HAPPY THANKSGIVING, PEEPS. Today's the day to pig out on turkey and gravey and bond with family members! What a nice holiday indeed.
But I'm not here for that, I'm here to deliver the new chapter of Darkness and Light before I myself fall into a turkey inducing coma.
I have a feeling that I threw Shadow and Rouge characters out the window while writing this. So I guess I'll be needed a Beta reader sometime soon...
But anyway, this rating go's up because of Shadow's somewhat dirty mouth and Rouge's lack of caring. I also don't own Sega so don't even think about suing me.
Today's Saying: There was never an angry man that thought his anger was unjust~St. Frances De Sales.
He shook his head in an attempt to keep his eyes open, not having slept for the last couple of days. He seemed to be doing that a lot more often since three years ago when Sonic had gone missing. It was just an odd occurrence that he blamed unabashed on Sonic and partly to himself. The sound of a door opening echoed through the room he was in and Rouge stepped through, a worried look on her face that she didn't bother hiding. She hated what Shadow was doing to himself.
"When are you going to stop this? Can't you see how bad you're screwing yourself up? If you don't change something soon, GUN's going to fire you." Rouge had crossed her arms under her breast, pushing them up slightly and leaned against a table covered with random bits of papers, coffee mugs and bowls. Shadow glared at her until Rouge felt like he had her under an intense spot light.
"You know perfectly well that GUN hates me and I them. I could care less if they fired me, they would actually be doing me a favor." Shadow lowered himself onto a chair and brought a mug of stale, cold coffee to his lips before shuddering in disgust and sat the mug down gently and continued staring at Rouge.
"So to what do I owe to this sudden visit?" Rouge scowled while moving over closer to Shadow.
"Don't you think you've tortured yourself enough with this wild goose chase? If we can't find him after three years, he's either hiding or he's…" Rouge paused quickly; the thought made her lose her momentum for her argument and clogged her throat with emotion. "I-if we haven't found him now, he's most likely dead." Shadow whipped his head around and glared daggers at her.
"How can someone like Sonic disappear without a trace? Don't you see how strange it is that no one can find a scrape of hair of him? How can an entire planet lose track of its hero?" Shadow had begun to shake with rage at the thought. How can someone like Sonic just disappear without anyone knowing?
Rouge hung her head, she had this conversation with Shadow hundreds of times and Shadow had yet to change his option throughout the years. She knew that is she didn't get him off this track, he would continue it for years to come while wasting years of his life for his search.
"I don't know how either Shadow, but I think Sonic would have gained some talent for disappearing after all of his fangirls. I don't think you realize that Sonic could be living a settled life. Maybe if he's alive, he just doesn't want to be found." Shadow shuffled papers slowly while Rouge went on with her dialogue, growing slightly angry as she got to the fangirls.
"I did take that into account. But you fail to remember that Sonic is a very social person, he wouldn't just disappear from his friends like that without saying something. It goes against his nature along with his morals."
"People change. Maybe Sonic did and decided to stop being a hero." Shadow paused and stared, his eyes like fire, at Rouge's.
"Then you obviously didn't know him well. Sonic's life went around being a hero." Rouge growled at Shadow and went to the door that she had come through, stomping with force as she went.
"Damn it Shadow! I don't know why I try anymore, you obviously can't get over the fact that he's gone and most likely dead to boot. Why can't you move on like the rest of us?" Rouge screamed the last line, her wings standing out and shaking with her emotion and anger. She tucked in her wings before she realized that was a very bad thing to say at the time.
Shadow had frozen at her words, his hands gripped the edge of his desk and were starting to leave an imprint of his fingers, his eyes were closed and his breath became labored as he tried to swallow the rising rage he felt. He began to quiver and took a deep breath before looking at Rouge. His eyes boiling over with emotion.
Shadow stood up slowly and crossed lazy over to the scared bat, his head low and his feet dragged. He paused inches in front of her face before looking up and quickly pinning her to the door. His arm was quivering as his hand tightened around her neck.
"You want me to move on…? Move on like you did? Like Tails? Like that pink monster and your thickheaded echidna? You want me to move on…LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?" Shadow screamed into Rouge's sensitive ears which caused her to flinch and shrink away from the raging hedgehog.
"How can I move on when everyone else didn't even pause when they did? You only searched for five months before quitting with your echidna! Tails looked for over a year before moving on! And Amy! That fucking AMY!" Shadow ripped his hand away from Rouge and punched the wall next to her and leaving a large hole where his fist made contact.
"Amy, the one who said that she loved Sonic more then anything, moved on after a month. A month Rouge, before she went off chasing another guy. She was all act and no emotion. Tails was the only one who made an effort to find him at all." Shadow glanced at Rouge before returning to his chair and glaring at his papers.
"You never told me why you came over yet." Rouge's eyes landed on Shadow's bowed head. She rubbed her throat while looking over at the hole that was close to her head.
"Tails wanted you to come over to a get together he's holding. He says that it's a year since he saw most of us. I-I'll tell him that you're not going…" Rouge started to open the door before Shadow cut her off.
"If I go, will you stop bothering me with your failed attempts to make me stop?" Rouge stood there dumbly before nodding. She really didn't want a repeat of what just happened.
"Good, now get the fuck out. I don't need your ideals messing with my search."
As Rouge left the building she couldn't help but wonder why Shadow was searching so hard…and why he hated Amy more then he hated GUN.
####Somewhere###
Pain…I feel it every day. Why, why do they do this to me? Did I do something wrong? Why are they hurting me like this? Don't they know I'm a living creature like them?
They promise they'll let me go if I tell them about my clan, my whole life, my secrets. But, if I do, I'll endanger everyone I know, what's left of my family. Why couldn't I have died that night? Just be nothing but a lifeless corpse, alone with no one to bother me. Why did I run…?
My friends, what friends? I've seen them on TV, heard them on the radio. Happy with their lives, not knowing that I'm here and in pain. But one looks, one of my 'fake' friends. The last person I thought to look for me. My real friends, the ones who I've known the longest, are angry. Please don't there be a war simply because of the way I'm being treated. I'm nothing to the ruler of my clan, why would she agree to this?
They try to sooth me, saying that it was going to happen sooner or later. But I know. I know two of the three sides will fall. The humans will surely be wiped out, they don't stand a chance.
And it's all my fault.
Alright, I'm sorry about the lenght but I thought it ended there well enough. Anyway R&R and ENJOY THAT TURKEY!
