DannyMay 2019. Day Eleven
"Shapeshifting"
Chaos unleashed where Dan went, wrapping itself on his victims as his laugh echoed on his survivors' minds.
Valerie had to take him down.
"Hey, Valerie! It almost feels as if you wanted to destroy me!" Dan grinned, holding up his hands and then thrusting them forward to shoot an immense ectoblast at her.
Red Huntress lunged to the side, moaking her board flip over and down as she kept shooting blast after blast, her grip on her weapons firm like her eyes on Dan's manic own.
"Come on! You gotta say something, otherwise it's only half the fun!"
A smoke bomb exploded next to his face, obscuring his sight from his enemy even as his eyes shone red in annoyance. Before he came up with any witty comment, the muzzle of Valeries bazooka was pressing between his shoulder-blades, and was quickly followed by a bigger blast that sent the young ghost crashing against an abandoned building.
Most buildings were like that, nowadays.
Val zoomed in to the gaping hole, her hands going for a Thermos on her belt, her eyes never leaving the debris, the ecto-detector on her mask signaling the presence of the ghost behind all the smoke.
"This ends today." She told herself, chin raising and shoulders squaring.
The dust was finally clearing.
She had to do this…
Her hands didn't shake.
She had to do this…
As her visibility cleared, Val got ready to just uncap the Thermos and then do what she had to. But when she had finally located her target, she froze.
"V-val… please… help me…"
Messy raven hair, eyes an icy, almost milky, blue, Danny looked just as he did before leaving Amity Park one year ago, just after the explosion.
"T-this is a trick!" Her legs now trembled, and she had to take a shuddering breath to steady her arm and not drop the gun.
"Please help me! I don't know how longer I can hold him…" Danny cried, trying to drag himself from under the debris, his visible arm bloody and scratched. "V-val…"
"Danny!" Valerie leaned in, and her hover-board took her next to the boy. Tears streamed down her cheeks, the hope she had tried so hard to crush coming back, of the boy she once knew to still be there, just waiting to be helped.
She just wanted to pull him into a hug, forgive everything.
"Valerie…" Danny smiled, and there was something very wrong with it. "Oh, Val…" He grinned, and his eyes were shining red.
"No!" She cried out, reaching for the gun on her belt as Dan lunged at her, his eyes wild and his long tongue licking at his fangs like the apex predator he knew himself to be.
She should have done it.