Chapter 4

The form blinked and jumped back. Yakko, who was sleeping until She screamed woke up instantly and gazed at Cassie, he saw the Monster and was instantly by her side. "Who....WHAT...are you?" he asked the form carefully. The form said nothing; in fact it began to disappear. "Wait..." Cassie called. "Please, we won't hurt you. Just tell us who you are..." The form paused. "My name is Hardy." he said carefully, "I'm a ghost.." Yakko and Cassie blinked. "You're a what?" They both asked at the same time. "I'm a ghost." The boy repeated. "Okkay.." Yakko said slowly. "Were you the one who pulled us apart?" Cassie asked Hardy. "Yeah," Hardy answered, "you were kissing! It was gross!" Cassie and Yakko rolled their eyes. "What are you doing here?" Yakko asked. "Me and my dad were sent here to watch you." He pointed to Cassie. "But I was getting bored and I wanted to ask if you wanted to play." "Sure well play.." Cassie said. "We will?" Yakko turned to her. She jabbed him with her elbow. "Sure we will.." Yakko said, in pain. "Yay!" Hardy was happy. "What shall we play?" Yakko asked. "How about...Truth or Dare?" Cassie smiled at Yakko. He also got the same idea and smiled back. Hardy looked thoughtful. "Okkay, lets do it!"

So they sat down and played truth or dare. After it was over, Cassie learned some interesting things about Hardy and his dad, whose name was Harry. "Hmmmmmmm" Cassie looked at Yakko as she watched Hardy disappear. "What do you think about him?" She asked Yakko. "He seems nice. Though I am not sure about his father.." "Did you find out who they work for?" Yakko shook his head. " I thought you were going to ask." "Oh..." Cassie frowned. " I wonder who is behind this.."

Meanwhile, almost across the galaxy, a small group of people were gathered. They gathered in a small room of a fairly large space ship. They all sat down at a table, discussing the matter at hand. "King Sedrick wants the girl." A male voice said. The voice belonged to a young man, in his mid twenties. "Yes, but will the ghost do his job?" a girl with fiery red hair said. She was older, possibly in her early thirties. "So far he has. But I fear his child is getting to into the way." The twin to the other girl replied. The two others who occupied the room were silent, as if thinking. "Its true," said the oldest man there, in his early fifties. "Maybe," said the last person, he was different than the others, he was a centaur. His skin had a tint of green in it, and his hooves and tail had green streaks in it. "But, they are all we got for now, until we get to earth." "King Sedrick gave us the job to capture her. Did anyone bother to ask why?" asked one of the twins. "All I know is, I wouldn't want to be in that girls shoes right now."

Cassie looked at the night sky and sighed. It was getting late and she was sure her parents would be worried about her. She wanted to stay in the Toon world, but she did have school tomorrow and she knew her parents would be furious if she missed another day of school. She said goodbye to her friends and crossed over from the toon world to the real world. When she got home she found herself feel like she was being followed, she hoped that creepy ghost wasn't following her again. He and his son are doing enough damage in her life. She walked by her parents and said hello and she was going off to bed. Her mom smiled at her warmly. Her father just continued what he was doing, reading a book, he barely acknowledged her. This saddened her, but she expected it. She went to her room and fell asleep on her bed, and dreamed the same horrible nightmare again..

A week or so later Cassie came back to the toon world for a visit. She was looking around for the Warner's when suddenly Zack appeared in front of her. "Heya.." he smiled. "Hey.." Cassie smiled back. "Want to go take a walk with me?" he asked. She thought a little. " I guess.." "Great!" he took her hand in his and started to walk along with her. They talked most of the time, talking about their lives and Cassie began to really to get to know a lot about Zack. She was amazed to learn that before he was a Warner he used to be a different type of animal, but during the battle with Sir Nightmare he got mutated into a Warner-like creature. He also found out Cassie had saved the toon world. "So I came here to protect you from any harm." He finished. "Thank you Zack.." She smiled. Zack hugged her softly. "I really think this world needs you, more than the real world does.bad things are starting to happen." Cassie pulled away. "Maybe they wouldn't happen if I wasn't around, maybe I am the cause of all this.." "Don't be so hard on yourself. Things happen for a reason Cass. You were meant to be here." She stopped and looked into Zack's eyes. "Do you really think so?" He stopped and looked into hers, their faces inches apart. " I do." He kissed her.