This final chapter is dedicated to my real-life mate The Virus. He's just had to deal with something pretty tough. If you don't know The Virus I suggest you go to either Perfectly Chaotic or Exterminatus Now and see some fantastic furry art, mostly Sonic based. (see my hompage's links section. Damn site not allowing me to put down the links, even in text form)
For the opening few lines:
Joz the bat Master hunter
Joz spirit in The Annemuir (the sword).
All copyright info in chapter 1
The 3 Shadows, Episode 4 - Hunters
Chapter 10 - This is why they call me the Master!
Joz felt slightly weird talking to his sword but any advice it could give would be well worth it.
"Ok so I'm listening. What do you think I should do?" asked Joz the bat.
"This woman knows everything about you so make up something new", said Joz.
"But I learned all my sword skills as soon as I touched the annemuir. I never created any of my moves", said Joz the bat, "I wouldn't know how to make up my own move"
"I know, all the moves all mine. When I came up with them I looked at how my friends fought. Perhaps you should do the same", said Joz, "And don't worry about Shadow. He'll be angry for a while but he'll understand eventually"
"Thanks. I still don't understand what's going on here but I can find out after the fight", said Joz the bat. Now, how do the other shadows fight?
Meanwhile outside the metal shell Sapphire was getting rather impatient.
"Come out and fight coward!" Shouted Sapphire, "Ok don't fight. Just remember the slightest sign that your wasting time and I win"
Joz jumped out of his shell grasping his sword tightly.
"This is for you Shadow and Miles", shouted Joz.
Joz span like Shadow holding his sword out. The saw blade type move moved closer to Sapphire at an incredible speed. Sapphire tried her best to counter the blade but Joz managed to hit her, send her flying up into the air. Joz then stopped spinning and jetted next to the rising Sapphire. He took her sword and smashed her down to the ground, similar to how Miles sometimes attacks from above. He threw the two swords down to the ground as Sapphire fell. The two swords pinned her to the ground. He finished her off by jetting downwards, holding out his armoured wings so that they'd be the first thing to hit the ground. He smashed into Sapphire's stomach and jumped off her.
Standing boldly above her he counted her out.
"That was the Shadow Blade. Hope ya liked it. Now you know why they call me the Master", said Joz sliding his sword back in it's holster. Sapphire started moving again
"Nice….Move…." She said weakly.
"In future you shouldn't judge a person by what they did in the past. You didn't expect me to do that cause you thought you knew all my moves, and thought that was all I could do", said Joz, "It's important to do your homework yes, but to think of that person as simply being that and not expecting anything else is foolish".
"Thanks, but why are you giving me advice after all that happened?" asked Sapphire.
"Because I know you'll want a rematch, and when it happens I'll want it to be challenging", said Joz, "See ya later, I'm going home. Come on guys, I hope you enjoyed the show".
"It was brilliant, the fighting, the tension at the end, the secrets revealed. Simply brilliant", said Miles.
"Huh! How can you act like nothing just happened? Do you think just because you named a move partly after me I'll forgive you and everything will go back to normal?" asked Shadow angrily.
"No I don't expect you to forgive me, I don't expect your hurt to just go away", said Joz, "I know I'll never change your mind just let me say a few things. I was a bounty hunter but since I met you I've done nothing but good. I've changed for the better all thanks to you".
Shadow thought for a while and began walking off.
"Come on, let's go home. After all it is YOUR mansion I'm staying at", said Shadow.
"Did he just forgive me?" whispered Joz to Miles.
"I don't know, but hopefully things are back to normal. Let's just deal with things as they come along", whisphered Miles.
As the 3 Shadows head off into the distance the deadly gems grouped together.
"I was wrong about him", said Sapphire.
"We all were. Don't feel so down", said Diamond.
"We'll definitely meet them again", said Emerald.
"Who knows we might be fighting alongside him next time", said Ruby.
"He's not so bad after all", said Sapphire, "Well then are you going to help me back inside or what?".
The other three sighed and picked up Sapphire. They led her back inside the base just as night fell. The contest turned out to be more than just a challenge for a title. They had all learned something new about themselves and learned how to better themselves.
THE END.