Later that night, Shadow was relaxing, lying in an armchair and watching his favourite show. After what happened that day, he needed a little time to relax. He tried to forget about it, but the more he tried, the more it burned on his mind. "How could I have let that happen? I should have been a little more careful. Still, what if Serena really had been in trouble, would I have been able to turn my back on her? I guess it was something about her deep, beautif......." He slapped the back of his head, surprised at what he was about to think of. He almost laughed out loud, thinking the idea was crazy. Besides, he was an MI6 spy and she was a Scorpia assassin, the two of them were sworn enemies, and nothing was probably going to change that. His dad had gotten up to answer a knock on the door. He watched as he left the room, then waited for a few seconds. His dad came in again, saying it was for Shadow. Shadow asked who it was, and his dad answered "Some girl called Selena or Serena." Shadow's eyes widened as he rushed to the door. There she was, still wearing the same clothes from earlier. He didn't even get a chance to speak, for she dragged him outside, obviously worried about something. Before he could ask, she had already started explaining "Listen to me, Scorpia may have planted a bomb at your house. You need to get inside and warn your parents before......." she was cut off by a sudden loud bang from back at the house.
Before they knew it, the bomb Serena had tried to warn him about had gone off, a fireball consuming the house as it blew apart. The explosion hit them instantly, both of them almost blown away by the blast. A piece of debris, sent flying by the explosion, flew towards Serena with tremendous speed. Before she saw it, Shadow dived at her, pushing her to the ground just as the debris flew past his head, mere inches from his neck. The two of them got up quickly, moving away from the explosion. As they ran, the Scorpia agents who planted the bomb saw them, instantly recognising what had happened. Serena had warned Shadow, which meant she had betrayed Scorpia, and that was something punished through death, and there were no exceptions, even if they were only fourteen.
The two of them stopped at the end of the street, still watching the smoke from the inferno they had just left. Shadow watched in horror as his entire life went up with the smoke and flames into the night. He knew there was no hope for his parents, and that he had been saved by someone who had tried to kill him just hours before. His head was spinning full of questions, and he needed some answers. He turned around to talk to Serena, only to find she had disappeared. He looked around in time to see two men drag her, kicking and screaming, into the back of a van. He was tempted to just walk off and leave her, but he knew it wouldn't only make him any better than a Scorpia assassin. "I hope I don't regret this," he said as he ran after the van. To anyone watching from the streets, it would look like a brave, ambitious effort to catch a moving van, but to anyone who knew, Shadow hadn't just been named after Shadow the Hedgehog for nothing, for not only did he look like him, he also had a similar little trick. He was wearing air shoes, and the moment they activated, his speed greatly increased. The drivers could see him, looking over a console between them. The passenger pushed one of the buttons, activating one of the defences.
Shadow watched in surprise as the road ahead of him seemed littered with small bombs. He passed a few inches near one, skating faster to dodge the chain reaction of explosions. The driver looked back, seeing the cloud of smoke from the explosions, thinking they were home free. The smile was wiped from his face, for out of the smoke, Shadow came skating through. The passenger pushed another button, covering the road with a puddle of oil. With the push of another button, a machine gun prepared to fire. Shadow moved onto the oil, finding it hard to keep control. When he finally gained control, he put one foot in front of the other, keeping the heel of the skate off the ground to propel him along the oil spill. He heard the machine gun fire, sliding to the left to dodge the stream of bullets. As they came onto a bridge, he noticed a railing nearby, sliding towards it. He ran along the footpath, dodging the bullets that fired from the van. He leapt onto the rail, twisting in the air for extra speed. It didn't take him long to escape the van's firing range, somersaulting onto the van's roof with ease. As he landed, his foot caught on the side of the van, making him fall forward and almost fly off the roof. He grabbed on, trying to pull himself back up. The van accelerated, trying to throw him off, but he still held on.
As he held on, he thought about why he was doing this. His parents were dead, his home was destroyed, and there were people who wanted to kill him. He was about to let go, thinking there would be nothing left for him, but something in his mind stirred. He remembered how Serena was the one to thank for him being alive right now, and that she was in danger. He started pulling himself onto the roof, using his air shoes to push himself forward. He landed in the centre of the roof, pushing a button on his shoes to make blades appear on the bottom. He executed a spinning kick, keeping his foot on the roof as he spun, slicing through the van roof. When he finally cut through, he stomped the where he had just stood, causing that part of the roof to fall. He jumped inside, finding Serena lying there, her hands tied behind her back. With her were the boys who had attacked him, almost ready to kick her. They turned around, one of them leaping at Shadow. Shadow dodged him easily, striking him in the back of the neck. He fell limp, and with him down, Shadow leapt between the two that remained, landing on his hands and as he leapt to his feet, he kicked both of them in the chin, knocking one of them into the van doors. Serena watched as Shadow used the blade in his air shoe to cut the rope, setting her free. Before they could say a word, Shadow grabbed her, activating his air shoes and flying into the night.
The van's driver had heard the fight in the back, and had seen Shadow fly off carrying Serena. Though he was high in the air, the driver still had one trick left, pushing the remaining button. This fired a small rocket from the van's roof, homing in on Shadow as he flew away. Shadow had heard the rocket take off, and could see it coming up behind him. Worse, there had been additional rockets fired at the same time, each of them half the height of Shadow. Shadow started flying faster, making Serena hold on tighter. With every manoeuvre he pulled off, the rockets easily kept up, always creeping closer. As Shadow was about to fly away from the river below him, the rockets seemed to speed up, not hitting them, but exploding right beside them. Serena let go, both of them falling faster and faster towards the river. Despite the fact they would probably either fall or drown to their deaths, the van had stopped, the driver and passenger each producing a sniper rifle. They fired, aiming right at Shadow and Serena. The bullets missed their chests, but one of them his Shadow in the stomach area, just barely missing any vital organs. The bullet intended for Serena had hit her in the same area. She blacked out as she hit the water, only being able to feel the water surround her as she fell to the river bed. She would have ended up there, unable to feel or stop herself drowning, but someone pulled her to shore. That person was Shadow, and as he fell to the ground in exhaustion, she woke up. Barely strong enough, she asked "You could have left me. Why did you save me after what I did to you?" Shadow smiled reassuringly, saying "I'm not like Scorpia. Unlike them, I can forget, and I can forgive." The two of them got up, walking along the shore.
While all this was happening, the people sent to kill Shadow and Serena had returned to Scorpia's London headquarters, reporting in what had happened. The person in charge didn't take the news well, but he still had a backup plan, speaking into a microphone. He smiled, for he knew that by tomorrow, even MI6 couldn't help Shadow and Serena. As the two of them walked, Shadow and Serena got a feeling of dread. They both knew Scorpia assassins were thorough, and they both knew what contacts Scorpia had. They had a feeling that now, not even MI6 could help them. It would be just them against the entire world. And somehow, they knew who would win, and it wouldn't be Scorpia. In fact, Scorpia would soon regret messing with them, for they were both born as Children of the dragon spirit, and they would discover what that meant soon enough.