Part 4
Notes to readers: I know that I've been late in updating this fic, but I've been under a lot of stress with my work in trying to balance my work with my story writing. But to make up for it, I hope that this new chapter would be good enough to read. Oh as for what you said, Aoi-Chan14, to answer your remark, I would like to say that it's just the way that I write my stories. But thanks for being honest with me. Well, that's it for the notes. I hope that you enjoy the chapter. Later!
As they both saw the young human dodge an upcoming attack that Kanzel threw at his direction, Mazenda saw Miguel beginning to scan his head all around Sub Space in order to see where her male companion went. As she saw him doing so, Mazenda vanished in between dimensions again and waited for her chance to puncture her long and sharp red claws right at the young human's body. Just as she started to charge at him from the shadows, the female Monster suddenly heard him shouting out loud, "Chaos Control!"
Before she knew what was happening or even got the chance to get closer to him, Mazenda saw the young human starting to become enveloped in a green light for the moment and saw him vanish in just an instant. As the female Monster started to scan her surroundings in order to find the young human male from within Sub Space, she began to say to Kanzel with a tone of both confusion and anger in her voice, "Where the hell did that young human brat go, Kanzel! When I get my hands on him, I'll...!"
Just before she could finish the rest of her sentence, Mazenda soon started to see a huge ball of light speeding its way towards her direction and just before it could have the chance to hit its target, she vanished right back into another dimension just in time. As she was still a little surprised to what just happened, the female Monster started to look at her right arm and saw that she had sustained a bit of damage from what the light had delivered. Before she could have the chance to start scanning for the human that threw her that attack, Mazenda suddenly felt the hand of her companion Kanzel starting to hold onto her arm with all of his strength.
"Take it easy, Mazenda!" the male Monster said to his companion as he appeared right by her side while still taking her by her monstrous arm. "We won't win this battle if you're all angry and rabid! Now, as for where that boy went, try to remember what Nightmare Parasite told us all about him and his friends for when we were first brought back into existence?
"It said that the ones called Sonic, Shadow, Sylphiel, and Miguel are able to use an ability called Chaos Control to warp through time and space. So obviously, the boy Miguel is trying to use that ability of his in order to confuse and tire us out. But fortunately, this ability would take a lot of his physical energy in order to keep it in affect. If I hadn't pulled you out of the clearly of his attack like I did, then you would've been blown to astrol pieces by now."
"So, what are we suppose to do, Kanzel?" the female Monster responded to her partner with an angry tone. "Are we just going to let him get away with this?"
"In case that you haven't heard a word that I've said, Mazenda," Kanzel said to Mazenda with a calm voice while at the same time feeling a bit annoyed, "I said that Miguel needs to use a lot of his own energy in order to use that Chaos Control ability of his. So eventually, when the boy starts to feel a bit fatigue for using that warping ability too much, he'll be out in the open ready for the two of us to attack at any time without any defense to resist."
As soon as the female Monster heard those words from her partner, she began to calm herself and started to feel overjoyed at the sudden thought of seeing the human boy being slaughtered by her clawed hands. Both her and Kanzel waited for the time when their prey would appear and pounce on him.
As he started feel a bit fatigued from his long usage of energy in order to maintain the power of the Chaos Control, Miguel scanned the time-frozen area in order to see where both of his monstrous opponents went.
"Damn! I can't believe that Mazenda was able to dodge my attack! If she were really dead, then I wouldn't be feeling her presence along with Kanzel right now," the male teen thought to himself as he continued to scan all over Sub Space for the two Monsters. "Now, not only that I'm feeling low on energy in order to keep up the time freezing affect of the Chaos Control, but I can't seem to find either of them anywhere. And when they both see me appear out of nowhere with little energy in my body, I'm a sitting duck!
"I guess I should've absorbed a couple of Power Rings before starting to look around the place before my unexpected trip into Sub Space. I guess that there's no choice but to just come out and hope that I could come up with a sort of plan to get myself out of this mess. Well, here it goes nothing."
As soon as he's finished with those thoughts in his mind, Miguel started to let the time freezing affect of the Chaos Control pass and time all around his being started to return back to its own normal pace. "Considering that a place like this could be called normal," the teen thought to himself as he started to look all around Sub Space again. "Now, if this were a movie, then somebody would be able to spring a trap on me, right about..."
Just before he could have a chance to finish his thought, Miguel suddenly saw a barrage of red energy spheres coming towards him at an incredible speed. Just before they could hit, the teen started to concentrate and a invisible dome of energy started to manifest itself around his being before the energy projectiles could hit. As he saw the barrage of crimson energy bombard their way onto the shield, Miguel found himself breathing in and out hard for air while at the same time using his Star Sword as a support to keep himself on his feet.
"Well, that could've gone better," he thought sarcastically to himself as the huge spheres of energy continued their relentless assault on the force field that he soon saw began to falter, "Now what I'm going to do? I've used up most of my energy in order to use the time freezing affect of the Chaos Control and now the remainder of it is being used to support this shield that I'm holding up. If only I had a Power Ring..."
As if responding to his request, the teen saw a pair of huge golden rings suddenly appearing out of nowhere, hovering right in front of him. While staring at the golden pair of Power Rings with awe in his eyes, Miguel soon began to turn his full attention towards his weapon that he had used as a staff to keep him on his feet and conscious and saw it emitting a powerful golden light like the two talismans that his blue friend Sonic normally used. He then turned his full attention back towards the Power Rings and saw that the light from them dispel the barrage of red energy balls that once caused him grief out of existence.
"Okay, now that was unexpected," the teen thought to himself as he turned his sights back towards his glowing Star Sword. "It seems that the Star Sword is trying to help me out here. Almost as if it would give me the thing that I would need most in order to survive. Well, whether this is an illusion or not, this seems to be my only way out of this mess."
With those thoughts done in his mind, Miguel started to reach for the two rings in front of him and grabbed onto one of them. Then, before he knew what was happening, the other ring that was next to the one that he was about to absorb suddenly started to merge with the one that he was about to use and felt an incredible surge of energy coursing throughout his entire body. When the sensation finally passed, Miguel soon started to raise his hand and shouted out, "Chaos Spear!"
Then, out of nowhere, several dozen spears of silver energy appeared and started to charge themselves towards the direction where the red projectiles once originated from. As he saw the silver spears of energy explode with the collision of their targets, the teen began to look through the smoke that his attack caused and saw the two Monsters coughing and feeling annoyed by what just happened to them. As he saw the two turning their grotesque faces towards his direction, Miguel soon saw both Kanzel and Mazenda started to charge with angry expressions.
"Well, it seems that those two weren't so pleased with my little surprise," he thought to himself just before jumping out of the path of the two Monsters' attack while at the same time trying to evade and slash at their energy attacks that they've unleashed with his weapon as well as their sneak attacks. "Well, I hope that the energy from the Power Rings are enough to keep me alive against those two as well as the Star Sword.
"If I used the Desolation Blade then this whole planet is going to be destroyed. I guess that all I could for now do is just hold out and hope for an opportunity to strike back would come along. At least both Shadow and Mana aren't here to see this. They're probably making out with one another at this very moment while I'm stuck here fighting two powerful Monsters that were brought back from the dead by Nightmare Parasite. Just wait until..."
But just before Miguel could come up with another thought, he soon saw an incoming energy attack from Kanzel starting to charge itself towards his direction at an incredible speed. Just before the ball of evil crimson energy could collide with its target however, the teen just barely managed to put up another barrier of energy in order to defend himself. However, he was unaware of the female Monster, Mazenda appearing right behind him and giving him a swipe of her claws just before he turned for face his adversary. Fortunately for him, Miguel was able to evade the sneak attack just before it could barely reach his back while ripping some of the fabric off of his white shirt in the process.
As he began to back away from the female Monster, the teen scanned his surroundings in order to see where her partner disappeared to. Then, without any warning, Miguel started to see a field of shadow and darkness encircling around him like a pack of wolves surrounding their prey. But just before the mists of shadows were about to envelop him completely, the teen started to grab onto the handle of his weapon with both of his hands and raised it towards the sky until he started to ram its silver blade towards the ground. As soon as he saw the Star Sword's blade being submerged into the ground, Miguel saw a powerful wave of golden energy started to appear from the place where the tip is placed and started to push back the darkness with its light. When the shroud of black shadows are backed away from him, the teen saw the shrouds of darkness starting to take shape and found himself looking at the struggling form of Kanzel trying to recover from what just happened to him.
"Well, it seems that trick that I'd once used on Ixis came in pretty handy after all," Miguel said to the two Monsters while at the same time wearing a grin on his face as he lifted his weapon off of the ground and started to point it at his two opponents. "You two obviously had no idea of who you're messing with. Either you two back out and never return to this world ever again or take your medicines like real Monsters. Of course, I'm not sure if I should be calling you two Monsters anymore. Sure, Xellos can be a bit of a prick for when he was around me back in his world, but I feel like I would be insulting him if I compare the two of you to him."
When he was done talking, the teen started to hear both Kanzel and Mazenda laughing in response to his words. He was confused at the answer the two Monsters gave as he carefully kept his Star Sword's blade aimed at them without losing sight of them for a second. That was when he heard Kanzel starting to speak to him with a cunning tone of voice while still smiling at him with their menacing faces
"Well, when you put it like that, we should start thanking Parasite for these new powers of ours. Hee! Hee! Hee!" the male Monster responded with a menacing edge to his voice. "Just before we had our final battle with Lina Inverse, Xellos had the nerve to show himself at the most inappropriate time just when we were about to show her what happens to people that get in our way! And he has the nerve to call himself a Monster! Ha!"
"You've got that right, Kanzel," Mazenda added in with her partner's words. "If that imp of a Monster General/Priest hadn't showed his face at that time, we would've gained half of the world alongside Lord Gaav! There's no way that we're going to allow a young human boy like you to interfere with our plans for this world!"
"Well, I hate to disappoint you two, but you're not doing anything to this world as long as I live and breathe!" the teen shouted to the two Monsters while at the same time feeling a bit angered by the plan he heard as he gripped onto the handle of his Start Sword even tighter. "So just shut your mouths up and start fighting before I do it for you!"
As his words reached the Monsters ears, Miguel soon saw them starting to charge themselves towards his direction with great speed. The teen soon prepared himself for the attack that his two opponents were about to unleash before starting his second round with them.
As both he and Mana started to defend themselves against the demons' first strike, Shadow started to unleash a barrage of Chaos Spears on the first horde that struck. When he saw some of them vanishing into nothingness, the black hedgehog then saw that some of them had managed to escape the blast by hiding within the shadows of the building that they're all in. Then he saw that they were joined by other demons that had just begun their own attack towards their prey. But just before they could come within distant towards him, Shadow heard the voice of the female magician shouting out, "Dark Magic Attack!"
Before he knew what was happening, the Ultimate Life Form saw a huge ball of black energy hurling itself towards the group of demons that were about to attack him. As soon as he saw them vanishing from existence, Shadow then turned his full attention back towards Mana as she said to him with a smirk on her face, "You've missed some, Shadow dear."
The black hedgehog was surprised and taken back a bit for when he heard her calling him by that name. However, that was soon forgotten for when he saw another horde of winged demons start charging towards him at full speed. As soon as his full attention were back on the monsters, he then began to shout out, "Chaos Nightmare!"
As soon as he threw his glowing yellow hand towards the winged demons' direction, he saw them being engulfed by another electrical storm of multi-colored Chaos Energy as it caused them to screech with pain before fading from sight. The black hedgehog turned his attention back towards Mana to see how she was holding out. To his surprised, he saw that the young lady was handling the other demons just fine on her own.
Shadow saw Mana throwing a barrage of dark magic energy spheres at her attackers with the assistance of her staff while the demons fell one by one like fire works at the Fourth of July from within the building that they're in. As he saw her continuing her assault on the beasts, the Ultimate Life Form soon began to have a thought on his mind that was bugging him since both he and Mana absorbed the power that was granted to them by the green gem stones. He noticed that his Chaos Spear attack was much stronger than it had been the previous times that it had been used. He also noticed the strength of the Mana's magical attack was stronger than it had been before she'd absorbed the energy of the green stone. But he soon dismissed the thought as he turned his attention back towards the battle for when he realized that huge battle was starting to cause a huge commotion on the ground that he saw through the window.
"Mana! We have to finish these creatures off as quickly as possible!" Shadow said to the female magician as he fired off another barrage of Chaos Spears at another pack of attacking demons. "The people below the ground are starting to go into a panic! If any of the demons see them, then they could be in trouble!"
As he saw her gave a nod of her head in response to his question, the black hedgehog saw Mana starting to point the tip of her staff towards the ceiling and, out of nowhere, a huge golden halo appeared out of it. He then saw the ring beginning to grow to a size that was enough to entrap an entire pack of wolves in its grasp. The female magician send the huge golden ring towards another pack of winged-demons which made them paralyze with both fear and confusion. When it finally surrounded the beasts in its gold embrace, the ring soon began to shrink and engulfed the demons within its light, immediately destroying them.
When Shadow saw that the pack of demons were no more than thin air, he scanned around and saw that only a few of them remained. The reaction that he saw on the remaining creatures matched that of rabbits being out cornered by a huge wolf. Just as he was about to think that they were no more of a threat, the black hedgehog saw an upcoming demon jumping from within the shadows hurtling itself towards the young girl. With reflexes as fast as a jack rabbit, the black hedgehog started to gather golden energy within his hand as he started to feel fear as well as anger towards the monster that was about to attack the girl that now captured his heart.
"Mana! Behind you! Chaos Spear!" Shadow shouted to the blonde female as he threw the spear of yellow energy towards the demon that was about to assault her. The spear of yellow Chaos Energy went as quick as a flash for when it hit its mark while missing the female magician at the same time. The demon disappeared into nothingness for when the attack hit it in the chest.
For when she saw her attacker fading into air, Mana soon heard the voice of Shadow asking her with a tone of concern in his voice, "Are you alright, Mana? Did that demon hurt you?"
The female magician soon blushed for when she learned about the black hedgehog's concern for her well being. She then shook it off for when she saw one more appearing from within the shadows of the dark broken down room they're in and pounced on Shadow with all of its strength. That was when Mana started to point her staff towards the hideous monster and shouted out, "Oh no! Shadow! Shadow Bolt!"
For when she shouted the attack, a bolt of dark electricity started coming out of the tip of her staff and shot it straight for the demon on the black hedgehog. As soon as the demon was off of Shadow and is no more than memory, Mana went up to the black hedgehog and said to him, "I think that it might be the last of them, Shadow. Are you going to be alright?"
She saw the black hedgehog smiling at her as he said while dusting himself, "Hee! I've taken better hits from beings way worse than those guys. I'll feel better once I get a bit of rest, so I'll be alright."
Mana smiled a bit for when she heard those words come from Shadow's mouth and gave out a red shade of embarrassment and shyness on her face. When she was about to walk over to give the hedgehog a kiss on his cheek, the female magician suddenly felt a powerful force shaking the very room that they're in. She tried to keep her feet's balance, but the shaking of the ground beneath her feet was too much for her to handle.
However, just before she could fall hard onto the ground, Mana felt the arm of Shadow pulling her closer towards him. The female magician was a bit flushed at the fact that Shadow had strong arms in order to carry and support her weight. But she soon snapped herself back into reality for when she realized that now was not the time to start day dreaming about being held be her own knight in shining armor.
"Just what in Ra's name was that, Shadow?" she asked as she felt the black hedgehog helping her to maintain her balance as the shaking of the building continued. "There's no way that the structure of this building is starting to fall apart so soon after our battle with those demons!"
"I have to agree with you on that, Mana," Shadow responded as he continued to hold onto her waist very tight and securely while managing to maintain his own balance. "I'm starting to feel very powerful Chaos Energies that's not coming from within this realm! Almost as if it's coming from a different plane from within this world! Whatever it is, I'm sure that Miguel is somehow involved!"
"What do you mean by that, Shadow?" the female magician asked her black and crimson hero as she looked around the room. "Have you felt something like this before?"
"Well, it's sort of like this, Mana," the black hedgehog responded as he took in a deep breath and let out a sigh of relief for when he felt that the tremors beneath his feet were starting to calm down, "One time, me along with three of my other friends, went to a world where magic like yours still exists. Only this one seems to be more in tone with the powers of holy Gods and Dark Lords.
"Anyway, my friend Miguel went there to check things out because he felt that the shrine maiden Sylphiel was starting to suffer at the hands of this Monster named Naturon Gaav. As it turns out, he was once a Monster subordinate under the control of a Dark Lord called Gaav the Demon Dragon King. He somehow got his hands on a Chaos Emerald and started to go on a rampage.
"Just before that final battle, both Naturon and Miguel started to fight in a dimension that the sorceress named Lina Inverse called Sub Space. The battle between those two was so immense that it shook the outside world with the power of their great attacks and I'm thinking that the same thing might be happening right here, Mana. So whatever is happening to him right now must be pretty intense in order to cause a tremor of this magnitude."
Mana didn't say anything else after Shadow finished his explanation. What she heard from the black hedgehog was pretty serious and rather interesting.
"It would seem that whatever creatures that are attacking Miguel right now must be very strong in order to cause the entire building to shake this hard," the female magician thought to herself as she continued to feel the ground beneath her feet vibrating with an incredible but steady pace. "But what I don't understand is why exactly are those other demons that attacked before here for just me and Shadow to begin with? Now that I don't quite..."
Mana's thoughts were soon cut short for when she heard a low but loud savage roars coming from outside of the building's windows. When she looked at the windows, what she saw was another group of the winged demons hovering outside of the window with their wings for support. Just before she could have the chance to say anything, she saw Shadow let go of Mana's waist and started moving towards the window with a annoyed and menacing look on his face just before he spoke.
"Geez! It's like these things just don't know when to quit! Well, if they want to fight some more, then so be it!" the black hedgehog said as he started to charge towards the window and crashed right through it.
But before she could react to his sudden action, the female magician saw something that she hadn't quite expect. What Mana saw was Shadow starting to hover above the sky near the building without the use of wings. Before she could wonder about how he managed to do so, the blonde then started to look down on his feet and saw powerful jets of light and energy starting to come out of the bottom of his shoes. Just as she was going to ask the black hedgehog about how he was able to hover in the air like he did without the use of wings, Mana heard the shriek of the winged black demons beginning to charge in attack formation.
"I don't think so, you creeps!" she heard Shadow shouted to the creatures just as she saw him beginning to gather multi-colored energy from within his hand just as he yelled out his attack. "Chaos Nightmare!"
Just as he called out his attack, she saw him extending his hand with the multi-colored power and, all of a sudden, a powerful storm of powerful electrical energy began to engulf the pack of wild demons with its presence. However, some of them managed to escape the electrical storm without being singed once and started to charge Shadow from behind. That was when Mana began jump out of the same window that the black hedgehog went through and started to hover in the air herself with the help of her now amplified magic.
"Shadow! Get out of the way now!" she shouted out to her black friend/lover just before she started to point her staff towards the charging demon as she shouted out her ultimate attack. "Magical Wave!"
Maria Eliza, a regular brown-haired teenaged high school girl from James Monroe high school, was walking around the city of Panorama just as she exited the movie theater near the All Amusement video arcade.
"(Sigh!) I guess that even my usual clothes hunt and going to the movies didn't give me any ideas for a new topic for my forum on the internet," she thought to herself as she looked at her watch and read that it was beginning to become 8:45 p.m. on it. "I mean, the ratings of my website is starting to plummet since the new series of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
"I wish that there was something that I could put up in it that's worth for everyone to hear about. Something that's got to be interesting enough for me to put up in the forum so that I could put my site back in the list. But the question is what should..."
Just before she could have the chance to finish her thoughts, Maria began to hear a loud explosion coming from above the sky near the old medical building that was shut down fifty years ago after the quake of 1994. As she looked up at the sky near the huge abandoned building, what she saw was about a few hundred dozen figures all covered in shadows. Then suddenly, she saw the shadowy figures starting to erupt into sparks of yellow light bursting like fire crackers in the sky.
"What the hell! Just what is happening up there?" she thought to herself as she tried to make out what was going on where the old building is placed. "If only I could get a closer look on what's causing the fireworks display up there. Maybe..."
That was when Maria started to search through her purse just before she found her fully digitized camera that has a memory card that can be used to put into any computer. She began to focus and zoom her camera's lens just so she could see who or what was causing the huge commotion of people that she soon started to notice gathering around her. As the people loudly chattered and talked to one another, the high school female teenager soon got her camera's lens to finally focus so that she could see what was causing the burst of lights that she and the people saw.
"Cool, I have a clear view. Now let's see what's going near that old building," the teenaged girl thought to herself just as she aimed at one of the figures that caused the explosions. "Now, thanks to the new shadow removing system in my camera, I'll be able to see what was it that caused that huge Fourth of July display without a permit. Now, if I could just hold still for long enough, then maybe I could..."
Just as she finally got her camera's lens to focus, Maria started to see something that she could not believe. What she saw were a pack of winged-demons with sharp fangs and teeth along with huge horns on their heads. From what she could see, there seemed to be a pack of the wild winged-monsters flying around the air of the tall and old abandoned building. She also noticed that most of the demons that she saw were being engulf in a electrical cloud of powerful yellow energy.
That was when the teenaged girl started to notice another shadowy figure with spikes. The crimson streak on them made it seemed as if they were glowing within the dark shadows of the night sky. As soon as the creature gathered yellow light energy from within its hand, Maria began to become surprised for when she saw its face with her camera's lens.
"What the hell! Shadow the Hedgehog! Here in this world!" the high school girl thought to herself as her mind tried to process the image in front of her eyes as she took the pictures with her camera. "I must be imaging things. I mean, that black hedgehog is only a game and anime character that my little brothers watches on TV and plays on his PS2 game system! But then what's...?"
Just before she could finish her thoughts, Maria saw another swarm of demons flying towards what appears to be Shadow the Hedgehog at full speed. But they never got the chance to reach their prey for when the high school girl saw a wave of dark magical energy hitting the demons full on. As she was curious as to what caused the powerful attack, the young high school girl soon turned her camera's lens towards the direction where the dark magical wave came from and saw someone that she didn't quite expect to see.
"Whoa! That's the Dark Magician Girl!" Maria thought to herself as she caught a few of the pictures of the female magician Yu-Gi-Oh! monster with her camera while at the same time ignoring the yelling crowd of people. "Now, either this is a very good publicity stunt that both companies are trying to pull or this is some sort of illusion that some mad men are trying to pull. Whatever the case, the pics that I'm taking here are sweet. Damn, is my website going to be very popular with these. Is there anything else that I would like to take that would make things more interesting?"
As if to answer the question her mind, the young lady soon saw the Dark Magician Girl hovering herself towards black hedgehog just before he started to grab her around the waist and started to fly off with the blushing female magician into the sky with the demons on their tails. "Now this is something that is so rare that I won't be able to catch on film very often," Maria thought to herself as looked at her camera and smiled at the images that she was able to catch in her digital camera.
As he continued to fly up in the sky away from the old huge building with Mana in his embrace, Shadow looked back and saw the pack of wild demons still gaining on their trail.
"Damn! Those demons just don't know when to quit even when they know they're overpowered, do they?" the Ultimate Life Form thought to himself as he continued to fly up towards the sky with the female magician around his arm. "If those demons are just going to make us fight all the time, then I guess that there's no other choice."
When the thoughts in his mind are finished, Shadow began to stop his flight just as he unwrapped his arms that were on Mana's waist. "Shadow, what are you doing?" the female magician asked as he turned his direction towards the scary monsters with a worried tone in her voice. "There's too many of those demons for you to fight all by yourself! If you're really thinking about fighting them, then at least let me help you. I don't want you to be killed because I wasn't able to help you. So please let me help you."
That was when black hedgehog started to turn towards Mana's direction looked at her. Before he could have a chance to protest, he saw her looking at him with a worried and yet sad look on her face. From the way she looked, Shadow knew that the female magician was concerned about his safety. Something that he wasn't quite used to since the incident on the space colony ARK.
Then, just as they were about to hover towards one another to look deeply into each other's eyes, the roar of the demons soon stopped them from doing so. The horrid battle cry was a sure sign that the monsters are closing in on them. Shadow soon started to back away from Mana as he turned his full attention back towards the demons as he saw them getting closer to them by the second.
"I hate it when those things ruin a perfect moment! They'll pay for that!" the black hedgehog thought to himself as he began to gather yellow energy within his hand just as he shouted out his most devastating attack. "Chaos Nightmare!"
As soon as he shouted out those words, the demon pack soon become engulfed in another cloud of powerful electricity. Shadow saw that some of them took the full hit of the attack and vanishing out of existence while the others started to flee for their lives like frightened dogs. "Looks like you creatures think that you could get away from me, huh? Well, here comes another Chaos...!"
Just as he was about to shout out another one of his Chaos Nightmare attacks, the Ultimate Life Form suddenly felt a powerful burning pain coming over the left side of his back. As he turned his head in order to see where the source of the pain came from, Shadow soon found himself looking a very large and stronger-looking demons that's different from all of the others. Just before he could have another look at the creature, the burning pain that its attack made was causing him to lose his energy and consciousness. Before the darkness could take full hold of him, the black hedgehog soon began to notice the horrified look on Mana's face just as his body gave out on him.
Mana watched in horror at what happened to Shadow for when the unknown demon suddenly appeared from behind him and struck him with a crimson bolt of energy on his back. Just as she saw his unconscious body starting to fall from the sky, the blonde female started to glide herself towards him as fast as her magic would allow her to. Just as the two of them started to plummet back towards the ground, Mana tried, with all of her strength, to reach the black hedgehog's unconscious form before she loses him for good. However, just as both she and Shadow were finally back in the airspace above the city that they were in, the female magician finally grabbed onto her new love's body and started to magically hover in the air once again.
Just as she carried Shadow's body in her arms, Mana began to look around in order to search for a place to rest the black hedgehog's body in order to try to tend to his wounds. When her eyes finally rested on a building that was much taller and older than the rest, the female magician finally realized that it was the same building that she, Shadow, and his friend Miguel were in before the demon's attack. As she started to land herself on the very top of the building's roof, Mana soon began to worry for the black hedgehog's health and well-being. She didn't even acknowledge the fact that the demons didn't follow both her and Shadow back down to the ground or that she has tears streaming down her cheeks.
When she finally landed her feet on the roof of the building, Mana began to shake Shadow's body in order to see if she could get a good response from him to see if he was still alive. "Shadow! Shadow, please wake up!" she began to say to the black hedgehog as she continued to shake his body while not getting any response from him. "Shadow, you can't be dead! You're too tough for an attack like that to get the best of you! Please, open your eyes! Please! Please don't go..."
While still not getting any sign of life from Shadow's body, the female magician stopped trying to shake her love's body and suddenly began to cry as she pulled him closer towards her own body. As she held him close to herself, tears continued to stream down her cheeks as she hugged his body very tightly.
"No, this...this couldn't be true!" Mana thought to herself as she continued to cry for her fallen hero. "Shadow can't be dead! He just couldn't be! He said so himself. He was created to be supposedly immortal! There's no way he could be dead! He just couldn't be...!"
Just as she continued to cry over Shadow's body, the female magician soon began to hear an evil devilish laughter coming from behind her. When she turned towards the source of the laugh, Mana soon found herself looking at the same strong demon that attacked the black hedgehog from before. She felt herself boil with anger and hatred for the one responsible for attacking her black savior.
What she saw was a much larger version of the pack of demons that attacked from before. Its horns were much more larger and longer than the other demons and it has sharper teeth too. It has wider wings that nearly cast the night sky into total darkness. It also possessed a much bigger body than its brethren as well pumped up muscles. The only things that made this one different are the red eyes that it got as well as the evil laughter that it gave out just before it spoke to her.
"Aw! What's the matter, little girl?" the demon boss said to young female in a male voice as he hovered above the sky while continuing to block off the moon's light from her. "Did your little black spiky boyfriend just croaked? Hee! Hee! Hee! And I, Giya, Lord of the Bra Demons, only used half of my strength! And from what I've been told from a mysterious creature, he's known as the Ultimate Life Form! Ha! Ha! Ha! Now that's pathetic! I should just eat his body right now and savor your suffering so that your pain would increase our tribe's power just before we could devour you. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
When the monster's words and menacing laughter soon reached her ears, Mana's deep anger soon reached to the point to where it was nothing but the purest of hate for the demon leader that was now right in front of her very eyes. Just as she began to set Shadow's body gently down on the ground and started to face the demon lord, her then eyes looked back at the creature with a cold stare, but she didn't have the chance to notice that her own sad tears didn't stop flowing down her cheeks.
"You! You dared show yourself after what you did to the one who captured my heart right in front of me and had the nerve to say those things?" Mana said to the demon with a cold and angry tone in her voice before she began to shout. "Now you and your entire race will know the kind of anguish and pain that I've once felt five thousand years ago for when my master was murdered! You will pay! Mock my words! I won't forgive you!"
As soon as those words were shouted from her mouth, the female magician's body soon began to emit a powerful aura of dark energy surrounding her entire being as she faced the demonic creature. That was when she started to pull out the green stone that was responsible for bringing her into the world that she's in now. When she felt the stone inside of her hand, Mana soon found herself being engulfed in its powerful green light as it purified the dark energy that she was emitting. Before she knew what was happening, the female magician found herself transforming.
Mana's hair suddenly changed into a darker tone of her blonde hair just as it grew longer until it reached her knees. Her whole magician's clothing is starting to change from its original design and into something much more fierce. Her outfits' pink skirt is now a perfect long one with a mix of violet and electric pink. Other than the fact that her most of her outfit's blue color remained the same, the golden outlining soon appeared, replacing her usual pink one. Golden ear rings then appeared as they attached themselves to her ears. Besides the green gem stones that were added to her hat, boots, and entire magician's outfit, her magical soon transformed into a fierce looking one that's been decorated with green gem stones and golden outlines that matched its metallic navy blue color.
As soon as the emerald light faded from around her being, Mana turned her full attention back towards the demon called Giya and gave her opponent a threatening look as she stood there fully changed and transformed. The tears on her face were soon no longer flowing down her cheeks just as her opponent began to speak.
"So you've managed to transform into another form," said the demon leader as he was starting to become curious at what he just saw. "Hmm. Is it suppose to scare me? Even with that new found power of yours, you won't be able to be me once I've combined my power with that of my comrades! Observe!"
Then with the wave of its clawed hand, Mana saw Giya summoning up an entire army of Bras Demons that he mentioned earlier. But the fact that she was outnumbered didn't shake her a bit as she still remember about what the leader did to Shadow. She just kept a full focus on the pack of demons in front of her just before she spoke with an adult sounding voice.
"You and your entire race should be afraid, demon," the female magician said to the monster leader as she continued to give him a death glare along with the rest of his tribe. "For, thanks to the powers of a green gem stone that an ancient and powerful being has given to me as it increased my own magic, I was able to transform into one of my many alternate forms. Right now, you're looking at a form that many evil creatures has faced before all of you and fallen at my hands. Remember this name well for when I attack all of you would be nothing but dust. All of you may know me as the Magician's Valkyria!"
As it continued to watch the scene that was developing right before its three eyes, Nightmare Parasite Chaos become very surprised at the new twist that was unveiling in the bubble like screen in front of it. However, it wasn't the only being that noticed this change of events. Shade the Red Shadow, the vampire creature that it created, also noticed the transformation of the female magician.
"Well, it seems that the female is much more impressive than either of us thought, Shade," the Chaos clone said to its servant as it continued to look at the scene before its eyes. "She's even managed to harness the powers of that green stone in her hands to transform into her most supreme form. I guess that the taunts that Giya demon gave to her was enough for her to unleash her full power. Thinking that he actually managed to kill the Ultimate Life Form would have been enough to drive her over the edge if not for the purifying magic of her green gem stone."
"What do you mean by that, master?" Shade asked its master as he was becoming curious at what the creature meant by what it said. "Are you saying that Shadow the Hedgehog isn't dead?"
"That's correct, Shade," Nightmare Parasite said to its minion as it continued to watch the scene with Mana facing still facing the army of Bras Demons. "You see, what I've told Giya about the Ultimate Life Form is all true.
"Shadow is a creature that possesses the one thing that every human being in this universe would want: immortality. Professor Gerald Robotnik was a really brilliant scientist in order to create a life form like him. I've known all along that it would take more than what that ego-drunk demon could throw at him to take that hedgehog down."
"And what of my genetic father, master?" the vampire asked his creator as he turned his full attention back towards one of the many bubble screens. The one that has the images of two Monsters Kanzel and Mazenda still fighting off the human teen Miguel who suddenly stopped his own movement. "Surely you haven't forgotten about him? He's just as much as Shadow the Hedgehog is right now."
"Oh, I haven't forgotten about him, my creation," the powerful parasitic creature said to its servant as it continued to keep its attention towards the bubble that has Mana facing off against the wild demon pack while in her most powerful form. "I bet that at this very moment that he had felt that something is wrong with his black Mobian friend. Hee! Hee! Hee!"
Just as he felt that he was too low on energy to keep fighting both Kanzel and Mazenda by himself, Miguel suddenly felt a huge jab of pain in his heart for when he stopped in order to counter attack.
"Just what in the hell was that just now?" he thought as the teen began to ponder on what just caused the sensation he felt. "All I've felt from this point is the bruises and cuts that I've received from both Kanzel and Mazenda's claws and attacks since I've been recharged with the Power Ring a few moments ago. Now, this type of pain is like as if someone close to me is..."
Before he could have the chance to finish his thoughts, Miguel soon began to see an image of Shadow being attacked full on from behind by a demon that looks like one of the Bras Demons that he saw before but a bit different. However, the teen didn't have time to focus on the large Bras Demon for his full attention was on the fact that his black friend started to plummet towards the ground with a crying Mana trying to follow.
"Oh my...Shadow!" He thought as soon as his mind was finally sent back into his current situation with both Kanzel and Mazenda standing right in front of him with curious and confused expressions on their hideous faces. "He's hurt! I've got to put an end to this fight right now if I'm able to help him.
"I know that it would take more than what that demon threw at him to do him in. But, Mana, she's a sitting duck if that demon catches her. I know just the attack to do the job. I've just came up with this one recently It's a bit risky to use, but at this point, two friends' lives are at stake. Well, here goes nothing."
Just as he was finished with his thoughts, Miguel soon began to hear the voices of the two Monsters taunting him with their monstrous voices. "What's the matter, little boy? Are you a little too weak to go on?" he heard Mazenda saying to him with a sort of amused tone in her voice.
"Well, maybe he is, Mazenda," Kanzel said to his partner as the teenager began to see the male Monster gathering red energy from within his hand. "The kid is probably too tired to even keep that sword of his in the air for long. Well, soon that would be the least of his worries."
After Kanzel finished what he had to say to his female partner, Miguel started to put his huge Star Sword back in its resting place on his back and started to face them with a determined look on his face. That was when he soon started to concentrate on gathering all of his power into one of his hands.
"Now what in the world are you trying to do, boy?" Mazenda asked while chuckling menacingly. "Are you going to try that Ra-Tilt that you've just learned from both the princess of Seyruun and that chimera friend of hers?"
"Well, it won't work, boy," Kanzel added while he chuckled along with his partners. "You see, we know all about the special power that you have to gain the abilities of other beings while fighting them as you make those powers your own. We've been informed about it by Nightmare Parasite just after we've been brought back from beyond. I'm even surprised that you've haven't began to gain our own abilities yet. Just what exactly are you planning to do?"
"Well, for your information, I'm not going to use that, 'Special Ability' of mine to finish this fight, Kanzel," Miguel responded to the Monster as he continued to gather power within his hands. "I'm going to use an attack that I've been cookin' up since my battle with that friend Naturon Gaav of yours. I'm not sure if it would work or not, but two of my friends are in trouble and I've got to get to them before it's too late. So here it comes! Neutron Star!"
As soon as he shouted those two words, the teen started to throw the small ball of light towards the two Monsters' direction. When it finally got to its target, Miguel saw that it was almost about the size of a one of the lights bulbs that he and his family used at Christmas Time. Then, as he kept the fist he used to create in a tight grip, he heard both Kanzel and Mazenda beginning to laugh manically as they looked at the small ball of light with their own monstrous eyes.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! What were you trying to do, boy?" asked the female monster as she continued to laugh at what appears to be Miguel's powerful attack. "Are you going to try to kill us by using that little speck of a star! It's a joke!"
"I have to agree with Mazenda, human," said her companion as he continued to roar into mad laughter. "Ha! Ha! Ha! I mean, I know that names mean nothing, but this is ridiculous! How do you expect us to be defeated by a small white star! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
As soon as Kanzel finished his sentence, the teen soon began to chuckle a bit of his own as he began to say to them while keeping his hand into a fist at the same time, "Well, I'm sorry to have to burst all of your bubbles, but this little star contains a surprise that could create an explosion that's big enough to even create a hole that'll allow me to escape. And if you think that I'm lying, then you'll really going to get a bang out of this!"
After he'd finished saying those words, Miguel soon released his fist back to hand and before anyone could realize what happen, the little silver star that he unleashed towards the Monsters soon erupted into a bright explosion of light. Just before the light could take him completely, Miguel started to quickly pull out his Star Sword from his back and created a powerful energy shield in order to protect himself from the blast of his own attack.
From what he could see, all Shadow could see was pure darkness. As he felt his body floating in mid-air, the black hedgehog couldn't tell if he were dead or rather dreaming.
"Ugh! What in the world just happened to me?" he thought as he continued to float in the in as if he were floating on water. "I was just about to launch a Chaos Nightmare attack on those demons and then suddenly I was attacked from behind by a much more powerful looking demon. The last thing that I remember was the horrified look that I saw on Mana's face. As for the rest...It's all a complete blank there. Now, the question is where am I and am I dead?"
Just as the Ultimate Life Form's thoughts were through, a young feminine voice started to echo throughout the dark void that he was in as a bright light started to appear before him.
"Shadow! You're not dead! You're only unconscious caused by the creature's attack for when it attacked you!" she shouted as the unknown figure was coming closer to the black hedgehog as he was becoming engulfed with the light that the female was emitting. "Your body is regenerating itself even as we speak. My grandfather was a really gifted genius if he was able to create you. The Ultimate Life Form."
When he heard those words, Shadow soon began to snap his mind out of its dizzy state and started to focus his eyes to see who was approaching him. As soon as he was able to focus his sight, the black hedgehog found himself once again looking at the beautiful face of Maria Robotnik.
"Maria! What are you doing here?" he asked as the Ultimate Life Form started to become overwhelmed with joy as well as confusion as he continued to stare at her heavenly presence. "I thought that you were finished with your mission with those beings?"
"Don't worry about that, Shadow. This time I came here on my own," Maria answered while at the same time wearing a beautiful smile on her face. "Right now, the girl that you know as Mana is fighting a horde of those demons that you two fought with before.
"She's feeling very heart broken and angry for when she saw what happened to you and thought that you were killed by its leader. She's even used that stone, like the one that I've given to you, to transform into her strongest form. Like I've said, your body was able to regenerate and heal itself for while you're unconscious. You must wake up now and keep this young magician female from falling into total darkness and despair.
"If that happens, then the creature Nightmare Parasite could use this chance to harness her inter turmoil to cause chaos and destruction from within your human friend's world. Your new love's heart has already been in enough suffering for the past centuries. You should know, since you've felt a similar pain during the invasion of the space colony ARK. Look, all I know is that you must wake up from your deep sleep and help out the one that has captured your heart. So please Shadow, wake up from your sleep and pull your love from the darkness. Do it not only for this world and me, but for you and Mana as well. Good luck and I'll always watch over you."
As soon as she finished speaking to him, Shadow saw her entire spectral form starting to fade from existence and before he knew it, the black hedgehog saw the heavenly light that his old friend and lover left behind starting to grow into a huge flash. Just as the light blinded his sight, the black hedgehog soon found himself looking at the stars of the night sky. As he tried his best to move his entire body in order to stand up on his own two feet, Shadow found himself looking at a scene that he expected to see. What he saw was the female magician in a completely different outfit and form while facing an entire horde of demons by herself just before they charged towards her.
End of Part 4
