Author's note: Well...we're here again! Awesome!
Disclaimer- Do Not Own Danny Phantom.
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"It's beautiful, isn't it?" The man whispers from the darkness. His pale hands stroked the purple orb with long fingernails, his hands were the only identifiable thing in the strip of light from the ceiling. He stood on a tall chair hidden beneath the darkness and his own anger, the boy on the floor kneeled before him and frowned at his words.
"Eh...I guess it is, if you look at it from a certain angle and--"
"Your words, they bore me boy," he growls, his voice so deep the boy could almost feel himself drown under it.
"Sorry, master." The boy quickly apologizes, the man laughs.
"And you should be, have you managed to catch up with the boy and the girl?" the man asks, biting onto his own hand. The boy looks away in disgust as the man sucks on his own blood, a wild grin on his face.
"N...no sir," the boy stutters, the man raises an eyebrow.
"Does it frighten you, lad?" the man yawns in boredom, the boy grinds his teeth in annoyance.
"Does what frighten me?" the boy says as calmly as he could.
"Never mind, just tell me child," the man coughs, blood drips from his mouth and onto the purple orb in his hands.
"What?" the boy wonders his eyes following the dripping blood, the man wipes it away with the back of his hands and licks it off, the boy shivers.
"Why haven't you found the boy and the girl, again?" he pesters and picks at his filthy black nails, the boy gulps.
"Well...you see, they've...they escaped from the wolf, and they killed it sir. I swear we tried to stop them, and since the girl is afraid of the darkness...we thought that they wouldn't be able to escape. But the girl, she's stronger than that sir. Stronger than we thought," the boy attempts to explain, the man waves away his excuse.
"Are you telling me that this pathetic little girl, and this strangely aggravating boy, have escaped one of my best creatures. The werewolf?" the man snickers, his fingers curving around the orb once more. The boy looks away before nodding, immediately the room was sent into a booming rage so strong that the boy flew backwards into the wall behind him. The man climbs down his tall chair and makes his way towards the boy, his clawed fingers scratching at the boy's throat.
"HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE YOU IMBECILE! HOW COULD THEY DESTROY HIM!" The man commanded his eyes getting ready to burst, his veins soared with the taste of revenge and hate.
"IT WAS TRAVIS SIR! TRAVIS!" the boy screams in terror, his breathing becoming weaker as he struggles harder against his master's grip. The man suddenly lets him go and he falls to the ground with a loud thud. The boy pants as his master walks back towards his chair, and laughs. His cruel voice echoes against the walls and back towards the ground, it was almost like ten different people were laughing with him.
"So, that is your game. Is it, little brother? We shall see then, Travis. Who gets through to the two first," The man chuckles before sending the whole room into more laughter, the boy shrunk in the ground and swallows hard, this is trouble.
He doesn't wanna be in those two's position, it could mean...the destruction of the world.
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"Hey! Hey Danny!" Sam shakes him awake, he yawns before looking into her face. For a moment they pause to look at each other, their eyes locking in away that almost seemed magically unbreakable. Is that even possible? Danny didn't wanna find out , and he aggravatingly pushes her away, she rolls backwards onto the ground.
"What was that for!?" Sam demands, wiping away at the dirt and leaves that clung to her. Danny shrugs.
"You were invading my personal bubble," Danny says simply, Sam gapes at him.
"Whatever, I woke you to show you something. So if it's not too much to ask, can you and your bubble follow me please!" Sam snaps urgently, Danny sighs.
"Yeah, yeah, hold on." he says before staring down at his medallion, his heart clung heavily again, it felt like a lump in the back of his throat. He'd almost forgotten he was a dragon, which is dumb considering no one could possibly forget that.
"I suddenly had the urge to...the thought to...when Sam was so close, she'd look so different?" Danny suddenly thought, he scratches his head at these thoughts.
"Hey idiot! Can we get a move on!" Sam stamps on the forest floor, Danny rolls his eyes.
"Then again, she's Sam. So, maybe not. Hah! Maybe never," he smiles at himself before turning to look at Sam, she frowns at him.
"What are you smiling at?" she asks him, he shakes his head.
"What do you care? Let's go see this wonderful thing!" Danny yells happily and runs forward, Sam screaming behind him.
"You jerk! You were trying to leave me behind again!"
"Yeah. Well, it obviously isn't working, so shut up already!" Danny laughs and stops dead in his tracks, Sam right next to him.
"What is that?" Danny asks, Sam grins.
"It's a village genius, this is what I wanted to show you," Sam smiles and nervously takes his hand. Danny didn't seem fazed by this, the entire village below them bustles busily with the sounds of screaming kids and the obnoxious laughter of the adults. The stone covered ground claps under the weight of the villagers shoes, a large fountain of a very fat man stood in the middle of the village. Small houses lay everywhere, surrounding him and Sam as they walk towards the village.
"Hello," A girl suddenly smiles making both of them turn, Danny immediately drops Sam's hand at the sight of the girl. Her long golden hair curls to her shoulders and her beautiful tanned skin seemed to sparkle as she walks under the sun. Her face was the most beautiful thing Danny has ever seen while her eyes sparkle a green beauty that seemed completely untouchable. She smiles at Danny and he immediately feels his cheeks flush, Sam looks away from him...something inside her was tearing her apart.
"Uh...hiimdannyandumumumumumheyimdanny," Danny mumbles, she giggles at him before looking towards Sam, expecting an equally amusing hello.
"I'm Sam." she spoke in monotone
"Of...course you are," she grins unsurely, Danny shakes his head before grinning at her. To Sam's surprise, she flushes a deep red.
"I'm...well...I'm Annika," Annika smiles and takes Danny's hand.
"I'm...well...I'm Annika," Sam mimics behind them, her voice whiny.
"Stupid name, stupid girl, and stupid Danny," she swears under her breathe as Annika leads them into one of the villagers houses, a man stood inside and stares at his new house guests.
"Annika! You are home at last! And who are your guests?" the man asks, he looks like an inventor. He wore an aviator hat and oversized glasses that gave his eyes a strange bug eyed look, his salt and pepper colored mustache was long and mangy. He shot out a shaky brown gloved hand to both Danny and Sam who shook in return.
"Dad this is Danny and...um--
"Samantha, Sam Manson." Sam spoke up, Danny looks towards her almost forgetting she was even there. To his great disappointment, Sam notices this look and turns away from him. Her heart beating a bit slower than it was before, she suddenly remembers how cool it was to have Danny's hand in hers...almost, nice.
"Sam, stop being all depressed looking," Danny hisses into her ear, her face falls. Almost nice. Sam blows at the loose hair in front of her face and follows Annika's father into a what seems to be the living room.
"This is...different," Sam blinks staring at the small circular room. Instead of regular couches and chairs, they had barrels that seem full of water that swished and swirled underneath their...butts. Wonderful feeling, yeah? Sam laughs at her own thought before noticing everyone's strange stares, she immediately turns away to look at the rest of the room. The fireplace didn't have any fire...but...water? How does that even work?
The walls were covered in black and white photographs of what Sam assumes is Annika and her father in their younger years, every inch of the wall was covered in the photographs. Sam found it incredible, but if anyone else were to walk in here. They would've immediately turn the other way, she looks up at the ceiling where there seemed to be a layer of glass separating the ceiling from the rest of the house. Small balloons float above the glass, each balloon is full with the light from candles, Sam found it incredibly weird that they weren't popping or something from the candles. How did they even do that? Hmm...maybe this place was a little...too out of the ordinary.
"Sam?" Annika asks with worry. Sam blinks a couple of times before focusing back on the conversation at hand, Danny was drooling over Annika. What an idiot.
"Hmm?" Sam smiles.
"Well, we were trying to figure out what you two were doing in these parts of the woods," Annika's father said.
"Oh, well that's easy. Well see, we're on our way to the Mountains of After and--"
"What on earth are you two going there for!?" Annika's father suddenly stands in outrage, Danny looks away from Annika for a while, confused.
"Somebody up their has something we need," Danny replies, forgetting about Annika much to Sam's delight.
"I hope that whatever you're looking for, is worth the risk." Annika's father states darkly. Annika trembles in her barrel seat, Sam and Danny exchange glances.
"What risk?" Sam wonders, Annika's dad shakes his head.
"It does not matter I suppose, not if you're already determined to get what you seek,"
"You bet we are. But information is always good," Danny says matter-of-factly. Annika and her father smile.
"We knew, some children much like yourselves," Her father smiles, his eyes shimmer with the sight of tears, Sam bites her lip. She hates crying, and she hates seeing people cry.
"Sorry Danny," Annika whispers apologetically and runs to her father's side, Sam's inside growl with anger.
"You see, the two kids. They both went up to the Mountains of After, I'm still not even sure what they went up their for. But it was definitely important," Annika points out, Sam rolls her eyes.
"Well of course it was important, if it wasn't they wouldn't be up their," Sam mumbles under her breathe, Danny shakes his head and nudges her to shut up.
"What happened to them?" Danny quickly asks, she looks away from them.
"They...well they never returned," Annika swallows, the thought of them brought shivers through her body, her father bawled next to her. It was a weird sight.
"Eh...well were they close friends of yours?" Danny dares himself to ask, Annika shook her head. Danny and Sam stare at each other, why are they crying for them, then?
"Tears, aren't meant to be shed for loved ones, who found that love. They are meant to be shed for the ones who never found it," Annika says wisely, her words were suddenly engraved in Danny and Sam's hearts. This girl, this beautiful girl, cries for kids she barely knew...and Danny and Sam had spent their own precious time trying to bite each other's heads off...not even bothering to see each other as true friends.
"We're...dumb," Sam whispers to Danny, he nods in agreement.
"The dumbest," he groans, she smiles at him before nudging him reassuringly.
"We can still fix it Danny, and we can still save you,"
"Maybe," Danny mutters and returns her smile.
"Enough Annika, we will no longer speak to them about this," her father sniffs and wipes away his tears, "You are welcome to stay the night, if you'd like."
Danny and Sam jump at the opportunity.
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"Oh, hey it's your weird purple orb thing," Danny says throwing the orb at Sam. They sat on the bed and went through the backpack the old man had given them, they hadn't look through it in a million years.
"I forgot about this...and I still don't get how to use the damn thing," Sam grins bouncing it back and forth to each hand, he shrugs.
"Maybe you need to bite it, so you can absorb it's energy or some magical thing like that," Danny ponders, Sam sighs.
"Nah." They laugh at their stupidity before looking at the strange ceiling, the balloon's lights were dying out, and so was the sun from outside. The Mountains of After shone grimly under the shadow of the sun, Sam shutters.
"How long do you think we have, until...the dragon heart eats your heart and rips through your soul?" Sam randomly asks, Danny lays down on the bed, his hands behind his head.
"Probably not very long, but you've helped ease the pain by a lot," Danny grins at her, she smiles at his words. Her heart lifts a bit, then she mentally slaps herself.
"We should probably hurry then, huh?" Sam asks skeptically.
"Duh," Danny laughs, she rolls her eyes at him before laying down next to him. They were both just as confused as the other, both knowing they were supposed to hate each other, but there was still...a strange spark that flew before them. It was so powerful, and often incredibly tempting. He turns on his side to look at her.
"Sam," he says casually, she turns to look at him.
"Yup?"
"I...there's something bothering me," he finally admits, she frowns at him.
"What?"
"It might sound a little weird, but...ever since I found you again. My life's been pretty complicated," Danny thinks out loud.
"Me too Danny, probably not as complicated as yours, since I'm not the dragon in this picture...but whatever," she rambles.
"Yeah, but that's not my point--"
"What is your point?"
"I--Sam, there's something strange about you,"
"Well thanks, you're pretty damn cute yourself," Sam says sarcastically, he smiles at her.
"No, I mean. There's something, kinda...I don't know, amazing about you," he hears himself say, he bites his tongue as he looks for her reaction. To his surprise, her cheeks were a deep red, his insides seemed to flip inside out, what is this?
"Amazing?" Sam repeats, he nods.
"Yeah, like...every girl I've ever known has either freaked out about their hair, and over their stupid appearance or whatever," Danny explains.
"Then you must not know very many girls, we're not all the same and--"
"You're the best girl I've met so far,"
"No, I'm not. What about Annika?" Sam asks, he shrugs.
"She's just a girl--"
"And you're just a boy,"
"Who happens to breathe fire," Danny adds.
"Of course, but whatever Danny. What are you trying to say?" Sam pesters on.
"It's just, I think, I actually kinda like you now," Danny blurts out, her heart stops, Danny's eyes widen.
"Sorry?" Sam pipes up, he shakes his head.
"N...No! I meant you know! I...I just like you better than before, that's all I meant," Danny protests, her heart sinks once more, but despite herself...she couldn't help but feel happy.
"Well then yeah, I've gotten to like you too," Sam replies, Danny opens his mouth to say something, "I mean I like you better than before," Sam quickly corrects, Danny grins. Before either of them could say another word, darkness fell and so did...the loud cries of the villagers.
"Help!" Annika screams from outside, Danny and Sam sprint out of the room and out towards the bustling streets. Annika cowers over her father, they flare their arms protectively towards the sky as people all around them scream and run. They all stumble over each other and blood slowly trickles through the cracks on the pavement. Danny runs towards Annika and her father while Sam runs towards the source of the terror.
"Annika! What's happening!" Danny shakes her, she herself shakes under his hands.
"No! No! Danny run! Please run!" she cries, the houses all around them suddenly began bursting into flames, a loud screech pierces through the sky as a large set of claws makes a grab towards the running people below, Danny watches in horror as it squeezes a child in it's hand. Sam comes running behind the running villagers, a bow and arrow in her hands.
"Danny it's a griffin!" Sam screams as she aims towards the sky, Danny watches as her arrow flies through the night and hits the creature on its back. He gapes in amazement at the large creature in the sky, it's torso the body of an eagle, and the back the end of a lion. The small child that was in the griffin's claw falls through the sky and Danny launches himself towards the ground, the kid falling straight into his arms.
"Lemme go! Lemme go!" the kid stutters, Danny puts him down and he runs back into the mob.
"Yeah, you're welcome!" Danny shouts towards him.
"Danny watch out!" Sam screams, but he turns around to late. The griffin's huge claws slam into his body and he was thrown backwards into the brick houses, it's talons rip through his skin leaving oozing gashes.
"Danny!" Sam runs towards him, but the griffin was waiting for her. It dives towards the ground and takes her in his claw.
"Let...Let her go!" Danny pants, his energy seems to have drained out. He doesn't know what to do! He angrily watches as they fly into the air, Sam screaming as they finally dive back towards the ground like a missile. They look like a blur of colors as they jet through the sky and the griffin throws Sam towards the ground and flies away from the ground. Danny ran towards the spot he predicts she's gonna fall, but something went terribly wrong.
The griffin had mad a grab for Danny's medallion. Before he could stop it, the medallion slid off his neck...and his eyes immediately turn to slits. He watches in horror as Sam finally lands on the ground, her body limp from the fall and her head cracked open, in anger his transformation goes faster. His head burst open horns and his body slowly turns larger and he sprouts wings.
Danny had turned into a dragon again. Danny looks up at the griffin in the sky, his heart racing with revenge, and his fangs wanting to bite into its flesh. The dragon launches itself into the sky, leaving a wave of wind towards the ground. The griffin stares at it, mocking Danny. He angrily roars and leaves a trail of emerald fire, the griffin soaring through the sky.
"Catch me if you can, dragon boy," the griffin laughs, the dragon accepts his challenge and flies behind him.
"Coward!" Danny growls as he spits fire onto the griffins tail, it screams in pain and lets the medallion fall from its beak. Angrily the griffin claws at Danny's eyes, he shouts as green blood pours out of his right eye. The battle was on. The griffin flew above the Dragon's head and bit at it's neck, Danny forced his spiky tail onto the bare back of the griffin and it sent him flying back into the sky.
"Pathetic attempt!" the griffin growls back, though he wasn't as certain as before.
"Pathetic creature," Danny retorts. Danny flies underneath the griffin and grabs it around the middle, his claws dug deep into the griffin's sides as he forces him down towards the ground with such force the griffin was unable to lift himself away from danger. The griffin hits the ground, its head cracking at the impact with the ground, but it didn't matter. The griffin stood up once more, it's eyes set on Danny the dragon, an it flies back through the sky taking Danny's horns and swinging him around like a lifeless doll. Danny quickly grabs the ends of a tree to stop himself from spinning and causes his horns to break off as the griffin laughs in triumph.
Danny screams loudly, fire and roaring fills the air as the trees were all set on emerald fire, claws then bolt on the griffin, scratching at any spot he could reach, his green blood dripping towards the ground and onto the ground where Sam lay. It lands on the top of her head and stings her coldly, and suddenly she feels more drops of whatever they were fall on top of her. Slowly, she opens her eyes, her vision blurry as she sees the little drops of water begin to surround her.
A gleaming white necklace suddenly catches her attention, her head spinning. Sam's eyes suddenly come back into focus, and she gasps. The medallion! She quickly stands and grabs it, her head buzzing with protests, her body wanted to fall back asleep.
"I can't...if the medallion is down here, then where's Danny!" Sam urgently cries, and then she hears the cries of the familiar dragon above her. Sam nudges her head towards the raining sky where the griffin was clawing through Danny's rough exterior, Danny the dragon.
"Oh...no!" she screams.
Danny flies in circles as the griffin watches intently.
"You idiot," the griffin sighs before flying straight into Danny's blurry circle, he grabs him by the neck and digs his claws deep. The dragon protests but it was slowly becoming tired, and the griffin laughs.
"I knew it, you are nothing but a child, A pitiful child!" the griffin snickers before pinning him down on the roof of a house. The breaking roof top pierced through the back of Danny's skin, the blood was running like a river now, almost like it had been running for days.
"And you...are nothing but a slave, a slave to someone else's commands," the dragon chokes, the griffin's claws still deeply choking him.
"I WORK FOR NO ONE!" The griffin howls before squeezing at his neck harder.
"Then...stop trying to kill me," the dragon suggests, his eyes watering, the griffin laughs.
"No. I'm having much fun, little dragon,"
"Then...you are a bigger moron than I thought," the dragon grins sinisterly before forcing his own claws into the griffin's chest, angrily Danny pulls his claws back out and rips out his heart. The griffin's claws finally loosen around his neck, and he floats towards the ground. Danny the dragon laughs before slipping the griffin's heart into his mouth, liking his lips.
"More," he whispers to himself, he looks down at the empty village below, a girl...that same girl.
"She will have to do," the dragon smiles and licks his lips. He dives towards her.
Sam gulps as she takes the orb in her hand, her eyes closing as she tries to figure out what happens next.
"Please, help me save him," she tears up, her tears drop onto the purple orb and it immediately begins to swirl.
"Princess of Darkness, it is about time...you unleashed your powers," the orb whispers, Sam was about to drop the orb before a strange black light takes a hold of her hand.
"Hey! Hey!" Sam protests trying to pull away, but the black light was soon crawling around her body, engulfing her in complete darkness. She screams as she's suddenly shaken with terror, she bangs on the empty black walls, her heart the only sound in her head.
"LET ME GO! PLEASE! DANNY!" She pleads and falls to her knees, a voice suddenly echoes against the walls.
"Your duty is to discover what others have not, and your weakness is the darkness itself, your own darkness. The one that corrupts you to want to destroy, to kill..."
"What's happening to me!" She screams as her teeth slowly turn into fangs, and her nails grow longer, she was turning into a demon.
"You are turning into the true form of darkness, if you ever turn into this creature. You have failed completely, I shall now give you...your powers, Samantha Manson," the voice laughs and immediately a billion different lights from no where shock into her body, she screams in pain as she slowly transforms back into her original form, but the pain from the different shocks of magic coursed through her body.
"No!" she screams in despair, and suddenly the pain stops and she's lying back down on the ground. She gasps in relief and feels her entire body shake under her pressure, her head instinctively looks up towards the sky, where Danny the dragon was inches away from shredding her apart. She takes the medallion in her hand and grabs her bow and arrow.
She urgently ties the medallion around the arrow and launches into the air towards Danny, It won't work unless Danny stops moving though. She looks up towards the sky and smiles, her body suddenly juiced with an overwhelming power and energy.
Sam races towards the nearest house and climbs the roof top, she intently watches as Danny flies towards her, and the arrow with the medallion flying towards Danny. She claps her eyes into the sky and let's the sky speak to her, let's its energy flow through her hands, through her body.
"Darkna, THUNDARA!" The words came before she could stop herself, Thunder flew through her hands and she pointed towards Danny as if she held an invisible bow. A tear falls from her eyes as she launches her new power, at Danny. He stops in mid air as the thunder strikes him with full force, he screams in pain and emerald fire sprouts from his mouth as he burns from the shaking lightning.
"Oh, Danny," she looks away, he heart becoming numb. It was beating so fast, so slow...and hardly at all. She falls to the ground, watching in amazement as her plan comes to an end, the bow flies above Danny's neck and lands the medallion neatly on it. Sam watches as Danny was slowly turned back into himself, his eyes shut as he stumbles to the ground.
"Sam..." he groans and opens his eyes, She sat on her knees on the edge of a house, Danny crawls towards her, but he watches her shut her eyes and fall over the edge. He forces himself up and catches her before she falls.
He falls to the ground at the impact of her fall, she lay in his arms as he sat in the deserted streets of the village, the place they once thought would be safe enough for them. He felt light tears in his eyes at the sight of Sam's limp body. The side of her head bleeding and her skin slightly burnt from the thunder, he rests his forehead on the top of her head.
"I'm the idiot, god I'm so sorry," he whispers in her ear, and without thinking. He suddenly finds the incredible temptation again. He stares into her beautiful face, her long eye lashes caught the tears of the clouds as they fall above them, they run down her cheek and hid his own tears. He tucks her loose hair behind her ear, and traces his thumb down her cheeks
"So, incredibly, sorry." he mutters to himself before slowly pressing his lips on top of hers. It was a light kiss, but a kiss full of power that he himself falls to the ground, Sam still on his chest. The taste of his lips would be stuck to her forever, and the taste of her beauty, in his heart forever.
The man watches from a distance, his own purple orb glows brilliantly in the darkness, the images of Sam and Danny plastered across it.
"The kiss of a dragon, a very rare gift indeed. Perhaps, it is time, that I step into the picture." The man laughs before walking away and disappearing into the night.
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Author's note: Well that was the next chapter! I hope you all enjoyed it, I actually pray you all enjoyed it!! It seems Danny and Sam are closer than ever. And Danny has give her the, "Kiss of a Dragon." But what exactly does that mean for Sam and Danny? And...who is this man who keeps randomly popping up! And what about Travis!?
Well if you must know...you must wait for another update!! Until later readings thanks for taking up your time and reading this!!
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