Chapter 12: Sacrifice

Last time Mephilies put his master plan in to action to consume Rage with a despair and now Rage must defeat Mephilies...

"You will not get away with this!" Rage growls "You think you can put the life of my friends on the line as a trap?! You are one hell of a bastard I hope you realize that!"

"Bah you cannot stop me alone last time your had to have your friends but look they are all to busy!" Mephilies laughs "Here Rage is where you will finally die!"

(Music Start L'Oscurita Dell'Iggnoto~Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance)

Rage fed up with talking charges at Mephilies and rams him head on sending him flying into a wall. Rage then charges some energy and uses it to boost into the wall he smashed his foe into and charge through a small hill before Mephilies retaliated with a kick.

Rage flew back some before he was able to regain his stability. He looks up to see Mephilies charging a beam of energy swiftly he counters with one of his own. When the two met each other a large explosion was formed. Rage sat there and waited for Mephilies. Soon without warning Mephilies formed from behind and readies another beam. Rage turns to see him doing so. Rage braced for the impact but... Mephilies turned the beam and aimed it at Twilight! He fires the beam and the unthinkable happened...

Icezer leaps and takes the beam himself causing a hole to be blown right through his chest.

(Music start: Roxas~ Kingdom Hearts II)

"ICEZER!" Rage screams as he powers back to his normal form and runs to his brother as do the rest.

'I can give them time for this... I am not That cold hearted." Mephilies thinks watching them. Gather around the icy blue hedgehog who was slowly dieing.

"Icezer!" Rage cries his eyes filled with tears "Why?"

"you... would have done the same...right?" he says slowly smiling

"Don't die!" Fluttershy cries

"I'm sorry... please forgive me..." Icezer says with his final breath he closes his eyes and his head falls to the side.

"NOOOOO!" Rage screams holding Icezer's body. Rage now filled with anger and malice for the balck hedgehog stood up. He takes a few steps and his eyes glow a demonic red. Rage's negitive emotions had taken control and he releases a burst of Dark Chaos. He body is shrouded in dark energy and he enters his Zero Form. His fur a darker shade of red with dark purple eyes with dark grey wave like markings on his arms and one on his right eye. Two dark gray strips go from the end of his eye area back behind his head. His inhibitor rings a dark purple and his pants the same blue but with purple fire designs on it. His green shirt a lighter shade over the normal dark green. And his dark red shoes were a dark green.

(Music Start: L'Impeto Oscuro~ Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance)

Rage summons his sword and dashes for Mephilies "I'll kill you for this!" he screams in anger. Mephilies draws a sword from the shadows and leaps for Rage as the two clash blades.

"You have finally let darkness in your heart hedgehog how does it feel?" Mephilies chuckles darkly as Rage forces him back staggering him.

"Shut up!" Rage yells slicing at his chest relentlessly. Mephilies eventually counters with a kick to his face and he leaps up and nearly stabs Rage in the heart but he was able to roll out of the way, As Rage gets up he sweeps Mephilies down off of his feat who crashes on to the ground with a loud thud. He quickly gets up but not fast enough to avoid Rage's tackle and Rage stood atop him. "You killed my own brother!"

"he is not your brother remember you were born an equine!" Mephilies spits trying to press Rage even farther

Rage just grits his teeth and slices Mephilies in the chest drawing blood. "HE IS MY BROTHER AND WE MADE A PROMISE TO PROTECT EACH OTHER! AND NOW I HAVE FAILED THAT BUT I WILL AVENGE HIM!" Rage yells his inhibitor rings coming off and his blade charges with a dark purple aura with a very dark vibe. Rage then stabs Mephilies in the center of his head.

Mephilies lets out a scream of agony as he draws his last breath he says "This isn't over! I am not going to let you live rodent!" he pants. Rage then screams in anger and decapitates Mephilies out of anger and keeps slashing his dead body until Christain Intervenes.

"Rage enough!" he says grabbing his head and extracting the dark energy into a ball. Rage then turns back to his normal form and he blinks a few times.

"What the hell just happened?" he pants tired out "And why am I so sore and tired?"

"Rage when Mephilies killed Icezer you went Apeshit on him." Christain says "You took darkness in your heart. I have taken it into this orb here."

"Give it back." Rage says "that is no normal dark energy it is Demonic Chaos energy and I cannot let it fall into the wrong hands." Rage reaches for the orb and Christain cautiously hands it to Rage who absorbs it again. With a few tenses and struggles he keeps his composure and locks it away inside. "Now Christain... I will need your help learning to control it... But first we have a funeral to do..." Rage says looking at his brothers dead body with tears in his eyes. "Come I must go back to Mobius..." Rage picks Icezer up and they head back to the small town Rage and his brothers grew up in.

(Music start: Roxas~ Kingdom Hearts II)

When they heard they were coming the whole town had put together a welcome back gathering for the two in the small town hall. Rage enters the hall to see all his old friends and his father! But when Rage arrives with Icezer's body everyone's expression changed to one of horror and despair.

Their father was the first to speak "Rage...son is that... Icezer?" he asks

Rage nods his head slowly "he sacrificed his life to save Twilight..." Rage says with a heavy heart. "He was..." Rage couldn't continue as he just broke into tears. His brother was gone and the whole feeling of it overwhelmed him "Mephilies that bastard!"

"Rage..." his father Maxim says "it's going to be hard for all of us... but we need to remain strong. You are the Chaos Guardian remember that!"

"That doesn't mather father!" Rage cries "My own brother is dead because one idiot was too wimpy to fight me! Icezer died in vain and nothing can change that! But all you seem to care is the fact of what I am?!"

"Rage..." Maxim satarts

"Save it! I have a funeral to plan for my brother." Rage says waling out.

[10 days later Westbrooke Village Cemitary]

a group was gethered to see Icezers tombstone that Tikal and Knuckles had kindly made for Rage. It was a large one of Icezer and it was placed next to their mothers. Rage stood at a podium with a sad look on his face. "Icezer was not only my brother but the person I was closest to the most. After our mothers brutal murder we relied on each other for months until the Police in Westside City picked us up. Even though it was a normal life from then on... he looked up to me and he wanted to reach for the stars like I had. His death was in the worst of terms and the most vain of forms... Icezer the Hedgehog I am going to miss you!" Rage says covering his face crying as his brother's coffin was lowered and burried.

It took Rage a few months to get over everything back in Equestria but over time he was able to put himself back to work. But now he had a new look on life... he knew he was never going to forget Icezer and as a memory Rage wore the old Eagle Claw Necklase Icezer had made him but he did not like cause of the string in the loops. He vows to never take it off as a memory of his sacrifice...

Today was the dawn of the winter season in Equestria and the bitter cold nip in the air kept Icezer's spirit alive in Rage's mind. Rage stood atop a hill in his hedgehog form with his foot on a rock and looking into the morning skies as bits of snow fall from the skies above. "From this day forward I vow Icezer I will never let your memory die... you're sacrifice will never be forgotten!" Rage says as Christain approaches him

"Rage Twilight needs you back in Ponyville" the now grey unicorn says. With his dark energy no longer able to be returned Christain decided to join Rage, Xage and Axel as a Light Guardian. Rage was able to convince Dex to give a unicorn from to Christain and so there he was horn and all. Rage looked back at him and morphed back to his Alicron form "Okay... thank you Christain." he says walking back to Ponyville

"Oh and Rage!" Christain yells as the red Alicorn walked off. But he turned around to see what Christain had to say, "I hope you can find a way to meet Icezer again."

"Thank you Christain" Rage says with a warm smile towards his now newest friend.

The End!

In the next chapter of Harmonic Chaos Chronicles... Rage undertakes a normal life with Twilight and still struggles to come to terms with Icezers death but one thing Rage knows is that if he and Finitevus ever meet again... nothing will stop him from killing the echidna...