"What are you talking about?" Danny asked anxiously. "You think you know where that last piece of glass is?"
"Yeah," Sam said, almost sounding excited. "When Tucker and I tried capturing your family to scare you away from the Deathbringers and putting yourself in danger, your dad was making a bunch of empty threats and trying to convince me to let him go."
"Heh, not surprised," Danny remarked.
"But he was begging me to do whatever he wanted to him but to not touch his prized possession," Sam explained.
Danny's eyes widened. "My old man has a prized possession?"
"Yeah," Sam said. "He said it was something he got in the Ghost Zone. He told me it was a piece of glass that he found and suspected another ghost broke it and he wanted to keep it as a souvenir."
Danny looked excited, but then his face promptly went flat. "You can't really think that piece of glass is…"
"I don't know," Sam said. "Does this look like it?"
Sam reached into her cloak's pocket and pulled out the shard of glass Jack was proudly showing Danny only a few days before. The glass piece was bright green and had a strange aura about it. Danny carefully studied it and tried to picture the mosaic in his head. He tried to remember the shape of the missing piece of the mosaic, and then he looked at the piece of glass Sam was holding.
The missing patch of the mosaic looked exactly like the piece of glass Sam was holding.
Danny was speechless. "That's it," he said. It looked like he was trying to smile, but he was still so gloomy about how he had been acting before he found out Sam and Tucker were the ones he had been threatening to kill and hurting so violently.
Danny grabbed it from Sam's hand, but then he felt something slam at the back of his head that was easily going over eighty miles an hour. Danny got knocked to the ground and was lucky he wasn't knocked unconscious. As he fell to the ground, he heard Sam and Tucker both scream his name.
Danny was looking to the side when he was on the ground and he saw a basketball was bouncing right next to him. He instantly knew what was going on. He got up and turned around, and Jerel and Noreen were floating only a few feet away from them. Noreen looked very angry as always, but Jerel looked very proud of himself.
"Three pointer!" Jerel yelled pointing up to the sky as if he were number one.
"Jerel…Noreen…" Danny mumbled as he rubbed the back of his sore head where Jerel just sent the basketball flying incredibly fast at him.
Noreen soared over to Danny and fired one quick blast to his face. Danny let out a small scream as he fell backwards. When he was on the ground again, Noreen opened up his hand and grabbed the piece of glass in it-the last piece to make up the mosaic.
"Watch to make sure no one's eavesdropping next time, kid," Noreen advised as she flew back to Jerel.
Noreen flipped the piece of glass in her hand to Jerel, who instantly jumped in the air and began floating as he caught it. He pocketed the piece of glass and started chanting very loudly, "We're number one! We're number one! We're number one! We're number one!"
Still chanting that, Jerel flew away so fast that Danny and his friends could barely see him leave.
But Danny had other things to worry about now. Noreen was still floating in place with her arms crossed and looking like she was ready to fight. "I'll finish you now, kid," she said as she started forming something in her hand. It took the shape of two small revolvers, taking all the kids by surprise.
"Y…you have firearms?" Danny asked in a very unconfident voice. "Why…"
"I didn't get into the Deathbringers because I was nice and didn't kill anybody, kid," Noreen said very coldly as she pointed her guns right at Danny.
Danny tried getting up and putting up a ghostly shield, which managed to deflect two bullets Noreen fired. Danny warily turned to his friends when he tried defending himself.
"Guys…get out here while you still can!" Danny ordered them.
"No way!" Sam said.
"Yeah, we're fighting here with you!" Tucker responded.
Simultaneously, Tucker and Sam grabbed the top of their cloaks and tore them off, revealing the outfits they were as ghosts.
Sam was wearing a completely black shirt that covered her entire upper body, except for her hands and her head. She was wearing completely black pants and very high heeled black shoes that added about three inches to her height.
Tucker was wearing something out of a sci-fi movie. He was wearing a one piece suit but it was more of a dark shade of blue. There were lots of small wires and computer parts around it, making it look like Tucker was wearing a hard drive or a computer chip or something like that.
"Come on, Danny!" Tucker yelled. "We've got her three-to-one!"
Noreen glared at three teenagers in front of her. She got both of her revolvers in a firing position and started hovering in the air above them.
"All right, kids," she said, "This is what happens when you mess with the Deathbringers!"
Noreen started firing her two revolvers at all of them and they went surprisingly fast. Instead of firing one bullet and having to wait a few seconds for it to fire again, the bullets fired non stop, more like a machine gun.
Danny started diving out of the way and tried his best to avoid all the bullets that were being fired at him. He could almost see the small bits of metal go shooting past him as he tried to evade the shots.
"Danny!" Sam yelled.
She held out her hand and fired a ray of dark energy at Noreen and knocked her to the ground. It was the same purple beam that Danny had frequently seen when he tried to fight the cloaked figures.
But Noreen was only temporarily stunned. She was up again and doing surprisingly complicated aerobics, despite looking like she was in her sixties.
Tucker ran over to her and held out his fingers and started firing bolts of electricity from his fingertips, and those bolts also sent Noreen backwards a few feet. She slammed on the ground and looked up and saw Danny was now hovering several feet above her.
"See ya!" Danny taunted as he got ready to fire his own blast of energy at her.
Noreen pulled out both of her revolvers and fired them simultaneously, with several bullets nailing Danny in the chest.
Danny screamed as he collapsed onto the ground. But to his surprise, he was able to get up and fight again with the only difference being a burn he felt on his chest whenever he tried breathing.
"Hmmmm…guess those bullets can't actually kill someone," Danny said.
Noreen snarled, but still continued firing her two revolvers.
Now Sam and Tucker were trying to weave their way past all the bullets being fired at them. They both jumped in the air and flew to opposite sides of Noreen; Tucker was in front of her while Sam was behind. They both got ready to fire an attack on her at the same time.
But Noreen was also ready. She pointed one of her revolvers at both of them and fired at them at the same instant.
The bullets hit Sam and Tucker, sending both of them on to the ground. But they quickly got up and were back in the fight.
Noreen got ready to fire at them again, but Danny flew down from the air right behind her and spun her around so they were now facing each other. He punched her in the face, and when she was trying to recover from the blast, Danny grabbed one of the guns from her hand and tried to force it from her.
Both of them started struggling for a while as Danny tried to wrench the gun from her hand as Noreen tried to keep it in.
But almost like Noreen had a sixth sense, she could somehow tell Sam and Tucker were running up from behind her to help Danny. Using her free hand with the other revolver, she fired a few bullets and hit Sam and Tucker with them, successfully stalling them for a while.
Noreen then used the same revolver she just used to shoot Sam and Tucker and turned it towards Danny's face. She fired it before Danny had time to react. Like his two friends, Danny fell backwards when the bullets hit him in the face.
Noreen pocketed one revolver and started forming a blast of energy in her hands. She aimed it at Danny and began taunting him. "Pathetic. You outnumber me and you still can't win. And you thought you could stall our plans."
Behind her, Sam was slowly getting up. She started charging a ball of purple-black energy in her hand and was ready to fire it at Noreen, but once again, Noreen seemed to use her sixth sense and fired her revolver at Sam, causing Sam to collapse on the ground next to Tucker again.
Still charging up the energy in her hand, she fired the blast at Danny. But at the last second, Danny put up a shield and blocked the blast. The blast was reflected and sent back at Noreen and hit her in the head.
Noreen flew backwards from the impact of the blast. She fell onto the ground, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the three teenagers were now hovering over her and getting ready to attack.
Danny flew down and grabbed Noreen by the back of her head and held her up.
"Guys?" Danny asked as he held Noreen right in front of them both.
"Way ahead of you," Tucker said proudly.
He and Sam began beating Noreen as savagely and as violently as he they could. They both finished up by giving her two uppercuts back to back and sending her into the air.
When Noreen was in the air, Danny fired one more blast and hit her when she was still going higher. The blast pushed her into the air even faster.
Then Noreen finally started falling. When she fell, she hit the ground very hard. She slowly got up and it was obvious how much pain she was in.
Danny saved her the trouble of getting up by pulling her up by the hair. He gave her a smug smile and looked at her.
"Here's for killing my friends," he said as if his vengeance had finally been fulfilled. He fired a blast at her face and that seemed to be the finishing blow.
Noreen slowly slumped backwards. She tried to stand up again, but she was only able to get on one knee. She looked around at the three teenagers forming a circle around her, preventing her from escaping.
Then, Noreen started disappearing. While Danny expected this to happen, Sam and Tucker were shocked by it.
"Danny, what's going on?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah, why's she doing that?" Sam added.
Danny just continued watching Noreen disappear instead of answering his friends' questions.
"Don't think you kids are anything great," she said. "I promise you, if you go after Jerel and Arkov, you will die…"
Then Noreen started disappearing in the same cloud of smoke that Gippy and Claude died in before her. Danny watched happily as the last traces of Noreen disappeared.
After only a few more moments, Noreen was completely gone. There was no trace of her left.
Then there was a long silence. Sam and Tucker stared in disbelief and confusion about what happened. They had a pretty strong idea about what just happened, but they couldn't be sure. And they didn't want to accept their suspicion.
"Danny, what just happened?" Sam finally asked, breaking the silence.
"Noreen's gone," Danny finally answered.
"Gone? You don't mean…"
"Yeah."
"Then you know she's probably at the Plains of the Helpless Souls now, right?" Sam brought up. "You've just sentenced her to spend all eternity wandering around aimlessly with no sense of life at all now, right?"
"I know," Danny said.