Part 3
While seeing Miguel leave both himself and Mana in the living room, Shadow began to turn his full attention back towards the female, who he saw was blushing with a crimson colored shade on her face. Before he could have a chance to open his mouth to speak to her, he heard Mana saying to him with a bit of nervousness in her voice, "Shadow, do you really think that I'm pretty?"
With those words said to him, Shadow began to blush with an even redder shade of crimson than he had on before while turning his embarrassed face away from the girl.
"Man! I can't believe I just said those words like a complete idiot!" the black hedgehog thought to himself as he continued to feel a bit embarrassed about what he said. "I mean, sure Mana is a very beautiful girl! (Sighs) She's almost as beautiful as Maria.....oh man! Why am I thinking about....?"
Before he could have a chance to finish his thoughts, Shadow began to hear soft and small giggles coming from Mana as he saw her smiling at his direction. Just as soon as he saw her smiling face, the black hedgehog soon began to ask with a confused tone, "What's so funny?"
"Hee! Hee! Hee! I'm so sorry, Shadow," the blonde female answered as she tried her best to contain her laughter. "But it's just that when you blush and felt embarrassed like you did a moment ago, you looked so cute! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings by laughing at you like that. I'm so sorry for being rude."
"No. It's alright, Mana," Shadow responded with a smile as he was beginning to calm himself down a bit while turning his attention towards the blonde magician with his usual cool demeanor again. "Miguel is just having a little fun with me just because I was mentioning something about him and a girl named Sylphiel a while back. Of course, I was a bit emotional back then before we went to rescue you a while back."
"Oh," Mana replied as she didn't take her sights off of the black hedgehog. "Then who was this Maria person that I've heard you talking about a while back? Is she like a friend of yours or something?"
When he heard the female saying those words, Shadow soon began to become surprised by the question that the girl asked him. Before he knew what he was even doing, the Ultimate Life Form soon found himself saying to her, "Maria is a human girl that I've once grew to know and love as a friend and maybe even more. When I was barely created aboard a colony that lies in the heavens of the stars, my creator, Professor Gerald Robotnik, intended to use the plans for the Ultimate Life Form to help and benefit mankind as well as heal the aliments of Maria, who happens to be his granddaughter.
"However, a special military unit known by the name of G.U.N., invaded the space colony and forcefully taken the entire facility. Along with the task, they've also killed off people who were involved with my creation..."
Just then, the black hedgehog suddenly started to become engulfed with sadness as he recalled the events from what appears to be his past life. He began to shed a few tears from within his eyes before the black hedgehog started to notice the young blonde girl looking at him sympathetically.
"Uh, Shadow, are you okay?" Mana began to ask while still looking at him with her bright emerald-colored eyes before starting to speaking again with worry, "Something terrible happened to Maria while the invasion was going on, didn't it?"
Shadow was in complete shock for when he heard that question come out of the girl's mouth. But rather than react angrily to the strange female magician as he would have thought, he answered to her while trying to hold back his own tears, "She was shot while trying to get me into an escape pod in order to save me. As her final words, she told me to protect the world that my creator once hated in order for the people over there to live long and happy lives.
But why did she not come to the escape pod with me?! The two of us could've lived long and happy lives together! I could've used the power of the Chaos Emeralds in order to stabilize her condition so that she wouldn't have to suffer! Why...!?"
That was all that the black hedgehog, the one that calls himself the Ultimate Life Form, could say before he gave into his sadness and began to cry heavily for the first time in his life.
Mana was amazed that she was looking at the what appears to be to her the most serious-looking creature that she's ever seen crying right in front of her very eyes. "Poor Shadow," the female magician thought to herself as she continued to look at the black hedgehog with a sympathetic look on her face. "He's had to suffer at watching everything that he's love being taken away from him mercilessly. I know how it feels to lose the one person that you care about the most at the hands of others just for their own personal gain. It hurts so bad just by thinking about it."
Then, without realizing what she was doing, Mana began to extend her arms towards Shadow the Hedgehog and wrapped her arms around him with a mother's care, hugging him tightly. She then heard the black hedgehog gasp with surprise as she looked down and saw him looking at her with confusion and wonder on his face. The female magician did something that whether she wasn't aware of doing it or not: she brushed her lips against the hedgehog's and kissed him tenderly as she put her hand on his cheek.
For the moment, the world around both of them seemed to freeze still as she and Shadow continued to brush their lips on one another. What she was feeling at that moment was something that she never experienced since her pass life as a human in Ancient Egypt. What she felt was excitement crawling all over her body as well as love and happiness. She also felt the need to protect the one that she started to love the most from anything or anyone that would harm him or make him unhappy again.
As both Mana and Shadow broke their kiss off for air, she suddenly saw the red blush that was developing on the black hedgehog's face. She soon began to giggle softly for when she saw Shadow's face like that.
"Well, that was quite a first for me," her black-furred friend said as she saw him turning towards her direction. "I've never been kissed by a girl before. Let alone a beautiful one like you."
But before the blushing female magician could have the chance to respond to Shadow's words, she began to hear the coughing of someone nearby. In a panic, both she and her new love began to jump with surprise and turned to find that the black hedgehog's friend, Miguel, was looking at their direction with a sort of confused and amused look on his face.
"Well! Well! Well! Look what we have here," the young man said a smirk on his face and he turned to leave the living room. "It seems that the two of you are having a good time in each other's presense and are enjoying it too. Well, I'll just leave and..."
That was when Mana began to turn her full attention back towards Shadow for when she heard him saying to the human boy with a rather shocked and loud tone in his voice, "Miguel! You shouldn't sneak up on people like that! Don't you know how to announce when to tell people that you're in the room? And.....just how long were you watching anyway?"
With a soft friendly chuckle, the female magician heard Miguel answering the black hedgehog while keeping the sly grin on his face, "Well, just long enough to see that both you and Mana are enjoying that kiss you two had. I mean, I honestly didn't expect that the two of you would try something like that and you both just barely got to know each other."
"Miguel! Please don't you dare start!" Shadow said to the young man with a threatening tone in his voice. "The last thing that I need in my life right now is a human version of Sonic trying to take some shots at me for..!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Settle down, Shadow!" Mana heard Miguel saying while seeing him hold up his hands in order to defend himself from the black hedgehog's rampage. "I'm not going to start making fun of you for kissing Mana like Sonic would normally do! Besides, there are more important things that I must discuss with you two right now."
"What do you mean by that, Miguel?" the female asked as she was becoming curious about what the young man meant by what he said. "Is there something that you've found?"
"Well, while the two of you were getting 'better acquainted,'" Miguel said with a calm tone as the young girl saw Shadow starting to calm down himself and was his usual self again, "I was scanning the entire area that we've all been in order to find any traces of powerful Chaos Energy using Tails's computer. But what did I come up with were only little bits of it in the area. From what the scanners tell me, it seems to be coming from all over the place. So far, the strongest one that I was able to pinpoint is the one that is closest to the city of North Hills."
"Do you know where this city is, Miguel?" Shadow asked his teenaged friend as Mana looked at the black hedgehog with a bit curiosity on her face.
"As a matter of fact, Shadow, I do," Miguel replied. "It's just so happens that I once lived and grew up in that city for about almost fourteen years. I know that area almost as much as I know the back of my hand. But that's not important right now. Right now, we got to see where those creatures that Parasite sent to this world went to so that we could find out where they're up to once we find them."
"But don't you think that we should wait here to see if whatever those creatures are going to come after you like those mystical beings said they would?" Mana asked while at the same time still wearing the curious look on her face.
"I don't think that it would be an option, Mana," Miguel said to her while looking at her with a serious look on his face. "For all we know, they could be just playing with us as if this is some sort of game to them. If we just stand around here just doing nothing, then a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt."
"Now that you mention it, Miguel, I'm surprised that those two creatures haven't already started to wreck this city," Shadow said to the teen while he too is as serious as his human friend. "You could be right about them just toying with us. I'm also willing to bet that they're also the ones responsible for those demons that just flew over the area that just attacked Mana a while ago."
"If what Shadow says is true, then we'd get to that area at once!" the female magician said as the realization began to dawn on her face. "The two that you said that this Parasite creature sent to this world could be capable of summoning more of those horrible demons to this city!"
"Well then, we'd better do what the lady says and start moving out at once," she heard Miguel saying while at the same time starting to arm his huge weapon with his right arm. "Mana, both you and Shadow better hold onto each other tight so that neither of you would be separated. I'll be able to warp the two of you by myself with no problems. I've been around the city more times than Shadow has and I know a place where we won't attract any unwanted attention."
"Hee! If that's the case, kid, then by all means, lead the way," Mana heard the black hedgehog saying with a smirk on his face.
By the time that Shadow said those words, the female magician felt his hand holding onto her own, which made her blush a bit. Then she saw Miguel coming towards them while at the same time holding his sword towards them without pointing the tip of its blade at them. All that she saw facing them was the surface of the long silver blade of the powerful sword before the teen began to speak again.
"Now, everyone hold on tight 'cause this is going to be one bumpy ride," Miguel said to the two of them before he shouted out, "Chaos Control!"
Then she saw the room that they were in started to lit up with a bright green light that nearly blinded her for when she felt both Shadow and herself being lifted through a tunnel of green light that she soon find that it would take them to their destination.
While still exploring the modern city of the world they're in, both Kanzel and Mazenda, while in their new sets of black leather, were on the verge of becoming entranced by the numerous amount of machines that they saw. A while ago, they both visited a street that has a huge building that's blinding with light and people that seem to come from all over the place. Right now, they're exploring inside of a building that seemed to them like a whole village was inside of it. They're just looking at the numerous amount of electronics that one of the stores had with astonishment.
"Well, this is the certainly one of the most impressive displays of the technology that these humans have ever created," Kanzel said as he stared into the huge T.V. set. "It seems that most of the machines that these humans created were build as a form of entertainment like this machine here called a Television."
"Now this is just pathetic, Kanzel!" Mazenda said to her companion as she looked at the computers that are on the walls like a display. "The humans of this worlds build some of these machines to travel to places faster than normal chariots using some type of fuels for energy as well as use much more deadlier weapons. And, from the looks of things here in this place, most of the other machines are built to mostly keep the minds of the people here entertained."
"Well, never the less, we should try to learn more about this world as much as possible," the male Monster said to his female partner as he turned his attention away from the glass screen and faced Mazenda's direction. "The energy that I'm feeling from these people is really something. I could feel the pain, anger, suffering, sorrow, and hatred from within this place as well as joy, happiness, pride, and hope."
"I have to agree with you on that, Kanzel," the female said to her partner with a small smile on her face. "However, the amount of happiness that I've sensed from this place seems to be very minimal. Not enough to cause us to become ill."
"I can see what you mean, Mazenda," Kanzel replied while turning his attention towards a group of people walking by them. "What I see within these humans' astral essences seem to emit both positive and negative energy. I seem to be getting much more powerful just by standing within this place. More than I ever did in our old world."
"I agree, Kanzel," Mazenda said with a smirk as she eyed a couple of police officers that are holding their guns to inspect them. "Not only that, but the weaponry that these humans possess are much more violent and cruel than the mere swords and knives that people of our world possess. Image the possible carnage and destruction that these weapons would bring if they were to be introduced into our world without warning."
With those words said by his partner, the male Monster began to wear a small grin on his face as he imaged the horror that the weapons his partner spoken of would bring. But his thoughts were soon cut off for when he felt a powerful surge of energy in the astral plane. The energy that he'd felt is so intense that he immediately took his attention away from the device to face Mazenda before starting to speak.
"Did you feel that surge of energy, Mazenda?" Kanzel said to his partner with a shocked expression on his face. "This energy couldn't belong to the same human boy that we just saw fight off the Bra Demons! It just couldn't be!"
"I have to agree with you, Kanzel!" the female Monster replied while at the same time as surprised as her companion. "There's no way that this power could belong to the same human that we just saw a while ago!"
"Let's go and see where this power leads to!" the male Monster said to Mazenda before the two of them started to run out of the appliance store and out of the huge building that they were in. The two of them then started to transport themselves into the astral plane as soon as they were clear of the people's sights. With great speed, the two Monsters used to their heighten senses in order to find their target.
As soon as he felt that they were at their destination, Shadow soon started to release his hold on Mana's hand and started to look around the area that they were in. From what he could see, the black hedgehog saw that they're in some sort of abandoned building. When the black hedgehog went towards the window, he saw that the building they're in must be tall for when he saw that they were almost on top of the city that the building's in.
"Just where in the world did you take us, Miguel?" Shadow asked while still in awe of the sight of the city twinkling with his eyes. "What is this place?"
"We're in an abandoned building that the officials of Panorama City forgotten for years now," Miguel answered while putting his weapon back on its resting place on his back. "I've snuck in here one day with my cousins and, quite honestly, I didn't really want to be in here to begin with. But once I started to look around in this place a bit, I thought that it would make a perfect place to warp to so that I wouldn't attract any unwanted attention from the local police."
"It has such a marvelous view, Miguel," the black hedgehog heard Mana saying before turning and saw that she was standing next to him while at the same time looking through the glass window with glittering light in her eyes. "The lights of this city is really beautiful."
"Well, I guess that it is awesome that someone else besides me thinks so, Mana," Shadow's human friend replied with a sort of flustered tone. "I come here every so often with the Chaos Control in order to find a place for myself to unwind a bit. I mean, the stress of going to college could really be to much for a guy like me to handle, you know."
"I see," the Ultimate Life Form said before turning his full attention away from the female magician's amazed gaze and towards Miguel's direction with a serious look on his face. "But why exactly are we here to begin with, Miguel? I have a feeling that you've brought us here other than show us the marvelous view."
"As a matter of fact, you're right, Shadow," Miguel answered as the black hedgehog saw his friend beginning to scan the area. "If those creatures that Nightmare Parasite has sent are as dangerous and powerful as I think they are, then they would start to search for me. If they're anything like Parasite, then they would have the same powers as it does."
"So what you're saying Miguel is that those creatures could track down the scent of your Chaos Energy like the rest of us could and follow it to its source, that right?" Shadow asked while starting to worry a bit for when he came to realization on his friend's words.
As he saw the human teen nodding in response to his question, the Ultimate Life Form began to hear Mana saying to the two of them, "Um, could you two please tell me what are you talking about? I'm afraid that I'm a bit lost about that creature Nightmare Parasite that you two mentioned from before."
While hearing that from the young female magician, Shadow began to sigh with reluctance. He knew that he would have to explain all about Nightmare Parasite to Mana, but he didn't think that he would have to explain it to her so soon. The black hedgehog also heard the same reaction coming from Miguel and his human friend began to say to him, "Shadow, I think that you'd better be the one to tell her. You could explain this much better than I could, seeing as she is your new girl friend and all."
"Miguel, don't you dare start with that again," Shadow said to the teen while giving him a mock look of anger on his face while at the same time hearing some giggling from Mana.
"Yeah. Yeah. Sure thing, lover boy," Miguel responded to him with an impful grin on his face as he started to leave towards the room's door. "I'll take a look around the place to be sure that we're all alone here and to see if those creatures are here yet. But that doesn't mean that I won't be able to hear you two doing anything."
"Hey! Now just a minute!" the black hedgehog began to shout out just before the human teen exited the room and left both him and Mana alone with each other.
The now flustered Ultimate Life Form started to turn his full attention back towards the young female magician, who he saw was giggling at the scene that just happened. He then took in a long breath of air just before he let it all out and began to walk towards the girl.
"I'm sorry for laughing like that, Shadow," Mana said to him as the black hedgehog saw her calming her soft laughter down. "It's just that when I see you and Miguel talk to one another like that, you two seemed to be like brothers."
"Hey, don't insult me," Shadow responded to the blonde magician's words with a small smile on his face before speaking again. "So where should I start on what you just asked?"
"I think that you should start by telling me exactly who or what this Nightmare Parasite creature," Mana answered the black hedgehog with a mock tone of annoyance. "I mean, who in Ra's name created it to begin with?"
"(Sighs) I guess that I have to start from the beginning," the Ultimate Life Form said while pulling himself up one of the old chairs that he found within the room and began to sit down. "You see, Mana, it all started about a few months ago for when...."
"Well, I hope that those two are getting along back in that room," Miguel thought to himself as he walked down the stair cases for what appears to be a half hour while climbing down the old stairs of the building as he put his Star Sword back into it resting place. To him, this was the third time that he had to put the powerful weapon back its resting place since leaving both Shadow and Mana with each other about forty-five minutes ago.
"Meanwhile, I'm stuck here climbing down these stairs, checking out dusty rooms, and getting freaked out by huge dust bunnies just to make sure that we don't end up having any unwanted company. Well, at least that this would give those two something to talk about to bring themselves to..."
That was all the teen could think to himself before his thoughts were cut short by the sudden eruption of noise coming from the room he was about to enter.
"Now what in the hell is that?!" Miguel shouted out as he began to open the door and started to enter the room.
When the teen entered the room, he saw a huge cloud of dust starting to envelope the atmosphere of the room, blocking some of the view that his eyes could see. As he started to clear the room of the cloud of dust, Miguel looked around the huge room in order to find the cause of the cloud. He coughed up a bit for when he inhaled some part of the dust cloud. That was when he began to feel a powerful surge of energy starting to crawl over his body like a snake slithering all over his body. Then, just before he knew what was happening, Miguel soon found himself being in another location.
"What the hell?! What is all of this?" the teen shouted as his voice seemed to echo all over to what appears to him to be Sub Space. "I'm right back in Sub Space! This is a place that I really don't want to come to ever again! But it's a bit different than what I saw back in Sylphiel's world."
Miguel was correct in his inspection of the place he was in. The place that he was in is similar to the strange and disordered plane that he once visited. However, the place he was in now is a bit bigger and much more complex compared to the outer plane that he visit for when he fought with the power mad Monster Naturon Gaav. Words could not even begin to describe the outside plane that existed within Miguel's own world.
"Well, I'll have time to sight see later," the teen said to himself out loud as he continued to scan the area. "Right now, just who in the world would send me here of all places?"
"Why I thought that you would never be able to ask, kid. Or rather, Miguel Angel Arias!" said a male voice that suddenly echoed out of nowhere.
Miguel then started to scan all around Sub Space to look for the source of the voice. As the teen looked around the dimension that he was in, he soon began to hear the voice of a female saying to him, "Well, I must say boy that you certainly surprised both of us for when you managed to put out that enormous fire and defeat that swarm of Bras Demons from our world so easily! But now you have the two of us to deal with and we're not as easy as those Bras Demon were!"
"Bras Demons!" the teen thought to himself as the sudden realization of the female's voice hit his mind like a ton of bricks. "So that was what those things were for when they've attacked both Mana and Shadow! And I bet my money that whoever that was that just spoke to me were the ones responsible for setting them loose in this city! Then that would mean that the ones capable of summoning demons into this world would have to be either high-leveled sorcerers or..."
That was when Miguel started to shout out, "Alright, Monsters! Come out and fight me! I know that you were the ones responsible for summoning those demons into my world and attacked those innocent people! So just come out and fight me!"
As soon as he was finish, the teen began to hear a roar of laughter coming from the two Monsters that sent him into Sub Space before he heard them speaking again.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! You must be awfully brave in order to challenge us like that, boy!" said the male voice with a bit of amusement in his voice. "But I'm afraid that you're sadly mistaken for when you thought that it was us that sent those Bras Demons!"
"I'm afraid that what my companion said is true, little boy!" said the female with the same tone as her partner. "Those Bra Demons were actually sent by something that I think you might be familiar with. Does the name Nightmare Parasite Chaos ring a bell to you?"
As soon as he had heard the name, Miguel started feel anger consuming his very being before he started to speak again. "So you two are the agents that thing sent to come after me!" the teen shouted angrily as his voice echoed throughout Sub Space. "How could you two become agents of that terrible creature?! What is it that you two hope to gain?!"
"Oh, we've got plenty to gain, boy!" the male said as the teen saw two shadows beginning to emerge from the depths of Sub Space. "Since coming to this world, we could feel ourselves starting to become more powerful from the energy that we've fed upon these humans' negative emotions. I mean, even as we speak, we're feeding off of the delicious anger that you're giving off and it's absolutely marvelous!"
"Not only that, boy, but the technology that we've seen is so promising and impressive!" said the female as Miguel started hear that the voice was coming from one of the dark shadows. "Not only that these humans use these machines to entertain themselves, but to cause destruction and suffering to others as well! Image the kind of damage that those tanks, jets, and submarines would bring if they were to come cross into our world!"
"That's all I've heard from the two of you!" shouted Miguel as he was beginning to lose his patience from listening to the two Monsters speak. "If you two think that you could just do what you please with this world, then you've obviously never met the likes of me before! Now show your true selves and fight me!"
"Hee! As you wish, boy!" said the male Monster as the human teen saw that the two shadow hovering above him starting to lose their dark blankets and revealed their true forms. As soon as he saw what they really are, Miguel was surprised to see who was really in front of his very eyes.
"Kanzel! Mazenda!" the teen shouted out without realizing he did as he continued to stare at the newly leather-clothed Monsters, "I've heard about you two! You were both the servants of Gaav, the Demon Dragon! Lina told me all...!"
Miguel's words were soon put to a halt for when he saw the male Monster raising his black leather-gloved hand towards his direction before he began to speak. "Don't bother trying to cover up what the two of us already know, boy! For you see, we've already learned the truth about how you were familiar with our identities and our world for when Nightmare Parasite resurrected our bodies! It told us all about your final battle with that crazed fool, Naturon and about your powers. It also told us that in this world we were nothing but a mere fantasy for these humans in this world to enjoy! But now, it's time for your people to learn that we're more than just a mere fantasy!"
"As soon as we've arrived in this world, we could already feel the lack of faith that your people have!" added Mazenda with an evil grin on her face. "I mean, without magic to protect themselves from our curses, this world should be easy to enslave! I mean, the humans that we've received our new clothing from were foolish to think that they could take us on! So we just burned them into ashes by...!"
That was when Miguel finally had enough of hearing the female Monster speaking by starting to raise his hand towards her direction and shouted, "Chaos Burst!" A sudden burst of silver energy started to appear out of the palm of the teen's hand and charged itself towards Mazenda, colliding with the female Monster head on with a huge explosion.
As soon as the smoke cleared, Miguel can fully see that the attack that he unleashed upon the Monster did minimal damage to her. But he could see that it did manage to annoy her a bit for when the ball of silver Chaos Energy collided with its target as far as he could see. Then he also noticed that both Kanzel and Mazenda both began to chuckle at what the teen just attempted.
"Well, you both seem to be pretty calm for when you're about to be blown to bits by me," Miguel said to the Monsters as he started to wonder about their laughter before Kanzel began to speaking again.
"That's because that we're not the same Monsters that Lina Inverse, as well as your people, knew before we were resurrected," the male Monster said as the teen saw both him and his partner transforming into their inhuman forms.
"Thanks to Nightmare Parasite, we've been given powers that are far beyond the ones that we used to possess," Mazenda said as she raised her claws towards Miguel's direction.
"Oh, well thanks for telling me all that. Now I have another perfect reason to kill you two now with this!" the teen shouted as he pulled out his Star Sword and pointed it sharp silver tip towards both Monsters. "You'll pay for what you did to those people you've killed! Besides, if I'm going to out of here, I would have to defeat you two!"
"That's precisely our point, boy!" Kanzel answered as both he and his female partner charged towards him at full speed.
"Now prepare to meet your maker as we tear you into oblivion!" Mazenda added while extending her huge feminine red claws towards his direction.
"It's only fair to warn you two that I'm more than just a boy and I'm way too much for the two of you to handle!" Miguel shouted back as he began to charge towards the two Monsters with his sword in hand readying to swing at them. "Now just shut your mouths and fight!"
"Hee! Hee! Hee! And so, it begins," Nightmare Parasite thought to itself as it watched the bubble-like sphere containing the image of its enemy Miguel starting his fight with both Kanzel and Mazenda. "Those two are proving quite useful in my revenge against this human. Now, all I have to do is just watch and wait for the outcome of this fight. As for my other foe, Shadow the Hedgehog...."
The creature's thoughts were soon cut short for when it turned its full attention towards another bubble that contained the image of the Ultimate Life Form, Shadow talking with the young girl in a female magician's outfit that he and Miguel had saved from the Bras Demons that Nightmare Parasite had sent to attack them before.
"That hedgehog, the one that dares call himself The Ultimate Life Form, is going to have some guests to keep him and his new pretty girlfriend very entertained," the creature thought to itself as it gave out a snake like chuckle in its voice. "They may have dealt with the Bras Demons before, but this time they won't have Miguel to defend them now that he's in another dimension."
"Master Parasite, pardon my intrusion, but are you busy?" asked a voice that suddenly came out of the recesses from within the dimension that Nightmare Parasite lived in since its first defeat.
"Shade the Red Shadow, you can never be a bother to me, my wonderful creation,"the creature asked the figure with a curious tone in its hissing sounding voice. "What brings you here, Shade? Weren't you suppose to be guarding your younger brothers and sisters as well as your two near complete comrade generals until their time has come for them to be awaken?"
"I was feeling a bit curious at what those two Monsters that you've sent to Earth were up to," the vampire-like human said to its creator while bowing to it at the same time before pulling his long brown hair away from his face. "I never did trusted those two since you've brought them back from beyond the grave despite the fact that they have not yet seen me."
"Well, don't be so jealous, my servant," Nightmare Parasite said to his aristocratic creation as the two of them stared at the two screens containing their foes. "Both Kanzel and Mazenda are just tools for one of my experiments. They are just there on that planet to see if that human boy, Miguel, is much more powerful than I think he is. I mean, I did managed to use part of his DNA as well as his beautiful girlfriend Sylphiel to create you and your four younger siblings. But I also have other plans for them if they should fail."
A grin soon spread across the vampire's face for when he saw the fight that the human known as Miguel putting with his sword against both Monsters in their true forms. Shade also noticed a silver aura starting to envelope the young human's entire form as it watched the fight and was soon mesmerized by it. The liquified creature saw the look on its servant's face and began to speak.
"So, you noticed it too, Shade?" Nightmare Parasite said to the vampire servant as it started to turn its attention back towards the image containing both Shadow and the blonde female magician talking with one another, "Well, compared to the two that I's just about release the Bras Demons to, this boy that I fought with in the past seems to be emitting a kind of power that even I couldn't begin to describe. And from the looks of things here, I'd say that neither one of his friends has a clue or didn't detect the power that he emitted other than that coming from the Star Sword."
"Then, what do you suppose we do about it, master?" asked Shade the Red Shadow to his creator, "Do you suppose that we should have that human 'father' of mine eliminated?"
"No, not yet, Shade," the powerful parasitic liquid creature responded to his servant with a tone of amusement in its voice. "We are still not yet ready to launch a full scale attack on Miguel just yet. We need more DNA data and energy in order to awaken your younger siblings from their slumbers as well as your two comrade generals. So, for now, all we could do is just watch and see the out come. In the mean time I'm going to send the Bras Demons to feast upon the little snack all prepared for them. But I do have one thing for you to do, my obedient servant. It's about for if both Kanzel and Mazenda do fail in their mission and have the courage to show their faces in this plain of existence again. So listen very carefully 'cause I'm only going to say this once."
With a evil smile on his face, Shade bowed to his master respectfully and listened carefully at what the liquified clone of Chaos has to say to him.
After hearing Shadow's explanation about the creature known as Nightmare Parasite Chaos, Mana started to think about what he just told her.
"This is incredibly remarkable," she thought to herself as continued to contemplate what the black hedgehog said to her. "From what Shadow has told me, this creature seems to be very powerful and unpredictable. I couldn't image what such a creature could do if it were to arrive in my world. I bet Shadow would, seeing that he's been through a battle with this Nightmare Parasite once. Image what would happen if those two agents were to..."
Mana's thoughts were then cut short for when she heard Shadow starting to say to her, "Mana, I'm sorry that all of this is too much for you to understand. But you have to try to understand that what you've just faced a while ago is small compared to what we're about to face next."
"No, it's alright, Shadow," the female magician responded to her friend as she began to look towards his direction with a gentle smile on her face. "It just that everything from what you've just told me makes perfect sense. What I don't understand is that friend of yours. Miguel seems to be a bit too normal-looking to be a powerful human being for this Nightmare Parasite to send its agents against."
"I know exactly what you mean, Mana," the black hedgehog said to her as he seems to be a curious. "I mean, from what Sonic and the guys had told me, Miguel seems to possess powers that surpass even that of the Chaos Emeralds."
"And what about that sword that he was holding a while back?" Mana asked Shadow as she heard the him giving out a huge sigh before he began to speak.
"Oh, you mean the Star Sword?" the black hedgehog asked as the female nodded her head to answer. "Well, I happen to know very little about it, I'm afraid. The same thing with my friends, Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and even himself Miguel. I mean, he doesn't even know where that sword came from or who gave it to him to begin with. All we did know that it chose him for a purpose. As for what the purpose is, well, we honestly don't know."
"Do you suppose that those mystical beings that sent both you and me to this world might have something to do with it, Shadow?" the female magician asked Shadow with the thought of the beings that gave her the stone that brought her into the world that she's now in.
"Well, I think that you might be onto something there, Mana," she heard the black hedgehog saying to her as she gasp in surprise of what she just said to him. "It could be possible that whoever are those beings that sent both you and me into this world to protect Miguel are also the ones who gave him the Star Sword for when we had fought with Ixis. But what's the use sending us here with these green gems?"
As she saw Shadow pulling out a green gem stone that was similar to one that sent her to the world she's now in, Mana was about to pull out her own stone before she started to hear the black hedgehog gasping with surprise. She then saw him beginning to scan the room that they were in with a serious look on his face. The female magician started to become fearful for when she saw that look the black hedgehog saw that look on his face.
"Shadow, what is it?" Mana asked with a fearful tone in her voice while looking around in the room before starting to feel a terrible power surging from within her body. "(Gasp!) Shadow do you feel that?"
While seeing him nod his head in order to respond to her question, the female suddenly began to see one of the same demons that had attacked her from before. When she saw this, Mana started to see another one of its companions appearing out of the shadows while being accompanied by a few more. Before she knew it, both she and Shadow were surrounded by a horde of the winged and large-horned demons.
"What do we do now, Shadow?" Mana asked with a fear in her voice as she summoned her magic rod into her hands and pointed it to one of the approaching creatures. "It looks as though we're surrounded by those creatures."
"Looks like we've got ourselves a fight to deal with, Mana" she heard Shadow saying to her while at the same time giving one of the approaching demons a serious and threatening look on his face. "Do you think that you could handle them?"
"Well, I don't know, Shadow," the female said to the black hedgehog in a nervous tone along with a bit of hesitation in her voice. "I mean, I didn't last long enough against these demons the first time that I've fought with them and I'm not so sure that if..."
Before she could utter out some more words of protest, Mana suddenly saw Shadow closing his hand with the green gem stone in the palm of his hand and saw the most amazing thing that she has seen in her entire life. What she saw was a powerful green aura that surrounded the black hedgehog's entire body which then turned into a yellow color a few seconds later. While confused at Shadow's actions, the female magician soon turned her full attention back towards the green stone that she held in her hand and started to squeeze it tight into her palm.
Seconds before the female magician knew what was happening, her body was soon being engulfed with a great and pulsating energy. She saw the aura of green energy being replaced by the purple aura that she used for when she chanted one of her spells.
"This power!" Mana thought to herself as the aura around her body continued to remain on her body. "It's unlike anything that I've ever experienced! Not even the power of the pharaoh himself could be a match for anything like this! Just how...?"
Her thoughts were then cut short for when she heard Shadow saying to her with the golden light still surrounding his body. "I don't know exactly how this happened to the both of us, Mana, but just be grateful that it did. Now, we stand a much better chance at dealing with these creatures together. Let's teach these creatures that it's not nice to come uninvited."
With a smile on her face, the female magician started to gather energy from within her staff and shouted out with a confident tone in her voice as she released the power within the tip of her staff towards the attacking demons, "Dark Magic Attack!"
Somewhere outside of the world, in an dimension between time and space, three mystical beings watched the events as they are being played out.
"The battles that the human boy, Miguel and his two friends, Shadow and Mana, are having are right underway, my comrades," said one of the beings whose voice matched that of a elderly male voice . "Nightmare Parasite is becoming much more dangerous than we thought it would be."
"You're correct about that, wise one," a teenaged female voice replied to the male being as all three of them watched the separate battles from two huge bubble-like screens that projected the battles before them. "It was rather fortunate that the young magician named Mana and the black Mobian called Shadow have finally found out the use of the green gem stones that we've given them as well as suspect that we are the ones that gave Master Arias the Star Sword. Although, I do not think that the black hedgehog liked the idea of the three of us resurrecting his beloved from the beyond in order to give him the stone."
"But we have no choice under these circumstances, sister," a male voice that sounded like that he was in his mid-twenties said in while having a serious tone like his companions. "Nightmare Parasite is beginning to become more powerful and dangerous for each cell of DNA that it has extracted from its hosts. Now, even the three of us are no longer a match for the power that this creature now possesses. It was even able to elude us from ever finding its great energy for this long. We don't even know what we could do next except watch as these three warriors fight their own battles."
"You have to give the boy and his Mobian friends little more credit than that, brother," said the female being with a rather calm demeanor despite her brother's worried tone of voice. "Don't forget that the five of them have proven more than once that they are able to accomplish anything that was thrown into their path.
"Robotnik and his mechanical counterpart first tried to rule the Earth realm with the great powers of the Master Emerald to merge Master Arias's world with Mobius, but failed miserably. Then there was Ixis Naugus, who tried to do the same thing with the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds as well as tried to obtain the Star Sword in order to gain great power. But in the end, he ended up being blown into the void by his own hunger and greed for power. Other beings from various worlds and universes entered the Earth and tried to conquer it as well, but failed."
"I happen to agree with your sister, my friend," replied the elderly being while keeping a serious tone in his voice. "However, you are right about the creature. This Nightmare Parasite creature is unlike any other being that either of us has ever seen for many eons. It was able to save itself by leaving its shelled body to be blown into oblivion by the Dark Lord's amplified spell while the main portion of its being still existed. The portion that contains its mind as well as its hateful and dreaded soul. Now it waits in a place that we can't find as it tried to regain its full strength again or rather try to surpass Master Arias's own power. All we could do now for the moment is to watch and see if the young human's friends, Shadow and Mana, have what it takes to over come what would soon be in store for them. Somehow, I have faith that the two of them would do alright."
"Let's just hope that those two, along with others, are able to help Master Arias in his quest to regain the power and form that he once held, master," said the male being with a serious tone while at the same time feeling a bit worried. "If the human is unable to accept and fulfill his destiny, then not only would his world and universe suffer, but others would be in a great and dire deal of pollution and chaos as well as our own."
"Then pray that Master Arias and his friends would be able to handle this on their own so that the three of us would not be able to intervene, brother," answered the sister being. "But somehow, I have faith that everything would turn out good in the end. All we have to do is wait and be patient in order to see if the events would turn out for the better or would be the first step into bringing the entire universe into oblivion."
End of Part 3
