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"Danny don't, just take an hour to you know relax a little before fighting. Because Danny Ican't let anything happen to you and..." Tucker began spewing thousands of reasons for his friend to stay behind.
"Sorry Tuck I've got to go." Danny sighed halting his desperate friend. "Are you coming or not?" His ghostly green eyes looked curiously at him.
"I'm always with you."
"Alright." Danny said and the two began their leave.
Danny by flight and Tucker on foot, Danny stayed near his limping friend as they headed back to the center of the town. No ghosts caught sight of them yet and all seemed to be going smoothly. Danny couldn't keep Sam off his ind he wondered what happened to her and why she went back for Valerie.
"She'd do anything for you." Tucker muttered looking upward and catching Danny's bewildered glance.
"How'd you..."
"Dude I know what you're thinking."
"Get out of my head Tucker." Danny warned playfully. "Seriously how do you and Sam do that."
"Practice." Tucker responded with a shrug and stayed silent.
Now Danny had more to think about. Sam and Tucker could read him all along and he couldn't see. How many other things were they doing for him while he wasn't paying attention. If they could read him like that did it mean they could hide things from him? Danny thought about it hard, had they always been sinking with him and following him this close. He owed them so much more than he ever dreamnt it.
Danny and Tucker traveled quietly together untill they heard explosions and a shreik. Danny gave his friend a look and sped ahead of him. Rushing forward he saw a girl in red a woman in teal and a sinsiter man holding down a girl in black. Sam was in trouble. He flew right at the man and knocked him off the surprised girl.
"I told you to keep you damned hands off of her." Danny growled standing over the man.
"I knew you would come back." Plasmisus smirked quickly getting to his feet and brushing the dust off his shoulders nonchantly.
Danny stood deffensively his fists were glowing while clutched at his side. He gritted his teeth and stared the man right in the eye, there was no more humanity left in him anymore. Compassion, sympathy, just none of that, all his sick and twisted desires were still there. Vlad reached for something at his side and withdrew a glowing green sword.
"Tonight my boy we fight to the finish, all's fair my boy." He tossed another glowing purple sword at Danny who caught it reflexively. "Do you accept, or shall I kill you where you stand?"
Danny looked around and saw the people he knew and loved staring at him determinedly. He looked down at the blade and thought for a moment. He wasn't very good with a weapon but he couldn't down and he couldn't fail anymore.
"Bring it on." Danny challenged weilding the weapon and holding onto the silver handle tightly.
Maddie grabbed the kids around her and held them close. Jazz and Jack came running up just in time to see Danny pitted against Vlad. They watched as the young boy clashed weapons with the older man.
"Why are we just standing here?" Jazz asked frantically. "We can stop Vlad now while he's busy."
"Jazz this is a matter of honor..." Maddie started. "but we really can't do anything cause those ghosts hidden over there will kill us if we do." She added quietly pointing out the ghosts hiding waiting for someone to make their move so the could strike them down.
Maddie held Sam extra close because she knew that girl would leap out at anytime whether she was in danger or not. Sam watched in horror as the two continued to fight without any help. That's when in the corner of her violet eye she saw no other than the trader Trig placing a bomb like device in the window of a glass building that Danny was dangerously close too. Sam with all her strength broke from Maddie's grasp just as Trig hit the switch.
She immediately pushed Danny who at the time had been looking up at Vlad who'd flown off the ground. He was shocked as a body plummeted into him and forced him down. He then heard the earsplitting explosion and shattering of glass, instinctively he made himself and whoever had been sheilding him intangible, although not in the nick of time.
After feeling safe he materlized and turned his head to see who'd been so brave to save him. Blood snaped up the back of the body and glass was present in the raven black hair.
"Sam are you?" He began.
"I'm fine." Sam answered as she shook her head.
Danny's white glove wiped the blood that came sparkling down her cheek from a new cut that made a unwelcome mark on her pretty face. "Get out of here before you get yourself killed." He whispered tenderly.
It was the hardest thing he had to do was look at her and send her away from him while all he wanted to do was hold her tight and keep her safe. He was keeping her safe, even if he had to send her away. Sam obeyed him like e hoped he would and skittered back over to his parents where she would be safe. Danny looked to Vlad as the man lowered himself to the ground.
"You aren't playing fair." Danny snarled.
"I could've had her killed." Vlad shrugged, "Shall we continue."
Soon the two were lcoked back into battle. Neither sides were allowed to help and they were all helpless. One side rootng for Danny while the other one was waiting for the demise of the purety.
Danny leaped forward streching his chest outwards and he came down hard with his sword. Vlad got on his knees and stopped the blow meant for his head and pushed Danny back. Vlad thrashed his sword towards his feet but Danny leaped upwards before the sword hit him. They clashed again each asserting his strength into the sword.
"Give up Daniel."
Danny was being pushed backwards his white boots scrapping in the dust as he tried desperately to fight back. At this point Vlad's side rushed forward to annihilate all those watching to distract Danny. The people immediately fought back vigorously and angrily, no noe was watching Danny or Vlad anymore.
The fight waged on as before, Danny regained his stance and fought. Things seemed to be looking up for the ghost boy, but something caught him off gaurd and Vlad took the opening. He sliced his glowing sword from the bottom of Danny's rib cage in a diagonal slit up to his left shoulder.
Danny didn't scream, he let out a short gasp and fell to his knees dropping his weapon as blood began spilling from his open wound drenching his black costume and then as two rings formed at his waist it revealed a blood stained white tee shirt with a large rip in it.
Sam was the first to see, she looked up at her friend and screamed for him as he fell to his knees. She immeditely shoved off the ghost from her path and sprinted to him as fast as she could. Her heavy combat boots clunking all the way and sinking up to her own racing heart.
Danny looked up at the frantic goth girl who stood behind him and helped lower him to a lying position. His parents ran away from the fight and joined their son quickly. They each gave off a sad knowing glance at each other. Sam's tears were becoming present in her violet eyes and she looked down at him.
"Danny?" She whispered softly.
He opened his blue eyes and stared at the group of people around him. His sister, his aprents and his two best friends. Sam moved beside him as his parents kneeled at his head. The goth girl held her hand on his chest despite the blood that stained her hands.
He couldn't make out the chaos around him and was trying to sort out what everyone was saying. Jazz had hid her face in Tucker's shoulder while his parents looked down at him sadly. Sam seemed so worried and terrified, tears were in her eyes but she smiled up at him.
"Danny boy hang on for us, my baby boy." Maddie cooed as she squeezed his hand.
"I'm very proud of you son...we all are." His father encouraged gently.
"Danny you can do this." Sam's voice dropped. "I can't do this without you..." She whispered he strained to catch every word.
Screams, pain, shouts, explosions. Everything sounded around him, but the loudest was his own raspy breath. He was desperatly clinging to his fading life. He touched Sam's arm gently as she looked away, he wanted to tell her something so bad but his voice was gone from him. He hoped that she could read him, he hoped...
The mother watched him close his blues eyes then Maddie felt her son's hand go limp in hers. She looked petrified at Jack and fell into his arms, he held her as she cried. Her son, Danny, was gone. Sam blinked at the body of her friend in disbelief, he wasn't gone he wasn't. She threw herself on his blody body and cried into him begging him to return.
"Danny don't please don't you can't do this you can't!" She sobbed, but to no avail.
The red sky parted and turned gray. Rain, that they'd not seen in days, fell and landed on the battle field. The war zone turned back into Amity Park. Everyone went quiet and became statues. Danny Fenton had ceased to live. The war was over the battle was lost.