Sorry this chapter took so long, but I was having a hard time thinking of what animal DNA to use on Danny. But now, I'd like to thank fellow author Ben10gobad,for helping me with my problem. Now I know what I'm going to use. So, in this chapter Danny has a sort of emotional episode and acts on instinct. Primal instinct. Will the Fentons and their two compatriots survive? ...I have no idea. Enjoy the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, or Maximum Ride!
"Normal Speech"
'Thinking'
Songs
"Yelling"
Primal Rage! The Beast Unleashed!
Third Person POV...
Danny just stood there hugging his sister as she cried into his shoulder. To the flock, Jeb, Valencia, and Total, this was a very touching scene. They knew that Jazz stayed by her brother's side until the very end, and that made her A-Okay in their books. When they broke the hug, Sam tried to hug Danny, but he started snarling at her. His fangs were bared, and his pupils had narrowed into thin, reptilian slits. He stood in front of Max in a protective stance.
"Danny, what's wrong? We're your friends. You know you can trust us!" Sam said feeling hurt by her not-so-secret crush's reaction.
Unfortunately, her words merely sparked more rage in our halfa-turned-recombinant.
"Friends? FRIENDS?! You guys threw away our friendship the day you all betrayed me!" Danny yelled in rage.
Everyone in the Fenton Entourage started to look a bit freaked out. The reason? Danny was slowly transforming into his mutant form. His skin began to harden like an impenetrable pelt, leathery wings grew out of his back, strange shark fins grew out of his elbows, his teeth became long and serrated, his muscles grew until he had the build of a professional wrestler, and his fingertips turned into long, sharp talons. *His hair also slicked back taking the appearance of quills.*
This is Danny's mutant form, and boy oh boy, is he PISSED OFF. Danny let out a loud roar that sounded like a cross between a lion, and a Tyrannosaurus. Needless to say, they were scared stiff.
"Danny... How did this happen? Who did this to you?!" Maddie asked, concerned about her son.
Danny wasn't exactly on good terms with these people, but decided to humor them. He would explain to them how he became a recombinant life form.
"You might want to sit down, I have a lot to get off my chest." Danny said as he sat in a recliner.
Everyone else took a seat somewhere in the living room. Max decided to sit on Danny's lap to try and comfort her enraged husband, but Gazzy and Fang had a hard time finding a spot to sit with Jack taking up most of the couch. Seriously, how this guy can even survive with such high fat reserves without being a bear or having bear DNA mixed with their own is beyond me!
"Dude, there's this new invention called 'dieting' have ya heard of it?" Gazzy said irritated that this fatso was taking up the whole sofa.
"Kid, everyone knows that diets don't work." Jack said in response.
Ignoring the useless argument, Danny guided Max to a recliner so she could sit comfortably. Danny stood in the middle of the room, and began to tell his story.
"*sigh* It started on that day in Amity Park, one and a half years ago..."
***Flashback***
Danny's POV...
I flew from the place I once called home as fast as my ghostly powers could take me. I couldn't believe this. My own parents, my friends, the whole town, all of them found out my secret. And they didn't accept me... All except Jazz. I can always count on my older sister to have my back. But now, I'm all alone in this world with nothing but the clothes on my back, my powers, and my thoughts.
Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my right arm. I look to see what appeared to be a tranquilizer dart and start to feel drowsy. Before I fall asleep, I catch a brief glimpse of the ones who shot me. They were people in white lab coats, and strange men with wolf features wearing black suits. I manage to land before my world goes black.
When I woke up, I found myself to be in a dark room, and locked up in a cage that should be holding a wild animal.
"Whoever caught me off guard should've done their homework. Otherwise, they would've done something to get rid of my powers!" I say to myself.
I try to silently go ghost, but nothing happens. It is almost like my powers are being blocked off by something. The door opens, and the same guys who shot me down walk in with sadistic sneers on their faces. I could tell that they weren't with the Guys In White, or Vlad. However, without my powers I was at the mercy of my captors.
***Half a Year Later(Still in Flashback)***
I was now running for my life. The people in that place were a bunch of evil monsters! They made people like my former parents and the Guys In White look like a bunch of saints in comparison. I managed to escape in the dead of night, and was able to see everything super clear. Guess that's an advantage to having Owl DNA integrated into your own. I was also much faster than before as a result of my newly acquired Hedgehog DNA. Those creeps experimented on me a lot more than any other recombinant life form that they had created.
Finally, I reached a nearby lake connected to a river. Without thinking, I started to guzzle down the water with no regard for if it was pure or not. That's how badly dehydrated I was. When I finally stopped drinking, I got a good look at myself in the water's reflective surface. I wasn't fully human, nor was I half of just one animal. I had been turned into a freak!
"GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" I roared in utter rage.
***Flashback End***
Third Person POV…
Danny closed his eyes as he ended the story. Telling that tale was always hard for Danny to do without going on a rampage. He desperately wanted to kill the four traitors, but he restrained himself for the sake of his flock. Jazz however had a question for her little brother.
"How did you meet the other recombinants behind you?" she asked.
Danny was still pretty angry, but he decided to answer his sister anyways. He took a few breaths to calm himself down, and started to explain.
"It was three days after my escape that I had met them. I heard the sounds of combat in the woods I was wandering in, and went to investigate. What I saw made my eyes turn red with rage. A pack of Erasers was attacking the flock. Though greatly outnumbered, They held their own against the Erasers, but Fang and the others were knocked out quickly. Max was the only one left standing, and I couldn't take any more of it. My own anger at Itex combined with my primal instinct made me charge in, and attack! ...I killed them all… Not even ONE Eraser survived!" explained Danny.
The Fenton's, Sam, and Tucker had looks of utter horror on their faces. Never in their entire lives did they think that Danny would kill another living being! EVER! And yet he was openly admitting to killing those Erasers.
"I then used some of the healing herbs that grew in those woods to try and heal Max and the others. All of them were plenty suspicious about me at first, but I was soon accepted into their group. After three more months of traveling together, I had asked Max out on a date, and to my surprise and happiness, she accepted. We hit it off pretty well after that." Danny said, fondly remembering their time together during their dates.
"And three more months after that, Danny and I flew here to Arizona to visit my mother, before I knew she was my mother, and boy was I surprised when I opened the door to the house!" said Max. "Jeb was also waiting for me in mom's living room! At first I went on the defensive, But Danny had somehow managed to convince me to not kill Jeb. Then Danny did the most romantic thing I'd ever seen him do…"
Max stopped talking for a moment, and rested her head on Danny's shoulder. Danny smiled, and kissed her on the forehead causing Sam to give Max the stink eye.
"...He got on one knee, took my hand in his, and asked me to marry him!" finished Max.
Jeb and Valencia smiled seeing that her daughter was happy with Danny. They honestly hoped that the two would wait until they were at LEAST twenty before getting officially married, but then again, because they didn't know when they would expire it was for the best at the time. And when Danny found out that he had gained the power to remove a recombinant life form's expiration date, and replace it with a normal human lifespan, they were both ecstatic, and scientifically intrigued.
The Flock remembered that day very well. It also just so happened to be the day of Max and Danny's wedding. A white flame had engulfed Danny along with the rest of the flock, Ari, and Total, but it wasn't harming them. Instead, it caused their expiration dates to appear, and vaporize right out of their systems! It also deaged Ari physically to match his age. Thankfully, Ari's clothes shrunk with him, and the flock's clothing was undamaged.
After throwing the wedding bouquet, which was caught by Valencia, the married couple had flown off to sunny Hawaii for their honeymoon. A month after that, Max had found out she was pregnant with Danny's kid. Even now, the two of them were excited to be starting a family of their own. but the moment was ruined by a certain goth that we all know and for some reason or another love to bash in our stories.
"YOU WHAT?!" yelled an angry Sam, who was infuriated that Max was now married to Danny.
"What? Was it something I said?" Max asked the audience.
Well, I think that's enough breaking of the fourth wall for one chapter. Now I wanna include a song in the next chapter, but I can't decide which one to use. The choices are: Who needs you from The Land Before Time, The Mighty Sven(Changed to the Mighty Dan), and Binks' Sake(Japanese Version). I'd like you all to tell me which song you think I should use next chapter. Also, for those of you who wanna know, here's a list of animal DNA that Danny has.
Megalodon. Tyrannosaurus Rex, Snowy Owl, Hedgehog, Dragon, Phoenix, Nemean Lion, Chameleon, Rodan from Godzilla, and Electric Eel.
Thank you, and enjoy the chapter!