Okay, let's put an end to the cliffhanger I left you in the last chapter, shall we? In the last chapter, as you read, a group of goblins attacked a village, but Daniel had felt its presence. And after killing all those goblins, someone stopped them from leaving, and now you're gonna find out what it is. If you're wondering why I call this "Mirror Image" it'll explain as the chapter goes along. So let's find out what that means.
The trio all stared in shock at what stood in front of them, because it was completely unbelievable.
What stood in front of them, was another Daniel. But this one was darker and more evil looking.
He had more pale skin like the goblins had, his eyes rather than blue were fiery orange. He wore a red short sleeved shirt, with a few tears on the sleeves, dark gray pants, dark brown boots and a sword on his left hip like the real Daniel's. Like the real Daniel he also had a gray iron arm, but it was rusted.
"Who-Who are you?" Daniel asked really confused.
"Don't be an idiot, you idiot!" said the evil looking Daniel.
"I'm no idiot, you jerk. I mean it. Who are you?" Daniel asked more sternly.
"What are you, blind? I'm you!"
"That's not possible. You can't be me. I'm me."
"Exactly. You are also you. But I am your mirror image."
"Mirror image?" Daniel repeated.
"Is there an echo out here? Yes, mirror image, you moron. I was but a formless soul, forever trapped in the underworld, but then my master pulled me from there, and he used the evil buried deep within your heart to give me a form. Now I stand here before you, an evil looking version of you. But on the bright side, he did completely replicate you, when creating me. He gave me everything you have. For example." The mirror image Daniel conjured a wall of fire, that was a bright yellow-orange, rather than red over himself.
The fire completely covered his body, so that they couldn't see him, and when the flames faded and died down, he wore a suit of armor exactly like Daniel's, but his was completely black. Everything was black; The steel vest, the titanium leggings, the material that covered his sleeves and neck, the battle gloves and the armored boots. It was all, darker than any other shade of black in the world.
"I did make a few changes to the suit though. I like it a lot better all black."
"You may look and sound like me, but you're nothing but a faker. There's only one real me, and that's me."
"We'll see. My master also gave me all your skills and techniques."
Daniel then drew his sword, with its symbols all lit up, and he raised it in defense.
"My master had ordered me to bring you to him. So why not make it easy on yourself, and come with me," the evil Daniel held out his left hand.
"I think not. I don't go down easily. You want me, you'll have to take me. And the only way to do that, is to beat me."
Then the mirror image Daniel drew the sword off his belt. Like the real Daniel's sword, his had the same blue, glowing symbols, but the blade was rusted. "Have it your way."
Both Daniels raised their swords in front of them, then the real Daniel jumped over to his mirror image, and landed behind him. And once they were close to each other, is when they began to swordfight.
Both were clashing together their swords, making swift moves. They swung their swords, made lightning quick reflexes to avoid each other's attacks and jumped over or away from the other.
They clashed their swords together so fast, that they both swung at least 12 times each second.
As their fighting went on, they pushed each other back, and both wielded their swords in their right hands.
The Daniels both ran to the other again, and both using their left hands, they'd grabbed hold of each other's swords, and tried to push each other back, but both were evenly matched.
"Face it. You can't stop me," said the evil Daniel. "We are both evenly matched. Our powers and abilities are equal. We both have the same power."
"No. There's only one me here, and that one is me. You're just a fake!" Daniel argued back.
"The sooner you accept the truth, the easier this will be for you. Give it up, and come with me."
"Over my dead body."
And then Daniel shrouded his whole body, in a fiery aura.
"Anything you can do, so can I," and the evil Daniel shrouded his body, in a yellow, fiery aura.
They let go of each other's swords, and stepped back.
They sheathed their swords, and then all the fire that shrouded their bodies, moved down to their right fists.
Both Daniels yelled as battle cries and ran back to each other, and once they came in contact, they slammed both their right fists with one another.
Their fists started to charge a fiery light, which grew more brighter by the second.
The Daniels both kept on pushing with all their might, more and more. Both trying to defeat the other. They were both evenly matched, but neither would give up.
As the fiery light got brighter by the second, it'd become almost as bright as the sun, and they were forced to shield their eyes.
What happened next was incredible; The fiery light that charged up, had burst into a explosion of light, blazing the whole destroyed village with the fiery light.
Both the Daniels were pushed away from each other in the impact, and both landed on their backs.
The light had faded after only a few seconds and the Daniels both recovered.
No damage had been done to the remains of the village, and nothing had been burned.
"Try this one on for size," Daniel said and he shot a bunch of fire from his hands, and up into the sky.
When in the sky the flames shifted together, and they took the form of an eagle, the size of a full grown rhinoceros.
The fire eagle screeched, then flew towards the evil Daniel, who'd raised his left fist as it came towards him. And once it made contact, the eagle burst into a big, fiery explosion.
Daniel smiled confidentally, but his victory was short lived, once the fire faded.
He looked to see that his evil doppelganger had used the shield of light to protect himself from the attack.
"You really are just plain stupid, aren't you."
Daniel glared at him, and he created a fireball, then threw it at his evil clone.
The evil Daniel, shot a blast of fire from his right hand, and destroyed Daniel's fireball.
Daniel then created two smaller fireballs in the palms of his hands, then threw them both, at evil Daniel.
Evil Daniel used his quick reflexes, and caught both the fireballs. "Thanks for the ammo." And he put the fireballs together, making them into a bigger one, then he threw it back at Daniel.
As the fireball came towards Daniel, he enveloped his right hand in fiery red light, then he waved his hand in front of him, as the fireball came near, and from his hand, he unleashed a wave of fire, and stopped the fireball.
After the fireball was stopped, the wave of fire hadn't evaporated into the air; Instead, Daniel has called it back to him, and he called it back to his hand. After doing so, he shot a stream of fire at his opponent.
The evil Daniel then used the smoke escape power, and he'd turned his whole body into a cloud of dark gray smoke, and flew threw the air.
The gray smoke cloud went high in the sky, and then came in behind Daniel, where it turned back to the evil Daniel.
Once Daniel's evil doppelganger stood behind him, he tried to throw a kick at him, but his clone caught his leg, and he pulled, then threw him away.
Daniel flew through the air, but just before he could hit the ground, he put his hands out, did a front flip, then landed back on his feet. He looked back to his evil doppelganger, and then he crossed his arms over his chest, then began to spin fast as lightning.
"Idiot," said the evil Daniel. Then he crossed his arms over his chest, and spun fast as lightning too.
Daniel had spun for at least a minute, but then stopped, and he shot the electric blue blast, of the winds of iron move from his hands at his evil clone.
As the blast was coming at evil Daniel, he stopped spinning, then shot a red blast from his hands, which countered, and stopped Daniel's blast
"I told you, I know everything you do," the evil Daniel said to the real one. "Now let's see how you handle real power." And then he waved his hands in front of himself, making his yellow-orange fire start to shroud his hands.
"Two can play at that game," Daniel then did the same, and waved his hands in front of himself, charging his red fire.
Both Daniels had waved their hands around for at least a minute, until their hands were completely enveloped in flames. Then they shot their streams of fire from their hands at the opposing fire warrior, and their fire streams clashed.
The Daniels kept on shooting streams of fire from their hands, and neither would stop. Every few seconds, when one Daniel's stream would push back the other, the opposing Daniel would make a comeback and push harder.
They kept on shooting fire, both Daniels pushing more by the second.
Elsa and King Adgar were standing behind watching the whole thing.
"It's no use. Both of them are evenly matched," said King Adgar. "He can't beat his evil doppelganger alone."
"What do we do, Father?" Elsa asked.
King Adgar looked at his daughter, and Elsa saw what he was saying by just looking in his eyes.
"You want me to help him?"
"You may be the only one who can. I'm powerless, sweetheart. You're the only other one with magical powers around here."
"I can't," Elsa said a little worriedly. "I can't do it."
"I think you can. I think that you might be stronger with your own powers than you might think. You may just have what you need to help him. You just need to believe. Believe in yourself, believe in Daniel, believe in what's right."
Elsa turned her attention back towards the Daniels, who were still shooting fire streams from their hands. "Okay. I'll try."
"That's my girl," King Adgar said proudly.
The Daniels had both been still pushing with all their might, and then the evil Daniel managed to throw their streams of fire up into the air, which exploded once it was high in the sky.
Daniel was about to make another move, but his evil doppelganger made a quicker move, and blasted him with a fireball.
The real Daniel went flying back and he hit the ground, landing on his back.
"You're through!" yelled the evil Daniel and he shot another stream of fire from his hands into the air, which started to shape into a giant fireball.
Daniel recovered, but didn't stand up, and he looked to see the giant ball of fire.
Once the fireball was as big as an elephant, the evil Daniel stopped. "Say goodnight."
Daniel looked up to the ball of fire, paralyzed with fear. He didn't know what to do next, so he just looked away.
Daniel's evil doppelganger yelled loudly and with his hands raised in the air, he threw them down, which made the fireball come down.
The real Daniel had waited for the impact, and death to arrive, but after a few seconds, nothing happened. He looked up to see Elsa standing over him, and she was shooting her ice magic from her hands, and she'd created a big dome, over them, which now had been cracked all over, and shattered in some areas.
In another few seconds, Elsa stopped shooting ice magic from her hands, and the ice dome shattered. After which, she kneeled down to Daniel, and held out her right hand. "You look like you could use a hand."
Daniel took her hand and got up. "Thanks. If not for you I'd be dead by now."
"You'll never beat your doppelganger. Not alone, at least."
"I think maybe we can find a way to stop him together."
"Is that so?" the evil Daniel interrupted.
They both looked to him.
"All your powers together combined couldn't beat me."
"We'll see," Daniel stepped up. "In case you forgot, you said we're equally matched. But with Elsa here, she might provide a helpful power boost."
"Fools. Thinking you can stop me."
"We'll take you down together, or die trying," Elsa chimed in.
"Well said," Daniel complimented.
"Thank you."
"Then let's see you take this one," said the evil Daniel and he made his hands glow with fiery yellow light. Using his powers, he created another fireball, the size of a horse, then he threw it into the air, above Elsa and Daniel.
Once it was above them both, it started dropping dozens of little fireballs.
"Whoa!" yelled Daniel and he raised his right fist into the air, and created a shield of light over himself and Elsa.
The light shield blocked out every little fireball, until the big one evaporated into the air.
Daniel dissolved the shield of light and looked back to his evil self.
"Clever move. Try this!" Evil Daniel exclaimed and he cloaked his hands in his yellow fire, charging up for a powerful blast.
"What do we do?" Elsa asked.
"This one's gonna be big. I need to think quick," Daniel said and thought for a few seconds.
As he was thinking, his evil self shot an even bigger stream of fire than before.
"Got it! Take my hand!" He held his right hand out for Elsa and she took it. "Now no time for questions, so just shoot a stream of your icy magic, and collide it with mine. And go!"
Elsa did as she was told and then shot a stream of her icy blue magic from her right hand, and at the same time, Daniel shot a fiery red stream from his left hand.
Their fiery red and icy blue magic streams then collided with one another, an swirled around each other, then came in contact with Evil Daniel's yellow fire stream.
This time, the collision of the magic beams didn't last long, because with Elsa and Daniel's power combined together, they easily pushed back Evil Daniel's, and he was knocked to the ground, once the fire and ice blast hit him.
"That wasn't supposed to happen," Evil Daniel said angrily and got back up. He turned and glared at both Elsa and Daniel. He stared into their icy blue and ocean blue eyes, and at the same time, they stared straight into his fiery orange eyes.
Evil Daniel yelled loudly, and he put his right hand in front of him, then he fired a blast of fire from his hand.
Elsa moved quick, and she raised a wall of ice in defense, which blocked the blast of fire.
Daniel then stepped up, and he used his light tether ability, and shot a silver stream of light from his hand.
The stream of light, went and wrapped itself around Evil Daniel, and the real Daniel jerked him forward, pulling him towards himself.
As Daniel's evil doppelganger came closer, he cloaked his left fist in fire, and once his evil self came in contact, he punched him up, and he went flying up into the sky.
He went so high, that Elsa and Daniel lost him in the sun, but after about 10 seconds, he came back down, and landed in the burnt remains of a destroyed house.
Evil Daniel arose from the burnt wood and ash, and he panted heavily. "You two can't defeat me. She's no match for my power. The only one strong enough to stand up to me is you." He pointed to Daniel.
"Looks like someone's getting exhausted," said Daniel smiling at his doppelganger.
"I won't stop till you're dead."
"You look tired. Here. Lay down to rest!" Daniel created a big fireball, the size of a cantaloupe, and he threw it at his evil self, knocking him back down.
"Nice shot," Elsa complimented.
"Thank you. Hey, didn't you say that you once froze your sister's heart, and she froze to solid ice?"
"Uh-huh. Why do you ask?"
"We need to finish him somehow. What would happen if we hit him where his heart is, with all our power?"
"Fire and ice together. Let's find out."
And then Elsa and Daniel charged up their magic, and as Evil Daniel stood up, was when they both fired their streams of icy blue and fiery red magic at him, hitting him directly in his heart.
"What are you doing?!" yelled the evil Daniel.
"Using all our might to finish you!" Daniel yelled back.
And then Evil Daniel began to glow fiery yellow. "What's happening to me?" He looked to the palm of his hand, as the yellow glow started to get brighter. "No! Stop you fools! This power is overloading me! No! NOOOO!" He yelled as his whole body became fiery yellow, and then he burst into a giant, fiery yellow explosion.
The explosion made an impact so big, that it completely covered the village in its light, and it also started to come towards Elsa and Daniel.
Daniel threw himself over the snow queen, wrapping his arms around her to protect her, and the impact went over them.
The explosion lasted only a few more seconds, but then it faded as quick as it started.
Daniel let go of Elsa and he looked to see that even from that giant explosion, no damage had been done, and the evil Daniel was no more.
And then King Adgar came up next to them, leaving Daniel in the middle of them both. "Is he gone."
"Yeah. He is," Daniel said happily. Then he looked to Elsa and they both looked happily to each other.
"We did it!" Elsa exclaimed happily, and she went over to Daniel, who'd wrapped her in his arms, then spun her.
"I knew you could do it," King Adgar chimed in. "And like I said, all it took was to believe in yourself."
"You were right, father," Elsa turned to him. "I am stronger than I thought."
"Well, I think I've also accomplished something," Daniel spoke out. "Because of you two, I now know that these magical abilities are stronger than I thought. And I know that through all this, no matter what may come, I'll have you two, along with everyone else by my side."
"And always remember, son," King Adgar came up and put his hand on Daniel's shoulder. "If you ever feel alone, know that you'll never be alone. As long as Elsa, me, Anna, even Idun are all here with you. If anything should go wrong, I know we'll face it together."
"I'll never forget. And thank you. Both of you."
"Come on. Let's go home," King Adgar said while putting his hands on Daniel and Elsa's backs, and he led them out of the destroyed village.
All right. That's all for now, folks. So how'd you like this one? If you ask me, this battle is epic. But, just a little spoiler, the worst is yet to come. It'll be a little while before it happens, but I think you'll like it when it comes. Until then, please read, review and enjoy.