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It was pretty easy to get tickets for the plane since no one wanted to fly when the world was coming to an end. If only they knew that the world was on the verge of coming to an end just about every month. I was not really surprised that Rebecca and her Grandfather were from California. They too could tell that I had an American accent, though like most they had never heard of Amity Park.

As for paying for the tickets and ID, long ago Tucker and I had setup fake identities and an untraceable bank account that we filled using Vlad's money. It was for emergency situations only. But for the trip I was going to be Martin Frost and using the family funds of 'Far Frozen Enterprises' to do some business traveling. Tucker's name had been Major Hunk, which was in my opinion too obvious of a fake name. But even after five uses it was still holding strong. I was just lucky that there was a carrying case in the Duel Disc that my dad gave me which I had put my fake passport in.

I spent the first two hours of the trip playing Duel Monsters with Rebecca. I won three out of ten games with her, but since she was supposed to be the American Champion that was not so bad. About half of my losses though were because we got into a stall mate and I just ran myself out of deck from my Lightsworn cards' abilities.

After the tenth game where she overwhelmed me, I started to notice that Rebecca was shifting around a little dozily. I smiled at the fact that she would probably refuse to admit that she was sleepy until I was already asleep. So I told her that I was going to catch up on my sleep and went ahead and closed my eyes.

"Wake up, Phantom." I heard Lumina order me. My eyes shoot open and I saw that I was floating over a vast ocean with a beautiful palace below me. I raised my hands to rub my eyes to make sure I was seeing things right, when I noticed that I was in my new ghost form with the dark black armor with white trimmings. I was a little startled when I heard a laugh from behind me.

"Hurry it up Phantom, we have a meeting to get to." Lumina chuckled as she went flying past me towards the castle. "Oh, and in case you were wondering, that is the Great Beast's eye ball." She said pointing over my shoulder. I looked over and my jaw nearly dropped. The eye was around the size of the Behemoth back in the Ghost Zone. Other monsters were being sucked into the eye like it was a vacuum cleaner. "Hurry, we don't have much time."

I flew after her and we soon entered the castle. I was only a little surprised to see Yugi and the Pharaoh pulling a golden sword out of the head of a crystal dragon as a group of monsters watched. They removed the sword and the dragon came to life. It was a rather large blue dragon that was even bigger than even the 'Judgment Dragon'. There was a bright flash of light and both Yugi and the Pharaoh, as well as the dragon, were all gone.

I followed Lumina towards the group of monsters. Most of them were eyeing me as if they thought I might tear their heads off if they looked away.

A blond woman in a rather slutty looking blue magical girl outfit with pink trim came up to us and was pointing at staff at me threateningly. "I feel so welcome." I joked with a smile since threats on your life don't work very well after you actually die once or twice.

"Quiet." The girl said but her voice was too pretty for to produce a good threat. "Lumina, what is the meaning of this? Bringing a Shadow Monster into our sacred lands, did your isolation cause you to lose your mind?" She asked trying to give Lumina a stern look, but it ended up looking like a pout.

"Mana it is so good to see you." Lumina said giving the girl a hug. "And you should know me better than that. This is the boy that released the Lightsworn from our curse."

The Blondie lowered her staff and swept over me with her eyes. "So this is the halfa? I thought he would be… I don't know… taller, more powerful, and handsome." She said with a disappointed look on her face.

I chuckled. "Lumina said almost the exact something about the Pharaoh." I pointed out and Lumina looked a little embarrassed and the girl, Mana was trying to hold back a laugh.

"But what proof do I have that he will not bring harm down upon us?" Mana asked.

Just then a fifteen foot white armored wolf jumped out of nowhere and pinned me to the ground. I was about to fight back when I suddenly had a feeling that I knew the wolf. "Cujo?" I said questioningly. The Beast barked happily and started licking me on the face. I could help but to laugh as his wet nose tickled me. "It's good to see you too, boy." I said as his huge body shrank down to that of a puppy, only now instead of being a ghostly green bulldog he was a snow white husky.

Most of the monsters seemed to accept the playful puppy's opinion on me and began to relax. "Well if Ryko believes that you are safe, then that is good enough for me." Mana said with a smile. But the smile disappeared and she turned back to Lumina. "Lumina, the Pharaoh and Timaeus are about to attack the part of the Great Beast that is in the Human World, but unless we drive him back here then it will do us no good. I am afraid that after all these years I will have to call on the Lightsworn once again." There were a few tears in the girl's eyes.

Lumina gave her another hug. "I am always really. Don't worry, we will win this time. I promise, and a Lightsworn always keeps their promises… even if it takes ten thousand years."

The girl Mana sniffed loudly and whipped a tear from her eye. "Please try to come back sooner this time." She said with a little fear in her voice.

Lumina just smile and turned to walk towards the door. "What are you going to do?" I asked.

She stopped but didn't look at me. "I am going to fulfill my sacred oath by fighting the Great Beast." She said in a monotone voice.

"Can you win?" I asked her. My voice also lacking emotion. "If you are honest with yourself, do you even have your full strength back yet? You already lost to him once and were sealed way. You might not be as lucky this time around." I said.

"But if we do nothing, then all of the Realm of the Beasts will be destroyed." She said her voice quivering a little. "We gave our word that we would protect this world. I don't expect someone like you to understand. Just stay here with the Dark Magician Girl and keep her safe." She started walking again. "Come on Ryko." She called back to the little dog. Cujo, or now Ryko, just whined and hugged himself against my leg. Lumina sighed. "Fine." She flew off towards the giant monster, as she flew other lights joined her along with the Judgment Dragon.

"How is dying going to help you protect this world?" I said a little bit of anger at her stupidity as I watched her go.

"Please don't think poorly of Lumina." It was Mana her hands tightly grasping her staff. "She has been like this since the death of the Lightsworn Ark, Michael, the previous leader of the group. He died protecting our world… and protecting her." Mana looked out towards the movements of the dragon. "He had always told her that it is the job of people who have power to protect everyone. I don't think she has forgiven herself for being among the people that needed Michael to sacrifice himself to save."

The sad thing was… I did understand. I remember the time when Pariahs came to Amity Park, and Valeria got hurt because I was not strong enough to protect her. The sense of helplessness that made me put on the armor that risked my very life. I felt like it was my responsibility to do it myself, but I would have died like a dog in that fight if the ghosts hadn't showed up and helped me.

I felt something pushing me on the back of my leg. Ryko looked up to me with puppy dog eyes and gave a soft whine. I smiled at the little husky. Then I started walking towards the open gate with Ryko at my heels. "Where are you going?" Mana called out to me.

I looked over my shoulder and smiled. "Someone has to make sure that hot head comes back in one piece. Come on Ryko." Ryko barked happily before returning to the giant wolf form and he kneeled next to me. Only then did I notice that his armor was a white saddle on his back. I climbed up onto his back and before anyone could stop me, we were off.

Ryko was running off as fast as he could, which was a little bit over two hundred miles an hour, my current top flight speed. We were fast approaching the giant eye and I began to notice that there were hundreds of identical creepy dark armored soldiers raining down from the sky. They all had what looked like the cross between a Duel Disc and a battle ax attached from their left arms.

I recognized most of the Lightsworn from the cards. They were all trying their best to stand their ground and hold back the waves of evil soldiers. I scanned the group until my eyes landed on Lumina. She was too far ahead of the rest of the group and throwing circles of light at any that came in range of her attacks. But it was obvious that the constant attacks were starting to take their toll on her. Her shoulders were going up and down as she gasped for breath.

Then the giant eye shifted to look at her. The yellow eye shined with a little of the greenish blue light that I had seen in the stone necklace that we had gotten from Yugi earlier that day. Then a cyclone blew out of the eye and was heading straight for Lumina.

I jumped of Ryko's back and flew straight for Lumina who had closed her eyes tight against the oncoming attack. I stood in the way and put up the strongest shield I could manage. The winds hit my shield and I could feel the force of it rushing through my entire being. It took a moment for Lumina to realize that she was not dying. She opened her eyes and looked up at me. "Phantom, what… what are you doing here?" She asked me in shock.

"I couldn't just let you go and get yourself killed." I grunted with the strain of keeping up the shield. "I am here to make sure you make it back alive. That is just what I do." I looked over and gave a weak smile.

There were tears in her eyes. "I'm… I'm not going to thank you."

I shrugged a little. "People rarely do." I then closed my eyes and focused my energy and pushed back the attack from the giant eye. In the half second that bought us I grabbed Lumina and pulled us out of the way. But the cyclone was following us. I was running out of options, so I pushed Lumina away and turned to meet the deadly winds.

I looked at the eye as it started to focus on me and took a deep breath. I released my Ghostly Wail, my most powerful attack to combat the winds coming from the eye. The two storms of energy met and began to fight each other for ground. But with every passing second it was becoming more and more painfully obvious that I was going to lose.

The winds were coming closer and closer and my energy reserves were being depleted. I then felt hands on my shoulders. "We are with you, Great One." "Do not falter, Ghost Child." "Stay stronger, Sir Phantom." "Me amigo." I heard there voices one after another. The ghosts who I had freed and had become the Lightsworn once again. Then I heard the last voice. "Never give up, Danny. The people need us to win." It was Lumina's voice.

My Duel Disc light up like a beacon and I felt new strength running through my body. My Ghostly Wail nearly doubled in volume and gained a golden tone along with the usual green. The winds were scattered before it and it struck the eye. Cracks began to form in the eye and it shattered into thousands of bluish green stone fragments that were sent off in all directions.

My wail began to die down and I started to fall from the sky out of sheer exhaustion. I felt myself land on the back of Ryko. And opened my eyes a crack to see the top card in my deck was glowing. I drew the card and looked at it. It was one that I didn't remember from before, 'United We Stand'.

"Danny… you really are crazy." Lumina said as she stood in front of me with the rest of the Lightsworn. "You mock me for rushing in blind and then come in yourself to try and save the day." She said given a confused laugh. "Wh… why did you do it? This isn't your fight."

"I had the power to make a difference. So I had the responsibility to try." I said with the best face I could put on, but in my exhausted state it wasn't all that good. "Isn't that what you were doing?" I chuckled as she seemed to redden. "So… is that it? Did we win?" I asked looking around.

She shook her head. "No… we only slowed him down." she said sadly. "He had yet to reach his full strength after being seal away for ten thousand years, same as us." She admitted. "But this will stop him for absorbing the souls of monsters… for now anyways." She turned her back on me. "I'm not going to thank you… but I will repay you someday. Take care… Danny."

She started to fly off and I felt as if a far away force was dragging me away. Moments later my eyes shoot open and I was back on the plane. Rebecca was shaking my shoulder. "Danny, something's wrong." The plane was shaking more than it should and I couldn't hear the sound of the engines. "Come on." She said as she unbuckled and got out of her seat and went as fast as she could giving the turbulence towards the cockpit.

"Rebecca, get back here! Rebecca!" Her Grandfather called after her.

"I'll get her." I said removing my seat belt and chasing after her down the alleys. I only then realized how tired I was. I had to stumble along after her and only manage to catch up to her right outside of the cockpit. Rebecca opened the door and we saw one man unconscious on the floor and another behind the controls looking like he wished they could switch places.

"Oh god, oh god what do I do…" the man behind the controls was mumbling. I moved forward passed Rebecca and took a closer look at the unconscious man. He was fairly old and out of shape. I reach for his neck and checked his pulse. There was none. "Please help… the engine aren't responding. I'm just a junior copilot. I don't know what to do." The man was crying.

'We got to close to one of the portals and the changing magnetic fields must have knocked out the electronics.' I reasoned. 'But what about this man… a pass maker… he seems old enough for such a thing. But I need to help with the plane…' "Rebecca can you go over there and read me the status of the engines, shutters, rotors and try and hail for help on all radio stations." I told Rebecca as I began to remove the old man's jacket.

I began to give CPR and checked for a pulse after forty compressions. 'No good, I need a defibrillator… or just a shock.' I looked to make sure that he wasn't touching any metal before hitting him worth some of my Ghost Stinger. His body shook violently catching Rebecca's attention but she didn't say anything. I checked again and found a steady pulse. "He'll be alright." I gave a sigh of relief.

"Danny I don't know how to read any of these things and the radio is fried." Rebecca said so I moved offer and looked at them. "Danny… are we going to be ok."

"Don't worry, we can do this. I promise you that I won't let anything hurt you." I ruffled her hair a little and gave her a smile. I could almost feel the irony that I had said that to her no more than an hour after hearing Lumina say it to Mana. "The raters are working perfectly, but the turbines are still spinning and their out of sync with the propellers." I said turning to the copilot. "Have you tried the remote resets?"

"I don't know where they are." He said he seemed like he was about to hyper ventilate.

I walked forward and pressed the necessary switches to prep the reset. "No good, the computer connection is out." I muttered, to which the copilot fainted. "Well that ain't good." I said and we removed him from the seat with Rebecca taking over.

"Danny is there any other way to get the engines back on?" Rebecca asked me.

I had to think for a second. "Yeah there is a manual overwrite in the cargo area that is used to test the engines, but if we do it that way I can only reset one of them at a time." I pointed towards the vector readings. "We got about four more minutes until the crash at this rate of descent. So listen carefully, I will reset the right engine first, when I do I need you to tilt the plain left fifteen degrees so that we can slow our descent until I can reset the other one." Rebecca was surprisingly calm and nodded.

I turned and moved out of the cockpit area and down the rows to an entrance to the cargo hold. As I moved and quickly explained what was doing on and told people to be prepared for a crash.

I managed to get into the cargo hold and fond that there was a lock on the manual overwrite. I didn't even think about it as I grabbed the thing and pulled it straight through the ring using my intangibility. Pulling the box open I triggered the charge that would reset the engine. We were starting to run out of time. I crossed my fingers and pressed the final switch. I smiled as the right engine came to life. "Yes." I said and turned my attraction to the left engines manual overwrite switch.

My heart fell into my shoes. Something had apparently chewed through the wiring to the manual overwrite switch. "No… no, no, no… you have got to be kidding me." I moaned. 'Options Phantom… what are the options.' I knew that as soon as I stopped then we were died. 'Are you a chicken or are you a ghost…' my eyes widened. Ghost… I called on the white ring that slowly passed over my body.

I opened my vivid green eyes and turned intangible before flying straight into the circuits that controlled the engine. I charged the magnetic field using my own power and released the charge. The engine held onto the current and the turbines caught. I flew back out and changed back into my human form. I climbed out to the cargo area and went back to the cockpit. "The engines are back up." I said with a smile to Rebecca as I moved into the seat next to her.

"So… we did it." She said with a bit of nervous laughter. "Why was it again that you couldn't join NASA? They didn't want to make everyone else feel bad?"

"Something like that." I said with a smirk. "Now we need to get this plane back on course and find a more stable altitude." I began to give her the instructions on how to gently change the altitude of the plane and lining up the vectors. Rebecca was a fast learner and I left her to go and find medical attraction for the two pilots. We ended up leaving them strapped into our seats as we took over the cockpit.

After a few minutes I took over at the wheel and Rebecca got to work trying to repair the radio. I was a little surprise when Rebecca managed to repair the radio after fiddling with it for a little over two hours. "Ground control this is Flight Number 2452 service from Domino City Japan to Jump City California USA. Can we get a vector? Over." I said into the radio.

"Flight 2452, your vector is 59.19, 134.24, 34.90. We lost contact with you three hours ago. Care to tell us what happened?" The station operator asked us. I let Rebecca give an account of the events as I changed out vector back on course.

"Wait? Are you two even old enough to be flying planes?" The man said in surprise at Rebecca's young voice.

"I don't know, probably not." I admitted as Rebecca got angry at the insult to her age. "Anyways, we will be arriving at the airport in approximately thirty four minutes. I am not sure if the landing gear is functional so we are going to be prepared for an emergency landing on this end. Can you clear the runway and have emergency personal on the scene. Copy." I said into the radio.

"Copying, clear runway for emergency landing and contact emergency personal." The guy were acting rather professional considering he just found out that two kids were about to land a plane in his runway.

"Roger that, over and out." I said and released the receiver. "Well this is exciting. Aren't you glad I didn't decide to stay with Yugi and his friends?" I said smiling at Rebecca who yawned. We hadn't been able to sleep since everything started. 'Now that I think of it, we never told the passengers that there are two kids flying their plane… they don't need to know that.'

"That's for sure, how do you know so much about planes." She asked me curiously.

"I told you that I was obsessed with flying. I know almost everything about the current models of almost every airplane and spaceship." I said with a smile. "I can't imagine anything more exciting then outer space." I said looking at the night sky from out of the window.

"You were just in the middle of a potential plane crash were we made it out with probably seconds to spare… and you can't think of anything more exciting than an empty void." Rebecca said looking at me funny. "I think we have different definitions of the word excitement."

That started a rather heated debate over whether or not space travel was exciting. Rebecca started getting mad when I said that it was more exciting than ancient history and she started making fun of my understanding about human nature. "I guess once everything with Atlantis is over I will just have to take you out into out space and prove that it isn't boring." I said turning my attention back to the controls.

"You can do that?" Rebecca said wide eyed.

I bit my lip. I didn't know she would really believe me. "Well… sort of." I admitted and then kicked myself for saying it. She looked at me expectantly. "Well you know how there are the random portals." I said and she nodded. "Well if you can predict them then you can use them to travel anywhere and any when." I kick myself again. It felt so easy to talk about ghost stuff around Rebecca, probably because she reminded me so much about Jazz and myself. It was like how it would be if I was Jazz's older brother instead of her being my older sister.

Her eyes widened even more. "We could go back in time and see Atlantis before it sank into the ocean." She was really excited. I realized that I had explained to her way to much about how the Ghost Zone worked.

"No!" I said a little too sharply and she jumped.

"What? What do you mean no? You just said that it could be done." Rebecca said looking a little angry.

"Trust me… you don't want to mess with time traveling… it isn't safe." I started to pick my words more carefully. I could see the image of my half ghost father being killed by Vlad as my mom, who was miserable from marrying Vlad, watched. I visibly shivered. "You don't want to know what happens when you try."

She looked away from me. "So I can't get my parents back." She said sadly.

I chocked, I should have known… she was with her Grandfather… and she is so young. I looked over at her and remembered my dark future. "I'm sorry." It was all I could say. "Even if you did save them… you might not be able to come back." I finally said. "I tried to save my friends once for a deadly disease… and when I came back I found that I was never born. My parents were never married and were completely miserable... people died. Someone had to fix the damage I caused." I shook my head. "It isn't worth the risk. One small mistake… could lead to the end of the world."

"Are you still speaking from experience?" She said a little bitterly. I could only nod.

"It was only the smallest thing, one test… but lead to the extinction of all life… at the hands of a monster that still haunts my nightmares." I said sadly. I looked over as she hugged her legs. "Fine… if you promise not to touch anything… we'll go back to Atlantis, but you have to swear that you will not touch anything." She looked up to me and smiled widely and nodded. 'Great… there is no way that is going to end well.' I thought looking at her excited face. 'Clockwork is going to kill me... again.'

I reached forward and grabbed the radio. "Ground control this is Flight Number 2452 we are preparing for final descent do we have clearance. Over." I requested.

"The runway is all your 2452, do you know what you're doing kid?" The station operator asked.

"Don't worry, I have flown planes before… just nothing this big and clunky." I muttered that last part so that only Rebecca could hear me. She chuckled in amusement.

We started our final descent. "Alright Rebecca, can you release the landing gear." She did as I asked. I began the finally approach for the runway and gave a little prayer that at least the landing gear would work properly. I turned on the speaks to the cabin area. "This is your Captain speaking, we are preparing for our final descent into Jump City, please make sure all your tray tables are in their upright and lock positions and so on." Rebecca laughed a little. "Now then, we are not quite sure if our landing gear works, so this might get a little bumpy. You have been warned."

We had lower to an altitude of only fifteen feet and I stabilized us and got ready for the final plunge. We had a sharp fall and our wheels hit the ground… the two that came out. The whole plane dipped left and we could hear the sound of metal scrapping against concrete as we slide of the side of the track and into the empty grass next to the landing strip.

I righted myself from the rather unpleasant landing. "You already Rebecca?" I said rubbing my head to get rid of the stars.

"Can we take a boat next time we have to go to Japan?" She asked holding her stomach as if she was about to throw up.

"Not on your life." I laughed. "Do you want us to be on a sinking ship next time? I don't know anything about boats and having to fight giant sea monsters is a pain, trust me, I've done it." I leaned forward and pressed the intercom button. "Sorry about the rough landing, but would you all make your way to the emergency exits with the slides that are at the front and back of the plane. Thank you." I turned off the com and looked to Rebecca. "Guess we should be getting back to Professor Hawkins now."

She nodded and yawned a little. Genius she was, but she was still just a kid. We were some of the first people off the plane and walked straight past the camera crews that were trying to find out what was going on. After all, what would two kids know about the situation?

"Rebecca!" The Professor shouted and came up to us. "Are you alright, Rebecca?" He asked putting his hands on her shoulders.

"I'm alright Grandpa." She said with another yawn. "But I don't think I want to fly anywhere for a little while, ok."

Her Grandfather chuckled. "Of course."

"Excuse me." It was an official from the airport. "Are you the children that were involved in flying the plane?" the man asked us.

"Yes..." I said with a little uneasy.

"Would you mind coming with us. We have some individuals that wish to speak with you." The man told us. I had a feeling that it was not going to end well.

I am kicking myself for 'Jump City' being the first name that came to mind since Rebecca lives in California. The fact that I used it demands what is going to happen in the next chapter.