I love this chapter. Jack finally reveals how evil he truly is. Thanks for waiting.

The reunion room was packed with middle age people. Vlad was talking to several people who appeared to respect him. Jack was standing off in a corner sneering around at everyone. I floated in invisibly and looked around the room to see if there was anything evil looking.

Nothing seemed out of place so I continued floating. If anything this reunion was more boring than the last one. At least then people were dancing. Now everyone was looking very bored and sort of like they were all in comas. No one even noticed when I pulled a tablecloth through the table.

To keep myself from falling into the trap of extreme boringness I entertained myself by counting the tiles on the ceiling. Jack still was glaring at Vlad and reminded me that once it had been the other way around. The chance I had been waiting for finally came. Jack walked out of the reunion and I floated silently behind him.

He walked down several hallways and didn't stop till he was in the library. Still invisible, I watched him open the door to his lab and slip inside. Jack walked down the stairs and looked around as if expecting someone to meet him. Luckily for me Jack had that handy little habit to mutter angrily to himself.

"Where are those slaves of mine? They should have brought me Daniel's spirit hours ago." He looked around the room angrily again and suddenly froze. While he had been muttering I had turned visible behind him, so he glared around to see my expressionless face staring back.

"Daniel! How nice to see that my minions were able to welcome you to their group." He stared at me in my ghost form and rubbed his goatee (Vlad didn't have one anymore) thoughtfully. "The white hair is a surprise. My pets must have traumatized you before you died." It's a good thing I had wrapped a tablecloth around me. If he had seen my jumpsuit he would definitely know I had tricked him.

Jack put on his evil grin and stared at me. If I wasn't in ghost form I would been sweating from nerves. I just barely managed to keep a blank face as he opened his mouth and asked a surprising question. "Are you sure that you are dead Danny?"

I didn't answer. He didn't seem to care and kept on talking. "You messed up my spell quite badly when you screamed. Usually no one lasts long enough to fight back. Thanks to you I have this!" Jack turned into his ghost form and I gasped quietly. His blue skin was very burnt and cracked. Most of his wounds were still bleeding. Even his red eyes looked damaged. They were dull and had a slight unhealthy looking black tint. One had a gash through it.

He turned back to normal and studied my face for a reaction. I prayed silently that my face was as blank as ever. Jack continued talking. "When a curse is reflected it has different effects. Instead of harvesting your soul like a ripe grape it destroyed my ghost form!" His voice was quaking with anger.

"Twenty long painful years of having to deal with ecto-acne and the loss of Maddie! Twenty years of going through life in a hospital with nurses and doctors who would laugh because I caused the accident that ruined my life! Twenty years of a cold and wretched life because you walked into the lab that terrible day!" His voice seemed to shake the lab.

"You shouldn't have been in that lab! Somehow you destroyed the future, my future, and allowed Vlad to gain Maddie's affection! Vlad should have been blasted, Vlad was in the way, but you had to save him, you had to play the hero and save him from my fate!" Jack's eyes were glowing red even though he was not in his ghost form. It was all I could do to stand there like a good mindless ghost.

"Then after I finally began to get used to my destiny you come back to haunt me. As soon as I saw you I recognized the teenager that had saved Vlad. I could never forget your putrid little face." I swear that I would have blasted his head off if it had not been for the fact that I was glued where I stood out of fear.

"But revenge is close at hand. My slaves will be glad to have more things to destroy. With you captured and mindless and your mother safely drugged and locked in a ghost free room, I can eliminate Vlad and everyone else in this mansion. Soon I will control all of the Ghost Zone and the human world! Mua ha ha ha!" My only hope was that The Dairy King had gotten all of Jack's ghost minions out into the Ghost Zone.

As if reading my mind Jack smiled and continued talking. "Luckily the Dairy King didn't know that the slaves he took away were only released from their mind control for about three hours. Soon they will come back with another new member." After more cackling Jack returned his gaze to me. "You should remember that you can't escape from Jack Plasmius."

Something beeped in the back of the room. After Jack turned around I let my eyes widen in horror. The Dairy King was doomed and I had helped condemn him. Jack let out another extremely annoying evil laugh and I couldn't help turning around to look. He was standing beside an open ghost portal and I watched as several ghosts came out.

Sure enough it was the ghosts that had tried to destroy me. They floated in and stood in front of Jack. Last floated out the poor Dairy King. He too wore a funeral shroud. "Wait till Daniel joins you before you kill anyone." Jack smiled and with a wave of his hand they floated up the stairs. He walked back over to me and I could have sworn that he looked like the devil.

"I think I have talked with you enough Daniel." He said with his evil grin. "Why don't you join the others upstairs." I started to float over the staircase but he stopped me. "Daniel, I just remembered that I haven't tested to make sure you were really dead." His smile scared me. "When I start a monolog sometimes I just can't stop!"

Jack blasted me with his eyes and I flew into the wall. Unfortunately he had his foot on my table cloth and it ripped off when I was launched. Even more unfortunately the pain was enough to make me slip out of my ghost form. Jack didn't seem surprised and he walked over and picked me up by the tie I had been wearing for the reunion.

"How wonderful another half ghost. Well this is almost amusing." He held me higher and I mentally wrote a will. "Don't worry Daniel I'm not going to kill you, I just think I will kill everyone around you." Jack set me on the ground and dropped a little box on the ground. Before I could run the box grew larger and trapped me inside. It was exactly like the first reunion; only this time there was no friendly Dairy King to let me out.

Jack stuffed my tie in my mouth like a gag and walked up the stairs. I struggled in vain to escape the box. Suddenly the portal opened again and out flew the Box Ghost. "Beware! I am the Box Ghost, and soon you will all feel the wrath of me cube shaped powers." He floated over and looked at the box I was in with interest.

"You have a box that should rightfully be mine! For I am the Box Ghost, master of all cardboard cubes." If I could, I would have screamed at being stuck in a box with the Box Ghost floating over me, but all I could do was a muffled noise. He looked down and seemed to remember something.

"Now I remember why I was supposed to retrieve you! Clockwork told me that if I brought you to him then he would let me keep your box! I am the Box Ghost!" He picked me up and entered the Ghost Zone. As soon as he did I noticed that we were in Clockwork's castle.

The Box Ghost dropped me and I landed sideways. Luckily the button on the side was pushed and I fell out of the box. I stood up, took my tie out of my mouth and looked around. Clockworks castle was practically in ruins. Several holes were in the high ceiling and there was no sign of the Master of Time.

When I turned around I discovered that the Box Ghost had left and walked through the castle trying to find Clockwork. Finally I came to a room and found a bed. In it laid Clockwork; weak and looking as if he was going to die again.

So do you all like it? I thought it was about time I got around to Clockwork. Jack is so evil! He was meant to be more wicked than Vlad. Is he?