This worked out better in my mind and still does to be honest. Stretching this is proving to be more difficult as it's much more fast paced and I don't really like fattening a story with detailed fight scenes. I do want to do this and Episode 10 but Negative Reflection and Future of Flames will more than likely take priority.

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The 3 Shadows: Episode 9 – Level 3 Chapter 7 – Facing his demons.

The Berserk Hunter seemed to pick up pace as he got closer to Westopolis. The Trail of destruction seemed to get more extreme the further the demon went. He wasn't hard to spot just hard to stop.

Joz had dashed over to the other two Shadows before suddenly stopping, withdrawing his blade.

"You guys go. Someone has to keep that beast busy in the meantime. Organise the Army and warp them to Westopolis first. Then we'll look for the emeralds", said Joz.

"There's no way I'm letting you face that beast alone", said Shadow.

There was an awkward silence. Joz kept his determined look

"Urgh! There's no stopping you and no time for arguing. Just be careful OK", said Shadow.

"Good Luck Joz", said Miles.

Joz jetted off towards Hunter while Shadow and Miles warped to Prison Island.

Joz raced in front of the Massive Demon and threw off his coat.

"Ok Demon come get me", said Joz determined.

The beast snarled and made a jumping strike thrusting his claws forward. Joz evaded the attack by flying into the air behind Hunter. The Demon Bat swiped backwards quickly and connected with Joz. Fortunately it was the blunt side of his claws and Joz just felt a little dazed for a second.

"I refuse to except that this is going to be my destiny beast, but if it is I'm not going to go down without a fight", said Joz.

Joz jumped to his feet and raised his armour wings. Hunter swung his giant claws forward towards Joz who parried the attack and countered with a swinging kick. The beast fell face down onto the floor before springing back to his feet and roared in anger.

"Come on then what are you waiting for", shouted Joz.

The beast dashed at a high speed towards Joz who jetted into the Sky. Looking back down he was surprised to see the beast standing still. He began flapping his giant wings and created a massive gust of wind that sent Joz flying in the Direction of Westopolis.

"Damn I didn't realise he still had some intelligence", said Joz, "But I'm not going to fail…ever!"

Joz jetted towards Hunter preparing to make a White Thunder strike. Hunter picked up speed ready to meet the challenge.

Meanwhile Shadow and Miles had prepared a vast army with GUN. They didn't need much persuasion. Westopolis was in Danger and so got every available Tank and Soldier armed and ready to fight.

Shadow warped the army to the centre of Westopolis and collapsed in exhaustion. It took a massive amount of energy to warp everything but he did it with just the Single Emerald.

Miles picked up Shadow and sat him next to a wall in a back alley. The soldiers began pushing people back and telling them to run in the opposite direction. Miles immediately left Shadow to position the tasks. He needed to scatter them, as their firepower would become useful than their armour.

For maximum effect he placed them so that the cannons could freely move but the beast would need to smash through buildings to get to them. Soldiers were ordered to garrison buildings and arm themselves with rockets.

The idea was to slow down the beast but not kill it so Soldiers were ordered to aim at the ground or at building to create debris. Everything was set now they just had to wait.

Meanwhile Joz and Hunter clashed sword to claw and both stood pushing the other with their weapon.

"Please…Kill me", said the beast completely out of the blue.

After that it didn't take long for the Beast to take control and had Joz down to his knee in minutes. He didn't think the beast could talk though it did seem a bit forced. Maybe the bat side of Hunter was still there somewhere in the Demon.

Joz fell backwards and kicked out towards Hunter. Hunter grabbed Joz's legs and threw him away like a piece of Paper. Joz smashed to the ground and lay on the floor barely able to move.

To his surprise the beast didn't finish him off. Instead it left him and continued for the city. It took some time but Joz got back on his feet and limped towards Westopolis.

Joz then turned his blade from the blunt side to the sharp side. Ever since he became one of the 3 Shadows he swore he would never kill again. And while he felt uneasy about it, he was prepared to do whatever was necessary to keep the people safe.