All right, you know the drill now. Before I begin, I want to say thanks to Horselvr4evr, Leppers and GhostBoy for all their reviews to this point. (And more thanks to Lepper for reading and reviewing my other fanfic, Revelations and Revenge) You guys have actually given me the motivation to continue with this, so thank you for that. And Horselvr4evr, let me try to answer the questions you put in your last review: yes, that is why I called this story Descendant's Curse. Yup, it took 28 chapters to figure out why I did, but that's why. As for how much longer the rest of the story will be, I'll just keep you in suspense, since I'm good like that. : )
Please keep the reviews coming, guys! You've been awesome!
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The fight raged on and on between Nouron and Danny versus the fleet of Bhyspawn that Bhyrun had just sent down to attack. Even though they knew that the Bhyspawn were real people, Danny and Nouron couldn't hold back, because it would mean their lives if they did, and if they both died, no one would be able to defeat Bhyrun.
"Take…this!" Danny yelled. He fired a blast of energy into the face of one of the Bhyspawn, and it roared in pain and fell backwards.
Danny turned around to see how Nouron was handling all of the Bhyspawn, and he seemed to be doing a pretty good job with it. He was able to turn around in a split second and punch or kick a Bhyspawn in the face while being able to fire a blast of energy from his hand at a Bhyspawn behind him at the same time. Of course, what would you expect from someone who had been fighting these kinds of creatures all his life?
It wasn't long before it looked like Danny would be overpowered. There were Bhyspawn closing in on him, and Nouron had his hands full fighting his own Bhyspawn. In just a matter of seconds, all the Bhyspawn around Danny were on top of him, the way football players are on top of each other after simultaneously trying to make a great tackle.
Danny struggled to move, but the Bhyspawn were way too heavy for him to move. He tried to use one last burst of energy and got up and fired energy out of anywhere he could. It worked, and he was able to spring up and throw every single Bhyspawn on top of him off and into the air.
Now running completely on adrenaline, Danny fired blast after blast at all of the Bhyspawn, almost like his hands were machine guns. The Bhyspawn started to lose their power and began to slow down and attack with less force.
For some reason, Danny thought it was kind of funny to see dark red, massive bear-like creatures with green eyes and sharp teeth and claws walking slowly and whining like a little baby while they were in pain.
After another blast or two, Nouron went over to a Bhyspawn he had been fighting for a while and fired a blast from his hand at it. The Bhyspawn fell on the ground, and it slowly began disintegrating, just like all Bhyspawn do when they are defeated. As the Bhyspawn disappeared, it turned into a puff of smoke, and it looked like it was flowing to a certain place. In the past, when a Bhyspawn was defeated, its body would turn to smoke and just float in the air. But now, it looked like it was actually flowing to a certain place.
Trying to ignore that sight, Danny and Nouron continued battling the Bhyspawn. One by one, the Bhyspawn disappeared after they were defeated and the puff of smoke that once made them up.
After what seemed like a never-ending battle, almost all the Bhyspawn were dead. Danny and Nouron hated the fact that they had just killed what were once people, but once again, they knew that if they got soft and let the Bhyspawn win, then Bhyrun would continue his reign of terror and there would be no telling what would happen after that.
Just as almost all the Bhyspawn were down, a terrible thought popped into Danny's head. Oh no, what if one of those Bhyspawn were Sam? Or Tucker? I hope I didn't just kill my two best friends…
"Danny! I think we got most of them!" Nouron yelled, snapping Danny awake. "All of the Bhyspawn are either defeated or too tired and injured to continue fighting!"
"Uh…great!" Danny yelled, trying his best not to think about the possibility that one of the defeated Bhyspawn could have been his friends.
Nouron sharply turned around, and his blue eyes seemed to be flaring with anger. He stared at Bhyrun, ready to attack him. "Come on, Danny! Let's finish off this guy now!"
But Bhyrun didn't seem to look too afraid. In fact, he actually started chuckling. This made Nouron very nervous, obviously.
"Ha!" Bhyrun yelled. The smile on his face was scary enough to give an elderly person a heart attack. "I knew you would be able to beat my band of Bhyspawn!"
"What are you talking about?" Danny said, running over besides Nouron and stared at Bhyrun as he floated in the air above them.
"You two are obviously stronger than these Bhyspawn. Heh, I even found out that the child could take down Bhyspawn before you even gave him your power, Nouron!"
"Are you just trying to make us think you have some ingenious plan when you're really worried about how your entire army is dead and you don't want us to know it?" Danny asked, crossing his arms.
Bhyrun just laughed. "You, Danny, of all people, should know that when a Bhyspawn disappears, it starts to disintegrate into patches of smoke and drift off into the air?"
"Yeah, Skyler taught me all of that," Danny said.
"Then surely you noticed the smoke drifting off into a specific place after these Bhyspawn were defeated?" Bhyrun asked, the smile on his face growing more and more.
"I noticed that," Nouron butted in. "Were you controlling that?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I was!" Bhyrun yelled. "I have developed a new power that not even you know of, Bhyrun! I can take energy from my minions once they're defeated and absorb it! Now I'm stronger than I was before all those Bhyspawn were defeated!"
Now, things were getting really bad. Danny thought that with Skyler dead, Bhyrun would be weaker. (Nouron even thought that, too) But now that it was known Bhyrun could absorb energy from defeated Bhyspawn and enhance himself, destroying Bhyspawn would only become harder than it already was.
Bhyrun started chuckling again. "Yes…YES! Now I can feel the energy of my defeated minions swelling up within me! I can feel it!"
Suddenly, Bhyrun started flashing different colors, but still remaining the dark shades of his clothes and the pale shades of his face. After the change in colors happened, Bhyrun looked like he normal again, but just by looking at him, Danny and Nouron could tell he was stronger than before.
Now, Bhyrun's laugh was not only evil-sounding, but now intimidating. He started forming dark balls of energy in both of the hands at his side, and Danny could tell it would really, really hurt to get hit by one.
"So, it's a fight you want?" Danny yelled. "All right then, Mr. Big-And-Bad! Bring it!"
Danny launched himself into the air and started firing his strongest blasts as fast he could. Nouron followed up by flying right up next to Bhyrun and giving him the hardest punches he could.
But as soon as Nouron's hardened fist was going to come into contact with Bhyrun's face, Bhyrun grabbed Nouron's fist and used it to throw Nouron backwards and onto the ground.
"Whoa," Danny said with no emotions. He was surprised by Bhyrun's new power that he could barely even think straight now. "Grabbing someone's fist and throwing them backwards with it? Geez, this guy's crazy! I thought only ninjas from martial arts movies did that…"
Danny's trail of thought was interrupted when he received a heavy blast in the face from Bhyrun. He looked over and saw Bhyrun hovering right over Nouron, who was face flat on the ground and didn't seem to be moving.
"So," Bhyrun said, staring at Danny with malice in his expression, "do you wish to come back with me to my cloud and have a quick, painless death there, or will you resist and force me to crush you with every ounce of my strength."
Not expecting it, Bhyrun's face got blasted when Danny fired a sudden ball of energy at it. "How about option C: stop yapping, roll over and disappear?" Danny taunted.
Bhyrun got up as if he were in little pain and stared at Danny with a murderous face. He instantly went into "Overkill" mode and attacked as fast and as furiously as he could.
Danny, now worried that his life would end very abruptly if he got caught in Bhyrun's rage, started running away, but it was no use.
As Danny flew up and tried to make an air escape, Bhyrun fired his strongest blast and hit Danny in the back of the head. Danny screamed in pain, and then fell to the ground. He didn't remember anything after that.
"Hmm, are you awake now?" Danny heard a voice say. He heard Bhyrun's voice, but all he saw was pitch black. No wonder, his eyes were closed. He struggled to open them, and he finally was able to.
When he regained his senses, Danny found himself in a dark room, staring right into the face of Bhyrun. Bhyrun's face twisted into an evil gaze as Danny regained consciousness. It wasn't long before Bhyrun began speaking.
"So, you're awake. Excellent. I want you to see something before I destroy you for good," Bhyrun hissed.
"Gee, that's a comforting thought," Danny moaned as he was able to start looking around. He saw that he was inside Bhyrun's cloud once again, and in a familiar place: the dungeon! He was in the dungeon where he and Nouron were just in about an hour ago. It was pretty disappointing to be somewhere that you had just fought your way out of.
Bhyrun walked out of the dungeon, and a few seconds later, he came back with something: a bottle. But, this wasn't just any regular bottle. No, this bottle had a golden glow coming from it, along with something yellow-gold on the inside. It looked very similar to the dark glow that Bhyrun's bottle had when Danny opened it.
"You know what this is?" Bhyrun asked with a very nasty smile.
"Uh, the result of you drinking five sodas in one hour?" Danny asked.
Bhyrun's evil and cocky face turned into one of anger and rage. "You know, you children these days are much less mature than the ones from my time. If you were to ask me, I don't think it'd be wise to be making rude comments like that to your captor."
Danny only grunted. He stared at Bhyrun as his face returned to the evil one that had been on a few seconds before. "This is your ancestor, Nouron, in this bottle. He went down with much less of a fight than you did, surprisingly."
Danny gasped. Now, he couldn't take his eyes off the glowing bottle in front of him. He hated knowing that his only aid in destroying Bhyrun was stuck in there.
"Danny…help…" was heard coming from inside the bottle. There was no mistaking it. It was Nouron's voice all right, and he seemed pretty helpless about getting out on his own.
Bhyrun once again began laughing. He was about to say something before Danny jumped in and said, "Is laughing the only thing you can do?"
Bhyrun turned his attention back towards Danny. He growled a little, but then got his calm attitude back. "Now, what would you say if I were to throw this bottle into the ocean, like he did to me over 600 years ago!" Bhyrun yelled, his voice getting louder and angrier with every word he said.
"No!" Danny yelled. He tried to grab the bottle out of Bhyrun's hands, until he realized that his arms were chained to a wall in the dungeon.
Bhyrun started laughing evilly (again) and took the bottle over to the hole in the floor that Danny and Nouron had made to escape a little while before. Danny saw that the cloud had moved since he escaped and that right under the hole was the ocean.
Bhyrun held the bottle with Nouron in it right over the hole. He was about to drop it into the ocean, and there was nothing Danny could do about it, being chained to the wall.