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Outrage and panic ensued after the news. Danny nudged Sam and Tucker and motioned them to follow him.
Danny walked with difficulty through the crowd. When he finally reached open space he turned around and waited for Tucker and Sam to catch up.
Sam emerged first, obviously irritated from the close contact of so many people, then Tucker. "What's up dude?" Tucker asked while adjusting his hat.
"I'm gonna fly out of here, find the closest city, and get help," said Danny.
"Are you insane?" Sam asked, bewildered. When Danny gave her a stunned look she replied with an insincere, "Sorry, but you don't know how far away that is, it could be hundreds of miles from here!" Sam said.
"I'm pretty sure I can do it. Besides, it's better than doing nothing," Danny paused to see if his friends wanted to say anything, but all they gave him was an unconvinced stare, so he continued. "I need you to cover for me while I'm gone."
"You're crazy dude, but I don't see any other chance we have," Tucker said with a glance at Sam. Danny gave him a grateful smile.
Both boys looked at Sam for her input. The girl sighed, "Whatever," she shrugged. She looked back up to Danny. "Just be safe and hurry."
"I'll try my best," Danny said with a smile. He dashed behind some bushes. With a bright flash of light, he was gone.
Danny flew invisible over the island. Before he went on his journey he wanted to do a quick check around the island to see what it was like. So far all he saw was trees, trees, and more trees. Thinking it was useless to fly around when he couldn't even see the ground (excluding the beach) he flew out over the ocean.
The ghost boy flew at relatively fast speed, he didn't want to fly too fast because he wanted to save his energy for the trip. Danny became visible when he knew people from the beach wouldn't recognize him, if someone did look up he would just be a black dot.
Danny smiled, enjoying his flight, taking in the smell of the sea, warmth of the sun, the sounds of seagulls and charging missiles. Wait a minute, the halfa skidded to a halt and whipped around like a deer caught in headlights to the direction where he heard the noise.
It was Sulker with a missile coming off his right arm.
"Hello, whelp." Without any hesitation, he fired at Danny. In a split second, the ghost boy took off as fast as he could. He looked behind him to find, to his dismay, the missile was still following him. He fired ecto-blasts at the projectile, but it didn't affect the weapon in the slightest.
Danny didn't even realize what direction he was going in until he was face to face with a tree. He quickly turned intangible and went through dozens more. The ghost boy checked behind him to see where the missile was. It was farther behind than it had been in the open sky, at the moment it was zig zagging through the mass of trees.
"It has to follow my every move," Danny murmured to himself. He checked behind himself again to see that it was still dodging trees. "but it can't go intangible," he added with a smirk.
The boy made a sharp dive into the dirt ground. A few seconds later he heard a great 'BOOM' from the surface.
Danny sprung back up to the surface. He let out a victorious shout and threw his arms in the air. "Yes! It feels good for one of my plans to go right for once," he said with a smile. "Now I just have to take care of Skulker," he growled. Before he flew off, he halted. 'How did Skulker know to find me here?' Danny clenched his fists. 'He must have caused the plane to crash!'
"This is a new low." With his eyes radiating even more than normal, he was prepared to find the ghost when a scream pierced his ears.
"Oh my gosh! Look, it's the ghost boy!"
Danny whipped his body around to find his whole class and a few of the other plane survivors. In front of them all, with a chipped nail pointing directly at him, was Paulina. "And he's here to save me!" squealed Paulina.
Danny almost slapped himself. He hadn't realized how close to the crash he was. The boy wasn't sure how he could explain how he had got here. Danny started panicking, and did the only thing he could think of at that moment. He disappeared.
Leaving the group of stunned people behind, Danny flew above all the trees of the island to become visible. "Come on out Skulker. I am so not in the mood to play hide-and-seek," called Danny. A whooshing sound came from the right of Danny, he barely dodged the flying object. Looking behind him he saw the object was a net, which was now falling through the air. "Or cat-and-mouse," Danny said.
"So, whelp, how was your flight?" Skulker asked, appearing out of thin air with a cruel smirk on his face.
After shooting an ecto-blast at the hunter Danny yelled, "I knew it was you who caused the crash!"
Simply going intangible to avoid the passing blast Skulker replied, "Oh it wasn't just me. There are others that are helping too."
That, Danny wasn't expecting. "What? Others? Like who?" ask the ghost boy.
Skulker gave a bark of a laugh. "Why would I give you that information? All you need to know, ghost child, is that you can't escape. We have this whole island covered." replied Skulker. "Now if you excuse me I have other-"
"Wait!" Danny yelled, stopping the hunter from flying away. "Who's we? And why didn't you just kill me…Or everybody else on the plane? You could've made it a fatal crash…not that I'm complaining or anything," Danny added quickly.
"Trust me if it was my idea I would have had your pelt adorn on my mantle by now," Skulker growled. "But I can't kill the star of the show" he said with smirk.
"What aren't you telling me?" the halfa asked.
"Good luck with the rest of your field trip," he said before he disappeared.
"Wait!" he once again shouted. After about a minute of floating in midair staring at nothing, Danny muttered, "Great…" With a sigh Danny slowly turned around, to find a gun pointed at his forehead by a certain red suited huntress. At this point Danny was near a breakdown.
"To think I actually let you free after we saved Danielle. Then you just go and crash the plane I was flying in?" asked Valerie in a menacing tone.
"Oh, for the love of-" Danny muttered. "Did you really just miss that conversation?"
Judging by her silence the halfa took that as a yes.
"Listen, you have the wrong idea! It wasn't me! It's these other evil ghosts!" yelled Danny, swinging his arms around dramatically.
Valerie rolled her eyes under her visor. "Yeah right…"
Danny put his hands through his hair, gripping it in frustration. "Valerie," he growled, "my life is not to make you miserable. I would never make a plane crash on purpose. Unless it was filled with my enemies, but they're all dead anyways," he added.
"I'm one of your enemies!" Valerie yelled, realigning her gun to his chest.
"No you're not! I may be one of yours, but you are not one of mine. I thought maybe you could get passed thinking of me as your enemy and maybe more of a teammate?"
Valerie pushed her gun into his chest.
Danny quickly nodded. "No, no. You're totally right, that was silly of me to even think- how about just friends?" Danny offered.
Valerie growled something indistinguishable under her visor.
"Okay, um, acquaintances?" he suggested. Valerie didn't move. "Anything that involves that gun pointing in another direction, I'm open to," he shrugged.
"You're a ghost. Of course I'm going to hunt you."
"What about Danielle?
"She- she's different."
"Because she's part human," Danny answered for her.
"Yeah," she replied.
"She's also part ghost," he reminded her. Danny felt her twitch through the gun against his chest.
"She's more human than ghost."
"So, if I was like her you would be perfectly fine with me."
"No!" she shouted. "Danielle's different, she's more like a human with ghost powers. She could have been more like a ghost, like Vl-" she caught herself. "She's different."
Danny stared at Valerie with wide eyes. "Wait. What were you going to say?"
"Just shut up ghost!" Before Danny realized what was happening, the huntress had Danny in glowing green handcuffs.
"Whoah! What the fu-"
"You've probably already guessed, but those handcuffs are ghost proof. So you can't use your powers at all or you'll get one nasty zap every time you try." Valerie growled, pulling him onto her hoverboard.
"And here I was thinking that we were bonding," Danny muttered.
The girl grabbed him by the front of his shirt and drew him closer to her helmet. "Listen, ghost. I'm not your friend. What happened with Dani was a temporary truce." She let go him and stood back up.
"Temporary truce? You could've fooled me," he said, turning to face her. She gave him a questioning look. "Ever since then you haven't been hunting me. I wanna know why," Danny said, looking into her visor.
"Haven't really been feeling like kicking your ass recently, that's all," she cheekily.
"For almost two years you haven't felt like kicking my ass?" Danny asked skeptically. "That doesn't sound like the Red Huntress I used to know." He paused. "What was the name you were going to say before?"
"Why does it matter to you, ghost?"
"Were you about to say Vlad?"
Valerie stared at him for a moment before answering. "Yeah. I'm only telling you this because I know you can tell me more about him, right?" Valerie said stubbornly as she pointed her gun at his head once again.
"Well, it's kind of hard not to, when you put it like that," he said, eyeing the gun. "But first, what do you know about him?"
Valerie clenched her teeth. "I know that he tricked me. I know that he isn't really a good guy. He's a ghost! He did the same thing Danielle does with the rings."
"Vlad's also half ghost, just like Danielle."
Valerie looked confused and hurt. "He's more of a ghost!"
"I wouldn't say that...just more evil," Danny said slowly. Valerie glared. "Ghost can be good too!"
"Name one!"
"Uh, me?"
The ghost hunter jabbed the gun into his stomach, making Danny grunt and lean over in pain. "Yeah, I didn't think you'd like that example." After he regained his posture he spoke again. "How about Dora, Clockwork, Wulf, the Dairy King, all of the Far Frozen? Hell, even the Box Ghost!"
"The Box Ghost?"
"He's just annoying. I think he's just lonely," Danny said with a shrug.
"He wants to take over the world."
"But he doesn't."
"Because he can't. Don't try to get off topic, ghost. How did Vlad get the way he is?"
Danny shrugged. "I dunno. I think it was an experiment that went wrong."
Valerie seemed to be out of things to say. Until, "Why are you here if it wasn't to come after me?"
"I wanted to see the world?" Valerie pushed the gun a little further in his stomach. "It's complicated."
"I've got time."
Danny hesitated for a moment to think of a story. "I saw a couple of ghosts come onto the plane and I knew something was up."
"So it was ghosts who crashed the plane," Valerie said.
"Yeah...But not this ghost," Danny clarified, pointing to himself.
Valerie looked at him but said nothing.
"Anyways, I can help get you guys off this island! I'm stuck here too! The ghosts are surrounding the island so I can't just fly away!"
"They're everywhere?" Valerie asked, looking around uneasily.
"I guess so. But I can help! Just let me go! If one of my enemies finds me like this I'm dead...er."
Valerie stared at him, but the setting sun behind him caught her attention. "Shit! What time is it? I have to get back to Lancer! And I have to hide you somewhere," she added.
Danny gulped and hoped that Sam and Tucker could cover for him a little longer.