++Author's Note++
A new story. This is basically a re-imagining of the 2006 game, Shadow the Hedgehog. While the story, characters, and level design was weak, I give a thumbs-up to some of the best music SEGA has gone for the Sonic series.
BIG WARNING! This is going to be one of the darkest stories I've ever written. So, if you don't like it, then do not read!
SEGA owns all the Sonic universe, but I own all OCs.
++Date: Friday June 23, 2000++
++Current Time: 12:05 AM++
Come the chivalry guiding stars, come the nobility of heaven's black, for the Space Colony ARK floats in space praying for upkeeping safe harbor above the Earth via its orbit. The moon, in her dappled beauty, spun ever in perfect synchrony with her heavenly companions.
In the delivery room, Scarlet is in severe labor to birth her twins. She's a beautiful woman with long hair reminiscent of the petals of a fully bloomed white rose with an ombré of blood-red towards the tips; it was now mangled and very messy. Her golden eyes were bloodshot from months of sleeplessness and her entire body ached. The sweat settled upon her soft skin as newly melted snow crystals as another contraction shot through her body.
With her in the room was three nurses and the main obstetrician, Leandra. Professor Gerald and Doom's Eye was there with her as well. The eye looks like a black and dark-purple starfish with six black-tipped squamous probes and a brutally large red-orange eye at its center with six blood-red lines emerging from it.
Gerald is a bald heavy-set man with broad elevated shoulders, normal arms and legs, and large hands and feet. He also has a long, large nose and an oversized gray mustache that was ragged. He's also very short, being at only being 5'7" tall.
Scarlet winces as Leandra readies the towel. "You're fully dilated. On three, I need you to push. One...two...three!" The mother grips the bed's side bars and she cries out in agony as she pushes hard. She has been in active labor for about 14 hours now and her body couldn't bear it anymore.
What felt like an eternity later, Leandra gets hold of the head and about ten minutes later, the first baby was delivered and the nurses start washing him up, trying to get him to breathe. The little boy emits a loud cry and Scarlet was relieved to hear him.
Another minute later, another sharp contraction starts and she winced. Leandra helps deliver the second child, taking about 20 minutes. After passing the placenta, Scarlet was taken to be bathed and put into fresh clean clothes. Her twins are given to her and she couldn't be any happier. They were smaller than a bag of sugar you buy at the grocery store.
Doom's Eye examines the twins, his echo-effect very apparent whenever he speaks. 'Healthy and well. Just as it should be. A son and a daughter - good. I'm proud of you, Scarlet.'
Scarlet gives a weak smile as she examines her newborn twins.
They both had the unique black, blood red-streaked hair from their father, Black Doom, but the similarities stopped there.
The newborn son, now named Eclipse, has sickly-pale skin and glowing amber-like golden eyes with thin, serrated black pupils; he also has a classic "devil tail" - long and slender with a red accented arrowhead-like tip. He definitely took after his father. / The newborn girl, now named Shadow, has fair beige skin and blood-red eyes with slit pupils that possess an intricate, keyhole-like shape. She yawns and revealed her sharp canines, surprising her mother.
Scarlet smiles and kisses her twins on their foreheads before she opens her shirt and has them latch onto her nipples to start nursing.
++Current Time: 1:45 AM || An Hour Later++
Black Doom would show up physically to see his wife and newborn twins fast asleep. He is rather menacing and un-aging with his species, the Black Arms, having otherworldly demon-esque traits.
He's mouthless while having a black legless body with three red bestial eyes, twin wide red-tipped horns, a set of spines on his scalp, and clawed hands. For attire, he wears a black worn robe with black shoulder pads and golden accents, a maroon drape scarf with tattoo markings hanging from the back, golden chains with a set of silver-spiked medallions possessing a gem, and a double black cord necklace with red, blue and purple ornaments on one and golden and silver pendants on the other.
Eclipse doesn't react to his father's presence at all, but Shadow opens her eyes and reaches up towards him.
The extraterrestrial being picks up his daughter and she yawns again before nuzzling his chest and falling asleep. He chuckles softly in a soft demonic tone. "You shall be...the next goddess of this universe!"
