Chapter 38

DANNY'S POV

I had Tucker and Sam help me drag my Dad into the Spector Speeder. He was kinda out of it he kept yelling nonsense, but one thing did stick in my head was "Vlad ghost." I guessed that he had shifted in front of my dad. I bet that if he did it to gloat or to fight Cari. Both seemed pretty likely. After he was strapped in Sam and I went to look around some more. We left Tucker to stay with my Dad. Sam went to the right side of the lab I checked out the left.

"Hey Danny!" Sam yelled frantically. "Get over here now."

I ran over to the lab table she was standing next to. When I looked under it I saw torn pieces of cloth most likely came from whatever Vlad had been wearing at the time of the fight. "Where do you think he went?" Sam asked as we both stood back up.

"I don't know but I'm going to go check upstairs." I looked around to see if my Dad could see me. Once I had deemed it safe I shifted back into my ghost form. "Could you keep looking around down here?" Sam nodded, then I fazed through the ceiling. Once I was on the first floor I began to look for any sign of Vlad. All of the lights were out which made it look a little creepy, but the darkness didn't affect my eyesight at all.

I continued to fly down the halls until I caught sight of a room that did have a light on. I put on an extra burst of speed and flew into the room. Vlad was sitting on his bed, his arm in a sling and a lot of cuts and bruises everywhere else. Before I even had a chance to say anything he pick up a hand gun and pointed it at me. He shot a bullet which I was able to dodge easily since it was a regular bullet. I guessed that he'd kinda lost it you can't hurt a ghost with a normal bullet. "What the heck Vlad!?" I yelled.

He dropped the gun and sat up a bewildered look on his face "Danny?" he asked quietly.

"Uh ya it's me." I said as I floated closer.

"Stay back!" he yelled as he picked up a larger gun, this time one of his ghost hunting guns.

"Woah woah calm down. I'm not here to fight you today. And frankly I'm not in the mood to. We - I want to know what's up with Cari. I mean what did you do to her?"

Vlad looked down at his sheets. "Everything went wrong." his said as his eyes widened. Thinking about her really seemed to hurt him. What had she done to him?

"How do we stop her?"

"It's not her anymore, something went wrong, you can't it's too strong."

"Vlad you need to help us out here. We have her restrained for now."

His head shot up, "How?"

"That-that doesn't matter. But I need to know how to undo whatever you've done to her."

"Destroy the ghost." Vlad muttered.

"Wait you mean destroy her ghost half?" I yelled. Vlad just nodded.

We sat there is silence, minus Vlad's heavy breathing. I bit the inside of my cheek to keep from yelling at him again. I didn't want to have to take that away from her. But at the same time I knew that if she knew what her ghost half was causing her to do she wouldn't hesitate to do anything that could possibly stop this. Even if it meant destroying part of herself.

"Thanks Vlad!" I said with new enthusiasm just before I ran out of the room. I was halfway down the hall then remembered Vlad's condition. So I flew back to his room "Oh and we'll take you to a hospital." I picked him up piggy-back-style. "Well I never pictured myself doing this." I muttered under my breath then I flew down to the lab