Wow! Where have I been!? I'm sorry and I apologize a thousand times over for my absence... Well the last thing you want to hear is me rambling so let's get straight to the story, shall we?
When they had gotten home, Jazz made Danny get cleaned up and go to bed while she turned on the ghost shield. It wasn't much use though, Danny thought, since Dan's ghostly wail would obliterate it. Though it made Jazz feel safer so he didn't say anything.
Jazz walked back to Danny's room and knocked on the door. "Come in." Danny said after a moment.
Jazz walked in to see Danny in a fresh pair of day clothes, sitting on his bed, head in his hands. She walked over and sat next to him. She didn't say anything as she knew there was really nothing she could say to comfort him. So instead of comforting words she said, "Why don't you change into your pj's and go to bed. It's been a long day."
Danny shook his head and looked up at his sister. "I can't, he could come at any time and I have to be ready when he does."
Jazz frowned, "Danny you're wounded, even if he does come you won't have the strength to fight him." She glanced at the welt on his head as she said this.
"I heal fast, I'll be fine." Danny said.
"Those cuts and bruises might be gone by morning but that head wound surely won't, Danny." Jazz used her stern older sister voice when she said this.
Danny sighed. He frowned as he looked back down at his feet. "How did this happen? I thought I'd never have to think about him again."
Jazz put a hand on her brother's shoulder. "I don't know." She cheered her voice slightly. "But you defeated him once, I know you'll be able to do it again.
"Yeah, I guess." Danny said. There was no enthusiasm in his solumn voice.
Jazz got up. "Get some sleep, you need it. Keep your regular clothes on if it makes you feel better. Just don't go sneaking out and try to go looking for him."
He only nodded at his sister as she walked out of his room and closed the door behind her. Danny lay back in his bed and stared up at the ceiling. He thought back to the days before he was Danny Phantom. Where he thought his parents were both lunatics for believing in ghosts and the biggest thing he had to worry about was not getting beat up by Dash. He chuckled humorlessly, what a simpler time that was.
Danny eventually felt his eyes become heavy and after much, much resistance, he managed to finally fall asleep.
"I'm still here. I still exist. Which means you still turn into me." Danny looked around the large, dark room. That sentence kept ringing out, taunting him. He felt a pressure on his head. It wouldn't go away and he wanted it to go away.
A malicious figure appeared from the shadows. "Hello, Danny."
Danny tried to back away but soon realized that his feet wouldn't listen to his brain and neither would his mouth, he found out seconds later. He had no choice but to stare at his worst enemy wide eyed and defenseless.
"That pressure on your head, I know you feel it." Dan smirked. "I know what it is. It's me or should I say, you. And to make that pressure go away all you have to do is let it in, let the darkness, the evil in. Can you do that, Danny? Will you do that, Danny? I know you will and once you do," He chuckled, "You'll never want to go back."
Danny woke up in a cold, damp sweat. It was just a dream, he thought. But fear gripped him and he quickly dropped that idea. It felt too real to be a dream.
He put a hand on his head. That pressure was gone the agonizing, tempting pressure.
Wait... tempting? No. Danny thought to himself. The only thing tempting about it was so the pain would go away, and it's gone now.
He looked out his window to find that it was daytime. Sunlight was barely peaking through the light grey clouds and leaves fluttered in the wind. Danny wondered why it was so... peaceful. It really did seem like any other day. What was Dan planning? He needed to know.
Yes. I know the chapter was very short but bear with me here. I'm still easing back into it. I promise though that the next chapter will be longer. Anyway, I hope you liked it and I'll see you next time. :)
