Danny stared at the body of Skyler lying on the ground. Danny had met Skyler at a museum show Jazz forced him to see early on in the vacation. Now, about four days and ten-bazillion fights later, Skyler was finally dead.
After staring at Skyler's lifeless corpse, the sergeant ran over to him. He was breathing heavy and looked very beat up, but he seemed relieved to see Danny was okay. He seemed even more relieved to see Skyler there.
"Is he?..."
"Yeah," Danny said, knowing what the sergeant was about to say. "Skyler's dead. He won't be a problem to us, anymore."
The sergeant seemed very happy about this. "Spectacular!" he yelled. "Now that he's gone, Bhyrun will be much weaker. Now we can take him on and defeat Bhyrun and end his reign of terror forever!"
"Don't get too cocky, boys!" cackled a voice from above. Danny and the sergeant gasped and they turned around. Hovering in the air just a few feet under the dark cloud was Bhyrun with an entire squad of Bhyspawn.
The air seemed to get colder as Bhyrun and stared down at them. Everything went quiet as all the Bhyspawn started floating slowly to the ground. Eventually, they're feet all tapped on to the ground. They started shifting around until they were in a circular formation, until they were completely boxing in Danny and the sergeant.
Bhyrun stayed floating in the air high enough to see, even with all the Bhyspawn standing around. "You think killing Skyler will mean the death of me?" he cackled, his bone-white face turning into a hideous gaze.
"Listen, Bhyrun!" Danny yelled, "Now that I know I've got that side of me that doesn't care about having to kill someone, don't think I'm going to let you live!"
Bhyrun just let out a nasty chuckle. "You seriously think his death will make me all the easier to destroy? Have you forgotten I have an entire army of these Bhyspawn at my disposal?"
Danny's face went from angry and determined to concern in nothing-flat. He looked all around at the Bhyspawn, knowing that they were still human beings. They still had part of Bhyrun within them, and Danny proved by killing Skyler that he didn't care whether or not it was a person; if it had the mark of Bhyrun on it, it should die. But these Bhyspawn were different from Skyler. These were people who wanted nothing to do with what was happening.
"Oh, maybe you need to talk with some people you know who you can trust about what to do," Bhyrun said in a voice that pretended he actually cared about Danny struggling on the decision of whether or not he should kill the Bhyspawn. "Here, why don't you talk to your friends about it?"
Bhyrun waved his hand, and two Bhyspawn charged into the circle. There was nothing distinguishing them from the other Bhyspawn standing around them, but Danny could tell who they were.
"Sam? Tucker? Is that you, guys?" Danny weakly asked, staring into the deadly green eyes of the two Bhyspawn Bhyrun had just sent into the circle.
The Bhyspawn replied by roaring loudly in Danny's face. Danny looked around, and all the Bhyspawn were now closing in on him and the sergeant. Time was running out, and now was the time to choose: would Danny continue to remain determined and do whatever he could to save himself, or would his conscientious side take over?
"Come on, pal!" Danny said, looking over to the sergeant. "We're gonna blow this joint!"
Danny grabbed the sergeant by the arms and started flying them both up into the air. Danny no longer wanted to be fight with the want to kill someone inside of him, and the only way to avoid that was to flee for now.
Bhyrun could fly, as could all of the Bhyspawn, but for some reason, they didn't. Bhyrun just chuckled. "They'll be back," he promised all of his Bhyspawn. "Just wait for them."
At the moment, Bhyrun started floating up into the air, and like a herd of sheep, all the Bhyspawn followed him. As they got to the bottom of the dark cloud, Bhyrun waved his hand, and a massive hole appeared in the bottom of the massive cloud, making an entrance inside.
As Danny and the sergeant were flying away, the sergeant turned around and saw Bhyrun and all the Bhyspawn heading inside the cloud. He stopped flying and tugged at the back of Danny's black jumpsuit, stopping him, too.
"Danny, the entrance into the cloud is open! We can sneak in there and easily destroy the cloud from the inside!" the sergeant yelled.
"Are you crazy! I told you, I've been in that cloud once, and once is way more than enough!"
"We can destroy the cloud from inside, now come on!"
Now grabbing Danny's arm, the masked man started flying both of them towards the entrance to the dark cloud. They were flying through the air so fast that everything just seemed like a blur.
Danny tried to breathe as he and the sergeant continued to fly closer and closer to the cloud. Slowly, after the last Bhyspawn had flown in, the hole in the cloud started closing up. Slowly, the dark matter of the cloud began filling up the hole, sealing the entrance up.
"Hurry!" Danny yelled. If he was going to have to go inside the cloud again, he would want this to be the last time. He wanted to get this over as quick as possible.
The only thing that wasn't whooshing by the two too fast to see was the cloud. It got bigger and bigger as Danny and the sergeant continued to fly closer and closer to it, but unfortunately, the hole got smaller as they got closer to it. They'd have to be lightning fast if they were going to make it in time.
The sergeant's black hair was flowing just as furiously in the wind as Danny's was, and his light blue eyes starting watering from the high-pressure winds created as he flew through the air, going well over a hundred miles an hour.
At long last, both of them made it to the bottom of the cloud. They didn't say anything, but launched themselves inside, just as the last bit of the hole closed up. Both of them made it by a hair. After that short, but critical race, both of them were now inside the cloud, where they hoped to fight Bhyrun for the last time.
The entire inside of the cloud was pitch black, like a deep patch of woods with no moonlight at midnight. Danny and the sergeant were quietly walking around, looking for Bhyrun and going to fight him.
After a short while of searching, they saw a door into a massive room. It looked more like a throne room when Danny and the sergeant walked in. There was a long pathway leading up to a small flight of stairs, and sitting in a chair in the center of the highest step was Bhyrun, giving them a face that would be enough to give a child younger than eight years nightmares for a week.
Bhyrun started laughing. He stood up and started slowly walking towards the stairs, but stopped just as he could step down onto the next one. Now, Danny had a chance to really look at Bhyrun, and he could pick up on things he never could before. Bhyrun had a bald head, and his head actually looked very similar to a skull. He had a very thin smile, and his eyes were red enough to make someone think he was possessed. His only piece of clothing was a deathly black that went from a collar that went around the back his neck all the way down to the ground. While the cloak looked very light, it still covered every part of his except for his face and his bony, white hands.
It was at that moment Danny gasped. He had seen Bhyrun before. When he was babysitting Toby and the bottle smashed and the dark clouds started spurting from it, Danny could have sworn he saw a face in all the black smoke, and if he remembered it correctly, the figure in the black smoke looked exactly like what Bhyrun looked like now.
"Well, I suppose this really is a coincidence," Bhyrun said with an evil smile spreading across his face. He looked at Danny and the sergeant over and over. He seemed to be overwhelmed with disbelief, but it didn't take the evil smile off his face.
"Danny…" Bhyrun hissed. "Is it really you? Image, of all people!"
"What are you talking about!" Danny demanded.
Bhyrun just chuckled, and then looked right into Danny's eyes. "This is quite an odd place for a family reunion, don't you think, Danny?"
"What are you talking about!" Danny once again demanded. "Quit talking in cryptic half sentences!"
"What? He didn't tell you?" Bhyrun asked in a surprised way, but still keeping the creepy smile on his face. "Who do you think that person is you're standing next to?"
"He's a police sergeant!" Danny yelled. "He showed up and arrested Skyler the night he started going insane!"
Danny looked at the sergeant at his side, but the sergeant had a bit of a nervous expression, almost like he was hiding something.
"…aren't you?" Danny squeaked out as he stared at the sergeant. It was at that moment that Danny knew something was being hidden from him.
Bhyrun continued chuckling. "So, you don't really know? Well then, maybe I should fill you in on the details…"
Danny was now breathing heavy, trying to brace himself for whatever Bhyrun was about to tell him. He gulped as Bhyrun got ready to talk.
"That man, standing right beside you," Bhyrun said, pointing to the sergeant, "he's really a mage from 1368, just like I am."
Danny's eyes widened, and he shot a quick glance at the sergeant. The sergeant definitely knew he was in some trouble now.
"Well, now that you know you the truth, there's nothing else I need to do with you. Maybe I'll let you both rot in here while I take over the world!"
"It would be nice if you were a bit more original in your plans," Danny said to Bhyrun as two Bhyspawn came into the room and grabbed Danny and the sergeant by the back of their arms and led them out of Bhyrun's throne room and into a dungeon of the cloud.
When Danny and the "sergeant" were thrown into a dungeon, a door was slammed on them and they were locked in. The room was cold, and the floor seemed hard enough to be made of stone. It seemed like it had a nice amount of space for people to move in, but there was nothing in it except for walls and the floor.
Danny started pacing around the room while the "sergeant" just stood there. Danny continued pacing, trying to figure out how they were going to get out of this problem. Finally, Danny just stopped and turned his head towards the sergeant.
"Would you mind explaining this?" Danny asked with his arms crossed, staring at the sergeant.
The sergeant sighed heavily, and then looked up. Even though the room had little light in it, he could clearly see Danny's face.
"All right," he said after a while. "Back in 1368, Bhyrun was a very powerful mage. He got captured in a war by an enemy country, and he converted to using his powers for offense reasons instead of for protection."
"I know that much," Danny said. "How does that explain everything now, though?"
"You see, Bhyrun became much too powerful for anyone's comfort then. A few other mages and I were sent to battle Bhyrun and defeat him. I was the only mage fighting Bhyrun that survived."
Danny was going to have to listen closely. The rest of the information that the sergeant would reveal would stun him to such a high extent, that words would not even describe it. The information would soon give Danny more motivation than ever to make sure Bhyrun was finished permanently.