Rising King

Chapter 5: Secrets, History and Pirates

A.N. Here is next chapie, dear readers. I wanted to say, that I have planned this story ahead, also I have ideas for more fics, but let's not hurry up the train. Upwards!

Valerie POV

Jazz looked at me in shock and fear. I could tell she was nervous.

"Oh, Valerie...how long were you standing here?" She asked.

"Long enough," I answered, crossing my hands.

"Please don't tell anyone!" Jazz whisper-yelled.

"Wasn't planning to, but I want answers"

"I...Ugh...Look, Val, I can't tell you here, not with them nearby," she said, sending baleful glare towards Fentons.

"Why such hostility towards them?"

"Why?! You don't know what they have done," Jazz answered with sad look, "What they have done with Danny." My eyes widened.

"What happened?"

She just walked back to her seat after quiet 'later'. I just stood there dumbfounded. What the hell is going on? So that's why no one cared about Danny's disappearance? Because his parents did something to him? That's so horrible, I wanted to tell Sam and Tucker about it, but something stopped me. Jazz asked me to stay quiet, plus this two also avoided this topic as much as possible. Does that mean that they knew about it and didn't do anything to stop this?

But why? Why all of that? What Danny has done so everyone turned their backs and did something bad to him? Ugh! Jazz didn't answer me, she just created more questions! But she said that I will get answers, so I will be waiting.

Third person POV 

After entering portal the group of students was amazed by how unusual Ghost Zone looked. Green and purple sky was a sight to behold. There was also giant black hole in the...bottom...it's hard to describe The Pit. When you look there, it feels like you are looking into nothing, which creates feeling of emptiness inside of you. That's why it became the highest form of punishment in the Zone. Guards put on you ectoranium handcuffs and drop you there for the rest of eternity.

Of course, not so many people have done so much horrible things to deserve that. Even Pariah Dark was just locked inside Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep. Last time this sentence was given long before that. But there were also the innocents. Poor souls, who didn't do anything to deserve such punishment. These were people who Pariah or his father before him didn't like or suspected in rebellion. But even repressions didn't save Adalhard Dark from death.

That was the reason Pariah created Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage, to make people fear him. And it worked for the time being. His subjects lost their courage to fight against tyrant.

Ghost Zone had own nobility rules. In fact, ghosts' society was split in two groups. 'True' ghosts, the ones who are formed in the Ghost World and never were humans, and 'Earthlings', the ones who are in fact souls of deceased people. The first group had all respect, was considered nobility and was above Earthlings. Not so hard to guess, which side either group took.

But you can't rely only on fear, because it is unpredictable. If someone will find a little flaw, a weakness, a tool to crush it, then fear will go away, like darkness after lighting a candle.

There were people who never gave up, who continued to struggle against Mad King. And that were Order of Ancients' members. It was group of powerful ghosts, together powerful enough to fight with Pariah. Order had thirteen members, most of them are sadly forgotten by different reasons. The ones who are still known are either still living, like Pandora and Frostbite, or are very well known, like Eidolon, the Leader of the order and rebellion in general. Little did he know, that thousands of years later, the new king will build a capital named after him.