The dungeon was silent as the mage from 1368 continued telling the story of how he and some his fellow mages were sent to battle and defeat Bhyrun, the mage who turned against his country and started using his powers for more aggressive and personal reasons rather than for protection. Danny was about to find out the turnout of that fateful fight against Bhyrun, all those centuries ago.
Danny was secretly afraid of learning this, but he didn't show it. He wanted to keep listening so he could finally get to the bottom of everything. "So, what happened? Did you win?"
"I guess you could say that," the sergeant continued. "Bhyrun was still too powerful, but he was beaten for the time being. If I let him go, he would come back stronger and more powerful, so I had to use my greatest powers to seal him away. I took a bottle and sucked Bhyrun into it, and then I sealed it. As he got sucked in, Bhyrun said he swore revenge."
"Wait a minute!" Danny yelled. He started trying to recall all the information that Sam and found on Tucker's laptop (back in Chapter 8). He remembered Sam saying that the website claimed Nouron won the fight by locking Bhyrun away in a dark bottle. Danny froze up with fear.
"…no…" Danny said, thinking everything through. "You can't really be Nouron!"
The sergeant just gave Danny a serious stare. Danny took that as an automatic "yes".
Danny was awestruck. He could not believe it. How could someone who Danny met and looked like a regular person really be the one who defeated Bhyrun that long ago?
"Come on, quit making stuff up!" Danny yelled, not sure what to say. "You're a police sergeant! You can't really be someone from the middle ages!"
"You can't honestly think I was really a sergeant," he said in a disappointed tone. "Have you not noticed I could fly and fire rays out of my hand and do attacks with the tip of my sword? Can you think of one sergeant anywhere that could do that!"
Danny was at a loss for words. He didn't know what to say. It was hard to believe that he was actually talking to a powerful figure from 1368. Finally, he spoke up. "So, what now?"
"Well, that bottle you found on the beach and opened up…that was really the bottle Bhyrun was in. After I sealed him in it, I cast it into the water, hoping that it would never reach the shore."
"And it found its way to the beach I was at!" Danny yelled, not being able to believe it. "This is awful! Of all people who had to find it, it had to be me! Ugh…that's the worst bad luck I've ever had in my life! I wish that never happened!"
"Hold on," Nouron said, trying his best to make Danny less hectic and to calm him down. "Believe it or not, you being the one to find that bottle and to open it is the greatest thing we could have ever hoped for if the bottle were to be reopened."
"What? Why!" Danny yelled. Nothing was making sense to him anymore. "Because I have ghost powers or something like that?"
"No," Nouron calmly replied. The dungeon seemed to get quieter and quieter with everything Nouron had to say. "To truly defeat Bhyrun, a blood relative of mine would be the only one capable of performing the feat."
"What are you talking about?" Danny asked, not really needing an answer to that question.
"What I mean to say, Danny, is that I'm an ancestor of yours. My blood flows in you," Nouron revealed.
Danny was now really not sure what to say. His heart rate began increasing, and he was getting more and more nervous as the conversation went on. "So, you're like my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather or something?"
"Exactly," Nouron said. "See? You are the only living one on this planet now who has the potential and the power to stop Bhyrun once and for all."
Danny was breathing heavily. This was getting way too weird for him. He was trying to take into account the staggering odds that of all people to find the bottle in the water and to open it, it had to be him. And he of all people was a descendant of the one who put that cursed bottle in the water. Now it was Danny's responsibility to defeat Bhyrun, because being a descendant to Nouron, he had some special power that would enable him to be the only one who was able to do it.
"Well, what do we do now?" Danny asked.
"Quite simple, we're going to have to eliminate Bhyrun once and for all."
The room once again fell incredibly silent. The dark dungeon was getting creepier by the moment as neither Danny nor Nouron continued to speak. There was nothing to be heard except the sounds of both of them breathing.
"Well, what are we waiting for!" Nouron yelled. "Don't you think we should go out there and destroy him?"
"Dude, I'd love to," Danny started, "but we're kinda locked in a dungeon, in case you didn't notice."
"Now's not the time to be smart," Nouron said, calmly. "Besides, we could just break out of it, you know."
"What do you mean? It's not like we're in a James Bond movie where we punch the guard out and then pick the lock with a super-powerful paper clip."
Nouron just grunted, annoyed by the remarks Danny was making. "Just fire your power down at the floor."
"What?...why!"
"It will dissolve the floor, hopefully. Now come on!"
Danny just did what Nouron told him. They both started firing their strongest blasts of energy down at the floor. Some steam started to come from the floor as they were firing at it, and a small hiss sound was heard as the steam was coming up. After a long time, part of the floor actually disappeared and left a small hole in the stone floor. Danny looked down the hole and was surprised to find that he could see down to the ground. Firing at the floor really did make a hole right out of the cloud to escape through.
"All right, let's get outta here," Danny said. He jumped through the hole in the floor, but he still continued to levitate in midair. A short time later, Nouron hopped out of the cloud, but he was able to float right next to Danny, too.
"Where to now?" Danny asked. "Do you think we should fly back to our hotel and plan a surprise attack on Bhyrun there? Because I really want to end this thing as soon as possible."
"You want to end it?" Nouron asked in a way that gave the impression Danny was being selfish. "I've been waiting over 600 years! If anybody is going to complain about wanting this thing to end, I think it should be me! Don't you?"
"Fine," Danny groaned. "Can we just please head back to the hotel to plan on that strike?"
"Yes," Nouron said. The two of them began flying towards the ground and back towards Danny's hotel room.
When they were close to the ground, they heard a demonic voice scream something. "LEAVING, SO SOON?"
Danny and Nouron instantly turned around, and there was Bhyrun, floating in the air with his long, dark cloak flowing in the wind. Behind him were over thirty Bhyspawn, each one of them looking hungry and violent.
"You think you guys are so good, escaping from the dungeon in my cloud?" Bhyrun demanded. His eyes seemed to get redder and freakier with every word he said. "You didn't even let my Bhyspawn say good-bye to you. Well, I'll save them the work. Goodbye, Danny and Nouron!"
Saying that, Bhyrun waved his hand in the air, like some sort of signal. Instantly, the Bhyspawn all started charging at the two, leaving Danny and Nouron no choice but to instinctively blast the Bhyspawn to defend themselves.
The two began looking all around them, trying to watch out as all the Bhyspawn began charging at them. They fired blast after blast, and the attacks seemed to do a lot of damage to whatever Bhyspawn they hit. (Danny especially, since Nouron had given Danny a fair amount of his own power)
At one point, a Bhyspawn came up from behind and jumped on Nouron's back, knocking him to the ground. The Bhyspawn lifted up its arm and prepared to slice up his face with its massive claws, but just as it was about to, it felt a tap on the shoulder. It turned around and saw Danny there, who immediately punched it in the face.
Danny and Nouron found themselves holding back, because they both knew the Bhyspawn were real people, and they hated the fact that the things that they were trying to kill were once regular people.
But still, the fight continued. Danny and Nouron insisted on still firing energy at the Bhyspawn, trying to knock as many out as possible. But it was hard, not only because they hated the idea of hurting real people, but the Bhyspawn were still very strong, and there were a lot of them. The two had to keep on their wits as they struggled to defend themselves from the violent servants of Bhyrun.