A Father's Memory

The darkest path of Thomas has begun, Lee ordered the Hunters who holds the key and guarded Artemis. He was at rage when he saw a bruise on Artemis' left arm.

"Do you have the rights to be angry?" Lee said.

"Thomas, I told you not to come. I, I am your bane." Artemis cried. Slowly Lee and Thomas exchanged, Thomas goes to Lee ad Artemis on the other side. They crossed each other on their parting ways Thomas whispered something to Artemis, something that has to do with trusting him.

"The King is waiting." Lee took Thomas' hands and the Shadow blade.

"Don't touch me!" Thomas angrily said to Lee.

"Oh, now your being hard to get. Well, too bad you trusted me in keeping my words."

He said while he saw Artemis got to the other side ,he then ordered the Wickeds to attack Thomas' Crew. "NO!" Thomas shouted.

Lee held the Shadow blade up high and prepared for his one-on-one with the Shadow Caller. Thomas on the other hand knelt down on one knee and called out his shadow. He casts his shadow with no flaws.

"I see how you handle your other self, looks like the king itself with be proud."

"I'm not" Thomas said in his shadowy, creepy, dark voice.

Thomas tackled Lee quickly after it looked at his friends, he tried to unarmed Lee ,but Lee was strikingly fast, and his Grine Hunter abilities were still present, he changed into a man-wolf and ran through the walls trying to look for the Shadow Caller's weakest point, he tried the arm, the shoulder and even at it's back. Thomas didn't get hit by the blade, he dodged each attack and he fought Lee with his knife formed shadows, hitting the blade and Lee at all cost.

Meanwhile, the others were facing Lee's goons and trying to get ready for the battle to protect Artemis. Joe approached Fred, "Don't stop the time just use your time sphere, and time bullets." he told Fred.

"Why?" Fred asked

"Just trust me I saw this on my dreams and you'll use it later to slow the time down okay?"

"Well, I guess I can trust you."

"Stop it! This isn't a time for chit chats" Julie shushed the two and grabbed Artemis' hands.

"I can do this Julie, I've been waiting for this my entire life. I want them to taste my revenge. Mr. Smith, we'll take it from here, we'll cover you up." Artemis said.

Alexander just nodded and they all readied their selves to attack the goons.

"NOW!!!" John Doe shouted leading his army men to defeat Smith's team as their boss commanded them

The other side shouted and after a while flashes of lights glowed, Wickeds versus Wickeds, fighting each other, they all showed their special abilities and fought with fire, blades, hand-to-hand, kicks and burst of lights. Every attack matters to each and everyone.

On the other hand, Thomas kept facing his mortal enemy, the coach from ones before he trusted and now his nemesis. Fighting over the Shadow Caller blood that runs in Thomas. Lee, now kept dodging every attacks, every blades and every punches Thomas gave.

"Scared to get hurt?" The Shadow lured.

"No, just trying to…" Lee didn't finish his words thus, he threw the shadow blade right after Thomas jumped over the opened cauldron. The blade hit Thomas and the blood of the Shadow Caller ran down within the bruise of Thomas himself.

"Now, I got you." Lee said.

"You might hurt me but not spawn the King that ones killed thousands of our kind." Thomas angrily said while he covered his bruise on his right arm. Alexander approached Thomas in its Shadow form and hit Lee on the chest.

Meanwhile Principal Hugh noticed the bruised Thomas and called Alexander, he then on the other hand looked at the worried principal and came near to him while dodging and fighting up some Cait-Siths.

"Your son is truly hurt, you must get there before he gets seriously hurt and you know what I mean by seriously." Principal Hugh worriedly said to Alexander.

"What shall we do?"

"Grab my hand and prepare to hit Lee, I'm throwing you there, by the means of warping you over there." He ordered.

"Let's do it." as Alexander agree to Hugh, he step back for about 3 feet away and then ran to Hugh while creating a Shadow formed gauntlet, Hugh then turns around as if he's ready to throw something big and suddenly when Alexander held his hand the two warped from the top of Lee and Hugh threw him so hard that he tackled Lee at top speed, then Hugh warped again to get back from the teens.

As Alexander hit Lee with his surprise attack Lee was then hurt on his right limb.

"Stay away from my son you bitch!" Alexander cursed out when he hit Lee.

Lee just smiled while he looked at the two and ordered the Guards to pour the cauldron's content to the coffin. Alexander directly hit the first guard but then the contents was spilled already. Tom went raging on his way to unleash another attack on Lee. He was stopped by his father by showing up in front of the Grine Leader.

"Father! Out of my way!" Thomas said, in his rage, the edges on his shadow began to sharpen.

"Stop son!" Alexander said to Thomas to make him calm. "This isn't you anymore, your shadow self is owning your body."

"I am still ME!!! I am not my Shadow!" Thomas said in his shadow voice.

"No, son it isn't. You are who you are and your shadow must not own you, I am your father, he might your enemy but you yourself is your enemy, fight it, try using 5% of your abilities, trust me. If you go raging in your shadow form you'll never stop and you'll kill even your friends, even me." tears then flowed in Alexander's eyes. "I love you son, this isn't you. Don't be me, don't be like your dead Grandfather, be yourself. Fight him, and then take care of Lee…" his words went through Thomas as if the time stopped and everything slowed down, he looked around and saw how his friends fought against the darkness and how they fight for him, he saw his father crying and a figure of his mom that whispered on his ear. "We, will always be by your side."

The moment only lasted for a few moments when something terrible happened, Thomas saw his father, smiling while tears flowed down his eyes, and there is something else more than tears that flowed on the ground, his blood. He was stabbed by Lee at the back with the Shadow sword that now glowed with violet light and the mixture of black and red blood flowed rapidly when the Shadow Blade was casted out from his body. Young Joseph looked at what happened, "I'm sorry Tom, I' really sorry." he whispered while looking at the shocked Thomas that fell from his knees, his Shadow form and the edges slowly turned back to his body.

"Enough with the melodrama, it's time for some action. The blade now killed a Shadow Caller and it's blood flowing from the Blades the King can now rise again and vengeance will scatter all over the world. The return of the Shadow King." Lee finished his words while he threw the blade on coffin, flashes of light and dark auras showed upon the body when the blade touched the coffin. The battle between the Wickeds stopped for moment of time as a huge force exerted from the coffin that even Lee fell from his back, but then he is still happy and rejoicing that the King has now returned to Hoverdrive.