(Please note: the bold letters is Sid's abrasive side speaking.)
Chapter 4: Darkness Awakening
=Dreamscape=
It's dark and the sloth lying near a single tree in the middle of nowhere and it's raining very heavily.
"Ughh..." Sid groaned out as he starts to stir a bit. "What happened? He said and looks around to see that he's back in his dream.
The sloth sighs and rests on the tree's base while it rains hard.
"What the hell is happening to me?" He asked himself.
"Hmph… Isn't it obvious, sloth? You're becoming like a predator." A gruff voice spoke.
"Huh? Who's there?!" Sid demanded as he looks around and sees a disheveled creature staring at him from the shadows. "Just who or what are you?" He asked the mysterious creature.
"Ah… Perhaps I can tell y- no… Better yet, I'll just show you." The creature stated walks up to the sloth to reveal himself in the color scheme as Sid's but his fur is disheveled with razor sharp claws, red eyes with black scleras and red irises while flashing a malicious grin showing his sharp teeth and surrounded with a red aura.
"Wh-What the… Y-You're just like me b-but more s-scary looking!" Sid stuttered in fear seeing the sloth.
"Heh heh heh… Correction: I look like you because I AM YOU!" The creepy sloth explained shocking Sid.
"Lies! There's no way you're me! I'm never cruel looking!" Sid retorted to the lookalike.
"Au contraire, my friend. You were indeed cruel. Remember the saber you brutally pummeled? Funny." The clone mentioned in sadistic tone.
"Diego? I do remember getting into a fight but-" Sid was cut off.
"I'll admit one thing: I did slightly have of part of it. I just woke up and gave you a helping claw only I was half asleep." The sloth explained again.
"What do you mean you 'woke up'?" Sid asked as he glared at the malicious herbivore.
"Well, to be frank: I'm the source of your negative emotions you keep bottled up inside you. Anger, hatred, displeasure, resentment, etc…" The sloth explained as he chuckles deviously.
"Wh-What…?" Sid said in shocked at the words.
"Ever since you were abandoned and resented by your 'family' at a young age, you felt dejected and unloved that you can no longer love or let alone trust anyone!" The sloth laughed haughtily before starting again. "And since you've never tried to talk to anyone about your ordeals, I gradually began to manifest in your soul. So your whole bottled up emotions caused me to be born! Well, I didn't fully manifest until that red moon fully woke me up." He finished as he crosses his arms.
"You've got to be lying! Like I said: you're nothing like me!" Sid retorted as he balled his claws into fist and charges at the double.
"Hey, hold on n- urk!" The sloth yelped as Sid punched him in the gut and sees the latter also in pain as they both double over in pain.
"What? Why am I hurting after I hit you?" Sid asked in pain.
"Grrr! I was trying to tell you that even though we look the same, we share the shame body, ya goof!" The malicious sloth grimaced.
"You're kidding..." Sid said as he stands up rubbing his gut.
"No, I'm not… My pain is your pain and your pain is my pain vice versa." The sloth explained once more as he stands up rubbing his gut. "You and I are linked in how you say; 'like the gooey, sticky stuff that holds us together'." He stated with his usual evil grin.
"That's Diego's word and I still don't believe you, pal." Sid said as he crosses his arms defiantly.
The disheveled sloth rolls his eyes and uses one of his claws to dug into his own flesh which caused him to hiss in pain as Sid yelps from the same exact pain his doppelganger felt.
"OWW! That hurts!" The sloth exclaimed in pain as he rubs his arm. "OK… I believe you now..." He replied as he glares at his doppelganger.
"See? We share a mutual bond and-" The sloth was cut off abruptly.
"That doesn't mean we're friends!" Sid retorts at the doppelganger.
"Fine… But I just wanna say that if you need any help, just ask. I'm plenty useful, bud." The sloth replied back.
"Don't call me 'bud'...err...me or how about I call you 'Feral'?" Sid stated as he named his vicious counterpart.
"Hmm?! Feral?! What's up with that name?!" The sloth asked in an indignant manner.
"You're my other half that reflects my anger and hatred plus, you do have a cruel and abrasive nature so I decided to call you 'Feral' or 'Savage' if you preferred." Sid explained to his other half.
"Hmm… Feral and Savage do mean the same thing… I suppose it's a good ring to it. Fine. Feral it is." The sloth pondered as he accepts the name.
"Good… So now you'll leave me be?" Sid said as he try to shoo away the sloth.
"What part of 'we're the same' do you not understand?" Feral inquired to the sloth.
"I'm aware, you idiot!" Sid retorted at the sloth.
"You just called yourself an idiot." Feral snarkily replied back.
"SHUT UP!" Sid retorts again vehemently.
"See? That's what I've been telling you. Your anger is what created me, dumbass." Feral snarked again.
"I don't care if you're me or some kind of apparition of my anger… I want you to do me a solid and go haunt someone else, you beast!" Sid demanded.
"I can't because I'm bound to you, freak!" Feral stated in an annoyed tone as he pointed to Sid.
"We'll you just called yourself a freak." Sid snarked back before continuing. "Plus, when you point at someone, the other fingers point back to you." The sloth remarked as he gave his double a smug look.
"Heh… Very clever, sloth." Feral in a smug manner before continuing. "It seems there is more to you than meets the eye. Especially coming from my host." He finished.
"Well, thanks. I guess… But can you do me a solid though?" Sid asked.
"What?" Feral inquired.
"Don't interfere with my life. I have a feeling you'll do more harm than good." Sid stated while crossing his arms.
"Huh? What happens if you can't stand up for yourself when you're knee deep in your problems?" Feral asked with his usual smug grin.
"If such a problem arises, then I'll deal with it." Sid stated once more plainly.
"Just like how you've handled your childhood? Where no one care for your needs?" Feral asked once more while giving his host an evil grin and raising a brow.
"Yes! I'll deal with it regardless of what the situation is." Sid answered boldly earning a frown from his double.
The two sloths stared at each other silently for a moment until Feral smiles again and shrugs.
"Fine…But when it comes to certain point where you can't fend for yourself, you'll regret holding me back." Feral warned him as he vanishes along with the dreamworld.
=Reality=
Sid slowly wakes up in a cave to see it's still nighttime and finds himself lying beside a giant orange creature he remembers.
"What the? Mom- argh!" Sid exclaimed in agony as he clutches his arm where Rudy bit him. "Argh… What happened? I remember being attacked by Rudy and…and Shade she-" He cut himself off and looks around to find the red sloth but she's nowhere to be found. "Where's Shade? I hope Rudy didn't eat-" The sloth cut himself as he hissed in pain as he tries to stand.
The sloth staggers a bit and manages to walk out of the cave while he starts bleeding but stops to turn around to see the mother rex still sleeping and her children too who are now adolescents and much to his surprise, Brooke is among them.
"Need…to find her..." Sid breathed out as he walks into the clearing.
Sid feels his vision faltering and his movements are getting slower as more blood leaks from his wounds. The sloth stagger some more and falls to the snowy ground unable to move his body. Through his blurred vision he sees a wolf in a snow white color with black legs walk towards him and his vision goes black.
Sid's other half has been awakened deep inside him and he wakes to find himself still gravely wounded. What's about the wolf that's walking near? It is a friend or foe?
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