Roll with me on this chapter. One of my reviewers mentioned that fusing Jack and Pariah didn't make sense because in TUE Vlad and Danny's ghost forms were both half of one person when they joined to create Dark Dan. My explanation is this. Ghosts never overshadow each other in the show. No one knows what would happen if they tried. Maybe they fuse together. If they don't then it's my fault for telling you all that they do.

Vlad, mom, and I stood still as the ghost's forms fused together. The new ghost towered several feet above us and my eyes started at the feet and went up. First I saw huge black boots followed by thick armored legs. Black and gold armor flowed up to the neck. The armor looked tight and showed a fat body. Unfortunately all of the body mass was muscle. A billowing black cape flowed down from the shoulders and almost seemed to change back and forth from solid to fire. The head on top of this gigantic body had smooth ash colored skin. Both of its eyes gleamed like coals and, big surprise, they were black. Long fiery hair that was also black burned behind its grey head like darkness consuming the last dull beams of sun during twilight.

It was neither Jack nor Pariah, and as it looked down at us I felt a sudden surge of terror. That thing had no dwindling feelings that Jack had had. It was a ghost based on pure hatred and rage. Suddenly it spoke in a deep yet still rough voice that chilled the already cold ghost blood in my veins.

"The time has come at last. Both worlds will finally be mine!" Without a second glance at us he vanished in a swirl of black smoke. Vlad stared at the spot where the ghost had just been and rubbed his eyes.

"I'll never get used to seeing people disappear like that." Mom and I just looked at him. Was he really so oblivious to the situation? Vlad noticed our glances and became serious- well, sort of. "So we just met the most powerful ghost in existence. Anyone got a plan for stopping him? No? Well then we should get to work on one soon before he comes back for us."

He looked at me hopefully. Then at mom, then back to me. The hopeful look vanished. "Were all doomed, aren't we?" He sat down on the ground and put his head in his hands. Mom knelt down and tried to comfort him the best she could, but being a ghost with no memory of her previous existence she wasn't very good at it.

"Well at least if you die you won't remember how!" she said. Vlad looked up at her and then resumed his former position with a few dry sobs. I watched them both with growing panic. Throughout everything, all of the ghost fights, dealing with my powers, everyday problems, at least I still had my parents. Although Vlad didn't use to be my father, I had trusted him more than my old dad. Now he was on the floor being comforted by a pessimistic ghost.

Feeling helpless I looked around the castle. I would try anything to get my mind off of the current situation. How do you stop an evil ghost? You can't kill it. Putting it in the Ghost Zone would only hold it of for a few days until it found a portal. Trapping it again sounded like the only way to go, but even then it could still escape.

I paced back and forth. There seemed to be no way that I could make it through this. I looked back over my shoulder at Vlad. He was still on the floor by mom. Vlad had believed in me throughout everything. If he had given up hope, what could I do?

Suddenly I heard a voice in my head. It was my voice, but not my voice. "Are we going to sit here and feel sorry for ourselves or are we going to save the world again?" It was Phantom. Maybe we were two people after all. Once again I looked back at Vlad. For some reason he sat up.

Vlad looked around and his eyes fell on me. I guess I must have had a look on my face because suddenly he smiled. "It looks like Danny has a plan." He said to no one in particular. Vlad stood up and walked over to me.

I looked at him and wondered if he had snapped. He winked and picked something up off the floor. It was a gun and for a second I panicked. Had Vlad turned against me? But then I assured myself that he wouldn't. The gun he was holding was the one that had successfully turned my mom into a ghost.

He looked at mom who was looking at the gun with fear in her green eyes. "I may not remember much but I remember that gun." She said. "And I know that the pain you go through when you're blasted with that thing it is extremely painful." She started floating backwards away from us.

Vlad looked at his feet and said, "Don't worry about anything Maddie, Danny has a plan!" I still was confused, but then Vlad gave me another reassuring wink. Mom calmed down and floated back over to us. Vlad was doing something to the gun. He closed a panel that he had opened and I noticed that his hands were shaking.

"I hope this works!" I heard him mutter. Before mom could react he held up the gun and shot her with a blue beam. She fell to the floor silently and I glared at Vlad. He was still looking at his feet. Then his eyes met mine. Tears fell from his blue eyes and he dropped the gun. I turned around to look back at my mom and gasped.

Her skin was a brilliant white that matched the glow around her. Her torn clothes had been replaced with a white silk dress. She was floating upright and there was a strange beam of light coming down from the dark ceiling of the castle. My eyes followed it up and I saw through the castle.

She smiled and the room grew ten times brighter. The beam of light she floated in started to rise. She started to rise. After seconds that seemed like days she vanished in a flash of the brilliant light. The castle darkened again and I whirled around to confront Vlad.

He was staring at the ceiling with a smile on his lips. Before I could say anything he began talking. "The gun worked. Maddie has been released to heaven from this purgatory." Vlad looked back down to me with tears making his blue eyes shine like glass.

The angry words I was going to say died in my throat. How could I have considered yelling at that poor man? I picked up the gun and looked at it. "What exactly did you do?" I asked.

Vlad came over and took the gun from me. "A ghost is a ghost because of unfinished business right?" I nodded slowly. "Or in Maddie's case she had no memory so she wouldn't know whether or not she should leave. I used the gun to put the ghost in a state so calm that they didn't care about staying here." It reminded me of the time I was 8 and my dentist gave me laughing gas so that he could pull my tooth out. I didn't care at all that he was about to yank out a part of my head.

My ghost sense sent a chill up my spine. The front door to the castle burst open. I turned around and gasped as thousands of ghosts came pouring in. All of them had blank empty expressions. Towering over them all was the new ghost. His voice boomed around the castle.

"And now my minions, my thirst for destruction will be quenched at last!"

Sorry for the lateness of this pitifully short chapter. I had major writers block on two things; what the new ghost would look like and the first thing he would say. As you can see I'm still clueless about the name. Suggestions are greatly appreciated because I'm not sure that I could continue calling him Ghost anymore.