I LLIIIIIVVVEEEE!

Chapter 6

Decisions, Decisions

The village of darkness finally has a bright day since before it was created. Shadow, the warrior elder has finished teaching his new student all that he needs to venture out and crush the man and army that caused so much pain in their lives. At the very center of the miniature city was the home of the former student. There both he and his best friend get ready to say their goodbyes as one heads to heat of battle and the other heads to complete her training as a healer. Upon finishing their individual luggage the two turn to each other before leaving for their hopefully separate futures. The female wolf begins her goodbye to a childhood friend. "You know we may not see each other again."

The fox looks down in sorrow before responding. "So what Sarah? We'll meet again. I know it."

The wolf sighs, "All this time and you still don't have a new name yet?"

Well I have picked one but…" the fox looked down a little unsure if he picked the right one "…It's Shattered."

Sarah watched him look back up with confusion. "It Shattered? How can that happen?"

"No Sarah the name I pick IS Shattered."

"…Oh" Before she could anything else there was a knocking at the door. The fox offered to get it for his friend.

"Hello?" upon seeing who it was he greeted his teacher, Shadow the Hedgehog and his wife, Rouge the Bat. Rouge still wore the black jump suit with white gloves and high-heeled boots and shadow never had anything other than his gloves and hover shoes. "Well to what do we owe to this visit before we leave?"

Shadow then pulled out a wrapped up present from his quills and gave it his pupil. "A far well gift Shattered. Remember your zanbato?"

"Yeah."

"Well meet the reforged version of it." The black and crimson hedgehog pulled the silk wrapping off revealing the brown shaft holding in place the decently lengthed blade and the clear orb on opposing ends. "And for the piece to resistant's." he then held up the shard from the chaos emeralds they had. The student and his friend were in every way speechless.

"B-b- th-tha a-are you sure about this?" Shattered barely managed to say.

Shadow gave a nod "Yes when this weapon was being made I asked the forger to put in a special addition to it." He then took the shard and zanbato with a twist on the orb he moved it out revealing that the orb was a compartment of some kind. "Keep in mind that this might not look the same with you just yet." He then placed the shard in orb and closed it back into the shaft. After which the blade began to darken until it was darker then the night sky and it turned in to the blade of a scythe. Once again the two teenagers were speechless. After the brief demonstration the blade returned to normal and Shadow was out of breath.

"Well (pant.) doing that (pant.) will be (pant) easier (pant.) on you then me."

"Really, why?"

Shadow had regained his breath by now. "Because the blade was remade for you and only you if anyone else tried using it then it would exhaust him or her in moments."

"Also when did… Oh last year when we were on hand to hand combat?" the fox had guessed about when it was made.

"Still surprised when we learned about your other 'gift'" the bat finally spoke

"Oh you mean" the vulpine made his hands into fists resulting in a energy blade to appear on each fist at the knuckle. "These?"

"Yes those. But back to the other reason why we came. There are at least six lieutenants that you need to take on before the head honcho I've already did a little look in to who or what they are all I can say." Rouge looked towards the floor. "Is that this is an army your against."

The fox wasn't all that sacred. "So they frighten an immortal with no reason to fight. What's that to me? Someone willing to go to hell and back just to kill one guy."

The bat shook her head in disappointment. "Listen you idiot most of those lieutenants could kill you in mere seconds."

"I really couldn't care less." the fox looked at rouge with a blank expression

"Hey, loser where's your gourd?" she shot back quickly seeing who he was poorly imitating

"We done here?" the wolf growled pulling the bat and fox out of their knock off of Naruto.

Not yet Sarah…" Shattered turned back to Rouge. "Did you at least see if they are responsible for anything in their army?"

"Actually that's what scares me a little. But the most vulnerable of the bunch would be seem to be someone called 'The Chemist.' As far as I know he's the guy that makes the warriors inherently stronger before they are sent to training."

"You couldn't find anything else on this person? Location, weaknesses, anything?" the fox asked with aggravation in his voice.

The bat gave him a smack on his head before answering. "You thought that I wouldn't look that up? His base is located not to far from Aquarius ruled by Amy and surprisingly Sonic."

"Surprisingly?" Both teens asked.

"Amy chased Sonic to the ends of the earth just to marry him. After 100 years of it, Tails convinced him to at least date her and three months later they were in a chapel saying their wedding vows."

"She chased him around for a hundred years? Wow, perseverance just found a mascot"

"Yeah, but even more surprising, Sonic doesn't know how to swim but he's in the village of water"

If this was an anime, picture both mouths falling to the floor, and trains exiting the two gapping holes.

"Yeah, that's what everyone else thought."

Slowly the two regained from the shock of knowing that someone famous enough to be heard of back in their old village is living in the place that is in essence the embodiment of his fear.

"Moving on is that all you wanted to know little man?"

"Wait you don't have anything on his weakness or vulnerability?"

"Well…" she started. "when I did some investigating. I did find that he never really does any training."

Shattered wasn't really sure if that was good or not. "And that's good how?"

"Because he has the least experience of everyone else. in other words…" (ADIOS! MOTHER! FUCKER! FOOWSH! ok not really but the A-team was a great movie.) "No strategy other than to augment his own genes."