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Benjamin Masters

Chapter Eight

Sam

Ben took a bite of his toast, and looked around the cafeteria.

Sam, Stacy, Derek, and Tucker were at a table on the other side of the room.

It had been about a month since his fight with Sam. Ben's nose was almost all the way healed and it was crooked like Jazz had said, but not that bad. The black mark underneath his eye and all of his other minor scratches and things were all gone.

Sam didn't seem to be as mad at him as before, but she wasn't anywhere close to getting ready to forgive him, and Ben figured that would never happen. Stacy and Derek had tried to hang out with him, but he didn't let them. He wanted to be alone.

He had let his look stray over Sam too long and she turned around and glared. He looked down towards his food sadly, and he didn't see her glare turn to sad look before she turned away.

Ben left the cafeteria and went for a walk, he'd been doing that a lot lately.

Sam watched him leave and decided to follow him.

She followed him just within hearing range. He was mumbling something, but he was to far away for her to hear him. Some ghost showed up and she watched him shoot it with his ectoblaster.

Then all the sudden she was grabbed from behind. Whoever it was put their hand over her mouth. She looked down at the bulky sliver metal glove, she was about to scream, but she was hit on the head and passed out.

When Ben got back from his walk, he went up to his room.

When he opened the door he saw Stacy inside sitting at his desk.

"Have you seen Sam?" She asked before Ben had a chance to say anything.

"No, Why?" Ben asked.

"She left the cafeteria right after you did, and I haven't seen her since." Stacy said.

"Did you ask Tucker?" Ben asked.

"Yeah, he hasn't seen her either." Stacy answered.

"She's a smart girl, she won't get herself into anything she can't get out of, don't worry about her." Ben said.

"Fine." Stacy grumbled.

"So, you're still coming with me to Vlad's right? Break starts tomorrow." Ben said trying to change the subject.

"You still want me to go?" Stacy asked.

"Yeah, I'm not going alone."

"Ok. Well, later. I'm going to go look for Sam some more." Stacy said leaving.

"...Maybe I should look too..." Ben said a few minutes later.

Then he left the room and went outside.

The next morning they still hadn't found her.

Tucker, Stacy, and Derek were standing in a circle and Ben was standing quietly behind Stacy.

"Is there any place we didn't check?" Stacy asked.

"No, I even checked the Mega-Nasty a bunch of times." Derek answered.

"Well, we can't keep looking, all the students are supposed to be cleared out in ten minutes." Stacy said looking at her watch.

"Yeah, I don't want Lancer on my butt like he was last year. See you guys in a few weeks." Derek said leaving.

"We have to leave soon too. Don't worry, Tucker, you know even better that I do that Sam's gonna be fine. Wherever she's at, she's ok." Stacy said putting her hand on Tucker's shoulder, then heading towards Ben's car with Ben following her.

"Hey, Ben!" Tucker yelled after Ben had only taken a few steps.

Ben turned around and walked back.

"Thought you might want this back-" Tucker started digging around in his pocket.

"Traitor." He finished slamming the necklace into Ben's hand.

Ben dropped the necklace sadly as he watched Tucker walk away. Then he picked it up, because he knew what would happen if Jazz found out he didn't have it and walked to his car.

"So, you wanna go somewhere before headin' to Vlad's?" Stacy asked as he got in the car.

"I don't feel like going anywhere." Ben answered glumly.

"Ok then." Stacy answered.

"Are you gonna be ok?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, worse things than this have happened." Ben said letting out a pathetic attempt at a laugh.

Sooner than he would have liked, Ben was opening the front door to Vlad's mansion.

"Hey, there! It's good to see ya, don't cha know!" They heard after they had walked in.

They looked up and saw the Dairy King float down through the ceiling.

"Cheese Ghost!" Stacy exclaimed hugging him as soon as he was close enough to grab.

The Dairy King ignored what she called him and hugged her back.

"Have you tried the feta this year?" He asked her smiling.

"Man, I hate feta, how about you bring me some chedda' later?" She replied letting him go.

"I'll bring you some Swiss, don't cha know?" He said floating up through the ceiling.

"That crazy Cheese Ghost." Stacy said laughing.

She looked over at Ben, he seemed to be deep in thought.

"You ok?" She asked.

"My ghost sense didn't go off..." He said.

"So?" Stacy said.

"I haven't took my medicine in almost a month, my powers should be back by now." Ben said.

"No, Honey! The medicine I designed slowly eats away at your powers while making it to where you can't use them at the same time!"

Ben and Stacy spun around. Ben's mother was in the doorway.

"If you would have kept taking it long enough, eventually they would have gotten to where your powers would be gone, medicine or not!" She finished walking over to them.

"How was school, Sweetie?" She asked hugging Ben.

"It was fine, I'm tired, I'm just going to go lay down." Ben said pulling away from her and walking down the hall.

Stacy nodded her head towards Mrs. Masters and followed him.

Meanwhile...

Sam groaned and rubbed her head.

She looked around and couldn't see anything.

She was lying on a bed. She got up and noticed that her right ankle was chained to it.

"What the... Where am I?" She asked no one in particular.

She saw a mirror on the wall.

"Why is there a mirror in here?" She wondered.

Then lights came on from behind it. Sam cringed in the blinding light, and when her eyes had adjusted she saw Vlad on the other side.

"Hello, Samantha." He smirked as Sam's eyes went wide with disbelief.

"Vlad!" She yelled glaring.

Vlad laughed and turned off the light, and she heard him leave the other room.

"No! Wait!" She screamed fearfully.

Then she let out a groan of despair and sat down on the bed.

Eventually, she fell back asleep.

"Not really sleepy, I'm guessing?" Stacy said when Ben and Stacy got to Ben's room.

"Nope, want to play video games or watch a movie or something?" Ben asked sitting down.

"Sure." Stacy said sitting down beside him.

Later that night...

It was around Midnight, and Stacy had fallen asleep on Ben's bed with her X-box controller still in her hand.

Ben decided to go on a walk around the mansion.

"The no ghostsense thing is going to take a bit to get used to." He said quietly as one of Vlad's ghostmaids passed him.

"Why did Mom have to marry Vlad anyway...It's stupid..." He said.

Then he started thinking back to the day his mother had left his Dad...

"I'm telling you, Jack, it's not going to work." Vlad said.

Maddie glared at Vlad, she still didn't understand why he was in their lab again. She did have to agree with him though, she had let Jack build the weapon by himself and it did look a little unstable.

"He has a point, Jack." Maddie said.

Danny looked up at his parents and Vlad, he was on the other side of the lab sweeping and he needed a break anyway.

"Bogus! The Ghost Burner is perfect!" Jack said holding it in front of him and turning it on.

"Jack!" Maddie exclaimed.

But it was too late, fiery ghost fighting goo was hurled from the weapon right in her direction.

"Noooo!" Jack and Danny yelled, as Maddie screamed.

Then at the last moment, Vlad put up a shield in front of Maddie. The shield burst into flames, but Maddie was completely unharmed.

"Jack! What were you thinking!" She yelled angrily.

"Maddie I-" Jack started.

"No! I'm sick of your screw-ups, I'm sick of your excuses, I'm sick of your oafishness, I'm just sick of you completely!" She yelled interrupting him.

"Maddie Jus-" Jack started again.

"No, Jack, it's too late for that." Maddie said.

Then she looked at Vlad.

"Vlad, you saved me!" Maddie said hugging him gratefully.

Danny at disbelief at this. He didn't understand, his dad had screwed up thousands of times, why was this time any different? And why hadn't his mom said anything about Vlad having ghost powers? There's no way she knew already, did she?

"Let's go, Vlad." Maddie said grabbing his hand and pulling up the stairs.

Vlad smirked at the wide-eyed Jack, and the glaring Danny, then they were gone.

"Dad?" Danny asked quietly as he walked over to him.

"I don't know, Son... I really don't know..." Jack said before walking up the stairs and going into his room.

"What the heck is going on?" Jazz asked Danny after he had walked up the stairs.

Then he explained. Not even Jazz knew what to do.

Ben was so sunk into his memories that he walked into the door at the end of the hallway.

Without thinking he opened the door, it led to Vlad's private study. He looked around, and didn't see any one inside.

"This is the place that leads to Vlad's secret lab..." He said to himself, he remembered Jazz telling him about it after the time she had ran away to Vlad's.

He walked over to the fireplace and pulled on the trophy revealing some stairs.

"This place is creepy." He said quietly going down the stairs and entering the room.

He saw a door in the corner almost hidden by experiments and went through it.

There was another door and a window.

He looked and just saw blackness on the other side, but upon closer inspection he saw something move.

Looking closer he saw that it was the form of a person, and after looking at it for a while, he realized it wasn't just any person it was...

"Sam!"

End Chapter 8

Oo So that's why Danny's mom married Vlad... What will I explain next? ...No one knows... Except me... Partially... -laughs- ok, I'm done for now.

Thanks for reading!

-MattsLittleSister