Error's Rival
Chapter 25: Lose Control
"I'll kill you!" Klayton roared with such fury, a blast of energy radiated off of him, knocking Pyrros back a few feet. "You killed her!!" While still snarling like a rabid dog, Klayton punched his right arm with his fist, it looked odd that he did that at first but then his weapon arm had a long knife-like dagger extend from it, as though a sword were attached to Klayton's arm. Red and green ectoplasm energy swirled around the weapon.
Danny struggled to sit up; he had taken quite a hit from Pyrros. Tucker supported his back, repeatedly asking him if he was alright. Danny nodded, "I'll be okay. Where's Sam?" He looked over across the room and saw Sam, standing there. Why was she standing there? He thought. And then he realized that she was looking at Klayton. Danny's eyes widened, "Oh god…" He grabbed onto Tucker's shoulder and hauled himself up, hissing with pain as he did so.
"Hey, dude, you should sit down a bit."
"He's losing it, Tuck'." Danny looked at Klayton, "I can't let that happen."
"I don't understand."
"It used to happen to me! He's half ghost like I was! Ghosts are often destructive creatures that don't think; they only attack. If our emotions go a bit overboard, this kind of thing happens!" Danny cringed at the memory. The memory so long ago when Sam was kidnapped for the first time; before she even knew he was Phantom and he went after her. The man had shot Sam, and he had lost it completely…
The blood in his veins began to boil with adrenaline, his thoughts turned to Sam; she was loosing blood fast! A bright glow came around his body, instantly he regained most of his energy, and immediately, Phantom threw his arms to either side of him, breaking the handcuffs.
The air around all of them dropped at least twenty degrees; you would see the fear in the mens eyes.
Phantom's thoughts and feelings were pushed out of his head; now his only knowledge was destruction, his eyes focused in on the three men, Kill Them! A voice in his head ordered him. Without hesitation, Phantom lunged forward, snarling and growling like an animal, in fact, the man could have sworn he saw fangs coming out of the ghost kid's mouth. But that was the last thing he saw before his vision went black.
The two remaining men uselessly fired everything they had. No luck.
Phantom raised a few feet into the air so that he looked down on them with lethal eyes, he dove down faster than lightning, and collided his foot with one of the men's heads. A gruesome crack echoed in his ears as the man's neck was broken, killing him instantly. Before his body hit the ground, Phantom shot an ecto blast at him, sending the corpse rolling away from him.
With his teeth bared, Phantom turned to the last one standing, loathing was written all across his face.
The man froze with fear, he was the one Phantom wanted to kill the most. He was the one who shot Sam. He could do nothing to fight back now. What have we created!? He thought, just before an iron hard punch was delivered into his stomach. He was thrown backward, hearing the cracking of a few ribs. The pain was too much, and he was losing consciousness. But Phantom wasn't through with him yet.
The possessed teen slowly walked up to him, charging up an ecto beam in his palm. The man could see one of his eyes twitching as he tried to gain control of himself, but the power was too strong to control.
"Die!" Phantom roared with a cold, deadly voice. (Error's Love chapter 10)
Danny hated to think about what he did. He knew of several times when he let his ghost half run wild, he couldn't let Klayton do that too! He ran with a slight limp from his back injury toward Sam, he quickly wrapped an arm around her in comfort, "Are you alright?" He quickly asked. She nodded in reply. Tucker quickly came up on his other side. "Stay with her, don't let anything happen to her!" He said to Tucker.
Sam held onto his hand, "wait, Danny! Where're you going?"
Danny looked at Klayton, "I can't let him kill Pyrros! Allison is still in there somewhere! If he kills Pyrros, he'll be killing Allison as well!" He saw the look of worry in Sam's eyes and quickly pulled her into a tight hug, "don't worry, I won't get killed." He gave Sam a gentle kiss before pulling away from her and running toward Klayton.
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Pyrros blocked Klayton's daggered arm with his forearm, but his eyes widened when he realized that the weapon dug into his flesh! Green blood began to spill out, dripping onto the floor. "What?" He barked, looking up at Klayton's eyes with surprise. "What are you?"
Klayton lifted his foot up while Pyrros was still focused on his eyes, and proceeded to kick Pyrros in the knee. A sickening crack echoed through the room as the knee was snapped backwards. Pyrros howled with pain. Klayton refused to stop there; he dropped to the ground in the blink of an eye and swung his legs underneath Pyrros, causing him to fall onto his back.
Before Pyrros could process it in his mind, he let out another shriek of agony. Klayton was on top of him, and Klayton had stabbed the at least foot long knife directly into Pyrros's shoulder, cutting clear through him so that Pyrros was literally pinned to the floor. "I'll kill you!" Klayton hissed like a snake at his enemy. Klayton didn't pull the dagger out of Pyrros, he kept his arm there and with his free hand he punched Pyrros in the gut.
Pyrros coughed a few drops of ectoplasm from the blow to his stomach, knowing that this guy had damaged some of his organs. How could this happen!? Pyrros asked himself; just a minute ago he couldn't lay a hand on me! What happened to him!? Is this what father was talking about?
"Klay'!"
Both of them looked over at Danny, who was hobbling toward them.
"Klay', stop this! You don't want to hurt him! Please!"
"Stay away!" Klayton growled toward his friend.
Danny stopped dead in his tracks, only a few feet away from them though. "Klay', listen to me. Don't let your ghost half control you." He spoke calmly, "it's not worth it. Stop this. Pyrros didn't kill Allison, she's still there somewhere, if you kill Pyrros now, any hope we have of saving Allison will be gone!"
"I said get away!"
Danny took a brief step backward. "Klayton, it's me, Danny. I need you to listen to me. Let go of Pyrros."
"Go away!"
"Klayton!" Danny walked toward him, "Klayton!" He repeated.
"Shut up!" Klayton pulled the knife out of Pyrros's shoulder and blindly swung at Danny. A moment later, Klayton heard a thud. He blinked a few times and looked down at his sword like weapon, "what the…" Blood could be seen on the tip of it. He looked down at Pyrros below him, gasping when he saw the condition Pyrros was in. "Did I…" He turned and saw his best friend on the ground, holding his stomach where there was a gaping wound. "Danny!" He cried, leaping off of Pyrros and going to his friend's side. "Oh my god! Danny! I'm so sorry!"
Klayton was soon next to both Tucker and Sam; they had run up to him from where they were standing. "Danny! I didn't mean to!" Klayton closed his eyes. "Just hang on a sec, bro." He placed his hands over Danny's wound.
Danny's face was twisted with pain, but he remained conscious, knowing that the wound wasn't too deep, but sure was bleeding a lot. It only took a few moments for Klayton to transfer the wound between them. Danny had wanted to speak against it, knowing that it took a lot of energy to do that and even more energy to heal it quickly, but he couldn't speak, he had to focus only on breathing and keeping calm.
A bright glow surrounded both of them and a second later, Klayton fell over, grunting from the wound. Before he passed out, he managed to focus his energy on that spot on his stomach to heal it.
Pyrros sat up, looking over at the group of friends. He looked down at himself; he was in no condition to continue. Before the others even noticed, Pyrros intangibly dropped through the floor and escaped.
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"So, he got away?" Sam asked. She sat down beside Danny, who was supporting Klayton's head on his lap. Tucker was on the other side of Danny and around them were a few of the spirit children.
"Yeah, he got away. I guess he left right after his fight with Klayton." Danny smiled slightly, "I'm glad he snapped out of it though. I was really worried there for a second. Ow!" Danny looked at Sam who had just punched him in the arm, "what was that for?"
"Idiot! You could've gotten killed!" Sam bit her trembling lip, "I was really scared!"
Danny exhaled deeply, "I'm sorry that I worried you. I didn't die though, right?"
Sam looked away, "that's not the point."
Tucker could hear their conversation but made sure to keep his mouth shut, the last thing he wanted was both of them against him!
"Hey, I'm sorry." Danny rotated slightly, making sure not to wake up Klayton, and wrapped his arms around Sam. "I really am." He rested his head on Sam's shoulder.
"I know." Sam turned toward Danny again, unable to hide the tear that ran down her cheek. Danny brought his face close, kissing the corner of Sam's mouth before trailing his lips over hers. Sam felt her stomach churn and proceeded to part her lips slightly, allowing Danny's tongue to wrestle with her own.
Klayton rolled his eyes, "get a room, seriously! I'm right here!"
Both of the teens broke apart and looked down at Klayton.
"You're awake?" Danny asked, turning bright red, "why didn't you say something!"
Klayton smirked, "Well I thought it was just a quick peck on the lips, but noooo, you just had to go and make a whole meal out of it! So before the two of you start striping, just know that I'm still alive here! And not to mention Tucker is over there, and there are kids around!" He pointed to the teenage kid who was turned completely away from them and then pointed out that there were some spirit children there too.
"Oh, right." Danny dully said, "I forgot. Not that anything was going to happen! Jeez!" He pushed Klayton's head off of his lap, not caring that he might've hurt him when he let his head hit the hard floor.
Danny may have been completely embarrassed, but Sam found it quite amusing. She fought hard not to laugh. "Klayton, are you feeling all better now?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. What happened to Pyrros?"
"He got away." Danny replied.
Klayton sat up slowly, "Hey Danny…about that…I'm really sorry that I lost control like that! I didn't even know what I was doing! I just-"
"You don't have to apologize. It's partially my fault for not telling you about Allison. But I do believe that we can get her back somehow. We just need to figure out how. But everything's fine now, right? We also know now that in order to set these kids free, we're going to have to destroy Rafael."
"But…we don't know where he is…" Klayton pointed out.
"Then we'll just have to keep looking."
-Amity Park-
"Okay!" Tucker announced, "I've marked all the possible places that Rafael could be hiding out!"
All of them gathered in front of Danny's computer in his room, looking at the map Tucker had made red marks on. There had definitely been hell to pay from the Fentons when they got back; it was hard to explain to them what had happened. Danny felt bad that he went behind their backs, but he had expected the fight to be longer and more importantly he had expected to fight Rafael. They didn't have to use a whole bunch of weapons, so the gadgets and devices were undamaged, the Specter Speeder was fine and most importantly all of them were alive and well.
"Tucker, there's red marks all over this freaking map! Couldn't you narrow it down more?" Danny asked.
Tucker glared, "sorry, but I did what you told me. These are all the places that are surrounded by trees and are away from cities and towns. This is the best I could do. Sorry, dude."
"Well, I'll admit this is better than nothing. Still this'll take a while to go to all of them. We might as well get started! Which place is closest?" Danny asked.
Klayton, Tucker and Sam all looked at one another. Sam was the first to speak, "Danny, do you really want to leave right away? I mean, we just got back and we all need to rest some more."
"But the more time we take to rest the worse the situation gets! Rafael isn't resting; he's working constantly to achieve his goals! I don't know what all of them are, he has several, but we can't let him succeed! We need to fight back as soon as we can and stop him!"
"Calm down," Klayton clapped Danny on the shoulder, "one day isn't going to hurt, right? We'll start looking for him tomorrow. Relax, Danny, have a nice meal, take a nap, hang out with your girlfriend, do something. Okay? I need to go to Jezebel, let her know I'm alright." He smiled at them and walked out of the room.
Danny exhaled, "I guess…"
"Hey man, I would love to stay but I need to go check in with my folks too. It gets hard to explain that I hang out with you guys all the time…and I'll have to think of a reason why I missed school too." Tucker stood up from his seat at the computer.
"Well, tell them I got hurt and was in the hospital, so you skipped school to see me." Danny grinned.
"And I didn't check in with them at all? I can guarantee that won't work."
"Okay then you're on your own. See you tomorrow though, right?"
Tucker nodded and left as well.
"Sam, don't your parents ever worry that you're with me all the time?"
Sam shook her head, "not really. They have work most of the time and also I think that they're just happy I'm out of the house at all. If they were really worried they can just walk over."
"I guess so. Well, I say we go get some food, want to go out and get food with me?"
Sam smiled, "I'd love to."
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Klayton walked into his apartment, immediately greeting his sister with a hug. "Sorry that I took a little while."
"Brother…someone started talking to me today…" Jezebel softly whimpered into his shirt.
Klayton's eyes widened, "who!? Who was talking to you!? Did they come in here!?"
Jezebel shook her head, "I don't know. I don't know who it was. They weren't mean…they just talked. I don't remember exactly what they said though…"
Klayton held his sister tightly, "if they start talking to you again, tell me, okay?"
Jezebel nodded.
Klayton grit his teeth, was it a Messenger? Like the one that came up to me? It could've been another one of Jezebel's mind tricks. Klayton knew that Jezebel was mentally unstable, he had always known that and he couldn't wait to get revenge on the man who did this to her. It was one of Rafael's stupid experiments that crippled her both physically and mentally! He would never forgive that man for that.
That night, Klayton sat by Jezebel's bed the entire time she slept, he held her hand comfortingly. He knew that he ought to sleep, but he also knew that with his half ghost body, he didn't require as much sleep as a human did. He looked down at his metal coated arm. I nearly killed my best friend with this weapon…I can't let myself lose control like that! He tucked Jezebel's hair behind her ear gently. "I'm sorry." He didn't know why he apologized or even who he was apologizing to; it just seemed to escape from his lips…
A/N: Things should get more interesting really soon, I promise! Hope you enjoyed this chapter.