"F-K!" I shouted, barely dodging another crystal.
I stumbled back a bit, and shadow stared about cautiously.
A thick smog drifted from the cracks in the makeshift wall of gem.
It swirled and formed a more than familiar figure.
"Mephiles." shadow hissed, I stepped back behind him.
The dark hedgehog's head twisted around and snapped into place.
His eyes pierced into mine and I didn't move in panic.
"you had to go and beat up this young lady... Sometimes I feel your worse
than... Well... Me..." he cackled.
Shadow aimed his pistol "What the hell do you want?"
Mephiles wisped into the fog and drifted up toward me, regenerating in front of
my face.
I let out a scream and fell backwards.
He turned back into the fine mist when shadow leapt at him.
"I think you can imagine, hedgehog..." Mephiles hummed and looked toward my
shadow on the ground. Shadow followed his gaze then snapped his attention back
to the dark demon.
Silence.
Shadow fired.
One hit square into an icy chest.
"Run!" he yelled and I scrambled, tripping over my own feet and slipping on the
fallen leaves. They fought for only a moment before Mephiles appeared in front of
me again. I halted and turned to run the other way, grabbing onto shadow's arm
to keep balance.
To which he yanked away quickly and I face planted into the dirt.
"oh pick a side why don't you!" Mephiles cried "you're going to kill her
anyway... Why not let me do it." his voice was harsh.
I wasn't sure what to expect from shadow.
I shouldn't have expected much when he didn't respond and just lunged with an
attack.
"Chaos spear!" and cracks of energy hit the air, missing their target, a stray
strand cracking part of the crystal wall.
He was at my side in a second, dragging me to my feet and hauling me over his
shoulder. He threw another spear at the wall in front of us, causing it to
shatter.
I didn't have time to prepare for when he took off at an unimaginable speed. The
forest blurred into green and brown.
"just because you run doesn't mean your out of my grasp!" the voice trailed off
behind us.
In less than a minute we were out of the forest and speeding down a cow pasture.
He slowed to a stop and I let in a large gasp "I- **wheeze**
CAN-**wheeze**CAN'T-" dropped me in the grass and looked around.
"you should be fine." he muttered and allowed my breathing to regulate.
"why- you-" I sputtered.
"don't mention it." he growled "as in don't tell anyone."
I nodded and stood warelily.
"why did you-"
He looked back over to me, a brow cocked up.
"why did I save you?"
I nodded.
"I hate that guy more than I hate you... Now you owe me. Twice."
"Thank-"
"Don't." he hissed and I shut my mouth.
He started to walk off and I jogged up to his side.
"Where are we?"
"Oregon."
I stopped walking.
"the forest was in Portland." he answered my unspoken question.
"I need to get home, shadow!" I raised my voice.
"I know!" he shouted back, and turned to face me.
He held up his hand "emerald."
"I don't have it."
It was quiet for a moment.
"you. Don't. Have. It?" he growled and I shook my head.
"You stomped on my wrist so I didn't have it, you bipolar bastard!"
"AGH! just-" he drug his hands down his face "just stay here!" he yelled and
dashed off with a whip of the wind.
A cold gust of air hit my skin and I shivered.
I got the odd feeling of someone near.
I turned to meet green irises eyes on red.
My heart stopped in terror. His hand extended and brushed my cheek. His touch
felt like pin needles against my skin and I found my voice.
A shrill scream escaped my throat and I attempted to escape from his grasp on my
other arm.
He grabbed my wrist. "look into my eyes, human..." he hissed and I watched in
horror as his form began to shift and change.
His quills shrank and changed to a brown color. They feathered out and formed
hair, his skin changed to a pale flesh and his eyes separated.
He changed into a human-
Except...
His eyes changed to a hazel brown.
It was me.
I screamed and struggled against him. He grinned a sharp toothed grin and a long
snake like tongue slithered out.
"I'll make sure your death is quick..." he hissed lowly.
Tears dripped down my cheeks.
"3..."
I let out another scream.
"2..."
I clenched my eyes shut and waited.
A gunshot.
His grip released and I fell to the ground.
I opened my eyes to see shadow launch threw the air with a homing attack.
Shards of crystals dispersed off of Mephiles. He corrected himself in the air
and landed on his feet. Half of his face looked like his normal self and the
other side still resembled myself.
His skin flipped like scales and returned to my doppelganger.
"is that all you got hedgehog?" he challenged.
"not even." shadow retorted and threw a series of chaos spears, shards of
crystals flying threw the air.
Shadow sprang with another homing attack, spinning against Mephiles chest-
grinding away the sheaths of ice.
The fight continued on- Mephiles slowly dwindling back to his normal self.
With a final kick Mephiles tumbled threw the field.
He picked himself up, stumbling a bit.
"don't think that I won't return shadow the hedgehog..." he growled and in a
second he vanished.
Shadow walked his way back over to me. He held out a hand to help me up, I
ignored it and leapt up.
I pulled him into a tight hug, cradling my face into his shoulder, tears
streaming down my cheeks.
I sobbed loudly.
I had almost died- just now.
If it wasn't for him- I'd be...
Dead.
"I'm so sorry!" I cried.
"Wha-"
"I'm sorry for hitting you with my car, and the wrench! I'm sorry for always
fighting with you!" I sobbed.
He was silent.
"and I don't care if you don't want to hear it- Thank you!" I squeezed the hug a
bit tighter "thank you a million times over for saving me! Thank you for never
killing me!"
He was hesitant but rested a hand on my back.
"your... Uh..." he cleared his throat "your welcome."
"can we go home please?"
The swirling returned and the bright light dissipated to reveal us in my living
room.
I let go of him and we regained distance "so fighting Mephiles... That had to
feel pretty good- since he looked like me and all..."
He let out scoff "heh. Yea- it was too easy though."
"yea ok" I laughed a bit.
His faced scrunched up a bit and he put a hand to the his upper left quill. He
pulled his hand back to show red staining his glove.
"damn." he reached back and pulled out the crystal "he did get a hit on me."