their normal clothes) looked smug at the cheerleader captain as well with their arms crossed.

Daph picked up the steaming-hot nasty burger and then gagged in disgust and was about to throw up. She braced herself that her taste buds might both taste the grossness and the hotness of the patty and hot sauce respectively for a very, very long time.