Skye landed on the front step to the mansion. Danny arrived soon after he scanned the mansion. Vlad wasn't there. Ariel sighed, he could be anywhere by now and she had to get back to her siblings.
"Maybe he's with his minions, destroying some town filled with innocent people," Ariel joked dryly.
Danny's eyes glowed for a second then sat down next to Ariel, "Don't ever joke like that."
"I don't know, I think he's just run scared." Ariel smiled at the thought of the person who caused so much pain, running from a thirteen- and fourteen-year-old pair of half-ghosts.
"Where to now?" Danny asked.
Ariel turned and looked at him change into his human form. His blue rings covering his body. Ariel did the same and watched the pink rings change her into a human. Ariel leaned onto Danny's shoulder. She was tired of looking for him.
Danny blushed and looked away so Ariel wouldn't see. He liked her as much as he had liked Paulina. The two had already freed all of the captured people and sent most of the ghosts lurking around the mansion home. Danny had to admit, even if he took lessons from Vlad during his time under his control, Ariel seemed more powerful than he was. He couldn't resist looking into her eyes every time he looked at her. They were the same eyes that he had, yet he found them attractive and every changing.
Ariel had fallen asleep on his shoulder. Danny sighed and started to change. He heard a loud ringing and suddenly felt tired. His rings faded and Danny closed his eyes. Ariel felt Danny fall and opened her eyes immediately. He had fallen asleep, but Ariel couldn't get him to wake up. Ariel shoved him against the ground angrily and that woke him up. Ariel started to change and heard the buzzing to. She stopped changing and grabbed her ears.
"I was wondering if my machine worked," Vlad Plasmius said from above them.
"Plasmius!" Danny felt his anger building and felt his eyes change colors. They had been searching for him for a week.
"Why Daniel, you're back, and I see you used my machine to turn yourself back into your age." Vlad smiled as he landed on the ground and changed from Plasmius to Masters.
"You're a halfa too!" Ariel cried out. She was the only one who didn't know Vlad before.
"Yes, Ariel, my dear, but the only difference is that I can change, and you can't." Vlad smiled as he walked over to the tired duo. "And it seems to have some pleasing side effects as well," Vlad laughed.
"Why can't we change?" Ariel asked as they moved around Vlad slowly.
"Well, its simple, a hypersonic emission is heard and it only effects you when you change, if prolonged exposure, say you were to change fully, would cause you to go crazy." Vlad laughed again as Danny lunged from behind Vlad.
Ariel jumped on him from the front, but they both fell through him smacked each other. Ariel put her hand through him. It was like he was never there. She did it again and saw a black disk on the ground.
"Hologram," Ariel whispered. "She reached down and picked up the metal disk. The hologram Vlad laughed as he faded away. Ariel looked at the little, black, metal disk. It was the size of her hand, and it had a lens on one side, the rest was just metal. Ariel tried to change again, but the ringing came back and Ariel stopped, grabbed her ears.
"Ariel," Danny started, "I think it's a trap."
"Why?" But Ariel could already see the thousands of ghosts flying at them, they would surely be overcome, no matter if they fought of not.