We open the trunk to Spencer's SUV and start handing out gear to the girls. Mona oddly enough was prepare for such an event. Each girl got gloves and shoes retro fitted to fight ghosts in their sizes. While Hanna, Paige and Emily got glocks, Spencer and Mona was rocking shotguns. I can tell Paige is still upset with Emily but must have forgiven her already as I watch her give Emily tips on how to handle a gun but Emily shows off that she must know a thing or two about guns already. Doesn't surprise me. Her dad is army after all. Next place I look is at Mona, Hanna and Spencer. As Spencer loads her shotgun, Mona is giving tips to Hanna on how to point and shoot. She looks over to me and smiles, giving a small wave. Although I was just as upset as Paige, I couldn't stay mad at Hanna for long, any of them to be honest. Finally, I look over to Aria and notice she was shadow boxing and throwing some kicks. "Nice form Aria." I say as I approach her."

Aria looks at me and smiles a bit. "Thanks. I been learning self defense ever since all this started." I hold out my glock and she shakes her head. "No thanks. Guns kinda freak me out."

"Aria...I can't let you go in the unarmed. Please take the gun." When she shook her head again, an idea came to my mind. "Hold on." I walk back to the SUV and retrieve my katana, Gōsutosureiyā. As I start to walk to Aria, Mona stops me.

"What are you doing?"

"Giving Aria Gōsutosureiyā." I start to walk again.

"Whoa whoa whoa." Mona stops me once more. "You can't just give her that blade. You know it doesn't just let anyone use it."

"I got a good feeling about Aria. Just trust me." I smile at Mona then walk over to Aria. "Aria, here." I hold out my katana. As Aria is reaching for the katana, it starts to resonate. Aria sees this and steps back from me. "Aria...it's okay." Aria takes a small step forward and takes it out my hands. "Now...take out the blade."

Mona joins us. "I am telling you Sam. It won't let her use it." Aria slowly unsheathes the blade and Mona eyes widen. "Or maybe it would let her use it. How did you know it would let her use it?"

I shrug. "I didn't know. Like I said...I had a good feeling about Aria and Gōsutosureiyā. Aria, give it a swing." Aria starts swiping in the air with precise strikes.

"Well I be damn." Mona crosses her arms and smirks. "Gōsutosureiyā must really like her."

"I didn't know I could even do that." Aria says brightly.

"Now with that settled, everyone has a weapon now." I say, looking at everyone. "Now we just need to get the detection programs on their phones. Mona?" Mona starts typing into her phone and a sec later, the girls phones start to make noises. "That, ladies, is a program that allows you to detect ghosts."

"Why didn't you have this on when we was on that ride from hell?" Hanna pouts.

I roll my eyes but smile to show Hanna I wasn't annoyed. "Because someone wouldn't let me use my phone."

"Excuse me if I was trying to keep technology out of our date." Hanna mutters.

"You went on a date? With Hanna?" Mona ask with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Yeah. What's it to you?" Hanna answers for me.

Mona is about to respond but I cut her off. "Ladies. Focus. The program will allow you to detect ghosts. It will make a beeping noise."

"Kinda like the thing from Alien. Like a motion tracker of sorts." Spencer chimes in.

I point to her. "Exactly so keep an eye on it. Also know this, your guns have salt rounds. Salt…"

"Disperse the ghost but doesn't kill them." Paige injects. "It buys us time."

"Exactly Paige. There is only one weapon we have that can completely kill a ghost." I point to Aria. "And Aria is carrying it."

"A sword can kill ghost?" Emily's tone full with curiosity.

"Gōsutosureiyā can. It's a special blade."

"Gōsutosureiyā? What's that? Japanese?"

"Yes. It means The Ghost Slayer. It can kill ghosts and it's special for another reason. Aria, hand the blade to Spencer." Aria hands the sword to Spencer. "Now try to unsheath the blade." Spencer tries to unsheath the sword but it won't budge.

"What the hell?" Spencer cusses as she tries to take the blade out. "It won't move."

"Let me try." Hanna takes the blade from Spencer and tries her luck but to no avail. "Shit. It really is struck. You gave her a faulty weapon babe."

I laugh. "Think so? Alright, give it to me." Hanna hands me the blade and I try to unsheath myself but the blade won't budge. "What the…" Gōsutosureiyā isn't responding to me anymore. "Aria?" I hand her the blade and she unsheathes it with no problem.

"What the hell? How did she do that?" Hanna asks, mouth agape.

"Seems Gōsutosureiyā has chosen a new wielder." Mona smirks.

"Seems like it." I should be bitter but I am not. The fact that it chose Aria means it wants to protect her. "That's what makes it special. The sword chooses who gets to wield it. It chose Aria."

"But why? Why did it choose me?" Aria asks while she looks at the blade, her eyes glowing.

I was about to say something when we hear a car horn. We look in the direction of the noise and see a black car roll up along side of the SUV. Two bodies step out the vehicle and I waved them over. "Guys, they are here to help us."

"Who are they?" Mona asks as she watches the two approach us.

"Cops."

"The hell? Why are cops here?" Hanna asks with a bitter tone.

"Yeah. Cops aren't exactly friendly with us." Emily chimes in.

"These two are. Garrett spoke to them, plus they was the ones that got me out of the station. They're cool." When they reach us, I hold out my hand. "Bryant." I shake his hand and look at Anderson, taking her hand. "Anderson."

"Lucy. My name is Lucy." She shakes my hands and looks at the girls. "Thought we was here to investigate a train, not fight a war. Why are they here anyway?"

"I didn't want to leave them alone plus I wanted them prepared. Mona, may you give them some salt rounds for their guns?" Mona nods and runs over to the SUV. "You guys won't need live rounds but keep them handy just in case things go sideways." Mona comes back and hands them two clips each.

"Why do we need salt rounds?" Bryant asks.

"Because it does something to ghosts. I googled it." Anderson says with a bit of pride.

"You can find anything on google these days." Emily mutters and Paige smirks.

"Anyway…" I say to shut everyone up. "We will separate into three teams. Paige, you will lead Emily and Bryant."

"Why is a 17 girl leading me?" Bryant tone had annoyance.

"Because she has more experience with this then you. Don't like it, leave."

"She's even hotter when she gets all bossy." Hanna stage whispers to Mona, who smirks.

I glare at Hanna and she does the zipper over the mouth move. "Anyway...Paige, you will lead Emily and Bryant. Your team will check out each car. Mona, you will lead Aria and Spencer. I want you guys to check the front of the train. According to some rumors, the train moves on its own. I want your team in front just in case. Hanna and Lucy will come with me. We will take trail position. Our primary reason for being here is to find and talk to Garrett. He has information that he thinks we need to hear and when a ghost is trying you that, you listen. Anyone that finds him, let me know via walkie talkie." I throw Paige and Mona a walkie talkie. "Channel four." We tune the talkies and check them.

"Just like old times." Mona says, tilting her head up a bit.

I nod. "Just like old times. Alright, let's move." My phone rings and I see I received a text from Tim. "Be careful Sam. We dug up James's grave but it was empty. The body wasn't there." I say to myself.

"Sam...you alright?" Mona asks me.

I put my phone away. "Yeah. Yeah I am okay." With that everyone starts heading to the train. As we are heading the train, the teams are forming up. Emily, Paige and Bryant walk side by side, going over their orders. Aria and Spencer are having a look at Aria's newest weapon. Anderson and Hanna are talking about something, couldn't make it out...shoes? Maybe? I don't know. Maybe it's their way of staying calm. Mona slows down and pulls my arm, forcing me to slow down with her. "What is it?"

"You sure having Hanna with you is a good idea? You tend to draw attention." The expression on her face had worry written all over it.

"Like you don't Mona." I say, trying to light the mood.

"Seriously, switch members. Take Spencer and I will take Hanna. Not too much trouble could happen in front of the train."

"Alright. We can switch members." Mona smiles and runs up to Hanna to tell her. Hanna turns to me and I shrug. She returns the shrugs and keeps walking. Mona then runs up to Spencer to tell her. By the look on her face, Spencer looks confused by the sudden change. She looks at me and like I did with Hanna, I simply shrugged. Spencer regards me for a second but nodding and saying something to Aria. Aria nods and Spencer slows down to catch up with me.

"What's up with the sudden change? Aria and I was going over a good plan."

"Mona made a valid point about something."

"About what?"

"That you both had the shotguns." I lied although it did make sense to have someone that has a shotgun with us.

"Fair point." Spencer says with a shrug. We finally reach the train and Spencer whistles. "I don't remember it being this long. Damn."

"I know right?" Hanna says. "Maybe cars were added?"

"Doesn't make sense though." Emily chimes in. "The train was decommissioned after what happened."

Anderson nods. "True. The train company didn't like the idea of keeping a train that had a murder happen on it in service. Although if you read the blogs, people wanted to get on this thing. Another part of the rumor is that it is haunted."

"Haunted trains, mean spirits, hot chicks with guns, knives and swords….oh yeah...just like old times." Mona quips. "Alright everyone good luck. See you on the other side."

Mona and her team head up to the front of the train. Paige approaches me and puts a hand on my shoulder. "Alright. We are going to hit the middle of the train. If things go sideways…"

I put a hand on Paige's shoulder. "We get the hell out of here. Be careful." She nods and heads to the middle of the train with her team. I turn to my team, Spencer and Anderson. "Alright ladies. Let's find us a ghost." We enter the last car of the train and can't see anything. I put the talkie to my mouth. "Mona. Can you get us some light?" As I finish my question, the lights suddenly come on. The train lights up and for a decommissioned train, it was well kept. "Thanks Mona."

"That wasn't me." Mona voice comes in static form.

"What do you mean it wasn't you?" Paige chimes in.

"I mean it wasn't me. We didn't do anything."

"Alright." I cut them both off. "Just keep a look out for Garrett." I put the talkie back into my pocket and look at Anderson. "I'll take point. Anderson, cover our six." She nods and turns her back, pointing her gun. "Spencer, on me." Spencer follows me, shotgun readied as we slowly move through the car. I check my phone and nothing yet.

"The train is completely empty. Nothing is here." Anderson says, pointing her gun into empty seats. "Garrett sent us on a wild goose chase."

Spencer suddenly stops and looks around. "You hear that?"

I stop and listen. Faint music fills my ears. "I hear it."

The talkie buzz with noise. "Guys. I can hear music." Emily's voice comes through the talkie. "Guys...my phone…"

My phone starts to buzz. Dots were appearing to the sides of us, as if they were in the seats. Suddenly we are jolted forward. "What the hell?"

"Umm guys?" Anderson says as she is looking out the window. "We are moving."

Spencer joins her at the window. "Why are we moving?"

"Sam, do you copy?" Mona says, the static making her voice barely hearable. "Spri...tra...w...on...a...on a...spiri...tr…"

"Mona? I didn't get that. What?" I spoke into the talkie. "Say again."

"Gho….ever….b...th...seem...harml…." Paige's voice fill the static.

"Paige? Mona? You guys copy?" I hit the talkie. "Shit. I lost them…" I stop my sentence as I notice ghosts were all around us, looking at us. "Whoa. That is what she was saying."

Spencer looks around. "Are these ghosts? Why aren't they attacking us."

"Mind getting off me love? I might be dead but a knee into my balls still hurt." A ghost spoke to Spencer, causing her to quickly jump up from the seat.

"What the fuck is this?" Anderson questions. "There are dead people all around us."

"You don't look that great yourself hun." A female ghost spoke in a way that indicated she was from the 1930s.

Anderson eyes widen. "She spoke to me…"

"Yes. Back in my day, young people had respect for their elders. They didn't swear and they certain didn't insult people." A male ghost says, wearing an attire that says he died in the late 1800s.

I feel a tug on my pants leg and it's a young boy, looking up at me. "Umm are you alive?"

I smile and ruffle his hair. "Why yes I am. We are alive."

"See?" He says as he looks at a group of children, ranging from the age of seven to ten. "She's alive. All three of them. Thanks lady." He runs over to the group.

Spencer joins me by my side. "They are friendly."

"That's because we are on a spirit track."

Anderson joins us. "What's a spirit track?"

"I can answer that." A familiar voice fills my ears. "It's a train that is full with spirits that are going to various locations. Like the living world, spirits need transportation."

"Sir Donald? Is that you?" I approach the spirit that was talking to us.

"Ah. Young Samantha. Haven't seen you since St. Louis." Sir Donald replies with a smile on his face.

"Wait. You been on one of these before?" Spencer asks me as she slowly approaches me and Sir Donald.

Sir Donald laughs. "No need to fear young lady. No one here will harm you." He smiles as he see Spencer relax a little. "Now young Samantha. What brings you to the Rosewood tracks?"

"Looking for someone. Garrett?"

"Let me check the manifest." A clipboard suddenly appears in his hand. "Garrett….Garrett….ah! There he is. A Garrett Reynolds. Met his end on this very train. He is here. Car number seven."

I smile at Sir Donald. "Thanks." I hold out my hand and he shakes it.

"Not a problem young Samantha. Anything for the girl that helped out the tracks from time to time." He tilts his hat at us and smile. "Enjoy your ride on the tracks."

As we make our way to car seven, spirits of all sorts are looking and talking to us. Spirits as far as the 1400s are here. "This is just so surreal. Some of these ghosts look like they been here for awhile." Spencer says in a tone that says she is actually enjoying the experience.

"Spirit tracks are some of the coolest things ever." I simply reply.

"So you actually ridden a spirit track before?" Anderson questions me.

"Yeah. That's how I met Sir Donald. We helped each other back in St. Louis. I was looking for a deadly spirit and that spirit decided to hide on the spirit track. The spirit threaten to destroy the track so we stopped him together. Been cool ever since."

"Girls normally your age have friends that are...well...alive." Anderson smirks.

"Hello?" The talkie cackles. "Sam? Paige?" Hanna's tone was one of worry.

"Paige here. Finally the damn thing is working again. So get this, we are on a train full of ghosts. That is crazy."

"Paige? Thank God. This is crazy. We are talking to conductor right now. Have you heard from Sam's team?"

"Sam here. You alright Hanna?"

I hear Hanna sigh into the talkie. "We are alright. Mona is talking to the conductor about getting the train to go back to where we started. Any luck finding Garrett?"

"Actually yeah. Car seven. He's there."

"Alright we will meet you there." Paige chimes in.

"Roger that Paige."

"Did you seriously just say roger that? Help me someone, I am falling for a dork." I can't see Hanna but I can tell she is smiling as she says that.

I roll my eyes. "And I am falling for a smartass. Over and out."

"Hey we made it." Spencer points the number above the door. "Car seven." She readies her shotgun as Anderson readies her pistol. "We can't afford any chances."

I nod and go into the car first. Strange. It's empty. I see the far end door open and Paige's team come pouring our, guns drawn. We check seat by seat till I finally found Garrett. "Garrett." Me and Paige had our guns drawn on him as the others looked around.

"You came…" Garrett says in a whisper, wheezing. Something was wrong with him. "All I wanted to do was protect Spencer…"

"Protect me? Protect me from what?" Spencer questions Garrett. She pushes me to the side and grabs Garrett by the collar. "Garrett!"

"You can't let it get Alison...if it does….it's over…" Garrett coughs out.

"Garrett!" Spencer shakes him. "What does it plan on doing with Alison?"

"It plans….to open….the rift…I'm sorry Spencer…." Garrett's hands start to catch on fire. I pull Spencer back as Garrett fades away. I'm sorry Spencer was the last thing that can be heard throughout the air. Suddenly everyone is jolted forward and we all fall.

"What the hell?" Bryant calls out.

"Mona." I speak into the talkie. "What's going on?"

"We are just as surprised as you. The conductor is gone." Mona replies. "And from the looks of it, the passengers are gone too."

I hop up and check the number eight car. Everyone was gone, even Sir Donald. "What the hell?" The train starts moving again but backwards. "Mona, please tell me that was you this time?"

"That I can take credit for. I getting us back to Rosewood. Something doesn't feel right about this." Suddenly I hear gunfire through the talkie. "Hanna! What the hell are you doing?...What do you mean you saw something?...Sam. Hanna says somebody is heading your way. Aria is giving chase."

I hear more gunfire coming from in front of me and a window breaking. "Shit! He's on the roof!" Paige yells out. She tries to climb out through the broken window but Emily stops her.

"Paige! I am not letting you go along plus you can't fit through that window." Emily says to Paige, placing her hands on Paige's shoulders.

"She can't but I can." Aria says, moving over to the window. "I'm not letting him hurt you this time." She climbs out the window giving chase.

"Aria!" Spencer calls out to no avail. "Sam, you have to help her!"

I nod and follow Aria out the broken window but before I can get out the window, Emily stops me. "We put rounds into him but nothing. Please be careful, Nate is a nasty piece of work." Nate? I nod and pull myself to the roof of the car. I see Aria with the blade drawn, trying low to keep balance. The figure in front her was tall and was wearing white tshirt of sorts that had a blood stain on it. It was James, full body. Shit...he's been reanimated.

"I was hoping for Emily or Paige. Instead I get two little girls." James says with a wicked smile. "I guess I could hurt Emily if I took one of you away." He charges at Aria and I dump rounds into his body. He stumbles back and laughs. "Is that suppose to hurt?"

"I bet this does." Aria charges him and slices upward at James. He blocks his face and gets his left arm sliced clean off in the process.

"Little bitch." James grabs Aria with his right hand.

"Aria!" I call out and shoot James in the left leg, causing him to kneel on it. Aria wiggles out of his grab, not before delivering a powerful knee to his face. James stumbles back further but somehow kicks Aria, sending her over the side. "Aria!" I run over to where she was last and look over the side. She is hanging on thanks the blade, which was piercing the side of the train.

"Sam! Watch out!" Aria points up. I turn around and Nate grabs me by the neck, lifting me up off me feet. I kick my legs out but to no effect.

"I never choked the life out of anyone. Wonder if Emily's face will look this good when I choke her out in front of Paige?" James says in my face. I was losing the fight to breath when a shot rings out and I see a bullet hole in James's forehead. He drops me and I coughing, holding my neck. I look to the direction which the shot came from and it's Emily, standing there.

"Help Aria…" I cough out and point to the side where Aria was. Emily rushes over and pulls Aria up. Suddenly James grabs Emily by the neck and slams her against the ground.

"I will send you to hell with me!" James screams out.

"Hey Nate!" I hear Paige's voice. "I'm sending you back to hell first!" I see she is holding a can of hairspray and a lighter. Aria stabs James in the right arm and his grip on Emily loosens just enough for Emily to escape. She crawls over to me and Aria joins us.

"Paige! Now!" Emily screams out. Paige rushes over into range of James and lights the lighter then sprays the contents of the can at James. A line of flames shoot at James, engulfing him. James screams out, flailing around. James falls to the ground and starts crawling over to us. "Goodbye Nate. Stay in hell!" Emily kicks James in the face, sending him off the side of the train and we hear a crunch. The train must have ran over his body.

Paige rushes over to us and checks everyone. "You guys alright?" She checks Emily's neck. "That is going to bruise." Then she checks my neck. "Yours is even worse." The talkies crackle. Mona's voice comes out of them.

"Paige? Sam? Anyone?"

"Paige here. The girls are alright. Nate is finished."

"That's good but we got bigger problems. Get everyone to the engineer's car. I will explain once everyone is here."

Once we get back into the train, we all head to the engineer's car as Mona requested. When reach it, Hanna and Mona are looking at her phone. Hanna looks up. "Holy shit. You guys alright?"

"We're fine. What's going on?" I walk over to them.

"I had Lucus keep an eye on things back at Rosewood while we was on here. He sent me a live link to a newscast." Mona shows me her phone. The rest of the girls gather around.

"We are coming to you live from downtown Rosewood. Something is happening. If you look behind me, there is a green light in the middle of the road…"

"That looks like the hole that Alison opened up that night. A rift." Hanna says, eyes glued to the screen.

"Wait. There is someone standing by it. Someone in a black hoodie." The camera zooms in and the hoodie figure pulls down the hood. It was Bethany but not Bethany. Her eyes are completely red, her skin was gray and blue like veins were all over her face. "It appears to be a young lady." Bethany raises her hand towards the rift then quickly pulls it down. Suddenly things start coming out the rift, appearing all over the area. "Oh my God! Something came out the…" The reporter was cut off by Bethany slicing his throat. The camera falls to the ground and you can see the cameraman fleeing but soon he caught by other spirits and ripped to shreds. We hear screams as the camera shows people running for the lives, cops firing shots before themselves are killed. Suddenly Bethany's face fills the screen.

"Alison…" The voice was monstrous. Bethany's voice was no longer there. "Come out from hiding or more people will die." The feed cuts off.

"Oh my God….oh my God….those people….Erza!" Aria panics. "Erza is still in town!"

"So is Toby!" Spencer cries out. "We have to do something!"

"It wants Alison. Plain and simple." I say, as calm as I can. "So we give it Alison."

"Can't give it Alison. How the hell do we give it a dead girl?!" Anderson screams at me.

"We can and we will."

Paige and Mona look at each other. "Sam...you can't." Paige speaks up.

"She's right." Mona adds. "I know what you are thinking. It's a bad idea."

Everyone looks between us. "What idea?" Hanna asks.

"If I don't do it, more people will die. When we get back to Rosewood, we are handing over Alison." I say, ignoring Hanna's question. "We have no choice."

"What idea?" Hanna gets a little louder.

"Sam you can't do it. You will be pointing yourself in the line of fire. How will you even defeat it?" Mona folds her arms across her chest.

"I'll use 'her'."

Mona's eyes open wider. "No you can't be serious. Sam, that thing nearly killed you last time."

"What are you two talking about?!" Hanna screams out, making me and Mona jump.

I look at Hanna, her face and eyes pleading with me to tell her my plan but if I did, she would only try to stop me. I turn to Mona. "I'm doing it. I'll stop A or die trying."

A/N: Hoping everyone is enjoying this story. The music used in this chapter at certain scene.

Music used during the train ride: The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks - Overworld Theme

Music used during the fight with James: Time Crisis Two soundtrack - Fight on Train

Music used during the newscast: Deathnote - Kira's Theme