A Phantom of a Truth

Chapter Seven

Wes furrowed his brows in concentration as he began to work on a plan at his oak wooden desk as Danni  floated around in the corner playing with Wes's old light green handheld Nintendo. Wes's room had royal blue walls that was now covered in graphs, charts, notes and so on. Crumpled papers of failed planning and scratch ideas littered the dark wooden floor. Wes finally threw his pencil back on his desk in frustration and buried his hands into his hair "Gah! I can't think of ANY way to trap him without Phantom finding out or without using something like blood blossoms-"

Danni shrugged and replied without looking away from her game "Maybe your looking at this too closely. If you take a brake, the idea might just come to you naturally you know? I could teach you more first aid like you wanted."

Then she put the Nintendo down at the edge of his bed and sat cross legged in mid air behind him. "and uh, not complaining, but, why don't you want to use something like blood blossoms? I thought that you really wanted to catch Phantom to 'save Danny Fenton' or whatever."

Wes turn his chair a 180 to give her a bewildered look. She held her hands up in defense "Now, don't get me wrong. Trust me, I am very glad you don't want to use anything like blood blossoms. I just want to know, why?"

"Danni, I just want to find out the truth. Not torture him!" Wes seemed then seemed to slouch in his chair a bit in something that looked similar to defeat "besides what if... what if I'm wrong?"

Danni floated upside down and gave him a confused look "wrong about what, exactly?"

Wes seemed to slouch a little farther in his  chair looking very dejected "like, what if the reason why Phantom took Fenton's place was because the 'original' Fenton... died?"

With that Danni flipped herself right back up, but didn't interrupt.

Wes wasn't looking at her as continued, he almost seemed lost in his own words as he got up and pasted back and forth in his room. "I mean, think about it! Almost a year ago, Fenton got into a big accident when the ghost portal was turned on. It was all over the school! What if Danny Fenton... died in that accident?! And didn't become a ghost? And Phantom, perhaps being the first ghost through, for whatever reason decided to take his place?!"

Danni pondered on this for a second and looked back to Wes "so, why do you want to solve this then?"

Wes glanced at his plans on the desk then back at her "Because, while that could be true. My original theory could also be true!" Then Wes walked back to the chair and collapse back onto it "this mystery is like a huge puzzle that I don't even have half of the pieces to, and it's not just those theory's that could be true there are hundreds of possibilities. If not, then thousands! Their could be something I'm not even considering!"

Wes seemed to weigh the possibility's with his hands "'Fenton' could be in huge trouble and needs help, or could be dead for all I know. And Phantom could be the main 'villain' or could actually come out as the good guy in all of this and was just tying to help somehow!" Then he ran his hand through his hair "all I know, is that Phantom and Fenton have a connection of some sort, and I need to find out the truth before someone gets hurt."

Danni finally stopped floating and landed softly on her feet then looked at him in the eyes "And if your the one who gets hurt?"

Wes's eyes widen in shock for a second then close them when his eyes opened again they were filled to the brim with determination "then, so be it."

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"Alright Danny. Now that this is cleaned up, are you going to go to the Far Frozen?"

Danny shook his head "No, a trip to the far Frozen there and back takes up the entire day. And I don't have that kind of time until next Saturday at the lest. That's the only time when my parent wont be here to ask questions on where I was, or school won't be in the way." Then Danny shrugged "besides Jazz, that gives me a entire week to find out a way where ghost wont attack while I'm gone."

"Yo, Danny why not just let Valery do it?" Tucker asked.

"Tucker, the only ghost Valery really hunts is me. Every other ghost was either in the way or is used for practice to catch me." Danny said as he got the last bit of ecto- writing off the wall.                  

Sam rolled her eyes "look. me, Tucker, and Jazz will just hold the ghosts off until you come back."

Danny's eyes widen in concern "are you sure? I mean, what if-"

Jazz cutted him off from there "Danny, if you ghost core is as important to your ghost half like you say it is, then until its fixed or we know what's going its our top concern. In fact, I don't know if you should even be even aloud to do ghost hunting until this is resolved." Then Jazz turned to Sam "also, its Tucker, Jazz, and I. That's the correct grammatical term."

Before Sam could respond Danny shook his head "No, whatever this is it's defiantly not affecting my Ghost hunting. It doesn't even hurt or feel uncomfortable its just... weird. It actually feels pretty good. Which worries me..."

Tucker, through all of this was on his phone (of course) then he froze with his eyes wide "Uh, Danny you might wanna take a look at this..." Danny, Sam, and Jazz all looked over Tuckers shoulder and simultaneously their eyes widen.

For on the News showed Danni and other ghost captured and being tied up to a large machine in the town square.

Danny then transformed into his ghost half and phased through the window.

"Danny wait!" Jazz called out.

But he was already gone.