For months Vlad and I scoured the country trying to find to find my son. We had given Sam explicit instructions not to contact anyone, not even my best friend and current US senator Tucker Foley or either of our families, should word get out and Freakshow get on the move.
"Daniel, I have something to tell you: I was paid to build Freakshow's staff. It can move objects miles in seconds, it can even hypnotize, make you think you're experiencing something that you aren't."
"So what do we do if he tries to hypnotize us?"
"Just try to keep your head clear."
"There he is!" I said as I saw a train just sitting in the Sierra desert.
"Let's get your son."
"Uh, Vlad? Does this place seem a little…weird to you?"
"Do you mean aside from the fact that there's a gothic circus train sitting in the middle of a desert without a railroad?"
"Well, yeah, there's that, but is it me or place deserted?"
"You're right."
"Dada." I heard a little voice call out. I turned around and saw that he was locked in one of those cars where people can see all the big cats that come in on the train.
"Yes, Danny it's me, d-AAAAAAAAAAH!" I screamed in pain as my body hit a ghost shield, throwing me back twenty feet.
"DADA!" I heard Danny shriek as he started crying.
"Now, had you not called me a 'sick bastard', was it? then I might have made retrieving your son easy for you." Said Freakshow, as calmly as if we were sitting down to tea.
"I'm gonna be okay, Danny, dada's gonna be okay." I said, getting to my feet. "Everything'll be fine. Daddy and Uncle Vlad are gonna take you home and…"
"I wouldn't count on that."
"VLAD, GRAB DANNY AND…"
"FREEZE!" Freakshow yelled as he shot a blue ray out of his staff that encased Vlad in ice within seconds. I took the few precious seconds that Freakshow was momentarily distracted and ran for the car that held my son captive.
"I DON'T THINK SO!" Freakshow yelled as I felt something hit me in the back of my head.
No, no, not Danny. Do what you will with me, but spare Danny, Danny, Danny…
"Danny? Danny?" I heard my wife calling to me.
"Sam, thank God. Where's Danny?" I asked as I opened my eyes
"What do you mean 'where's Danny?' He's in his crib, I just put him down for his nap."
"What time is it?"
"It's 1:00 in the afternoon, you slept all morning. Danny are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I just had the weirdest dream, and you were there, and Danny was there, and I'm starting to sound like Dorothy from 'The Wizard of Oz', aren't I?"
"A little."
"Anyway, I dreamt that Freakshow had kidnapped Danny, and we went to Vlad for help."
"Just relax while I order us some food from Madame Chao's Chinese Restaurant."
I walked downstairs, got myself something to drink, went in the living room and turned on the TV.
Ding-dong
"I'll get that, Danny." Sam said as she ran to get the door. It was the Chinese food.
"Yes, I've got two orders of General Tao's chicken, an order of crab rangoons, a side of rice and a 2 liter bottle of Coke."
"Sam, you didn't need to get me two orders of General Tao's." I told her when she had paid the delivery boy.
"I didn't, I got one for you and one for me. The rice is for you, and I thought we'd split the crab rangoons."