All those freed ghosts that were also Danny's enemies looked at him begrudgingly. As much they disliked Danny, they did enjoy their freedom. They decided to fly off to their own business without starting a fight as a way of showing gratitude.

"Where'd that bastard Vlad go?" Tucker asked as he looked around for the middle-aged half ghost.

"He must have slipped away when no one was looking," Danny said. Just then, a portal opened up in front of his group and out stepped Clockwork.

"Who's he?" Star asked.

"That's Clockwork, the ghost of time," Danny answered. "He's also the one who gave us these," he said as he held up his amulet.

"And you have put them to get use," the temporal ghost said with a grin.

"Wait," Dora said as she approached the group. "Where is my brother?"

"As the last sacrifice the Chaos Dragon Emperor needed," Clockwork began, "Aragon's spirit was entangled with its own. He was destroyed along with the beast."

"I see," Dora said as she looked saddened. "I know he wasn't a great person and he brought this fate on himself, but he was still my brother. Goodbye," she said as she departed.

"You have all done the world a great service by ridding it of the Chaos Emperor Dragon once and for all," Clockwork said to the teens. "Now I must ask for the amulets back."

"Can we keep the cards?" Star asked and Clockwork nodded yes. "Sweet," she said as she extracted her deck and removed the amulet. This caused her to return to her normal clothes.

The rest of the group followed suit. They returned the amulets to Clockwork and pocketed their decks. "Thank you," the temporal specter said as he vanished.

-----------------------------------

Two days had passed since Danny and his friends had destroyed the Chaos Emperor Dragon. A few things of interest had happened since then.

Immediately after the battle, the space propelling jet back that Danny had once used against Technus had disappeared from Axiam Labs. Danny figured that Vlad must have taken it to continue his self-imposed exile in space. Since Vlad hadn't been seen since his return in the ghost zone, this backed the theory up.

While Danny and his group were saving the world from an ancient mystical evil, Dash had tried to impose his will on an Asian girl who had recently moved into the neighborhood. What he didn't count on was that this girl knew how to take care of herself and her dad was a cop. Dash was now in Juvie awaiting trial for sexual assault. This made Paulina immensely happy.

Danny was currently in Tucker's room, perusing his friend's collection of Duel Monster cards for any good additions to his deck. Sam stepped into the room to check on him.

"How's the search going," she asked.

"Pretty good," Danny answered. "I've found a few good cards that would fit well into my deck. I especially like this," Danny said as he showed Sam the Grinder Golem monster card. "This is perfect for creating the tribute fodder I need for busting out Dogma or Plasma."

"It was very generous of Tucker to let you look through his collection," Sam said. "Where is Tucker anyway?"

"He's at my house," Danny said. "Jazz wanted to talk to him. I think it has something to do with how he defeated Bertrand for her."

"Danny," Sam said tentatively as she tried to figure out the best way to tell him that Jazz and Tucker might be talking about romantic matters.

"I don't want to think about it," Danny said, having already reached that conclusion. "What I do want to do is test how these new additions work in my deck. Interested?"

"All right," Sam said as she Danny left the room to begin a friendly duel.