Chapter 5

"What happened?" Tru whispered, opening her eyes in what looked eerily like a dungeon.

"Plasmius," Sam replied, bitterly. "We must have been attacked from behind, knocked out before we could fight back or call for help."

"Ah, you're awake," Vlad 'Plasmius' Masters said, stepping into view, leering at them through the bars of the door.

"What do you want with us?" Sam asked sharply, if looks could kill, he'd already be 6 feet under.

"Isn't that obvious," he said, in his usual freakishly composed manner. "I'm using you to lure young Daniel here." While he was telling this, Tru leaned towards Sam and whispered something to her. Sam nodded to her- which was met with a mischievous grin.

"Kidnapping someone's friend to get to them," Tru said rolling her eyes. "No one's ever done that before. Seriously your originality astounds us all."

"Do you really think Danny will be stupid enough to come here?" Sam pointed out, smartly, before Vlad could reply to the other girls comment. "It's so obviously a trap."

"Yes"

"Mister Plasmius, I don't we've been properly introduced, my names Tru," Tru said, trying to conceal the maniacal grin she was close to having. "Wow look at all this sports memorabilia, shame the Packers will go into a long losing streak in a couple years"

"What- it can't be??" Plasmius gasped, obviously not taking this news about his favorite team well.

"So Plasmius," Sam said, grinning wickedly. "Have you tried internet dating yet? I've heard it's very… effective"

"I don't need internet dating, I don't want any woman except Maddie," Plasmius said, trying to keep his temper down,

"You know," Tru mused, a slight smile on her face. "If you don't want any women, I'm sure we could introduce you to some guys."

"Yeah, there's this very charming designer on my street," Sam says, winking- if only to torture him more.

"I don't want a man," Plasmius said, getting even more enraged. "I want Maddie and only her."

"You obviously aren't going to get her," Tru told him, with mock sympathy. "You should get a cat."

"I will not get a cat," Plasmius said, his voice calm once more- though the facade of being calm was ruined some by his eye twitching. "And Maddie will eventually realize we're meant to be."

"Should we tell him that self-delusions aren't healthy?" she whispered, just loud enough for Vlad to hear.

"I'm leaving!" Vlad said, trying to make a dramatic exit, his cape flipping behind him. When he had finally left, the girls looked at each other, than broke out laughing.

"That was great," Sam managed to say through peels of laughter. "The look on his face after that last bit was classic!"

"It was brilliant, wasn't it?" Tru said, grinning. "Now to find our way out of here."

Meanwhile with our favorite Halfa

"We're gonna get into so much trouble for this," Tucker complained as they sped through the sky in the Spectral Speeder.

"Probably, but it's worth it to get Sam back," Danny said.

"And Tru," Logan added as they continued on towards Vlad's home.

"He's gone to far." Danny steamed, "What's going on between him and me, has to do with us, he should leave my friends out of it."

"Yeah right, 'friends'," Tucker said. Then he muttered "Clueless".

"What?" Danny said, blinking at his friend in confusion.

"Oh come on," Tucker said, "It's pretty obvious you want to make mad monkey love to her."

"Eugh," Logan said, cringing. "That's a mental picture I could do without."

"Sorry," Tuckers said sympathetically, before turning back to Danny. "You know I'm right."

"Well maybe—" then he suddenly stopped, jumping up. He had seen the manor and wanted to be ready to fight as soon as possible- well at least that's what he told himself.

Suddenly, a wave of ghosts came rushing towards the specter speeder. These were Vlad's usual minions, the deformed creatures he had created. He was lucky that no one knew about his experiments. Danny grinned slightly as he imagined Vlad getting mobbed my PETA members.

"Tucker, get away from here, it's not safe," Danny called before jumping out, closely followed by Logan. Danny and Logan, father and son, stood back to back, shooting any ghost that came near them. They had beaten them easily, it almost seemed to easy, like Vlad wanted them to go on. Danny figured there was a diabolical plan involved, but he knew he had to continue on no matter what, he had to save Sam.

"So what exactly up with you and Danny anyway?" Tru asked curiously.

"Is this really the best time to talk about this," Sam said, looking at her like she was fairly unhinged.

"This is as good a time as any," Tru responded. "You're stalling, now spill."

"Well, to tell you the truth I l—" they were cut of by Vlad, in ghost form entering the cell room.

"You realized you just cut into a conversation," Tru said, clearly annoyed.

"Ah yes, future-child," he began.

"I have a name you know," she cut in.

"Names are of no matter," he said, coldly. "Now tell me of the future of Daniel, or else."

"Don't tell him anything," Sam hissed, Vlad glared at her and took a threatening step towards Sam, but before anything more could happen, Tru stepped between them.

"You're wasting your time asking me," Tru told him bluntly. "I know just as much as you do about his future. I know he has a kid, nothing more."

"How do I know you're not lying," he said, distrustfully.

"Here's this," she said, pulling a slip out of her pocket, "It's a transfer paper, showing I'd just moved to Amity."

Sam, who had just glanced out the window, couldn't help but have her eyes widen a bit. There was Danny and his son, fighting Vlad's minions.

"Ah yes," he said, noticing where she was looking, "Here he is, to save the day. Time to put my plan into action." He flew forward going strait into Sam's body. Tru stared blankly at where Vlad had just flown, unsure of what happened.

It all became clear to her what happened when Sam, laughed coldly and proclaimed, "Daniel would never hurt Samantha" before flying through the wall, still possessing her.

"This officially sucks," Tru muttered.