Chapter Four: Fight and flight
Malifor glanced at the teen halfa "Do you think that scares me?" Danny countered "Do you think that I am going to be intimidated by weak parlor tricks?" he said in a slightly deeper voice.
This only served to infuriate malifor. The purple dragon ghost lunged at Danny and he avoided it by charging up his hand in ecto energy and punched the dragon straight in the nose which then threw him back several yards but it left Danny holding his left hand in a bit of pain. "Better not try that again".
Malifor followed his assault by swinging his tail at the halfa. Danny jumped right over it and ducked when it came to him again.
"Do you really think you stand against me boy? My powers are only starting to return. I was trained to master all of the elements and I have beaten my two killers without much of a struggle." 'Man this guy's almost as much of a gloater as Skulker or Technus'.
"Dude, has anyone told you that you talk way too much", Malifor looked as if he was slapped in the face. "Let me tell you a couple of things in return. I have been fighting ghosts longer than you have been dead and to top it off, do you seriously believe you're the first ghost dragon that I have fought on my own?"
He fired a mildly powered ecto-blast to his head but malifor blocked it with his wing. "I highly doubt that and if you did they were nothing like me".
Malifor shot a blast of shadow followed by fire melee attacks at the ghost boy which he evaded the first fire attack but had to place a shield around himself to block the damage from the shadow as well, some of which flew back at the purple dragon knocking him off balance.
Malifor charged forward but Danny switched to intangibility and allowed the ghost dragon to charge right through him til he got to the tail.
Thinking quickly, Danny caught the far end of the tail, stopping Malifor in mid-air, swung him around in a circle a few times until he let go and threw the dragon a good distance away from the two smaller ones.
Feeling a little dizzy from the ordeal, Malifor hoisted himself up to continue his assult.
Danny filled his two hands with large blue spheres which radiated cold air giving the impression of an ice-based ability. Malifor caught wind of this as to how his new opponent could use ice too and watched as he ran towards the ghost dragon. Malifor thought that was pointless and reared back to breathe an ice ball of his own, but that was just what Danny was hoping for.
Thinking quickly he focused the blue spheres in his hands into snowballs and threw them into the dragons nose like Tucker did with Aragon the first time leaving the obnoxious Malifor bewildered at what just happened as he lost the ability to breathe any elements.
Sparx saw this and actually started to chuckle a little bit. Malifor snorted and sent out a couple of ice shards and earth throws. Danny destroyed the shards with ectoplasmic blasts and then countered with some of his own ice shards which thankfully managed to inflict a decent amount of damage to Malifor.
The giant dragon decided to fight with a little bit of fire based attacks next and Danny had to turn intangible in order to avoid damage from the flames. Some of the flames got onto his arm partially singing the fabric and causing him to partially bleed.
He was a little surprised that this dragon had that many elements while the two dragons he fought only used fire. 'Maybe Dragons from this realm can do more than fire'.
Danny knew that the wound would heal quickly but the same principle applied to his opponent. So he shot off a little bit of highly powered ecto rays to the ghost dragon's legs hoping to throw him off balance.
Malifor caught hint of this plan too late as he thought that his opponent was firing off random shots. Danny got the big dragon in the knee on the rear right leg and upper muscles in the left forearm. 'Now you can't put any pressure on those legs of yours' Danny asked him again.
"Are you going to leave now or do I need to keep coming down hard on you?" Malifor looked like he was swearing but he smiled "you may look you have some power but that is not going to be enough to stop me" Danny told him in a smirk. "Says the crippled lizard."
Malifor glared at his opponent and took to the sky. "You can't hit something in the air if you can't fly yourself ape" he said as he charged up a highly powered pryo shot. This slightly ticked off Danny but he had many surprises in store for him "Oh Really,"?
Danny smiled to himself mocking the giant dragon ghost. He shot off the ground and took to the sky to continue the face off . They were probably one hundred yards off the ground. Both Malifor and Sparx were stunned beyond belief.
"What kind of creature flies without wings" they were both thinking. Malifor bared his teeth at Danny "what are you". "Somebody who can easily take you on apparently."
He charged up his fists in ectoplasm and flew around Malifor firing energy spheres at vulnerable areas. Danny got around to punching and kicking Malifor in the chest sending him for a quite a loop. Malifor tried returning the favor but with little success as Danny was easily able to outfly him due to his practice in flight and ability to reach 260 mph. He had gotten a lot faster since the disasteroid incident, not to mention stronger.
Sparx watched in astonishment from the ground 'this is unreal' he thought to himself 'someone let alone Spyro and She dragon here is actually fighting Big and Ugly one on one and by the looks of it he's giving him a hard time'.
The purple dragon ghost knocked his tail into Danny blowing all the wind out of him. Danny winced in pain as he tried to take in a bunch of air. He was tempted at least twice to use the wail, but both times he reconsidered the thought due to those two dragons that were unconscious and he did not want to take that kind of a chance if they got in the way.
Malifor took his chance in charging up a lightning fury and let it loose. Danny, fully unaware on what a fury was took the blast head on and with no current defense, screamed with excruciating pain coursing throughout his body as he started to fall from the sky.
The attack in general started to rip through not only his suit but also started to tear apart his skin.
'Whoa, even Vlad and Vortex never had an electrical attack that powerful.' Danny thought as he struggled to remain aware of his surroundings. He got caught in some of the thick trees which cushioned his fall.
Danny thought to himself as he glared at the ghost dragon, 'I gotta get him out of the sky'. He looked closely at his opponent's position and height before getting an idea. 'and I know just how to do it".
He took off toward Malifor again. Malifor thought to himself that this opponent is weak against lightning in particular so just attack with lightning. He kept trying to hit the Ghost boy with lightning based attacks. Danny had a bit more trouble evading him sometimes having to create a small shield to deflect the shots so he knew he only had one go to pull this off as he was becoming exhausted himself though he did not show it.
He charged up his hand with ectoplasm again and shot towards Malifor. The purple ghost dragon thought he would be crazy to attack head on again but the boy actually went for his right wing.
When danny grabbed and stabbed Malifors right wing shoulder joint he switched to ice and froze the joint in place. Malifor eyes widened in shock when he realized what the boy had done and so both plummeted to the ground.
Danny kicked himself upward and away by a fair distance and shot a powerful ecto-ray towards the ghost dragon which made him hit the ground harder leaving a large sized crater and creating a loud reverberating sound.
Danny caught himself midair and floated down to the ground next to the dragons. Malifor suddenly appeared out of nowhere looking livid and was charging up a convexity blast to finish off his opponent or the two dragons, either way it was a win-win in his eyes one, two or all three of them would die today.
Danny wasn't sure if he could block this new attack and even if he did he was sure that the unconscious dragons would be killed in the crossfire by accident. So he thought of the next best thing and hopefully it would work.
He quickly shot for his bag and the two dragons grabbing all three item and beings, he called to Sparx "GET OVER HERE QUICK"! Sparx was hesistant at first but then remembered spyro's words to him and cinder on the night of the eternal darkness and sped toward Danny landing on his shoulder. Malifor unleashed his convexity blast which blinded him from what just happened. Danny had used the last bit of power he had to make the two dragons, sparx, himself and his bag invisible and intangible to the blast.