Ben Pov
"No! No, no, no, no, no this can't be happening, this can't be true!"
Me and Rex stayed silent as Danny started to voice his worries, I took the mouse away from Rex and scrolled down to scan the plans to raid and destroy the ghost zone.
"Danny wait!"
I turned around and saw Danny jumping into a portal that he made.
"Shit!"
Rex jumped into the portal and I ran after them and caught into the portal myself. When my feet landed on the ground, I straightened up and looked around. My stomach churned at the sight of everything.
The castle was in rubble and had burnt scorch marks on the stone. In some of the piles of rubble, there was still some fire burning.
"Jazz!? Tucker?! Sam!?"
We stayed silent as heard Danny cry for his friends and sister echo across the disaster zone. I looked around again, trying to comprehend everything, I stopped when I noticed white hair pinned under some rubble. Dani?
I ran forward and started to frantically take off the rubble. I heard the pounding of feet behind me as Rex and Danny started to help me take off the rubble. Soon, we finally managed to get all the rubble off and stared at the bruised, bloody and battered body of Dani.
"Dani!?"
Danny cradled Dani in his arms and held her close to his chest as rocked himself back and forth to comfort himself. I turned my head away to try to control my own emotions. I felt a hand lightly tug my sleeve, I turned around and saw Rex standing next to me, staring at something.
I traced his gaze and felt my stomach drop when I did. There among the rubble was a tuft of bright orange hair, a purple shirt, and a cracked PDA. I met my eyes with Rex and he had the same horror and remorse that I had.
An evil cackle filled the air as we faced what remains of the castle and the inhabitants. I realized with a shiver down my spine that it was Danny.
I broke my gaze with Rex and turned to look at Danny as he stood in front of us, with Dani discarded at his feet like a ragdoll. His body was relaxed as he started to slowly float higher into the air. I looked at him with horror as the red patch of his hair began to expand, turning the rest of his snowy white hair to a dark crimson red, his hair started to float in the hair like flickering flames.
"Now you've guys done it. You finally made Danny snap, I have the reins now."
The voice that came from Danny wasn't his voice, it was a darker, deeper voice. Compared to Danny's voice, this one had more of a ghostly hollow. This isn't Danny.
I took a small step forward.
"Danny?"
Danny turned around with an evil fanged smile with blood-red eyes and flaming hair. I took a step back in fear with Rex, this isn't the Danny we know. He turned around completely with that same smile on his face. He laughed that same evil laugh again.
"What's wrong Ben? You didn't know that Danny was hiding me inside of him?"
I looked at Rex and he returned my look of confusion and fear. I tried to hold up my spear, to get into some type of battle stance, but my hands and knees were trembling too much for that to happen. I looked over at Rex and saw that he was having the same dilemma. Danny gave us one more smile and turned back around.
"Oh how much I have been longing to kill you two, with you two gone, I can truly take control of his body, but first, I have to fix this problem."
Within a blink of an eye, he was gone. I quickly looked around trying to find him. As screams filled the air, blood was littering the landscape.
I looked towards the source of the screams. It was coming from all around us, as hidden agents of providence and the GIW were killed in their hiding place. They didn't stand a chance against this being. Everyone was killed within seconds.
Soon, it was only the three of us who were left in this desolate castle. I felt a tug on my arm and looked at Rex. His face was pale and he was visibly trembling.
"Come on, we have to get out of here before he gets back. That isn't Danny."
I nodded my head in agreement and took a step forward.
"Did you really think you could get away from me?"
I slowly turned around in fear. He was right behind us. He grabbed Rex by his throat and lifted him into the air. I looked in fear as Rex struggled to get out of his grasp as his face quickly turned a bright red.
With shaking arms, I lifted my spear, ready to impale the man. I hesitated when I remembered that this is Danny. But one look at his face made me realize that this isn't Danny but instead is a dark being in Danny's body.
"Ah, not so fast."
With his spare hand, he wrestled my spear away from me and lifted me into the air by my neck as well.
I gasped for air as I felt my body become sluggish and lethargic, practically begging for more air. I looked at Rex, as his red face was slowly turning blue, his eyes rolling into the back of his head.
Focusing back on Danny, he gave us a sinister smile at the sight of us struggling to breathe.
"Don't die just yet, I want to savor this."
He threw me away from him into a pile of rubble. I laid there in pain as I gasped for air. I tried to shake the fogginess out if my head. But before my thinking could even clear up, I felt a hand on my ankle.
I screamed as I was lifted into the air and thrown roughly into another pile of rubble. I felt a crack in my chest as I felt my ribs crack to pieces. I felt my chest tightening as I breathed.
This isn't good, I punctured my lung. I cracked open my eyes and saw that I was laying down next to an unconscious Rex. I saw him being lifted up and I struggled to lift my head up to see Rex.
"He's unconscious already? Pity."
Tears welled up as I saw Rex's limp body thrown roughly to the side. I looked back at being and he smiled when he realized I was still conscious. He picked me up by my collar and held me up to his face.
"Ah, you're still awake."
I coughed lightly and I tasted a strong metallic taste in my mouth. I think I'm going to die here.
"Why are you doing this?"
He cackled when I asked him the question.
"Why? I'm doing this so I can take over this body. "
I coughed again, this time rougher, as my chest tightened again, I knew I was running out of time.
"Who are you?"
He smiled evilly and brought me closer to him, close enough so he could whisper in my ear.
"I'm Danny's evil side, Dan, he sealed me away years ago, now I'm back and I'm here to stay."
He threw me away from him and I landed next to Rex. I struggled to pick up my head and look at
Dan as he approached us.
"Danny, please, come back to your senses."
At the sound of my feeble voice, he laughed historically with that cackle of his.
"Danny's not here at the moment, and he will never be again."
He noticed the strap across his chest and he realized that he had a katana strapped to his back. He eagerly unsheathed Danny's blade and admired it.
"As much as I don't like him, he has some style."
He made a face of pain as his eyes flickered green for a split second. Hope-filled my heart as his eyes continued to flicker between red and green for a couple of seconds before it stopped. My heart sunk down to my stomach when his eyes stayed red.
"That was close, I better kill you two before he manages to take control again."
He stepped closer to me and stood over me as he had the katana hovering over my chest. He made eye contact with me as he licked his lips eagerly. I closed my eyes, waiting for the pain.
