Chapter 6
Shrouded in Darkness
While Tech Boy and Tech Boy were busy battling Darkness's forces at the Agency, Jeremiah was busy facing against the lovely Linda. Let's turn back the hands of time to see how that is going.
"Where are you?" yells Jeremiah who just punched the border with a flaming fist his voice echoing with power as his eyes glow blue.
"Who are you looking for?"
"The person truly responsible for your imprisonment."
She scoffs and complains, "Even now you won't admit it. There was no one else there!" Her voice kept increasing in volume as she shouts in agony, "And even now you're trying to place the blame on someone else! You're the real monster!"
Suddenly, two shadow shurikens (ninja stars) appear in each of her hands. She tosses them at Jeremiah who dodged them by turning to the right side. They lodged in the border before disappearing. "I don't remember you being able to do that." She charges and jumps on him.
She says frustrated, "You forget, I'm not real. I'm just some figment of your imagination constructed by this Shadow Energy Core."
Jeremiah eyes stop glowing and he almost passes out. He barely keeps consciousness and says, "You know, it's rather odd that you mention that. Why would an illusion just say she is one? It kind of defeats the purpose."
He tries to lift his arm but lacks the energy to do so. His sword appears in his hand with a brief sword-shaped flash of light. Linda notices this and puts her arm to his throat.
"Even now, you're trying to escape. How about instead of running away you listen for a change?"
Jeremiah says frustrated, "You got me pinned down and you have been trying to kill me. Of course I want to escape!"
He starts lifting up his arm but just barely. Linda grabs the arm. She states, "As long as I have a hold of you, I'll teleport wherever you do. Your plan won't work."
"Tch." Jeremiah drops his arm and lets go of the sword.
"That's better. Now why don't we talk?"
"What's there to talk about? I'm defeated, trapped in here, and you're just a figment of my imagination. In all honesty, after fighting all day I'm just tired. However, one thing I will say is that I'm sorry for what happened to you. I just kind of suppressed it for years but I never forgotten about you," states a defeated Jeremiah.
Linda starts crying and a shadow shuriken appears in her right hand. She almost slices Jeremiah's neck with it but stops right before it. She sobs, "Do you think your *sob* half-hearted apology *sob* will work? You left me in there for years and I had to struggle to survive. I've seen things no human or mortal being should have ever seen. *sob*" She continues crying no longer able to hold in all her feelings of fear, abandonment, and betrayal. Afterwards, the shuriken disappears and she gets up, wipes away her tears, and says her voice still cracking, "You're not even worth my time. From now on I'm going to live my own life, (Shadow energy starts heading towards her en masse.) even if I have to live it shrouded in darkness!" After that declaration the shadow energy floods into her as the borders begin to disappear. In the Shadow Realm, the core expands to the size it was when Jeremiah was captured and slowly begins disappearing much to the surprise of the guards. The Evil Robloxian yells, "What is going on here!?" The core disappears around Jeremiah and floods into Linda who is screaming from fear. The core disappears, Jeremiah falls to an actual floor barely keeping conscious along with Linda who is now in tremendous pain. She screams showing full body shadow marks for a split second before they disappear completely. She falls unconscious afterwards. Jeremiah mutters, "I will not make the same mistake again!" He grabs the sword and it glows teleporting them both out of there.