Chapter 35

CARI'S POV

I finally came back to my senses back in my own bedroom. Though I had no idea how I got there. I just felt power hungry and angry for no reason. I wanted to rip off the head of every ghost is ever seen. Well not that I'd never felt that was before but this was way different.

I decided to call Danny in hope of finding out what had happened. I pulled out my phone then began to have second thoughts. What if I had killed Danny's dad. Or worse what if I had done something to Danny or Tucker or Sam! I really wasn't sure I wanted to know. If something had happened I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt.

'Ya I think your right just don't call him. Its better you don't know yet' the voice cut in.

"Wait, what did you make me do?" I muttered angrily under my breath. A cold sweat broke out on the back of my neck.

'I said you don't really need to know. But I guess if you're desperate you could call him and hear for yourself.' I could imagine whoever's voice this was grinning evilly is.

That settled it I had to call Danny. The fear of not knowing had to be worse than the guilt that may come with it. I pressed 4 and listening to the endless ringing. I was just about to hang up having second thoughts for the second time, when Danny answered.

"Where did you take my Dad!?" he screamed angry.

I sat in silence stunned as even more fear settled in "I... I don't know."

"Ya sure is that a secret too now along with the secret that your completely psycho! You could've killed me my mom and my friends. What the heck is wrong with you?"

"I tried to call and tell you I just" tears started coming to my eyes.

'Oh don't cry it'll make you sound so helpless and weak.' the voice said sarcastically.

"URGH shut up and get out of my head!" I yelled accidentally dropping my phone.

"Cari what was that." Danny asked as I picked up my phone.

"It was that stupid voice it keep telling me crazy things and its making me do other things too." my voice got quieter as my sentence went on.

"Like destroying my house and almost sending multiple people to the hospital and trapping my dad and then flying off to give him to Vlad." Danny said angrily. "You should've told us way sooner Cari. We are or were your friends. And ya know it may be better for all of us if you just loose this number." Then he hung up.

I sat there my phone still in my hand trying to steady my breath. My mind was trying to process everything at top speed and that still wasn't enough.

'How about we go pay Danny a visit.' the voice suggested.

'How about no' I thought.

Suddenly the room heated up hinting a ghost was nearby. "This is not a good time." I muttered as I shifted into my ghost form.

'You've just made a huge mistake. Well for yourself not for me' the voice laughed.

I tried to shift back before whatever the voice is took over me. I guess I hadn't realized that the voice could only truly control me when I was in my ghost form. So ya it was right I had made a huge mistake.

DANNY'S POV

As soon as I hung up the phone my ghost sense went off. "Really now is not the best time. Unless you wanna be completely demolished, then ya this is the best time." I yelled as I flew out the window.

The ghosts turned out to be Johnny 13 luckily Kitty wasn't with him. One less thing to worry about. I chased him all the way to Cari's street a place I wasn't exactly overjoyed to be entering.

Before I could go any farther a blur of red and black shot past me and tackled Johnny 13 knocking him off his motorcycle.

His shadow went after me though. Eventually I was able to get it under the now illuminated street lights dissolving it. I went back to see where Johnny had ended up. I wasn't too pleased with the sight.

Red had him held up by his shirt collar her whole body almost completely surrounded by flames. I was almost too scared to get any closer. I could hear her talking to him in an almost whispered tone but he looked terrified.

What could've turned someone like Cari into that? She had said something about a voice in her head. Maybe that was why she would mutter to herself constantly. Maybe it was Vlad's voice, but that doesn't exactly explain why it how or if she was being controlled.

It was just hard to wrap my head around what could turn someone like Cari into a monster like that.

Cari then did something I'd never seen her do. She moved her hands in circular motions and I could feel the wind speed pick up. Eventually Jonny was sucked into a mini tornado and once the storm had calmed he was gone.

None of us had ever thought of Cari having any other powers let alone another elemental power. But at this point it only made her more dangerous. I well we had to get whatever was doing this out of her ASAP.

After the air had calmed down. Cari spun sound to face me and I was shocked to see that her eyes were a bright flaming red and she just looked completely crazed. Almost like I had when Freakshow had controlled me, but she seemed to be on a whole different level of insanity. But none of it added up. How had Vlad acquired Freakshow's ghost controlling powers? Freakshow would never work with anyone. And whatever her "orders" where just didn't seem right. They just seemed so reckless. The fact that he wanted to get rid of my Dad made sense but with the way Cari carried out those orders she could've seriously injured my mom. Which is definitely something Vlad would not want.

I just wanted the old Cari back.

"So Danny. You're a little late." Cari said in a disturbing tone. "Once you're gone, oh man, taking over this town will be so much easier. I just can't wait to see how far I can go. Maybe I'll even take over the world both yours and the ghost zone. Wouldn't that be fun?"

She tilted her head and smiled. That when I realized not only would this be a fight to get her to the lab, it would also be a fight for my life."