Ok, I've gone back and edited past chapters so that they all have line breaks. I've tried to put lines and symbols, but the only thing that shows on the actual site, it LINEBREAK. Now I know I left it at a cliffhanger last time, but that's my style. So, congratulations, you've allowed me to waste your time for the last couple months, so I've decided to take some more of your time and continue.
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"Valerie" Daniel said stonily. "I need you to trust me"
The huntress stared dumfounded at the ghost that held her wrists, her mouth open in shock, her eyes giving a fierce glare. Did a ghost, the very thing she despised most, just ask her to trust him? Were there ghost drugs she didn't know about?
"Why the hell should I trust you? Ghost scum!" she hissed, twisting and flailing her arms in a vain attempt to break free.
"All the ghosts you've met may be scum, but I'm different". Valerie nearly snorted with contempt. Ghosts were all the same, evil.
"Yeah right, you're a ghost, therefore you're evil". Daniel sighed, it would be hard to break her of her set in stone belief that all things ghostly were pure evil and malevolent.
"I'm not evil Valerie, I'm far from it, hell I'm not even a ghost". He released her wrists and quickly shoved her forward several meters, and with a flash he assumed his human form. "I'm a halfa". The huntress' jaw literally fell to the floor when she a perfectly normal looking person staring back at her.
"So not only are you a ghost, but you've also overshadowed someone, that's supposed to make me trust you?" She clicked a button on her belt and an oversized bazooka folded out of it and strapped itself to her arm. She aimed it directly at Daniels face. "I'm going to count to three, and you better get out of that man, or we'll see just how much longer your afterlife will last".
"I'm not possessing anyone, I am man and ghost at the same time" he paused for a moment. "Take a close look at me Valerie, who do I remind you of? Look back a decade and tell me." Valerie didn't lower her weapon, however she used the built in scope to focus in closely on her target. However unnecessary she deemed it, Valerie examined the features of the 'halfa' in front of her.
Jet black hair, baby blue eyes, a handsome face and an aura of tension, these are the things she took note of as she looked him over. She literally dropped her gun when the name came to her mind.
"D-Danny?" she asked slowly, her voice dark and low. Daniel smiled warmly at her.
"It's good to know you haven't forgotten my face Val".
"B-but how?" she stuttered, taking a hesitant step towards him. "You were killed years ago; they say you were Phantoms first victim". Daniel looked at her for a moment, before flicking his wrist towards the blaring siren that sat upon a large steel telephone pole, causing it to explode in a bright green light.
Valerie jumped. How the hell could this be Danny? She thought to herself. He was no ghost!
"Walk with me Val, I'll explain when we get there" he turned on his heel, and before Valerie could object, he was walking down the street at fast pace. She ran after him, until she was level with him, jogging to keep up with his significantly longer stride.
It wasn't long before Fenton Works was no more than a hundred yards away.
"Why are you taking me here?" Valerie demanded, wondering if she should just kill him, after all, he was a ghost in at least some form. But she reconsidered, Daniel was clearly faster than her, and even she couldn't break his grip. On top of that he destroyed the Fright Knight with literally no effort. So attacking him would be suicide.
"You live here in this time, don't you?" Daniel asked.
"This time?" Valerie questioned, what the heck was that supposed to mean?
Without warning the building imploded, the op center tumbling down, cracks forming from the foundation all the way to the buildings peak.
"Dad!" Valerie screamed in horror. In one clean motion Daniel took her by the elbow, entered his ghost form, and dove into the ground, phasing their way down to the basement. A rush of nostalgia hit Daniel when they landed in the nearly completely destroyed laboratory.
He hadn't been here since before Dan's attack, and an uncountable number of memories of this old room flooded into his mind, filling his heart. This had been where it had all began, where he had been blessed with the incredible power to protect, and after that day, he had been Amity's sworn guardian. In a nutshell, it was the most important day in his life.
The lab was in ruins, bits of the ceiling had collapsed, spreading a thick layer of dust in all directions. Instruments were strewn all over the place, and loose wires crackled with electricity where they had been ripped from their sockets. The floors were cracked, splitting the room nearly in half.
The Fenton portal was open, green light pouring from it like transparent green flames that licked at the air. In the back of the room lay Damon Grey, a bloody wound on his left leg, and above him stood Dan, just as Daniel remembered him from the first time they ever met. He wore no armor, the hazmat full exposed, DP emblem on the chest, and his hair was aflame.
"Why hello Valerie" Dan smirked as he lifted Damon up by his torn bloody shirt, peering over his shoulder, a fanged smirk gracing his lips. A slightly confused but no less confident look appeared on his face when he noticed Daniel. "And who the hell are you supposed to be, Iron man?" he asked, mocking the cybernetic armor that covered Daniels body.
"No" Daniel replied darkly as he shoved Valerie behind him, drawing the sword of unity. "I'm the dude with the oversized sword who lops the heads off of people like you".
"Oh, really?" Dan smirked, flinging Damon to his side, causing him to collide with the wall.
"Dad!" Valerie ran to his side, turning over rubble in her way, holding his aged head in her hazmat covered lap.
"Well," Dan began, stepping toward his new foe. "I'm never one to pass up a challenge. But let me ask you, have you seen the world outside this city? It's nothing more than a desert, a wasteland. You actually think you stand a chance against me?" He laughed madly at the ridiculous notion of defeat.
"You really are arrogant. You don't even know who I am and you already boast of your victory? You know raw power can only go so far". Dan laughed sadistically.
"Why shouldn't I boast of the inevitable? You're nothing compared to me, hell, you look like one of Aragon's knights who got stuck working for Technus. What's with the armor anyway? Scared to fight unprotected?"
"I'm nothing eh? Didn't you notice the puddle of goo that used to be the Fright Knight?"
"So what" Dan waved it off easily. "He was too full of himself for his own good, I can find other servants".
"As for me" Daniel said as the greenish glow that outlined and came from within his form burned brighter, shining through the plates of his armor. "I am Daniel Phantom".
As if it were a rehearsed scene in a play, the two of them rocketed upwards, phasing through the ceiling, taking to the open sky. Dan got in close, attacking with a quick succession of punches, which Daniel easily blocked with the side of his swords blade.
"Daniel Phantom?" Dan question when they momentarily broke apart, circling each other like hawks in midair. "So you're another cheap imitation of me, going out trying to be the big hero? You remind me of my fat oaf of a father."
"Jack Fenton is not your father" Daniel said darkly, gloved hands tightening on the sword. "You are simply the ectoplasmic half of Danny Phantom, you are not derived from his soul, you have his memories, but you don't have what counts".
"My, my, you certainly are well informed" Dan drawled, not really interested. "No matter, whatever you are you die now". A massive green blast issued from Dan's hand, but Daniel batted it away with the back of the hand that held his sword.
Daniel darted forward, left hand charged with energy, but Dan was quick, forming a shield in front of him. The shield shattered and Dan plummeted downward into a large skyscraper, causing the entire building to collapse on top of him. One might think this would destroy him, but Daniel knew better.
Within half a minute the wreckage exploded, Dan hurtling out of it, several places on hazmat were town, where green blood shined.
"I have to admit I didn't expect that, I underestimated you, but I will not make that mistake again." He smirked. "Do you know how I broke through the ghost shield?" Before Daniel could give the quite obvious reply Dan took a deep breath, and when he opened his mouth the legendary ghostly wail exited it.
But Daniel expected this, and let his lips rip apart in a great roar. The two sonic waves collided, the sound shattering every window in the city that wasn't already broken. Dan watched and listened in horror as his wail began to falter, and grow fainter and fainter, before it was overwhelmed completely.
"No!" Dan shrieked as Daniel slowly moved closer, his roar not faltering in the slightest. And with a great eruption of energy and ectoplasm, the Dan of this artificial timeline disintegrated to noting, the power of the roar ripping him apart molecule by molecule. Wouldn't Jack be proud!
Daniel slowly descended to the ground, panting heavily, landing on the sidewalk in front of Fenton Works, where Valerie stood, her mouth hanging open, complete and utter disbelief in her eyes.
"What-who are you?" she nearly whispered.
"What a silly question Valerie" a cool voice boomed throughout the world, as if it were coming from everywhere at once.
"Dan!" Daniel screamed to the sky with venomously, rage radiating from every pore of his existence. "You have seen your fate! This is what will happen to you, I swear on my soul!" Dan simply chuckled from his omnipotent place of power in his own created world.
"Yes, your soul, the utterly useless possession that you endlessly claim is the most important thing in this universe" he sighed. "No matter though, I congratulate you, you have passed the first of many trials my gauntlet holds for you".
"Wha-!" Daniel stammered as the whole world around him dissolved, leaving him once again in a black white plane of nothingness.
"Hmmm" Dan murmured. "Where should I send you next? So many options and so little….." he trailed off for a moment. "Strike that, I have all the time in the world. Ohh! Now that's an idea". Daniel didn't speak as the devils voice faded, and the plane of nothingness began to swirl around him, taking on the form of another timeline of Dan's sick creation.
He was in the city again, but it was nothing like he'd ever seen it during any timeline. The whole of the city was covered in green, vines covering every surface, with sickly looking flowers spewing purple vapor from their oversized petals.
Off in the distance were tower-like trees that were covered in spiky writhing ivy that seemed to have a mind of its own. Daniel floated just above where Main Street used to be, looking around in horror.
"Welcome to a time where Undergrowth was never defeated, and the world became his twisted garden, where the people of the world were nothing more than fertilizer for his 'children'. And don't you remember, who his queen is?" Daniel gasped.
"No…." Suddenly a great creaking noise filled his ears. The halfa whipped around to see the vines below move apart, and a gargantuan purple flower rose from the ground. The petals folded open, and out of it came a women of great beauty, who seemed to wear a gown of flowers, with thorns for trimming, and a crown of black roses.
"Hello….welcome to the growth" she said in a light seductive voice.
"Sam……." Daniel whispered, aghast with sadness hatred and horror.
Yes I know only showed Daniel for this chapter, but I have a lot planned for him! If you couldn't guess Dan is trying to torture him as much as possible. If you think the Dan of the new timeline was destroyed too easily, let me explain.
Dan got a huge power boost in between the time he was capture in the thermos and when he attacked Daniels family, and then got another power boost from killing the devil. So Daniel is many time stronger than the Dan of this time, so it was a relatively easy fight for him.