Danny stared at the giant hole he had just created in the cloud. It was hard for him to believe he would go in there, and when (or if) he came out, the entire ordeal would be over. If someone asked him why he was going through with this just a few hours ago, he would have replied "So I can get it over with and I can finally relax on my vacation."
But now his answer would be significantly different. If someone were to ask him now, he would say "To finally stop all the pain and suffering that Bhyrun has put my family through for hundreds of years".
Danny found himself blanking out while he was thinking about what he was about to do, but only for a moment. He didn't waste any further time and flew inside the dark cloud, ready to fight Bhyrun one last time.
The darkness inside the cloud was so intense that it took Danny a little while for his eyes to fully adjust to it. Luckily, he could at least see what was in front of him due to the light coming in from the hole he created.
Danny debated to himself what he should do from here: should he run around, looking for Bhyrun and to battle him before he does anything terrible, or does he wait in the shadows for Bhyrun to come to him?
"I'm definitely letting him come to me," Danny said after thinking about it for a while.
He walked a little deeper into the shadows so it would be harder to see him, but just as he was about to sneak in to one of the dark areas, he heard something that made his heart skip a beat and almost caused him to jump out of his skin.
"Well, well, well, look who's shown up for more?" said a dark, cold voice.
Danny sharply turned around, and Bhyrun was standing there in a doorway leading to a room close to the room where Danny and Nouron had found him earlier.
Bhyrun's long, black cloak stood perfectly still around him. For the first time in a while, both of his hands were clearly visible, and they were cuffed on top of each other. His wicked grin seemed to be at an all time-high, and his red eyes now looked like enough to turn Medusa into stone.
"Where's your friend?" Bhyrun asked. "The one with the mask?"
"Hey, you can call him by his name, you know!" Danny yelled. "I'm sure you know it anyway. And FYI, Nouron gave me all his powers to deal with you!"
"Ah, how touching," Bhyrun said, his twisted grin thinning, but spreading. "An ancestor of yours gives you all their power just for one lone battle."
"Yeah, so what say we start this thing?" Danny yelled. He cracked his knuckles, and then his hands started glowing a very deep shade of green.
Bhyrun chuckled. "This is something we've all been waiting for, has it not?" he hissed. "A battle between Bhyrun and the descendant of Nouron? Isn't that something we've all been waiting for?"
Danny didn't reply; he fired a blast of energy right at Bhyrun's head. Bhyrun ducked out of the way of it at the last possible moment.
"Why rush things?" Bhyrun asked. "If we've been waiting for this moment for centuries, let's cherish it for a little while." After saying this, Bhyrun's voice became surprisingly deep and sincere, almost like he was trying to command an army. "Come, my servants!"
Out of the doorway behind Bhyrun, several Bhyspawn jumped out and started snarling at Danny. Danny's expression of determination and hatred melted away to one of fear.
But not trying to show his scared side, Danny instead started acting like he was about to fight a regular ghost. His hands once again lit up and he pointed them at Bhyrun's throat.
"Attack!" Bhyrun yelled. He pointed his bony white finger at Danny.
Instantly, the Bhyspawn started charging at Danny like a pack of ravaging wolves. To defend himself, Danny jumped into the air and stayed just barely low enough for his head to not hit the ceiling.
"Okay, you guys are really losing your touch," Danny said. "Is charging in all you can do?"
Finishing the taunt, Danny fired a quick blast at one of the Bhyspawn, and it obviously did a lot more damage than it normally did.
"Wow, I guess combining my powers and Nouron's really paid off!" Danny yelled. "All right, you overgrown demonic teddy bears!"
All Bhyspawn seemed to get evidently angry with that remark. They started swiping at Danny in mid air, and they struck him down to the ground. Danny fell to the ground, and the Bhyspawn were just about to start stomping him to death.
At the last minute, Danny jumped into the air and was right between two Bhyspawn. He pushed both of his fists in opposite directions and gave the two monsters the hardest punch in the face that he could.
The two Bhyspawn that he punched got knocked backwards and landed solidly on the cold floor of the cloud and began disappearing. Normally, Danny would be getting choked up about knowing he just killed real people, but there were too many other things for him to worry about right now.
Danny turned around, thinking that he had just made a bit of a dent after killing three Bhyspawn. But he turned around and saw that there were still over forty Bhyspawn left for Danny to finish.
"You gotta be kidding me," Danny moaned. "All right, I hope I got enough energy after this to take on Bhyrun.
Danny pointed himself in the direction of the herd of Bhyspawn as they snarled at him and started biting down on thin air. When the Bhyspawn began taking slow, gradual steps towards him, Danny took in a deep breath and let it out with every ounce of his ghostly might.
The end result was a sound that emitted a devastating shockwave with enough intensity to cause an earthquake. It was the Ghostly Wail, one of Danny's most powerful attacks.
The entire cloud began vibrating as the seismic waves violently slammed against the wall. It sounded like being in the middle of an avalanche.
Meanwhile, Nouron was back on the mainland and stared up at the cloud as it was shaking. Awful thoughts came to his head as he saw the cloud shake as if a bomb had just exploded inside of it.
"Danny, what are you doing?" he nervously asked with a hint of sadness in his voice.
Meanwhile, back inside, all the Bhyspawn had just been scattered all around the room, like pins after the bowling ball struck all ten of them. They were moaning, but it didn't look like they were getting up any time soon.
Danny looked around, happy to see that he had just beaten all of the Bhyspawn, but that one ghostly wail already took almost all of his energy out of him.
"Heh heh heh heh," Bhyrun laughed, not opening his mouth. "Have you forgotten the ability I possess? You just ruined this battle for yourself, descendant of Nouron!"
"Will you please just call me 'Danny'? And what are you talking about?"
Without answering Danny's question, Bhyrun held his arms out and started glowing a little. Instantly, the Bhyspawn started turning white, and in a short while, their white matter started floating up into the air, now looking more like what liquid mercury would look like in outer space.
Danny stared in awe as he saw all the Bhyspawn that were once fighting him now were getting sucked into Bhyrun's body. Danny had forgot all about this part.
"Fool!" Bhyrun yelled. "Did you forget that with every Bhyspawn you defeat, I can suck in their material and make myself stronger!"
Danny had just made a giant mistake by killing all the Bhyspawn. (but then, he didn't have that much of a choice, did he?) Now that they were all dead, Bhyrun was going to suck in their material and make himself strong. Danny had tangled with Bhyrun once before after Bhyrun enhanced himself from defeated Bhyspawn. He was a lot tougher, and that was just after killing three or four Bhyspawn. This time, he sucked in over sixty.
And then another horrid thought came to Danny's mind. "Oh no. Please tell me one of those Bhyspawn weren't Sam and Tucker. But, if that was all of them, then…no…"
Danny was really worried about Sam and Tucker being okay to the extent where he completely dropped his guard when battling. Because of this, Bhyrun was able to fire a strong surge right at Danny, which proved to be very painful.
If Danny didn't have Nouron's powers, getting hit by that blast could have almost killed him. But thanks to some enhancements of his own, Danny was able to survive the blast and almost take it just as a wake-up call.
"All right, you're gonna pay now!" Danny yelled. He started charging at Bhyrun and hit him with such force that Bhyrun was knocked back like a line backer had just charged into him.
Bhyrun was sent backwards and smashed into a side wall of the cloud and hit it with so much force that a few pieces of the wall chipped off.
"Wow, a solid floor, a wall and a nearly impenetrable outside? Sheesh, it feels more like I'm in a building than a cloud."
As he finished this thought, Danny saw Bhyrun get up from the crumpled heap he was in on the floor and started getting ready to attack again.
"Fool!" Bhyrun yelled again. "I will terminate the people of Nouron's lineage!"
He ran over to Danny and grabbed Danny by the neck, keeping his grip just light enough so he wouldn't snap it.
Danny struggled to breathe as Bhyrun kept the solid grip on his throat. Bhyrun painfully began dragging him over to a wall. When they were both at the wall, Bhyrun took his fist and smashed the side of the cloud wall with it.
To Danny's huge surprise, the wall of the cloud collapsed like it had been made of sand. Had sucking up all the Bhyspawn really given Bhyrun that much more strength?
Still keeping a strong grip on Danny's neck, he Bhyrun held the ghost boy outside but kept himself inside.
Now Danny was outside the cloud, and if Bhyrun were to let go of his throat, he would fall to his death hundreds of feet below.
"You've put up quite a fight," Bhyrun said, and Danny could tell he was loosening his grip. "But now, it is time to have you out of my hair forever."
Bhyrun was about to drop Danny to the ground below, but at the last second, Danny kicked his legs up and kicked Bhyrun vertically between the legs. While that was sure to cause a lot of pain for obvious reasons, it wasn't why Danny did that.
As soon as Bhyrun let the slightest moan of pain out, Danny pushed his legs up as hard as he could, and it actually pushed Bhyrun forward when enough force was applied.
Bhyrun came falling out of the cloud when Danny had pushed him out with his feet. Bhyrun let out a loud scream as he accidentally let go of Danny. Danny also started falling, but instantly gained control.
Now, Danny was floating in mid air as he stared down at Bhyrun. Bhyrun was now hurtling towards the ground. Danny smiled, seeing that his enemy would soon fall to the ground would such an impact that a jigsaw puzzle could be made out of him.
Then, something happened that Danny did not expect. When Bhyrun was close to the ground, he suddenly stopped and sprouted his own demonic looking wings. Faster than Danny thought was possible, Bhyrun flew up and was soon staring him right in the face again.
"Oh, great," Danny said.
The first thing Bhyrun did was give Danny the hardest blow to the head that he could muster.
Considering the fact that Bhyrun was now stronger after enhancing himself with the Bhyspawn, the shot would be enough to kill anyone. But thankfully to Danny's resistance to pain as a ghost, and especially after Nouron gave him his powers, the blow didn't hurt him too badly.
Danny shot back by the firing a series of rapid punches to Bhyrun's face, as well as giving a bunch of kicks to the stomach. Bhyrun was obviously taking a considerable amount of pain from it, and finally he found the strength to counter.
Bhyrun fired his fist into Danny's stomach, knocking the wind out of him. He then resorted to flying over to a tree and pulling off a huge branch that was long enough to be considered a spear. He then flew back over to the cloud with Danny in one hand and the branch in the other. He slammed Danny on the top of the cloud back-flat.
Danny was now in so much pain he could barely move.
Now, Bhyrun truly looked like he was ready to annihilate anything that came his way. He looked like his thin structure was now completely made of muscle, and his deadly looking wings were now sharp enough to stab someone if they were hit forcefully.
As Danny squirmed around on top of the cloud, trying to get up, Bhyrun held out the long branch and pointed an end of it at Danny.
"This ends here!" Bhyrun yelled.
Danny didn't need to be in the best physical to know Bhyrun was about to stick the branch right through him and impale him onto the cloud.