CHAPTER 27

FINAL REST

"Dark", Espio said with a glare.

"You have nowhere to go now, Dark. Your demon army is gone. You have no plan", Vector said.

Dark crossed his arms, "That maybe so, if the fourteen demons can't destroy a pack of losers then I can."

"What makes you think that you can beat us?" Espio was reaching for his gun in his holster.

"Deminse just took out Shadow your only chance of defeating me", Dark said.

"That's what you think", Espio took out the Z-X from his holster and fired a round in Dark's chest. He smirked, "That'll teach yea." He then saw Dark trying to spit out the bullet. "What the fuck!"

The bullet inside of Dark made its way through his chest up to his neck. He gagged a bit as he upchucked the bullet from his chest. He spit the bullet out in front of the Chaotix.

Rouge's eyes widened, "Move it!"

They all scattered as the bullet exploded.

Charmy faced Espio, "How can he do that?"

Espio shook his head in confusion, "I don't know."

Dark laughed, "As I said before, you cannot defeat me."

Espio once again pointed the gun at him, "We'll see about that."

Vector slapped the gun out of his hand, "Espio, no."

"Why?"

"Because he's going to keep upchucking the bullets no matter what and they'll come in our direction."

"Good thinking."

Rouge stared at Shadow's lifeless body, "Please Shadow, you have to wake up. We need you", she whispered. She began to cry, "You can't die...not now..." Her tear fell from her cheek and landed on Shadow's nose.

Shadow's body then began to glow a yellow color.

Rouge was amazed by it, "What the?" She then saw the jewels that she collected from the demons appear out of her belt pocket.

The pieces of jewels began to circle around Shadow's glowing body.

Espio, Charmy, and Vector didn't know what was happening at the time, but they hoped it was a good thing.

The jewels then combined together and formed a little rainbow emerald.

Dark's eyes widened, "What? A rainbow Chaos Emerald, but I only heard about that in myths. It can't be true."

The rainbow colored emerald floated in the center of Shadow's body and sunk into his chest. Shadow's body floated in the air with the yellow light around him getting brighter, blinding the group. When the light dimmed a bit, Shadow's black fur turned yellow. Shadow slowly opened his eyes having them fixed on Dark. Shadow confronted Dark, "Dark, what you did to this world is unforgivable and you shall be punished."

Dark's eyes remained on the glowing hedgehog speechless, "How did you just come back to life like that? You're dead."

Shadow held out his right hand, "You're right, you are dead." A yellow blast then came from his hand and struck at Dark.

Dark fell to the floor badly hurt from the attack. He looked up at the glowing hedgehog, "Go ahead an kill me it'll be the last thing you ever do."

Shadow held his right hand at Dark's forehead, "Wish granted, Chaos Spear!" A yellow spear appeared from his hand and struck into Dark's head.

The group watched as the demon's blood scattered on the floor.

Rouge quickly ran up to the glowing hedgehog and hugged him, "Shadow..."She said with tears. "Are you going to die?"

Shadow made slight smile, "Yes."

Rouge cried into his chest, "No, I don't want you to die. You can't leave me. I still love you."

Shadow made her look into his red eyes, "I can't live this way anymore. I did so much damage...I just can't stay in this world any longer, but remember this I will always love you and I'll always be in your heart."

Shadow then gently kissed her lips.

As soon as Rouge was enjoying it, he then disappeared in front of her very eyes. Rouge looked around trying to look for him when she already knew he wouldn't come back, "Shadow! Shadow!"

Espio watched as Rouge continued to look around for him, "He's gone..."

Rouge kneeled to the floor and started to sob, "Shadow!" She screamed, "Come back!"

Espio kneeled down at her and held her close, "He's in a better place now. At last he can finally rest in peace."