Chapter 33

TUCKER'S POV

Cari was acting really strange. She kept blowing us off or making weird excuses so that she could leave. She had even stopped coming to play video games with us.

I had tried to ask her what was up but she just said she was tired. Then she would hang up the phone. With the way she was acting now I wouldn't be surprised if soon she just disappeared altogether again.

Not only was she blowing us off but she would completely space out or say really weird out of context things. I asked Danny about it and he said that when they were fighting ghosts she would constantly mutter nonsense to herself.

We were all really worried. I thought that whatever was going on had to be connected to whatever Vlad did to her. It was the only logical reason.

Sam, Danny, and I came up with a plan to try and get some information out of her. We were all going to go down to the lab and try and get some answers. We were going to lay down the law. Grill the truth out of her.

Well not really we were just going to ask her what was up.

CARI'S POV

It was getting worse. I was losing track of time and I would end up in places with no memory of how I got there. Plus Sam Tucker and Danny we getting pretty suspicious. I had managed to avoid Danny's house for a while that seemed to be the voices main goal was to get me to eliminate Danny's dad.

I was afraid that soon I would lose complete control then the voice could do whatever it wanted with me. I really wanted to tell my friends what was going on, but I just couldn't bring myself it do it.

'Last chance to do this with your own free will.' The voice chimed it.

'I'm not going to do that not now not ever' I thought angrily.

'It's funny how you keep saying you won't do this or you'll never do that. Do you have any idea as to what I've already made you do? You know what it's probably better that you don't know.'

"What- what have I done?" I asked, only this time out loud.

'You have about 30 seconds to make a decision. Then say goodbye it your mind.'

I began to panic. I pulled out my phone and called Danny luckily he was on speed dial and he picked up I the first ring. "Danny whatever you do don't let me near your house. And- and if I do anything strange don't hesitate to take-"

'Time' the voice yelled triumphantly. Suddenly I had no control over anything. But I could still kinda tell what was going on just before everything went dark and what was said to Danny didn't make this situation any better.

DANNY'S POV

"Don't hesitate to take me out. Ya know if you can." her voice sent chills down my back.

I turned around to look at Sam and Tucker. I guess my face said it all.

"What happened to her?" Sam asked

"She- she just told me that if she does anything weird that- that I should kill her."

"What?!" Sam yelled.

"She's completely lost it." Tucker grumbled.

All of a sudden I heard a huge crash then my Dad yelling. We all turned to look at the stairs. "I really hope that isn't Cari" I whispered as I ran upstairs.

The scene I saw once I reached the kitchen wasn't pleasant. Cari was floating in full ghost form above my parents who had their ghost weapons pointed at her. She had a downright evil look on her face.

"Danny go back down to the lab!" my mom yelled.

"I knew this ghost girl was no good." my Dad said triumphantly. "Now we have her."

Cari smirked "The names Red Shadow you incompetent oaf." Cari growled as she gathered a ball of flame in her hands.

"Dude you've gotta take her out!" Tucker insisted.

"I'm not gonna kill her." Danny yelled through clenched teeth.

"No you just need to get her out of here or contain her." Sam added.

I nodded and ran up to the third floor. Passing Jazz on the way. "Wait Danny what's going on!" she yelled after me.

"Jazz don't go down there. Cari," I paused for a second trying to sum up what was going on, "she's lost it." I continued to run going ghost on the way. As soon as I was above the kitchen I fazed through the ceiling down into the now all-out battle that was taking place.

Cari was rapid firing a mix of fire and ghost rays at my parents. My mom and dad were trying to fight back but it didn't look to good. Cari was definitely winning.

I lunged at her before she noticed that I was there. "Get off me." she snarled. She managed to get on top of me and pinned me down by my neck. "Don't get in my way Danny." when she said that I could swear her eyes had turned bright red.

She threw me across the room when I hit the wall so hard I broke through it. Which was actually kinda lucky on my part since I changed back into my human form. I quickly jumped back onto my feet changing into my ghost form once again.

"Red back away from them" I yelled throwing myself back at her.

"I said don't get it my way you freak!" Cari screamed as loud as she could activating her ghostly wail.

"Everyone get down." I yelled moving in front of my parents because I doubted they would listen to me, and of course I was right. On the other hand I was thrown back so hard I'm surprised I didn't pass out.

"Danny she's taking your Dad!" Sam yelled her voice filled with terror.

I looked up to see Cari lifting my Dad, who was in a huge net, and making her way towards the ceiling. Tucker ran after them trying to grab the net containing my dad before it turned intangible. But he missed it by a millisecond and fell on his face.

Then just as quick as it had all started everything was quiet again. It took a second for everyone to really take in what had happened. It also took a few seconds to realize that I was still in my ghost form and my mom was giving me some very confused looks.

I quickly got up and took off trying to see where they had gone, but they were out of sight. This was definitely Vlad's doing, but right now I couldn't afford to go after them blindly. I had to go back and check on my mom.

I flew into the basement and ran up the stairs in my human form. "Mom are you okay?" I asked running over to her.

Tucker and Sam were checking out the damage.

"Danny she kidnapped your father." She sobbed.

"Don't worry mom I'll get him back. Even if it's the last thing I do." I said walking her into the living room.

I didn't care of Vlad was controlling Cari, I would never forgive her for this.