Chapter 14
"Spells"
Fear.
That's the only emotion Danny Phantom knew at that moment in time. Fear for himself, fear for everyone around him. Cujo descended on them all in a matter of seconds. Danny quickly stood in front of Jazz and Valarie, his eyes narrowed and sparking green with power. He was scared to death but he couldn't let the dog hurt his sister or Valarie.
The same greenish power emerged in the palm of his hand, glowing and green, as if radioactive. He held his arm back, ready to throw the orb at the dog full force.
"You want to play? Let's play!" Danny announced, throwing the ball, and missing the dog completely.
"Uh, bro...I think your aim needs some work." Jazz advised.
"Oh really? FETCH!" Danny announced to the dog. Its suddenly fearsome features turned into an excited and lovable face. Cujo took off in a flash after the ecto ball.
Danny looked downright smug and gave the girls with a dashing smile.
Jazz rolled her eyes at him and put down her weapon. "My brother the Egomaniac everybody!" She announced.
But before they all could rest, another voice appeared.
"Hello Daniel." There stood the face of evil himself. Vlad sat on the back of a ghost horse, its hooves scraping the ground and fire red eyes staring down at all the ghosts and humans in front of him. The ghost horse was decorated in gold, much like Vlad's armor.
"Vlad." Danny hissed, his green eyes flaring. "Nice suit, but isn't it a bit heavy for you?" he asked in a snaky tone.
Vlad chuckled. "There's that teen whit again. No matter, soon enough you all will be joining me anyway."
That's when they all saw a woman behind him on another horse. They could easily see she was a ghost herself, dressed in merely a white torn up dress that reached her knees. Both legs were on one side of the saddle and she stared at them with piercing eyes. Her long hair flowed behind her.
"Whose that?" Danny asked.
"This? Oh this is my dear Rebecca." She didn't flinch when Vlad touched her hair in a caring manor. That's when Danny realized her eyes were dull and dark, no life was within them. As if she was a puppet.
"Let her go Vlad. I don't know who she is, but let her go!" Danny demanded, ectoplasm formed in his hands.
"Now Daniel, why would I ever do that?" Vlad asked with a grin. "Read it now Rebecca."
Then her voice came out loud and clear, speaking in another language a spell so sinister, so deadly, that the minute the first word left her lips, everyone in a mile radius shuddered.
"Deixe este período fazer exame sobre de tudode tudo grande a pequeno
Gire cada alma para a besta escurecida
gire-os todos de bom ao menos
Deixe esta noite o nascimento de novembro
seja um dia para tudo que recorda
uma noite cursed a eles e a seus filhos
Filhas e parentes pelas toneladas
mova suas mentes para para sempre dormem
esta é a promessa que este período se manterá
anule seus olhos, cesse seus cérebros
de modo que nada da vida remanesça
Minhas palavras que finais eu repito aqui
Deixe-os tudo saber o medo
Deixe Vlad controlá-los vastos
deste período que eu moldo agor." (Translation at the bottom)
As she uttered the last few words, the world suddenly grew dark. Vlad was laughing evilly by now and Danny clenched his fists in panic and rage, staring at Vlad with hate. They were doomed, and Danny would be with them. Vlad was glowing with a dark red color and the ring on his finger was doing the same.
Everywhere around the fighters grew darker and darker and all fighting seemed to cease. Everyone was just staring in awe at the darkness that engulfed them all. It was like a dome, that started to close in, as the black void of it touched humans, their eyes drew blank pupils seemed to disappear and all that was left was a color of their eyes that seemed duller than before. After the change they turned to Vlad in a military-like salute, and stayed there until their master gave them commands.
Danny looked around frantically and saw the darkness heading towards his family and friends. An idea hit him. Ectoplasm and Magic were two different things, one couldn't effect the other without terrible consequences. How he knew this baffled him, but he shook off the strange feeling and yelled, "Everyone! Behind me!"
Sam, Tucker, Jazz, Maddie, Jack, Dash, Mr. Lancer and Valarie ran behind Danny as he threw up a bright green ectoplasmic shield around them, in the similar dome shape. Around them, the humans and ghosts were in hypnotic states and the ones that tried to escape the dome were doing so in vain. Dash looked out and saw Star running towards them.
"Danny open the shield for Star!" Dash yelled.
Danny turned and saw the dome right behind the girl and gaining. His green eyes widened in shock and he opened the shield partway to let her in.
But Star was losing speed fast. Her long blonde hair flew behind her in a ponytail and the tips were touching the darkness that was growing more vast.
"Don't even bother Daniel." Vlad replied with a smirk. "There's nothing you can do to save any of them. They are mine just as you are."
Danny's eyes tore from the scene with Star to Vlad, such hate was embedded within his soul towards the old Halfa for causing this loss, this pain to everyone he loved so dear.
"But I will try." Danny said in a tone colder than ice. Then he turned back to Star and yelled, "Star! You can make it! Keep running! Don't give up! Please!"
Her blue green eyes, which at first looked frightened, narrowed in determination. Something Star had rarely shown in his other world.
Danny smiled as she closed in on the opening.
Dash was by the front, his arm outstretched towards her. "C'mon Star, you were once a great cheerleader, don't tell me you have lost it." He kidded, and he saw Star's look of annoyance to him for even joking at a time like this.
She was about to open her mouth to throw back a retort, when she felt her foot knock into a hard object on the ground. She barely had time to look at the rock before she flew head over heels on the ground on her stomach.
The happy looks of her friends turned to shock and dismay as she looked up and met all their eyes for once last time, tears forming in her eyes, before Darkness consumed her she saw Jazz, Tucker and Jack drag Dash away from the opening and Danny closing it, his eyes closed and tears trailing down his face.
Her last thought was, I hope it doesn't hurt.
"No!" Dash yelled, seeing his last living friend, part of their team in high school, be consumed by darkness and her eyes go lifeless. She stood silently, no more tears formed in her eyes but the last remnants smoothed down her cheek and down her face to the ground. She wiped away the trail it left and turned around.
"Star!" He yelled, slamming his fist against the shield, causing Danny to wince, tears already on his face. "Open up the shield! There's still a chance.."
"Dash no." Valarie told him softly and put a hand on his shoulder.
Then for once, Dash the big man on campus collapsed in Valarie's arms and cried.
Jazz wrung her shirt in her hands, trying to be the logical thinker, they had to escape from here, she looked to her younger brother and realized he wouldn't last much longer. He was buckling from using so much energy and the pressure of the now dome was trying to squeeze the life out of the small green one.
Maddie, Sam and Jack were looking around nervously as the green shield seemed to collapse within itself.
"We have to do something!" Sam yelled, also noticing that Danny was losing strength.
Danny, himself was also thinking the same thought, he opened his eyes with force and looked around, thinking to himself, what could he do? Then the thought came at once. He smiled.
"Dad!" he yelled, his arms aching from holding this position for so long. "Blast a hole through that weak spot of my shield!"
"But son that would cause the darkness to flood in!" Jack stated.
"Wait, no it wouldn't." Maddie suddenly smiled. "Jack if you blast his shield you will blast through the magic as well! Magic cant be easily sealed back up if you blow a hole into it! The darkness is as thin a layer as Danny's own shield!"
A smirk formed on Jack's face. In his hands formed a green ectoplasmic blast, Being a ghost wasn't all bad. He turned his large body to the weak spot of the dome and launched his blast to it, the shield around the area broke almost instantly and the darkness with it. It was almost like breaking through glass. What was left where the shield once was, was a gaping hole with jagged edges.
"Everyone! Run now!" Danny ordered. Both arms were up and out towards the shield around them.
Everyone obeyed but one.
"Danny what about you?" Jazz asked him.
"Just…go…Jazz!" Danny yelled, his arms folding back as he lost the battle. Sweat poured down his face in buckets and his eyes were losing focus.
"Danny no!" Jazz yelled, Danny looked to Jazz and knew she wouldn't go without force. So he did the only thing he could. He used a harmless ecto blast and blasted Jazz through the hole. At that same moment, the magic seemed to heal itself and Danny gasped as it started to crawl through the shield to him. He heard his families and friend's cry his name and he wondered if he was being selfish sacrificing himself, when he knew the others needed him most. The weakness started to consume him, and before he lost conscious, he heard a noise.
He turned and met with familiar red eyes.
Spell: Let this spell take over all
from everything big to small
Turn each soul to darkened beast
turn them all from good at least
Let this night the birth of November
be a day for all who remember
a cursed night to them and their sons
Daughters and relatives by the tons
move their minds to forever sleep
this is the promise this spell will keep
blank their eyes, cease their brains
so that nothing of life remains
My final words I repeat here
Let them all know fear
Let Vlad control them vast
from this spell that I now cast