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"Did you say 'little fox'?" Shallow asked in disbelief. "That don't look like a little fox to me! That looks like some sort of freaky mangled nightmare!!"

Matryx barked again, only it was more glitched than before. Razor growled again, pawing the ground. Eventually, those two would end up tearing each other apart if no one told them to otherwise. I honestly didn't want that to happen.

"Um, are we going to do anything about Matryx, or what?" I asked Dylan.

"Yes," Dylan replied, running to the side. "Razor, Shred-Attack!"

At the sound of Dylan's command, Razor leaped at Matryx and landed on Matryx's back. He started snapping at the sparking cables on Matryx's neck. Matryx spun around, grabbed Razor's tail, and yanked him off his back, throwing him to the other side of the room. I heard a loud, sickening thud against a hard surface, a loud crack, and a sharp yelp. I didn't hear Razor again after that.

A beam of electrical light appeared in the corner of my eye. Dylan had fired at Matryx, but Matryx had jumped to the side, avoiding the electricity by a foot and a half. Then, Matryx jumped at Dylan and clamped his teeth around Dylan's Electro-Fire, shattering the machine without any effort.

"Oh god..." Dylan looked to his right. "Shallow! You've got one of those things for a reason! Use it!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! I know!" Shallow yelled back from behind Matryx. I didn't even notice Shallow move behind the creature. I wasn't really paying much attention to the situation, honestly.

"That goes for you too, Paintbrush!" Dylan yelled at me, just barely missing an attack from Matryx.

"Oh, right!" I quickly lifted my Electro-Fire up and powered it up. Then, I shot at Matryx, secretly hoping it would miss Matryx and hit Shallow in the face.

Matryx saw the incoming electrical charge and dashed to the side, just missing the shot. To my delight, it hit Shallow right in the face, causing him to screech out in pain.

"You're supposed to hit the machine, you freaking idiot!" Shallow yelled at me when he recovered from the hit. There were still electric currents on his ears, and some of the sparks seemed to reconnect where his ears were nicked.

"I wasn't aiming for you this time!" I yelled back, trying to hide my smile.

"Still! That freaking hurt!" he retaliated, shooting at Matryx again. Shallow missed.

I shot at Matryx again and clipped him on the tail. Sparks flew and electrical currents went through his tail. It must've hurt him, too, because he let out a glitchy cry in pain. I don't know why, but hearing him cry out like that made my heart hurt with a sharp pain.

"Shallow, Now!" Dylan yelled. Shallow shot at Matryx and hit him in the face. Matryx yelped a shrill, pained, and broken cry before staggering and collapsing, paralyzed from the electric shock-waves going through his mechanical body. The sharp pain in my heart increased, and I yelped before I dropped my Electro-Fire and fell to the floor, my breathing sharp and quiet. It felt like I was the one that got hit with electricity, not Matryx.

"Well that was hectic!" I heard Shallow say with relief in his echoing voice.

"You're telling me!" Dylan replied. Then, I heard him rip something out of Matryx's inner frame along with lots of sparking noises. When Dylan pulled that thing out from Matryx, the pain in my heart instantly disappeared, as though it was never there. I relaxed and let out a sigh of relief, glad the pain had gone away.

Then, I felt a jolt of electricity travel through my body, and I yelped in pain from the electrifying sensation. When it dissipated, I sat up and saw Shallow leaning against Matryx's motionless body laughing really hard.

"Shallow!!" I shouted in annoyance, standing up and picking up my Electro-Fire.

"How do you like it!?" Shallow laughed, standing up straight and wiping the tears from his eyes.

I shot my Electro-Fire at him in reply, hoping to hit him in the chest. To my surprise, Shallow disappeared into thin air right before the electricity hit him. It hit Matryx on the leg instead.

"You can hit me on accident," Shallow said from behind me, "yet you can't hit me when you're aiming at me!" I turned around to see Shallow standing behind me, his arms crossed, his Electro-Fire slung around his uninjured shoulder, and his tail slowly moving side to side.

"What the--you were just--how the fudge did you do that!?" I demanded.

"By focusing my mind on where I want to go," Shallow replied before disappearing again. "It's actually a lot harder than it looks, Shorty," he said, reappearing behind me. I turned around and flinched back in surprise when I saw how close he was.

"Can I do that?" I asked.

"How should I know? I don't have knowledge of all your abilities like Ecly--" Shallow put a hand over his mouth before he finished his sentence.

"Like who now?"

"No one. No one at all..."

I wanted to ask more questions, but I decided not to. Shallow wouldn't tell me anything, anyways. He never has, and he never will. No matter how many questions I could ask, he wouldn't answer a single one that has to do with things I don't know about, like why his heart glows, or why one of his eyes is pie-cut like mine yet the other isn't, or why he seems to want everyone to die all the time, or why he likes to sleep up in the rafters.

"Hey," Dylan spoke up, snapping me out of my thoughts, "where's Razor?"

"He got tossed off to the side earlier by your 'Matryx of the Rift-Breaker' or whatever his name is," Shallow replied, sounding like he didn't really care at all.

"Shallow, it's Rift-Breaker's Matryx. Not Matryx of the Rift-Breaker," Dylan said. "Seriously though, where's Razor?"

"I'll find him!" I offered, turning and running left from Dylan, Shallow, and Matryx. After a few feet, I stopped and had an idea. What if I do that teleporting thing that Shallow did earlier? It was worth a shot. I closed my eyes and focused my mind on Razor, hoping it would take me directly to Razor's location. Suddenly, I felt a vague pricking appear all around me, and then it dissipated. I opened my eyes again to see Razor laying motionlessly on his side on the floor, his back to the wall.

I stepped closer to him. "Razor? Are you okay?" I asked the still Cy-Wolf, nudging his shoulder a little bit.

Razor opened his yellow eyes very slightly and whined. He lifted his head up a little and licked my nose before letting it fall down to the floor again. There was a shutting down sound, and he didn't move again.

"Razor?" I asked, nudging his shoulder again. He didn't respond. I looked at Razor's back and saw a long open crack on it, revealing all of the machinery that gave Razor life and personality. I knew where it had come from; when Matryx threw Razor off his neck, the loud thud I heard was Razor hitting the wall with a hard impact, the cracking sound was Razor's back splitting open from the impact, and Razor yelping was from the sudden...everything. Whether I wanted to believe it or not, Matryx had inflicted Razor with a fatal wound that would lead to Razor's demise.

"Paintbrush," I jumped when I heard Dylan's voice, "did you find him?" I turned around to see Dylan coming towards me.

"Um, yeah..." I answered. "Something happened though, and you're not going to like it."

"Why not?" Dylan asked when he got closer. I didn't need to tell him, because he saw the open wound on Razor's back. "Oh my god...What happened?"

"Matryx killed him..." I answered plainly.

Dylan didn't say anything else, he just sat down on the floor next to Razor. I don't think he could say anything; he was too shocked to see his creation dead. I got up and left him alone. I had a feeling he'd want to be alone. I don't know why, but for some odd reason, I could relate to him. It was almost as if I'd lost someone I cared about once, no, twice before. I can't remember who though.

Future-Paintbrush appeared in my head. 'It was a Lunar Eclypse,' he said.

"A Lunar Eclypse?" I asked. "What Lunar Eclypse?"