I dont have much to say today other than here is another chapter this week. Havent gotten much feedback so I hope everyone is enjoying my story! I forgot to put this in last time. Thanks Sophia the daughter of Nyx for the reviews!
Disclaimer! I dont own Danny Phantom... its probably a good thing too.
Rest is a hard thing to come by in a war and Team Phantom was grateful for any brief rest that they received. However, their rest never lasted as long as they wanted and this time was no exception either. Before Dark Parmius's forces resumed its attacks driving Team Phantoms forces back. Refusing to give up Danny and his friends continued to fight on as wave after wave of Darks Parmius forces washed over them slowly chipping their numbers down. Most of the world didn't realize it until later but Danny fought the war in both realms and his friends helped him in every way they could. As king of the ghost zone Danny had a duty to help protect the ghosts and their homes since Dark Parmius's attacks were not limited to the human world alone. He fought a two sided battle and since humans had a hard time fighting in the ghost zone it was initially a mostly ghostly army that fought those battles. Fenton tech and surprisingly the GIW slowly helped change that and the ghosts were thankful for the help. Months dragged on as the battles continued and eventually the war became known as the Merging War. Although no one truly realized how appropriate the title was until it was far too late. Valerie discovered she was pregnant and she and Tucker got married. Danny forced them off the front lines after that and though Tucker was initially upset he understood his friend decision and provided all the technological backup he could. He also started working on a suit like Valeries for both his own and other humans use in the war. Once the word was spread about Dark Parmius Goon factories large efforts were made to find and destroy any other labs of Dark Parmius. This was a concentrated effort to try and stem the flow of Goons and other ghastly creations that Dark Parmius seemed to enjoy sending out. Some were found then destroyed with extreme prejudice and several months passed before the tide slowly began to turn in Phantoms favor. As Dark Parmius creations were destroyed bit by bit he was forced to pull out of areas or face being annihilated outright. Soon Team Phantoms side were winning more battles than loosing them and for the first time since the start of the whole mess Danny felt that there was hope. Dark Parmius attacks started to become increasingly erratic and more brutal. Before he had been careful about the distribution of his creations as well as the terrain he was fighting in, now his attacks were less efficient, more destructive, and far more sacrificing.
Realizing the final battle was coming soon and still unable to break the barrier on the crown Danny went to see Clockwork. Clockwork had not participated in the war. In fact he and his lair had seemingly vanished after the war had begun. Danny had never had any trouble finding it but that was simply because Clockwork allowed him to find it. At first Danny had asked why Clockwork wouldn't help but he quickly realized that in his own way Clockwork had helped them on multiple occasions. He had given warnings and guidance when he could but unlike most ghosts his specialty prevented him from being able to directly participate much to Clockworks own frustration. Clockwork had welcomed Danny and had done his best to help break the barrier on the crown. However he was unable to and found it odd that the barrier felt like something that Plasmius had once used when he had been normal. There for the barrier should have been breakable for Danny and him as well, however he could just barely make out other ghostly signatures just below what felt like Plasmius power. With this disturbing new information he had asked Danny to wait and left to gaze into some of his clock windows. Clockwork gazed into his clocks for such a longtime after that Danny had almost left. When he was done Clockwork had returned to Danny and hugged him saying that it would be the last time they would see each other. Danny had been confused but Clockwork had simply stated that he was taking himself and his lair into the time stream itself. This would prevent any misdeeds from occurring from the misuse of his own powers. He warned Danny that a crossroads in time was coming and that not even he could predict the outcome. With that said he and the lair around him vanished leaving a stunned Danny floating alone in the zone with the crown.
Danny had returned to his friends with the crown and discovered in his absence tragedy had struck. His father had been killed and his mother was missing. Danny had lost it. He streaked away to where the battle was still taking place and simply let loose. His ghost allies fled at his arrival many of them sensing the sudden danger. Realizing their human counterparts couldn't, the ghosts on Dannys side dragged their human allies away from the danger that was their young king. For the first time Danny truly drew on the energy naturally available from the ring and the ghost zone and he wiped the opposing forces out of existence. When he was done he stood alone surrounded by nothing, the battlefield had been turned into a smear of dirt, blood, and ectoplasm. With nothing left around him Danny had finally returned to his senses. He took one look around him and transformed back into his human form before collapsing to the ground. Sam had found him there several hours later injured, unable to move, and sobbing, his tears falling to the churned up ghosts had prevented her from going to his side earlier for fear that she would get caught up in the rage and be injured or worse killed. They had forced Sam to wait until Dannys malevolent energy had completely dissipated from the battlefield before releasing her. They were relieved to let her go finally because it had taken several ghosts to detain her in the first place. Understanding his sorrow Sam had wrapped him in a hug and let him cry tears of her own mixing with his, simply relieved that he was alive. Sam healed Danny and once he found the energy to stand and shuffle they trekked back to where the others waited together. Two days passed as Danny regained his normal strength and he promised his friends he would never use the power of the ring and zone like he had ever again. After his complete loss of control many of the humans feared him and so did many of the ghosts. Danny hadn't blamed them, he was scared of himself. Danny also no longer cared if the crown was unshielded, for after his terrible lack of control he never intended to use it. Tucker heard what had happened and although his daughter was to be born soon he rushed over to be at Dannys side. On the fifth day after the battle Dark Parmius finally showed his face bringing with him a huge enemy force.
Dark Parmius had been avoiding Danny. He had shown up multiple times all over the world and had participated in many battles, but he had never stayed in one place for long. Certainly never long enough for Danny to track him down to fight him. He had been far more concerned with amassing power and other parts for his twisted master plan. The main part of his plan had been set into motion months ago, but just the day before Dark Parmius had finally gotten the last piece of information he needed before he was ready to take back his precious crown and ring that he felt were rightfully his. After all he felt he was the most powerful being in both realms, those two artifacts could only ever be his. Also the war was starting to go badly for him and he needed the crown to become the greatest ruler that either realm had ever known. So he had amassed his final force and marched to the ruins of Amity Park where everything had begun. In his arms he carried his trump card and as his army marched through the large semi natural portal he was stunned to find Danny and his force ready and waiting to do battle.
