Sam, Tucker, Jazz, Valerie and Lilith watched the place where they knew Danny was fighting Dan. They flinched at the explosions and held their breath in fear when the sounds of fighting lessened until they started again. Then they heard the Ghostly Wail. Even with the distance from the fight, they had to cover their ears. Everything was silent for a moment and they held their breath terrified. Then they heard a second Ghostly Wail. This one was even more terrifying. It was louder and sounded even more haunting if that was possible. They covered their ears and waited for the deafening wail to end.
Danny kept his wail going as loud and long as possible. He was surprised at the length of the wail in a single breath. As he turned slightly blue from lack of air, he collapsed to the ground and reverted to his human half. Panting, he looked up and saw the destruction he had wrought. The ground was torn apart and trees nearby had been uprooted. The ghosts had been blown even further away and the nets had been shredded. Dan had been thrown back into a tree and another tree had fallen on him. Danny's sight began to blacken. He had put everything into that wail. He had known it was this wail or nothing.
Dan recovered from the sudden and powerful wail and phased through the tree on top of him. It fell to the ground with a soft thud. Dan looked around and spotted Danny struggling to keep conscious. Dan smirked. He had Danny exactly where he wanted him. Dan knew that he was more powerful than Danny. He was the result of two of the most powerful ghosts, Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius. Nothing could stand in his way. Dan walked leisurely towards Danny and decided that he should just destroy his alternate self. He hadn't realised that he was frozen in time until he had overheard Danny explaining everything to the teens and his friends and family.
Dan charged his fist with as much ghostly energy as possible and aimed at Danny's human heart. Dan knew from experience that this attack was fatal to humans. Ghosts could withstand ghost rays but one this powerful was too dangerous to hit a human with. Dan just hoped that Danny's ghost half wouldn't interfere with this last blow. Dan wanted it over. With Danny gone there was no one left to stop him taking over and showing everyone the pain of losing everything dear to them. Dan wanted to show the world the pain of true grief and feeling of losing themselves to it. He grinned and unleashed his ghost ray. Danny could do nothing, he was too weak to fight back after that Ghostly Wail.
I know a bit on the shorter side but I do love cliff-hangers.
I wanted to give Dan a real reason to want to destroy everything other than he's evil. So thinking back to the ultimate enemy episodes I remembered how Dan felt the need to keeping reminding everyone that he didn't have any emotions. It felt a little like he was trying to remind himself. So I thought that Dan would have emotions only that he was repressing them due to the unresolved grief.
Anyway, let me know what you think to my character development of Dan and of the story in general.
Until the next chapter.