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Danny watched as Skyler continued to levitate higher and higher in the air. His mouth was a gaping hole on his face. Danny was beginning to think that Skyler wasn't a freak, but possibly right. Had Skyler really fused with the dark cloud? Was it possible?
Skyler was a lot higher now, and he blended in with the pitch black night sky. When Danny could no longer see him, he went intangible and flew out of the deserted prison.
Danny began flying back to his hotel. He tried to remember it the best he could, but it was hard enough to concentrate since it was night out and he was in an area he had only seen for a few days. But to add on to that, Danny now had an insane scientist who possibly was now part of a dark cloud that seemed to have some very weird and disturbing powers.
He finally found the hotel after flying through the air for what seemed like the longest and time and went intangible when he saw his hotel room. He passed through the window and appeared right before a worried Sam and Tucker.
"Danny!" Tucker screamed. "What happened to all those monsters? What were they?"
Danny sighed with depression in his voice. He readied himself for the painful news he was about to break to his two friends.
"Those monsters…" Danny started. "Were actually people."
Tucker and Sam looked at each other with confused eyes, then Sam turned to Danny and said, "What are you talking about?"
"It was Skyler," Danny said. "I think he's actually merged with that black cloud, because he was able to do a lot of these super-freaky things that I'm sure he couldn't do before."
"But what does that have to do with those things actually being people?" Tucker questioned.
"Skyler seemed to have some weird power. It looked like he could fire some ray or something from his hand that apparently is able to turn anyone into this thing he calls a Bhyspawn."
"A Bhyspawn?" Tucker asked. "What are those?"
"A Bhyspawn is that thing that just came into our hotel room earlier tonight! I ended up having to fight a lot more of them when I left the room and went to wherever they were coming from."
"Well, where were they coming from?" Sam curiously asked.
"The jail," Danny said in a low, uncaring voice. "That's where I found Skyler. I fought him earlier tonight in his science lab, but Tucker called the police and they came to apprehend Skyler. That must have been the jail he was sent to."
"That still doesn't explain those Bhyspawn," Sam added.
"Well, that ray he fired at me must have been the thing that turned all the guards and other prisoners into those Bhyspawn."
"Wait…he fired it at you?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah."
"Then how come you're not one of those monsters if that ray hit you?"
"I don't know," Danny said. "That's the weird part. If that ray was the power he had that could turn people into those monsters, then I don't know why I'm not one."
"Maybe it's not the ray, then?" Sam said, putting her most logical guess in.
"It had to be," Danny said. "He didn't have any other powers. If he had more powers, I'm sure he would have used them on me."
"He had no other powers?"
"Well, I guess he can fly. But that's just about it."
Tucker and Sam looked confused. They were trying to figure out why Danny didn't get turned into one of those strange monsters if he was zapped by Skyler's beam. Danny had more important things to worry about. He needed to know where Skyler was, and more importantly, what he was planning to do.
"Skyler is still out there," Danny said. "And I'm going to need to find him, learn what the heck he wants to do and stop him."
"Well, you're definitely not doing it now," Sam said. "You've got circles under your eyes darker than my makeup under a black light. You need some rest."
Danny grunted, but then agreed that some shut-eye would probably do him good. He crawled into bed and tried to get at least a little bit of sleep for the remainder of the night.
When Danny woke up a few hours later, he couldn't exactly say he felt refreshed, but it made him feel a little better.
Danny sat up and saw Sam and Tucker staring at him, almost like they were wondering if he was okay.
"Feeling better?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah," Danny said, nodding his head. "So much stuff happened last night it's practically a blur. You know, fighting Skyler and all…"
Danny's eyes widened in fear as he said that. He looked like he had just remembered he had a giant book report to do the night before he had to hand it in. "Where's Skyler now?"
Tucker and Sam looked at each other. Neither one of them had seen him either.
"I gotta go out and look for him!" Danny said. "He's probably up to no good. You two stay here and tell my parents that I'm down in hotel's arcade."
"Wait, this hotel's arcade is closed!" Sam yelled.
"I know, that will make them confused," Danny said. He turned into his ghost form and flew out of the hotel room once again. He was at first disturbed by how high his hotel room was off the ground when he flew out, but he was more than used to it now.
Danny instantly saw the cloud once again hovering in the sky, and he also saw Skyler hovering right underneath it with his arms out, almost like he was performing some ritual. Danny flew over to the cloud as quickly as he could, but about half way there, a loud sound was heard.
Danny was thrown back by a giant green, circular wave that emitted between Skyler and the cloud. Instantly, Danny could tell Skyler was shouting words of triumph and glory. A giant emerald colored gas engulfed around him as he continued to throw his arms in the air. Danny could hardly believe his eyes.
As the green gas from the cloud continued to engulf Skyler, Danny could see Skyler was no longer himself. Instead, Skyler was beginning to turn a lot more dark red and grow to a little over six feet in height. His eyes turned larger and looked more oval, and they were dark red. He still looked like a human, but he was completely red and even had a small red cloud around him. His fingernails had grown to look like claws, and his teeth turned green.
Danny gasped when he saw Skyler change to this form. Skyler was now obviously going to be a much bigger problem. Along with changing form, Skyler probably got a bunch of new powers or abilities.
Danny flew over to Skyler and rammed him as fast and as hard as he could, hoping that he would injure Skyler or at least distract him enough to get a few more attacks in.
Unfortunately, Skyler seemed a lot stronger now. Danny was able to ram him, but that was just about it. Skyler sprouted what looked like sharp wings from his back (after a bit of moaning in pain) that resembled the letter "M" on its side.
"You again," Skyler said. "I see we our paths finally cross once again."
"Save it, Skyler," Danny said. "What have you done to yourself?"
"I have merged with Bhyrun!"
"Not that stuff again," Danny moaned. "Look, if you're going to go ruining my vacation anymore than you already have, then why don't you…"
Danny was blasted to the ground by a ray Skyler fired from his hand. Danny got sent flying to the ground and smashed into it so hard a few cracks were made in the pavement. Danny staggered up and Skyler flew down to the ground with his new wings. As Skyler tapped himself onto the ground, he folded up his wings and he put his hands on his hips. He walked over to Danny with a sneer on his face.
"Last night in my laboratory, you may have beaten me, Ghost Child," Skyler said. He bent downwards and grabbed the sides of Danny's face and pulled it upwards, towards him. "But I think I'm a little bit more powerful now, don't you?"
Danny only grunted. He hadn't even been awake for ten minutes and already he was getting beat up bad enough that he could even be killed.
"Surrender to Bhyrun, and he may let you live!" Skyler sneered.
Danny didn't say anything. He just fired back and blasted Skyler in the face with some ectoplasmic energy.
Skyler got sent flying back, but he started floating up into the air and growled. He got ready to fire a blast at Danny, but before he could, Danny shot up into the air and fired a blast quicker than Skyler could react.
Skyler sprouted his sharp wings again and started growling. In no time, the two were flying in the air, exchanging blasts.
Skyler was firing deep red beams from his hands, and Danny did his best to avoid them. He wasn't sure what effect the dark red beam had, but Danny was sure it was going to hurt.
People were standing outside and screaming as the two continued to fight. Shouts were heard, but Danny had to do his absolute best to ignore them. Skyler was moving much faster now and was obviously much more deadly.
The soft, but intimidating red cloud around Skyler also posed as a distraction to Danny, as did the flapping of Skyler's newfound wings.
Danny fired one blast at Skyler and hit him in the face, and Skyler was sent backwards. Danny continued by jumping right in front of Skyler (or hovering right in front of him) and punching him in the face twice, and then firing a blast of ectoplasmic energy right between the eyes.
Skyler was almost knocked unconscious as Danny continued to get meaner and meaner by the second. Just as Danny was about ready to deliver a final blow and send Skyler into the ground where other people could attack him, Skyler lashed out and gave Danny a quick and painful uppercut.
Danny was sent flying into the air after the uppercut, but Skyler soared up even faster than Danny was launched. As soon as they were at eye-level, Skyler gave Danny a hard punch in the face. Danny got knocked backwards, but now had a huge trail of blood pouring from his nose.
Skyler grabbed Danny by the neck and was then pointing downwards. He turned Danny so his head was facing the ground, and then started quickly accelerating downward.
Danny gasped when he saw that in a matter of moments, Skyler would smash him into the ground while going at over a hundred miles an hour. Thinking fast, Danny went intangible and passed right through the ground as Skyler hit it.
Skyler was in pain after accidentally ramming himself into the ground instead of Danny being smashed in as he had thought.
Danny passed up from the ground when Skyler was still recovering and began firing some energy into his face.
At first, Skyler could only sit there as Danny continued to practically annihilate him, but finally Skyler had a surge of energy. He spiked up into the air so fast that if you blinked, you'd miss it.
Danny got dizzy for a few seconds when Skyler blasted into the sky. When Skyler was in the air, he fired some of those dark red beams of energy right at Danny. They hit him in the gut, and they almost hurt more than a blast from a regular ghost.
As Danny staggered up, Skyler floated down on to the ground and walked over to Danny. He grabbed Danny by the ankle and lifted him up in the air and flipped Danny over his head.
Danny plummeted onto the ground after Skyler flipped him over his head. Danny landed on the ground on his back, and he had huge trouble getting up.
Skyler went over to Danny and began chuckling. He then looked up into the sky and said, "That's it, Bhyrun. We have him. Now we can finish him and no one will be able to stop us!"
Skyler sprouted his sharp wings once again and floated up to the cloud. Danny was barely conscious, and he saw to his shock that Skyler actually went through the cloud. It was solid before, so why could Skyler now go through it.
Danny got a greater shock when a small opened in the bottom of the cloud, and suddenly Danny felt himself getting pulled up, like a tractor beam was bringing him closer to the cloud.
Danny tried resisting and he tried pulling away, but it wasn't working. He was still getting pulled, no matter how much effort he put into stopping it.
Finally, Danny just gave in. He gradually lost consciousness as he got lifted higher and higher, and closer and closer towards the cloud.
Finally, Danny's eyes closed and everything went black. He was now inside the cloud.