Lavi watched helplessly from the sideline as they fought to keep her brother alive. She was just as confused as the others. One minute her twin had been laying still and resting peacefully, the next he started twitching like he was being given shocks or something.

She somehow sensed it was more than his physical injuries. Something else was happening. But she was just as clueless as the others as to what it was. The only one who didn't seem to worried as it calmly watched Ty was the dragon, who still laid resting on it's stomach.

'Think clearly little one. You know what ails him.'

Lavi blinked a little at the unfamiliar voice in her head, wondering who it was, then finding it out when the dragon turned it's gaze to her. 'You out of all of them understand the best what it is he faces. Because only you fully know your twin. Not even your father has reached you both on the level you can reach each other. And only you can reach him. The barrier in place now is too strong for anyone to penetrate but his other half, which you are.'

Suddenly she understood and nodded at the dragon before sitting at her brother's head, then placing that head in her lap. Closing her eyes and drowning everything else out, she began to reach out to Ty.

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'His breathing is slowing! Damn it! That shouldn't be happening!'

Ty clearly felt the panic coming from those he loved, but again he was calm. Mainly because he clearly felt Lavi reaching out to him. Her presence seemingly to try and manifest itself right next to him instead of inside his head. It was with that realization that he finally understood what was happening. He wasn't anywhere. He was still in the presence of the others, but only physically. Jeff had somehow found his way into Ty's head and was trying to take him over, or wipe him out internally and managed to manipulate what Ty was seeing, and not seeing.

Those unusual eyes he didn't know he had closed flared open, and glowed with his own power he held here. There was a stunned silence as the pressure on his throat released a little with Jeff's shock. Ty added to that shock and kicked out with his foot, slamming it into the unseen body in front of him. Jeff's grip released suddenly and Ty landed easily on his feet.

'There...he's breathing again.' The relief in Tony's voice could clearly be heard.

'But what caused it in the first place?' A bewildered Emily asked.

'I don't know.'

Ty knew. And his eyes once again searched for the intruder in his mind. "I understand now Jeff. Pretty brave coming into my domain."

"And yet, you still can't beat me turtle boy." Came the amused reply. "Even here I'm stronger than you." He reinforced that statement with what felt like a kick to Ty's midsection.

This time Ty didn't stumble, but managed to get his hands around that unseen leg, turned and threw the invisible body as hard as he could away. "Maybe. But I'm not exactly helpless anymore."

"Which really doesn't matter, because you still can't overpower me here either."

Ty did have to admit, he was right. Everything here was set in Jeff's favor and Ty couldn't for the life of him figure out how to get him out. He tried to mentally push him out, and was met with mocking laughter at the attempt. "Not going to work turtle boy. I like it here and I'm staying."

So another tactic was tried, if he couldn't force him out maybe he could at least make his target visible. He concentrated hard on the task, and felt jeff as he moved around. His presence like a disturbing ripple that didn't fit in with Ty's consciousness as he came in for another attack. Ty spun towards it and he could now make out a vague misty form as the arm came in for a swing. Ty rapidly blocked it, and the next. Then his own punch reached out and almost connected before it was blocked.

They traded blows, neither one of them gaining the upper hand but each able to hold his own against the other as their arms and legs lashed out again and again. A deadly dance taking place in this desolate landscape Jeff created. Blow after blow was blocked, diverted or dodged as quick as thought itself as the two fighters struggled to win out over the other. Hatred flared from both of them as they fought on.

Ty leaned out of the way of a punch, bringing his own fist in an underhand swing as he straightened out. Jeff's own arm and came up to block it as a knee came up to strike him in the gut. The turtle responded in turn with an elbow to Jeff's face that did connect. Jeff took the hit freely and returned it with a kick that connected with the side of Ty's knee as he fell. Ty's knee came in and knocked it away just as quick. Both of them hit the ground in rolls to get some distance between them before they came back to their feet and collided again.

Words were not wasted on this fight. They were both past that point as this silent fight kept going. Jeff's face had a sneer on it as he fought, where Ty's was angry but calm.

The momentum came to a halt when Jeff caught Ty's arm and ducked under it and around the turtle to where he was standing behind Ty, holding the arm up in a painful angle behind the turtle. Before Ty could respond to that, the other came around Ty's neck and pulled in tightly.

"Game over turtle boy." He mocked the struggling and off balance turtle. "Guess what happens if I break your neck here? You don't wake up and I get a nice new body to play with. I wonder if your family will figure it out before I slice them to ribbons with your pretty swords?"

Jeff's arm tightened, then suddenly released and Ty was dropped to the ground a moment before a pair of slender legs hit the ground in front of him, and Jeff hit the ground on his back quite a distance away. A hand reached down to help him up, and he looked up to see his sister's calm face when he took that hand.

"Lavi?"

"This is new. First time I've seen your mind turned into some kind of funky arena." She looked curiously at her hands. "Never thought I'd actually be able to walk around in here in a body form. Kinda cool though."

"What are you even doing here?"

She smiled slightly at him. "Helping my other half." She calmly turned as Jeff closed in again. "I'm getting real tired of you beating up on my brother. It's time you learned that when you mess with him, you deal with me."

"Oh spare me the speech. I'll take you both on."

Ty was looking curiously at Lavi still when it clicked at what she was getting at, then he looked at Jeff. "That's just it. We aren't two. Never have been."

Ty drew his sister's presence into his own and they firmly held onto each other. And when they did both reached out with a mental wave, changing the landscape to something more familiar and loved by them. What was once an open gloomy field turned into the warm, welcome environment they had trained in since childhood, complete with many fond memories spent in here. They stood in a perfect replication of their dojo.

"Much better." Lavi murmured with approval. "Now watch this fogman."

They hit him with another wave and the last of his transparency slipped away, revealing the last living form of the wraith before the dragon burned him.

"Hmm." Lavi looked at her brother. "Still as ugly. I guess you can't improve on everything."

He gave her a gentle smile, honestly glad she was here.

"Very well done child."

Ty and Lavi spun at the sound of the new voice and stared right into the golden eyes of the white dragon as a smaller version of it sat behind them.

"You are as quick as your Father. I had feared you wouldn't solve this riddle in time."

Ty looked at it in shock, not expecting it to be here.

Those golden eyes were filled with slight amusement at the look. "Why wouldn't I be here? I have already told you I watch over your family. I would have come sooner but I had to wait for you to free yourself from his influence."

"You again!" Jeff roared when he caught sight of the dragon.

Those golden orbs hardened when it caught sight of the spirit. "Indeed. Again and always. And I shall greatly enjoy sending you back to the hell you came from, but first you must be vacated from this vessel. Learn now why their father has been chosen to be one of the champions, and how well he has taught his children. The herald chose wrongly to send you against them in this way."

Lavi grinned at the dragon as he looked over them at the wraith beyond, then looked at her brother. "Well then, shall we?"

"I do believe we shall."

Both siblings turned and as one ran towards Jeff. Lavi led with a leaping kick that Jeff managed to block. Ty came rolling under her, his own foot connecting with Jeff's midsection as the ninja came to his feet. Even as Jeff stumbled backwards from that, Lavi lightly landed on her brother's shoulders and flipped forward. This time when she kicked out she connected with Jeff's head, snapping it back. She landed in a crouch as Ty's leg came swinging over her head and connected with that jaw again. Lavi got back to her feet and twisted around her brother, her fist hitting Jeff in the gut and the other connecting with his chin.

Once more the fight was fierce. This time however it was greatly in favor of the twins. Where Ty could barely manage to hold his own with the undead creature, both of them didn't let the wraith get a hit in. They had been trained not only by their father, but also by their uncles on how to fight as a team. And their bond gave them a unique ability to read each other's moves and fight in a fluid pattern. Not only that, but both twins kept pushing against him with their mental bond, further weakening his presence here. Jeff couldn't hold up to that, though he did try. Step by step they pushed him back, each strike hitting it's mark. Each mental pulse breaking his grip in Ty's mind.

Dark brown braid trailing behind her, Lavi spun in landing a double punch combo. "You don't belong here!"

Ty came in from the other side his own hands striking. "And it is way past time you left."

"I will not!" Jeff snarled, barely able to stand on his feet at the both physical and mental onslaught the twins kept forcing on him.

"Wrong answer." The twins chimed as one. Arms came back, then forward as they hit him with a massive double punch at the same time they blasted their minds against him.

"No!" Jeff screamed in fury as he was ripped through a crack that had formed behind him, against the boundary to Ty's mind.

A scream that continued as he was suddenly thrust out of Ty's body, causing Tony and Emily to dodge wide eyed out of the way of the ghostly apparition that suddenly appeared in front of them. Cindy also scrambled backwards away from Ty, her face pale and eyes full of fear at what she saw.

"I refuse to lose to you! I will have my reward!" That ghostly head swung towards Cindy then. "You are mine!" He began to float towards her.

The dragon had been patiently waiting for him however. Once he was clear of the prone turtle, the dragon began to glow. That glow extended outward in a beam to hold the ghost in a globe.

Ty and lavi opened their eyes in time to see the head move closer to the trapped form. 'This time I will send you personally back to where you belong. And this time this globe will go with you. Forever being your prison so you can not come to the land of the living again.'

Jeff beat against that globe, his eyes now wide with fright of the implications. "Who are you! What gives you the power to do this!"

'I am one who is neither living nor dead. One that has crossed demensions for this family and one who will always do what needs to be done to make sure this family stays whole. You will no longer hold any power over them. Now, begone wraith!'

Still pounding and with a howling scream, Jeff then was pulled by the globe through a portal that had opened behind him, the other side dark and foreboding. Once he floated through the portal snapped shut, silencing the screams and leaving their eerie echoes in the clearing. The dragon just watched, unflinching.

Thane swallowed hard as he looked up at the calm creature. "I'm glad it's on our side..."

"Yuuup..." Adam agreed with him.

Lavi help Ty sit up, who was seriously wanting to go back to that other place. Everything hurt and he groaned as he sat up.

"You ok?" She gently straightened his mask.

"Besides feeling like someone ran me through the ringer...I'm fine..." He met her eyes. "Thanks for the save."

Lavi just smiled at him before she made room for Cindy who promptly burrowed her way into his arms.

Mother was watching them intently when Lavi got to her feet. "Someone want to explain to me what just happened?"

Before Lavi could find the words, the trees at the edge of the clearing started to fall as numerous large drones began to push their way through.

"Oh come on!" Thane snapped. "Haven't we put up with enough shit for one night!"

"Apparently not." Blaster replied as he and Ratchet turned to face the drones that seemed to just keep coming.

None of them were very sure if the two bots would be enough, even with the dragon. Lavi sighed as she steeled herself for another fight. The night seemed to be never ending with them.