The GhostWriter, however, quickly writes away the truce, causing all the ghosts to battle one another instead. When Danny explains that GhostWriter broke the truce, all the ghosts set out to attack him. The GhostWriter expects them to suspend the truce in order to attack Danny, but they do not, regarding the truce as equally applicable to half-ghosts. However, instead of a battle, the ghosts hold an "annual truce" where they do not fight on Christmas, instead befriending each other for the day. Danny destroys the trees with his Ghostly Wail before turning human in time for his mother to come and claim him, both returning home.ĭanny and his enemies join forces against the GhostWriter.ĭanny enters the Ghost Zone to confront GhostWriter at his home afterwards, but GhostWriter types it so that Danny ends up in another place, one holding his ghostly foes. As he handles the monsters, the news reports of the mutant trees cause Jack to put up the Ghost Shield and Maddie to stop squabbling with her husband long enough to go out and save her son. GhostWriter adds further insult to injury by bringing all the Christmas trees to life and turning them into monsters as well, surrounding Danny. Danny blows it to pieces, but also destroys all the toys, which upsets everyone once again. They all join together to form into a giant nutcracker toy. To further cause trouble, the GhostWriter brings all the toys to life. As he turns ghost and begrudgingly flies away, presents float and trail behind him from the neighboring homes, angering everyone further, including his family and friends.ĭanny battling the trees after the GhostWriter brings them to life. At home, it is not any better as his parents still argue, causing him to finally explode and leave the house.
The GhostWriter then turns all the reindeer at the mall into ghosts, leaving Danny to fight them off, destroying most of the mall in the process and causing everyone to blame him. Wanting to know why Danny hates Christmas so much, Sam's question is answered when Tucker relates the story that every single Christmas, Danny's parents' argument over the existence of Santa usually ends with Danny getting the short end of the stick, leading to traumatic childhood memories.
Enraged at his behavior, GhostWriter writes a new book, The Fright Before Christmas 2, starring Danny, and blasts him back to Amity Park, where he is now stuck in a rhyming-induced Christmas story in which anything that the GhostWriter writes comes true until Danny's lesson is learned. Danny accidentally destroys the poem, but does not feel so bad due to his hatred of the holiday. At the same time, the Ghostwriter has completed his Christmas poem, The Fright Before Christmas. Even as they are talking, they hear Maddie telling nearby children visiting the mall that Santa does not exist while Jack states otherwise.ĭanny makes the mistake of incurring the wrath of the GhostWriter.įrustrated, Danny flies to the Ghost Zone, destroying Christmas items to reduce stress. When she calls him out on his Scrooge-like attitude, Tucker tells her about "the fight": every Christmas, Maddie and Jack argue over the existence of Santa Claus, wreaking all sorts of havoc in Danny's life. While Sam is in a chipper mood, Danny is grumpy and annoyed. Snow falls in Amity Park as Christmas approaches, and everyone is Christmas shopping at Amity Park Mall, including the trio of friends.