Chapter 8, Caught Red Handed
The afternoon two days after Percy's nightmare started out tense. The wizards/witches were suspicious of Percy. The demigods were trying to solve the mystery of what was up with Percy's cousins and the same could be said the two members of Team Phantom. And the parents could only help but notice the tension between the groups. The first day hadn't been so bad, but how had things escalated so badly was beyond them. The parents just hoped something would happen to break the tension so that this 'reunion' of sorts could go out normally, or as normal as you could get with supernatural beings. Thankfully for them that something was about to happen.
The three groups were all dispersed throughout the small apartment. Harry and Ron were glaring at Percy, probably due to the death eater suspicion of theirs. Percy was reading a book about Latin that Annabeth had been bugging him to read as he would have to take both Latin and Greek at college and decided to get through with it. Annabeth and Jazz were talking as Jazz didn't see much to be suspicious about the blond haired girl, plus they had found some common ground. Hermione was talking with Ginny as she was the only other magic user in the room that wasn't so focused on proving a certain eighteen year old boy a death eater. Danny was texting Sam and Tucker on his phone he had brought.
Danny- "Sam? Tucker? You guys there?"
Sam- "Yeah were here, something wrong?"
Tucker- "Meet any cute girls?"
Sam- "Tucker!"
Tucker- "What? It's a logical question."
Sam- "A logical question for someone who only focuses on getting a date with some shallow girl!"
Tucker- "It is too a logical question for anyone!"
Sam- "It is not!"
Danny- "Uh guys?"
Tucker- "Tell her Danny, it is too a logical question!"
Sam- "Danny knock some sense into Tucker and tell him it is not a logical question!"
Danny- "I uh..."
Tucker- "Come on Danny tell her!"
Sam- "Tell him Danny!"
Danny- "GUYS!"
Sam- "..."
Tucker- "..."
Danny- "Sorry about that, but it was the only way to get you guys to stop arguing."
Sam- "Sorry about that Danny, you know how Tucker gets."
Tucker- "Hey!"
Danny- "But yeah answering Tucker's question, I did meet some cute girls."
Tucker- "Aww Yeah!"
Sam- "WHY DID YOU TELL HIM!"
Danny- "Except, they're all taken. Sorry XD"
Tucker- "WHY MUST THE WORLD BE SO CRUEL!"
Sam- "He got you back good Tuck."
Danny- "Anyways, I was texting you not to tell you guys that, but or another reason. There's something non-human about my cousins or their friends/girlfriends."
Sam- "What do you mean by non-human? Are they ghosts?"
Danny- "X_X My dad said the same exact thing, what are you reading his mind or something!"
Tucker- "He got you there Sam!"
Sam- "Tucker you know I'm still in Amity Park with you and I know where you live, think of all the vile things I could do to you."
Tucker- "..."
Sam- "Thought so."
Danny- "How come I'm the one with the ghost powers, and you're still the most intimidating out of all of us?"
Sam- "Because I am."
Danny- "Ok back to what I was saying before Tucker had to go and insult you."
Tucker- "Hey!"
Sam- "Can it Tucker, Danny's trying to tell us something."
Danny- "So my cousins, they don't seem very human to me. But here's the thing my ghost sense doesn't go off around them and they don't exhibit anything ghostly about them."
Sam- "Yeah that is strange."
Danny- "And make things stranger I know this might sound rude to be called strange but my oldest cousin has some kind of PTSD."
Sam- "How old is this guy?"
Danny- "Eighteen."
Tucker- "That old and with PTSD!? That does not seem right."
Danny- "I know, and he and his girlfriend have this strange aura of power around them. On the girl it's kinda faint, but on my cousin it makes him look like he's glowing."
Sam- "That definitely doesn't sound human."
Danny- "Yeah, my other cousins I just know that they aren't exactly human either, but I can't really tell what they are because they don't give off as much evidence."
Sam- "Interesting, if you do find anything out tell us and I'll have Tucker research it."
Tucker- "You can always count on us man."
Danny- "Thanks guys, before I go I'd like to ask, how's Amity Park doing now that I'm not there to protect it?"
Sam- "Were not obliterated yet, but the ghosts seem to have mostly disappeared, except for a certain one."
Danny- "Let me guess that one is the Box Ghost?"
Tucker- "Yep! But other than him we've seen none of the other ghosts."
Danny- "That's odd, but we can hope that they've all just gone on some kind of ghost vacation."
Sam- "I can't imagine ghosts on vacation."
Danny- "Well this ghost is on vacation. Bye!"
Sam- "Bye!"
Tucker- "Bye!"
And then the texts stopped coming. Danny looked around the apartment, nothing had really changed during Danny's text conversation with his friends. Percy was still being glared at. Harry's girlfriend and friend were still talking. Jazz and Percy's girlfriend were still talking. Danny wondered, how the heck does Jazz hit it off with people so well? Come to think about it, he felt a little left out without having anyone to talk to now. Percy seemed to notice his younger cousins feeling of loneliness because he put his book down and started walking towards him.
"Hey."
"Hey..."
"You seemed lonely, you want to talk?"
Danny thought about it. Should he open up to his cousin and get to know him better? His cousin never seemed threatening in any sort of way and always seemed to have an easygoing and friendly presence.
"Sure."
"Great, what do you want to talk about?"
"I dunknow, maybe how did you survive high school, you're going off to college. Any advice?"
"Oh yeah school, well I guess making friends and asking for help are some good ways."
"Ok..."
"Something wrong."
Why had he thought talking to his older cousin was a good idea? From a distance his older relative seemed easy to talk to but in reality all he could think of to talk to him about was school. Just then a familiar blue wisp came out of Danny's mouth. Never thought I'd be relieved to see a ghost, though Danny.
"Are you cold, it's not that cold in here is it?" asked Percy.
Danny mentally face-palmed. Of course his cousin who wasn't aware of what he was had to catch his ghost sense go off. How was he going to explain this one?
"I uh... needtogotothebathroom!" exclaimed Danny in a rush and he ran down the hall.
That's odd, thought Percy. Should I follow him? No that would be nosy. But maybe you can find out what's up with him by doing so. Percy then ended up following him.
Harry and Ron both noticed this.
"Should we follow him?"
"It's the only way to keep an eye on him."
They then slipped on the invisibility cloak and followed silently after Percy and Danny.
Danny had led them to a small hallway outside Sally's apartment. He seemed to be looked for a place to do something. He was ready to 'go ghost' at a moment's notice. Percy followed silently behind him. He had riptide draw in case anything bad were to happen and was ready to strike at a moment's notice. Harry and Ron followed behind Percy, wands drawn. Under the cloak they could not see riptide, but could tell that Percy was holding something.
Danny stopped. It was like he could hear them, and in his case yes he could. Percy quickly hid behind a box. Ron and Harry simply just stood still. Danny still seemed to sense that someone or something was still there.
"Who's there!" exclaimed Danny, his eyes now a glowing neon green instead of their normal icy blue.
Ok that's definitely not something a mortal can do, thought Percy, but what the Hades is he then?
Is my cousin some kind of metamopegus because I'm pretty sure his eyes are blue not green, thought Harry.
Merlin's beard! What's going on, thought Ron who was starting to freak out.
Then Harry did something brash giving himself and Ron away. He leapt out from underneath the invisibility cloak revealing himself and Ron, and shot out the body-bind spell twice for both Percy and Danny.
"Petrificus Totalus! Petrificus Totalus!"
And because of the fact Harry had no idea what Percy and Danny were, he didn't expect what was to happen next.
The spell bounced off Percy and onto himself causing him to fall down, the spell hit Danny but went very wrong as it made his hair white and his eyes green then his hair and eyes switched back to their normal colors and back again. It was quite an interesting sight.
"What in Merlin's beard got into you Harry?! You just gave our position away!" exclaimed Ron angry that his friend had given their position away.
"What the heck did you guys to my hair and eyes?!" exclaimed Danny who was looking up at his hair which changed from snow white to coal black every thirty seconds and could only assume the same was happening with his eyes.
"What the Hades did you do in the first place?!" exclaimed Percy who was holding Riptide in a defensive matter in which everyone could see.
"What the bloody hell are you doing with a bloody sword!" exclaimed Harry who's limbs were bound together thanks the spell he had intentionally meant to cast on Percy.
In all honesty, everyone in on the scene was wondering the same thing, what the heck was going on!
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