Danny and Skyler stared at each other for a while. Not taking their eyes off each other, they began shifting their feet to move sideways across the floor. Then, without warning, Skyler opened up his hand and pointed it right towards Danny's face.

Danny put a force field around himself, expecting a blast of energy to come from Skyler's hand, but nothing came. After a while, Skyler looked really nervous that nothing was happening, and as soon as Danny realized that, he stopped protecting himself and started attacking.

Danny fired energy at Skyler, but only enough to knock Skyler unconscious. (Danny didn't want to actually hurt him) Skyler moved out of the way just in time and the blast ended up hitting the wall behind.

The energy smashed the wall and put a huge, burnt hole right into it. Charred bits of plaster from the wall chipped off and left Skyler staring in amazement. Skyler was just realizing Danny's true power, and since injecting himself with material from the cloud didn't make him stronger like he hoped it would, Skyler began backing away from Danny.

Danny stopped firing and started slowly walking over to Skyler. Skyler had an obvious look of terror on his newly darkened, withered face. The dark patches under his eyes started widening with his eyes as he continued to walk backwards and away from Danny.

"I'm not going to hurt you," Danny said. "Just give up and wait for some people to take you to a mental institute or something like that."

Skyler didn't say anything. He continued stuttering as he walked backwards. As Danny continued backing him further and further, Skyler began to shake more. Finally, Skyler hit a dead end when Danny backed him into the table with all of the tools on it. Skyler gasped when he saw he couldn't back up any further as he bumped into it.

"I'm trustworthy, don't worry," Danny reassured, trying to sound tough but merciful at the same time. "You just made a mistake, and you're going to pay for it. That's all."

Skyler continued to stare at Danny without blinking once. Finally, as Danny had enough and just had enough of him, he just started approaching Skyler faster.

When the two were just a few feet apart, Skyler pulled one of the sharp tools from the table up and pointed it at Danny faster than anyone could blink.

"Stay back!" Skyler's voice rasped. Skyler's pale arm was shaking violently as he pointed the tool at Danny.

Danny seemed taken back by this at first, but then just aimed his finger at the tool and fired ectoplasmic energy at the tool. In less than a second, the energy hit the tool and completely melted it.

Skyler gasped, now realizing he was unarmed once again. But it wasn't long before he reached behind himself and pulled out three more sharp objects. He pointed them at Danny, then threw one at Danny faster than any normal person could. The sharp object hit Danny and stuck itself in between his ribs.

Danny yelped in pain as he fell to the ground. Skyler got ready to throw another one until Danny started flying in the air, trying to ignore the pain that was beginning to throb in his side.

Danny was finally just about up to the ceiling, but as soon as he stopped, Skyler threw another sharp tool with superhuman speed. Danny watched in shock as the tool made a loud tapping sound as it lodged itself in the ceiling, less than an inch from Danny's face.

Skyler threw a third sharp object and it also just narrowly missed Danny. Danny started to get a little more serious as well. He started firing more energy down at Skyler, but not trying to seriously hurt him.

Skyler was moving a lot more quickly now for some reason. Danny noticed that Skyler's reflexes and speed seemed to get much better.

"Don't tell me injecting himself with that stuff actually helped," Danny said. "If that helped, then I have a lot of trouble ahead of me."

Skyler was ready to throw another sharp object, but he found that he had run out of them. Danny took this opportunity to recover a little. He looked down and saw the sharp object still stuck in his ribs. He grabbed it and yanked it out as quickly as he could. The moment he pulled it out, another surge of pain shot through him, but it stopped pretty much then. Danny looked and saw a huge red spot coming through his black jumpsuit where the sharp tool had been embedded.

Danny landed on the ground with the tool that Skyler had pierced him with still in his hand. He looked at the red, blood tipped point of the object, then threw it to the side. Danny began staring at Skyler with angry eyes once again. However, this time it wasn't just for intimidation; it was for anger.

"Listen here!" Danny yelled, pointing at Skyler, "I don't know why Harvard and Oxford gave you a diploma, but those professors must have been even more insane than you to let it happen!"

"I told you before," Skyler said, "I was trying to use Bhyrun's power to realize my own. Don't you think it's only natural to want that kind of super power?"

"Let me think about that…" Danny said. "Um…no!"

Saying this, Danny fired another blast at Skyler and hit him in the feet. Skyler screamed and fell to the ground. He seemed to be melting from pain, even though the blast was only supposed to be a burning feeling to wake Skyler up and for Danny to show him that he was better, not Skyler.

"Look, we can end this now, or we can keep hurting each other!" Danny said. "I say we end it now and wait!"

Skyler didn't say anything. He got up and ran for the table once again to grab a sharp object from the table, but Danny just blasted the table and vaporized everything on it by doing so.

"You just won't take a hint, will you?" Danny said. "Fine, you know what? You can do whatever you want, but I'm still stronger than you and could whoop your cocky butt any day. But, since I'm a nice guy, I won't do that. If you stop now, I'll let you go with a warning."

Skyler didn't say anything. He was taking a lot of time just moving around, which is exactly what Danny wanted. He wanted Skyler to take up as much time as possible.

Finally, Skyler made one last dash towards the sharp tool in the corner that Danny threw to the side. (the same one that he had previously thrown and pierced Danny)

Danny wasn't expecting this, and Skyler actually got the tool in the corner. Now, he could throw it at Danny with speed that would be very hard to beat.

Danny and Skyler started staring at each other, but Danny was trying to make himself move fast so Skyler would have a hard time hitting him. Finally, Skyler through the pointed object, and Danny went intangible as soon as Skyler threw it. And it was a good thing too, because if Danny didn't go intangible, then the sharp tool would have lodged itself right into Danny's forehead.

When Skyler saw that he was now once again unarmed, he started backing away. Danny went tangible again and started walking towards him.

Danny raised his hand and started forming energy in it, but he heard people walking around outside the lab. Danny went intangible and flew out of the room through the door where he heard sound on the other side. Sure enough, it was the police.

"Tucker, good thing you called the police like I asked you to," Danny said. He changed back to his human form when no one was looking and ran back into the room the scientist was in, pretending he was just in there for the first time.

"Dr. Skyler?" asked the police sergeant as he was handcuffing Skyler, "You're under arrest for attempting to take biological enhancements. You are going to stay in a jail cell for a few days until your trial."

Skyler grumbled as he looked around, looking for where the "Ghost Boy" went. When Skyler was completely handcuffed, he was led away by some of the lower ranked police officers.

Skyler walked over to Danny and said, "Were you the one who called?"

"No, my friend was," Danny said. "But I kinda told him to call, so…"

"Listen," the sergeant said, "I want you to go on Skyler's computer and find out as much about what he was trying to do as possible. It will help out with the investigation."

I don't see the point, I could demolish Skyler pretty easily if I wanted to, Danny thought to himself. But, he didn't want to give the sergeant any idea that he was a ghost (or at least could cause trouble) so he just agreed.

Danny went over to a computer and started reading looking through all the files on it. He was looking for anything that could possibly explain the incident with the cloud, or what the heck "Bhyrun" meant.

After looking for a while, Danny found a file that looked like it had some useful information on it. He opened it up and it read: THE HISTORY OF BHYRUN

The black cloud that appears in the sky is not really a cloud, but a visible curse. It is the current form of Bhyrun, the Dark Mage of 1368. By opening up the bottle, life is given to the curse and it is reborn. When the curse is reborn, so is Bhyrun. Bhyrun inhabits the cloud and when he is reborn, he gains more and more power through time. The cloud will come back; Bhyrun will come back; so the curse will come back. The only way to permanently end the curse is to destroy Bhyrun. Bhyrun cannot be harmed by any earthly substance.

"Uh, okay?" Danny said, not sure what the heck the passage he read on the computer meant. "Well, it doesn't matter. Skyler's arrested; that nut couldn't be put behind bars fast enough. I guess I should go find Sam and Tucker now."