Okay, so almost no response to the fact that I'm writing again. I love you guys too. I know you're reading!
I actually changed this chapter from the original a good deal. The first bit is kind of Wulf's stream of conscience.
They will be longer when I'm the one writing them, for you bastards who care more about how long a story is instead of how it's written.
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Chapter III
Checkmate
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Wulf carried Danny Fenton and the strange blonde human that smelled like fox into the Clock-man's lair. The blonde had fallen unconscious during the trip through dimensions, and Danny had fallen out after the battle with Skulker. Something had made the damnable hunter much more powerful.
Wulf would have to find whoever did so and destroy them. Those that hurt his friends would pay dearly.
"Good job, Wolfgang. Keep up in assisting me, and I will give you your body and memories back. That's what you want, isn't it?" Clockwork said.
Wulf grunted to signify an agreement.
The large wolf-man had wanted to always know why he had music run through his head all the time. An all knowing time ghost should be able to fix that, he thought. Or at least make the music stop playing.
"You may leave. Continue with your mission, Wolfgang." Clockwork told his charge.
The werewolf-like ghost nodded, and opened a new hole to another dimension.
"Poor boy. Always liked his music." Clockwork mused, frowning as he watched Wulf leave.
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"Ugh… that's the last time I turn my ghost sense off." Danny thought as he awoke with a massive headache. He had just turned off the biting cold he had always felt since he became a ghost (and more recently mastered his ice powers) for five minutes to enjoy a meal with his friends, but that had proved disastrous.
Danny then realized where he was as he took in his surroundings. After all, he had been there quite enough already and all of the clocks were obvious. He looked over from where he was lying, and saw the blonde haired boy that beat Skulker.
The blonde haired boy…
In the few days the blonde had been unconscious, the halfa had become curious to the boy's story. Danny's ghost sense had always tingled around the boy, but not in the way it reacted to ghosts. Seeing him beat Skulker when even he couldn't had opened up loads of new questions.
But Danny could wait for a while, or at least, until his headache cleared up.
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"Daniel, Naruto, wake up." Clockwork allowed the boys rest. After all, they would need it with what they had to do.
Danny and Naruto both sat up from their beds, a curious look in the blonde's eyes, and a suspicious one in the raven haired boy's.
"What are we doing here, Clockwork?" Danny asked, wasting no time in asking the biggest question.
"You are here because you are needed to save everything." Clockwork said simply, knowing Naruto and Danny to be impatient.
"What?" Naruto asked, his curious look turning into a frown.
"A while back, before Pariah Dark, (the ghost king, Naruto), a greater evil existed. Pariah was once a good and benevolent king, and he combated this evil, only to find it consumed him. This evil has no true name, but has many faces. Before Pariah was consumed by evil, he had sealed it away in a crystal bottle. I helped him do that. I was very young at the time, and had just begun learning about my ghost power of manipulating time and space.
"When Pariah turned, I hid the bottle away. But I fear that it has been found very recently.
"Beings called heartless and nobodies started appearing in other worlds. When a person dies, they split into three parts. The body becomes a Nobody, the heart becomes a Heartless, and the soul becomes a ghost. Heatless and Nobodies, like ghosts, have their own separate world. When this evil was rampant, these Heartless and Nobodies were everywhere. When Pariah sealed the evil, the Heartless and Nobodies went back to their own worlds. And until very recently, I thought it would stay that way.
"I hid the bottle on a world called Radiant Garden. I heard rumors that a witch took over the place, but I didn't think that the bottle was in any danger. Current events lead me to believe I was wrong."
"So, what do you want us to do?" Naruto said.
"Yeah, I mean, I've saved the Ghost Zone before, but this sounds too big for us…" Danny finished.
"To put it shortly, you both are the replacements of the beings that sealed Pariah away. Contrary to the beliefs of the Ghost Zone, most of them were human. I would have brought them all here, but I lack that kind of power. I want you two to do it for me." At this, the time ghost fished something out of his robe. "This time amulet serves almost the same purpose as you remember, Danny, only it has been modified to make it a one way teleportation devise to the land where the next Hero is."
Danny took the amulet from Clockwork.
"Are you sure that it's us?" Danny asked, uncertain.
"Positive." Clockwork responded with confidence.
Naruto took one end of the meadllion's chain, and wrapped it around his neck.
"I'm ready."
Danny put his own head through the chain, and the pair disappeared with a flash.
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The room was dark, not in lighting, but in aura. You could feel base emotions radiating from its walls. The brave could see into it quite well, but they were few in this place of despair.
A man cloaked in shadow walked to the door of the room, pushing it open. He smiled an evil smile, and looked at a chess board that was in the center of the room, but it had looked played into a little. He maneuvered what had to be a pawn in a position to where he could take out a bishop by sacrificing his pawn. The bishop would then be hit by the rook and the knight, with no way to escape. This then put the man's imaginary opponent into a very unfavorable position.
"Checkmate, you bastard pacifists."