Chapter 4 - Revenge
Shadows heart was beating out of his chest.
"Why the hell would Knuckles do that?" he thought to himself.
"I need to find him, sooner rather than later."
He ran around what felt like the entire city, before he ran into a familiar face.
"Shadow? Is that really you?" Sonic called out.
"Fuck. The last thing I need right now is the Faker getting in my way." Shadow thought to himself.
"Yeah, it's me, I don't really have time for chit-chat. Get out of my damn way." Shadow yelled. He was getting heated again, just looking at his rival made his insides boil.
Sonic tilted his head "What's the rush?" he said smirking.
"I'm looking for the echidna, and when I find him, he will suffer my wrath." Shadow was glowing, a red mist could be seen coming off his fur. The fire in his eyes grew every passing second.
"You know I can't let you kill him Shadow, he's one of us."
Shadow locked eyes with the blue hedgehog, then took a deep breath. "If you won't move, I'll move you myself. CHAOS SPEAR."
The bolt knocked sonic back, he wasn't expecting Shadow to actually attack him. Before he could even lift a finger, Shadow began unloading on the blue hedgehog. Sonic had fought Shadow before, but he'd never seen him this mad. It only lasted seconds, but poor Sonic looked as if he had been beaten all night.
"Next time, stay out of my way, Faker." Shadow claimed, standing with a leg on the blue hedgehog. He stepped over him, kicking him one last time before heading towards the master emerald. Sonic couldn't even muster the strength to lift his head…
Minutes passed, Shadow arrived at the master emerald, it had begun to rain. Knuckles, sitting on top of the stairs that led to the emerald, stood and glanced down at the figure in the dark.
"Need some company Sonic?" Knuckles chuckled.
Not a word.
"Hey, buddy? You okay down there?"
Still, nothing. Lightning lit up the sky, revealing Shadows red quills. Knuckles was frozen, the rain dripping off Shadow, his eyes beginning to flame up and light up the darkness. Lightning flashed again, and poof, Shadow had vanished.
"Wha- what the hell? I gotta stop drinking." Knuckles said to himself.
There was a loud crack, and before he knew it, Knuckles found himself flying down the stairs, landing head first in the mud. The rain fell harder. He gained himself for a moment then glanced up, Shadows glowing red eyes looking right at him.
"Holy shit." Knuckles breathed, and stood up.
"What's this about Shadow? You disappear for awhile and the first then you do when you get back is pick a fight with me? What's the big idea!?"
Shadow only stared, his eyes grew brighter, his quills began to light up, he was so angry he could have snapped Knuckles right there and nobody could've stopped him. His entire body was shaking from pure anger. The mist around shadow grew brighter as well.
"You… you have no idea how bad you just fucked up, Knuckles." Shadow clenched his fist.
Knuckles looked as if he were about to say something, then sucker punched the ebony hedgehog. Shadow rolled a few times before coming to a stop, he looked up, his eyes went from fiery orange to pure red. He began teleporting, beating Knuckles senseless.
"Shadow… p- p- please man. Stop." Knuckles cried out.
Shadow stopped for a split second, then picked him up by the throat.
"Did you stop when Rouge begged you to, you piece of shit?"
"That's what this is about? You got feeling for that whore -"
Before he could finish his sentence, Shadow's grip grew tighter and tighter around the echidna's neck. "How long have you been hurting her asshole? She trusted you, and you repay her by getting drunk and beating her, or lashing out when she talks to other men?"
Knuckles was turning purple, he couldn't even get a word out at this point.
"Stop, Shadow please!" Yelled a familiar voice. He let go and turned around to see none other than Rouge herself standing in the storm. Immediately, Shadow's anger level decreased. His eyes were no longer glowing red hot and he was no longer bloodthirsty looking at her.
"Rouge, what're you doing here?" Shadow asked, confused. "You should be home, getting rest."
"Shad, step away from him, you beat the hell out of him, he can't even walk for god sake! I get what he did was bad, but hon, don't kill him over it."
Shadow sat there for a moment, glaring at her, she wasn't even wearing a jacket in the rain. She held her arms crossed, she was shivering.
He looked down at Knuckles. "Ever touch her again, and I swear, even she won't be able to save you." He walked towards Rouge and took off his jacket and handed it to her.
"Put it on, you'll get sick and freeze to death out here. Let's get you home." He said as he grabbed her arm, she nodded, then he caused Chaos Control.