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My back ached as I watched Dani fly over head. I was so nervous. The conversations before we left had been astonishing.

So many questions, one topic.

I shook off my fear for his secret and looked down to my PDA. It had one bar left, but by the looks of the map I had pulled up, that one bar would be all I needed until we arrived. I put it back into my pocket before zipping up the fall jacket that I had brought with me.

"Uncle Tuck?" Dani called down to me.

"Yeah, kiddo?"

"Is Daddy gonna be alright?" Her voice had lost its usual, sassy pitch. She was solemn and I felt my breath catch in my throat before I could answer.

"He's always healed before, Dani. Why should now be any different?"

"Ghost Fire."

"What?"

"Ghost fire. It's like the fire that Princess Dora and her brother can breathe. It's ...different. It's not really... I mean... It's fire, but its also ghostly. It affects humans and ghosts... Like a halfa. It's scary..."

"Look, Danielle," I said, and she stopped and floated down to my height, " I trust your father with my life. We gotta just hope he does the same."

"Trusts himself with his life?"

"No. Us." There was a moment of silence, "He's in our hands now."

"Okay..." She was shaking a little, but through the fear in her voice shone courage and determination. And truly, courage doesn't exist without fear, does it?

She is so like her father, I thought, shaking my head a little.

We walked for a good while longer until reaching the Wraith Stone. It was one of Danny's creations. He made it not too long ago to mark where the safest path to the Far Frozen was. It wouldn't be too long now until we would be greeted by Frostbite and Snow Fort.

"You can't make it too obvious that it leads to our village," Snow Fort warned while Danny charged up his ecto-beams. "My dad would be melted, and he'd make sure I knew about it."

"Frostbite won't be melted," Danny said, taking the Far Frozen slang easily. "Because this will be the best sculpture ever. And it will have no significance except to me, Tuck, Sam, and Dani. I swear. It'll hardly mean a thing to your people, it'll become part of the background in no time." Danny smiled at Snow Fort, and began to work diligently. I sat back and watched him work with Snow Fort sitting beside me.

"Don't worry, dude." I smiled at the teen prince, "Danny knows what he's doing."

I was sure Dani noticed the sculpture, too, because she jumped into the air to fly again. "Uncle Tuck, we've got to pick it up!" I chuckled at her, and she rolled her eyes before grabbing my arms and flying me up to her speed.

"Dani! You know better than to waste your energy like that!" I shouted at her when she sat me back down.

"Well, you know better than to be so slow," her sass coming back into her tone. I gave her my "uncle Tuck" glare, and she turned away from facing me.

"Tell you what, kid, we'll run the rest of the way. So you'll keep your energy, and if I get too tired out, you can help me the rest of the way." She seemed to like this idea, and she began a beat before I did.

We raced for a while, back and forth, before we reached the part of the region where snow became prominent.

From here, the longest it had ever taken us to safely reach the village was a day, and that was the very first time we ever went on foot. Admittedly, before I had hit my growth spurt. Now, with just Danielle and I, it shouldn't take more than two hours.

We jumped from ledge to ledge, helping each other as we could when the wind got to be a bit much. It wasn't particularly sweaty work, as the snow often got swept up in Dani's bangs, or on my glasses. Quite the opposite, actually. And though Danny did good in this extreme cold, and Danielle had gotten used to it after her prolonged lengths of time in the Far Frozen, I was pretty useless when I got this cold.

Finally, we reached the base of the cliff, but by then, I was convinced I was covered in Frostbite. My teeth chattered endlessly, but I remembered that I had once been frozen completely solid in a training accident, and compared it to that. There, suddenly this was a sauna. Filled with babes. And it was miniskirt Friday...

Yeah, I wasn't very cold when I thought about it like that.

Dani and I decided to take a rest, when we found a curved over cliff. She hated to sit for even a moment, and so did I, really. "Dani, as much as I hate to say it; you're as human as I am, but I'm not as ghost as you are. A break will do us good." When I brought up my own weakness, she seemed to relent. We rested for about two minutes, when suddenly we heard a whirring and barking from the distance.

Frostbite!

"Tucker of the very Tech? Danielle our little huntress? What are you doing here without Sam of the Very Vegan, and the Great One on such a night as this?" the Yeti king asked carefully, helping us up onto his hover snow scooter, and offering us his spare cloak to warm up with.

"Daddy fought Trechor," Danielle explained. "He's hurt, we came to get you."

"I see. He's finally done it," Frostbite got a far off look before turning back to us, "What the great one did was a sign of great strength, it only makes sense that it should take much of that strength from him to do it."

"It did," I found my voice. "He hasn't woken up since he passed out after the fight."

"I see, I see. I'll drop you two off and my soldiers will immediately retrieve him. I trust Sam of the Very Vegan is with him?"

"Yeah. There is a big group of humans there, too," I said, and watched Dani be rocked to sleep by the hovercraft's hum. "Frostbite, I want to come with you. We can leave Danielle with Snow Fort if she isn't up for coming, but I want to go."

"I understand, Tucker. If your desire is to come with us, then who are we to deny you? ...Tucker, how did he do it?"

I perked at the question. "Do what? Get rid of Trechor?"

Frostbite nodded. "I know that ClockWork told him that the only way to defeat Trechor was to claim the throne... But I had yet to be a pup when the Observants took over... I don't know what claiming the throne implies."

I understood the question, but for the life of me couldn't explain the answer properly. "I.. I think the K-king is is given the power to... take away one's freedom-m? To condemn them to... well, what earth thinks of as the a-afterlife. You and I know that ghostliness in merely a stepping st-stone to our souls going to... one place or another. . . I don't think Danny killed Trechor, but I think he took away his...well, his ghostliness. Sent him immediately to the 'afterlife'... Or at least, earth's version of it." I explained as best as I could. It made sense. I remember Sam telling me she had read something like that in one of the books Danny had gotten her from the Ghost Writer's library. I'm sure my stuttering didn't help to explain what I thought the answer was, though.

"I see. So, Danny fought him, tried to prevent it, I'm sure?"

"He prolonged the battle, I think. He could've done that from the start. But you know Danny and second chances. He hands them out like dum-dums."

"Dumb-dumb's?" Frostbite asked, his brow raised.

"Cheap earth candy [that is in no way the property of EmmaZippy577]. It gets passed out a lot on Halloween and things."

"That's a really stupid name for candy," Frostbite noted.

"Yup."

Dani was fast asleep when we were ready to leave again. I knew she'd be really upset if I didn't take her, though. So I asked Snow Fort to come with us, especially to watch out over her. The Far Frozen had a huge bus-like hovercraft that carried easily a hundred of the yetis (plus a good meal) and reached Danny and the class early the next morning.

"Great one!" Frostbite called, before picking up Danny as gently as the big brute could manage. "We'll have you fixed up in no time, sire." I could feel the confused looks that were aimed at Sam, Danny, Frostbite and myself (Danielle was still in the bus)

"He hasn't woken up, yet." She told me under a hushed tone. "But he's having night terrors."

"We'll take it for what it's worth, I guess," I replied quietly before we turned to our peers and teacher and parents. "Alright, guys. These are our friends from the Far Frozen! They're willing to feed you, treat your wounds, house you for a short while, and are about as violent as Dash's teddy-bear collection. So, pack up and load yourselves onto the bus."

Sam and I watched and kept count as everyone boarded. It was impossible to miss their hushed conversations, though we tried, since our ears had been trained so well from ghost-fighting. Conspiracies about the ghosts, and comments about Danny's health assured us that we weren't keeping the secret well.

"Oh my gosh, they just let that thing pick up Danny! What if he wanted to hurt us?"

"How are these guys so trusting of these ghosts? Ghosts attack Amity on a daily basis! How can they be so calm around them?"

"Why are we getting on this bus, Jack? Why are we letting these spooks touch our baby boy?"

"Mads, they're our best shot. Danny's best shot. I trust Sam and Tuck to take as good care of Danny as we could. What's our other option?"

"I hope Mr. Fenton will be alright," Mr Lancer's voice rang.