Vlad Plasmius was standing by a box with a purple cushion inside. He turned around, an evil grin on his face. Plasmius flew away, satisfied.

Plasmius flew into Pariah's Keep and into the castle. He flew through a hall full of skeletal guards and depressed-looking portraits of a guy who looks like George Washington. He opened a door at the end of the hall, leading into a room with a sarcophagus with an odd green light shining on it. He flew towards it.

"Here we are." Plasmius said.

He stopped at the foot of some stairs. A skeleton holding a pumpkin with a sword sticking out of it was in the background.

"Pariah's Keep." Plasmius said.

He looked over at the pumpkin.

"Home of the Fright Knight," Plasmius said and looked up at a sphere a skeleton was holding. In the middle of the sphere was a ring- the Ring of Rage. "And before that..."

Plasmius held up the Skeleton Key. He stuck it into a skeleton's nose, which was key-shaped and turned it. The sphere around the Ring dissolves, leaving a liquid residue on the skeleton's hands and dropping the Ring into Plasmius' hand.

"The Ghost King."

Xxx

In the Far Frozen, there was an Ice Coffin on the top of the highest peak in an Ice Palace.

At the moment the Ring of Rage was freed, the Ice Coffin shattered. A teen girl sat up.

The girl, Khione, had loose teal hair with a cowlick causing her hair to dangle over her face. She wore a dark blue dress with a fur collar and battle armor with a grey dragon on her shoulders and green battle pants.

"I must hurry." Khione said. "He must not be awakened."

She flew off towards Pariah's Keep.

Xxx

"And here I am, Vlad Plasmius-" He put the Ring on. "With all his power in the palm of my hand."

He flew up dramatically, beginning to laugh. The ring, however, merely sputtered and emits smoke. Plasmius, surprised, looked at the ring, and then looked away, frowning. He looked up at the crown at the top of the sarcophagus.

"Ah, of course. The Ring of Rage only works when one wears the Crown of Fire." Plasmius said.

He flew up to the sarcophagus and stuck the key into a triangle in its chest. One of those bird cawed. Plasmius turned the key. The sarcophagus' eyes glowed red. The birds flew out of the tree, and the coffin opened, revealing Pariah Dark, the Ghost King.

"Separately, they're nothing, but together-" Pariah's uneyepatched eye opened. "They give you power unimaginable."

Pariah stomped out of the coffin. Vlad looked at him, mortified. He was a huge, Scottish, maybe Viking-like ghost, with only one eye, horns, one of which was broken, a beard thing, and LOTS of hair. He wore a flaming crown- the Crown of Fire, obviously.

"Who dares?" Pariah said slowly and dramatically.

"Uh, hello. Plasmius, Vlad Plasmius, did I mention I'm a huge fan of your work?" Plasmius said uncertainly.

He smiled uncertainly. Pariah's eye narrowed.

Khione arrived and her eyes met Pariah's. She gasped and gave a cry of terror.

"He is awake! I was too late!" Khione whispered. "I must report this to Master. He will know what to do!"

In a whirl of ice and fire, Khione vanished.

An explosion rocked the castle, throwing Plasmius out.

Pariah pulled the sword out of the purple pumpkin. The pumpkin flew into the air and exploded, revealing the Fright Knight.

"The Fright Knight lives!" Fright Knight said.

Pariah threw the sword at Fright Knight. "To serve me."

The Knight looked quite surprised. He bowed at the sight of the King. "King Pariah! You're up!"

"And perhaps it's time to remind you-and that intruder- who RULES this place!" Pariah cried.

Plasmius was outside the castle, looking very beaten. "I've got to get out of here before he-" Pariah flew out of the castle, looming over Plasmius. "Finds me!"

Pariah grabbed Plasmius. "You have freed me from my sarcophagus, and thus woken me from the forever sleep." He brought Plasmius up to his face. He saw that he was not wearing the Ring of Rage. "You're not the one who woke me! YOU ARE A DUPLICATE!" The duplicate Plasmius disappeared in a wisp of pink smoke. "So, where…"

Pariah suddenly got a surprised look on his face, then grimaces. The real Plasmius, was currently back in the Keep, chatting up the Fright Knight.

"But surely, you and I could work out some sort of deal." Plasmius said.

"A deal?" Fright Knight's eyes narrowed.

Both were suddenly hit by a blast of red ectoplasm. Plasmius flew away from the fray.

"Call me." Plasmius dis a half salute. "We'll talk."

He flew out of the castle, past Pariah. Pariah fires a blast at him, which hits him full force. He was thrown back, smoking, and transformed back into his human form.

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The Fenton Portal was open for no reason. Nearby, Jack and Maddie were working on the Fenton Pants. Jack plugged a plug into it, smiled, and pressed a button. Charges from the plug entered the suit, causing it to glow and stomp.

"Sweet! The Fenton Pants are charged and operational! I'm telling you, Maddie, once this ectoskeleton is finished it will be able to beat back any ghost, no matter how powerful!" Jack said.

Maddie bent over the Fenton Pants. "Yeah, but the interface is still glitchy and dangerous, Jack."

The Portal was lit up in the background.

"We need to work the bugs out before-" Maddie said.

Suddenly, a beat-up Vlad flew out of the Portal and crashed to the floor, Ring in hand. His hand closed on the ring. Jack and Maddie looked at him, horrified.

"Vlad Masters?" Maddie said as he was reflected in her eye-lenses.

Vlad held his hand up to Jack. "Jack, my fat old friend—Help me."

He fainted. Jack looked at him, terrified.

Xxx

Meanwhile a young teen arrived out of a natural Ghost Portal on the edge of Amity Park.

This girl, Kurai Hikari, had dark hair in pigtails and Japanese features.

"Master." She touched her pendant, which a watch shaped like a star. "I hope you are right about this. Such a heavy burden to place on a fourteen year old child."

In a whirl of Ice and Fire, Kurai transformed into the ghost from before, Khione, and looked up at the full moon.

"Good luck, Danny Fenton." She said. "Or, as you will soon be known; Danny Phantom."