I had this pre-written for the most part, so... this was quick and came pretty naturally to write.

The wind around us began to change. I crouched into a fighting stance, on guard in case not everyone could hide in time.

I could feel him. He was so sudden and strong. The pure essence of his deathly form was gruesome, and ghosts could feel him from miles away.

Suddenly, he appeared. Tall, and glowing green. His eyes were red and spikes make his collar and fur. Horns behind his ears and his wolf-like snout was pointed directly at me. He looked around once before creating a cage in the sky and letting it fall, encasing my classmates and chaperones. However, Dani had jumped out of the way, and hid behind a rock before it could encase her.

And Trechor didn't seem to notice, thank God.

Everyone was screaming besides my two best friends and daughter. They and I stared at this beast of a ghost, bastard of a man.

I breathed deep and looked back to him, "Who's afraid of cages?" I asked.

"What?" Trechor looked down to me. His voice was deep and sounded strangely like Scar's from the Lion King.

"I asked, who's afraid of cages?"

"Oh! That little detail. Yes. Confinment, actually, that would be the tall Asian one." He pointed at Kwan who was freaking out slightly at the back.

I nodded then looked to Tucker who got my drift and went over to comfort him as well as he could.

Sam had her eye on our baby who hid behind a rock behind me, some yards back.

I turned my attention back to Trechor, and he smirked at me. "So, I've wanted a rematch in our little game, I'm sure you've heard."

"I'd rather not be dealed in this round," my reply was a monotone.

"Oh, but you've already put in your ante." His thick, green, and furry paw-hands wrapped tightly around my throat.

He sent a flash of a vision through me, and I choked. Dan smacked down a building as if it were a fly. He growled and uses his ghostly wail to take the life of the into the throats of a pair of children who had fallen in their attempt of escape.

I growled. This was the man who'd caused Sam's fear of thunder-storms. Simply by torturing her like this while I'd been out for the count. I put my hand on his in attempt to loosen his grip. At this he sent a wave of electricity through me, my main physical fear, and pushed another flash into my mind.

He threw me to the ground and I was down as electricty coursed though me. I'd been nearly-killed by it once, and I knew it could happen again.

He then went to the cage and looked to Sam, instantly boiling my blood. His long claw traced up her neck as she was unable to back away due to the closeness of everyone in the cage. "So, I see that thunder now booms through your nightmares. Did I do that? I'm so sorry."

She smacks his hand away, and suddenly I'm thankful for the trap. He attempted to grab at her, but the cage kept his meaty hands out.

He then looks to Tucker who shiverd as Trechor hissed. Tucker's always hated snakes. And thankfully Trechor never seemed to find his fear for hospitals in the mix of his mind. So that had yet to be the entre of torture for my best friend.

He steps back over to me as I began to get up. He grabs at me and sends a longer vision and burst of electricity through me. Buildings smolder and Dan topples them will the flick of his wrist. He slowly guts people one by one, as if they were fish. The tombs of Sam, Tuck, Jazz, his parents and Lancer are quickly obliterated. Nothing good remains of Amity Park.

I growl in my place and Dani reached out for me, tripping and falling into the light.

Trechor smirked and grabbed her by her throat as he had done me. "Why hello there, child." I struggled to get to my feet and Sam reached out for her, tears falling lightly from her eyes.

"And what's your worst fear?" he asked, his voice poison. I saw Trechor prepare an ecto ray.

"Let me go! I'll kick your butt so hard, I'l-" She struggled, fighting all the way.

"You'll do what?" Trechor glowered, now holding her by her throat.

His eyes began to glow.

He's going to do it- No, baby, Sam's thoughts rang

Colors swirled around where his pupils would be, "I wonder what you'd look like melted down".

Tucker looked to me and his thoughts and mine were exactly the same, No secret is worth my baby's life. No secret is worth Danielle.

Dani struggled to keep her gaze off of his eyes, but his grip bruised her into submitting.

No! I thought as I sprang to life. I no-longer cared if his secret was revealed.

I just wanted to protect my daughter.

I was shooting ecto blasts, and phased my daughter from his clutches before setting her carefully on the ground.

"Ooh! Daddy gets scared when his daughter talks to strangers."

"As I should be," I admit. Danielle could feel the power radiating off him, I could tell. And the lack of radiating off me. I was low from not being in my ghost form for so long, she knew that.

I jumped and pulled him into the air as he had me. My acting skills had never failed me, and so I would act that I was as powerful as ever. "You can put my friends and family in cages; I know they'll get their freedom back. But the moment you threaten my daughter or anyone, you won't heal," I growl just so he and Dani can hear.

He gulped before a smile returned to his face, and I was shocked again to my knees. More flashes of my ex-future self were poured into my eyes. Sam and Tucker reached out, trying so hard to hold and comfort me.

My eyes fell to Mr. Lancer and Mr. and Mrs. Manson. "Why look to the teacher who never understands or trusts, and the parents who think you've corrupted their daughter?" Came Trechor's booming voice, echoing through my mind, and everyone else's ears. Trechor sent another flash of Dan's destruction and another blast.

My eyes then fell on my classmates: "What have they ever done but ridiculed you, while all you did was save them, time and time again." Their faces fell full of regret and confusion: "save us?" Another flash of Dan destroying more lives, and another blast from Trechor.

I looked to his parents, hoping for them to save me, "The parents who only want to destroy you, rip you apart molecule by molecule and examine the remains? Not very likely, Daniel." Another flash of Dan. Another blast from Trechor.

I was desperate now, looking to Danielle, but not really knowing why. "You wouldn't even let her, if she wanted to. Forget it, Daddy." Then came the flash of Dan destroying all of his family, and then his own past self. I screamed now, as the pain of the illusion ripped through his body, joined by the pain of Trechor's well-aimed shot.

I looked to Tucker and Sam, who sent me happy and hopeful thoughts, and my favorite memories. "Them? WHat have the-"

I cut him off, a renewed strength accenting my voice, "What have they done for me? The only people here who would give anything to help me? The only people who stood by me no matter what came my way? The only people who took me through my moods and battles, thick and thin?" A flash of fear came across Trechor's eyes- no one had ever rebelled against his toture before. "The only people who weren't scared of what I would become, only for what hurt me and made me that way? The only people who wouldn't leave me because of an accident that changed me forever? My own true family?

"You never had that did you? You only scared people into doing your bidding, then destroyed their remains when they weren't of any use to you any more. You found their weakness and abused it; just as you do now. You've scared people away, even when you wanted their companionship instead of their use as a stepping stool," I questioned, my eyes glowing bright in the strength and sureness of my words. Suddenly I became the one holding Trechor up in the air by his collar. "I'm not like you, Trechor, I won't use this weakness against you. Instead, I'll offer you one more chance; get out of here, and never let me catch you hurting another soul again, and I won't bother you."

I lowered Trechor down to his knees, and he gasped for air. "Alright." He pushed out of his lungs. "I will." I released him and looked to my little family of Tucker, Sam, Dani, and somewhere Jazz was part of it, too.

I almost didn't see him aim for Dani.

I jumped in the way just in time for him to send out an ecto-fire. It would've killed Danielle was the only thing in my mind as I flew back while he burnt from my feet to my chest. Dani, who had earned her strength back from the minor injuries Trechor had inflicted, was able to hold me up from hitting the ground. My eyes narrowed, glowing more violent by the moment. I stood, limping forward. Somehow I was quick enough to grab Trechor by his collar once more. My breathing was heavy, and strength quickly diminishing, though I hid it well.

"You've done it now," I mutered before lifting him by his throat into the air. ""I've been fair; I've given you a chance - you turned it down. And used it to make an attempt at my daughter's life."

"Phantom, I didn'-" he stuttered, now obviously scared for his afterlife.

"BULLSHIT!," I yelled at his meager excuses. "I'm done dealing with what you do to this zone. To these people who've done nothing to you. Trechor, as king of the ghost zone, in the name of that crown, I banish you." His eyes were wide in fear, "I sentence you to your fate." And the power I earned in taking the crown that was rightfully mine, propelled my voice to new, deeper octaves, and higher volumes than I'd believe were possible.

And our eyes began to glow white and my ghostly wail mixed with his pained shriek. A moment of brightness overtook the zone. And as soon as it ended, Trechor was no where to be seen. And wouldn't be seen. Ever again.

The cage disappeared and Sam and Tucker and Danielle all ran to me, while the others were cautious to step out. I shook and the weight of what I had done over took me. Sam's arms wrapped around me and I leaned into her. "I'm gonna be sick," I muttered.

Sam helped me lean over and I puked out my guts. I thought I heard her quote, "It's okay, Ponyboy. I won't look atcha."

Her cold hands had found my neck and I felt myself being carried away from my bile and closer to the river by Tucker.

I couldn't hear anything but the rapid beating in my chest. I felt myself mumbling and my stomach twisted. I felt the panic attacks that had become the norm grip me. But this one was different, stronger. My eyes shifted and the different things going on around me mushed together. I was so focused on not being focused. The only definite things I could make out were my head against Sam's chest, Dani giving me a sip of water from the river, and Tucker and Sam switching out so she could work on bandaging my legs and chest and the other injuries all about my body. Suddenly I felt cold metal reach my hands, and I began morphing it, and bending it.

Monoceros was the only thing going through my mind as I used my powers to melt some parts of the metal and freeze others.

I heard my friends singing one of my favorite songs from the musical Les Miserables and sang my favorite part as best as I could with them. Things were beginning to clear up in my foggy mind.

I took a deep breath, and though it was a bit fuzzy and echo-y, I heard Sam ask me, "You good?" She and Tuck had swapped spots again, I now noticed. And she was rubbing my shoulders.

"...yeah... thanks... love you guys..." I leaned back into her arms, and she kissed my ear.

"Shh... sleep..."

I took her advice almost immediately.

That was the climax, guys! The big fight scene! Only a few more chapter left until it's all over!