Chapter 13:
~~~SARALYN'S POV~~~
During science class, I kept thinking about Aaron. Of course, not in THAT way...
What is he? A ghost? Shape-shifter? Ugh, it's so complicated...
I didn't see Mrs. Jordan walk over to my desk until she was right in front of me. She rapped her ruler on my desk, knocking me out of my daydreaming and almost out of my chair.
"Saralyn, pay attention!" she said.
"Sorry." I mumbled. I glanced at Sam, who was sitting next to me.
"Thinking about Aaron?" Sam whispered.
"A little bit. He's just a mystery."
I sighed and shook my head. I turned my eyes to the chalkboard, staring at the periodic table until my eyes went cross-eyed. I groaned in frustration and rested my chin in my hands.
"I know what you mean." Danny said, who was sitting on the table next to us.
Our ghost senses went off, followed three seconds later by Skulker. Everyone burst into screams and ran out of the room in a panicked order. I rolled my eyes and we changed into our ghost forms.
"Wow, Skulker. It's been a while since I've seen you." I said. "I was actually beginning to miss you. Where have you been?"
"To tell you the truth, I don't even know myself." Skulker said, which earned an eyebrow raise from me.
"What do you want, Skulker?" Danny snarled.
"Relax, ghost child. I'm not hunting you... for now." Skulker said. "I'm looking for someone... or something else."
He pulled out a piece of paper and showed in to Danny. His eyes widened. I looked at the picture. It was of a wolf ghost with black tangled fur and glowing green eyes. His green shirt and pants were tattered.
"Wulf?!" Danny cried. He took the paper and burned it within his ectoplasm ball. "I won't let you hurt him!"
"Who's Wulf?" I asked.
Danny ignored my question. He grabbed Skulker by the collar and rammed him into the chalkboard. "Where is Wulf?!"
"How should I know!?" Skulker said, swatting away Danny.
"I know you're hiding something!" Danny said. His hands started glowing brightly with green. "Tell me!"
"Look, whelp," Skulker said, "all I know is that he's been sighted somewhere in the woods. That's all."
"Well, thanks for that," Danny said. A mischievous smile grew on his face. He quickly took out his thermos and sucked Skulker inside.
Danny turned to me and saw me in my shock. He started blushing from embarrassment. My shock turned into a smile and I giggled.
"So, who is Wulf?" I repeated the question.
"He's a friend of mine. Walker's probably looking for him, so he sent Skulker. We'd better go find him." Danny said. His voice was full of worry. I nodded. We flew out of the school and headed towards the woods, Tucker and Sam trailing behind us.
~SARALYN~
We made it to the woods. We searched every nook and cranny of all the trees we saw, but Wulf was nowhere to be found.
"We're never going to find him!" I cried. I heard a few birds chirping, as if they were yelling at me to keep it down.
"We'll just have to look again!" Danny said.
"Danny, don't you see?" I snapped, putting my hands on my hips. "Skulker probably just sent us here to throw us off! I mean, what are the chances we find a wolf gho-"
I stopped when a large bush began to rustle nearby us. I gasped. Danny slowly approached the bush. When he reached out to touch the bush a shadow jumped from the bush and pinned him to the ground.
"Danny!" I said, running to him.
"Let me go, you-" Danny said. He looked up at the creature and a smile spread on his face. "Wulf! It's you!
Wulf howled happily and licked Danny's face.
"Whoa, easy boy!" Danny said as Wulf jumped off him.
I chuckled, but stopped as Wulf approached me and snarled. Danny stood in between me and Wulf, his arms stretched out to the side.
"It's okay, Wulf." Danny said, slowly and enunciating. "She's a friend of mine."
Wulf started speaking, but I had no idea what he said.
"It's good to see you, too." Danny said. I grabbed his arm.
"You know what he's saying?" I whispered.
"Yeah, it's some language that Tucker taught me. It's a way for geeks to communicate with each other." Danny said.
"Hey, you said it, not me." I mumbled.
Wulf came up to me and smelled me.
"Uh..." I said, staring at Wulf strangely.
Wolf smiled and started panting. He stuck out his tongue, ready to lick me.
"Whoa, there!" I said, stepping away. "No thank you. I, uh, already showered today."
Danny chuckled in the background.
"Come on, Wulf. Walker and Skulker are looking for you." Danny said turning to Wulf. "We'd better get you to my house."
"What about your parents?" I whispered in his ear.
"Um, make that Sam's house."
Wulf howled. Danny grabbed one of Wulf's arms and I grabbed the other. We flew up and out of the forest, but not before skillfully smacking into every tree we came by.