Thanks for the review Min. Yes Joz is short for Joseph. A long time ago, 1999/2000 or so I joined Resident Evil Extreme (or R.E.E. ring any bells?) with two of my mates. We each picked a name that went with the evil in the game, One went with The Virus (who some of you may know, main artist of Exterminatus now), one went with Tyrant, I picked the hunter. Added the Master for effect and it's been that way ever since.

During my time at Sonic HQ's Mobius forums I started writing Sonic fanfiction. My First being "The Seven Chaos Beings". It remains the longest of all my fics, over 100 pages. Thus I won't upload it here. All my pre 'this site' fics can be found at my twinseeds fanfic page (see my bio).

One day as I was coming up with ideas I thought of a Sonic of the future type fic. I went with the Past instead and The 3 Shadows were born under the name "Sonic of the Past: The Shadow chronicles". As I was coming up with characters I thought of the adventure 2 system, Hedgehog leader, Fox flyer mechanic and Legendary hunter. Shadow was obvious; Miles was born when I couldn't think of anything so went with the same name as current character thing. Shadow and Miles are meant to mimic Sonic and Tails.

The hunter was difficult. Do I go with Knuckles' ancestors considering what happened to the echidnas? I went with the next best thing, Rouge's grandfather, which gave me the perfect excuse to make a character from my Screen name. Master hunter sounds more like a codename, and as it's an avatar for my Screen name I named his real name after me, i.e. Joz, short for Joseph.

When I came here I remade my original fic, which included both the beginning and the end in a very short state and as a flashback, separating the beginning and end. Thus The 3 Shadows was born. To truth be told even in its original state I planned it as a series, I just never got around to doing following episodes (though I did start Obsession).

Oh White Thunder is the new name for a strike during a Jet wing dash.

All copyright stuff is in Chapter 1

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The 3 Shadows, Episode 6 – Master hunter redemption

Chapter 8 – Shadow Back up.

"So you know what to do?" asked Joz.

"Yeah, no problem", said Saph.

"Ok then", said Joz.

Joz jumped above the wall and immediately shielded himself with the armour wing. Although he couldn't push forward he could remain in that spot. The guns keep shooting at Joz while Sapphire jumped over the wall and quickly dashed towards the turrets. She was just about to strike them when one of the turrets turned to her and fired. She froze in fear as the first bullet was fired. She closed her eyes soon afterwards assuming the worst.

The all of a sudden a purple shield surrounded her and two golden spears of light smashed the two turrets to pieces. Sapphire opened her eyes wondering why she wasn't dead.

"What just happened?" asked Sapphire.

"It's Shadow!" shouted Joz.

Sapphire looked up to the sky to find Miles flying in the sky holding up Shadow.

"What? Shadow saved my life. Could this day get any crazier?" said Sapphire out loud.

She and Joz joined up with Shadow and Miles who had fallen to the floor safely.

"Shadow?" asked Joz.

"No time for talk. Miles explained everything. We have to save Ivo", said Shadow.

They all ran inside the base, taking out anything that got in their way. They managed to catch up with the robots as they were placing Ivo inside a prison cell. Joz quickly jetted towards the robots and took them out with the White Thunder technique. Ivo soon snapped and started hitting Joz.

"You! Why can't you just leave me alone?" asked Ivo.

"Look Ivo. I'm not expecting you to like me, but now is not the time for this", said Joz.

"He's right Ivo. We have to get you out of here", said Shadow.

"Who are you? And Why do I get this feeling that I'm suppose to know you", said Ivo.

"My name is Shadow. I was created by your Grandfather as part of a special project", said Shadow.

"So he did know something after all. You jeopardised GUN by not doing you job Joz", said a familiar voice.

It was the GUN general who had just entered the prison area.

"Is that all that matters to monsters like you. Protect people, value life, as long as it doesn't ruin your reputation", said Shadow.

"I would never kill a child, taking away his parents was bad enough", said Joz.

"Watch your tongues. You belong to us now", said the GUN general.

"No we don't. We just have a common goal. To stop Gerald before he destroys all of mankind", said Miles.

"Enough Talk. Let's get the kid out of here and back to his grandfather", said Sapphire.

"May I ask why you of all people are helping them?" asked the GUN general.

"Because like Joz said, it's the right thing to do. I too have my part to play in all this madness. I led the assault on ARK. As a civilised living creature it is only right that I help the kid and his grandfather to live together in peace", said Sapphire.

"Bah! Mercenaries. You forget they have a heart", said the GUN General, "look, Gerald is very irrational and unreasonable these days. We need the boy to control him, and thus save the world from his mad schemes once and for all".

"I don't care. It's barbaric. I will not stop until Gerald and Ivo are back together safely", said Joz.

"All for some redemption in Shadows eyes?" asked the GUN general.

"No, because unlike you I don't want to be remembered as a monster. Even if it is only a small number of people who know", said Joz.

"Very well. If you're not with us you're against us. All officers, arrest the 3 Shadows", said the GUN general.

Suddenly the roof opened up and a giant fist slammed against the floor. Joz immediately jetted to Ivo and protected him from harm. Sapphire took Ivo from Joz and made sure he remained safe. In the gap above them a huge machine appeared, with six arms just like Saturn. This time however it was much bigger, it was gigantic.

"I am sick of your selfishness. For everything you've done to me I will smash this base into the ground", said a familiar voice from the machine.

"Oh no! Looks like Gerald is here", said Miles.

"Hey Gerald! Calm down! Ivo is safe", shouted Joz.

"He is? Good", said Gerald.

"Saph, fly out of here with Ivo to a safe distance", said Miles, "We don't want him to get hurt".

Saph flew off with Ivo. Gerald laughed and started smashing everything.

"HA HA HA HA HA! The G-007 Uranus will kill two birds with one stone. The destruction of GUN and my greatest rivals, The 3 Shadows", said Gerald.

"Great. Out of the frying pan into the fire. OK Shadows, let's take him down", said Shadow.