Before I start, here's a bit of an update. I don't know if any of you looked at my profile, but if you have, then you'd know it was completely blank. Well, for the first time in ever, I put stuff in there. So, if you want to take a look at it, please do.
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Danny was finally going to have the last question on his mind about Bhyrun answered. Nouron was explaining to Danny why the beam that Bhyrun fired at him didn't turn him into a Bhyspawn like everyone else. At least, he'd find out as long as Nouron knew why. And luckily for Danny, it seemed that he did.
"Well, Danny, surely you noticed that he fired the beam at me as well?" Nouron asked.
"Yeah, and it didn't affect you either. What's up with that?"
"Danny, it didn't affect me because I am resistant to him and his attacks, mostly because I was the only person who had power over him."
"And how come the ray wouldn't turn me into a Bhyspawn?" Danny demanded.
"It's partially because I'm an ancestor of yours, but I think you being part ghost also played some sort of role in it," Nouron coolly explained.
"Really?" Danny asked, not sure what to believe. "So you think it's a mix of the two?"
"That's my guess," Nouron said. "Even with your ghost powers to protect you, I still think you would have been turned into a Bhyspawn if it weren't you being related to me."
"All right," Danny said. By now, he had gotten used to the cold he was feeling all around his body after just getting out of the cold ocean and he had learned to ignore it. "Well then, what's the next thing we should do?"
Nouron looked at Danny almost like he was offended. "What do you think we need to do? We need to take down Bhyrun, that's what!"
"Sounds great and all," Danny said, "but won't we need some sort of plan if we're going to actually finish this guy off?"
"Yes," Nouron said. "But I think there is a bit of a problem with us going to fight him."
"A problem?" Danny asked, not sure he understood what Nouron was getting at. "What kind of problem?"
"You remember how I told you a while ago when you were fighting Skyler that by putting my hand on your arm I transmitted a lot of my powers to you?"
"Yeah," Danny said, looking at his arm. "I hope you're a type O, because I don't want you to have transmitted anything."
"Listen," Nouron said, disregarding that comment, "I really don't know if I am in any condition to go out there and fight Bhyrun and put his ways to an end."
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Danny yelled, putting his palms out and waving them around in Nouron's face, "you can't be telling me you want me to take that guy on all alone!"
"Danny, listen to me!" Nouron said, trying to get Danny to think things his way. "Listen, I only have about 30 percent of my powers now; you have your own powers and the power I gave you. I think you stand much better hope of defeating Bhyrun."
"You're talking crazy!" Danny yelled. "Even if you weren't much of a fighter, you could always go in there as a distraction or for backup!"
Nouron sighed, and for once, he looked like he was showing his age. "Danny, I don't think I have it in me to fight anymore. Besides, fighting is not my nature. Surely you noticed I wasn't such a great fighter?"
"You were fine!" Danny insisted.
"Danny, this is the end." Nouron placed his hands on Danny's shoulders and stared deep into Danny's green eyes; so deep that he could clearly see his own reflection in Danny's eyes. "I want you to end this curse that has burdened your…no, our family for generations. Are you willing to go it alone to end the suffering of all these Fentons and other people after all these years?"
Danny breathed heavily, knowing the daunting task that awaited him if he were to accept. After what seemed like forever, he took one last deep breath and looked right back at Nouron.
"I'll do it, if that's what you want."
Nouron smiled, and then closed his eyes. Instantly, his hands started becoming bright gold on Danny's shoulders, and Danny felt as if this warm, gentle light started swelling through his body. The sensation went on for a few more seconds before the light on Nouron's hands went out.
Danny felt the warm feeling in his body slowly die down. He put his hands out, and they seemed to glow the same color that Nouron had coming out of his hands. In a few moments, the light fizzled out. Danny was feeling more strength flow through him as he stared at his fists with his mouth wide open and breathing quickly and deeply.
"That's it," Nouron said. "You have all my powers in you now. Now, I'm really nothing more than a man who should have been put in a casket, buried and forgotten."
"Whatever, all I'm worried about now is fighting Bhyrun and beating him so this entire thing can be forgotten."
"All right," Nouron said. "You'd better get back to shore. You're going to need to break into that cloud and defeat Bhyrun one last time."
"Will do!" Danny confidently said. He stood up tall and went towards the edge of the rock, then looked up in the sky and saw the massive black cloud towering over them. Now, the cloud was back to hovering right over the mainland. Danny just stared at it with a cold glare for a while.
At long last, he broke the silence and looked back at Nouron for possibly the last time. He tried to give Nouron the best smile he could. "Well, I'm off."
Danny instantly turned around and started to jet into the air, but he was stopped by Nouron screaming, "Wait!"
Danny abruptly stopped and turned around to look at Nouron again. "Good luck, Danny," Nouron said with a hopeful, but very nervous smile on his face.
Danny smiled one last time, and then flew off back towards the main part of the beach where the cloud was now hovering. As he flew towards the cloud, several thoughts started running through his head.
Since he had first met him, Danny had now become attached to Nouron. He knew Nouron very well and was really beginning to trust him. Not only that, but now Danny had an inescapable bond with Nouron, now that he knew that they were blood-related. If he wasn't doing this for himself and to save all the people from Bhryun's reign of terror, then he was doing it for Nouron. After all, he was the one who had to suffer the longest.
It was a scary thought for Danny, not knowing what was going to happen to Nouron after Bhyrun was (hopefully) defeated. Seriously, what would happen to him?
Danny tried to blot those questions out of his mind as he continued soaring towards the cloud. In a matter of moments, he was there, staring directly at it.
"There it is," Danny thought to himself. He glared at the cloud with a more intense look than he did on a test when he saw a question he was completely clueless about. "Bhyrun's in there. In that cloud, the final battle awaits."
Taking a deep gulp, Danny flew over to the cloud and attempted to go right through it. But, the armor proved to be extremely thick, and he wasn't able to go through it.
"Guh," Danny groaned after he hit the cloud, only to be bounced back like a marble being thrown at rubber. "That's no good. Fine, you want to play that way, Bhyrun? I guess I'll have to force my way in!"
Danny prepared a blast of ectoplasmic energy in his hand and got ready to fire it at a spot in the cloud, until a loud blast was heard. At that moment, Danny got thrown back, as if a giant boulder had just been thrown at him.
"Ow! What the?..."
Danny looked around just in time to see a giant laser beam come flying at him. It made the same sound as the blast he heard before, meaning the same thing was being fired that had just hit Danny.
After looking around, Danny saw that the blast had come from the cloud itself. He recognized the laser blasts as the ones that almost hit the Fenton RV when he and his dad went out to try and "find" a weak spot in the cloud.
"That thing's still armed and dangerous, huh?" Danny asked, staring at it. "Fine, then! All right, let me show you what I got!"
Danny immediately started flying as fast as he could, hoping to confuse the cloud's sensors and to fire randomly in mid air without destroying anything.
The cloud fired beam after beam, and Danny kept dodging them by the skin of his teeth. Still, it was very disturbing to see such a thick, heavy, green laser beam come literally within inches of his head. "Man, that Bhyrun guy must be a powerhouse on the inside…"
Danny continued evading the blasts, but he eventually got it and was slammed to the ground, leaving bystanders screaming in terror when they saw how vicious the fight was getting between Danny and Bhyrun's cloud.
Just as the cloud was about to fire another blast (this one to be fatal) at Danny, he rolled out of the way and the thick laser blast hit the road, creating a massive pothole in it. Danny sprung up as soon as he stopped rolling out of the way, and he got in a fighting position. Now he was ready to go offense, instead of having to remain in a defense position.
"So, you like shooting lasers, do you!" Danny yelled aggressively. "Here's a little message from me!"
Danny fired a blast of energy at the cloud, but the blast actually ended up turning a really deep green. It was noticeably greener than before; Nouron's powers must have done something to it.
As the blast came into contact with the cloud, an obvious patch of armor on the cloud disappeared. In a whiff of steam, a small hole had been burned in the cloud.
"Whoa, is that what Nouron's powers can do?" Danny said excitedly, looking at the newly formed hole. "Sweet!"
Danny's moment of celebrating was cut short when he got blasted yet another time by the cloud's deadly beam.
Everyone down on the ground let out a chorus of gasps and shrieks, watching the battle as it raged on in the sky.
"How dumb are those people?" Danny thought to himself. "I'm almost getting myself killed, and they're standing down there watching this like it's a show at Disney World!"
Danny fired a quick blast at another spot on the cloud, and once again, he saw that the ray had burned a hole in it. Now sure that the rays he fired could burn a hole in the cloud's tough-as-nails armor, Danny now had to concentrate on where the lasers seemed to be coming from.
He got an answer soon. Just as he came up with a strategy as it formed in his head, he got blasted again, making everyone gasp louder. Clearly, some of them didn't know who they should be cheering for.
Danny had had enough by now, and he instead started igniting his fists. His fists became encased in balls of deep green ectoplasmic energy, and he flew over to the cloud and he started punching very fast holes in it. His punches were creating almost pretty strips of green as they flew through the air.
The cloud fired one last blast at Danny, sending him backwards, but he was expecting it this time. Now, he could clearly see where the laser blasts were coming from, so he decided to try to stop them.
Trying to go as fast as he could, Danny fired his blasts at the part where the cloud's laser came from. Instantly, that patch that had the laser in it started dissolving, creating nothing but a small black hole.
Danny breathed a very heavy sigh of relief, knowing that he just destroyed the cloud's main weapon. He flew over to the spot on the cloud where he punched a few holes just a few moments earlier, and he started firing a very steady beam at it.
In no time, the thick patches of steam were rising up from the place where Danny's beam had hit the cloud. A giant hole appeared in that section of the cloud, way big enough for Danny to fit through without much trouble.
Danny stared at the giant hole he had just created in Bhyrun's cloud using Nouron's last donated powers. Now, he couldn't believe it. Bhyrun was actually inside that cloud, and now Danny would go in there and confront him one final time. This time, the centuries-old fight would officially be over, whether or not Danny won the battle.
Danny looked down and saw all the people giving him blank or terrified expressions. He tried his best to calm them down by yelling to them, "Don't worry, I'm gonna destroy this thing! Go inside and keep yourselves safe!"
The people seemed to obey, as they all started fleeing the scene. Danny watched to make sure every last one of them got inside a building safely. He then turned his attention back towards the huge hole in the cloud leading straight inside. He would go in there and fight Bhyrun…alone.
"Well, this is it," Danny said with no emotions. "The final battle awaits."