Danny walked into his parent's lab. His body no longer ached and hurt and he was in his ghost form.

As he entered the lab he looked around. It seemed normal enough, but at the far end, where the ghost portal would normally be there was something different. It was a huge circular machine. It was made of a hard metal and was hollow in the middle. Thousands of cords strung from the back to the wall behind it. It had clasps inside of it, to hold something. Two clasps were on top for a pair of hands and two on the bottom for feet. It had a pink wavy, barrier surrounding it.

There was a ghost inside it, but Danny couldn't figure out who it was. The barrier around it seemed to be sucking the life out of its ghost inhabitant.

Danny walked up to the machine to get a better look at who was in it, but as soon as he saw he fell back in shock. It was Vlad Plasmius!

"How could my parents have caught him? It's not possible!" Danny thought.

"Stop right there ghost!" he heard someone behind him yell.

He turned to see his parents and another figure behind them. The figure was a girl, but she was shorter than Jazz and she was wearing a dress. Since his parents were in the way, all Danny could see besides a shadow was a beautiful pair of glowing sea blue eyes.

"Don't you dare get near that ghost!" Maddie screamed at Danny.

"You don't understand. I-" he was interrupted.

"You might try to hurt our son just like Plasmius did! Get him Maddie!" Jack and Maddie aimed there weapons and lurched towards Danny. Danny tried to move, he tried to go intangible, but it didn't work. He was frozen to the spot and his parents were coming to kill him.

They were about a foot away when they came at him like tigers.

"No! Stop!" Danny screamed.

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Danny woke up screaming sitting bolt right up in his bed. He held his head from the sudden movement.

"Danny!" his entire family burst into his room, "Are you okay!" they asked simultaneously.

"Yeah, I just had a nightmare that's all," Danny was shivering.

"Lay down, Danny. You need to rest," Maddie pulled the covers up to Danny's shoulders as he lay down. She started to stroke his forehead.

"You now, Maddie, maybe we should tell him now instead of in the morning." Jack said.

Maddie sighed, "I guess so."

"Danny," Maddie sat on the bed next to him; her legs half on half off. She continued to stroke his head, "We studied some of the poison on the whip that Sam and Tucker brought back. We found a place with no blood about halfway up the mid section. Clearly Plasmius smothered the thing with poison. You're lucky none of your friends got any on them," his mom was trying to change the subject.

"What did you get from the examination?" Danny asked.

Maddie looked at him. Her eyes were suddenly extremely sad looking and Danny could see tears beginning. She looked away.

"It's going to eat away at your energy for food. It's going to hurt…a lot. And it's going to last a while, "Jazz continued for his mom, "As it does so, you will be constantly falling asleep do to lack of energy. The only way to stop it is to… to," Jazz stopped and closed her eyes.

"The only way," Jack finished, "Is to find an extremely rare medicine called Kayis. But it is sooo rare that most people think it's nonexistent." He looked down nervously.

"So your saying I'm gonna… die?" Danny could barely get the word out.

Silence.

"But, there may be a way," Jack perked up, "either we find that Plasmius ghost and see if he has a cure or there is a rumor that that a person somewhere owns some."

"But no one knows who they are," Jazz added.

Danny felt tired once again. He had the irresistible urge to sleep. His mother was hugging him as he fell into a deep sleep, hoping to wake up in the morning.