EDIT 8/27/17: Improved word choice, changed a bit of dialogue to flow better, etc
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Billion Dollar Ghost
RECAP: This starts at the beginning of the episode, but Vlad doesn't try to steal a key and get attacked by a ghost monster.
Vlad sank down onto his puffy leather couch, watching his gigantic flatscreen TV in boredom.
Danny had left from his weekly lesson just a few hours before. The man estimated that it had been almost three months since he had first met the other halfa... He could barely believe it had been that long already. He already felt as if he knew Danny inside and out…
Vlad was brought out of his thoughts when a strange commercial came on. The music seemed to be evil-sounding circus music, strangely enough, and what looked like a gothic clown's face showed up on the screen.
"I... am Freakshow... Ringmaster of the Circus Gothica, where your nightmares come alive... Circus Gothica, where the clowns never smile... Circus Gothica! Come and get your freak on... with real freaks! Circus Gothica, coming to Wisconsin! Cross over... to the dark side..."
Vlad rolled his eyes when he saw it was a commercial for some Goth convention thing (he had a feeling Danny's friend Sam would like that...) but faltered when the ringmaster stood there holding a mysterious, evil-looking red staff.
His eyes widened and he stared at the strange orb, faintly hearing himself say, "Cross over to the dark side..." His vision dissolved into red, and he lost control over his body and thoughts. All that mattered was the staff... And his new master's commands...
Suddenly, a loud alarm rang from the lab downstairs. The billionaire flinched and fell off the couch, rapidly regaining his vision.
"W-what the-" he was interrupted by a computerized voice saying "Ghost Portal to explode in three, two, one..." Vlad's eyes widened comically and he turned intangible just in the nick of time. He felt a huge, firey explosion rock his house, and he shut his eyes tight until things started to settle down again.
When Vlad opened his eyes, he was floating sideways above what used to be his mansion.
He slowly floated to an upright position, and stared in stunned silence for several seconds before yelling, "Ahh! My house!"
He surveyed the incredible damage before muttering, "I can always buy another one... But the portal!" His eyes whipped to what was left of his ghost portal. "It'll take me forever to build another one, especially since the blueprints were in my computer!"
He shook his head with a sigh. It seemed he wasn't going to have a portal for a while... But he could always use the Fentons' if he had to go to the Ghost Zone for some reason. Danny would surely let him use it.
His thoughts went back to the strange episode before his house blew up. He couldn't remember much... But he did know for sure that whoever that Freakshow guy was, he was not good news...
Freakshow grinned when he saw the treasures his pets had stolen just a few minutes before. He'd only been doing the circus for a month or so, and he already had gained millions of dollars! Oh, what fools his ancestors had been for not using the staff to its full potential!
The grinning man looked towards his staff lovingly. It flashed from an orangey shade of red to blood red, and a shape slowly started to form at its center. Freakshow smiled even more at his luck. Another ghost had caught a glimpse of his staff, either in a commercial or on a billboard, or some other method. Soon he would have his own army of ghosts to control at his command!
The head in the staff showed a vampire-like ghost with red eyes and spiked black hair. From the strong glow of the staff, Freakshow could tell that his new minion was very powerful. He couldn't wait to meet the new member of his circus... And welcome him to his new afterlife.
That night, several hours after the explosion, the elder halfa was on his way to his nearest vacation house (which happened to be his Colorado house in the woods). As he travelled lazily through the night sky, he almost ran into a billboard.
"Whoa!" He yelped and slowed to a stop. The first thing he saw was a faint red color before his vision dissolved into red.
Vlad gasped and fought against the force pushing him from his own head, taking control of his senses.
He had never hated the color red so much.
His mind seemed to fizzle and pop with the pressure, causing him to blink ferociously and clench his gloved hands into fists. But his efforts did nothing in the end, and he was forced to comply. His mind cleared of all thoughts except his new master.
He felt a strange force pulling him toward the north, and he could tell it was his master calling him. He turned around and zoomed back the way he came from. Nothing mattered to him at that moment except obeying...
"All I'm saying is, you might want to think twice before you barge in like that!" Jazz told her father, "You really got Danny in trouble!"
It was the following evening, and a lot has happened earlier that day at Casper High. First of all, it was the first Ghost Drill the school was having, because of all the ghost attacks in Amity. Unfortunately, Jack Fenton had also got the memo, and came to protect the school from any ghosts. And, well, there weren't any ghosts, but the man did protect the school from something... that something being an overweight teacher in a mask... which resulted in detention for the Fenton family's youngest member, Danny.
"Well, you think he's in trouble now..." Jack mumbled, motioning to the gigantic mess of ectoplasm and dirty beakers on the lab's desks, as well as an overflowing trash can and plenty of other junk lying around. Needless to say, the lab was a complete disaster. "Look at this place! Danny hasn't cleaned the lab in weeks; the beakers are caked with goo and... Would you look at that...?" He stared over toward the Ghost Portal. The panel beside it was leaking ectoplasm, and the green light was flashing ominously. "The Ecto-Filtrator hasn't been changed in 6 months! That can't be good..."
"And it'll be 6 more by the time I get done with all this extra work Lancer assigned me!" Danny stormed into the room, sweat dripping down his face. He threw down his purple backpack with a thud. It was stuffed full with books and papers. "Dad, are you familiar with the term, "stay away from my school"?"
Maddie piped in, "Sweetie, relax. You know your dad loves you, and he doesn't mean to make your life more difficult."
The conversation was interrupted by a voice from the TV. "The hunt is on for the ghost boy."
"What?!" Danny and Jack exclaimed simultaneously, though for different reasons.
"As a result of today's false ghost alert at Casper High, the need for competent, non-Jack Fenton ghost hunters in Amity Park has never been more obvious."
"Hey, they said my name!" Jack exclaimed in excitement before frowning, "Need for competent ghost hunters? Hm, what is that supposed to mean?" Just then, the invention he was holding squirted green goo all over his face, blatantly answering his question.
"Luckily, the world's best ghost hunters are coming to Amity to track down Public Enemy Number One, Invisobill, and also keep the ghosts under control."
Danny, Jazz and Maddie smiled knowingly at each other, "Three, two, one-"
"Nobody's catching that ghost kid but me!" Jack shouted, jumping into boxes of inventions and holding the Fenton Bazooka, causing the boxes to fall down with a metallic crash.
"... Danny, clean that up." The large man rushed up the stairs.
The three Fentons still in the lab smirked at each other again at Jack's jealousy and stubbornness.
The four ghosts flew behind their master obediently with their new stolen valuables, listening blankly as he monologued to himself about some new ghost that was coming.
"He should be here any moment... I'll have to find a place for him in the circus... Hmmm... He could be a vampire, he doesn't even need any face paint or a costume to make it work-"
A figure phased through the wall just then, a cape billowing behind it and red eyes gleaming. It approached the ringmaster slowly, coming to a stop in front of him and awaiting orders.
"Ah yes, new minion, bow to me!" Freakshow sneered. "With your help, I will become the most powerful human ever to exist, much more than my idiot parents!" He cackled madly and rubbed his hands together. "Alright, minions," he held up his staff, which swirled and glowed shades of red. "We're now on our way to Amity Park, Illinois, which is the most haunted city in America! Your job now is to go ahead on the way, and collect anything valuable you find. Now, go!"
All five ghosts nodded at the same time and started to fly away.
"Hold on, minion!" The white-faced ringmaster called to Vlad, who lowered back to the ground.
"Yes master?" His emotionless voice said.
"You seem to be a pretty strong, smart ghost... You'll have a separate mission. Go find any ghosts you can, preferably as powerful as possible. Don't waste your time on the weak ones. And, bring them back to me. We need all the support we can get if we're going to take over!" He grinned as the ghost in front of him nodded and took off.
"Now all I have to do is wait..."
Danny walked out of the Nasty Burger and stopped beside his friend Sam, who looked over at him with a worried frown.
"Danny, aren't you worried? These are the best known ghost hunters in the world..."
Danny smiled a little at the girl beside him, "Sam, the best known! They're not the best!" He grinned over at the people gathered in the parking lot. "The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat, the Extreme Ghost Breakers, the Government's ghost hunting squad Guys in White..." The two watched the laughable antics happening in front of them. "It's a virtual "who's who" of who can't catch ghosts!" He paused with a grimace, "Which means he should be arriving any second..."
The Fenton Assault Vehicle zoomed up, running over the Ghost Breaker's vehicles in the process. Danny and Sam could hear a faint "Sorry 'bout that!" from the direction of the large vehicle.
"I've got nothing to worry about!" Danny told Sam, smiling at his (unnaturally) good luck.
Just then, Tucker walked up with a ghost costume on to promote his "Boo-Yah Ghost Tours", causing Jack to squirt him with Ectoplasm.
"I got 'im! Me, Jack Fenton! Danny Fenton's father!"
Danny face-palmed as Tucker pulled off his ghost outfit, and the ghost hunters laughed at Jack's incompetence.
About twenty feet away on top of a building, Plasmius was peering through a pair of binoculars at Danny, knowing immediately that he was a ghost worth taking to Freakshow. The power radiating from the boy, even as a human, was almost as strong as Vlad's own aura.
As the red-eyed ghost watched the boy talk to his friends, all of the sudden, strange snippets flew through his mind in a whirl: holding the boy unconscious in his arms, watching his white-haired ghost half blast a target, feeling deep anger at ghosts that threatened him, feeling such pride and even a sort of love for the boy... His student...
Vlad blinked a few times, the red tint returning to his vision. He shook his head slightly, trying to clear the strange, impossible thoughts from his head. His mission was to capture the younger hybrid, not protect him or care about him! A determined expression appeared on the older halfa's face.
"You know what to do!" He smirked at the vultures beside him (who had also been brainwashed by the staff), ignoring the nonsense that had just happened in his head. The ghost birds flapped their green flaming wings and swooped down to the group of people. Screams filled the air as everyone jumped away from the ghostly vultures.
Jack jumped into action, grinning as he planned to show everyone once and for all, that he was the most qualified ghost hunter out of all of them!
Unfortunately, his attempt ended with a Nasty Burger mascot sign stuck on his head, and the vultures out of sight. Laughter sounded through the parking lot.
"Danny, do something!" The goth girl demanded and stared over at her friend, who had his hand on his forehead for about the third time that day.
"What do you want me to do? I can't Go Ghost here! Besides, nobody's in any real danger yet, right?"
The next thing he knew, two ghost vultures were flying away with a screaming Sam and Tuck in their claws.
Danny sighed, knowing he had jinxed it, again. "And, now they are. But, wait... Don't those vultures work for Vlad...?" He frowned in confusion, shaking his head. "It must have been a mistake, or maybe they just wanted to come and cause trouble... Yeah, that must be it." He looked at the laughing ghost hunters before slowly backing up around the Nasty Burger. He went ghost and jumped up into the sky, his translucent ghostly tail forming. He had some vultures to catch, and some friends to save.
As the younger halfa shot toward the vultures flying ahead, he felt a gloved hand wrap tightly around his neck and throw him down onto a nearby building. Phantom's green eyes blinked open and peered up into the evening sky, and he stifled a gasp upon recognizing who his attacker was.
"Vlad?!" Danny slowly got up from the cement and stared in confusion and slight fear. The vampire-like ghost floated a dozen feet above, his cape billowing out behind him. Vlad had never treated him that roughly, even when they were mock fighting for training purposes.
"Dear boy," Vlad droned with a smirk, slowly approaching the other ghost. "You're going to come with me if you know what's good for you..."
"V-Vlad stop it! This isn't funny!" Phantom got off the roof and flew back a few feet. Vlad's expression was still cold and mindless, and his eyes, which were normally a friendly, dark red color, now appeared bright red and almost seemed to glow. Swirls of different shades were visible, and Danny knew something was not right.
"Snap out of it!" He yelled and shot a weak ghost ray at him. The black-haired ghost swiftly dodged and leapt toward the ghost boy. Danny turned intangible and flew back, continuing to stop his mentor from attacking.
The younger ghost's wide green eyes reflected his confusion and slight fear of the older half-ghost, who had supposedly gone completely nuts. He knew he had to do something to get the other ghost's attention, and hopefully stop him from attacking again.
The younger halfa dodged the powerful pink beams that Vlad had shot toward him, and zipped forward, hoping to hit the man's head and knock him out of his trance.
Vlad swiftly grabbed his student's wrist right before it made contact, sneering at the horrified expression and struggling of his prisoner. The older half-ghost ruthlessly zapped the boy in his clutches with a powerful pink ghost stinger, smirking at his success.
Danny screamed, an uncomfortable and almost painful cold feeling rising from his core. Blurry, soundless memories of the terrible accident that started it all flashed before his clenched eyes, hot tears stinging and prickling. The boy felt an icey blast against his skin as rings of light floated halfway down and up his body. He gasped and heaved as the hot electricity finally ceased, hot tears forming at the corners of his wide blue eyes. He stared in horror and shock at the ghost who had just tortured him with electricity, which was how he had half-died. Ghosts (at least the sentient, somewhat humane ones) had a general rule that if they knew the way another ghost has died, they were never to use that method against it. It was simply viewed as disrespectful and cruel for ghosts to disrespect other ghosts' deadly experiences.
Danny tried to blink back his emotions and let himself hang there, one arm painfully clenched in his mentor's fist, which was his only anchor to not falling down dozens of feet to the rooftop below them.
Vlad felt numb, his vision swallowed in red. He couldn't tell what was happening or what he was doing... He was just along for the ride. The older halfa was powerless to get himself back under control, no matter how many times he attempted to ignore the strange force or push it out of his head.
A scream pierced through the foggy red glow. The half-ghost's ghost core clenched in his chest when he recognized the scream...
The red blocking his vision was swallowed by a dusky orange sky. Vlad could move again. He blinked a few times and felt something in his clenched hand.
A white and black shape was in front of him. As the picture focused, teary green eyes pierced through his soul.
Phantom was hanging limply in front of him, heaving dryly and not even struggling in the man's tight grip.
Vlad knew at that moment that he had done something terrible.
He slowly dropped through the sky to the top of the building beneath them, letting Danny's feet touch the cement gently. The boy stumbled, still coughing and shuddering. Vlad's throat was hoarse, making it had for him to form words.
"D-Daniel, I-I'm so sorry, I don't know what happened... Red..." His voice was weak as he tried to explain. "Evil... It overtook me... A red staff..." He shuddered at the red, evil feeling he remembered.
Danny stared at Vlad blankly for a few seconds, before nodding slightly and hearing himself muttering, "Okay. I'm fine." But he wasn't sure he believed it himself. His icey cold core throbbed, and his legs shook as they struggled to hold up his weight.
The boy swallowed back the lump in his throat, and turned away uncomfortably. Vlad slowly stepped closer and laid a gentle hand on the boy's shoulder, making him flinch at first. The older halfa's heart almost broke at that sign of fear and distrust.
After a few seconds, the ghost boy leaned into the older ghost's touch. "It's okay, Fruitloop," He took a shaky breath, "I know it wasn't your fault." Vlad opened his mouth to say something in response, but before he could, the boy shot him a small smile and jumped into the evening air and flying back in the direction of Sam and Tucker (who had already escaped from the vultures) and the ghost hunters, the ghostly birds forgotten and gone anyway.
Vlad stared after the black and white blur that was returning to the Nasty Burger. He felt distressed and confused about what the heck had just happened... But he knew above all else, that he had just badly harmed and even betrayed the boy he loved as his own son.
He looked into the distance, where he could still feel a faint pulling force. He shuddered and turned back around, forcing himself not to give in to the urge.
That horrible man... Freakshow... had turned Vlad against Danny.
The older halfa almost couldn't believe that he had so easily given in to that freak's control...
Vlad decided to stay far away from Wisconsin, until the ringmaster and his creepy red staff were long gone. As much as he wanted to destroy that clown, he couldn't risk being controlled again.
After a few seconds of flying, Danny had trouble keeping himself in the air, likely because of what he had just experienced. He started to fall, screaming in surprise as he saw the large group of ghost hunters all pointing their weapons toward him.
The worst thing was, he was at a sharp, quick decent straight towards them.
He landed roughly on the cement, rolling over a few times and finally landing on his back. Ghost weapons were pointing at his face from every side.
He grimaced and muttered to himself shakily, "You know, I think I liked it better when they were laughing..."
He laid there for a few more seconds, and Scaredy Cat growled at him.
"Uh... Boo?"
The cat jumped in fright with a loud "mrow!" and landed on one of the Guys in White. Danny took that as his chance to leave. He phased through the ground while everyone was distracted.
Jack noticed the ghost's escape and tried to fire at him, but failed in the end, causing the ghost hunters to glare at him.
The man hunched over in defeat. He just couldn't do anything right...
Later that night, Danny, Sam and Tuck were in the lab next to the ghost portal.
Danny looked at the Ecto-Filtrator blankly, noting how he should be replacing it, but he really didn't feel like it, after what had happened less than an hour before.
Vlad had attacked him... and then had basically tortured him with electricity. The thought made his blood (and ectoplasm) run cold. He shuddered, closing his eyes and wrapping his arms around his thin frame. He knew the other half-ghost was being controlled, and it wasn't his fault, but the ghost boy just couldn't forget the pain and betrayal he had felt.
"Danny..." Sam said quietly, "what happened earlier?"
"Yeah, dude," Tucker added, wiping ectoplasm off of his arms, from his attempt at hosting "ghost tours" earlier that evening. "We can tell something happened... You haven't been yourself since before those vultures left..."
Danny swallowed back the lump in his throat, and replied with the most confident tone he could muster. "Nothing, it's fine. I'm fine." He seemed to be reassuring himself more than his friends.
Sam and Tucker looked at each other in worry, not knowing what had happened, but knowing for sure that it definitely was not fine.
"Let's just get off the topic, okay?" Danny forced the fearful expression off of his face and looked back at his friends "Did you see the way those ghost hunters were laughing at my dad? How embarrassing!" He rolled his eyes, turning back to the Ecto-Filtrator. "We're all going to have to live with my dad's goof-ups for the rest of our lives..."
He was met with silence, until Sam cleared her throat awkwardly.
"...He's right behind me, isn't he...?"
"Yes, I'm afraid he is..." Jack muttered sadly in third person. "If you need me, I'll be upstairs, doing something wrong..." He left the lab, obviously feeling bad.
All three of them were silent for a few seconds, until Danny sighed, feeling even worse than before. "Great. Now I'm just as bad as the ghost hunters..."
"Well there's only one thing that's going to cheer him up... Catching a ghost!" Sam suggested with a smile.
"Yeah... And not just any ghost..." The ghost boy forced a smile as he transformed. "Public Ghost Enemy Number One!"
Less than half an hour later, Danny was crammed into the Fenton Vacuum, and his dad was carrying him down the stairs to the lab, possibly to question and/or dissect him.
Well, Danny thought dryly as his container was knocked around a little, this is definitely not what I wanted, or expected, to happen...
"Please... Stop! You don't know what you're doing-"
"I know exactly what I'm doing, ghost kid! I'm earning a bigger place in my son's heart!"
The ghost inside the vacuum sighed. "Thanks, now I'm crushed by space and guilt..." He muttered. "Look... You have to listen to me-EEEEE!"
Before he could process what was happening, he had landed on his face in a ghost-proof containment unit in the Fentons' lab. He sat up and looked around a bit before returning his green gaze to his father.
"Oh please, ghost, why should I listen to you?" Jack asked with a glare. "Face it, there's no way out of this ghost-proof Fenton Containment Unit!"
Danny slowly floated over to the closest glass-like wall, and laid a hand on it. He tried to go intangible through it, but his efforts were futile.
"See, ghost?" Jack grinned. "I've done it! I've caught the ghost kid! Me, Jack Fenton!"
Danny rolled his eyes, but he couldn't help feeling a knot of fear and worry in his stomach. There was no easy way out of this one...
Vlad Plasmius phased into FentonWorks invisibly. He had nothing better to do than find Danny again, since he was reluctant to go anywhere near the creepy red staff...
He slowly floated further into the house, listening for any voices or footsteps. Hearing none, he continued flying through the house. He decided to check the basement first.
Once the older halfa had lowered down into the lab, he saw Danny Phantom sitting in some sort of glass cage with a bored look on his face.
The ghost looked up with a small smirk. "'Bout time, Fruitloop."
"Little Badger, don't tell me you actually let Jack catch you..." Vlad said in disbelief, causing the boy to glare at him, which proved the older man's statement to be true.
After a few more seconds, the younger halfa was free from the trap, with the older's help.
"Thanks." The boy said, looking to the floor.
"Danny…" Phantom looked up in slight surprise; that was the first time Vlad had called him by his preferred name, as far as he could remember. "I'm so sorry about-"
"I told you it was fine, Vlad." The teenager rolled his eyes and grinned. "No harm done in the end, right?"
"Little Badger, I'm pretty sure I'd count you being almost afraid of me as harm do-"
A glowing string wrapped around Vlad's waist from behind, pinning his arms to his sides.
"What the-" he turned around to see that Jack had caught him. "Oh you have got to be kidding me..." Vlad flexed his arms, breaking the Fenton Fishing Line.
He prepared to grab Danny's arm and fly them both out of there, but before he could, he was hit in the chest by an Ecto-gun, which knocked him back a few feet into a wall.
"The Wisconsin Ghost!" Jack exclaimed, stepping down into the lab.
"Oh, and if it isn't Jack Fenton," Plasmius said sarcastically. "I don't believe we've had the pleasure of meeting formally."
"Oh come on, he gets to be known as "The Wisconsin Ghost" and I get the stupid name "Invisobill"?!" Danny complained. "That isn't fair!"
"Life isn't fair, Little Badger." Vlad smirked, causing Danny to stick out his tongue out childishly.
"Alright spooks-" Jack's threat was interrupted by an automated voice.
"Fenton Portal to explode in 30, 29, 28..."
The two ghosts and human looked at each other in blank shock for a few moments, before Danny flew up and disappeared into the ceiling, and then re-appeared on the stairway in his human form.
Vlad took that as his chance to keep Jack occupied. "Ugh, why do I always get the most painful jobs?" He grumbled to himself before getting attacked by the angry ghost hunter.
Danny ran to the portal and removed the Filtrator, almost dropping it in his hurry. "The new Filtrator... Where's the new Filtrator?!" He freaked out before his dad handed him a new one. Danny saw that Vlad was slumped against the wall, and his dad had left the ghost there to help his son for a few seconds.
"Uh... I probably should have done this any of the 5 times that you told me to..." Danny said with a guilty smile.
Jack smiled, "Just change it, Dann-o, before-"
A warning alarm sounded as there were only 5 seconds left. The boy frantically shoved the new Filtrator in, preventing the explosion just in time.
The halfa wiped the sweat off his forehead, relieved beyond belief that he had done it.
Jack grabbed a scraped up and bruised Vlad by the front of his suit and carried him to the portal, which automatically opened.
"Let go of me you incompetent-"
"Whatever you say, spook." Jack grinned and threw Vlad face-first into the portal. Danny smiled at the ghost's act to seem like the bad guy. He knew the other halfa had been beat up pretty bad by Jack, and the ghost boy did feel a little guilty about that, but he knew Vlad would be fine, with his advanced healing and all.
Plus, it was payback for the older half-ghost's cockiness and smart remarks to Danny, which were said pretty much every time they had seen each other.
"Now, you see, that's exactly what would happen if you don't change the Ecto-Filtrator every six months!"
"Why do you even have that simulation on your laptop?"
"So I never forget to tell you how important it is to change the Ecto-Filtrator." Jack and Danny had just watched an animation of FentonWorks blowing up in a firey explosion. The two were happier now that they had both worked together to save their house from exploding, and made up in the process.
"I won't, and you shouldn't forget this... I'm really proud of you, Dad. I can't believe you beat that ghost back into the Ghost Zone!" Danny grinned at the thought of Vlad letting his former best friend beat him up, even when it would have been so easy to fight back. The ghost boy figured he really owed Vlad now…
"Ah, thanks, Danny! So, for here on in-"
"I'll remember my chores-"
"And I'll remember that my actions have consequences to others, especially my family."
The two walked away, relieved that the problems they had encountered that day were finally resolved.
Vlad drifted through the Ghost Zone, processing what had just happened. That day was one of the craziest yet... But knowing how strange his and Danny's lives were anyway, it wasn't a huge surprise…
Oh butter biscuits, Vlad thought in annoyance, I forgot to tell the Little Badger more about that creepy clown and his staff... He shrugged, I'll just tell him in a few days. Besides, Freakshow is still in Wisconsin, pretty far away from Amity Park. I'm sure it'll be fine...
Freakshow grinned as his circus vehicle finally reached the outskirts of Amity Park. He had practically driven the whole day, to reach Amity by nightfall. His commercials were first airing tomorrow morning, and his first show was scheduled for the following night.
Everything was going smoothly for the ringmaster, much to his liking. Except, his new minion hadn't returned…
Freakshow sighed. "Probably came in contact with his obsession... That's how ghosts break out of the staff's control anyway. I knew I shouldn't have sent him alone... Oh well. I'll surely have more success tomorrow!"
The ringmaster settled down into his bed for the night, with high hopes for the following day. Little did he know, the next day would bring both successes and failures.
Haha, and that ends Billion Dollar Ghost, leading up to Control Freak, which happens the next day... I know it was pretty OOC, but I'm tryin' here ok? xD Feel free to review with any questions, comments, flames (but I sure hope not, lol), criticism, mistakes I made that should be fixed, or whatever else you wanna say. See you guys next chapter! :)