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How long had it been? Four hours? Five? Danny no long felt any concept of such notions as hours and minutes. The only measurement that there was for time would have to be in heart beats and they rapidly counted down towards what seemed like an inevitable lose.

He had to momentarily take a hand off of his Onyx Dite Scythe in order to wipe some blood from his green eyes. His breath was coming in short gasps as he tried to stabilize himself.

But he didn't have time. The contaminoid was making sure of that. It turned to his and grinned as it raised its massive arms, each one as big as an ice-cream van with large wave blades sticking out of them.

This creature was like nothing Danny had ever faced before. Even though it was big, it was practically minuscule compared to the mountain sized contaminoids that Danny had seen in the past. But this one must have been far older than the others. It had adapted to survive to a level beyond other contaminoids by compressing its body, making it take less energy to survive.

Contaminoids usually draw most of what they need to from the contamination in the air so most of what they eat can go towards growing more powerful. But this one had taken it to a new level, not even needing to eat to grow in strength. But that was not the scariest thing about it.

"You are getting tired, child!" Its voice boomed with laughter. Danny had to suppress a shiver at the eerie sound. This contaminoid had consumed enough humans to have absorbed enough of their knowledge to not only speak but also to wield kei. It was a sentient monster, rather than one of the instinctive masses.

It had a humanoid shape to it, with the different that blades protruding from its arms and two horns growing out of the sides of its head, the horn on the left being snapped off. Standing at the same size as a large house it towered over the thirteen year old Danny.

"Yeah... of seeing your ugly mug!" Danny smart mouthed. The contaminoids smirk turned to a glare, his rows of razor sharp black teeth showing as his single red eye narrowed, the other being covered by a mat of flash that looked like an eye-patch. A tangled mop of seaweed like hair fell down to his shoulders. The entire body below the collar was like black armored plating.

"You will pay for your insolence, child!" The contaminoid screamed and brought back one of its bladed arms before thrusting it forwards as bloody red kei covered it.

Danny drew on his own kei and his body erupted in green light. He parried the first strike and then jumped over the second one.

Concentrating his external kei along the blade of the scythe, he brought it down with enough force to leave a gash along the ground simply from the pressure, but there wasn't even a scratch on the dark shell on the arm that the creature had used to block the attack.

Danny had to jump back to avoid the second blade that was moving straight for him, feeling the wind from the slash pressing up against his external augmented kei. Then Danny lunged forward with an over arching swing of his scythe that was aimed for the exposed area around the neck, but the creature again managed to block it. The creature knew more than enough about combat to understand its own weak points and wasn't about to let Danny get an easy shot in. The two fighters keis pushed against each other with enough force to blow up a sandstorm around them before they were both blown backwards.

Danny dug the blade of his scythe into the ground to slow him down as the went flying backwards at breakneck speeds. He breathed deeply as he glanced over his weapon to make sure it wasn't damaged, but it was still in perfect condition. The thing was a true beauty, state of the art. The scientists in Amity had spent a long time trying to duplicate the Heaven's Blades, but the end result required more kei then any normal human possessed, and since it was an weapon designed to be used by one person, they gave up on it. Luckily, Danny had more power than the average human.

He then turned back towards his opponent, who was pulling himself out of a plateau about two miles away. Danny focused kei over his eyes and the contaminoid came into sharp focus. For a moment Danny thought that nothing had changed but then he saw a few cracks around a joint around on the monster's left arm.

Danny grinned at the new weak spot, but the grin vanished as pain shot through his entire body. "No... not yet... I have to keep going." He mumbled as he clutched at his head.

Even with his more than human strength and kei. He had known he wasn't going to be enough to take on this super elder. So before he had gone to battle, he had nicked an experimental kei booster. It was powerful, and amplified his kei flow a hundred fold. But like all kei boosters, it came with a price.

A normal human would have died within a few minutes of taking the drug and using a minimal amount of kei. But Danny had been having to fight of hours, pushing his body and kei beyond their natural limits just to survive. Slowly, Danny regained control of himself and tightened his grip on his scythe and a small amount of kei discharged from his mouth. The same why it always did when a contaminoid approached him.

The contaminoid came at him like a missile, using external augmented spiral kei in order to move at speeds far beyond a normal contaminoids snail's pace. His body was covered in the dark crimson kei that characterized the inhuman creature's power.

Danny did his best to dodge the rapid tempoed strikes that the creature was throwing at him. The arm blades flew around faster than most people could see, but finally, Danny managed to find an opening. Swinging his scythe around hard he managed to get the creature to raise its guard in order to protect its neck. Then at the last moment, Danny shifted the angle of the attack to strike the cracked region of the contaminoids arm.

A look of surprise crossed the contaminoids face as the armor gave way and his arm was severed at the elbow. Danny was going to try for the creature's head but was batted backwards by the remaining arm.

But that didn't stop Danny from feeling really smug about the step forward. "Looks like... I disarmed you." He said grinning as green blood dripped from the creature's wound.

"Not really." The contaminoid said holding up the stump. A reddish yellow liquid poured out of the elbow and quickly shaped itself into a duplicate of the original arm, before it turned into the same kind of black shell.

"Oh..." Danny said, his heart sinking into his heels. Another wave of pain shot through Danny's body. "No... not... now." He said falling to one knee.

The contaminoid looked down at him and began to laugh. "Having so much power at your finger tips. It's a burden, isn't it child?" He mocked.

"No... I must protect Amity..." Danny said trying his best to keep both hands on his weapon as his vision started to blur. He barely saw the downwards strike of the creatures knew arm in time to bring his scythe in the way.

"Foolish child! The strong do not guard the weak! You should have left them to parish!" He shouted as he bashed down on Danny over and over again. Danny was having to use all his kei to prevent the attacks from crushing him. "If you are going to fight alone then you are going to die alone! How does it feel to know that you let them all down!"

'No... I can't give up. But I can't hold on much longer.' Danny thought as his vision started to fade. The effects of the drug were slowing his heart beats. 'Amity... I'm sorry.' He said as his eyes began to flutter.

"Danny!" The voice of Amity rang inside of the boy's head. The blows from the creature's attacks came to a sudden halt and Danny's eyes widened as Amity came out of nowhere and rammed herself into the contaminoid, pushing him off of Danny.

"Out of my way, spirit!" The creature shouted and back hand slashed Amity across the stomach. Whitish blue partials came off of the wound as Amity bounced across the ground.

Rage filled every fiber of Danny's being, turning his eyes a bloody red. "You bastard!" He shouted as he lunged towards the contaminoid, pushing out every last drop of kei that he had left and aiming for the creatures neck. He didn't care what happened to his after the attack was over. He would destroy this creature even if it cost him his life.

The creature put up its new left arm to block, but the new arm's shell didn't have the same tenacity as the old one. The scythe shimmered a brilliant green as it slowly moved through the creature's armor. "This can't be happening..!" The last words of the creature before the scythes blade finished its way to the creatures neck, taking off its head and sending a blast of kei that incinerated the severed head and blew a hole in the mountain in the distance.

Danny fell to the ground a few seconds before the contaminoids own body seemed to figure out that it was dead and fell over. Danny's scythe shattered, the sheer amount of kei and physical had been to much for it. Danny gasped as he felt his kei channels starting to rupture. He wouldn't be able to hold his transformation much longer. And once back in his human form, he would lose his immunity to the contaminates. Death would come quickly.

He pushed himself up and stumbled over to Amity. He found that the electronic spirits kei flow had been mostly undamaged. She would live. "Good... at least... you will survive." He mumbled as he lost his hold on his transformation. A blue ring of kei started to pass over him.

But just before it finished a helmet was pushed over his head, supplying clean air to his human lungs. "Well well, you did it. Congratulations, little badger." A smug voice said. Danny's head turned to see a man standing over him. He had graying hair and was wearing a crisp black business suit. Even though he was breathing in contamination, he didn't seem to be suffering any ill effects.

"Vlad..." Danny mumbled as his vision went to black.

"Don't be so surprised boy. You and that spirit are too valuable for me to just let you die here..." They were the last things he heard as he lost consciousness.


Danny shot up in bed, breathing heavily. His green eyes scanning his room as he tried to figure out what was going on.

"Another nightmare?" Sam asked, the same way she always did when he woke up in the night.

"Just a bad memory. That's all." Danny said, giving the same response he always gave.

"Well, I was going to wake you up anyways. You need to get moving if you are going to get to that game thing." Sam said her long black tail twitching back and forth.

"Uh..." Danny groaned as he got up. He was tired and he didn't want to be there, but he could at least show up for this round and just quit afterwards. That would give them enough time to find a replacement. But that didn't stop his from asking the greatest of philosophical questions. "Why me?"


I had first planned for this to only be a small piece of a chapter, but it had turned out to be about the same length as a normal chapter for this story so I just left it as is.

For any of you that didn't realize it, that was Pariahs. Though it was a pretty loose representation.

I had to go and look up what Pariahs actually looked like since it has been so long since I have watched Danny Phantom, but then I noticed that his name was Pariah Dark and not Pariahs Dark. That isn't to say that I won't keep typing Pariahs (simply because I think it sounds better), but I think it goes to show just how little we Danny Phantom fans actually care for the original content. Since I was able to misspell this major villain's name probably a hundred times without anyone correcting me. And for that I thank you. Potato, Patato, em I right?

I have heavily hinted as to Vlad's involvement in Danny's past. So now you must ask yourself, why would I do that? Why did I write this whole chapter even? (Besides the fact that I love giant monster fights, since they are the only things were a character like Danny can actually seem like the underdog when most of the other characters are humans)

Good luck figuring that out, though I the rate this story is going you will have a dozen or so chapters to finally understand it before it becomes relevant to the main time line. And by then all shit will be going crazy.

I mean really crazy; mutant army, clones, contaminoids, guys running around in masks, the Heaven's Blades, space ripping open, Nina slowly going insane. All of it revolving around why I made this chapter.