Shade sat inside Goth's stomach waiting for the inevitable end. He knew it would not be long before the strong stomach acids melted through his flesh, tearing away at his fur piece by piece. Shade began to feel his chest getting warmer. Well, this was it. This is how the legendary Shade would meet his death, melting away inside the stomach of someone who would doom the world, reduced to his bare chemicals to feed the mighty Goth.

Shade could see nothing in the darkness of the stomach, not even a faint blur. If he could see however, he would be horrified by the sight. Small clumps of fur were floating on the surface, the stomach acids stripping Shade of his fur, layer by layer. Shade began to feel his skin getting hotter. Was this his fur beginning to absorb heat? He had felt this in the summer. Or...yes, it was. He realised the acid had melted through his fur and had made contact with his skin.

Shade began to feel his skin get incredibly hot, it began to sting horribly after a minute of attempting to move himself into a better position. Shade began to breath heavily, a horrible stench filling the limited amount of air within the small cavity of the stomach. The pain was slowly getting more painful, but Shade knew the worst was yet to come. He began to think, did all living creatures he ate go through the same process? All the bugs he ate, did they face a similar fate? Well, yes of course they did. It was strange to think that after all these years he would be in their position. Now that he was experiencing the same pain as the bugs he had eaten previously, he felt slightly sorry for them, to put them through this kind of pain.

The heat around Shade grew to the point where it was unbearable. Shade wriggled around as much as he could to cease the pain, but his efforts were in vain. He began to feel a sharp pain around him. As the acid began to eat away into his skin, he felt the blood veins on the surface of his skin began to rupture. The liquids in the stomach began to turn a dark blood red.

Goth was now sitting on top of a tree, looking off into the starry night sky, the moon was full and shining bright above. Goth looked at his stomach, he could see small movements coming from the center of his body. "Hm, fighting until the end are we?" Goth spoke out loud. The movements inside him grew stronger, although they were still hardly noticeable. Goth was taunting Shade, and there was no possible way for him to escape.

Inside, Shade shook his head back and forth as violently as possible, a last sign of protest against Goth. He stopped after a few moments however, the pain in the lower half of his body was far too intense to continue. Goth shook his body back and forth to taunt Shade even further, throwing Shade back against the wall behind him. The acid sloshed into his eyes, causing Shade to scream in pain. Shade slid down the slimy wall behind him further down into the deadly chemical mix below him. There was now a sharp, searing pain in his lower body that began to grow worse with each passing minute. Shade began to feel his skin bubble and crawl. His skin was beginning to melt. With what very little energy Shade had left, and in a great deal of pain, he leaned forward and bit into the walls of Goth's stomach. He held his bite for a few seconds before releasing, getting no reaction from the outside. Shade fell back against the walls of the stomach, defeated.

Shade felt his skin begin to move. He had been screaming in pain continuously for the past minutes or so now, his lungs were burning and almost out of air. It felt as if someone was holding fire to his body, he could almost feel flames licking against his sides. The pain grew more and more intense as his skin began to melt into a gelatinous liquid that rolled off his body, almost in layers. Shade breathed heavily, there was practically no air left inside the small cavity that contained him. The pain felt like a thousand owls, all scratching at him, tearing chunks of flesh away to kill his as quickly as possible. He could feel chunks of semi dissolved flesh floating next to him, fizzing in the acidic liquid.

Shade tried to take a deep breath in, but nothing happened. He tried to use his echo vision to see around him, but his lungs simply didn't respond. As much as he told his lungs to expand and contract, nothing happened. His lungs has been punctured by the stomach acid. Shade felt his body getting heavier as acid flooded into and around his rib cage. He began to sink lower into the acid. Shade lent against the walls as he began to descend, his mouth wide open, desperately trying to make any kind of noise. The pain was worse than ever, the pain was now comming from inside him rather than the outside. Shade began to hear a ringing in his ear, and sounds began to distort around him as the lack of a pair of functioning lungs began to affect him.

The acid was nearly up to his neck now, and Shade could no longer feel anything below him. He had no idea what kind of state his body was in, were his feet even still attached? He had no idea, all he could do was endure the pain and hope it ended soon. Shade's head began to feel light, he knew it wouldnt be long until he passed out from lack of oxygen, not to mention, most of his body being dissolved. The blood loss probably didn't help either. In his last waking moments, the acid rose up to Shade's mouth. Shade sealed his mouth shut and kept his eyes closed, he knew it would not be long before his pain ended. In the last few seconds, Shade's lips parted. He felt the painful acid roll down his throat and into his own stomach. He choked on the acidic liquid for a moment, before relaxing completely and passing out.

Outside, Goth could feel his stomach getting lighter, and the movement beginning to slow. Goth heard a gurgling sound from inside his stomach. Goth took this as the final signal that Shade had passed away inside of him. "Hmm, if i may say, you were quite delicious, Silverwing. Looks like you were useful after all…". Goth stared into the moon for a second before raising his wings and flying off into the black night sky. As Goth flew high, almost touching the clouds, he gazed down upon the large, glowing, metallic structure in the distance. He had been informed from a stray bat a few nights earlier that there were other bats over there, thousands of them, inside a structure that humans apparently call a 'bridge'. "Hmm, maybe i shall pay them a visit some day…" Goth said to himself with a grin on his face.

Goth looked at his stomach, now back to it's original size. "Goodnight Shade…" Goth whispered to himself.

"Sweet dreams…"