Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own Danny Phantom.
3)I only own the plot for this AU and the eventual OCs
4)Thanks Truephan, Christopher Scott and Little Fox in the Stars for your reviews.
At the Ghost King's castle, everyone in the room felt extremely weak. They didn't know the reason for that. Spectra had mixed feelings about that situation. On one side she was also feeling like crap, but the other was that no one was in state to go after her.
However, then she remembered about her…special ability. She was a leech. If she felt weak, all that she had to do was take the strength from others and right now they all smelled delicious.
She used the strength she had left to walk next to the bed where her husband was lying on and immediately removed his Ring of Rage and placed on her own index finger of her right hand. Pariah Dark was already weak and couldn't fight against that. He only growled at her in pure spite.
Spectra smiled and placed her hand over his chest and could feel all his bad emotions and started to feed herself with them. The king yelled in pain while Spectra felt a little better as she absorbed his energy. She intended to suck the energy of everyone in the room so she could erase all the witnesses.
Everyone in the room tried to escape from there, after all their Queen's skills weren't a secret to no one. But at each moment they felt weaker, Eric included.
Fright Knight got back on his feet and held the hilt of his sword tightly. He wasn't going to let the Queen murder the King and everyone else in the room. The general lifted his right arm, which held the sword, and stabbed against the Queen Spectra from behind.
She yelled in pain and broke the link she had created with her husband. The sword didn't perforate any vital organ, but it still caused a lot of pain and she now was bleeding a lot.
However, Eric couldn't celebrate anything at that moment. Every ghost inside of the Dead Forest started to lose their consciousness.
At Amikeco Parko, Danny resolved to be as useful as he could for the people in that kingdom. He would never forgive himself if he let all those people die.
Sam watched from the window as Danny turned into his ghost self. She found those two rings to be like bright halos and when he flew towards the rescue of the people of Amikeco Parko, in her eyes, he resembled an angel.
Danny flew as fast as possible towards the invading army. The boy gritted his teeth as he charged his hands with a blue aura. It was something he learned in his visits to Frostbite's village.
The boy unleashed ice beams from his hands and used it to put down the fire caused by the invading soldiers.
When the soldiers from Malnova Pordo looked to the sky and immediately froze in fear. It was a ghost. It was a ghost boy, but a ghost nevertheless. Besides, Danny was quite far from them so they couldn't tell it was just a teenager.
King William, in his wrath against King Raymond decided that all the talk about ghosts were just gibberish And he ordered that all ghost related stuff were destroyed. The king of Malnova Pordo thought King Raymond used ghosts as an excuse to make 'weird attacks' to other kingdoms and use ghosts to make the guilt not fall upon himself.
The army wasn't trained to fight ghosts either, but they've heard stories about how ghosts could suck their souls and plague their dreams if they ever encountered one. All stories were fake, of course, but they caused fear in the most valiant soldier.
Danny then focused in his hands a huge ball of ectoplasm energy. He then fired it against in front of the soldiers, making a crater. The soldiers didn't know that Danny couldn't take them all at once. And that eventually the boy would grow tired and wouldn't be able to turn intangible against their spears or arrows. Their ignorance was Danny's bliss, when all those grown up adult man screamed liked little girls and started fleeing from Amikeco Parko.
Danny smiled when they saw the army fleeing. He also wanted to leave, but he wanted to at least talk to his grandmother. Well, that's if she's willing to listen to him after all that happened. But he didn't want to leave without at least talking to someone of his mother side of the family.
When Danny returned to the royal room, after being sure every last one of the King William's soldiers left Amikeco Parko, there were several soldiers now having ectorranium-made weapons pointing at him. The soldier who had killed the king ran screaming that a ghost had killed the king. He put the blame on the ghost, so he could at least buy time to flee from there. He didn't want to be executed because of an accident.
"You're going to die for that, ghost scum!" snarled one of the soldiers.
Sam, who was held back within the grasp of her parents, managed to forcefully get rid of their grasp again and ran in front of Danny and tried to reason with the soldiers: "Listen. He didn't do it!"
"Sammykins! You have to get away from him! He's dangerous!" pleaded her mother.
"No! He had just saved this entire kingdom and it was that soldier who killed King Raymond! Are you all blind!" the princess snapped at them.
Danny was quite surprised to see that someone there was standing up for him. But the soldiers didn't want to reason with her and much less with the ghost boy: "The ghost must be controlling her mind! Don't fear, princess, we're going to save you!"
However, before they could attack, a voice said loudly: "Time out!" and then everyone just froze in time.
A blue-skinned ghost wearing a purple cloak holding a staff, with a clock at one of its ends, with his right hand and two necklaces with that same gear-like medallion with CW printed on them with his other hand.
The ghost stood behind the two teens and placed one necklace on Sam and Danny's necks. The two teens then came back to their senses they found it very weird that everyone else weren't moving.
"What is going on?" Sam asked to no one in particular.
However the ghost behind them answered the question for her: "I froze the time for them. You can move because of my medallions."
The two teens suddenly jolted at discovering someone was behind them. Instinctively, Danny stood in front of Sam to protect her from the unknown being. Clockwork then explained the situation for them: "I mean no harm, children. I'm here merely to help you."
"Why do you think we can trust you?" Danny asked very suspicious of that ghost.
Clockwork knew he would face such questions and for some reason he had a very calm smile as he answered: "If I meant harm, I wouldn't have placed upon the two of you my medallions."
Danny and Sam had to agree with the ghost's logic. But they still didn't trust him. Danny gave a good look at the medallion and he recognized it from the time his teacher, Alphonse, took him to the Cave of Beginning. And now the ghost was claiming that this thing belonged to him.
"My name is Clockwork, master of time, and I already know you two, Daniel Plasmius and Samantha Mason. Allow me to take this conversation to a place where we can talk freely."
Clockwork then spun his staff and a blue vortex took the three of them to a room full of clocks and some round mirror-like objects. These objects were the monitors where Clockwork liked to watch what happened in Earth.
The Time Master then explained: "This is my home. It's located outside of the time. So I can have a clearer vision at the past, present and future. You could say I'm a guardian of both ghosts and humans."
The two teens were aghast because of the sudden change of location that they barely paid attention to what the older ghost was saying. However, Danny exclaimed after realizing something: "It was your voice! I mean. It was you who called me all those times!"
Clockwork nodded and complemented the boy's statement: "It was a spell I placed upon the forests inhabitants. It was a way I found to, at least try, to make the ghosts stay in the forest. My call is at a subconscious level. It doesn't obligate anyone to follow my instruction, but it's a warning to not leave the forest. It's up to the people to heed my words or not. But you, Daniel, are a special case. You are half human. That made you able of actually 'hear' what I whisper."
Sam didn't understand what they were talking about, but then Clockwork said with a sly grin: "You can discuss that with Daniel later. The two of you will have plenty of time to talk in the near future. But let me start explaining why I summoned you here. It's because the two of you can save the human kingdoms you are related to and the entire ghost population from being destroyed."
The princess had to interrupt the Time Master to object: "Hang on! You take us unwillingly to your home and now you're demanding stuff from us? You're a very powerful ghost, right? Can't you do anything to stop the humans from killing the ghosts on your own?"
Clockwork shook his head and answered: "When I acquired these powers, I placed upon myself several rules. These rules are to prevent myself from meddling unnecessarily in the world."
"What?" both teens asked in union.
The man suddenly became a young child for their surprise and continued: "Time goes backwards and forwards for me. Like a pendulum. Imagine for a moment if I decided to constantly help everyone out with powers like mine."
Then he made a pause for the two teenagers to think. He already knew what they were going to answer, but he wanted to give them the chance of getting to the right answer. Just because he knew what was going to happen, it didn't mean he had something to do with it. Besides, doing this, they couldn't claim he didn't gave give them the chance of getting to the right answer themselves.
Danny was the one who took what the ghost said most seriously. As soon as the boy thought he understood the situation he snapped at the other ghost: "Wait a minute! If you did intervene, like you should, many horrible things wouldn't have happened! All those people wouldn't have died at my grandfather's kingdom and also my mother wouldn't be…"
Clockwork sighed. He couldn't blame the child for thinking like that. But the Time Master had a very good reason to not meddle constantly in the worldly affairs. "Listen, both of you, I'm a guardian. I make sure big tragedies won't happen."
"Really? So that whole attack at my home and my grandfather's aren't considered big enough for you?" the boy scoffed.
Clockwork turned into an old man and then answered the boy: "You put a stop at the invasion at Amikeco Parko quite easily, didn't you, child?" Danny was taken back a bit that remark of the other ghost. Clockwork smiled and than continued: "As for the ghostly invasion against your home, Daniel, if it had happened at any other time, I wouldn't intervene. But in this case, I will."
Danny and Sam were confused by those words. "What do you mean by 'if it had happened at any other time'? What is happening now that makes things different?" Sam asked.
"First, I must explain what caused the kingdom of Malnova Pordo to attack Amikeco Parko. The Ghost King, fearing an imminent human invasion, decided to attack first. Because of that, he approved Wolfgang's idea to poison the water of a river to kill several humans. The kingdom of Malnova Pordo suffered several losses because of that. King William thought it was all King Raymond's fault for all those deaths and decided to retaliate."
Clockwork then made a pause because he knew Danny was going to ask him: "Wait. Wolfgang? Do you mean, professor Alphonse's father? Did he even know about this?"
Clockwork turned back to his adult self and answered the boy: "Alphonse knew nothing, at least not until some hours ago. He's even trying to get the Cave of the ground without any success, but I'll explain you why is that in a few moments, so bear with me for a moment." Taking a breath, the Time master continued: "What the Ghost King didn't know was that, just because the ghosts were immune to the poison thrown into the water, it didn't mean the trees also had the same immunity. To be more specific, that tree inside of the Cave of Beginning you visited several years ago, Daniel, is dying because it also feeds from the river's water. And you felt its effect when you felt your powers suddenly leaving you at your grandfather's throne room. To answer this before you ask, I would have summoned both of you here now even if you hadn't decide to visit King Raymond. What happened there was not my fault, but it also wasn't yours. You wanted answers, but all you got was senseless hatred…"
Sam could see how the other teen flinched at the mention of his grandfather. But then she asked something that bugged her about what that old ghost just told them: "What do you mean by, you would have taken me here?"
The Time Master answered her: "It's quite simple, child. I saw how curious you were about Daniel here. I also could see that you didn't have the weird prejudice. I thought I could show you the consequences when different kingdoms refuse to use reason before jumping to each other's necks. The two of you are the seeds that will stop this war for once and for all."
The two teenagers then looked at each other still a bit confused by what he meant by that. The Time Master just smiled and pointed to a mirror floating in the room and told to both of them: "Look there, for some visual help. I'll be giving the details while you watch the past."
With that said, the monitor showed a boy with brown hair and honey colored eyes walking into the forest at night. Clockwork then told Danny: "I was originally a human. A long time ago, I used to live in a small village amidst a dense green forest, where now there's the Ghost Kingdom. One time, when I was a teenager of your age, My father was a farmer and he gave me the task of deliver seeds to another farmer to whom he intended trade seeds with. I wanted to go through a shortcut to be done with the task as quickly as possible. I ended up finding a hungry wolf instead of a smooth walk through the forest. I ran as quickly as I could away from it. The thing was that I ended up getting lost amidst the forest and I was cut by some low branches and I failed to notice the glowing green lake in the middle of the forest which I ended up falling into. I found out, later, that it was a pool made of a substance that has the opposite effect of the ectorranium. Instead of nulling ghosts power, it enhanced ghost powers. And, in my case, it gave me ghost powers."
Clockwork gave a short pause in his lesson. He wish he could say all those things were livid in his memory, but he couldn't…He shook his head and then continued when he noticed Danny and Sam were looking at him confused: "It gave me powers beyond my imagination and also knowledge from the past, present and future. But it had a price. A huge one in fact. When I fell into the lake one seed slipped out of the bag and it reacted with my blood that came out of my wound and with the green lake. It caused a huge green shockwave to spread through the entire forest making the trees become like you are used to see them now, Daniel. It also turned all the humans into ghosts. But it wiped the memories of everyone. My memories included. But, as I told you, I can see the past. So I know everything. Ironically, because of that memory loss, I can only see all my memories of that time as if I was a mere observant of what happened."
Clockwork changed to his human child while he stopped talking for a while. He had lived for so long, but those memories still plagued his mind. But he had to continue his story due its importance: "When I managed to get out of the lake, I had a huge headache. I didn't even know myself how I managed to get out of there in such condition. My head seemed like it was going to explode because of all the knowledge of past present and future flowing into my head. It was then when I noticed there were two one-eyed creatures wearing white robes. They were two Observants and they were angry…"
Clockwork than made sure the monitor displayed what happened to the teens and let the scene speak for itself.
"What is the meaning of that? We sensed our fountain of power was in peril!" an Observant demanded angrily while the other approached Clockwork
The Observant that approached Clockwork grabbed him by his shirt and lift him to raise him at his eye level. "Who are you? Do you have any idea what have you done, you brat?"
Clockwork only held his own head completely unsure of what to do. He was too confused and in too much pain to react to the situation. The other Observant pointed out: "Looks like there were humans living in this forest…I can't believe the humans came to leave in this place! We have chosen this place because it was uninhabited and because it was like the last person anyone who would try steal our powers would come to! Now the humans have our powers!"
The Observant holding Clockwork then asked: "How do you know that?"
The other one-eyed ghost then replied: "It's simple. We can observe anything from afar. If we had checked this forest before instead of assuming anyone wouldn't even dream of coming here we could have saved ourselves lots of trouble…"
The Observant still holding young Clockwork said: "This can be easily fixed." Then he pointed his free left hand to the lake and started to charge.
"NO!" the other Observant shouted to stop his friend. "You mustn't do this! Anything you do to that lake will also harm us!"
The one-eyed ghost dropped Clockwork on the floor and crossed his arms. "Then what do you expect for us to do? Move it? To where?"
The other Observant shook his big head and said: "We can't move it either. Apparently this boy let a seed fall in the lake and it's growing at an alarming speed. It has already rooted! Moving it would be too dangerous…"
"Then how about this…" the other Observant said picking once again the dizzy Clockwork. "Listen here. Because of you we're in a lot of trouble. It's now up to you to fix this situation and protect this place! God help you if you dare disobey us!"
The boy was too confused to even answer such threat. But then he heard the other one-eyed being say: "You didn't have to say it like that! But, child. I think we'll need to talk to you about this situation. After all, all this…" the Observant gestured to the boy see how the forest suddenly 'died' "is you fault."
The monitor became blank as the Time Master filled the two teens with what happened next: "After that, the Observants took me in and taught me how to use my powers. So I could do the same for the other ghosts in the village. The sad thing was that my little trick wiped most of their memories. Not even my parents or my two sisters and brother remembered me…I had a huge responsibility and I still have it. The bigger problem was that I acquired an enormous amount of knowledge, but knowledge isn't the same as wisdom, which was something I acquired much later. I had some help from the Observants to modify the lake to become the 'Cave of Origin'. It gave a lot of trouble, but it paid off. By the way, another thing that surprised me was that some humans turned out to be quite different. Some became wolf like, while others became like yetis and then many others ghost species were born. By the way, it's quite wrong to label ourselves as 'ghost' and 'human' to make things simpler. You see, ghosts, by its definition, are souls of people who are still in this world. We aren't such thing. We're called that because of our powers. But, we, in fact, have Observant blood running in our veins. This is what makes us so powerful. We also have some small amount of human blood within us, this is the reason why we didn't become creatures with a huge eyeball in the place of our heads."
"So that's why nobody remembers our origins…" Danny mused out loud.
Sam found all that truly interesting. Nobody knew when and how the ghosts appeared, but she couldn't help but to feel annoyed by it: "I really appreciate the history lesson, but when are you going to tell us how to put an end to this madness?"
Clockwork smiled for Sam's surprise and then told her: "I would say 'children these days don't know how to be patient', but this is something that happened and will happen for countless generations. I'm almost there. Bear with me for a while. Remember I can send you back to the exact moment where I picked you."
After the two teens agreed with Clockwork, the Time Master Continued: "You see, some time after I became like a guardian of the other ghosts, I noticed something…disturbing was happening. People all around me, started worshiping me just because I was way more powerful than them and I provided them knowledge about themselves. It happened several times before with other civilizations. Some mystical creatures appear to help humans who start to misunderstand their intentions and because of that those creatures stop having contact with humans. We aren't gods. Learn one thing: there are beings much more powerful than us. Besides, don't you think people would grow too dependent on us if we keep holding their hands. That's why I decided to only intervene in situations that can't be resolved without my help. But before I left the Dead Forest, I modified the Cave of Origin so it was impossible for a ghost to go inside. Only humans could come inside now. Well, ghosts could come inside, after all I can't simply block the flow of energy of the tree. But I put that "open door" condition to ghosts to come inside. I didn't want any ghost accidentally doing something bad to the tree and causing an irreversible damage. I also placed raw ghostly energy that came straight from the tree to provide the necessary light for the tree and also some smaller amounts of its energy to supply light for the habitants of the Dead Forest. Yes, I'm talking about the fireflies. They harm humans because it's raw power, but the most concentrate form of it, which lies inside of the tree's chamber can harm even ghosts, after all they're still part human."
Danny and Sam were aghast by his explanation. However, Danny felt the need of asking: "But why didn't you just took the tree away from that place or locked it up in a way it couldn't get water from the river?"
Clockwork shook his head and turning to his child form he explained: "I can't move it because of what the Observant said in the memory I just showed you. It needs that place to survive. I couldn't just break its connection with the outside world because it's also a living being and it needs water to keep living. Also the entire power I placed upon the forest achieved a perfect balance. I couldn't change it even if I wanted to. Besides, the tree holds the lives of all ghosts, including my own and the Observants'. Besides because of the changes that happened in the lake, which is now under the tree, its color turned to a light blue over the centuries because of the human blood mixed with the ghost energy."
The teens wondered why Clockwork told them such things, but the Time Master had his purpose for telling the two of them so many things. He then continued: "I also made sure to supply the place with hints for the place where the tree is to be found by Alphonse. I looked into the future and I knew the tree would need to be saved…by you Daniel. You see, when my human blood got in contact with the lake, it changed its properties as I said before. The poison is turning the lake back to green because it's killing the human part of the lake and there's barely any of it left. I couldn't ask this to a human because the tree would kill him or her, because, well, they only have human blood. You have two kind of blood, the human one and the ghost one. If you give your human blood to the tree it'll not only give the tree the power necessary to cleanse the poison, but also make the lake go back to the normal. I hope the two of you won't hold a grudge against me. I can't butt into any matter that shows up because it would make the people grow dependent of me and lose the ability of solving problems on their own. Both humans and ghosts have a potential for great good. But some decide to use their potential for evil purposes while others decide to not use them. At all. Sloth is also a big problem and it'll be a even bigger problem…But I digress."
"So…Only I can heal the tree? Do I really must give up on my human half? Will this make me become like you or…change?" Danny asked not sure if he wanted to get rid of a good chunk of his DNA.
Clockwork knew exactly what he meant by 'change' and he explained: "Your personality won't change unless you want to, child. You wouldn't lose all your human half, you would became like the other ghosts. Like your father, for example. And you wouldn't become like me because I came in contact with an enormous power and it gave me an extraordinary lifespan. That's what allowed me to live for so long and keep living for many centuries to come." Clockwork stopped for a moment. His own words reminded him what the life he chose to live also came with a sense of loneliness. But he was glad to guide as much people as he could to the right path. Then he remembered one last thing: "To save the tree you need to give away your human blood, Daniel."
Both teens said in union: "WHAT?"
But the older ghost then gave Danny the following warning: "I'm sorry for placing such weight upon you, child. But you see. The poison in the river made the lake's color go back to green. The tree is trying to fight the poison, but's futile. It's also trying to turn the ghosts back into humans in order to release itself from the energy it gave to the ghosts, but it's futile. It can't get rid of the bond it created with the ghosts." Clockwork made a short pause for Danny to understand the implications of what he had just said. After that re resumed: "If you give away your human half, the ghosts will be restored and the forest will remain as it is."
"I…don't know…" Danny said unsure.
Sam then realized something: "Wait. Daniel, I…think you can trust this guy. I mean. If he meant any harm he could have done it by now and he also didn't do anything to hurt us. I know it's frustrating that he can't help us more, but I think I can understand his point of view. Besides, if he wanted to coerce you into giving your human half, he would have done it when we were frozen in time."
Danny thought about it for a while and had to agree with the logic of the princess. That strange ghost didn't do anything to coerce him into giving away his human half. He was trying to explain to him why it's vital for him to do so.
"Wait. Isn't there a way for us ghosts become humans if I give away my ghost half instead? Sure we would miss our powers but this way the invading soldiers wouldn't attack us anymore." Danny asked.
Sam could see that the other teen was under a huge pressure. It was unfair. She thought for a while, then she told him: "Daniel, I think you need to give up on your human half. I know this is weird, but didn't you hear that he said that only humans can enter normally in that tree chamber thingy? If everyone turn into humans and if they win, doesn't that mean that anyone could get to the tree and harm it?" She explained to him.
Danny was so focused about his initial anger towards Clockwork and his decision he hadn't notice any of that. "Danny smiled weakly at her and said: "Thanks."
Sam smiled back at him. She was now certain that she had discovered the truth when she saw Clockwork's grin.
Danny than gave a deep breath to calm himself down and asked clockwork: "Will it hurt…much?"
"So, you decided to give away your human half?" Clockwork asked to make the boy be sure of his decision.
Danny only nodded in reply.
Clockwork then told him turning back to his adult self: "Do not worry, child. The power is already there. All you have to do is…" Clockwork then spun his staff making himself and the two teen be caught in a light blue vortex. Then when they found themselves at the tree chamber, Clockwork finished his sentence: "place your hand on the tree while you're at your human form and imagine like you were throwing an ecto-beam with your hand, but don't actually do it, okay? The tree will do the rest."
Danny was surprised to see the tree with the leaves almost all red-colored. The last time he had seen them, they were green and lively. But know they seemed like they were about to fall.
"Wait. How come can we be here? The two of us are ghosts!" The boy said uncertain.
Clockwork gave the boy a quite simple answer: "I can be here anytime I desire because I made sure I was an exception in order to keep this place away from problems, if the situation needed me to. As for you, Daniel. You can be here, because the spell protecting this place from ghosts is also frozen in time. If the time weren't frozen, you would be sky rocketed away from this place, after all, we are underground at the moment. Now put your hand on the tree's trunk. It'll absorb your human blood, but it won't hurt you. With this the tree will gain energy enough to fight the poison and restore the things the way they were before all this madness. It'll even clear the poison off the river, so it won't hurt anyone else."
Daniel shivered at the thought. The boy looked at the tree for a moment. He was a bit hesitant, but he did as he was told. After a while his body started to glow and his energy passed to the tree.
The leaves instantly became green and it unleashed a huge green shockwave that knocked back both Danny and Sam. The shockwave was big enough to spread through the whole Dead Forest.
When Sam recovered her senses she got up and gave a look at Danny. She put her hands over her mouth in shock. The boy's skin was now blue and his eyes were bright red. But the rest of his body remained the same.
Danny noticed how weird the girl was staring at him and when he got up, he asked her: "What's wrong?"
"You look…different." She said as she approached to poke the boy, who found it to be quite weird.
"Don't worry. I'm still me." Then he turned to Clockwork and asked still unsure: "I'm still me, right?"
The Time Master then assured the boy: "Do not trouble yourself with these thoughts, Daniel. You're still you. Only that the majority of your blood is 'ghost' now."
"So what do we do now?" Sam asked.
"I can drop you both back at your families." Clockwork suggested.
But Sam had other plans in mind. "Wait. But what if that King William try attack my grandfather's kingdom once more? We need to stop him!"
"You're right…" Danny said. "Clockwork, can you send me to King William's castle?"
Not waiting for Clockwork's answer, Sam asked, not wanting to be shoved aside: "What do you mean, by just you. I'm going too! Besides you'll need help!"
Danny then turned to her and told her sternly: "Look, I appreciate your help. More than you can even imagine. But I can't just bring you to the lion's den! Don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I'll find you when I'm done with that."
Sam didn't like that. Not one bit. She then asked the boy: "Do you promise me?"
Danny smiled and said: "Yes, I promise you."
She smiled and nodded. "You better fulfill your promise."
Danny smiled back and then they heard Clockwork saying: "Get ready, both of you. I'll be sending each one of you to your destinations."
Saying that, Clockwork spun his staff and sent Sam back to her parents and Danny straight to where King William is with a blue Vortex enveloping each teen.
Alone at the tree chamber Clockwork then pressed a button at his staff and said: "Time in." to make the time continue to flow. The Time Master still had one more person to talk to before he left to his home.
Clockwork then spun his wand and teleported himself to outside of the Cave of Beginning, right next to Alphonse, who almost jumped at the ghost appearing 'out of nowhere'. Clockwork then told Alphonse: "We need to talk."
End of Chapter 20
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