Chapter 3: the return of Ember

About two months later, after school, Danny flew up in his ghost form to see what the now always paranoid Sam did after school, and every day, he had no luck. It was almost like she disappeared into thin air. Thinking this was quite odd, he went over to Sam's house to see if she was okay.

At the door, a large black cat walked around the side of the house. It eyed him and backed away hissing. When the cat walked back around the corner, Danny followed it. The cat suddenly sat, quite still as to almost be a statue. The cat's skin seemed to burst as a morphed into a human and Sam at that.

"I knew you'd get suspicious and come to me after a while. There is only one problem, know that you know the secret of my people, it is now up to you to choose whether or not I will be accepted or banished." Whispered Sam with tears in her eyes.

"Sam? Is that really you?" she nodded her head. "Oh no… This is my entire fault. That ghost a while back, it did something to you didn't it?" she nodded again and brushed her hair behind her ears for the first time in months. "Oh, Sam… I'm so sorr-" He was suddenly cut off by a blast of noise.

Ember stood there, and evil gleam in her eyes. "So. We meet again dipsticks. Well this time, sadly enough, I'm not here to take over that world. I'm here for her." She said pointing to Sam. "Strict orders from none other than Vlad himself. Another blasting chord from her guitar and Danny was sent sprawling through the air before he could say anything. Embers cold hands wrapped around Sam's wrist, but she got more that she was expecting when her captive morphed into a lynx. "So, here we have just another little kid with little ghostly powers. Hah." Ember grabbed the Fenton thermos off Danny's back when he was checking to see if Sam was alright. She opened it and sucked the both of it right in. "Well that was easy." She said and sung quietly to herself as she flew towards the ghost portal in the Fenton's basement:

"Yeah, Ohh-ooooo
Oh, Ember! You will remember.
Ember, my favorite name.
Oh, Ember! Go on and tell her!
You will remember my name!
Oh, Ember! My favorite member.
Ember, one thing remains!
Ember, so warm and tender!
You will remember my name!"

When Sam awoke, she knew exactly where she was. In the prison in the ghost zone. Danny sat in a corner looking at her.

"Sam, they've changed what this place was made of. I can't phase through as a human like the last time. We're trapped." He said and turned away.

"Danny, it's okay. About my powers, well even if you had taken me away, I still would have gotten them. Lyra, the anthro before me said that I was destined for them, and that they would find me, no matter what I did."

A door opened and there stood Vlad, Walker (the guy that supervises the prison) and Ember.

"Planning and escape are we? Well this time, you aren't going to get away." Said Vlad. Turning to Danny, he said, "Actually this, time I wasn't after you, but Ember here seemed to have given me and extra idea, so you won't be going free any time soon. You see, the both of you are vital to my plan, and if you got free, well nothing would go right."

Sam's eyes suddenly went red and fangs sprouted from her mouth. "Look Vlad! I'm you! Hahahaha!" she ran hysterically in circles around the room until Ember knocked her out with a blast of guitar chords. Walker chuckled at this and walked away, but Vlad and Ember remained. Vlad pulled out a funny looking instrument from his pocket.