Danny flew through the air at break neck speed, hell bent on finding whatever ghost that had interrupted him and Sam and giving it the beating of it's after life. Just as he was about to forget about it and go back to class he heard a familiar and annoying ghost making his presence known. "Beware, for I am the box ghost, master of all thing cardboard and square." Danny turned around to see the annoying, plump ghost doing his best to look intimidating. The halfa's eye twitched with rage. The box ghost never saw what hit him as he made hard contact with the brick wall of the school. Terror ran through him when he opened his eyes and saw a volley of highly charged plasma-rays heading straight for him that sent him high into the air.
He fell back to the earth like a rock and smashed so hard into the concrete sidewalk that he made a crater. Box ghost didn't have any time to recover because at the moment Danny swooped down and grabbed him by his leg, swinging baseball bat style into and through a street lamp that was only a few feet away. Box ghost looked up again and saw Danny just a split second before his energized fist made contact with the full ghost's face, sending him another twenty feet down the road and into a parked truck.
Danny calmly walked forward and grabbed the annoying ghost by his overalls. "I'll let you make one of two choices Box ghost, you can either; A) go back to the ghost zone now and never come out again or B) refuse option A and spend the rest of your after life in unimaginable pain." Box ghost started at the ghost child's eyes as they faintly, but noticeably took on a reddish tint. "Well what's it gonna be? Option A or B, I can live with either."
"Option A," Boxy choked out, before being sucked into the Fenton thermos.
"Now back to Sam." But before Danny could move, a pink blast hit him in the back and sent him crashing into the hard pavement of the street. He groaned as he picked himself off of the street and looked up to see the red huntress flying above him.
"You're not going anywhere ghost," Valerie was on top of her game today. She had gotten a generous ten hours of undisturbed sleep and had just gotten a complete system update. She saw Danny do what was thought impossible and kicked beat Dash into unconsciousness then yell at Mr. Lancer till he was shaking with fear, then dragged Sam off with him as he left. But the day had been ruined by that filthy ghost phantom showing his face again, "Because today I'm finally going to make you pay for what you did to me and my dad."
Danny's common sense told him to turn intangible and fly through the ground, so he could just ditcher her and get back to Sam, but something else made him stay. Again he felt that same surge of anger in the pit of his stomach as his breathing began to get heavier and heavier until his humanity gave way to anger. Without warning, Danny shot upward and used all his momentum to ram Valerie's jet sled from underneath, pitching Valerie off balance and hurling towards the pavement.
Before Valerie could slam into the ground, something caught her wrist and saved her from a painful slam. "You know what Valerie? I'm sick, I'm sick of all you disgusting ghost hunters claiming to be helping people by getting rid of evil ghosts yet the only ghost you ever hunt is me." He yelled, nearly pulling Valerie's arm out of her socket when he yanked her up to his eye level. "And I'm the only ghost in this miserable town that's actually doing anything to stop them from completely destroying you all."
Valerie didn't believe one word Danny was saying. "Shut up you filthy lying, ghost, you're wasting your breath on me, I know that all ghost ever do is lie." The red huntress glared at her long time enemy, but it soon shattered and the look on her face was one of pure terror as phantom growled out of anger and crimson red swirled with neon green in his eyes.
Danny roared with anger and threw Valerie the last few feet to the hard ground. She grunted in pain when her body mad contact with the earth, but she ignored it and immediately rolled backwards, onto her feet and started blasting away at Danny. The ghost boy just sighed however as he effortlessly dodged the shot and landed on the ground. Valerie was too stubborn to see that her opponent was just toying with her and proceeded to take out her ecto-grenade launcher, shooting at point blank range. The shot hit and dust a cloud of dust replaced where Danny had been standing.
Valerie breathed a sigh of relief and allowed a triumphant smile grace her lips. "Honestly," His voice came, whipping the smirk off her face. "Did you really think you could beat me so easily?" Danny stepped out of the dust cloud with no injuries what so ever, not even a scratch. "Those little toys of yours tickle." He laughed when Valerie scowled at him and pulled out her ecto-bazooka. She fired several blasts in rapid succession, but only fizzled out when Danny put up a wall of energy between them.
Before Valerie could fire another shot, Danny dashed forward and snatched the gun out of her hands, then effortlessly tore it in half and shot his own weakened plasma-ray at her. Danny's attack ended up sending Valerie into a wall of a nearby building. Groaning in pain, she lifted her head in time to see an ecto-sphere hurdling towards her and dodged rolled out of the way with only inches to spare.
Danny laughed to himself as Valerie desperately tried to keep up with him. If he had ever been this lenient in a ghost fight with one of his regular enemies, he would have been killed by now, Valerie was just lucky Danny wasn't capable of murder. The sound of Valerie's Jet sled powering up forced Danny out of his thoughts as he lazily rolled to the side to avoid said jet sled from splattering his head. He laughed when he saw Valerie climb back onto her board, trying to get an advantage by staying in the air.
"What are you laughing about ghost?" Even though Valerie had her helmet on Danny could tell she was shooting him a death glare.
"You," He calmly shot back. Valerie's glare intensified and shot several spikes at Danny from a gun that came out of the bottom of her jet sled. Danny raised a simple shield to block them, but what he didn't know was that the spikes were coated in ectoplasm, so they easily broke through his barrier and dug deep into his skin. He howled in pain and stumbled backwards pulling the three spikes out as he went.
Eyes burning more red than green now Danny charged up a dangerously powerful plasma ray and fired it in Valerie's direction, sending her far backwards and damaging her suit and board beyond function.
"Why do you insist on fighting me?" Danny said as he walked up to the shaking huntress.
"Because, you ruined my life and I won't let you ruin other people's lives." Valerie managed to choke out.
"Like you had much of a life anyway,"
Valerie looked up shocked. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Phantom shook his head. "Look at the life you have now and the life you had before Cujo started showing up. Can you honestly say the life you had before is better than this one?" Danny watched in amusement as Valerie's answer quickly died in her throat. "I don't want to fight you Valerie, let's just... forget about are stupid rivalry and just get on with our lives, er afterlife in my case." Valerie stood up and dusted her poorly functioning suit before taking is hand in hers. "Good" Danny said and pulled his hand away, or tried to, but Valerie wouldn't let go.
Before Danny could realize what was happening, Valerie had flipped him over her shoulder and onto his back. "Like I told you before ghost, not all humans are saps." Valerie drew a glowing knife out of her belt and raised it to strike when someone suddenly tapped on one of her shoulders. She spun around and came face to face with... Phantom? The Danny didn't give Valerie any time to get over her shock because as soon as their eyes met he fired a plasma-ray and knocked her off her feet. The duplicate Danny helped his original to his feet before they both turned to face Valerie.
"That's it Valerie." The original Danny said. "Your second chances along with any hope mercy are gone." He growled and threw his arms out wide, his duplicate fallowing his example.
Valerie took a step backwards as four more Danny duplicates came into existence. Before she knew it, one of the duplicates was at her side and wrenched it way from her hand, throwing it far away. All six Phantoms let out chilling laughter as they punched, kicked, and blasted the red huntress into a flower shop window.
"What gives you the right to hunt my kind?" Danny asked as his duplicates merged back with him.
It took Valerie a second to regain her senses, but she responded with plenty of venom. "Because, all ghosts are evil and don't deserve to exist." Probably, not the smartest thing to say to a very powerful and pissed off ghost whom you've tried to kill many times in your life. But to her surprise phantom just scoffed.
"You really don't know how strong I am, do you? Even now after I've proved that your weapons don't even make a scratch on my jump suit, you're still ignorant to just how truly powerful I've become." Whether from fatigue or shock, Valerie didn't answer. "Well then, I guess I'll just have to show you what I'm really capable of." He said, sending chills up her back.
Danny rose into the air and raised on of his arms above his head. Instantly, a massive ball of ecto-energy, which was twice his own size formed in his hand. He laughed harshly at Valerie's cowering figure. With one fluid motion, he brought his hand down, but instead of releasing it, he did a flip over in the air and threw it up into the sky where it made a deafening explosion. Despite the extreme amount of power that he had used, Danny didn't look anymore tired that he did before they had gotten into the fight.
"Now that you get that I could kill you seconds, are you still going try and kill me or are you going to be smart for once in your life and walk away?" Danny said as he landed in front of Valerie again.
"Of course," she spat. "All ghosts are evil and need to be destroyed." She tried to get up and fight, but phantom slammed his foot down on her chest and kept her pinned to the ground.
"So by that logic all humans are good." Shocked, Valerie stared at him before he went on. "Earth is the flip side of the ghost-zone, so humans must be the flip-beings of ghost and if all ghosts are evil, then all humans must be good, right?" Valerie wanted to retort back with some smart comment, but couldn't because Phantom's logic was faultless. "Listen Valerie, I'd love to keep this conversation going, but I have a date to prepare for with the love of my life and I really want to impress her so." Danny reached past her head and grabbed a bouquet of lilacs, turned around, and flew off back to the direction of the school.
Danny floated into the boy's bathroom and changed into his human form. Calmly exiting the bathroom with the flowers in his hand, he found a nearby water fountain and filled up a vase made of ghost ice that he quickly created, with water. Once there was a good enough amount of water in it, he took the flowers from their wrappings and put them in. Satisfied, Danny made his way to his locker and used his ghost powers to phase the lilacs in and headed off to catch the last bit of his first period class.
He was looking forward to the rest of his day.
Ok sorry if it's not that great, I really had to force this chapter for some reason. Hopefully the next chapter will be better. My favourite character is coming in to the story and we'll get to see the truly dark side of Danny.