Thanks for reading guys! Here's chapter 4!
Chapter 4
"Ah. Shadow, we meet again," Mephiles said. He held me closer to him. I sighed. Stupid testosterone.
"Let her go, so I can deal with you the proper way!" Shadow said.
Mephiles stared at him for what seemed like forever, before he reluctantly let me go. He kissed my forehead lightly. 'Stay back. I don't want him to hurt you.' He thought to me. 'Or steal you away from me.' Again with the testosterone.
However, I complied and backed up so I was standing against the neighbor's house. I sighed. Mephiles smiled at me but returned his attention to Shadow.
"Ok, Mephiles. I would like to know how in hell you came back," Shadow said as he slowly took off his inhibitor rings.
"You never really killed me," Mephiles said calmly. He gripped the chaos emerald tightly and it glowed purple. Suddenly, Mephiles's appearance changed. He took on an appearance of a purple/blue crystalized hedgehog. The whites of his eyes turned to red, and the irises turned a more yellow color. I didn't want to admit it, but he kind of scared me a little. This new Mephiles looked really creepy.
Shadow's face showed an indescribable emotion. Hate? Fear? He composed himself quickly and produced his own chaos emerald. A red one.
Shadow powered up a chaos spear and shot it at Mephiles. Mephiles dodged quickly and launched his own attack. He punched Shadow in the face. Shadow started to fall backward, but he used his weight to do a cartwheel backwards, catching Mephiles's chin in the process. He landed gracefully as Mephiles staggered backward.
"You will soon grow tired, Shadow the Hedgehog. Then we will see how good you fair!" Mephiles suddenly multiplied. There were thousands of him surrounding Shadow. They all summoned a purple orb of energy and aimed at Shadow.
Shadow's emerald glowed brightly as he muttered something. Then, all of the clones were gone and Shadow was breathing really heavily.
"Ah...Chaos Control. Well you haven't changed at all since I last fought you," Mephiles said.
Shadow smirked. "Well if I remember correctly, last time you fought me, I won." Shadow glowed red as he powered up. Mephiles looked at me with a frightened look. I realized what Shadow was going to do. Mephiles ran in front of me with his back to Shadow. I gave him a wide-eyed look.
"What are you doing? You're going to get hurt!" He ignored my protests and placed his hands above my shoulders on the neighbor's house, bracing himself.
"CHAOS...BLAST!" Shadow yelled, and the force pushed Mephiles against me. He cried out in pain as something struck his back from the blast. I winced, hearing his cry.
The wind finally died down as Shadow calmed. Shadow collapsed from exhaustion. Mephiles moved and turned to walk over to Shadow. I saw the long gash on his back. I gasped. He turned back towards me. "Are you alright?" He asked.
"Me? You're the one with the huge wound on your back!" He shrugged and faced Shadow's unconscious form again. He picked up the red chaos emerald at his feet. Mephiles summoned a chaos lance. I knew what he was going to do and ran toward him. "No! Mephiles, please don't!" I yelled.
I seized his arm. He turned his head to look at me. He stared for what seemed like an eternity before he slowly lowered his hand, letting the chaos energy fizzle out. It was silent for a few moments.
"You like him, don't you?" He said.
"Not like that. He's a friend, and that's all."
"Your heart thinks differently." He said shortly. I shook my head.
"Just a friend. That's it." He stared at me a while longer. Then he changed back to his normal hedgehog state. He enveloped me in a hug and I laid my head on his shoulder.
"Would you like to leave?" Mephiles asked. I nodded.
"But I have to tell him I'm safe though," I said. He let me go, giving me a confused look. I looked at my surroundings. The neighbor was growing pink roses. I shrugged and picked one. I placed the rose in Shadow's hand.
Mephiles picked me up and we disappeared in a flash of purple light.
