I can't tell if I'm running or flying, but I'm moving. My side is aching, but I ignore it, continuing to move as fast as I can.
There are so many traps, and only my instincts manage to keep me unscathed. Well, mostly. My agility is a little off after so long down here...
I ignore the burns and continue stumbling forward.
I hear the howling of dogs, and alarms. They're getting closer. Too close...
"Come on," I whisper through my pain, glaring at my hands. The collar dampens my powers, I've discovered. I saved enough energy to rip it off-painfully, but still off- and now my power is trickling back.
My hands glow briefly. Ectoplasm... I immediately launch it in front of me, and the wall takes the brunt of the force. But my blast isn't strong enough to break the wall. I push harder, power leaking, and the wall finally gives way, tearing apart to the side, in front of me, away from the outside, creating a hole.
I throw myself through it, into open...
Dirt?
I'm underground... No, no, no...
I shake my head and gasp in air as the dogs get louder. I can do this. I can go through solid ground. Focusing, I throw myself into... well, the rock. My face hurts now. I try again, and this time I make it through. I push up, up, up...
My intangibility fades twice, and I almost suffocate, but manage to get it returned. Finally, I reach the air. Air, air...
I fall back on the grass, so spent I could die, right here. My nose bleeds and my eyes are leaking. Above me are stars, twinkling infinite stars barely coming out in the fading sky.
Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Orion...
"Pathetic..." comes a voice, and a boot briefly blocks out the stars before it comes down on me and I'm lost to oblivion.
But in an instant I remember smirking just as the boot descended.
There's a way out...
Sorry for the consistently short chapters about Danny. Don't worry, he gets longer ones later on.
**Man, I wish Danny Phantom and Young Justice were mine, but they're not. They go to their respective creators.**