Sonic Apocalypse

Chapter 10

A Mourning Past

Shadow and Omega stood before the demonic Black Doom, once again in his original incarnate form. Or so as they saw. But Dooms illusions are plentiful, and allpowerful. His burning red eyes pierced their souls and made the flesh of the weak tremble. But Shadow and Omega stand strong, staring him down with looks of disgust and hatred. Shadows fists clenched tight enough that his gloves began to tear, and blood began to drip down from his palms. Omegas muscles tensed, slightly frightened by Dooms unwavering gaze, and shivered as he shook it off. Finally, Doom said the first words.

"Shadow… my son… come to me… let us have some time alone. I have something to show you…." Doom waves his arm and turned his back, urging Shadow to follow, not a single presence of chaos energy about him. Shadow was hesitant, but decided to follow his game for now, and turn on him once he got close. As he slowly stepped forward, he found himself deep within a dark abyss, which slowly transformed into a very familiar room. The room he last saw Maria in, on the Space Colony Arc, just before her death. Shadow looked around slowly and inquisitively, just before he heard a long lost voice behind him.

"Shadow… I'm here. I'm ok!" He quickly turned around to find Maria standing a few feet away behind him, his long lost friend in the flesh. His eyes quickly filled with tears, overwhelmed by what he saw. She slowly stepped over and hugged him tight, confirming that it was real. She was really there, and he wasn't dreaming.

But then he felt something on his back. Shadow quickly disappeared with Chaos Control and reappeared nearby, just before a clawed black tentacle stabbed through where he was standing, as well as through the set of tentacles that were posing as Maria, cloaked by a visionary illusion, and a chemical in the air that controlled his senses. But Shadow still had control. Doom had once again forgotten that wasn't effected by the Black Arms biological warfare techniques. And now Shadow had finally had it. His eyes slowly turned blank and his body glowed crimson red, spines blowing in the wind generated by his raw power.

*1* "Doom…… You bastard….. You show me the one thing I don't have now, give me back my family, AND THEN YOU RIP IT AWAY FROM ME?! YOU MAY AS WELL HAVE TORN MY HEART OUT WITH THAT CLAW!" As his power grew, and the crimson lightning flicked across the ground, the entire illusion was eliminated, and his true surroundings were revealed. While he was in his daze, Omega and Rouge had both been captured by Dooms masses of black tentacles. The walls, floor, and ceiling were now covered in them, completely surrounding Shadow, and leaving him nowhere to go. Yet, Although he could be anywhere at any time, there was nowhere he'd rather be but there and then. This was his moment to be a true hero. This was the day he would join the others in short mortality.

"CHAOS RIFT!" Shadow turned toward Rouge and Omega, throwing an orb of chaos energy toward them, which on impact, teleported them out of the base. Then he turned toward the back of the room to see one massive eye staring him down, with a swarm of other eyes surrounding it. The demon with a thousand eyes has revealed himself, and the second of the predicted battles was to take place. Shadows aura continued to grow until his body could no longer contain such power. Anyone who knew Shadow knew what he was about to do.

"Chaos…….. BLAST!"