Chapter One
Shadow
Shadow pushed himself up off the grassy ground with all the strength he could muster. He wiped the blood trickling from his mouth, staring deep into his opponent's glowing, feral green eyes. He was dizzy, from the loss of blood, and from the powerful attack of his vampiric opponent. "Given up yet, Shads?" said the vampire hedgehog with a mocking tone and a grin upon his face.
"Don't call me that!" shouted Shadow, enraged. He felt his limbs burning up. I have to figure out how to defeat him. I have to get that Chaos Emerald. "Shadow, I know you can do it! Use Chaos Blast!" shouted Amy Rose encouragingly from high up in a tree, safe from the fighting down below. Shadow looked up at Amy, then back down to his fierce opponent, waiting for Shadow to make his move. He knew that the hedgehog could predict his next move, so he charged at the hedgehog, building up as much energy as he could. "Chaos Sp-" He had hit some sort of invisible barrier. How is that possible?
He fell back onto the grassy floor of the jungle, listening to Amy's screams and the vampire's evil, metallic laughs. He attempted to get up, just to see the vampire running towards him, fangs bared. He felt a sharp piercing pain in the back of his neck, blood rushing out, before blacking out. Then everything went red. It was like a nightmare. The same familiar scene, known only to Shadow.
Flashback
Shadow was running down the long curving dark corridor, with the young, bubbly, 12-year-old, blond girl, Maria. They were escaping the soldiers behind them, sure to be close. But they were only after Shadow. Maria was innocent. He knows this brings back bad thoughts; he's using it against me. I can't fight back though. I think I'm going to die. Thoughts rushed through Shadow's head. He heard a gunshot, so loud he almost thought it was real. The gunshot that, so many years ago, killed the only person he loved.
End of Flashback
He tried to think of other things, such as retrieving the Chaos Emerald. It was no use. The vampire had got the better of Shadow. He screamed out for all the emotional pain, the physical pain seemed unimportant now. He was coming back around now, he could hear Amy's sobbing and screaming "Nooooooo!" as she watched him being tortured ruthlessly by the vampire, she was too young, only 12, to witness the things Shadow was going through. "Well, I'm bored of this now. But I'll be back, don't worry, Shadow!" taunted the vampire, flying off through the towering trees. Everything was falling into darkness and he still hadn't retrieved the Chaos Emerald.