Soul Eater but it's Sonic

Chapter 66

Mephiles stumbled backward. The air around him was clear, and he was back in his own body. Shadow collapsed on the ground, but was still very much separated from him.

"What?"

Something slammed into his chest. His body creaked against Eclipse's scythe blade. Sonic roared, pushing with all his might. Mephiles was thrown across the floor of the tower. He crashed into the ground in front of the kishin.

"You failed?"

"So did you," Mephiles spat.

Black blood spilled out of his crystalline body. Mephiles pressed the injury Eclipse gave him. A thick coating of blood covered his hand. Hardening didn't seem possible around the area of this particular wound. He shifted back into a scythe.

"Guess it's time to turn this place into a parking lot," Negative said.

He brought out his tendrils, then jumped after grabbing his weapon. His thrusters allowed him to soar upward until the entirety of Death City was in his view.

Shadow got up from the ground with help from his meister.

"You saved me,"

"That shouldn't be surprising by this point," Sonic boasted. "Besides, it's kinda my fault Mephiles had his greasy mitts all over you,"

"No it's not!" Shadow protested.

"We can argue about that later,"

Eclipse was lying on the ground, still in weapon form. He returned to normal, an act that brought Shadow much alarm.

"Wait, what?"

"We'll talk about that later too," Sonic added.

With the barrier around the tower now gone, Starline and co. moved to join Sonic, Shadow, and Eclipse.

"You're all okay," Starline assessed. "That's a relief,"

"I could say the same thing to you," Sonic replied. "You were hurting the last time we talked,"

"I was indeed. I'll be fine as long as that's dealt with," Starline pointed directly overhead at the kishin.

Sonic observed the changes in the kishin's wavelength.

"I feel like me and Shadow had a good chance against him earlier, but now he's got the rest of his soul. Plus I'm all-" Sonic perked up, then ran his hands over parts of his body. "Wait a minute, I got pretty beat up in that fight, but now I feel fine,"

"We've been resonating since you saved me," Shadow said. "So you're healed now,"

"You can do that?" Sonic sputtered.

Shadow replied with subdued impatience. "I can heal you when you resonate with me. That was another power I gained from Infinite. I healed the cut on your arm after we first used chaos control. You didn't notice?"

Sonic confirmed the laceration he'd received at ARK was now gone by touching his arm. "Oh. Neat,"

"So how do we eliminate the kishin?" Blaze asked.

"A question for the ages," Starline gazed upward once more. "He's preparing his soul for an attack. One that can easily wipe out Death City,"

"So we can't run without sacrificing all the other people who are still in Death City," Tails assessed.

"Which means we have to stop the kishin here," Silver concluded.

The weapons and meisters hastily considered their own ideas for how to respond. Shadow's proposal came abruptly without much delay.