Yes, I know that fear and terror are the same thing. I needed two different things to say, would it be better if I called it Terror and More Terror? I don't think so.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom. Or his worst memories, which I'm not sure I want.
Chapter Four
Fear and Terror.
They slowly looked at me, realizing that this meant they would see what terrified me the most.
"Oh, no." we said as one.
The first scene formed. This was of the accident. I was walking into the portal, and suddenly a beep was heard as the button was pushed. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and in that heartbeat I almost was terrified enough not to have one. The scene faded as the green light increased.
A new scene formed. This was of the time Skulker almost caught me. (A/N Why am I the only one to have chosen this memory?)
Skulker was holding me, taking me toward the portal. Telling me how I was going to be out into a cage. I was struggling frantically.
"Time to put you in a cage." Skulker said smugly. I shuddered. Real me, that is.
The scene faded, replaced by the first time I fought Vlad Plasmius. I was on the ground, looking up at Vlad as he prepared to strike again. He punched, kicked, and blasted my now helpless form and finally phased me through the first wall only for me to crash against the next and collapse. The scene faded again.
The scene of when Walker got me first formed now, with me tied to a chair and him talking about my crimes.
"The names Walker. Know it. Fear it. Obey it."
"I am your judge, executioner, jury, executioner, jailer, and if necessary, your executioner."
"Uh... you said executioner three times."
"I like that part of the job."
"I would like to let you go, son, but that would be against the rules."
Despite the fear, I muttered, "He says that too much."
The others stared at me briefly. I shrugged.
The scene changed, flashing briefly to the Fright Knight brandishing his Soul Shredder before settling on when Plasmius set the ghost animals on me after removing my powers.
"That was the Plasmius Maximus. It shorts out your powers for a full three hours. That's nine'o'clock since I know you're bad at math."
Lancer glanced at me with this, slightly amused, before turning back to the scene.
"These are my latest experiments. What do you think? Oh, that's right. Who cares what you think?"
"I'll give you five minutes before I set my minions to destroy you. The clock's ticking, Daniel, on you and your father. Run."
He waited a few seconds, then said, "Get him." and the animals gave chase.
He chuckled. "Five minutes, five seconds, looks like I'm bad at math too!"
My parents and teacher looked on in fear as I ran, the ghost animals not far behind. They gasped as I tripped, my arm reaching out for something to grab and finding nothing. My mother looked at me in shock, she must still remember this.
The scene changed to when I was struggling to push the Ghost King into the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep. We watched as I struggled to keep Pariah in the sarcophagus and the power meter beeped as it went down.
"My baby!" exclaimed Maddie as the power meter went down to three percent, almost the death level. Finally, I sank to my knees in the memory and a key was inserted into the lock and turned to keep him in forever. I looked like I was dead.
Dad and Lancer just looked at me, while my mother, rushed forward to embrace me. The scene changed again.
This was of when I faced off the seemingly indestructible sphinx. We watched as I wailed at it, Dad looking confident that would rip it to pieces. They gasped as nothing happened and I fell to the ground and became human. The real me trembled in terror.
It changed briefly to flash to when I was flying at top speed toward my family, friends, and families of my friends, who were headed toward a pool of acid.
It changed to flash between many battle and banter scenes between me and Dan.
The next scene was of the Blood Blossom circle. Jack's ancestor (who got strange looks from looking so much like Dad) finished throwing around the circle of blooms.
"Are you kidding with - uhn-ungh!" I grunted as I crashed into the barrier to strange looks from my parents and Lancer.
Then Lancer identified the blossoms. "Oh! Blood Blossoms!"
My parents jumped and looked on.
Then, Vlad was pushing me through a circle of flowers. My parents and teacher looked at me strangely as Vlad briefly struggled to push me through the barrier without going through at all himself and I screamed in pain. As he finished throwing me through I screamed and yelled and thrashed in the absolute agony of the Blood Blossoms.
"Danny!" Sam cried. "Tucker, get him out of the circle!"
Tucker dragged me out, and I continued to thrash. I shuddered. Even dulled by the fact they weren't actually here, the blossoms stung. "They're still hurting him!" he called.
"Then get rid of it!"
My struggles grew weaker.
The scene changed.
It was, briefly, me crashing into the snow at the Far Frozen, blue and icy from hypothermia.
Then, it ended. Ended at last.