Danny and Sam flew high above the gloomy and rather unpleasant grey landscaping,of course,Danny's mind wasn't really on the subject of Spiritual Agriculture.His thoughts were aiming more towards the events that had took place the last few weeks.Him starting High School as an ordinary freshmen,then that very same day gaining super powers from another word (literally),meeting the mysterious Jade Black and the the fight with Sam.It was all so much to recall,but luckily Sam's voice alerted him to stay focused.

"What?"Danny blinked out of his reverie,looking blankly yet questionabley down at Sam who he grasped by her two arms,"What did you say Sam?Sorry,I wasn't listening to well."

"You have a point...but I was going to say LOOK OUT!"She yelled suddenly,as they abruptly his a large stone castle.

Danny was just barely able to retain his ghost form,as he drifted in a more falling then floating move towards the ground.And as soon as he saw Sam safely on the ground,he collasped and tumbled on the ground himself,back to his oringinal form and making small,grunting noises.

"Danny,Danny,Daniel."Sam chuckled more to herself the Danny's worn-out out limp body as she pulled his arm around her neck to drag him along,then she said modestly,"You may be half ghost,but you still need to know what you're limit is!"

Jade could just make out the rumbling of low growling and mumbling noises from outside her chamber door,she also heard the sound of some scraping claws and the occasional sound of someone or something moving about.Sighing,she went to the window again to look out in the hopes of seeing Danny,well...she did catch the sight to be seen down low.

"Danny!"She shrieked out obstreperously,but then clamped her small and dark complexionedhands onto her mouth quickly.Because of the sound outside starting to grow louder.

Sam frowned at Danny,who still seemed out cold,she needed to get him out of this unconscious state...but how?Then she remembered!Danny absolutely hated being poked on his ribs.So,with a small smile at the thought of sort of just ticking him off alittle,Sam started vigorously jabbing in hard.

"Yowww!"It did the trick,because he bolted right up and then turned to glare at her,while clutching his side,"Sam!What the heck...you know I hate that!Hey,where are we anyways?"

"Right outside the castle where Blaze took Jade,"Sam told him as soon as he had calmed down soon,then she saw something change in Danny's eyes,something like...maturing.

"Sam...You're my friend right?"Danny inquired her with a sober-minded way about him,standing up to face the caslte and all it's hidden secrets alone,"As in,I can trust you no matter what the circumstance,is that right?"

She just nodded slowly,trying to understand,"Yes,that's right."

"And you trust me,"He turned directly towards her,"Right?"

She just laughed in chocked mixed feelings of emotions and words,before nodding harder and longer,"Yes,Danny,I can."

He took her by her hands and pulled her a little closer to him,staring deeper then ever before into those very eyes he had looked at so many time and saw just Sam there.But now something else was there,something.And Danny could feel it to,starting to grow and expand in himself as well.It was,without a doubt,something that would have to wait to be discovered.Something that,Danny knew,would have to wait.

"Then you know I have to go in there alone?"He equipped to her one last time in his softest and most calming voice.

This time,Sam nodded with a smile,"I know,do what you have to,Danny.But just believe in yourself,you can do it."

Smiling back at his best friend,aside from Tucker,Danny gave a little wave as he transformed back into his ghost form and phased quickly into one of the lower sections of the castle.It was even darker in there then it was in the caves,Danny realized with ever-growing discomfort.But then he remembered what he had to do and with that thought of Sam's reassuring words echoing through out his head,he was able to phase up through the floors until he finally reached Jade.But once he got there,he saw that she wasn't there.

"That's weird,"He told himself,puzzled,"Thought I heard her.."

"Intrudor!"Came a voice from behind him,"Seize him NOW!"

But before Danny could whirl around,he felt something hit him hard over the head and that's when he passed out once again.He awoke to the faint voices of some people arguing in another room and was angered to learn that he could not move his arms in the darkened room.His hands and feet were in phase-proof shackles.Danny soon realized as he tried it himself,hanging his head over,he began to devise some sort of escape plan.Then,out of the blue,who heard someone very familiar and at the same time very relieved say,

"Danny?Danny!Are you awake?"

"Ja...Jade?"Danny whispered back,then more joviously,"Jade!You're alright...you're...trapped?What happened,Jade?"

"Let's not talk about that."She said firmly,then began by saying with some greif arousing in her throat,"I guess I realized who Blaze was working for the whole time and who was really out to get me in the first place."

"Who?"Danny urged her on,a bit unsure he wanted to know.

"Meee..."A voice sizzled and the door flew open,Danny heard a quick snap and he could feel him and Jade moving.Then,he realized that the wall was moving!When he opened his eyes again,he saw that they were in a bright-lighted stadium and a very infuriated Jade was glowering beside him.

"Jade?"Danny sqeuaked weakly,his throat suddenly dry.

"It's my sister,"She finally awsnered after a moment or so,shaking her head sadly but matter-of-factly,"You won't believe it!The little tratior,all this time I thought she was my friend and everything else.She was plotting againist me...Me!"

"That's right."Someone slightly younger cackled deviously and a girl with brunette hair and eyes completely indentical to Jade's came out of a door from the same wall that they were shackled to and over in front of them,"You see,Danny-boy.I was always tried of Jade going off and training with Mom when I was started to live with them,not only that,she got to even after she left!Then Dad was telling me all these stories about how...ooohhh...You're going to pay for it,defintely."

"You brat!"Jade shouted hoarsely,struggling to get out of her locks and still trying to keep her voice from breaking.

"Yeah,I already know what you'll say,sister darling."Emerald laughed back harshly,then her cool green eyes met Danny's wide-eyed and befuddled ones,"Tell you what,if you can fight me and win,halfa.I'll let you 'and' my worthless sister go.But if you lose,I get to keep the both of you locked up and that other little girl friend of yours.So,halfa Danny ghost,is it a deal?"

"Half...a?"Danny inquired Jade quizzically.

But she only rolled her eyes,"It means half ghost,Danny."

"Oh."

But then after a moment he began to realize,with some ruefullness,that Emerald was very much serious.She was extremely envious of her sister and she would so as she said she would.And as the betrayel he could almost feel that Jade was feeling started sinking in,he knew he also risked Sam.However,he nodded and then said in a low voice,

"Fine.I'll fight you,but I'll let you know right now...I will win."

Wow!Wonder what sort of conflicts or whatnot are starting to brew here.Well,only one way to find out!lolz...bye.

LP