Thanks for everyone's reviews so far. This chapter came out sooner then I thought it would.

Vlad and I left the destroyed bathroom and started looking for my Mom. Jack had told me that she was in a ghost proof room. We checked every single room but couldn't find one that stopped me from entering. I was floating intangibly through walls so that if one was ghost proof I would run into it. Vlad was walking beneath me and he was holding my arm so that I pulled us both through the walls.

As we searched Vlad kept telling me not to worry. He said that we would find Maddie and we could escape Jack's evil once and for all. But something didn't seem right. It reminded me of when Mr. Lancer made us read Dracula. The book was long and boring but I managed to read most of it… well actually I skipped a hundred pages and the characters were still doing exactly the same thing they were doing before.

At the end of Dracula the vampire is killed quickly. It seemed almost too easy to kill him after all of the other things he had lived through. Jack was the same way. How could someone so evil and powerful die so easily?

Suddenly I ran into a wall. Vlad looked over at me and then at the wall I had run into. The wall looked normal but when I tried to phase through it an electric current zapped me out of the air. I stood up and looked around the room we were currently in. It was Jack's bedroom.

We left the bedroom and entered the hallway. "Maybe we can find away in from out here-" Vlad's words caught in his throat and a wave of shock and terror hit me. The whole wall in front of the ghost proof room was ripped apart. The metal had melted away and had turned a sickening red color.

Before I could react Vlad ran into the destroyed room. I did nothing but watch as Vlad searched the room. My brain told me to move but my feet refused. It was like a nightmare. Inside the room Vlad paled. He stood up holding something in his hand. Vlad walked over to me and held the thing out.

It was a note.

I reached out and took it. My hands shook as I looked down at the curly wrighting that I had seen once before in the basement. After a few seconds of staring at it and not wanting to read, I forced my hands to stop shaking and read the note.

Dear pathetic Daniel,

Death is an art and I think that I have painted the best picture of all. Did you honestly think that you could destroy me? You only killed what was left of Jack Fenton. Thanks to you I have become the strongest being in the universe. Soon Maddie will feel the cold grip of death as I have. Don't worry though, when I kill you I'll let you become my personal ghost assistant. I no longer wish to have such a weak child be my son.

Plasmius

Vlad was still pale when I looked back up at him. He looked like a lost puppy. "Don't worry." I whispered as I crumpled the note up, "I won't let him hurt mom." The note simply turned into dust in my hand. It didn't have time to burn.

We continued our search of the mansion. We even checked the remains of the secret lab but found very little except for the open ghost portal and some scattered papers. I started to leave when Vlad said, "Danny wait!" I turned around and saw Vlad looking at the papers.

"These are blueprints for something." He said. I flew down beside him and looked at the paper. It showed several pictures of some sort of machine. Vlad shuffled through the papers quickly and stopped at one that looked like a map.

The map showed several pictures of various ghost lairs and there were red marks and words on the paper. I looked closer at the map and saw that it looked like my map of the Ghost Zone. A large red circle was around the castle of Pariah Dark.

Vlad continued looking at the map curiously. "Where is this supposed to be? It looks like those places are floating but that's not possible- right?" I didn't say anything as I looked at the map. Why would Jack want to go to the ghost kings castle? He wasn't stupid enough to try and awaken Pariah Dark.

From my silence Vlad seemed to realize that the map was of the Ghost Zone. He pale face turned paler and his eyes widened. "Jack has Maddie in there, doesn't he?" I nodded and his look of terror faded. "Then we have only one choice. We have to rescue her and stop Jack once and for all."

It seemed pointless to me that he said that since we both knew what we had to do but Vlad seemed braver now that he had said our goals out loud. He made sure that he had all of the weapons he could carry. Up till now I had been planning on leaving him here. After all he didn't seem like the kind of person who could help.

Vlad grabbed my arm tightly and said. "Don't even think for a second that I'm going to let you do this on your own." I blinked in surprise and looked up into his blue eyes as he continued. "I may not have ghost powers but I certainly am not going to sit here and wait for you to come back."

He pulled me over to the open ghost portal and stepped inside. I followed and we found ourselves back in Clockworks castle. Vlad looked at the destruction with a horrified look on his face. "I'll just take a random guess and say that Jack did this too. How could he destroy such a magnificent castle?"

I flew us both out of the castle and through the Ghost Zone. It was silent. There was no moaning, screaming, or other ghostly sound. Even the doors seemed to look less spooky. Vlad didn't seem to notice but I felt like I was being dragged in one direction. The farther I went from the pull the stronger it felt. Finally I just turned around and followed it.

As I followed the strange tugging I began to notice other ghosts going the same way. Unlike me they all seemed almost hypnotized. Even Skulker didn't react when he floated past us. Suddenly the pull stopped. I looked up and saw that we were floating in front of the huge red castle that held the ghost king and the Fright Knight.

The other ghosts had stopped as well. I turned Vlad and myself invisible and we floated in the crowd as silently as we could. Hundreds of ghosts were surrounding the castle. Ember, Skulker, Walker, Youngblood, etc. The list of ghosts continued on and on. Several of them were quite large and I was very glad that they hadn't decided to leave the Ghost Zone yet.

Vlad and I flew nearer to the castle. The doors were locked but I managed to change human and slip inside without turning visible. Vlad gasped in surprise that he had just walked through a closed door but fell silent. Inside the castle looked very different. A large altar was in the center. On it was the Pariah Dark's sarcophagus.

Suddenly Jack appeared beside the coffin. He was terrifying. His skin was peeling and black after my attack on him, and it had green blood dried in between cracks. Jack's eyes were non-existent but the sockets still seemed to see. In the eyeballs place was a dark boiling liquid that oozed down his face but never seemed to grow smaller. His hair was burning in a black and green flame.

I could tell that Vlad was trying not to throw up. Jack still didn't realize that we were there as he looked at the coffin he was standing by. A smile seemed to stretch across his face and black charred skin detached itself and fell to the floor by his feet. Equally burnt skin revealed itself underneath.

Jack's mouth opened revealing sharp teeth that glinted like daggers. More black skin fell to the floor like dandruff as he started to talk. "When my plan is complete Daniel will rue the very day he was born." His voice was rough and no longer the smooth sound he used to talk with. I remembered that the same thing had happened to future Ember and realized that my ghostly wail had caused the noise he called a voice.

Have you ever noticed that evil villains tend to shout out their evil plan for no reason? Jack did just that. "Once I fuse with you King Dark then I will be the most powerful creature ever to exist! The worlds will both be mine!" His evil laugh still was just as annoying as he walked over and started to open the sarcophagus

I was about to turn visible when he suddenly stopped. "The anticipation of power is making me act too soon. First I must add the future to the mix. He floated over and hit a switch on the wall. A hole appeared in the floor and a table appeared. On the table was my mom looking very scared.

Vlad moved forward with surprising strength. I pulled him back just as Jack floated over to mom. "Maddie my dear, when I finish the machine I am building I will give you the honor of being the first to test it. After all, what is a ghost king without his Queen?"

That didn't take a long time to type. Jack is a pretty ugly ghost thanks to Danny.