Chapter 27

"Alright.." Clockwork replied in his dull voice. Lifting up his hand towards Vlad, the power that was granted to him was taken out slowly. A red orb was formed into his hand. "You have one chance at this, Danny. Don't mess up."

"Mess what up?" Danny asked blinking confused now. An image of a bunch of ghosts appeared next to clock work as soon as he touched his staff. "An army of ghosts?"

"Yes, Vlad was going to over throw the world with them." He clicked the clock again. "Seal the portal up, I'll be waiting here on you."

"Seal it up…got it." Danny nodded his head and turned to Vlad. There had to be some way to save her, to save Sam. Maybe, there was a loophole around this all. "Thanks, Clockwork."

Clockwork nodded his head, and disappeared into a purple time portal and time went on.

Vlad began to move his smirk widened as he through the blast at Danny. Whom dodged it with a breeze. "What?" Vlad asked out loud turning back to normal and instantly falling to the ground from his former position. "What on earth? Why do I suddenly feel…weak?"

"Because it's over, Vlad." Danny said standing over him. He glared down at him harshly, and Vlad actually was afraid. Danny's hands twitched as Vlad got onto his knees.

"My dear boy, I'll do anything…d-don't kill me." Vlad begged, Danny scuffed.

"Why should I show you mercy?" Danny asked lowly lifting up his hand to Vlad to blast him away. He saw the way Vlad flinched and covered his head. "Tch…" Danny looked away pushing Vlad away with a weak ectoblast. "Get out of here."

"W-What?" Vlad asked blinking slightly.

"Get out of here, I never want to see you around this city ever again." Danny glared up at him. "Go!"

Vlad quickly got to his feet, transformed, and flew off. Sure, he still had his powers. But with out that extra power, all he could do was throw weak attacks at Danny.

Danny fell to his knees angry at himself. "He wasn't even worth it…" he whispered to himself and began to look at the destruction around him. Buildings were now rubble, and the castle looked darker then usual. Rising to his feet, he took off into the air. "Is anyone there?" he called out seeing no signs of life outside.

A rumbling came from the ground, Danny looked over his shoulder to see an army of ghosts. He was shocked. "Now that Vlad isn't here…the ghosts are out of control." he figured out shaking his head. He didn't even know where the portal was in the castle. "I need to close the portal before things get even worse!"

Quickly flying intangible through buildings, he went un-noticed from all the havoc that had appeared. Making his way as quickly as possible, he flew inside the ruined ballroom. He flinched slightly at the small of burning flesh and blood. "Gross…" he commented covering his nose. "The ghosts are coming from the east…so it has to be in that direction." he figured flying up the stairs. They seemed completely weak by the looks of it. It also seemed like Vlad at indeed wanted to rule the world, since there was so many of them.

"I remember Sam telling me about a picture frame…" He mumbled to himself, staring at the blank walls and dust building up. He walked until he looked ahead of himself and saw there was a glowing portal. Bluntly coming out of the wall behind a broken picture of Vlad. "Now I know." he sighed to himself and lifted up his hands. They both began to glow a bright icy blue. Sending a long beam at the portal, slowly it began to get sealed up.

But, it wasn't strong enough. The glow around the portal just got more intense as he used his powers. "Dang it.." he hissed under his breath and concentrated, before getting pushed back by a force. "Why won't you close?"

"Mix your powers together."

"What?" Danny heard a voice and couldn't find it, until he looked to his side. "Sam?"

"Hey. Danny." Sam said smiling slightly, she had a glow to her.

"How are you…?" Danny took a step forward to touch her, but it went right through her.

"I'm dead, this is my ghost.." she said quietly to him reaching out her hand she touched his face, or at least tried to. "Combine your powers together. Ice with your ecoplasm, and this..." she pointed to his bleeding arm, "Royal blood seals it."

"That…kind of makes sense." Danny said putting his hand over the blood and placing it into his hand. "I hope this works." he said making an ectoplasmic ball in one hand and an ice ball in the other one. The blood soaked into the ice and he sent it flying at the portal. It made contact and began to glow, instantly it closed up. "It worked." he said smiling over at Sam, whom at the moment was fading. "Sam, what's?"

"You closed the portal off Danny, I gotta get going.." she smiled slightly. "See you, later," and she disappeared.

Danny stood there completely shocked, before turning his head away and took off flying out of the castle as fast as he could. "…" his eyes were burning, "The look in her eyes…" he whispered, "Looked empty."

|: bum bum BUM! Cliffhanger!

Ahem, I was going to post this Christmas Day but…I'm sick, and couldn't stand being up. Uwa..

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-Karen Kano