As he finished speaking he lunged at me, teeth bared. He lashed out with his razor-sharp claws. I ducked just in time. His claws slashed through the air were my head had just been moments before. I quickly rolled out of his reach.

OK G, what now?

Punch him!

What!?

Your strength is 20 times what it normally is, punch him!

OK, here goes nothing!

I turned around and faced Ragnarock. He was surprised by this; I could see it on his face clear as day. I did as I was told and hit him square in the jaw. Ragnarock was not prepared for that at all. His eyes widened in shock before he was thrown clear across the room, hitting the wall with enough force to wind him.

It seems I underestimated you. I shall not make the same mistake again!

He got back up and lunged at me again, but this time he was no more than a blur. In seconds he had his teeth in my arm. I started hitting him in the face again, but it did little more than tick him off.

Got another idea?

Picture your arm on fire!

What!?

Just do it!

OK! OK!

I did as I was told; I closed my eyes picturing my arm on fire. Suddenly the teeth in my arm were gone. I opened my eyes to see Ragnarock looking at me in pain. I looked at my arm and it was actually on fire. To my surprise the fire wasn't burning me; it wasn't even hot, just warm. I looked back at Ragnarock with an evil grin. This was going to be interesting.

It was my turn, I lunged at him. I punched him with my flaming fist. I could see the pained look in his eyes, the fire mixed with my incredible strength hurt, a lot. Ragnarock's eyes started glowing brighter, changing from dark red to a deep purple. The things in the room started floating, rimmed with a purple aura. After floating in the air for a few moments they started circling the room at great speeds. They then suddenly changed direction; they were all headed for me.

Shit!

Duck!

I didn't have to be told twice. I hit the ground. Ragnarock had seen this coming, however, and everything changed direction again. I was buried under everything, the chairs, the table, the desk, and even the mirror. The mirror just happened to shatter on impact, showering me in broken glass. I struggled out of the pile of furniture. I was bruised and cut all over. Everything hurt. I struggled just to stand up. There was blood in my eyes and mouth, and my arm was hanging at my side, useless. I wiped the blood from my eyes with my good arm.

Not so strong now, are we girl?

Max, are you OK?

I smiled as I spit the blood out of my mouth, Hey don't worry about me, I'm fine. He just caught me off guard, that's all. I turned to glare at Ragnarock, "Shut up you bastard."

He glared back at me and growled. His eyes were back to their original color.

So his eyes change color depending on what kind of powers he's using. I can use that. OK G, what else can I do?

Well, you can lift things with your mind too. Pretty much anything he can do you can do as well.

Awesome!

I closed my eyes again and pictured the pile of furniture behind me lifting up and flying at Ragnarock with the force of a truck. I opened my eyes, and to my pleasure it had worked. He was buried like I had been not 2 minutes ago. After he struggled out from under the pile I laughed.

"Not so strong now, are we demon?" I sneered.

You dare mock me girl? I will make you regret ever entering this house!

His eyes started changing color again, but this time they changed to a bright yellow. He started glowing with a yellow aura.

OK, now what's he doing? I tensed, ready to jump out of the way if needed.

Ragnarock's fur was on end, making him twice his actual size. As I looked at him I felt the atmosphere of the room change, like it was being charged with electricity. Suddenly, he charged at me full force. I went to move out of the way and found that I couldn't move. I could just stand there and wait for him to hit me. And hit me he did, it felt like being hit by a train. My vision blurred and my mind went fuzzy. I may have even blacked out if it weren't for G screaming at me in my head.

Max don't black out! Stay awake! You can do it, stay awake! WAKE UP!

Thanks G, I'm good now. I turned to Ragnarock. He had a smug look on his face. OK, that's it! You are so dead!

What now girl? You can barely stand, let alone fight. What are you going to do now? What can you do?

I looked him right in the eye and glared, "I'm going to end this, I'm going to end you!" I spat in his face.

I started to concentrate, focusing all my energy into one last attack. I was going to end this right now. Either this would kill him and I would win or it wasn't going to work and I would be too exhausted to do anything else. If the latter happened I wasn't going to ever see my friends again, he'd kill me.

Better hope for the former then. You ready G?

Ready as I'll ever be. Let's do this!

The room started to glow with a deep emerald green aura. I could feel myself lifting off the floor, along with everything else in the room. Even Ragnarock was off the floor, his face twisted in horror. He was scarred! He was actually scarred, of me! I almost laughed, but I held it in for fear of breaking my concentration. Suddenly everything was thrown to the ground with the force of an atomic bomb, Ragnarock on the bottom of course. I could tell it had knocked him unconscious. This was it! Time to finish him off!

This is it G, you're free.

I know. Thank you Max. Truly, thank you.

I lit the pile on fire. I watched as it burned. I watched until it was nothing more than a small pile of ash. Ragnarock was dead. I had won. I sighed in relief. Then I passed out.

"…ax…ke up…ake up…"

Huh? Did I pass out again?

"…wake up…ase wake up…"

Please leave me alone, whoever you are. I just want to sleep, I'm so tired. So very tired.

"Wake up! Please, wake up!... MAX!"

I groaned as I sat up, "What?! I'm awake OK! Are you happy now?!"

I opened my eyes to see my friends gathered around me, relief on their faces. We were back downstairs in the library. I was lying on the couch. My wounds were all bandaged up.

Who could have done that?

"Oh thank god you're OK. We thought we lost you." Saphira was close to tears.

All-of-a sudden I was tackled by Zach, Amy, and Bethany. All three of them were crying their eyes out.

"Max!" Zach cried. He was holding onto my arm as though I would disappear if he let go.

"Hey guys." I managed to hug them without making it any more painful than it already was. "You should have more faith in me. It'll take more than that to get rid of me!"

Rygart sighed, "Don't ever scare us like that again."

"You almost died Max, don't joke." Rosalina looked at me with tears in her eyes.

Rosalina had actually been crying. That really got me serious. "Sorry guys. I didn't mean to make you worry."

Kira wiped her eyes, "As long as you're OK now, that's all that matters."

Archer just nodded in agreement.

I looked at our ghost friends, "You guys are free now. You can pass on."

James lifted his head to look me in the eye, "We know, thank you."

I looked around the room for the one person not there, "Where's G?"

"He's in the kitchen, kicking himself for not protecting you better." Bethany said through her tears.

"I'll go get him." Rygart said, standing up to go get him.

"Thanks." I called after him.

We sat in silence until Rygart came back with G. When G saw me sitting up on the couch, awake and alive, relief washed over his face.

"Max, I'm so glad you're OK! We are never doing that again." He sighed, "OK guys, give Max some space." He moved to get Zach, Amy, and Bethany off me.

I stopped him, "Oh let them go. They're not doing any harm."

He looked at me with worry in his eyes, "Max you need to rest, and they're not letting you do that."

I sighed, "Alright, you heard him guys, I need my rest."

"Aaaww, OK." They all said in unison.

Everyone left the room, leaving me and G alone. G turned to leave but I stopped him.

"Wait, stay." I said, patting the couch next to me. "I want to talk."

He looked at me, "That's not resting."

I rolled my eyes, "Oh come on, it won't take that long."

"Fine, we can talk for a little." He sighed as he sat down next to me.

I leaned my head on his shoulder and sighed, "Thank you."

He looked at me, "What for?" He asked.

I looked up at him, he was blushing. "For being there with me. If you weren't with me I would defiantly not be here now. So thank you."

He rolled his eyes, still blushing, "Oh please, if it weren't for me you wouldn't even be in this situation. That makes this my fault, so don't thank me."

"You being here made no difference, you know. I would have come here anyway, and without your warning about the demon my friends and I would have searched this house from top to bottom. We would have found the hidden stairs eventually. Then we would have all died." I told him.

"Man you sure are persistent." He said.

I smiled, "That's not always a bad thing."

He looked at me, confused, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"This." I moved closer and kissed him right on the lips. He tasted amazing, like mint and dark chocolate.

"Mph-!" He muttered, surprised. Then he leaned into the kiss, trying to deepen it.

It was incredible. I wanted that moment to last forever. However, being a living, breathing, human, I needed to, well, breath. So I had to break the kiss.

"Well that was… nice." He said looking at me.

"Yeah." Was all I could manage to gasp out.

His blush deepened, "So, um, yeah… rest! You still need to rest!"

I grinned, "Only if you stay here and be my pillow."

"OK." He said

It was my turn to blush, "O-Oh, O-OK. Night."

He smiled, "Night."

I fell asleep with my head on his shoulder and a smile on my face.

Later that night

"Max, time to wake up."

I groaned, "Ugh, 5 more minutes G."

G sighed, "Max, wake up. It's time to say goodbye."

That got me up. "What, now? Can't you stay a little longer?"

He looked down at the floor, "No Max, we can't. My friends have waited long enough."

"Oh yeah, sorry." I sighed.

"Don't worry about it." He hugged me.

I hugged him back, "I'll miss you, you know."

He sighed, "Yeah."

I broke the hug, "OK I'm ready. Let's go."

He sighed again, "Yeah. They're outside in the front yard."

We walked out into the yard together. Everyone was already there, and they had already said their goodbyes. I gave all my new ghost friends a big group hug.

"I'm gonna miss you guys." I started crying.

Bethany started tearing up, "Hey, don't start crying. If you start crying I'll start crying."

Zach started bawling his eyes out, "I don't want to go! I want to stay with Max!"

"Zach, Max almost died trying to kill the demon so we could pass on." James explained. "It would be rude if we stayed here now."

Zach threw himself at me, clinging to my leg, "Max you understand right? You're my friend and I want to stay with you!"

I bent down to hug the child, "That's sweet of you Zach. I will miss you terribly but don't you want to pass on? Don't you want to rest in peace?"

"Not if you won't be there. I want to stay with you!" He hiccupped through his tears. His little body shook with the force of each and every sob.

I sighed, I was all choked up, "If that's what you really want, then I can't stop you. But are you sure that's what you truly want?"

He hugged me tighter, "Yeah, I'm sure! Thank you!"

"Does anyone else want to stay?" I asked, looking up at the other ghosts. "Don't stay if you don't want to. I promise you won't hurt my feelings."

"Sorry Max, I've been here for far too long. I just want to be at peace." James sighed.

"Yeah, me too. Sorry." Bethany said, looking at the ground.

I stood up and hugged them, "Hey don't worry about it. We understand. Right guys?" I turned to my friends who had been silently watching me the whole time.

They all nodded their heads in agreement.

I turned to Amy, "What about you Amy, what are you going to do?"

She wiped away her tears and looked at me with a sad smile, "I don't know Max. I want to pass on, but I don't want to leave you guys. What should I do?"

I bent down and gave her a big hug, "If you want to pass on then that's what you should do. I won't try to stop you; but if you choose to stay I won't push you away either. It's entirely up to you."

She thought about it for a while, "OK, thank you. I'll miss you, but I want to pass on."

"I'll miss you too Amy." I hugged her even tighter.

Zach ran over to his friends and hugged them, "I'm gonna miss you guys."

They hugged him back. "We'll miss you too Zach." Amy cried.

"What about you?" I said turning to look at G. "What are you going to do?"

I wanted him to stay so bad it hurt.

He thought about it for what felt like forever, and then he smiled, "Who said I was ever going to leave?"

I released the breath I hadn't realized I was holding in. Oh thank god. I smiled, "You are such an ass you know that?" I ran up to him and kiss him.

My friends, whom I had completely forgotten were even there, gaped.

"Way to go Max!" Kira shouted.

Shit!

I immediately broke the kiss. My face felt like it was on fire. I glanced at G's face; it was the color of a ripe tomato. I turned to my friends, "Is there any chance that you could forget what you just saw?" I asked, hopeful.

"Oh there is absolutely no fucking way I will ever forget that." Rosalina grinned.

"Ahem!" James got everyone's attention, "We should probably be leaving. Good bye G, Zach."

G blushed even harder, "Y-Yeah, bye."

Just then, out of nowhere a bright white light appears behind them. James, Bethany, and Amy turn and step into the light. In response the light grew brighter and brighter, until we had to shield our eyes for fear of being blinded. Once the light had disappeared we opened our eyes and they were gone.

"I miss them already." I started crying.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

G hugged me, "It's OK, it's OK."

Rygart put his hand on my shoulder, "It was for the best."

"I know, but it still hurts." I choked out between sobs.

Rygart sighed, "Let's go home… I'll drive." He added looking at me.

"Yeah, OK." I said, calming down.

We all got in the car and drove away.

*Looks out from under table* Well that got out of hand. I swear this story was not supposed to be this long. It just grew and grew, and I went along with it. Sorry if you got tired of it half way through. If you actually read the story through to the end, then thank you so much. You guys are the reason I do this. If you liked this monster of a story, then give me a review or favorite it. If not then why are you still reading? Hahaha! Got you!

EDIT: Now that it has a chapter format I hope it looks less intimidating. This story taught me the importance of chapters. Haha! Hope you liked it!

This fan fic was inspired by the song The Murderer by Alesana.