Chapter 16:

Mavis sighed and leaned back against the wall of her glass cage. She had been trying to break out for hours. Her hands still throbbed from trying to break out using her physical strength alone since the cage seemed to react to her powers. Her shoes lay on the floor beside her from when she tried to throw them at the walls. Now, she was exhausted. Out of breath, she felt weak and could barely move. She was so sore but she was relieved to the feeling of her healing power working throughout her body.

'Danny will save me. I know he will.' She thought.

Meanwhile, several floors down, the ghostly siblings were checking into the hotel.

"So I know we probably won't need it but we want to get a room to seem inconspicuous any watchers." Danielle explained as the two walked through the halls to get to the room.

Danny, a bit grumpy from lack of progress and rest, buried his hands in his pockets and grumbled.

"You just want somewhere to leave all the stuff you bought."

Danielle gave him an exasperated luck.

"You also need some rest." She said, setting her hand on her brother's shoulder. "I know you're upset that it feels like we're not getting any closer to finding your girlfriend but if there ends up having to be a fight, you need to be in your best shape."

She paused before adding.

"Especially if it's Vlad."

Danny met her eyes and nodded the shadow of his hood making the bags under his eyes more obvious.

"Not to mention I know how exhausted you are from using your powers all day without a viable resource to regenerate them." Danielle added, reminding the two of a familiar older red haired sister that always took care of them.

Smiling slightly from the memory, Danny simply nodded at the memory.

"Good, now go get some sleep. I'm gonna look around the hotel for a bit." The younger of the two said, opening the door to their room.

(I feel like it would be a crazy plot twist if I made it so that Danielle was with Vlad the whole time.)

Shifting to her ghost form after putting her bag in the room, Danielle began searching the rooms. Luckily there weren't any surprises for her eye she infiltrated the privacy of the guests. As she phased through the floor to a new hallway, she was met with a small light along the floor.

"Hello…" She said as she moved to stand next to the light and it moved to a spot on the top of her foot. "What are you?"

She turned to the door of the room with a sign that said 'Belle Reve Suite'. Letting her curiosity control her movements, Danielle moved to phase through the door only to be stopped by a familiar force.

"A ghost shield?" Dani muttered before grinning and shifting back to her human form. "Good thing I'm always prepared."

Pulling a hairpin out, the girl knelt by the lock. It was an old hotel so the door had a keyhole easily manipulated by her locked picking skill. The little light that had originally attracted her attention had disappeared and instead was replaced by a muffled pounding on something on the other side of the door. A little more fiddling with the lock lead to a satisfying click as Danielle did a celebratory air punch. She stood and set a hand on the door, pushing the door open. She was met with a familiar pair of blue eyes. She smiled as she crossed her arms.

"There you are."

Meanwhile Danny was snoring in the hotel room. He wouldn't admit it but from the energy used to contact Johnny and Kitten about how their progress with the ghost zone was as well as the nerves and worry about Mavis really right wiped him out. He had passed out as soon as he laid on the plush but firm bed. Memories he had already discovered as well as pieces of other ones echoed in his mind, making his sleep more restless.

"Oh my god! Danny, speak to me!"

"Dude, how ya feeling? That was a lot of electricity."

"Thanks for mentioning the obvious,Tucker! Danny just got electrocuted! Of course he'll feel worse than normal!"

"Chill, Sam. Look. He's waking up."

"Danny? Danny! Are you ok? Say something!"

The goth looked down at him with worried amethyst eyes. Her hands were clenching his shoulders while Tucker looked at him from beside her. They both had concern in their eyes but what Danny noticed was the hair that hung in front of his face was white. It wasn't Sam's hair so it had to be… his…

Despite his friends comments, he sat up straight and slowly stood up. He stumbled to a mirror and knelt over the sink. A figure with white hair and vibrant green eyes that literally glowed.

"Danny?" Sam asked from behind him. "Are you ok?"

"How do you think, Sam? I'm dead!" he exclaimed, gripping his hair as a pair of rings appeared around his waist and spread apart throughout his body, changing him back to his human form.

The three teens stared at each other.

"Dude…" Tucker said. "That is so cool!"

Danny woke up to someone shaking him and he groggily sat up to face Danielle, who looked panicked.

"Danny! I found her! I found Mavis!"

Danny, now wide awake, sat up straight.

"Where!?"

"Come on! Follow me!" Danielle said, taking off through the walls as the two flew away from the prison.

…

Danielle looked over the control panel of the cage as Mavis watched her.

"Upside: I found you. Downside: this control panel can't be activated without a key and as good at lockpicking as I am, I can't pick a lock and keep it switched without a key. Door locks are easy since they're switched back and forth manually but locks for control panels have a spring switch which means they'll turn back to off unless the key is in the slot." Danielle explained.

She then walked around the control panel and stood by the glass cage.

"This is just glass. You should be able to break it easily."

Mavis shook her head, dread filling her eyes.

"I've already tried. It's wired with some kind of magic or something to make it so when I try to used my power, it shocks me. I've tried everything."

The halfa looked over Mavis as she sighed. Pulling out her phone, Dani flipped it open to find Danny's number.

"We need Danny." She said as she held the phone to her ear.

"Danielle?" Danny answered.

"Hey, sorry to wake you but I found Mavis and I need your help getting her out." She explained.

"Where are you?"

"A couple of floors up from our room. The Belle Reve Suite." Danielle thought for a second. "How long have you been up? I coulda sworn you'd be asleep for hours."

There was a hint of fear and annoyance in Danny's voice when he answered. He sounded distracted and enraged.

"I was woken up by something. I'm out in the forest. I'll be there as soon as I can."

Danielle looked at the phone as Danny hung up. She was about to call him again but her phone was ripped out of her hand and collided with the wall, shattering to pieces.

"Ah ah ah. Not so quick, my dear. You just got here. You haven't earned the permission to invite other guests to someone else's home." Vlad's voice echoed around her.

"Plasmius!" Danielle exclaimed as she shifted to her ghost form and got into a fighting stance.

She charged a energy blast, the green light in her hand aimed and ready for when the elder ghost appeared, not noticing a pair of red eyes behind her.

"Dani, look out!" Mavis cried.

The girl doesn't react fast enough and a back hand sends her into the wall. The silver lights of her transformation rings move over her causing Danielle to revert to her human form. She winces as she sits up slowly, holding her arm which met the wall first and was covered in scratches and blood. She moaned as she looked up at Plasmius.

"Dammit…" She glared.

…

Danny closed his phone and glared at the fake Danielle in front of him. She was flying in front of him as she lead him to where she said Mavis was. She must've noticed something was wrong because she stopped flying and turned to him.

"Danny? Is something wrong?" She asked.

"Who are you?" Danny crossed his arms, fixing her with a glare.

Danielle looked a little shocked before pouting and crossing her arms. She moved her hand to her head and made a movement as if adjusting a hat as one appeared and Danielle's form shifted to a white form with a trench coat.

"Amorpho? Vlad sent you to distract me, didn't he?" Danny growled.

"Sorry, kid. Gotta make a living." Amorpho said, tipping his hat as he disappeared.

Danny sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Idiot. You're dead…" He said, turning to fly back to the hotel.

Phasing through the walls, he caught a few shocked guests off guard.

"A few floors above ours, huh…?" he muttered.

Danny…

The ghost boy froze at the familiar voice.

"Master?" Danny asked, looking around the lobby where he found himself. "Where are you?"

Listen to me, Danny… I will give you the ability to see… They're upstairs… Go!

Danny looked around before his eyes narrowed. He could sense them. His sister. Mavis. He knew exactly where they were.

….

"Why?" Danielle asked, glaring at the ghost in front of her. "Why would you want to kidnap Mavis? You barely know her. You attacked her and Danny in the sky and then you've been attacking the hotel." Vlad looked like he was going to argue but Dani cut him off as she kept talking. "Don't act like you don't know. My brother is the controller of the ghost zone. I'm second in command. I know when ghosts are outside of the zone. I know where they are when they're outside of the zone and you've sent 12 ghosts to the hotel in the past few days."

"Daniel is my son and if I can't go in the hotel to get him then why not send servants into the hotel for me?"

Danielle was silent as Vlad grinned. Mavis stood and hit the wall of the cage.

"Danny isn't your son! His parent's are dead! Why don't you just leave him alone!?" She exclaimed, ignoring the shocks from the walls of her cage.

Vlad opened his mouth to speak, only to be stopped by another voice.

"Because I'm his obsession." The ghost prince's voice echoed behind them.

"Danny!"

Vlad simply grinned as he turned and held his arms open at his sides as if Danny would run into a hug at any moment.

"Little badger. It's great to see you again."

"Back off, Plasmius. Let Mavis and Danielle go. Right now." Danny almost growled.

The elder ghost grinned, taking a few steps back. Danny pushed past him and set his hands on the glass, not noticing the shock from the walls.

"Are you ok?" he asked, meeting the vampiress' eyes.

Mavis smiled and nodded.

"I'm fine. A little worn out from trying to get out of here but otherwise, I'm fine."

The ghost boy gave her a soft, caring smile before looking over at his sister. The two exchanged a look of understanding before they both stood and faced the elder ghost.

"I'm going to say this once more." Danny said, his already echoey voice taking a more regal tone. "Release Mavis."

"I'll never give you the key. The glass is impenetrable. Not even your powers as ghost prince can break it." Vlad smirked.

"We'll see about that!"

Mavis watched as Danny's hand was surrounded by green energy and she swore she saw the shapes of a ring on his hand and a crown above his head. As he brought his fist down, a circle of yellow energy gathered around where his fist was going to hit and he was shot back into the wall.

"Vlad, what is this thing?" Dani asked as she rushed to help her brother up.

"My own special invention. This glass is infused with ecto energy. It stops everything with any form of power that relies on otherworldly energy. It's energized by over a thousand volts of electricity."

Danny growled before jumping at him. The boy's eyes had turned a dark shade of red, something that had never shown before to Mavis. His hands glowed with his energy and the outline of the crown glowed again, making it almost seem solid.

"There's the ghost king I know." Vlad laughed, dodging Danny's first attack before being knocked into a wall.

"Ghost king?" Mavis asked, turning to look at Danielle, who was only staring at her brother with fear? Awe? Worry?

It was obvious that Mavis wouldn't get any answers out of the halfa right now so she just looked at where the boy she had a crush on stood tall with his crown and the ring around his finger. He looked mad. He looked enraged. Mavis wouldn't admit it but Danny actually looked really hot like this. She fought off her blush and focused on the fight, not noticing Danielle fall out of her daze and begin looking around for something.

Danny looked down at the man in front of him.

"You lied to me. You manipulated me. I thought I had found someone I could ask about my life. About the things I couldn't remember. You toyed with me. You messed with my family. And now, as prince of the Ghost Zone, I banish you from ever setting foot in my realm. I place on you, the exiles mark." Danny knelt down to Vlad and was about to set a hand on his head but Vlad reacted fast and grabbed the prince, holding him up in the air.

"Times up, little badger." Vlad taunted, holding the struggling ghost prince by his collar.

"Hey Vlad!" Dani called, lifting up a heavy rock as Vlad turned to face her. "Our powers can't break it but I know what can!"

Vlad watched in horror as Danielle brought the rock down on the glass. As soon as the two made contact, cracks began forming along Mavis' cage. She smirked as it became weak and kicked it from the inside. As the cage shattered around her, Mavis walked forward. Her hands clenching into fists as Danielle helped her brother stand. Grabbing the collar of the vampire looking ghost's shirt, she held Vlad up easily and smirked.

"What was that about not being afraid of me?" she asked.

(Skipping the part where Mavis kicks Vlad's ass since not only am I not good at fight scenes, I feel like a majority of you would skip it anyway because personally I'm not a fan of reading fight scenes)

As Mavis dusted off her dress, as Vlad moaned from his spot in the now destroyed wall. Danny, now fully healed thanks to his speed healing, joined her and set a hand on her shoulder.

"Thanks, Mave. I can take it from here."

Mavis smiled at him before grabbing the collar of his shirt and pulling him into a kiss. She grinned at him when she let him go.

"Go get him, Danny" she smiled before running over to check on Dani and the human innkeeper as well as the shocked bystanders.

Vlad was in shock as Danny flew up to him, a huge grin on his face.

"Check it out V-man! Guess who's back and better than ever!?" He exclaimed before punching the older ghost in the face and causing him to fly back into the trees below.

Mavis cheered along with the others while Danny flew down to a thermos that Vlad had dropped. Three guesses as to why Vlad had such a thing. The teen smirked as he aimed it toward the ghost. Memories flooding back of when he used to fight for good, using the same thermos to fight.

"Now, Daniel, think. You're nowhere near a ghost portal. And you can't just leave me in there." he tried to reason, changing back to his human form.

"No. I can't. But due to your banishment, I can just keep you in this thing until I decide a proper punishment for your actions. I am the Ghost King after all." And with that, Danny let the thermos suck the billionaire in.

He capped it just as Mavis ran up to him and tackle hugged him. The white haired teen responded by spinning the vampiress in the air, his years of fighting giving him the strength and the balance to do so.

Alright this story is almost done! I was in a bit of a hurry so please let me know if there are any parts that don't make sense or need to be edited so I can get on that. The next is the last chapter as well as a preview of Phantom Hotel 2! It was so great to hear all of your opinions and reviews and I'm actually so relieved that there were no hate comments! XD See ya next chapter!