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Chapter 13: What Are You?

Shadow was sitting on a window of the barn. He's swaying his feet around while looking at the chaos emerald he is holding. He was thinking what Sonic told him, about Silver having newly found powers. Shadow was then throwing the chaos emerald above and then catches and repeats. Few seconds, he then catches the chaos emerald that he sorta juggling and held it tight.

"Is it me... or are we getting stronger when we are here in Equestria... it feels like there is naturally magic around." Shadow said in his thoughts.

As Shadow thought that, a voice was heard around. "Sonic is so cool!"

Shadow then get his attention, he looked around and nothing is around him. Though the voice is really familiar. It sounds like... "Rainbow Dash?" He said as he kept looking around.

Though another voice was heard around, "I hope Shadow doesn't kill me when I found a chaos emerald."

"Spike?" Shadow said as he then now stands up and looks around.

"Does Silver hates me now... Oh... you've done it now Fluttershy..." A voice said around as Shadow kept looking around but no one is around him.

"Wait... those voices..." Shadow wondered as he brings out the other two chaos emeralds.

He then sits into a meditating position. He closes his eyes and begins to channel his inner chaos energy. He tried to connect atleast one of the chaos emerald. As he did, he then starts to see the visions of his 'friends.' He first saw Rainbow Dash, that look like she is spying on someone.

"Rainbow Dash?" Shadow thought inside.

"I know Twilight is my friend... but when it comes for Sonic. She is a rival to me getting Sonic's heart." Rainbow said.

"What does she mean?" Shadow said as he just sway his hand into a different vision.

He then saw Spike who looked like got his heart broke. Which is true. Shadow then got curious what Spike has in mind.

"Why does Rarity have to choose someone who's not from here. I mean I'm always here. Here for her, that Silver just came in and ruin my true love..." Spike said as it seems to make Shadow surprised.

"Looks like Spike and Silver aren't having a good time do they." Shadow thought.

He then waves his hand again and the vision changes to Fluttershy. Shadow saw that Fluttershy looked unhappy.

"Let me guess. Fluttershy is unhappy because Silver stayed at Rarity's." Shadow thought as Fluttershy then sighed.

"Why did Silver choose to stay with Rarity? Does he like Rarity? Am I not attractive enough? Oh why..." Fluttershy said in her thoughts.

"Silver doesn't seem to like Fluttershy." Shadow accidentally said.

"Huh? Did I just here Shadow?" Fluttershy said as Shadow saw that Fluttershy is looking around her.

Shadow got surprised as he quickly lost his concentration and ending up in reality. Shadow then breathes heavily and he then looked around seeing that he is back in the barn.

"I'm... back?"Shadow wondered.

He looked around once more and then at the chaos emeralds.

"If I'm not mistaken. Those were the ones who activated the chaos emeralds. The surprising thing is that... how can the chaos emeralds do that? The faker, Silver, and the rest of us used chaos emeralds before. But we never experience that we can read thoughts... even talking to their thoughts." Shadow said to himself as he put his fingers in his chin.

He picked up the chaos emerald and examines it closely. He could feel chaos energy, 100% of it. He is just uncertain how to explain things to himself.

"What is going on here." Shadow said to himself but then another voice is heard. "Shadow..." the voice is unknown to him but it felt like its near him.

"Whose there? Pinkie? This is no time fo-" Shadow was interrupted by the voice again.

"Come..."

Shadow gives up and decides to follow the voice that he heard. It leads him outside of the barn. Shadow then starts to wondered and gains cautious. The voice that he supposed to kept hearing turned into a unknown language but just sounds just o kept in his direction. He supposed to meet like someone outside, but no one is there. He start to feel that someone is inside of him, or his head. The voice that he followed starts to whisper to him.

"Help... me..." It said.

Shadow begins to get curious and he started running to the voice that he been following. But then the whispers that he heard turned into a maniacal laughter. Shadow then got into his fighting stance. He felt that maniacal laughter isn't very nice to his likings.

"Show yourself! I know you're here!" Shadow yelled out, though no one is actually around.

Shadow starts to hear more whispers in a specified direction. He chased it down leading to a small lake. Shadow stopped as the whispers did too. He tried catching his breathe and recover himself from the chase of unknown.

"W-What...?" Shadow said to himself.

He looked around and yet no one's around. He just walked near to the lake, but when he do. He was shock to see someone else as his reflection. The reflection exactly resembles as him, though, the differences are the eyes are color black and yet the iris are still red. The highlights on Shadow's quills are emitting purple flames, and looks like the reflection of him doesn't have any bracelets on.

"W-Who are you?" Shadow asked his reflection.

"Fool... H-Help me!" It replied and Shadow looked confused.

"What are you talking about? What are the laughters? What are the whispers?! And who the hell are who?!" Shadow started to yell.

"The laughters... are the signs of her genocidal... Shadow. If you find her use me to correct her ways... Please... You have to help me..." It said back, but Shadow doesn't know what he is trying to work with.

"I don't even who the hell you are. Why the hell you look like me. Are you even one of Mephiles' puppets?!" Shadow tried to find the answer but the reflection just try to corrects him in a faster way.

"Shadow. I am you. The time you wondered about the source of energy filling you. That is magic flowing through you now. Help me now will you?" His reflection answered leaving Shadow confused.

"Me? Then, what do you want?" Shadow then starts to became calm as his reflection sighed peacefully.

"You have to accept me inside of you. Hurry while there is still a chance!" His reflection told him but as Shadow, he is still confused, he wasn't sure of how he will do it or why would he? He could think of it as a trap by now.

"How? And why would I trust you?" Shadow wondered.

"I don't have time for this!" His reflection said as he jump out of the river becoming real at Shadow's vision.

"W-What?!" Shadow was surprised and as Shadow tumbled down in surprise, he saw a figure standing on the far edge of the river. She was just standing there and smiled slowly evilly, "Pinkie... Pie?"

Shadow's eyes widen and everything he saw went black.

"AH!" Shadow yelled out as he looked around noticed that he is back in the barn again, "What... was that?"

He noticed that the chaos emeralds are on the floor. It felt like he is still inside of the thoughts, or not just simple thoughts, but some sort of future thoughts. Shadow put his hand on his chest as he felt something that entered inside of his body.

"Who was that... If he is truly me... why does he look differently..." Shadow said in his thoughts as he picked up the chaos emeralds, he felt a spark that causes him to drop it.

Shadow groaned slightly in pain from that, but he wondered why did he hurt himself even though he always wielded a chaos emerald. He still have several questions running through his mind, like who was that on his visions, or whose thoughts are those, or why does the chaos emerald is hurting Shadow slightly, and who or what is that figure. Shadow just shake his head and just picked up the chaos emerald that he drop. This time, as he picks it up, it did again spark though its not painful nor surprisingly enough to hurt Shadow completely. Shadow then hears laughter and cheerful outside. He walk to the window and watched whats happening.

Sonic and Pinkie was running away from Rainbow Dash as both of them just recently prank her. Sonic was actually surprise that Pinkie in a hyper state of fun manages and catching up with Sonic, just enough to outrun Rainbow in some ways. Shadow just looked at Pinkie Pie wondering of who is exactly that figure that he saw.

"Pinkie Pie... who is that... are you hiding something? If so... what are you?" Shadow said in his thought as he just observed her.

Author: This is a short one, I do apologize for that. I don't have much idea or thought on this, just a vision of Shadow's "magical" form just like Silvers's. Anyways, more on throughout, I did say in this chapter about someone. It's a hint now of which one will show up to get a chaos emerald by accident. Sooner or later, we will have a bloodbath or gore and stuff. Welp, sorry again for this short chapter, oh and please do check my DeviantArt account so you will guys find my drawings about some of the events happening here, and I like said, it is still few or even just two for now (.-.) This is Moonlight Arc, signing out.