Author Note: Sorry for not updating in a while, but chapter 5 is almost done as well so it will be up shortly.
Chapter 4: Inner Power
The thing that grabbed Clockwork was covered in black clothes even his face was covered, all but his right eye. It was still speeding off with Clockwork into the vastness of the Boundaries of Time. The evil one was no where to be seen in this mixture of The Ghost Zone and the real world. The thing landed on a rock similar to a rock in The Ghost Zone, but it looked like something from the real world.
Clockwork starred at the strange thing that saved him wondering, I didn't know anything lived in The Boundary of Time. I wonder who or what this thing is.
"You must have a lot of question Clockwork. About who I am, and why I saved you," the thing said to Clockwork.
"Well yes I do, but first I must know how do you know of me?" Clockwork said unable to come up with answers for the first time ever.
"I know of you Clockwork because you are the one of the chosen ones that will defeat the evil one forever. You see in this world of mine we don't have time to be measured, but we do see events of your world, both Earth and The Ghost Zone. These events happen at random times all over The Boundary of Time, and we only see pieces of what happens. However, the event that will lead to the evil one's defeat has been seen a lot because it involve mine world along with yours. The Boundary of Time is a place where no one can see what happens, and what happens here can never be changed; for it has no time to change.
"You and the evil one live outside of time in your world, for that is the reason you two are able to travel in this world. However, you don't have the training in this world like the evil one does. But, in this world you are more powerful than him, more powerful than me Clockwork. You think your powers only extend as far as your world, well you are wrong. You need training Clockwork if the evil one is meant to die forever."
"If I'm more powerful than the evil one, then why did you say I'm one of the chosen ones?"
"You are more powerful than the evil one only in The Boundary of Time. The reason for this all comes back to the creation of the Ghost Zone, the creation of The Boundary of Time, The Four, and where your powers over time came from.
"Lets start from the beginning then, The Four original ghost where created, how they were no one knows not even The Four themselves. They found out quickly of their ghost powers, and used them to create a world of their own, The Ghost Zone. However, even The Four did not have the power to create something out of nothing, so they tied The Ghost Zone to a life supporting planet, Earth. In order to do this though they needed to create a place that was beyond both Earth and The Ghost Zone; a place beyond time and space where Earth and the
Ghost Zone would always be connected. This is the reason Earth cannot live without The Ghost Zone, and why the Ghost Zone cannot live without Earth. They became one world that shows the illusion of two separate worlds. The true connection, The Boundary of Time, can only be seen for those few that live outside of time because this place exist only outside of time.
"Now as for The Four they each held a part is creating The Boundary of Time and The Ghost Zone and with it created a world where some living thing from Earth go after dying. However, this was not what they intended to do, but it was too late to change it. This is where the evil one of The Four got power hungry. He wanted to rule over the new world along with taking over Earth as well, but the other three of The Four stopped him and imprisoned him. However, they knew one day he would return, so they prepared for that day by putting me in charge of The Boundary of Time, and you in charge of all of time for Earth and The Ghost Zone. They then gave up their ghostly lives to go someplace else. Some may call it dying, but it is much more than that, you see by doing this all their power became part of other ghost in The Ghost Zone, and since they lived outside of time their powers still reach out new ghost.
"Both you and me, Clockwork, as you know were already touched by their power in preparation for the evil one's return. You were given more of their power than me because you don't live in The Boundary of Time, and you were also given a small part of the evil one's powers. You see the evil one was imprisoned for a very long time, so he watched certain events unfold, and without really realizing it a small part of his power came to the ghost that travel through time the most, you Clockwork. In The Boundary of Time you are the strongest because you hold a piece of power from each of The Four. The power you got from the evil one gives you the power to kill a ghost, it was his creation when he turned evil, and now you and him are the only ones to have this power. You came to The Boundary of Time to find out how to kill a ghost and now you found that you had that power all along."
"I will guest that to unlock this power I must train as you said before, but before we start the training you have yet to answer two of my questions. One, who are you, and two, who else is one of the chosen ones?" Clockwork said.
"You already know who the chosen ones are, and you have already interfered with their past."
"So I was right about Danny and Ember."
"Yes. Now for the answer to who I am. My name is Shroud the protector of The Boundary of Time. And as for the training you guest right, and I will be the one to train you," Shroud said.
"I see Shroud so let us begin before the evil one shows."
"Not so fast Clockwork. I know that you knew many things that I've told you, but I still gave you much information about things you didn't know. However, now I must be the one asking you a question. How did you know that Danny and Ember were the ones that needed their past changed?
"I knew because before the three good ones of The Four gave themselves to go to another place they told me to 'Watch for the one who is part ghost, for he is the one you will change the most. Change his future you will see, and in turn good he will be. A girl's past you must change, and it will be revealed with a turn of a page. She will be born of a flame, but all she wants is fame. When the two become one, the evil one will be done.'"
"I see so they gave the information you needed knowing what you would do with that knowledge. Enough of this talk though we need to start your training before the evil one finds us."
Shroud trains Clockwork to unlock his inner power given by The Four. They train for what seemed like years, but of course time does not existed where they were so really no time past at all. They saw many stories through the ages of Earth and the Ghost Zone, but none of them were important for their mission that they did not already know. They constantly traveled through The Boundary of Time hoping the evil one would not pick up their trail until Clockwork released his inner power. The more they traveled the more Earth like and less ghost like it became. They were heading for the Earth end of The Boundary of Time where they hoped to force the evil one back to Earth where he would be destroyed forever.
Clockwork stopped at the end of The Boundary of Time starring in the opposite direction waiting for what the battle that is meant to come as he says, "Are you sure I'm stronger than him here?"
"Yes, but like I said you can only release your true power here where all of The Four's power comes from," Shroud said knowing that everything, all of time, would be determined by the one battle that no one could predict for it would be in The Boundary of Time.
"I have learned how to release the power I have gotten by The Four, but two things bother me. One, how do I know for sure that I can beat him here, and two, how can I kill the evil one on Earth when I can't release this power there?"
"You know the secret to the second way to kill a ghost, and you can use it anywhere. However, the ghost you use on must be beaten…"
"Yes, I know. That is where Danny and Ember come in," Clockwork said as a dark could form in the horizon, the evil one was approaching.
"It's him. The time has come Clockwork for the first battle to determine the future must be held here and now."
Clockwork and Shroud looked at the black cloud of dust and notice the evil one was the cloud. "It looks like he took the form of dust and used it to spread himself all over The Boundary of Time in order to find us," Clockwork said.
"Looks that way."
The back cloud took notice of Clockwork and Shroud and slowly turned back into the beast form of the evil one as he said, "Look who it is Clockwork and Shroud the two people I have been searching for. It seems that the hunt for you Clockwork was longer and more enjoyable than I first thought. However, the hunt is finally over, and now the battle will begin."
Just then the evil shot out a massive display of hundreds of echo energy blast right at Clockwork and Shroud. Shroud took cover as he deflected a few dozen of the shoots. Clockwork on the other hand headed straight for the middle of the seemingly endless steam of echo energy blast. As he did so he powered up his time staff with untold amounts of echo energy, and fired the blast with explosive fiery just before the evil one's shoots destroyed him. Clockwork's blast broke through and destroyed nearly all of the echo energy the evil one sent at Clockwork. However, the remains of Clockwork's blast headed right at the evil one, who powered up his hand and swatted the remainder of the blast away.
"Where is your strength coming from Clockwork?" the evil one said as he glared at Clockwork.
"This is my strength in The Boundary of Time, I'm stronger here then anywhere," Clockwork said.
"Your may of gotten some strength from Shroud and The Boundary of Time. However, I'm still far stronger than you will ever be," the evil one said as he fired a powerful ghost ray at Clockwork.
Clockwork used his staff to deflect the ghost ray, and sent a ghost ray of his own at the evil one, but the evil transformed into his dark cloud form causing the ray to go right through him. The dark cloud surrounded Clockwork from all sides that were closing in on him, but before the dark cloud could consume him, Clockwork put up the ultimate ghost shield, which shined in the darkness. Clockwork summed his power to extend his shield, which caused the evil one to turn back into his monstrous form.
Meanwhile Shroud was not just hiding watching the battle unfold, he was sneaking around the battle careful not to draw the attention of the evil one. Clockwork and his plan was for Clockwork to hold off the evil one in a fierce battle while he would sneak around the evil one and wait for his chance to hit the evil one with everything he had. This would give Clockwork the chance to get a good hit on the evil one, which hopefully would cause the evil one to retreat back to Earth.
While Shroud slowly made it around the battle, the evil one transformed again into a ghostly appearances of a giant that had a giant hammer that pounded on Clockwork's shield. The shield was slowly breaking, in which he used his power to make the shield smaller, but stronger as he poured more and more of his echo energy into the shield, while the evil one pounded harder and harder at the shield with his massive hammer. With each swing of the hammer the ghost shield weaken more and more, until it began to crack. At that point it only took a few more swings of the hammer to break the shield no matter what Clockwork did. The hammer stuck the shield one last time and broke it to pieces, and as the hammer came crashing down to the ground with untold of force, Clockwork dogged the hammer just in time. The earth shattering boom cause an
earthquake that Clockwork couldn't doge. As the Earth like rock came down all around Clockwork, he unleashed his power and blasted all the rocks away, and out of the dust, to the evil one's surprises floated Clockwork unharmed.
The evil one in his giant form attempted to strike Clockwork, but Clockwork used his staff to fire a vortex of swirling echo energy at the giant's feet, which caused him to fall. However, before he landed he turned into thousands of bugs that landed all over the battle field. These bugs surrounded Clockwork as Clockwork once again used his ghost shield. However, the bugs slowly ate through the shield causing Clockwork to blast his way out of the thousands of bugs that covered his breaking shield. Clockwork then opened up the clouds and summoned a huge blast of echo energy that covered anywhere the bugs were. At the last second the evil transformed into a rock creature that shielded him from the blast.
Meanwhile, Shroud got into place with the battle between him and Earth. Now all he had left to do was to wait for the evil one to let his guard down long enough to allow him to summon his power and blast the evil one with all his might. He waited and watched the most amazing battle ever; every time one of the ghosts seemed beaten they came back with even most power than before. The battle was so amazing that even Shroud, who was the protector of The Boundary of Time, could not look away from the amazing, but frightening battle.
The evil one in the form of the rock creature seemed to be able to withstand anything Clockwork thrown at it. Clockwork fired blast after blast, but nothing seemed to affect it. The rock creature attacked Clockwork with full forces, but Clockwork put a ghost shield, not around himself, but the rock creature. This stopped it, but it kept ramming into the wall of the shield. However, Clockwork put the shield around the rock creature, causing the rock creature to fall apart as the ghost shield around it broke.
The evil one was not done yet; out of the pile of rocks he formed back into his monstrous form, and started shooting at Clockwork wildly and angrily. Clockwork easily was able to either dodge or block this mad display, and as the evil one for the first time in the battle focused only on Clockwork, and nothing else. This was the perfect time for Shroud to strike, and with every once of his power he fired a massive blast directly at the evil one. The evil one was too focused on Clockwork to notice the blast, and he got hit directly with it, causing him to fall near the Earth end of The Boundary of Time. This gave Clockwork time to strike the evil one back to Earth, and with a smirk the evil one said, as he fell out of The Boundary of Time, "Fine Clockwork, we'll settle this of Earth, where I am more powerful than you and Shroud combined."
"So the battle's over Clockwork," Shroud said as he floated to where Clockwork was floating.
"Yes, but there are a few things that I must take care of before the evil one is taken down for good," Clockwork said as he gave Shroud his goodbyes and left The Boundary of Time.
Clockwork in the Past
Clockwork just arrived to the time and place that Danny and Ember were fighting. Danny just used his ghostly wail and Ember just used her guitar at the same time at each other causing a
huge explosion that caused both Danny and Ember to go flying to the ground. Just when the explosion was over Clockwork made his way to the colletion where red and green echo energy still remained. He used the echo energy to write the word connection, and then used his staff to exit the seen.
Author Note: So I decided to write all the chapters from one person's view. Again I'm sorry about the lateness of this chapter, but chapter 5 is almost done. Chapter 5 will be about Dani and Jin, but don't worry after chapter 5 the next 3 chapters will be Danny and Ember. Thanks for reading and reviewing.