You shouldn't summon a Ghost King
Danny had felt the weird tug to the entirety of himself and instantly knew he was finally actually getting summoned for the first time.ย
He'd winced through the whole process, knowing he should have listened to Clockwork and changed the requirements now that he was Ghost King... but even though Clockwork had seemed pretty serious about it, it just... kept slipping Danny's mind.ย
Listen, it's not that he didn't want to! executive dysfunction is a bitch alright, and it sounded like boring ghost paper work.
And it's been like... months now, maybe even a full year, maybe even longer.
People don't really summon the Ghost King apparently, and Danny has been busy! He has school, he's trying really hard to get his grades back up.
At some point he just completely forgot about it.ย
He's really regretting not taking it as seriously as he probably should have now that he's randomly on top of a skyscraper in some massive city he doesn't recognise.
And the city is... for a lack of better words, on fire.ย
He can feel the suffering he can hear the screams, there is pain, chaos and fear all around him.ย Like a physical force pressing down on him.
The sickening part of it all is that he feels stronger than ever like someone injected him with 50 energy drinks directly into his veins but at the same time his stomach is recoiling violently, extreme jitters but not in a good way, absolutely nauseous.ย
He's not really listening to whatever is going on directly around him on that roof, that's all far in the distance somehow, maybe he's disociating, maybe something else other ghost thing is going on, but Danny is just floating there in full king regalia.ย
All he cares about it is snatching the weird creepy looking grimoire and getting some answers.ย
And answers he gets because its very clearly stated in there that the Ghost King (Pariah Dark) wants a tribute to himself.
Whomever deigns to summon him must prove willingness to his cause. Aka the whole conquering and genocide and tyranny thing.ย
Over five hundred deaths would probably do but over a thousand was preferred, even more was obviously even better. That would show dedication and earn favour and- blah blah blah.ย
Danny thinks he's going to throw up.ย
It doesn't help that that's when the heroes show up and Danny is very clearly the big bad in this scenario even if it was completely unintentional.
Maybe they'll let him explain? Oh shit, that one looks so upset they're crying- maybe he can just go invisible instead...
This might be the worst night of his life.ย