Danny was out of breath and was beginning to get very tired. Dan was starting to slow down from exhaustion as well. But neither Phantom would back down. There was too much at risk. For Danny, his family and friends were depending on him. For Dan, well there was no reason for his existence other than his quest for revenge on this particular Danny. Danny fired another beam of ice at Dan and took a brief rest as Dan struggled to once again free himself. The ice shattering signalled the end of Danny brief respite. He drew himself up to his full height and prepared to re-engage Dan. Then a puff of blue air emitted from his mouth and red mist came out of Dan's nose. Their ghost senses. Danny smiled, Danielle and his back up had arrived. Danny fired another ghost ray at Dan. He only had to last a little longer.
Danielle led the large number of ghosts forward and spotted Danny and Dan firing ghost rays at each other. She looked back to Skulker. He surveyed the terrain and looked at Danielle. "We should approach from the direction of that fountain. We'll have more cover if the punk that attacked my island starts to fire at us. We should be able to get pretty close up if the whelp keeps distracting him," Skulker explained, using his years of knowledge of hunting to their advantage. Danielle nodded, choosing to ignore Skulker's insistence in not using either Phantoms' names. She led the ghosts in the direction that Skulker indicated and followed his plan of attack.
Dan saw the ghosts approaching and turned to use his Ghostly Wail but Danny hit Dan in the side with a ghost ray. Dan frowned at Danny and decided to duplicate himself. He wouldn't be able to use his Ghostly Wail but he could at least deal with the army of ghosts approaching and get Danny away from him. Dan had defeated all the ghosts in front of him before but Danny was another story. Dan would never admit it but Danny's new powers of ice and being able to duplicate unnerved Dan. Dan couldn't be sure that Danny didn't have other powers left up his sleeve.
His duplicate tackled Danny and again they went rolling off together in a flurry of punches and kicks. Dan turned to the crowd of ghosts and grinned evilly. He fired ghost ray after ghost ray. Once Danny was far enough away to not be a nuisance, he dissolved the duplicate and took a deep breath. He then unleashed a devastating Ghostly Wail. Danielle received the attack first and was thrown back and hit into a tree. She was knocked out instantly and reverted to her human half. Many of the ghosts were thrown back into other ghosts. Dora, in her dragon form, bowled over dozens of ghosts. Skeleton ghosts were broken apart and were unable to reconstruct themselves immediately due to being shattered so much. Skulker's armour malfunctioned and fired off multiple nets, trapping the majority of the ghosts. With the ghostly army taken care off, Dan stopped his Ghostly Wail and grinned evilly. He turned to the approaching Danny.
Danny flew as fast as possible back to Dan and once he reached his alternate self, he saw the beaten ghosts. His plan hadn't worked. Dan was powerful enough to stop all the attacking ghosts at once. Although Danny had to admit to himself that he should have seen it coming. Danny could and had had to deal with a large amount of ghosts at once. Danny scowled at Dan and took a deep breath. It was all or nothing. Dan's grin faded as Danny started his own Ghostly Wail.
Yeah, Danny isn't very good at fighting himself and coming up with plans.
So, until the next chapter.