I don't own Danny Phantom or any of the characters in this story. The original characters are doing a life sentence to their original owners without the chance of parole. The OC's belong to their respective owners. Enjoy Part 14 of Darkness without light.
"I have trained hard for this fight, and if I must go through you I will make it back to prove to Penelope I am not a loser!" Bertrand shouted as he went on the offense against Ember of all beings.
Bertrand instantly shape shifted into wasp and attempted to put the sting on Ember. However, upon doing this Ember facial expression went from one of determination to one of annoyance and with a fling of her fiery mane Bertrand took a nasty 2nd degree burn. Ignoring the burn Bertrand transformed into a giant centipede, and attempted to poison Ember with his venomous fangs. However once again Ember turned up the heat and slugged Bertrand in the fangs.
"You are really bugging me you worthless worm, Now get your butt ugly mug out of my face!" Ember hissed as sent a wave of musical fists at Bertrand sending him flying.
To make sure he was gone for good Ember sent one last stream of musical skulls of him which effectively punched him out of the ring and onto the ground. Upon hitting the ground the everyone in the audience looked at the now bugged shaped shape shifter and laughed with Penelope being the one laughing the hardest.
"Here is a lesson to you Bertrand, I only got with you because you were so submissive to me and did what I wanted. Why do you think I barely put out of you, and had you tied up in ghost proof ropes while I got what I needed from real ghosts? Oh and as I said before I won't be taking you back either. Find someone who doesn't mind that you can't change shape in the one place that counts." Penelope said causing a dark cloud to appear around Bertrand's head.
Penelope seeing this smiled as she took the extra misery from her ex which in turn added to her reserves of power.
Back in the ring
"I guess I will have to go through you in order to get to your cousin. I want revenge for my last defeat, and what better revenge is there then to kick his little cousin's butt?" Undergrowth said as Prince Aragon, and Youngblood went after her under the control of the mind vine.
Dani seeing this threat coming charged her hands with blue energy, and fired 2 ice beams not at Youngblood and Aragon, but Undergrowth himself.
"Aragon get rid of those annoying ice beam now!" Undergrowth commanded with authority.
"Yes father, I hear and obey!" Aragon said in a monotone voice as he transformed into his dragon form, and breathed fire to melt the incoming ice beams. Then with one flick of his scaly tail the Zombfied Aragon sent Dani flying to the edge of the ring.
Outside the ring
"I never got the chance to ask you Danny, but who is that girl fighting Undergrowth?" Dark Danny asked causing Danny to sigh.
"That would be Dani Phantom with an I. Vlad made her in an attempt to get to me, but like most of his other clones they failed. She was made from my DNA so even though she calls herself my cousin, she is really a female version of myself." Danny explained to his evil counterpart.
"That would explain why she fights like I used to before I became me." Dark Danny said dryly. "However, our conversation doesn't mean I am not going to kick your ass in the ring! Oh and if she somehow manages to make it back and I face her. Oh I am going to enjoy torturing her to make you and her suffer." Dark Danny said earning a glare from Danny.
Back in the ring
Vortex now split in his fire and ice half's was taking on both Rose and the Fright Knight. His heat half was facing Rose, while his icy half faced the Fright Knight. The soul shredder normally effective against any ghost was ineffective due to Vortex's already intangible form. Rose was also fairing now better against Vortex's heat half since all of her abilities were fire based.
"Is that the best you two weaklings can do?" Both the fire and ice Vortex's said at the same time before the original wind vortex appeared sending a strong gust of wind at the Fright Knight.
"Fright Knight, if we are going to get back into the tournament we are going to have to work together. I have an idea on how to defeat this blow heart!" Rose said to the winded Knight as she used her fire power on the Fright Knight's sword. "Slash the ice one with your soul shredder now!" Rose screamed causing the Fright Knight to comply.
"You really think that I can't take a little?" The three Vortex's never got the chance to finish off his sentence as each of them merged back into one, then instantly experienced his worst fear.
Inside of Vortex's mind
"What is going on here? Where am I?" Vortex asked as he felt an extreme heat wave he didn't like.
Vortex attempted to change the weather only for his powers not to work.
"What is going on here? My weather powers are not working! Oh god, no my powers are gone!" Vortex screamed.
Back in reality
"He is trapped in his worst nightmare kind of like how Apparition trapped you." The Fright Knight explained.
"Who cares about that? Garbage in, Garbage out!" Rose said as she picked up the nightmare consumed vortex, and threw him out of the ring.
"I will take care of your sister, you take care of Undergrowth since you have the advantage over him." The Fright Knight explained causing Rose to nod in agreement.
"Do me a favor and make Cry baby beg for mercy. That is always fun." Rose said just before she flew over to Undergrowth who was giving Dani a hard time.
Outside the ring
"Danny, there is something I need to let you know that is important." Desiree said getting Danny's attention. "When the finals begin the entire city of Amity Park will be able to see it. That Latina girl you had your eye on for the longest wished she could see you fight right after she wished to know what happened to you." Desiree explained causing Danny to raise an eyebrow.
"Let me guess, you made sure that everyone wished to for everything so you could gain a massive power boost for this tournament right?" Danny said in a dry tone.
"I have my eye on the prize so yes I made sure I did that. Besides when I win this I will be the queen of the entire ghost zone which was my original heart's desire." Desiree explained causing Dark Danny to laugh.
"Please you will have to go through everyone here including me, and I am going to make sure you lose if I face you." Dark Danny said with a sinister grin on her face.
"You can't exploit her weakness within her powers. It is one of the rules of this tournament evil me. Plus even though you did get a sizable boost in your power, I sense the same within Desiree, as well as many of the other contenders." Danny explained just as Prince Aragon, and Undergrowth came flying out the ring and onto the ground. The Fright Knight landed out of the ring as well, however unlike the other two he didn't hit the ground and flew back into the ring.
"Well that just leaves, Dani, Youngblood, Ember, Rose, and the Fright Knight.
Back in the ring
Youngblood shook his head to get back to his senses. He looked around and saw Ember by his side while the Fright Knight flew back to Rose's side a little shaken but ok.
"Ember, why did you save me for? Don't you want to get back into the tournament to win shark bait over there?" Youngblood asked causing Ember to smile.
"Oh I am going to make win this and make Baby Pop mine, but I would rather have you in the tournament along with me, over those three especially my older sister." Ember explained while The Fright Knight and Rose smiled.
Rose instantly went after Youngblood while the Fright Knight once again charged Ember along with Dani.
"My cousin won't be in no relationship with a kiss wannabe. Here is another tone for you, it is called Beat ITTTTTTT!" DanI said just before she unleashed her ghost wail on Ember. Ember seeing the attack coming turned herself body into a whirlwind of flames and moved out of the path of the attack unharmed. However, the Fright Knight wasn't so lucky, and as a result he was slammed into a wall instantly eliminating him from the contest.
"So now it is down to 4. Who will be the final two standing for their shot in the finals?" The ref announced as Dani continued to take on Ember, while Youngblood continued to fight Rose.
'Darn it I not only missed my target, but eliminated my ally. Plus using that attack took quite a chunk of my energy. I need to fight carefully now. Especially since Ember has another battle mode she isn't using yet.' Dani thought to herself as she continued fighting against Ember.
"You think you can stop be from getting what I want? Sorry dipstick, but Baby pop will be mine and there is nothing you can do about it!" Ember hissed as she used speed Dani couldn't keep up with, and with one strike of a cord sent a barrage of musical fists at Dani.
Seeing the attacks coming Dani like her cousin opened up two portals. One to block the attacks, and the other to redirect them back at Ember giving her a taste of her own medicine. Rose who had already defeated Youngblood began to snicker at her sister's misfortune.
"Dani was it? Make sure you take her out. That way me and you will go to the finals. In fact I think I will help you." Rose said as she proceeded to fly towards Dani and Ember.
'This isn't good. At this rate I will lose my one shot to be with baby pop. No that won't happen because I won't allow it! They already saw this with my battle with Dark inferno so I might as well give them a taste.' Ember thought as her aura began to glow, and her guitar vanished.
Instantly the entire stadium began to pulsate as Ember's end game mode became active.
Outside of the ring
"To think she was pushed to use that power against those weak and inferior ghosts. Oh god if she does make it back I hope I get the chance to fight her again." Dark Inferno said enjoying the heat.
Within less than a second Ember took off at an extraordinary speed, and delivered a savage fire punch to Dani sending her flying. Rose attempted to try and catch her, however DanI was flying too fast, and the end result was her being caught by Danny with a 2nd degree burn on her face.
"That takes care of that dipstick, now it is just you and me Rose! I will show you that I am the better fighter between the two of us." Ember hissed only for the Ref to stop them.
"The battle royal has been decided. Ember Mclain, and Rose Mclain will be let back into the tournament to fight for the prize." The Ref said causing Rose to smile.
"That won't be here cry baby. Don't worry though our time to fight will be here in the final's ring. Also don't look now but I think you pissed off cutie." Rose said as Danny flew towards Ember with a pissed off look on his face.
As Danny flew towards Ember, and met her face to face his aura of power could be felt by many of the ghosts in the stadium. For some of the other more powerful ghosts, a smile appeared on their faces.
'It seems he greenhorn ghost has managed to make himself stronger over the last month, and I can feel he is holding a good deal back. I hope I get to fight him in the tournament as this will be good.' Dark Inferno thought to herself.
'It seems my goodie two shoes younger self hasn't been playing around over the course of the break. It is a good thing I stepped up my game as well otherwise he would have taken me to school.' Dark Danny thought to himself still smiling.
"Ember I know you wanted to win your way back into the finals, but what you did to Dani was overkill. You better hope I don't fight you in the tournament." Danny said as he used his ice powers to heal Dani's burn.
"This is a tournament for ghosts fight for you. All is fair as long as it doesn't break the tournament rules. Now I will see you in the final baby pop." Ember said in a sweet tone just before both she and Rose vanished into a whirlwind of flames.
Now that the battle royal is done, will the winners of the contest please come to the podium and draw your numbers to see who you will be paired off against."
One by one the finalists took an lot from out of the hat until everyone had one. As each being opened their lots the numbers As learned their numbers each person read off their number.
Stage out
So ends part 14 of Darkness without light. I would have updated this after Christmas however tragedy struck me over the holiday in the form of losing my father. As for the 2 coming into the tournament The final result was the following
Rose 21
Ember 20
Dani 13
Fright Knight 1
YoungBlood 1
Vortex 0
Undergrowth 0
Prince Aragon 0
Bertrand 0
So since it was 2 people getting back in the tourney Rose and Ember are back in. The next updates will take a little longer since I want the final matches to be a bit longer to show of the select ghosts powers, as well as explain the background stories on each of them. If anyone has a pair they want to see fight each other voice it in your views. If I like it I will make it happen. R and R.