"Silver!" Blaze yelled as she ran to his side. Silver pointed the gun towards Blaze.
"I'm tired of you, Iris. Rot back in hell."
Gunshots.
Silver had put his head next to Blaze's and pulled the trigger hard. They lay lifeless on the ground. Iris and Mephiles laughed in fits of hysteria.
"Just mortals." They said aloud, holding each other's hands as they gave a spiteful smile.
The group was devastated. Sonic was too weak to actually turn dark, werehog, or anything else. Shadow refused to quit. He kept pursuing the couple, attacking and mostly missing. Tails hid with Sonic in terror. There was nothing he could do and Sonic was feeling the effects on his body. This was the end..an absolute apocalypse. Revived in spirits by the kills, they easily knocked Shadow back down to the ground. He breathed shallowly. Mephiles ended him with a hard kick in his spine.
"Ah hahaha! I told him that his death was certain." Mephiles said as he moved Shadow's limp head from side to side under his foot. "Now, let's end this cleansing. Make it look like this was our world since the dawn of time."
"Yes. YES."
Mephiles and Iris went back inside, totally forgetting about Sonic and Tails. They were sadistically ecstatic.
"Come on Sonic! Stay with me."
"It's okay Tails. I'm okay." Sonic said. "Looks like your our last hope."
"No! Don't say that Sonic! You can make it!"
"I...I know I can. You just have to find any power sources they are drawing from. You're going to have to sneak in and defeat them using your logic. Outwit them anyway you can. No go! I'll be okay."
"Sonic..." Tails said as he grabbed Silver's emerald.
They will pay for what they have done. It's time I step up to the plate.
Tails easily snuck by the hell hounds who were falling asleep and got himself into the base. He overheard Thorne talking to his fellow siblings.
October: "How could you Thorne! I never thought of you as a bad person but now...what you are a part of...absolute evil."
Thorne: "You should have known that this was going to happen. I stick by mom and dad. You two are the ones who have abandoned them for weak mortals! Don't prosecute me."
Winter: "Thorne, that didn't mean helping them destroy everything in the world. You could have helped the world instead of wiping it of life! You could of improved the quality of living, not shatter it completely! You have chosen the wrong path."
Thorne: "Says you, who can't even see the truth. Who has been blinded by the light that supposedly saves others. I have chosen right. For your ignorance, you have become plagued by irrational thought."
Tails continued onwards. He needed to stop thinking so hard and clear his own mind. He climbed down a vent and found himself in the room with the containers. He carefully stepped onto the glowing symbol and saw the red lights.
Wait a minute. These are souls. Iris captured human ones before in the crystalline palace.
Tails carefully cut open the glass of the containers and set the souls free. They plummeted back home to the Flame Core. He swore he heard hushed thanks.
I'll continue to search. I cannot be sloppy.
His heart stopped when he heard their voices right outside the vent. He had to have been deep underground due to the extremely hot temperatures. The metal was so hot.
"Then tomorrow, agreed?"
"Certainly. We deserve some rest for awhile. I'll join you shortly."
"Another pentagram check?"
"One last time. Then I'll be able to rest easy. Keep my spot warm."
"I will love."
*kiss noise.*
Silence followed by footsteps walking away.
I need to get to those pentagrams.
Tails held in his tears as he finally crawled out of the hot vent, shaking his blistering hands. Eventually, one of the vents led outside and he saw Mephiles chant something over the pentagrams, then walk back inside. Tails waited till they were snuggled in bed. Then he scratched all the pentagrams, defacing them. Their powers wore off and Iris and Mephiles knew.
"I thought they had all died."
"...We overlooked Sonic."
"They just don't die easily."
Mephiles and Iris had found Sonic laying behind some bushes.
Mephiles: "He is too weak to have gotten up. His heart is barely even beating."
Iris: "Then who?"
Mephiles: "He had that fox with him."
Iris: "Yes Tails I think. Well no need for much alarm."
"That's what you think."
Shadow?!
October stood by his side, helping him up. He had been resurrected through October using nothing more than one emerald. All October had to do to escape was charge up enough of her power to burst out of the bubble.
"This will finish you!"
Shadow took off an inhibitor ring and blasted yellow energy at them, taking them in complete surprise. Mephiles and Iris lay on the ground in perfect pieces.
Thorne hissed at them as he gave a woeful look to his parents. Then ran away crying in anger.
I'll kill you all one day. How dare you off my parents. How dare you.
The two demons talked softly to one another.
Iris...
Mephiles...
What do we do..?
There's only one way to save ourselves.
Iris began to form a crystal over herself and Mephiles as they began to sink into the ground.
"Oh no! You will die!" Shadow said as tried to break the crystal, only managing to fracture it before it sunk beneath the earth. "Dammit all!"
October carefully lay the heroes souls back into their bodies. Shadow held her tightly and gently cried into her shoulder. The heroes had barely made a narrow victory. But it would never be over. They had immediately planned to comeback.
Mephiles, our bodies have no use to us as of this moment.
What shall we do? What do you suggest?
I sense a group of survivors still around. Male and female for our personal preferences. Let us posses their bodies, take their lives and mold them accordingly. *sigh* It seems there will never be a time for rest.
I guess that it's true, then. There is no rest for the wicked.
To be continued...?!
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