"His eye twitched!"
"I think his hands are moving!"
"His chest is moving up and down. He must be breathing again."
Danny slowly opened his eyes and saw a great blur in front of him. He couldn't tell what was around him if he tried. The only thing he could tell was that there were two people looming over him, and those people were his two best friends. Despite his blurred vision, he could see both of them were relieved.
"Ugh…what happened?" Danny asked. He blinked fast a few times as his vision continued to improve by the second. He sat up when he could clearly see everything a few seconds later. He saw that he was sitting on a bed in his hotel room, with Sam and Tucker standing up and hovering over him.
Tucker and Sam looked like a giant weight was lifted off their shoulders. They breathed a heavy sigh of relief when Danny was sitting up and talking again.
"Tucker saw you fall from the sky!" Sam yelled. "We saw you land on the ground and thought you had fallen from some place and killed yourself!"
"Yeah man," Tucker said. "What happened? How'd you suddenly plummet on the ground out of nowhere?"
Danny groaned again, than tried to clarify everything. "You saw me fall from the sky and just land on the ground?"
"Yeah," Tucker verified.
"We thought you died or something like that."
Danny gave a small smile to that remark. "Don't worry, I'm still alive. I just wish I knew what happened."
"So do we," Tucker said. "Sam and I want to know what happened! How'd you get up so high anyway, and why'd you fall?"
Danny put a hand on top of his throbbing head. Despite falling several hundred feet, there were no signs of serious injuries on him anywhere. He tried to recall the events that just took place.
"Okay, here's what I remember," Danny started. "I saw Skyler going around being a total jerk, so I tried to go fight him. But, I ended up losing the fight, but instead of finishing me, Skyler instead said something to that giant, black cloud. Then, he flew up there and passed through the cloud. Almost immediately after that, a patch opened up in the cloud, and I got sucked up in there like some giant magnet was pulling me up."
"So let me get this straight," Tucker said. "After you lost to Skyler, Skyler flew up into the air and passed through the cloud. After that, the cloud opened up and something pulled you up towards the cloud and inside it?"
"That's right," Danny coolly said, looking away. "Anyway, when I got up there, I was in this pitch black room except for a little patch of light I was sitting in. Then, this guy was walking around, and he said his name was Bhyrun."
"Bhyrun?" Sam asked. "Isn't that what that Skyler guy said was the name of the cloud? Are you sure you weren't dreaming?"
"I'm positive," Danny bluntly replied. "We had a chit chat for a little while, and then he tried firing some dark red laser at me. When nothing happened, Bhyrun walked away and apparently abducted the first person he saw on the streets. He brought the guy up to the cloud and fired the same ray at the dude he abducted."
"And…what happened?" Tucker said in suspense.
"The guy Bhyrun abducted turned into the same monster that I had to fight several times last night. I think that's what the ray can do."
"But that doesn't make any sense," Sam said, jumping in. "If that ray can turn people into those monsters, then how come it didn't work on you!"
"I don't know!" Danny yelled, starting to get irritated. He sprung off the bed and started pacing around the hotel room with his hands on his hips as he looked down at the floor. "If I remember correctly, Bhyrun wanted me to…no, he dared me to save myself from getting mauled by that newly created monster of his by attacking it and killing it. The only problem is that if I killed it, then I would have killed a person."
"Then what did you do?" Tucker asked.
"I tried to throw a surprise attack at Bhyrun," Danny replied. "I sent my strongest blast at him, hoping to catch him off guard and give me the advantage. But, it doesn't look like my powers are much of a threat to him, because he didn't act like he got hurt by them at all…he answered by firing his strongest blast at me. And that's the last thing I remember."
"That must have been when you fell from the sky," Sam said. "So, what are you going to do now? Now that Skyler's on the loose and you've met that Bhyrun guy, you can't honestly hope to just sit here and do nothing!"
"I know, Sam," Danny replied, slumping on his bed and hiding his head in his hands, "but there is still so much I don't know. Like, who is this Bhyrun guy? And more importantly, what do I have to do to stop him? And what does Skyler plan on doing, and how do I stop whatever he has cooked up? On top of that, how did I survive Bhyrun's attack up in that cloud? And how do I destroy the cloud at all? And of all people, why won't Bhyrun's mutation ability work on me!"
Danny was breathing heavy and was practically giving himself a headache. He looked up and saw the concerned faces of Sam and Tucker, and then just moaned. "So much stuff that I don't know…how am I supposed to stop Bhyrun and Skyler when I don't even know what they plan on doing?"
"Uh, speaking of Skyler…" Sam said nervously.
Danny looked up and saw that Sam was now staring out a window. He looked pretty nervous about something, and when Danny ran over, he could see why. A few yards away from the hotel and very high in the air, Skyler was flying around in his demonic-looking form. His sharp, M shaped wings were terrifying anyone who wasn't already scared of his dark red, monster-like physical appearance.
"Gah! Can't I get ONE second to think!" Danny yelled. He turned into his ghost form and flew out the window in a flash of fury. He was sick and tired of dealing with Skyler over and over, and hoped that this would have to be his last time.
Danny flew up to Skyler and didn't even say something to grab Skyler's attention; he simply launched a ball of energy at him.
Skyler was distracted from what he was doing and knocked to the ground, but he didn't seem to be in a lot of pain.
"I've grown stronger with Bhyrun!" Skyler yelled. His sharp wings were flapping quicker now, and Danny was getting nervous just looking at him. "Do you still think I am a madman after your encounter with Bhyrun? Do you doubt his awesome power now?"
"Okay, he's strong!" Danny admitted. "And you injected Bhyrun's matter into you, so now you're strong! There! Can we end this!"
Skyler held out his hand and fired a blast from his palm, nailing Danny only inches below his throat. Danny was knocked to the ground, and Skyler gracefully hovered his way over there and grabbed Danny by the neck and pulled him up so they were eye-level with each other.
"I've had just about enough of you!" Skyler said.
"What a coincidence, so have I!" Danny retorted as he struggled to breathe. Skyler's grip was amazingly strong, and Danny could barely move. "Uh, dude, you're going to snap my neck."
Skyler didn't say anything. He just tightened his grip. It seemed breaking Danny's neck was precisely what he wanted: a quick and painful way to get rid of his only distraction so he could attain all of Bhyrun's power.
"Can't…breathe…" Danny moaned as Skyler's rock-solid grip continued to choke him. Danny could feel his face turning blue and not much oxygen was getting to his brain, so he had an even harder time trying to come up with something to help him escape. Finally, he tried something.
Danny mustered up all the strength on his lower body and sent his leg flying up with the most strength he had. He kicked Skyler in the spot where "guys don't like to be hit".
Skyler moaned briefly in pain as he tried to recover from the blow to his crotch Danny gave. In the process, he dropped Danny on to the ground. Danny jumped up into the air and began charging up an attack.
It didn't take long for Skyler to regain himself, though. In a matter of seconds, he was acting like nothing happened and saw Danny's charged ghost attack, ready to be launched at him.
"So, you want a fight, huh?" Skyler said. He showed Danny both of his hands, and in a swift moment, they turned darker red and started having power form in both of them. "I'll give you a fight! And I'll make sure this is a good fight for you, because it's going to be your la-"
Skyler got blasted in the face in mid speech. "Talk too much, and you're gonna lose," Danny snidely warned.
Just as he began laughing to himself for that remark, Danny got blasted by Skyler while he was still on the ground. Danny was sent flying backwards with the force from the blast and smashed into a tree behind him.
Danny moaned, but instantly got up and started fighting back. He flew over to Skyler and gave him three solid punches in the stomach before topping it off with a blast to his face.
Skyler was on the ground from this, and Danny was standing with his hands on his hips in victory. "Time to finish this, Skyler. It's over."
Danny prepared the strongest blast of energy he could form in his hand. He aimed it at Skyler's head and was prepared to end this final fight between the two new enemies.
Just as Danny fired it, Skyler delivered a kick right to Danny's nose and knocked him off balance. The ray Danny just formed in his hand went flying away into the sky until it pierced a regular cloud and went through it.
Danny was trying to get back on track from the surprise kick, but Skyler would have nothing to do with that. He ran over to Danny and punched him once in the nose, and then blasted him in the stomach with some energy from his hand.
Danny screamed in pain, but suffered another blow in a split second. Skyler elbowed Danny as hard as he could on the back of Danny's neck, causing Danny to go plummeting to the ground in pain.
Danny was now lying on his front, almost helpless. Skyler, on the other hand, was feeling more full of himself, as he had just about finished Danny.
"You were saying something about finishing this?" Skyler snootily said as he observed Danny lying on the ground stiff as a board. "I couldn't agree more. Time to get you out of my way, and Bhyrun's way, once and for a-"
Skyler was suddenly slammed by someone, or something, from side. He was sent flying to the side with so much force that someone would think he had just been rammed by an invisible pick up truck.
Danny looked over and saw what looked like a regular person, but there was one very disturbing feature about him: he was wearing a mask.
At first, Danny didn't think too much of it, but when after a while, Danny thought it was pretty peculiar. The figure was tall, was obviously a guy, but he had his entire face (except for his mouth and everything under it) hidden by a gold mask.
"Leave him alone!" the figure commanded with determination and assertion in his voice. He walked over to Skyler and pulled a giant sword out from a sheath he had built on his pants. The sword looked like it was regular when it was being made, but there was a gold light surrounding the blade of it.
Skyler gasped when he saw the masked figure. He didn't seem to have any cleared idea of who the person was than Danny did, but he looked like he was scared of whoever the person was.
The masked person went over to Skyler and slashed at him with the sword he just unsheathed. Skyler seemed to suffer a LOT from this, as he started screaming in so much pain that Danny thought Skyler was going to break out into tears.
Without doing anything else, Skyler sprouted his sharp wings and started flying away. The masked figure just stared as he watched Skyler fly further and further away. Once Skyler was a good distance away, the figure turned around and looked at Danny as he lay on the ground.
The figure gently walked over to Danny and knelt down beside him.
"You okay?"
Danny didn't respond; he could only grunt. He forced his way up until he could support himself on his legs again. Once he was standing up, he moaned and started scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks," Danny said, not looking at the figure. It was another few seconds before Danny looked at him and had confusion written all over his face.
Some random guy with a sword and a mask shows up just ask Skyler is about to finish me, and his sword seems to hurt Skyler a lot more than my attacks? What's up with that?, Danny thought to himself as he stared at the figure for the first time. I've definitely heard his voice before; he sounds way too familiar for it to be a coincidence. Who is this guy?