Whilst Evelyn had turned her back on Alfie, he was puzzling over his sighting of the Lava serpent. Then he saw ghosts coming towards him. Scared, he did a neat dive into the lava that caused no noise. But ghosts, being ghosts, don't mind lava since they are dead. Then zoomed in, grabbed Alfie (who kicked and punched) but still got carried through the obsidian pillars of the castle - despite his best attempts to escape.

The ghosts led Alfie through a moat made of cacti - the spikes are laced with poison - and down a secret tunnel. It was invisible from human sight and before Alfie knew what they were doing, it was too late to scream - they were heading straight for an obsidian wall!!! (The secret tunnel)

What now lay before Alfie was the most gruesome scene he had ever seen - monsters and beasts as ancient as time itself, all locked up and spitting acid. Then they went into a long corridor filled to the brim with pale white people - ghosts...

Suddenly, they rushed into Lord Power's room. The ghosts immediately dropped Alfie on the freezing cold ground. Before anything he burst out," I can see in my mind what is going to happen to Evelyn and Rayne. So, I suggest that you let us go. If you don't, I'll fight you for Rayne and Evelyn!"

Lord Power knew there was something special about this teenage boy with silver spectacles. "Fine," he replied, "but I'm on your side for only two seconds."

He handed Alfie a sword, gripped his own and then charged. Alfie had become very confused whilst all this was happening and only just managed to dodge the charge.
Alfie had never fought like this before.

Although the battle was really five minutes long it felt much longer to the fighters. Lord Power summoned wave after wave of evil ghosts while Alfie sliced them in half.

After a while Alfie was bored, "you're a coward, Lord Power. Fight me yourself!" So sword clashed on sword, metal on metal. Lord Power was tiring and suddenly Alfie knocked the sword out of Lord Power's hand!

"Now," Alfie gritted his teeth grimly, " this is the part where I kill you." So Alfie shoved the sword into where Lord Power's heart was. Nothing happened. Lord Power was still there!

"I'm a ghost, Alfie." He explained, "you can't kill me. But I can kill you!" He lashed and knocked Alfie on the ground, sword at his throat. "Go on," Alfie said knowing that he had lost, "kill me. "

"Oh, I'm not going to kill you- someone else is," he stated. The last thing Alfie saw before he died was Rayne plunging the sword into him, grinning from ear to ear. Alfie's spirit floated down to join the boring white ghosts...