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Chapter 10: Breaking Point.
Danny searched around.
In all of his years if his experience in ghost fighting, he is usually very good at finding things. Like that time where he found a bolt for one of his parents' inventions or that time he found a used condom in his college art class.
Okay, he seriously didn't need to remember that.
He followed the trail to where the Black Raven took Freakshow. Right now he's at the South side of Amity Park; Elmerton. The neighborhood wasn't in top shape since he last remembered it. Probably due to the ghost problem and the crime rate. It's funny that Amity Park never had a crime rate before. Not since the great massacre of 1972.
But that's another story.
Danny flew down to the streets, looking around to find the masked ghost hunter. He had a chill as he sense someone is near. The presence had this dark aura, a powerful one to be exact. Danny has never felt this much powerful presence since...
Dan.
Could the Black Raven be Sam's Dan? The inner darkness that Sam has in herself that she didn't want to release? While Dan was a homicidal maniac who enjoys the end and destruction, the Raven enjoys killing ghosts. But there's no enjoyment in killing ghosts than killing Freakshow. But the Sam he knew was an optimist, she taught him that being unique is good.
When Sam died, he decides to use his powers more responsibly. Sure the town would hate him, but what can he do about it? He's going to save them no matter what they think of him. A menace to society, a freak of nature, an abomination that mocks God's work? What do they know. Now that he's older, he's more wiser and more responsible with how he use his powers. And that's what made Sam fall for him, his responsibilities.
"So, you came." Danny turn to the source of the voice as he look through the alleyway. It was the Black Raven as she emerges from the shadows, holding her ecto knife and pistol with her. "Ready to dance?" He asked as lightning crackles.
Danny let his hair fall onto his facets it starts to rain. He wonders what has she been through in all these years.
"So, we're dealing this with a knife fight or something? Cause I got no weapon to use in my hands." He said as he waves his free hands as the Raven threw him a knife down in between his feet.
"Optimism, I've remembered what that is like." The Raven dryly replied as she readies her knife.
"You were always a caring person for Mother Earth...Sam." Danny told as he knew this will get her to snap.
The Black Raven didn't say anything as she charges at Danny with the green blade in her hand as Danny dodges it. But what the halfa didn't expect was for her to do a back kick on him in the jaw. Danny uses the Fenton Fisher to entangle the Raven's feet as he trips her down on the street.
"Forgot how much amazing toys you got." The Black Raven comments as she threw Ecto throwing stars at him. Danny dodges as one of them cuts his shoulder. He then shoots an Ecto ray towards her as the Black Raven gets hit with it. She crash to the wall of the building as she groans. She looks at her still entangle feet as the wires are still connected to Danny's Fenton Fisher, so she brings out her taser to shock the wire as it shocks Danny, causing him to scream as he falls down. "But you're not the only one with good toys." She said as she flew up using her rocket boots as she head straight towards the roof.
Groaning, Danny looks at where the Raven is going as he flew up to the roof as well. He followed the purple cloaked woman as he wondered what's she's to, but he knows that she must be stopped. He charge at her as he tackles her to the floor, pinning her down. The Black Raven struggles as Danny pins her hands to the ground, and his knees on top of her's. Using every ounce of strength she has left, she uses her head to knock Danny's jaw out as she flips him over with her wrist blade near his neck.
The Raven glares at him through her mask, as she spoke. "I thought you were stronger than that."
"I am." He replied as he turns intangible as he disappears into the floor.
"Forgot he could do that." The Black Raven muttered as she uses her state of the art ghost vision in her lens to detect him. She turns around as she didn't notice that the halfa is closely behind her.
Danny's hands glow as soon as the Raven turns around only to see Danny blast her off of the roof and falls towards another roof, this time a cathedral. She hits onto the flat surface of the roof as Danny floated down towards her to see if she's alright. As he gets close to her, she punches him in the nose, causing him to stumble back as he wince through the pain of his bloody nose.
"You must be crazier than I thought, Ghost Man." The Raven snarled as she held her knife as she aims it at him.
Danny winced as he stops the bleeding from his nose as he turns to her. "Hey, I didn't mean to throw you off of the roof! I was protecting myself."
"Always thinking about yourself." The Raven said as she looks at him. "But you know, I'm impressed. You've manage to take me down four times. Must be rusty." She muttered "So if you manage to take me out a fifth time, I'll give you a reward." She said in a sultry voice.
"Alright, maybe I can feel those wide hips and that bubbly ass of yours." Danny quipped as the Raven felt flattered.
"Wow, did you kiss your mother with that mouth?" The Black Raven asked as she charges towards him with her wrist blades at him.
Danny dodges the wrist blades but one of them cuts his side. He yelped as the wrist blade stabs him in the thigh, letting green liquid spill out of his leg.
"GAAAAHHHH!" Danny screams as the Black Raven kicks him as he falls down. The halfa grabs his bleeding leg as the ghost hunter straddles him around his waist as she cross her wrist blades around his neck.
"Looks like I win this one." The Black Raven notes. She heard him chuckled. "What's so funny?!"
Danny just looks at the masked girl with a weak smirk as the drops of rain fall onto his face. "Think...fast." He muttered as the Raven felt her mask helmet disappeared. She growled as she brings her blades together to behead Phantom, who reveals to be just a duplicate.
The real Danny Phantom stood carrying the technological mask-helmet as he looks at the cloaked woman's dark and wavy long hair. All he could think of was something he remembered a long time ago...
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Flashback
Six years, and three months before Freakshow was on the loose...
Watching the sunset together at the old oak tree at the park, Danny and Sam sit near each other as they see the sun set down.
"Man, isn't this a beautiful sunset." Sam asked as she brings her knees together.
"Yeah, more beautiful than that time with the Nocturne incident." Danny states. "Man, Tuck would've seen this if he wasn't bed written with a sick stomach ache."
Sam snorts. "He's probably too busy watching those echii animes where girl's clothing are made of napkins and shows lots of fanservice, and hentai."
"Yeah, that's Fairy Tail in a nutshell." Danny quipped.
"You watch that show?" Sam asked him.
"I can't even stomach through the first five minutes of it." Danny replied as he turn to see two of Danny Phantom fan girls died their hair white. "You'd think the fan girls would only care about boy good looking the guy looks rather than seeing through the personality and his actions."
"Really? Give me an example?" Sam asked.
"Deathstroke from Teen Titans." Danny answered. "The guy is basically what Vlad is similar, but more darker and more cooler. He stalks and fights teenagers, and manage to get two of them to be his apprentice, for a short time, and the mind-raping on those teenagers. The guy uses tactics and manipulations just to arch some teenagers, and he's a creeper. But despite all of that, the fangirls just love him."
"Could you imagine Vlad with fangirls." Sam joked as she chuckled.
"Yeah, and some loser fangirl from DeviantArt would create Mary Sues for him." Danny adds as he laughs.
They both laugh as Sam stops laughing as Danny did as well. They both sigh as they continue to watch the sunset.
"Hey Danny." She spoke.
"Yes, Sam?" Danny asked as he turns to her.
"You wouldn't let anything bad to happen to me, or everyone you cared about, right?" Sam asked as she continues to look at the sunset.
"W-what? I won't let anything bad happened to anyone! You will be the last person I'll let get hurt under my watch!" He declared.
Sam smiled in relief as she replied. "Thanks, Danny. I hope that won't happen anytime soon."
Flashback Ends.
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Lightning flashed as the Black Raven turns around to reveal herself to Danny. The halfa gave a stern look at the ghost hunter's face. Her long shoulder-length black hair drops down due to the rain. Her amethyst eyes look different, they were cold and were the eyes of a killer. She has an X-shaped scar over her left cheek as well as a scar on her nose. Her black lips with a cut on the bottom of the lip is quite noticable. Her body grew more matured, even in her slim and athletic figure. To Danny, she can bring Paulina and Ember to shame.
"Sam." Danny muttered as the young woman stood in front of him with a smug look.
"Yes." Sam replied quietly.
"I don't want to fight you, Sam."
"All evidence to the contrary."
"Please Sam, I can help you." He offered. "I've heard what happened to you."
"Oh, got a talk with Vlad, huh?" She asked dryly. "You'd want to make it easier that taking that dip in some fountain of youth turned me rabid? Or that I have become like this because I've chose to." She pressed something in her person as Danny looks at the mask-helmet he was holding.
He quickly drops the helmet as he kicks it over in the air as it explodes. He duct down only to find a steel toed boot hit him in the face. He falls back as he stops himself just as he watch Sam charging at him. The female hunter brings out a blade as Danny caught her blade hand as he twist it to behind, as he gives her a head lock.
"Tell me, what bothers you more? That someone played god and brought back the girl you love, or that I've diminished your ego since I've became a better ghost hunter than you, Valerie, and those Douches in White?" Sam asked as she push back Danny to a wall as she spins out of his grip. She charge at him with the knife but Danny jumps onto her as he clashes the blade she gave him with her's.
"You're ruling through intimidation and the countless murders to not only ghosts, but the GIW agents you've killed." Danny retorts as he grips the knife with hers like a sword.
"I'm what Amity needs!" Sam countered as she brings her blade away as she kicks him in the chest. Phantom stumbles back as Sam jumps onto his shoulders wrapping her legs around his head as he struggles to let her go.
"Even in this armor...your thighs are warm." Danny quipped in his usual manner of speaking.
"Grow up." Sam replied in monotone as she clicks her rocket boots to get the halfa up in the air despite that he can fly.
They both landed onto another rooftop as Sam drops him down as he rolled over. He gets up as he looks at her trying to stab him again as he grabs her arm as he pins her to the billboard sign.
"We're all a bunch of misfits of the night. Both menaces taking each other out, huh Danny?" Sam asked as Danny showed no emotion.
"True, but what if I do this." Danny pulls out one of Sam's light ups which makes her eyes widen of realization. He drops the light up onto her cloak pocket as it burst into flames.
In a panic, she kicks him off as the former goth takes her flaming cloak off of her as she is now just in her kevlar armored suit. She looks around for Danny as she clicks her rocket boots again to escape. She looks back to see Danny following her, as he shoots an Ecto-ray towards her left boot, causing a malfunction. Now she is pissed as she has to fly with one of her boots, but she looks at her target window of another apartment as she crashes down to the bathroom.
Falling onto the tub, she gets up as she felt a cracked rib. Gonna have to get that one fixed later. She looks back as she saw Danny facing her as he enters the window to the bathroom.
"This is far enough, Sam." Danny growled as his green eyes shine in anger.
"Try it!" Sam growled back as she brings her wrist blades towards him as Danny manages to grab them even though it hurts him. He snakes the blades away from her as he threw them out of the window.
"No more tricks!" Danny shouts as he grabs Sam's shoulder and threw her to the wall. Sam flips back up as she aims her punch towards him as Danny dodges and she hits the bathroom plated walls, hard. She did a back kick towards him but Danny caught her ankle as he shoves her down as her head hits the sink, followed by the toilet as both break from the hit.
She gets back up as she backs away to prepare herself. Danny can tell that she is exhausted, tired from the fight. Good for his advantage. He uses his arms to strike at her sides, follow by pulling her head to his knee. He then grabs her chest as he pulls her to him so he can give her a head butt. He then swings her to the plated wall as he shouts. "You say you want to be better than me? But it won't happened, not like this!" He then uses his glowing left hook of his hand to punch her powerful enough to crash her to a different room. She groans as she lands on the floor of the room.
Danny walks towards her, hoping that he didn't do any damage. He never felt so...brutal with his opponent. Was he really that hardcore of a fighter like Dan and Vlad describes him to be? He just beat up his friend out of rage for crying out loud.
"Sam, are you okay?" He asked as Sam gets up, with a gun in her hand.
"I'll live." Sam replied as she gets up with the gun in her hand. It was filled with Ecto-bullets.
"Sam, I know that I failed to save you..." Danny started as he felt a tear coming out of his eye. "But I'm tried to save you, Sam. I tried so hard to rescue you. Now, I'm trying to save you now."
"Is that what you think this is about?" Sam asked him as she sniffs. Now a tear falls out of her eye. "That you let me get tortured and killed? I don't know how clueless you are; but you're always known to be that way, don't you?"
Danny flinch when she saids that, it was the truth.
"Danny, I forgive you for not saving me." She said as her voice turned edgy. "But why..." She breathes heavily. "Why on God's earth..." She kicks the closet door to open, revealing a bloody, bruised up Freakshow tied to a chair as she finished. "IS THIS MONSTER ALIVE!?"
Freakshow opens his eyes as he looks at Sam, and then at Danny as he grew a smile as he starts to crackle madly. "Gotta give the goth girl points! She came back from the dead to make this hootenanny happen! So who's got a camera? Take mine with the girl first, then you and me, then the three of us, and one with the crowbar, and then-" he didn't finished as Sam got annoyed as she bashed him with her gun as he falls down.
As Freakshow's head is on the floor, Sam's gun lay on his head. "You better shut up, or there's going to be a bullet on your lap." She threatens with a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"Party pooper." Freakshow muttered as Sam stands up.
"Ignoring what he's done in the past." She started as she looks at Danny. "Using ghosts to do his bidding, almost got us all killed during summer break. Thousands who have suffered by his hands after Vlad breaks him out, the friends he's crippled," Tucker was the first thought of mention. "You know," she continued to sniff as tears falls out for no reason. "Once I heard that time...you told me that I was the last person you'd see get hurt..." Her eyes were watery "If it had been you that he beat to a bloody pulp...if he had taken you from this world..."
"Sam..." Danny whispers in sympathy.
"I would've done nothing, but search the planet for this smarmy, pathetic pile of evil death-worshiping shit, and send him to hell where he belongs!"
Danny gave her a long look as his eyes narrowed. "I don't think you'd understand..."
"Oh, don't tell me that I don't, Danny." She spat. "I know that you don't want to end up like him. You have a moral code to not kill that just won't allow for that."
"That's not the only reason-"
"Then what is? Is it too hard to cross that line? Does he still haunt you at the mere thought, of killing this man will only make you think that you are closer into becoming him? Because Danny, he will not-"
"NO! God almighty, no." Danny yelled as he looks down on the floor. "It'd be too damn easy. All I ever wanted was to kill him. I have murderous thoughts about him when I sleep. You don't know how much I wanted to subject him into torture for all the things he's done to break us apart. And then, end him."
"Aw, how touching. You do think about me." Freakshow mockingly said with a sinister smile.
"But if I do that, if I let myself go down into the path of no return..." Danny's eyes became watery as he finished. "I will never come back as the hero, but the villain that I'm afraid to become."
Sam looks at him indifferently as she respond. "Why? I'm not talking about killing Skulker, or Technus, or Spectra. I'm talking about him. Only him! I'm doing it because...he took me away from you."
Now it was Danny's turn to answer "I can't. No matter what, I cannot kill him."
Angry, Sam grits her teeth as she raise her gun. "Then I'll leave you no choice." She digs into her left pouch as she pulls out a gun, a real gun as she throws it towards him as he catches it.
Danny looks at the gun, as he said. "I won't-"
"This is what this is about..." Sam then breaks Freakshow's bindings as she pulls him up and grabs him with the gun pointing at his head. "This is about you, me, and him. If you won't kill this psychopath, I will! If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me!"
"You know I won't-"
"I'm gonna blow his derange brains out." She interrupted. "If you want to stop it, shoot me in the face!"
"Sam, I'm not going to shoot you!" Danny shouted at her.
"Do it, Danny. It's either him...or me." Sam shouts back angrily. The halfa looks at Sam as he notice the position she is holding the gun. When he stared at the stressful woman before him, it hit him like a ton of bricks.
He couldn't believe it, but she wanted him to kill her.
She was shaking.
"Sam..." He tries to negotiate and to calm her down as he steps towards her. "Calm down."
"Just do it, Danny! Either I go, or he goes!" Sam yelled as she still has Freakshow at gunpoint.
"It doesn't have to be this way, Sam. I am not going to kill you-"
"Don't step any closer, Danny!"
"If you just listen-"
"I will shoot him!"
"Do you want me to shoot you, because you don't like what you've become?"
Sam has a look of a mix between anger, and sadness. That look just breaks Danny's heart when he sees the unstable woman looking like she's about to scream.
"You thought you'd find peace when Freakshow killed you. But Vlad played god and brought you back to life." Danny points out as he was closer to Sam and Freakshow. "Vlad told me that you've fallen off a cliff and there was no way that you could've survived that. That Renaskigi River he told me about didn't just revived you from the dead, it made you immortal, right?"
The halfa is usually been told that he's not so smart. But sometimes, he has been known to point things out even by the littlest of things. Like when he beat Sam up, he noticed how she's not limping, and the fact that her nose stopped bleeding and the bruises on her face...disappeared.
Healing factor.
All Sam saw was red. She didn't know what happened but there was a gunshot. It didn't point to the paste faced menace, but she had her gun towards him. Danny was lucky enough to dodge the bullet, as he threw an Ecto-knife towards her gun as it hits and destroys the gun out of her hand. She drops Freakshow to the floor to wince at her bleeding hand as he laughs maniacally.
"I knew you'd find a way!" Freakshow crackles insanely. "Oh you would've been a good knife thrower if I had my Circus Gothica back!"
Sam held her bleeding hand as it starts to heels itself. She looks at Danny who just stood there as all she could see are her tears.
"I didn't want it to be this way." She muttered as she gets herself up. "That river Vlad put me in warped my mind! I'm a monster, Danny!"
"No you are not." Danny reassures her as he is closer to her. "You are Sam Manson. A good friend, a good partner, and a good girl that I've always fell in love with." As he lean closer, he pressed his lips onto hers.
Sam felt her heart flustered when Danny's lips connected to hers. Every bloodlust she has is gone as she returns it to him. Six years they have been separated from each other for so long, it's killing them. If Danny didn't have his eyes shut, he would've noticed Sam pressing a red button from her pouch.
They broke the kiss as soon as Danny heard beeping noises. He turns around as he saw a time bomb connected to some nitroglycerin bombs. He panicked as he reads the timer: 20 seconds.
"I'm sorry, Danny." Sam whispered in a tone of remorse. "I can't live like this."
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Cliffhangers...you gotta love a good cliff hanger.
Also a fanfic rant, is how most Fanfics always make Danny over powerful. I mean, not just his ice powers or controlling the weather with his feelings, but give him a ton of powers that'll make him like Superman, or a Gary Stu. Folks, Danny isn't that powerful, why bothered to add some powers and make him either a half demon or half angel. I know there's like unlimited imagination but come on, there's no point to it.
Also, why does the fans always make Danny a walking ball of angst? He's not like that all the time in the show, especially Sam(surprise, there is a difference between Goths and Emos. Look it up).
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