CHAPTER 1

THE KEY TO HELL

That night at Shadow's house, Shadow was getting ready for bed. He looked into his mirror and behind him, he saw a black monster behind him. He didn't turn around and face him right away. He just stared at the monster, "Dark, what the hell do you want?"

"For a reason you don't know."

"Get out my house now!"

The demon crossed his arms, "How rude, Darkness."

He spun around and confronted him facing him in anger, "Don't call me that! Shut up and leave or I'll have to kick your ass!"

Dark grabbed both of his wrists tightly, "You're coming with me."

"In your dreams." His hands glowed yellow and a bright yellow light struck at Dark and hit him towards the wall on other side of the room. "Want some more?"

Dark slowly stood from the floor, "I don't want to fight you. I only want to talk."

Shadow lowered his clenched fists, "Fine, if you want to talk then lets talk here."

"No, I can't. I must bring you to my base."

Shadow refused to go with him, "I won't go."

Dark sighed, "Have it your way, Shadow. Don't come crawling to me once all your friends die from you."

Shadow all of a sudden started to listen to him, "What do you mean?"

Dark smirked a bit, "I can only tell you if you come with me."

Shadow had to think for a minute and soon he came up with his answer, "Fine, I'll go with you."

Dark walked over to him trying to look unarmed. He stood beside him, "Take us there with your fascinating powers."

Shadow closed his eyes, "Chaos Control!"

A green flash of light appeared and when it disappeared Shadow and Dark were gone.

That next day at the Chaotix, everyone was there except for one person.

Vector looked around, "Huh? Where's our second in command?"

"You mean Shadow? I have no idea", Espio shrugged.

Vector crossed his arms, "That hedgehog! He said he was going to come in today." He picked up his phone and began to dial the numbers.

"Maybe he was busy", Charmy thought.

"Yeah with Rouge", Espio joked.

Tonya glared at Espio, "Come on Es, don't joke around like that."

Vector slammed his receiver down on the phone, "Damn! He won't pick up!"

Rouge ran up to the group, "Have you guys seen Shadow?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"We don't know where he is. We figured he was with you", Tonya said.

"Well he's not. I just hope he's all right."

All of a sudden a bright white light was centered in the middle of the room blinding the group.

Once the light vanished, a young butterfly girl with long blue hair and wings stood in the middle of the room with a serious look on her face.

Charmy's eyes widened, "Who's that?"

All the mysterious girl said was, "6,6,6..."

Meanwhile at Dark's base, Shadow was standing around waiting for Dark to talk to him. All Dark was doing was walking around him. He finally got annoyed with this, so he began to speak, "What's this all about?"

Dark turned to him, "6,6,6."

"6,6,6? Isn't that the sign of the devil?"

Dark nodded, "Correct."

"That's in three days right?"

"Right."

"But what does this have to do with me?"

"You are Darkness, you can open the gate to hell upon Mobius. You are the key."

After hearing that Shadow felt that he didn't want to hear anymore.