Danny Phantom Challenge
17 Blood
Danny groaned as his head smashed against the asphalt road, sending a sharp jolt of pain roaring through his head. Danny grimaced and slowly turned his head towards his enemy to find Pariah Dark looming over him with a dark smile.
"Now boy, you didn't think that I would stay in that accursed coffin forever, did you?" His voice boomed over Danny, and echoed throughout the near empty Amity Park, his voice bouncing off vacant buildings.
Phantom struggled to sit himself up, glaring at the Ghost King menacingly.
"Actually, I did. And you're going back-AGGH!"
Pariah blasted Danny with red ectoplasm, sending him flying into a building.
"Foolish Halfa, doth thee never learn? I am INVICIBLE! Last time I was defeated by you, a mere boy, but it will not happen again!"
Pariah focused a ectoplasmic blast at the point of his index finger, aimed directly at immobilized Danny's heart.
"Farewell, child."
The beam fired from Pariah's fingertip, and hurled itself towards Phantom. Danny shut his eyes tightly, and waited for the worst to come. But it never came. He heard a body being impaled by the blast, but it wasn't his, and neither was the thick liquid substance that splattered across his face.
The Halfa opened his eyes slowly, only to gasp in fear, to find a person who wore a white cape, and now had a gaping hole in his midsection standing in front of him.
Danny's voice faltered.
"V-Vlad?"
The Vampire ghost fell to his knees, and turned his head towards the ghost boy. Bearing not only fangs but a weak, kind and comforting smile.
"I g-guess ghosts of all kinds can d-die, Daniel."
Vlad fell backwards into Danny's arms, still clutching his large wound in his abdomen. Danny couldn't comprehend it, Vlad had saved him? He sacrificed his life for him? Even after what they've been through? Danny's voice cracked as he tried to speak again tears falling freely onto his archenemy's face.
"Vlad.. I don't understand…why?"
A feeble chuckle came out of the older Halfa's mouth, as red eyes gazed up into light green ones, and instead of feeling the usual cold stare he got from looking at his red eyes, he felt a new sentiment from the red eyes, they were kind and warm.
"It is not yet your time to die Daniel…you still have people caring for you, and loving you….me, I'm alone and old…I have nothing to lose…"
Danny gripped onto Vlad's shoulder's and shook his head.
"No! Don't say that Vlad! Don't!"
"I know the truth is hard Daniel….and sometimes it's better left unsaid… but, we all m-must face it someday…"
Tears rained down Danny's face, as his shoulders shuddered, holding Vlad close, and felt a sudden rush of cold as black rings passed over Vlad's body.
Vlad weakly lifted his hand to Danny's face, and wiped off his tears, not letting it mix with his blood, only to let more tears plummet. Vlad's steel blue eyes gazed into Danny's green ones and gave a strong comforting final smile, a smile that Danny never saw before.
"N-Now…Daniel, be strong…don't be a pawn in this game of chess, topple the king… live on…live on for me my boy….my little badger………………….."
Vlad's hand fell limp, and collapsed to his side. Danny's cried harder and hugged the older man's body with sadness, still not believing that he actually died for him.
Danny ignored his tears, and let them fall and mix with that blood upon his face that wasn't his.