Amorpho did just that, the next morning at Sam's locker the Goth waited for the pair of teens to show up as Dash again stood by her, his task not complete until the end of the week. The jock didn't want to be close to her, not if she was willing to do the damage that she threatened, but as it was a task given to him by the principal he was stuck in the role. The raven haired teen shot him a look when he failed to leave her side. She didn't like the male, his mere presence grating on her nerves, but before she could give him a threat the males in question appeared. What the creature wasn't aware of was the fact that the two teens had been looking into the footage of the house, the camera recording and saving the information for them. It had showed them the fact that Vlad had hired three very strange creatures, this one a male that could change his image to whatever he wanted it to be. As for what was in it for him, they had no idea. The cameras had sound, but what they had seen had made them curious as the male that was playing the role of the Goth girl hadn't seemed all that willing to become her.

Danny was pissed off at what they had found out. He had been rather surprised when the Goth had appeared in her room, looking more drained and depressed, but when the male behind her had talked about a woman named Spectra, he had become suspicious. Sam had appeared rather upset about the idea of talking with this woman, but when two females had just shown up in the room out of nowhere the raven haired teen had become worried. His parents were ghost fighters so he knew what a ghost was, but the red head didn't look like what he thought one would look like if they were dead, while the teal haired teen had appeared to look more like a ghost with her strange colored skin. His emotions had changed when the older male behind the raven haired teen had put his hands on the girl, her fear reflecting in the amethyst orbs as she tried to move away from the two.

She seemed sluggish and Danny was sure that it had to do with the one called Spectra as Vlad introduced the teal haired woman as a friend of his. With a strum of her instrument the young teens had watched as Sam's eyes became blank voids, her emotions gone with nothing left behind. Then the male in a trench coat had appeared, but judging by his look, the two had come to the conclusion that he had been placed under control which meant that he wasn't a willing participant in the plan of the older male. Both boys had watched the strange looking male change form upon the command by Vlad before the white haired male had instructed the teal haired teen named Ember to change the way the creature looked dazed. That meant they just had to find a way to break the mind control.

"I keep telling you fuckers to stop appearing before me," the Goth spat. "I guess I will just have to teach you a lesson." She smirked, her lips turned into an evil smirk as her eyes darkened, but before she could enact her punishment on the two Dash reacted and with a punch of his own knocked the teen into a locker. Danny blinked. The jock had never come to their aid, so why had he just done that. The raven haired girl slid down to the floor, her body limp as it lay there still.

"She's scary," the jock muttered at their curious and shocked faces. "If she wails on you after what she said yesterday to Paulina, then she's a danger to all of us." As if that explained his actions the jock walked off to leave them with the raven haired female. Thinking quickly Danny removed an object that appeared to be a belt, though its silver body that was complete with a green buckle that had a key hole, was anything but a normal belt. The raven haired teen was quick to put it on her waist while Tucker produced the key, both of them having decided to split the roles should she put up a fight. The belt was supposed to interfere with any ghostly energy. Hopefully it would work in this case. As the belt crackled the small girl opened her eyes, a scream of pain flying from her lips as the transformation that had made him look like Sam was quickly removed to show the man that had been in the Goth's room. The red eyes that looked up at the pair were confused and dazed. Realizing that they were still in the hallway, though most of the students were on either end the two teens hauled the male up and off into a close closet that housed the janitor's tools for work.

As soon as the door shut the pair of male teens looked down at the man still on the floor, though he was now looking around in confusion, his hand on his head where his hat sat. "Are you a ghost?" Danny asked, not moving closer to the downed male. Blinking the red eyes turned to him before he nodded. "Why are you using the image of Sam? Why are you here and causing so much fear to the students ?"

"My name is Amorpho and I was hired to make sure that the girl had no friends, to keep you away from her," the ghost confessed, his anger at being forced to do such things against his will rising. While he liked attention, he hadn't wanted to do this job. The male that had come to him had been rather intimating, but he hadn't wanted to help him until the same male had promised him all the attention he could ever want. When it had been revealed that he would be allowed to run free because the girl would be killed, he had balked. He wasn't a bad ghost! He just liked attention and to play pranks. This was not a prank, at least not to him, but he hadn't had a say in it. Danny and Tucker shot the other a look. This wasn't good! Sam had been tricked into signing on Vlad as her guardian, but what was his plan for the young raven haired female? Without more to go on or a way to get to the other two accomplices and force them to talk.

"Do you know what he has planned for her?" It was a longshot that this guy would know as he had basically told them he hadn't been interested in it. The male shook his head as the bell rang overhead, but neither male really cared about that right now. Sure, they could get in trouble for missing class, but this was a life and death kind of thing since they had no idea what the older male would do once he got whatever he had come fo- "Shit," the raven haired teen hissed. Tucker raised a brow at him, but Amorpho spoke up first.

"He does have her under control right now." The pair asked him how that could be, his answer surprising them. "The other people that are a part of this, besides the half ghost male, are both ghosts. The teal haired one is Ember and can control one with the guitar she wields while the other one is named Spectra. She saps the joy out of people, kids mostly, to the point that the person drained can die." Oh, this was news to them. Sure, he was a ghosts, but to know that there were two others with real power to do harm...

"What is a half ghost?" Tucker inquired. They were sure that the one controlling Sam was Vlad, but to learn that another person was involved and one they had no clue about, was making the already dire situation even more dangerous for all involved.

"He is part ghost and part human," the red eyed male stated. "He's evil incarnate." After explaining what the male and two women had discussed doing, he again stressed that the male wasn't what he appeared and as an older half ghost, he was far more powerful than any ghost in the Zone at the moment. Danny released him and after a quick thanks the pair of males headed off to class, prepared to get yelled at, but both trying to figure out all of it, so they weren't too worry with that small bit of trouble. Lancer did just as they knew he would and after being lectured for a good portion of class, they were allowed to sit, the rest of the class giggling at them.


Lunch rolled around quickly enough for the pair of males and after getting their lunch they went to their table, a fold out wooden table that sat in the far corner. Danny had long decided that he needed to tell his parents what he had found out, but then how would he explain the source. You would think that with ghost fighting parents that they would believe in what they fought, well, believed that like people ghosts were either good or bad... No, they were all evil according to his parents. "We should tell your parents," the dark skinned male said, his own words the same that Danny had been thinking of.

"They wouldn't believe that a ghost was that nice or that they were telling us the truth," he stated. The facts of that talk being that no matter what, that Sam was to die after she outlived her usefulness. The male had even gone so far as ensuring that she was almost suicidal. It was like his engagements! Then he recalled what the ghost had said about the fact that their boss was a half ghost. "What about the fact that the half ghost might be Vlad," the dark haired male inquired. Tucker looked confused.

"The ghost portal that my parents had created, the fact that he had something called ecto-acne," Tucker said as he began to see where Danny was going. "We really have to talk to your parents and as for them not believing you, well, they will with this." Pulling out one of his multiple gadgets the teen watched as the screen flickered to show, at an awkward angle, the ghosts. His words came thru the screen as Danny smiled. This could work, now they just had to show his parents to see if they could help.


When Vlad pulled up and found Sam standing outside the school already his lips turned down. Why was she out of class so soon? He was suspicious of what was going on, what Amorpho fucked up this time. This was just not working out for him, this ghost a hinderance in his plan, but when she crawled into the seat beside him, the door slamming the raven haired girl stated, "The boys won't be bothering me any more." Vlad was shocked! That was the last thing he had expected her to say, but smiled at the thought that now the raven haired Goth had no one to turn to and he would be free to do what he wanted with her. Chuckling darkly the white haired male turned away from the female.

"Good. I was beginning to wonder if I needed to dispose of you," he murmured. The female next to him didn't even react, as he was supposed to be under control and thus would have no feelings. "Only another year or two and then you will be removed from school." Once she was fifteen then he would get rid of the ghost and use the real Sam. By that time he would have properly wiped out her hope. He would break her because as she was now she was fighting it. She was fighting the mind control and her will was stronger then the red head woman's depressing speeches. He needed her to stop fighting it. Then he wouldn't have to wait until she was eighteen to have her sign over her wealth.

They pulled up in front of the house, the female disappearing as soon as they were inside while Vlad headed to her room to check on the raven haired child. She was still out like a light, but with Ember's control over her and Spectra draining her life it was only a matter of time before her heart stopped. She would have to be awakened to keep that from happening too soon. Breaking her spirit had become a task to the point that when she was before Spectra, that she had to be restrained. No, they would have to go a step farther and while he wasn't interested in her in such a way that it would have to be done if he wanted to break her. He wasn't in the mood to bring on another ghost with the three already in his employ. Leaving her room he headed for the Master bedroom where he sat down before a computer. Time to get that paperwork wrote up and ready for the time when he needed it.