In Danny's room, while he slept in his bed, a creature, a figure, entered. It looked human, but obviously wasn't. It was over six feet tall, and dressed in chains. Up and down its body were scars and gashes, all in various stages of healing and some looked quite infected. The most notable of these however was the big gaping whole where its throat was supposed to be. The chains that it had wrapped around its body often ended with hooks and blades, with one end invariably imbedded into the creature itself. The creature also appeared to be in a desperate need of pants. It looked down at Danny, who was shivering in his sleep; but not from the cold, then grabbed him by the ankle and threw him against the wall. Hard. Needless to say this woke Danny up.

"Ouch," shouted Danny, "what the hell…" he trailed off as he saw the creature in his room.

The creature threw his chains at Danny, hoping to snare him, but Danny turned intangible at that moment. Danny, being understandingly frightened, turned himself invisible and took flight. The creature, however, was not fooled and kept pace with Danny. It then shifted itself to match Danny in his incorperalness as they flew through the sky and hurled his chains once more. They struck Danny with the force of a wrecking ball, sending him careening to the ground. Danny passed through the ground and came back up about thirty feet from where he hit, this time flying low.

"Why the hell are you attacking me," shouted Danny, "and why the hell don't you have any pants you sick freak?"

The monsters response was to whirl his chains again, and strike. They cut Danny across the chest and he heard what sounded like a gut sickening snap from inside him. The chains then wrapped themselves around him and hauled him to the creature. Danny struggled to get free but could not as the manlike beast took a hold of him. Danny kicked for all his worth and it seems that he was worth quite a bit as he sent the monster reeling away, breaking its hold. Danny looked down at his chest and saw the gash closing, and then winced as he felt bones popping themselves back into place.

As Danny saw the creature get up he decided it was time to run again. It let out a howl that had everyone in a four block radius suddenly waking from their sleep, with visions of nightmares dancing before their eyes.

"Damn you're loud." Said Danny as he poured on the speed.

He looked behind him and saw that the creature was, once again, right behind him. As Danny went lower and faster, the monster went faster and higher. Up until the point it decided to come crashing down on him. When Danny hit the ground, he felt his arm snap as he tumbled away from the monster. He got up with a groan and looked at he beast, looked at his arm, and remembering his ribs and the gash, snapped his arm back into its proper position. The result, while excruciatingly painful, was almost instantaneous as his arm mended.

"Ok," said Danny, "I am sick of running, I am sick of being pounded on, and I am most decided sick of not fight back."

Danny's hair and eyes changed to their white and green as he let out a yell that sounded more like a lions roar than a boy's shout as he flew to meet the monsters rush. They hit each other and the impact made the street buildings windows rattle as it was like a small bomb going off. They both went reeling and Danny almost blacked out there for a moment. The creature whirled its chains around again, but this time Danny caught them.

"Ha," Danny shouted in triumph, "not so tough with out these now are you?"

Danny's victory was short lived as the chains began to move on there on and struck like a cobra, there lengths increasing as they twisted round and there hooks and blades buried themselves into his back.

"Not so tough now are you?" the creature taunted, its grin putting a sharks to shame with his jagged teeth.

As the creature reeled Danny in again, Danny looked up once more. He dug his feet in, and yanked on the chains hard. And as he did all the light on the streets from the lamps seemed to be pulled in towards him, And with a shout, Danny shattered the chains, the light exploding back outwards. The creature flew back, and Danny fell to his knees. While the monster struggled back onto his feet, Danny let his wounds heal again. When there eyes met, the monster decided it was time to run. And it was Danny's turn to chase.

There flight had led to a sheltered alley way were a homeless man was taking refuge for the night. And in the homeless man, the beast saw an opportunity. Grabbing the hobo from his bag, he held one of his hooks to his belly, and when Danny rounded the corner, he slit open the man's belly and let him drop to the ground.

"You can either continue to chase me, or you can help him," the creature spoke.

The man of the street was gibbering incoherently as he tried to keep his innards inside of him. Not an easy thing to do because innards are slippery smooth, especially when coated in blood. The creature ran away while Danny stood there in shock for a moment. An odd thought occurred to Danny just then.

'It doesn't look much different from the frog I had to dissect in biology,' was the thought.

And it was that thought that allowed him to keep from panicking. He scooped the man up off the ground and took him to a hospital as fast as he could. Turning himself and the man invisible, he landed in front of the doors where a pair of paramedics was having a coffee break. He set the man down and then flew away.

Danny did not get very far before he had to land. Setting down in an alley, Danny proceeded to heave his guts. Shaking, he turned away from the mess, stepped the other side of the alleyway, and sank all the way to the ground, his back against the wall. As the world swam away from him, he found himself wishing for nothing more than to go back home.