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I keep killing Omega. I'll have to make it up to him soon, won't I? ;D", "writing": "“This world is going to betray you, Shadow. Do not be foolish and defend those that only wish you harm!” Mephiles insisted as Shadow threw Chaos Spears his way.\n\nShadow didn’t respond, but his mind was racing with Mephiles’ revelations. He couldn’t deny what he saw, himself locked away in this dark future, and his current struggles to save the world apparently did nothing to dissuade the people of the future from condemning him.\n\nMaybe they weren’t worth saving. Maybe Mephiles was right.\n\nNo, he had to push those grim thoughts away. Maria wanted him to save this world. Still, this world had murdered his friend, so perhaps that meant Maria was wrong.\n\nOmega came to his aid, though. Suddenly, he was reminded that he had friends and allies. He had Rouge, Omega, and, even if he hated to admit it, Sonic and his friends.\n\nMephiles brought his assault to an end, and smirked at Omega.\n\n“Ah, the traitor synthetic. Look upon your work and despair, robot.” Mephiles said, gesturing at the image of Shadow’s prone body.\n\n[i]What?[/i] Shadow thought in stunned silence. [i]This was Omega’s work?[/i]\n\nOmega hung his head, not denying the accusation.\n\n“Confess, synthetic, and perhaps you’ll be forgiven by your so-called friend.”\n\nShadow looked to Omega for an answer, wanting a denial but doubting he’d get one.\n\n“Yes, I was the one who defeated and sealed you away. Shadow-”\n\n“I don’t want to hear it!” Shadow raged, turning away from his ally, [i]ally?[/i], and burying his face in his hands.\nOmega applied only cold logic, and apparently cold logic determined it best to make him an enemy and lock him away for eternity.\n\nThe image flickered, Shadow’s future self shifting and fading away. Mephiles smirked at the sight. Shadow was changing his future.\n\nMaria wanted him to save this world, and he’d done his best. He tried to believe in her words that people were good and deserved a chance. But she’d been proven wrong at every turn.\n\nThe people still hated him for nearly allying with Black Doom when he knew nothing of himself or the world, even though he’d saved them all in the end. Sonic and his friends still treated him with suspicion despite doing his best to save the world alongside them.\n\nMaria had been cut down by the world she claimed to be worth saving, and Shadow saw nothing worthy in the world that would come to betray him.\n\nThe image vanished entirely, the future in which Shadow was locked away, alone and cold, disappeared with his growing anger.\n\nFine, then. If the world made itself his enemy, he would fight as he always had.\n\nShadow turned to Mephiles, anger burning in his eyes, but it was no longer directed towards the crystal demon.\n\n“You wanted me to fight at your side?” Shadow asked, rather pointlessly as he already knew the answer.\n\nMephiles didn’t answer, didn’t have to, only smirked in triumph.\n\n“Shadow, this course of action will lead to hostilities. Please do not proceed.” Omega said, his robotic voice unable to convey his desperation.\n\n“Why? So you can cut me down and lock me away? So you can have the pride of defeating the Ultimate Lifeform? You’re always asking for a real fight to prove who’s strongest. We know the answer I suppose.”\n\n“But he was alone when you defeated him.” Mephiles interrupted, placing a hand on Shadow’s lower back and stroking the soft fur with his thumb. “He isn’t alone this time.”\n\nThey tore Omega apart until he was reduced to a heap of scrap and wrecked electronics. He sparked pathetically before his life faded away, his swan song a sharp hiss and clanking metal.\n\nShadow kneeled down next to Omega’s remains and lightly touched the cool metal.\n\n“I’m sorry, my friend. I’ll miss you.” He muttered quietly. Mephiles placed a comforting hand on his quills and stroked them tenderly.\n\n“Remember him as he was before his betrayal. Remember him as your friend and comrade.”\n\nShadow nodded and stood. He turned to Mephiles and glowered at him.\n\n“Something to say?” Mephiles inquired.\n\n“You want to destroy the world. Why?”\n\n“Why?” Mephiles repeated, bemused. “Because this world is rotten, and needs a firm hand to put it in its place.”\n\n“And then what? Float around in a field of destruction and death? What’s your endgame?” Shadow crossed his arms and arched a challenging eyebrow.\n\n“My…endgame?” Mephiles pondered. Indeed, he didn’t have any thoughts for what would come after he tore the world asunder. He just wanted it to suffer.\n\n“Do you have an alternate course of action, my dear?”\n\nShadow’s eyebrows shot up at the endearment, but deigned not to comment. “Subjugate them. Rule over them. We have the power to do so together.”\n\nMephiles’s lips pulled into a wicked grin. Iblis would never have thought of such a thing, lacking any conscious thought at all. The firey god was a primordial force rather than a partner. Shadow was proving to be far preferable to join with. He provided not only clever thought and raw power, but companionship as well.\n\nMephiles had lived a very lonely life since his inception alongside Iblis. That was largely Shadow’s fault for sealing him away, but they were on opposite sides at the time. Now, his captor was his greatest ally and, dare he say, object of affection.\n\n “I like the way you think, my dear. Just one more thing.”\n\nShadow opened his mouth to ask what Mephiles meant, but it was swiftly invaded by Mephiles’ probing tongue. Shadow shuddered and moaned as Mephiles wrapped an arm around Shadow’s torso and pressed him close.\n\nThey parted, and Shadow touched a tentative hand to his lips. Mephiles silently, and anxiously, awaited his response.\n\nShadow smirked. “I like your one thing.”\n\nMephiles smirked back. They’d be doing a lot more things with each other soon enough.\n\n***\n\nThey returned to Shadow’s time, and his companions were none the wiser of the demon lurking in his shadow, watching him deceive them.\n\nShadow didn’t want his friends dead. Enslaved, perhaps, but not dead. He was angry and frustrated and terribly lonely, but he wasn’t so far gone as to desire the wanton murder of all those he once called compatriot. Omega’s death had been hard enough, Shadow didn’t want to compound the experience.\n\nBesides, slaughtering Mobius’s beloved heroes would only make the people more angry and resistant to them. There were better ways to go about this.\n\nShadow declared Mephiles defeated and the threat over, and the others had little choice but to believe him when Mephiles didn’t appear again. It seemed Shadow had saved them all.\n\nSilver returned to his time, with the help of a few Chaos Emeralds and Chaos Control, and he was sent forward in time without Mephiles to send him back to warn them of what was to come.\n\nSonic and his friends parted ways as they always did after one of their adventures, returning to their daily lives.\nAll seemed right with the world.\n\nNobody noticed anything was wrong until Shadow and Mephiles intentionally revealed themselves. The devious pair had spent years quietly removing leaders of the world’s governments and substituting them with weak and easily manipulated replacements, their loyalty bought with riches and the promise of protection once the coming war began.\n\nThey accrued a network of spies and sleeper agents that subtly twisted the people into rebelling against their own governments, making them believe it was their own idea, then taking power for themselves once the ruling powers were weak.\n\nThe two held the world in the palms of their hands before anybody knew what was going on. Once the armed response came, the immortal beings crushed it with little struggle, the Ultimate Lifeform and the crystal demon proving to be an indomitable force. Their spies rooted out pockets of resistance until no one dared defy them.\nThe world submitted, and Shadow and Mephiles triumphed.\n\nSonic and his friends had hidden themselves away, and had for all intents and purposes disappeared even from their spies. They’d appear again when they deemed it the right time to, the new rulers knew that all too well. But if the world’s armies couldn’t stop them, neither could a speedy hedgehog and his ragtag team.\n\nShadow and Mephiles resided in an opulent palace. Shadow had insisted their subjects build on the exact location Sonic and Tails had once called home, mostly for his own personal amusement.\n\nMephiles was lounging in their ostentatious canopy bed, awaiting his lover’s return from a raid on a small rebel group. He’d been bored and decided to join their soldiers personally.\n\nShadow reveled in combat, and he always returned from it happy and horny. Mephiles looked forward to his return very much.\n\nThe door opened without a creak, the solid wood and metal hinges well maintained by their servants.\n\nMephiles turned to the sound, his lover concealed from his vision by the drapery of their canopy bed, but he knew it had to be Shadow. He was the only one that would enter without knocking. The smell of sweat and blood reached his nose, making desire flare up inside of him.\n\nShadow pulled aside the drapery letting Mephiles take in the sight of his nobly dressed lover splattered with gore.\n\n“I see you had a good time.” Mephiles teased.\n\nShadow smirked and reached behind himself to slowly begin undressing himself of his leather and gold regalia. Mephiles leaned his head on his hand and watched the show.\n\nShadow stripped himself naked, tossing aside the lovingly tailored and ruined outfit in favor of crawling into bed with Mephiles.\n\nHe curled into Mephiles’ hold and the rolled until Shadow was pinned to the mattress by Mephiles’ hands on his wrists.\n\n“I had a very good time, Mephiles. Think you can show me a better time?” Shadow asked with a sassily cocked head and a teasing smirk.\n\n“I think I can, love.” Mephiles replied before leaning in to steal a kiss.\n\nHe licked and sucked his way down Shadow’s body, releasing his wrists in favor of stroking his fur and touching the smooth skin underneath. He moved downwards until he reached his goal and spread Shadow’s legs apart, revealing his womanhood and slowly emerging cock.\n\nMephiles pressed a kiss to Shadow’s pussy before giving it a long lick, prompting a luscious moan in Shadow’s sexy baritone voice.\n\n“You taste so good, beloved.” Mephiles said, lips still against the pink flesh of Shadow’s vagina. He kissed the quickly moistening flesh again before thrusting his tongue into the inner folds of Shadow’s sex.\n\nShadow’s hands curled into fists as he threw his head back and moaned. Mephiles kept his hips still with his hands as he writhed and tried to thrust into the wet appendage exploring his insides.\n\nMephiles pulled away, much to Shadow’s disappointment. He nuzzled the darkly furred thigh in reassurance before pressing a thumb into Shadow’s clit.\n\nShadow threw his head up off of the sheets and screamed in ecstasy. \n\n“Oh, Chaos, Mephiles!” He screeched, face turned skyward as he reveled in the pleasure. Mephiles ground his thumb down into the pleasurable nub, drawing more screams from Shadow.\n\n“Mephiles, Mephiles, Chaos, please!” Shadow babbled, needing relief and so much more at the same time.\nMephiles gave him more. As he pressed into Shadow’s clit, his other fingers stretched to fondle Shadow’s balls. His other hand slipped a digit into Shadow’s depths to begin stretching him.\n\nShadow came with a cry and a shudder. Mephiles didn’t hesitate as he continued to drive Shadow wild.\n\nA second finger scissored him, and Shadow’s patience ran out.\n\n“Fuck me now, Mephiles. Now.”\n\nMephiles complied, pulling his fingers off of and out of Shadow and touching the tip of his cock to Shadow’s dripping entrance. \n\n“Not like this. In your other form.”\n\nMephiles expected as much. Ever since the first time they fucked with Mephiles crystallized Shadow had gotten addicted to Mephiles’ rock solid length inside his pussy. The Ultimate Lifeform was too resistant to pain to be uncomfortable with a foot of thick rock being pushed inside of him.\n\nHe let his body solidify into colorful crystal, and Shadow grinned at the sight, only to lose his grin to parting his lips in a moan when Mephiles entered him with one hard thrust.\n\nMephiles rubbed Shadow’s clit to ease the initial pain, but Shadow only moaned in ecstasy at the long and thick girth forcing its way into his private places. So, he set a merciless pace as he fucked Shadow into a wild and orgasmic state.\n\nShadow’s eyes rolled back in his head as he lost himself to the unbelievable pleasure. Mephiles moaned and gripped Shadow’s hips to slam them into his own and increase the pressure on Shadow’s cervix as he pounded into it.\n\nThey rutted madly until they reached a breaking point, and Mephiles came as Shadow’s inner walls squeezed tightly around him with his orgasm.\n\nMephiles let his skin soften as his erection flagged, and he held Shadow tight to his chest.\n\nThey’d led such lonely lives, and now they had everything anybody could ask for. Money, power, and each other. The world gave them nothing , so they took what was owed them.\n\n***\n\nSonic made his attack one dark, moonless night. They stole into their bedroom while the world’s rulers slumbered peacefully in their beds. Using a sleeping powder devised by Tails, they were kept asleep as Sonic loomed over their bedside.\n\n“I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.” Sonic whispered as he gently stroked the side of Shadow’s face. He didn’t so much as twitch.\n\nThe lovers were parted and rolled onto their backs, and Sonic pressed a pillow into Shadow’s face, blocking his breathing and gently smothering him. Their tyrannical rule would only end with their deaths, and Sonic would bear the burden of his old friend’s murder for the rest of his days.\n\nAfter pressing the pillow down for several minutes, far longer than necessary, Sonic pulled it away to reveal Shadow's slack and dead face. He covered his mouth as he let out an involuntary sob. No matter what Shadow had become, they had been friends once. Sonic mourned everything between them that had and could have been.\n\nMephiles twitched and blinked his eyes sluggishly, and Sonic lept back in shock. Apparently, Tails’ concoction didn’t work as well on Mephiles’ entirely foreign biology.\n\nMephiles spotted Sonic lurking in the darkness of the room first, and tensed in preparation to lunge for him, but was stopped by the still and cooling body at his side.\n\nHe reached out a shaking hand to Shadow, touching his chest and finding it disturbingly still, no breath passing in and out of his lungs. He embraced Shadow’s body and pulled it close, hugging the corpse and allowing tears to fall from his eyes.\n\n“My love, my beloved, my only and my all.” He muttered through shuddering sobs. “I want for nothing if I can’t share it with you.”\n\nSonic’s guilt increased tenfold, but he could relent in his mission. He had to end the threat that was their tyrannical rule. He would shed many more tears of his own once the deed was done, but for now Sonic needed to remain strong.\n\nHe threw himself at the weeping demon, forcing Mephiles to release Shadow. He expected a counter attack, but Mephiles did no such thing. Instead, he reached out for Shadow’s corpse, fingers grasping at the air.\n\nThe sight was so wretched and pathetic that Sonic nearly took pity on him and relented. But he didn’t, and instead took advantage of Mephiles’ distraction to follow up his initial attack with another hard blow.\n\nMephiles crumpled, not even resisting Sonic’s assault. He buried his face in his hands and wept, making Sonic hesitate.\n\n“I have nothing now. [i]Nothing[/i].”\n\n“Nothing? You have this palace, you have the world at your fingertips, you have power and wealth beyond imagination!” Sonic argued out of surprise. He himself placed little value in material things, but he’d expected Mephiles to be more materialistic.\n\n“There is no purpose to having anything if I can’t share it with him. You’ve taken him from me, and now all I have and all I have done means nothing.” Mephiles lifted his head to look Sonic in the eye.\n\n“We have always been alone. But we found each other and we were magnificent together. Look at all we did at each other’s side!”\n\nMephiles gestured to the opulent bedroom, decorated in priceless gems and the finest fabrics. “Do as you will. I have no desire to continue on if I would live without him by my side. Have your broken world back. It is empty and worthless if Shadow is not a part of it.”\n\nSonic nodded and approached Mephiles, taking his face in his hands. “I’m sorry.” He mumbled as he snapped Mephiles’ neck to the side, making it crack. The demon’s body sagged and his tears ceased along with his life.\n\nSonic pulled Mephiles’ corpse to the bed and laid it alongside Shadow’s. He folded them together into an embrace. He could do this much for them, let them intertwine with one another even after their life had been extinguished.\n\nSonic would have to endure the guilt of causing everything the world, and his friend, had become. If he had been better to Shadow, he would never have had to find comfort in Mephiles’ arms and in the wanton death their rule had brought about. And if Sonic had attempted to understand his enemy, perhaps Mephiles could have been redeemed.\n\nLife had brought them misery, but maybe they could find happiness with each other in death.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "“This world is going to betray you, Shadow. Do not be foolish and defend those that only wish you harm!” Mephiles insisted as Shadow threw Chaos Spears his way.

Shadow didn’t respond, but his mind was racing with Mephiles’ revelations. He couldn’t deny what he saw, himself locked away in this dark future, and his current struggles to save the world apparently did nothing to dissuade the people of the future from condemning him.

Maybe they weren’t worth saving. Maybe Mephiles was right.

No, he had to push those grim thoughts away. Maria wanted him to save this world. Still, this world had murdered his friend, so perhaps that meant Maria was wrong.

Omega came to his aid, though. Suddenly, he was reminded that he had friends and allies. He had Rouge, Omega, and, even if he hated to admit it, Sonic and his friends.

Mephiles brought his assault to an end, and smirked at Omega.

“Ah, the traitor synthetic. Look upon your work and despair, robot.” Mephiles said, gesturing at the image of Shadow’s prone body.

What? Shadow thought in stunned silence. This was Omega’s work?

Omega hung his head, not denying the accusation.

“Confess, synthetic, and perhaps you’ll be forgiven by your so-called friend.”

Shadow looked to Omega for an answer, wanting a denial but doubting he’d get one.

“Yes, I was the one who defeated and sealed you away. Shadow-”

“I don’t want to hear it!” Shadow raged, turning away from his ally, ally?, and burying his face in his hands.
Omega applied only cold logic, and apparently cold logic determined it best to make him an enemy and lock him away for eternity.

The image flickered, Shadow’s future self shifting and fading away. Mephiles smirked at the sight. Shadow was changing his future.

Maria wanted him to save this world, and he’d done his best. He tried to believe in her words that people were good and deserved a chance. But she’d been proven wrong at every turn.

The people still hated him for nearly allying with Black Doom when he knew nothing of himself or the world, even though he’d saved them all in the end. Sonic and his friends still treated him with suspicion despite doing his best to save the world alongside them.

Maria had been cut down by the world she claimed to be worth saving, and Shadow saw nothing worthy in the world that would come to betray him.

The image vanished entirely, the future in which Shadow was locked away, alone and cold, disappeared with his growing anger.

Fine, then. If the world made itself his enemy, he would fight as he always had.

Shadow turned to Mephiles, anger burning in his eyes, but it was no longer directed towards the crystal demon.

“You wanted me to fight at your side?” Shadow asked, rather pointlessly as he already knew the answer.

Mephiles didn’t answer, didn’t have to, only smirked in triumph.

“Shadow, this course of action will lead to hostilities. Please do not proceed.” Omega said, his robotic voice unable to convey his desperation.

“Why? So you can cut me down and lock me away? So you can have the pride of defeating the Ultimate Lifeform? You’re always asking for a real fight to prove who’s strongest. We know the answer I suppose.”

“But he was alone when you defeated him.” Mephiles interrupted, placing a hand on Shadow’s lower back and stroking the soft fur with his thumb. “He isn’t alone this time.”

They tore Omega apart until he was reduced to a heap of scrap and wrecked electronics. He sparked pathetically before his life faded away, his swan song a sharp hiss and clanking metal.

Shadow kneeled down next to Omega’s remains and lightly touched the cool metal.

“I’m sorry, my friend. I’ll miss you.” He muttered quietly. Mephiles placed a comforting hand on his quills and stroked them tenderly.

“Remember him as he was before his betrayal. Remember him as your friend and comrade.”

Shadow nodded and stood. He turned to Mephiles and glowered at him.

“Something to say?” Mephiles inquired.

“You want to destroy the world. Why?”

“Why?” Mephiles repeated, bemused. “Because this world is rotten, and needs a firm hand to put it in its place.”

“And then what? Float around in a field of destruction and death? What’s your endgame?” Shadow crossed his arms and arched a challenging eyebrow.

“My…endgame?” Mephiles pondered. Indeed, he didn’t have any thoughts for what would come after he tore the world asunder. He just wanted it to suffer.

“Do you have an alternate course of action, my dear?”

Shadow’s eyebrows shot up at the endearment, but deigned not to comment. “Subjugate them. Rule over them. We have the power to do so together.”

Mephiles’s lips pulled into a wicked grin. Iblis would never have thought of such a thing, lacking any conscious thought at all. The firey god was a primordial force rather than a partner. Shadow was proving to be far preferable to join with. He provided not only clever thought and raw power, but companionship as well.

Mephiles had lived a very lonely life since his inception alongside Iblis. That was largely Shadow’s fault for sealing him away, but they were on opposite sides at the time. Now, his captor was his greatest ally and, dare he say, object of affection.

 “I like the way you think, my dear. Just one more thing.”

Shadow opened his mouth to ask what Mephiles meant, but it was swiftly invaded by Mephiles’ probing tongue. Shadow shuddered and moaned as Mephiles wrapped an arm around Shadow’s torso and pressed him close.

They parted, and Shadow touched a tentative hand to his lips. Mephiles silently, and anxiously, awaited his response.

Shadow smirked. “I like your one thing.”

Mephiles smirked back. They’d be doing a lot more things with each other soon enough.

***

They returned to Shadow’s time, and his companions were none the wiser of the demon lurking in his shadow, watching him deceive them.

Shadow didn’t want his friends dead. Enslaved, perhaps, but not dead. He was angry and frustrated and terribly lonely, but he wasn’t so far gone as to desire the wanton murder of all those he once called compatriot. Omega’s death had been hard enough, Shadow didn’t want to compound the experience.

Besides, slaughtering Mobius’s beloved heroes would only make the people more angry and resistant to them. There were better ways to go about this.

Shadow declared Mephiles defeated and the threat over, and the others had little choice but to believe him when Mephiles didn’t appear again. It seemed Shadow had saved them all.

Silver returned to his time, with the help of a few Chaos Emeralds and Chaos Control, and he was sent forward in time without Mephiles to send him back to warn them of what was to come.

Sonic and his friends parted ways as they always did after one of their adventures, returning to their daily lives.
All seemed right with the world.

Nobody noticed anything was wrong until Shadow and Mephiles intentionally revealed themselves. The devious pair had spent years quietly removing leaders of the world’s governments and substituting them with weak and easily manipulated replacements, their loyalty bought with riches and the promise of protection once the coming war began.

They accrued a network of spies and sleeper agents that subtly twisted the people into rebelling against their own governments, making them believe it was their own idea, then taking power for themselves once the ruling powers were weak.

The two held the world in the palms of their hands before anybody knew what was going on. Once the armed response came, the immortal beings crushed it with little struggle, the Ultimate Lifeform and the crystal demon proving to be an indomitable force. Their spies rooted out pockets of resistance until no one dared defy them.
The world submitted, and Shadow and Mephiles triumphed.

Sonic and his friends had hidden themselves away, and had for all intents and purposes disappeared even from their spies. They’d appear again when they deemed it the right time to, the new rulers knew that all too well. But if the world’s armies couldn’t stop them, neither could a speedy hedgehog and his ragtag team.

Shadow and Mephiles resided in an opulent palace. Shadow had insisted their subjects build on the exact location Sonic and Tails had once called home, mostly for his own personal amusement.

Mephiles was lounging in their ostentatious canopy bed, awaiting his lover’s return from a raid on a small rebel group. He’d been bored and decided to join their soldiers personally.

Shadow reveled in combat, and he always returned from it happy and horny. Mephiles looked forward to his return very much.

The door opened without a creak, the solid wood and metal hinges well maintained by their servants.

Mephiles turned to the sound, his lover concealed from his vision by the drapery of their canopy bed, but he knew it had to be Shadow. He was the only one that would enter without knocking. The smell of sweat and blood reached his nose, making desire flare up inside of him.

Shadow pulled aside the drapery letting Mephiles take in the sight of his nobly dressed lover splattered with gore.

“I see you had a good time.” Mephiles teased.

Shadow smirked and reached behind himself to slowly begin undressing himself of his leather and gold regalia. Mephiles leaned his head on his hand and watched the show.

Shadow stripped himself naked, tossing aside the lovingly tailored and ruined outfit in favor of crawling into bed with Mephiles.

He curled into Mephiles’ hold and the rolled until Shadow was pinned to the mattress by Mephiles’ hands on his wrists.

“I had a very good time, Mephiles. Think you can show me a better time?” Shadow asked with a sassily cocked head and a teasing smirk.

“I think I can, love.” Mephiles replied before leaning in to steal a kiss.

He licked and sucked his way down Shadow’s body, releasing his wrists in favor of stroking his fur and touching the smooth skin underneath. He moved downwards until he reached his goal and spread Shadow’s legs apart, revealing his womanhood and slowly emerging cock.

Mephiles pressed a kiss to Shadow’s pussy before giving it a long lick, prompting a luscious moan in Shadow’s sexy baritone voice.

“You taste so good, beloved.” Mephiles said, lips still against the pink flesh of Shadow’s vagina. He kissed the quickly moistening flesh again before thrusting his tongue into the inner folds of Shadow’s sex.

Shadow’s hands curled into fists as he threw his head back and moaned. Mephiles kept his hips still with his hands as he writhed and tried to thrust into the wet appendage exploring his insides.

Mephiles pulled away, much to Shadow’s disappointment. He nuzzled the darkly furred thigh in reassurance before pressing a thumb into Shadow’s clit.

Shadow threw his head up off of the sheets and screamed in ecstasy.

“Oh, Chaos, Mephiles!” He screeched, face turned skyward as he reveled in the pleasure. Mephiles ground his thumb down into the pleasurable nub, drawing more screams from Shadow.

“Mephiles, Mephiles, Chaos, please!” Shadow babbled, needing relief and so much more at the same time.
Mephiles gave him more. As he pressed into Shadow’s clit, his other fingers stretched to fondle Shadow’s balls. His other hand slipped a digit into Shadow’s depths to begin stretching him.

Shadow came with a cry and a shudder. Mephiles didn’t hesitate as he continued to drive Shadow wild.

A second finger scissored him, and Shadow’s patience ran out.

“Fuck me now, Mephiles. Now.”

Mephiles complied, pulling his fingers off of and out of Shadow and touching the tip of his cock to Shadow’s dripping entrance.

“Not like this. In your other form.”

Mephiles expected as much. Ever since the first time they fucked with Mephiles crystallized Shadow had gotten addicted to Mephiles’ rock solid length inside his pussy. The Ultimate Lifeform was too resistant to pain to be uncomfortable with a foot of thick rock being pushed inside of him.

He let his body solidify into colorful crystal, and Shadow grinned at the sight, only to lose his grin to parting his lips in a moan when Mephiles entered him with one hard thrust.

Mephiles rubbed Shadow’s clit to ease the initial pain, but Shadow only moaned in ecstasy at the long and thick girth forcing its way into his private places. So, he set a merciless pace as he fucked Shadow into a wild and orgasmic state.

Shadow’s eyes rolled back in his head as he lost himself to the unbelievable pleasure. Mephiles moaned and gripped Shadow’s hips to slam them into his own and increase the pressure on Shadow’s cervix as he pounded into it.

They rutted madly until they reached a breaking point, and Mephiles came as Shadow’s inner walls squeezed tightly around him with his orgasm.

Mephiles let his skin soften as his erection flagged, and he held Shadow tight to his chest.

They’d led such lonely lives, and now they had everything anybody could ask for. Money, power, and each other. The world gave them nothing , so they took what was owed them.

***

Sonic made his attack one dark, moonless night. They stole into their bedroom while the world’s rulers slumbered peacefully in their beds. Using a sleeping powder devised by Tails, they were kept asleep as Sonic loomed over their bedside.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.” Sonic whispered as he gently stroked the side of Shadow’s face. He didn’t so much as twitch.

The lovers were parted and rolled onto their backs, and Sonic pressed a pillow into Shadow’s face, blocking his breathing and gently smothering him. Their tyrannical rule would only end with their deaths, and Sonic would bear the burden of his old friend’s murder for the rest of his days.

After pressing the pillow down for several minutes, far longer than necessary, Sonic pulled it away to reveal Shadow's slack and dead face. He covered his mouth as he let out an involuntary sob. No matter what Shadow had become, they had been friends once. Sonic mourned everything between them that had and could have been.

Mephiles twitched and blinked his eyes sluggishly, and Sonic lept back in shock. Apparently, Tails’ concoction didn’t work as well on Mephiles’ entirely foreign biology.

Mephiles spotted Sonic lurking in the darkness of the room first, and tensed in preparation to lunge for him, but was stopped by the still and cooling body at his side.

He reached out a shaking hand to Shadow, touching his chest and finding it disturbingly still, no breath passing in and out of his lungs. He embraced Shadow’s body and pulled it close, hugging the corpse and allowing tears to fall from his eyes.

“My love, my beloved, my only and my all.” He muttered through shuddering sobs. “I want for nothing if I can’t share it with you.”

Sonic’s guilt increased tenfold, but he could relent in his mission. He had to end the threat that was their tyrannical rule. He would shed many more tears of his own once the deed was done, but for now Sonic needed to remain strong.

He threw himself at the weeping demon, forcing Mephiles to release Shadow. He expected a counter attack, but Mephiles did no such thing. Instead, he reached out for Shadow’s corpse, fingers grasping at the air.

The sight was so wretched and pathetic that Sonic nearly took pity on him and relented. But he didn’t, and instead took advantage of Mephiles’ distraction to follow up his initial attack with another hard blow.

Mephiles crumpled, not even resisting Sonic’s assault. He buried his face in his hands and wept, making Sonic hesitate.

“I have nothing now. Nothing.”

“Nothing? You have this palace, you have the world at your fingertips, you have power and wealth beyond imagination!” Sonic argued out of surprise. He himself placed little value in material things, but he’d expected Mephiles to be more materialistic.

“There is no purpose to having anything if I can’t share it with him. You’ve taken him from me, and now all I have and all I have done means nothing.” Mephiles lifted his head to look Sonic in the eye.

“We have always been alone. But we found each other and we were magnificent together. Look at all we did at each other’s side!”

Mephiles gestured to the opulent bedroom, decorated in priceless gems and the finest fabrics. “Do as you will. I have no desire to continue on if I would live without him by my side. Have your broken world back. It is empty and worthless if Shadow is not a part of it.”

Sonic nodded and approached Mephiles, taking his face in his hands. “I’m sorry.” He mumbled as he snapped Mephiles’ neck to the side, making it crack. The demon’s body sagged and his tears ceased along with his life.

Sonic pulled Mephiles’ corpse to the bed and laid it alongside Shadow’s. He folded them together into an embrace. He could do this much for them, let them intertwine with one another even after their life had been extinguished.

Sonic would have to endure the guilt of causing everything the world, and his friend, had become. If he had been better to Shadow, he would never have had to find comfort in Mephiles’ arms and in the wanton death their rule had brought about. And if Sonic had attempted to understand his enemy, perhaps Mephiles could have been redeemed.

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