Thesis Statement! Chapter 10! Woot-woot~ Let's go peeps. :D No interruptions from me this time!
Legal Disclaimer: I've said it enough by now: I DON'T OWN DANNY PHANTOM!
Approaching the area Wulf and Phantom instructed him to meet them at, Danny stepped off his scooter and looked around for the two ghosts. He sighed and sat down, deciding to just wait for the two. A minute or two after he had chosen to sit down though, he spotted something in the not-too-distant-distance. He ran towards it, tears beginning to stroll down his cheeks as he realized what it was.
"Phantom?"
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Danny went running towards the two tied-up ghosts, panic swarming throughout his mind as he thought on the horrid fate the two had encountered.
"No! They couldn't have!" he ran as fast as he could.
He arrived promptly out-of-breath, his heart still racing with fear; however, when he finally got the courage to completely look at them, he noticed they were breathing.
"They're...alive?"
"Not when I get through with them," Walker appeared directly behind the two unconscious ghosts, a smug smile plastering his face.
"You're Walker?" Danny spat out at the man, anger clearly audible beneath his calm tone.
"The Ghost-Warden," he bowed, though politeness was far from the action's purpose, "And you must be the one Phantom here was talking about so much, Daniel."
"Danny, but yes, I am," Danny tried to reply coolly, despite the fact his mind was once again flying with ideas---'Phantom was talking about me? To Walker? No...he wouldn't have...would he?'---he regained his focus, "What's it to you?"
"You're the reason this law-breaker's been so unruly these past few weeks. It's my thinking I take you out, I won't have to deal with him anymore."
Danny gulped: He hated playing tough with people. It was hard enough with humans he felt disdain for, but ghosts he hated? That could kill him? It was a little bit more difficult trying to stay calm.
"You can try---" Danny said, cutting his statement off short for fear his voice would tremble.
"I don't need to try," Walker responded.
With that, Walker flew at Danny, his fist glowing in much the same manner Phantom had done to Skulker hours prior. Noticing the threatening look set upon Walker's face, Danny swiftly dodged the attack by jumping sideways. Walker's arm came forward with almost no room between it and Danny.
Danny looked at the man with wide-eyes, impressed by his speed.
"I've been a ghost much longer than your friend," Walker began, vanishing in mid-air from Danny's sight, "You'll find my abilities are much more impressive."
A chord was suddenly struck inside Danny when the realization of how bad the situation was hit him. Suddenly angry, he began to speak, "Phantom isn't my friend...he's my brother!!"
Danny spun around in his spot, staff in hand, and faced the direction Walker had suddenly appeared in. Before Walker could get out 'what?'
Danny had bashed the face of the staff into Walker and set it alight. Walker grunted in the smoke that appeared, small streaks left on the ground from where he slid, and gazed angrily at Danny.
"No wonder these two were having such trouble getting out of their shackles. They gave all their powers to you for the moment."
The smoke cleared and a visible smile was on Walker's face. He began laughing causing a confused look to form on Danny's face.
"Wha?"
"You see that gem?"
Danny didn't respond, but Walker continued talking full-well knowing the answer, "That's not just something these two had lying around. They had to use their ghost-powers to create that."
"They did?"
"And they'll be defenseless until the stone breaks or their powers go back to them from it."
Walker laughed even harder, "Ghosts trusting their powers to a human...That's a new one."
"Shut up!" Danny replied, firing another glowing blast at Walker.
"Hmmph. I hate to admit that, together, their powers are troublesome to me."
"Scared, are we?" Danny mocked him.
"Far from it, human," Walker disappeared once more and appeared behind Danny, hitting the boy away.
Danny went flying, the staff, having been knocked out of his hands, landing nearby on the ground.
"Ugh..." Danny groaned, the old bruises he had from Skulker before getting buffeted.
"You have no chance."
"I don't...care. I have to try..." Danny winced in pain as he stood up.
"Your removal from this world will be a painful one, then," Walker replied emotionlessly.
Danny rolled on the ground and grabbed the staff, firing it in Walker's direction. The Warden, being fully expectant of the attack, easily dodged it and suddenly appeared above him.
"Time to say good night."
Walker gathered his energy into his hands, and short-thereafter began to throw ectoplasmic orbs at Danny.
"Phantom...I...I can't!" Danny shouted thrusting his arms up in protection against a nearby blast.
No response was made in the smoke around where the boy had previously been, and Walker smiled in satisfaction. He headed over to where his force of ghosts was waiting and his boots landed with a click.
"What shall we do now, sir?"
"I want you to load up the Prisoners. We're heading back to the Ghost Zone to process and convict them."
"Uh, sir?"
"What?" Walker replied, turning to one of his officers to his side.
"What's that?"
"What's what?" he replied in annoyance.
"That, sir..." the ghost pointed.
As the smoke cleared, a thin green auric shield could be seen around Danny, several spots having large scorch-marks burned in.
"That prisoner is such an annoyance..." Walker groaned as he looked over at Phantom.
Danny, fully unaware he even survived the attack, was still cowering with his arms up when the smoke had cleared. When he had finally realized he was alive, the entire ghost-police-force was staring at him.
"Uhm...hi," he said, the shield powering down as he stood up.
They had all continued staring at him, apart from Walker who had already started trampling towards him. With a quick, "Uh...see ya!", Danny was off in the other direction; however, this didn't stop Walker, who was soon firing blasts towards him.
"Why did I agree to this..." he muttered to himself, hopping on his scooter. He began driving towards the man he'd previously been running from, staff in hand, getting ready to hit him at a moment's notice.
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Meanwhile, Walker's ghost troops were standing around, confusion sinking into the highest of their ranks.
"Uhm...what do we do?" one of the officers asked.
"Walker said to let him deal with them..." an officer replied.
"But that was the prisoners..." another chimed in.
"Isn't he a prisoner?" a fourth asked.
Their bickering continued on for sometime, even causing them to not notice Phantom had just woken up from the previous unconscious state he was in.
"Ugh...that hurt..." he groaned, trying to rub the spot on his head that had been bruised by Walker.
However, Phantom soon remembered everything that was happening, and shot up from the ground. He noticed the arguing troops, and suddenly asked, "Where's Walker?"
His question was soon answered when the speeding raven-haired boy went flying by, followed close thereafter by The Warden.
"That answers that question..." he scoffed, until realizing just what he'd seen, "Wait, why was Walker chasing after Danny?" he asked, knowing the reason as soon as he'd finished asking it.
As Phantom sat helplessly in his shackles observing the situation, Danny was speeding around on his scooter looking back to fire random blasts at Walker, none of which were yet successful at hitting him. Walker continually responded with near direct-hits on him, but Danny managed to avoid them so far. He sped by Phantom once more, and, upon looking over, noticed Phantom was staring right back at him.
As Danny observed Phantom's face, he noticed Phantom's lips were moving. He tried reading them, but the pressure of the situation didn't give him much allowance to just sit and gawk at things. He circled around the entire area once more, and saw Phantom was saying the same thing once more. He focused in on Phantom's lips, and, after a few moments, finally understood him.
'Keys'was the only thing Phantom was saying.
Danny looked behind his scooter to Walker, who, because of his intense focus upon Danny, hadn't realized Phantom had woken up. Danny looked as hard as he could for the keys, but Walker didn't seem to be carrying them. An unexpected wind suddenly blew by that waved around part of Walker's coat, revealing the small keyring attached to his waist. Danny was suddenly annoyed by the impossibility of the situation for him, and, being a teenage boy, got angry as a cause. Without warning, Danny flipped his scooter around and began driving towards Walker, who was taken aback by the action.
"Drive into your death, then," he suddenly said with a shrug.
With that, he launched a large glowing ball of energy towards Danny who gaped at it. He continued driving, hoping whatever had saved him before would do it again, seeing as how even if he had turned it would have hit him.
The staff suddenly began to glow a green hue that enveloped Danny and his scooter just as he braced for impact, apparently unaware the staff was working properly, and headed into the orb of energy. An explosion directly upon Danny caused cheering amongst Walker's forces, but when the boy emerged from the smoke completely unharmed their faces turned sour.
"Huge mistake, Walker," Danny provoked him, continuing towards the man who was now backing away.
Danny held out the staff to fire a blast at Walker, effectively hoping to knock off the keyring, but his hopes were dashed upon observation of the top of the staff. The little red orb that had been previously glowing brightly was now clear and cracked.
"Oh....shi---" he nearly cried out before catching himself. Unsure of what to do, Danny charged at Walker with the staff much like a jouster.
"Are you sure he's okay?" Wulf, whom had woken up a few moments ago and had been observing the fight, asked Phantom.
"At this point...I don't even know."
"That doesn't give me much hope, you know."
"Well...we'll get our powers back soon?" Phantom falsely smiled.
"They do us no good if we're in shackles."
"Eh-heh..." Phantom laughed nervously.
The two watched as Danny came into contact with Walker.
Walker, having not been in this sort of situation before, nearly stood there as Danny hit him with the staff. However, just before any serious contact could be made, he managed to get away.
'Damn it!' Danny was about to give up, not wanting to deal with any of it anymore. However, when he finally lifted his head from the frustrated pose he had been in, he noticed a small silver keyring atop the staff's head.
"I'm getting tired of you, human," Walker said backing away slightly.
Danny took this brief reprieve as a chance to go and give Phantom and Wulf the keys to their shackles.
Despite their gracious thank yous and such, the scene going down between the two shortly after seemed to be directly from a comic.
"No, no, you grab the end of the key, Wulf."
"I already have the tip of it though!"
"I can't get over there, though! You have to give me the tip."
"No, no, we'll do yours first and then mine since I have the tip of your key."
"How do you know it's my key?"
"It just is, Phantom! Now shut up and grab the end so I can get your shackles off."
Walker, who had now approached his troops and began talking to them, was suddenly interrupted when one of them shouted out, "Uh...sir. I think the human is helping the prisoners out of their shackles."
"WHAT?!" Walker said, grabbing for the keyring.
He turned completely enraged upon discovery it was missing, glaring at the trio as they attempted to get the shackles off.
"WELL WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING? GO STOP THEM!"
The entire force rushed towards the small group, armaments out and ready to fight.
"Uhm...guys...slight problem."
"Just hold on, Danny," Phantom said, concentrating on getting the key in the hole of the shackles.
"No, really, guys..."
"Just give us a sec..."
"Just let me do it!"
"No, we're almost there..."
The ghosts were less than a few dozen feet away at this point, to which Danny was getting extremely paranoid and angry.
"OH FOR THE LOVE OF..." he shouted, snatching the key from the two ghosts and unlocking Phantom's arms shortly followed by his legs.
"Yes!" he shouted out standing up and stretching.
Danny then did Wulf's shackles and the other ghost stood up.
"Now that that's taken care of, want to do something about all them?" Danny asked sarcastically, noting the troops approaching.
"Would you like to do the honors, Phantom?" Wulf asked, handing him the device.
"Sure. Now...what do I do with this?"
Danny gaped at him, "You're joking, right?"
"Heh-heh...yeah..." Phantom gulped and then whispered, "..I think."
With that, he tossed the object into the air towards the troops and let a small blast of his ectoplasmic energy hit it. The device's crevices began to overflow with green light and it grew monumentally in size. As the device neared its final size, about ten feet high, long, and wide, it slowly began to suck in the approaching troops. The army had split in half after the device was tossed, and ghosts from the center outward were slowly pulled into it.
"What? No!!!" Walker screamed, seeing the destruction facing his army.
"Yes," Phantom replied, suddenly behind the man.
He kicked Walker directly in the chest, causing him to go almost completely into the vortex that had been created. Winds all around could be felt flying into the portal, and trash, hair, grass, and pretty much anything else in the vicinity was being pulled toward the rift.
"You! This is all your fault, human!" Walker got up from the ground, walking towards Danny as the portal tried to suck him in. He reached Danny, who was backing away and had fallen down, and grabbed his throat, lifting him off the ground.
"I'll rob that treacherous prisoner of EVERYTHING!" Walker said, attempting to throw Danny into the rift, only to have him hold on by his sleeve.
'Please! Phantom, help!!' Danny thought holding on vigorously, not wanting to die at the current moment.
"Phantom, go get Danny! Walker's got him," Wulf cried to him, focusing on the portal, "I don't know how much longer my powers will let me keep this open!"
Phantom rushed towards Walker and Danny, who had been turned in the opposite direction of the portal. Phantom went along Walker's side, avoiding contact with him, and waited for Walker to turn towards the portal.
"Get off of me!" he screamed at Danny, turning and placing his hand on Danny's stomach to shoot him off.
"Don't you dare touch my little brother!" Phantom shouted at him, the shout turning into a huge ghostly wail-shock-wave that pushed him towards the portal. The sudden action made Walker drop Danny, and Phantom finished him off with a running and ectoplasmically-charged push that made him fly into the huge void waiting for him.
"Have fun in the prison of your own creation, Walker."
Wulf let go of his focus, and the portal slowly began to close itself. Half-expecting Walker to come groping out of the portal, Phantom stayed on full alert until the device had shrunken to its original size once more. Holding his head to focus himself from the dizzying task of keeping the portal open, Wulf walked over to the two twins that had looks of complete satisfaction on their faces. A slightly awkward silence arrived as quickly as Wulf had, but Danny soon broke it.
"So...what now?"
A/N: END OF CHAPTER 10. :P Yes, I am that mean. ^^ But, yeah! Walker finally got what he deserved w A few parts of this were a little awkward to write, but...I like how it turned out over-all. Of course, my opinion doesn't really matter, it's YOUR GUYS'S opinions that are important! So...I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and that you stick around for the best and final chapter of Thesis Statement!
Quick note before I go, though. I realize I changed some of Wulf's powers and Walker's and whatever, but...it was just for the sake of the story, plus I think that it flowed pretty nicely! But, again, it's up to you guys! So, please, rate and review it for me and tell me what you thought!
It's been really fun writing for you guys, and let's all stick together for a great ending. Thanks so much everyone. ~Shin-Shui~