This is chapter 4, thanks for reading.
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Chapter 4: Accused and Arrested; Shadow's going to Jail.
Amy stirred around oil in a hot frying pan as she got two eggs ready for breakfast. Sizzling sounds filled the air as Shadow sat quietly on the sofa trying to think. Amy cracked open the two eggs and dropped them into the pan, while Shadow sat on the sofa quietly and still.
"Shadow, are you hungry?" Amy asked from the kitchen.
"No." Shadow shifted in his seat waiting for time to pass. An abrupt bang was heard on the front door. Amy opened the door.
"Sonic? Hey, uh...What are you doing here so early?" She asked. Sonic allowed himself in once he got a glimpse of Shadow sitting on the sofa.
"What are YOU doing here?" Shadow asked softly.
"I could say the same for you." Sonic walked to the stand besides the sofa and grabbed the remote.
"Have you checked the news lately?" Sonic asked Amy.
"Not since yesterday," Amy replied looking at the television set. Sonic turned the television on and set it to the news channel.
"Just watch." He said, then crossed his arms and gave Shadow a heavy glare. Shadow just stood still wearing a stoic face.
"And in more news, a young woman was found dead in her apartment yesterday. Mary Wilson, age twenty-two was a waitress at the Westopolis Tea Lunge. She was last seen leaving the Tea Lunge at about 9 o'clock at night. If you know anything having to do with her murder please call this number-" Sonic shut the television set off.
"That was the same woman that served us at the lounge, the same woman that you caught your little 'attitude' with."
"Oh really, so am I the suspect?" Shadow asked.
"No, you're the killer."
Shadow jumped off the sofa, "I didn't lay one hand on her!"
"Sonic, yesterday-" Amy was cut off.
"Nothing happen Amy." Shadow hushed her.
"What happened yesterday?" Sonic began getting impatient.
"Nothing, I had nothing to do with her death."
"Oh yea I really believe your demonic ass." Sonic said with anger building in his throat.
"There's no fucking evidence on me!"
"Yes there is you bastard! Just now you hushed Amy for what? For fucking what!" Sonic pushed Shadow down on the sofa.
"Don't you dare...Put your filthy hands on me!" Shadow swung a heavy punch to Sonic's face, hitting him dead in the cheek. Sonic head fell back but he forced it back to face Shadow with an angry glare capable of burning a forest. Sonic grabbed Shadow by the shoulders and kneed him in the stomach, but Shadow grabbed Sonic's knee the second time and forced it back so Sonic can loose his balance. He then wrapped his arms around him and rammed him into a wall.
"Hey stop it you two!" Amy pulled the two apart. Shadow pulled back and Amy stepped in front of him just in case Sonic would try something back. Sonic pried himself of the wall and dusted some sheetrock dust off his shoulders.
"I know you had something to do with this, Shadow two people are dead, and you-mind you that you lie horribly- know what's going on. If you don't talk, I'm gonna' get rough, even more than what happen just now...Amy if you don't tell me what is going on soon, you're gonna' end up going down with him., and I don't want that." With that Sonic left the house with a heavy door slam behind him. Shadow just remained silent.
"Like he ever cared...See, with you two fighting, now I have a gigantic whole in my wall." Amy grabbed her dust pan and broom and started sweeping up the dust and pieces of sheetrock on her floor.
"Look, I'm sorry about your wall. You can tell Sonic whatever you need to so you won't get in trouble." He said while helping her pick up the large pieces that were on the floor.
"Its okay, I don't think Sonic thinks that I did something illegal, let alone kill someone." She smiled. He walked and dropped the pieces in the garbage. Amy followed with the smaller particles in the dust pan.
"Don't worry Shadow." She gave him another assuring smile.
Later on Shadow was walking around Central Westopolis watching all the people carefully that walked passed him. It was around two-thirty in the morning, so the only people around were drag queens, and a bunch of dirty whores walking around the street for a 'job'. He adjusted his shades and stuffed his hands in his pocket. A whistle was heard from behind him.
"Hey baby, I'd really like to be with you tonight hun." A deep voice called as a woman walked up to him. The cheap perfume that overcame his nose stung like hell, and she was just as tall as him, with large breast that overflowed the blue shiny chandelier-looking shirt and pink feathered scarf around her neck. It was plain and obvious that this girl was a guy. Shadow walked around this guy and kept on his trail.
"Hey sexy I'm talking to you." He...Or she...Called back at him. Shadow shook his head in shame for these poor fools hanging around the street. He turned the corner of this dark gothic night. It seemed so different at night, as if someone switched on the evil at night, then turned it off like a light switch. A few girls with cigarettes stared at him with dirty lust in their eyes.
"Hey, do you wanna' ride this?" One of them called. He took a dark glimpse at them with his blood red eyes, through the heavy darkened shades resting the bridge of his snout. He walked over to them and stared in their eyes.
"...You interested?" She asked with a brow raised.
"You're...So young." He said. it was true, the girl was no older than Amy Rose, but this girl was 'grown', the streets, selling herself. Her red bangs fell over her large rabbit brown eyes, and her hair was blown out in layers. She wore a skin tight black leather skirt, and a crossed front laced V-neck halter top. She wore knee-high boots with six inch heels making her reach to Shadow's snout. Her furry ears were pierced at least three times in each ear and her black wet nose had a small diamond piercing.
"Age ain't nothin but a number sugah', so how 'bout it, I run for about fifty a night." She said. He shook his head.
"You girls are a waste of life, you don't even deserve to live." He said before walking off.
It was about three o'clock in the morning before Shadow heard anything that was actually suspicious. A bang made its way to his ears from this dark alley adjacent to his body. He walked into the alley keeping his ears sensitive for anything suspicious...Even for the dark-perverted nights like these. He looked around, but the only things there were garbage bins with burned newspapers, drugs, and just junk. A door was to the left with a dim lit light above it. Graffiti crawled up the door and onto the painted-chipped brick walls. The other side was the wall from the abandoned building besides it, also infested with graffiti. Shadow walked deeper into the dark alley.
"Hmm..." He twitched his ears left and right, and then made a heavy face. What was it that I heard? He took one more step. A loud bang echoed in the alley as a large pain took over his chest; it felt as if someone shot his breath. A small hole appeared in the brick wall in front of him. He looked down at his chest and a small ring of blood drew itself around a darker hole in his shirt. Knowing it was a gun shot, Shadow through himself over to the right and turned around fast to see the wielder of the gun. It was the young prostitute girl, with a 9mm Cougar in her possession.
"You can't just keep running Shadow." She said ominously. Right then Shadow knew that this wasn't the girl he had met earlier, and he knew she was already dead.
"Why don't you just attack me with you're own God-damn face?" He said with a haughty smug look growing in his smile.
"Oh I can't." She said.
"Why not?"
"Someone's got it." She said with an evil grin growing from ear to ear, as she picked up her revolver and shot her second shot. Shadow dodged the bullet and lunged towards the girl. He then side stepped from the third bullet and grabbed her armed hand. With a couple of twist and tugs she was on the ground with her arm bent behind her. Shadow held her hand close and with a lock of hair entangled in his fingers he held her head up to his.
"Listen...Shayde...If you want to fight, stop the nonsense killings and just come to me."
"Ohh." She chuckled, "you are nasty, you should have just said yes and fucked me in a bed or something." He smashed her face to the ground, only more laughs came from the girl. He got up and stood his ground. The girl's body began to take another shape. Shadow jumped back and watched the girl's body change shape into the waitress Mary. She got up slowly and grabbed the Cougar and fired more shots. Click. Click.
"Out of ammo?" Shadow asked rhetorically before punching a gut blow to the waitress.
"Hardly," She quickly reloaded and jammed the gun in Shadow's stomach and took her shot. Shadow dropped to the floor with blood now surfacing from two bullet shots. He coughed up blood and spat it on the floor.
"Cheap shot," He pulled himself up and turned to the waitress. Sirens echoed the whole alley and streets of the dark city.
"Fuck...Cops." Shadow muttered to himself. The waitress ran and pushed Shadow into the wall before escaping from the police's arrival. Shadow gripped both the wounds and soon after jetted himself.
Amy tossed in her bed a couple of times after being annoyed by a heavy consistent banging on her door. She woke up groggily and groped around the walls for the light switch in her room. The light burned her eyes as she checked the time...four-thirty AM. Again, the banging on her door ceased to end. She walked to the door and unlocked it. She opened the door only to meet a painstaking hedgehog.
"S-Shadow? Why are you here so early in the morning?" She asked allowing him to come in. He did not answer instead he just made his way in and leaned on a wall. She closed the door leaving the two of them in darkness in her living room. She saw the silhouette of his body kneel down to the floor, and as if it was some sort of signal she ran and turned the light on.
"Shadow are you okay? What happened?" She said trying to pry his hands from his chest. He looked up at her, and as if it was a bullet that hit her, she could almost sense the pain he was in. He slowly moved his hands allowing her to see his bullet wounds. She shrieked and held her hands at her mouth in utter shock. She helped him up and walked him to the sofa. She laid him down gingerly and slowly peeled his shirt off the two wounds. Not trained in any medicinal fields she grabbed a cool wet rag and began patting the wounds.
"I have some alcohol, peroxide and cotton balls." She whispered and with that she ran into the bathroom. Shadow sighed; he knew very well that the cops were going to go after him in the morning. Amy came back with some medications. She kneeled down and began opening the bottles and packets of cotton balls. She patted around the wound.
"What happened?" She whimpered.
"I got shot...Twice." He grunted.
"You'll be okay." She continued to clean up the blood.
In the morning another banging was heard from the front door. Amy woke up from her nap and realized she was sleeping on Shadow's stomach. She looked at him and found him sleeping. The banging erupted again, so she ran to the door. She opened the door to see Sonic standing there.
"Yes?" She said leaving the door opened only enough to see her eyes.
"I know you have him in there Amy." He said pushing the door. She tried desperately to keep the door closed.
"Sonic...No one's in here!" She struggled. He got the door open in no time to see Shadow already aroused from his slumber. He rubbed his forehead from the headache he had.
"Shadow! This is it! You're busted; the cops are coming here now!" He said. Shadow just looked at him with tired eyes.
"Please Sonic, not right now! Shadow's hurt. At least let him rest up a bit." She said grabbing his arm and forcing him to turn around. Sonic only watched her plea for time.
"What's possibly wrong with the 'Ultimate Life form?' A cold?" He asked rhetorically.
"No, bullet holes, two of them." She said walking to Shadow and forced him to lay down.
"I can't stay here if the cops are coming Amy." He said as he got up on his two feet. Amy helped him stand.
"Can I ask you something?"
"What is it?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"He didn't do anything!" Amy interrupted.
"Don't talk for him Amy." Sonic added.
"I did get attacked and did fight back, but it's not the way you think."
"Oh really." Sonic placed his hands on his hips.
"Now excuse me." Shadow walked outside, and not to his surprise there was a whole fleet of police cars.
"Shadow the Hedgehog, you are under arrest...Anything you say can and will be used against you in the Court of Law." Sonic came of from behind him and hand cuffed him.
"...Great." Shadow muttered as he was arrested.
"No wait! Please Sonic, he didn't do those killings!" She said pulling Sonic back and he held Shadow's cuffed hands.
"Let it go Amy." Shadow told her. Amy just stood there in awe as they arrested Shadow. Slowly little by little the police cars disappeared as they took Shadow into custody.
Later on Amy sat in her living room with the television on the news channel.
"After three deaths in Westopolis, the murderer has finally been captured and is in Police custody now. Shadow the Hedgehog, the freakish creation by Dr. Gerald Robotnik from fifty years ago has been arrest for the murders of the homeless man, Mary Wilson the waitress, and a young woman who happen to be out that night named Emily Smith. Shadow will be trialed for the three murders, in the Supreme Court and his possible sentences could be life in Prison...Or death." The anchor woman stated in national television.
"No!" Amy threw the pillow at the television, doing no damage to the anchor woman. She buried her head in her hands and started sobbing. They don't even know everything! It's not his fault!
That's it for chapter 4, I hope you all enjoyed this so far. Review please!
See-ya!