Danny was flying aimlessly through the ghost zone. They were on summer vacation and he thought he'd take a couple hours to relax from ghost hunting in Amity Park. As he glided through the ghost zone, he did the occasional graceful spin in the air.
As Danny glided further in this direction, he began to see wisps of blue surrounding a small neighborhood. Puzzled, Danny landed in the middle of a cul de sac filled with brightly colored houses. From his spot on the ground, the endless green and black sky of the ghost zone was replaced by a normal earthly blue with clouds dotted across it.
After taking in this strange place, his ghost sense went off and he struck a defensive stance, looking around. He had no idea what resided in this place or what he was dealing with.
As he spun around in the cul de sac, his eyes landed on a patch of bushes where he could see the eyes of a group of kids watching him. These kids didn't seem that ghostly. The only thing that seemed to be their only "ghostly" traits was that some of them had strange hues of skin tone, and it looked like their tongues were splashed with color.
They were whispering and looking out at him. Soon they sent a tall yellow kid in an oversized jacket his way. The boy looked back at his friends before continuing to walk up to Danny. He stopped three feet from the floating ghost and Danny's ghost sense went off again. The boy looked at him, eyes offset and mouth hanging open.
After a few moments the boy still hadn't said anything so Danny waved in his direction, looking at him and back at the group of kids.
"Uh, hi?"
His voice echoed a little ways through the cul de sac and the face on the kid before him turned into one of panic. He pointed his finger at Danny, shaking before yelling a very familiar phrase at him.
"GHOST!"
The kids scattered, forming into smaller groups and dashing towards different houses.
These kids had no idea where they were, or that they were even dead.
Looking around the cul de sac, he was preparing to leave when he saw a group of three boys still looking at him from behind some bushes. One was the yellow kid, who was shaking and covering the top of his head. The second was a short, pudgy boy with his hands stuck in his pockets and a bored, irritated expression on his face. The last had on a bright orange shirt and was holding a clipboard. He seemed to be taking notes on something. Danny decided to float closer to them and heard the orange shirt boy talking.
"Fascinating! How is it possible for a being of that density to be able-" The boy looked up from his notes to see Danny floating before him. "Salutations my good fellow!"
Danny looked at the boy and his friends suspiciously. "Why didn't you guys run away?"
"Sockhead wanted to 'observe' you or whatever." Said the pudgy short kid.
"Oh! Where are my manners! I'm Edward, though most people call me Double D. This one," Double D points to the tall yellow boy, "is Ed. This ray of sunshine here is Eddy." He finishes, pointing at the grumpy kid.
"I'm Danny."
"Well, Danny, I'm sure you're looking forward to getting back home at a reasonable time so I will bid you farewell, good sir!"
Danny eyed the nerdy boy suspiciously. Then his eyes widened.
"Do you three know that you're dead?"
Double D giggled, covering the gap in his teeth with his mouth. "Well, when you are something of an intellectual prodigy stuck in purgatory, it's something that comes about one way or another eventually. I've run out of things to study that pique my interest, and as a result I uncovered the dark secret that all of us are a part of."
Danny stared at this kid as him and his friends begin making their way to a large, blue house.
"Oh, and one last request I ask of you is that you don't tell the other kids in the cul de sac." Double D advised. "I wouldn't want to frighten them."
With that the trio entered the house leaving Danny in an empty cul de sac.
Looking around one last time, Danny flew into the sky, watching as the blue dissipated until it was the familiar green and black expanse of the ghost zone.