Chapter 6

Disclaimer: see chapter 1.

"It took me long time to master all of my powers. So today we will begin out first training session. If I tell you to stop, you will listen or I will not teach you. So lets begin." Vlad lectures the teens.
"We'll start with the basics for everyone. Jazzimine, Tucker, and Samantha, you will be learning when to hide, run and basic weapon training.
Daniel and Kimiko you will be learning to completely master Invisibility, intangibility, flight, overshadowing, and Ecto-rays."
"Okay, let's do this!" Kimiko fixes a determined look on her face.
"Daniel, Kimiko practice staying Invisible as long as you can while I go and teach the three over there." Vlad walks off. Danny and Kimiko transform and both turn invisible.
They snickered at three trainees. Getting lectured by Vlad.
"I think I liked the fruit loop better when he was an archenemy." Tucker whispered.
Vlad slapped him upside the head.
"Go run a lap."
Tuck jumps up at the look Vlad was giving him and starts to jog.
"You two go practice your aim with the ecto guns." Vlad waved Jazz and Sam away.
Training was successful.
As much as Danny hated to admit it. Vlad knew what he was talking about. And he was a very good teacher. Things that used to be hard for Danny were now easy.
Kimiko was improving faster even then Danny. But then again Danny supposed he didn't have the drive Kimiko did. Danny didn't know what would happen if he lost his family. Well he did technically the whole Dan thing. But he wanted to help Kimiko.
Danny shook his head so he could hear Vlad's lecture on Ghost cores.
"All ghosts, spirits, shades, and ghouls have one. Hot, cold, or just ectoplasmic. I am a hot core, Danny is a Cold core. And Kimiko is a Hot core as well." Vlad strode to his closed ghost portal.
"Doubtless Danny has met ghost with all of these cores. Frost Bite Cold core, Dora a hot core, the box ghost is a Ectoplasmic core."
"What about Undergrowth, Nocturne, Vortex and Clockwork? I heard the first three are crazy powerful. All the ghost say so." Danny interrupts.
Vlad pauses.
"Undergrowth is a plant core, but it is a hot core. Nocturne is cold core. Vortex is a dual core. And the time master? Have you actually met him?"
"Yeah." Danny shrugged like it was no big deal.
"It seems you have explored the ghost zone more then I have given you credit for." Vlad raised an eyebrow.
"Cold cores deal with ice and water. Hot cores with fire and lighting. Kimiko and I will work on her hot core. And Daniel will work on his ice." Kim and Danny nodded.
Danny flew off on his own.
"Now will work on making flames and controlling it. Lighting will come later." Vlad summoned a red ghostly flame into his hand.
Kim concentrated on her hand willing the flames to appear. They but they were green not red like her father's.
The training that week went well, Sam, Tucker, and Jazz all more confident after training with the Anti-ghost weapons and cardio.
Danny had some trouble with the ice mostly because he was the only ice core. But his basics were now the best they had ever been.
Kimiko was a fast learner she mastered the basics motivated by her quest on taking Jazsal down. And her ghostly fire was coming along nicely.
Things got interesting after Kimiko discovered her nails could grow and she ripped a portal into the air.
It shocked everyone.
They froze in what they were doing and stared at the newly formed glowing portal.
Kimiko was curious she had about the ghost Zone from some of her childhood ghost friends. But to actually see it was amazing.
It felt like she was home, the Ghost zone drew her to it like she belonged there.
The portal weaken, as it flashed closed.
"Dude! You're like wulf, you can open portals with your nails." Tucker was opened mouthed with awe. Along with the others.
"Man, why can't I do that? That would be super useful." Danny half joked.
Kimiko looked down at her shaking hands to expect her new black nails. Four inches long right now. But if she focused she could retract them.
Her vision blurred and she swayed.
Vlad was by her side in seconds.
"That's enough practice today. You are all tried and need some rest. I'll show you out."

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Vlad walked the teens out to the front door. Surprised when Daniel told his sister and friends to go on ahead.
"Hey Vlad, if this is some sort of trick, I just want you to know you'll regret it. If anyone gets hurt because of you, I'll tell my parents about both of us." Danny's eyes flashed his eire green as he glared at Vlad.
Vlad cleared his throat.
"Daniel I-I would like to apologize to you for my behavior. I see now it was stupid and foolish of me to think that way. I am the adult and I should have behaved like one."
Danny stared at the older man with confusion.
Vlad continued on.
"I will, from now now on stop making you feel uncomfortable around me. I would like to start over with you Daniel. If you'd like?"
Danny stared long and hard at Vlad.
"You know when you brought Kimiko here at first I assumed the worst. But I seen you around her and I can see a change. And let's face it I'm sometimes a brat to be around when I want to. So yeah starting over would be nice." Danny held out his hand.
"Hi I'm Danny Fenton, nice to me you."
Vlad shook the teen's hand.
"I'm Vlad masters, I'm pleased to meet you."
They both smiled.
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"When can I go into the ghost zone?" Kim pounced on her father the moment he came back.
"The ghost zone? Kimiko it's far to dangerous for you to go into the ghost zone right now." Vlad sighed.
"But it's the only place I've ever felt safe, or at home. Not even for a little bit? I have to see it, my half-life will never be complete if I don't." Kimiko dramatized but she could still feel the draw and need to visit the ghost zone. It was compulsive and an itch she just had to scratch.
"No. That's my final word on the matter." Vlad said flatly.
Kimiko pouted.
"I'm going to bed, we'll both have long days tomorrow." Vlad bid Kim goodnight leaving for his room.
With a sigh Kim also went to bed.

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The bell shrilled into the air.
Kimiko lagged behind the three friends.
"School is so boring. I wish Vlad would've home schooled me." Kim complained.
"Yep." Tucker agreed.
"Get use to it, it's not going to get any better." Sam muttered.
"Hey Kim we're going to the ghost zone this afternoon. Wanna come?" Danny offered.
"Yes!" Kimiko jumped.
Three looked at each other in surprised.
"What?" Kimiko demanded them.
"Nothing it's just we didn't think you'd get so excited about it." Danny smiled.
"Oh, well I can't wait to see it." Kimiko looked at the clock.
"So only two hours until school ends, I'll meet you guys after school."

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Kimiko all but ran out the classroom doors not waiting to hear the teacher's book curse.
"Holy hunger games! Miss Nao don't run in the hallways."
She was tapping her foot impatiently waiting for the other three to get there.
The ghost zone, she was finally going to get to go there. She pushed down her guilt at not listening to Vlad. But who was he to keep her out of the ghost zone? Okay maybe it was a bad idea. Jazsal was still out there after all. But she so badly wanted to go there.
"Hey Kim." Danny called as Sam and Tucker followed him over to her.
"Ready to go?"
Kimiko nodded.
"Cool lets start walking over." Danny starting to walk in the direction of his house.
It was a short trip to Danny's house.
Danny opened the front door wearily. Peaking his head in then motioning it was safe to keep going.
They entered the house.
A huge orange shape descended on Kimiko grabbing her into a giant bear hug.
"Nice to see you again Kimmy! It's game night, Packer's are on tonight! I found your dad's and my old cheese head hats." Jack waved the cheese shaped hat into the air with his free hand.
Kimiko wheezed.
"Uh Dad mind putting my friend down before she loses all her air?" Danny put a hand on his hip.
Jack let go of Kim.
"Glad you found your hats, Mr. Fenton." Kimiko took a breath.
"Call me Uncle Jack, we're family." Jack slapped Kimiko on the back.
Kim looked astonished.
"Sure thing Uncle Jack, I've never had an uncle before."
Jack winked.
"That's okay I've never had a niece before. Now who wants to hear about ghost?" Jack grined.
"Uh no sorry dad we have homework." Danny quickly pushed his friends to the stairs.
"Rain check Uncle Jack." Kimiko called.
They climbed the stairs and locked Danny's door after them.
"That was close we might gotten stuck with him for hours."
"Why would that be so bad? Your dad's research is interesting." Kim looked at the three disbelieving faces.
"Seriously? Most people only think mom's is any good." Danny gapped.
"Haven't any of you read the doctors Fentons' work? I mean your mom has great stuff but your dad is actually very astute with old style ghost hunting. And he knows all of this archaic stuff. Most of his inventions are the old ways made a thousand times better." Kimiko sighed at the blank faces.
"Wow you learn something new every day." Tucker got elbowed by Sam.
"Uh let's just not talk about my parents, so tour of the ghost zone?" Danny turned to Kimiko who nodded.
"Great then follow me, it's four o'clock my parents are never in the lab right now." Danny grabbed Sam and sunk threw the floor.
Tucker and Kimiko looked at each other.
"So I guess we hold hands?" Kimiko looked at him uncertainly.
"Yeah." Tucker said awkwardly.
"Don't worry we get revenge on the love birds for ditching us later." Tucker promised.
Kimiko smirked.
"That should be fun." She grabbed his hand and concentrated on becoming intangible.
She felt a airless sensation as she and Tuck fell threw the two stories into the basement lab.
"Took you guys long enough." Sam teased.
Kimiko looked at Tucker.
"I bet you guys went down here for a quick make out session."
Danny and Sam both flushed bright red.
"Yeah you two love birds." Tucker snickered.
"We're not love birds!" They both shouted over Tucker's and Kim's loud tittering.
"Whatever lets go then." Danny says grumpily at the two laughing teens.
They both grin at him.
"Sam and me will take the spectral
Speeder." Tucker climbed into a hovering vehicle. Sam stomped in as well.
Danny switched forms two white rings forming around his middle.
Kimiko followed suit.
Her feet disappeared into a tail.
"Come on let's go." Danny lead the way into the ominous permanent portal.

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"Okay and that was Dora's kingdom." Danny finished talking.
"I like Dora she's cool. I can't belief you swung from the chandler." Kimiko directed to Sam who nodded proudly.
"I'm also helping to promote feminism over there as well."
"Awesome." Kim nodded back.
"Hey Danny look at the map, I've got bingo with my grams at five." Sam looks at Danny who fumbles to open up his map.
"Yeah and I'm dying of starvation over here. I missed my four o'clock feeding. Man! I knew I should have taken some of the fudge your dad offered." Tucker clutched his growling stomach.
Danny studied his map muttering over the next few minutes.
"Danny are we lost or are you just playing lost in the ghost zone again." Sam glared at Danny.
"What? No, no we're not lost." Danny laughs nervously.
"We have my expertly drawn map of the ghost zone."
He waved the large piece of paper around.
Kimiko stuck her head into the speeder.
"He's lost isn't he." She says flatly to the two humans.
"Yep." They answer in unison.
"Thought so." Kim sighed.
"I should have nicked Vlad's map it's at least more cohesive than Danny's scribbles."
"Hey! Will you guys stop complaining. Let's be a little more positive here. It's just around this swirling pool of pain and despair, then past Sulker's island or is it ember's lair?" Danny loses the argument right there.
"Hey let's follow those two ghosts." He points to two green sheet ghosts.
Kimiko shrugs.
"Not like there's any thing else to do."
Danny shot off after the two ghosts.
The three exchange looks before following Danny into an icy tunnel.
They caught up with Danny.
"See these guys know where they're going." Danny assured them before slamming into a large spike of ice.
The speeder crashed due to Sam watching Danny. They fell into a pit.
Kimiko blinked.
"That was a total epic fail guys."
She snicker down to them as she flew to join them.
Danny sat up wiping snow of the top of his head.
"Hey everybody okay?"
"You mean besides being almost killed, frozen and hopelessly lost?" Sam folded her arms.
"We're so great."
Kimiko pulled the two out of the speeder as Danny groaned.
"My parents are going to kill me, again."
A loud roar sounded.
"Your parents aren't the only ones!" Sam pointed at a large furry angry yeti type creature with an ice arm.
"This sucks." Kimiko groaned.
"Anybody else reminded of star wars right now? I'm not gonna end up like Luke."
"Nice boy?" Danny tries and fails to placate the beast.
It slams it mighty fists into the ground.
And charges again.
"We come in peace!?" Danny yells as he lunges to the ground to avoid the sharp claws.
Danny forces ecto- energy into his hands and knocks the beast back into an ice hill.
"Run away guys. Let's get out of here."
Kimiko grabbed Tucker and Sam, lifting them up with her.
"Um ... Can you take Sam? I don't think I can carry and fight with both of them." Kimiko stared nervously at the now standing monster.
It threw back its arm and a icicle went flying at Kimiko, Tucker, and Sam.
Kimiko on instinct let loose a wave of green flames that melted the ice into a harmless puddle.
The yeti growled even more at the sight of Kimiko's flames.
But Danny shot more Ecto- beams at the thing so he focused his attention back on Danny.
Kimiko narrowed her eyes at the monster, who might not be a monster after all.
"Danny there's something on his back. Like a huge icicle, there's a lot of ectoplasm."
Danny smacked his forehead.
"Duh! Are you Frostbite? Look sorry for intruding but we can help you take care of that wound." The Yeti froze.
His eyes lost the wild look.
"The pain is too much, please help if you can." The yeti sank onto his knees.
Kimiko set the two humans down.
"Danny does the speeder have a first aid kit?"
Sam was the one who answered.
"Yeah I'll get it."
Kimiko moved closer to the yeti to look at his back.
She grimaced at the sight it was a festering wound, the icicle was covered dark green ectoplasm.
"I could try cleaning it and pull out the icicle."
"That would be most appreciated my lady." The yeti says weakly.
Sam stumbled over to her holding out a red bag.
"Thanks Sam, Danny come here and help me pull this icicle out." Danny shuffled over to her.
Kimiko pulled out bandages and a thick gaze.
"Okay your hands are steadier then mine. So I need you to pull out the ice and I'll put pressure on the wound." Kimiko orders Danny.
"Right okay. On the count of three?" Danny looks down at Kimiko.
She nods.
Danny grips the ice, it was slippery from the ectoplasm. He breathed in then out. He pulled the ice as hard as he could. It came out with a sickening slurping sound. Kimiko quickly pressed the gaze onto the wound. And wrapped it with the bandages.
"Tell your parents they need antibiotic cream in there." Kimiko sighs as she points to the kit.
She tied the last bandage tight to help slow the bleeding.
"That was pretty cool." Tucker grinned.
"I guess, first aid should go next on training day." Kimiko joked.
"That's a great idea, we should do it next time." Sam stills her shaking hands.
"Thank you, you are all most kind." The yeti pants softly.
"And I am called Frostbite."
Frostbite struggled to his feet.
Kimiko pursed her lips in disapproval. She didn't think the yeti should be standing yet.
Frostbite's eyes landed on Danny, his face lit up. He swept Danny and Kimiko into a bone breaking hug.
"This is indeed an exciting day to be saved by the savior of the ghost zone and his allies."
Danny made a good impression of deer in the head lights.
"Wait are you talking about me? Psh, I'm no savior." Sam and Tucker's jaw dropped.
"Wait I thought you knew?" Kimiko looked to Danny.
"That's all anything the ghosts I talked to back home would talk about. You beat the King Pariah Dark. He's like one of the most infamous ghost around. He died in the dark ages, then just took over the ghost zone. A lot of ghosts consider you a hero."
"Umm no, no I didn't. Is that why less ghosts attacked on the way into the ghost zone? Cause it did seem weird when none of them did." Danny rubbed his chin.
Frostbite set the two down, eyeing Kimiko with interest.
"You are humble, oh great one. I Frostbite, leader of the far frozen am at your service." He bowed to Danny. Danny shifted uncomfortably.
"Look, I just did what was right. I mean I couldn't let the ghost king start a war and return to his tyranical rule."
"No you are to modest, come I will feed your humans and you and your fellow ghost friend can rest." Frostbite beckoned the teens forward to follow him.

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Danny and his friends sat at the head of the table in seats of honor by Frostbite.
"Eat, eat, I made sure your food is from the human world." Frostbite encouraged Sam and Tucker.
They looked doubtfully down at the food. They both took bites of their food. They nodded in approval it wasn't bad. Danny was being crowding by yetis all wanting to speak with him.
Frostbite turned his attention to Kimiko.
"You are a new ghost, just recently in fact." He leaned into his fingers.
Kimiko jerked.
"Sort of, I guess you could say that." She twirled her flaming white hair around her finger.
"You are very powerful for a new ghost." Frostbite observed.
"It was only a couple of weeks ago. I'm only half dead after all." Kimiko whispered quietly.
Frostbite went ridge.
"Another halfa? How?"
Kimiko bite her lip.
"My dad his name is Vlad Masters, I guess you'd know him as Plasmius."
Frostbite let out a hiss of breath.
"A natural born Halfa, I didn't think it would be possible. Although I had no idea Plasmius had a child."
"Join the club." Kimiko muttered as she downed her glowing green drink.
"You are a heat core like your father. You have a great burden on your shoulders. Stuck between life and death is not easy. I can imagine it wouldn't be easy for you." Frostbite told her not unkindly.
"I can't be the only natural born Halfa in history? Weren't there others?" Kimiko pleaded.
Frostbite looked thoughtful.
"There have been legends of children born of humans and ghosts. Who were what you would call Halfas. Extremely rare, the only ones that are known to exist know are Phantom, Plasmius and now you."
"Only us? That's it?" Kimiko asked.
"Only you three." Frostbite nodded.

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"They made a shrine of me? I don't no wether to be flattered or creeped out." Danny whispered to his friends. It was a cave with beautiful glowing blue drawings depicting Danny defeating the ghost king.
"It least they look awesome." Tucker shrugged.
"It is my hope that our tribute documenting your great deed pleases you." Frostbite grinned proudly.
"Yeah it's awesome, thank you." Danny blushed.
"But we're sort of lost and-"
"Wonderful!" Frostbite ran off motioning for the teens to follow him.
"Did he just say it was wonderful that we're lost?" Sam frowned.
"Yep." Danny flew after Frostbite who lead then to a room filled with treasures and strange things. Frostbite stopped in front of a golden chest.
The yeti opened it placing his ice hand onto the chest. It clicked open, frostbite pulled out a glowing old scroll.
"This is the infinmap." Frostbite hold the scroll up reverently in the air.
"Infinmap?" The teens ask confused.
"We have guarded it for millennia. It is a map of the ghost zone." Frostbite explained.
"And any entrance or exit to the ghost zone."
"Any entrance? I thought my parents and Vlad's portals were the only entrances?" Danny frowned.
"They have the only non-natural permeant portals." Kimiko rolled her eyes. One would think the son of two ghost hunters would know this.
"Your world has many natural portals and hot spots that portals are concentrated. The infinmap will take you to any portal that will take you anywhere, anytime, any world. For example the Bermuda Triangle. There are portals that open and close there all the time."
"That explains all of the disappearances over the years, anything that goes in. Doesn't come out." Sam snapped her fingers.
"Sometimes people do find their way back. But not often." Frostbite tells them. "But not necessarily to where they came from. The ghost zone is constantly shifting, opening random portals from all sorts of places and times. But usually only for a short time, then closing could be for ten minutes or could be forever. In the wrong hands this map could be dangerous." Frostbite rolled up the map.
"So that's why I will take you home."
"Wow thanks!" The teens cheer.
"So how does it work?" Danny asks curiously.
"The map can read your minds. Simply put your hands on the map and think of where you want to go and the map will take you there." Frostbite let go of the map to grab his cape.
"So if I say take us home it'll-" Danny didn't finish as he, Sam, Tucker and Kimiko felt a violent jerk and zoomed away at neck break speed. In seconds they were in Danny's parents' lab.
A black ring formed around Kimiko traveling up and down. Danny's white ring transformed him back into his human form.
"So what should we do with it?" Kimiko took the scroll setting it down on a table.
"Take it back to Frostbite." Sam put her hands on her hips.
"After we check it out a little bit." Danny lifted it off the table.
"Besides who's going to know?" Tucker grins as he wraps an arm around Danny's shoulders.
"I don't know this is a seriously powerful object, maybe we shouldn't mess with it." Kimiko nervously leans back.
"Yeah." Sam looks at the map.
"Come on I know you two are just as curious as us. Will use for an hour then take it back to Frostbite." Danny unrolled the map.
"We will give it back just after we check it out." Tucker says in a sly voice.
Kimiko and Sam look at each other.
"Fine." They agree together, they weren't willing to admit it but they wanted to see what the map could do.

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Vlad frowned at his chest board.
His cat Maddie rubbed against his ankle. Heave forbid Daniel ever found out, least the boy never let him live it down. Vlad couldn't promise he won't shoot an ectoblast the brat to his smug little face.
He glanced at his cell, Kimiko hadn't answered any of his calls. Vlad began pacing again.
"Relax Vlad, I'm sure Kimiko is fine. Just having to much fun with Daniel and his friends." Vlad rubbed his temples. What was one suppose to so in this sort of situation? Did he kept calling? Try that infernal texting? Call Maddie and Jack? Fly over to check up on the children?
Vlad paused.
Or he could just look at the spying cameras he hadn't gotten around to taking down yet at Fenton works. Vlad sat down on his couch grabbing his tv remote.
Quickly flipping to the channels to his network. Punching in the code on his remote.
Vlad squirmed guilty.
"I'll take them down. Just what if something happens like a lab accident, or Jack choking or a fire. Or an attack?" Vlad clutched his forehead.
"I'll just see if Kimiko is alright and then go back to my game of chess."
Vlad flipped threw the cameras. Living room, no.
Kitchen, no one.
Ops center, no teens.
Danny's room, zilch.
"Where in the Packer's are those children?!" Vlad stood up, a chill running down his spine.
The lab camera flicked on the screen. Vlad sighed with relief.
There they were.
Daniel and Kimiko in their ghost forms. The teens were gathered around a map. Vlad's eyes widen not just any map. The map, the infinmap.
"It can't be. The infinmap does exist." Vlad's pride was itching he had been searching for the map for years and had never found it. But Daniel and his little friends had.
"Drat, this isn't good. Four teenagers with one of the ghost zone most powerful objects." Vlad groaned he stopped as he thought accrued to him.
"I told Kimiko not to enter the Ghost zone!"
Vlad yelled as he jumped up off the couch.
"That young lady is grounded!"

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"Okay so we mess around with the map for a couple of hours then take it back to Frostbite." Danny looked down at the map.
"See Sam, Kim, no problem." Tucker waved his hand.
"Okay Infinmap take us to- wait where do we want to go?" Danny asked.
"Uh I don't know anywhere in GZ fine with-" Tucker didn't finish as all four were sucked into the Ghost Zone. They flew over a random river. The river looked like smoke, with slivers of glowing sliver and green. It looked like glossy cloth stretched over the long space.
"Hey the map says this is call the river Styx. Do you think it's the same river as the Greek myth? I didn't even know the Ghost zone had rivers." Sam pointed to the mythic river.
"It looks so creepy but beautiful. But really, really creepy." Tucker's glasses reflected the light of the river.
They kept on going flying threw a red rocked canon. White spikes ran along the walls.
"This is creepy, the map says this is carnivorous canon. The entire place is one big mouth." Kimiko looked nauseated.
They kept flying the teen gripped the map nervously as the giant mouth closed behind them. They stopped on a purple and green triangle portal.
"Let's check it out." Tucker stared into the portal.
"It's not on the path. Remember what Frostbite said? He said not to leave the path." Sam warned.
"It's only for a couple seconds or two. We'll be fine. In and out before it closes." Kimiko was enthralled by the ghost zone. She wanted to see everything. She flew into the portal. Her legs forming a tail.
They appeared underneath a bed.
"Are you sure there are no monsters under my bed?" A high pitched voice of a boy squeaked.
"Now Billy, remember what president Roosevelt said." The mother places a comforting hand on her son's shoulders. "We have nothing to be afraid expect fear itself."
"Actually it's nothing to fear expect fear itself." Danny corrected as he phased his head up threw the bed.
Kimiko snicker as the mother and Son screamed in terror.
The portal closed after them.
"Great going." Sam lectured.
Kimiko interrupted.
"That was hilarious!" She bent over laughing her head off.
"Danny scared that kid for life." Sam scolded.
"I just wanted to make sure that mom didn't mess up the one historical quote I actually know." Danny opened the map back up.
"Who's up for another portal?"
The map glowed up at the words.
"Quick grab on!"
Sam, Tucker and Kimiko grabbed the map just in time. They traveled threw a portal into clock tower.
"Whoa, that's better than a roller coaster." Kimiko held her head in her hands.
"So where are we?" Tucker looked around.
"Only one way to find out." Danny grabbed Sam and phased threw the wall invisible.
Tucker and Kimiko snickered.
"Love birds."
"They are so in denial." Kimiko grabbed Tucker and followed Danny.
"Cool it's thanksgiving!" Tucker cheered as he saw the pilgrims walking around going about their business.
"No this is Salem, Massachusetts. Back in the 1600's the people used to burn anyone who was different, forward thinking, or not agreeing with what everyone did or just someone they didn't like." Sam crossed her invisible arms and lectured again.
"They burned my great, great, great, great, great grand aunt for being a witch."
"Yeah trail by fire and all that. Let's go this time period sucked." Kimiko agreed. "Seriously let's go before they burn us."
She shivered. The green smoke emptied out of her nose and mouth.
"I feel something's wrong lets leave now."
A crowd of villagers stormed around a pole throwing sticks around it. A scarecrow tied to the pole the villagers burning and scream at it.
The teens felt sick.
The mayor held up an hour glass filled with sand.
"Good job Joshua that was our best time yet."
"I'm a bit of a pyromaniac myself but that's going way to far." Tucker's voice shook frighten at the prospect that these people were training to burn people alive.
"Let's bail, Kimiko's right. This place is dangerous." Danny muttered.
"It is indeed. Pleasure to meet the the second Halfa defeater of Pariah Dark. No doubt you've heard about me from my little pet." A sinister voice hissed from behind them.
Kimiko froze.
"Jazsal." She whispered.
The teens turned to look at the demon. Kimiko was shocked to see a great change from his last appearance. His long black hair pulling back into a low ponytail.
His eyes were bright, looking like hell fire itself. His paper white skin pearly, the holes for the sewn eyes and mouth were there but not as bloody as before. He was wearing a expensive looking suit for pilgrim times.
"W-what do you want?" Danny was shaking. He had never felt anything that evil before. It was frightening.
"What? Just because I'm a demon that means I can't be polite and say hello to my favorite Halfas?" Jazsal says in mock innocent. His hand twirled around Kimiko's fiery hair. Tucker cringed away.
"I knew my little spit fire would be a heat core just her old man. How is your father by the way? I hear he's doing well making himself know as the ghost zone's most dangerous. After me of course." Kimiko couldn't move, she froze up. Tucker stiffened scrambling to keep ahold of Kimiko to stay in the air.
"What are you doing to me?" She bit out.
"Nothing much dearest just making sure you can't interfere. You children have something I want." Jazsal cooed.
"The Infinmap." Danny hugged the map close to him.
"No way am I handing it over to you."
"Hmm to bad, now I have to be mean." Jazsal grabbed Sam dropping her in the middle of the crowd of pilgrims.
"Sam!" All three teens shouted.
Jazsal grin showing off his sharp teeth. He dived for the Mayor's body.
The Mayor's eyes flashed red-orange before returning to their normal color.
"Don't just stand there fools, grab the witch." Jazsal drawled using the Mayor's voice.
"Let me go!" Sam punched and kicked the pilgrims away from her.
"Witch!" The villagers crowed. "We caught a witch!"
"Look at what this whore is wearing! So indecent." A stuffy woman yelled pointing at Sam's bare midriff and short skirt.
"A she-devil come to tempt us. Burn her! Burn her I say!" A mob formed bigger than before.
"Humans. All I had to do was shout witch and they do all the work for me." Jazsal smirked, the mayor's face twisted looking otherworldly.
Scythes, pick forks, shovels, pick axes and torches. The crowd crowing for Sam's blood.
"What do you think you are doing!" An authoritative voice rang out.
Everyone froze.
Vlad threw off a cloak.
"D-V-Vlad?" Kimiko's jaw dropped.
"Wait how did you find us?" Danny started at Vlad floating above the crowd now drawling the attention to the three floating people in the sky above them.
"Hey! Did you not take out the spy cameras in my house?!" Danny glared.
Vlad coughed.
"It doesn't matter, how I found you just be grateful that I found you."
"Fruit loop." Danny muttered half heartily pointing accusingly at Vlad.
"I'm going to be set on fire over here. Some help please!" Sam struggled as the men tied her to the stake.
"I'm not a witch! Oh wait 1600's. Hurry up guys!"
Danny shoved the scroll into Tucker's hands.
"Here hold this and turn on your spectral defector." Danny ordered.
Tucker nodded.
Kimiko set him on the ground.
"The witch has summoned Sprits to do her bidding. Stand back I Johnson Fenton Nightengale greatest hunter of the weird shall vanquish these demons." A giant burly man that looked closely related to Danny's father wearing a bright orange shirt jumped out from behind a building. The basket filled with strange roses smoked with red smoke.
Johnson threw a ring of the flowers around Sam and the Mayor.
"Flowers?" Danny scoffed.
"No!" Vlad and Kimiko shouted at the same time.
"Daniel those are Blood blossoms!" Vlad's warning came to late. Danny hit the flower barrier and shrieked in pain. Jazsal was sweating and glassy eyed.
"These flowers vanquish spooks and help stop their possession of poor folk." Johnson popped a flower into his mouth.
"And salt, holy water, exterzisms will get rid of ghost and demons."
Jazsal snarled at Johnson as he announced loudly the last bit.
John snuck up behind Kimiko to push her into the ring.
The three supernatural beings screeched in pain and agony.
"Daniel, Kimiko!" Vlad shouted struggling to stay in his human form and stay up right.
"Foley eat the flowers! Do it now!" Vlad orders.
Tucker jumped into action.
"I'm only eating these plant because I love you guys. Not that creepy demon though." Tucker stuffed the flowers into his mouth. Jazsal was in to much pain to reply.
Vlad transformed ignoring the pain to incapacitate the villagers and Johnson. Vlad duplicating himself to grab each teen flew away. Jazsal recovering quickly chasing after them. He gripped Tucker's arm, hand on the Map.
They all felt a pop and ended up in a dark fiery floating temple. Jazsal cackled.
"Now isn't this familiar."
Vlad and his duplicates surrounded the children.
"Oh so parental Vladimir. I never thought you'd be the father type." Jazsal shifted his body smoky growing to twice his size.
"Begond Jazsal, before I destroy you." Vlad threaten.
The teens shook in terror at Jazsal's new form.
"You should be thanking me Vladimir, with out me you would have never found out about Kimiko."
"You bastard! You mean when you murdered my mother!" Kimiko screamed.
"Don't be that way darling. I was just hungry nothing personal. I do feel bad at your mother's death. Just think you could've had a younger sibling." Jazsal sighed in disappointment.
Vlad gripped Kimiko's arm to stop her from lunging at Jazsal.
"Vlad, Vlad, my angry little boy." Jazsal bared his teeth in a grin.
"Where's all that envy? Anger? Jealousy? Hate? Have you gone soft? Do think that little Kimiko can fill the hole? Can make you a better man?"
Vlad froze.
"You're just like me Vladimir. You're like a son to me. You are a monster like me. You can't escape it. You belong to be me! You all belong to me!" Jazsal's eyes flash.
"Shut up! My father is a good man. He's nothing like you!" Kimiko shouted.
"Vladimir can't lie to himself." Jazsal smiles softly.
"No, he's not like you where it matters." Danny's acid green eyes burn.
"Far-Frozen!" Tucker yelled.
The icy wind and snow hit their faces. Frostbite rushed forward.
"Thank goodness you are all right. Picked up a guest I see." He eyed Vlad cautiously.
"Sorry things with the map got out of hand. We kinda of wanted to explore the zone. Sorry we should have brought it right back." The teens looked at their feet.
"No harm done, Great one. Although it can lead you where you want to go it sometimes leads you where it feels you need to go." Frostbite held out a hand for the map. Tucker placed it quickly into his hand.
"How was bringing us to Jazsal's lair the place we needed to go?" Danny frowned.
The yetis all gasp in horror.
"Jazsal! Free? That's impossible he was re-imprisoned after he was defeated by Plasmius. That was the reason they let Plasmius live. They were going to destroy him for being an aberration." Frostbite's ear were flat against his head.
"Who imprisoned Jazsal first?" Vlad asks.
"The ghost council and the Ghost king. He is old, as old as the Ghost realm. Very dangerous last of his kind, not many left. And the ones that are will have nothing to do with him." Frostbite says slowly.
"I must inform my allies of Jazsal's return.
"Is this guy really that bad that he scares a bunch of big Yetis like you?" Sam hugs her arms to her.
"Yes he is, now we must leave it is not safe for any of you." Frostbite unrolled the map.
"Plasmius's portal."
They zoomed away.
Vlad's lab was cleaner and more organized then the Fentons' lab.
Frostbite directed his gaze to Vlad.
"Find books on demon lore, I do not have the time today to explain it to you. The great one's father will have the books and the old ways to ward against the demon." Frostbite turned to Danny.
"Great one, I will see you soon. You will have need of my help with your ice core soon. And be on your guard Jazsal is a master of deceit."
Frost bite bowed.
"It is good to see young Vladimr Plasmius is free from Jazsal's influence. It is waning on you. Your daughter is good for you. Good luck my friends. Until we met again. Far Frozen." The yeti was gone.
Vlad turned to the teens.
"No more ghost zone for anyone unless with me."
The teens nodded.
"I'm sorry Vlad I shouldn't have taken Kimiko in the ghost zone with me with out your permission." Danny apologizes.
"No. I'm sorry I should have listen to you. It was dangerous, and I knew better. I just feel so at home there, like I belong. I've never felt like that before." Kimiko wipes at her eyes.
Vlad's face softens.
"I will make an effort to bring the two of you." He nodded at Danny And Kimiko.
"Into the ghost zone for visits. When I was a new Halfa I always ached for something. And it took many year for me to find out what it was. Ghosts need the zone, and to a certain extent so do we. It's stupid that with two working portals that we don't use them safely of course." Vlad sighed.
"Thanks Vlad." Kimiko says shyly.
"I wouldn't want either of you to suffer from lack of knowledge let I had to." Vlad pats Kim on the shoulder.
"I need a bathroom, I just ate a bunch of weird flowers." Tucker grimaced.
Vlad paled. Children even when they're teenagers you have to deal with that sort of thing.
"Down the hall to the left."
Tucker tore down the hall.
"Hey I'm hungry, can we order pizza?" Danny turns to Vlad.
Vlad raises an eyebrow.
"I want veggie please." Sam smiled.
"Oh I want meat lovers!" Tucker shouted from down the hall.
"Philly cheese steak pizza!" Danny grinned.
"Spinach Alfredo calzone would be awesome." Kimiko looks at Vlad with puppy eyes.
"You all want an entire pizza for each of you?" Vlad was shocked.
"Yeah!" Came the resounding call.
"What about your parents? Aren't you going to have dinner with them?" Vlad frowned.
"No I called them hours ago that I was hanging with friends. Besides I'm tried." Sam shrugged.
"Yeah my Dad, didn't have a problem with me eating dinner here." Danny yawned.
"Well I suppose the more the merrier." Vlad pulled out his cell.

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It was times like these that Vlad wondered why he had ever wanted children. Tucker was stuffing his face with his meaty pizza. Arguing mouth full with Sam about the merits of a all meat diet. Sam was flicking ice at the meat loving boy. Daniel was waving his pizza around as he talked about space to Kimiko.
Vlad hadn't known that Daniel wanted to travel to space. Perhaps if he told the ghosts to back off Daniel, Kimiko and their classmates would benefit for their education.
Food for thought.
Kimiko at least had some manners. Sumiko had made sure that Kimiko has manners. If Vlad had eaten like that his parents would've sent him
To his room with no dinner.
Vlad bit into his slice of pizza having already been by the teenagers teased about cutting his pizza and eating it with a fork.
Tucker's and Sam's phones rang.
Vlad felt his mouth twitch in disapproval, cell phones at the diner table.
Sam groaned at her parents threw the phone. Tucker laughed into his.
They both hung up.
"My parents are coming to pick me up." Tucker then tore into his pizza again only two slices left.
"My parents want me to stay over forever. They want Kimiko to become my new best friend. They're such snobs. The monument they found out she was your daughter." Sam pointed to Vlad.
"They want me to make sure our family ties become closer. I'm pretty sure if Kimiko was a boy they'd already be pushing for marriage." Sam rolled her eyes.
"You know if you want to mess with them. I could tell them I'm totally gay for you." Kimiko smirked.
Sam grinned in return.
"That would be pretty awesome. I can just see the looks on their faces. But then again they still can't tell my grandma likes women after all these years. So thanks but no."
"Oh hey, is that why your grandma always watching those miss America pageants with me?" Tucker asked threw a mouthful of food.
But it sounded more like.
"Oh vey, isthat khy your grandga always watchting Miss Americai pageas wuth me?"
"Yes Tucker that's why Grandma watches those stupid pageants with you." Sam says drily.
"Oh I never knew. Cool no wonder she always picks the winners." Tucker says in wonder.
"Your parents are that clueless?" Vlad takes a sip from his glass.
"Oh yeah, that or they just pretend otherwise. They don't like when life isn't like their sixties prefect dream land." Sam shrugged.
"Hmm that's rough buddy." Kimiko patted Sam's back.
"My parents are just happy I have friends. I think they're worried I'll marry my Mac computer." Tucker said this time with no food in his mouth.
"But you already are." Danny teased playfully to Tucker.
"Hey I love all of my tech equally. I could never marry just one." Tucker grinned.
Tucker's phone beeped.
"See ya at school tomorrow, my parents are here. Thanks for the food V-man." Tucker waved as he walked out of the room.
"V-man? I should have never let Jack tell anyone my old nick-name." Vlad ran a hand down his face.
Sam, Danny and Kimiko snickered.
"Well I'm flying home, Sam you want a ride?" Danny's white rings traveled up and down.
"Yeah, bye Kimiko, Bye V-Man. Thanks for the food." Sam and Danny flew away and into the wall.
"That was sort of fun expect for the evil demon part." Kimiko sighed.
"Oh yes that reminds me you're grounded. I talked to Jack and he assured me that cleaning the lab is a suitable punishment." Vlad looks at Kimiko.
Who pouts but nods.
"Yeah okay that's fair." Kimiko pause before gathering her courage.
"Jazsal is wrong, you're not like him. He's just messing with you."
Vlad leans back.
"Thank you Kimiko that means a lot to me that you think that."
Kimiko shifts in her seat. Then quickly hugs Vlad and then sprinted away as fast as she could.
Kimiko slumped maybe family hugs shouldn't be so awkward. They'd have to work on that.

End of chapter 6