Soul Eater but it's Sonic

Chapter 33

Eclipse had been very small himself when he met the little one. It happened a long time ago, when Tikal brought him into a large room with one cage inside. The door of the cage opened, and a strange creature came out.

The creature was a wisp. It was unlike anything Eclipse had seen. It resembled a soft, squishy cube with one eye on several of its faces.

He was wary of the wisp at first, only observing it from a safe distance initially. The wisp on the other hand wasn't nearly as skeptical. Using it's tiny limbs, it scurried around the floor in a carefree manner. When it noticed Eclipse, it moved closer then peered up at him with interest. Eclipse smiled and considered reaching out.

"Kill it," Tikal ordered.

"What?" Eclipse's voice was soft and weak. His expression was filled with fear.

"Kill it,"

Eclipse looked down at the little wisp. It was bouncing along the floor happily.

"I can't,"

Eclipse crashed into the ground after he was thrown into a dark room by Tikal.

"You can spend some time in there, then,"

The door closed, and darkness came. Eclipse hated the dark. If he stayed long enough, the monster inside of him would come out. This time was no exception. He felt his blood stir within his body and manifest in the air around him. Whatever it was that lived inside him, it never spoke. Eclipse only knew one thing about the being inside of him.

It wanted to hurt him.

And hurt him it did. It always clawed at his body. Not violently or with any urgency, just enough to wear away at him. This would go on until the door opened again. It would not be opening anytime soon.

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Light entered the room. Eclipse awoke to find that his blood was back in his body. He stepped into the hallway where Tikal was glaring down at him coldly.

"It's time to try again,"

Tikal began to walk away, but stopped when Eclipse spoke.

"But I can't,"

Silence hung in the hall. A magical tendril whipped his body and knocked him back into the dark room. The door closed immediately. The monster that lived inside him came out soon after and clawed at him some more. All Eclipse did was cry.

The door opened after what felt like an eternity. Tikal watched the darkling exit the room with a twisted smile on his face. Black blood ran from cuts on his head and dribbled down his face.

"Did you know? My blood is black,"

The darkling found the wisp. The little one approached him for the last time. The darkling watched the little one move toward him without concern. Black blood slithered out of his body and into his hand. The darkling lifted a weapon made of blood, then brought it down.

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Shadow felt his mind return to the murky, mushy, brain-room he'd been trapped in. He had barely recovered from seeing some kind of vision about the darkling when he heard Sonic's voice.

"Shadow, pull me back!"

Shadow felt his connection to Sonic strengthen. The black sludge in the room of his mind shrank back. Shadow forcefully wrestled his body around to dislodge himself from the wall of blackness he was encased in. He freed one arm, then two. He placed both hands against the sludge and pushed as hard as he could.