Hello everyone! Sorry for this being uploaded really late, my internet was being a real pal today. Note the sarcasm. But I'm here, at 1 AM to type this and uploading it in the morning. Good thing I have the Pinkies to keep me awake.

Pinkies: YEAH!

Yeah, woohoo. Tired, but the story must go on. Let's see the reviews.

Glimpse: Yeah, Tails has an amazing basement. And yes, it is Mephiles.

Captain: I didn't forget about you guys, just didn't have you last chapter. You will reappear here.

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Newplayer100: Was not aware Gold's back story was like Sly Cooper's. Never even played a Sly Cooper game in my life XD

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Alright *yawn* LET'S DO THIS. PINKIE MORE COFFEE!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything except Gold, the Eon, the plot, etc. All OCs belong to their respective owners.

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Gold the Fox presents...

Eon Chronicles

Darkened Dawn

Chapter 4: The Dark Lord Returns

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Twilight ran into the house after seeing Gold flung through his own plane and ran upstairs. She ran into Gold's room and slammed and locked the door, and hid under the bed. To say the least, she was scared out of her mind. What possibly was Gold so afraid of?

Gold opened his eyes and felt pain all over him, with some bits of metal lodged into him. He was sitting against the wall, bleeding and hurting bad. He heard footsteps. He could feel the air getting colder and colder, every time the person took a step he got a sharp pain in his head and his eyesight would blur a bit. The steps were getting closer and closer and the cold getting more and more noticeable.

"Get up boy." someone said across from him.

In fear, Gold got up using the wall as support. He was still hurting tremendously from being flung through a plane and his eyesight was still blurry. He could make out a figure, a face even. It was a crystalline hedgehog with red eyes and green irises. However, the hedgehog had no visible nose, mouth or even feet, just a dark aura where his feet would be.

"So this is the old man's son? How pathetic." the figure said.

Gold knew exactly who it was, but asked anyway, "Who are you and what do you want from me?"

"My apologies, but I assumed you knew who I am. I am the one who killed your father, remember?" the crystalline hedgehog said, tilting his head a bit.

Gold's heartbeat started going faster than it already was when he heard this. Of course he knew this information, but just the memory of it hurt him inside.

"I know this, you monster. You are Mephiles the Dark." Gold said.

"Ah, there we go, you do remember." Mephiles said starting to pace around.

"Well, you killed him and got your wish for his death, leave us alone!" Gold defended himself slightly.

"Us? Is there someone else here?" Mephiles asked, already knowing the answer.

Gold sunk back after realizing what he had said.

"No one here but you and me." Gold lied.

"It's a shame, I don't even know your name." Mephiles completely ignored his lie.

"My name is Gold."

"Gold, Gold the Fox. Very pleasing name for an Eon Warrior." Mephiles said.

"What do you want from me?" Gold practically yelled.

"It's a bigger shame, I won't know her name before she dies." Mephiles said.

This set Gold off and he shot Eon spheres at Mephiles. Mephiles disappeared and reappeared in the same spot. He shot out a dark orb of energy at Gold, which Gold rolled on the wall to dodge. He could fell the darkness from the attack as it hit the wall.

"Oh, forgot to mention, I absolutely will use Dark Eon on you."

Mephiles shot another attack at Gold, which missed him and Gold fired back. It went back and forth, attack after attack, dodge after dodge, as Gold fought for his life and everyone else. He couldn't let Mephiles get away and be awoken any longer. At one point, an Eon and Dark Eon blast hit each other and caused a reaction that caused a small explosion. After the smoke cleared, Mephiles was gone leaving Gold actually scared. Was he gone or was he still here? He walked around enduring pain and was answered when Mephiles teleported in front of his face. Mephiles made a crystal come out of the ground and hit Gold in the chest sending him flying toward the destroyed plane. He landed on the ground in front of the front half of the plane and didn't get up for a moment. He started to slowly get up but him crashing through the plane had caused it to majorly malfunction when it was warming up. The front half of the plane exploded violently, sending Gold flying into the wall and his back hit the wall violently and let out a cry of pain. His ears were ringing from the shockwave of the explosion and he couldn't hear anything. He looked up and saw Mephiles at the door. He couldn't hear anything very well but caught some of the words he said. Mephiles said something about paying a visit. Mephiles floated into the house. Gold's eyes went big and he slowly got up and ran into the house, biting his tongue to ignore the pain. He slid into the kitchen and kept running up the stairs and into the hallway of the upper floor. The last door of the hallway had Mephiles standing in front. Mephiles looked back at Gold and almost smiled with a mouth to how fearful Gold was of him. He turned around to destroy the room and the person, or should we say to Mephiles knowledge it was a person, but for us we know it is a pony. However, he was met with something unsettling to him. He looked inside and had two hoofs socked into his face, taking him by surprise and causing him falter back. Gold knew this was the only opportunity and took his chances. He unexpectedly grabbed Mephiles and threw him back down the stairs. Gold slid down the stairs quickly with Eon and looked around and he was gone. He was turning furiously to find Mephiles. He turned around and Mephiles was there, and Mephiles grabbed Gold by the throat cutting his air supply.

"Prepare to die, Eon Warrior." Mephiles said bring his other hand up with a dark aura surrounding it.

Suddenly a knock rung on the door and Mephiles was gone. Gold collapsed on the ground gasping for breath. The door opened.

"Gold, I heard an explosion, and- GOLD!" Tails said and ran to Gold.

Gold was going to pass out soon, he knew this. Twilight came down the stairs in a rush and also ran to Gold's side, scared out of her mind at what almost just happened. Never as she seen so much darkness and chaos before, well maybe once before. Gold looked up at Tails.

"Mephiles." he said before passing out and being caught by Tails.

Tails and Twilight got Gold onto a couch in the living room before deciding on what to do.

"Stay here while I go get the others, if he shows up again, run like you have never before." Tails instructed her.

"But what about-" she was going to argue if he did come back, what about Gold.

"He would want you to be safe rather than him. Now just please stay here and run if you need to." Tails said, trying to convince her.

She hesitantly nodded before Tails took off running, using all the power in his tails to get to Sonic's fast enough. He got to Sonic's house in record time and burst into the house.

"Wow, Tails, .4 seconds better than last time." Sonic said within the house, with a stopwatch in hand.

"No time. Gold. Attacked. Mephiles." Tails simply and quickly explained.

As soon as Sonic heard the words Gold and then after Mephiles, he got a serious expression on his face. He knew what Mephiles could do personally. And then what happened after, he tried not to think about it, but hey, it wasn't so bad after he realized he had kissed a pony now. But still about that incident afterward, ew, just ew. Anyway, Sonic knew about Gold's past and what Mephiles did and what he was capable of. He knew the most however, about how Gold reacted to Mephiles or even heard about Mephiles. He would get cold, he would be actually scared for once, no sarcasm, no jokes, no anything, just plain fear. Gold would even look and feel weak, like someone had drained the life out of him.

"Get everyone else to Gold as well, Tails. Rainbow, let's go." Sonic said, staring into no where, thinking of the possibilities.

Rainbow had no idea what was going on or even who Mephiles was, but Sonic didn't normally get that serious that fast, even in Equestria he didn't get that serious. She could tell something bad was going on and got as serious as he did as well. Tails raced out of the house to get everyone else and Sonic and Rainbow ran and flew out of the house, for once not caring for who was the fastest or who could get to Gold's first. They arrived on the scene in split seconds due to their speed and entered the house. Gold was lying unconscious on the couch and Twilight was sitting on a chair right next to him, looking with worry and what looked like fear. She noticed them come in and went back to looking at the unconscious Gold. Before she kicked Mephiles in the face, she actually looked at him. He looked so dark and evil she could not forget it. And she actually looked at him in the eyes, and all she saw was a black hole. A hole full of darkness and despair that never ended. It was impossible to live it down, and it was impossible to forget.

"Twilight, what even happened?" Sonic asked very seriously, sitting on the couch across from Gold.

Twilight explained the whole situation down to the last detail it was that scary for her. The two across from her listened intently. As she was explaining, others like Blade, En sis, the twins and Unknown entered quietly and sat down to hear the story. She kept explaining the whole situation from her point of view, down to the fine details. It was like she was a victim in a murder case and it was such a scary and fear-filled experience, she couldn't explain it simply.

"What did you do when he came to the room you were in?" Ensis asked.

"I turned around and bucked him in the face as hard as I could." she said.

"Yeah, that's the Twilight I know!" Rainbow said, shining some enthusiasm into the darkness.

"Hehe thanks." Twilight said with a chuckle. "But, before I did, I looked at his eyes. All I saw was emptiness and pain. A black hole with no way out, and nothing inside it but fear. It was like looking into a hole in the ground that didn't have an ending to it, it just went on in darkness." she explained somberly.

She continued, "And after I kicked him, I saw Gold. It was like he never had any life in him, he never had any hope or compassion in him to even fight. He did fight, but he didn't seem like himself. He seemed...that he never fought anything before and all he knew to do was have fear."

"That's what happens when Gold gets near or even hears about him a lot. It's the one thing I have seen him really have complete fear for, was him. And for good reason." Sonic explained. "I mean, this monster killed his father, and then Gold saw his father dead, right in front of him. And it was all because of this...this...I don't even want to say his name."

"I don't understand..." Xavier said, and also his family was confused, not really knowing Gold enough to know his history.

Sonic and Tails explained the whole situation of Gold's father and him being the Eon Warrior and his death, and when Gold found him and the events afterward.

"I can relate to that a bit..." Blade said rather seriously, recalling his own past.

"He isn't in that, what was it, Dark state is he?" Unknown asked.

Tails looked back at the unconscious Gold and back at the group.

"His gloves are still glowing blue. He still is with us, he is just unconscious." Tails said.

"What if this person put Gold into that state?" Nia asked.

"Oh Chaos, I don't even want to think of that possibility. It would be devastating, almost so that he would..." Tails didn't complete his sentence.

"He is starting to wake up." Ensis pointed out.

Indeed, Gold was starting to open his eyes. He opened his eyes fully but then turned to prinpricks as he started looking frantically around.

"TWILIGHT! TWILIGHT!" he started to shout out loud.

Twilight came over to him and hugged him while Gold was acting like he was an inch from death and all his fears had attacked him at once. As she comforted him, Tails and Sonic were having their own conversation.

"I've never seen him this bad." Sonic said.

"He has more people to worry about. Not only us, but now all these people and he has someone he loved to worry about." Tails said.

"Yeah, that makes sense, but wow, he really is scared."

"Mephiles is his kryptonite, he gets like this every time." Tails said.

"I know but...he usually is a little shaken up, he wasn't shouting bloody murder." Sonic said.

"I know. We are so used to seeing him happy and joking around and confident but this...this is almost sad." Tails said.

"That is definitely true, it's kinda scary seeing him like this." Sonic agreed.

"I don't know about you, but we gotta keep Gold away from Mephiles, or at least keep ourselves away so he doesn't get like this." Tails said.

"For once, I agree. There is one problem though."

"What?"

"Gold is the one who needs to put him back into his place." Sonic said.

"That's what I'm scared of." Tails said looking in no specific place.

Back with Gold and Twilight, Gold was still in deep fear despite Twilight being there.

"Look Gold, everyone is alright. You have nothing to fear." Twilight said comfortingly.

"But...but...but..." Gold said panicking.

"Gold look, I'm here. I'm right in front of you, and I'm not leaving you, okay?" she said.

Gold stopped for a moment. He took a deep breath and counted to five in his head and looked back at her.

"Okay...okay..." Gold said slowly this time.

"You gonna be fine?" she asked.

"I think...I think I will. I got you here." Gold said, calming down a bit.

"Good, everything is okay. Look, I'm here, Tails is here, Sonic is here, everyone is here." Twilight said gesturing to everyone.

"WAIT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE PONIES?" Gold said, getting scared again.

"No, no, no, calm down. They are at Tails's house, safe and sound." she calmed him down.

"Okay...okay..." Gold said calming down a bit.

"Good. I love you, remember that." she said and kissed him on the forehead.

Gold looked back to her eyes and saw something he was being pulled of. Hope and calmness. He would always lose himself when he saw, that person, and would always think everything was lost, that there was no hope with him near. But just looking at her, he felt fine, like he had nothing to fear, nothing to lose. He calmed down.

"I love you too." he said and kissed back.

Gold sat up on the couch and looked at the group.

"I'm sorry for what you all just saw in me, I thank you for being here." he said.

"Gold, we didn't know you could get like this." Blade said.

"I don't, it's just he makes me go to a place in my mind that I don't want to go to, someplace dark and fearful. It makes me act like you just saw." Gold said.

"We are all fine here Gold. You don't have anything to fear." Ensis said.

Gold took a deep breath and looked at everyone.

"Thank you."

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Very dark and emotion filled chapter, wouldn't you say? The Gold fearing Mephiles makes sense with his past, plus who wouldn't be a little flustered from Mephiles. I guess doing this at 2 AM helps my thought process a little, haha. Anyway, next chapter, we move a little quicker with some nice casual and humorous events leading to the wedding, WHICH I AM PUMPED FOR. Get ready for epicness. This has been Gold, thank you for reading, thank you to all my reviewers, leave a review and whatnot please, and as always,

EONNNNN OUT!