Ghostly World

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Chapter 29 (Final Fragment and the Vampire King)

Robbie beat through the thicket of the forest and looked over at Cat as she danced and jumped through the grass. Her laugher reached his heart and lifted him up. The sun shone down on her, causing her radiant hair and her beautiful skin to glow brighter. He quickly turned his eyes away from her, they had a mission, a job to do. There was no time for silly little crushes.

But was it a crush? He returned his gaze to her and sighed softly. Just a crush? One he'd been dealing with for a long time. He'd do anything for her, protect her from the dangers of the world, go to the ends of the earth for her. He knew he liked her, but how did she feel about him? She turned into him at one point, so she must know how he feels about her. Did that count as him confessing his feelings to her? He blinked and gazed up at the sky. If so, it wasn't fair, but he probably couldn't control that fact. Andre and Beck teased him constantly about it, telling him how he should just ask her out, but no girl would want a guy who carried a puppet around.

"Robbie, I think we're almost to the coordinates!" He looked over at her and saw her luscious lips curled up into a smile. She had her arm pointed out and jumped for joy. It seemed only natural for her to be so excited, after all they were going to be back in their bodies soon!

"Pretty close. Hopefully the others got the other fragments. After this, we're off to Wallis and Futuna Islands." Cat laughed happily and ran ahead. Robbie's heart played like a melody and he quickly ran after her, smiling brightly. He didn't need Rex if he had all these friends, if he was able to protect himself and them, then he would never need that puppet. He felt so light, so carefree, so euphoric. Assuming Cat knew how he felt, was she waiting for him to say something? If she was, did he need a confidence boost? Rex had always been hurtling those insults, maybe he was trying to make Robbie stand up for himself, to stand up for something he believed in and he never did. "Damn, how pathetic is that?"

He sighed deeply and pulled the detector that David gave him from his pocket. It was a holy detector capable of alerting them of the location of certain holy objects, such as the one they were looking for now. It was flashing with rapid speed, alerting him that they were almost on top of it. "Hey Cat, I think we made it!" There was no response, the silence was chilling to him. He lifted his head up and found himself surrounded by trees. "Hey…Cat? Cat, where are you!" Had she gotten lost? She'd run ahead, probably too far.

Her scream echoed through the air and struck Robbie with fear. "Cat?" He dropped the object on the ground and ran off in the direction of her scream, what could have happened? "Cat!" After running for a minute, he finally found her. She was being held by Dracula, his arm around her neck and eyes in a dangerous scowl. Her eyes were wide and filled with panic, the thought of changing to fight Dracula didn't even cross her mind.

"Ah, Robbie Shapiro, the son of Thomas Shapiro…how nice that I should destroy the son of the man who killed me." Robbie swallowed hard and closed his hands tightly. He already knew this tale, he didn't care about it. He wasn't avenging his father by taking out Dracula, he would avenge his father when he slaughtered Danny with his bare hands. Dracula looked at Cat with a slow smirk and moved his finger down her cheek. She shuddered at her touch. "Now this girl, I don't particularly care about her. I think it would be best, however, if she helped me to regain my life. Now that she lures you to me, that is an unexpected pleasure, Mr. Shapiro."

"She has nothing to do with this, Dracula. Let her go." He moved his eyes to her, he could see she was paralyzed with fear. He closed his eyes and delivered a thought to her. "Cat. Cat, it will be okay. I won't let him hurt you, just relax and if you can get free…fight him with me. Just don't be afraid, you're going to be fine. Do you trust me?"

Cat's face softened and her eyes met his. Her heart rose up in her chest, he might never know how much those words affected her. Confidence started flowing through her veins and her lips formed the tiniest smile she could muster. "Yes."

"Why are you just standing there, Shapiro? Why don't you fight?" Robbie opened his eyes and raised his eyebrow, did Dracula assume he wasn't psychic like his father had been? Dracula chuckled vainly and narrowed his eyes. "I've been watching you all these years. Maybe without that puppet your father made, you're nothing. That's it isn't it?" A slow smirk came to both Robbie and Cat as they realized Dracula's situation. He honestly didn't think Robbie had any powers. So he was overly confident without knowing his opponent, this was something that typically worked against someone during a fight.

"Guess what, Dracula." Robbie moved his eyes to Dracula's right arm which held Cat still. "I don't need Rex anymore." Dracula raised his eyebrow as Cat's lips grew into a wide grin. "Get ready to run over here, Cat." She slowly nodded her head and Dracula quickly looked at her. What the hell was she doing? Robbie lifted his arm up and clenched his fingers forward. With that Dracula's arm flew outward. The vampire let out a scream as Cat ran behind Robbie. Robbie pushed forward and Dracula was sent flying through the air. "Don't be so quick to assume things Dracula, because you might just be in for a shock."

"You bastard!" Robbie shrugged and brought his hand around his chest, sending Dracula hurtling through the air once more. "Stop this nonsense at once!" Robbie lifted his shoulders up and brought the vampire back, slamming him into the ground in front of them. He then moved his hands to his chest and pressed his fingertips together, constricting Dracula's bones and pressing them hard against each other. Dracula let out a loud scream of pain and clenched his fingers in the ground, continuing his banshee like screaming.

"That must be how arthritis feels, huh Drac?" Dracula roared and slowly pushed himself from the ground, his chest heaved with every heavy breath he exhaled. Hatred pumped through his veins as he glared at Robbie and cracked his neck. "I'm stronger than my father, Dracula, just as Danny's stronger than you. Do you honestly believe you're going to kill me?"

"Don't get cocky, brat." He roared with anger as his body began shifting. Robbie and Cat eyed him nervously as his eyes shone brightly and he started growing to nearly the size of a skyscraper. His body became black and scaly, his arms grew wings and his nails grew sharper. His ears became long and pointy and his fangs dripped past his chin. His form slightly resembled Danny's form, only mega sized. Cat grabbed Robbie's arm with her hand and looked at him with a nervous fear.

"How are we going to take that thing out?" Robbie clicked his tongue and took a slight step back as the beast roared in his face. A gust of wind and saliva blew him back slightly and he quickly shook himself.

"Nobody ever said it would be easy, I guess. Try fire." Cat nodded and transformed into Andre, hopefully this would work out well. She started flying up into the air as Robbie ran towards the right. The monster slammed its fist down into the ground, trying to crush its prey. Robbie quickly looked back and tightened his jaw in thought. How the hell was he going to do this?

Cat flew behind the beast and held her hand out, shooting out fire like a flamethrower against the demon. Fire was most often the bane of a vampire. Dracula roared in agony and slashed his large hand at Cat, attempting to swat her away from him. She avoided the swipe and threw five consecutive fireballs into his face. "Nice try!"

Seeing an opening, Robbie bounced backwards and stared at the monster's chest, he already had a cut there from some prior battle. He closed his eyes and envisioned the wound opening. As he did this, Dracula's shrill scream hit his ears. He smirked and folded his arms while opening his eyes, that cut was now a five foot long opening. "Cat! Get the fire into his wound!"

"All right!" Dracula covered his wound with his hand and growled out as Cat flew towards his front. She lifted up her hands and started pulling them away and pushing them forward several times, firing off multiple rounds of fire arcs towards the monster. Robbie smirked once more and took a step forward.

"One difference about you, Dracula, and your former apprentice…he's a lot smaller and a lot faster. You are just a psychic's toy right now. It's no wonder my father managed to defeat you."

"Cocky brat!" Dracula lunged forward and ignored the flames going inside his body. The pain was intense and his organs were burning, but his rage was what empowered him. He grabbed Robbie with his left hand and roared as he brought him to his face. "I'm bigger than you, so clearly I can still crush you."

"Let go of my Robbie!" Robbie's eyebrows rose as Dracula scoffed. Cat landed upon Dracula's wrist in Trina's form. The vampire had no clue what was coming, but to Robbie, the threat was clear. He closed his eyes and braced for impact as Cat lifted up the Warrior's Sword. She thrust it down into the behemoth's wrist, causing him to scream out in pain. "You won't kill him, you're not allowed!" She twisted her blade and sent it through the rest of Dracula's wrist, slicing it off.

"No!" The monster fell back, agonizing over his lost hand. How had she done that? His skin was made up of the hardest substance, there was nothing in this world that could cut into it. "How? Nothing in this world matches my skin!" Cat smirked and twirled the sword in her hand, she was actually impressed with the power as well.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but none of us, including Trina, are of this world. This is my friend Trina's power, or at least half of it, and her sword is unbreakable and can cut through anything, including your thickest skin. I suppose you know what that means…Have you heard of the Slayer's Dominion?" Dracula paled and his eyes grew large. The slayers were the very reason that the vampires fled the Vampire Realm. There had been a war fought between the Slayers and Vampires, it had been raging on for centuries, since the dawn of time itself. Even Van Helsing himself had come from the Slayer's planet. "I'm guessing by your reaction, you know of the Slayer's Dominion."

"Yeah…"

"Well Trina, which is who I appear as, is the daughter of one of the strongest Slayers alive. Good luck, want to know what that means?"

"Oh crap…" Cat leapt forward onto Dracula's shoulder and smirked as she extended her blade. Robbie pushed himself up from the ground, kicking away the vampire's dead hand and looking up at Cat with an impressed smile. She was turning him on in so many ways, more ways than she might ever know.

"It means you're dead, Dracula. Another thing…she's also Robbie's guardian angel, so…this is kind of appropriate."

"You bitch!" Dracula brought his free hand up to swat her from his shoulder. She counted with a shout and thrust the blade forward, cutting into Dracula's palm. He roared with anger as she cut out through the side of his hand. She looked down at Robbie and grinned.

"Robbie, freeze him!"

"On it." Dracula's eyes widened as Robbie lifted up his hands and held out his palms. Dracula strained in effort as he attempted to fight the telekinesis. He could feel the effect coming on slowly, but even he was not powerful enough to stop it, he was truly weak. He groaned out painfully as his body halted every possible movement.

"Thanks!" Dracula's heart sped up as a wave of fear washed over him. He whined and watched Cat lift the sword back and slam it through his neck, releasing the blade as it shot through his neck and out the other side. His eyes widened and blood seeped through the wound. The blade started spinning and returning as a boomerang, cutting through the rest of his neck and decapitating him entirely. Cat grabbed the sword in her hand as Dracula's head fell backwards and tore off, landing on the ground. She flung off as his body started reverting back to human.

She landed in Robbie's arms and transformed back into her true form, smiling into Robbie's eyes as Dracula's body crashed into the ground. "Cat, can I just say one thing?" She shook her head no and he appeared baffled. Quickly, she leaned forward and kissed his lips, ridding herself of all the tension she held back. His eyes widened in surprise. He moved his arms around her and closed his eyes, kissing her passionately. His heart pounded heavily in his chest and the blood rose up to his skin, warming him. She slowly pulled away and Robbie gazed into her eyes with longing. "Will you go out with me?"

"Took you long enough…"

"Did you just kiss me or am I dreaming?" She laughed happily and hugged him closer, resting her head upon his shoulder and closing her eyes.

"You protected me, Robbie. You didn't need the puppet anymore…Thank you. It's true what they say, a woman is attracted to confidence, you know." Robbie chuckled nervously and smiled softly. Was that what she'd been waiting on? His confidence? As he eyed Dracula's body, he thought about his friends. Beck and Andre were plenty confident and they had girlfriends, they never remained fearful. Robbie hadn't been afraid of Dracula, he was confident in his ability to protect Cat from him, and in return, she was able to help take the behemoth out, and very attractively so too. His heart jumped up and he held on to her with a firm hold.

"I'll never need the puppet. As long as you're with me, as long as all our friends are together, I think that's all that matters. I'll gladly protect you, them, and be a part of the team." Cat smiled and looked over as Dracula's body vanished away to the mysterious unknown. Robbie grunted and tore his eyes away. "Wonder what happens when the ghosts die off like that…"

"I don't know, but do you think we'd be able to see them when we get back?"

"Maybe…it might be something left over." They pulled apart and Cat placed a gentle hand into his strong hand, she was beaming with pride. "Let's go get this final fragment, then head over to the island where I'm pretty sure everyone's waiting."

"Yeah they're already there." Robbie raised his eyebrow as Cat released a nervous chuckle, she'd already read through their memories, curiously wondering how they were faring.

"Did you tap into their memories when you changed into them?"

"Yes…I was curious!"

"Of course you were." He laughed and moved with her to the location he dropped the device at. He picked it up and returned it to his pocket, then pointed to the ground. "Right here, let's start digging."

"Got it." She turned into Beck and flipped on the earth element. She clicked her claws together and a began creating a crater, pulling up all the earth. Robbie used is telekinesis to locate anything that wasn't authentic dirt. Eventually he came across a small brown box and pulled it from the mold. Cat looked over at him and he gave her a nod of approval. She nodded in return and dumped the dirt back into the earth. "Is that it?" She moved over to Robbie as he held the dirt covered box in front of him.

"Should be." The object looked as though it had been undisturbed for centuries, amazingly enough. It seemed no matter what, the angels were meticulous as ever to hide this object. The question was, what would happen after this was used? Robbie took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. When they opened the box, they saw the final fragment and smiled as a sense of finality struck them. After a minute of silence, thinking about how close to being back to their bodies they were, Robbie spoke up. "We should go now."

"Yeah, I think they're all getting a tad impatient now."

"Wasn't my fault we ran into the vampire."

"True." Cat looked up into the sky and was ready to turn into one of the flyers, she paused only when Robbie let out a small grunt. "What is it?"

"Kiss me again?" He asked in a mock playful, pouting tone. She laughed and reached over, kissing him passionately. As she moved away from him, she saw a goofy grin cross his lips. "That was amazing!"

"Of course. You know, I think we'll have more fun than the other couples."

"Why is that?"

"I'm a shapeshifter, think of all the fantasies." She smirked and Robbie blushed with mild embarrassment.

"Hey!" Cat laughed and transformed into Tori, spread her wings, and took to the air. She preferred this flight method simply because of the wings. Robbie smirked and took off after her. "I think I'd rather kiss you than any form in the world that you can take."

"You can't kiss Angelina Jolie, can you?"

"I…Angelina Jolie? Really?" She giggled as Robbie shook away the fantasy, he was a one woman man anyway, but did it count as cheating if it was Cat transformed into that person? Of course, Cat was only joking and he knew that, she'd never go for something like that. It simply wouldn't feel right for either of them.


Hope you enjoyed this chapter, what did you think of the teamwork the two displayed? Pretty good, huh? And if all you got to say is "good chapter" with no real advice or anything, then Robbie and Cat will team up once more and go after you, dun dun dun!