Chapter 6

Maddie and Jack were upstairs in the off-center while they left Diana, Julia, and Zachary in the living room. Julia was lying on the couch and Zachary and Diana were lying on their backs on the floor.

"I'm bored." Zachary said.

Diana sat up and faced Zachary. "I know what we can do." She said.

"What?"

"I've seen everything in Grandma and Grandpa's lab except for their ghost portal. We should go check it out."

Zachary shook his head. "No way Diana! Grandma and Grandpa said we couldn't go in the lab. We could get in trouble."

Diana stood up and helped Zachary to his feet. "But their upstairs. They'll never know! And besides, there's nothing else to do." Zachary looked over at Julia. "Are you coming too?" He asked his sister. Julia looked at him. "Sure, why not." She answered.

The three walked to the door that led to lab. They walked down the creaking stairs and walked into their grandparents' ghostly laboratory. It was the same as it has always been, the same test tubes on the same lab tables and the same gadgets that didn't work.

Diana looked around. She was filled with wonder but creped out at the same time. She then saw what she had come down there for, The Ghost Portal. Julia must have seen Diana looking at the portal.

"Is that why you dragged us down into this creepy place?" she asked. Diana ignored her and walked closer to the portal. Zachary ran up and grabbed Diana's hand.

"Stop! You're gonna get sucked into it!" he yelled at her.

"You can actually go in there? Great!" Diana pulled her hand out of Zachary's and ran up to touch the portal. Julia and Zachary ran to ketch up to her.

Julia was looking worried which was unlike her. "Diana stop. You don't know what's in there and you might not be able to come back." Julia paused. "On second thought, go right ahead." Zachary starred hard at Julia then he looked at Diana again.

"Are you really going in there?" he asked his cousin. Diana faced him and Julia.

"Yeah! Who knows what kind of awesome stuff could be behind this portal. And besides, I've seen everything else in this house except for this. So I'm going in."

Diana was about to go into the portal but Zachary pulled on her hand. "Be careful okay." He said. Diana smiled and nodded. Zachary let go and Diana walked through the ghost portal.

There was a flash of light and then there were things Diana had never seen. Everything was greenish and glowed eerily. There were doors of all shapes and sizes just floating there. The ground was weird too. She couldn't feel it under her feet. She looked down and realized that she was floating not walking. No wonder she couldn't feel the floor. There was no floor. This place is getting weirder and weirder Diana thought.

Some feet from where Diana was standing, or floating in this case, was a huge castle that was just as creepy looking as everything else in the ghost world. There were many trees and bushes around the castle gates and they all looked like they were dying. That was how the kind of that castle liked them. Behind a bush right next to the main gate were three ghost children watching Diana's every move. One child was a boy and the other two were girls. They were all ten years old and best friends. The boy lived in the castle and decided to watch guard just because he and his friends were bored. They saw Diana come out of the portal and wondered who she was.

"Who the heck is THAT?" Asked one of the girls whose black hair was in pigtails with a beret on her head and also dressed in overalls and grey gloves on her hands. Her name was Boxlunch.

"Like I would know." Said the boy whose name was Hadon. Hadon's hair was jet black and ended a little above his shoulders. He wore a long sleeved, dark blue shirt with a belt around his waist. On his neck was a green medallion on a gold chain. Instead of legs he had a ghost tail the whole time.

The other girl was Cat. Her skin was pale, unlike the other two who's skin color was a light blue. Her head was bald except for the side of her head. The piece of black hair was tided up in a pigtail on the side of her head. Her clothes were like something a circus performer would wear. On her side was a small tattoo of a cat's face. "Let's go mess with it." She suggested.

The other two agreed.

Diana was starting to get freaked out by this place. "Apparently Grandma and Grandpa weren't lying." Diana said to herself. "This place really is a ghost zone. But were are all the…" Diana was interrupted. Right in front of her were the three ghost children that were watching her. "…Ghosts!"

Boxlunch came closer to Diana. She had a frown on her face and that just made Diana more worried.

"Who are you and what do you think you're going here?" Boxlunch yelled. Diana was starting to sweat.

"Uh, I…I was just looking around and I was just gonna leave so…" Hadon blocked her way.

He smiled evilly at her. "You know you're on my dad's property and he does not like intruders!"

Diana looked at the huge castle then turned back to Hadon. "You live there?" All three ghosts nodded. "Oh. Well I'm so sorry I didn't know."

Cat stuck her head in Diana's face. "Well it's too late for that. And you still didn't answer our question. WHO ARE YOU?"

Diana backed away but was afraid that the ghosts would think that she was going to run away. They didn't move. "I'm Diana. Diana Fenton. Um, do you guys have names?"

"Duh! Of course we have names!" Cat said. "I'm Catherine, Cat for short. My daddy's the famous Freakshow and my mom's his assistant Lydia. Ever heard of them?"

"No." Diana said.

"Of course she hasn't Cat." Hadon butted in. "She's probably never been here."

"You're right, I haven't. And you are?"

"Hadon."

Diana waited for him to say more but he didn't. Boxlunch and Cat looked at him.

"Aren't you gonna say anything?" Boxlunch asked.

"Nope."

"Then I'll do it for you." Boxlunch went on. "His dad is King Aragon and his mom is Desiree, the best genie in all the ghost zone."

"Again I don't know them." Said Diana.

Cat went up to Hadon. "Oh! Oh! This is hilarious. Watch." Cat went closer to Hadon's ear. "Oh Hadon, I wish I had an ice cream." Diana looked confused. Hadon got all stiff and looked possessed. Then he raised his hand and said in a controlled voice, "You're wish is my command." Then in a blink of an eye there was an ice cream cone in Cat's hand. Hadon then went back to normal. He looked at Cat with disgust.

"I hate it when you do that." He said. Cat just smiled and Diana couldn't help but giggle.

Diana looked at Boxlunch. "Okay, who are you?"

"I am Boxlunch! I control all boxed goods!"

Diana didn't look as amazed as with Cat and Hadon. "Boxes and Food! Oh! Scary!" Diana said sarcastically. That made Boxlunch furious.

"You think that's funny?"

"Actually, yes. I do. I do think that's funny."

Boxlunch turned red in the face. Hadon turned to Diana. "You shouldn't have done that."

"Okay guys. I think now's the time to start operation kill the intruder." Boxlunch said. The other two looked at Diana evilly. Diana tried to run away but Cat blocked her exit.

"You're not going anywhere." Said Hadon. Diana tried to sound confident.

"So you're gonna try to take me on. Ha! You're all kids! Like you could do anything to me." That did it. Diana looked over at Hadon and instead of the young ghost boy she saw before there was a green and blue dragon in his place.

"He can change into a dragon when he's mad." Boxlunch explained.

"You could have said that before!" Diana was afraid now more than ever. What had she gotten herself into? The three ghost kids were about to attack. Then for some reason Diana remembered what happened to her with that baseball. She had to have some sort of powers for that to happen but would they help her now? She didn't even now how she had turned invisible the first time, how could she do it again? There was nothing else she could do. She had to try.

The ghosts got closer. Boxlunch's hands were glowing red and so were Cat's. Hadon looked like he was about to breathe fire in Diana's face. Diana was sweating. She tried to concentrate on what had given her the power to turn invisible, to act like a ghost. If only she could use those powers again she could use the ghost children's powers against them but even if she could use those powers again there wasn't a good chance of beating them.

The ghosts were about to fire. "No don't!" Diana begged. The ghosts weren't listening. Diana screamed. Before the ghosts could attack her Diana started to glow brightly. So brightly that they backed away and covered their eyes. The ghosts couldn't see what was going on and neither could Diana but she could feel that something was happening. Diana opened her eyes in time to see a blue ring of light circle around her hips. The ring separated into two rings. The first went up over her head and the other over her legs and feet. Instead of seeing her normal purple shirt and grey jeans Diana saw a black and white jumpsuit with white gloves that ended as short dress and had white tights under it and black boots. She didn't know it but her eyes had changed color from her normal violet eye to a glowing green. Diana grabbed a piece of her hair and realized that her beautiful black hair had turned white. She looked at her hands and saw that they were glowing. Some sort of white aura had appeared around her. The ghosts looked at Diana and then realized what they were up against.

"She's like that Danny Phantom guy that our parents told us about!" Cat said to her friends.

"You're right! Let's get out of her before she gets out one of those thermoses!" Boxlunch suggested.

The three ghost children flew away scared. Diana was as freaked out as they were.

"Like Danny Phantom? So I'm a ghost now?" Diana looked at her hand and focused on it. It turned invisible then visible again. Just like before. So she really was a ghost. Diana didn't mind. she started to think that these powers were cool but there was still one thing that didn't make sense, how did she get them in the first place?