All Danny saw was pitch black. He woke up a short while later and saw that he was in a very dark place. It looked almost like a cave. It was cold and empty. He felt like he was sitting on very solid ground, possibly stone. Everything was pretty much pitch-black that was more than three feet in front of him. Physically, there was no one-or nothing in the area with him. But, Danny got a sinking feeling that he was not alone.
"Ah, you're awake," said a cold, hissing voice.
Danny jumped up as if he were shot in the back with a BB gun or some similar instrument. He looked around, still shivering.
"Wh…who's there?" he timidly asked.
Danny turned around and saw a dark figure standing in what little light there was in the room. Suddenly, all his breath was lost; he seemed to be choking on his own racing heartbeat.
"You don't know who I am?" the voice asked. "I would assume after all the time you spent with Skyler you would know."
The figure stepped further into what little light Danny could see with and his face was now visible.
The figure was wearing a very dark cape. He was a little tall, but was very skinny. His hands were very bony, and Danny could almost see the joints in the knuckles moving whenever the figure moved his fingers. But the most disturbing part of all was definitely the face. The person's head looked almost exactly like a skull, but the white was actually skin. His grin showed rows of uneven, ghostly white teeth.
"My name is Bhyrun," the figure calmly said.
"Bhyrun…" Danny whispered to himself. He looked down at the floor with his teeth clamped together. He was now very scared of what was going to happen.
"Yes," Bhyrun said. He looked exactly what a serial killer from a horror movie would look like.
"You look very familiar," Danny said. "I've definitely seen you somewhere before!"
"Silence!" Bhyrun said. "You have caused me enough trouble as it is! It is time I made you work for me now instead of giving me fits."
Bhyrun held out his deathly white hand and fired a dark red beam at Danny. The ray hit the black jumpsuit and sparks started flying out from the spot where he was getting hit, but nothing else seemed to be happening.
Bhyrun's face dropped. It went from an expression of rage to confusion. He looked like he was expecting something to happen that wasn't. After staring off for a few seconds, Bhyrun started cracking an evil smile.
Bhyrun walked back into the darkness and out of Danny's sight. Danny had no idea where Bhyrun was going or what he was doing, but he had to do something now to escape.
He got up and started running into the darkness around him, but he had no idea where he was going. Every single time he'd run, he'd get lost and wind back up in the single illuminated spot in (what he thought was) the center of the dark room.
"Okay, let's see if I can get everything straight," Danny said. "Skyler is now completely evil and has morphed into some freak. Now, he has this great power and plans to do some really bad things with it. Now, here I am, sucked in this cloud and am being confronted by Bhyrun. Luckily, he tried firing something at me and it doesn't look like it did anything too serious to me."
The Ghost Boy was now pacing around the small white area, still trying to keep track of everything that just happened. "Skyler also seems to have the power to turn anyone into a monster or something like that, and that's going to cause some real trouble for me if I don't find a way to get him to stop. And now I somehow got sucked into that giant cloud, so does that mean I'm inside it now? Yes…I definitely have to be inside of it. But Bhyrun…I've seen him before."
Danny was halted in mid-speech by the sound of footsteps coming his way. He looked over, and a little more light started to fill up the darkened area. Bhyrun was there, and he was holding a man by the shirt collar. Not surprisingly, the man looked terrified.
"This person was unfortunate enough to be out in the streets when I was looking down," Bhyrun said. "I brought him up here, just like I did you."
"Put him back!" Danny commanded, trying to sound tough and angry but actually being very scared. "He didn't do anything! Leave him alone!"
Bhyrun began laughing to himself, making the civilian look even more terrified. After a short while, he said, "I think it will be up to you whether or not pain comes to him!"
Saying this, Bhyrun threw the man down on the floor and he landed with a hard bang. He slowly started getting up, but Bhyrun held out his hand and started forming a ball of energy in it that looked exactly the same color as the ray he had just tried firing at Danny.
"Don't do it, Bhyrun!" Danny yelled. He saw that Bhyrun was going to fire the same ray on the person that he had just been attacked with.
But the attempt was vain. Bhyrun fired the ray at the person, and it didn't take long for him to start reacting. The civilian began screaming in pain as Danny began watching in horror.
The person was screaming as he dropped on to the floor. Suddenly, weird noises were coming from him. Scrunching noises. He looked like he was in great pain, and suddenly his skin changed color to dark red. Claws grew from his fingernails, and his eyes turned to green slits. He grew taller and taller until his clothes split off of him and wings sprouted from his back. In no time, Danny was staring face to face with another Bhyspawn.
"So, that IS what that ray can do," Danny thought to himself as he stared at the newly created monster in front of him. "That guy and Skyler can turn people into Bhyspawn whenever they want! But, why didn't that ray work on me? How come it didn't turn ME into Bhyspawn like it did everyone else?"
Bhyrun started chuckling. He watched in amusement as Danny continued to have a non verbal stand off with the Bhyspawn as both of them stared at each other without moving.
"So, Ghost Child," Bhyrun said in a mischievous way, "what are you going to do? This Bhyspawn can tear you limb from limb in a matter of seconds, but you've demonstrated that you're powerful enough to defeat one even faster than it could finish you."
Danny didn't say anything. He just continued to stare right into the green, vicious eyes of the Bhyspawn in front of him that was a human just a minute before.
"Do you want to save you self from this Bhyspawn? You can save yourself from it quite easily; all you have to do is kill it. But, do you want to save yourself, knowing you did it at the expense of a person's life?"
Danny was fueling with rage now. Like Bhyrun said, he could kill the Bhyspawn (therefore killing a person) and save himself, or he could let himself be torn apart.
"Choose, Ghost Child," Bhyrun said. "That Bhyspawn looks very hungry right now…"
Danny continued to remain still. Neither he nor the Bhyspawn did anything to provoke an attack. Abruptly, Danny turned to Bhyrun. Less than a half-second after he turned towards Bhyrun, he fired a strong blast of ectoplasma at him.
Bhyrun got knocked on the ground and made a low moaning sound, but it was only a few seconds before he was back up on his feet like nothing had ever happened to him.
"Well done, Ghost Boy," Bhyrun snickered. "Now it's my turn."
Bhyrun held out his hand and opened it up, facing the open part towards Danny. He started to form a black ball of energy in it, and even though it looked no different than a regular ball of energy (except for being black), Danny could tell this one had much more energy in it than a regular one.
Without warning, Bhyrun fired the blast of energy at Danny. The blast sent Danny flying back several feet and slammed him on to the ground with enough force to kill just about anything smaller than a fully grown bear.
Danny fell on the ground with a loud gasp, and then a quiet moan. His eyes were closed, and he lay on the ground completely motionless. His pulse and heart rate had stopped, and every muscle in his body relaxed. There were no signs of life from him at all. As he lay on the ground, a white circle appeared around his midsection and traveled up and down his body, transferring him back into his human form. He looked like he had just been in a bar fight and lost.
Bhyrun chuckled, and then made a gesture for the Bhyspawn to leave. Obeying its master, the Bhyspawn walked back into the darkness without as much as a grunt.
Bhyrun walked over to Danny's body as it lay on the cold floor.
"And you thought you were strong," Bhyrun said. "A teenaged ghost thinking he can take on me. Didn't you know who I am, kid?...hmm, something's not right here. This kid looks familiar. He kinda looks like…"
Bhyrun stopped talking as he continued looking at Danny's body as it continued to lie on the floor like a rag doll. After a long silence, Bhyrun said, "Well, I got no more use for this piece of flesh. If he's dead, then I can't do anything more with him. Might as well get rid of him now."
Bhyrun looked at a spot on the floor, and without even doing anything, he used his powers to make a hole in the floor appear. Bhyrun looked down at the ground hundreds of feet below him.
After staring at the ground below, Bhyrun went over to Danny and picked his body up. He carried it over to the hole in the floor of the cloud, and then heartlessly dropped him out. Bhyrun watched with pleasure as he saw Danny's body quickly descend to the ground below.
"That kid should have known he couldn't have lived against that blast of mine. That's the most powerful attack I've got. There's no way he could have lived through that one."
Bhyrun continued watching until Danny's body was so close to the ground he couldn't see it. He then closed up the hole in the cloud and was once again alone in the darkness of it. Shortly after he closed it, a thought came to him. His evil, smiling face turned to a grimace.
"Of course, I suppose there is that one way that Ghost Boy could have survived that blast…"