"Who are you? How did you get in here?" he asked in concern and shock. I brushed some of my hair away nervously with my free hand, I had forgotten that it was most likely he wouldn't recognize me. I was slightly surprised that he showed so much concern for me since he didn't know I was the same Spirit he knew and 'maybe' loved.

"It's me Spirit" I said nervously. He narrowed his eyes.

"Prove it" he says. I process what I could show him that would prove I was Spirit. I could show him the tattoo but it wasn't very likely he would know what it meant but I had to try. Gently, I freed the hand still held by him and moved my sleeve up to my shoulder, exposing my tattoo. He stared at it in thought, tracing the outline gently with his thumb, he looked upset and heartbroken.

"It is you…" he trailed off, his hand never leaving the tattoo.

"What's wrong?" I asked, cupping his cheek with my right hand. He held it with his free hand and stared at me lovingly.

"You have to leave before my father knows you're here" he says quickly.

"Phoenix why are you working with him? You're hurting people" I asked.

"I have no choice, he is still my father and the ghost king I cannot go against him. He cannot know you are here and more importantly he cannot know we aren't soul mates" I pull down my sleeve and he pulls me to a run.

"You do have a choice, you always will have a choice Phoenix. And what do you mean we aren't soul mates?" I asked curiously as he pulled me through several hallways and doors.

"There is no time; I have to get you out of here before it's too late" he says instead. I narrow my eyes and yank my arm away from him, stopping in the middle of a hallway abruptly.

"I have a right to know" I said defiantly, crossing my arms. The sound of marching was heard and Phoenix began to panic for a second. He looked at me then towards the sound of marching then back to me before grabbing my arm again and pulling me into a corner.

"Your tattoo doesn't have a phoenix and mine doesn't have a yeti" he whispers quickly and checks the hallway.

"What do you mean?" I whisper back.

"Every ghost gets a tattoo at some point in their afterlife, you already know about soul mates what you don't know is that once you've found your soul mate your tattoos will have elements of each other. Ours don't, we're not soul mates Spirit…" he explains quickly and trails off upset after. I stare at him in shock as well. I was so sure, we could be soul mates. I mean we didn't really date for very long but there was a connection I could feel with him.

I could always feel that connection as a ghost but now… Now for some reason I couldn't… why…

"I'm getting you out of here, hold on" he abruptly says and grabs me around the waist. He flew quickly down the hallway and through two more doors before we are outside. I wished we hadn't. Buildings were on fire, people were screaming bloody murder, and corpses were littered all around everywhere.

Quietly, Phoenix flew me back to my house. I stayed quiet the whole way, other than to give him directions to where my house was, and tried to avoid looking around us. When we finally landed on my balcony, I looked between him and the house. He looked torn in what he wanted as well.

"You always will have a choice Phoenix, remember that" I offered him as a last piece of advice before I opened the window and went back into the house. It still looked as it had when I left. When I went further in though, the whole place seemed trashed. My eyes widened as I ran around my house, shouting the names of my adopted father, my brother, anyone.

I found no one, I searched everywhere. In despair I went back to the living room, hoping that maybe they were there and had gone there while I was searching, then I saw a note.

Me, Sam and Tucker are fine. They took your brother and Frostbite is injured really badly, we don't know if they're going to be okay and we don't know if your brother is alive. We've gone to help the people; we'll be at school in two hours, if you see this meet us there.

Danny.

The time this note was written was written below his name. It was about an hour or so ago and it would take me more than an hour to get to the school on foot unless…

"This is the craziest thing I have ever done" I declared to no one when I ran to get Frostbite's keys. I ran to the car, phasing through the door; now that I knew I could, and tried igniting the engine. Once I hear it revved up, I tested out how to drive the thing. I managed to figure out the basics pretty well, especially since I doubted anyone would be driving on the road so no need for any road rules, and put the car in drive.

I slammed my foot on the gas and sped off onto the road. I was turning the wheel madly around, not sure how to even drive, and I smashed into pretty much everything. After slamming into another car for the sixth time, I took a deep breath and took the driving slower. I managed to drive better this time but I was quickly running out of time so I slowly add more gas and sped off slightly faster than I was going but a little slower than before.

Along the way, more and more sights of devastation were around me. I figured I would have gotten over seeing corpses after the Dan thing but apparently I hadn't. I was driving in pools of blood and had run over several dead bodies, which out of courtesy I said sorry to even though they were dead, and it seemed like forever until I finally reached the school.

Knowing the time and day, classes was supposed to be in session now. I parked the car and ran inside the school, hoping to see some form of life there. I went straight for my classroom on the second level, not daring to look inside the other classrooms. When I turned to look inside, I nearly cried. As I had assumed, everyone was gone. All the girls had the sleeves to their uniforms torn; I guessed that there were looking for the tattoo. I carefully stepped over their deceased bodies, even those who acted terribly to me, and stopped by Old Man Joker.

He was the only one in the room that has his eyes closed and his lips were upturned into a small smile. I always knew he was suicidal, just by a little bit, I thought he would never actually do it but seeing how he is now…

"You idiot…" I murmured to his body half-heartedly, kneeling down next to him. I paid little attention to the army of warriors who reentered the classroom. I did start reacting when they grabbed my hoodie and started pulling the sleeves up until my tattoo was revealed. I started struggling more and more as they carelessly tied my hands together and gagged me.

And I was still struggling as Danny, Sam and Tucker finally arrived and saw me being taken away.