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Chapter 16: Nightmares
It was so dark… So horribly dark. And the worst part about the darkness was that he wasn't alone. Not entirely. He couldn't see anybody else but…there was that feeling. That feeling that somebody was watching him…watching him and not doing anything. It sent shivers down his spine and he could do nothing about it.
Malevolent laughter filled his ears; he whirled around to see where it had come from. Nobody was there.
Danny narrowed his eyes, trying to peer through the darkness to find the person he just knew was there. A sick feeling settled in his stomach, the kind he'd been feeling far too often lately.
A voice from behind him made him whirl around again. "Looking for me?"
Danny's breath caught in his throat when he saw him. The one ghost he absolutely despised…and feared.
"I must say," Phantom mused, "this is a rather dull place to convene." He smirked. "Why don't we make it more interesting?"
To Danny's horror, the scene shifted to a familiar place: the Nasty Burger in the future where Phantom had reigned. It was absolutely still with the only movement being the flickering flames of Phantom's hair. Danny warily took a step back, not sure what would happen.
Was this even real?
Seemingly reading his mind, Phantom rolled his eyes. "Oh, please, Danny. What else could this be?"
Danny pursed his lips, still not willing to answer. He didn't trust his evil alternate future self as far as he could throw him, which was pretty far.
"If you're not interested in listening then I might just as well move on to the real show," Phantom said, sounding bored. His mouth twisted once more into a cruel smirk. "Do enjoy. We send our love."
The word came out half-strangled. "We?"
Phantom did nothing but laugh as Danny's surroundings spun around, eradicating the other ghost in the process but leaving the echoes of his laughter still ringing in Danny's ears.
His surroundings kept spinning and spinning until his feet crashed into something hard. The sudden impact caused him to topple over. Danny lay there for a moment, stunned, until he got to his knees. When he looked to see where he was he had trouble suppressing his surprise.
The Ghost Zone's eerie purple doors and empty rock ledges floated by him as he tried to absorb what had happened. Was he back in his own dimension?
Suddenly, he heard that insane laughter he'd been hearing not too long ago. And it was right in front of him. Danny tried to see the ghost but his eyes immediately stung with pain. Reflexively, they filled with tears.
"Aargh!" Danny covered them with his hands.
"No looking," the voice chided him. "No looking… Not yet at least." It snickered. "Want to have some fun?"
"Stop it!" Danny snapped his head up, fully prepared to glare at the insane ghost before him. He wasn't prepared to feel a sudden weight in his arms as his surroundings shifted to a cloudy and desolate Amity Park. Looking down, his face turned ashen when he saw Sam's blank eyes staring straight into his own. There were purplish finger marks on her throat.
Danny started panicking and shook Sam. "Sam? Sam? Sam!" He checked for breathing but there was nothing. "No, Sam! Please! Sam!" The ring he had given her was still on her finger, but the stone was cracked.
Horror washed through his body. He couldn't believe that Sam, Sam was dead. It seemed impossible. The girl that had been so full of life was just…gone. Gone as if she'd never existed in the first place. His head bowed in grief, Danny closed her eyes, not wanting to look into her empty lilac eyes anymore.
Something liquid fell to the ground, causing Danny to look up from Sam. His breath caught in his throat when he saw a mass of green ectoplasm plastered against a building wall. Carefully putting Sam down, he stepped over her and approached, trying to ignore the instinct that told him to turn and run as fast as he could in the opposite direction.
Although the ectoplasm was covering almost everything, it didn't cover the shoes or the one arm of the person that it had smothered. Even though a long sleeve covered most of the arm, Danny recognized the dark color of the hand that was limply hanging out. Something dark and red was running down the hand and dripping onto the street, creating the sound he had heard. Bile rose in his throat when he put a name to the puddle that was lying beneath the…corpse.
'Not Tucker,' he pleaded. 'Please not Tucker.'
He didn't want to get closer for the fear that he would recognize his friend's face. He didn't want to see what kind of emotion had been plastered on Tucker's face when he died.
His heart thundering in his ears, Danny thought it couldn't possibly get any worse. At least, until he saw the scorched marks on the street besides Tucker's grave. Dreading what he would see, Danny approached the crossroads and the side of the building. He had just enough courage to look…before immediately wishing that he hadn't.
The mutilated and blown up corpses of his parents were lying there. Lying there in what must have been their last stand.
Their last stand against what? He didn't know and wasn't sure if he wanted to. He hoped that there was one person who had survived the carnage. The one person that he trusted more than his two best friends. He kept hoping…until he saw what was lying only a short distance away from his parents.
'The exo-skeleton… What is that doing here?' Danny only saw the torso at first; his eyes then caught sight of the helmet and other limbs scattered around it. He wondered where the wearer was for a short moment.
That's when he realized…the wearer was still inside it. A strangled cry escaped his mouth before he could stop it.
'No… Please let it be somebody else. Please…' Danny couldn't summon the courage to check, to see the face that he knew would be staring through the helmet's visor. He couldn't see Jazz's sightless eyes staring up into his own.
His breathing was harsh as he struggled to take it all in. To take it all in and not lose his mind. How much could one person take before breaking? How much? Would he find out now?
A voice whispered to him. "Do you know who killed them, Danny? Do you?"
Danny whipped his head back and forth, refusing to believe it. "No! St-stop it!"
"It was you, Danny. You." The voice echoed eerily in the air around him. "Look up, Danny," it hissed. "Look up."
Unwillingly, Danny did so. He saw his reflection in a nearby store window and his heart skipped a beat. He could hear it thundering in his ears and his every breath seemed to be magnified tenfold. It couldn't be true.
Staring back at him was Phantom. His future grinned at a horrified Danny. "Missed me?"
Before Danny could make a sound other than a strangled gasp, he was lost in blackness. Heat coiled up from within Danny's stomach, causing him to gasp in pain. He curled in on himself, trying to contain whatever was scalding him. Something seemed to explode.
The explosion burned him from the inside out. He couldn't think, couldn't breathe, couldn't speak… His eyes snapped open…but he saw only darkness. His hearing suddenly snapped back into place, overloading his senses.
"Miss me, Danny?" his future self's voice taunted him. "I've missed you. So many things I have in store for you… So many things…" Maniacal laughter filled his head.
The high-pitched voice of the ghost he had interrogated earlier was next. "All your fault, all your fault! Can't blame your friends, can you? Where were you when they needed you? Where?" The voice broke off into giggles.
'No! Stop it!' The voices kept hammering at him no matter how much he pleaded. 'Stop it… STOP IT!'
There was no end…
"I can't believe it," Cyborg said, sounding numb. "What happened?"
"The ghost happened," Raven responded grimly.
The Titans were currently standing among the wreck that had been their secure interrogation room. The control panel was beyond salvaging as the ghost had gone straight through it and demolished it.
"I have trouble believing that we fought that thing in the Puppet King," Robin said. "It was far too unstable."
"I read that people who have MPD can find stability when committing to someone," Raven said. "It's a relatively new study."
"You're saying the ghost likes music?" Beast Boy asked, squinting incredulously.
Raven sighed exasperatedly. "MPD stands for multiple personality disorder. It is also known as dissociative identity disorder."
"So you're saying the ghost had different personalities," Robin said.
"Yes. There were two extreme personalities: one completely insane and the other malevolent."
"All right. I'll buy that. How does this relate to the study?"
"The ghost was part of the Puppet King," Raven explained. "I'm theorizing that that gave its mind the stability needed so that it didn't behave the way we just saw."
"Okay. You've proven your point." Robin kicked a piece of the control panel into a wall. "That still doesn't tell us who it is. Danny won't be any help either as he doesn't know."
"Speaking of Danny," Raven said, picking up the mic he'd been using, "he feels clean now. It's like he'd been filthy before and I didn't even notice."
Question marks floated above the heads of the other people. Only Robin seemed aware of what she was talking about. He was frowning.
"But I can't figure out why he'd feel like that in the first place," Raven continued, irked.
"Now that you bring it up, I remember that my alarm bells stopped ringing around him," Robin said slowly. "He doesn't feel dangerous to me anymore."
Beast Boy broke in, completely frustrated by now. "Hold on! What are you guys talking about? Danny felt off? In what way?"
"After the Puppet King I noticed that he felt slightly different," Raven said. "I wrote it off as him having been separated from his ghost half."
"My alarms were going off around him," Robin said. "I confronted him on it."
"And of course," Raven said snidely, "Danny didn't know what was up. He only knew that Robin was being antagonistic again and was worried. All he could say was that his ghost half was feeling stronger."
"You promised, Robin," Starfire accused her boyfriend. "You said you'd give him a chance."
"I know." Robin sounded ashamed. "I did apologize after Raven knocked some sense into me."
"Mi ne kompren," Wulf said to Beast Boy. "Kio misigas Danny?" ("I don't understand. What is wrong with Danny?")
"Nothing," Beast Boy answered, noting the others' rather confused looks with a hint of smugness. "Raven and Robin are just saying that he felt strange."
"Kio okazis?" ("What happened?")
"Hang on, guys," Beast Boy told his friends. "Just gotta explain something real quickly." He turned to Wulf. "Long story short, we fought a guy named the Puppet King. He can suck our souls out and put them in puppets. He sucked out Danny's ghost half and Danny nearly died trying to save our bodies from being forever soulless. It then turned out that it wasn't even the Puppet King we were fighting; it was a different ghost who had possessed the Puppet King."
Beast Boy shrugged. "So it's pretty screwed up. Since then, Raven and Robin have apparently been feeling something off about Danny. Robin, being the macho guy he is"—a thunder cloud formed over Robin's head as he glared at shape shifter—"had to confront Danny on it. Now they're saying that he feels 'clean' and isn't contaminated anymore." He shot a look at Raven to see if his story corroborated with hers and she nodded. "Okay. I think that's it."
Wulf remained in thought for a couple of minutes, leaving the Titans to shuffle around in the debris rather nervously. Then he hesitantly told the green changeling something that left him blinking.
"What did he say, Beast Boy?" Robin asked impatiently.
"He said," Beast Boy said, turning to Robin, "that Danny could have been possessed."
Before Raven could protest the absurdity of the statement, Wulf was talking in rapid Esperanto. Beast Boy seemed to be having trouble keeping track of it all.
"Okay…" he started hesitantly. "According to Wulf, it's called overshadowing, not possessing. He also said it must not have been a proper overshadowing as Danny was behaving normally. He thinks that when Danny was fighting the ghost in the Puppet King some of it ended up in him. When the ghost escaped and went through Danny, it took that piece, explaining why he feels normal now."
Raven absorbed that information, thinking it explained almost everything quite nicely. What it didn't explain was why Danny said that about his ghost half.
Cyborg began, "Okay—"
CRASH!
All six looked for the source of the sound but couldn't find it until Starfire wordlessly pointed to the floating chunk of glass. It was glowing green. At the same time, the lights went out, leaving the teenagers and ghost in almost complete darkness save for Wulf's glow and the green glow of the glass.
There was no warning as the glass exploded into millions of smaller pieces intent on murdering anybody that stood in their way.
"Duck!" Raven barely managed to snap up a black shield that saved their hides from grisly deaths. She did not release it as other things started shattering.
Everything was by now floating and shattering, sometimes simultaneously. In turn, the smaller pieces broke up into even smaller pieces until a fine rain of dangerous dust coated everything.
"Out!" Robin ordered.
Still behind Raven's shield, the six rushed out of the room to still find themselves in darkness with the overhead lights sparkling. Wulf's glow was barely enough light until Starfire lit up a starbolt, casting them in an eerie green light.
"What was that?" Cyborg demanded, shivering from the close brush with death.
"Danny!" Raven hissed, feeling the energy crackle in the air. Her hairs were standing on end from the power she could sense. "Stay here!" She dashed off into the darkness, letting the palpable energy guide her way.
"Raven!" she heard Robin call.
'No time!' Raven was almost there. 'We're lucky he hasn't brought the whole tower down by now!'
She skidded to a stop in front of Danny's door, banging on it. "Danny! Open the door!"
"Raven! Wait!"
Raven took a step back and lifted both hands, her eyes glowing black. With a powerful wrench, Danny's door whooshed open, smashing Raven into the opposite wall with the force of the energy that the room had just unleashed. She slid down, dazed.
"Raven!" Robin knelt by her. "Are you all right?"
"Fine," Raven bit out, getting to her feet. "We have to get in."
"Dude, how?" Beast Boy gaped at the solid opaque shield that was obstructing the doorway.
Wulf reached out to touch it, only to be violently shocked. He shrunk down by Starfire, whimpering.
"Let's see if I can't discharge this."
Cyborg was about to try something when Raven cried, "Don't!"
He looked at her. "What do you propose we do?"
"My powers nullify ghosts." Raven stood barely five feet from the crackling green shield. "I'm the only one that can get in."
"It's too dangerous!" Robin protested.
"We're lucky he hasn't brought down the tower yet!" Raven snapped. "I'm going in. You'll know when it's safe."
Her hand flaring black, Raven pushed it through the shield with minimal resistance. Before any of her friends could stop her, Raven covered herself with black magic and pushed through, finding it more difficult than just pushing her hand through.
She found herself instantly dodging to the side as a lamp crashed into the shield she had just come through. A black shield immediately snapped into place, shielding her from the room's errant objects, leaving her free to absorb her surroundings.
Danny was still, floating about five feet above the mattress he had gotten from Beast Boy; he was covered in a greenish aura. Around him the room's various objects were floating, covered in either white or green ice.
'Only some are glowing?' Raven flinched as electricity coursed through all of the objects. 'Why are the ones that aren't also floating?'
Without warning, the floating ice covered not-glowing chair exploded, the wooden pieces smashing harmlessly against Raven's shield.
She swallowed heavily before yelling, "Danny! Snap out of it!"
Her words seemed to break something as Danny's back suddenly arched and his hands clutched his head. He was screaming now.
"Danny!" Raven shouted. "Wake—" She gasped as his emotions and thoughts rammed into her. Her shield collapsed and her knees buckled as the onslaught destroyed her concentration.
"Danny," Raven gasped, her eyes and mind locked on him. "St-stop."
But it was too late. Danny's mind had latched onto her own (wasn't she in control?) and dragged her into a whirlwind of thoughts, emotions, and memories.
There was so much fear. Raven could hardly think through the fear that was clouding her senses. Along with the fear was guilt and anguish. She couldn't think through the haze of emotions that was clouding her thought processes.
"Miss me, Danny?" She didn't recognize the voice.
"You and I are one and the same, Daniel." That accent was fake, wasn't it?
"I don't know who you are anymore, Danny!" Who was that girl?
"How can you be my brother? You're a freak!"
Insane laughter rang in her ears and a figure loomed in front of her. The DP emblem was the first thing that drew her attention. But then she saw the flaming hair, the blue-tinged skin, and the red eyes. This wasn't Danny.
The unknown ghost smirked at her. "You can't save them, Danny."
'DANNY?' Raven jerked in surprise. 'How—of course!' Her eyes widened. 'I'm seeing this from Danny's perspective!'
After this epiphany, Raven was hurled into a whirlpool of memories. She saw a destroyed restaurant, a boiler, a red-suited person on a hoverboard, and the ghost from before. Then five faces flashed right in front of her in rapid succession before the boiler appeared with the same five people tied to it. A second later the whole thing exploded. A wave of anguish, sorrow, and guilt tore at her heart as she watched.
Raven crossed her arms to shield her face, although she felt nothing. She dropped them a moment later when a face twisted into view.
It was the ghost.
And he had a message.
"I'm you."
Raven's eyes widened. Before she could think, a wave of panic hit her and sent her reeling. She clutched her head, unable to stop a cry of pain from escaping her lips.
Her voice seemed to smash her surroundings like a mirror. She felt her whole being jerk violently and then she was back in Danny's room, shivering crazily. She was barely aware that she was covered in ice and freezing.
She blearily noted that the room's objects had stopped floating and that her harsh breathing was accompanied by Danny's. She'd apparently been kicked out of his mind.
His mind…
That brought to mind the ghost she'd seen.
"I'm you."
"Raven?" she heard Danny ask tentatively. His voice seemed weak. "Are you all right?"
Her reply was an intelligent and witty "Ahh…"
Danny took that very badly. "Oh God, Raven. I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he apologized repeatedly. "I never meant it. I'm sorry, I'm—"
"Shut up," Raven managed to say, shutting Danny up nicely. Her voice was too weak for her liking.
And also for her friends'.
Robin was banging on the door. "Let us in!"
Cyborg was talking over Robin. "Danny, open the door!"
"Please, friends! We are worried!"
"Open the door!" That was Robin again.
Raven idly wondered when the door had closed. Hadn't it been open before?
Danny looked pale but he waved a hand. A split-second before he'd even moved the door glowed green and opened. Danny seemed alarmed and disconcerted by this.
Raven couldn't be bothered to care as she was developing what would be the mother of all headaches. That and her friends barging in distracted her.
They crouched by her first. "Raven!"
Robin was the closest and had a hand on her shoulder. "Is everything all right?"
"How long?" Raven asked, raspy. She cleared her throat and repeated in a clearer voice, "How long was it?"
"Five minutes, give or take," Robin responded. "Then the shield disappeared and the door slammed shut before we could do anything."
After making sure that Raven had suffered no lasting harm, Starfire was now attending to a very white Danny, not heeding the enormous ghost that was crouching over him. "Are you all right, Danny?"
"I'll be fine." He looked anxiously at Raven. "Is Raven all right?"
No sooner did Robin look at him did Danny start apologizing again. "I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. I'm really, really sorry." He kept apologizing.
"What happened, Raven?" Robin asked, ignoring Danny's profuse apologies. "It looks like…it looks like a tornado hit the room."
Raven shook her head, not sure herself what had happened. "I…I don't know."
"…sorry. I'm really—"
Beast Boy broke Danny off. "You're babbling, dude. Take a deep breath and relax."
Danny took several and looked much better for the effort. That was all Robin needed before he turned once again to the ghost teen.
"All right, talk," Robin ordered. "What happened?"
"I…" Danny frowned. "I don't know." He looked around at the wreck that had previously been his sparsely furnished room. "Did I do this?"
"Yes," Robin said bluntly. "Are you honestly saying that you don't know anything about what just happened? You nearly killed us!"
Danny looked properly alarmed now. "What? How? I wasn't even with you guys!"
"You nearly killed us with glass," Robin said impatiently, standing over Danny. To his defense, the raven-haired teen glared back defiantly. That was when Robin realized he was doing something wrong. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "Okay, sorry. Let me start again. Are you aware of what happened while you were unconscious?"
Danny frowned as he thought back. He couldn't remember anything after the ghost he'd been interrogating blasted through the glass and through him. "No. I…I remember that the ghost escaped but that's it."
"What happened while you were unconscious?"
Danny seemed wary now as he realized that Robin was trying to find out what he'd been dreaming. "Do you mean in my dreams?"
"Did something happen?" Robin demanded.
Danny scrambled to his feet, swaying slightly before straightening up. "Nothing," he said defensively. "They aren't important."
Robin raised an eyebrow, challenging that statement. Danny said nothing, merely holding his ground against the leader of the Titans. Only Raven noticed the panic that was flickering in his eyes.
"I'm you."
Raven shivered at the memory of that cold evil ghost. Whoever he was, he had an enormous impact on Danny.
'I've got to find out.' Raven used the wall to support herself as she got back on her feet. She ignored Cyborg's hand on her shoulder. "Robin, leave."
Robin turned back to her, confused. "Why?"
"Just leave, Robin," Raven said firmly, staring straight at Danny. She had answers to get and she intended on getting them.
"Raven, I really don't think you should be doing anything right now," Cyborg protested.
"Guys," Raven ground out through her teeth. "Leave." Her eyes flickered black, showing her friends that she was serious.
They all filed out of the room in five seconds, Wulf giving Raven a warning growl that told her there'd be hell to pay if she did anything to Danny. It didn't worry her as she wasn't planning on doing anything harmful to Danny. If he cooperated that was…
Raven turned to him, closing the door behind her as she did. "Okay, Danny. No beating around the bush. I know that you know I was there watching it all."
Danny wouldn't meet her eyes; his breathing picked up a hitch. "What—what do you want?"
She remembered all the other times that Danny had been hesitant to answer. She'd been willing to wait for him then, knowing that it was hard to reveal something so personal and scary. She had a secret like that herself. But she couldn't wait. Not anymore. They had been lucky that Danny hadn't brought the tower down and next time they might not be that lucky.
"I've been willing to wait for you to be ready to tell me on your own terms," Raven said. "But I can't do that anymore. We got off easy this time. What happens the next time you get a nightmare?"
"This," Danny said forcefully, "has never happened before. I don't know why it happened today but this is the first time it has. It shouldn't—"
Raven cut across him, seeing what he would say. "How can you promise anything like that? Your powers are already surprising you. What's to say this won't surprise you, too?"
Danny's mouth was dry. She'd already seen him, hadn't she? Shouldn't that make it so much easier? She already knew of his existence. All he had to do was explain. That was all.
Then why was it so hard?
It was like something was stuck in his throat. How could he explain anything? He didn't even know her half as well as he knew Tucker and Sam. And he hadn't even told them! He would've eventually but he hadn't – not by the time he'd been so rudely transported to this dimension.
No… How could he?
Raven saw the indecision flash through his eyes. For a moment she thought he'd say something but the moment passed and she knew he wouldn't say anything.
"Danny, I really don't want to do this."
Danny's head snapped up. "Do what?"
"But I don't know if you're safe," Raven continued. "If you don't tell me, I will have to break into your mind and find out for myself."
She was half-bluffing and was hoping that he'd call it. She didn't want to break into his mind. It was a private place for people and her breaking into it would ruin any trust they had established. But at the same time she knew that she could break into it if she had to. But only if she absolutely had to.
Danny's first instinct was to transform. A sparkle of bluish-white light formed at his waist before he ruthlessly quelled that thought. Running away wouldn't solve anything. No…it'd only make things worse.
'Break into my mind?' Danny stared at her, hoping that she was bluffing. He couldn't tell. What he did see was the resolution to do it if need be. "I…"
'Would her looking for it make it easier?'
Danny decided to take a chance and trust her. "Have you…have you ever had a secret that's so frightening you can't tell anyone?" he whispered. "One that scared you so much you couldn't tell anyone because you're scared of how they'll react?"
Raven nodded slowly, her eyes on Danny's socked feet. "Yes," she replied softly. "I have."
Danny met her eyes. "Then you know how I feel."
"I do," Raven said reluctantly. "I know exactly how you feel. You feel cornered…like you can't trust anybody…like you have to handle this on your own. It's like you're the only one who can deal with this information."
He nodded. "Yeah…"
"But that's the thing," Raven continued, gathering strength from her words. "You can't deal with it on your own. And you shouldn't try. You need your friends by your side. They're the ones who will help you through it."
Danny thought of Sam and Tucker with a pang. She was right. They were his friends. And he could trust them. With his life. And he'd done so on many occasions. Then why couldn't he trust them this time? Why? What made this so different?
'Because it's yourself you're worried about,' a voice whispered in the back of his head. 'You're not worried about something else. You're worried about you.'
"Did you tell your friends?" Danny asked, feeling lost.
"No." Raven smiled wistfully. "Maybe if I had, it would've played out differently. As it was, they found out at the worst possible time and came through for me and for the world. If it weren't for them, neither of us would be standing here."
"What should I do? My friends aren't here." Danny looked at the blank stretch of wall by the window. "And even if they were, I don't know if they'd understand. They haven't faced him. They don't know what it's like. What they'd say is what they can say; they don't understand." He sounded frustrated.
"Do you trust me?" Raven asked tentatively.
Danny blinked in surprise at the question. "Er…yeah. I guess I do."
"Then why don't you tell me? Chances are, I'll understand." Raven hoped she wasn't pushing too hard. "As you know…I had a bad secret myself."
"What was it?"
Words stuck in her throat. Should she tell him now? Maybe Danny's secret wasn't even as bad as he thought it was and it was a normal teenage overreaction. Maybe—no! Danny wasn't even an ordinary teenager. He was half-ghost for crying out loud! There was no way that this secret was ridiculous!
"I'll tell you later," Raven promised, hoping she wouldn't regret it. "Right now, we need to focus on you."
Danny thought he should get the words out fast. "I've faced him twice before."
Raven blinked at the sudden change. "Who?"
"Him." Danny's voice was a mere whisper. "And each time my friends and family nearly died. One time they did."
'They did? How are they still alive?' Raven thought incredulously. "How…?"
Danny shook his head frantically. "No. The story…it's too long."
"Then…what did he mean? 'I'm you'? Why did he say that?"
Danny flinched at the mention of those words.
For a moment, she thought he wasn't going to say anything. Then she heard him say something in such a low voice she couldn't be sure he had. "What?"
He was louder this time. "You…you said you can look into my mind, right?"
"Yes," Raven answered slowly.
"Can you?"
"Can I what?" Raven had never felt so stupid.
"Can you look into my mind?" Danny blurted. "It's easier than me having to explain everything."
Raven exhaled slowly. "Sure. Sit down."
Danny did, taking a deep breath as he did so. He was jittery with nerves.
Raven sat down in front of him, crossing her legs. "Close your eyes and focus on the memories," she instructed, placing her hands on his head.
Danny became very still.
"Ready?"
There was a small pause before Danny's voice sounded, strong and steady if low. "Ready."
Then, with a rush of sound and a sudden displacement, Raven saw.
Thanks to Tiger Phantom-I love Toothless, DBack47, Shiva the Sarcastic, Copa-Phantom, PinkPanther123, fadedphantom, Cloudcrossing, Phantom-Danny, pipefox555, musiclover9419, stick fight3, Aqua-Princess of Imagination, stacey, SpartanCommander, PsychoticNari, LaZella, DGirl101, Anonymous,Bookworm, Kitsune-242, Stargaze Trixiequeen, Karyn Phantom, Leo112, rajvir, Hyperpegasi, and Ndasuunye for reviewing!
Cloudcrossing: I'm glad you like my story that much! I have several chapters planned out ahead of time so I'm always able to jump back and fix things if necessary. (Sometimes...) Keep up the guessing as to who is torturing Danny. It always intrigues me. :)
musiclover9419: And who do you think will make that return? ;) Might not be who you think it is. (hums innocently)
SpartanCommander: Keep up the guessing. You're doing a very good job. However, I'm not sure what gave you the message the ghost wants Danny on its side...