Once we got up Clockwork provided me with a white t-shirt and some white shorts. He took me to a random flat rock in the zone. He stood in front of me and said "Before I can teach you of your core and anything else you must master your basic ghost powers. So hand me the amulet so I can teach you how to shift into your ghost form." he told me with his hand out. I gave it to him cautiously. I felt the thrum of my powers and gasped as I could no longer see myself. " Easy, focus on yourself. Imagine you are looking in a mirror." he instructed me.

I did as he said and looked to see myself shimmering. I closed my eyes and focused harder. I opened them and hollered a "Nice!" before seeing myself go through the rock. I yelped before feeling clockwork grab me again. I laughed sheepishly at his wry smile. " I do hope this won't become too much of a habit." He teased. I focused again and managed to stay on the ground. I did a little shimmy and stopped. I looked at clockwork with my eyebrow raised. "Did you mess with my emotions again? That's the happiest I've felt in a while." I pouted while crossing my arms. He chuckled and said "Yes, It just took time to lock up the residual grief. You felt empty earlier because what I used was a spell that searched your entire system for all of the sadness. Your can still produce new sorrow, but now you won't have to worry about the whole dying obstacle." I stopped pouting and began to smile. I faltered a bit at the dying thing but grinned wildly nonetheless.

I ran up to him and gave him a huge hug "Thank you clockie!" I squealed loudly. He let out a small oof and hugged me back. He smiled for a second before growing serious again. " You are welcome angel. Now to unlock your ghost form you need to focus on where you feel your power coming from and tap into it. That area is your core." He explained. I lifted my eyebrow before shrugging and trying to do as he said. I closed my eyes and focused on the energy in my chest. It felt weird but I managed to think about touching it and something seemed to happen. I opened my eyes to see golden transformation rings going around my body. I was shell shocked for a moment before asking clockwork for a mirror. I had a sneaking suspicion he stopped time as he handed me a full length mirror.

I looked at in shock. My eyes were purple and my hair was a mixture of red and blue. It was blue with red tips. I had very light electricity scars all over. I mean, I had seen the super tiny things crisscrossed over the rest of my body but for some reason I thought they wouldn't be on my face. It looked like someone with a red marker drew the branches of a really tiny tree all over my face. I slowly turned from the mirror to look at clockwork. He was slightly sad as he told me "Yes, they are there in your human form, and the entry points are in your shoulders. In my opinion though they compliment your features quite nicely." he said, with a little humor at the end. I smiled and chuckled a bit before he exclaimed with a smug grin "Now, let's work on your intangibility and invisibility." I jumped up as a wall appeared next to me. I squinted my eyes at clockworks smug grin.

~3 hours later~

I sighed as Clockwork kept making me turn different parts of my body invisible and intangible. Needless to say I face planted many times. I was incredibly drained from standing and using my powers so much. The zone helped me I think? I asked clockwork earlier and he said that the zone helped "charge" ghosts and it was easier to train here. At the moment I was staring at my hand, and trying to make it fade from my view. As soon as I did I saw clockworks tail in front of me. "Trainings over for today." He announced. I nodded happily and grabbed his now outstretched hand. I felt us lift into into the air and giggled. Once we started flying back to the tower I felt a bubble of energy flaring up inside of me. I started to feel really weird. It felt like when you were in the air during a trampoline jump. I cautiously let go of Clockies hand. I started chuckling before giving out a full-blown laughing attack. I was floating in the middle of the ghost zone! The place I've dreamed of going to for years! I hugged my stomach while I spun around. I felt so alive in this land of the dead. I started to notice my surroundings were blurring around me. I looked back to see clockwork in the distance. I gasped before realizing that I was flying! "Woo-hoo!" I yelled while flying back to clockwork. I almost flew past him but he caught me by my ankle. I looked back at him with a grin and a giggle. "I can fly! Clockie, isn't that awesome!" I exclaimed. He chuckled as he pulled me upright. "Yes, I suppose it is. You best be careful though. We have many months of training before us. We will focus on flying tomorrow." He told me with a smirk. I groaned lightly as we headed back to the tower.

~Time skip 2 months~

"But Clockwoooooork. I don't wanna!" I whined. Before me was a large book that read 'How to speak Spanish' I pouted and gave him the biggest puppy dog eyes I could manage. "Can I learn latin or esperanto instead?" I asked. He told me dryly "You will soon enough. You must learn spanish first. I will not budge on this angel." I grabbed the edge of his cloak and sank to the floor. "But I don't want to!" I complained. He looked at me with an evil grin. "If you don't I just might have to cancel our mall trip. Oh what a shame." He spoke with a facade of sadness, still grinning. I jumped up grabbing my chest. "Thou art most evil! Fine, I'll learn frickin spanish." I exaggerated. I sat down at the desk and went to page one. I groaned and slammed my head into the book. Clockwork floated over and patted me on the back.

~Timeskip 1 month~

I looked around the mall in my human form excitedly. I kept on getting weird looks because of the scars, but I shrugged them off. I wanted to get some new clothes besides all the white training clothes, then I needed to get some tech supplies, and finally some stuff for cujo. Man I was lucky clockwork had money. Wait, how did that work anyway? Eh, nevermind. I oohed excitedly as I saw they had hot topic-like shops here. It took me a while but I finally narrowed down what I wanted. I got a few different t-shirts I liked before finding my two outfits that I loved. 'One for my ghost form and one for me.' I thought pleasantly. I decided to try on the human one first. Quickly hurrying to the dressing room I put everything on. Slowly walking out of the dressing room, I looked in the mirror and whistled lowly. I was wearing a blackish-purple (mostly black) hoodie with golden shiny strings. I had it parted where I had a skin-tight red shirt on. I had some black pants that hugged my figure but was also super flexible on. To complete the look I had some black steel-toed boots on. I took in my form for a few moments before reluctantly changing into my training outfit.

I came out and politely asked after paying if I could go back in and get changed. The woman at the counter looked me over and drawled "Ok, but only if you show me afterwards cutie?" while winking at me. I blushed and stuttered out a thanks. After getting dressed I showed the cashier how I looked and quickly got out of there. I walked around for a bit finding all the equipment I needed. Just as I was about to go to the pet store, a plume of something golden came out of my mouth. It wasn't hot or cold but I could see it. Struck dumb for a moment until I was phased into a locked store. I quickly got into a battle stance and turned around to face my attacker. A low chuckle emits from the dark figure as they stepped into the light. "Going to attack your mentor are you?" Clockwork came out of the darkness crossing his arms. As he raised an eyebrow I sheepishly rubbed my neck and apologized. "It's almost time to go but I wanted to give you some advice. Cujo won't need a new collar." he told me with a smirk. I raised an eyebrow as he disappeared with a large boom. I rolled my eyes and muttered "Show off."

I turned invisible and intangible and walked out to the nearest bathroom. I got out and there and continued on my way to the pet store. As I walked into the store I was greeted by a perky male cashier. "How may I help you today sir!" he asked with a smile. I smiled nervously and asked "Where are your tags and toys? I just got a new dog and I was hoping to surprise him with some new toys." He nodded and led me to the toy section and pointed out the collar tag section for me. "If you need anything else just ask." He told me over his shoulder as he walked away. I sighed and looked at the immense amount of toys. I picked out a few I thought cujo would like and went over to the tags. I looked around for a while before finding one that I liked and getting it was a little black bone with a gold outline. It now read his name and who to return him to. I walked over to the cash register and put it all on the counter.

The guy looked at the name-tag while scanning the items and raised his eyebrow. "Cujo?" He asked. I grinned. "I didn't choose the name so quit dogging me about it." I told him. He snorted. "That was terrible." "Hey dude, I can tell when I barked up the wrong tree." He held his hand over his mouth holding back giggles before straightening and telling me what I owed. I could tell he totally loved my puns so I rattled off a few more as I was heading out the door. I finally got out of there and went back into the other store. Clockwork was waiting there with a satisfied smirk. I huffed and begrudgingly admitted "You were right. The collar wouldn't be able to stretch anyways." I pouted and slouched my shoulders while making sure not to drag my bags on the floor. Which was an accomplishment under the gigantic amount of bags I had. He smirked even more and opened the portal home.

~Timeskip 3 Months~

I stood up from my desk with a smile. I had finally finished making my homemade tracking devices. I was going to be able to use them to find my way around the ghost zone. Plus the added bonus of making sure I knew where cujo was. I quickly put one on his collar. He had fallen asleep on the bed like he always did when I was tinkering. A knock came from my door. I quickly got up and opened it to see clockwork with a grin on his face. This could go two ways. Either there's gonna be a nice surprise or I'm gonna get my butt kicked in training. I was leaning toward the latter from the gleam in his eye. "Yeah, Clocky?" I asked leaning my head to the door frame. "Get dressed and pack your bags angel." He said happily. "Why?" I asked as I got the basics together. "You are going to meet your new teachers." I perked up and looked at him with a half-grin. " I have been preparing you so far by training you physically and mentally. You have progressed to the point where we must broaden your horizons. Because of this you will have a new schedule to follow. I have requested a few favors from various ghosts throughout the zone. You will now be taught by six new ghosts besides myself." I leapt up and gave clocky a giant bear hug. I squeed and gave him a dozen thank-yous. Once I got off him I asked "Who are they and what will I be learning!" He quickly handed me a scroll. I unfurled it and grinned. This was going to be fun!

Whew! Sorry guys! I have been having a rough couple a months but I'm trying to get back on the bandwagon! Thank you to rangerfan1871 and dakotafillnow for following my story! And BTW not sorry for the cliffhanger! MWAHAHAHAHA!