Danny fell to his left. The sword that had slid so easily into his body was now sliding out. The armored figure merely looked on. "Hmm, green blood. Unusual."
He threw the sword over his shoulder while mainting his grip on it. It easily turned aside the twin energy blasts that Vlad had fired,
"Nobody gets to kill him except me."
Once again the man blurred and vanished. Vlad didn't even have a chance to move before the flat of the blade smashed into his back. Vlad fell to his knees. He sunk through the stone floor.
At the same instant a tongue of black flame spouted out from Shade's hand. The energy slammed into the giant sword knocking their opponent to the ground.
"Ugh, you think you can defeat Orlic the Devourer that easily. You are mistaken." Orlic blurred once again. Shade turned around expecting him to attack from behind.
Unfortunately for Shade, he was wrong.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH."
Shade's body began to smoke under the intense energy beam that was now firing from Orlic's palm. Danny focused his strength to form a shield in front of the blast. His body was slowly repairing itself but this was the most he could do. The shield gave Shade enough time to phase through the floor. Twin beams once again headed toward Orlic. This time he was too slow to defend himself from them. Two holes appeared in his armor. The smoking holes were at least six inches in diameter.
Vlad moved menacingly towards Danny. "You were right boy. I'm the one who gave that fool ghost powers. I didn't know he already had powers. I've been trying to build a halfa army. It hasn't gone we-" A wet gurgling sound could be heard coming from Vlad's throat. He looked down at the sword that now protruded from his chest.
Danny had been cut, even stabbed with this sword, but unlike Vlad he hadn't been run through.
"You have no honor. You wait for an opponent to be distracted then you attack from behind. You even attack the injured. You deserve to die like you lived. A coward." Vlad's body began to enlarge. His belly bloated and his arms looked like exceptionally large sausages. Green energy began to seep from his body. With a scream of agony Vlad's body began to wither away and was instantly destroyed by the escaping ectoplasmic energy.
Danny gasped as he saw what happened at the death of a Halfa. He had never envisioned such a gruesome death could be possible for anyone.
"You have lost. Your friend betrayed you and the other left you to die. Why save this world. What's in it for you. I see power, I see potential. Allow me to show you the truth. The only thing that matters is power."
Danny saw a shadow cover his body from behind. A wave of black flame slammed into Orlic. "You're wrong. That man was never our friend. Dealing with him was a necessary evil. Only when we stand as one can we defeat our enemies."
Orlic picked himself up and brushed at his armor. They began to circle around one another. It was only then that Danny noticed the wounds were gone.
"Pretty words. That's all they are. Even if the boy could fight, you wouldn't stand a chance. Even when you stand together, THERE IS NO WAY TO DEFEAT A GOD!"
Danny focused his energy into his finger and released the single largest charge of energy he had ever used. In fact it was too much power. Danny reverted back to human form. His body had repaired itself to the point he would no longer bleed to death, Orlic saw it coming in plenty of time to stick his sword in the ground and use it as a shield. The energy struck his weapon dead on. The energy blast disappated as it's energy was used up.
Orlic pulled his sword from the ground. Well, more accurately, he pulled the hilt from the blade. The blast had shattered the binding that held them together.
Orlic looked at the sword in surprise. It had been designed and forged by the greatest swordsmith in all the Multiverse. He looked at the boy. He now saw that even he had underestimated his power. "Looks like I'll have to do this the old fashioned way." He moved with confidence toward the now defenseless Danny. "I do not enjoy this. But you are too powerful. If I allowed you to live it would be a mistake. Goodbye."
Danny tried to pull himself away from the blow that he knew would send him the same route as Vlad. Shade phased through Orlic and intercepted the blow meant for Danny. "Wait your turn you impatient fool. I will destroy you soon enough." Having said this, Orlic threw Shade over his shoulder.
Danny could see that his teacher had returned to normal. "Goodbye, you would have made an excellent warrior." Jet black lightning began to shoot from Orlic's fingers. The pain washed over Danny's body trying to throw him into a pool of darkness and despair.
Danny was many things, but he was not a quitter. Some small part of his mind managed to surface through the pain. He heard a voice echoing in his head. "Remember those you fight for. They will give you the strength to carry on."
"No." Danny placed his hand on the ground. "I won't." He pushed himself to his knees. "Give up." Danny planted his feet firmly and began to rise. "My town." He stood at his full height now. The pain continued to crackle through his body, but it looked as though all it did was feed him. "My family, My friends." Images raced through his head. The good times and the bad times, the difficulties and the sacrifices. They had always been there. One image settled at the forefront of all these thoughts.
Sam.
"I. will. not. let. you. win." Danny breathed heavily. You could see a mixture of blue and green energy radiating off of him. "This ends now." He raised his arms into the air. "I'M GOING GHOST!"
Energy exploded from the center of his body. It easily flung Orlic more than a hundred feet. As the energy died down, Danny stepped out of the light it had created. But this was not the Danny Phantom that he had been before. This Danny was born of more than just ghost energy. He had become more than a halfa.
His costume had become an electric blue. His gloves and boots had changed to a shadowy black. His belt remained as white as it had ever been. His hair was still white except for a lightning bolt shaped area of black that ran along the right side of his head. A single red oval now stood out in the middle of his chest.
And then there were his eyes. His eyes which now glowed an unearthly blue. The energy that now ran through him was greater than any he had ever felt.
"You call yourself Orlic the Devourer. I can only assume that you have destroyed worlds before this. I can't save them. But I can stop you here. I can make sure that no more worlds fall before you. I'll make sure that you never hurt anyone again."
With these words Danny charged forward.
(A/N) A new day has dawned for our young hero. How has this transformation occured? What will be it's effects. Can Danny possibly survive this fight. Find out next time on Reborn.