Danny continued to fly through the hot blazing dessert, it was good thing that Frostbite had trained him to gain more control of his ice powers because now the heat doesn't bother him as much. Four hours later he had arrived back home, he transformed into his human half and walked slowly through the lands and was shocked to see so much devastation and loss of life, Sam wasn't kidding when she said that everything was destroyed.

As he continued to walk through the lands he saw a lot of animal bones, he came up to a ledge and looked around everywhere. He then frowned as he saw Pride Rock, Vlad was going to pay dearly for what he had done!

"Danny wait up!" Danny heard Sam yelling and turned around as Sam jumped off her hover board and stand next to him on the small ledge. She too shook her head at all the destruction.

"It's awful isn't it?" Sam asked, clearly no longer mad at him.

"I didn't want to believe you, but now I see you were telling the truth. I'm sorry" Danny answered, his voice full of regret.

"What made you come back?" Sam asked.

"I finally got some sense knocked into me and I've got the bump to prove it. Besides this is my kingdom, if I don't fight for it who will?" Danny answered.

Sam then said in determination, "I will"

"It's gonna be dangerous" Danny warned. Sam merely grinned and repeated something he hadn't heard in a long time, "Danger? HA! I laugh in the face of danger! HA! HA! HA!"

"I see nothing funny about this" Tucker said as he and Frostbite showed up.

Danny smiled and said, "Tucker! Frostbite! What are you two doing here?"

"We came to help. We are at your service my liege" Frostbite answered bowing a bit.

"Are we really gonna fight your uncle for this?" Tucker said gesturing the entire land.

"Yes Tucker. This is my home and don't worry once Vlad is defeated, it will be back to what it once was" Danny answered.

"Looks like a lot of work but if it's important to you, we're with you till the end" Tucker said.

Danny continued to smile at his friends and then all of them began to head towards Pride Rock, dark clouds began to covert the skies, indicating that a huge storm would be coming soon. All of them quietly walked through the rocks and hid behind a dead tree log, they looked over and noticed their pathway blocked by five rogue ghosts named Vortex, Undergrowth, Nocturne, a cyclops ghost and Medusa.

"Rogue ghosts. So what's the plan for getting past those guys?" Tucker asked in a whisper.

Danny thought for a second and answered, "Live bait"

"Good idea" Tucker said, but then his eyes widened when he realised it was himself and Frostbite had to be the bait and exclaimed, "HEY!"

"Come on Tucker! You two have to create a diversion" Danny whispered.

"What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?" Tucker asked sarcastically.

All the rogue ghosts looked behind them as they heard drums playing and when they looked up, they saw Tucker in a hula costume over his regular clothes.

TUCKER

Luau!

If you're hungry for hunk of fat and juicy meat,

Eat my buddie Frosty here cuz he is a treat! A hundred dollar dine, a tasty guy,

(Tucker continued to dance and gestured to Frostbite who was lying down with an apple in his mouth. The rogue ghosts then started to come towards them both, with ravenous hunger. Meanwhile Sam and Danny snuck past them

All you gotta do is get in line. Are ya achin'?

FROSTBITE

Yup Yup Yup

TUCKER

For some beefin'?

FROSTBITE

Yup Yup Yup

TUCKER

He's a big guy, You can be a big guy too! Oy!

Tucker finished his dance and then Frostbite grabbed onto Tucker and flew off, with the rogue ghosts chasing after them. Sam and Danny stopped under a ledge of rock.

"Sam you find my mother and rally the other hunters, Walker and his men and any other ghosts that can fight. Spread the word to the other citizens to stay in their homes for now, I'll go find Vlad" Danny said.

Sam nodded and left to do her job, Danny transformed into his ghost form and flew over closer to the main part of Pride Rock invisible, he then watched as Vlad shouted, "MADDIE!"

He gasped and watched his mother walk up to Pride Rock, all the rogue ghosts growling at her. She reached the top and asked much to her displeasure, "Yes Vlad?"

"Where is the food? Your group are not doing their job" Vlad asked as he glared at her with anger.

"Vlad there is no food. The herds have moved on, it's over there is nothing left. We have only one choice, we must leave Amity" Maddie answered.

"We're not going anywhere!" Vlad exclaimed.

"Then you have sentenced us to death!" Maddie retorted. Vlad merely snapped back while turning his back on her, "Then so be it! Besides I'm the king I can do whatever I want!"

"If you were half the king Jack was…." Maddie began to exclaim, but Vlad snapped and slapped her sending her to the ground while shouting, "I AM TEN TIMES THAT FAT OAF WAS!"

Vlad suddenly jumped back when an ecto-blasts was sent at his feet, he looked up as lightning struck and gasped at the sight of Danny.

"Impossible!" Vlad exclaimed in a whisper.

Danny flew down and placed Maddie up in an upright position on a flat rock. Maddie awoke with a groan and looked at her saviours face, she gasped as she recognised her son.

"Danny is that you?" Maddie asked as tears of joy started to fall.

"Yes mum, it's me" Danny nodded with a sad smile.

"My baby boy! You're alive! How can that be?" Maddie asked with slight confusion. Danny then pulled her into an embrace and said, "It doesn't matter, I'm home"

"Daniel! I'm a little surprised to see you…" Vlad said and then glared up at Skulker, Ember and Behemoth as he finished, "Alive"

All three ghosts then gulped and turned invisible, Danny then started advancing on Vlad as he threatened in rage, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip you apart?"

Vlad backed up to the wall and said, "Daniel you must understand, the pressures of ruling the kingdom are too great"

"Well it's no longer yours. Step down Vlad" Danny ordered.

Vlad chuckled nervously and then said, "Well naturally I would. But there is a small problem, you see them?"

He gestured towards all the rogue ghosts above them and said, "They think I'm king"

Sam, Walker and his men and other humans and ghosts then came up. Sam then exclaimed, "Well we don't! Danny is the rightful king!"

"The choice is yours Vlad, you either step down or fight" Danny said.

Vlad merely floated past him and smiled a grin as he asked, "Oh must this all end in violence. I hate to be responsible for the death of a family member. Wouldn't you agree Daniel?"

Danny realised what he was talking about and exclaimed, "That won't work Vlad! I've put it behind me!"

"Oh what about your faithful subjects, have they put it behind them?" Vlad asked as he gestured towards everyone else.

"Danny what is he talking about?" Sam asked with confusion.

"Ah! So you haven't told them your little secret. Well Daniel, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Jack's death" Vlad said.

Danny's determined look then dropped and looked at all the faces looking at him for answers. Danny then said, "I am"

Everyone gasped at this. Maddie then walked up to him and said with her heart breaking, "It's not true! Tell me it's not true"

Danny's head hung lower and said, "It's true"

His head shot back up when Vlad exclaimed as the storm became worse, "You see! He admits it! Murderer!"

"No! It was an accident!" Danny exclaimed back. Vlad circled around him and said, "If you weren't for you Jack would still be alive! It's your fault he's dead!"

"No! I'm not a murderer!" Danny tried to reason.

Danny started walking backwards towards the edge of Pride Rock as Vlad and some of the rogue ghosts started advancing on him.

"Oh Daniel you're in trouble again! But this time daddy isn't here to save you and now everyone knows why!" He then blasted Danny back with a ray that forced him to transform back in his human half and he almost fell over the ledge, but he managed to grab on to the edge of the rock.

"DANNY!" Sam exclaimed in fright as she watched him nearly fall.

Lighting suddenly struck the ground and because the grass was so dry from there being no water, it caught on fire and in just a matter of seconds, most of Amity had been set a light in a huge bushfire. Danny continued to struggle holding onto the edge, he tried to go ghost but the ray short circuited his powers.

"This certainly looks familiar. Oh yes I remember, this is just the way your father looked before he died" Vlad said.

Danny came close to falling off as he gasped, Vlad grabbed him by his wrists and whispered in his ear with a sickening grin, "And here's my little secret: I killed Jack"

Danny's eyes widened as soon as Vlad finished that sentence, he finally realised it wasn't his fault after all. It was none other than VLAD PLASMIUS! Danny suddenly felt a huge surge of power and transformed back into his ghost form, he flew up and pinned Vlad hard to the ground.

"MURDERER! TELL THEM THE TRUTH!" Danny demanded, causing everyone else to gasp again.

Vlad remained silent, but then Danny started to choke him and he said in a whisper, "Alright! I did it!"

"So they can hear you" Danny demanded again. Vlad glared and then exclaimed aloud, "I KILLED JACK!"

All the rogue ghosts then began to attack Danny, Sam and the others joined the fight and began to swatting the ghosts off him. Tucker and Frostbite them ran in with a battle cry and began to fight themselves, Frostbite began to freeze some of the ghosts, while Tucker used one of his own weapons to blast them away.

As Danny continued to fight them off, a ghost then jumped on him from behind, but he was suddenly wacked away by a time staff. Danny looked up and saw Clockwork as he let off a battle cry and jumped in to fight with the kingdom, he dodged some ghosts here and there, and then kicked and punched them left and right. For an ancient ghost, he sure can fight!

All the rogue ghosts began to fly off in fright as they were losing the battle, Tucker suddenly found himself being chased by Skulker and Ember. Jazz looked up and saw Tucker running in and screamed, "LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!"

"LET ME IN! LET ME IN!" Tucker shouted back as he managed to squeeze throught the jail cell bars.

"Your dead now dipsticks!" Ember exclaimed and then Skulker added, "I'm gonna rest your pelts at the foot of my bed!"

"DROP THEM!" They heard a shout and turned around to see Frostbite standing there in anger and with his teeth baring.

"Hey! Who's the beast?" Skulker asked.

Tucker gasped as Frostbite started getting angrier and angrier. Tucker then exclaimed, "You shouldn't have done that!"

"ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?! ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?! THEY CALL ME MR BEAST!" Frostbite yelled and then charged at them in full anger, Skulker and Ember had the looks of terror on their faces.

From outside the cave, Behemoth became scared as heard shouting, debris flying out of the cave and suddenly Ember and Skulker came flying out screaming in fright and pulled Behemoth along with them. Frostbite, Tucker and Jazz emerged from the cave victorious. Back outside, Danny looked for Vlad he then saw him flying away towards the back of Pride Rock. As lighting struck again, Vlad saw that Danny found him and immediately flew faster as he chased after him, Vlad flew through the flames and then found himself trapped with no-where else to go, he looked back and became frightened as Danny came in with his eyes glowing bright green in anger.

"Murderer you don't deserve to live" Danny said as he slowly walked up to Vlad.

"Please have mercy! I am family after all. It's the rogue ghosts who are the real enemy! It was their fault! It was their idea!" Vlad lied, unaware that three certain ghosts were listening in from behind the flames.

"Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie" Danny said and prepared both his hands with ghost energy.

"You wouldn't kill your own uncle would you?" Vlad asked, completely scared for his life.

Danny then sighed and allowed the energy to fade as he answered, "No Vlad. I'm not like you, I'll never be like you. Run. Run away Vlad and never return"

"Yes of course! As you wish…" Vlad began to say as he slowly walked away, but then stopped at a small patch of burning embers and exclaimed, "YOUR MAJESTY!"

He then threw the embers at his face, which caused him to yelp in pain as it almost burned his face and as he was temporarily blinded, Vlad attacked him. He forced Danny to the ground and started punching him, but Danny kicked him off and blasted him with an ecto ray, Vlad then blasted him in the stomach, but he shook it off and kicked him back, he then ran up to him and punched him right in the nose, but Vlad quickly recovered and sent him flying to the ground with a blast.

Just as Vlad was about to deliver a finishing blow, Danny used his Ghostly Wail and knocked him over the edge of the cliff, where he landed on the ground in a thud and completely weakened by the wail. Danny was so weak that he transformed back and looked down to where Vlad was, because of the wail Vlad was also forced to transform back into his human half, he sat up and saw Skulker, Ember and Behemoth float up to him, sending him glares.

"My friends!" Vlad exclaimed in happiness, but his smile dropped when he heard Ember say with a laugh, "Friends? I though he said we were the enemy"

"Yeah that's what I heard" Skulker agreed and then they both asked in unison, "Behemoth?"

Behemoth chuckled a spine chilling laugh and then suddenly all the rogue ghosts appeared and advanced on Vlad as he was backed into the wall, he tried to reason with them but it was no use and in just a matter of seconds as the flames continued to roar, Vlad Plasmius was no more as the rogue ghosts killed him on sight!