Chapter 3 - Eclipse's Death

In the sky, two enemies struggled against one another in a bloody dance of wits and power. A battle of speed and sanity. A battle that would determine the end, or continuation of a life-long terror: The insane badger, Mr. Inderretta. The hedgebat that dueled this monster in the sky was none other then Eclipse, son of Shadow.
It was Mr. Inderretta that attacked first. He had finaly lost all sense of sanity, and went after Eclipse, and the group he followed. Though at first, he was stopped by Sonic, Eclipse eventually was allowed to duel the monster that threatened them, telling Sonic that it was "his fight".
And so, they clashed. Barreling into one another, swiping at each other with the claws of the dark spirits that possessed them. That's right - they were both possessed by foul creatures called demakarrs... Eclipse's demakkar was probabally the worst of it's time: Condemned. Mr. Inderretta's Demakarr had not a name to share, but caused almost as much hell. His demakarr joined Mr. Inderretta's personallity, and was the very thing that DID make him snap like a twig.
Suddenly, Mr. Inderretta stopped in mid-air, and glanced at Eclipse's lover, Rosette the tigress. He emitted a frightening chuckle as he stared at her, drool dripping off his jaws.
"Uh... why's he looking at me like that...?" Rosette questioned. Almost immedietly, Mr. Inderretta boomed in a low, doubled voice.
"If i cannot take down our bretheren, then his mate shall die!" Eclipse became confused.
"Mate...?" He wondered. Then he realized what Mr. Inderretta was talking about. "Oh no! ROSETTE!" The badger was just about to impale Rosette with a dive down at her, claws put into a drill-like form. Rosette screamed.
All of a sudden, Eclipse came in and pushed Inderretta out of the way, fanged mouth ripping open. He roared.
"No! You don't touch her!"
"You..." He slammed his fist into the mutated badger's stomach, drawing a snarl of pain from the monster.
"Don't..." He grabbed Inderretta's head, and clutched it hard.
"Touch..." Eclipse pushed the badger's shoulder away from his head, revealing his neck.
"Rosette!" Eclipse, in an almost out of control and insane manner, bit down hard at Mr. Inderretta's neck, ripping out the creature's lungs.
"GRAAAH!!!" Mr. Inderretta roared. "No! I won't go down alone! I won't die untill you go to hell FIRST! RAWR!!!" In a flash, Mr. Inderretta's claws had shoved themselves inside Eclipse's chest. Condemned's head melted away to reveal Eclipse's shocked and angry face. The hedgebat looked down at his chest, then looked up and glared at his life-long enemy.
"You son of a - URK!" He was cut short as he felt a burning, yanking feeling in his chest. Rosette was tearing up.
"Oh no..." she whispered, "Eclipse..."
Mr. Inderretta's laughter filled the sky as he pulled out something red, and grotesque in his claws: Eclipse's heart.
"NOW I CAN REST! NOW THAT YOU'RE DEAD!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Mr. Inderretta then crashed down into the ground. He had died laughing. Shadow stared at the bloody mess that was Eclipse.
"My son... my only son..." He managed to choke out. Meanwhile, in the sky, Eclipse clutched at where his heart used to be. Thoughts raced in his mind.
"I'm dying... i really am dying... Condemned's just supporting me long enough for final thoughts..." He started to fall. "I can't believe i never told Rosette how i really felt about her... How much i really loved her..." He glanced at Shadow. "Shadow... my father... I always grew up hating him... and now..." Eclipse closed his eyes and forced a small smile. "Heh... Dad..."
That's when voices flooded his mind... The voice of Shadow and... someone he couldn't reconize...

"A boy. It's a tiny boy hedgehog... like i was..."
"what shall we call him, Shadow?"
"He's like the combination of the sun and moon, joined as a bright halo... his name, i believe, shall be Eclipse..."
"He's so precious... oh Shadow, i don't think anything in this world could be so wonderful... so fragile..."
"Neither can i, Rouge... neither can i..."

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore, over the inevitable
Thou should not grieve.

Eclipse lost feeling in his whole body. As he fell, a trail of blood poured out of him, untill finally, with a loud "boom", he crashed into the ground.
"N-no..." Rosette studdered. Sonic looked at Shadow, feeling his pain and sadness.
"Shadow..." He whimpered, but Shadow was focused on something else...
"First Maria, then Rouge, and now Eclipse... why does God keep torturing me... WHY???" Suddenly his voice became loud, and angry, "WHY DO YOU KEEP TAKING AWAY THE ONES I CARE ABOUT!?" He then held his head in his hand, and sobbed "God!!! Oh God!!!" He shouted, clenching his teeth. Sonic stared down at his hands, tears pouring out.
"Not like Johnny..." He told himself, "No... Not like Johnny..." Then, Rosette shouted out loud.
"No!" She tried to repress the tears. "NOOOOOOO!" The tears came pouring, and she ran down the hill they stood on to the place where Eclipse crashed. "Eclipse!!!" She shouted.
"Rosette!" Sonic yelled out to her. But no, Rosette was already with Eclipse, holding him in her arms, and panicking. She was denying his doom.
"Eclipse! Hang on! You can live through this, Eclipse! You can -" she was interrupted by Eclipse's weak whisper.
"No... Rosette... Don't kid yourself... i should have died... way before i crashed... I'm on my last legs..." Rosette just shook her head, more tears came.
"Please don't say that...", she pleaded, "Th-there's still time... we could -" Once again, she was interrupted.
"Rosette... my heart was ripped out of my chest... I can feel myself fading away..."

For certain is death for the born...

"You have no idea how much i care about you!" She hugged him tightly.
"Rosette... I could never say it before, but... I feel the same towards you..."

And certain is birth for the dead...

"R-really?"
"It's true..."

Therefore...

"Now that I've told you... what i yearned to tell for so long... I can finally... rest... in... peace..." he closed his eyes, and was still.

Over the inevitable...

"Eclipse...?" Rosette whispered to her friend, and lover, softly shaking him. But something was wrong... "His body's gone completelly cold..." Rosette thought, fear gripping her heart, "But that could only mean..." She lowered her head close to his bloody chest, tears washed away some of the blood.

Thou should not grieve.

"No..." she sobbed. He was gone.

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