Thank you to Leppers, Jenna Dax timydamonkey, Whispers of Darkness and GoingGhost for reviewing this story. I really appreciated getting reviews from all five of you guys, but I got asked a question by Whispers about where Danny's powers were. In case that was serious or you didn't pick up on it, you're not supposed to know where they are yet. Horrick told Danny his powers were in the mansion, but that was just a lie to trap Danny in there and set the house on fire and hopefully kill him. Sorry if that caused any confusion. You'll learn where Danny's powers really are at some point.

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Danny and Horrick stared at each other. Without his powers, Danny had to rely completely on his newly completed ghost suit for protection. Horrick now looked completely black all over, like he was stuck in a chimney. He had small flames surrounding the sides of his body.

The entire scene of the battle just had death written all over it for Danny. He was in an enclosed room that was going up in flames. And unfortunately for him, the fire only seemed to make Horrick stronger. Danny truthfully had his doubts about who was going to win this fight.

"Okay, let's get this thing started, shall we!" Danny yelled. He put out both of his arms and pointed the water cannons on them right at Horrick.

He fired the water from the cannons, and a high-pressure spray shot out of the cannons. It looked like Horrick was going to suffer a little bit from it, but Horrick put up a circular shield of fire around himself, creating a hot red sphere that the water couldn't penetrate. The water just evaporated when it got to close to the fire shield.

"Ha!" Horrick yelled. "That ruins your plans, doesn't it!"

"Don't worry; I got plenty more of them!" Danny threatened. He then jumped into the air (but not very high, since the suit was really weighing him down) and tried to kick Horrick in the face.

Horrick just grabbed Danny's foot as he tried kicking him and began spinning him around. After brewing up a lot of potential energy while spinning Danny around, Horrick threw Danny against a wall in the mansion. Danny hit the wall hard and a huge chunk of smoldering ceiling fell right into Danny's lap when that happened.

Danny tried to regain consciousness, and he did it just in time. As he looked up, Horrick had prepared a giant fireball in his hand and he threw it at Danny like a baseball pitcher throwing some heat. (no pun intended)

Danny rolled out of the way and the fireball hit the wall, creating a giant hole in it. The fire went through the wall the same way acid would go through paper.

"Nice try!" Danny screamed. He jumped up and once again started firing his heavy water cannons at Horrick.

Horrick didn't have time to react, and he got hit right in his midsection with the forceful sprays of freezing water. He groaned loudly as the water slammed him onto the ground. It looked like some steam was starting to rise from him.

"Steam!" Danny said softly. "That must mean he's getting weakened! All I have to do is keep spraying him until he's out like a fire."

Danny tried doing this, but he was distracted when part of the ceiling gave in above him and crashed on his head. The unexpected crushing of the ceiling caused Danny to collapse on the ground, therefore making him stop firing the water cannons.

Taking advantage of this, Horrick got up and ran into a fire brewing in the corner of the room. He was getting his strength back as he stood in the raging flame.

After standing in there for a few seconds, Horrick came out as if nothing had ever happened to him. He walked over to Danny as he tried to get up, but Horrick just fired a heavy amount of fire at him.

Although the suit Danny was wearing didn't conduct too much heat, Danny felt as if something was wrong with it. He was starting to feel the intense heat of the fire more and more, and he did his best to get up and out of the way of Horrick's attacks.

Danny shot up from the ground and was back on his two feet, but not for long. Horrick put both of his arms up in the air and a giant pillar of fire appeared right in front of Danny.

Danny started trying to run away from the fire pillar, but as soon as he turned around to start running, another pillar popped where he had been standing literally a second before. Basically, if he stayed there, he would have been barbecued.

Danny continued making quick runs as giant pillars of fire shot up from the ground that he had just been standing on. The fire had stretched up to the ceiling and was making it even more unstable. Danny kept a nervous eye on the ceiling, because it looked like it was about to give in.

Horrick stopped launching fire pillars and looked like it was starting to tire him out. Danny was also pretty exhausted, especially after having to run around in a giant metal suit that took extra muscle to move.

But Danny knew that if he stopped for one second, he'd be at a disadvantage. He soon realized that no matter how hard he sprayed Horrick, Horrick would always jump right back to a fire in the ignited room and regenerate himself. A new approach would have to be taken.

Instead of spraying Horrick, Danny pointed his water cannons up at the ceiling. He started spraying the high-pressured water at the collapsing plaster above them.

Horrick looked up and saw that part about to fall on top of him. He let out a loud, long scream as the chunk of ceiling disembarked itself and smashed itself on his face. The plaster split into several small pieces as it landed right on top of him. He fell on the ground on his back.

"Look what you've done, Horrick!" Danny yelled with a cocky look, "you're once proud mansion is crumpling around you. Or should I say, ON you?"

Horrick pushed the dry, hot plaster off his face and got up again. Even after being beat the way he had been, he still looked like he had enough strength to stop an oncoming freight train. Danny was nervous that maybe Horrick was on the verge of impossible to defeat. The suit Danny and his dad had made didn't seem to be doing a lot of good.

"All right!" Danny yelled, "If you want to keep fighting, we will! You get your strength from fire, right! Then I'll just have to put that fire out!"

Danny looked in the corner of the room and started firing his heavy water jets at the flames roaring in the further away parts. The water came out and killed the fire it came into contact with.

Horrick got very nervous of this and knew Danny was cutting off his power supply. He was forsaking his fire attacks and instead tried his best to tackle Danny and to deal some more physical attacks.

But Danny could sense Horrick was jumping right behind him, and he jolted around and fired his heavy water cannons at Horrick as he hurdled himself through the air. Horrick got sent flying backwards after being struck with the duo of heavy-pressure water cannons. He smashed against a wall in the back of the room and was temporarily unable to move.

Meanwhile, Danny turned back to all the extra fire in the room and he started spraying it. He was secretly enjoying putting out all of the fire, knowing that his enemy was losing his power as the fire died.

"Wow, I can see why so many kids want to be firemen," Danny remarked to himself after he just put out fire after fire.

Soon, half the fire in the room had been reverted to nothing except steam that disappeared in the air. For once, it looked like Danny would have the edge. The heated red glow from the fire in the room was going away, and the room went back to looking dark and grim, just like before.

"No…" Horrick hissed as he watched his power being diminished right in front of his eyes.

"Oh, YES!" Danny yelled, not looking at Horrick as he continued to put out all the extra fire in the room. "You're finished, Horrick!"

Horrick was struggling to keep his power going. He tried throwing some fire out of his hands the hit Danny on the side of the head and hurt him really badly, possibly kill him from the impact. But the fire now was much smaller and less hot. It was still nothing to scoff at, but it was a pale imitation to the fire he could control before.

Danny ducked out of the way as the fireball came shooting by his head. It created a small hole in the wall and an equally small fire as it hit, but Danny just put it out, too.

Horrick now thought things were getting hopeless. Danny was cutting off all the power in the room, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Soon, every fire in the room was out, rendering Horrick completely helpless. Danny breathed a deep sigh of relief as he saw Horrick had no more sources for power.

"All right, it's over," Danny said. He looked at Horrick for the first time since he started putting out all the fires. He pointed his water cannons right at Horrick's face, ready to strike the finishing blow.

Horrick was stuttering and breathing heavily. For the first time, he looked very scared of Danny and what he was about to do.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you," Danny said. "I'm not going to stoop to that level." He loaded his water cannons. "But that doesn't mean I'm not going to try to pump any information out of you."

"What are you saying?"

"You said you were just trying to trap me in this oven by telling me my powers were in here," Danny recalled. He made it obvious he was about to fire his water cannons at Horrick's face. "Now don't lie to me this time, or you're getting a fistful of water. Where are my powers!"

"Okay, okay," Horrick stuttered. "Your powers are hidden deep in the woods behind my house."

"You swear?" Danny asked, trying to make Horrick as nervous as possible so he'd crack and tell the truth.

"Yes! That's where your powers are!"

A small smile cracked across Danny's face. "Thanks," he said. He turned around and started running out of the house. He ran around the back of the giant home and into the thick patches of trees behind the mansion.

Horrick watched in disbelief and defeat as he saw Danny run into the forest completely unhindered.

But then, Danny noticed something very unsettling. He looked at his fire-resistant suit, and it definitely appeared to be wearing down. The metal that made it up was now looking like it was melted and then thrown together. In other words, it was beginning to liquefy.

"Well, so much for that," Danny said. Not only that, but he also noticed he barely had any water left in the cannons after the fight. "Geez, dad didn't design this too well."

Thinking that having to run around with the suit on would be more of a hindrance than a help, Danny cast the suit off. Now he was back to just his casual, everyday clothes. Luckily, with Horrick no longer a threat, all Danny would have to do would be to go into the forest and find his power.

Horrick still couldn't believe that he had lost to Danny. The thought was simply unbearable. Who would have thought a fourteen-year old would have the common sense to douse every single fire in the room and stop the source of Horrick's power.

Then it hit Horrick like a sack of cement: every single fire in the room! In the struggle that had ensued, Horrick had forgotten that the rest of his house was still on fire.

Now laughing with glee and thinking that he had won, Horrick ran into a back room where the fire was spreading. He stepped right in the middle of a giant flame and let out a giant cackle as the blaze of orange and yellow swept over him. Gradually, he turned darker and darker, and fire started sprouting from him.

"Yes!...YES!" Horrick yelled. He stepped out of the fire about thirty seconds later, now just as strong as he was before.

Horrick immediately ran outside and started floating high above the trees. He could tell Danny was now deep in the woods now and would probably get lost trying to find his way out.

"Excellent," Horrick hissed. He started throwing massive amounts of fire down at the trees, setting them ablaze. Horrick started laughing as he saw the giant fires spread from tree to tree.

In just a matter of seconds, the fire would have spread to several trees, trapping Danny inside without his powers. It was only a matter of time now before Danny got cornered by the forest fire Horrick had created in a short time and either suffocated from the smoke or was killed by the fire.

"Danny has gotten on my nerves one too many times," Horrick said, looking at his work, the giant fire in the trees. "But with him inside that forest with the trees on fire, he has no hope of surviving."