Dark Moray

"Dark Gaia’s sinister influence joined with the freezing climate of the Holoska tundra to form this beast."

- The description of Dark Moray in Sonic Unleashed (PS3/Xbox360) Dark Moray (ダーク・モーレイ) is one of Dark Gaia's minions, the second nighttime boss and the fourth boss to be fought in Sonic Unleashed. After Dark Gaia broke apart in the beginning of the game, the energy fragments of it scattered across the globe. In Holoska, these energies combined with the continent's cold climate to create Dark Moray, wh became the guardian of Holoska's Gaia Temple. He is fought after completing Cool Edge Act III: The Temple of Ice on the Wii /PS2 version and Cool Edge Night Act 1 on the Xbox360/PS3 version.

Powers and Abilities
Fitting with his location, Dark Moray possesses the ability to control frost and ice. This is done by taking the feelings regarding people's grief and sorrows and then molding it into ice and frost, which he can control. He can either shoot out large, slow-moving orbs that will create a small explosion which freezes everything within its radius, or launch an icy breath that will instantly create large spiky ice pillars. When not using its ice related abilities, he can also fail and spin around his body to throw away and damage enemies, though his range is limited to his platform.

With the aid of the platform he is stuck to, Dark Moray can generate a force field around him to protect himself. If Sonic the Werehog tries to make contact with it, he will be instantly frozen and immobilized (and cause his health to drop slowly). On the PS2/Wii version this force field is generated with the aid of the machinery on the platform (which might hint Dark Moray has the ability to interface with machinery) while on the PS3/Xbox360 it is generated by miniature extension versions of himself that crawls out on the edge.

Appearance
Dark Moray mostly resembles a combination of an eel and a dragon. He has a very large with thin sharp teethes, though his lower jaw is kind of crooked. He 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. He also have a green abscess on his lower belly area, his upper back and on his forehead, which might act as central arteries. On the PS3/Xbox360 he has blue skin, while on the PS2/Wii version he has rather black skin, with swirly red markings all over his body and cyan outlines.

On the PS3/Xbox360 version he has small extensions of himself sticking out fromthe edge of the platform. These extensions look like miniature version of Dark Moray himself, but without the horns and abscesses, and has flat teethes instead.

Wii/PS2
at the beginning of the fight, Dark Moray puts up a shield and the player's first task is remove it. To do this, Sonic must destroy four sets of shield generators while avoiding the Red Nightmares, Deep Nightmares, and also his ice balls and the Killer Bees later on. Once the shield goes down, Sonic can jump up on it and attack Dark Moray himself. At this point, he will use several attacks including an ice breath, ice balls, and also when he slams his head down and whips it in a circle. To defeat him, the player must hit him several times and he will spit out three ice canisters. Sonic needs to pick up one of them and throw it at him, and he will be frozen he can be hit until he loses some of his life and the player takes a third off his health bar, causing Sonic to fall off the platform. This must be done three times to defeat him.

Xbox360/PS3
At the beginning if the fight, Dark Moray puts up a shield to protect himself. To remove it, Sonic must defeat smaller versions of himself, using the ice canisters resulting from the broken ice while Dark Moray shoots balls of ice at the player. After the shield is down, Sonic must attach to the ledge of the platform, climb up on it, break open one of the ice balls, grab a canister, and freeze him, then hit one of the glowing green spots to damage him. The third hit is a little harder, as Sonic must wait for him to slam his head down before freezing him so the player can hit his head. After the third hit, victory ensues.

Trivia

 * The miniature eels that appear in this battle are very similar to the Dark Eels.
 * The Dark Moray is in a way similar to Chaos 6 in the sense that in both boss battles the player throws ice containers at both bosses to freeze them.
 * It is possible to attack the miniature eels without using the canisters, but doing so is very hard and the eels may damage the player.