Prologue: The Arrival

(A long time ago)

It was back in a time before any of the events of "I'll Protect You."

This takes place long before Sammy and Amy were even born.

But not before a hero is born….

(Inside a hospital room.)

We see a young woman on a bed, She was pregnant for six months now. She was now ready for her child to be born. The woman was young with black long hair and she was screaming loudly as the doctors around her were telling her to "push." She was trying her best to push hard for her child.

(30 minutes earlier in the city.)

The city was in flames and under attack. There was a fight between "Shadow Walker's Father" Michelangelo or "M" for his hero name. And another one of his race named "Fire M" A clone of Michelangelo mixed with the element of fire. He was red/orange colored with fire tattoos on his body. He chose the path of evil along with others of his kind, Lead by their full blooded leader named "Red M". But after many battles, Their leader fell and his followers went their separate ways to create chaos. Fire M was not a smart villain, But was still dangerous.

The fight ended quickly as Fire M wasn't good on hand to hand combat.

"Thank you for saving our lives again." a cop told M.

"You're very welcome. I'm always happy to help you guys. Hey you guys ever have that feeling that you're supposed to be somewhere right now?"

"Don't you have a wife in labor right now?" Said the pyro villain reminded him. The hero's eyes widened as he quickly ran to his car.

"Sorry guys, I have to be there for the birth of my child, I'm gonna be a dad." He happily shouted as he entered his car.

"Congratulations man, I hope you make it in time." The cops waved bye as he drove away.

"Hey wait a second, how the hell did you know that his wife was in labor?" A soldier asked the steel-cuffed villain.

"I don't know?" Fire M said as he idiotically smiled as he was being taken away.

(30 minutes later)

as the doctors around her were telling her to "push." She was trying her best to push hard for her child. As she did so, Her husband quickly ran into the room and stood to her side, holding her hand tightly as she took a strong grip on his hand. She was glad that he was there with her to see their child's birth. She took many deep breaths for air as she pushed harder and harder.

After minutes of screaming in pain and trying her best to push harder, She stopped and lied back as she heard the sounds of a newborn baby crying…

..Shadow was born.

The doctors were happy, Michelangelo was happy as he was holding his newborn son in his hands. And of course his mother named Rachel was happy as she held her son.

"What should we name him?" he asked her gently as they watched their child.

"I'm not sure, But I'm sure we will know what to name him when we're ready." She told him as she held her husband's hand.

"He has your looks." she said to him.

"But he has your smile." He said to her softly as they shared a kiss.

"You think he'll be as strong as you are? Maybe even stronger?"

"I'm not sure, But I know one thing."

"What's that?" she asked him.

"That he's going to the right things, and that he'll be a hero to those close to him."

That was the day that the hero that was soon to be The Shadow Walker and the one that saves Sammy and changes her life for the better…

...But as a hero was born….

….So was a monster….

(Elsewhere, In another dimension in the future)

It was a dark place, A place filled with destroyed old buildings and ruins. A place full of savage creatures, killing and eating anything that moves. In the center of this place was a dark castle. Made by an evil ruler, the monster that took over the world and turned it into a nightmare. A monster named "Dark M." In this dimension, Michelangelo was once a hero until a mysterious scepter with a parasite on it from space, Turned him evil and changed into a undead, burnt, dark purple monster. This change caused him to destroy the human race, and accidentally killed his wife. So, with his new found dark powers, he was able to create a castle to live in, Creatures that obeyed his will. He also managed to clone his wife. But added a bit of his dark energy within her. Making her in his kind instead of human.

But after a few battles with his heroic counterpart, His life had ended.

Unaware that, before he kicked the bucket, His wife was pregnant.

Back to the present. The darker Rachel was on the stone cold floor was giving birth.

She was in extreme pain, no doctors, no husband, nobody was there but her.

As she pushed with all her might, nearly killing her in the progress. Her child was born at the same date, year, and time Shadow would be born.

She passed out after words, Not before hearing the sound of a horrific animal like screeching that the baby was making.

Her offspring was not natural. Unlike most newborns, this one was very boney and was able to see and walk on all fours like a wild animal. The offspring growled and hissed at it's surrounding. The bloody creature noticed a rat crawling around as it quickly and violently attacked the small rodent.

The mother flutter her eyes slowly as she watched her baby eating. She crawled to her child and gently took him in her arms. The child was able to smell her scent, it was able to identify her as its mother. The child looked around and screeched some more.

"Welcome to the family. Dark M Junior." The mother gently said to her child as it's blue eyes were glowing as he made a roar like screech in the dark room.

(Back to the present day, December 22)

Back in town where Shadow and Sammy live. It was winter and It was snowing all around town.

It was winter break so there was no school for two weeks, meaning that our two lovebirds could spend time around the holidays together. After their adventure in spring, Sammy gladly introduced her friends Jasmine, Shawn, Zoey, Mike, and Dawn. To her boyfriend Shadow. They become friends quickly and promised to keep their secret about Shadow and Sammy.

The seven of them were playing it the woods. The place was cold and covered with snow and ice.

They made snowmen, had a snowball fight, and are now currently, Ice skating in the now frozen pond.

"Come on Shadow, Come join us!" Zoey gladly shouted to him as he was the only person not ice skating with them.

"Oh thats alright, You guys can skate without me, I'd be happy to watch." He said as he sat on a log.

"Please Shadow it's fun." Sammy told him.

"I wish I could Sammy, But I don't think my boots have a skating mode on them. Also I don't think I can fit any of your guys skates."

"That's alright Shadow." Sammy smiled as she continues to skate with her friends.

Shadow continued to sit on the log to watch them skate.

"You afraid of skating on ice?" Shawn asked as he stopped skating to sit next to him.

"No, not the ice, But what's underneath the ice is what I'm afraid of."

"You ever thought about at least trying to swim under the water?"

"I have, But I personally don't like going underwater."

"Wait, but what if-" But before Shawn could finish. Sammy called for Shadow's attention.

"Hey Shadow, Look at this trick I can do!" She began to do a nice spinning trick on the ice. Her trick made Shadow smile.

The fun ended as Shadow noticed that the ice underneath Sammy was cracking fast. His eyes widened with fear as he ran around to pond to get to her direction.

"SAMMY GET OUT OF THERE! THE ICE AROUND YOU IS GOING TO CRACK!" But before she could hear the last part. She screamed as she fell through the ice. Shadow was terrified seeing her fall into the cold water. He without fully thinking jumped into the water to save her.

The rest of the group gathered around. Worried and scared for the two of them.

"SAMMY! SHADOW!" Jasmine shouted.

They noticed bubbling as Shadow's hand was waving crazy to the ground, trying to pull himself and Sammy and Shawn quickly grabbed his hand and pulled the two out. Shadow quickly took Sammy in his arms as she coughed water mildly out of her mouth. Her eyes fluttering to the two of them were completely wet and cold.

"Come on you two, We need to get you someplace warm and fast." Jasmine barked as the Shadow was able to carry Sammy while shivering.

(Later at Sammy's house.)

Shadow and Sammy were next to the fireplace while wrapped in blankets. Jasmine was nice enough and made the two of them hot chocolate before leaving them alone. The two of them enjoyed the coco made for them as they sat next to each other near the fire, watching t.v. together.

After a few minutes of drinking their coco. Sammy rested her head on Shadow's covered shoulder. He noticed and rubbed his head against her's gently. She quickly moaned as he did so.

She gently placed a warm kiss on his wet cheek.

"Thank you for saving me Shadow. Thats like probably the fourth time you did so." She giggled.

"You're very welcome Sammy. I don't know what I would do if you hurt and I failed to save you." He said in a sad voice. Sammy rested on him some more. This cheered him up a bit.

"Oh, Sammy you have a cut on you leg there." Shadow pointed out as she looked too.

"Oh, I didn't even notice that."

"Anything I can do to fix it for you?" he offered.

"That's alright. I think a band-aid can fix this. I'll be right back." She said as she slowly got up with the blanket still around her.

"You hurt too Shadow?" Sammy asked him as he wasn't.

"That's good. I happy that nothing can hurt you anymore." She smiled as she left to go find a bandage.

As she left, Shadow's smile faded as he looked at his uncovered left arm, which had three lined scars on his arm.

"Yeah, nothing anymore...I hope."

(Elsewhere far away.)

A man was sitting at his desk, He was at the welcome box at the front of town. He would welcome anyone that entered town as they would pay him to enter. It has been a while since the last visit. So the guy would play mobile games on his phone. He would still get paid by his boss for sitting and waiting.

However, One person is coming to town.

Dark M Jr was coming to town…

His head was covered in a hood and a light bandanna covering his mouth, He was walking slowly as the man could hear him walking.

"Welcome to our town, $25 to enter $50 for the kids."

He continued to walk as he walked pass the guy in the enter box.

"Hey dumb ass, didn't you hear me? You need to pay to enter." This made him stop as he growled loudly. The man was getting a bit worried.

"Forgive me kind sir, But I do not have any money. But I do have something else to give…"

"Yeah and what's th-" Before he could finish, Jr quickly grabbed him by his neck. He took off his hood and mask, showing the man his monstrous appearance as he glared at him with his bright blue eyes.

"I can get you nightmares. broken bones, or a one-way ticket to the afterlife. And for that "dumb-ass" line, maybe I'll give you all three."

"OK,PLEASE I'M SORRY, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" The man was screaming in horror.

Jr smiled as he hushed the man slowly. He then placed a finger against the side of his face.

"Don't be scared, I won't hurt you. That is, If you don't give me a good answer." He slowly began to slide his finger down his face, making a long cut on his face as he did so, The man was screaming some more.

"The Shadow Walker. Where can I find him. And remember, I want to hear a good answer. And if I don't.. hehehe, well let's just say It won't be good for -you-" He said as he playfully poked his nose.

"I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS, NO ONE DOES! BUT I KNOW THAT HE'S SOMEWHERE IN THE TOWN I SWEAR!" He shouted as he was crying, hoping that his answer satisfied him.

Dark M Jr smiled as he slowly gave the man a hug, one arm around his neck and one patting him on the back.

"Thank you, your answer has help me." The man slowly stopped crying as he hear that.

"But unfortunately…" He tightly grabbed his neck.

"...That wasn't the answer I was looking for." He finished sinisterly as he snapped the man's neck. Throwing his corpse outside the box and out in the open for wild animals to feast on.

Jr looked around in the box and found a map of town. As he took It, he looked over to the town and heard police cars from far. He knew that Shadow would be there as well.

"Sorry, But I can't play with you right now, I have to form a plan for us. But until then. I hope you have become stronger than last time….." He began to walk into the woods.

"Because this time, I will no longer show any mercy. Even if that means I have to kill you for good." He grinned as the "M" on his chain began to glow.