Part 7
Note to readers: Hello, sorry for the long wait folks. It's just that I've been so busy with trying to keep both my story writing and my college assignments in balance with one another that I forgot to put the new chapter up. Oh, I just want you to know that in the end of the story, two new characters would be making their appearance. Both Air Jay and Maliska both belong to the group called Genro-A who's been very supportive for while as I continued to write my stories for the series as well as allow me to put these two characters in this story. As for the rest, two of my newest creations are created by me and me alone, so if you plan to use them in your own stories, then you got to ask permission first. Oh, and Pokemon belongs to both Satoshi Tajiri & Tsunekazu Ishihara of Nintendo. And the anime and video game characters belong to the rightful owners that I've just mention in the first part of this story. I hope that you all forgive me for the long delay. This last chapter for this story is a long one so try to enjoy the ride. Now, enjoy!
As the green light faded from his sight, Shadow began to scan around his surroundings and saw that they've arrived back inside Miguel's own home. Before he could have the chance to say anything, the black hedgehog soon realized that he was still holding Mana's hand. This caused him to blush for when he realized what he was doing. That was soon forgotten for when Shadow felt his body giving out on him just before he fell to the floor on one knee.
"Shadow! You're still too exhausted from that battle that you've had," he heard Mana's voice saying to him with a concerned tone in her voice as he felt her arms wrapped themselves around his body as he was being held towards a large couch. "Here. Why don't you rest here for a while? You've deserved to rest after all of the work that you've done."
"I'd have to agree with Mana on this one, Shadow," heard the voice of Miguel saying as he helped to lay his friend down on his home's couch. "I mean, you were the one that helped to put an end to the both Kanzel and Mazenda's rampage to this world before it began."
"And don't forget about how you were able to encourage me to use my spell," the female magician added to Miguel's words as the Ultimate Life Form saw a beautiful smile forming on her face. "You also gave me most of your power in order to amplify the power of my magic. I mean, with our combined power, we were able to take down Kanzenda together. You truly are a hero. That's why I think that...well, I.."
"What is it, Mana?" Shadow asked the young woman as he saw a bit of a red shade on her cheeks. "Is there something that you want to tell me?"
"(Yawns!) Well, I'd better get on the phone with my parents and see how they and my sister are doing," the black hedgehog heard Miguel suddenly saying as he saw him looking at his watch while at the same time grabbing a nearby wireless telephone from the kitchen. "It's fifteen minutes past 10:00 p.m. and I bet that they're pretty worried that I didn't call them through the phone like I've promised that I would.
"I'll be in the room so that I wouldn't disturb you two while I talk. Have a good time with one another and don't be doing anything that could break the furniture. Other than that, just make yourselves at home. See ya!"
With those words from his friend said and done, Shadow saw Miguel walking out of the kitchen towards the direction towards his room before seeing him out of sight and hearing a door close leaving both himself and Mana alone with one another. The room fell silent for a moment as the black hedgehog tried to find the words to say to the beautiful young woman standing next to his side on the huge sofa. That was when he finally decided to speak as he continued to lie on the couch in order to regain his lost strength.
"Mana, I don't really know how to say this, but I..." that was all that the Ultimate Life Form could say before his lips were silenced by the touch of Mana's finger tips as he was stunted by the action.
"Shh, just relax and listen to what I have to say, Shadow darling," he heard the female magician saying to him with a soft and caring tone of voice. "I just want to say that I love you, Shadow the Hedgehog.
"Ever since that I've first saw you for when you've saved me from that pack of demons, I've been fascinated with how you were able to defeat them in just one blow of your attack. You were also very mysterious for when you didn't show very much interest in being near me for when you've said that I was beautiful. To be very honest with you, I thought that you were just some sort of enigmatic creature that has no feelings whatsoever. I even thought that you were a bit scary with those eyes of yours like the way they are with those red streaks and all."
Shadow began to chuckle a bit for when he heard those words coming from the female magician mouth just before she continued. "But when I've heard all about your sad past from your mouth as well as see tears forming in your eyes, that was the time I became interested in you more and more, not only because of the similar stones that we both possess, it's because of your personality. And when I've saw you try to protect me once again from another horde of those demons and saw you being shot by their leader, I thought that I've lost my whole world again just as I did five thousands years ago.
"You see, back in Ancient Egypt for when I was still human, I had a master who lost his life in order to try to stop a thief from trying to get near the pharaoh. But his spirit now lives on in his own soul monster's manifestation: The Dark Magician. It was the same with me. What you're seeing right now is just the manifestation of my own monster. But from what I could remember, I had tanned skin that looked as though I was bathed in Ra's very light itself. I also have silky brown hair that was bright enough for the light to be reflected off of it."
"But if you're current form is nothing but a manifestation of the creature that you used to summon," Shadow asked Mana while at the same time touching the female's hand with his own to see if it was real or not while still feeling a bit drowsy from his fatigue with the transfer of his Chaos powers, "then how come I was able to touch you? To feel you for when both you and I kissed one another for the first time before we went with Miguel to fight those demons?"
"It's probably because of the incredible magic that my spirit emits," he heard the female magician answered with a blush on her cheek while at the same time stroking his hand in response to the touch he gave to her own. "With my spirit now fused with my monster's body, I've somehow was able to form this body into a solid form. Making it as real as was my old form was. But that's another story. What I'm trying to say is that when I found out that my master was dead, I've felt that my whole world was taken away from me and I have nothing left to live for.
"I've felt that very same feeling for when I've saw you being shot from behind by the demon's leader and plummeting toward your doom right out of the sky. When I tried to get you to wake up, I thought that I once again lost everything that I've hold dear. This time, it was the one who managed to capture my heart for when he treated me kindly and rescued me for even when I treated you like a sort of monster. I know that I probably can't replace the person Maria who's still in your heart, but I would like to be a part of your life as well. I want to be with you always so that I could protect you forever until the end of time seeing as you are like me."
Shadow could not believe what he was listening to. He was listening to the words of a young woman, who already died once as a human, that is telling him about how much that she loves him. Never before had he felt anything that he was feeling at the moment. Before he could have the chance to speak to Mana about what she said, the black hedgehog suddenly saw her tilting her head towards his face just before he felt her lips pressing against his own. He felt her body being snuggled against his own while also feeling the female's arms wrapping themselves around his neck. Shadow closed his eyes and felt himself being engulfed in a sea of passion as he responded to the female's kiss with by intensifying it while wrapping his own arms around her waist.
After a moment of kissing with her, the black hedgehog finally broke free from Mana's lips and began to breath very heavily for as he tried his best to regain his breath. The Ultimate Life Form also noticed that the female magician too was trying her best to regain the air that she lost for when both she and Shadow were lost in each other's passion. That was when he felt his eyes becoming heavy just before he fell into a deep sleep.
As she tried her best to regain her breath, Mana turned her full attention back towards Shadow and saw him beginning to doze off into dream land. The female magician giggled softly for when she saw the black hedgehog now resting peacefully on the soft couch. His eyes now closed as he breathed peacefully in his sleep in order to regain his strength.
"He's looks so cute and adorable for when he's sleeping," she thought with another giggle as she ran her fingers on the red streaks that are on Shadows eyes as well as on his body while trying not to wake him up. "He also looks so peaceful. It makes him look less terrifying than he was for when he was awake. Whoever created him must have wanted people to think that. It must be very hard for him to make friends for when people first look at him. Poor Shadow."
Suddenly, out of nowhere, she saw a shining flash of heavenly white light appeared right in the middle of the living room of Miguel's home. Before she could think about what was happening, Mana saw a person appearing out of the aura of light. As she tried to get a better look at just who was it that's trying to get into this world, the female magician finally focused her eyes just to see a young woman walking towards Shadow's sleeping form.
The woman had beautiful long blond hair that touched her shoulders and seemed to blow in the wind for as she approached towards the sleeping black hedgehog. She also had clear and soft skin that looked as though that it hadn't felt the rays of the very sun. The female magician also saw that the young woman right before her possess a pair of the bluest eyes that she ever seen. Almost the color of sapphires. Before she could have the chance to speak to the person that's standing near Shadow, Mana was able to see that the mysterious visitor's body looks as though it were that of a phantom or ghost.
While feeling a bit shocked and a bit frighten at the young woman's very presense, Mana soon became a bit jealous for when she saw the mysterious young woman giving the black hedgehog a kiss on his forehead. Just before she could have the chance to express her outrage, the female magician saw the young female phantom turning herself towards her direction and giving her a warm and friendly smile on her face before she spoke.
"I'm sorry for disturbing you, miss," she said with a rather soft and polite tone in her voice as Mana was still a bit shocked for what she just did, "but it just that it's been a while since I've seen Shadow sleep peacefully like this. Your name is Mana, is it not?"
As she nodded her head in response to her question, the female magician carefully listened to the ghostly visitor as she spoke again. "I guess that Shadow has already told you of me. Are you familiar with the name Professor Gerald Robotnik?"
Mana thought for a moment about the name the young girl said to her and that was when she suddenly realized that the person that the ghost speaking to her was the grand daughter of the creator of the black hedgehog.
"You're...you're Maria, aren't you?" the female magician spoke to the angelic spirit as she was taken back a bit about finding out that this is the same person that saved her new lover's life. "What are you doing here? He told me that you died while trying to save him from being taken by a military group."
"Indeed I did," Maria replied to Mana's question with a sad tone in her voice just as she turned back to look at Shadow, still sleeping in a peaceful bliss and started to gently place her hand on his forehead. "Shadow told you all about what had happened to me, didn't he? He's had a hard life since he was reawakened by my older cousin Dr. Eggman Robotnik. He was all confused for when he tried to find a place for himself to belong in. I think that you know how he feels since you went almost the same way in your past human life, did you not?"
The female magician nodded in response to the female's ghostly form before she continued. "My grandfather only wanted to create Shadow in order to help the people of my world. He hoped to not only help mankind, but to cure me of my illness that I've had since my birth. But because of my death caused by the attackers, he went insane and wanted to destroy the planet using the entire colony along with the powers of the Chaos Emeralds to do it. However, Shadow was able to stop his plans along with his friends and prevented the lost of billions of human lives.
"But even after doing what I've asked of him those many years ago, Shadow still feels that he is all alone, even in the company of his friends. But then you came into his life and gave him a reason why he should trust in people again. You see, the real reason that I've come to this plane of existence right now is to ask of you one favor, Miss Mana. Can you please promise me that you would make certain that no harm would come to Shadow no matter what happens?"
Mana was rather shocked for when she heard those words coming from the female phantom's mouth. Here she was, the one that rescued Shadow from the clutches of greedy men, asking for her to take care of the one that now has her heart. With a nod of her head as a response to the phantom's question, the female magician saw a bright smile on Maria's face as to acknowledge that she understood. She then saw her ghostly visitor turn herself to once again look at the black hedgehog's sleeping form. As she saw Maria patting her ghostly hand on top of Shadow's forehead and saw him stirring a bit from his slumber.
"I'd better get going," Mana heard the female ghost saying to her just as she saw her body beginning to fade from existence just as she saw her face with a smile with tears in her blue eyes. "If Shadow were to awake to see me right here, then he might start to beg for me to stay. Farewell, Miss Mana. I wish for you and Shadow to have a life filled with happiness."
As soon as she saw the ghostly presense of Maria Robotnik has fully disappeared, the female magician then turned her full attention back towards the black hedgehog's body and saw him beginning to wake up. When she saw his crimson eyes fully opened, Mana then saw Shadow turning his head towards her direction and said to her, "Mmmmmmm. Did that nap felt great. Mana, did anything happen while I was out?"
That was when the female magician began to say to the black hedgehog with a small smile across her face, "Well, nothing really, Shadow darling. Just wondering about how cute you look for when you're asleep."
With those words said from her mouth, Mana began to see Shadow blushing with what she just said to her. The young female giggled a bit for when she saw the embarrassed look that was on her black lover's face. She then stopped and bent over Shadow's lying form and gave him a gentle kiss on the forehead. Mana looked at the black hedgehog's face and saw his face glowing with an even more redder shade than before. The young female giggle cutely at what she saw just before she was cut short by the voice of their friend, Miguel.
"Hey, you two, if you both wanted to be alone with one another, then all you could've done was ask me so that I could put you two in my parents' bedroom," Miguel said to his two friends as he saw their embarrassed reactions to his remark with the communications device in hand.
"Man, Miguel! You sure know how to ruin a perfect moment," he heard Shadow saying with an annoyed tone of voice as he saw his Mobian friend trying to get off of the couch. "Were you here watching us this whole time?"
"Well, not really, Shadow," the teenager replied with a friendly smirk on his face. "I was finished with the conversation with my parents on the phone a while ago. I just came back here to see if you both wanted anything. But then I saw the two of you making out on the sofa like my older sister did with her boyfriend for when I was young. So, I decided that the two of you deserve a least a little privacy for one another after what you two have been through."
"If that's the case, then why did you just come in here and ruined the moment for the two of us?" he heard Shadow asking while at the same time seeing him blushing with embarrassment at what he just said.
"I'm sorry that I had to come in here and just ruin your moment with Mana, Shadow," Miguel replied while having a serious tone in his voice. "But Sonic, and the gang just contacted me from Mobius through the computer Tails gave me. They said that they weren't able to find you anywhere on the planet. So they've contacted me through the computer and told me about what happened. I've told them that you're not as gone as they think and that you're right here in my world."
"Whoa! Whoa! Wait a minute, Miguel!" Shadow said to him while seeing that the Ultimate Life Form was starting to panic. "You didn't tell them exactly what happened while both I was in this world, did you?"
"Well, not exactly, Shadow," the human teen said to his friend with a sort of embarrassed look on his face. "You see, I've only managed to tell them that you've just arrived to this world unexpectedly because of the presense of two powerful Monsters. Other than the battle that both you and Mana had, I'd say that's about it. Of course, they didn't know that I was unconscious and wasn't there to fight Kanzenda at the time."
"So are you saying that you didn't mention any detail about Mana to them, Miguel?" he heard the black hedgehog asking him with a curious and yet anxious tone in his voice.
"Well, no Shadow," Miguel answered to his friend with a clear tone. "I didn't think that you would appreciate it if I told them all about your little relationship with Mana. I mean, what kind of friend that I would be if I told them that? Besides, I've seen how you took care of those demons and telling them about you and Mana would be like committing suicide."
The teen saw a bright and friendly smile shining all over Shadow's face for when he said those words. He shocked that he saw the black hedgehog smiling like that freely without someone having to do with it. That was when he turned his full attention towards Mana and saw that she was smiling with delight for when he saw her hand intertwining with Shadow's.
"Why, Shadow Dear, are you a little embarrassed?" asked the female magician with a tone of amusement as well as mischief in her voice just as he saw her fingers beginning to tickle the black hedgehog's stomach. "You're so adorable for when you do that! I wonder if you're ticklish too?"
As he saw Mana began tickling the black hedgehog, he heard his Mobian friend laughing with joy as he heard him saying, "Mana! Aha! Ha! Ha! That's not funny! Ha! Ha! Ha! Stop it! I'm not kidding! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Miguel smiled a bit for when he saw both of his friends beginning to play with one another like little kids as he began to look through his memories. "Ahhhhhh! That sort of takes me back to the time when both me and my two sisters used to do that as little kids or when I see Angel do that to Mikey. Those two looked so happy with each other's company playing like that. Maybe I should just leave them alone and continue to look at the computer to see if there's still any traces of dimensional rips or Chaos Energy to be sure that there isn't going to be other unwanted surprises for this world."
Just as he was about to leave the living room for both Shadow and Mana to play in, the teen heard the voice of the black hedgehog saying politely to his female playmate, "Ouch! Mana, would you get off of me please? I think that I've just laid down on something hard!"
Before he knew what was happening, Miguel saw the huge television in his room suddenly turned on and he saw a news report being broadcasted at the place where the three of them were a while ago.
"This is Channel Five News," Miguel heard the weekly newscaster say as he read from the
script in his hands, "We're here tonight to bring you live coverage of what has occurred in the Panorama area. An enormous crowd of people claimed to have seen a large group of demons flying above an abandoned pharmaceutical building that has not been in use since the earthquake of 1994. The local authorities, however, claimed that it was a terrorist bombing that got the people hallucinating about what they saw that evening. Others say..."
That was all that Miguel wanted to hear for after he switched off the television set manually through it's off switch. The teen then turned towards his two outer-worldly friends and saw that they both stopped playing with one another and also saw that they were both a bit panicked for what they have just seen. He knew that if they both stayed here longer than they needed to, then things in his world would be more chaotic than they already are.
"Guys, I'm sorry for saying this, but I'm afraid that's it time for the three of us to say goodbye and for you two to return to your own worlds," Miguel began to say to both Shadow and Mana with a sadden tone of voice. "If you two stay in this world for any longer than you both need to, then things here would only get worse than they already are. Not to mention the fact that the military, as well as this world's scientists, would want to take you in for questioning about what just happened."
As soon as he finished talking, Miguel saw that both of his friends holding onto each other in a hug very tightly. Seeing this, the teen was now feeling a bit ashamed for having said that to both Shadow and Mana, who had grown to love each other in the short time that they have together. He could see it in their faces that they were a bit disappointed that they have to separate and go to back to their own worlds.
"I'm sorry for saying that, guys," the teen said to the two outer worldly beings with an apologetic tone. "I didn't mean to hurt you both like that. It's just that..."
Before he could finish the rest of his sentence, Miguel saw Shadow raising his hand in order to stop him just before he said, "It's alright, Miguel. I know that you didn't mean to hurt our feelings. It's just that it's so hard for the two of us to go back to our worlds just so that we won't have to see each other again."
"Shadow's right, Miguel," Mana said while she herself was feeling a bit sad about the whole thing as he also saw tears building within her eyes. "I mean, I can't bear the thought of having to be separated from him after all we've been through. I got to know the person behind the once frightening face and saw that he's a nice and compassion person at heart. I just don't want to say goodbye to him now. It's just so hard to do while saying it to the one I love."
Shadow was a bit taken back for when he heard Mana say those words. Sure, that he's a bit sad that he has to go back to his own world without the blond female accompanying him, but he never really knew just how sad Mana was going to be about it. The black hedgehog felt ashamed for not being more sympathetic about the girl's feelings.
"She's just like Maria just before she helped me to escape the ARK," Shadow thought to himself as he looked at Mana's direction as he continued to see her crying while at the same time remembering the time about his escape from the ARK. "I've promised Maria that I would try to live a happy and full life with the next love of my life and I cannot bear to see Mana like this. I have to say something in order to ease the pain that she's feeling in her heart."
As soon as he finished his thoughts, the Ultimate Life Form started to take Mana's hand and got her to look at his direction just before he spoke. "Mana, please don't cry," he said to her in a calm and caring voice as he stroked her hand gently. "I don't want to see you like this. I've been in pain since the incident of the Space Colony ARK. But I don't want to inflict that pain on you. I've know that you yourself have felt this sort of pain like I've felt. I'm not sure how I'm going to keep you from feeling sad from within my world, but..."
Just before the black hedgehog could have the chance to finish the rest of his sentence, he suddenly saw a burst of emerald-green light beginning to erupt from both his and Mana's hands. Without thinking about what was happening around him, Shadow began to hold both of the female magician's hands as tightly as he could. As he saw the green light continuing to grow brighter by the minute, the Ultimate Life Form suddenly felt his hold of Mana's hands being loosen from his hands as he felt himself being pulled away from her like he was in a huge river of rushing rapid water.
Just as he thought that he was going to die from the ride that he was experiencing, Shadow felt himself landing on his back on soft ground. For when he tried his best to get himself back on his feet, the black hedgehog saw that he was back on the surface of his home world Mobius. Not only that, but he found himself at the exact same place that he was in before he left for Miguel's world. Only this time, it looked like that it was the middle of the day for as he saw the sun right on top of him to tell him that it was noon. The black hedgehog scanned around the area in order to see if Mana was with him for while he was sent back to his world. But he found no one and only saw a flock of blue birds passing by him through the bright clear sky.
"I'm really back in my home world," Shadow thought to himself as he began to feel disappointed at where he is now and that he was all alone. "I guess that this also means that I won't be able to see Mana's beautiful face ever again. (Sighs) Now what should I do?"
As if to answer his question, the black hedgehog saw the glow of his green gemstone being emitted from the holding compartment of his shoe that he nearly forgot about. As he took the mystic stone out of its resting place, Shadow then began to have a thought that made him smile a bit for when he realized why he hadn't thought of it sooner.
"Hmm. I wonder, maybe I could..." that was all that the black hedgehog could think of before his thoughts were cut short by the voices of Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles Tails Prower just as he heard them both approaching him.
"Shadow! Just where in the world have you been doing in Miguel's world?" the blue hedgehog said to his black twin with an annoyed tone of voice. "And why are you having that smile on your face that almost makes it look like that you have real feelings?"
As soon as those words hit his ears, Shadow began to rid himself of the smile that was once across his face and glared at Sonic with his usual serious expression before speaking, "I'd watch that mouth of yours while you speak, Sonic! Otherwise, you'll find that you won't be able to speak again! Is that understood?"
"Whoa, Shadow! Sonic is only kidding around with you!" Tails said to the Ultimate Life Form with a nervous chuckle. "There's no need to start killing again like you did with Eggman Robotnik. Both Sonic and I are worried about you since I wasn't able to find a trace of your Chaos Energy from within the face of the entire planet and for when we've contacted Miguel from his world through the computer that I've given him."
The black hedgehog soon gave a small grin for when he heard those words. "I guess that Maria was right for when she said that I have friends that care for me so much that they would worry about my safety. Even though that one of them can be a real pain in the neck to me at most times."
Right after finishing his thoughts, Shadow then turned his full attention back towards the blue hedgehog's direction and said to him with a chuckle, "I'm just kidding, Sonic. As for what I've been doing in Miguel's world, a powerful Monster was sent there by Nightmare Parasite in order to try to kill Miguel. But the two of us were able take care of it with minor difficulties."
As he finished talking, the black hedgehog soon began to notice Sonic looking at him with a suspicious expression on his face. That was when he ask his blue twin with a rather miffed and curious tone, "What are you looking at, Sonic?"
"Are you sure that it was only you and Miguel that took care of that Monster that you've just mentioned to us, Shadow?" the blue hedgehog asked the Ultimate Life Form as he looked at the side of his face with a mischievous smile on his face. " 'cause from the why that I've saw those lip and kiss marks on your face, I'd say that there was a girl involved in this mess. Why, I didn't know that you had it in you, you sly dog! Heh! Heh! Heh! Wait 'til everyone hears about this!"
As soon as he saw the blue hedgehog beginning to run back towards his home that he shared with the young female hedgehog Amy Rose. Shadow began to become fumed with both fear and annoyance for when heard those words come out of Sonic's mouth. That was when he decided to give chase to his blue comrade and catch him before his usual reputation as the serious and mysterious hedgehog is ruined by the blue hedgehog who could tell everyone on the entire planet.
"What! Come back here, you little blue rodent!" the black hedgehog said with an annoyed and angry tone in his voice while at the same time secretly feeling the joy of a small boy at a playground with his friends as he used his shoes to hover above the ground and started to gliding after Sonic at a great speed.
Right after seeing both of his outer worldly friends disappearing within the green light without leaving a single trace, Miguel began to tidy up the living room and check out the internet a bit before he decided to turn in for the night. He wanted to leave the living room in a neat state for when both of his parents and younger sister came home. After finishing putting everything back the way it should be, the teen started to march towards his E-Machine home computer and turned it. After a few moments of waiting, Miguel soon began typing for any information that would lead to what occurred in Panorama City that even.
"Well, so far, all it says here in the Yahoo news bulletin that the accident is still under private investigation and is still having the eyewitnesses questioned and tested for any drug abuse or hallucinations," he thought to himself as he kept his eyes on large the computer screen. "I'm betting that the information that the other web company's new forums probably say the same thing.
"Well, at least none of it reported any witnesses that have taken any pictures or video footage of the event. That's a load off my mind. If anyone were to take any pictures of the event or the beings that fought, then that could lead to a load of problems and questions that I'm not too thrilled on dealing with. Let's see if the Sonic X's forum has anything interesting that could help me get my mind off of this whole mess."
As soon as he finished with those thoughts, Miguel found himself looking at the front entrance to the Sonic X web site that he was looking for. He then click on the words that said "Sonic X forum" and soon found himself at the site forum. From his usual browsing, he'd saw that there were a few things that changed since he last browsed through it. He saw a few people have put up new stories in the fanfiction section. But what got his attention the most is the new picture in the fanart section of forum.
"Now let's see what kind of picture that this girl MariaRobotnik61 has put up in this forum," the teen thought to himself as he click on the picture with the name of the girl named MariaRobotnik61 on the topic. Just as he clicked on the link with the picture in it, Miguel was rather surprised for when he saw it.
"What the hell! This is a picture of both Shadow and Mana floating in the air while holding one another! Just how in the hell did she managed to get a perfect picture of those two along with the Bras Demons? I know for a fact that, despite what this message says, this isn't just some digital picture that was made by some anime fan with a knack for creating photo-like images. I was taught by a person who's a pro at making images through a computer about how to tell digitally made images from the real things and from the looks of how this person got this picture, this image isn't a fake or a bootleg.
"She must've been in the area for when the Bras Demons attacked both Shadow and Mana for while I was battling with both Kanzel and Mazenda in Sub-Space. Normally I'll just find information on this girl so that I could deal with this myself, but judging from the many replies that she got, I'd say that she's trying to be careful about what she took. Well, I guess that since no one has suspected that these were taken at the scene, there's really nothing to worry about. I'll just send her a comment about it and go straight to bed."
As soon as he finished sending his comment to the person that took the live photo of Shadow and Mana, the teen soon logged off of the internet and turned off the computer for after he finished doing so. He then marched off straight towards his bedroom and began to put on his night wear, which consists of a white T-shirt and sweat pants, and pulled out his bed sheets so that he could call it a night.
Just as he laid on his bed trying to doze off to sleep, Miguel started to think to himself, "Hmm. I wonder if both Shadow and Mana are going to be okay? I mean, judging from the way that light show just happened, I'd say that they must be back in their own separate worlds. Those two were just starting to understand and love one another and yet fate just has to step in and pull them away from one another. Maybe something good would happen to bring them back together. Maybe..."
When his thoughts were finished, Miguel suddenly found himself dozing off to sleep while still thinking about what would happen to both of his friends that grew to love one another.
After about an hour and a half of chasing Sonic, Shadow finally got him to agree never to mention anything about the girl that he supposedly thought that gave him those lip marks on his face. After Tails had caught up with them, the black hedgehog then told them all about the story that started it all because of a green stone that he found along with the meeting of Maria Robotnik's spirit. At first he heard Sonic saying that he must've have been hallucinating about what he saw but was soon cut short for when the Ultimate Life Form gave him a menacing look that could send shivers down anybody's spine.
Right after he finished telling his story to the both of them, Shadow soon told the two of them that he wanted to go exploring a bit around the planet's surface to be by himself. After reluctantly accepting their friend's decision, he saw both Sonic and Tails flying away in the powerful X Tornado back towards the work shop where the child genius worked on his inventions. As soon as he saw them out of sight, the black hedgehog then started to get the green gemstone that he had hidden from the two of them and held it within his hand.
"Hmmm. I've never actually tried to do this before since I'm only used to traveling within the world that I'm in while using the powers of the Chaos Emeralds," Shadow thought to himself as he squeezed the stone tightly within his hands. "But since this stone emits a strong amount of Chaos Energy like the emeralds, then I should be able to use the Chaos Control within this world. However, what happens for when I tried to use it to warp to another world outside my own while tracking down the same energy as this gemstone that I'm holding. I guess that there's only one way to find out."
With those thoughts done, the black hedgehog immediately began to concentrate his mind on going to the place that he desire. For a few moments, he didn't seem to find the world that he desired to go in order to find the same source of Chaos Energy as his green gemstone. Just when he was about to give up, Shadow suddenly felt a surge of energy pulsing throughout his entire body. That was for when he finally realized that pulsing feeling that he's having is indicating that he has found what he was looking for.
"I just hope that wherever that place is, it's a friendly place for Mana to live. Well, here it goes," the Ultimate Life Form thought to himself as he saw his green gemstone glowing with a large amount of green light before he shouted out the two words to call forth his special ability. "Chaos Control!"
For when she finally got her eyes to focus, Mana saw that she was back in her own home world. The female magician began to look around at her surroundings and saw that she was right back at the exact same place where she first found the green gemstone that just sent her to the world that she just left.
"The same place that took me to the one person who truly has my heart," she thought to herself sadly as tears began to water in her eyes while at the same time reaching into her pocket to find the green gemstone still inside it. "Now, I won't be able to see him again thanks to this stone. If only that it hadn't existed at all, then none of this would ever happen. If only..."
That was all the young female magician could think of in her mind just before she began to cry and let all her tears roll down her cheeks. As she laid herself down on the soft grass to cry, Mana didn't notice the furry band of the five Kuribo Brothers that where marching towards her direction to see what caused their friend to cry. Each of the Kuribo Brothers consists of five different colors of brown, white, pink, blue, and green. The brown leader of the group marched itself up towards the female magician's crying form and began to tap at her on one of her legs to get her attention. Just as she stopped crying for the moment in order to see who or what tapped at her leg, Mana saw that it was none than her furry friend and its group looking up at her curiously at her sudden burst of tears.
The female magician gave the hairy creatures a fake smile to ensure them that nothing was wrong with her. However, that didn't stop the water in her eyes from rolling down her cheeks. As she reached her hand over to the leader of the furry group, the brown ball of fur seemed to respond to this by leaning its head towards her hand and allowed her to stroke its hair gently. While doing so, Mana soon began to notice that the rest of the brown Kuribo's friends responded to this by gathering around her being and cuddled against her like puppy dogs wanting all of their owner's full attention. This little action caused the young female to giggle a bit for what her friends were trying to do for her. But she still feel sad about not having Shadow with her as she began to grab her brown friend and held it like it was a cute stuffed toy.
"I know that these little guys were only trying to cheer me up," Mana thought to herself as she continued to hold onto small creature in her arms, "but I still feel empty without Shadow with me. Oh, how I wish to hold him again like I'm doing with my little friend here like..."
Before having the chance to finish her thoughts, the female magician suddenly saw a bright green light coming out in front of her eyes. As she held her grip of the small furry creature in her arms, Mana was suddenly flabbergasted at the phenomenon that's occurring right before her presence. She also felt the rest of the brown Kuribo's friends starting to hide right behind her for protection as the light of green light continued to shine with its brilliance.
"What's going on?" the female magician thought to herself as the light right in front of her began to fade and disappear while trying to focus her eyesight to see what caused it. "What's this light that I'm seeing? The energy that I'm feeling is very strong. My little friends seems to have sensed this as well. But this feeling is so familiar to me. Just what...?"
As she tried her best to focus her eyes in order to see what was causing the light in front of her, the female magician suddenly heard the familiar voice of someone saying to her with a friendly chuckle in his voice, "Hee! Well, is that anyway to greet someone who's come all this way just to see you? I see that you have something else to cuddle with other than me. How could that cute little furball compete with me, the Ultimate Life Form?"
Mana was shocked for when she heard those words coming from the person's mouth as well as his voice. As she finally got both of her eyes to focus, the female magician turned to look at who just spoke to her. The tears that once fell from her eyes soon turned from being that of sadness to happiness for when the young woman saw that it was none other than the black hedgehog that declares himself to be The Ultimate Life Form that could never die: Shadow the Hedgehog. She was a bit curious about how her love was able to break the very fabric of time and space itself in order to get to her home world, but at that moment she didn't care. All that matters is that the one that she cares and loves so much is with her.
"Shadow? Is that really you?" Mana asked the black hedgehog in front of her as she was a bit skeptical about what she's seeing. "Are you only a dream or is this for real?"
The female magician saw a friendly smile going across the visitor's face for as he said to her
with a gentle and friendly tone of voice, "Well, if I'm only a dream, then you wouldn't be wearing any clothes and the only thing that would be covering you would be that cute brown critter that you're holding right now. Hee!"
The words that she heard Shadow saying to her would've made her laugh, but she only gave him a small smile just before she put out her arms without realizing that she still had the brown Kuribo in her arms. She then ran towards the black hedgehog's direction as quickly as she could right before she tackled him to the ground and cuddled him as best as she could. That was when she heard her love's voice chuckling a bit with amusement as she felt him hugging her back before he started to speak to her.
"Hee! Boy, did you miss me so much that you have to tackle me so hard?" she heard Shadow saying to her as he continued to hug the young female magician with a gentle hold as she looked up at him and saw a bright smile on his face. "I don't want to see you cry anymore. A beautiful girl like you shouldn't be crying. Now let's wipe away those tears out of your cheeks."
"I'm so sorry, Shadow," Mana said to the black hedgehog as she felt his gloved-hand wipe away the tears that are on her cheeks and also felt his lips kissing one of her cheeks as he embraced her with his own arms. "It's just that I was so sad for when both you and I were separated from one another that I thought that we won't be able to see each other again. But, now you're right here with me in my arms and now..."
The female magician's words were soon cut off for when she heard the familiar squeals of the furry brown Kuribo creature being smothered right in between the bodies of both herself and Shadow. She saw that the black hedgehog sensing this as well as being confused as to what was in between the two of them. As she and Shadow lifted each other from the ground and separated for the moment, Mana saw the brown furry creature walking away from the two of them and squeal in both exhaustion and frustration for when its cries went unheard.
"Uh Mana, just what in the world is that little fur ball?" the female magician heard the black hedgehog asking with a rather confused and curious expression. "I know for a fact that it's too cute and lively to be a dust mop without a stick."
That was when Mana heard the offended squeals of the furry creature it is joined by the rest of the chorus of its family. The young girl wanted to giggle but didn't for when she saw their faces all angered by the words that her love said about their leader. She knew for a fact that the black hedgehog didn't mean to offend them but the five furry creatures might just take it the wrong way and now wasn't the time to start laughing about it. Before either one of the Kuribo Brothers could have the chance to attack Shadow, the female magician went up towards their brown leader and gave it a huge and gentle hug to calm it down.
"Please calm yourself, my little friends," Mana said to the furry little creatures as she picked up the brown leader and cuddled it with her arms as she did her best to calm it down. "This is a rather...close friend of mine. He may look very frightening, but he's actually a nice person on the inside. Believe me, he didn't mean to offend you all by saying what he just said. He was only trying to be friendly. Look at him and see what I mean."
As soon as she finished talking, the female magician released her hold on the now calm down brown Kuribo leader and saw it joining its brethren. Then she saw the five differently colored creatures turning their directions towards Shadow and gave him a little mistrustful look on each of their faces. However, the white furred member of their furry group starting to march towards the black hedgehog's legs and stiff at his red, black, and white shoes that he wore. After a moment of seeing the furry creature sniffing at his shoes, Mana saw the white Kuribo starting to jump toward Shadow's arms and began to snuggle up against his body with a friendly and joyful demeanor.
Soon the entire pack of the creatures began to surround the black hedgehog with their furry bodies as they ganged up on him like a pack of cute puppies and squeaked with happiness. The female magician started to giggle cutely at the sight that she was seeing. She'd never seen the Kuribo Brothers react this way towards strangers, especially to one that they hadn't seen before. The young blonde also saw Shadow laughing with both embarrassment and joy in his voice for as the clan of fur balls continued their playful action.
"Tee! Hee! Hee! I think that they all like you, Shadow," Mana said to her love as she walked over towards his direction and began to pick off the creatures one by one in order to once again see his smiling face. "I was right about you for when I felt that you are a nice person. It seems that these little guys sense that too."
"Well, whatever these little things sensed in me, it's causing them to snuggle up against me like I was their scratching post," Shadow said to the female magician as she saw him gently trying to pry the furry creatures without trying to get them mad at him again. "I just wish that these little fellas could've at least given me a warning before they planned to give me a group hug. Could you little fur balls give me some room to breathe and perhaps give me time to spend with your beautiful friend over here?"
As she blushed at the words that she heard him say, Mana saw the five furry Kuribos nodding their heads with joyful smiles on their faces just before they marched off leaving both her and Shadow alone with one another. The black hedgehog was the first to speak.
"Now Mana, would you mind telling me just what were those creatures that snuggled up against me like a pack of cute hairy puppies?" She heard Shadow saying to her with a smile on his face just as the female magician saw him marching towards her direction and wrapped his arms around her. "I would also like to know just what world that I warped myself into. This place is almost as beautiful as you are."
She blushed a bit more just as she responded to his question by saying to him while snuggling up against him, "Well, those creatures that just showed you their affection are called Kuribo, Shadow. They're cute and adorable creatures that like to help one another as well as those who are in trouble or in pain. They were also trying to help me feel better for when I was sad about the two of us not being able to see each other again.
"As for where we are, Shadow, we are in the world that is filled with creatures that you or your friend Miguel might've seen in story books. I've been here ever since my spirit has transformed into this form and was transported into this world from Ancient Egypt five thousand years ago. But that's not the important thing that's on my mind. What I'm most curious about is how you were able to arrive in this world. Just how were you able to do it?"
"I was able to use the power of the Chaos Control to get here while tracking down the energy of your own gemstone," Mana heard Shadow asking her as she felt his hand inside hers while seeing him looking at the place that they were in with amazement. "I'll tell you all about it for when we have the time to discuss about it. Right now though, would you mind giving me a tour of the place? I'm afraid that I don't quite know this place as well as you do and if I try to go around, the natives around here would start to give me a hard time and wouldn't think of me as a friendly person."
The female magician giggled at the black hedgehog's comment for as she squeezed his hand and began to walk with him towards the most familiar places that she's been too all around her home world. "This is like a dream come true," she thought to herself as she kept her hold on Shadow's hand while seeming to drift off into dreamland. "My own knight in shining armor coming to me for when he feels my heart starting to become sadden. I hope that nothing comes to this world to ruin it."
When the two of them finally reached their destination, both Nightmare Parasite and Shade saw that they were in some sort of laboratory filled with nothing but glass tubes filled with liquid along with very advance looking machines running like a huge tractor engine. But what's in these tubes are all sorts of creatures from different species of animals that seemed to come from different worlds as well as human beings. The room was also filled tables with glass containers of different shapes and sized filled with all sorts of different chemicals that appeared as though that they could be used in experiments.
Shade was a bit curious about his creator's intentions for as they continued to walk around the area while at the same time carrying the bodies of both Kanzel and Mazenda in his grip. However, his curiosity was soon put to rest for when he saw that they've both stopped right in front of two huge tubes. One looked as though that it could be large enough to hold a huge bear while the other looked as though it could be huge enough to contain a large dragon. With an even more further inspection of the sleeping specimens inside glass tubes, the vampire was only able to make out each of their bodies's shadowy silhouettes as he looked at them both with awe on his face.
What Shade saw in the first tube was a shapeless form that seemed to try to get itself into a proper shape. The other one, however, looked like a huge dragon that looked as though it had been dead for many centuries. Just as he was about to ask his master about what was going on, the vampire heard Nightmare Parasite saying, "Well, Professor Diol, it certainly has been a while since the last time that I was in this place. Are the two new Generals for my Nightmare Soldier army ready yet?"
Before he could have the chance to ask his master who he was talking to, Shade began to see a figure appearing out of the shadows of the laboratory. When the person finally emerged into the lights of the laboratory, the vampire saw an old man that looks as though that he were short enough to be the size of a eight year old child. His beard is all gray and long enough to declare him to be a very old senior citizen. The vampire also saw the old man looking at him as though he were amazed or even honored by his very presence.
Before he could have the chance to say something to the old person, Shade suddenly heard the old man saying to him with a pleased smile as he dropped the two dead Monster bodies to the ground, "Well, both of these creatures are almost ready to come into existence, my lord. All they need now is the right genetic components as well as the right spiritual essences to become fully complete. Ahhh! So this must be the very first creation that you were talking about for when you come here to check on me every so often, Lord Parasite. It seems that the way that you've managed to create this creature is simply amazing. For me, it would take me years to create such a perfect and marvelous creature with the sorcery that I've used to create my wonderful Chimeras."
"Well Diol, I'm so glad that you are pleased with Shade the Red Shadow," Nightmare Parasite said to aged sage as the powerful liquid creature turned its full attention back to the two creatures in the huge tubes. "But I'm also pleased with the work that you've made with the two new generals that you've created for my army. I could see that you've managed to design these two creatures very well thanks to the samples that I've given you for as long as you've been here."
"Well, thanks to the powers that you've given to me, I was able to stay in existence for much longer than I suppose to," Diol said as he turned to the direction where Parasite was looking at the huge glass tubes containing the specimens that he'd created. "How dare that little which of a sorceress refuse to be a beautiful model for one of my Chimeras! Well, now I'll show her what she would've been thanks to all the knowledge that you, Lord Parasite, gave me about the humans' advancements in their techniques in science and technology."
"And I'm sure that you will, Diol," the Chaos clone said to the aged professor with a pleased tone in its hissy voice. "Ever since that I've first laid my eyes on you and met you face to face, I knew that you were the right person that could be the one to create the most wonderful and powerful creatures that your world has ever seen. I've taken you to this realm and given you the knowledge about the human races advancements in science as well as their genetics and technology. I've saw the wonderful progress that you've made since gaining the knowledge that I gave you. What about your two other creations that you've created in your spare time?"
"Oh, so I've see that you've noticed, my lord," Diol answered to Parasite with a pleased chuckle in his voice. "Well, both of my newest creations still need to have their powers tested, but they are both completed, I assure you. Air Jay! Maliska! Come over here and show yourselves to Lord Parasite!"
As soon as his words were shouted out, two shadowy figures appeared before the three of them almost revealing themselves in the lights of the machinery in the room. Both appeared to be human proportioned as their bodies continued to be concealed by the shadows. One of them appeared to be a well-built male with extremely long hair that seemed to touch the ground. The other figure looked to be a female with short hair as well as a nicely-proportioned body. When the two of them finally revealed themselves within the light of the room, their full forms was something that neither Parasite or Shade expected of them.
The young human male seemed to possess long and raven colored hair that touched the ground of the room. It's also shaped as if he were wearing a hat that was meant to looked like a great bird of fire so sorts. The black leather clothing as well as the that he wore makes him look like a regular city punk readying to steal from someone. The black jacket and the dark blue jeans showed the same affect and emotion as well. The shades on his head makes him look like a person with some sort of attitude problem.
Then there's the young human female. She possesses long but decent flaming red hair that made it look like that it was frozen still by long hours in icy cold wind. The clothing that she was wearing was rather decent. She had a red sleeveless shirt on that only showed only a small portion of her waist. She also wore dark blue jeans that almost resembled her male companion's only that it was a bit more decent than what he wore. She also wore a pair of gem-imbedded golden gauntlets that are on her wrists that make it look like that she's wearing fancy jewelry.
"Lord Parasite, I would like to introduce to you to two of my latest and greatest creations," Diol said to the liquified life form as he waved his hand as if he were announcing his creations in a contest. "This young man who possesses the long and dark raven hair is called Air Jay. He was once a young man who liked nothing but to steal and to cause trouble from within the world that I've once been apart of. But now, he's infused with the powerful essence and powers of a legendary creature that could be reborn of the ashes within its death and thought to be only as a legend: the phoenix. He also possesses great fighting talent and powers that could burn and reduce his opponents into nothing but a pile of ashes. Hee! Hee! Hee!
"And this lovely young woman here is called Maliska. She possesses the power to foresee her foes attacks as well as counter act them while at the same time using the powers of her mind to bend their own minds to her will. She could also move objects and other beings with her mind as if their were nothing but small obstacles to her. Maliska could also manipulate and create ice around her being to overpower her enemies as well as turn them into pure ice sculptures! Hee! Hee! Hee!"
"Yeah! Yeah! I think they've got the message, old man!" Air Jay said to his creator as the black haired young man gave him as well as both Nightmare Parasite and Shade an arrogant smirk on his face. "The two of you better recognize that I would burn anything and anybody who doesn't realize the true extent of my power! Even if it means to...!"
Air Jay's words were soon cut off for when the aristocratic vampire began to make a huge blade of crimson energy appearing out of his hand and pointed it straight at the long-haired young man's neck. The expression that Shade gave to the fiery fighter is so cold that it could kill anyone that was unfortunate enough to stare at him.
"You would be wise to watch your tongue, you arrogant long-haired dog!" the vampire said to Air Jay with a cold and angry tone as he continued to keep the tip of the red energy blade pointed at his throat. "If you dared to speak to both myself or Master Parasite with that mouth of yours, I'll personally see to it that tongue of yours would be cut off and served to the dogs that you came from!"
"Why I ought to...!" was all Air Jay could muster out to Shade before he was cut off by a huge wall of ice that separated him from his opponent before he could muster up a powerful ball of fire within his hand. That was when he turned his full attention towards the source for the huge ice wall and saw Maliska having her hand up towards the cold wall's direction.
"Hey, babe! I don't need you to be cramping up my style while I was about to kick this fool's ass!" the black-haired fighter said to the red-haired female as he forced the fire within his hand to disappear.
"Ha! Like you could really kick that guy's ass if you wanted to, Air Jay!" Maliska retaliated to Air Jay's words with a mocking tone to her voice. "If I hadn't cut in between you two like I did, then you would've ended up having to raise from the ashes while at the same time ruining your hair! Besides, I think that he's cute."
Before Air Jay could have the chance to saying something to counter his female companion's words, the wall of ice that once stood in between him and Shade began to melt into a cloud of vapor for as both Nightmare Parasite and Shade the Red Shadow emerged from it. The vampire stood next to the Chaos clone's side in complete obedience while wearing a calm expression to his face. That was when the black and red liquified creature began to speak with a tone of amusement in its snake sounding voice while at the same time clapping as if it were in a theater.
"Bravo, Diol! I'm pleased that both these two creations of yours have displayed such marvelous powers right in front of my three eyes. Especially the arrogance that both Maliska and Air Jay showed against each other's actions. Air Jay is also quite impressive for when he has threatened one of my new Nightmare Generals right at his face. I would certainly look forward to both of their performances in Shade's army once the time comes."
"What! Are you kidding me, you liquified puddle of black and red Jell-O?" Air Jay said to Nightmare Parasite with an offended and annoyed tone to his voice as he looked towards Shade's direction. "I'm going to be a part of that bastard's army! Well, I would never...!"
That was when his words were soon cut off by Maliska, who slammed her fist towards the black-haired phoenix fighter's head very hard just to get him to shut up and cause him to be on his knees on the ground. She then turned her attention towards both Parasite and Shade and bowed to the two of them obediently before she spoke, "Oh! I wouldn't mind being in Shade's army, Lord Parasite. Please forgive Air Jay's arrogance. It's just that he's jealous because he doesn't lead an army like Shade does. Plus, he's twice more handsome than the little whiner would ever be."
"Hey! Watch it, babe!" the black haired fighter said to the female as he started to once again gather red orange flames within his hands. "If you keep pissing me off with those words of yours, you're going to be sorry! Plus, I don't think that Shade would find you very attractive with the way that you look. I mean, you look like a hooker that just got...!"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, YOU LITTLE LONG-HAIRED BASTARD!" Maliska shouted out to Air Jay angrily before she started to manifest a ball of clear cold water within her hand.
Before the two of them could make the first move, Nightmare Parasite began to cut in between the two by saying with a calm tone, "As much as I would like to see more of those powers that you two possess, I'm afraid that I would have to insist that the two of you cease your arguing for some other time. We have more important business to attend to. Isn't that right Diol?"
"As you say, Lord Parasite," the aged sage said Nightmare Parasite as both Maliska and Air Jay calmed themselves down as they turned to their own creator with apologetic looks on their faces and saw him facing the huge glass tubes filled with the two enormous creatures that he had been working on since they've both come into existence. "All that these two creatures need are the remaining and right essences necessary to come to life. Judging from the way that your vampire creature Shade looks right now from sucking the essences of both Kanzel and Mazenda, they must be powerful enough to bring these two creatures to life."
"Then let us proceed with bringing these new creatures into existence, shall we?" Nightmare Parasite said as it began to raise its hand-like tentacles towards the dead bodies of both Kanzel and Mazenda and began to concentrate its mind until two balls of red energy appearing above them.
Before either Air Jay or Maliska could have the chance to find out what was happening, they both saw the powerful liquified life form starting to levitate the two spheres of energy towards the direction of the two huge glass tubes containing the huge creatures. As soon as the two balls of crimson energy submerged themselves into the bodies of the two huge creatures, a sudden burst of energy began to erupt from them as they light up the room that they're in. An enormous shatter of glass erupted for as the light continued to shone all around the room. When the light finally died down and faded away, everyone in the room began to blink their eyes in order to see what just happened. Air Jay was the first to see the cause of the enormous source of light that the two huge tubes of glass once stood as well as Maliska.
The first creature that they both saw looked like a huge black greenish dragon that looked scarred and scaled all over its huge body. As the dragon creature spread his huge wings, Air Jay and Maliska saw that they looked as though they have feathers on them. Before they could have the chance to say anything, the two human-like creatures heard the beast let out a huge and tired roar that echoed throughout the entire room that nearly broke the room down with its voice. For as the huge voice of the large dragon finally died down, both Air Jay and Maliska did their best to recover from what they just heard.
"Now what the hell was that!" the long and raven-haired fighter said with tone of astonishment while still looking at the huge dragon creature in awe.
"That's what I want to know!" the red and spiky haired woman answered to her partner just before she felt a warm hand on her butt and was feeling pretty irritated for when she turned her direction towards Air Jay. "Air Jay! Get your damn hand out of my butt this instant!"
"Hey, don't look at me!" Air Jay said to Maliska as he lifted both of his arms up indicating that he wasn't trying to be fresh with her. "Do you really think that I'm that perverted enough to lay my hands on your ass!"
"Then, if you didn't do it, then who...?" that was all that the female fighter has to say before she turned behind her back and saw a strange creature giving out a huge and mischievous grin on its face. "Eeeeekkkkk! Get away from me you...you...you...!"
While Maliska repeated that word in her mouth, both she and Air Jay heard a menacing voice of a male coming from the shapeless creature as it spoke, "Hee! Hee! Hee! What's the matter, babe? Don't you like it for when someone touches you by that spot? Hee! Hee! Hee!"
The red-haired fighter was a bit annoyed at what the shadowy creature had to say for itself for as she gathered large amounts of icy energy within her hands. Before she could have the chance to throw the sphere of ice towards its direction, both herself and Air Jay saw the mysterious perverted visitor suddenly appearing right out of the shadows and revealing its full form.
What the two of them saw was a huge creature that possesses a form that made him look like a enormous black feline with menacing grin on its face similar to that of an evil-looking clown. That wasn't what surprised both Maliska and Air Jay the most. What surprised them the most was the additional set of arms that seemed to possess minds of their own. Not only that, but the lively arms as well as his own seemed to possess crimson tips on top of his head as well as his feet and claws. It was huge and scary enough to be considered a very huge cheap Halloween costume rip-off.
That was when the creature in front of their being began to make a make a knife made of pure shadow and darkness appear within its hands and started to lick its blade like a sadistic killer to its prey. Both fighters were a bit sicken for when they saw the creature doing that in front of them. Air Jay was the first to speak a piece of his mind.
"Man, now that's the sickest creature that I've ever laid my eyes upon!" the long and raven-haired young man said to Maliska for as he saw the phantom do that. "And you thought that I was perverted for when I've tried to grab the butts of other girls!"
"Just shut up, Air Jay!" the red-haired female said to her companion for while she continued to hold the ball of powerful ice energy within her hand about to throw it towards the shadowy phantom. "What I really want to know is what in the world is that thing!"
"Well, if you really wanted to know, Maliska, he's called Shogar," said the voice of Professor Diol as both Maliska and Air Jay turned towards his direction and saw him smiling with a pride. "He's created from a creature from another world that's filled with creatures known as Pokemon. To be honest, I thought that the specimens that Lord Parasite was going to bring me were nothing but a bunch of weaklings judging by the name. However, after observing them more closing and studying them for the longest time, I've discovered that they've possess very unusual and yet great powers. But despite the powers that he possesses, Shogar is only second powerful when compared to Drakon!"
Before either Maliska or Air Jay could ask their creator about who or what Drakon was, Nightmare Parasite spoke to the two of them with a pleased and prideful tone in its voice while pointing one of its hand-like tentacles towards the huge dragon from before, "This dragon that you're seeing right now is a resurrected and genetically enhanced version of one of the most powerful species that once roamed the surface of one of the Four Worlds: the Ancient Dragons. This race of dragons once held the powers of light and darkness which caused their so-called companions, the Golden Dragons, to fear them and resort to murdering them.
"While traveling and scanning all around the world where Lina Inverse lives, I was able to stumble upon the resting place of the once great dragons of light and darkness. I searched and found small but visible traces of an Ancient Dragon's dead skin cells. The energy that I've sensed from this dead creature's small remains still emit a very powerful aura that contains nothing but hate and fury for those that murdered them. So, with the help of Professor Diol, this magnificent creature was able to come back to life with even more power than it had before. Drakon, why don't you and Shogar get acquainted with Shade, Maliska, Air Jay, as well as the rest of the army while me and Diol take the remains of these two pathetic Monsters to be properly disposed of. In the meantime, Shade is in charge to look over you all."
"Your wish is our command, Master Parasite," Drakon telepathically spoke to its savor/creator with a male sounding voice while at the same time shocking both Air Jay and Maliska with its voice.
"It would be my pleasure to do that, Master Parasite," Shogar said to its creator with a chuckle to his voice while at the same time looking towards the female fighter's direction with a menacing look on his face. "Hee! Hee! Hee! I'm sure that both me and Lady Maliska will get well acquainted with each other. Hee! Hee! Hee!"
"Hey, I'd watch that mouth of yours if I were you, shadow boy!" Maliska said to the huge phantom with a disgusted tone in her voice. "If you dare to touch my butt one more time, I'm going to send that ass of yours in a plate!"
"Maliska, calm yourself, " Shade the Red Shadow said to the female while at the same time keeping a calm and cool demeanor in his voice. "It wouldn't be wise for you to start picking a fight with your superiors right after they're born."
"Heh! Suck up!" Air Jay snorted while giving the human-like vampire general a jealous look on his face.
Nightmare Parasite began to transport both itself and Diol, as well as the dead bodies of both Kanzel and Mazenda, out of the area while being warped into another part of the powerful liquid creature's domain. As both the aged sage and Parasite were at their destination, they turned their full attention towards a huge crimson bubble filled with liquid. Inside the red sphere of liquid was a man with impossibly long hair that seemed to be surrounding his entire being. The Chaos clone then began to levitate the two dead monster bodies with great powers of its mind and threw them towards the enormous bubble where the huge man was sleeping. A huge brilliance of light began to shine up the room where both Nightmare Parasite and Diol are until it was reduced to a dull glow once more.
"This power is so incredible, Lord Parasite!" the aged sage said to the liquified creature as he continued to stare at the body of the unconscious man that began to stir a bit in his sleep as he tried to understand what just happened around his being. "I've never felt anything quite like it back in my own world! It's so hard to believe that I'm looking at the physical body of the Demon Dragon King himself!"
"Well Diol, I'm so glad that you find him so amazing," Nightmare Parasite said to Diol as it looked at Gaav's sleeping form with amusement in its voice. "It really took me quite a long time to find the necessary components to put the former Dark Lord back to his former state. The bodies of his former servants really helped to bring him a step closer towards his awakening. All I need is just one more powerful genetic and spiritual component in order to completely restore him to his former glory and I know where just to get it to."
"And just where is this powerful component that you speak of, Lord Parasite?" Diol asked the liquified life form just before he saw it making a huge bubble-like screen appear out of the space around them and saw a rather beautiful young woman lying asleep in her own bed. "Just who in the world is this lovely young woman and what does she have to do with finding the last component for Gaav to come back to existence?"
"This lovely young lady is Sylphiel Nels Lahda, former priestess to huge holy city known as Siaraag," Nightmare Parasite answered with a sort of tone of amusement in its snake voice. "She's also a dear friend of the one that you despise so much: Lina Inverse.
"Her home city was destroyed by a copy of the one that you called Rezo the Red Priest. She herself was really devastated for when her father along with everything and everyone that she holds dear to her heart is destroyed right in front of her very eyes. She has felt nothing but pain and agony since then. That was until she met the human boy Miguel Angel Arias in another world where I've had my very first encounter with the two along with their Mobian friends."
"She seems pretty harmless from what I could gather, Lord Parasite," the old sage said to the powerful liquified creature while at the same time fascinated at the young woman that he saw. "She looks so beautiful and so peaceful while she's asleep. It's hard to believe that she's a friend to that little shrimp, Lina Inverse!"
"Well, as hard as this going to be for you to believe, my friend, she's much more than she appears to be," Nightmare Parasite said to Diol while at the same time not taking its three green eyes off the shrine maiden in the screen. "She, along with the boy Miguel, are both very special human beings. So special that it might be possible that the two of them could be more superior than any other beings that I've come across in the entire universe. They were both able to defeat me at our very first battle on the planet Mars while in a universe with the technology is more advanced than even your own.
"However, that's not the real reason why I'm showing her picture perfect presence in front of your eyes, Diol. When I first tried to implant a portion of my very being into both Miguel and Sylphiel's bodies to try to control them, they somehow managed to subdue the parts and made them a permanent part of their being. But that's not the only thing that I've noticed. When I've first scanned her mind in order to see what kind of secrets that the shrine maiden has to hide, I've found something that I've never expected in her mind. What I've found is the small remaining portion of the once most powerful Monster Lord of the Underworld: Hellmaster Phibrizzo!"
"What! Are telling me that the once powerful of all of Shabranigdo's subordinates is still alive?" the aged sorcerer said to the liquified creature shock in his voice after hearing this new information. "The last time that I've heard about him is from something that a the members of the Monster Race once told me for when I've summoned him! He heard that Hellmaster was destroyed by Lina Inverse using her most devastating spell: the Giga Slave! Not even Shabranigdo himself would be able to stand up to a spell that powerful! Just how in the world did Phibrizzo managed to sneak a part of himself into this young woman after he was destroyed?"
"While he was toying with Lina Inverse's feelings by killing her friends off one after another, the little brat secretly planted a special portion of himself into Sylphiel while doing so," the parasitic organism said to Diol as it continued to watch Sylphiel's sleeping form. "Not only that, but he's been giving her nothing but bad dreams of memories that she once held in her heart so that he could gather the negative energy necessary to be reborn. But that changed for when the boy Miguel came into her life and took out a portion of her darkness that she once held in her heart. The darkness that I've helped to release. Now he's laying dormant within her body as her own powers continue to grow stronger."
"What are you planning to do if Hellmaster manages to bring himself back into existence, Lord Parasite?" the aged sage asked Nightmare Parasite with a rather concerned and worried tone in his voice. "He may possess the energy and essence necessary to bring back Gaav, but he could also be a threat to your plans. He..."
That was all that Diol could say before he heard the nightmarish laugh of the liquified creature echoing all around the area before it spoke to him again with a calm voice, "I'm not worried about little brat of a Dark Lord!
"To me, he's nothing but an insect that needs to be squashed! He'll soon learn that there's something that is even worse than the fate the Lord of Nightmares tried to give him! I'll personally see to it that he won't be able to come back into existence ever again. Once he's taken care of , I'll be able to use the remains of his essence to bring the Demon Dragon King back into existence so that both the Gods and Monsters of Ciephied and Shabranigdo's world would know the true meaning of ultimate fear that they made the humans feel! Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
As the laugh of Nightmare Parasite echoed throughout the area as both it and Diol warped out of the area, they both didn't notice the signs of life that the body of Gaav showed within the red sphere of liquid before he was lifeless once again.
The End.
