Hey guys, sorry it's been a while since I made a new chapter. Almost two weeks actually, schoolwork and other issues have been popping up lately, but without further ado here's chapter 10!

Rise of the Chosen One

Chapter 10: A broken heart

Field outside of Central City: Larnet's POV

I stood there as Lightning ran toward the crater that held Frost. She stumbled out in pretty bad condition, but almost in an instant she was completely healed. "I wouldn't expect anything less." I said walking toward Frost. She just smirked, "Alright, I'll give you credit. That was a pretty good attack." Frost said. She smiled and said, "But I'm afraid it wouldn't have been enough to kill me. Never the less, I shall take my leave." She said as she disappeared in a breeze of frost. Lightning sighed, "I thank you all. If it wasn't for your help I might have still been under Eggman's control. However, I must also leave now. Goodbye Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Larnet." And with that Lightning disappeared in a small burst of lightning.

Yellow Chaos Shrine: Zaos's POV

I saw the palace up ahead and rushed to reach it. I reached the first few steps and walked up to be met with a large stone door and a pedestal. "If I'm not mistaken this is the pedestal you spoke of Kaiza?" I asked the wolf. He walked up next to me, "Yes Zaos, you must place the Chaos Emerald in this pedestal and wait for three hours for it to open the door." Kaiza said pointing at the pedestal. Zaos nodded and approached it, placing the Chaos Emerald in it. It glowed as the Chaos Emerald poured into it. Zaos sat on the steps and awaited the three hour time limit to elapse.

Westopolis: Shadow's POV

We had traveled almost all of the day to reach the city. Before we left the village we received a tip that Omega was currently in Westopolis. It seemed suspicious that anybody in the village would know where to find the E-series robot, but we took the tip and headed to Westopolis. Everybody complained at one point so we all took a 15 minute break before reaching our destination an hour later.

"Here we are, Westopolis." I announced to the group as we approached the huge city. It was nothing short of a miracle that it was still a large and popular city after the Black Arms attack. We all looked at each other. "We need to find Omega as quickly as possible. Therefore I suggest we spilt up into teams." I said looking at everybody. "I can take the rooftops; it shouldn't be too hard to spot him from up there." Rouge said. Heart and Soul looked at each other then back at me, "I'll go with Shento and check the west side of the city while you and Heart check the east side." Soul said to me. I nodded and we all left to check out respective areas.

Heart and I walked quietly side by side for a while before she broke the ice. "So…Have you been here before Shadow?" Heart asked me questionably. "As a matter of fact, yes I have. It was during the Black Arms invasion." I recalled as I told my story to Heart.

Flashback Third Person POV

Shadow stood on the hilltop next to the tree outside of Westopolis. "Shadow…It's the only thing I can remember, that and that gruesome image." Shadow said to himself as he recalled the events with Maria. "Who am I? And why can't I remember anything? And who is this Maria?" Shadow asked himself as he watched the city. Suddenly the clouds turned blood red as they swirled into a vortex in the sky. Black and red aliens dropped from the vortex and began to destroy Westopolis. "Humph! I don't have time for these humans." Shadow said as he began to walk away.

However a creature with six tentacles and an eye in the center approached him. It projected the silhouette of the infamous leader of the Black Arms, Black Doom. "Shadow…As you can see, the day of reckoning will soon be here. Find the seven Chaos Emeralds and bring them to me as promised." Black Doom said to Shadow. "Who are you and how do you know I'm Shadow?" Shadow asked the alien leader. "That is not important…NOW GO!" And with a flash Black Doom was gone. "If he says he knows the truth about who I am…then like or not, I have to believe him. And the only way I'm going to get the secrets to my past is to get hose Chaos Emeralds!" And with that Shadow raced off to the city with amazing speed as he began his quest to find the Chaos Emeralds.

End Flashback Third Person POV

"That's pretty much how my adventure began…" Shadow said as he looked at the sky. Heart looked at him with wide eyes, "Wait a minute, you were approached by an alienand you just followed what he said?" Heart said as she looked at the ebony hedgehog. "At first I did, after all I did have amnesia… But I killed him later so it was all okay…"

Flashback

Super Shadow stared down his opponent, the massive Devil Doom.. "You cannot defeat me Shadow! I am superior to you in every way!" Devil Doom yelled at Super Shadow as he hurled a piece of building at the super powered hedgehog. The former ebony hedgehog just smirked as he saw the building coming toward him and teleported at the last second, reappearing right behind Devil Doom. "Chaos…" Shadow said charging up the attack. Devil Doom's eye widened as he saw what was about to happen. "SPEAR!" Shadow hurled the chaos powered attack at the alien lord's eye. Devil Doom screamed in agony as the spear made contact with his eye, finishing the evil lord once and for all. "NOOO! HOW CAN THIS BE? I AM THE IMMORTAL LIFE FORM! HOW COULD I BE DEFEATED BY A MERE HEDGEHOG?" Devil Doom yelled as he plummeted to the ground. "That's Shadow the Hedgehog to you, alien scum." The ultimate life form spoke to the alien as he fell to the ground.

End Flashback

Shadow sighed as he remembered those events. Sometimes he wonders why anybody let's an alien like him live on the planet, but that was only when he was depressed, which hadn't happened in a while. Heart looked deeply into his eyes before responding, "So…Anything else I should know rather then the fact that you're an alien?" Heart asked Shadow with sarcasm. Shadow slightly glared at her before answering, "Well let's see…I like long walks on the beach and deep down inside I wouldn't harm a fly." Shadow responded sarcastically toward the fox. Heart chuckled a bit before abruptly stopping and putting on the same sad expression she had worn most of the trip.

"Okay there it is again, what's wrong?" Shadow asked Heart as she looked up into his eyes with sorrow. "It's…Nothing." She said and walked faster as to avoid more questions. Shadow shrugged it off for now and decided that he would ask later. The two approached a bridge with a fierce river rushing below it, one of Westopolis's new installments. Heart seemed to look at the river as it was the resting place for one of her relatives. She suddenly stopped in her tracks at the middle of the river. "Heart, What's wrong?" Shadow asked as she stopped moving and looked up as Shadow approached her. "Shadow…There's something I have to tell you…" Heart said looking deeply into Shadow's eyes…

Westopolis West Side Soul's POV

My ears perked up as I heard the last thing Heart said into the communicator. I looked at Shento and pulled one of my disappeared tricks; I turned invisible and completely masked my power. I was one top of one of the skyscrapers and looked down at Shento. Obviously it had worked because Shento was looking around yelling for him. Soul ignored him and raced to the place where Shadow and Heart currently were, he couldn't waste any time, as he had to make sure Heart was safe from the danger that could show up soon.

Westopolis East Side Shadow's POV

I approached Heart wondering what she was talking about when she grabbed me by my shoulders and swung me around where my back was facing the edge of the bridge. "Umm…Heart? This is kinda awkward." I said as the she inched closed to me, getting a little to close for comfort. "I just wanted to say Shadow that…"

"I love you."

My eyes widened not only at that statement but what she did next. Before I knew it he lips had touched mine and we were locked in a kiss. It was the most enchanting thing I have ever felt, I felt like my heart was going to explode and-

BANG!

My eyes shot open in an instant at the sound of gunfire. Where had it come from? Who did it hit? I was answered on one of those questions when I felt a burning pain in my chest. Who the hell had shot me? When I get my hands on that no good son of a-

That's when I noticed the gun in Heart's hand.

And it had just fired a bullet.

My eyes had widened so much that they looked like they were going to pop out of my head. I looked up into the eyes of Heart. She was crying beyond belief.

"I'm sorry Shadow…"

And with that the fox proceeded to empty the remainder of the six shooters bullets into my stomach. I didn't even cringe at any of the shots, my heart was broken. I couldn't believe that the second person in this world I had come to love had just killed me. I began to fall backwards as I finally realized why Heart had put me near the edge of the bridge. She quickly reached back into my quills, cutting herself badly in the process, and retrieved the red Chaos Emerald. I looked at her one more time. She was crying and already grieving so much that it didn't make any sense as to why she had done this.

Those were the last thoughts in my head before I fell into the river.

Dun dun dun! I decided to be evil and leave it at a cliffhanger! This time though you won't have to wait for almost two weeks before the next chapter comes out! See ya next time!