And now we have chapter four which took for-friggin'-ever to think up. I hope you all enjoy this because it nearly killed me trying to think this up.
Side note: Most will notice I spell Sicilia in an odd way. This is because she is named after a bottle of lemon juice.
Chapter Three: Demons of the Past
Danny sat down at the table that he, Sam, and Tucker normally shared for lunch, but today, like every day for the last week, it felt cramped. The reason behind that feeling being one overly clingy ghost girl by the name of Sicilia. Danny was growing irritated by this girl constantly clutching his arm whenever she could, but no matter what he could think of she waved it off as playing hard to get.
He thought about giving Sam a chance at ridding him of the pesky girl, but decided against it when he caught Sam glaring at the girl, her right eye blazing crimson. Looking into that eye brought thoughts of his own demonic curse. He briefly wondered if Sam had any of the urges that he had. He certainly hoped not. He began remembering how he attained the accursed eyes that were apparently his inheritance...
(Flash back, One year earlier)
Danny sighed in contempt with his god given body as he walked unseeingly over to his dresser. He now had all the drawers labeled with Braille and etched-in lettering so he could tell which drawer had which article of clothing.
A loud curse escaped his mouth as he stubbed his toe once again against his dresser. He could never calculate the distance correctly. He cursed any ethereal being he could think of as he rubbed his toe.
Why him? Why did he have to have special... gifts? Why did he have to be the one that could hurt ghosts? Why did he have to be the one to go blind! What had he done to anger the forces-that-be?
As he thought of possible answers to these questions he opened his drawers, grabbing the needed articles of clothing and quickly changing.
Apparently he wasn't quick enough. His door suddenly opened and the only sound he could hear afterwards was a quiet 'eep' to let him know someone had seen him. He recognized the voice immediately as Sam. He smiled a little in the direction he heard the noise come from.
"Hi, Sam," He finally pulled his shirt over his body.
Although Sam felt sorry for her friend's blindness, she thanked the convenience of it for hiding her blush. She hadn't realized that fighting ghosts along side her would have affected him so. His body was lean and fit, not a single muscle that didn't serve a purpose. Many scars stuck out on his skin from where he had been maimed by many of her ghostly enemies.
"Hey... Danny," She tried not to think of Danny shirtless, but was failing miserably. He was too damn good looking!
"What's today's plan?" Danny asked a trace of a smile on his face. The three of them still went to movies and arcades. They tried to act as if nothing happened. Tucker and Danny had actually found out a way for him to still play video games. It only really worked for the shooter games so far, but it was progress.
Just as she was going to say they were going to watch a new horror movie the entire house shook.
"What was that?"
"I don't know, Danny," Sam quickly switched forms to her ghostly alter ego, Serenity. "I'm going to go check it out."
Danny nodded mutely. Sam flew out his window to spy a creature that resembled a giant four story tall sphinx, but instead of the body of a lion it had the body of a jackal and a man's face. Its jaws were lined with three rows of razor sharp teeth, the claws were about three feet long and sharp as a box cutter.
One of the creatures enormous eyes spotted Sam floating in the air and it grinned, letting it's yellowish teeth glint in the diminishing evening sunlight. Sam felt a tingle of fear go down her spine. This creature wasn't spectral, she wasn't sure if she could fight it.
"You," its voice was low and raspy, "are the ghost child, yes?"
"W-who wants to know?" Sam tried to avoid stuttering, but this creature had something about it that screamed 'I can kill you without blinking.'
"I'll take that as a yes. So then it is you that are the keeper of the one called Danny."
"Keeper? What are you talking about? I know Danny, but I'm not his 'keeper'."
"Perhaps keeper is the wrong word. What is that word you mortals use nowadays for those you hold close but are not your love?"
"You mean friend?" Sam asked warily.
"Ah, yes, that's the one. Friend. You are the friend of Danny, yes?"
"Yeah, I am. What of it?"
"Take me to him... and I may spare your half life," it's tone held a calmness to it that had Sam on edge.
"Why should I?" Sam was becoming more and more afraid of what this creature wanted as time passed between them. What exactly did it want Danny for?
"You ask a lot of questions, mortal. But I suppose you have a right to know why I have come to kill him since he is your... 'friend'."
"Kill him! What the hell are-"
"Silence! Speak out of turn again and I will eat your tongue," the beast roared. Sam gulped and nodded. Apparently it didn't like to be interrupted. "Since you seem impatient, mortal, I will give you only the basics. Your friend is a direct descendant of Tessen the demon king. Tessen ruled the lands you now inhabit for over five thousand years before he decided to end his days as a mortal. Two hundred years ago he took the name Fenton as his own and married a mortal woman. With her he started a small family. Tessen, being mortal at the time, expected his children to have no trace of his demon power, but alas, he could detect the dormant demon strength in their blood. His only hope was that the power would lay dormant for all eternity. Unfortunately for Tessen, and young Daniel, his blood did not stay dormant. Daniel has inherited one one thousandth of Tessen's power. This may not seem like much to a mortal such as yourself, but Danny has the potential of gaining more power. It threatens my master. And so I am here to destroy him before 'his' eyes are active again." The giant creature looked at Sam expectantly now, waiting for her to lead him to Danny.
Sam gripped the scythe she had kept from the Control Freak incident and held her ground. "I can't let you hurt him." Determination to keep her friend from harm sparked a fire in her eyes.
The creature looked at her for a second before giving her a mirthless laugh and stalking forward causing the ground to shake with each step.
"Mortal, you have not the power to fight me. I suggest you take me to your friend before I just kill you and sniff him out," it's eyes narrowed into cat-like slits. Sam gripped the scythe tight enough to turn her knuckles white and took up her normal fighting stance, purple ectoplasmic radiation encircling her.
"Then I'll die protecting my friend," her voice was low and her jaw was set. She could not be argued with in this state of mind.
"Very well." the creature crouched down ready to pounce and Sam got ready to charge, but before either could move a new voice chipped into the conversation.
"Here I am. Kill me, just leave Sam alone," it was Danny.
"Danny, no!"
"Just go back inside, Sam," he turned towards her with his unseeing eyes. Sam could just barely begin to see something happening to them. Clouded sapphire was leaking into pure crimson. Sam settled her self on the ground next to Danny staring into his eyes.
"I'm not going anywhere, Danny," Danny thought he heard a new emotion in Sam's voice. It' wasn't worry, there was plenty of that already. Determination was already rooted there as well. Could this be affection…? Maybe.
"Then you will die together!" The creature, tired of being stalled, jumped at both Danny and Sam.
Sam thinking quickly gabbed onto Danny and phased them both through the ground and out of danger for the moment. After a moment Sam brought them back up to face their new enemy.
The creature's form was glowing with a near black light and if you listened closely you could hear the sickening pop of bones shifting and changing inside of the creature. its front paws mutated into something resembling hands, the hip bone shifted forcing the creature up on it's hind legs, its entire body shrank in size till it was only ten feet tall.
"Now, that's more comfortable," The creature clenched and unclenched it's fists a couple times. Finally it let it's eyes fall over the two and it smirked before speaking, "Any last wishes?"
"Leave now and never come back?" Sam tried.
"Nice try, but no." Without warning the creature charged again. This time Sam met the critter half way firing ecto-blasts. Danny tried to follow the fight with his remaining senses but a powerful headache blocked everything but the sounds out, and those sounded static-ky.
Sam continued firing ecto-blasts and using her scythe to block or attack, but no matter what she did this ugly critter would block her attacks or shake off her blasts like insects were bothering him. It took a few powerful swings at her when it had planted its feet on the ground, though it mostly attacked with kicks and aerial assaults. So far she counted herself lucky in not taking the ground-based attacks. One of the cars he attacked in her place when she dodged as sent flying through three buildings before it stopped.
"Jeeze, what are they feeding you?" she asked as she dove in with her scythe, slashing at his arms in a seemingly random pattern.
"Oh, you know. Human souls, livers of dragons, and blue berry waffles," was the creature's reply as it knocked her scythe out of her hand and leapt into the air to deliver a powerful kick to her side. Sam could feel one of her ribs crack as she hit the building, but ignored it in favor of getting up darting after her scythe and attacking some more.
The creature frowned as it grew impatient and decided enough was enough. It could feel the power being summoned to the surface in Danny. If he didn't end it soon it would be out of his control.
Taking up a DBZ style pose it put its paw/hands together in front of it and began charging a blast kinetic energy till it was the size of a baseball. It gripped the kinetic sphere with one hand, wound up, and threw it with all of his might at Sam.
Sam, caught un-expecting, was hit in her abdomen with the blast and the resulting explosion would have killed a lesser specter. As it was, not only did Sam lose consciousness, but she also had severe internal and external bleeding, the green goop that was her blood surrounding her fallen form.
Danny heard the explosion and with a surprising amount of accuracy ran to the spot where he heard Sam fall. He nearly slipped in her blood, remained up long enough to kneel right by her side.
"Sam? Sam, wake up," his voice was pleading and full of worry. Ghosts did not breathe or have a heartbeat so Danny didn't bother checking either one of those. Instead he began trying to will away the headache that was increasing with every breath so he could tend to his injured friend. Before his eyes bright flashes of light were appearing, but those two were ignored.
"The fool could have lived if she didn't try to fight me," though it's voice was calm, Danny could here the condescending tone in its voice. "Now it is your turn, Daniel. Are you going to accept your fate? Or are you going to fight it and inevitably die like your friend?"
Danny began growling under his breath when the creature first spoke. As it finished it's little speech he laid Sam against a wall and turned around eyes closed to face the beast.
The critter felt a tingle go down it's spine as the demonic energy in Danny's veins spiked. He panicked and all his muscles tensed, just before he dashed towards Danny. He cocked his arm back then shot it forward in a punch that should be strong enough to obliterate the teen's skull, instantly killing him.
Imagine the creature's surprise when Danny stood there holding his fist at arm's length. The ground at Danny's feet was cracked in a spider web fashion from absorbing the force of the impact.
Slowly Danny opened his eyes and, to the critter's utter horror, his eyes were blood red and his pupils slit.
Before the creature could react Danny tightened his grip and tossed the creature across the street, giving him plenty time to draw his sword. At the moment Danny didn't really care that he could see, all he cared about was hurting this creature one hundred fold the pain that Sam felt.
The beast tried to escape, but it had no time. Danny was upon it before it could take a proper breath to utter a spell of escape. He slashed, stabbed, kicked, and punched with such speed and ferocity the air around them shifted like the winds proceeding a fierce storm.
With a final angry yell Danny jumped high into the air and dived straight for the creature his blade ready to be thrust into it's skull. The critter leaned back and accepted its fate eyes closed. "I have failed."
After the deed was done Danny raced back over to Sam to make sure she was ok...
(End Flashback)
... It had taken three weeks for Sam to heal properly. Explaining what happened to Sam's parents was a nightmare. Do you have any idea how hard it is thinking up a suitable lie for injuries like what she had, not to mention the fact that Danny could mysteriously see again?
Danny sighed a little and got up to leave, Sicilia offering to come with him where ever he was venturing while ignoring Sam's obvious hateful glare.
"No, I think I'll be going alone. Sam, Tucker, see ya later," And he departed. Tucker looked over at Sicilia, who had started a glaring contest with Sam, and just shook his head as he got up to leave as well.
"They're gonna kill each other," he muttered as he left.
A/N: Ok chapter four is done after forever. Sorry it took me so long but I was having writers block for awhile there.
