Chapter 6

Maddie walked up to the kitchen for her fourth cup of coffee. She ran a hand through her knotted up hair, remembering she still needed to at least brush it out. She poured out the last from the pot and decided if she was going to continue to work she better make more. On autopilot, her hands went ahead and put in what was needed for a new pot of coffee as her mind tried to work out why this ghost was after her family. Sure, she and her husband both fought ghosts, but ghosts had never seeked them out in particular.

The door opened, getting Maddie to jerk her head up to look through the window to the living room. She watched in surprise as her son and his best friends walked in, Danny sporting a wrap around his head.

"Hey Mom." Danny said, seeing her through the window. "Ghost attacked."

"Let me guess, the skeleton again?" Maddie asked, walking around the wall to check her son over.

"Ya, he, um, doesn't like your Fenton Thermoses." Tucker said, holding up the biggest fragment of the destroyed device.

"You three tried to catch it?" Maddie asked, stepping back to look at the three in surprise.

"Well he's attacked us twice now." Danny admitted. "I figured trying was better than waiting for the Guys in White."

"I just wish I knew why he was after us." Maddie admitted as she took the fragment from Tucker.

Sam looked at Danny, urging him of something they had agreed on on the walk to Fenton Works.

Danny popped his jaw before looking up at his mom. "We might've figured out why he's after us."

The four moved into the kitchen as Danny informed his mom in on what he and Jazz had learned yesterday. As he talked, Tucker unloaded his backpack of the remaining pieces of the Fenton Thermos onto the table.

"What ever the thermos does to shrink the ghost to put it inside seemed to weaken him enough he couldn't form himself after breaking out." Danny mentioned after he gave her the Phantom-less version of what had happened at school.

"It forces the ghosts into a gaseous state…" Maddie's voice fell away as her mind tried to work. "It uses ethylated benzene to keep the ghost in that state. Maybe it has a weakness to that?" She took a sip of her coffee as she watched Danny rest his head on his hand. "Can you go wake up your father? I have an idea."

In no time at all the two Fentons fueled by coffee worked in the lab, leaving Danny and his friends in the kitchen.

"I feel like Death." Danny grumbled, the lack of sleep hitting him hard as he slumped against the wall with his eyes closed.

"Get some sleep, we'll go patrol the town." Tucker said.

"We'll call you if we find Proctor." Sam said.

"Thanks guys." Danny said, smiling in the direction of their voices as he kept his eyes closed.

The two smirked at their friend before heading towards the door. Tucker opened the door only for the two to instantly freeze as they found themselves face to skull with Proctor.

"Uh, Danny! We found him!" Sam called over his shoulder as Danny felt the cold leave his mouth.

"Get my parents. Fenton's in my room." Danny said, quickly waking up with an adrenalin rush as he transformed into Phantom. He flew straight at Proctor as the skeleton's eye sockets lit up. Danny found himself flying through residual energy as Proctor teleported out of sight.

Danny quickly turned around and dived through the floor, expecting Proctor to go after his dad.

"I'm prepared for you this time, ghost!" Jack called out, Fenton Gantlets on and activated.

Danny quickly motioned to Sam and Tucker to get some cover as the two rushed down the stairs and instantly went to cover them.

"Hey Proctor!" Danny called out, getting the skeleton to turn around. "I told you, you can't go avenging your death! John Fenton Nightingale's dead!"

"You can see with your own eyes he is not!" Proctor said, motioning down to Jack.

"That's his some odd grandson." Danny tried to inform, hoping he could distract him long enough as he saw his mom getting a chemical ready. "Your revenge is a few centuries too late."

"Then I shall wipe out his blood line before more innocents die!" Proctor exclaimed, going at Danny with his boney fingers.

Danny cried out in pain as those fingers started to cut into his ecto-plasm. He grabbed at Proctor's skull and started to incase him in ice, freeing him from the skeleton's fingers. Danny dropped his gasp on Proctor, letting him fall to the ground stunned.

Maddie quickly turned around and sprayed the chemical mix at the skeleton. She stepped back, raising an arm in defense as Proctor screamed in pain.

Jack took this chance and grabbed hold of Proctor's leg and threw him down to the ground. "How dare you" Jack picked him up and threw him against the ghost shield, "come into my house" he threw him back to the ground, letting him slide along the floor as the ice around his head broke "and terrorize my family!"

Proctor laid on the floor, dazed as Danny flew over him. He shot ice to incase Proctor and didn't stop until he had a good chunk covering the skeleton. He dropped down to his feet as he finished, sweat dripping from his brow as his ghost powers were being taxed.

"As for you, Phantom." Maddie said, pointing her ecto-blaster at Danny's head.

"Seriously?" Danny asked, eyeing the two. "I just helped you deal with Proctor and you're going to try and shoot me?"

"Just let Phantom take the ghost!" Sam called out, peaking over the table they'd been hiding behind.

"I can take him somewhere he won't get free and try to kill you all again." Danny said.

Maddie glanced over at her husband before lowering her weapon with a sigh. "Alright, but next time we see you." She let the threat hang in the air, fully aware Danny knew what she meant.

Danny smirked before lifting Proctor's frozen form. He looked towards the ghost shield still covering the portal and asked, "Um, can you drop that for a bit?"

Keeping an eye on Danny, Jack reached down and switched off the shield. Danny quickly flew through the portal, heading towards Clockwork and the Observants.

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"Glad that's all finally over." Danny said as he reappeared as Fenton in his bedroom.

"So where's Proctor now?" Jazz asked, sitting in the room with Sam and Tucker.

"Under the careful watch of the Observants." Danny explained. "At least those eyeballs are good for something."

"At least you didn't turn him into Walker." Sam laughed.

"Only if I wanted him free again." Danny rolled his eyes before yawning.

"Come on you two." Jazz said, standing up.

"Night, sleeping beauty." Tucker joked as the three got up and left.

Danny smirked and fell forward onto his bed, falling off to sleep shortly after.

The End