Disclaimer: The following chapter is entirely fictitious. Any similarity to the history of any person living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional. Except when noted otherwise in the cast and crew credits, all celebrities voices are impersonated and no celebrities have endorsed any aspect of this fic.

Where we last left off, Danny had been paralyzed by the Black Priestess. She had drawn three arrows and was about to kill him. In an odd turn of events, Ri was the one who ended up behind the arrow…

Chapter 15: Holding her last breath

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So this is how it's like to die, Danny thought. Funny. I thought it might hurt more. And how is it that I'm still able to think and I don't see any bright light? And why do I feel someone holding onto me? And why did I only feel one arrow? Wait a minute…

Danny cracked his eyes opened a little to see the outline of a girl with long, black hair. She looked familiar-

"OH MY GOSH, RI!!!" Danny screamed.

Ri had broken past the Priestess' barrier and had attempted to push Danny out of the way. But she didn't make it in time. She had taken her own life in the process.

Danny could suddenly move again. He picked up Ri and cradled her carefully as if she was made of glass. The arrow that had stabbed him had gone all the way through Ri's heart. The other two had pierced her in the lower back and her left shoulder. Danny hugged her and held back his tears.

Ri, I wish that I could have saved you. I couldn't save you and now you died. You died and you had nothing accomplished. Why…

He gently placed her back on the floor. He slowly stood up, his suit stained with her blood, head looking down at the floor. The whole school was silent, dead silent, quieter than silence. Everyone was staring at Danny. Tucker, Sam and Jazz were in a state of horror as they stared at the lifeless body of what had been Ri, and back at Danny.

He lost normality, his secret, his dignity, and now one of the only people that had meant a lot to him. The Priestess had taken an innocent girl's life, and for what? Nothing? She had no reason to kill her. Nothing gave her the right to just take a life. Ri's life was not hers to do that.

Danny felt the anger he had held back for so long come up to the surface.

"You took her" he growled in a low, almost inaudible voice. "You took the life of an innocent person, and you don't care, do you?"

"Of course I do not, Mr. Fenton. It is, of course, your fault" the Priestess answered.

"How the heck is it my fault?"

"Well, in one case, do you not remember that little voice in your head? That one you always hated? If by now, you did not know, that was me. I was that voice. But you did not want to listen to me." She took a breath.

"If you clearly remember Mr. Fenton, I was attempting to help you. I believe the exact words were 'Why can't I just take a break? Just leave it all for a while...' I responded 'You cannot…' You asked 'Why don't you explain?' I said 'Why should I?' You asked 'Why don't you?' I answered 'You are such a talker. Just listen-' You responded by saying 'I'm tired of listening.' I told you 'Maybe that is why things are not working out…' And you finished off by saying 'That's what you think…' I was about to help you, giving you clues and such, but you did not listen. If you had, Ri would still be alive. But you did not want to. And now she's dead and there is noting you can do. You killed her and it is entirely on you."

The whole school was quieter than before (if that's possible). Danny's head was still staring at the floor.

She's right, Danny thought. She told me to listen and I didn't. I could've saved Ri and she'd still be alive. But I didn't listen and there's no way of getting her back. I got her killed all because I was stubborn…

"I got her killed, but I still hate you. Your presence, your powers, the air you stand by. I hate every last bit of you. You can gather the entire planet's hatred and it would never EVER equal to the amount of hatred I have for you now." At this point, Danny sounded scary. His voice didn't belong to himself anymore. He was emitting a deep, almost inaudiblegrowl from his mouth and it sounded a bit 'crazy-like'.

The Black Priestess smiled. She smiled and laughed. She sounded so cynical at this point.

"What is so FUNNY?!" Danny snarled.

"I have finally reached it" she answered. "The pure blooded ghost that lied within you, Mr. Fenton. The feeling of hatred that you kept bottled up inside of you has come to the surface. Mr. Fenton, the ghost that lies within you is not a good spirit. This one is uncontrollable and you won't have any feeling but anger. You have the spirit of an actual violent ghost. Your form will be like the other one's. Come. You said that you hated me. Why not come and prove it?"

"NOT SO FAST, NADESHIKO!" a voice shouted from down the hall. It was Hebi again. He was boiling with rage.

"I told you SPECIFICALLY NOT TO KILL ANYONE ESPECIALLY RURI!! WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I TOLD YOU THIS! WE HAD A DEAL! YOU KEEP YOUR SIDE OF THE BARGAN AND I KEEP MINE!!"

He had been walking in a fast pace Towards the Black Priestess. But so was she. By the time both met, she had shoved her rusty dagger into his ribs.

"Yes, well I never said I would not keep my deal." And with one swish movement, she drew him into her cloak.

"Now-"

At that moment, Danny had shot something at her. But it was not an ectoplasmic ball. It was-

"Fire?!" Tucker exclaimed.

"Where'd he get that?" Sam asked (like a rhetorical question).

"I don't know" Jazz said. "I did hear that ghost could start fires if they were evil enough while Danny and my mom were away and I had to take her place while she was gone. But I never would've guessed Danny having something like that."

Fire was not the only thing different. His once green eyes turned a bloody red. His teeth were sharp as razors and his face was now very pale. His hands had flames emitting from his hands and his once heroic stance was pushed aside.

The Priestess' hood had caught fire. She quickly passed her hand over it and extinguished it.

"See? That was all I asked for. Now this shall be interesting."

She quickly recovered and fired her black magic at him. He blocked it with a shield of fire and shot another ball of fire at her. She put her hands out and crossed her arms, emitting a quick barrier. She withdrew her blades and swiftly threw them at him. He ducked and they fell behind the crowd of students who were watching this fantastic fight.

Danny shot at the Priestess and attempted to kick her in the face. She laced her fingers together and stopped his foot from touching her face. Danny took advantage of her both occupied hands and swings his free leg, kicking the Priestess in the head. The Priestess freed his leg and flew back. Danny again took advantage of this and shot another ball of fire at her. The Priestess caught it in the air and without touching it, she turned the flame black (of course the audience gasped in amazement) and shot it back at Danny. Danny put up his shield and started gathering up energy from the room. The hall started becoming cold and it became slightly hard to breath. Dannyhurled all of the energy he had gatheredat the Priestess. She placed out her barrier and the energy ball dissolved back into the room.

"My, my, what a feisty ghost you are when you are this mad. I am enjoying this a lot."

"You haven't seen the last of this yet" he replied back. "I'm just getn' started."

Danny spotted the sword that the Priestess had dropped earlier.

Hmm, he wondered. I wonder if I could get the sword. Danny went intangible and sunk through the floor.

"Come out Mr. Fenton. I know your hiding somewhere."

"How 'bout right behind you" he said in back of her. He swung her sword aiming for anything he could cut, but she disappeared.

"Show yourself!" he demanded.

"You are not the only one who can make a disappearance act."

She reappeared and smacked Danny with all her power in the back of the head. Danny was shot down, almost crashing into the crowd of students if they hadn't moved.

"Do not you understand?!" she laughed. "You can never win!! You can be the most powerful slayer on the planet and you can never beat me!! You might think that just because you have fire emitting from your hands you can defeat me. That is nothing though. My true potential is deadly and I'm going very easy."

"I'd like to see this true potential you claim to have. You seem to be all talk and no step you dirty witch" Danny snarled (Ooooo).

"Is that a threat?" she sneered. "Because if it was, you are very weak. Very well. If you wish it, I shall show you how deadly it is."

The room got darker and the sound of crashing filled the room. She was gathering up light that seemed to come from the air that surrounded all of them. The blinding light looked charged, almost like lightning. Al the light sphere grew to the size of the hall, it turned a back-greenish color, making it her own weapon deadly like an atomic bomb. The orb seemed to laughas the crowd of teenagers backed up to the far end of the hall. Danny flew up and placed up his barrier, but the sphere was to powerful. It struck Danny, absorbing him inside.

Danny screamed in agony. The pain was beyond compare. His skin burned and felt like it was tearing apart. The pain emerged inside of him and seemed to move outward throughout his body. He felt his skin sizzle under the intense heat. His mind was pounding in his ear as the pain progressed. Bad memories from the past rosefrom the depths of the inside of his mind. He could remember everything he wanted to forget from the most recent one to the first one. Every one of these memories was sharp and painful on his mind. He blacked out…

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What the heck? Danny thought as he revived. All of the mistakes he made still flooded his head. His eyes were green again. He was back ('U').

I wanted to forget these things. These were everything that I failed at doing. She just had to remind me. But one memory he hated he remembered clearly: the Spectra incident. Jazz never let anything stand in her way of being happy. She never let the mistakes of yesterday bring her down, and neither did Ri, so why can't I? Danny remembered the sword. It was right next to him, only a few feet away. If he could only get it but how?

Danny put up his barrier inside of the lightning orb as fast as his mind had processed the plan. He went intangible, grabbed the sword, and went through the floor again like a bat diving for food.

"Oh Mr. Fenton? Why are you hiding? Come out and play" the Priestess mocked.

"Okay, but only 'cause you asked!" Danny appeared in front of her and chucked her sword across her shoulder. He managed toslash her shoulder a good inch. And knock off her hood. Sherecoiled and covered up her face.

"Now so high and mighty now are you?" he teased.

Shefaced himsharply, arms away from her face, revealing what she was hiding.

Everyone shrieked in horror at the sight of the Black Priestess' face. The left side of her face was entirely scourched. The eye that resided on the left side was all black, charred over. Her face was not only blistered, but the tissue and bone underneath was exposed too.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINKED HAPPENED WHEN THE FOOLISH VILLAGE BURNED ME, HUH?" she cried. "They lit my head first, burning the left side of my face! It burned all the way to my skull, killing me! How did you think I died?!" She sunk to the floor, as bright light orbsseeped from her shoulder, replacing the blood that would usually have been there.

"Now what're you gonna do?" he asked her as he landed on the floor beside her. A jolt of pain shot up and down his body, but he only flinched and remained standing. "You can't go back to being Kelsie 'cause everyone knows who you are." He stared at her. She looked up at him and glowered at him.

That child is actually right. I hate to admit it. I can erase these children's memories, but it would have to stretch to the entire morning. I can't make it shorter. Damn! That hanyou's lucky.

"You got lucky this time Mr. Fenton!!" A large flash of light that erased everything in sight,and she was gone. Danny went back to human state, and ran to Ri.

"Whoa, what happened?" many of the teens groaned as the events of today were gone from their head.

"SOMEONE CALL 911!" Danny shouted at them, holding RI, falling unconscious.

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Kelsie was hunched over the girl's bathroom sink, sewing up the deep gash on her shoulder. Four snake- dragon like creatures swarmed around her, gathering and giving her back the souls that had escaped from her.

"That foolish hanyou. If he thinks that he can get away with this, he is dead wrong."

T-T

Now that Ri's dead, how do you people think of the story? Was I too cruel? Well this actually can continue my fic. In this chapter, you experience the full extent of the ghost that lies within Danny. Like Inu-Yasha, he too has the full demon side. Hanyous always have three sides to them if you didn't notice. Signing Off!