Chapter 5: friendship

"…you and your noise!" he roared at Ember. He took the weird device from his pocket out again and fastened it around her neck. He pressed a button and her normally blue hair became red and her glowing green eyes became blue. Her abnormally pale skin became the same colour as Danny and Sam's, and she fell to the floor in a dead faint. "Well, I'll see if there are any side affects after she waked up." He smirked and threw her into the cell with Danny and Sam. He then stormed out leaving them staring at Ember.

Sam sighed in frustration at all that had happened in the last hour. She morphed into a bat and flew to the ceiling with a squeaky "Good night" and didn't say anything until the next morning. Ember stirred and Danny walked over to her side.

"Danny? What happened?" she asked and lifted a red lock of hair from her shoulder to look at it. "What's wrong with me?" She fainted again and he gently placed her against the wall. Sam gave him a disapproving look that he unfortunately didn't see because her face was so small.

The next morning, when they were called down to eat in the cafeteria, everyone stared and whispered about Sam, who hadn't been able to regain her complete human form due to her depression. She was resorted to looking remotely like a human, except with a long tail and cat ears instead of human. Ember was still a red haired and blue-eyed human.

"They must think I'm a freak…" she thought sadly. She glanced out the barred windows and gasped in her surprise. Outside, it wasn't the normal purple and green vortex with ghost portals, but what it would probably look like if they were out of the ghost zone and in the human world. Experimentally, she changed her hand into a paw and stuck in through the wall beside her. "Yes! My hunch is right! We're not in the ghost zone at all! Vlad tricked us!"

Danny glanced over at Sam in surprise when he saw a small grin flick across her face. She walked over to the nearest ghost, who was Desiree. Her hand went right through her in her human and animal forms; all of the other ghosts were only holograms that Vlad had made. She walked back over to where Danny and Ember sat watching her oddly.

"Don't you guys get it? We're not in the ghost zone at all, but since we knew that ghosts can't go intangible in the ghost zone, we thought we couldn't get through. When Walker said we couldn't go through in out human forms, he was right, because it isn't possible for humans to walk through!" she said excitedly. Ember sadly looked away.

"I'm not sure if I'll be able to go free with you guys. I'm not a ghost anymore. Do you think I'm a halfa like you Danny?" she asked quietly.

"Hmmm… Maybe. Try concentrating on the Ember you were before." He said. Ember closed her eyes and wrinkled her nose in concentration. A blue ball of fire surrounded her and she was suddenly her normal blue-haired self.

"Did it work?" she whispered.

"I should think so" said Sam handing her the guitar that appeared on the table they were eating at.

"Sam, since we're in the human world and about to escape, do you think that maybe you could try to regain your entire human form? I think it would be a little odd to walk up the street with you like this." Danny told her. She closed her eyes and the cat easy and tail disappeared with a popping noise.

"Tell me again what the point of making me go human was? Aren't we supposed to go un-human and through the wall? I can't go through like this you know." She told him, morphed into a full cat and walked through the door. Danny and Ember shrugged at each other and walked through after her.

Later than night, the three escaped convicts, were deciding where Ember should stay.

"Shouldn't she stay at you house, cause it's bigger and she would be less likely to be noticed?" Danny told Sam for the fourth time.

"No, she can't because my parents either have to know the parents of the person staying over or, they need a signed note. I can't just barge in and say ok mom and dad, this is Ember and she's gonna be staying with us for a while!" she retorted back at him.

"Fine, she can stay with me, but what if something goes wrong? I mean she'll have to go to school, right? She can't just stay home all of the time!" was his answer back at her.

"Well, I could always get a job somewhere." Ember cut in.

"No! That is absolutely out of the question. What if Vlad comes back for you?" Yelled Sam.

"Fine. I guess if going to school is my only choice, then I 'll have to stick with it." Ember stated.