Hey guys, to answer The Cheeseburgers question, Soul and Heart are half siblings. They share the same mother, who was a fox. In a twist of genes when she had Soul with the father which was a hedgehog, Soul came out a full hedgehog and only had some of her mother features. Both of Heart's parents are foxes.

Rise of the Chosen One

Chapter 12: The Beast Within

Jungle of Tears: River of Sorrow: Shadow's POV

My eyes widened as I saw Soul lunge at me. He had just transformed into some kind of ogre! I jumped backwards to avoid a swipe from his claws, but when I looked forward again he was gone. "What-"Soul appeared behind me and punched me in the back with one of his huge fists. The impact sent me flying into one of the many trees in the forest. I slowly rose only to find that he had disappeared again. "So he's got some speed…" I said as he appeared behind me again.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" I disappeared, avoiding another swipe of Soul's fist. The just stared at the spot I was at in confusion as I watched him from up in a tree. "Not very smart, but very fast and strong…" I began to devise a plan to defeat my new enemy. Soul looked up and noticed me in the tree and jumped to attack. I stood up in the tree and faced my hands toward Soul, "Chaos Torrent!" I yelled as a smaller version of the Chaos Cannon shot out from my hands. It hit soul dead on. I smirked, that is until Soul emerged from the smoke unharmed, still heading toward me. "WHAT?" I barely had time to put up a Chaos Shield before Soul swiped at me with his claws, I was sent flying into another tree, shield and all.

When the smoke cleared my shield was in pieces. I slowly rose to look at Soul, who was still in the tree. "Okay, so he's fast, strong, and has a seriously tough exterior." I spoke to myself. Soul roared and jumped out of the tree to meet me. I looked and him and pointed on finger at him, "Chaos Beam!" The thin green beam of Chaos Energy rushed forward and hit Soul, causing him to yelp. I smirked thinking that this time I caused some damage. However he emerged from the trees unharmed. "There's no way…" I murmured looking at Soul, he didn't have a scratch on him!

I had heard of something like this, a beast that couldn't be damaged on the outside…What was it? While I was thinking Soul attacked me again, this time hurling a tree at me. I cursed as I jumped over the tree, only to be met with Soul's claws digging into my back! I coughed up some blood as he tossed me into the trees again. I lied in the trees for a second, trying to ignore the immense pain of being partially impaled. I slowly stood up, only for Soul to grab me by my head. I struggled as I tried to get free; I then resulted to more drastic measures. "Chaos Impact!" My hand glowed with Chaos Energy as I punched the monstrous Soul in the face. He yelled with surprise as he dropped me. I breathed for a second before remembering where I was. I quickly stood up and moved back a couple yards before facing Soul again. He had just recovered from the punch, still no injuries, and was now picking up a rather large rock.

"Oh crap." I said as he threw the rock at me. I used Chaos Control to avoid the rock before reappeared behind Soul. I tried to kick him in the back but he grabbed my leg, and instead of throwing me, he broke it. I screamed in pain before he tossed me into the rock he had just thrown by my hurt leg. I coughed up more blood on impact before he was there, pinning me to the rock with his hand at my throat. However he never got the chance to break my neck as something slammed into him, causing him to drop me and step back.

"How many times am I going to have to save you Shads?" The figure asked me. "My vision slowly came into focus for me to see Sonic standing over me. "I didn't ask for your help….cough….faker." I managed to say to Sonic. Somehow deep in my mind though, I was glad that he showed up when he did. "It looked like you needed it." Sonic said with a smug look before looking back at Soul. The beast didn't seem all too pleased that he had be interrupted. He roared before charging again. Sonic smiled, obviously oblivious to the danger he in before he rushed to meet Soul. "Sonic stop!" I was in such a hurry to stop that blue idiot that I actually called him by his real name.

Sonic rolled in between Soul's legs holding something in his hands. That something turned out to be rope as it wrapped around Soul's feet and Sonic pulled with all his might, causing Soul to fall on his face. Sonic then rushed forward and jumped in the air over Soul, "Chaos Dash!" Sonic plummeted toward Soul and rammed into his back, actually causing the first injury to him this whole fight. Sonic jumped off to avoid a swipe of Soul's claws as he landed next to me. "Alright then faker, I guess he can be hurt." I said walking up to Sonic. "You bet! Now we just need to take him down!" Sonic yelled as he pulled out his blue Chaos Emerald and tossed it toward me. I was surprised as I caught the emerald, "You can use that Shadow, after all you have more control over the powers of Chaos then I do anyway!" And with that Sonic rushed to meet Soul again. I shrugged it off as I charged up an attack in my hands.

Play Rhythm and Balance (White jungle Theme)

Sonic made his first mistake of the battle as he tried to roll in between Soul's legs again. The beast saw this coming and kicked Sonic away like a soccer ball, sending the blue hedgehog flying through the forest. I cursed as I shot the Chaos Lance at Soul. He had enough time to jump into the air to avoid it and begin to descend toward me. I jumped backwards to avoid him as he slammed into the ground. I landed and began to run through the jungle, Soul chasing me. I ran up hills and around loops in an attempt to throw Soul off. I finally decided enough was enough as I used a hill to springboard off of and jump over Soul he tried to stop but he couldn't do it in time as he crashed and burned into a ravine. I jumped over the ravine and shot dozens of Chaos Spears into it, they created a huge explosion in the ravine. I continued to run as Soul burst from the ravine, covered in injuries and continued to chase me as if nothing had happened.

Sonic ran up next to me and looked back at Soul, "That guy doesn't give up does he?" He asked me. "It doesn't seem like it, he's persistent." I looked back to see where Soul was only to see that he had disappeared. My eyes widened as I realized what that meant, but it was too late. Soul landed in front of us and shot a huge energy blast out of his mouth. "What the hell?" Sonic yelled as we were hit by the blast. We both were thrown back as we slammed into the forest. I slowly got back up and looked over to Sonic, who was doing the same.

"Alright faker, if you have any remarkable new techniques now would be the time to use them…" I said as I clutched the Chaos Emerald in my hand. Sonic sighed before he spoke, "I do have one…But I don't think you'll like it." As soon as Sonic said that I was nervous.

Third Person POV

Shadow stood there looking at Sonic for a little while before speaking again, "Are you insane? There's no way I would ever use that technique!" Shadow yelled at Sonic as they dodged another blast from Soul. "Come on Shadow! It's the only way we can win this!" Sonic yelled as he rolled to the left. "Grrr…Fine! Just hurry up!" Shadow yelled as he threw the Chaos Emerald at Sonic. "Alright then!" Sonic concentrated on the before him and Shadow said two words. "CHAOS CONTROL!"

In a flash of light two became one as Sonic and Shadow merged. When the light dimmed down a hedgehog with seven quills, the four outer like Super Shadow and the three middle like Super Sonic, stood there. He had red stripes on the Super Shadow quills and blue stripes on the Super Sonic ones. He had brown fur and his chest was like Sonic's. He had and blue glove on his right hand and a black and red one on his right. His shoes had Shadow's design but had Sonic's soles. He looked up and he had hazel brown eyes. He smirked as Beast Soul looked confused before charging him. The new fused hedgehog had no trouble tossing Soul and few yards back with a wave of his hand.

Sondow the Hedgehog was born.

The chapter was kinda short but I wanted to leave the suspenseful battle for next chapter. Also don't ask why they didn't become Shadic that will be answered much later in the story. Until next time!