Chapter 2: Taking from the other
Rage and Christain were talking about Darkness on their way to the Dark World Capital "Westvine City" the two were in the large forests hundreds of miles south from there. As they reach The Lake of The Moon the find Darkness there doing something.
As Rage looks at his anti-version Darkness stood up... "I see you have returned Christain... But do you really think you have a chance against me without your Dark Powers?" he chuckles darkly turning to see him and Rage. He look a little surprised to see Rage along with him. "Well well well what a surprise you asked your worst enemy for assistance... surprised he even helped you..."
"Can it pal!" Rage growls "I am helping him because you threaten Mobius and he is the only being who can handle the power he rightfully owns! Besides it gives me an excuse to beat you down again!"
"Ha! I love it when you talk that way Rage! Always ready to fight even before you know what you are up against!" Darkness chuckles throwing a ball of dark energy at the two. Rage grabs Christain and dodges the attack countering with a Chaos Spear.
The Chaos spear strikes Darkness dead in the chest and he instantly throws a high speed Dark Disc at the two. Rage having little time pushed Christain out of the way and took the hit himself. The power from the disc threw Rage on the ground he groaned in pain. 'damn that took a lot from me need some time to recover...' he though as he was approached by Darkness.
"Now you were saying?" Darkness laughs over Rage who was still recovering,
"Rage toss me a Chaos Emerald!" Christain was able to tell Rage telepathically. Rage looked at the dark hedgehog who was waving his arms behind Darkness.
Rage took the red emerald and threw it Christain's direction and he caught it. As Darkness turned around Christain was able to charge enough chaos energy and he yelled "Chaos Blast!" releasing the energy and throwing Darkness flying off in the sky and giving Rage the chance to stand up. However he fell right back when he felt the unbalance of Chaos energy from the emeralds, "What's wrong Rage?" Christain asks looking worried for the red hedgehog,
"The Chaos Blast you used... it over charged the negative energy... I think Nazo may have enough to reform out of the dark energy..." Rage huffs
"Can't you absorb the Negative Energy?" Christain asks
Rage looked in surprise at the hedgehog, yes he could! But that would mean giving in to a form of Darkness... but it would stop Nazo so was it worth it? Rage thought long before he simply let go and took all of the Negative Chaos Energy into him. This was not without its toll... the energy effected his physical appearance. His fur darkened, two dark gray stripes went over his head and two his eye area. His eyes turned a bright purple. He had dark gray marking all over his body and his clothes were changed too. His jacket a lighter gray and his red stripes were jagged and the sleeves were torn at the ends. His shirt was a bright green over its normal dark green. And his shoes a purple over red. His pants were a very dark blue with purple fire like designs creeping up the pant legs.
Christain looked at the new Rage and asked him "Rage are you okay?"
Rage replied in a voice cold like ice yet warm like a fire "I... am fine... I am just... not used to dark power..." he huffs and slowly stands "This must be my Zero Form..." he says looking at himself "I almost look evil...hope I don't stay this way for long..."
"Look Rage I know dark powers better than anyone and I can tell you with full confidence you can control it. You may feel different emotionally but you can overcome that. I never took that chance when I first got my dark power... but now maybe after I get it back and I can use it... I may use it for good... speaking of which Rage why did you become the guardian of Chaos? I never did learn that in all our battles you never told me."
"Well... It must have been your father killed my adoptopn parents leaving me and Icezer. He abducted Xage and later after overhearing a conversation with Robuttnik and Scourge I was captured by them. It was then the gods decided I had the skills required to fill Knuckles place. So it's quite the tale... Knuckles sure as hell hated it. Said at the time a 15 year old is not fit to be the guardian."
"But Knuckles, Tikal and even Sonic respect you so much... how does that work so well for you?" Christain asks
"Sonic and Tikal were easy, after helping them out of the goodness of my heart we slowly became friends... Knuckles had a more difficult time accepting me. I think it was just the fact his replacement was a child. But after I showed how well I learned and could use the Chaos Energy he began to respect me." Rage explains losing himself in thought before snapping back to reality. "But right now we are wasting time we need to keep moving."
"You're Right Rage." Christain says "Hay good luck and I hope your not stuck this way for a huge amount of time!"
"You know Christain I think if you were this way with your dark powers we could be great friends!" Rage exclaims "In fact I have to admit... I like you a lot without your dark powers."
"You know I have been thinking about that Rage... I may not take my dark powers back..." Christain says. Rage looks at the hedgehog in sheer shock "I think I like myself better without the dark power tempting me all the time. In fact if I follow through with that... Rage the Hedgehog will you train me in the art of Chaos?"
Rage was speechless here was his once mortal enemy for about 20 years or so suddenly thinking about joining forces with Rage. They had barely been allies for a day and yet Christain was considering staying this way? This hit Rage like an unexpected kick to the balls. But because his duties were above all he had to reply "I will have to think on that... I can train you to use magic but I alone cannot judge weather or not I can let you use Chaos... Tikal, Chaos, Knuckles, The God Council and myself all have to discuss that one."
"Oh well... sorry I asked but if you think about it let me know... now lets get moving!" Christain says
To be continued...