Hello and welcome back to the next chapter of The Hunger, before you read I think I should warn you of the content in this chapter, so be warned this chapter is one of the darkest chapter's I've written (but nothing compared to a future stroy I plan, which is my magnum opus), so be warned this chapter contians abuse, childhood scaring, twisted dark thoughts and pure hatred and drunk parents. So if you have or have been affected with an abusive parent, drunk or not be warned, I don't think I captured the true feeling of the event due to I've never been in a situation that I can relate to it, I've just written it based on what I know or have seen or read. So I just felt I should warn you, no that that's out of the way, I hope you enjoy, or at least try to enjoy this chapter, oh yeah it also introduces The Hunger.

Oh and for The Soundtrack Option: Batman Begins Artibeus

Chapter VI: The Hunger

Devin opened his eyes, his vision blurred, his body sore and his head aching. He pushed himself off of the ground and tried to stand on his feet. He stumbled once before securing his footing, and looked around as his memory and vision came back to him. The portal, the pain, he looked towards the portal, but all he saw was an empty space. Devin thought to himself, was it all a dream, did he dream it. Devin ran to a mirror in the basement and looked at himself, he was his normal self.

"It couldn't have been a dream, no it was real, and I remember it all."

"Yes it was real, we remember it, and we survived it." another voice said.

Devin was taken by surprise by the new voice; he jumped back and looked around the room. But there was nothing there. Was he going crazy, he could have sworn he heard something, could it have been the ghost, no it wasn't the same voice.

"Who's there, show yourself, I'm warning you."

"There's nobody here, it's just us."

"Who are you?"

"Turn around."

Devin, terrified, turned around to face the mirror and gasped. He looked into the mirror and saw his reflection, only it wasn't completely him. He looked the same, had the same clothes, same features, except his eyes were completely white with black outlines, like a zombie. Devin gasped and jumped back, noticing as he did his eyes turned back to their regular brown.

"What are you, what do you want with me?"

"What are we, isn't it obvious, we are you." Devin saw that his eyes went back to the zombie state whenever this voice spoke, and the words coming from his mouth.

"What, explain, why do you keep referring to me and you as us?" Devin said, again noticing the changes in his eyes and voice, like a split-personality.

"Very well, I shall explain, I was once an entity known as The Hunger, we grew powerful by feeding off the…emotions of others, then when you stepped into the portal, we were fused into us, and we are one in the same now."

"Still need some explaining, I'm still confused."

The Hunger would have sighed, but he was currently looking through his new half's memories. He found it distasteful having been fused to a human. But then again, this human's emotions were strong, especially his negative ones. Plus now that they were fused, they had to rely on each other, this might actually work out. The Hunger wanted to know what his other half knew; he went through the past few days, the hatred for Danny Phantom, the portal and the figure, which he recognized. The Hunger knew that the figure was leaving out and manipulating details he told Devin.

"The Portal, doesn't give powers to humans, it fuses them with Ghosts, it fused us together, we are one, and need to rely on each other. The same thing happened to Phantom."

"How do you know about him?"

"Like we said, we are one, we share the memories, oh how we despise Phantom, curse him, Phantom was spirit of his own like we once were, until Danny Fenton merged with him…" The Hunger lied.

"Phantom and Fenton are different, I should have known, no wonder is so difficult figure out who they were?"

"Yes, but Phantom is more powerful then Fenton, Phantom is evil and corrupted Fenton, destroying him and filling his head with his thoughts, he plans on gaining more power and taking over, he must be stopped, we can stop him."

"How do I know you won't do the same?"

"We would never harm us, we are one, the same, we are not evil, Phantom is the evil one, Phantom doesn't rely on his human half unless it's defense or to hide, or to use as a cover story to hide his true plans."

"You know what, I believe you."

Devin was still looking at the mirror, still trying to take this all in. He had been merged with another spirit, now they were one, like Phantom, and this one shared his hatred of him. Although he did find the split-personality thing a little weird, every time his other side talked his voice was different and his eyes were empty, but when he talked he was normal.

"DEVIN!"

Devin backed up as the figure of his father walked into the room, another empty bottle of alcohol in his hands. He looked around the room, drunk, trying to make out the many shapes he was seeing until he found Devin.

"Dad, you're drunk again."

"You tell me, what all that noise coming from down here was."

"It was nothing dad I-"

But before Devin could continue; his father raised a hand to his son. Devin felt a pain on his cheeks; then he felt himself go flying back into a wall. Devin placed his hand on his numb cheek, his father was looking to take his anger out on him again, not this time, he thought, or was that really his thoughts.

"You tell me what you were doing then get out and get more stuff."

"No dad, I'm not going back to the junkyard."

"You little shit, I'm your father and you will do as I say."

His father raised his hand again and delivered back-hand slap to his son's face. The Hunger, could feel Devin's emotions, of anger, of rage, sadness and the monstrous rage coming from his father; it was so delicious. However since they were one he two felt the blows. How dare that fat slob treat us like this; Devin's father raised another hand, only to have Devin grab it.

"What kind of father would abuse their own child?"

Before his father could do anything, Devin picked him up and threw him into a wall. Devin's father tried to recover, only to feel the hands of his son grasp around his neck, lifting him up into the air; and pinning him to the wall. Devin's father was shocked and terrified, he tried to speak, but his son was crushing his throat, squeezing the life out of him. Seconds later, his lifeless body fell to the ground, Devin stepped back terrified.

"Oh my god, you, you killed him."

"No we killed him; he's to blame for this, him and Phantom."

"What are you talking about?"

"We remember, we were young, we were happy, friends, family, a mother, remember, he thought she was seeing someone else, one night he comes home drunk, mother had tucked us in, we awoke to the sound of her screaming and yelling, we go down and see her bloody body on the ground, father with a knife in his hand."

"I remember, how, how could I forget that, mom…he, he murdered her!"

"We were young, our mind wasn't developed enough to handle it, and so we repressed it, our memory forgotten, we left our home, he took us from our home, brought us here, brought us to this miserable slum, ordering us, abusing us, beating us."

"Yes, it was all his fault." Devin said, his voice dripping with anger and rage, his hands were fists, craving for something to destroy or beat.

"He took everything from us, he took our friends, our life, our home, our childhood, he took…her."

Devin lost it, he turned around and grabbed the closet thing, which was a desk and tossed it across the room. He let out a roar of anger and rage, one of anger and thirsting for destruction. The Hunger felt Devin's emotions, fueling him, making him more powerful, no, were making them more powerful. If he had to be fused to a human, it would have to be this one, the life it had, the anger and rage that was built up inside it, it just needed to be unleashed.

"But, then came Phantom, at school we were fine, at school we were free from him, we did as we pleased, trying to rebuild our life, but then he came, now he has all the attention, now he has all the girls after him, he already had everything we didn't, a happy home, true friends, a loving family, a father proud of him, a sister, a mother…he had it all, he had what we didn't, now he has more, Phantom took him over, now he has more and wants more."

"Why should he have more, he already had everything, if he gets more, then he gets more powerful…we must stop him."

"Yes, we must stop him; he must know the pain we feel."

"But he will know it's us."

"No he won't."

Suddenly the black essence burst out of Devin, and started to cover him from head to toe. Devin felt like screaming, but for some reason he knew that he was not in danger, he allowed himself to be covered, once it was done he turned around to look in the mirror. He looked just like himself, the only difference was no he was completely covered in the black-gooey substance, there were some white details around him; almost mimicking Phantom's only the white parts were completely black. His body was tow shades of black, his gloves, belt, neck, and boots were a black as night, while the rest of his body was a bit of a lighter shade. Devin looked at his face though, which had completely changed, his mouth was now much larger and filled with razor sharp teeth, his eyes were glowing bright with white light, again empty like a zombie.

"Devin North is our identity, but we are The Hunger."

"Yes, but we need more power, you said that we feed off of emotions, right?"

"We did, but the most powerful emotions come from Phantom."

"So we feed of him, we make him feel our pain."

"Yes, make him feel what we feel."

"Let's see what Phantom will do when his life is taken from him, no mother, no father, no sister, no friends, no one to come home to, no one to talk to, no one to trust or comfort in; no one to love."

"Wait, we won't do that yet."

"What?"

"No, here's what we do, we get his full attention, make him fear us, tell him we're coming for his loved ones."

"But then he'll know we're coming."

"Exactly, we'll show up from time to time to give him a scare, he will become paranoid, not knowing if we are there or not, not knowing when we'll come, it will drive him mad, he will be on his guard all the time, weakening him, depriving him of rest which he needs to keep his mind relaxed and balanced, then we'll come when he least suspects it, we'll strike."

"Yes, make him suffer, make him fear us, make him fear for losing what he holds dear, but how will we get his attention, oh wait, I know, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"We are the same, we are one, we think the same thing; we agree, the only way to get the full attention of Phantom, to make him fear us is."

"Slaughter of the innocents, merciless and without compromise and regret."

Okay I will address things in this chapter, first of all, I tend not to use language it's just that I felt that the S word would have been apporpirate there, I don't use it unless I feel it's necisary to adress someone's anger. Also I did warn you this chapter was a little dark, now for the villain, like I said when I gave the sneek peek at the end of Sick Day's The Hunger is basicly Danny Phantom's venom, why well because Venom is a great character, he's the exact oppisite of the herov(in his case Spider-Man), his real identity has reasons to hate the hero's real idetity, he wants to get revenge or wants what the hero has, so I felt why not have a character like that for Danny Phantom, I was planning on making The Hunger Dash, but I think someone already did something like that, plus it would have been too easy or cliche, so I decided to make a new character, plus I wanted to tell and explore Danny and Dash's growing friendship. So yeah The Hunger and Devin ar elike a split personality like The Green Goblin from 2002 Spider-Man, Smegol and Gollum form The Lord of the Rigns, you can tell when who's speaking. Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter, or at least tried to enjoy it, check back tomorrow for the next chapter, so as always, favorite and review, let me know what you think. Oh I get it you want me to talk more about my "Magnum Oppus" I mentioned at the start, sorry but I'm keeping that extermly classified, I will tell you this though, when it dose come out it will be the best story I've written and I'm pretty sure it will out due The Rebirth which is my most succsesful story at the moment, so yeah just building up a little hype to it, so yeah review.

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