CHAPTER SIX
Alright, I managed to pull an all-nighter to get you guys another chapter! Happy New Year! I'm so, so sorry for the long wait guys. I started this the eighth of December, and I should have finished it before now. Oh well.
On with the story. By the way, slightly gruesome blood in this chapter.
Disclaimer: Leave me alone, lawsuits. I don't own DP.
Danny closed his eyes and tried to calm his racing heart. Then the screams of many alerted his ears, and he turned to see the doors being ripped completely out of the actual wall. In a panic, he forgot about having no powers and threw himself at the beasts as they entered the room where his parents were. Inside, a blur of white and green whizzed by as he grabbed one of the monsters in a choke hold and tossed his weight to the side, bringing it to its belly.
Maddie aimed a Fenton Bazooka at the creature, seeing her only son fight one of these…things… for the first time with her own eyes. But to her surprise Jack put his hand on top of the weapon and shook his head at his wife. Then, she remembered their promise that day a few weeks prior when they found out about his alter ego and he made them take a blood oath and sign a legal document stating they would continue to be on opposite sides, so that others wouldn't question the reason why the 'Phantom-hating-Fenton's' had changed so drastically. They had given their solemn word to their only son and youngest child to continue as before, but Maddie couldn't bring herself to shoot at her precious baby boy. Instead she did the next best thing:
"EVERYONE! Get behind us, if we must we will protect you all. We're going to let Phantom handle this first. Samantha Manson, Tucker Foley. MOVE, you two. Go now."
Sam screeched in a very un-Goth like manner as the beast landed a claw only inches away from her skirt's end. Danny's gaze wrenched from the beast and he shouted her name in a style that set her heart going ten times too fast, and as he threw himself in front of her, taking the second blow for himself, knowing he hadn't the strength to defend it, caught the claws right in his face, a single 'toe' talon mauling his face nearly unrecognizable. Blood poured, and the young hero fell to his knees.
"Not Sam! Over my dead body!" Fury pooled in the one eye he had left, and the half of lip and nose he still kept turned into a snarled expression. His fist shot out and punched it in the nose. Backing up, it let out a snuffle of breath and snorted blue blood out of its nose, covering Tucker with it in the process.
His cry of "Gross!" went unheard, though, as Danny launched his body at the creature. The Otrăvitoare Fiara's teeth clenched onto Danny's torso, catching the ghost boy mid leap. Wagging his head side to side, the Otrăvitoare Fiara let Danny's body fly, and as he hit the wall with a dull thud, two rings split and transformed the still powerless, dying boy into his human half. Gasps went around the room, and Danny looked up with blood covering at least eighty percent of his body, taking two fingers and prying his one eye open, firing a very weak 'Obliteration Ray', smiling in satisfaction as the orange glow caught the beast, and it wheezed, becoming rather weak but not obliterated.
It turned to Sam, preparing to rip her limb from limb, only to become sucked up in the soft blue light of the thermos that Danielle held. She continued to stand there, as Samantha Abigail Manson jerked upright and rushed to her Danny. Valerie Grey stood motionless, staring at both the hated ghost-boy and lover Danny Fenton. Her hand slithered down to her abdomen, and she slowly walked up to him, kneeling beside Sam and rubbing his blood soaked cheek.
"Danny, I… I want you to know I… I'msorryandI'mpregnantbecauseVladMastersmademecollectfromyourghostformandIhadnochoice."
Danny blinked at her. "Come again? Slower?"
She sighed. "I said, Danny, I'm sorry for everything and I…. I'm pregnant because Vlad Masters made me collect from your ghost form and I had no choice."
Shock waves trembled up Danny's back. "I'm infertile, though, Val. These powers make me infertile."
"I took… ectoblood."
His eyes fluttered shut with a sigh. "Oh. That explains it then. Tucker, care for her and the child. Anything they need, give it. I love you, buddy."
Tucker grasped his best friend's left hand and nodded. "I promise. See you soon, buddy."
Danny lifted Sam's tear-filled face to his and kissed her with his dying breath.
When it was over, she clung to his chest. "You have always been my hero, Danny. Never forget that."
A smile ghosted his lips, and he lifted a trembling hand to her cheek, as she pressed it closer, he let out a final breath and ghosted away from this life forever.
There it is! Epilogue is all that is left. Not going to leave you there. Happy New Year!
"The Greatest Sacrifice One Can Make is one of purest love. The greatest love you can give is that of your own life, your greatest sacrifice. For if you are willing to lay your life down for somebody, what greater honour can they hold in your heart, that you would give something so precious up to allow them to continue their own path?"- Me