Sorry if you didn't like the side story... I don't think anyone really did. don't kill me, it's not my fault!

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Shade and Vescreth.

(A/N: If you didn't like the side story, don't worry, I won't do anything like that again, I just had to explain it. I'm sorry!if you did like it, oh well)

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TEMPLE OF BETRAYAL:

Shade was looking at Vescreth. Vescreth returned the gaze. Sonic Tails and Link looked on, wondering if Vescreth would be able to finish him this time. 'Maybe we should help, despite what he says,' Link thought. Shadow slowly opened his eyes, and got up.

"Why does my face hurt?" Shadow said, holding his nose to stop the bleeding. Sonic quickly shifted over to hide behind Link. Shadow glared at him, but then saw Shade. He was surprised, to say the least. "Where did he come from?" Shadow asked.

"Well, as far as I know, he was in you," Sonic said. Shadow walked over to the others. They were just looking on calmly at Vescreth and Shade.

"We should help him, you know," Tails said.

"We shouldn't interfere with him. He knows what he's doing," Link said. Vescreth made the first move. He ran toward shade, and tried to slash at him, but Shade pulled himself back quickly. Shade morphed into a dragon. Shade Reeled his head back, and held it there for a second. Vescreth jumped back, knowing what he was about to do.

Shade threw his head forward, and began blowing a steady wave of black fire. "Yipe!" Vescreth shouted, and started running, keeping just ahead of the flames. Shade stopped and growled angrily. "You dare mock me!" He shouted, and formed into a giant spider (The same from before, only double the size. Vescreth gasped. Shade attempted to crush Vesreth with his leg, but Vescreth dove to the side just fast enough to avoid it completely.

Shade, clearly frustrated, opened his mouth, and began shooting metal spears. Vescreth looked surprised, but started using his sword to quickly block all of the spears. Neither of them landing any hits, Vescreth began to attack Shade with his sword, and Shade formed to the blade armed snake. They were each slashing at each other. Vescreth's eyes began to turn Red, and his kitana burned black. This made Vescreth faster, but still not good enough to hit Shade.

Vescreth teleported to the top of Shade, and began to thrust down. "Not this time!" Shade shouted, and quickly pulled his head back, knocking Vescreth off. Vescreth hit the ground hard. Shade spun around, and began to attack. his blade was bearing down on Vescreth. 'I have failed,' Vescreth thought, as the blade came closer. Just before the blade made contact, it was knocked away by a yellow light. Vescreth looked over to the direction it came from, and saw Link with his bow ready, a glowing Yellow arrow in it.

"You can't do this alone!" Link shouted to Vescreth. Just then, Sonic and Shadow set off for Shade, each radiating balls of light. When they got close to Shade, they Each said, in unison, "Go!".

They flew upward, and were flying around shade, attacking him multiple times in midair, until Shade couldn't stand it anymore, and screamed. A blck orb of energy began to grow around Shade, very slowly. It suddenly grew to an enourmous size, and forecfully threw back Sonic, Shadow, Link and Vescreth, sending them each into a wall. 'This will be harder than they thought,' Tails thought.

Shade was laughing loudly, as he reverted back to his normal ball shape. "The only reason you beat me before, Vescreth, was because I let you!" Shade said while still laughing. Tails looked at him funny.He noticed that the yellow eye never closed.

"Link, his eye! aim for his eye!" Tails shouted. Link got up from the ground, and quickly readied a light arrow. He let it fly, and it made full contact Shade's eye.

"What? NOOOO!!"Shade shouted. He was suddenly surrounded by purple electricity. He looked as if he was in pain. "I'll get you for this, If I go down i'm taking you with me!" He yelled, and began flashing yellow. He flashed faster and faster. Shadow grabbed Tails, Vescreth grabbed Link, and Sonic went by himself. They all ran as fast as possible. There was a huge, sudden, boom. The hallway behind them was being engulfed in flames. Since only Sonic, Shadow and Vescreth were running, they got to the end of the hallway very quickly.

They arrived at the end of the hallway, and escaped the temple through the front door. The fire from the explosion burst out the door, and then stopped. "Isn't it convenient that every time there is an explosion, that it only reaches far enough to destroy the place you are in?" Sonic said, looking at the door of the temple. "Wait a second, we aren't even in hyrule anymore, are we?"Sonic asked Vescreth.

"No, we are in the Desert of Souls, near the village of Redding," Vescreth said. Everyone still looked at the door of the temple. Another, small explosion came through the door, and threw something out. It landed in front of Link. He looked at it, it was a key. He bent down, and put the key in his pocket. "Well, now we have to get back to Hyrule to use this key to unlock the other key to unlock the door to Ganandorf's fortress," Link said. "...What?" Sonic asked.

"Forget it, let's just go," Shadow said, surprised at how much dumber Sonic had managed to get every day he was around him.

'I think I know what it means to have a friend now, someone who will stick with you, no matter what,' Vescreth thought. 'Link, Sonic, Shadow, and Tails... my friends,' He smiled at this thought, as they all walked toward Redding...

TO BE CONTINUED...

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I am sorry if the side story was too different last time. I will write normally for the rest of the fic. see ya!