Pieces of Solaris

The Chrysalis of Soleanna

Silver took a stand against Solaris as the sun god ripped the sky open for his own pleasure. The sight made Silver sick and furious, among other emotions that riddled through his adrenaline at the time. Taking a glance back at Elise, who was either dying or in a coma, Silver turned to face Solaris with the Scepter of Darkness clenched tightly in his hand.

"Hit me!" Silver demanded as loud as he could toward the god. "You've taken Blaze, you'll take Elise, you took me away from my home and plan on destroying it all! Why all the roundabout? Kill me now, you have no excuse!"

Solaris turned to look at Silver. The sun god had no face, but one was not needed to show that he had no regard for Silver. Solaris drew some of his power to hurl a meteor toward Silver with all intent of not missing the mark. Silver's abilities were more powerful than what Solaris anticipated, and the hedgehog stopped the meteor with a single thought.

"Hey Solaris!" Silver shouted as he increased the potential velocity of the meteor, "Catch!"

Acting as if he was tossing a baseball, Silver hurled the meteor back at Solaris with as much force as he could give. The meteor hit Solaris at a weak point and the sun god let out a screech in pain. Silver gave a rather satisfied smirk in pride to know that the force from the meteor had hurt Solaris in some degree.

"What'd I miss?" Sonic asked, appearing next to Silver from a blur.

"Did you get your friends?" Silver asked, not at all amused from Sonic's sudden reappearance, then again, he was upset that Sonic had left to begin with.

"They're like dial-up compared to me, you'll have to give them a few more minutes." Sonic told Silver with a smirk. "But I got something that will help us weaken Solaris while we wait."

Silver nodded as he and Sonic started to work together to weaken Solaris. Solaris fought back as well, but knew better than to hurl rather large objects at them again thanks to Silver. The sky blue gem Sticks had given Sonic helped to compensate for the loss. Together, Silver and Sonic were able to weaken Solaris to nearly half of his original health by the time the rest of Sonic Team and Eggman were able to come in to help.

"Where do we start?" Amy asked as she pulled out her hammer. Sticks also withdrew her boomerang to show that she was ready to start fighting as well.

"Find a weak spot, and smash it!" Silver demanded. Amy nodded and went to work. With all of Sonic Team present, Solaris was soon being attacked in every direction imaginable. Eventually, the black hole above Solaris in the sky started to shrink, and the sun god himself slowly started to descend back to the ground. For once, Silver felt relieved. But Solaris wasn't finished yet.

"Princess... Elise..." the sun god said in a dark tone the shook Eggman's lair at its foundation, "Chrysalis of Soleanna... push aside your soul and let a new master reign!"

As if commanded by invisible strings, Elise roughly started to stand up and looked up at Solaris with eyes lacking pupils or color.

"No...!" Silver said as his face completely drained of color.

"Solaris, Soul of Soleanna," Elise started to say in a voice that was completely unlike hers, "I-"

"Elise fight him!" Silver demanded with enough panic that it could be felt to everyone in the room. "You fought for your memories, and you will fight for your soul! Do you hear me?!"

Elise took a step back as she closed her eyes for a moment.

"I..." she said painfully before her eyes snapped open again as if they were being forced, "I must..."

With a maniacal snicker, Solaris made a dive toward Elise. Thinking quickly, Sonic looked at the sky blue gem, then threw it in Elise's direction. Elise caught it just before Solaris collided into her- the gem absorbed Solaris and broke him into two once more, allowing only Iblis back inside Elise. Mephiles was nothing more than a black fog at her feet as Silver walked up with the Scepter of Darkness in hand.

"Enough is enough Mephiles." Silver said as he held the Scepter close to the shadow demon.

"Even if you trap me," the demon hissed, "She will still have to fight. The pieces of Solaris will reunite, no matter what universe we reside in!"

"And I'll be waiting." Silver promised darkly before beginning the incantation that would absorb Mephiles into the Scepter of Darkness for good. Satisfied for a little while, Silver then turned to look at Elise who had started to have convulsions. Instantly, Silver's mind went back into a panic as Elise fell backwards. He took hold of her hands in a small act to soften her land on the ground, there the human girl twitched and twisted like she was being possessed. In a way, she almost was.

"Come on Elise," Silver said softly, "Fight him."

. . .

To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become a paradise. What a wonderful world such would be...

. . .

I'm losing all control again, a paradox that never ends. I'm bound to what they've made of me, and tied to their authority. I'm fighting off the demons, but they just keep on wining...

Only I know how to brave what's inside of me!

. . .

It was on my seventh birthday that my father led that fateful experiment on the living flame we called Solaris. I knew that what he was doing was wrong, and that was why I came into his lab at the worst of times. The only memories Iblis could completely keep from me were the ones after that day, I fought to keep the ones of Silver although Iblis wanted it differently.

I fought then, and I'm fighting now.

This is my soul. This is my body. This is my life. These are my memories.

So, thank you Solaris, I'm free. I can cry freely for the first time in ten years. I don't have to worry about a demon coming to harm me or the ones I hold dear. For the first time in ages I... I'm normal.