Danny woke to another depressing morning. No one spoke as they poked pathetically at their breakfast. Danny looked around seeing Tucker and his family sitting on one end of the RV, not saying much. He then looked back at his own family. Jazz stared blankly at her plate; his mom still hid her tears that never seemed stopped. Danny finally gave up on his meal. With out saying a word he dropped his plate in the sink and walked out side away from his family. He blamed himself for losing his father. Had he been more watchful he would have seen what Nocturne was doing. Danny covered his face as he leaned against a tree. "Why? Why aren't I strong enough." Danny cried softly. Danny slowly moved his hands from his face. He looked back towards the RV, but something behind it caught his eye. He whipped his tears from his vision and strained to see what was coming in the distance. "No, not again." He whimpered softly. "Mom!" Danny yelled running towards the RV.

"Danny." His mother ran outside fearing the worst.

"Get the ghost shield up!" Danny yelled running up to her.

"What's going on?" Tucker asked coming outside to see what all the commotion was about.

"It's another army, a larger one." Danny said quickly. He then transformed into his phantom side and lifted his mother so she could see.

"A much bigger army." Maddie gasped seeing the sky filled with ghost in the distance. "What do they want?" She asked looking back at her son.

"I don't know." Danny responded lowing them back to the ground. By then everyone had made there way outside. "Get ready to fight." Was all Danny said as he stood watching the on coming army.

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"They expect us to sleep when were getting ready for battle." Dani said confused as she rooted through her bag for some scraps of food.

"It's going to take time to get everyone ready, and a plan developed." Jack said as he took a bite of jerky.

"Besides we do need the rest." Sam said finishing off her apple.

"What are you talking about?" Dani said finding her last bag of jerky. "I haven't seen you sleep period."

Sam looked away feeling awaked. "Well, that isn't the point." Sam said slowly standing up hiding her wincing not wanting to show that she was still in pain from the leather strap.

"Where are you going?" Dani asked seeing Sam heading towards the door.

"I'm going to take a look around. Since I don't sleep it won't make a difference." Sam said opening the door.

"You should really try and rest Sam." Jack said softly giving her a worried look.

"I'm fine, besides, I'll be back in a little bit." Sam explained leaving the room.

"I'm worried about her." Dani said softly returning to her meal.

Jack looked at the door shacking his head. "Yeah, me too." He said quietly.

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Sam wondered down the small hallway not really knowing where she was going. She had too much on her mind; too much she was trying to hide. All she wanted was to be back with Danny, and though she hid it well waiting to go into battle to save him was killing her. "Sam." Dora's voice crept up behind her. Sam turned seeing her fellow dragon, ghost friend standing behind her in the empty hallway. "I thought you went to rest?" She asked walking up to Sam.

"I couldn't sleep." Sam said simple. She tired to hide her horse throat, but her growling voice wouldn't allow her to speak with out the blood taste in her mouth. "I thought I'd look around a little, see if I can help." She coughed.

"Well, I am glad your up, I wanted you to try something." Dora said now leading Sam down the hallways. "You see Aragon and I have been working on dragon battle gear." She explained leading Sam into more active areas of the base. "Of course we built them just for us. We didn't think you'd be here, last we heard you were dead." She continued as she led Sam into a room. Sam looked around seeing ecto-metal gear hung on the walls. "See." She added showing Sam the large headpiece. "That headpiece is almost big enough to cover your back." She laughed showing Sam.

"Ok, so I've always battled with out protection." Sam said not knowing where the conversation was going.

"Yes, but I had an idea." Dora continued as she started rummaging through a pile of chain. "You will have a passenger, and as I'm sure you know it is hard for a person to keep a hold on you while your dogging shots." She continued. Sam had never really thought about it before. Danny was her only passenger and he knew her moves so well they never had a problem, not to mention that he could fly, so there was never a concern. Flying with Tucker was no longer an option in his mind, thanks to Sam's fast flying. But after the past few days of carrying an unbalanced Dani, and Jack, the only reason he stayed on so well was because he had his belt to hang on to. But it restricted her movement and hurt her arms where the leather cut into her skin. "I saw the wounds by your shoulder in your dragon form as you were changing back to human." Dora said looking back at Sam sensing what she was thinking. "You can't ware that again." She said finally finding what she was looking for.

"I have to have something for him to hang on to." Sam spoke softly not wanting to irritate her throat.

"We have this." Dora smiled holding the object up in her hand. Sam looked over the object and felt a sting of fear in her heart.

"It looks like a chocker collar." Sam said eyeing the item hesitantly. It was a round metal cuff, large enough to go around a neck, with a short chain hanging from it.

"But it's not." Dora explained pulling down her dress collar showing Sam that she wore one too. She pulled on the chain showing Sam that it did not tighten on her neck. "The metal we made it out of is unique." She said giving Sam the collar. "It will grow and shrink as you change in and out of your dragon form." She finished. "Every ghost that can carry a passenger ware's one, including Aragon."

Sam winced slightly remembering the other collar that she was forced to wear. "I don't know." Sam said feeling the fear rise up inside her.

"It works great, come on at least try it on." Dora said walking up to Sam, pulling down the collar of her sweatshirt to help put it on. But as she pulled down the fabric she gasped at the sight of her neck.

Sam sighed, closing her eyes in regret. "That's what the last collar did to me." Sam said softly seeing Dora's horrified face.

"What happened?" Dora whimpered hesitantly placing a trembling finger on Sam's scared neck.

"Freakshow." Sam said softly pulling away slightly. Sam looked back at the collar in her hand. Dora was her friend, and she had no reason to fear what she had given her. Sam unclipped the collar and lifted it to her neck.

"No, Sam… I didn't realize." Dora said trying to stop Sam.

"No, it's ok." Sam said lifting the metal to her scared neck. "It won't hurt me like the last one did." She clipping the collar shut around her neck. "Beside, it will also cover up that scar." Sam finished fingering the chain that hung beside her dragon pendent.

"They really do work great." Dora added giving Sam a sympathetic look. "And it is kind of one of Aragon's requirements when in battle."

"Then it will work for me." Sam smiled showing Dora that she was ok. "Is there any thing I can help with?" Sam asked wanting to change the subject.

Dora shook her head out of her daze and looked back towards the door. "Well, we can get your up to speed on plan off attack and the route we'll be taking, that is if your willing to be around my brother." She explained.

Sam chuckled softly. "Dealing with your brother is easy. Especially when you know how to press his buttons." Sam laughed as Dora lead her out of the room.

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Jack awoke hours later to the sound of movement outside the door. He sat up yawing and looked around the room. Dani was still a sleep, lying on the other side of the room, but Sam was nowhere to be seen. "Where is that girl?" Jack said quietly, but not quite enough.

"Where is who?" Dani yawned rubbing her eyes sitting up.

"Sam." Jack said getting himself off of the cot. "She didn't come back last night." He said waiting for Dani to join him.

"Well I'm telling you." Dani started getting up walking beside Jack. They started walking out of the room, heading towards the control center where they had first entered the base. "I haven't seen her sleep or relax period. She's always so tense, watching everything, never loosening up." Dani explained.

"Yeah, I noticed that too. Something's going on with her." Jack said as they entered the command room. His eyes immediately fell on Sam, who was looking over a map with Aragon, Dora and Walker beside her.

"Sam. You never came back last night." Jack said almost scolding her.

Sam lifted her head and looked towards her two companions, a pretzel hung from her lips. "Contraband?" she said holding up a bag of pretzels, completely ignoring Jack.

"Where did you get these?" Dani gratefully took her offer reaching in the bag, taking a few pretzels.

"I've got a room full of that contraband." Walker chimed in. "Since were ignoring some of the rules, you humans can help your self." He explained.

"Cool." Dani thanked shoving the food into her mouth.

Jack shook his head at the seen. "So, what's the plan?" Jack asked joining the table, standing next to Sam.

"Well by now Fright Knight and his army has made it's way to your family." Aragon explained pointing to the map. "Were going to take the element of surprise so we'll be a small army, but a strong one. Dora, Sam, and myself will be leading, with a few ghost following, just incase something goes wrong the base won't loose too many soldiers." He finished.

"But what if it's a bigger army than you anticipate?" Jack said confused by the small numbers.

"A small group was the only way I could convince him to even help." Sam explained. "The original plan was to send just the three of us with no help." Sam said scowling at Aragon.

"We've work to hard to build this base, I'm not comprising it so we can save the ghost child." Aragon growled seeing Sam's eye's flicker with defiance. "This is going to be a simple rescue, not a battle. Were only going to get them out, not fight."

"And how are we going to get them out?" Jack asked.

"That's up to you and Sam." Dora said pointing at Dani and Sam.

"I'm the fastest one here." Sam started. "I can get them out while the rest keep Fright Knight and his army busy."

"You can't carry every one." Jack added.

"That's where Dani comes in." Sam continued. "She can make every one intangible, so they won't weight any thing, and I'll be able to fly as if I wasn't carrying anyone."

"Good idea." Dani added.

"Well if the army is already there, when can we leave?" Jack asked getting anxious.

"Now." Aragon said stand, changing into his dragon form with a chain hanging halfway down his neck. "The group is already ready, we just need to get ourselves ready." He said as Dora followed suit, changing into her dragon form, the same chain hung from her neck.

"We need to get our armor on, and you three need to get your ride situation figured out." Dora added following her brother.

"What does she mean ride situation?" Dani asked shoving more pretzels into her mouth. "I can fly, Jack is the only one who needs the ride." Dani mumbled.

"Right, but I'm not going to using that belt again." Sam started. "It restricted too much of my movement. Which was ok for just travel, but not for battle." Sam quickly explained.

"Then what will I use?" Jack asked.

"This." Sam said simply pulling on her new collar.

"Oh, another collar." Dani winced seeing the metal wrapped around Sam's scared neck.

"Yes. Dora gave it to me. Every dragon, or ghost who can carry passengers has one on." Sam explained. "And every ghost, or human in this case, that can be a passenger has one of these." Sam said pulling two metal items from the table. "See." She said showing them the items. They were like Sam's collar, but made to go around a wrist instead of a neck. The only difference is that the chain was smaller, and had what looked like a clip on the end of it. "You can clip onto my collar." Sam said demonstrating. "That way I can fly with out worrying about you falling off. All you have to do is keep your seat. I've got extra for everyone else." Sam finished giving the cuffs to them.

"Sounds good." Dani said clipping it to her wrist.

"And we can hook up to other ghost too, just in case." Jack added clipping his on.

"Exactly." Sam said. "So, are we ready?" Sam asked quietly. Neither said a word, just nodded their heads. "Alright, lets meet up with the others." She said leading them in the same direction Dora had left.

Sam led Dani and Jack down the hallways until they came to large room that resembled an airplane hanger. She looked over the small group of ghosts that were coming along. Only seven ghosts were coming, and that was including her two dragon friends. The five other ghosts were different creature ghost, but one Sam already new.

"Riley." Sam said, her voice horse.

The cat ghost lifted his head hearing his name from an unexpected voice. "Sam?" Riley shuddered in disbelieve.

"Hey." Sam smiled running over to her friend, leaving Dani and Jack watching confused.

"I can't believe you're here." Riley said excitedly greeting Sam with a hug. "You look…" He started releasing Sam and looked over her. He winced seeing the status she was in. "Well, your alive." He finished letting Sam go.

"I'm fine." Sam chocked, holding her hand over her mouth to hide the blood. "Dani, Jack, this is Riley." Sam said seeing them still looking strangely at her. "He was apart of 'Freakshow circus'." She explained introducing him.

"Oh… But you don't look as damaged as Sam." Dani said not at all shy.

Riley smiled and shook his head at her statement. "I wasn't as brave as Sam was." He chuckled wrapping a paw around Sam's shoulder.

"I don't know if I would have called it bravely." Jack chimed in.

"If you had seen what she put up with you would have called her brave." Riley said strongly.

Sam seemed to sense that they had hit a sensitive subject for Jack. She looked at him, not sure why he was acting so protective. It wasn't like she was his daughter. "Must run in the family." Sam grumbled softly.

"What?" Jack asked hearing her mumble.

"Oh, nothing." Sam quickly countered.

"So." Riley started breaking their original conversation. "It's your 'fucking halfa' were going after." He said smiling in Aragon's direction. Sam said nothing and shook her head in annoyance.

"Are you ready to go yet?" Aragon growled tapping a key on the computer he was working at braking up their conversation. Suddenly the door to the hanger fell. "Let's go, I don't like leaving the door open just so we can save some 'fucking half'." He growled.

"Well good luck, we'll need it." Riley said starting to rise up towards where Aragon waited.

Sam watched their small group assemble in the hanger. Sam then turned to Jack in a more serious manner. "Ready." Sam asked softly.

"Let go." Jack nodded. Sam them transformed in to her dragon form and knelt down for him. "We'll be fine." He added not as tense. Sam looked back and let out a soft growl to agree. Sam rose to join Dora and Aragon, Dani followed closely behind.

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"The shield's not going to hold." Maddie's voice rang through Danny's head as they desperately tired to hold of the Fright Knight and his army. Danny looked towards his mother; she was struggling to get the ghost shield stable. Danny winces seeing her jerk her hand away from the machine after reserving a small shock.

"It's not going to work." Jazz said sorrowfully standing behind Danny.

"We have to fight." Tucker said regretfully. Danny knew that they didn't stand a chance, and if they did manage to defeat the large army, where would they go? There would just be another army looking for them. He looked up seeing the Knight perched atop of his ghost steed holding a more fearful sword than he was used to. He looked back at his family they were dressed for battle. "At least were going down fighting." Tucker said softly placing a hand on Danny's shoulder. Danny turned to his friend unsure what to say. So much had pain had filled his heart so quickly. He had failed and lost Sam, his father and now the rest of the people he had come to love were going to suffer because of him.

Maddie jumped as one final shock flashed over the keyboard, completely disabling the ghost shield. "That's it." She almost whined holding her burnt hand away from the keyboard. Their eyes were pulled to the sky as they watched their protective energy wall fade away.

"Nothing to protect you now ghost child." The Fright Knights voice boomed over the group as he jumped off his ghost horse and landed in front of Danny.

Danny immediately formed ecto-blast in his hands as everyone else grabbed there weapons and started fighting off the advancing army. "Nice sword." Danny mocked trying to bide his time. "What happened, lose your soul shredder?"

"Actually no." Fright Knight smiled holding his new sword. "This is a gift from Vlad. It's a steal sword coated with ecto plasma so I can hold it, making it of the few weapons that can actually destroy a ghost and kill a human." He explained pulling his old sword from its pouch on his back. "Vlad also modified my old sword. I no longer had to cut someone to evoke their greatest fears." He laughed driving the blade into the ground. As soon as the metal hit the ground a purple transparent mist filled the air.

"Danny help me! What's going on?" Tucker immediately yelled. Danny looked towards him seeing him fighting off what looked like a giant transparent PDA that was trying to shock him.

"I can induce fear to anyone now." Fight knight laughed getting Danny's attention back.

Suddenly an agonizing roar filled Danny's head forcing him to search for the source. "Sam!" Danny yelled seeing a fazed vision of her beaten body fall from the sky.

"Like what I've done to your tramp." Freakshow's voice laugh filled Danny's ears.

"No…" Danny closed his eyes knowing it was just an illusion. "She doesn't feel pain anymore." Danny told himself as he opened his eyes, turning away from the image of Sam lying on the bloody ground defeated.

"Yeah I made sure of that." An image of Freakshow appeared in front of Danny continuing his torment. Danny's eyes flashed in anger as he fired an ecto-blast threw the image.

"Jack!" Maddie's voice raced to Danny's ears. He turned seeing his mother watching a faded image for his father being beaten by Nocturnes army.

"Mom, it's not real!" Danny yelled feeling tears welling up in his eyes as he watched his mother reliving the horrific event.

"No, Daddy!" Jazz yelled running over to her mother, joining in her grief.

"You don't stand a chance against me whelp." Fright Knight laughed watching as Danny turned back to him, anger blazed in his eyes.

"I will stop you." Danny growled charging towards the arrogant Halloween ghost chasing him into the air.

"Jack, no…" Maddie cried into her daughter's shoulder and she watched her husband lose his life once again.

"I sorry mom." Jazz cried holding her.

Maddie opened her eyes finding the image gone, but replaced by a group of armed ghost firing a wall of ecto-blast at them. "Jazz, move." Maddie yelled knocking her daughter out of the way just as the blast reached them. Maddie took the full blast, protecting her daughter from the danger.

"Mom!" Jazz yelled as her mother fell before her. Jazz looked up seeing more ghost coming for them. "I'll get us out of this." Jazz growled firing wildly at the group of ghost.

Danny looked away from the Fright Knight just in time to see his mother fall. "No!" Danny yelled turning away from his own battle.

The Fright Knight took full advantage of Danny's distraction and lifted his sword behind Danny's back. "Never take your eyes off your opponent." He laughed as he thrust the sword threw Danny's body.

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"There they are." Aragon's growled as they flew toward the back of the unaware large army advancing on the small RV.

As they neared the battlefield Sam found it hard to see anyone. A purple cloud surrounded the battlefield making it hard to see. Sam growled questionability pointing towards the mist. "It looks like the Fright Knight has activated his soul shredder." Dora explained recognizing the eerie mist. Sam growled curiously hoping Dora to explain further. "Vlad upgraded his soul shredder sword so it could affect anyone caught in that haze." Dora explained. "All we need to do is pull it from the ground and the haze will disappear." She finished pointing to the faint outline of a sword sticking out of the ground.

"Riley, your get in there and disable it." Aragon commanded as they closed in. "Sam, you, Dani and Jack concentrate on getting everyone while the rest of us keep that army distracted and grab as many weapons as we can on the way out.

The group flew lower so they would not give themselves away, but didn't lose speed as they planed on charging the oblivious army. "Let's make this quick." Dora added.

"And painful for them." Jack added. He lifted his wrist and flicked it. Suddenly a small ghost weapon appeared from his suit.

"Cool…" Dani said softly impressed by his cleverness.

"What, did you think I wore this suit just for looks?" Jack laughed.

Sam growled as they flew into the mist towards the back of the army. She unleashed a sonic firewall on to the unaware army. The startled skeleton ghosts turned just in time to see the fire over take fellow ghosts. Sam plowed through the lines, firing energy blast and fireballs as she flew. Dani flew beside her, also blasting the ghost with her ecto-blast. Jack still sat on top of Sam, adding his own blast as they few closer towards the RV. Sam chanced as look back and saw Riley jumping ahead of Aragon, running towards the soul shredder. Riley grabbed the sword but could not pull it from the ground. "I'm coming." Dani yelled leaving Sam's side flying toward the ghost cat to help. With Dani's help the two were able to pulling the sword out of the ground. As the mist faded they found themselves finally able to see what was happening around them.

Jack looked to his left and immediately felt his heart jump into his throat. "Maddie!" He yelled seeing his wife's unconscious body on the ground surrounded by ghost and Jazz trying desperately to fight off a group of ghosts. Sam looked back at him; they nodded at each other, understanding that he had to help her. Jack then unsnapped his cuff and jumped off of Sam. "Jazz!" Jack yelled running up beside his daughter.

"Dad?" Jazz gave him a strange look. "I'm still seeing things." Jazz whimpered whipping a tear away.

"We've got to get out of here." Jack yelled not bothering to correct Jazz.

"Why, we've lost." Jazz started breaking down.

"Have I taught your nothing?" Jack cut in firing a few rounds on to the enemy. "You're a Fenton, never give up." Jack said giving Jazz a determined look. "We're getting out of this." He said lifting his wife's unresponsive body into his arms.

Suddenly a blood-curtailing cry grabbed Sam's attention. Sam looked towards the source of the cry and gasped seeing Danny in the sky doubled over with the Fright Knight standing over him, half a sword in hand. Ecto-plasma spilled from Danny's chest. "Danny…" Sam gasped seeing the other half of the sword protruding Danny's chest. She stopped, paralyzed in fear, was this when he was supposed to die, was she too late to save him?

Danny's lifeless body fell from the sky and slammed into the hard ground. "Danny!" Tucker yelled fighting off the ghost, running towards his fallen friend. Danny's body instantly changed back to his human from. Tucker fell to his knees seeing the ecto-coated metal embedded threw Danny's chest. Blood replaced ecto-plasma, but the sword remained. "Danny! Danny get up!" Tucker cried lifting his head trying to get a response from him.

Danny's eyes cracked open as he released a painful moan. "Tucker…" Danny gasped lifting his hand to the foreign object in his chest.

"Danny, come on, get up." Tucker cried tears started building in the corner of his eyes.

"I failed Tucker…" Danny whimpered wincing in pain. Danny could feel his body starting to give up the fight to say alive. "I let Sam down, my Dad, my mom, everyone." Danny whimpered his strength failing. "I'm sorry." He breathed as his body fell limp in Tucker's hands.

"No." Tucker gasped feeling his body stop struggling. "Danny, don't give up." Tucker cried shaking him trying desperately to wake him.

"Time to end this." The Fright Knight growl as he landed before the two. "Your done phantom." Fright Knight hissed. Tucker's eyes glazed towards the jagged sword that seemed to move in slow motion as it fell towards Danny's beaten body.

"No!" Tucker yelled throwing his body over Danny's. He winced awaiting the strike. Tucker heard a small growl as the sword fell, but he felt no pain. He chanced a look back towards the dreaded ghost. But his eyes meet with someone unexpected. "Sam…" Tucker breathed.

Sam stood firm, her energized tail meet the Fright Knights broken sword stopping it inches from Tucker's body. Her eyes stayed focused on the Knight as she hissed angrily at the ghost. "Imposable." Fright Knight growled in disbelief. Sam responded with a hiss and pulled her tail back, swinging her body around, lowered her horns and charged towards the knight, crashing in to him, her horns trapping him. Sam roared as she rose into the air with the ghost trapped between her horns. The Fight Knight gripped his half sword firmly, pulling it up to hover over Sam's back as she soared into the sky. "Freakshow took care of you." He growled angrily as he trusted the broken metal into her back. Sam stopped her ascend feeling the sword puncher threw her chest. She roared in pain, throwing the ghost from her head. "You should be dead." The Fright Knight growled forming and ecto-blast in his hand. Sam looked up, quickly recovering from the pain and released a sonic fire blast in response. The knight fired his own shot, blocking the firewall from hitting him. Sam hissed, ignoring the foreign object in her back and hovered ready to fight. "I knew that circus freak couldn't be trusted, I'll take care of you myself." He growled as both combated charged another attack.

"This must be part of Fright Knight's mist." Tucker assumed knowing that there was no way they were just saved by their dead friend. "This is just a horrible dream." Tucker cried looking away from the battle back to his suffering friend.

"Tucker!" The unfamiliar voice fill Tucker's head forcing him to look up. "Tucker!" Dani yelled again flying over to the two. "Are you ok?" she asked not really knowing why, she could see that Danny was in trouble.

"Now I know I'm dreaming." Tucker moaned seeing Danny's clone landing beside them.

"This is not a dream!" Dani almost yelled giving Tucker a pleading look.

"Yes it is!" Tucker yelled not wanting to deal with the situation anymore. "Sam's not alive, and you, I haven't seen you in months." Tucker shouted not able to understand what was really going on.

Dani rolled her eyes seeing that he wasn't going to be of any help. "Here." Dani said grabbing his hand, attaching the cuff to his wrist.

"Where are your parents?" Dani asked looking around.

"Mom, Dad!" Tucker called seeing his parents off in the distance blasting their weapons into the army. They looked back at their distressed son. Dani motioned for them to join them.

"And what's this for." Tucker asked as Dani clipped a cuff on to Danny's limp wrist.

Dani looked back towards Sam, seeing her still engaged in battle. "Were going for a ride." She said simply handing the Foley's their cuffs.

"Yeah ok. I'm this has to be a nightmare. There's no way I'd get a ride with Sam unless this was some sick induced nightmare." Tucker sighed still not believing.

Sam had started out dominating the battle, but her wound was taking its toll on her already beaten body and she was loosing strength quickly. "This is not possible." Fright Knight continued to deny that he was engaged in battle with the 'accursed'. "Vlad said you were taken care of you." He growled firing an ecto-blast at Sam. Sam only responded with a shallow hiss and two energy blast from her hand to counter his attacks. Sam breath was becoming erratic and pain began to over take her. She looked back at where she had left Danny and Tucker. She saw that Dani had them ready. She then looked back towards Jack. He had Maddie thrown over his arm, as he and Jazz tried to fight off the advancing ghost.

"Get moving…" Aragon's voice echoed through Sam's ears. She then saw a fire-blast fly past her, hitting the ghostly knight, making him fall back. "We need to get out of here now!" Aragon yelled almost pushing Sam out of the air as he swooped past her towards Fright Knight. Sam growled, acknowledging that she understood him. Sam then pulled her wings in, diving towards Jack.

"Get behind me Jazz!" Jack yelled picking up the Fenton Grappler from his wife's side.

"This is hopeless." Jazz cried hiding behind her father as he managed to blast a few of the advancing ghost away trapping them in the ecto net. "We can't defeat a whole army."

"We're not trying to." Jack looked to the sky and gave a sigh in relief seeing Sam diving towards them. "Put this on and get ready." Jack yelled pulling out the cuff's throwing one at Jazz.

She looked confused at the cuff that she was given, but saw her father putting it on her mothers wrist and followed suit clipping it to her own wrist. "Get ready for what?" Jazz said not seeing Sam coming towards them.

"Our ride." Jack said just as Sam hit the ground.

"Sam…" Jazz gasped seeing the dark purple dragon before her. "I'm hallucinating." She convinced herself.

Jack winced seeing the handle of the blade penetrating Sam's body, but he ignored his emotion knowing that they had to get moving. "Just get on." Jack said snapping his and Maddie cuffs to Sam's chain as he hoped onto Sam's back, holding Maddie close. Jazz shook her head, still convinced that none of this was real. "Hurry." Jack said impatiently pulling Jazz towards Sam, snapping her wristband. "Hang on Jazz, Sam let go." He said holding his wife steady as Sam quickly glided towards the rest of her passengers. As Jack held onto Sam, he felt a warm liquid forming under his hands. He a look down and winced seeing Sam's blood trailing from her wounded shoulder.

A lump formed in Sam's throat as she moved towards Danny's prone body. Tears clouded her vision as she came up to the group.

Dani jumped up as Sam stopped before them. "Hurry." Dani yelled pulling Tucker to his feet, Danny in hand.

"Alright." Tucker moaned annoyed. "You know, for an illusion your awfully demanding." He said and Dani snapped his and Danny's chains to Sam's.

"She can't carry all of us." Mr. Foley said hesitating to clip his chain on.

"Just come on." Dani moaned forcing him and his wife to chip onto Sam's chain.

"Alright Sam." Dani said snapping her own band on. "Let get out of here." Dani yelled as she made herself, then everyone else intangible for Sam.

Sam quickly flew off the land and away from the battle. Dora and Aragon's group following a distance behind making sure they wouldn't not be followed, but they soon became unable to be seen as Sam flew faster. Sam growled painfully as she starting losing her momentum. "What's going on?" Dani asked not understanding what was going on.

"She's hurt." Jack said simply eyeing the metal that protruded Sam's dragon hide and the tick blood that oozed from the wound.

Dani saw what Jack was talking about. "Come on Sam." Dani encouraged. "Your almost there."

Sam released another painful whine as she shook her head hoping to clear her head. She could see the mountain land that the base was located on coming in to view. "Almost, there." Sam told herself feeling her strength leaving. As she flew closer the hidden door fell open. As soon as Sam saw the opening her body instinctively fell towards the door.

As she landed on the metal ground Dani and Jack unsnapped every ones chain. "Hurry, get off of her." Dani said helping Tucker pull Danny off of Sam's back.

"We need help." Jack yelled towards the watching ghost. They quickly responded bringing Medical beds to the area.

"What's going on?" Aragon yelled as the rest of their group landed around them.

"We've got injuries." Jack explained placing Maddie on one of the medical beds.

"We're losing Danny." Tucker almost cried as he knelt besides his failing friend.

Sam looked up from her puddle of blood towards Danny. She pulled herself up, reached back to the sword's handle that protruded her back. She released an agonizing screech as she yanked the blade from her back. Blood instantly poured from the wound, as she transformed to her human form. She struggled over towards Danny. She fell next to his beaten body. Tucker moved aside for her. Sam looked over Danny's wound and winced as she placed her hand over the other half of the blade. She gripped it hard and swiftly pulled the metal from Danny's body. Danny's body flinched but didn't now wake. Sam's own strength was failing. She let out one last moan, and then fell beside Danny, her hand gripped his wound tightly. She could fell her heart rate slowing. But strangely Danny's own heart rate started matching her own as both their bodies fell silent.

"What do we do with the bodies?" Aragon asked seeing no more motion from either body.

"Keep them together." Tucker sniffled his tears clouded his vision.

"What's it matter there dead now." Aragon said as he lifted them together with his large dragon hands and placed them on a medical bed together.

"Who cares?" Tucker yelled whipping his tears away trying to calm himself. "This is all one twisted nightmare anyway, just leave them together." Tucker snapped.

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Sam woke feeling movement beside her. She opened her eyes finding Danny's peaceful sleeping face beside her own. His arms were wrapped around her body, as hers were wrapped around him. "Your ok…" Sam whispered softly placing her hand over where his wound had laid; no mark was left of his soft skin. Sam snickered softly seeing their blood stained clothes reminding her that they really had both been hurt. "I need to see how everyone else is doing." Sam whispered as she slowly pulled herself from his grasp and slid out of the bed. "But you should rest." Sam growled feeling blood tricking down her throat as she pulled the covers over him.

As Sam left the room she found Dani leaning against the wall out side the room her eyes shut lightly. "How long was I out?" Sam said not wanting to spook her.

"Sam!" Dani gasped as her eyes flew open. She threw her arms around Sam, making her stumble a bit. "Your ok." She smiled releasing her.

"Of course." Sam growled, coughing up some blood.

"And Danny?" Dani asked nervously.

"Resting." Sam coughed softly. "How long was I out?"

Dani sighed in relief. "Just a few days." Dani answered quickly.

"And where's every one else?" Sam asked.

"In the room we used a few nights ago, there just waking up now, that haze took a lot out of them, they passed out right after we got back." Dani said leading the way to the room. "No one seems to remembers what happened though. The parts they do remember they think it was just a dream." Dani explained.

"How's Maddie?" Sam asked unsure of her situation.

"She's ok." Dani said breathing softly. "She just woke up when Jack went to check on her. I wanted to give them a minute, so I thought I would check on you and Danny in the coroner's room." Dani smiled making air quotes.

As they neared the room Sam could hear her cries in relief. "And every one else?" Sam asked as they stopped outside the room.

"Tucker and his family are fine, just a few bumps." Dani answered. "Everyone is inside, except for Jazz, I have no idea where she went off to." Dani quickly explained.

"I can't believe you survived." Tucker's voice rose from behind the closed door.

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