Shades of Vengeance

Chapter 1

It was midnight in Tech City, the full moon hung in the pitch black sky and coated the quiet city with a silvery light. On the roof of a tall building was a black rabbit with grey hair, staring silently at the city, his coat blowing in the wind, 'She's still out there.' he thought, 'Even though I've killed dozens of them, the one I'm after still lives.' He thought back to when he was a child, back to that fateful day.

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The sun had gone down not long ago, in a house in the country, a white female rabbit frantically chased after a small black rabbit with a puff of grey hair on his head, "Shade, come back here, it's bed time."

"No, I don't wanna go to bed!" cried the little rabbit as he ran into another room. Suddenly he was grabbed and picked up by a tall jet black male rabbit, "Come on little man, if you don't go to bed you'll be sleeping all day tomorrow, and then I won't be able to play soccer with you."

Shade sighed, "Okay fine, I'll go to bed."

"That's my boy." said Shade's father as he carried him into a small bedroom. Shade climbed into bed and looked over at his parents standing in the doorway, "Goodnight son." said his father.

"Night dad."

"We love you." said his mother.

"Love you too." Shade's parents then turned off his light and walked out of the room.

Later, Shade woke up as a loud crash echoed through the house. He got out of bed and wandered out into the dark corridor. As Shade ventured further down the corridor he felt something wet on his feet, but it was too dark to see what it was. He wiped some of the strange fluid off of his feet and strained his eyes to see what it was, just then he walked into something and kicked it. It was soft, warm and wet. Shade struggled against the darkness to make out what it was. Suddenly a flash of lightning outside illuminated the room for a split second, and what Shade saw horrified him; the object he had kicked was the blood soaked corpse of a tall black rabbit.

After the flash of lightning, the room had been plunged into darkness again, but Shade remained still, motionless with his eyes fixed on where he saw his father's body. Finally Shade reached up and flicked a light switch that was on the wall next to him, and then he saw that the strange liquid he had been walking on was his father's blood. Shade struggled not to gag at the thought, but he couldn't hold back his tears. His father lay motionless on the floor, his lifeless eyes stared at the ceiling, his shirt was covered in blood which had apparently poured out from his neck.

Shade sobbed for a while, until he heard something in the next room, maybe his mother was safe from whatever had happened. Shade ran into the other room, hoping his mother would be there to comfort him and make it alright, but instead he saw something which terrified him even more then the sight of his dead father; standing in the other room was a white wolf with long black hair, Shade froze in the doorway when he saw what the wolf was doing; she was holding Shade's lifeless mother, and biting her neck.

At this point Shade couldn't take it anymore, he cried out, the wolf jumped back and turned to see what was making the noise. Shade ran at the wolf and tried to hit her, but she grabbed him by the neck and slammed him against the wall. The wolf watched as Shade struggled against her grip and cried, "You're not even worth my time." she said, "You'll not satisfy me." she then threw Shade against a wall, knocking him out.

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"That night, my life was changed forever." said Shade, "Now I have a purpose, a reason for living; I must hunt down and destroy all those monstrous creatures, one by one, until I find the one who murdered my parents….that night, she signed her own death warrant when she spared me….Devina."

"Devina!" shouted Val, "How many times have I told you not to bring your 'leftovers' back here?" Val looked down and the dead body of a young woman lying near the front door to their hideout, "Oh come on, like you never forget stuff." said Devina as she hung from the high ceiling.

"I forget little things, when you forget stuff it usually puts us at risk!"

"You're saying you never put us at risk? What about the other night when you lost on Super Smash Bros Melee? You flipped out, half the street could hear you, we could've gotten caught."

"Well that wasn't my fault, my character wouldn't do what I was telling him."

"Shut the fuck up!!" shouted Jasmine, who had been standing a few feet away. Devina and Val both fell deathly silent, "Look, Devina, you do need to be more careful. Val quit wining, you forget stuff just as much as Devina does. God, I've had it up to here with you two arguing!" Jasmine stormed off and left Val and Devina, who dropped down and landed next to Val. The two then helped each other to carry the dead woman into an ally outside and dumped her down a manhole into the sewer.

When they re-entered the hideout they heard Jasmine shouting and quickly ran into a room with a couch, games consoles and a large TV, standing in the middle of the room staring at the TV was Jasmine, "What the Hell's going on?" asked Val.

"Look at this." said Jasmine as she turned the volume on the TV up, on the screen was a light blue rabbit in a Kung Fu robe being handed a certificate by Sarah Wish.

"Is that…Roxy?" asked Val

"Yeah, she's being awarded for being the single greatest martial artist in Tech City." replied Jasmine.

"Roxy? Isn't she your brother's girlfriend?" asked Devina.

"Yeah, she's Gabe's girl." answered Val

"The same girl who wants to kill you?"

"Yep."

Just then Jasmine's cell phone rang, she took it out of her pocket and pressed a button before holding it to her ear, "Hello?" she paused for a second and then handed the phone to Val, "It's Shadow."

Val held the phone to his ear, "Yeah?"

"Hey Val, seen the News?" said Shadow

"Yeah, this isn't good."

"Tell me about it. She's doing all that so she can get you y'know."

"Tell me something I don't know."

"Well if you guys ever want a safer place to stay, just ask."

"Thanks Shadow, we appreciate it."

Suddenly there was a loud crash and Val could hear the Chaotix fighting something, then the line went dead.

Val ran over to a cupboard and opened it, revealing all manner of weapons. He took out a Katana sword and hung it over his shoulder, "What's going on?" asked Jasmine

"We've gotta get to the Chaotix."