Sam and I went outside, and I looked around, before I became seen. I walked over to the ghost zone, and just looked into the swirling green light. There was a mystery lying behind it, but what was it? Something was pulling me towards it, but what?

"What are you doing?" Sam asked me, when I started to step into the ghost zone.

"I am going in."

"You can't do that! They will take you for sure!"

"Sam, I have to. Something is going on, but I don't know what."

"Danny… we can't go in there."

"WE can't, but I can."

"Oh no… you aren't going in there! And especially not alone."

"Who says? You want to find out what is going on to, don't you?"

"Yes, but not that badly."

"Sure you do. I know you want to, just as much as I do. Now, it is either, I go in there alone, or you come with me. If you don't want to come, I will take you back down there with Chelsea."

"Danny, what happens if we don't come out? What will happen to her? She will be stuck down there."

"Well, then I will take you back down there, and I will head towards the ghost zone."

"Ok, but be careful?"

"Yea, I will."

I took Sam back down there, and hugged her bye, then returned back up there, in front of the zone. I stared at it for a long time, before I finally slowly crept into it.

It didn't look the same at all. There weren't any ghosts around, all I could see, was the doors floating around, in a blank world. There wasn't anything here. Where was everyone? Usually, there were ghosts around. I was now, officially confused. I didn't know where to go, or what to look for, but for some strange reason, I didn't want to leave either. There was something other than the ghosts missing that was wrong. There was a strange silence, and the doors weren't even moving. Everything was still. Where was everyone? What happened to everything? Nothing was moving, or making a sound. I started to head towards a door, to see if there was even anything here. I opened one of the doors, and there was nothing. I went searching through at least 20 of them, and there was nothing.

I wasn't getting anything done doing this, but if the ghosts weren't here, then where were they? I flew back towards the exit, and left. When I went outside there was something unexpected, all the ghosts were back. Why were they here? They took everything there was, why did they want to come back?

"Three humans. We are missing three of them!" A raspy voice claimed.

"I know, it is just three of them, and the boss thinks it is the end of the world!"

"Umm, wouldn't it be the not end of the world?" the raspy on exclaimed.

"Shut up you idiot!" The other one bickered.

Great, how did they know? I went through the ground right where I was at, and returned back to Sam and Chelsea.

"Sam, I have some bad news, and some good news."

"Good news?"

"I think I know why the bodies were gone. I think it is because they needed to count them. The news, is that they came up with three people missing, so they know they are missing people."

"Ok… so?"

"They are right above our heads right now."

"You're kidding me, right?"

"No."

"So, what do we do?"

"I have no idea, but we can't stay here. They will find us."

"Why do you think they would find us? There isn't anywhere else to go!"

"Yeah, there is."

"Where?"

"The ghost zone."

"You are nuts Danny!"

"No, I'm not, that is the only place where there isn't any ghosts."

"Danny, I am not going in there, there is no way!"

"Sam, we have to. I was just in there, and there wasn't anyone around! I promise you, nothing will go wrong. We will just stay there, until they start to return."

"If you are sure about it, I guess it is the only thing we have remaining to do."

I grabbed Chelsea up from off the chair, and then held Sam's hand, and went intangible. We went up, and I flew into the ghost zone quickly. Chelsea started to cry, but I cupped one of my hands over her mouth, and told her to be quiet.

"Ok, now what?" Sam asked me, in an annoyed tone.

"What is your problem?"

"Well, other than the fact that now I am being hunted and I am now in a dangerous place, I don't know."

"This place isn't dangerous, there isn't anyone here!"

"Danny someone has to be here. This place can't be totally empty."

"Who knows. They might have all the ghosts out looking for us, and little do they know, they are looking in all the wrong places. We are right where they should be at, and they don't know it."

"Danny!" I heard Sam shout all the sudden, and when I turned around, there was one of the guard ghosts from the ghost jail, right behind me. He took ahold of me, and then called for help to catch Sam and Chelsea.

"Run!" I hollered at Sam, as I started to get taken away. She took one last look at me, and then grabbed Chelsea up in her arms, and ran as fast as she could. I watched her run, and then I turned to try and escape his grasp. He held onto me tight though, and there were three other ghosts around us. He then turned, and headed through a door, and threw me into it, and then I heard a click, and I was guessing he had locked me up. I looked around, and the room was totally empty. It was cold, and I could see my breath. The smell in the room was a bitter smell. It smelt like sour milk, and it was so un-comforting. I wasn't sure where I could escape, or how I could. The room was blank, and the only door, was the one that I had come in from. If I was thrown in here, then what if the other people were thrown into cells too? I un-ghosted, and tried to walk through the walls, but it didn't work! I changed back, and it still didn't work. Obviously, the ghosts had gained some knowledge as to us escaping. There had to be some way out though, there was some way to do everything, but how was I going to get out?

(Sam's POV)

"We are safe now, but what about Danny?" I asked Chelsea, after we had safely gotten back into the hideout, since all the ghosts were going back into the ghost zone after Danny had been caught. Chelsea looked at me, but she didn't respond, because she obviously didn't have an answer either, and there was no way she was going to ever have an answer.

"I knew we shouldn't have gone in there! Now I am going to be worried sick of him."

Chelsea just watched me as I paced back and forth, thinking about where Danny was at, or what was happening to him. What if they killed him? What would they do with him? There it goes back to all the other questions though, what is happening to all the people? Are they all alive? What are they using them for if they are alive? Are they going to kill them? Now Danny was just a part of all of them, but I knew that he was alive, or at least for now he was.

"When you get old enough to start having crushes, you will know what this feels like," I sighed to Chelsea, and she just looked at me, as though trying to figure out what I was talking about, but she wasn't going to ask any questions.

"You know what? I wish sometimes, I never knew him! It seems as though he causes so much trouble for me! But in yet, he was the best thing that has ever happened to me! And you know what? Now I am going to have to go in there, and search for him."

"What are you talking about?"

"Wow, you actually talked! I am talking about Danny, you know, those ghosts took him while we were in there. I need to go find him."

"Why? He can find his way out."

"Chelsea, this is Danny you are talking about. If you knew him, you would be going in there too. He is stubborn, and if he does make it out of there, he will turn around, and he will go and think he is tough and try to kill the ghosts. I know him, and that is just what he would do."

She was once again confused, because she didn't say anything, she just gave me a confused look, and then tried to forget about what I had just told her.

(Danny's POV)

"As soon as I get out of here, those ghosts are going to pay!" I mumbled, as I sat on the hard, cold floor, and looked about the room, trying to find a way out.

"And if I know Sam, which I do, she is going to get herself in trouble, and try to come in here to save me. I wish she wouldn't do that! Hopefully, she realizes that I am perfectly capable on my own. And why am I talking to myself?"

I then heard the door squeak opened, and there were 2 ghosts there, and they took me out of the room…

(Sam's POV) 10 years later…

"Chelsea, come on!" I hollered to Chelsea, who was sleeping in the room, with the door closed behind her, and somehow she had it jammed so it wouldn't come opened. I kept pushing the button, but it would make an eerie squeaking noise, and it wouldn't even budge.

"I can't get out Sam!"

"Yes you can! And I know it, because you have done this before, now get your butt out here!"

The door then came sliding opened, and there she was.

"Can't I get some sleep around here?"

"No, you can't."

"Grr! You get me up at seven every morning! And to do what? To go looking around in the stupid rubbish outside, as though you are going to find anything out there anyway! All the food out there is so old, it would probably kill us if we ate it!"

"I'm not looking for food! There is other stuff out there, and your job today, is to go picking apples from off of the trees!"

"Oh… we have been eating apples for years! Is this even healthy?"

"Is that all you can do is complain?"

"No…"

I pointed towards the door, and Chelsea slumped over, and slowly walked out the door, to get outside. I sighed, and followed her out the door. The grass was growing back, and everything was finally starting to look like normal, although there still wasn't any humans, or any sign of anyone ever coming back. For ten years, nothing had been going on. Just tear-filled nights for about a year, as they slowly died down. I never knew what happened to Danny, and I soon decided to try and forget about it, although I never could, because whenever went outside, I would see the swirling green light of the ghost zone, and I would wonder where he was. He was somewhere past the green swirls, but whether or not he was still alive, I would never know. This day though, when I walked out there and saw it, I stared at it. Exactly ten years ago, Danny had disappeared. Every year on this day, I would go throw flowers in front of the zone, and I would cry every year, up till last year. I started to not cry, I started to think that maybe I was being ridiculous. I mean, he had been gone for a long time, and I was almost positive that he was gone, but for some reason, today the tears came back. I started to cry looking at the ghost zone, and then I ran up and kicked the metal rim of it really hard, mad that it had taken my best friend away.

"Sam, what are you doing?" Chelsea asked me.

"Nothing."

"Ok. You aren't still thinking about Danny, are you?"

"I can think about him if I want to. He saved your life, so I suggest you think about him once in a while too."

"Ok, Jeeze," she muttered.

I stared at the door of it, and then got a strange idea, to just go in there. I didn't know what came over me, but I was going to try and find Danny, for the second time…