The Dark Moray is a serpentine beast that appears as a boss in Sonic Unleashed. It is one of Dark Gaia's minions that formed from the primordial entity's essence when it scattered across the world after being woken prematurely by Dr. Eggman. Some of Dark Gaia's fragments coelesced in the cold climate of Holoska, forming this draconic creature which Sonic the Hedgehog was forced to fight in order to access the Gaia Temple in the area.
Appearance[]
The Dark Moray resembles a combination of an eel and a dragon. It has a very large mouth with thin, sharp teeth, though its jaw is slightly crooked. It has two sets of horns on his head; one set of more curved and split horns around his jaw joints and a set of more straight horns on his forehead. It also has a green abscess on its lower belly area, its upper back and on its forehead, which might act as central arteries. These spots are its weak points. In the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version, it has blue skin, while in the Wii/PlayStation 2 version, it has black skin with swirly red markings all over his body and cyan outlines.
In the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version, it has small extensions sticking out from the edge of the platform. These extensions look like miniature clones of the Dark Moray itself, but without horns and abscesses, and they have flat teeth instead.
Abilities[]
The Dark Moray feeds on the energy of negative emotions and shapes this energy as frost and ice. It attacks by breathing streams of ice that form into spikey pillars, giving Sonic the Werehog more obstacles to overcome. It can also launch large orbs of ice from its mouth that move slowly, but will flash-freeze everything caught in their blast radius.
Aside from its ice-based attacks, the Dark Moray will also attempt to crush Sonic by slamming its body down or spinning. Its range is limited to the platform it emerges from.
With the aid of the platform it is stuck to, Dark Moray can generate a icy force field around itself for protection that instantly freezes those that touch it. In the Wii/PlayStation 2 version, this force field is generated using machinery on the platform (which might hint that Dark Moray has the ability to interact with machinery) while in the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 version, it is generated by miniature extensions of itself that crawl out from the edge.