CHAPTER 25

THE FINAL BATTLE

Lynn's eyes widened at Shadow's new form, "It's an angel."

Spike looked over to Rouge, "Maybe dad finally has a chance now."

Rouge stared over to Shadow looking worried. She had hoped that Shadow would have a chance, if not then this would be his last chance to defeat him.

Tonya leaned on Espio and cried, "Espio, Ker gave up his life for us."

Espio held her closer to him, "He was carrying Shadow's third form inside of him all along. He was truly the demon of light after all."

Deminse smirked a bit, "Heh, just because you grew wings doesn't mean you'll defeat me."

"You will be the one destroyed not me", Shadow said.

The demon had clenched his fists in anger and charged towards Shadow with a dark blue aura around his fists. "I'm gonna pluck your feathers off one by one!"

Just as Deminse was about to punch him in the face, Shadow raised his hand in the air and all of a sudden Deminse stood there with a red light coming from his body.

"What's happening to me! My strength it's...fading!"

The red light that came from Deminse had turned white and then it was consumed into Shadow's body.

The white light around Shadow's body had brightened. He looked over to Deminse still looking confused, "Now I hold Heaven's Light not you."

Deminse began to walk backwards a bit, "Wait a minute, can we talk about this?"

"Deminse, for all the people you killed in your past and present life, I shall condemn you into an eternal damnation."

The demon gritted his teeth, "It doesn't matter what you do to me! I'll always come back! Hell can't keep me there forever!"

Shadow didn't listen to his words, he just held out his hand with Heaven's Light surrounding it, "Heaven's Light!"

The white light had struck Deminse all over his body. He began to flinch a bit, "Damn...you. I'll...be back. I...swear it." A sudden white light flashed and when it disappeared, Deminse's body was gone. The only thing left of him was his necklace with the dark blue jewel in it.

Shadow's angel form had disappeared. He had fell to the ground in exhaustion.

Everyone ran over to him with happiness.

Shadow slowly got off the ground. He was still weak and hurt from the fight, but somehow he managed to stand up.

With tears Rouge hugged Shadow tightly, "You had me so scared! I'm just glad you're okay."

Shadow quickly pulled away from her, "I won't be okay if you don't ease up on your grip. My whole body is aching."

She kissed him lightly on the lips, "Sorry, love."

Spike smiled at Lynn, "Told yea my dad could do it."

The pink cat hugged the hedgehog, "I never doubted you for a second."

Chloe and Tonya confronted Shadow with sadness.

"Shadow, can't you do anything about Ker's and Charmy's death?" Tonya asked.

"Could you bring them back from the dead?" Chloe asked.

Shadow nodded, "I could, but...it's a risk. If people try to revive the dead and succeed, the person you bring back probably won't be the same person you once knew. The process may come out wrong and the person you try to bring back could end up being a monster or something even worse than that." He shook his head, "Sorry I just can't do that. I miss them as much as you do."

Chloe and Tonya looked towards the ground looking like they'll never get over their deaths.

Shadow turned away from them and slowly walked over to Deminse's necklace and picked it up from the ground. He stared at it for a moment, "Now everyone can rest." He held the jewel tighter in his grip and soon the jewel shattered into pieces. He dropped the pieces on the ground and the bright sun had shown from the pitch black clouds meaning that everyone's trapped soul had finally went into heaven.

Everyone looked towards the sun with hope and happiness.

"The sun's out. I guess it means everything's back to normal now", Vector said.

Shadow stared at the sun with a smile, "Yeah we can all see the light."