Reviews:
Chaosh.H.A.O.S: I'm planning something for Danny's old friends and family involving Heaven. I can't give any details without spoilers, but yeah.
BoredKing: They already made one, or a version of it. It was the armor Danny was wearing in his fight with Skulker. Granted it didn't have weapons built in like the Ecto-Peeler, but still. I can see it helping to an extent but that alone isn't going to turn the tides of the battle if Heaven sends arch angels to kill Danny. I guess Vlad still has the Ecto-Skeleton. So I could theoretically have him use that, or have Vlad build another version that's weaker but doesn't actively weaken and potentially kill the one inside of it.
Jebest4781: I can't say anything about the relationships without it being spoilers. Also, yeah. I could see Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb having a relatively positive relationship with Danny.
3DJoker: Thank you for understanding, and you're right, I should try to relax a bit. Anyway, thank you for the suggestions, that being said I don't think I'm going to use 'rituals' or anything else from stories outside of Danny Phantom or Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss.
IrishKatana: She may very well try to act as one no matter how the bet turns out. So that's entirely possible.
Time passed and Vlad finally returned while Fright Knight went back to the Ghost Zone to protect the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage. He would have brought some of the Ghost Knights that he had woken up back with him, but he decided to have all of them guard the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire instead as he was concerned Heaven would try to steal them while Vlad was in Hell. He immediately picked up where Fright Knight left off in teaching Danny about his ghost powers. He also took Danny outside the city and had him start practicing his ghostly wail in an effort to get him to be able to use it more than once or twice without turning back or collapsing. Danny was getting better and stronger, slowly but surely.
It turned out Cujo smelled Danny on Vlad and wouldn't leave him alone in the Ghost Zone. Danny learned of it and had Vlad bring Cujo back to Hell with him. So now Danny had a ghostly guard dog who he would frequently go on patrol with.
One day, he was outside the city sparring with Vlad when his phone rang. "Hey, Vlad, could we put this on pause for a sec? I should at least see who's calling me."
Vlad frowned at him and crossed his arms but merged back together with all of his clones and backed away. "Very well. Just try to make it quick."
"Thanks." Danny said. Looking at his phone he saw it was Octavia calling him. Answering it he said, "Hello?"
He was immediately greeted by the sound of sobbing on the other side of the call. "D-danny… M-my parents are fighting again… Could we please hang out somewhere?"
"Of course. Just say where and I'll be there." Danny stated.
"Just… Just meet me outside my mansion…" She requested.
"You got it. I'm on my way." He said before hanging up the phone and putting it away. "We're gonna have to continue this some other time. I gotta go." He told Vlad.
Vlad sighed and shook his head. "Fine but expect an extra long training session tomorrow. We can't afford to waste time. In the event angels really do come to kill you you have to know how to defend yourself and the crude way in which you have been using your powers up until this point will not be sufficient."
"I know, I know! Now I gotta go." Danny said before flying off to Stolas' mansion at the speed of light.
Landing in front of the mansion he found Octavia standing there crying. Walking over to her he asked, "Are you okay? When I heard you crying I came as fast as I could."
She wiped tears from her eyes and looked at him. "Th-thanks, Danny… Let's just walk right now… I don't want to be here right now…"
"Alright. Come on, I'll walk with you." He said, motioning for her to lead the way.
The two of them then began walking away from the mansion in silence for a while. Once they had rounded a corner and the mansion was no longer in sight, Danny asked, "Was their fight that bad this time?"
Octavia nodded, "Mhm…"
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked.
She looked at the ground and remained silent.
Danny sighed and patted her on the back. "It's alright. If you don't want to talk about it we don't have to. We can just keep walking. But if you do feel like talking at any point, you know I'm always more than willing to listen."
"I know…" She muttered.
The two of them kept walking until they eventually ended up in a public park. It was in the same part of town as Stolas' mansion so the only people there were wealthy upper class demons, most of whom just ignored the two of them.
"Hey, we've been walking a while. What do you say we go sit down on that bench over there?" Danny said, pointing to a fancy looking bench under a tree.
Octavia nodded and walked over to the bench before sitting down. Danny sat down next to her. They sat there for a few minutes before Danny eventually put his hand on her shoulder and asked, "Hey, are you feeling any better?"
"Not really, no…" She mumbled.
"Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Just stay here for a while… I… I'll tell you what happened in a few minutes…" She told him.
Danny nodded and removed his hand from her shoulder. "Alright. Take as long as you need. I'm not going anywhere until I know you're okay."
The two of them sat there for a few more minutes before Octavia finally said, "The fight was worse than usual…"
Danny gave her a sympathetic look and said, "That sucks… What happened?"
"I don't know what started it, but I heard my mom tell dad to leave… I… I don't know if he's going to listen to her and abandon me or not…" She muttered as tears started streaming from her eyes again.
Uncertain what to do or if it was pressing any boundaries, Danny hesitantly wrapped his arm around her shoulders and gave her a hug. He knew it would have been fine with Sam or even Tucker depending on the situation, but Octavia wasn't Sam or Tucker. He didn't want to do anything she was uncomfortable with. She was surprised for a moment but eventually relaxed and leaned into the one armed embrace, so he kept hugging her instead of just releasing her. "It's alright… Your dad cares about you a lot, I know he does. He made that pretty clear at the party. He's not just going to abandon you… Besides, if he did, I would personally hunt him down and kick his butt for you. No one hurts my friends and gets away with it, powerful demon or not." Danny told her in a comforting tone
She shook her head and said, "You would die if you tried to do that…"
"Maybe. But I'm still alive so even if I died I'd probably just end up right back here in Hell anyway. But even if I didn't it would still be worth it." Danny said, smiling at her.
"No it wouldn't… If you died trying to get revenge on my dad and you didn't come back that means you'd be gone too. Losing both my dad and my best friend? I don't think I could take it." She muttered.
Danny frowned at that, "Oh… I guess you're right… I should have thought about that. I know how sad I was when my best friends died." And how sad he still was about it but he didn't mention that part. "I wouldn't want you to go through the same thing… In that case, I guess I'd just wait a few years to get stronger before beating him up for you. I mean apparently I'm going to get as powerful as Lucifer eventually, so it would just be a matter of time before I could take on anyone in the Ars Goetia."
"Fair, I guess… I keep forgetting you caused the apocalypse in an alternate timeline…" Octavia muttered.
"Unfortunately… But anyway, I'm sure everything is going to be fine. I know it might seem bad now, but from the one interaction I had with him at the party I can tell you that your dad loves you a lot. He wouldn't have threatened me if he didn't, especially considering the 'hands off' orders that Lucifer apparently gave in regards to me. So the fact he was willing to risk being punished by Lucifer for you says a lot. And I think if he was going to leave, he would have done it by now. So just try to have a little trust in him." Danny told her.
She gave Danny a small smile. "Thanks, Danny… That actually makes me feel a bit better…"
"Of course. This is gonna sound a bit cheesy but, you're my best and pretty much only friend. I care about you. So if you're sad or scared and I can help you feel better, then I'm going to help you however I can." Danny told her, tightening his one armed embrace a bit.
(Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone)
"BACK, ALL OF YOU! YOU SHALL NOT LAY A FINGER ON THE KING'S CROWN OR RING!" Fright Knight roared as he stabbed Soul Shredder into the ground and erected a massive barrier around Vlad's Castle, which previously belonged to Pariah Dark. A small army of angels assaulted the barrier with everything they had, trying to bring it down. "Armies of the Ghost King, go! Send these bird winged pests back where they belong! For the Ghost King!" He ordered the thousands of skeletal ghosts behind him.
All of them then began floating up into the air and charged the angels. These ones were more powerful than the ones Pariah Dark had created to use to invade the world of the living, being roughly on par with the lesser angels that were attacking them now. However, there were less of them then there could have been as a result. Vlad had created them all to protect the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage while he was in Hell and he had given Fright Knight full command over them. Fright Knight had no intention of failing him.
Suddenly the lesser angels parted and began moving away from the barrier only for a massive pillar of light to slam into it causing it to shatter and fall.
Fright Knight grunted in surprise and looked up at where the pillar of light had come from. There he saw Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael along with quite a few other archangels hovering in the air. There were just as many of them present as there were Knights.
"Cease this foolishness, Knights of Purgatory, and surrender the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage! Such is the will of God!" Gabriel shouted.
Fright Knight pulled Soul Shredder out of the ground and pointed it at Gabriel. "We shall never submit to the likes of you holy heathens! My brothers, defend the crown and ring! For the Ghost King!"
"""For the Ghost King!""" All of the other Knights shouted before floating up into the air and charging towards the arch angels.
Fright Knight himself charged straight for Gabriel and swung Souls Shredder at him. Gabriel parried the attack with his own sword. "This is madness! I know you are aware how much of a threat the boy is! And trapped in Hell as he is, he will inevitably side with Lucifer! If we do not stop him, he will cause armageddon!" He shouted at Fright Knight as the two of them clashed.
"If he does then so be it! The world of the living is not my concern! My duty is to serve my king, come armageddon or anything else! The most powerful anti-angelic wards possible protect the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage, and I shall not let you close enough for long enough to even attempt to dispel them! I will see the human world burn before I allow you to depose the King or kill the Prince!" Fright Knight shouted back as he hacked, slashed, and stabbed at Gabriel while blocking or parrying Gabriel's attacks.
"You damn ghost!" Gabriel growled before unleashing a blast of holy energy that sent Fright Knight flying backwards and crashing into the castle.
Fright Knight responded in kind by hurling a ball of ecto energy so dense it looked like a boulder at Gabriel at several times the speed of light. The ball slammed into him and exploded with the force of a small nuclear warhead. Fright Knight then flew back up into the air only to be forced to block a sword strike as Gabriel launched out of the massive cloud of ectoplasmic fire and tried to behead him.
"Stop being so stubborn and just give us the crown and ring! Submit to the will of the Lord!" Gabriel shouted at Fright Knight as he deflected a stab to his stomach and retaliated with a slash towards Fright Knight's torso.
"Never! The only Lord I serve is Lord Plasmius! I will not answer to you feathered fools!" Fright Knight shouted back as he blocked the strike to his torso with an ecto barrier before conducting a feint to slip past Gabriel's guard thus allowing him to cut the arch angel. Having cut him, Fright Knight would have banished him to live out his greatest fears but Gabriel was simply too powerful for him to simply banish like he would most other foes. Even if he did banish him, Gabriel would simply escape within a matter of moments.
"You have no idea what sort of horrors Lucifer will unleash should he and the half-breed phantom successfully overthrow Heaven! You think it will stop in the world of the living?! No! Purgatory shall be affected as well! Plasmius is a fool for aiding the boy!" Gabriel shouted before raising a hand and unleashing a torrent of pure white holy fire upon Fright Knight. The flames were roughly the same temperature as the core of the sun and were almost blinding in the intensity of light they released.
Fright Knight growled in pain as the flames washed over him before erecting a bubble shaped barrier of ecto energy around himself to protect himself. When the flames dissipated he let the barrier fall and delivered a powerful ecto enhanced downward slash to Gabriel. The angel blocked the attack but was sent crashing to the ground from the force of it. "You dare call the Ghost King a fool?! You shall know the true meaning of fear!" Fright Knight then pointed Soul Shredder at Gabriel and flooded his mind with sheer terror.
It only lasted a moment but that was enough for Fright Knight to fly down and stab the angel through the solar plexus. Only to get blasted away by holy energy a moment later.
"That was a dirty trick… Fine. If you won't give up then I will just have to strike you down!" Gabriel shouted at him.
Fright Knight scoffed. "Strike me down?! If you think you can strike me down so easily, you are sorely mistaken! I am the Ghost King's most powerful Knight and every bit your equal! I refuse to just lay down and die!" Fright Knight shouted back.
I think the next few chapters are going to be on the shorter side like this. With that in mind, I'll try to get them out faster but I can't guarantee anything.