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A/N: Hello again everyone! I'm sorry, once more, for the long gap between chapters. We're slowly coming closer to the end. (Coming closer means no more than five more chapter, I believe.) Please stick with me and I promise to see you through to the end.

Chapter Twelve

Maddie forced herself into a dive and shot down towards the ground even faster. She grabbed Tucker, who was still clutching Jazz's arm as if it would save him and Sam around the waist and pressed a button on her belt. A parachute opened, connected to her jumpsuit and the four of them floated gently to the ground. Jack and Valerie landed next to them, both having their own parachutes.

"Well, that was far less painful than I expected it to be." Tucker commented. Sam grabbed him by the forearm and jerked him out of the way as the hover board crashed to the ground where he had been standing seconds earlier.

"Don't say that again."

"Okay." He said meekly. Valerie crouched next to the crashed machine and examined the wiring.

"I bet we could fix this." She murmured. "With Tucker's PDA, it should be no problem."

"How long is that going to take?" Sam asked, starting to feel frustrated. "We don't have all the time in the world, you know!"

"Sam, calm down." Jazz said in a soothing voice. "We'll make it to Danny, I promise."

"Yeah, it won't take Tucker and me long to repair this." Valerie intoned bracingly. "Will be outta here in no time."

Sam plopped down on the ground with a soft sigh. She didn't want to resign to this waiting. Jazz sat down next to her and watched Valerie fiddling with fuses for a moment before speaking.

"What where you telling Valerie before we crashed." She asked quietly. Sam answered the question with one of her own.

"Do you remember Danny's future ghost?" Jazz didn't see what this had to do with anything, but she didn't want to press the goth girl, so she decided to play along.

"Dark Danny?" she said, trying to keep the confusion out of her voice. Sam raised her eyebrows. "It's just what I call him." Jazz added hastily.

"Yes, well, I think Vlad has him." Sam said in a low voice. Jazz let out her breath through her teeth in a hiss.

"Are you sure?" she asked, worried. Sam nodded grimly. 'That can't be good."

"I know."

"We need to tell my parents, they aren't prepared to fight a ghost that strong."

"No one is." Jazz sighed and clambered to her feet, helping Sam up too.

"Mom? Dad?" The two adults turned to face them. 'We have to tell you something." Maddie seemed to see the concern in the girls' eyes.

"What's the matter?" she asked. Jazz looked over to Sam, who launched into a full explanation of all the ghost activity that had gone on previous to the C.A.T., including Dark Danny, as Jazz called him, and his relationship to Danny and about the death they had all never nearly faced.

"What does all that have to do with what's going on right now?" questioned Jack, nonplussed. Grasping the concept of time-travel is not the easiest thing in the world to do.

"Vlad has the thermos with Dark Danny in it." Sam explained. "And if he releases him…'"

She let the sentence hang. Judging by the looks on both their faces, they both understood well enough without her finishing. There was a long silence.

"We just can't let him release that ghost then, can we?" Valerie said, breaking the silence. "It's that simple." Sam jumped and turned around; Tucker and Valerie had stopped working to listen to the conversation. Tucker looked aghast, but Valerie seemed confidant.

"You know what?" Maddie said, beaming at her. "Valerie is absolutely right!"

"Let's get this hover board finished." Suggested Tucker, dropping to his knees next to it.

"You might want to hurry with that!" Sam exclaimed, looking over her shoulder. Her reasoning became apparent to the others when they turned around.

Shadow creatures, like the ones that had attacked Sam before were swarming towards them. Maddie and Jack whipped out the weapons Valerie had giving them and began blasting the apparitions.

"Get that board fixed quickly!" Sam yelled. She fired her weapon and the shot hit home in a particularly large shadow. He wailed in a horrible, high, screechy voice before exploding into wisps of smoke and vanishing.

"We're on it!" Tucker shouted. Valerie connected the wires as fast as her trembling fingers would allow and tucker fused them back together, using his PDA. A shadow lunged at them and wrapped around Valerie's wrist. Jazz spun around and shot the thing with a blast of ectoplasm and starting firing in a wide circle around Valerie and Tucker, allowing them to hurriedly finish their restoration of the vehicle.

As Tucker wielded the last two fuses together, the hover board lit up and floated up to about waist height. Valerie jumped aboard, followed by Tucker and Jazz. The shadows broke against it and it shook under them. Valerie took them up out of the creatures' reach and swung around, searching for the others.

"Where are they!" Jazz cried, scanning the black, churning mass for the other three.

"There!" said Tucker, pointing. Three lone humans stood where he pointed, surrounded by a wall of black shadows, shooting frantically in an attempt to keep from being attacked. Every time they managed to take out one shadow, another appeared to take its place.

Valerie swooped down over them, until the hover board was about six feet off the ground, just out of the reach of the bloodthirsty creatures. She leaned down and grabbed Maddie's hand and hoisted her aboard first, then Sam. Last, all five of them pulled Jack on and took off into the air, yet again.

"And this is the sort of thing that happens to you guys everyday, when you're with Danny?" Maddie asked disbelievingly. Sam and Tucker nodded and she shook her head in exasperation.

"I really need to be paying attention to what my son does in his free time!"

A/N: Alright, there you have it! The next chapter may or may not be up sometime this weekend; since Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is coming out on Friday, I don't know if I'll have time to type up another chapter. So I am adding another story to my Oneshot Cinema tonight too. It's called "The Phantom of Casper High" and its DxS! You can R&R that if you want!