Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.
Summery: During the battle between Danny and Dan (Evil Danny) another fighter is found. She's not a ghost, but is able to transform into a dragon, the 'accursed' as she's called. But will she be able to beat the curse and regain a normal life, or will she die a most painful death like those before her. DxS of course.
Authors note: I tried to follow the same time line as the series, but just pretend that every one is18 years old instead of 14 years old, and put the episode "The Ultimate Enemy" right after "Forever Phantom" and it's the same time line. I tried to follow the episode as closely as I could, the first few pages is just a recap from the episode. I haven't written a fanfiction in a while so be nice.
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The Phantom's Dragon
By,
Ninee (Roaramon)
Centuries ago. England.
"It's quite."
"God is it finally over?"
"Is he…?"
"He's finally gone."
"Look at his face."
"No matter what crimes he has committed, no one deserves to die like this."
"He's a tortured soul."
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Present time. Amity Park. Kind of.
"For the record I blame you." Tucker said to Sam as they watched the walls of the old Fenton Works begin to tumble.
Suddenly with a flash of light Sam and found them back in there proper time, next to the half destroyed Nasty Burger. She looked down at Tucker sill screaming and covering his head. She stood silent waiting for him to realize that he was ok.
"You got the time medallions off did you?" Tucker sighed in relief. He looked up seeing Sam snickering triumphly.
"I don't accessory well." She answered coolly. "Unfortunately Danny is still stuck in the future fighting his jerky older self. We've got to help him."
Sam stopped hearing another voice in the alleyway. "Tucker? Sam? You've got a second?" Jazz asked sounding annoyed as she walked up to the group. "Let me answer that for your, yes you do. I know Danny stole the answers to the C.A.T, and that he's going to cheat."
"Actually Danny wasn't going to," Sam defended, but Jazz cut her off.
"Sam enough. I know more that you think I do, a lot more. So I suggest that when you see Danny, you tell him I want to talk to him, tonight. Because if don't I will be talking to my parents and Mr. Lancer tomorrow." She finished storming off.
Sam and Tucker looked to each other surprised. "Lancer knows Danny has the answers?" Sam said shocked.
"Oh man is he in trouble." Tucker said.
"That's got to be it. Danny cheating is the thing that leads to that horrible future." Sam stated grabbing Tucker forcing him to look at her.
"Let me get this strait." Tucker started letting go of Sam. "Danny gets caught cheating on a test and we pay for it with our lives. How is that fair."
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Danny watched as the brick walls fell on to his friends. He tried to rip his foot away from his older self, but that only resulted in him being forced to change back into his human side.
Dan laughed as walls fell, burring his former friends. He released Danny throwing him towards the rubble, letting him find the corpse of his friends. But as Danny looked though the pile of rubble he only found the Time medallions.
"They took of their time medallions, that means it returned them to their time period just like Lunchbox and Skulkteck. Tucker and Sam made it out a live, which means I can…"
"What!" Dan cut Danny off and pulled him into the air making him release his hold on the time medallions. "Go back with them, there doomed anyway. And your not going any where, if you can't remove your time medallion." He said as he ripped Danny's medallion off. Dan held it in his hand and turned it intangible, then deposited it into Danny's chest. "In fact you're not going any where at all." He laughed as Danny fainted.
As he came too he saw a memorial statue with his parents, Jazz, Tucker and Sam etched on it. "Mom, dad. Gone but not forgotten." Danny read the inscription below the statue. "And where's the Nasty Burger." Danny asked rising to his feet. He looked behind him seeing the destroyed building.
"Strange how one massive fireball of highly combustible condiments can ruin your whole future." Dan said walking out from the rubble.
"The time medallion?" Danny asked looking down at his binds.
"Fused inside you, nice huh. Intangible and unreachable whether your ghost or human which mean you can't go back in time." Dan said happily as he opened a ghost portal behind him.
"Doesn't matter if I go back in time or not, I'll never turn into you. Never!" Danny started strongly.
"Of course you will. It's only a matter of time." Dan said coolly as he transformed into a younger version of himself. He then grabbed Danny and tossed him into the ghost zone. "I need you out of my way and out of my hair while I make sure that nothing happens to change my past. And lucky this is all I need to make sure of that." He said holding up a time medallion. He activated it and was immediately pulled back in time, behind the Nasty Burger where Tucker and Sam and just appeared.
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Suddenly Dan appeared back in his past, where Tucker and Sam were returned. He still looked like his younger self, but his voice was still the same deep voice. "The Nasty Burger, still standing, for now." He said happily as he looked into the building looking towards the heat gage for the sauce, seeing it hitting a dangerous level.
"Danny!" Tucker and Sam's voice rang through the air. Dan turned around, only to find Sam throwing her arms around him, happy to see him back in one piece. "You made it back." Sam said relived letting him go.
He was then caught off guard by Tucker, also giving him a relived hug. "Did you beat evil, jerky, puss packed alternative version of your self?" He asked releasing him.
Dan's eyes flashed red for just a second before he cooled down and let out a laugh. "Always with the quips. In my weaker moments I sometimes miss your dull sense of humor."
"I'm sorry?" Tucker said not knowing what to make of his statement.
"I'm just kidded." Dan brushed off. "I beat my older self quite easily, had you going there for a second didn't I."
"Well we should probably do what we can to stop the Nasty Burger from blowing up huh." Tucker said pointing the building.
"Already done." He said happily. "Who's up for…" He stopped not quite sure what to say. "What did we used to do together?" he whispered to himself. "Playing some video games and raging against the machine."
"Where in." Tucker and Sam said happily.
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"My old room" Dan said softly as he flew through the floor in to his bedroom. "And my old face." He said looking into a mirror.
Suddenly his door flew open, reveling his sister on the other side. "Danny we need to talk." She said letting her self it.
"And my old sister Jazz." He whispered softly. "What do you want Jazz, I'm busy?" he asked harshly.
"Yeah busy cheating." Jazz said pulling the answers out of his bag. "Lancer was right you did steal the answers. Don't you understand?" Jazz said disappointingly.
"That what I'll be destroying my future." Dan laughed. "You don't know the half of it." He said taking his backpack away from her.
"Danny I know all of it." She said softly. "About everything that your part ghost, that you always do the right thing with your powers, until now." She said picking up the boooomerang.
"You knew." Dan said surprised.
"And I've been covering for you with mom and dad because I'm proud of you and the good that you do. But not any more." Jazz finished strongly.
"You always were smarter than I gave you credit for." He said as the turned back into his true form.
"Your, your not Danny." Jazz gasped stepping away from Dan. "That's why the boooomerang wasn't homing in on your ecto-signature. Your not Danny."
"I was, but I grew out of it." Dan said mockingly. "The Danny you know is floating helplessly in the ghost zone ten years in the future."
"He'll escape, he'll beat you." Jazz said defiantly.
"How? Is the answer A. the Fenton portal, destroyed it. B. The only remaining portal, the one my idiot cheese head archenemy has, as soon as I find it, that one's gone too." He said scornfully.
"Cheese head… Vlad Masters? He's your archenemy?" Jazz said surprised.
"Is it C. You, no you can't stop me from cheating on the C.A.T.'s and solidifying my future. So it my be D. none of thee above." He said firing a blast and Jazz, knocking her out. He laughed as he transformed back into his younger self and pulled out the answer sheet. "What do you know, the answer to the first question is D."
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"Danny no!" Jazz shouted as she bolted out of bed.
Suddenly Jack kicked the door open. "What's up princess? Are you ok?" Jack asked welding the boooomerang.
"I'm in bed, I'm alive." Jazz gasped sitting up.
Then Maddie kicked Jack away coming into her room. "Of course your in bed and alive. Danny said you fell asleep helping his study, and we tucked you in." She said happily.
"He even woke up bright and early to make sure nothing made him late for the school." Jack finished.
"Oh no, the test." Jazz gasped jumping out of bed. She grabbed the boooomerang out of her dad's hand and ran out of her room to the lab. "I need you to find Danny." She spoke to the device. She grabbed a note and took off her headband to attach it. "Fourteen year old Danny, ten years from now." She said tossing it into the ghost zone.
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Danny floated through the ghost zone trying to free himself from his bonds. "I'm going ghost." He cried, changing into his ghost half. But he still had no luck freeing himself. "Well, well, well." Danny turned seeing what looked like an older box ghost behind him. "All this time we've been planning on how we'd take the fight to you. And here you are, wrapped up like a present." He said mockingly.
"Box ghost?" Danny questioned.
"Beware." He hissed firing at Danny knocking him towards another enemy.
"Ember?" Danny questioned looking back at the out of shape rock star. "You look…" Danny started.
"Like I went to seed, after you destroyed my vocal cords with that ghostly wail of yours." She answered harshly.
"I was going to say statues but." Danny didn't get a change to answer as Ember fired a blast from her guitar. Danny hit something hard then looked up to see he had it a wheel chair. "Johnny 13. Ok what ever happened to you I swear I had nothing to do with it." He defended.
"I've been waiting a long time for this punk." Johnny said harshly as his shadow lifted it's self from Johnny and prepared to attack Danny.
"Wait! No!" Danny pleaded for them to stop as they began to assault him with a barrage of attack and more ghost joined the fight.
"Please, I didn't do all this to you." Danny pleaded as Ember pined him against a wall.
"Oh stop" Skulkteck started. "Your responsible for all the horrible things that happen to your world and ours. And to everyone you've ever come in contact with."
"Your family, your friends, and most importantly us." She said releasing him.
"But I didn't do any of that." Danny begged as he watched the line of ghost preparing another round of attacks. "Get away, get away, get away!" Danny shouted as he released a ghost wail on his attackers, blowing them all away, and freeing himself from his bonds. "My voice is changing." He said looking over the defeated ghost. "Great now I'm going through evil puberty. Every where I turn my stupid future is smacking me in the face." Suddenly the boooomerang cracked him in the back of the head. "The boooomerang. A note. Wisconsin, Vlad, figures he's involved with this."
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Mr. Lancer paced his classroom watching his students get one last day to study. As the bell range his eyes fell to Dan. "Mr. Fenton." He said getting Dan's attention. "Can I speak to you?"
Dan smiled stopping and waiting for the classroom to empty.
"Is there a problem?" Dan asked quickly.
"How should I know, I don't have all the answers, do you." Lancer said hardly. "Is there something you would like to tell me?" he asked a little more softly.
"No." Dan said hastily. "Any thing else?"
Mr. Lancer shook his head and watched as Dan left the classroom. He picked up his phone and called the Fenton's asking him to meet him at the Nasty Burger later that night.
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"Well there's Vlad for yeah." He said coming up to a huge football covering a portal entrance. He jumped through and found himself in a very worn-down building.
"Come to kick a defenseless old man while he's down?" Vlad's voice filled the room.
"Defenseless? Old?" Danny questioned coming up to him. "Man what happened to you?" Danny questioned seeing the decrepit version of Vlad.
"I could ask you the same question? Or perhaps I should as what hasn't happened to you yet?" Vlad answered. "If it's any consolation they went so quickly, they felt no pain." Vlad began to explain. "Unfortunately the same could not be said for you my dear boy. With nowhere else to go you came to me. The only person left on the planet who could possible begin to understand your situation. All you wanted was to make the hurt go away. I honored your wishes, no more painful human emotions to drag you down. Sadly that brought you to rip the ghost out of me. And when my evil ghost half mixed with yours, my evil side overwhelmed you." He finished.
"What happened to my human self?" Danny questioned.
"Some thing my boy, are better left unsaid. If any good came out of this it's that ten years with out ghost powers gave me the chance to see what a fool I been." Vlad said sadly holding a picture of his old friends.
"Maybe that's all anybody needs. A second chance." Danny sighed. Suddenly an idea popped into Danny's head. "Do you still have those ghost gantlets?"
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"So your saying there's a medallion lodged inside you, keeping you trapped in this time period?" Vlad questioned as he put on the gantlets.
"Yes and I can't reach it. But I'm guessing that if you can reach into me and rip out my humanity, which by the way sound totally gross, you and get the medallion out too." Danny finished.
"Or I could just destroy you know, preventing this future. Didn't think of that did you." Vlad added as he released the claws from the gantlets.
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"Mr. Lancer sounded urgent on the phone. Danny is there something wrong?" Maddie asked as they pulled up to the Nasty Burger.
"Not yet." Dan replied.
"Mr. And Mrs. Fenton this is the Nasty Burger. Where people fail, this is where they end up, whether they fail because they don't study or because they cheat."
"Danny is this true?" Jack said stunned at his son.
"Did you cheat?" Maddie gasped.
"You have to get out of here." Sam yelled running towards the group.
"The Nasty Burger going to blow and where three feet from it." Tucker added pointing to the temperature gage. On cue the emergency alarm began to sound from the building.
"Great Caesars ghost! Run!" Mr. Lancer yelled running away from the building.
"Let get out of here." Maddie yelled grabbing her son as she started to run towards the RV.
"I don't think so." Dan said holding his mom, making her stop.
"What! Come on Danny." Maddie said with panic in her voice.
"We're not going anywhere." Dan started but was cut off.
"Get away from him, that's not Danny." Jazz yelled firing a blast from the Fenton peeler. As the blast hit him, it removed his disguise exposing his true form.
"Danny!" Jack shouted now seeing Dan. "Where is he? Where's our son?" He yelled pulling an ecto-blaster from his pocket.
"What have you done to our boy" Maddie jumped in also holding a weapon.
"I am you boy." Dan laughed rising into the air. "What kind of parents are you any way, the worlds leading ghost experts and you can't even figure out that your own son was half ghost." Dan mocked firing a round of ecto-goo that formed into binds around the group, holding them to the explosive container of Nasty sauce. "Now we're all just going to sit here until this bomb goes off, complete destroying 'my' life."
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With the time medallion removed from inside Danny's chest, he headed towards Clockworks tower for help. "If Dan is a merge of me and Vlad there's not way I can beat him alone." Danny said cautiously entering Clockworks tower. He noticed that nothing in his tower has changed even thought it had technically been ten years since he was there. He slowly made his way to the room holding the time portal. As he walked up to it he saw his family and friends bound to the Nasty Burger's sauce container with his evil counter part laughing at their dilemma.
"I've been expecting you…" Clockworks deep voice ran through the room. Danny turned around to see the young Clockwork standing in the doorway behind him.
Danny sighed in relived to see someone who didn't want to attack him. "I don't know what I can do…" Danny began as Clockwork changes into his adult form, "If I go back how do I know that won't be my future any way? If one test did that." Danny said pointing towards Dan. "How do I know I won't screw up again?"
Clockwork moved beside him and looked into the portal with Danny. "As long as you keep on the right path you'll avoid this future." He said simply.
Danny winced seeing Dan speaking harshly to his parents about how foolish they were about never realizing that there son was the ghost child. "But how do I know what the right path is?" he asked softly.
"Listen to the people who know you best. Your family and friends… if you listen to them they won't lead you towards an evil path. You have a loving and supportive family and loyal friends who know that you're not a bad person, just a little stubborn sometimes." Clockwork said knowingly. "The time line is already changing, unseen events are coming into play that not even Dan knows about, things that your about to learn about. Since he interrupted the time line by coming to the past, he has allowed another factor to intervene in your future."
Danny looked at Clockwork curiously. "What do you mean? He is a mix of me and Vlad with ten years of experience, I have a hard enough time with Vlad, what could possible stand a chance against him?" Danny asked in disbelief. "I don't even faze him last time we battled, what could help?"
"It's not what, but who." Clockwork smiled. "Here. Watch." He spoke as he activated the portal. An image of Sam appeared.
"Sam? What does she have to do with this?" Danny asked softly.
Clockwork gave him an annoyed look. "Watch."
As the picture began to move Danny recognized the seen from when Sam won the 'Miss happy teenage princess' pageant and was sent to Prince Aragons kingdom to be wed. Sam didn't talk much about what happened while she was there but Danny was happy to see that she handled herself pretty well without his help. After she destroyed Aragon's engagement meal he became furious.
"Throw her in the dungeon!" Aragon shouted furiously eyes glowing with rage.
"But sweetly what about our wedding. This crown binds us forever." Sam retorted quickly.
"You are unfit to ware it. You shall be forever 'accursed' with this!" Aragon growled reaching in to his jacket's chest pocket pulling out a small dragon shaped pendant. Dora's face became pale as she watched her brother dropped the ornament around Sam's neck. Then just as he was about to remove the crown Danny and Tucker pulled her away.
"You know how the rest ends." Clockwork said stopping the portal.
Danny thought for a minute. He had never noticed that necklace on her before, and what did Aragon mean by 'accursed'. Clockwork seemed to sense Danny's mind was in question. "Keep watching, your questions will be answered." Clockwork interrupted his train of thought.
The next image was again of Sam she was at her computer. As Danny looked close he could see that she was looking on the Internet for dragon pendant, but she wasn't looking at jewels or appraiser, it was a website about medieval curses. "Ahh… I can't find any information about this thing." Sam growled, grabbing at the pendant around her neck. "All I know is that it doesn't come off." She pulled as hard as she could to remove it. She looked towards the clock and saw that it was almost 5pm. "I've got to get going to meet Danny and Tucker." She sighed softly as she tucked the pendant in her shirt. "Maybe I can hit the liberty on the way."
The screen changed again this time Sam was walking down the dark street towards her house, alone. "That was after Dani left." Danny muttered to himself. He had always walked Sam home when it was late, whether she new about it or not. But that night he was so wrapped up in Vald and what he had done that he didn't notice when she and Tucker had left. He looked back to the screen noticing how late it was when she left. "I really should have walked her home, it has to be after midnight." He sighed. Sam stopped and looked around, thinking she heard something. Danny snickered to himself, he always thought she could tell when he was following her; she had good reflexes. As she kept moving a figure moved out of the shadows of the alley she had just passed. Danny felt his chest tighten as he watched the seen unfold. A shady guy was quickly closing in on her. "Run Sam." Danny cried to himself.
"What's a pretty thing like you don't out all by yourself?" The man spoke as he grabbed Sam by the arm, turning her back towards him.
"Let me go!" Sam yelled trying not to sound scared. She wrenched her hand way, but he grabbed her other arm more harshly, cutting into her skin, pulling her toward him.
"Na, you and me are going to have a good time." He laughed as he pulled her back to the alley where he originated. Sam began to yell but he harshly wrapped his free hand around her mouth.
Danny was being to shake as he watched. "I should have been there. Why was I so stupid to let her walk by herself that late?"
The man pined Sam against a wall with one hand and began to fumble through his pockets with the other. Sam took this opportunity and quickly kicked the man in the groin. "Ahh you bitch!" he yelled as he was forced to release her. She began to run towards the opening of the alley but something grabbed her making her fall to the cold ground. "Oh no, I've been watching you for too long to let this opportunity go. Normally that clumsy loser guy is with you, but not this time, no one can help you." He was now on top of her holding her down. He went back to his pockets and smiled when he found what he was looking for. He pulled out an old, dirty, but still sharp knife from his pocket. He held the cold steal to her neck. "Now, if you make a peep or try and fight I'll put this blade through your throat." Sam closed her eyes, she was mad. She was mad at this guy, she was mad that Danny or Tucker didn't walk her home, she was mad that no one was around, but she was mad mostly at her self for being so weak. She could feel an energy building from her chest, particularly from where the dragon shaped pendant rested. She suddenly felt a burst of energy surge through her body. Her eyes flew open; they glowed with a light that started to flow though out her body. "What the hell." She could hear the man curse as she felt her body tingling.
"What's happening to her?" Danny asked Clockwork, never letting his eyes leave the screen.
"It's the 'accursed' dragon." Clockwork answered. "Just keep watching."
Sam's whole body glowed and began to reform in a dragon form. As the light faded the man found himself on top of a creature with very sharp teeth. Once Sam's eyes cleared, she let out a low growl. The man jumped off her and backed himself up into a corner as she rose to her feet.
Danny just looked in awe at transformed Sam. Her scales was a dark purple color, but the inside of her wings and underbelly were luminous silver, her eyes where the same shining lilac as her human eyes and talons where a brilliant black. She had two horns that started at the top of her head and went strait up about half a foot, and were the same radiant black as her claws. At the top of her head, between her horns an eerie green stripe started and went strait down her back to and stopped at the tip of her black tail. When closed her dark tail looked like soft arrowhead, but when she open it looked like a double bladed axe, and about a sharp as one. She wasn't very large, just a little bigger than her attacker. "She's beautiful…" Danny muttered.
"What the hell are you? Keep away from me." The man pleaded. Sam just let out a growl to intimate the man then swung her tail. She had meant to knock a few trashcans over but she ended up knocking a hole into one of the buildings. The man started to head towards the exit, staying pushed against the wall. Sam eyed the man and lifted her lips to show her teeth and let out a small snarled, then as the man neared the exit she jumped towards him and let out window shattering roar. "Stay away. Don't eat me!" the man ran out of the alley and down the street, hopefully never to be seen again. Sam backed up, surprised by her actions. She had only meant to scare the man, not destroy the place. Suddenly she heard sirens from police cars.
Knowing that a dragon, even a small one, would not sit will with the city, she began to climb the building. As she reached the top she saw alleyway fill with cops and concerned neighbors. She knew she had to get out of the area or she'd be caught. Not knowing what else to do she decided to take her chances on learning how to fly. She beat her wings once and felt her self lift off the ground. Then she got a running start and jumped off the building and began to soar high into the air. She flew in dark area so not to be seen. Her dark purple color made it easier to hide in the darkness. She saw the roof of her house and landed in a shadowed corner. Now she just had to figure out how to change back. She took a few deep breaths, which came out as low growls, then tried to just relax. Then just as she had changed into the dragon, a light filled her body and she transformed back to her human self. "That was too weird." She sighed as she walked towards the edge of the building to look back to the streets. She saw a few cop cars still patrolling around but nothing more. "I guess I know how Danny feels." She thought out loud. She began to make her way into the house through top entrance. She avoided her parent's room and once in her room she locked the door. The room was still dark but she managed to make her way to her bathroom. She flicked the lights and stood in front of her mirror and looked in shame at her appearance.
Danny felt sick. Both her arms were bruised; the one was covered with cuts. She lifted her head to see a shallow cut around her neck where the knife had been. "Look what he did to her, all because I didn't walk her home." He scolded himself.
Clockwork just shook his head and began to wonder if he understood the reason he was watching this flashback was not to beat himself up over what almost happened to Sam.
"I look like shit." Sam talked to herself as she inspected her wounds. "Oh well, nothing that won't heal." She yawned walking out of the bathroom and back to her bed. She was too exhausted to worry about addressing the wounds right now. Whatever that transformation was really wore her out. As soon as she lay down she fell fast to sleep.
As she slept Danny noticed a painful look on her face that never seemed to go away. "Is she still in that much pain?" he asked Clockwork.
"That's all part of the curse." Clockwork stopped the flashback. "You see, there not much known about the 'accursed' pendant. It was made centuries ago, by human and ghosts. It was designed to punish a criminal during their life and afterlife. The idea was that the wearer would be executed and that the pendant would allow the person to stay alive so long that he would wish for death, but it won't come. So as soon as they got any relief, like the wound healing, or got accustom to the pain, the pendant would kill them. That was the idea, but what really happened was much worse." He began to explain. "The transformation was merely a side effect. The first man forced to wear it was killed by guillotine, but he died right away. You see, once the head was gone, the pendant fell off. So once the wearer dies the pendant can come off, so there not punishment in the afterlife. The second man to have it was killed by a barrage of arrows. This man lived for about five days before the pendant allowed him to die. And when I say lived, I just mean that he still had a heartbeat and was still breathing, but he never moved and no one knew if he was conscious. They noticed that right before he died his open wounds were just being to heal. So they got half of what they wanted, prolonged suffering death, but no suffering in the after life. The third man was the last to ever have the 'accursed'. He was killed by stoning, one of the most painful deaths. He after almost two days of the onslaught of stones they stopped. The man lived for three weeks, like the second man he only had a heartbeat and was breathing, but unlike the second man he would scream in agony for release. For three weeks he screamed until finally the pendant took him. His body didn't even heal it's self; the pendant just took his life anyway. The town's folk were so disturbed by his death that they decided that no one, no matter what crime they may have committed, did not deserve to be tortured like that. They charged the king and his heir to follow, to keep the pendant safe and hidden so that no one would suffer like the others did." Clockwork finished.
"So Aragon was the last one in charge of it?" Danny asked.
"Correct, since he was the last prince of that kingdom, when he died he took it with him. I never expected him to curse anyone with it." Clockwork added.
Suddenly Danny's face fell. "Sam… What's going to happen to her?" he asked quickly.
"That brings us back." Clockwork responded and pointed back to the screen. "Watch."
Danny looked back to see it was the next morning. As Sam got up the first thing he noticed was that her wounds were gone. "She not hurt anymore." He spoke. Clockwork nodded knowingly.
Sam checked herself over not believing that she no longer had any wounds. "What happened?" she asked herself. She quickly jumped for a book on her desk and opened it. "I never did get to finish reading this chapter. Maybe this will explain." She said looking through the pages. Danny saw the cover and recognized it as one of her ghost item books. "Darn, all it says is that it prolongs death, not heal. Though this second guy did start to heal, maybe because my wound's weren't life threatening I was able to heal quicker instead."
"She's a smart girl." Clockwork added. Danny looked back to him questionably. "There is still to much not known about that pendant, but what we do know is that she did heal very quickly, and she's had it on for quite a few months now without any adverse effect."
"She's had it for months, why hasn't she told me about it yet? Why would she keep this a secret?" Danny asked looking a bit hurt.
"Well, you see Danny, fear of rejection someone you care about is one of the biggest reasons secrets are made." Clockwork said knowingly. "Just like with you and your parents, she's afraid that you'll be disappointed in her and leave her."
"That's silly. I would never do that to her." Danny defended.
"True, but you've also never proved that you wouldn't. You're a very stubborn person Danny; you hide a lot of your feeling from her. Aside from being good friend to her, you have not proven unconditional devotion yet. She proved her loyalty on more than one occasion and you know that." Clockwork explained. "But that's not the point right now. We still need to make sure that you'll have a future, and she can help. You now know as much as she or I know about this 'accursed' which isn't much, but she's strong and can help you. She has before." Danny looked at him strangely. "Just watch."
An image of Vortex appeared on the screen. He saw himself and Vlad fly up to Vortex's storm cloud. Vlad took off and left Danny to fight him by himself. Danny winced as he watched him self being pounded and thrown into a building, knocking him out. He then saw Vortex still coming towards the collapse building even though he wasn't moving. "Now to finish him off." Vortex yelled. But suddenly a fireball hit him stopping him. Danny then saw Sam soar in and hovered between the building holding his immobilized body and Vortex. Vortex may have been strong, but Sam was fast, faster than Danny. And when she did strike Vortex it left a mark. She had managed to get Vortex away from Danny then after she received a direct lighting bolt from Vortex, she went down. Danny watched as she fell into a field outside of town. She was knocked out changed back to human, as she lie on the ground, Danny could see the pain in her face, and her breathing became unstable, but again, by morning she woke up completely healed. And right away she was on her way to make sure he was ok.
"She can help you defeat Dan." Clockwork spoke. "But she needs your help. The battle has already started." Clockwork spoke. "Give me back the time medallion and you'll be transported back to your time period."
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