Chapter 20: The Battle of Shadows part 2
Dani Shade and Zepherus clash swords. Zepherus swings at her, but Dani flies over and punches Zepherus. The shadow king summons more shadows, who attack Dani. She flips, jumps, and slashes Shadows until there are no more.
"Are you going to hide behind shadows, or are you going to fight, Zephzero?" teased Dani.
Zepherus scowls. "How is this possible? How can a more human be a Shade? I made sure I killed them all."
Dani smiles. "Guess what, you missed one." She swings her sword, making it extend on a chain. The Gladius slashes Zepherus across the chest. Clutching his wound, Zepherus throws his sword. It misses Dani, and turns back. Dani twist and blocks the attack, but her sword flies out of her hand. The sword embeds into the wall, an inch from Jake's head.
"Whoa! Watch where you drop that!" he yelled.
"You want me to be shish kabob?" Dani said. She looks up at the shadow king.
Zepherus says, "Well. Weaponless again." He raises his sword. "And this time, you will die!" Zepherus brings his sword down.
"Dani, catch!" yelled Ember and Jake, throwing the guitar and sword. Dani grabs each in one hand, and raises it up to block the sword. Zepherus's sword bounces off, and Dani swings Jakes sword, but the shadow king blocks. Cackling with energy, Zepherus blast a ray from his sword. The teen shadow plays Embers guitar and a green swirling beam shoot out. The two blasts explode, sending both Zepherus and Dani backwards. She lands next to Ember, surrounded by shadows. Ember asks, "How many shadows are there?"
"As many as he wants." Dani answers. She gives back Ember's guitar. "Here."
Ember smiles. "Thanks." She blast more shadows, while Dani flies back to Zepherus. He says, "Why do you keep fighting? It's hopeless. Just give up."
"I will never give up. As long as I still breathe, there is still hope." Dani said. She fires at the shadow king, but he dodges. "You may be a shade, but you're powerless without the Gladius."
"You're right." said the teen. She throws Jake's sword, making Zepherus dodge. Dani extends her arm, and the Gladius of Shadow fly back to her hand. The sword glows, and Dani grips it in both hands. She points it at the king, and a black beam shoots out. Zepherus blast his own ray, and the two meet. The beam lets out a faint black dome, enveloping the teen and the shadow king. Ghost, humans, and shadows stop to watch. Danny asks Austin, "Uh, what's happening?"
"I have no idea." was his answer. "I've never seen anything like this."
Dani starts to struggle against the force of the beams. Zepherus's beam starts forcing Dani's beam back.
"Stop struggling and I will give you a painless death." Zepherus said.
Dani says, "Yeah. In your dream." She uses more power in her beam, and it slowly backs the shadow king's. The two rays move back and forth, as Zepherus and Dani Shade put more power to it. Beads of sweat start running down Dani's face, and she could feel her power slowly diminishing. Apparently, Zepherus could sense it. "Just join us. With the power we give you, you don't have to worry about being tired."
Dani doesn't answer. She concentrates on beating the shadow king, but her beam is slowly backing against Zepherus's. She doesn't know how long she can hold on. The ray is only an inch from her blade, slowly backing.
"Dani, don't give up." said Sam.
"You can beat that punk." yells Ember.
"Dani, when has a bully ever let you down?" asked Danny.
"Dani, you have the power of ten Zepherus's. I know you can fight it. Where's the stubborn girl I know?" Jake said.
Hearing this, Dani's eyes start to glow. Zepherus's beam stops, and starts receding back to him. Shocked, Zepherus puts more effort to his ray, but the beam still retreats at the sword. Cracks appear on Zepherus's sword. "How can this be? I am the most powerful being!"
"Sorry to ruin your fun," Dani said. Her beam starts breaking the shadow kings sword, and keeps going at the handle. The ray breaks the handle and hits Zepherus. "But your rule has expired."
Zepherus screams as he feels like being ripped to pieces. Black swirls appear, circling the shadow king. Zepherus starts vanishing, until a black vapor is left, and that dissolves. Dani lowers her sword, closing her eyes. Her black suit changes to her modern jeans and shirt, and the Gladius of Shadow turns back to a dagger. She falls down, and is caught in the arms of Jake. Dani open her eyes, which have turn back to sea blue eyes. "Jake?"
"Yeah, saving you from being a part of the street. Again." he said. Jake puts Dani down, helping her stay on her feet. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just a little worn out."
Danny, in his human form, walks up to them. "Maybe it's an after effect from being Dani Shade."
"Zepherus?" wondered Dani.
Her brother smiles. "He's gone."
Dani sighs. "That battle pretty much drained me. I hope I don't have to go through that again."
The hybrid boy chuckles. "Yeah. Need any help getting home?"
Jake lets go of Dani, who stays on her feet. "I can handle it."
Everyone starts to walk home. Jake looks back to see Dani just standing there. "Dani, are you coming or what?"
She doesn't answer. Jake takes a closer look and sees Dani's eyes glowing gold. "Uh, Danny. I think you need to see this."
Danny tells everyone to go on, and he walks to Jake. Danny sees his sister staring at nothing with her golden eyes. He shakes Dani, trying to wake her up. "Dani. Wake up. Dani!"
The teen girl shakes her head, her eyes back to normal. She sees her brothers worried eyes. "What?"
"Dani, what was that?"
"What was what?" asked Dani.
"Your eyes were glowing gold. Is there something wrong?"
Dani grasps her head. "I don't know. I was walking when a picture appears in front of me. I saw myself fighting some creepy ghost with flaming hair. After that, I saw you looking at me."
Danny raises an eyebrow. "You, sawa fight with you in it?"
The teen girl nods. Danny, unexpectedly, grins. "Dani, that's awesome!"
"W-what? How is me fighting a ghost awesome?"
"You don't see it? Sis, you can see the future! What you saw was an upcoming battle with a ghost."
Dani blinks, not believing what she's hearing. The ghost boy continues to talk. "Man, this is great. We have to tell everyone. C'mon Dani."
"I'll be there in a sec." Dani said.
"OK." Danny runs to his friends. Unlike her brother, Dani is worried. She looks at Jake, and silent agreement comes between those two.
Dani Fenton is a diviner. And her future is not looking so great.
A ghost watches the teen girl run after her brother in a circular portal. The ghost is tall, muscular man wearing a light purple toga with a purple cloak connected with a gear. A hood covers is pale blue face with red eyes, and a scar running across one of his eyes. He wears pale purple gloves covered with watches. He wears a belt with a stopwatch connected to it. The most bizarre feature of this ghost is the clock in his chest. He carries a staff with a clock on top. He has a ghost tail that doesn't turn into feet.
The ghost lives in a cathedral full of clocks everywhere, one act as a clock TV. His home is surrounded by floating clocks and floats in a dark green section of the Ghost Zone.
Even though he didn't hear anything, he knows he has visitors. The ghost turns and spots two ghosts. They both have eyes in orbs for heads, and wears yellow and white togas with a black band in the middle. The two ghosts wear black capes that extend upward. Their hands end in claws, and they don't have any feet, just a straight tail.
"Observants. I was expecting you." The blue ghost said.
"Of course you expected us, Clockwork. You are the master of time." said Observant 1.
"I presume you know why we're here." Observant 2 said.
"Yes. You fear the girl's future." Clockwork turns back to his clock portal. It shows Dani Phantom fighting a woman wearing dark clothes, with flaming hair and blood red eyes. "You think her future will ruin everyone's future."
"Yes." Observant 1 said. "In order to save the future, Danielle Phantom must perish."
Coming Soon: The Ultimate Shadow
Author's Note: Only four chapters plus the prologue has been rewritten so anything past chapter four is earlier writing and have not been rewritten yet.