Okay...Right now I'm writing a paper...heh heh, just kidding, they think I am, but in truth I'm writing this! (Laughs maniacly) ohhh and try a pumpkin spice drink at Starbucks...they're sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good! YUNNAY!

"Hey dad…"

"Jack…it's early you know…"

"I know…look, I've had an accident and well…"

A new voice butted into the conversation, his mother, "Oh my God Jack! Are you all right!"

"Yeah mom, I'm fine, but my car's beat up, and well dad, remember when you told me never to use my powers to get through traffic?"

There was silence on the other line, "…Jack…"

"Well…my car is kinda fused with this SUV, and I need a new ride…"

"Didn't I warn you never to do that!" Danny yelled into the phone and Jack winced on the other line.

"I know…but I didn't believe you…and well, I guess I can find a bus to take me to the dorms, but I wont be able to visit you without a car!"

Danny sighed, "We'll see what we can do son…"

Two weeks had passed since Annie had arrived in Vlad Master's training mansion in Canada, her muscles had already grown and she now enjoyed the runs and hard workout sessions that Ian led them through every day. Now however, strange things had happened to the cadets, instead of new interns being added to the ranks, they were being removed by the handful. Every two days, the stiff, silver-haired boy would come down while they were training and call out some people who left with him, never to return.

Gradually, the tension level increased in the students, who started at the slightest noise, and had they not been worked so hard that they fell down in exhaustion, there surely would have been a riot.

Annie practiced her powers every other day, combining her newly learned exercises with old routines and her ghostly powers. She nearly had intangibility down and had even tried to overshadow Ian once, but had failed and returned in defeat. She also had trouble with the ectoplasm beams, mainly it was because she couldn't practice without someone knowing, but she also suspected that those powers needed time to develop.

It was precisely fifteen days after she arrived that Annie's name was called, along with five others and left spots in the shrinking workout class. As she left, she glanced back at Ian, who winked and returned to teaching a difficult judo throw.

"Um…sir, where are we going?"

"You will find out."

He was brief with everything, she had noticed when he actually ate with the other interns, he had just enough to be polite and then excused himself.

"You five are now passing through the first phase of the program, now you will be tested. Fail, and we will send you home, pass, and a great reward lies in your future."

Annie stared at his lean back, "What's the catch?"

He stopped and turned with a villainous smile on his face, "Only one out of ten will pass, and when you fail, I will enjoy the looks on your faces as…well, you'll find out."

Annie sighed, she didn't like him whatsoever, and she had a feeling that everything going on around the mansion was rushed. There simply was the tension in the air very similar to that of the air around a house when a college student didn't study for the final until the day before.

"What's your name anyways dude?"

"Only the survivor will find out, it is unnecessary for the failures to know."

"So what is the test anyways?"

He simply grinned again and turned down a passageway on the right and opened the door to a large room. "You have five minutes to choose whatever weapons you wish, when you are ready, go into the next room and make your way through the maze, to the finish. The first person to get there will have a hand up on the next challenge."

"There are going to be obstacles, n'est pas?" Annie growled.

"I speak no French, but yes, there will be, why else would you need weapons? You have precisely five minutes now," he drew a watch from his pocket and clicked a button. Annie manipulated her watch until a sport timer came up, she started the clock.

The five went into the next room and began to check over the weapons, Annie kept track of the time and they gathered up the equipment, she noticed that they were all ecto-powered, meant to fight ghosts. She also gathered some energy cells so the weapons would actually work.

"Alright guys, we have knowledge, but we also don't know what's going to be out there; our best bet is to stay together and help each other out."

"Do you think we're stupid?" Another brunette girl whined, "He said whoever gets there first wins, and I'm going to get there first."

"Have fun with that."

"Oh I will, and when you losers arrive like, five hours after me, I'm going to laugh my ass off at you!"

Annie merely grinned maliciously, "I know what we're going up against, and chances are, those things are stronger than us. One malfunction and you're dead meat." The other girl opened her mouth to retort again, but was cut off, "It's nearly been five minutes, lets get out there and take a defensive position."

The team opened the double-doors and emerged into the pure white maze made of stone and concrete; there was going to be no chance of slipping through the hedges in this game. A screen on the first wall proclaimed: "Begin game now."

They all powered up their weapons; the rebellious brunette marched off by herself and a blonde boy sighed after her, "Candy is just a little too hard-headed for her own good. Okay, what do we do first?"

"Put these on," Annie handed out three of the five pairs of goggles she had grabbed and put her own set on, "they detect ectoplasmic energy, so we'll be able to see things that are invisible," then she pulled out a handheld PDA, "and with this we can track out our path so we don't do a lot of retracing our steps."

"I think you plan too far ahead," Kenny remarked, running his hands nervously through his green mohawk, "but lets get through this maze A-sap."

"We'll need to communicate, I'm Annie."

"Dave."

"Hannah."

"Kenny, OH MY GOD! They've killed me!"

"This isn't the time to joke, we've got to-" Hannah stopped short as a piercing scream broke through the rather silent air, there were a few quick shots of ectoplasm, and then everything was silent.

Dave's eyes went wide, he had been the one who knew Candy. "I'm going to just give up and head back into the room, you guys can risk your necks, but I'm going to live!" He dropped his guns and ran back to the armory. Hannah picked up the dropped weapons and pushed her goggled over her eyes and took something from her pocket and stuck it on her small, pistol-like gun.

"It's a good luck charm, a garnet that's been passed down for five generations," she growled in the general direction of Dave's figure closing the doors, "What a pussy, now lets get something done." She started at a steady pace down the first corridor of the maze. Annie and Kenny stared at each other for a second and then hurried after the determined girl.

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