Fear
By:Shadowluz07
Chapter One: The Run

"A darkened sky
The day that laughter died
Fell swiftly into night

Graveside I cry
Please save me from this hell I know."
-Suicide and Other Comforts by Cradle of Filth

Five children were running for their lives. Where their shoes were blurry in sight and their signs of stopping were nowhere visible. 'Keep running! Don't stop! Just keep running' were the words that ran with them as their hearts beated harder. The youngest of the group were the slowest and the most tired. The eldest ones risked their lives the rescue the young. Shadow promised a secret rescue, but Sonic believed it had taken too long. The pain was unbearable enough to leave them with nightmares of both fantasy and reality. Where will these children go? With an angry man chasing them with a large shot gun, a psychotic woman with red eyes skipping over to them, and a pack of mad wolves after them. But the children couldn't stop. No! They knew that the worst thing than the bullet wound or murder was much worse than what they were to be expected to experience in the worn down farmhouse.

Shadow was in the military base of G.U.N. which is where he was employed in. He had been in this line of work for a while and wasn't aware of this tragedy until a while later. He discovered this incident on July 24 when the sky poured water and the moon was hidden by the clouds. The ebony hedgehog's fur was soaked when he received the call from a payphone nearby. Red eyes faced the vibrating phone that rang like crazy. Somehow, he sensed it was urgent to answer it. So when his ear touched the black tip, a static was heard over heaving voice of fear. This left the ultimate life confused. "Hello?" he questioned. Suddenly, he recognized the voice of the caller. It was Sonic crying for mercy; enough as if asking for his last breath. This is what went through the call.

"Shadow! Help me! I'm in—"

"In where? What's going on Sonic?"

"He's after us! He's going to kill me! They already killed Cream! Save us Shadow! Please!"

"Where are you?!"

"I don't know! Trace the call or something! I'm scared Shadow… I'm scared, we're all in danger!"

"Who's going to kill you? Hello?"

"HE'S COMING AFTER US! CRAP! HELP ME SHADOW! AH!"

The line was cut off. "Hello? HELLO?" the angry hedgehog slammed the phone back. "SHIT!" he hollered. He kicked the wall with rage and walked back into the base. But Shadow could not come into the base with the story of a friend being in trouble. They only cared if it was a mate or wife that was in peril. If he admitted his relationship with the blue blur, he might be refused of service because of the diversity in sexual orientation were being straight men.

Or so we think… The soldiers saw his face enraged with vengeance and everyone knew something was wrong. "Can we assist you in anything?" asked the General. Shadow blinked twice and nodded "No." he wasn't very caring I guess. "I can manage this situation on my own." Or maybe he does care. The General nodded back to the hedgehog. "Understood; Permission granted with no questions asked." This was strange; usually the general didn't permit this until he knew what the issue was. Could he just have been lucky? Shadow left with a smirk plastered on his face and dashed over to his cot for supplies.

Meanwhile, Sonic ran for his life past the corn field with Amy; who was getting tired and was later brought into her hero's arms. Behind them were Knuckles and Rouge; who tried to get Tails to hurry up. The wild dogs paced revoltingly after them. Their saliva drooled out about a gallon amount each day. But the farmers mixed it with some really old extracts and poisons to weaken the victims. Soon, the fox grew tired of running. His legs could carry him no further and as a result he stopped. The two beings widened their eyes for they knew far too well that stopping was a sin in this case.

You are supposed to run the people out until they stopped chasing you if you want to escape alive. "GET UP TAILS!" Knuckles yelled at the twin tailed fox. Rouge and the echidna stopped to assist the young one. The wolves were closing in at about 10 meters away from their dinner. "Sonic! They stopped! They stopped!" Amy cried as she looked in back of her crush's way. Green eyes looked back. He halted at his position, "No! What are they doing?!" The sounds of dogs were on high mixed with those of the crazy couple. The blur dashed back to his pal and looked at him. The poor fox was exhausted and was lying on the cool wet grass.

"We have to go! Come on!" Sonic pushed his friend to standing up. "I'm tired..." Tails replied back as he laid on the grass. Red eyed dogs growled, for they were now visible to their sight. Aqua irises with black pupils noticed their presence, "I'll carry him! The dogs are over there!" Rouge pointed out with her finger and held the fox close as she spread her wings out. Seeing that Tails was taken care of, Sonic was going to keep running, until a dark arm grabbed him and the other that resembled it; held a shot gun and the blue one's head came into contact with the wood-like bottom.