Chapter 1

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Daniel Fenton was sitting at the kitchen table with his family, eating something that, for once, wasn't sentient. He smiled as he ate, surrounded by his family, and soon, His friends. Everything was perfect as he celebrated his fifteenth birthday in peace. No ghosts, no trouble, just a casual, normal birthday. As he thought happily about this, there came a knock at the front door.

" I'll get it!" Danny called. "It's probably Sam and Tucker. They told me they would be a bit late."

However, the moment he opened the door was the moment that GIW struck blasting Danny in the chest with a high-powered active blaster and launching him back into the living room. In the process, Danny struck his head on a wall, instantaneously blacking out.

At the center of the blast, Denny's family came rushing into the living room, just to find men in white suits swarming over the room, their main focus being the unconscious boy slumped on the ground.

"What is the meaning of this?" Jack Fenton's usually cheery voice boomed, now laced with anger and fear.

"Agent I, Civilians!" A man, Agent D, according to the badge on his chest, called hurriedly. h I rushed over joining agent D and blocking the family's view of the motionless boy crumpled on the ground.

"What are you doing?" Maddie screamed."That's our son, not a ghost!"

"Apologies for the intrusion, madam."A man who was clearly in charge spoke. "Agent C, Ghost Investigation Ward. We have a warrant to be here. As for your question, that pile of subconscious ectoplasm in your living room is no longer a human being, let alone your son." "It is, in fact, a ghost."

"How dare you?" Jack and Maddie loudly protested. "Our son would never be such an abhorrent thing-"

"It's true."

Jack and Madeline Fenton stared at their oldest child in horror.

"He's been half- ghost for about a year now." Jasmine continued in a flat tone  without taking her eyes off her comatose brother, who was currently being placed in ecto-enhanced restraints. The girl was clearly in shock, unable to understand how this could have happened.

Agent I waved his hand in front of her unblinking eyes. "She's in shock." he reported to Agent C.

"Agent P!" Agent C called." I need three doses of tranquilizer serum, stat!"

"Right away, Sir!" The young agent returned, rushing over with a small, sleek case in her hand. Upon unlatching it, the case proved to contain several cases of tranquilizer serum in small glass ampules along with one syringe per dose. Removing one ampule along with its designated syringe, she began to methodically draw the serum into the syringe, careful to ensure there were no air bubbles caught within the slim needle.

Agents I and D copied her movements, each agent injecting a family member.

"Wha- How?" Maddie tried to get out as the serum began to take effect.

"Don't worry Ma'am, you have nothing to worry about. We will take care of this problem for you. Once and for all."

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