hello my readers, I am back! Hypn0s returns again, another writer block god i hate them, nevertheless i am here, with another chapter of Rayearth Knights: Danny the Tsunami, as usual i thank those who review my former chapter and other stories, now before anything be sure to check my updated profile, it will give hints of another stories i'm working on or future stories i will work on when i have time, there is even the time when i will release the thrid instaltment of Rayearth Knights: Ichigo The Inferno.

without any delay i give you chapter numero ocho, enjoy.


CHAPTER 8: BLITZKRIEG

"This is Amity channel news 7, right now we are transmitting live in what seems to be the ultimate battle between hunter and hunted, Danny Phantom, local superhero and teen ghost hunter seems to have engage an all out battle with what can be described as a mass army of ghost hunters, the downtown of Amity Park is locked by a barrier that prevents humans and ghost from entering or leaving, but that hasn't stopped Phantom heroic actions, before he engaged his adversaries he used the odd sword he carriers, an cut a hole on the barrier so a little girl could exit the barrier and onto her family's arms, another heroic deed for Phantom, now many question why Vlad Masters announced him Public enemy #1 once again, when he has done nothing to warrant such action, I'm Mary sue with channel 7 news"

"This is Park news, channel 3, in what seemed to be the ultimate act of defiance of the notorious and infamous ghost threat Danny Phantom, he alone fights the ghost hunters assembled by the current mayor, Vladimir Masters, in this act of utter anarchy, the ghost also carried what seemed to be a hostage, only to release it when he saw himself cornered, right now he is trapped on the shield dome formed around downtown Amity Park, it seems that today we will be witnesses of his ultimate fall, I'm Mary May of channel 3 news"

Maddie didn't know how to feel, proud by the fact that her son overlooked his own welfare to help a little girl? Or the utter rage she felt for the defamation on her own flesh and blood? Her son had risked his neck so many times for them, and the town was divided in believes, some claiming for his demise, other trying to force their way inside the barrier to help her son.

She couldn't shake the felling of mother like worry; after all it was her son who was fighting there, risking his neck, against a literal army that was drawn by a reward that she knew Vlad wouldn't pay up, especially knowing that he was surely doing this out of spite, scorned women were dangerous, but scorned men with money are as dangerous as one, and Vlad was worse considering he has ghost powers.

"Maria, I hope the men you send for my family are experts" Maddie warned to the president of her country, "They are Maddie, your daughters are in good hands, I just receive a report that Delta team got them first", apparently the GIW there were going to use the confusion on the battle of your son to break in Fentomworks and plant bugs inside the lab so they could spy the work of the Fentoms, while at the same time take both girls, who had been seen with phantom in repeated occasions, for interrogation, obviously none of that happened, because unlike the GIW agents, the agents Maria send to Amity were real professionals in their work, suffice to say that now they had four GIW rouges who would have a lot to answer for, and a lot of questions to answer, the good or bad way.

"But can't you get them here?" Maddie asked, "No, it would raise too much suspicious, I can send a team to retrieve your son once the battle is done and they have deal with the shields around" Maria replied, making Maddie and Jack grimace at her blunt answer.

"Yet you are worried more about the two fake monks" Wuo Yang stated, making Maddie sigh, "You don't miss none master…yes I am worried…after the incident with Saylea I thought that she would be the only one…guess I was wrong"

"Don't be…such assumption is natural specially after witnessing her power and what she did, you hoped your son had nothing to do relating them, but you must realize he is a Rayearth knight, because of that he will be in constant battle against them, if something is to be brought to comfort about that will be the fact he will not be alone, and he will be prepared for them"

"He is right dear; we even assumed that Vlad wouldn't dare to take a step into Amity…into our lives, he did it again, I think we should have seen it coming" Jack said, supporting Wuo Yang.

"Indeed, but now what should be our main concern will be how young Daniel will deal with this obstacle" Wuo Yang said, his aged sight focused on the images intercepted in Amity Park, those images were suppose to reach all the east and west coast, but the government wouldn't have nothing of that, especially when a rouge branch of their secret force was involved in such thing.

Maria by her part stared at the images fed directly to her own monitor on her office, arms crossed, Maria's believe that Danny would be a great ally was cemented, after all who would risk their lives for a single kid, leveling barricades of the public force just to deliver so said kid to their parents, to keep it of harm's way?

He was what the world was missing for a long time…a hero.


"JERONIMO!!!" Danny shouted as he suddenly rushed at the army, Tidal being held tightly in his right arm, to any looking at such act would think that it was a suicide run, and they are partly right, after all Danny was not charging at the army of ghost hunters but rather a specific target WITHIN the ghost hunter army, hence the half-suicidal line.

Much of the hunters moved of the way, with the exception of a pair of oriental girls, both dress in blue schoolgirls outfits, black hair tied on a pair of ponytails, brown eyes, both holding on their right and left hand each what seemed a chain with a iron ball that sparked with green bolts of energy, both girls looked at Danny, then nodded, then started to spin the chained ball, suddenly spiriting at Danny.

Danny noted this, but didn't stop, instead he detached the hilts of Tidal, exposing the black chain, grabbing it by the middle, Danny began to spin the weapon around, both blades leaving deep gouges on the ground as they touched the concrete, then he began to swing it around, hitting several GIW and hunters around him.

The two girls rushed at Danny, launching their chained balls at him at the same time, Danny dodged both balls by jumping above them, but soon saw that he was on a very hard spot, another independent ghost hunter, that one looking more like a biker, with leather jacket and all, riding a chopper and holding what seemed to be the Uber technological cousin of a sawed-off double barrel shotgun, one that shot dual green beams at him, in slight shock Danny jumped away of the sudden appearance of the biker, rising his ghost shield to stop both iron balls to hit him, it barely held.

Flying upwards after that, Danny saw several white apache of the GIW coming at him, narrowing his eyes, Danny was about to swing Tidal when suddenly he began to fly farther after his gut exploited in pain, looking at his stomach he saw that Valerie and her jet-sled were responsible of it, "I'm not going to let you go away, Masters offered me more if I capture you alive, and I attempt to reap every cent your butt is worth for!" she snapped, suddenly kicking him in the face, sending him flying away, going down and straight onto a building, just to be shot away by the Blaster, this time sending him crashing straight to the barrier, making him cry in pain as the barrier reacted with his back.

Smoking slightly, Danny stumbled around, stunned by pain, a GIW agent rushed at him, a GIW version of the ecto-gauntlets used by Danny's dad's in his hands, ready to punch the stunned ghost boy…

Just to stare in shock when Danny stopped the right straight with his bare hand, not even bothering for the slight electrical shock expelled by the gloves, to Danny that was minimal compared to the pain of the barrier shock, then Danny focused his sights on the agent, shocking so said agent when he saw the blue slitted eyes of Danny, "My turn" was all Danny said as he let the fist go, making the agent lean forward, just to shot back in pain when his face was slammed by a powerful palm strike by Danny on the face, Danny ducked when one of the iron balls nearly hit him on the side of the head, much to the girl using the ball, Danny grabbed the weapon by the chain, then pulled hard, dragging the girl away, then swinging the chain while she held it, then slamming her towards the biker who was just approaching him.

Danny then focused his sight on the three apache coming at him, narrowing his eyes Danny shot his palms forward, and to shock of many the three apache back rotors were blasted away, making the apache to spin down in out of control, but when they were about to touch down, Danny shot his hands again forward, sending them backwards and grinding on the pavement without causing more damage.

The second girl lunged at him, just to scream when her gut was filled by Tidal's blade, part of her clothes on that section were frozen, as Danny pulled the blade, the second girl fell to the ground, like frozen on the position, at that many hunters took their distance, they could clearly see she was still alive and unharmed, the lack of blood on the wound and the fact she was moving her eyes indicated this, but what frightened them was the weapon itself, it didn't kill her or wound her, but rather froze her, that meant that any strike of that blade would freeze them for an indefinite amount of time, and to add they didn't knew what kind of adverse effects that would have on them once the effect is over…all but two of them knew that the blade power, and what could do to them.

Danny by his part was staring at the gathered hunters, the GIW agents kept their distance as well, he saw that most of them had discarded their close-quarters weapons, opting for strange looking carbines that seemed to glow purple, instead of blue or green like most of the weapons used by the GIW, something Draconax noted fast.

"Those weapons…Daniel don't get hit by those weapons!" the dragon of water snapped, making Danny actually wonder why the dragon seemed altered by that.

"Those weapons…they are fashioned to look like crystalian carbines used by the Crystalia defense shock force, elite units Daniel, the crystals used to center and fire the beam in it is known for being 100% lethal to any being, including ghosts"

"Oh…wait a minute; do you just say that Crystalia has firearms?"

"Crystalia is the perfect mesh of technology and magic, do not be surprised that rural towns have their own power plants and radios, half of that has Magitech integrated in it"

"Magitech?"

"Yes…explain later, fight now!"

Nodding at that, Danny narrowed his eyes at the agents holding the guns, then took a deep breath, "Rise above the waves: binds!" Danny shouted, suddenly slamming his right foot to the ground, hard, much to the shock of many, the concrete cracked upon impact, and more as the crack seemed to travel around, and forming around the hunters feet, then out of the ground, water tentacles came out, wrapping the shocked hunters, then the water began to turn into mist in their faces, making them cough and suddenly close their eyes, most to those who weren't caught by the tentacles and the mist.

"The hell" Valerie muttered as she stared at the downed hunters and GIW agents, most of them seemed, she dared say, knocked out by the potent mist, whatever it was.

"That's the chemical of a crystalian creature that lives on the seas of Crystalia if you wonder" she heard Danny mention, "The beast is called a Gilla, think of it as a cow size crab with eight tentacles replacing each pincer, with a composed mouth that is like a beak of a bird with circles of teeth and teeth inside it, like the kraken, also it expels a powerful mist to stun their preys so they can eat it easily" Danny commented, making all who was hearing that to slightly be taken back by the information, and more by wondering where he got that.

"In case you wonder how can I do this, if you knew about the legend of the Rayearth knights you would realize that of the three knights, the water knights is immune to every kind of poison, toxin, wherever nature made or human made, also being able to cure any poison case and also can use every toxin or poison used by marine creatures of the whole universe to subside their enemies, kinda cool, I can use a diluted version of the jellyfish neurotoxin to paralyze anyone those tentacles or my water blasts touch, or I can use a ten time strengthen version of the poison that water snakes uses to kill their preys, imagine it, ten times worse than the original one uses" he said, not missing the way Valerie smirked as she lowered herself of the jet-sled.

"So…if my skin is touched by your water attacks…I'm poisoned" she said, making Danny smirk in his mind, "Maybe…I just found out about this two days ago, so I don't know how powerful the effect is…but I do know this…your armor is Nano-technology, so close to your skin…and I can even use several acid like poisons to melt that, in any case you lose huntress, give in, you don't want to be humiliated on TV" Danny said, looking at the people outside the force field, seeing cameras around, although sound couldn't get in or out, unlike air that could get in and out, that didn't meant the barrier was completely privacy proof.

"Do you?" he asked, smirking and staring at what was left of the ghost hunters assembled, only a handful of GIW agents, those piloting a tank or an apache, or far of the reach of his water tentacles, and Valerie were left standing, quite an attack that makes a visible dent on an enemy force rather fast.

"Wait a minute?" Danny thought in slight panic, his slitted eyes looking around the field, "The blaster!? The berserker!? Where are they!!?" Danny's answer came a second later, when he saw Valerie's shocked gaze behind her visor.

"Right here…KNIGHT!!" Danny turned intangible at the right moment, seeing how an arm tried to punch a hole on his chest, failing due to his intangibility, seeing how the small, yet strong berserker stumbled after such attack trough him, turning tangible, Danny then spun around, left hand colliding straight onto the blaster chest, just as the blaster fired a blast at Danny, but the hit made him miss his intended target, instead he end up firing at the sky, hitting the barrier, seeing how the barrier suddenly began to waver by the hit.

"Draconax, did you saw that?"

"That I did, remember that the nature of all the creatures created by the dark lord is both magical and dark like, the field around us was designed to contain all…all but those two elements that were left out of the equation"

"Groovy" Danny muttered, shooting to the sky and stopping midway, staring at the GIW agents under him, he saw the blaster and berserker also on the ground, one looking annoyed and in pain; it was obvious that the blaster, while alike in some ways, was definitely not made for close combat.

His eyes also saw the apache closing him fast, but suddenly no sign of Valerie, "Dammit she is more like a ghost than I" he exclaimed as he decided to deal with the aerial menace first, Danny only spotted four apache coming at him, he considered that a small force, considering the hi-tech the GIW had at their disposal, weaponry, personnel, tanks, along with (he supposed) unlimited access to the government weaponry and best minds that the government were paying to create cutting edge technology on hooking up the agents.

Nevertheless Danny was about to show them that is not the technology the man wields, but how the man wields that technology.

Danny shot forwards towards the first apache, the pilot was unable to ever fire the ecto-Gatling attached to the frame of the apache when Danny was already in front of him, latched to the canopy of the apache, with a smirk, Danny swung Tidal while in its chain form, the ice blade cutting the main rotor of the apache like butter, the helicopter began to spin out of control, Danny flew away, seeing how the canopy flew away, and the pilot ejected himself, seeing how the apache crashed nose into the pavement, debris flying left and right, but no explosion, much to his relief, yet he had more to do.

He flew straight into the second apache, that one shooting the ecto-Gatling, the barrage of beams, much to the shock of the pilot were deflected by Tidal and Danny's newly found ability to wield a sword (albeit a chained/double edged) in less than a blink, Danny had shot itself into the apache, entering the cockpit roughly, there he grabbed the pilot and turned intangible exiting the falling machine, Danny tossed the pilot towards a building, seeing how the man crashed onto a window, breaking it, then Danny used his TK to force a part of the apache away, and just in time, the third apache came at him, about to fire a barrage to him…

CRASH!!!

Just for the rotor of the fallen apache to shot upwards, spinning and cutting the back rotor of the apache cleanly, making the machine to spin out of control and crash onto a roof, by far the best crash and landing of the GIW crashed ships.

Danny ducked suddenly a missile that soared just past his ear, looking behind him, Danny saw the last apache come at him, snarling, Danny flew at the ship, faster than the ship, much to the pilot's shock, there Danny suddenly stopped, ramming his hands on the metal of the ship, and with a smirk Danny made a pull motion on different directions, causing the ship to be tore apart easily, thanks to his TK and somehow ghost inherited super strength, the pilot looked in shock, and more since he was falling, but that fall was stopped when Danny used his TK to make him 'fall' harmlessly on a car hood, lessening the speed of the fall, yet making the pilot feel pain in the fall, after all it nearly nailed him with a missile.

Danny surveyed the ground then, spotting at least three tanks of the GIW…

"WHOA!!" he screamed when a purple beam nearly nailed him, looking down he spotted the GIW agents that remained, trying to nail a shot at him, nearly succeeding in their first shot, yet they were not going to get another one, diving at them, Danny deactivated the ice blades of Tidal, opting for some blunt chained action this time.

The agents had little time to respond when Danny basically crashed onto the concrete, cracking the ground, but seeing how the ice blades were deactivated, meaning that they had a huge advantage over him no…

BAMM!!

Any thought of advantage was cut short when Danny swung Tidal hilts like a nunchucks, swinging the weapon laterally, hitting the first agent square in the face, to their shock, Danny began to swing and spin the Tidal Nunchucks easily, like if he was a pro and trained for it since birth.

Little they knew about the Rayearth of water skill of combat was that the Rayearth of water was proficient with a style of combat that basically seemed out of a combat movie were the hero basically beats the crap out of everyone with anything he has on his hands, hence the ability of Tidal to be so adaptable in combat, passing from a double edged sword, a chained fail, a pair of nunchucks, a single sword or a pair of them attached to a chain.

Seizing his chance, Danny rushed at the shocked group of agents, seeing how the blaster and berserker kept their distance, but not spotting Valerie anywhere, nevertheless she would deal with them later once he deals with the agents.

He began to swing Tidal Nunchucks at the stunned agents, almost all of them were huddled together, so it was of no wonder that four of them were knocked by the weapon, most of them flying towards a car of a lamp post, severe looking bruises where it had impacted.

"Let me guess, the chain of the bounded special effect"

"Indeed, the weight of their crimes has hit them full force…treason is a crime that hits the worse"

Trying to give a meaning to Draconax words, Danny barely noticed the agent behind him, ready to fire him point-blank, but he noticed a second earlier, Danny spun and avoided the purple beam aimed at him, then aimed a powerful TK fed palm strike at the agent's torso, making him cough blood and sending him flying towards another agent, rather big than the one Danny palmed away, but yet unable to stop the flying agent.

More agents kept shooting, only to see that their new weapon was useless against a TK force field, then one by one, each of the agents began to fly away, crashing towards something, or something crashing on their heads, in less than two minutes, Danny had dealt with the GIW agents rather easily, in front of the cameras, even with new weapons, weapons that were obviously of crystalian origin.

"That…barely was a fight" Danny commented, suddenly shooting upwards, and avoiding a car that nearly hit him from behind, in mid-air he saw that the small berserker was responsible of that, "Come down knight, I will maul your bones and crush your head like an egg!" the berserker screamed.

"I like my head how it is…but if a beatdown is what you want…you will get it!!" Danny screamed as he flew at top speed towards the berserker, ignoring completely the unmoving blaster, but yet no traces of Valerie anywhere, not that it mattered much now, he had a tough opponent in front of him, so knowing that he put Tidal on his belt and focused all of his TK to enhance his body to match the berserker, he didn't thought that with Saylea because he was too shocked to deal with that, but not now.

With a scream, the berserker and Danny cocked their fists and let them soar to one another…

BOOM!!!

The sudden rise of dust, debris and shockwave felt even outside the barrier told all who was seeing the fight that now it was all out brawl.

Danny and the berserker skidded some steps back, Danny landing slowly on the ground, but the force of the blow force him to dug a ditch with his feet when he landed, once both stopped, they launched to one another once again, both rose their hands, and collided with one another again, this time a struggle of might as both contenders measured their might and tried to overcome the other.

Suddenly both head-butted each other, breaking the stalemate, taking a step back, the berserker began to launch a barrage of fists at Danny, having little time, Danny focused on the little time he had to perfect his new defensive move, Danny began to palm each fist aimed at him, sending them to an opposing direction, left, right, up, down, every fist the mighty berserker send at Danny was parried away with relative easiness, with a frustrated scream, the berserker launched a roundhouse kick at Danny's stomach, Danny reacted and grabbed the leg, but struggling with the strength of the blow, making him dig his feet on the concrete and leave a visible gouge there, it was then that the berserker jumped, brining his free leg at Danny's head, with a panicked look Danny did what he could and rose his right arm, blocking the attack, but still feeling the sledgehammer like blow to his arm and head, yet he held on, but much to his shock he realized of something.

"My arms are FREE!!" the berserker said with glee, brining his left hand to Danny's unprotected face in a devastating straight at his face, making him cry in pain, and more when his right hand shot to Danny's torso, impacting with a powerful blow at the sternum, Danny released both legs of the berserker, then it shot at Danny at blinding speeds, trapping the gasping halfa on a bear hug aimed to the base of his spine, Danny cried in pain and really wished that his intangibility worked now, but since he was in contact with the berserker, all he would end up would be turning him also intangible, screaming in pain, Danny felt how his bones and spine groaned in pain, he had to escape and had to do it now, regardless of the consequences, remembering that the berserker was a creature of the dark lord given a human form, he had no remorse in what he did next.

He began to coat his hands with water around him, the natural humidity of the air now being focused on his hands, "Behold…the sting of…the tides: venom palms!!" Danny cried out, slamming his palms on the ears of the berserker, being fashioned as a human it was obvious the berserker had its center of equilibrium placed were humans has it too, on their ears, a powerful blow was enough to make the berserker curse in pain, but then he cried in real pain when Danny water coated palms began to basically burn his ears and any skin around it, to add further pain, Danny dragged his hands on his face, leaving a smoky trail of pain on his face, like acid or a jellyfish tentacle was being traced on his face, then aimed his thumbs at his eyes and plunged in…

"AAAAAHHHHH!" anyone outside considered a way overkill and sadistic move coming of Danny, but Danny considered pretty much natural, the berserker clutched what use to be his eye sockets, leaving Danny free and ready to retaliate, "Die" was all Danny said when he left an ice blast of his hands, freezing the berserker on a icy prison, but that didn't lasted long as the berserker began to glow, his skin cracking…

"Oh crap!"

BOOM!!

The berserker exploited along with his icy prison, leaving a crater where he blew away, much to the shock of anyone watching, and backing something many were thinking but were not brave enough to voice out, the two oddly dressed men inside the barrier were like Saylea, those who remembered that knew what it meant, Danny Phantom was indeed a Rayearth knight, and that ghost hunt ambush to him was destined to fail, Rayearth knights could level armies without breaking a sweat, which explains how Danny basically was able to stand and defeat the bulk of a great ghost hunting force.

Danny by his part turned to the blaster who simply stared at Danny with hate on his eyes, "So…you want to die that badly…very well" the blaster said, suddenly smirking and making Danny raise an eyebrow, but then to pale, and so many when they saw what began to happen to the blaster.

His skin suddenly began to crack, falling away and revealing…nothing, nothing but bone and something black that seemed like tubes, the tunic the blaster had was shredded away as several spikes of bone came out of the back and he expanded beyond the fabric ability to contain, the arms were no skeletical and much to the shock of many, another pair of skeletical arms grew out of the ribs, further shredding the tunic, but instead of hands the extra pair of arms had what seemed to be a bone made cannon, black like tubes were all around the bone like arms, attached and pumping something, the rib cage held, instead of organs or anything like that, what seemed to be a black core that was connected to the tubes on the arms, the pants of the blaster fell, revealing skeletical legs that were surrounded with the black tubes, but instead of looking like a pair of skeletical legs, the legs pretty much resembled a pair of horse back like legs, but with vicious three fingers with long claws, the head was that scared many, it looked like a human skull, but with glowing red points that were eyes, with the forehead covered by a bone spike lair that seemed made to prevent head-butts, and to add a long pale white mane of hair that was attached to the back of the skull and made it to the back, barely covering the spikes on the back, it was a rather…daunting sight to see.

"Draconax…please tell me I'm seeing things"

"No, that is the true look of the blaster, among the creatures of the dark lord, the witch and the berserker are the most humanoid like of them all, followed by the wraith and the Tyrant, the blaster, the hunter and the most powerful of the creatures of the dark lord, the nemesis are more monster like, but with some human traits, human eyes, parts of a human skeleton, or a humanoid shape with a massive height and muscle mass, like the nemesis"

"Okay…how I kill this thing?"

"Not an easy feat, but I think is rather obvious, the blaster takes the weakness of an enemy of Crystalia that tried to invade and destroy Crystalia long ago, they were massive and able to create an almost impenetrable barrier in front of them, defeated by the Rayearth knights of that time, only seventeen of them survived the war, taking a spear and several manuscripts of an oracle that envisioned their ultimate fall they migrated to another world, I mentioned it before, a world…"

"Without protectors…oh man"

"Yes, nevertheless you know what I speak of his weakness, the core, the black core that floats in the middle of his rib cage, pierce it and it will die"

"It will explode like Saylea and the berserker?"

"Yep, only the wraith and the hunter don't have such a nasty habit of blowing away in pieces"

"…Dammit"


Danielle was worried sick, scratch that, worried sick was barely a way to define the way she was feeling now after such turn of events, and army of ghost hunters, a pair of odd individuals and the fact all wanted to hurt her brother made her a very crabby little girl/clone.

And to top it off, those GIW jerks had tried to kidnap her and Jazz, if it wasn't for those special forces dudes that came out of the blue and saved them, scaring the agents away and even capturing some of them for questioning, it was obvious the so called governmental branch GIW was not so governmental as they believed at first.

Danielle moved around rather frustrated and angry, she wanted to help Danny, she really did, but the men outside would notice her lack of presence, that and her ghost powers were getting more and more unstable by the hour, so any attempt of using them would end up with her complete destabilization, to make matters worse, the cure to that was on a vault that only would open with Danny's specific DNA code, not hers, no matter how much she looked like him in the DNA, she was a girl, and he a boy, that key difference on her DNA would not allow her to access the vault.

"I wish I could do something" she exclaimed, Jazz hoped the same, because it was her brother who was facing an army alone, no matter how strong he is, she is unable to shake the feeling of dread within her.

Neither of them noticed the pair of red big eyes that were under the sofa, looking at the TV, then suddenly vanished, the owner of those eyes recognized Danny, and also recognized Valerie as well, and how badly she wanted to hurt his friend.


"Of all the things that could have attacked me!!" Danny screamed as he flew around, using Tidal and batting away several black beams of the blaster easily, yet most of the attacks were too accurate for his taste, all of them were aimed to vitals of him, his chest, his head…his crotch.

The blaster was taller than Danny, of that there was no doubt, roughly 4 meters tall when it used to be 1.80 meters before, although size rarely mattered to Danny in the end, he had taken down opponents far bigger than him, Pariah Dark, a dragon, Vlad, himself, so why a 4 meter skeleton that shoots dark blasts and is the servant of an ancient evil should be different now?

"I'll slaughter this city!"

Maybe because unlike the others, this one turned to have psychotic tendencies and has been shouting that he will slaughter every single person outside the shield once he had ripped Danny's heart out, which made Danny cringe and be slightly sick, more because he was dealing with a certified bastard that wanted nothing else but death and destruction in the name of the dark lord.

Gladly the shield held on, and so the ability to prevent the noises of the battle to reach the people outside the shield, but the fact they had seen the blaster transform into a tall skeleton that shot black blasts of energy kinda freaked many.

"Dammit!" Danny shouted, seeing the blaster shooting its black blasts at him, he kept deflecting the attacks at his best of capabilities, but things were getting worse by the minute, until he got an idea, one so crazy and daredevil like that his mom would ground his ass for the next millennium, but is either that or dying, the option is rather obvious.

Dashing at the blaster, Danny let a worthless battle cry as he charged at the blaster, moving Tidal to deflect each beam that the blaster shot at him with ease and lot losing his momentum.

Much to the spectators shock, one of the beams bypassed Danny's defense, hitting him squarely on the leg, but much to the shock of the blaster, Danny didn't stop, instead he lunged at him, flying now with all he had, the blaster then began to attack without remorse, firing all he had against Danny, Danny by his part began to deflect each beam, but most of them began to bypass his defense, little by little, each shot hit him on crucial parts of his body, his shoulders, his chest, again on the legs, one of the beams graced his cheek, drawing green blood of his wounds, but that didn't stop Danny at all, suddenly Tidal broke again by the hilts, exposing the black chain, grabbing it Danny began to spin it mightily, while receiving the blunt of each attack, but never relenting on his charge.

Suddenly Danny threw the spinning Tidal at the Blaster, the speed of the launch coupled with the strength behind it made the weapon to spin at an unimaginable speed…

"AHHHHH!" the blaster roared in pain when the blades of Tidal cut his bony legs from the knee down, making the blaster meet the ground, Danny then commanded Tidal to turn around using his TK, the spinning blade making an 'U' turn and attacking one again the blaster, this time both arms were cut down with ease, black liquid pouring down of the bones insides, while the skeletical being roared in pain as Tidal finally stopped, impaling itself on the ground, Danny's arms shot forward, trapping the blaster by its ribs, not losing momentum, Danny brought all his weight to make the blaster to meet the ground rather hard, a crack forming on the ground for the impact.

Danny then kicked the blaster to face the ground, and then grabbed the spine of the blaster with both hands, raising it above his head, and then shot upwards towards the sky, the blaster facing the sky, and more at the speed Danny was going.

To anyone looking they had no idea what was the plan of Danny, to all but Danny and Valerie herself, she had seen the fight, she had seen the deflected black beams impact on the barrier, causing it to waver slightly, so if the attacks of the monster did that...

"Then its core…" she muttered, staring from a vantage position the battle, for once she was waiting rather attacking, it was weird, even for her, but she knew that Danny was too powerful now, she needed him to be weakened, the battle did that, but she never expected to him to actually defeat all that was dished to him, that and two monsters itself, it was obvious that the small one encased on ice was like the skeletical one, no human being suddenly explodes for just being covered in ice.

But then something came to her mind as she saw Danny ascend at top speed, "He is trying to escape!" knowing that if he escaped the barrier she would pretty much lose any chance to take him down in a weakened state, she decided to give him pursue before he accomplishes this, true she knew that he was doing this also to take down the monster, but she also knew that her family future was hanging on the balance, if she had to shoot down Danny before he takes down the blaster, then so be it.

But that never happened, she acted too late, when she lifted her bazooka at him, he was already about to slam the blaster on the very roof of the barrier.

"DIE!!" was all she heard of him when he slammed the monster completely in the barrier, sparks flew after the impact, and a hissing sound was heard as Danny kept pressure on the blaster core against the shield, until…

BOOM!!!!

She grunted when the blaster suddenly exploited in a black fireball, much to her shock the barrier held on, but it was greatly damaged, she could clearly see how several of the generators of the barrier suddenly turned red by the heat, some sparked around, most of them were burned down, those that held on showed that the barrier was greatly weakened as she gave testimony when she heard the once inaudible voices of the people outside, they couldn't still enter, but the fact their voice was being able to pass the barrier was a testimony of how weakened the barrier was.

But the fact remained that Danny accomplished his deed, he escaped, or so she thought, her eyes widened when she saw out of the smoke how Danny pummel to the ground, barely conscious and seriously wounded.

She winced when she saw him hit the ground, barely moving, but obviously alive and conscious, slowly trying to crawl back on his legs, not that she would allow it, he was weakened, he was barely conscious, that was her chance, with that in mind she activated her jet-sled, wincing slightly, she had some sore ribs after being used as a human club by Danny against a tank and a apache, the armor took most of the blunt of the attack, yet she still felt the part of the attack that would have cracked her bones, but thankfully didn't, causing only pain, lots of pain.

Danny by his part groaned as he recovered slightly his senses, the explosion had dulled him pretty much, his ears ringed, he was smelling only smoke, he felt like ants all over him, and his mouth…it tasted like hell.

"Ugh…my all" he moaned as he rolled to his back, the only sense he had normal was his sight, the blinding explosion did nothing to affect his glowing orbs, basically he is invulnerable to bright lights, he could stare at the sun with his ghost eyes and they would barely would feel dry or something like that.

A good thing about being half-ghost was that his human part became very resilient to such attacks, in other times explosions like that one would have instantly turn him onto his human form, which would have been bad on other circumstances.

When he blinked he faced not the sky, but the end of Valerie's bazooka, "…You're not giving me a minute of rest don't cha?" he asked with obvious annoyance on his voice, he was obviously making time to think some way to escape that situation, not that she would leave him to do that.

"Stop stalling and just die!" she screamed, her finger almost squeezing the trigger of the gun, "…You can't do it" was all Danny said, looking at her seriously, "What!?" Valerie asked in anger.

"You can't simple as that, you know who I really am, and I know who you really are, you can't do it because it would be murder and you're no murderer" Danny stated, slowly recovering his senses and feeling on most his body, but his eyes remained focused on the girl in front of him, "Lies! Why would be murder to kill you? You're a filthy ghost!"

"You know that is a lie…you're going against all that is you!" Danny snapped, Valerie in rage grabbed him by the cuff of what remained of his clothes, "I dare you say that ghost, I dare you say it again!!"

"Okay, you will not shoot me, first because you're no murderer, and second…because I made a promise" he said, his dragon like eyes staring directly to Valerie's own, "What promise? To whom!?"

"…To yourself" was all he said, then much to her shock he head-butted her, her visor cracking by the impact, she released him and staggered backwards, more by the sudden attack than pain.

"I promise that I would help you…AND IF I HAVE TO SCRAP YOU THEN SO BE IT!!"

And with that he launched himself towards the shocked Valerie who had no time to raise her bazooka when this one was kicked of her hands, then she felt a powerful palm strike on her mid-section, making her gasp in pain and rising her slightly, landing soundly and holding her stomach in pain, rising her sight she saw Danny raising his hand at her, motioning her to come at him, something she did with gusto.

With a worthless roar, Valerie launched herself at Danny, sending a right hook at Danny, leaning backwards Danny ducked the first strike, retaliating with a left hook of his own, Valerie took a step back to avoid the strike, just to go eye wide when she saw him turn, rise his right leg and aim it to her chest, the impact knocked the air of her lungs, but the armor protected her of the worse of the attack which she recognized as something nasty in terms of strength behind it.

Staggering a little, Valerie rose her sight when she saw Danny jump at her, fist aimed to her face, in less than a second she was looking downwards thanks to the strength of the punch, then staggered backwards more when Danny slammed both of his palms to her stomach, each blow being as painful as the last, and fast, very fast, with a growl she ignored the pain that was beginning to bypass her armor, just to receive a nasty uppercut that visibly shattered part of her visor, much to her shock.

Staggering a little, Valerie felt a powerful kick to her left side, gasping in pain she stumbled a little, it was there when Danny decided to 'finish' her, dashing at her, Valerie saw how Danny slammed his right palm on her stomach, lifting her and knocking all the air of her stomach, gasping in pain she felt how Danny lifted her by the stomach, then slammed her to the ground, making her cough inside her visor.

Slowly standing up, Valerie shook her head after such impact; she assumed Danny was weak on both human and ghost form, and most of his strongest melee attacks rely mostly on the speed mixed with the little strength he had, she was sorely proven wrong, as the bruises on various parts of her give testimony now.

"Damn" she sputtered as she slowly stood up of the small crater her body made upon impact, "So…that's your true strength?" she called, eyeing Danny in a new light, so many battles where he ran had left her rather frustrated as a warrior, even more when she found out that she was holding up, but now it was different, he wasn't holding up, true he was weakened by constant attacks, yet he remained strong and defiant.

"Shame he is my only way out of the hell he put me through with that mutt of his…maybe on other circumstances…we could have been something else…" she thought sadly as she finally stood up on her two feet, eyes glaring at the ghost boy.

"You want to keep on?" he asked her, "Yes" was all she answered as she launched herself at him, but this time he noticed that she was very serious on fighting him, seeing that, Danny assumed a combat stance that Valerie both dreaded and expected, arms aimed forward, left arm completely extended and palm shot forward, right arm slightly bended, palm facing the ground, at first sight it looked harmless, but Valerie knew best, it was a style that easily could overpower any offensive martial arts style, either based on grapples or constant punches and kicks, all but one style was able to match the power of the Water palm, the style her mother knew, the style she taught her.

Bringing both her fists forward, like a boxer, but spreading her legs on a wider arc, Valerie assumed her combat stance as well, something Danny noticed, and they remained on their stances for 30 seconds, just looking at each other, until one of the pieces of a damaged apache fell to the ground…

In a flash both were on each other's throats, arms blurring to anyone looking, but to them it was as clear as crystal, they were fighting with all they had.

Danny had been sweeping each strike Valerie aimed to his face and stomach, and every time she had an opening, he had tried to capitalize it, but Valerie kept herself rather tight on defense, it wasn't until he nailed a palm strike on her face and she hit his chin with an uppercut that both skidded away of each other, Valerie removing a piece of the visor that was about to fall off to her face if he impacted again on her face, while he rubbed his sore jaw after such impact.

"You're strong…" she muttered, eyeing at the halfa in a different light, as a ghost he was her enemy, granted, but as a warrior she respected him, after all there was very few people who could actually match her on hand-to-hand combat, he just becoming one of the few.

Dashing at Danny, Valerie suddenly began to make inverted somersaults at him, tensing with every jump, Danny saw how Valerie's hand reached for something on her belt, eyes widening, Danny called forth Tidal to his hand just in time as a red plasma blade erupted of the object of Valerie's hands, blocking the red blade with its icy own with relative ease.

Snarling at the sight of Tidal blocking her sword with ease, Valerie jumped again at Danny, swinging her own blade at him, Danny parried the attack once again, once she landed she was welcomed with a powerful backhand slap to her face, staggering a little the red huntress turned fast, rising her leg and aimed to Phantom, the ghost boy gasped when her leg impacted on his stomach with such speed that made him gasp in pain and to take some steps back, capitalizing on this, Valerie rushed at him, just to go eye wide when the other end of Tidal hilt grew the second icy blade and Danny separated both hilts, leaving the black chain exposed, with a snarl she tried to cut Danny down, just to go eye wide when she saw that he had stopped the plasma blade with the black chain.

"Impossible" was all she said, "Not impossible…inevitable" he added, moving of the way, making her stumble forward, then she screamed when one of Tidal's blades when trough her armor, cutting the metal with ease and feeling the coldness of the blade freezing her hand, gladly it wasn't the hand holding her plasma sword.

"Dammit!" she screamed as she tried to cut Danny down, just to him to jump above her, with shock present, she screamed when he impaled both blades of Tidal to the ground, then slammed his palms to her back, feeling a powerful shockwave travel through his palms around nearly all her body, it was not like the freezing she felt on her hand…but still it stopped her.

Collapsing to her knees, Valerie gasped, trying to get air to her lungs, the blow had been strong enough to dent the back of her armor, and by the rush of air she felt there, it was obvious that the blow had also peeled the armor there.

As she lay on her knees, a strange paralysis all over her body, she could only mutter one single thing, "I…lost"


"Not quite my dear pawn" He thought with a special malice, looking at the scene in front of him, his pawn had been defeated in a rather anticlimactic way, yet she had fulfill her purpose in this battle, distract Danny.

In fact every single hunter had done their part well enough, although he didn't foresaw the two creatures of the dark lord waltzing in, he did expected the water monks, but the water monks he expected being also beings of the dark lord?

Perhaps things were not exactly as it seemed in Crystalia, after all to beings such as Saylea and the other two to be able to attack so freely and even acting upon apparent orders of the dark lord and the queen of Crystalia made things rather…disturbing.

Yet even after such event, it didn't altered the fact his plan was going on smoothly…or as smoothly it can go with outside intervention, his GIW pawns tasked to take both sisters of Danny had been stopped by nothing else but army special forces, now the GIW that were under his 'command' were mostly composed of soldiers and mercs with a twisted sense of loyalty and order and fascination with ghosts, but not even they could deal with the army special forces, especially when those forces are trained to face humans, not ghosts.

But still his plan was going to fruition, it was high time to do his move, but he knew well enough that this game of chess was not even on checkmate, there were still things he had to do before he could claim ultimate victory on that game…

Slowly and with his invisibility on, Vlad Plasmius made his way to the unaware Danny Phantom and the Red Huntress, it was time to remove the pawns of the board and claim the queen.


Valerie gasped, pain was all over her body, especially her back, it hurt like hell, it stung like if a cat size bee had stung her there, or worse, a dog size scorpion had struck her there and kept striking there just out of morbid fascination.

She could feel Danny right behind her, so close, yet her body was not cooperating this time, she was wounded and pretty much hurt and numb, her weapons prove useless against him, hell the weapons of the GIW prove useless against him, and army of ghost hunters was unable to stop him, him the loser of school, the unpopular Danny Fentom.

Yet even knowing that she was unable to understand his drive, his reason to fight…and what it meant about a promise that he made to her, she clearly remembers never talking with him or promising something like that, whatever her promised, she expected it was not some sort of love thing going on there, she cares for him…as a friend…or as friendly she can get with him without remembering that he was responsible for most of her disgraces and that both of them were sworn enemies, even if he doesn't admits it.

But now there she was, on his mercy, defeated, in front of all Amity Park, after basically demolishing a good chunk of the isolated sector and showing he was more than capable of defeating anyone, anywhere, no matter the circumstances.

"So…" she began, her voice partially restored to her normal thanks to the visor being so badly damaged in combat, "What now ghost? Are you going to gloat in your victory? Show to the city what lies under the helmet? Ruin my life further?" she asked, truth to be told she had something similar to what she said planned to him, defeat him and unmask him to the city, what happened next was not her responsibility, it was after all her civic duty as citizen of Amity Park to reveal the identity of a dangerous being…even if it was someone who once helped her and took her place as the nasty burger mascot.

His answer shocked her, as most of Amity.

"No" he said, she could hear him take some steps back of her, the numbing sensation on her body was dying out, but not the pain, but the shock of his answer was enough to stop her of even moving, and more with what he told her next.

"…I can see the future…the past…I always has…but I blocked that because of fear…fear of seeing a future that I can't change…you remember right…who we fought" she slowly nodded, how could she forget 'him' that dark personification of what she believed was Danny Phantom, although way buffed and secretly hoping that Danny ended with those muscles in the future, she was afraid of that, a total ghost with all the malice of it, no human emotions besides rage, bloodlust and anger to fuel him, it still scared her.

"I saw you in a future…bitter…alone…trying to fight a war that you couldn't win, she regretted many things…including never moving on, never forgiving, only being angry…I promised her that you would not end like that, just like I promised myself that I would not end like him" he said, making Valerie's breath be caught on her throat.

"…why?" she asked, simply not believing or digesting the fact that he, the very person that she had tried to destroy, regardless of knowing who he truly was, had promised that, she couldn't simply digest it, "And if you don't believe me…I have yet to mention your true name…remember all our fights…in each one I mentioned by either your name or your pet name"

That did it, utterly defeated and somewhat humiliated (in her way of seeing it) she finally realized it, after so much battles where she put it all he always held on…afraid that he might hurt her, every time she lashed at him he tried to talk some sense into her.

Now she had some sense talked into her…after being defeated in fair combat.

With a glazed sight, she saw both her parents, together, looking at her, her dad worriedly and her mother in a 'I told you so' manner, maybe the only thing that she hated of her mother was it seemed that she always was right and she was wrong, no matter what, it was like a goddamn curse, she will never win an argument against her mother, she warned her that Danny was too powerful for her, even learning the style that was made to defeat the water palm, Valerie surely didn't expected less than being grounded until she was as old as her mother once the shield falls.

"…they care for you" she heard Danny mutter, making her groan, using the family card, so old and outdated tactic…yet still as effective as using a wrecking ball to bring down a building, noisy yet assured to do the job.

"If not for you…then for them…leave the weapons while you can…it gets harder as time passes…you don't have any responsibilities in this…live your life" he said finally, making her sigh, staring at her parents made her kinda ashamed, any movement of them could not only bring light to her identity and put their parents on a whole world of problems, but surely they would be doing all kind of embarrassing things to her like checking for bruises and calling her names like 'vali-puh'

As for Danny he took a deep breath, he had won, and he had yet to digest that fact, he faced an army and won, what teenager can claim that? Not many if the fact that other worlds existed then also people with different powers, nevertheless he won…now if only the explosive death of the blaster had actually brought down the barrier…turning around he slightly noticed the looks of many people, until he crossed sights with what had them so shocked…

"NO!" shooting his right arm to Valerie, a powerful TK blast was ejected towards her, lifting her and making her spin out of control…

BOOM!!!

Falling on her back with a groan, Valerie was about to curse Danny when she saw the sudden rain of debris and smoke coming where she and Danny were, "…oh damn no way!" she exclaimed as she slowly stood up, the TK blast had actually took out most of the negative effects of the numbing on her body, but yet she was tired, she was after all human, exposing her bare back to the people on the other side, Valerie saw how the smoke dissipated, and in it stood a very battered and hurt Danny Phantom, an ecto-shield formed around him, if barely holding.

"Dammit! (Gasp) this is insane!" Danny roared as he let the shield die down, "What do I look like? A goddman bull's-eye?"

"No…but close" Danny's eyes widened when he heard that voice, and more when he felt a hand constrict his neck, lifting him up, anyone seeing would be as surprised when they saw no one else but Plasmius, another ghost, inside the ghost shield, holding Danny Phantom by the neck, Valerie was genuinely surprised, in her time hunting Danny, she had learned he hated one ghost with special vehemence, the one holding him by the neck.

"What ACK! You…" Danny tried to kick Vlad in the stomach, but unfortunately Vlad suddenly slammed Danny in the pavement, making him gasp in pain and cough, "Bast…ugh" Danny groaned as he tried to roll and stand up, but the sudden slam of a foot on his chest held him in place and amplified his pain further.

"Manners Daniel…is this the way you welcome your host?" Plasmius said with special malice, "You? It wasn't Mr. Masters but you who gave info about that millionaire bounty of Phantom?" Valerie asked, rather confused she believes, Vlad had told her in person that the bounty on Phantom was his lure to attract many hunters so they could capture Danny alive.

"That cheese-head? He doesn't have what it takes to do so…so I decided to aid him…if you know what I mean dear?" Plasmius said with a grin, "…You…overshadowed him" she gasped, not even grasping the truth, something Danny knew, but had no heart to tell to her.

"But of course, what better way to attack the hero of Amity Park but with the only enemy he can't defeat…politics, an enemy no power you have can't defeat" Plasmius said, "It was rather a devious plan I dare say…even a pair of my allies came…allies you had to kill because obviously they are natural enemies of the Rayearth knights, namely you" Plasmius said, applying more pressure to Danny's chest.

"After that it was all just a matter of waiting, and I dare say it all went well" Plasmius added, much to Valerie's ire, "Well? Well!? He totaled us all! We fought for a reward that was not going to get paid!!" she snapped, now sharing Danny's hate for Plasmius, but to a greater degree, she had plans, dreams, and that money would had allowed her to complete them and take her family away of the hole they were now, but…

"Well yes, I did counted that he would win, if barely, I didn't counted that my associates would want to kill him, but I did counted on his victory" Plasmius added, suddenly flicking his hand towards Valerie, to all's shock, the Red Huntress was target of a purple ecto-beam, a beam that never came to hit her, looking in shock she saw the beam barely inches of her face, and Danny holding his hand at it, "…MOVE!!" not needing to be told twice Valerie jumped of the way of the beam as this was released of Danny's telekinetic grip, the beam impacting harmlessly on the barrier behind her.

"Well now do you have a soft spot on her now? After she tried to kill you?" Plasmius asked, forcing his weight on Danny's chest, "I…explained before…I made a promise…AGHH!"

"Promises? Such a petty concept to you…you have such unharnessed power, yet you refuse to attain your full potential…why?" Plasmius asked, "Why? Because I know what it entails…becoming your apprentice" Danny said.

"But of course, I have these powers the longest, therefore I am a better candidate to train you than learning by mistake…yet you refuse time and time again" Plasmius said in a low hiss, one loud enough to make people shudder.

"To become your slave? A puppet? I rather be dissected molecule by molecule!" Danny snapped, only to gasp further in pain when Plasmius brought all his weight to him…

"UFFFF!!" just to see so said ghost fly away by a red beam impacting him on the stomach, looking he saw Valerie holding an ecto-pistol that surely was made by her suit, "Don't mistake things ghost…I still hate you…but now I hate him more" she said, pointing at Plasmius, "The last feeling is mutual" Danny groaned as he stood up, using his TK to call Tidal to him, grabbing the weapon, Danny flicked it several times before pointing it at Vlad.

"Game's over Plasmius, maybe I am weak and maybe she is beaten up…"

"Don't push it"

"But you damn know you can't defeat us both…especially together" he added, "Oh really? What a worn out ghost kid and a girl playing hero can do…" Plasmius began, his eyes suddenly glowing purple, and two beams shooting at them, Danny lifted Tidal to block both beams aimed at him and Valerie, but not noticing when Plasmius was already upon them, with a single kick he disarmed Danny of Tidal, followed by a backslap at Valerie on the face that made her fly towards some debris, Danny tried to punch Plasmius, just to gasp once again when he chock slam him to the ground, then rose him onto the air.

"Submit!"

"I would rather die!"

Plasmius was rather taken back by Danny's proclamation, it was surely his rebellious nature as teenager and inner Rayearth knight surfacing in the heat of the battle, "Such stubbornness won't deny me of my true goal!" with that in mind he began to tighten the grip on Danny's neck, purple lightings all over his arm…

"AHHHH!" Danny screamed as purple thunders began to cackle all around him, much to his shock he realized Plasmius plan, "He…he is trying to uncover my identity in front of all Amity Park!!"

"A very devious but clever plan…it shows desperation and anger, he tries to use you to reach your mother"

"The hell he will!!" Danny thought angrily as he grabbed the arm of Plasmius and began to freeze it, but he was tired and weakened, so the freezing process was proceeding rather slowly to his liking.

"Give up boy, you can't win!" Plasmius snapped, seeing in slight satisfaction how Danny's lower midsection morphed back on his human pants and shoes, "Submit and your identity will remain a secret"

"Screw…" Danny began, eyes glazing slightly, Plasmius took that as a hint that Danny had went unconscious, but it was far from the truth, suddenly Danny's hands grew sharp nails, nails that were painfully dig on his arm, "YOU!!" he exclaimed as he suddenly clawed the arm of Plasmius, making him scream in pain, and more when Danny made a sweep at Plasmius exposed chest, leaving a neat four lined gash on its chest, releasing Danny to hold his arm and chest in pain, Danny rolled away, "DO IT NOW HUNTRESS!!" he screamed, Plasmius was seconds behind to react when he lifted his gaze and saw the Red Huntress, holding one of the GIW modified carbines, already fired, "Eat plasma freak-o"

"AAAAHHH!" Plasmius screamed as a hole was neatly made on his left elbow, and if being slashed and shot wasn't enough, much to Valerie's shock, a truck size green bulldog with red eyes and a spiked collar seemed to appear out of thin air, an angry snarl etched on the ghostly dog as it opened its jaws on the unsuspecting Plasmius…

"OH MY GOD!" she and Danny screamed when they saw the massive dog actually bite Plasmius down to the waist, swallowing half of him, then moving the struggling ghost like a rag doll or a toy to bite, swinging it left and right with viciousness until it spit him away, completely covered in drool and shock etched on his drool covered face.

"…That…was sick" Danny muttered, slowly standing and seeing how the massive dog made its way towards him with a happy like look, "I knew it was yours!" Valerie exclaimed, only to be growled by the dog, "Relax" Danny touched the dog, making it calm itself, but still kept its glare at Valerie.

"It obviously remembers you" Danny exclaimed, patting the head of the massive bulldog, "well…I ALWAYS wanted a dog…" he muttered, suddenly Tidal flying at his hand, dashing away, Danny swung Tidal, effectively cutting the charging and angry Plasmius from the left side of the waist to the right elbow, much to the citizens shock, and much more to Danny's and Valerie's shock when the cut down Plasmius dissolved into purple mist.

"I knew it…a clone" Danny muttered, taking a deep breath to calm his increasing anger, Vlad failed yet another attempt to make him his apprentice and getting his mom, but the mere fact that he had been bold enough to start a mini-war against him, then made look his human half like the victim was brilliant, and allowed him to cover his tracks.

"Sneaky little…" he muttered, deactivating Tidal finally, so said weapon vanishing in a shower of water and sparks, "You…killed him! You weren't joking when you said that weapon CAN kill ghosts" Valerie exclaimed, as shocked as anyone after seeing Danny cut down his enemy in two.

"That wasn't Plasmius" he exclaimed, "…Come again?"

"He can make clones of himself…four in total, like the other ghost I captured, once struck down the energy made is returned to the original, but in lesser degree and with the pain backlash…I can't believe you forgot…you were there" he said, "Well excuse me, but unlike you I only focus on having one mortal enemy…not an army of them" she exclaimed, fingering the carbine on her hands, then strapping it to her back, "But I guess this was not a total waste…I got a new toy…and you got a…pet" she said, eyeing the truck size bulldog that walked towards Danny.

Danny suddenly looked at Valerie, with a raised eyebrow Valerie saw him extend his hand at her, "So…friends?" he asked, Valerie considered it…he knew her identity, she knew his identity.

His friends, especially Sam wanted to hang her…

"Allies" was all she said as she walked towards a small rock, then sat with a groan, "I'll stay here…I'm tired, and obviously your new friend there knows a way out…I'll just wait to the barrier to come down, they have to get these people out eventually" she began, "But know this…make a false move and I'll test how deadly my new toy is on your ass Phantom" she said, "Last name basis eh? Okay…suit yourself Huntress…don't cause more trouble than usual…later, come on doggy, and let's bounce" Danny exclaimed, slowly floating and flying away, following the massive truck size bulldog that led the way.

For her part Valerie let a satisfied sigh, although a tired one, "Glad that's over" no one could hope to argue with that now, yet she knew that Plasmius was still around, this 'lighting war' he started on Danny Phantom, an in one point got her involved was far from over.

"Yet…Mr. Masters gave me the watch…does it mean he was possessed by Plasmius or he wasn't yet…god that's too confusing"


"This is Amity news, channel 7 news, to a shocking conclusion came the battle on downtown Amity when a literal army of ghost hunters, including the Red Huntress and the government paranormal branch Guys In White faced Danny Phantom in combat, later it was know that a ghost by the name of Plasmius had orchestrated the whole thing, spreading false rumors about a bounty on Phantom's head, most of the ghost hunters left Amity quite disappointed, although some of them were quite pleased to have faced a real challenge in combat and swore to return once their wounds and their pride is recovered, as for the Red Huntress she left the scene as soon the barrier that covered downtown amity fell, but of what we could gather it seems she is now an ally, although a shaky one of Phantom, it is yet to reveal the true whereabouts of Plasmius who seemed to have deployed a ghost clone that attacked the weakened duo and was cut down by Phantom after being clawed, blasted and actually used as a chew toy by a massive truck size bulldog who now is…Phantom's newest ally…or pet, the damage caused by the fight only extends to the road, some compromised buildings and vehicles, the government has send monetary help to those affected by the battle, they are yet to pronounce after the failure of the governmental branch GIW on capturing Danny Phantom, this is Mary Sue from channel 7 news"

"God I'm glad that's over" Maddie exclaimed, sighing in relieve after seeing the battle, "I agree, your son has acted accordingly to what we expected, he is loyal, brave…rather brash and foolish, but what kid of his age is not?" Wuo Yan said with a slight smile, "Maddie…I'll let his training on your hands, he is obviously still grasping the ways of hand-to-hand combat, I'm sure you will train him well, better than me" the aged man said.

"Oh come one master, is not that much, I never defeated you"

"Defeating the master is not a way to see if you surpassed him or her, he trusts you, you will teach him better than me, trust is the very first step into establishing a solid master/student relationship, as solid as the relation of a mother with her child" the aged man, bowing to Maddie, "Farewell Mrs. President, I'll keep you updated if we find any clue of the people behind Vlad's rise to power" the man said, walking away, leaving the Fentoms with Maria who still looked at the news with a critical eye.

"Man I am glad is over" Jack said, "No big J" Maria said, making Maddie to stare at the woman oddly, no one but her and Catalina had called Jack 'Big J' not even Vlad, his so called friend when he was still human and sane.

"This…is just the beginning…I got a bad feeling about this"


When he reached home with Cujo, now in pup form, and he on human form, Danny was basically swarmed with sisterly love, which hurt a lot considering what he passed trough.

Staying with his sisters on the living room, Danny slowly drifted to sleep, that was until Sam, Tucker and Dove busted in, neglecting him of his well deserved sleep, most of them time his friends asking him how he felt, or in the case of Sam, what was he thinking of asking Valerie if they were friends?

In the end Danny yawned and went to sleep after seeing Danni play with Cujo, who seemed already smitten with her, where he went to sleep he didn't care, or why Jazz Protector seemed to be like her teddy bear Albert, or why he felt slightly warm, all he wanted was to sleep and rest and no wonder why Sam seemed about to burst into flames

Of course to Sam it would be hard to not burst into flames when his head rested on her lap, although, by some reason, she doesn't seemed to mind.

As for Draconax, he wondered why all the Rayearths ended up sleeping near their soul mates…the shinigami had it worse; he ended up sleeping on the lap of his soul mate…when people were watching.


and there it is, another chapter of my saga, like it or hate it you call, review as usual, and as usual i leave you all with the preview of the next chapter, enjoy...

A battle won, he picks the pieces of what he knows...

"If those two were legit water monks...even being dark lord underlings...then it means..."

but wars are not won merely with one battle...

"Okay...let me get this straight...if the ghost zone is destroyed...then our world goes kaput? dude you're as stupid as your dad"

Wars are won by fighting battles and breaking the enemy's back...

"My dear maddie...you either come with me or next time you come back home you will be welcome with the corpses of your childs"

But pushing it too much can be too bad...especially when the opponent's back is too much to be broken...

"Oh dear god, look the sky!!"

And when lady luck has already favored other person...

"Vlad...you are the biggest idiot ever!!"

in the next chapter of Rayearth Knights: Danny the Tsunami...King Nothing...

"BOW TO ME...I HAVE RETURNED!"

A hero rises...

and there it is, until an next time this is Hypn0s signing off, read and enjoy!!!