A/N: We're finally entering the endgame of this fic, thanks to all of you for sticking around this long and through all the delays, I just wanted to make these last few chapters to be perfect. Thankyou all for reviewing.

As the ghost spider roared in a seemingly impossible way and spat poison at Alex, Aaron and Max, she found herself with no other choice than to turn ghost. As the cooling sensation of the rings slid over her body she slid into the now familiar feeling of not having to breathe of being able to fade in and out of the physical world. To be honest she liked being ghost, far more than she ever had being human, it felt more natural to her almost. Aaron gasped and looked over at Max who to Aarons surprise didn't actually seem that surprised at this event, he couldn't help but wonder if Alex had told him. The spider charged at the boys instead of Alex, with a growl she jumped through the air and tackled the two boys through the solid wall.

As the three teenagers crashed loudly in what turned out to be a science supplies cupboard ghost fangs pierced through the wall. The three of them flinched as they watched venom dribble down the wall and melt the bricks there.

"That could have been us…" Max breathed panicky as he opened the door and stumbled out shakily into the science classroom. "Listen Alex, if you're life's gonna be like this all the time then I think I need to take out some better health insurance." He laughed shakily.

"When did you tell him?" Aaron asked surprisingly casually.

"I-" Alex begun but was interrupted by a dark voice across the room.

"Yes Alex, please do tell us why you told an almost total stranger before you told your best friend." Josh asked coldly from his position by the blackboard. Alex was shocked at his sudden appearance, figuring that the jig was up she changed back into her human form.

"It wasn't like I wasn't going to tell you. Shouldn't you be more surprised that I'm a ghost?" Alex questioned as she walked through the aisle of desks towards him.

"Not really. I've known before you did." Josh shrugged and looked at her with steely eyes.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked completely thrown by this comment.

"Honestly with your father being who he is you were bound to end up this way." He sighed.

"What? You've lost me here." Alex blinked confused.

"You were bound to end up a freak, an abomination of nature. You were so beautiful before and I loved you too, and I would have had some remorse about doing this, but not now." Josh said advancing towards Alex. Alex felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end and she backed away scared.

"Josh… you're freaking me out." Alex breathed shakily. In the corner of the room both Aaron and Max moved defensively and protectively towards Alex.

"And so I should." He growled before slapping Alex backwards across the face, Alex yelped and tumbled to the ground, a singing smell hanging in the air.

"Ghost repelling gloves, you'd be surprised what these can do when you get close." Josh said in a detached and mechanical voice as he sat astride Alex's stomach and lowered his hands to her throat causing her to writhe in pain as if electricity was running through her body.

"Get OFF of her!" Aaron screamed rushing towards him.

"Unless you want her to die now then I'd advise against that." Josh commented casually, causing Aaron to skid to an indecisive halt.

"As for now, you belong to my master." Josh sighed before placing a small circular disk of metal that held some resemblance to a washer on Alex's chest. He stood up and in a puff of smoke Alex disappeared.

"Bring her back NOW you bastard." Aaron growled as he grabbed Josh by the throat.

"No chance, she has a role to play tonight. The world is going to end." Josh breathed. Aaron screamed with rage before hurling him across the room and was somewhat pleased to see him smash against the blackboard and crumple to a heap in the floor. He rounded on Max who looked scared and stunned.

"Did you know about this!" He demanded as he loomed threateningly above the smaller boy.

"What? No! I'm as shocked and confused as you! Don't hit me!" Max squeaked cowering in fear. Aaron breathed heavily before biting his lip and forcing himself to calm down, he lowered his fist.

"We need to find Alex." He stated simply.

"Sure, but… how?" Max asked still scared of upsetting Aaron who he was now aware could probably break every bone in his body.

"I… have no idea." He admitted.

Alex opened her eyes groggily, the room she was in was dark and poorly lit by computer monitors. She rubbed her sore throat and walked shakily over to one wall, her hand rested on a strange sensation. She moved her fingers uncertainly against the unusual texture of the wall, it squeaked a little.

"Feels like… photo paper…" She murmured, looking at the wall she could just make out the outlines of photographs, hundreds of them covering the wall. She pressed the light button on her watch and the small blue light illuminated thousands of photos of her mother. She gasped in horror, whoever's house this was owned pictures spanning her mother's entire life, her finger brushed against a photo of her mother at the end of high school. There were two other people in the picture with her, one was a boy she'd never seen in photos before and the other figure was scribbled out with black marker, she squinted at it trying to make out who it was.

Alex licked her thumb and rubbed against the marker, some of it rubbed off, enough at least for her to recognise who it was.

"Dad?" Alex said to herself in confusion. Who hated her father enough to scribble him out of photos, all the photos that he was in had his image scribbled or ripped out of them but yet still was obsessed about her mother enough to have thousands of photos of her? There was no-one like that she could think of. The light on her watch turned itself off after its twenty second automatic shut off.

"Hello Apocalypse." A voice from behind her said. Alex span around and flattened herself against the wall, a tall dark figure loomed over her.

"Who are you?" She squeaked.

"The person who's going to end your life." The voice replied before pressing a cloth against Alex's nose and mouth. She struggled violently at first but as the chloroform began to take effect her movements became sluggish until she finally became limp and fell backwards. The figure caught her and gently laid her back on the floor.

"But not yet, the time is not right." He said before disappearing off again into the darkness.