What's up guys? It's been a while since I have posted a new chapter, this will conclude the fight between Sondow and Beast Soul, as well as deal with a few unfinished things. Without further ado let's get the show on the road!

Rise of the Chosen One

Chapter 13: A hero is born

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

Oh man! I didn't think I was that powerful! Ow! Well its kind of weird having two people inside the same body, especially when one has a sense of humor and the other- ow! Okay I'll stop messing around now! Now back to the fight, Beast Soul was emerging from the rubble, probably trying to figure out how I tossed him so far. I smirked as I charged the monster, now knowing the full story thanks to me being able to see Shadow's thoughts.

Third Person POV

Play What I'm Made Of

Sondow charged Soul and punched the ogre in the face, which actually caused the monster to stumble backwards. The then proceeded to combo him with punches and kicks before sending him flying with a mighty uppercut. Sondow then held his hands above himself toward Soul, "Chaos Torrent!" Sondow yelled as a Chaos Torrent the size of a Chaos Cannon shot out of his hands and hammered straight into Soul. The beast cried out in pain as he was launched even further into the air, before finally crashing back down. Sondow smirked as he watched Soul slowly rise up out of the crater, before that part that was Shadow spoke up in Sondow's mind, "Let's just end this already, he's been through enough." Sondow nodded his head and put his hands to his sides in the Final Flash position before yelling, "Chaos Cannon!" The fused hedgehog thrust his hands forward as a humongous energy beam shot out of his hands toward Soul. The monster's eyes widened as he let out one more monstrous scream before the cannon hit him.

Sondow let his hands fall to his sides, not in the least bit drained of energy, as he waited for the smoke to clear. When it did he saw Soul, who was reverted back to normal, lying in the crater created by the Chaos Cannon. Sondow sensed his Chaos Energy, and sighed with relief, he was still alive which was good for him; he'd rather not kill Soul for reasons painfully obvious. He approached the fallen silver hedgehog and tossed him over his shoulder. He then began to fly over to the area where he sensed Heart's energy at.

Eggman's Base

Heart was nothing short of terrified when she saw Sondow enter, she had seen the whole fight on camera and knew that the person in front of her was a combo of Sonic AND Shadow. She cringed as he put Soul on the floor. He looked over in Heart's direction with sympathetic eyes, "I'll be right back." And with that Sondow went out the door, teleporting right before he left.

Ruby Village

Eggman was floating above the village, the villagers in the houses below and his robots patrolling the streets. He snickered, this time Shadow would be destroyed once and for all! However just as he thought this all of the robots down in the village exploded before his very eyes! This was impossible! He then saw an unfamiliar hedgehog floats up in front of him with an angry look on his face. "I am the guardian of this village, should you ever return here, I shall make sure you personally burn in hell!" After that the hedgehog kicked Eggman's Egg-Mobile so hard that he blasted off dozens of miles in the distance. Sondow looked down to see that Eggman had dropped the Red Chaos Emerald; he reached down and picked it up. Sondow snickered before holding his head in pain again, "Ouch! Okay Shadow fine! We'll defuse when we get back to the base." Sondow said before he teleported again.

Eggman's Base

Sondow reappeared in the base before defusing back into Sonic and Shadow. "Let it be known that I will never do that again!" Shadow yelled at Sonic before turning his attention to the siblings in the room. He whispered in Sonic's ear, "Leave. Now." Shadow said before turning back and walking toward Heart and Soul. Sonic got the message and left quickly, he did not want to anger the Ultimate Life Form.

Shadow's POV

I continued to walk toward Heart and her brother; she cringed with every step that I took. Soul was barely conscious in her arms, trying his best to get up to stop me. Let's just say that he was failing. I was two steps away from them before I kneeled down to face them eye to eye. They didn't know that I knew the truth, thanks to being in the form on Sondow, while I was fighting Beast Soul I was able to read his mind, and figured out the truth. I leaned in to Heart's ear and whispered three words, "I forgive you." Heart practically burst into tears by this point. Soul had sat up on his own so Heart was able to lunge into me, causing me to tumble over. She was sobbing all over my chest fur until it was soaking wet. I continued to stroke her head in a calming fashion, as Soul watched me from over in the corner. I looked over at him and gestured for him to come over. He slowly got to his feet and limped over to where we were, helping me to calm his sister down.

"I'm so sorry Shadow! Sob, sob ,sob, I'm so sorry!" Heart continued to scream as she cried more. "Hey now, don't cry now, everything's going to be alright…" I told her as I slowly got her to let go of me and rise to her feet along with Soul. "It wasn't your fault; you were just doing what you need to save your village, now that it's safe…" I offered my hand to the crying vixen, "How about we head back?" Heart looked at my hand with wet eyes as if I hand offered her several million dollars. She looked at into my eyes, "You would really, sob, forgive us so easily?" Heart replied while still partially crying. "Of course I would, after all Heart I do have a secret for you." I said as I leaned in close…

"I love you."

That one statement made Heart burst into tears again. She hugged me so tight that I thought I was going to explode. After I calmed her down I teleported all three of us back to Westopolis.

Westopolis: Shadow's POV

I had teleported us to the hotel where the group was planning on staying before this whole mess had happened. I calmly led Heart to bed so she that she could calm down and went to head to bed myself before Soul stopped me. "What is it?" I asked the silver hedgehog. "It's just…Thank you Shadow." Soul said to me, I quickly replied, "It was no problem, after all…" I prepared a joke in my head, "I can't go and kill my future brother in law!" And with what was my first and last joke I would ever make as I ran and locked myself in my bedroom. Soul stood there for a second before the full impact of what I had said hit him. "SHADOW!"

Yellow Chaos Temple: Zaos's POV

I watched as the doors to the temple opened, allowing me to walk inside. "Good luck brother!" Jewel said to me as I entered the temple. I waved back one last time before entering the structure. I looked around me; all I could see was black. However in a yellow flash, everything was illuminated. I stood in some sort of grand chamber as I walked toward the center. I looked down at another pedestal, this one with a button in the center. There was an inscription below it, HE WHO HAS WISDOM, COME FORTH AND PRESS THE SWITCH TO RECEIVE YOUR CHALLENGE. That was awfully bland. Zaos sighed as he looked at the switch again. This would be the first test on the road to becoming the Chosen One of legend. Zaos smirked, he also loved a challenge.

Without another word or thought, he pressed the button.