Danny didn't understand what he was going on, he just had a gut feeling that he needed to be with her, see her one last time. As he got close to the hospital he turned himself intangible and invisible so no one would see him or know he was there. He entered at the lobby area, he went behind the counter and looked up the room Sam was staying in. Once he knew where she was at he began to search for her room.
"All life support has been pulled Mr. Manson." Danny caught conversation as he almost flew by the hallway. He looked back seeing the Manson's talking to a doctor out side a room that he assumed Sam was in.
"Thanks again doctor for doing all you could." Mr. Manson said sitting outside the room. He was working on some paper work as the doctor spoke.
"I just wish I could have done more. But all her pain will be over soon, she should be at peace very soon." He said grabbing his charts. He looked down at the two, they were to involve with their paper to acknowledge him. He walked away shacking his head. "This whole time that poor kid has been alone, and now she has to die alone." The doctor muttered as he unknowingly passed Danny.
Danny looked strangely at her parents as he walked up to the door they sat in front of. He looked down at the papers that they felt were more important than spending there last precious moments with their daughter. "Their will." Danny thought to himself giving the parents a disgusted look. "That's more important."
He looked up at the door that held Sam. He took a deep breath then walked though the door slowly. As he entered he saw Sam's body lying in a white bed in the corner of the room. He could hear the beeping of the machines that were keeping track of her breathing and heartbeat. As he walked closer he noticed that she didn't have any support machines hooked up. "I guess that's what the doctor meant." Danny said softly as he neared the bed. His chest tightened as he finally came up to her. "Sam." He asked softly reaching out his invisible hand, taking her hand. "Sammy." He muttered as he slowly began to stroke her hand softly as he looked over her. She had bandages all over her arms and chest. Blood could still be seen though the bandages on her chest, her face had a few scratches, and her expression was of one in extreme pain. Danny took a deep breath to try and settled himself; he didn't even try to stop the tears that invisibly fell. He sat down on a chair that was placed next to her bed. As he wiped a few tears with his free hand he saw something shine out of the corner of his eye. It was something tucked behind her shoulder. Danny carefully reached around Sam's bandages and pulled it out carefully. It was her 'accursed' pendant, since it would not come off the doctors must have just pushed it away. "It's a beautiful piece." Danny muttered to Sam's quite body. It was shaped with the dragon's body curled around it's self with it's head in the middle with a silver chain. It was an all silver piece, with an exception to the dragon's eyes, the stone's where the same shade of amethyst as Sam's eyes. He placed the pendant down on Sam's collar line so it would not be hidden. "Clockwork told me everything about your pendant Sam." Danny started letting his free hand join his other hand holding Sam's lip one. "You didn't have to be afraid to tell me, I would have understood. You didn't turn away from me when I got my powers; you helped me and stayed by my side the whole time. I would have done the same for you." Danny sighed hearing the beeping from the machines behind him begin to slow down. "Listen Sam, I want you to know, I didn't mean for this to happen. I should be the one here, not you." He stopped as his tears became more uncontrolled. "I didn't mean to hurt you." He finally broke down sobbing. He leaned his body down on the side of her bed, burring his head into the covers. "I love you Sam." He muttered though his sobs. Suddenly he heard the machines behind him all start screaming at once. He jumped up seeing her heart rate had stopped and was now flat lining.
Danny then looked towards the door, hearing footsteps coming towards it. "Sounds like it's finally over." He heard the doctor's voice say sadly.
Danny was now completely unable to control his sobs; he knew he had to get of the hospital. "Goodbye Sam." He managed to choke out finally letting go of her hand. Just as the doctors and her parents entered the room, Danny took off. As he flew towards home he was having trouble controlling his powers as he began to completely get lost in his sorrow. He managed to land at the end of his block in an alleyway, immediately turning back to his human side. He ran the rest of the way back to his house.
As soon as he opened the door his mom looked up for the sofa and saw him. "Danny!" She almost yelled running over to her emotionally distraught son. "Are you ok?" She asked pulling him into a hug.
Danny sobbed into her shoulder and tried to calm himself down. "She's gone…" he muttered softly. By this time Jazz and his father had found them. "Sam died." He choked out as another wave of sobs over took him.
"Oh Danny." His mother soothed holding her son tightly.
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The night was another quite one. Danny had confined himself to his room, still unable to control his tears. Jazz had called Tucker to give him the grave news. It was almost ten pm when there was knock at the door. "I got it." Jazz said knowing that no one else was listening. She looked thought the window before she opened the door. "Tucker?" she said opening the door for him.
"Hey, sorry to come over so late, but I just wanted to drop this off for Danny." Tucker sniffled handing Jazz the items. "Danny left them in my room today, I think he may need them." He said seeing Jazz looking at the items questionably.
"I'll take them up to him." Jazz said setting the items down on a table. "Are you ok?" she asked softly seeing Tucker wiping tears away from his eyes.
"Not really." Tucker sobbed unable to control himself anymore. "I got to go." He cried softly walking towards the door.
"Hey." Jazz said stopping him. She immediately pulled him into a comforting hug. "If you need anything, just ask." She said softly letting him go.
"Thanks." He sniffled softly. Jazz watched as he began to run the rest of the way home.
Jazz then picked up the items Tucker had left for Danny. She walked up to his room and knocked on the door. "Hey Danny can I come in?" she asked.
"Yeah." She heard Danny sniffled softly. As she opened the door to the dark room she saw that he was on his bed, hiding his face in his bed.
"Tucker just dropped this off for you. He said that you might need it." She said setting the items down on his desk.
Danny sat up and looked at what Jazz brought. "Thanks Jazz." He said quietly reaching for the dark purple pillow. He hugged it tightly and fell back to his bed.
"Goodnight Danny." Jazz said leaving him.
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The world spun in darkness as a pair of eyes shot open. Darkness was all that could be seen as the body instinctively took a deep breath as her fresh lungs began to receive the life giving air. She shook her head, hoping her senses would start to kick in helping her find out where she was. As her eyes began to adjust she could see a small crack of light from the side of her head. She lifted her hands finding a wall directly in front of her face, she felt it and found that she was incased in something hard. Her ears then began to pick up on voices out side of the container. She cautiously pushed on the wall in front of her and found that the top half did lift. She lifted her head a peeked out before opening the container she was incased in. She saw a line of booths on either side of a walkway. "I'm in a church." She side quietly. She then saw a group of people at the very back of the room. She carefully and quietly opened the lid and climb out of the box. As she shut the lid she saw what she was laying in. She then took a quick look around, making sure no one saw her, then took off towards the back of the room, and out one of the side doors leading to the outside.
"A funeral. I was in a coffin." Sam gasped getting her barring. She looked down at herself seeing dressed in elegant pink dress, fancy high heal shoes, and expensive jewelry strung around her neck and arms. "Oh, I must be dead." She moaned at her attire. Sam then looked down at her Rolex watch that was wrapped around her wrist along with other expensive jewelry. "A week! I've been out for a week." She gasped not believing how long it had been. She then looked around her not recognizing any landmarks it was all open fields, with the exception to the church and graveyard. "Where am I." She asked standing up. She began to walk away from the church though one of the fields. She walked for about a mile before the field turned into farmland. She was now walking though a wheat field. As she came to the end of the field she could see a small house and a young girl hanging laundry outside. "Excuse me." Sam called not wanting to sneak up on the girl.
The girl turned around and looked surprised at the person coming out of the crops. "Yes, can I help you?" she asked not knowing how to respond.
"Hey, I'm a little lost, could you tell me where I am?" Sam asked.
"You in a wheat field." The girl smiled at Sam's expression. "Just kidding, your just outside of Oxford." She responded.
"Oxford, England?" Sam questioned.
"No, China…" the girl laughed again. Sam was starting to like this girl. "Of course England."
"Alright, thanks." Sam thanked. She was about to leave when the girl stopped her.
"Hey I didn't catch your name." She said stopping her. "My name is Laura." She said extending a hand.
"The names Sam." Sam said taking her hand.
"That's a very pretty dress Sam." She said trying to be polite.
"You like it." Sam smiled getting an idea.
"I love it, why are you ruining it by walking through the fields?" Laura responded.
Sam looked back at the close line seeing a worn out purple t-shirt and a pair of ratty black jeans. "Want to trade?" Sam offered.
"Trade?" Laura looked at Sam questionably.
"Yeah, those jeans and t-shirt for the dress." Sam said hopefully.
"Are you serious?" Laura looked at Sam like she was crazy.
"I'll though in the shoe's and this diamond necklace for a pair of boots." She said showing that she was serious.
"Deal." Laura laughed grabbing the close off the line for her. "I can't believe this, here you go." Said happily handing Sam the cloths. "You can change inside." She said pulling Sam into the house.
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"You have no idea how much you've helped me." Sam thanked after changing out of the dress. She walked into the kitchen where Laura was waiting. She handed her the dress, and placed the shoes on the floor next to her. "I don't do pink." Sam laughed as she began to take off the necklace to give to her.
"Well whatever, thanks so much. Is there any thing else I can do for you, I know your getting ripped off here." Laura asked as she watched Sam remove the expensive necklace. As Sam finally removed it, Laura's eye caught something else. "Wow." She gasped jumping from her sit. "That's a beautiful pendant." She commented looking at the dragon emblem around Sam's neck.
"What, oh thanks." Sam said a little surprised by Laura's reaction. "That's a family heirloom, that's staying." Sam said hesitantly backing away from Laura.
"I'm sorry, its just I've seen symbols just like that before." Laura said embarrassed by her action.
"Really?" Sam asked now curious.
"Yeah, I've seen them on the walls of the old remains of a castle not to far from here. No one really goes to any more, there afraid of the spirits. They say that every night two ghost dragons come out and battle over land. Rumor says that they've been sent by ghost of their kings to reclaim the land." Laura explained.
"Really." Sam said as she analyzed what she had just said.
"Oh come on Sam, its just stories." Laura laughed at Sam's reaction. "Besides there's no such thing as dragons anyway. But if you say that's a family heirloom, maybe one of your ancestors used to live in the castle, or maybe they were royalty."
"I dough that." Sam laughed. "So where is this castle?"
"It's about thirty miles north from here. Your not going to go there are you?" Laura asked concerned. "Dragons may not be real, but those ghost are."
"No, no, I was just curious. I just couldn't image you living so close to it safely." Sam lied. "I just wanted to make sure you lived out of harms way."
"Ahh, don't you worry about me." Laura said happily. Sam smiled the looked towards the door knowing she had to get going. "My parents will be back from the fields soon, did you want me to ask if they could drive you into town?" Laura asked.
"No, that's ok, but I really must be going." Sam said making her way to the door. "Thanks again for the trade." Sam said waving goodbye to her new friend.
"No, no thank you. I finally have something nice to wear." Laura smiled waving back to her. "I hope I see you again." Laura called as Sam began to walk away.
"I'll make sure of it." Sam called beginning to leave, north, of the house. As she got farther away from the house she began to enter a forest. Once inside she ran deep into the thick tree's to make sure that she could not be seen. "Two day hike…" Sam said letting her body begin to glow. "A few minutes flight." She growled to herself as she finished transforming into her dragon self.
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It had been almost a week since Sam had fought Dan. The Nasty burger was just now starting to be clean up. Life in Amity Park continued as it normally did despite Sam's absence. Tucker and Danny had been excused from the C.A.T. test after their parents explained the situation. Neither had gone back to school the rest of the week. Tucker had gone over to Danny's house everyday to check on him. Ever since he saw Sam in the hospital he seemed to be slipping into a deep depression. He never moved from his room and complained that he was always cold. "Maybe you're getting sick." Tucker said felling Danny's for head. It was ice cold.
"What ever." Danny moaned hiding himself under Sam's pillow. "Danny you can't keep going on like this." Tucker said pulling the pillow away from him.
"Well what am I suppose to do? Sam's gone." Danny cried turning away from Tucker.
"Do you think she would want you laying around all day, crying over her." Tucker said getting annoyed with Danny. Danny looked up at him surprised by his sudden out burst. "No! She would want you out fighting ghost, saving the day."
"I'm sick Tuck, I'm not going anywhere." Danny stopped sneezing on to his desk. As he sneezed a blue haze came out of his mouth turning the papers on his desk to ice.
"What is going on with you?" Tucker asked now concerned for his health.
"I don't know, I just can't seem to warm up." Danny shivered. Suddenly his bedroom door flew open. Jazz ran into the room out of breath. "Danny! Help!" Jazz yelled as a vine whipped into the room grabbing Jazz by the back of her head.
"Jazz!" Danny yelled jumping out of bed turning phantom. He ran over to her and tried to remove the vine.
"Danny! Look out!" Tucker yelled pointing to more vines coming from the doorway. Danny grabbed Tucker flying him out of his room and up over the city to see what was going on. The whole city was covered with vines. "What's happening?" Tucker gasped.
"I don't know." Danny sniffled looking down at the people below him. They all had vines stuck to there head, their eyes glowed with a green light. "They're destroying the city." Danny commented pointing to a group chopping down power lines.
"What do you think that vine is?" Tucker asked.
"It's a mind vine." A voice rose behind them. Danny turned around and found himself face to face with a hugs plant like ghost. "Soon the whole world will be replanted and my children will inherit the earth." The ghost laughed.
"Who are you?" Danny asked trying not to appear weak.
"I'm Undergrowth, and with your help the world will so be mine." He laughed knocking the two out of the air.
Danny was able to control himself enough to not crash land with Tucker, but as soon as he hit the ground vines came from everywhere attaching themselves to Tucker and were closing in on Danny. Danny held his arms to himself, as he felt cold now flowing though his whole body. He tried to run but a vine wrapped it's self around his leg. "Get off." Danny yelled. As he shivered the vine turned to ice and he was able to pull his leg away. "I've got to get out of here." Danny cried taking off into the skies.
"Going so soon." Undergrowth's voice boomed there the air. Danny flew head first into the giant plant ghost. "There's on where you can hide. My vines are everywhere." Undergrowth laughed again knocking Danny out of the sky.
As Danny fell, he saw that he was falling towards his home. He went intangible and fell into his basement. "Hopefully he's not everywhere." Danny sniffled looking towards the ghost zone.
"My children will find you, no matter where you try and hide." Undergrowths voice called as vines began to form into smaller ghost plants. Danny soon found himself surrounded.
He fried an ecto-blast at one, but as soon as it went through it, it regenerated and all of them came towards him. As they closed in again Danny's body began to shake from the cold that filled his body. "Get away." Danny yelled as the cold began to take his body. As the plants tried to grab him, they froze solid. Danny looked up at the ghost statue. "I've got to get out of here." Danny sniffled. He looked towards the open portal and made a run for it. As he entered the ghost zone two Undergrowths plants nodded to each other and quickly followed.
Danny flew though the ghost zone, not knowing that he was being followed. "I've got to find help." He shivered holding his arms around himself. "I can't stay air born, it's too cold." He trembled beginning to be over come by the cold that filled his body. He began to lose consciousness as he flew into an icy part of the ghost zone.
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"That must be it." Sam growled to herself as she spotted the rubble from the air. Sam had guessed that she was in England because she must have appeared dead and her parents brought her body to here to burry her with her relatives. The last thing she could remember was being in extreme pain and hearing Danny's voice beside her right before she blacked out. For some reason the pendant did not clam her life. Sam didn't quite understand what was going on, but she had a feeling that if this was Aragon's old kingdom may hold some answers.
"That's defiantly Prince Aragon's emblem." she though landing in the middle of the rubble seeing his dragonhead emblem on just about everything. She changed back to her human self and began to look around. "These are the same letters from the pages in my ghost book." She said as she looked below the emblem. As she looked around the rubble she found more sections of text. "I wish I had my decoder." She sighed looking around at all the symbols. Then one symbol caught her eye it was hidden behind a vine bush. As she moved the leaves she saw it was a swirling circle with what looked like sprits coming out of it. Right above it was a picture of the moon, underneath was an outline of a huge circle. "It must be one of those natural ghost portals that Frostbite told us about." Sam assumed. "It must open at night, that's why the ghost dragons only appear at night. Sam looked at her watch. "I still have a few hours till dusk. I might as well try and get some sleep." She yawned finding a shady spot under a part of a fallen wall.
Sam woke a few hours later with the last bit of sun in her eye. "Right on time." She yawned starching out as she woke up.
She watched as the sun quickly set then she went back to where the ghost portal was supposed to open. As if on cue as soon as the sun fully set, the voices of Aragon and his sister Dora could be heard from the wall. Sam watched as the wall began to glow and open up a ghost portal. "For the last time it's my kingdom!" Aragon's voice boomed as the two dragons flew out of the portal, Aragon pinning his sister down as they fell.
"And why can't it be mine, just because I'm a girl." Dora yelled knocking him off of her.
"Excuse me!" Sam yelled stepping out into the clearing.
"What!" Both dragons yelled looking down at her.
"Sam?" Dora gasped surprised to see her.
"Your alive!" Aragon growled in astonishment. "How can this be?" he said lowing his head down to make sure that the pendant was still around her neck.
"Get away from her." Dora yelled knocking her brother way. "Are you ok?" Dora asked giving Sam her full attention.
Sam smiled at there surprise. "Of course." Sam said happily.
"But it's been months, how can you still be alive?" Aragon asked staying behind his sister.
Sam looked away in disappointment, she was hoping that they would have more information for her, but it seemed that they were just as amazed, as she was that she was still alive. "She's a very strong girl." Dora retorted.
"It doesn't matter. She must pay for what she's done?" Aragon growled getting annoyed that Sam didn't suffer for what she had done to him. "I lost my kingdom because of her." He yelled beginning to build a fireball in his mouth.
"You lost your kingdom because you lived in the past." Dora countered stepping in front of Aragon, sending a fireball to meet his.
"You will not win this time sister. Then, once you're unable to protect that 'accursed' I'll finish the job." Aragon yelled firing another fireball at Dora, this time it hit.
"Hey!" Sam yelled getting Aragon's attention back. "Your fight's with me!" she yelled transforming into her dragon half.
"You've got to be kidding me." Aragon gasped. "She can control it!"
Sam looked at him, happy that he underestimated her. She shot a fire blast of her own and sent the unprepared black dragon soaring a few feet away. "I can't believe it, you can control it?" Dora said standing beside Sam.
Sam looked up at her, not realizing that she was barely half the size of her and her brother. "What is there to control?" Sam asked, but only growls came out.
Dora cocker her head at her. "I'm sorry, but when you're in that form on one can understand you. All I hear are growls and snarls." Dora explained.
"She got nothing worth saying anyway." Aragon growled as he recovered from the blast. Sam snorted at his determination and took to the skies. Aragon followed just as Sam had planed. Almost like she did to Dan, she stopped abruptly, but instead of grabbing him, she fired a fireball at him, sending him hasty back to the ground. Sam flew back down towards the ground, but remained airborne.
Aragon hissed as he rose from the creator that he had made with the impact. "Let's see you do that again." He said as he lunged at Sam, grabbing her by her snout. Sam balled her fists as she struggled to free herself, but as she opened them she felt herself forming an energy ball in her hand. "What the hell is that?" Aragon hissed. Sam took advantage of his surprise and pushed him away and threw the two energy ball from her hand. They hit their mark, sending him flying more than a few feet away.
Dora flew over to see her brother. "You knocked him out cold." She said happily.
"What was that?" Sam growled but then realized it was silly since no one could understand her. "What was that?" She asked as she transformed back to her human self.
Dora came back to her and transformed back to her ghost self. "There are many rumors about that pendant. The fact that you're not dead is amazing." Dora said happily.
"Well I was hoping you would have more information. You see, almost a week ago I did die." Sam started. "I woke up this morning in a coffin. How come the pendant did clam my life, like the other wears?" Sam asked.
"Unfortunately I can't answer that. You see the 'accursed' was designed to be used on a criminal, not a girl with strong morals and a clean soul." Dora started. "My brother had no right putting it on you, but for some reason your able to control the dragon half. You see none of the others could control it. They would either change or not, and once they did change there was no way for them to stop. You on the other hand can control it, and you seem to becoming more powerful. That blast from your hand is not something we can do. We're ghost with a pendant that can transform us into ghost like dragons. Your able to transform into a dragon, your not a ghost dragon. I don't really have any information about that. I'm sorry." Dora finished.
"I see." Sam sighed disappointed.
"But you have a strong spirit and mind, and your soul is clean, maybe that's why the pendant doesn't effect you like the others. They were criminal's, and as with many convicts there mind and will power are weak, and souls are soiled because of what they have done." Dora said happily. "And who knows, the text on these walls could hide something too."
Sam looked at the symbols around her. "You mean you can't read them?" Sam asked surprised.
"They were written decades before me and my brother were born, and ancient language that is no longer spoken when we lived." Dora explained.
"Well thanks for the help." Sam thanked looking back towards her brother who was beginning to stir. "I really need to, I need to get back to Amity Park as soon as possible." Sam explained.
"Well if you take the ghost zone it will put in right outside our castle. With out any distractions you should be able to get there in about an hours flight." Dora explained.
"Thanks." Sam thanked again turning back to her dragon half.
"Don't worry about Aragon, I'll take care of him." Dora smiled transforming back to her dragon half. "Good luck." She waved to Sam as she flew into the ghost zone.
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