Shadow was the first to step out of the doc's office. He touched his side gingerly his eyes finding the one window that continued to remain closed. "I knew you wouldn't take the bait Jake, actions speak louder than words, and yours are screaming final showdown." he mused to himself his gunbelt over his shoulder "Everything can change in that final showdown, especially with two people as dangerous as we." He finished walking off towards the local inn.

Later that night...

Images swirled around in Shadow's head as he tossed and turned in his bed sweat beading on his body

"Don't touch her!" Shadow called dual Colt .45 magnums in his hand

"Why should I not?" A dragon said from the other side from him, it's gun even with a black dragoness' head "She's oh, so pretty, and I'm sure she would love what she would get..." it said pulling her closer as she whimpered

"Shadow, help..."

Shadow held his guns aloft both of them aimed at the dragon across from him "Get you grimy hands off of her! She would never do anything with the likes of you!" he called taking a step forward as the hammer went back

"Not a step closer." The dragon growled "Boy you had better watch what you say and do, or little missy here is going to have a bullet in her head" it said a smirk on it's face as tears began to fall from her face "Now drop your weapons and kick them to the side, and I will let her go."

Shadow looked on for a second more, ten reluctantly put both weapons on the floor and icked them to the side "There, now release her."

The dragon did as promised, letting her go as she ran to Shadow jumping into his arms he comforted her lightly as she held onto him, and his heart dropped like lead when a shot ran out. The dragoness leaned on him heavily, life quickly fading from her emerald eyes and he snapped his vision turning blood red and becoming blurred by tears.

"You really thought I would just leave her to you? Ha! Your a fool, and now your going to be lying on the ground along with her!" it said readying another shot aimed pointedly at his head

"Leave for heaven and stay safe, my love-" Shadow said laying her down on the floor, blood mixing with the dirt "for I sure as hell I won't be seeing you there!" he called the shot deflected by pure demonic energy "The devil torture your soul for eternity." he murmured as his guns flew into his hands. The next shots that came for him were wild, a sign that their owner was now afraid. Afraid of what Shadow had become. What Shadow was.

"Y-your Lucien, the one they call the brother of the devil!" it said backing off a small bit, before he pulled his gun back up and fired 3 more shots Shadow raising his own weapons slowly, red lines crawling up his body in jagged slash-like patterns

"Your time is at an end." he called pulling the triggers and releasing a hail of bullet's on the dragon's form, which launched it back onto a cross which twisted into a pentagram and locked around the dragon's wrists "Your alignment is shown. Now, I would start praying to whatever god you have that they intervene before I finish." Shadow smiled walking towards the figure his eyes completely a blood red as he raised a pistol up to the bottom of the dragon's head, right where it connects to his neck "Now to meet the one you claim to work for." he smiled a chasm opening beneath the dragon as the trigger was pulled, killing him, it, it's blood splattering against the symbol it was tied to "wake." Shadow commanded and the dragon woke the chasm lighting up until a pillar of flame launched from it burning the poor soul alive "now fall." was the final command and the pillar dragged the burning symbol and soul down into the deepest pits of hell, the dragon screaming in pain and agony the entire time.

The town's people watched on horrified, clutching bibles and priests keeping a bottle of holy water near them. Shadow stood over the corpse, then looked around each person looked at fleeing from their windows with a small smirk, he left the town the minute he stepped outside it's borders, though, the road lit up in flame, scarring it for whatever time it had left and leaving a permanently black dirt road.

Shadow woke with a start, sweat pouring down his body, and he held himself curling into a ball "Lucien..."

'My other half.'

"What is it you want?"

'you know the answer already.'

"I hunt him for my own reasons."

'and I hunt him because I can, we both know who's drive you tend to fill.'

"That portal opened for a reason, with Jake gone, it won't exist, Jake is the trigger, and he is the anchor. He needs to die to keep our worlds separate."

'Very well.' Lucien said fading from Shadow's mind thinking only to itself now 'He doesn't realize it. Jake was the trigger, but he is not the anchor. The minute you stepped into this world, Shadow, you anchored the portal with my demonic energies. Jake was lucky enough to get away the first time, but that bullet would give him insight into my plans, and so he must die. You are nearing the end of your usefulness Shadow, and when you do, you will know the truth, only when it's too late... Shadow... or should I say... Sitael.'