Chapter 4
A/N: I'm sorry that this chapter took so long to appear. I swear that this chapter just didn't want to be written. That and school started, so my updates might take a bit longer unfortunately. But I swear that I will keep on updating!
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, or the languages spoken in this story.
Claimer: I own Sam's ghost forms, Kaua, the Shaathem and of course the plot!
Tucker started firing arrows immediately as soon as he had a clear shot. He's only used a bow once before yesterday and that was when he was using his PDA's for ammunition. Though surprisingly enough, most of his arrows hit Aragon, though did no clear signs of damage. Even with Dora's fletcher making each arrow by hand and infusing ectoplasm to do more damage the arrows seemed to do little damage. Though he didn't have Aragon's attention he still fought.
Unfortunately for Danny he was the one who did has the large ghost dragon's attention. Though he was only using his front claws to attack, they were still hard to dodge. He ended up using his shield to block a swipe that would have caused some serious damage. Though the shield absorbed most of the damage, Danny was still thrown back a bit. He got up and rushed back in to keep Aragon off the others, with the most experience we was the least likely to get knocked out by Aragon's physical attacks.
Valerie was by his hind legs and slashing at the scales. Though all she has been managing to do is scrape some off, and not really hurt the huge ghost dragon. Though that's when she had an idea, it was obvious that there were many layers of scales on Aragon, so she sheathed both of her swords and started climbing up his legs. Just as she managed to get onto his back that's when she realized that this was a bad idea. She was forced to hold onto Aragon's frills on his back, to avoid falling off.
Dani came in with her hands glowing green, full of ectoplasmic energy. "He scales for brains! At 123 miles per hour I'm sure this is going to hurt!" She screamed as she came in for a punch to the jaw. The punch made contact and staggered Aragon but then he turned and glared at Dani. "Pitiful whelp, you really think that you can hurt me?" He growled and brought his right claw and smashed it into Dani's small body. "ahhhhhhh!" She cried as she was thrown through one, two, three trees and into the side of the keep. The keep wall crumbled a bit and covered Dani's body in rubble.
He then turned his attention to the small male shooting arrows at him. He landed again and brought his head to be level with Tucker. He growled and narrowed his eyes then pulling his head back, Aragon lunged at Tucker with his mouth open. Tucker instantly broke into a run to avoid being eaten. Though when he was looking behind him at Aragon, he didn't see the tree in front of him. Slamming into the tree, Tucker slid down the bark and sat there dazed. Aragon was about to finish Tucker off before a stinging in his side got his attention.
During the time that Aragon was focused on Tucker, Valerie got off the ghost dragon. She couldn't fly right now and her usual ride was missing. That's when she saw the rubble, running over to the wreckage Valerie started to dig. She was looking for here young girl that she's become attached to. The fact that Danielle might be injured just pushed Valerie to go faster.
Dora was still lying in some wreckage a few feet from Valerie and Dani. She got up and shook her head, the ghost queen knew that she hit the ground hard and knocked her out for a bit. Reaching down for her amulet to get back into the fight, she saw that it wasn't around her neck, but around her brother's. She gasped and had a look of fear on her face. Her outburst was loud enough for Aragon to hear her. Turning his head, a wicked smile formed across his teeth," dear sister. Now that I have your powers, let's see how hot this fire can burn!" He yelled and launched a stream of fire at the defenseless queen.
Valerie just got Dani out of the rubble and looked up to see a stream of blue fire at Dora. She ran over to Queen Dora and used her body as a shield; her armor was taking much of the damage. Though after about ten seconds she let out a blood churning scream as the heat intensified. Valerie wanted to leap out of the fire, but she remained, as Queen Dora would be defenseless.
Dani was slowly gaining consciousness. Though the minute she heard Valerie scream, the young Halfa was awake. Standing up, she clutched her side, it hurt like hell but then she saw what was going on with Valerie. She got up and flew over to Valerie, and threw up an ectoshield around the three of them. She slowly turned the shield from protecting them from the flames to redirecting the fire back at Aragon.
Aragon was too happy to hear Valerie's screams that he didn't see how bad the little human was burning. Though when he stopped hearing the human screaming he looked down to see his breath attack being deflected. Getting upset, he forced more power into his breath, but he quickly stopped as the fire was coming right back at him. He yelled as his attack was reflected back at him. Dani dropped her shield and took to the air. She was traveling pretty fast, but not as fast as her brother but it was still pretty fast. "Hey dragon breath! I'm sure this is going to hurt at 130 MPH!" Dani yelled as she punched Aragon in the jaw, the force of the impact sent him flying.
Aragon roared as he slammed into the forest and knocked down a few of the green trees. "Im...poss...ible." He muttered through clenched teeth as he pushed himself up. Though just as he stood up, Dani came in and ripped off both amulets. Aragon was about to lunge at Dani when he looked down his amulets were gone! He started shrinking into his human form.
Danny and Sam walked over to the normal sized Aragon. They were pissed off and he knew it, he tried to back away but he ran into Tucker. The trio smiled wickedly and each grabbed Aragon. Then they left the keep with Aragon trying to break free.
Dani floated tiredly towards Dora and Valerie. Dora was picking up Valerie, there were some sever burns where Valerie didn't have armor on. There was a silent exchange as the two went inside. Thankfully the medical ward was undamaged and so was the mess hall and kitchen. Though the guest rooms were another story.
Dani floated into one of the unoccupied beds in the medical ward. She knew that someone was going to eventually want to look her over after the fight. Though she was too tired to see how Valerie was doing. The minute that her head hit the pillow two rings of light blue rings appeared around Dani and changed her back into her human form. Then the little hybrid fell asleep.
The minute Valerie was placed in a bed an oxygen mask was placed in her mouth. A pulse detector on her ring finger and then an IV drop in her arm. The only reason that Dora's kingdom had that kind of technology was due to Sam and Tucker. Just as Valerie was hooked up to all of the life support and monitoring devices, she slipped into unconsciousness.
Valerie didn't know where she was currently, the only thing that she knew was that darkness was surrounding her. She became uneasy and reached back to where her swords should be, but when she went to grasp her swords all she found was empty space. Turning her head, Valerie saw that her swords were not strapped to her back, nor at her sides. Looking down, she wasn't even wearing her armor from before. All she had on was a leather tunic with pants and shoes.
Then Valerie heard footsteps, spinning around she stepped into a defensive stance. Coming towards her was a humanoid figure, though there was no sun it seems like the figure was being masked by the shadows. "Calm yourself shaelol, I mean no harm. I am Kaua, my name means dragon-kin in your language." The figure stated as the shadows revealed the figure. Kaua was about five feet tall, with red-scaled skin, clawed hands, and feet. She had slanted orange eyes with pointed ears and small horns. She stood on two legs and lacked a tail or even wings. All she wore was a short-sleeved white shirt with long brown pants, along with an orange tunic that had a dragon engulfed in flames.
"I'm a Cyred Shaathem, or a warrior from the sun dragons. You my young shaelol hold the Auvrea Shaathem, blood of the sun dragons." Kaua started to explain to Valerie, who remained still the entire time.
Valerie was still processing all of the information that she just got. Something deep inside of her told her that Kaua could be trusted. Though another part was just assuming that this was a dream. She finally got the nerve to say something," where am I?"
"We are in your dream Azaonna. By using the rudre, dream charm I can talk to you mentally while your physical body rests."
"Azaonna... that name feels... familiar? Why?"
"Because you are the Life Keeper, it's your destiny to bring back the Shaathem clan back to its greatness! You have already found five of the decedents from former clan members. Daniel, Daniella, Samantha, Tucker, and Jasmine."
"They all have dragon DNA in them? How can you be so sure?"
"Take Daniel, when he had his portal accident, he should have died. The sheer amount of ectoplasmic electricity should have killed him, that's where his dragon DNA saved his life. For a normal human that amount of voltage would be lethal. For a dragon, the shock would be very painful but not deadly, so the residual ectoplasm bonded with his DNA creating Danny Phantom. Then Daniella was created off of both Fenton and Phantom, so naturally she would have a small percentage of dragon DNA."
"So does that mean that any given moment we could become an uncontrollable fire breathing dragon?"
"No shaelol, only you could manage a transformation provided you obtain a focusing pendent. The others have the DNA but not enough of it to create the changing ability. You on the other hand, being half dragon and half human are a different story."
"So I'm like you?"
"Basically, yes. Though not enough to be able to change at will without a focusing pendent. Where you will get one I don't know, but I feel like that I've given you enough information for the time being. Rest now Azaonna, we will talk more when you are better."
With that Kaua turned around and returned from where she just came from. Valerie proceeded to sit down and sort through the information she was just given. Though the female was just too tired to make heads or tails of what she just got told. Instead she opted to give her mind a rest also by letting the darkness surrounding her, engulf her entire body into a restful sleep.
Tucker was pacing in the medical ward restlessly. The minute Dani ripped the medallions off of Aragon the trio had a long talk with him. By talk, he actually means beating the ghost to a pulp then proceeding to hand Aragon over to Walker. He was still a bit surprised at how that discussion went over. Apparently since Danny was declared the future King of the Ghost Zone all previous charges were wavered. Then being the advisor to the future king, Walker couldn't take him or Sam either.
The group actually ended up on Walker's good side by dropping off Aragon and even presenting Walker with a list of crimes he has committed. Though something bugged Tucker a lot, the last words Aragon said before being thrown in jail. "I may fall today but my master grows stronger! Eir car si Madryn Jhys!"
"Tucker, I'm pretty sure if you keep this up there is going to be a trench in the floor." Said a voice on the other side of Tucker. He didn't have to look up to know who it was.
"Dani, I'm not going to make a trench!" He replied, throwing his hands up in the air. He quickly glanced at Valerie's sleeping form and signed. She was heavily dosed with pain killers and sedatives so Tucker knew she wasn't waking up soon.
"Then how about you do something else? Did you fix the Fenton Thermoses and the Specter Deflectors to not hurt Sam? Or even some archery practice." The bedridden Halfa complained. She's been watching him ever since she woke up from the fight. Along with the fact that he only leaves to take of his hygiene and self needs. Which surprised the 13 year old girl, since in the two months she's been living with her cousin/ brother, Dani found out terrified of hospitals Tucker can be.
A small smile formed along her face. It was just like Danny and Sam; they clearly love each other but deny the living crap out of it. Tucker shot her a confused look, but Dani just played dumb and innocent.
"I'm going to my room now, call me when she wakes up." Tucker mumbled and pulled out his PDA. The longer that we were in the ghost zone the less times I see him on it.
"You have a room?" Dani replied, smirking and slightly giggling.
"Ha ha ha Little Phantom." He replied rolling his eyes and left the room. The doors shut with a loud thump signaling a semi frustrated Tucker.
Dani sighed and stared at the unconscious Valerie. She was on the brink of joining the ghost zone with her little stunt. The ghosts had to strip all of her armor off, which was hard because some of the metal fused with her tunic. Thankfully her boots and gloves were far enough from the flame to do minor damage. Once the armor was off, the ghosts had to remove the dead skin to allow the new skin to replace it. Then Lady Eleanor placed a salve on the burns to speed up the healing.
If the situations were different, Dani might laugh at how funny Valerie looked right now. She was almost wrapped head to toe in bandages, except her head, lower arms and legs. The Halfa felt bad for her friend and one of her saviors, she didn't have the natural pain tolerance and regeneration. After that, Dani couldn't stand it anymore and hopped out of the bed, she was sick and tired of being trapped in the medical ward. Though her ribs healed from when she hit the tree, there was a slight limp in her step. Lady Eleanor said that it was due to a sprain in her right ankle. Because of her broken ribs, her ankle would hurt for two to three days while her body focused in on repairing the other injuries she sustained.
Eventually the young girl made it over to older and former ghost hunter. She started stroking her hair, extremely careful of her wounds and not to disturb her. Though eventually, Dani found her hands running over the bandages over her left arm, one of the areas burnt the most. She closed her eyes for a moment and just wished that she could share her healing abilities with her savior. She slowly opened her eyes to see where her hands were, that the bandage fell off.
Panicking she inspected the wound and saw it was completely healed over as if nothing ever happened. She squealed in shock and back away, not expecting that to happen, completely disregarding Lady Eleanor's previous demands that she not go ghost, Dani morphed instantly. Thought it hurt a lot, she jumped into the air and phased through the ceiling in panic, and flew as fast as she could looking for Danny, Sam, and Tucker. They would know what was going on right now. Though by the looks of the keep, it was nighttime and since she was in the medical ward the she didn't know where everyone else was now sleeping.
So she just opted for flying around the keep as fast as she could, looking for the trio while she flew. The first place she guessed would be the kitchen for Tucker, and thankfully she was right. He was sitting in the mess hall a plate full of meat in front of him. "Valerie! Medical ward! Something happened!" She started franticly saying as she floated in front of the techno geek.
Tucker was momentarily surprised that Dani was here and not in the medical ward. Grabbing the obviously distressed child, he pulled her down into a chair and looked her in the eye. "Ok, slow down and start from the beginning. What happened?" He said slowly, trying not to freak out the child any more than she already was. "Oh yeah, you might want to go back to human, save your energy." He suggested just before two rings of bright blue light appeared and engulfed the ghostly girl.
Dani, now human took a deep breath just like Tucker suggested and started explaining. "After you left, I started thinking about Valerie. Like how badly she was hurt during the battle. Then my thoughts drifted to how because of my ghost half, my wounds didn't hurt as much and I heal much faster than you, Sam, and Valerie. Finally I decided to get out of bed and went over to see how Valerie was doing. I looked down for a minute when I placed my hands over her injured arm. Then when I looked up the bandages were gone and her arm looked like nothing had happened. After that I freaked out and left to find you guys." She explained, fidgeting with her hands and not making eye contact with Tucker.
Tucker thought for a minute and then spoke up. "We need to find Danny and Sam."
Dani: What's wrong with me?
Danny: What's wrong with her? You had better not have not hurt her Dragonfly996!
Me: All as it should be...
Danny: Great, pulling a clockwork on me. Review so that was I can save my sister from mental distress.
