Soon finished with both dinner and dessert, the team and other Superwolves and I went back to Rip. Hercules of course joined us and Meg and Phil left on Pegasus to return to their homes.

We turned the corner towards the forest to the left, and the sight of it immediately spooked the other Superwolves and the team. It was a traditional Halloween forest: dark, gloomy, with barren trees and bushes and no sign of life.

"Oh no, like, not a haunted forest," Shaggy moaned. "They always lead to haunted buildings."

"Uh, Shaggy," Hercules said. "We don't have haunted buildings in this World."

"Like, still, I'm not to happy about this."

"Relax, like I've said before, it's safe." I said.

At that moment a flock of bats, which were apparently awake because of the darkness of both forests, flew near the haunted forest…freaked out and zipped away in the opposite direction!

"Why did they react like that?" Brock asked.

"Because n-none of us should go in!" Fu-Fu suddenly cried.

Startled, we turned and saw him shivering with complete terror. The other animals too were nervous, but not as freaked out as Fu-Fu.

"Look, we have to go through here anyway and I am not leaving anyone behind!" I said a little sternly.

"I don't know, shouldn't we follow Fu-Fu's instinct?" Darwin said. "I mean I'm not too comfortable about going in there either."

"You prefer to stay in the comvee instead of going outside at all you know." Eliza pointed out smiling.

Darwin gave Eliza an amused-yet-annoyed smirk and remained quiet after that.

I automatically turned to domes on, even though I didn't need too, and prepared to go through, when suddenly what sounded like banging started. I turned around, and noticed that it was coming from a compartment filled with blue misty smoke!

"Danny!" I said.

Rip immediately opened Danny's compartment and sure enough, as the smoke disappeared, Danny sat there coughing.

"It's about time I almost choked here!" Danny said angrily.

"Sorry, I forgot." I said sheepishly.

"Er…is that stuff coming out of your mouth?" Ash asked Danny, looking a little grossed out.

"Yeah, it's a ghost sensor." Danny explained. "Boy it never reacted like this before, there must be a lot of ghosts…oh."

Danny wasn't the only one who froze at that, the other Superwolves and the rest of the team realized that the forest was full of ghosts! Shaggy and Scooby immediately zipped out of their compartment and went behind us, their backs turned to us.

"Like no way are we going in there!" Shaggy said.

"Ro ray, ro!" Scooby agreed. "Ri refuse!"

"Thanks guys." Casper said sarcastically. "That's really nice."

"Rorry rut re rave ra ratural rear rof rhosts."

"Perfect." I muttered under my breath. "Look for the third time that forest is not dangerous!"

"Like, we don't care!" Shaggy said.

"Now what?" Rip asked me.

"We'll take care of them later," I replied. "First we better lower Danny's ghost sensor so that he doesn't get choked again."

"You can do that?" Danny asked, glancing at Sam.

Fortunately Sam wasn't trying to figure anything out for once so Danny looked back at me.

"Thanks to Boss," I answered. "Hang on while I get the potion from Jack."

I went into my compartment and a couple of minutes passed before I came back. When I did I ran up in a burst of fright and quickly shut the door! A few seconds later an explosion of smoke suddenly burst opened the door!

"Any casualties Jack?" I called down after the smoked cleared.

"I'm a little dazed but I'll be fine!" Jack called back.

I did one of those cartoony reactions that meant: "Cut it out.".

"Nice try Jack but you can't get dazed!" I called down. "I was referring to the lab!"

"I know, I was joking!" Jack laughed, coming up. "The lab isn't too bad, Computer and I will be able to fix it up without your help."

"Oh well that's good then," I said. "So what number try was this again?"

"Twenty," Jack said without any amusement. "Nineteen more to go."

"Hold it," Ron W interrupted. "What is going on here?"

"Oh right sorry." I said before explaining: "You know how I said not to worry about Father's antidote? That's because I've already gotten a hold of it and Jack is now working on altering it."

Quite a lot of people, including my fellow operatives obviously, looked ecstatic.

"Altering it?" Brad asked. "To do what?"

"To allow kids to grow up while still remaining kids inside." Jack smiled.

That got our friends, mostly my fellow operatives, to become very excited, but then Tuck grew quiet.

"Why not just make it so that kids remain kids all over?" He asked.

"Because that wouldn't be fair to the kid-friendly-adults that already exist." I explained.

The other Superwolves and the team had to nod in agreement.

"So how long have you been working on this alternate antidote?" AJ asked.

"Since…since the June after I became a Superwolf and joined the Kids Next Door." I explained. "I joined the Kids Next Door in early May and found out about the antidote from one of my drones, though at that time I had no idea of Father's horrible plot – he probably didn't either for that matter – and Jack got to work on it soon after I had managed to duplicate the antidote and sneak it out."

"He's been working on it for about six years?" Numbuh Four said. "With only twenty tries?"

"Well as you guys saw doing it wrong causes an explosion." Jack explained. "See, there's this one ingredient that is very tricky, put in too much and you get an explosion, put in too little and you get poison. Unfortunately you have to put in the whole thing in at once instead of measuring it out drop by drop. I started with forty drops because Boss said that would be the safest point to start. He wasn't entirely correct."

"What's the ingredient called?" Mandy asked.

"I only know its scientific term and since it has some magical words in it you guys won't be able to figure it out."

"Yeah," I agreed. "Only the Stone Gods know what it really is and they're not telling us because it's a rare ingredient that only they can get. Fortunately Boss supplies us with it."

"Boy," Jimmy N said. "Doubling the force of that explosion I'm surprised none of you were killed on the first try…. Wait a minute…."

"Jack…." Velma started. "Jack did get killed the summer after Miranda became a Superwolf…."

"You got it." Jack said. "This was the potion that killed me."

The other Superwolves and the team were stunned speechless for a minute. Misty was the first one to get her voice back.

"And…and you're still doing it?" She said. "Wouldn't that traumatize you?"

"If I didn't take a long break between tries yes." Jack said. "But I still do it not only to help my sister but the Kids Next Door as well…despite the fact that I still remember the pain it caused before I died." He shuddered a little.

Considering Jack is-sixteen-but-should-be-twenty-one you can bet that moved my fellow operatives a little. Oh, the cartoon versions of our parents married sooner than the Main World versions, which was why Jack and Jojo exist only in cartoon forms.

"So…what exactly happened?" Chester asked.

Jack and I took turns explaining that first time the antidote was experimented on:

This was back when we lived in a house instead of an apartment. My room was up front, with two windows on opposite sides and a sliding mirror door closet next to the door to my room. Our parents were at the movies, with Jojo and Jack looking after me. Jojo was reading textbooks about fighting outside on the back porch, my husky Rose and I were reading comics on my bed – which had the head against the wall opposite from my closet – and Jack was working on the antidote in his lab just beyond the closet. To get into his lab you go into the closet and through a door behind my clothes, fortunately a little magic allowed him to fit a large lab into the narrow wall, same with the rooms above the lab. Suddenly there was a huge explosion that reached my bed, but fortunately I covered my head and Rose's head with a pillow. After most of the smoke cleared, Rose and I rushed for the closet, which had a door thrown off and onto the floor. What a mess! Plaster, wood, and my clothes and shoes were burnt and thrown about, Rose and I had to move a few beams just to reach the door to the lab.

"Jack?" I called as we made it to the doorway – that door had also been thrown off. "Jack, are you all right?"

I soon saw Jack to my right. He was unconscious and lying still on the floor!

"Jack!" I cried, rushing to him.

I soon saw that his head had been smashed against the wall and was bleeding!

"Jack, please wake up!" I pleaded.

It was no use, he was dead!

I sat near him and cried, and that was when Jojo rushed in. However, he had an entirely different attitude than mine about this.

"I…knew…it!" Jojo started angrily."I knew this would happen! You should never have planned this stupid idea of yours! You killed our brother!"

I couldn't believe my ears.

"I killed him? I KILLED HIM?" I screamed. "I never forced him to do this he did it of his own free will! Even though Boss warned him about the dangers Jack still wanted to do it! At least we care about kids unlike you stupid no good rotten adult!"

"ROTTEN? NO GOOD?" Jojo screamed back, losing his temper. "ADULTS ARE MUCH BETTER THAN KIDS WILL EVER BE! YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE JOINED THE KIDS NEXT DORKS!"

That did it.

"What did you call them…WHAT DID YOU CALL THEM!" I yelled. "So it's finally out! Well for your information Dodo I'll DIE before I betray them! You're not our brother you're an enemy!"

"So I am!" Jojo agreed. "And you will be too once you turn thirteen! No one can stay kid friendly forever!"

"Jack has been a living argument against that one, and for your information I'd rather take poison than join the adults!" I shot back.

"SILENCE!" Someone behind us roared.

It was Boss! Jojo and I were so busy arguing that we didn't even see the glow of his arrival.

"Jack had every right to do that antidote and for that he deserves his life back, the Human Stone God sent me down for that very purpose." Boss said.

Boss raised his paws and a glow shot from them and onto Jack! When the glow left Jack stood up alive! But something about him ended up different.

"Oh thank you Boss…what?" Jack asked, noticing that he was being stared at.

He walked over to his unbreakable mirror and noticed that he was a skeleton. That caused a few moments silence until Boss spoke.

"Jojo I am very disappointed in your character." He said sternly. "I say a change must be made here: from now on Jack will lead the three of you instead of Jojo."

Jack and I stuck our tongues – Jack had a magical tongue that allowed him to talk – at Jojo at that.

"Stupid wolf," Jojo said to Boss; that shocked us even more than possible. "Just wait and see, I'll end up being the most powerful adult ever! I'll kill all of you, I'll kill the Kids Next Dorks as well! I'll…!"

I punched him to shut him up.

"No one, I repeat, NO ONE INSULTS THE KIDS NEXT DOOR IN FRONT OF ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!" I yelled.

"Jojo as new leader I forbid you from my lab and immediately order you out of here!" Jack said.

"I'll go farther than that." I added. "I forbid you from Jack's lab, my room, and the Kids Next Door world to boot!"

"I second the motion!" Jack agreed.

"Motion carried!" Boss agreed. "Get out!"

Instead of leaving however, Jojo got up to attack me. This was where Rose finally did something, she leapt and bit him hard on the leg, causing him to stop and try to harm her instead. Before he could do anything, I picked up a beam and hit him hard on the head, he fell unconscious and Boss magically sent him back outside. We then talked about Jack's new look, how to continue working on the antidote, and how to let our parents know. On the parents issue we decided that I should warn them before they saw Jack. They screamed anyway when they saw him. After they recovered they agreed with Boss about letting Jack lead from now on. This was when Jojo disappeared….

My friends were horrified about Jojo, and my fellow operatives were red in the face with anger.

"That rotten little…." Numbuh Three started.

She's the most cheerful one in the organization so that should give you a good indication of the rest of my fellow operatives' anger.

"I know." Jack interrupted. "And we haven't seen him since he disappeared. So what did you want to see me about?" He asked me.

"Huh?" I said, a little distracted from the antidote situation. "Oh right! Er…as you've probably noticed Danny's ghost sensor has been activated so I'll need that tone-down potion."

"Ah right." Jack left and a bit later came back with a potion flask. "Here you go."

"Thanks." I replied, taking the flask.

I then went over to Danny and gave him the potion. He drank it and then started gasping as if he drank something hot.

"Hot!" He gasped. "That's hot!"

"It's supposed to be," I explained. "Your ghost sensor is cold so of course heat has to be used to lower it."

"That reminds me," Casper said. "I'm a ghost and have been around him a lot, how come the sensor never worked on me?"

"I think it's because compared to the ghosts in Danny's world you're too solid for the sensor." I explained. "You're 3D while Danny comes from a 2D world."

"I guess that makes sense." Casper agreed. "But what about when Mufasa's ghost first showed up? Or when Scar's ghost appeared…."

"And the Boo Brothers?" Danny grinned. "I covered my mouth with my hand at those times until the sensor got used to the ghosts' presence."

"Sneaky." Lupin smiled.

Danny smiled back.

"Now all we have to do is get Shaggy and Scooby back into Rip." I said.

"Like, not even Scooby Snacks are going to work." Shaggy declared.

"Reah," Scooby agreed. "Ro ray."

"I prepared for that." I smiled.

Rip suddenly brought out a couple of trays piled with Scooby Snacks, but not ordinary Scooby Snacks.

"I altered these so that they have unique tastes: cheeseburgers, pizza, ice cream, Shaggerific sandwiches…." I said with a hinting tone.

"Sh-sha-sahggerific?" Shaggy said weakly; Scooby licked his lips.

"Shaggerific sandwiches?" Felicity repeated.

"You know those sandwich concoctions Shaggy makes at dinner?" Fred said. "That's what Miranda means."

"Oh."

"I'll give you a box of each flavor, which includes my family's Holiday Bar flavor." I added.

Holiday Bars are a family holiday treat that I introduced my friends to during Christmas in the Beauty and the Beast Adventure. They loved them.

Shaggy and Scooby gave in, they leapt into their compartments and started begging for the snacks. I gave them the snacks – which they finished pretty quickly – closed the domes so they couldn't escape, and went into the forest. The team and other Superwolves, except for Mickey, became pretty startled again as they saw the trees because the trees changed into white misty trees!

"What…. But…." Haddock stammered. "What happened to the trees?"

"What, those skeleton trees back there?" I laughed. "That was just a hologram to keep intruders out."

"Rout?" Scooby repeated nervously.

"We're not intruders guys." I sighed.

Casper and Danny, as well as Mystery Inc., stared at the trees thoughtfully.

"Wait…Miranda stop." Velma said.

I did and Velma reached out to touch one of the trees. Her hand went right through one!

"These are ghost trees!" She said, amazed.

"No wonder my ghost sensor reacted like that." Danny said thoughtfully. "So this is a ghost forest…but wouldn't that also mean ghost animals?"

As if to answer his question a ghost bat flew over us. Fu-Fu fainted at that.

"Er…well this explains why Fu-Fu didn't want to go in," Dongwa said. "But not why he was the only one that freaked out."

"Oh it was just because he's generally a nocturnal animal." I explained. "Night creatures usually have a better sense for things like these."

As we moved on we looked around and saw other ghost creatures. My friends were especially amazed to see mythological creature ghosts! Well, they knew mythological creatures exist in this world, they've just never seen ghost versions before. At one point I suddenly stopped, but don't worry it wasn't because of anything bad. I stopped because a sphinx ghost appeared from the forest to our right and smiled at me. I smiled back.

"Hello." The sphinx said. "Another meeting with the Fates?"

"Actually it's more of rescuing the Fates." I explained. "Have you seen robed men move through here?"

"Yes but I thought they were human ghosts since they were white," Sphinx replied. "They also showed up with a white wolf."

"That was Voldemort and the Death Eaters, they captured the Fates in order to use their powers to kill Harry."

"They're going to be in big trouble then," Sphinx said. "The Fates hate being mocked or imitated."

"Human ghosts?" Jimmy N repeated. "We aren't going into the Underworld are we?"

"As a matter of fact we are." I answered.

"But the Fates don't live there."

"No, but in this World they visit here so often that it's almost like a second home." I explained. "In fact they visit so often that Voldemort and the Death Eaters must've thought it was their real home."

"Oh."

Hercules suddenly gasped!

"That's the monster I killed!" He cried, shocked.

The rest of us looked up and sure enough he was right! The monster was huge, extremely huge, with so many heads that we couldn't count them all!

"It's a hydra!" AJ gasped. "They're dangerous!"

"Don't worry guys the hydra can't see us." I said. "At least in this World only ghosts that were once human or have human qualities can see living creatures."

"Really?" Clifford said. "Why?"

"Animals are more connected to nature, living or dead, than they are to actually living." Sphinx explained.

"Yeah, the only exceptions are pets, and they can only see their previous owners." Rip added. "It's also why Dementors can't affect animals."

"Wait a minute, hydras only grow multiple heads if you cut their previous heads off…." Jimmy N stopped.

He, the other Superwolves, and the rest of the team immediately looked at Hercules with disbelief.

"How long did it take for you to stop?" Jimmy N asked Hercules.

"Er…." Hercules began sheepishly. "It was my first real hero job and I was cutting the hydra's heads off by reflex. It took Phil screaming at me and the final amount of heads to get me to stop."

"Yeah I remember that." I chuckled. "Phil yelled: 'Will you forget the head slicing thing?' at you, it was actually funny."

Everyone smiled, amused. Even Hercules smiled.

"Well I won't detain you any longer." Sphinx said. "You better go and rescue the Fates."

I nodded, we all said "Bye.", and Rip continued on. Pretty soon we reached a stone door without any visible means of entering.

"Boy, someone fixed the door since I've been here." Hercules commented.

"I thought you were the one who ripped it off its hinges." I smiled; obviously I was the one who fixed the door.

I suddenly flew towards some stalactites hanging near the doorway and pushed on one of them. It clicked up as if on a hinge, and the door opened!

"Okay everyone get out," I ordered. "We'll have to walk down the stairs, Rip can't handle narrow staircases very well."

Sure enough the staircase beyond the door looked as if it could only fit a little over two people to a step.

"I'm not going down there without Rip." Jimmy E said again – again if you're referring to the Aladdin Adventure.

"Oh he's coming, he's just going to fly down." I said.

"Well then why can't we fly down with him?" Jonny asked.

I conjured up a headlight and aimed the light towards the side of the staircase. There the rest of the team saw stalactites…that were moving! A ghost bird flew in above our heads, banged into a stalactite, and flew back out! That prevented the rest of the team from asking any more questions, it was obvious that if we went flew down with Rip we'd get badly jarred and battered. So as Rip flew down - first taking care to put away the compartments so that Harry's body would be protected - the rest of us walked down the stairs. It was fortunate that I kept the light on, because the door had just shut itself behind us. We walked down a few steps, until we encountered a bad smell.

"Phew, what's that?" Scrappy asked.

"That's brimstone: burning rock." I explained.

"Isn't brimstone also dragon breath?" Ron W asked.

"Yes but…."

"DRAGON?" The Eds interrupted. "RUN AWAY!"

They quickly ran up the stairs, causing Clover to almost lose her balance off the stairs!

"Petrificus Totalus!" Hermione said, aiming her wand at the Eds just as Sam and Rudy caught Clover.

The Eds immediately became stiff, straight, and still, and they fell onto their backs immobile. Hermione then used her wand to move them forward in the air as we continued on.

"What were you thinking?" Nazz cried angrily to the Eds.

Of course the Eds couldn't answer in their stiff state.

"As I was saying…." I continued bitterly. "That doesn't mean that a dragon is actually down there and…DRAGONS ARE NOT EVIL! Stupid, prejudice…." I muttered under my breath. "Actually I know many good dragons and have never met an evil one."

No one said anything because they knew that the ones that have attacked knights and other people weren't evil, they were just wild. It was sort of the same thing as a tiger or other wild carnivore, except dragons are the only ones who breathe fire.

Hermione, Ron W, and the rest of the team and I continued on until we reached the bottom, and that was when Hermione unfroze the Eds. Then we noticed Rip resting on the ground and looking a little dazed. At that moment my friends noticed the river next to us, and realized that it was full of human ghosts!

"Suddenly I'm glad I'm not Greek or Roman…oh, uh, no offense Hercules?" Sheen asked sheepishly.

"None taken, I understand." Hercules replied.

"Say what's that?" Patrick asked, pointing to a dark spot on the water.

I shined my light there and we saw that it was a boat.

"Say where's Charon?" I said. "Charon? Charon?" I called out.

"Who's Charon?" Sheegwa asked.

"He's Hades's ferryman." I explained. "Charon?"

Sniffing around, I finally managed to detect his sent in front of a door. I explained to my friends that this was where Charon lived. Hermione, after we found out that the door was locked, tried to unlock it with her wand.

"Alohamora!" She said, using the unlocking spell. "Alohamora!"

"Uh Hermione," I interrupted. "Since it's not working you'd better stop."

"Fine." Hermione said dryly. "Got any better ideas then?"

I did, I backed up, handed Ron W my headlight, and in one burst broke the door down. After a while I managed to drag a tied up skin-covered skeleton out. This of course was Charon.

"Thanks." Charon said. "That stupid warlock and his lackeys locked me in there."

"Warlock?" Addy asked.

"That's what you call an evil wizard." Rip explained, having recovered from banging into the stalactites.

He then drove into the water and activated his flotation device.

"Don't worry we'll take care of that warlock," I said to Charon, getting into Rip. "Come on guys!" I called to my friends.

At that point a few ghosts suddenly clung to Rip!

"Sorry wrong boat, Hades is not with us." I said to the ghosts.

Looking disappointed, they went back underwater.

"They are always trying to force Hades into letting them go." Charon explained to my friends.

"Don't blame them." Shaggy muttered as he and the others got into Rip.

We started to leave.

"Good luck with that warlock!" Charon called after us. "Not that you'd need it."

"Oh dear," Jimmy N suddenly said nervously after a few seconds. "I almost forgot about Cerberus!"

"The three-headed guardian of the underworld." Jenny added nervously.

Just then, right in font of us, jagged metal walls opened to reveal a humongous three-headed dog! Cerberus! My friends screamed and ducked down as Cerberus gnashed his teeth at us! But then Cerberus suddenly sat up and panted like a puppy. Confused, my friends noticed that he was looking at me.

"Here you go boys!" I said as Rip shot out a steak.

I then enlarged the steak with a spell. Cerberus grabbed it with all three heads and started eating it as his tail wagged. That caused a wave that sent us forward.

"That's how I got past him back when I had that meeting with the Fates." I explained.

Hercules, the other Superwolves, and the team understood and we continued on…until we saw a gigantic eerie narrow skull up ahead, causing my friends to spook out. 'Spook out' is a cross between 'getting spooked' and 'freak out' by the way.

"Relax guys that's not a real skull," I said. "That's just a rock formation."

Despite how comforting that should sound, it didn't make the rest of the team feel that much better. We had just landed at the edge of the skull when I remembered something.

"Gee, we know that the Fates have been captured but I wonder what happened to Hades." I thought aloud.

As if to answer my question, those of us with sharp hearing heard someone coming down the stairs to our left. A few seconds later, a pudgy purple horned creature waddled down the stairs. It was Pain!

"Oh Miranda thank goodness…." Pain began. "OW!" He said, tripping over his own feet.

Pain continued saying cries of pain as he bonked down the stairs, then he flew off and headed for a large trident! I quickly used my wand to put a pillow on top of the trident's points. Fortunately the pillow beat Pain, who landed on his back on the pillow.

"Huh, if Pain's still here then Panic must still be here too." I said, sounding surprised.

Before anyone in the team could ask me why I was surprised footsteps were heard again on the stairs, except they sounded 'hurried' instead of 'waddled'. They were also louder than Pain's footsteps were, so some of the ones with regular hearing were able to hear it. Soon another horned creature, except bluer and thinner, appeared

"This must be Panic." George said knowingly.

Panic of course 'panicked' down the stairs, causing himself to trip just like Pain. Pain at this point partly recovered from his flight and walked off the pillow…which of course ended up in him falling off instead. Pain landed on the ground as Panic headed for the ground too…except he ended up heading for Pain's butt. I quickly removed Pain's voice temporarily as he gave a cry of pain. Panic soon managed to free himself from Pain and they both quickly recovered.

"Do you two always have to go through that routine almost every time you come down here?" Mickey asked, sounding a little annoyed.

He was annoyed because he didn't like how they kept hurting themselves. Hades already has done too much of that.

"We can't help it," Pain said after I gave him back his voice. "We're clumsy."

"Especially this fat one over here." Panic added bitterly, pointing at Pain.

"You're no 'graceful swan' yourself." Pain retorted, preparing to fight.

Panic prepared to fight too, until I stopped them with a pillow as they headed for each other.

"Keep it down will ya?" I said, exasperated. "Do you want Voldemort and the others to know that we're here?"

"Sorry." They both said through the pillow.

"Miranda, Hades has been captured along with the Fates!" Panic, well, panicked. "We didn't see where they were hidden because we weren't in the throne room at the time."

"Don't worry about Hades or the Fates," I said. "We'll free them after we get rid of Voldemort and the Death Eaters."

Pain and Panic suddenly seemed fuzzy and stiff. Obviously Rip had frozen time again – 'obviously' because the other Superwolves and the team knew it right away.

"You aren't friends with Hades are you?" Hercules said bitterly.

"No, no." I said. "We only have a 'business relationship' because he works with the Fates."

"I suppose you found some good qualities in Hades." Hercules added dryly.

"No, though I do like his sense of humor sometimes." I smiled. "Despite that we don't really get along, we're only polite with each other, rarely even friendly. We also made a deal that as long as he doesn't do any evil actions around me I won't treat him like I would treat any other evil person. Since I'm more powerful than him he agreed."

I flew Rip up during this and we went through the eye on the right side of the skull.

"My secret entrance." I explained to my friends. "Boss made this for me to use in case of situations like this and told me to freeze time whenever I use it. The Fates can't know what happens during a time freeze."

We soon reached an opening that glowed almost lime green – or light green, but you get the idea. Rip flew to a small narrow cliff that lead to a slow and huge whirlpool, which gave off the glow. Looking down, my friends saw with horror that the whirlpool was full of ghosts!

"Harry!" James cried.

Sure enough Harry's ghost was in there! To everyone's shock I suddenly leapt into the pool!

"Oh that was bad." Hercules said, worried. "That liquid in the pool ages you quickly."

"Hercules," I laughed, flying out of the pool. "You of all people know that you turn back to normal when you get out."

Everyone stared at me with almost-horror. Sure enough I was an old wolf, but a few moments later I started turning younger again until I was back to normal.

"Did I really look that bad?" I asked, reading the others' expressions.

"No, just never saw an age-change like that before." Numbuh Three explained. "Actually you looked pretty young for an old wolf."

"Genetics, in case you hadn't noticed dad looks young for his age too." I explained. "Plus I think my being young on the inside helps."

Everyone suddenly turned happy as they saw my back…Harry's ghost was on it! I went over and put his ghost back into his body. He soon opened his eyes: Harry was alive!