Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Seasons Greetings, and any other holiday phrases I've forgotten. This year, I've decided to give you all a new chapter for Phantasm. Enjoy!!

WARNING: Adult things lay inside. You all know this by now. If not. SHAME ON YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just kidding. Violence, harsh language and sexual content contained within. Read at your own risk. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

DISCLAIMER: Do I own Danny Phantom? Hmm, let me think, NO!!I do NOT own him. Wish I did, but I don't

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Chapter 16 – Eating Habits

"You would dare strike your own kind Leuderity? What about that oath you always complain about?"

"My oath is that of my own demise! Not the destruction of another, Thrash. But you are the fool. You struck our own kind first when you ensnared the Phantom child in your horrid ways!"

Leuderity's golden eyes burned with a righteous magnificence that would not be denied. And Thrash knew it. Danny, Sam and Tucker saw it. And Leuderity preformed it.

"Prepare thyself creature."

Leuderity warned Thrash as the snake ghost stood.

"For Judgment!"

Green energies pulsated about the cloaked ghost's body as he channeled it for perhaps, his greatest strike upon his foe. Thrash simply smiled his fangs. A smile that made Danny cringe

"Have you forgotten what I said? My tongue is immune to such things."

Then Thrash's long tongue snaked from his mouth and then surrounded himself within its protective embrace. Leuderity's anger flashed from his eyes as he threw his power forward, completely ignoring Thrash's statement. A beam of pure phantasmal energies explode from Leuderity's cast arms

"It won't work!"

Danny screamed, only to be ignored. Another explosion erupted form where Thrash waited as the attack struck him. His tongue wrapped around him like a Christmas present.

Smoke and debris were thrown into the air with such force; it would have been labeled an unexplained phenomenon. As the air cleared, Thrash laughed fiendishly behind his wall of protection. Sneering Leuderity's attempt to harm him.

"Your arrogance is boundless."

Thrash mocked when his tongue withdrew back into his jaws.

"Just as your stubbornness."

Leuderity insulted in reply, Thrash's jaws dislocated and not one long tongue shot out, but FIVE!!

"What in the Holy Name…?"

Leuderity was taken by complete surprise. He had never witnessed Thrash perform such a feat. Each tongue wrapped themselves around one of his limbs. Both leg and wrists were bound, just as his waist. Effortlessly, Thrash lifted his prey from the ground, while watching the cloaked ghost squirm in vain.

"First you, than the phantom you are protecting."

And Thrash began to withdraw his many tongues which inched Leuderity closer to Thrashs fangs.

Danny, Sam and Tucker, watched mortified. Two separate ghosts fighting and neither one was Danny. Such a thing was never witness between them. Leuderity, the ghost who desired to pass from his afterlife, was close to achieving his long lived goal. However, such a fate Danny did not wish, even on Skulker.

"Tucker, get the thermos."

Tucker obeyed without question, run to the place where it was tossed before. Sam, however, did not quite get what Danny was planning.

"Are you going to catch them both?"

"Hell no. Only Thrash."

And Danny used his Phantom powers to launch himself into the fray.

"Danny! Wait a minute!"

Sam called after him, but was ignored.

"You wish to be undone? Then allow me to devour you!"

Thrash threatened with a laugh as he continued to reel his captive closer to his awaiting jaws.

"Death I may seek. But never by you!"

"Besides! He already asked me to do it!"

Danny added as he charged at the back of Thrash's head. Danny's fist made contact, and Thrash's head was jerked forward, one of his tongues around Leuderity's wrist releasing the limb. With one arm freed, Leuderity, charged his power and sent a weak beam of power at Thrash. The snake's tongues may be immune to ghost powers, but his body isn't. Thrash's head was first thrown forward, but then he was thrown back as he fell victim to a brutal assault from both fore and behind. This latest attack forced the rest of

Thrashs appendages to loosen their grip from his captive. Leuderity floated away from Thrashes reach, and began to charge up again.

"Much thanks I bestow to the Phantom boy, Thrash. I do wish to die. But not in the foul reek of your insides, creature."

Thrash wiped saliva from his lip and sneered.

"Your attack will be useless, just like before. It's a waist of time."

"I don't think so!"

Danny commented as he flew straight at Thrash from above. Danny's body tensed with revelation. At this moment, all Danny wanted was for Thrash to shut up! Thrash was upon them in a split second. As Danny was about to strike, Thrash's body vanished.

"Where'd he…?"

Danny, baffled by Thrash's disappearance, forgot to stop and thus flew into the ground in pain, his face buried in dirt and grass stains.

"Danny! Help!"

Sam's voice screamed at him, and Danny's head rose from the ground to see Sam captive in Thrash's tongue.

"This is so disgusting! I may fight for amphibian rights, but I wasn't this passionate about it!"

She replied as Thrash held her aloft to taunt the two other ghosts.

"I know this girl means much importance to you. You will surrender Danny Phantom, unless you want me to squeeze the life from her fragile body!"

"I'm not that…"

Her voice was cut short as the appendage around her body squeezed to the point she nearly blacked out. Seeing Sam in such pain burned away at Danny's very soul more harshly than anything this world could ever do.

-This Creature would dare endanger Sam!?! That BASTARD!!!-

Danny's teeth clenched painfully as his hands glowed with his phantom energy, ready to smite the snake.

"Using a woman as your shield, COWARD?!?"

Leuderity spat, disgusted that Thrash would use such a dirty trick. Thrash smiled. Something Danny utterly despised at the moment.

"I'm a ghost who wants something. I'll do anything to get it. You have until three. Then I eat her."

"Eating Humans? But I thought ghosts fed off by consuming the fear and terror that humans radiate when they're frightened."

"Well, different ghosts, different tastes. I'm quite the kinda sport of the human race."

Thrash laughed, while mocking Danny at the same time

"Both as entertainment and as an entrée."

The ghost than licked his vicious lips.

"The exotic flavors of your decadent emotions are what makes you our favorite dish in the menu. And in this girl's case, the buffet."

To emphasize his point, he waved Sam around his head slightly. Seeing Sam treated in such a way, hearing her terrified screams. They all bore into the very core of his heart, and he could barely contain himself. Thrash also notices this.

"What's this? Are you getting angry? Good! The anger that you humans radiate is one of the most delightful of delicacies and right now Danny Phantom, you're cooking up one variously good banquet."

Danny's fists tightened so hard, blood dripped from his hand as his nails tore into the skin. He didn't even feel it.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"

Danny flew forward, his eyes burning green fire of anger and rage. Nothing would satisfy Danny now than the utter destruction of this ghost.

-Humans are not food!!! Nor are we toys for you to play with. Our emotions are NOT your playthings!-

"Three!"

Thrash tossed Sam to the ground roughly. She hit the ground hard as she landed on her back. She sat up and rubbed the small of her back, just as she saw Danny fly like a living missile at Thrash.

-Be careful Danny.-

Thrash opened hi mouth and numerous tongues shot from his orifice, intent on striking Danny down like an annoying fly. Danny's frustration and anger somehow contributed to his abilities as he dodged every lash, but never taking his eyes off of Thrash.

"THRASH!!"

Danny scream once he was within reach. Desperate, Thrash recalled his weapons to protect him, but they would arrive too late. Danny's fist shot forward and connected.

Thrash was thrown from his feet and flew through the air a good thirty to forty feet. The punch Danny delivered threw Thrash's body hard against several trees, all of them breaking under impact as Thrash continued to fly backwards without slowing down as his form struck and shattered everything in his path. It wasn't until Thrash's back hit the wall of the hospital did his backwards flight stop. With a loud crash, Thrash collapsed to the ground.

"Danny. Here!"

Tuckers voice said as he threw the thermos. Danny, with emotionless eyes stood over Thrash.

"I would love to send you to Hell for endangering the woman I love. But since I can't. I'll do the next best thing."

The thermos was opened and Thrash's unconscious form was sucked in.

Within moments, Danny went out of Ghost mode and was then surrounded by Sam and Tucker. All three of them concerned for the well being of the other. It's friendship like that that living worthwhile.

"Sam. Are you ok?"

Danny asked sincerely. Without warning, she wrapped her arms around him and gave him the best lovers kiss he had ever received. And for several seconds, they stayed that way, not once bothered by the world around them.

"Ahem. Virgin eyes present."

Tucker interrupted, forcing Sam to break the kiss shorter than she would have liked.

"I'd say she's fine."

Tucker half joked. Only to cringe under her murderous glare.

"Thank you, Leu…"

Danny started to say as he turned to him, only to see Leuderity was no longer there. Even Sam and Tucker were surprised.

"He's gone…"

"Hey Danny. Just who the heck is that ghost?"

"Tucker, that's a question I've been asking myself for a week."

TO BE CONTINUED

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Happy Holidays everyone. I apologize for taking so long to update, but I've been REALLY busy. I'll get the next one up soon (I hope)

Until Next Time

Theo