Danny, Raschenda and Vundeter were left staring in fear as they saw their base crumpling in the Ghost Zone.
"Did the soldiers make it out okay?" Vundeter asked with a high amount of hope in his voice.
"There's no telling," Raschenda responded, still with her cool tone, acting as if a single thing wasn't wrong. "We can only hope for the best and get revenge on Myrus for destroying our base."
"Myrus wasn't the only one who destroyed it, if he even played a role in it at all," Danny said, giving Raschenda a terrified look.
"How do you know someone or something other than Myrus destroyed our base?" Raschenda asked with a touch of interest in her voice.
"Because it's right behind you. MOVE!" Danny yelled.
Raschenda gasped and abruptly turned around. The blue and green dragons that Danny had fought a little while before rose from the pile of rubble and roared so loud that all three Escerons had to cover their ears.
"What are those things!" Vundeter yelled.
"Shape-shifting dragons!" Danny yelled. "Myrus was using them when he was stealing my powers! Come on, let's finish these guys off!"
The battle between the three Escerons and the two dragons commenced. Danny started by firing his enhanced blast of energy at one of the dragons and clearly sending it flying back in a lot of pain.
Raschenda and Vundeter flew over to the dragon (it was the green one) that Danny just blasted. They prepared to fire some of their own ectoplasmic energy in unison at the dragon, but just as they were ready to fire, the blue dragon charged at both of them and sent them flying backwards.
Danny quickly ran up to the blue dragon while it was watching in glee at seeing Raschenda and Vundeter flying backwards in the Ghost Zone. When Danny was right behind it, Danny grabbed its tail and got ready to swing it around a couple times and then launch it.
Gee, I feel like I'm playing Super Mario 64 doing this, Danny thought as he started swinging the dragon by the tail. Having enhanced physical strength was really starting to become an advantage that Danny would take kindly to getting used to. When he looked over his shoulder, he saw that the green dragon was charging right at him. Danny let the green dragon stop swinging when it was right in front of him.
As the green dragon went flying out of Danny's hands, the blue dragon continued to charge. In no time, the dragons collided and smashed into each other very painfully when Danny let the green dragon go.
The two dragons roared in pain but were distracted enough from it that it bought Danny, Raschenda and Vundeter some time to attack.
When Raschenda and Vundeter floated back over to Danny after they regained control of themselves, all three of them started firing blasts of energy at the dragons as fast and has as hard as they could. The dragons stammered in pain until the blue dragon had a burst of strength and flew up high into the air. When he was high enough up, he opened his mouth and a stream of multi-thousand degrees fire came pouring out of the dragons mouth, right at Danny and the two Escerons.
All three of them gasped and dodged the blast of fire just in time. Part of the flame brushed against Danny's arm and went right through the black jumpsuit, leaving a small bare spot on the arm.
"Great work," Danny said angrily. "I'll bet this jumpsuit was expensive!"
Saying this, Danny fired some of his energy from his hand and aimed it right at the dragon's eye. It worked and hit the blue dragon's left eye and permanently destroyed it.
As the dragon howled in pain, Danny flew up to it boldly grabbed one of the dragon's sharp fangs in the front jaw. In less time than Raschenda or Vundeter could either see him do it, Danny pulled the tooth out of the dragon's mouth.
The dragon howled in more pain, but was hurting too much to do anything about it. Danny watched as the grotesque side of dragon blood came out of the dragon's mouth, but quickly was able to get back to his trail of though.
With one swift motion, Danny thrust the dragon fang into the blue dragon's throat. The dragon screeched in pain, but this time, in a much hoarse tone due to its voice box being pierced by its own fang.
The dragon's windpipe was also punctured. The dragon suddenly couldn't breathe from it, and it was only a few seconds before the dragon suffocated. It slowly started floating in the infinite abyss of the Ghost Zone, dead.
The green dragon was ready to attack Danny, Raschenda and Vundeter in order to avenge the blue dragon, but seeing that he was outnumbered three to one, it flew off towards the Maldum base. None of three ghosts did anything to try to follow it.
"Danny?..." Vundeter asked with obvious disbelief in his voice. "What was…how did…how could you…"
"I got a 42 on my Romeo and Juliet quiz, I've had to fight a bunch of super powerful ghosts and dragons, I had to go through getting all my powers back and I was lied to about having my powers stolen. It's been a bit of a rough week and I had to take it out somehow," Danny replied in a neutral way.
Raschenda and Vundeter were both clearly impressed with Danny's temporary violent mood and that it helped them kill one of the Maldums' shape-shifting dragons, but now they had a huge problem.
"Well, it's good that we don't have to worry about that thing anymore," Raschenda said. "But what about our base? We have nowhere to plan and to strategize anymore. And we don't even know if our troops made it out okay. In addition to that, it seems that the Maldums have a way of keeping us out of their base."
"What?" Danny said. The last part was new to him. "How'd you find out about that? What is it?"
"Danny, do you remember a while back when we were holding you hostage and a spy came back and said that he brought back some useful information?" Vundeter said, trying to refresh Danny's memory.
"Yeah."
"They brought back word that not only were the Maldums up to something, but that they also had a ghost shield running. It wasn't operational all the times we went in because an attack was unsuspected, but now that we've shown how much of a threat we can be, Myrus is putting it up all the time. It's impenetrable to all ghosts."
"Ghosts, huh?" Danny said, putting his finger on his chin and starting to grin. It was only a moment after hearing Myrus put a ghost shield up, and already Danny was coming up with a way to undo his plot.
"Well, shall we strategize how we are going to attack that base?" Vundeter asked. "Since our base is gone, I guess we're going to have to plan it right here."
Just as the three were about to talk about their plans, a voice was called in the distance.
"Lady Raschenda! Lord Vundeter!"
The three turned around and saw what looked like an entire fleet of ghosts were standing there. Raschenda and Vundeter looked especially surprised to see them. They were Esceron grunts.
"You guys made it out of the base okay!" Vundeter yelled happily towards them.
"Yes," said one of the grunts. "We saw the dragons coming and didn't think we could put up a fight against them, so I ordered all of the other soldiers to evacuate until the coast was clear. Did you guys fight off the dragons?"
"Yeah, all three of us fought off…" Vundeter started, but he was cut off.
"Young Danny here was the one who fought off the dragons," Raschenda said, stealing Vundeter's moment of glory. "He killed one dragon and was able to scare the other dragon away by doing so. He is going to be a most valuable asset when we attack the Maldum base for the final time."
"When will that be?" the grunt asked.
"As soon as we finish planning," Raschenda said. "And right now, we're planning that very attack. We've gotta finish off those Maldums once and for all."
So, that's exactly what they did. Danny, Raschenda, Vundeter and all the nameless Esceron soldiers started thinking about how they could attack the Maldum base. They were all hoping that this would truly be the last fight, and none were wishing that as much as Danny was.