Darkness Shall Thrive
-Chapter 3: Unknown-
Silver passed out. The black hedgehog carried him and took him with Mephiles, on top of a building. He surprised the evil creature by bringing the white hedgehog there.
"So, you really got rid of him." Mephiles said. "Nice work, Shadow."
"You know that I´m not Shadow. I´m…" before the black blur finished, Mephiles interrupted by saying:
"Yes, I know you aren´t. But you remind me of him a lot."
"I wonder why…" The black hedgehog said sarcastically. He knew exactly why he reminded his partner of Shadow. It was pretty obvious.
"What do you want me to do with him?"
"Mm… leave him outside of Central City. When he wakes up, there will be no tomorrow."
"I really want a chili dog."
"You don´t need to eat those things daily. You´ll get fat." Shadow smirked and giggled quietly.
"Whatever, Shad. I love chili dogs more than myself! I would die for them!"
"Sonic, you´re being dramatic…"
"Just shut up… Are we there yet?"
"It should be a couple blocks ahead."
The hedgehogs were looking for a Chaos Emerald to see if they could find this Mephiles guy. It had been odd how he talked to both of them at the same time, like telling them to beware from something, or someone.
"There it is." Shadow said pointing at the white emerald, floating in secret behind a house column. He grabbed it and stared deeply to it. Sonic got closer to Shadow and also looked at the Chaos Emerald.
"What´s wrong? Does it have a stain or something?" Sonic asked.
"No, it´s just that… There is strange chaos energy here."
"What do you mean?"
Suddenly, a purple portal appeared in front of them. The town´s people ran away leaving the hedgehogs alone. The sky turned red as huge clouds covered the sun. There were screams heard from the distance as the wind flew violently through the city, making papers fly all over the place. The same wind pushed Shadow backwards, making him stumble and land on the ground. Sonic, instead of being pushed by the wind, he was being sucked by the portal. He grabbed the column where the Chaos Emerald was hiding but failed to resist.
"Shadow! I can´t hold… any…longer!"
Shadow made an effort of standing up and help his friend, but it was useless.
"Sorry, Sonic! I… I can´t reach!"
The blue hedgehog was slowly letting go of the column staring at the slightly scared Shadow. Sonic was dragged into the portal. Before it closed itself, Shadow managed to throw the white Chaos Emerald to him, thinking it was worth a shot. Sonic caught it, and the black hole closed, trailing the blue hedgehog behind.
The wind stopped, and the sun was shining again, for the clouds had vanished. The papers now were lying on the floor peacefully. The people returned slowly to the town, and Shadow stood up.
"What´d just happen?!" He screamed. "Was that… Mephiles?!" Shadow turned to the town´s people to see shocked faces staring at him with fear on what had happened. He walked away and leaned on a tree that was besides Chun-nan´s waterfall. He turned again to the people. They returned to their stands and others were picking up the papers from the floor. Shadow closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He began to slowly go down the tree´s trunk and finally sat down in the spiky grass. He sadly thought:
"What am I going to do now?"
-O-O-O-
Sonic fell from the red, orangey sky and landed on his face on a pile of dust in a rubbish dump.
"Ouch… Wha-What just happened?" Sonic said grabbing his head. "Oh my gosh…"
He stared at how the city was burning. It was raging on fire. The black smoke rose to the sky filling the air with its horrible smell. There were no people to be seen and there was even lava going in circles through the city. There was no sun, but no clouds. He was the only one there. The sounds of the cement and ceiling burning was disturbing. Sonic started walking through the abandoned city looking for somebody, but there was not a single soul around. It kind of looked like a graveyard that had been destroyed.
"Hello?!" Sonic said exclaiming towards the buildings. But nothing. "Where the heck am I?"
He kept on walking and found what he was not expecting to see: The White House, or what was left of it. He ran towards it and touched the door´s handle. Before opening it, he took the Chaos Emerald and looked at it sadly. He squeezed it and opened the door violently.
-O-O-O-
Silver woke up to find himself trapped beneath some iron bars that had fallen from a building´s structure. He threw them away and stood up holding his hurt stomach. He remembered what that black hedgehog had said:
"I´m not Shadow."
Was it true? Or was Shadow just lying to him? He didn´t even know now. The only thing was that Station Square was in danger, for Mephiles had a plan to destroy the entire Earth, starting with the main city of the world.
Silver flew towards the sky and looked around. He saw a blue blur walking towards the White House.
"A survivor…" Silver thought and dashed to the building´s back entrance and sneaked to the person that might be an evil foe, or a scared fellow.
He slowly walked through the main hallway and waited for the person to open the door. He prepared and stood in a guard position, for there could be violence, for real.
-O-O-O-
Sonic opened the door and found the silver hedgehog sighing in relief.
"Oh, gosh. It´s you Sonic…" Silver said exciting. He approach to the other hedgehog and stretched his arm. Sonic shook hands with him and smiled.
"What are you doing here? Problems back in the present?"
"In the present?" Sonic said confused.
"Wait, you don´t know, right?"
"What do I not know?!"
"You´re in the future, Sonic!"
Sonic gasped. "I can´t believe it… What the…"
Silver backed down and asked him again:
"What are you doing here?"
"Oh, you know… Just passing through to check how ya are doing."
"Really?"
"Of course not, Silver! I didn't even know I was in the future!" Sonic said face palming himself.
"Geez, sorry."
"No problem, dude. Now, why ARE YOU here? And what happened? I thought you said the future was fixed now."
"Well, it pretty much happened 2 years ago. After Iblis was destroyed, Mephiles focused in destroying the human race."
"Do you know Mephiles?! And, who´s Iblis?" Sonic questioned fast.
"Well, of course I know Mephiles. He´s responsible for all you see around. And Iblis, is well… It´s a long story, we better sit down somewhere."
Sonic nodded and asked: "Is the president around?"
Silver shook his head. "There is no president anymore. There are barely people to see here. The world is doomed."
Is it true? Is Shadow lying? Find out in the next episode of: Darkness Shall Thrive!
Coming Soon: How hell was Created
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Sorry. I had to do it XD
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