Danny and the mysterious creature continued to stare off for a long time until Danny finally made the first move. He fired a quick blast at the creature's intimidating red face and knocked it back.
The monster, however, took no time to get back up and get back in the action. It made a few swipes at Danny, but Danny dodged then with little to no trouble. As Danny was dodging swipe after swipe, Tucker and Sam ran into a corner to hide, not wanting the creature to accidentally slice them into pieces.
After a short amount of time, Danny finally had enough and fired more energy from his hand and tried to aim it at the beast's eyes this time. Luckily, it worked, and the creature began roaring in pain
The monster began to stagger backwards as Danny jumped up in front of it. In no time, he started pelting the creature with a series of solid punches and hits that had it lying on the ground in no time.
"Time to finish this!" Danny yelled. He put his hand right over where the beast's heart would be and charged up a blast of energy. Danny had a bizarre and painful feeling in him, asking "do you really want to do this? Do you really want to kill that thing?"
Trying his best to ignore that instinct, Danny fired that blast right into the monster's chest. The creature made one last howl of pain, and then it quietly began disappearing as the two monsters before it did.
Danny was breathing hard and heavy. He was exhausted after being woken up early in the morning and having to fight three very strange creatures. After a while, Danny reverted back to his human form. His black hair was no longer messy from bed-head, but from all the fighting. There were obvious sweat spots on his pajamas and his blue eyes were half-shut.
Tucker and Sam popped out from the corner and ran over to Danny.
"Danny, awesome work!" Tucker congratulated. "You showed those guys a thing or two!"
"Yeah, good going," Sam agreed. "But I can't help but get the feeling that something wasn't right about all that."
"What are you talking about?" Danny asked.
"I don't know," Sam said. "It just seemed like there was something wrong when you disintegrated those monsters after you finished them."
"Me too," Danny said. "I actually felt the same thing, but I'm not feeling sorry for killing them. They were the ones who started it, after all."
Danny would soon learn to regret those words.
"Anyway, if you guys don't mind, I'd like to get back to sleep. Fighting a cloud, an insane scientist and getting him arrested, and then fighting three weird monsters sure takes it outta ya," Danny said, forcing a tired smile across his face.
Just as Danny was about to go into bed, he heard a roaring sound. Danny looked towards the window, and there was a fourth monster out there. Like the other three, it had a dark red body and piercing eyes and claws.
Danny moaned very exhaustion, but it was blatantly obvious that he was moaning mostly from annoyance. He didn't want to be fighting those things, whatever they were; Danny more so wanted to know where they were coming from.
Danny ran to the window where the fourth creature was staring in at him. Danny once again went ghost and immediately went intangible. He passed through the walls of the hotel and didn't waste any time. He began punching the snot out of the monster and showed it little mercy.
"It is too much to ask to get a little shut eye around here!" Danny yelled angrily. "This was supposed to be a vacation, you know!"
As Danny was screaming at the monster (which he doubted could actually understand a thing he was saying), he was pounding the monster's face with his solid fist doing everything he could to finish it in less than a second.
The two were fighting several stories into the air. It would be very disturbing for someone to look out their window and see a fourteen year old ghost with glowing green fists floating several stories in the air as he pulverized a monster that looked like a dark red, thin ape with dragon-like wings.
"I've had enough of this!" Danny yelled. "I will finish you right here and now!"
Danny's fists seemed to charge up with energy as he delivered one last punch into the monster's face. The monster began disappearing as Danny stared at it with grit teeth and an angry, yet exhausted, expression.
When the monster was completely gone, Danny said, "Finally! Now can I please go to bed?"
Danny was ready to go intangible again and go into his hotel room until he looked ahead. There were several more of those monsters floating in the air only a few yards away from him, all of them looking very vicious and ready to attack.
"I am so tired of this," Danny said. He just charged right into the herd of those monsters and began blasting them away with all of his energy.
It was pretty difficult for Danny to actually finish off all the monsters as he flew in the air, mostly because there were so many of him and they kept coming at him from all directions. In fact, as they surrounded him, the monsters began clawing and scratching at Danny with about as much mercy as he gave the previous four.
Danny was clearly getting mauled, and he wouldn't last literally a minute longer if he didn't do something. As he was getting attacked and clawed at, he tried to move out of the way, but every time he moved, he get smashed back into the center of the four or five monsters as they formed a circle and simultaneously smashed him.
Aside from a few grunts and moans, Danny couldn't do a thing as the monsters continued to tear him apart. If Danny kept this up for a few more seconds, he'd be knocked unconscious, probably fall from the sky to the ground, several stories below and…well, you get the idea.
"Let…me…GO!" Danny finally shrieked, rage filling in his voice. He created a shield around himself so powerful that it blew the creatures away and sent them flying through the air. Before they could even begin to recover, Danny started firing blasts of energy at each and every single one of them, each blast filled with more rage than the last. He was blasting the monsters and showed them no mercy, and savagely finished them, the same way a wolf finishes a herd of sheep.
Danny was breathing hard as he watched the handful of creatures start to disappear in thin air after they were defeated. It looked like it was all over, but unfortunately for Danny, it wasn't.
Danny looked in front of him, and he could see some large things flying at him, but they were quite a good distance away, possibly a few miles.
It was obvious that the things flying at him from about a mile away were more monsters that Danny just had to fight off. Danny didn't wait for them to reach him, instead he charged at them and was about to attack them all in a savage manner.
When Danny was right in front of three of them as they floated in the sky, Danny blast all three of them in less than two seconds. The three monsters, surprised by the quick speeds and blasts, were getting dizzy from Danny's attacks. Danny then ran over to each one of them and tried to throw them down into the ground, and he had enough strength in his tired state to be able to do it.
Danny watched as the three monsters slammed into the ground a few stories below and began to disappear. Now, Danny's adrenaline was so high that nothing could stop him, or so he thought…
Danny finally caught a break when he saw where the monsters were coming from. Apparently, the monsters were coming out of a dark building on the corner of a street.
"So, they're coming from inside something?" Danny said to himself. "Well, I'm gonna find out why they're coming out of that building."
Danny went intangible and passed through the building. He looked around, and it was disturbingly quiet and empty. There were a few lights illuminating the hall, but that only seemed to make the building creepier. The floor was marbled and the walls were made of cement blocks piled on top of one another. There was a front desk and there seemed to be a few other rooms, but the entire place had an unwelcome feel to it. Danny was feeling uncomfortable being there, not only because he knew that's where all the monsters were coming from, but because the place was so empty.
Danny listed as his heavy breathing and footsteps echoed across the empty wall. There were a few side halls, but Danny didn't investigate any until he heard a scream from the end of one of the halls. The scream was weird though, because it doesn't sound like a monster. It sounded like it was a person who was screaming.
Danny gasped and looked down the hall, and out from looked like a side room in the hall came another one of the monsters that Danny had been fighting for almost an hour.
"I wish I knew what was going on here!" Danny yelled. "These things are popping out of nowhere!"
Danny ran down the long hall and didn't notice all the side doors that he thought led to other rooms. He just kept his focus on the monster that he was going to fight. Danny was getting really tired of having to fight over ten of these monsters in one hour, starting with the one that went into his hotel room, leading Danny to finding where they were coming from.
As Danny and that mysterious creature fought, Danny was really getting weakened. He was exhausted after getting only a few hours of sleep and having to fight these strange monsters over and over.
Danny kicked the monster onto the ground, and as soon as the monster was on its back, Danny fired his energy into the ceiling and started cutting out a square right above the monster's head in the ceiling. When the square was completed after Danny cut it out with his ectoplasmic energy in the ceiling, the chunk inside the square fell from the ceiling and fell right on the monster's head, crushing it.
To Danny's pleasant surprise, after the ceiling fragment crushed the monster's head, the monster began to disappear. Danny smiled briefly as he saw the monster disappear and, therefore, die.
Just as Danny thought that was the last of them, he heard something. However, it wasn't another monster or creature; it was a laugh. A soft, malicious laugh.
That's when Danny realized that the doors around him on the side walls weren't actually doors to other rooms, but to jail cells. Danny almost lost his breath when the revelation came to him that he was actually in a prison.
As Danny realized this, he once again heard the malicious laughing. It seemed to come from a jail cell at the end of the hall. Danny gulped and nervously started walking towards the end of the hall towards the jail cell where the laughing was coming from. It was after taking a few steps where Danny realized that the jail cell he was hearing the laughter from was the same one that the last monster he battled came out of.
Danny could hear his heart racing as he continued to approach the jail cell at the end of the hall. He continued taking tiny baby steps towards the jail cell as the malicious and quiet laughing gradually got louder. When Danny was right in front of the jail cell, he saw that the door was opened, but there was someone in it.
Danny quietly walked into the jail cell, but couldn't see who was inside the cell too clearly. The person had their face buried in their hands, but there was no doubt the laughter was coming from them.
Danny reached his hand out slowly to touch the person in the cell, but when his hand was only a few inches away, the person's face shot up and let out a scream so loud it made Danny jump and his heart temporarily stop.
When Danny started breathing again, he saw who was inside the jail cell: it was Skyler. Even though Danny had just seen Skyler earlier that night, he looked much different. Skyler's face was much more dark gray and looked a lot more evil and piercing. His teeth had grown to be quite yellow, and even a little sharp. He let out an even louder and evil laugh when he saw that Danny was standing there.
"You…" Skyler hissed, not taking the vicious grin off his face. "What are you doing here? You're the one who put me in this jail cell in the first place!"
"Skyler!" Danny yelled. "What have you done! You look terrible! How'd you get like this!"
Skyler closed his mouth and emitted a small chuckle. He then asked, "I should be the one asking all the questions. How did you get passed the guards and other prisoners?"
Danny never thought of that. The guards, Skyler's cellmates…none of them were there. Danny didn't see anyone in the prison except for Skyler.
"I…I didn't see them," Danny said, not knowing what else to say.
"Really?" Skyler said, getting up and keeping the evil smile on his face. "I thought for sure you would have met them on your way over here."
"What are you talking about?" Danny asked angrily. "I didn't see anyone hear! All I saw were some weird looking monsters on my way over here!"
"I see," Skyler said in a calm, creepy way. "Then you did see the guards and prisoners."
Danny froze up, and it seemed every part of him stopped working. "You don't mean…"
"Yes!...YES!" Skyler said. "Those monsters you fought on your way over-the ones that looked like people except dark red that could fly…they were the guards!"
"You mean…I…I didn't…" Danny stuttered.
"YES!" Skyler yelled with a mix of anger and pleasure in his voice. "By killing those monsters, you've killed people! And I thought you were supposed to be the hero!"
Danny's eyes started filling with tears of rage. "You've made me kill real people!" he screamed, full of hatred. "I swear I will…"
Skyler just started laughing manically. "You cannot beat me now! I am one with Bhyrun! I am part of him! He is part of me!"
Danny couldn't say anything. He was breathing heavy with his teeth grit so hard that he thought he could smash his teeth by grinding them together.
"Now, it's your turn!" Skyler yelled. "With you gone, nothing will stop me and Bhyrun from ruling all! Nothing!"
Danny couldn't say anything. Before he could even move, Skyler put out his hand and fired a blast of dark red light from it. The light hit Danny right in the chest, and Skyler expected Danny to turn into one of the monsters too. However, nothing happened.
Skyler looked very upset now. "What! Why are you not turning into a Bhyspawn?"
"A Bhyspawn?" Danny asked. "Is that what those monsters are called?"
"Bhyrun!" Skyler screamed. "Don't tell me he's actually…he can't really be…this ghost cannot possibly be him!"
Danny watched in horror as Skyler seemed to actually lift off the ground, as if he were flying. Skyler didn't have wings or anything like that, but he was still flying.
"You'll pay for this!" Skyler yelled. Skyler fired some energy from his hand and put a hole through the ceiling of the prison. He flew out of the prison and was now outside.
"You will all pay!" Skyler yelled as he continued hovering higher and higher into the air as his voice filled with anger.
Danny could only watch as Skyler floated higher and higher into the sky.