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Danny's school day had become hectic, Yuki and Valerie were tripping each other up and making snide comments at every opportunity with Danny stuck in the middle. The school was divide into three parts on how to react; the popular boys who found it hilarious, the unpopular boys who found it unfair that Danny had two girls when they couldn't get one, and the girls who all saw him as a two-timing jerk.
Each girl felt that they were more qualified to be his girlfriend. Valerie because they had history, they were both ghost hunting heroes, and because they were both human. Yuki because she had never shot at him, they both had longevity and would live for a thousand years and because they were both Divine Beasts. Sam ended up siding with Yuki, to her displeasure, by wrecking Valerie's claims. "You two have bad history, you never were a hero like Danny, and being human isn't exactly rare." Sam had said to Valerie leading to more shouts of indignation.
Half way through the last class of the day the intercom flared on and saved Danny from his fate. "Daniel Fenton please report to the front office, Daniel Fenton to the front office." It said and Danny gave a short sigh of relief as he dashed out of the room.
It wasn't until he was actually standing outside the front office that he started to wonder what he was there for. Ever since he had become a Campione the normal ghosts had stopped coming into his town. According to Yuki anywhere a Campione steps is his or her domain by right and no being connected with magic would dare contest that calm, other than another Campione or a rouge god. So Danny hadn't had to run out of class anymore to go and fight ghosts.
"Hello?" Danny said confused as he entered the office to find that it was empty. "What's going on here?" He started to walk around when he noticed a energy coming from the conference room door. He walked over to it confused and lifted one hand and gently knocked on the door. "Hello?" He said but the energy had disappeared the moment his hand had hit the door.
"Come in." A panicked voice said from behind the door.
Danny opened it casually and looked in the room. There were two large Caucasian men in black suits and shades. They reminded Danny of the Guys in White that he had seen once when Vlad had put the bounty on his head. Danny was starting to wonder if they were expecting someone else when the throw themselves at his feet. "Oh great and powerful Demon King please forgive us for our calling you out in such a way, but we disparity wished to have an audience with you. Please we beg you to with hold you divine wrath until after you hear us out." One of them said as they grooved at Danny's feet.
The entire display was almost too amusing for Danny to feel the proper amount of shame and horror from it. "Um… I think I stepped into the wrong room…" Danny said trying to make his retreat.
"No please king wait!" The other of the two agents pleaded. "Forgive us but we had only heard rumors of you and have not brought proper gifts for one as great as yourself, but this is a matter of utmost importance. The prophecy of the starless night is upon us and the fate of the world literally rests in the balance. Only a king such as yourself could hope to avert this catastrophe."
"Son of a…" Danny hit his head on the door frame taking note of a mist that came from his mouth. Sighing he closed the door to allow for some privacy even though the office was closed. "I guess denying that I am a Campione would be pointless now, so what's threatening the world this time?" Danny asked tiredly running a hand through his hair. Talking about the end of the world was not his favorite activity at the end of a long day at school. "And could you stop groveling and begging, it's just weird." The agents look at each other from their groveling position on the floor before slowly getting up and standing at attention as Danny took a seat. "You don't have to stand either if you don't want to."
"Um… well king I… we are agents of the SSI or Sorcerous Sacrilege Investigation. We are the agency that deals with incidents relating to gods and magic with the United States." Agent A said. Danny was mental calling them A and B since they didn't seem all that inclined to give their names.
"So the American Ministry of Magic, great." Danny said sadly. "How come you guys never did anything about all the Divine Beasts that have been attacking this town?"
Agent B flushed. "Well… you see the United States is a younger country without a wealth of magic or Divine Instruments like the European and Asian countries… especially after the early Spanish destroyed most of the Native American's artifices." Agent B said embarrassed. "We did try hiring outside help to fix the problem, but the Ghost Hunting family we funded just couldn't get the job done." Danny then realized who was funding his dad's projects. "So… we kind of… left everything to that one Divine Beast, Phantom, to deal with."
A girl's laughter shook through the room and the agents jumped up in alarm. "Well this is embarrassing to say the least." Danny said glumly. "You can come out now, Yuki." He felt a weight land on his lap as Yuki returned to the normal visible spectrum so that the two agents could see her.
The agents jumped back stumbling over the chairs that had been behind them and fall to the ground looking like idiots as Yuki giggled at their reactions. "A… a Divine Beast." Agent A said in awe and slight panic. "Is this one of your avatars, King?"
"Huh? No Yuki is a friend of mine." Danny said as she sat in his lap and kissed him on the cheek.
"What!? But Demon Kings and Divine Beasts are enemies. No champion king of man could ever be friends with a free Divine Beast." Agent B said glaring up at Yuki from the floor but he backed away further when she glared at him.
"Just to let you know, I'm his girlfriend." Yuki declared her voice chilling the room for the two mortals.
"You… you can't." Agent B said looking at the youngest king.
"I really don't care what you people think about the people I hang out with." Danny said simply his own glare adding to Yuki's causing the agents to tremble. "Yuki, do you know about this starless night prophecy thing that they were talking about?"
"I am a Priestess, Danny, of course I know about the starless night prophecy. 'When the goddess of the night, the goddess with the serpent form, recovers its true form the starless night will cover the heavens, and the human world will be drawn toward the underworld.' Not very descriptive if you ask me, there are dozens of serpent goddesses of death." Yuki said rolling her eyes.
"We have received intelligence from our spies in Italy that the Gorgonian, the divine instrument that will return the goddess Athena to her true form, has been moved to Tokyo, Japan and that the goddess is in hot pursuit." Agent A said positioning a chair between himself and the young king. "If nothing is done then the world will come to an end. We could have only minutes until Athena reclaims her true form."
Danny's eyes widened. "And you wasted our time with all that groveling!? Yuki we're going, I'll portal us there."
"Yes my king, it's too bad that we don't have time to tell the Huntress, not that she would be any help against a goddess like Athena." Yuki said taking a jab at the rival in her absents.
"You two have problems…" Danny said chuckling a little sadly. The crown of fire came to his mind's eye and 'the portal' glowed. "I open a path which leads to damnation." Danny said clearly and a portal appeared underneath his feet and he sank into it with Yuki at his side.
After the king and his mistress left the two agents sank down with relief. After a few moments of the two agents sobbing like babies, Agent B spoke. "What have we done?" He said miserably.
"It can't be helped. America can't have two Campiones. It would be worse than a hundred hurricanes if they did battle here." Agent A answered sadly trying to get over the gilt.
"So we sent him to Japan where there is bound to be a fight since he is entering another king's territory and trying to steal his prey." Agent B said sick with himself.
"Japan is as good as gone now anyways because of the starless night. With any luck this new king will die and we won't have to worry about it anymore. You heard about how strong that Japanese king is. He tied against King Salvatore." Agent A said hopefully.
"But that was just rumors, and we have no idea how strong this king is. What if he figures out what we did? He could destroy the whole state out of spite." Agent B said, the grown man tearing up.
"Let's… let's not think about that. It's time to go back to HQ and report on our mission." Agent A said with panic in his voice. But on their way out he whispered softly. "Gods forgive us."
"I am starting to wonder if they were just trying to get us out of town…" Yuki said angrily as they flew over the city of Tokyo trying to sense any residual magic forces. "If that was their goal they would have to be pretty stupid. Most kings in the past have been known to flatten towns for less insult than that."
"I'm not going to flatten any towns." Danny interjected quickly.
"I know that… but can we tell them you will anyways just so they will wet themselves?" Yuki said with a childish grin that reminded Danny of a cat.
"Well… Halloween is coming up… and it would make a good prank." Danny said thoughtfully as he envisioned their reactions. No one had ever accused Danny of being mature. But he was steered out of these thoughts when a large pulse of magic swept through the air and a mist exited his mouth. "Guess Athena really is here." Danny said looking in the direction the magic had come from.
"Yeah… but can we still prank the SSI people? They still kind of desire it." Yuki said and Danny laughed before rushing off to confront Athena.
As he flew high scanning the roof tops for any sign of the goddess he spotted a small girl with silver hair flouting above a motionless body of a high school boy while a blond haired girl was standing nearby punching at a divine barrier that seemed to be surrounding her. The silver haired child lifted a hand and a scythe appeared and she raised it as if to strike the motionless body.
Danny shot a blast of energy catching the girl by surprise and sending her across the roof. Lighting down next to the golden barrier that trapped the blond girl, Danny lifted a glowing fist and punched the shield hard causing it to break.
"A Divine Beast?" The blond said in surprise.
"Get the boy and get out of here. I'll hold her." Danny said quickly turning to the silver haired girl as Yuki lighted on the roof next to him.
The blond didn't need to be told twice she grabbed the limp body of the boy and ran to the edge of the roof. "Boots of Hermes!" She shouted and red magic rings appeared around her feet as she jumped away.
Danny sighed and got a closer look at his opponent. Athena, the ancient goddess of wisdom didn't exactly look how he had expected her to look. She had the body of a girl who was still in elementary school, wearing a white long sleeve dress shirt with a teal vest over it and a skirt. She had silver hair and large amethyst eyes that seemed slitted like a snakes.
"Oh, what is this; a Divine Beast, and something else that I do not recognize." She said in a voice that managed to be curious and detached at the same time. Her eyes scanned Danny up and down as the flouted a foot of the ground fingering her scythe. "The wisdom that makes Athena what she is tells her that you are a Godslayer as well as a Divine Beast. A unique creature if I should say so." She raised her scythe. "Are you also here to stop me from recovering what is mine?"
"If you are going to drag the human world into darkness then I guess I am here to fight you Athena." Danny said putting a hand over his tattoo. "No offense meant. It's just, I kind of keep my stuff here." Yuki snorted at Danny's inappropriate comment.
Athena also seemed to smile. "Oh, you are more forward then the last one. His words only spoke of lethargy, yours are much more willing." Athena disappeared from Danny's vision and the ghost hunter dived forward and turned to see that Athena had moved around him quick as a viper.
"A Key to close the box once opened." Danny said calling out the large two hand key sword and blocking a sweep from Athena's scythe right before it would have taken his head. Danny lifted one hand from the hilt of his sword to shoot a point blank blast at Athena, but she disappeared from his sight before the shot could form in his hand. Turning right to where he sensed her presents he blocked another strike from the snakelike goddess. Danny had not had a chance to prepare his footing as was quickly pushed back by the goddess who pulled back her scythe to strike around his key sword.
A blast of cold energy went through the air and incased the attacking goddess in ice and pushing her away from Danny. "Danny that blade is to slow to keep up with Athena." Yuki said as she again blew a freezing breeze from the palm of her hand that the goddess, only to have it to be scattered by the divine shield that protected her when she was not attacking.
"Right, next door; key to the star flower!" Danny commanded and the key changed shape into the shorter blade that he had used to defeat Apus, 'the falling star' key.
"I see, so you seek to double team me. How foolish for a mere Divine Beast to think it has a place in this fight." Athena disappeared again having moved behind Yuki who turned ready to block the attack with a cold wind but the goddess had moved again and was going to hit Yuki in her turned back. Danny got in the way and blocked the attack with his lighter sword and shot beams out of his eyes pushing the goddess back and gave her a slight burn on her hand which disappeared right before their eyes. "I must say that this is more fun than I thought it would be, but I must continue if I am to reclaim what is mine."
A hole appeared in the space behind Athena and out flew hundreds of owls blinding Danny and Yuki. Danny knew an attack was coming and put up his sword to defend Yuki, but since his defense was centered on protecting his friend his own body was almost completely open.
"Danny!" Yuki shouted and he was knocked back into her after having his chest almost cut upon with a slash from the goddess's scythe.
"A Demon King that sacrifices himself in order to protect a Divine Beast. You are a strange one." Athena said looking slightly pleased with herself as she looked down at the injured Godslayer. "Now to finish you."
"No, I won't let…" Yuki started but stop as she heard Danny mutter something. 'Attack her when I'm done with the chant.'
"Be it an instrument of the sky, the sea, or the steel of man, may these roots hold strong and guard against the tests of time. Let the garden ever be protected and let none of the mother's children be taken away. For these will be the vines that hold up our futures." Danny mumbled as 'the vine' came into his head. His hand glowed bright green.
Yuki threw a ball of ice at Athena. "You think ice can hurt…" She stopped when Danny's hand hit the ground and hundreds of vines shoot up out of the stone roof and gathered around Athena forming a cocoon that stopped the ball of ice in its tracks. The vines were tightly wrapped around the goddess who had no way out and Yuki scooped up Danny in her arms and flew away from the imprisoned goddess.
"Danny that was so stupid of you. Why did you take that attack? You should let yourself be hurt to protect me." Yuki said angrily pushing a tear out of her eye as they rested on a roof top several miles away from the temporarily captured goddess. "Baka." The injured Danny was resting in Yuki's lap.
"Sorry, I just didn't want you to get hurt. You're only here because I asked you to come along." Danny said wincing from the wound across his chest as he transformed back into being human. "I guess I got pretty cut up."
Yuki sighed heavily. "You never think about your own safety… I guess that's what I love about you though." She said leaning over him. "I'll use my healing magic on you. Just be still." She said before locking lips with him. Danny felt the familiar cool sensation that came from Yuki's magic passing through him. His chest began to knit itself closed as her healing magic was amplified by his natural healing of both a Divine Beast and a Campione's. Within moments he was back to full health and was rolling his shoulder to test it out.
"That was clever…" Yuki said softly catching Danny's attention. "I mean using 'the vines' that way. It's an authority that is restricted so that it can only be used to defend against attacks aimed at a Mother Earth Goddess, one of their Divine Beasts, or a Priestess or Witch and its strength is relative to how much of its incantation you used. I'm just saying it was clever of you to use it to trap Athena like that."
"I guess… I just think I was lucky she turned out to be a Mother Earth Goddess. Come to think of it I still don't know anything about Athena." Danny said looking over at Yuki and blushing as he knew what was coming.
Yuki giggle. "I take back what I said about you being clever. Confronting her before you could use the Skeleton Key on her was a bad idea." Yuki said slyly.
"Ha… you didn't think about that ether." Danny mumbled embarrassed.
But Yuki walked over to him and grabbed his chin. "Well I guess we are both reckless then. So here's the information you need. Consider it a gift for saving me."
They kissed deeply as an unnatural darkness passed over the mid-afternoon sky and all the lights in the streets below went out. But a brilliant glow eliminated from them and the roof top shone with a pale golden light.
Mariya Yuri had failed to seal away the Gorgonian and Athena had taken position of it and was standing in front of her and Liliana Kranjcar. Athena's true form was that of a young woman in her early twenties dressed in a Greek gown with a crown of reeds and silver hair that fell down past her knees.
A deathly black mist rushed out from her as she finished her transformation. Liliana jumped away from it at the last moment but Yuri was not so lucking. Yuri began to choke and cough on the poisoned air. "Rouge… Athena…" Yuri coughed.
"Oh, it seems I cannot yet wield this power properly." Athena said as she reveled in her power. "However, that is but temporary."
"Kusanagi-san…" Yuri gasped thinking how he said he would be able to get to her if she just believed in him. "Think of him as hard as I can…" Yuri said as she struggled to get up. "Believe in him."
"There is still one you must face!" Yuri told Athena using all of her strength to continue to stand and talk.
"Oh? It speaks of something quite interesting." Athena said with an amused expression. "Convey to me that name."
'Believe… believe… believe.' Yuri said as she gathered up what little strength she had. "Hurry and get here! Athena is here. I need you, and I'm standing right here! Therefore, Kusanagi-san!" She shouted but staggered from the poison. Righting herself she shouted one more with the last of her strength. "Kusanagi Godou!"
The shout seemed to echo in the air as the Princess Shrine Maiden stumbled and fell. But before she hit the ground a strong and gentle wind seemed to catch her, and when the wind died down Kusanagi Godou was standing their holding her in his arms. She looked up as if she could hardly believe it. His messy back hair and dark eyes looked down on her with concern. "Mariya, are you okay?"
"You came…" Yuri said almost tearing up.
"Oh, so this is the one it spoke of. Kusanagi Godou, you survived… no, you revived" Athena said raising a hand. "I suppose I should dispatch of you at once then." Athena swung her hand and a black wave of energy came out and went straight for Yuri and Godou who had not had time to prepare. But the attack was blocked by a bright green shield that shone in the complete darkness. "Oh it seems the other one has returned as well. Splendid." Athena laughed.
Turning their heads to a large glow that was coming from behind them they saw another boy. Yuri couldn't believe the contrast between this boy and Godou. He looked a year younger and had hair that was as white as snow and his eyes shone with power and cool resolve. Where Godou's skin was a little darker than your average Japanese man this boy was pale as a ghost and sporting a childish grin. But for some reason she still felt like they were the same.
"I would have got here sooner, but there traffic was terrible." The boy joked in the face of the empowered rouge goddess. "But look at you now, all ground up. It doesn't feel like it took me that long."
"It still jokes, but I still do not know what to call it. I suppose Demon Beast would be an appropriate name." Athena said snidely as she formed her black scythe in her hand once again.
"You can call me Dipstick for all I care. But I prefer to be called Phantom." Danny said with a shrug when he heard Yuri choking from the poison. "Is she alright?" He asked.
"She inhaled my Wind of Death, so she will die. No healing magic of mortals can save her unfortunately." Athena said sounding as if it was an accident but not one she would lose sleep over.
"Oh no!" Godou said looking down at the Princess Shrine Maiden.
Danny looked down at the girl. "Yuki, cover me." He said as another person, a Divine Beast, appeared beside him. She also had snowy white hair that came down to her shoulders and brilliant eyes only hers were a mixture of purple and blue instead of green. "I use these words of the blessed spring, they are blessed for they recall life, they are blessed for they bring healing." A moon light lily appeared in his hand before turning to a liquid in his hand.
Godou and Yuri were shocked. "An authority… from a Divine Beast…" Erica Blandelli said from nearby where she too was standing guard for her master.
"Drink this, it will heal you." Danny said reaching out his hand that was cupping the liquid. Yuri heisted, but really didn't have anything to lose. She held back her coughing long enough to drink the liquid and her coughing immediately stopped.
Danny stood back up and returned his attention to Athena. "You got what you wanted didn't you? So would you just clear the sky and stop hurting people?" Danny said sadly to Athena.
"I'm afraid that it is in my nature to swallow the heavens, Demon Beast. If you want to stop me, then you will have to fight me." Athena said.
Godou helped Yuri up and then turned to Athena himself. "I am against violence, but I can't just let this continue." He said putting out a hand and a golden glow surrounded his feet making it Danny and Yuki's turn to be surprised. "Using Words of Power, I bring forth justice in this world!" A large golden sword came out of the ground and Godou pulled it out and held it in front of him.
"The SSI are so getting pranked for this." Yuki muttered angrily causing Danny to chuckle.
"A key to close the box once opened." Danny said clearly calling out his own weapon. "Sorry Athena, but when the fate of the world is involved, I don't believe in fighting fair." Danny flourished the large key sword in front of him with the wing teeth pointing down.
"Then let's go!" Godou shouted and rushed Athena knocking the goddess back and off the mountain with Danny in hot pursuit as a golden world of swords formed up around the three of them.
The girls sat by and watched as Danny and Godou did battle with the snake goddess in the space created by Godou's Authority. "Kusanagi-san." Yuri said in awe.
"You really are a Princess Shrine Maiden. You can see him?" Erica said as she watched with a smile on her face.
"What is this golden world?" Yuri asked in wonder.
"A space created by Godou's Authority. Just watch, when he gets this way, Godou is more vicious than anyone." Erica said but then frowned. "But I still don't know anything about that Divine Beast that is fighting in there. They came and rescued us when Athena beat Godou the last time, but I don't know why a Divine Beast would save a Godslayer."
"Well to tell you the truth, we didn't know that he was a Godslayer." Yuki said causing the other two girls to jump. "Not that it would have mattered, Danny saves people. It is just what he does, whether it is a man, Divine Beast, or even a God or Demon, Danny will protect everyone."
Both Danny and Godou had been buying their time deflecting and dodging the hundreds of energy bolts that Athena rained down on them in the shapes of birds, but soon the thing they had been waiting for came.
They were pulling back when a giant snake shot out of the ground blocking their path. "Are you two just going to run? I thought we would all battle to the death and emerge the better for it." Athena said standing on another snake on the other said of them.
"Whoever said I was running?" Godou said grinning like a madman as he raised his sword.
"I just needed you to summon your avatar." Danny said with a calm demander as he to lifted his key. Athena looked slightly confused as to the contrast both of them were showing to their earlier personalities.
"You are a goddess who has always had strong ties to snakes." Godou started to use his words of power and the golden sword's light grew stronger. "Athena and Medusa both are snake goddesses, sharing an origin. The goddess of wisdom bearing the avatar of the frightening Snake and the ancient Mother Earth!" The blades in the sky turned and flew at the snake that blocked their path. As the blades entered it the snake turned to stone and fell apart.
"That sword, could it be…" Athena said in surprise.
Then Danny started to talk. "The goddess who controls the bounty of the earth was not always so kind. When winter came, she took the life born of spring." As Danny talked his key sword glowed black and the blade shrank back into the guard. "She caused natural disasters on a whim, and withered crops." The guard of the key broke in two and two new blades formed and grew until Danny was holding twin black daggers with snakes heads designed into the blade and long fangs protruding out of the back like for the teeth of the key. Rushing forward with incredible speed Danny slashed through the second of the giant snakes reducing it to a shattered pile of stones thereby forcing Athena to jump off of the crumbing serpent. "She was also the goddess of life and death!"
"This is unpleasant!" Athena shouted angrily. "Your weapons expose and mince me. Do not force me to remember my cursed past!"
Godou took over again. "God of death, Athena, also manifests herself as the owl, the bird that crosses night and the underworld. Ruler over death and darkness."
"Acting like you know everything." Athena growled and manifested a bow in front of herself and shot an arrow that Godou deflected with is blade.
"Serpent of Mother Earth, bird of the god of death, and womanly wisdom. This trinity is the oldest form of your divinity." Danny said standing next to Godou. Danny's blackened daggers a strong contrast to the golden light coming from Godou's huge sword. "You were once the queen, the winged serpent." Danny swung his daggers and a black and green trail of energy came out and cut through Athena's bow.
"Those weapons truly are disgusting, however." Athena said with a smile and her eyes flashed. The ground started to turn to stone and the petrifying wave quickly approached the two Godslayers.
But neither Danny nor Godou made to get out of the way. As their bodies turned to stone Godou continued to speak. "You were not the daughter of Zeus. You were the Queen of the Gods. That was your rightful place, the goddess of life and death, and the great goddess of wisdom!" He turned his sword over and drove it into the ground dispelling the stone and returning the ground to the brilliant gold.
"Shut up!" Athena said as the again called on her scythe. Danny rushed forward and engaged her head on.
"But then came a rebellion against the queen, centered on Zeus." Danny said as he swung his blades again and again to keep Athena on the defensive. "The male gods revolted, and he became King of the Gods. Myth was rewritten, and the old queen, Athena became the king's daughter. And Medusa was reduced to a monster!"
"I said shut up!" Athena shouted louder and sent a wave of black energy that pushed Danny back next to Godou.
"Thus, the queen of wisdom, the winged serpent, lost her Snake form, becoming merely a beautiful goddess." Godou said as both his and Danny weapons' glows intensified. "And the Snake, your true form as Mather Earth, was eventually mentioned in tales as a different creature, the winged serpent, in other words, the dragon!"
"The evil dragon the hero defeats in myth is actually none other than a degraded form of the goddesses of Mother Earth like you!" Danny said releasing a powerful blast of black and green energy from his blades that crashed against Athena's golden shield of divinity. "A fallen queen…"
"That is who… you really are!" Danny and Godou shouted together as the blades hit the golden shield which shattered underneath the blow.
After they had destroyed her divinity the golden world around them disappeared. "It would've been nice if that could've defeated her." Godou said a little disappointed.
"This isn't over, stay sharp." Danny said clearly raising up his daggers. But Godou's golden sword dissolved in his hand.
"Sorry, I used up that authority." Godou apologized as he grabbed a nearby tree. His body gave off a fiery yellow glow and he uprooted the turn and held it under one arm.
"My Snake symbolizes immortality. So I already know, your Authorities belonged to the ancient Oriental god of war, Verethragna." Athena said lifting up her scythe and grinning at Godou. She dashed forward with incredible speed and sliced straight through the tree that Godou used to defend himself. Danny grabbed the other Godslayer around the collar and pulled him out of the way of the follow up attack.
"She noticed." Godou said disappointed.
"Well, do we have a plan?" Danny asked as he guarded against Athena's next attack and blasted her back with a wave of cold energy that froze her scythe for a few moments before breaking.
"I can call on the power of the sun to burn her into ashes." Godou said seriously.
Danny whistled. "Is that safe to use in the middle of Tokyo city?" Danny asked.
"Well… no." Godou said disappointed.
"Then we need to relocate." Danny said kneeling down and driving his daggers into the dirt. "I call on my power as king, and claim this as my domain, for it is my divine right!" Danny shouted and the green flames poured out of the hilts of the blades and swept over Danny, Godou and Athena. When the fire cleared they were on a large rock flouting in a sea of swirling green. "Not as pretty as yours, but people won't get hurt if we fight here. Let it rip."
Godou nodded and lifted one hand above his head. "For victory, hasten forth before me! O Immortal Sun, I beseech thee to grant radiance to the stallion. O Stallion that moveth godlike with wondrous grace, bringest forth the halo of thy master!" A large globe of golden fire appeared in the air hundreds of feet about them and rushed down towards Athena taking the shape of a horse as it come down on her. But the cast time was too great and obvious. Athena quickly moved out of the way of the attack.
"Well… crud." Danny mumbled from next to Godou. They were standing on the edge of a crater in the rock that was as wide as a football field and over forty feet deep in the middle. "Glad we didn't use that in the middle of Tokyo city."
"Did you believe that I would just stand in the way of that attack, or that I would try to block it? Athena is the goddess of wisdom." Athena said laughing at them. Athena cut open a hole in space and hundreds of owls powered out and turned into bolts of purple energy and flew at the Godslayers.
Danny put up a strong shield around the two of them. "Can you try that again?" Danny asked.
"No, I can only use each of my Authorities once a day as a restriction." Godou said angrily. "And that was my last good one. All I have left is 'the boar' that can only be activated on extremely large targets, 'the camel' that increases my lower body strength after I take a hit, and 'the raptor' which can speed me up but leaves me in crippling pain after I just it."
Danny bit his lip. "Unfortunately the authority I used to make this space requires me to leave my blade buried in the ground and all my other authorities are purely defensive and with heavy restrictions on use." Danny admitted. But he was already calculating their next move. "If I got a large enough target between you and her do you think 'the boar' would get her?" He asked.
"It should." Godou said nodding.
"Then get ready." Danny said calmly as he closed his eyes. A blue glow formed around him as a spear made of ice appeared in his hand. "Be it an instrument of the sky, the sea, or the steel of man, may these roots hold strong and guard against the tests of time!" Danny shouted, he opened a hole in his shield and he threw the spear at the goddess Athena. Vines shot out of the rock, stopping the spear and started to form a giant protective shell around the goddess but she jumped up and out of the vines reach. But it did wrap around the opening that her attacks had been coming from.
The goddess stood on top of the mass of vines and laughed. "Do you honestly think I would fall for the same trick twice, Demon Beast?"
"No." Danny said with a shrug as Godou stood up behind him glowing dark red.
"The bearer of sharp tusks! Killing with one stroke, trampling foes to dust!" Godou shouted and a massive boar the size of a large building appeared over his hand supported by his relatively small human arms. He threw the giant boar at the two story tall tangle of vines which were flattened and torn apart immediately.
Unfortunately Athena had moved out of the way yet again. "You really must find faster attacks, Godslayer." She mocked Godou as a mountains cloud of dust was knocked into the air hiding the two Godslayers from view.
Athena landed in front of them as a large burst of green light erupted from Danny pushing away the dust cloud. Danny walked out in front of Godou. "You might want to cover your ears." He told the Japanese Godslayer who nodded.
"What is this? Does the Demon Beast have another trick?" Athena said preparing herself.
"Yes!" Danny screamed and the single word broke into a long wail that blasted towards Athena. The goddess looked surprised but put her hands together on her scythe which transformed into a shield that stopped the sound wave attack. The sound kept going and a cone of destruction formed starting at the ground underneath Danny's feet but it didn't touch Athena.
"Impressive, but you are just wasting your energy, Demon Beast! You cannot get to me through my Gorgonian Shield!" Athena shouted to be heard over the wail.
"How about around it?" Athena turned her head shocked to find another Danny standing there with one of the twin daggers in his hand. "Only one of my weapons needs to stay in the ground." He said before driving the blade into the goddess's back.
Athena gasped in pain as the Danny pulled the blade out revealing the stone medal of the Gorgonian with the dagger's blade piercing straight through it. The shield in front of her disappeared and she was hit by the full force of the continuing wail.
After the dust from the attack settled Danny and Godou were standing in front of a battered and bleeding Athena again in her childish form. "Clever to use the other one's attack to hide your astral projection." Athena said with an unnaturally calm. Danny pulled his other dagger out of the ground and they returned to a park in the middle of Tokyo. "Deliver the finishing blow… it is your right as the victor." Athena said.
Godou looked unsure as Danny walked towards the goddess. But instead of raising the Dagger, he raised his empty hand. "I don't think there is any need for that. The Gorgonian has been destroyed, so the world is no longer in danger. That's all I wanted. I only kill when there is absolutely no other way." Danny said as he formed a fist in front of him. "I use these words of the blessed spring, they are blessed for they recall life, they are blessed for they bring healing." A white lily formed in his hand again and turned into liquid. "Here, I'll heal you up and then you can leave peacefully."
Godou looked shocked but not as shocked as Athena. Danny turned his head to the Japanese king. "You don't have a problem with that do you?" Danny said secretly thinking that he might have to fight the man who was his ally ten seconds ago in order to protect the goddess, but from his description of the authorities he had left Danny was sure it was a fight he could win.
"Well… as long as she leaves Japan." Godou said rubbing the back of his neck. Danny gave a sigh of relief.
"Godou, are you serious?" Erica said having gotten there with Yuki and Yuri.
"Yeah, all I really wanted was for her to leave." Godou said shrugging.
"Thanks." Danny said smiling. "You heard the man. So take you're medicine like a big girl." Danny said lifting the liquid to Athena's lips.
"You are a very strange creature, Demon Beast… what is your real name?" Athena asked Danny.
"It's Danny… Danny Fenton." Danny said calmly.
"Danny Fenton?" Athena said as if tasting the name before she drank the liquid. The hole in her stomach that was made by the dagger healed and all of the cuts and bruises from the battle disappeared. Athena then stood up. "I will carve your name into my heart…" She said as a misty cloud passed over her and she disappeared.
Godou then fell down on his back and looked up and the again starry night sky with a smile on his face. "You make it to the end, and then you back down?" Erica said leaning over him. "Everything was going to plan, what's the deal?"
"To plan? Wait, you don't know this would happen, did you?" Godou asked as if shocked.
"Of course I did." Erica said. "By making you fight Athena in Japan, the other Campione couldn't intrude, so you could take Athena's Authorities for yourself." The blond girl said not noticing that Danny and Yuki were exchanging looks.
"That is so irresponsible." Yuri said angrily.
"Um…" Danny said and they all seemed to remember the two Divine Beasts in the room. "I guess I need to apologize… I didn't know there was a King in Japan. The idiots in the Sorcerous Sacrilege Investigation in America just told me that Athena was going to destroy the world if no one stopped her and I rushed over. I didn't mean to intrude on your territory or your fight."
"Hey, you don't have to apologize, if it wasn't for you I would probably be dead back at the roof top." Godou said waving the comment off. "I'm Kusanagi Godou by the way. And don't talk about all of that King stuff. It's been nine days since I became the seventh Campione and I am already tired of all of it."
Danny laughed a little. "Alright then. I'm Danny Fenton." Danny said as a ring of light returned him to his human from. "I'm became the eighth Campione seven days ago." They group looked shocked as Yuki flouted behind him and planted a kiss on his cheek and wrapped her arms around his back. Danny Fenton was definitely not what they were expecting from a demon king.