Okay, before I begin, I'd like to thank Jenna Dax for that one review. Yes, it was only one, but it was all the motivation I needed to continue. Basically, if I get at least one review for a chapter, then I'll keep writing this. Jenna Dax, thank you for submitting that review. You've convinced me to keep this story going.
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"All right!" Danny said, clenching his fist and hopping off the spring bed he was sitting on. He looked exhausted and worn, but he just forgot about all those things. Sam and Tucker were in great danger now that they had been turned into Bhyspawn, and Danny was going to stop at nothing now to make sure they were safe.
He began running towards the window to start flying out of it before the masked person stopped him. "Wait! If you're really going to be taking on a powerful figure like Bhyrun or Skyler, then you are going to need all the help you can get."
"And I told you, that's why you're here…isn't it?"
"Yes, but you're going to need more than just the powers you have if you want to beat both of them."
"Once again, isn't that the point of your existence?"
"That's not the point for it, but it will definitely help you should you choose to accept it. Do you want my help or not?"
"Of course I do!"
"Very well, then."
The masked figure took his hand and he grabbed Danny's arm with it. The man seemed to be squeezing as hard as he could, and Danny felt like his bones were about to crumple from under the pressure.
As this was happening, Danny got a sudden feeling in his arm. He felt like something was flowing into him.
Danny eventually started screaming, and it almost seemed like it echoed through the hotel room. While the feeling itself didn't cause any noise, Danny thought he heard wind rushing and other imaginary sounds when he felt something surge through his body.
When the masked person let go of Danny's arm, everything went quite. Danny's screaming and all the sounds he thought he was hearing, vanished. He looked around the hotel room, once again taking in the fact that it was completely empty except for him and the masked person.
"Okay, now can you please tell me who you are!" Danny asked.
As he expected, the masked man didn't respond. He seemed like a nice and gentle guy, but there was something weird about him that Danny thought was creepy. The worst part: he also thought the masked guy looked familiar.
"What I've just done," the masked person started, "has given you the power to pierce that cloud's armor and to defeat Bhyrun."
"Great!" Danny yelled with a huge smile spreading across his face. "Now we can go inside that cloud and finish Bhyrun off!"
"I told you already," the masked person glumly said, "Bhyrun will be way too powerful for either you or me, even for us put together. Skyler has the most of Bhyrun's power now, so we'll need to take care of him first."
"That shouldn't be too hard," Danny said. "Any minute now he's going to pop up in that window and say a few stupid things. Then we're going to fight for the thousandth time today, and just as I'm about to win he's going to fly away, and the process will repeat itself until he dies."
"If I were you, I would not want to wait for him and hope that this fight will be his last," the masked man said. "I would want to find him and make sure that he doesn't live to do any more damage or cause any more problems then he already has."
Danny nodded his head in agreement. "You knew I was being sarcastic, right?"
The masked figure didn't even answer. His gold-colored army was reflecting light from the sun, making it hard for Danny to look at him sometimes.
"Let's leave now and find Skyler," the masked one suggested. "With him out of the way, Bhyrun will make an easy target to attack."
Both of them left the messy and lifeless hotel room and began floating through the sky. As Danny predicted, it wasn't long before they saw him floating in the distance. His dark red figure with black mixed in would be enough to give it away, but a blood red gas surrounding him and his sharp wings also gave it away.
Danny tried to take a shot at Skyler's head from afar, but he jumped a little bit before he fired it and the blast flew right by Skyler's face.
Skyler turned around to see where the blast came from. He saw Danny and the masked person floating a few yards away, and he began snarling. He countered by sending a blast of his own energy at them. Danny and the masked figure moved out of the way simultaneously to avoid the blast.
"Okay, punk," Danny said. "I've had enough of you! This time, you're going down!"
"You dare try to take me on again?" Skyler said. "You're paying for your own funeral, kid!"
Skyler charged at Danny and his fists began to turn the dark red shade that was floating around him. He began firing quick punches at Danny, who had to try his best to dodge every single fist he saw getting thrown at him.
"Danny! Hold on!" screamed the masked man in panic. (Danny thought for sure that was the first time he heard the guy sound panicked)
The masked person launched a ray of golden light at Skyler, and Skyler seemed to get really hurt by it.
Danny took this opportunity to blast Skyler as well. He fired his own blast of energy from behind and nailed Skyler in the back with it.
Skyler screamed in pain and then turned around, looking at Danny.
"You have that power, too!" Skyler said, his voice filling with fear and disbelief. "This can't be!...too strong!..."
Without saying another word, Skyler launched himself past Danny and flew away as fast as he could. Danny and the masked man stared; the masked figure seemed to have a happy and victorious expression while Danny had a confused one.
"What's up with that?" Danny asked. "Did I suddenly get some new ability to hurt him? Or was he just weakened from your blast that mine hurt him a little more?"
Without even replying, the masked man's face dropped and he slowly levitated downwards towards the ground until his feet gently touched. Danny, not knowing what else to do, followed. When they were both on the ground, the masked person began talking.
"Danny, I think it's about time you learned what was going on," he said in a sad, but almost relieved voice.
Danny gasped. Even though it was only a small gasp, it could be heard echoing through the streets. The streets were completely deserted of any people or cars, the road was pretty beat up, and the entire scene looked ravaged.
Just as the masked person was about to say something, Danny saw that his mouth changed to a look of horror. Danny took a second to realize something was wrong, and then turned around. There, hovering over him, were two Bhyspawn.
Danny gasped, but he thought he noticed something strange about those two Bhyspawn. "Sam? Tucker? Is that you guys?"
Both Bhyspawn roared loudly in Danny's face, knocking Danny off guard enough for him to fall to the pavement. He could barely say anything, but he was confused about why the two Bhyspawn just continued to stare at him instead of attack him.
Then Danny heard a cackling sound. He looked up and saw Skyler hovering about fifteen feet in the air above them.
"I shall answer that question for you," he said in a loud, nasty voice. "Yes, those are your friends! Or should I say: were your friends!"
"Dude, can you say something original at least once?"
Skyler didn't seem affected at all by that remark. "Well, you know the drill by now, Ghost Boy! These Bhyspawn are very hungry, and I'm sure you look quite tasty to them."
Wow, here I am talking to some nut who has fused with a guy from over 600 years ago, and my two best friends are about to devour me. Some vacation THIS is, Danny thought to himself.
"But you know how easily you can kill these things, don't you?" Skyler taunted. "You've killed several already, have you not?"
"Yeah, and those were people I didn't even know. You can't expect me to actually kill these guys, especially since they're my friends!"
"Well then, I guess it's feeding time for you two lovely Bhyspawn," Skyler said. "Bon Appetite."
Danny nervously stared into the hungry eyes of the two vicious Bhyspawn. Did he attack them, knowing that they were his friends? Or did he hope that they would come to their senses?
"I don't know what to do…" Danny whined.