Chapter six
The two walked to school in silence, both feeling glad it was Friday yet also feeling nervous about what everyone will say about their relationship. They were hand in hand when they bumped into Knuckles and Tails.
"Hay guys…Oh my god you're together now?" Knuckles practically shouted out, making some of the other students look their way from across the road.
"Yep, we're official since last night." Sonic cheerfully said as they started to walk.
"Congrats, I'm happy for you both." Tails said with a smile.
"Yeah now we don't have to put up with Sonic whining about how much he wishes he was dating Shadow." Knuckles whispered into Tails ear, making him lightly laugh.
"Hay I head that and no you don't." Sonic grinned with a chuckle.
"Guys have you heard?" Rouge called out making the group stop to wait for her.
"Heard what?" Shadow asked curiously with a smirk.
"Wait are you both…congrats but yes anyway. Apparently right, Mr Tailor was stressing to the deputy head that there was an actual demon in the school and posing as a student. He was sent home and signed off for stress or something like that but the weird thing is he had evidence to back up his theory. Remember that book he has, it also had every demon ever created in there and I managed to glance at the page he was showing Miss Sharps…it's Blake guys, the picture in the book was exactly the same image as Blake." Rouge whispered to the group so no one could listen in on them.
"What a load of crap…there are no such things as..." Knuckles replied with a shake of his head when he suddenly stopped.
"Oh look who it is, the loser club. Where's that geeky sister of yours blue moron, fingering herself no doubt." Blake laughed darkly as he stopped in front of the group of friends.
Sonic growled threateningly at him and was held back from punching his lights out by Shadow.
"Blake, why don't you go suck a lemon." Knuckles huffed as he narrowed his eyes at the human.
"Yeah suck my cock bitch." Blake smirked as he watched Knuckles being held back by Rouge and Tails.
"He's not worth it." Sonic hatefully said as he looked at Blake with narrowed eyes.
"So freak, any news from daddy at all?" Blake chuckled sinisterly as he glared at Shadow.
"Actually now that you mention it, yes I have and he's coming to see me. He's not so happy with you thought Picking on his only son, shame on you." Shadow smirked darkly as his eyes glowed red.
"Oh shit, no I'm sorry please have mercy…I'll leave you alone." Blake panicked then ran off as fast as he could.
"Yep, he's a demon alright." Sonic sighed then looked at his boyfriend with concern.
"I'll be back in a minute, I think he needs teaching a lesson." Shadow darkly said and was about to walk off when Sonic grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"Not worth it." Sonic firmly stated with unhappy features as he and Shadow locked eyes.
"Are we missing something here?" Rouge asked as she scratched her head.
"Probably but what's new…hay so you going to tell us what's with the strange behaviour and the threats?" Knuckles called out and got the hedgehogs attention.
"Blake it scared of my father, good job he really isn't coming. I'm not exactly fearless of him either." Shadow chuckled as he spoke.
"Yeah sill not getting it." Knuckles sighed out with a confused expression.
"Blake is a demon isn't he?" Tails frowned a little and received a nod from Shadow.
"You're a demon aren't you?" Tails then asked as his frown deepened a little.
"Now why would you say that? But you are quite right…oh shit." Shadow replied then drooped his ears as Blake returned with someone. Both stopping a few feet away from the group of friends.
Shadow took a step back as his eyes widened with fear at the adult standing next to Blake. The adult chuckled sinisterly as he locked eyes on Shadow.
"So, you finally have your memories and demonic abilities back after seventeen years…well I'm surprised to see the world still standing. I will have to report this to your father." The adult human said with a dark tone.
"It will, just give me time." Shadow fearfully said with worried eyes of his father finding out so soon.
"Oh I'm so sorry Shadow but your time is up, I'm sure your father will give you a befitting punishment for your disobedient behaviour…I hear the bottomless pit did wonders." The older human deviously smirked with an evil chuckle.
"N-NO! I will not go back in there again…" Shadow panicked then threw an energy ball at the older demon, making him go flying backwards.
"Dad!" Blake called out in shock as he looked at his father groaning on the ground and holding his chest in pain.
In his blind panic, Shadow dashed away as fast as he could and never once looking back. He didn't care if anyone saw what he did and just kept running far away.
"Shadow, come back!" Sonic called then looked to his friends adding, "we have to go after him before he does something chaotic in his panicked state."
They all nodded and rushed after Shadow, dashing passed the two demons, passing the school and continuing down the road until they reached the small woods. They ran into the woods and looked around for Shadow until they ran out into the open grassy field. All this took them just under forty minutes to get where they were now.
"There he is." Tails pointed to the left on the other side of the field.
They all once again ran over to him and stopped a few feet away, all somewhat now out of breath. Shadow was pacing up and down while breathing quick deep panicked breaths while shaking a little as the thoughts of going back down that bottomless pit played on his mind.
"Deep slow breaths babe, just take deep slow breaths." Sonic said as he slowly approached a panicked Shadow, stopping his pacing in the process of getting close to Shadow.
"That's it hun." Rouge added as she also moved a little closer.
"I wont go back in there, I just wont." Shadow fearfully cried out as he shivered at the memories.
"We will never let that happen, not ever." Sonic softly said as he stopped right in front of Shadow and cupped Shadows head in his hands and gently kissed his lips.
The kiss broke and Sonic pulled Shadow into a tight hug, which was returned.
"It was horrible down there, I was dropped down in a cage until there was nothing but darkness all around me. Father left me there for five months then when I was dragged out, father locked me in my room for a further month before he allowed me to roam around freely again." Shadow whispered as he felt himself slowly calm down.
"Why hun?" Rouge softly asked as she stood beside him.
"Because I tried to run away and I didn't do as he asked." Shadow sadly replied as he and Sonic continued to hug.
"You tried to run away, I thought demons liked hell?" Tails asked with a questionable look.
"I'm not like other demons, my father created me with his own hands for one purpose…to destroy this world and turn it into the new hell for him to rule over. I damn right refused to kill the innocent, the dammed well that's a different story but the innocent no way." Shadow explained as he and Sonic broke the hug and held hands tightly.
"Why don't you just over throw your father and take over with ruling hell? That angel wolf said you can outmatch him therefore all demons." Sonic grinned as he glanced at his boyfriend.
"My father has the whole of hell behind him where as I'm only one demon. In order to do something like that I would have to have half of the demons in hell to back me up and they wont. Everyone is scared shitless of my father and wont dare do anything to displease him." Shadow explained with a small sigh, looking down to the ground in despair.
"So alls you can do is run away and hope he never catches up with you." Tails concluded earning him a sad nod from Shadow.
"Well we've all got detention now." Knuckles grinned as he changed the subject.
"Ah shit, mums going to kill me." Sonic whined out loud.
"And my mum wont." Shadow raised a brow, smirking a little as he did.
"Yeah your mum is an angel and technically not your real mum. As for mine, way more scary." Sonic nervously laughed as Shadow shook his head.
"Nancy's an angel?" Rouge questioned with a shocked look.
"Yeah, she was given the task in raising me once I was snatched from hell and turned into a baby." Shadow explained with a soft tone.
"You know I'm finding it hard to believe what they said about what you were like in hell." Sonic frowned a little as he spoke.
"Really, what did they say?" Shadow tilted his head with a curious look.
"Yeah what was Shadow like Sonic?" Knuckles grinned as he paid attention.
"They said you were ruthless, a force to be reckoned with and completely under your fathers control. Sorry but I just can't see you being like that." Sonic shrugged after he spoke.
"Well I was…Before I was taken and after I came out of that pit, I gave up fighting my father and did as I was told. He still went out of his way to punish me if I didn't do something correctly but it was never a severe punishment. Would just get as serious as a slash with a knife or whipped twenty times in the back, my wings stretched out and curves around my front and held there." Shadow said then added with a slightly dark look, "you should have heard the screams when I was made to torture the dammed, even father seemed impressed, a little mind you."
"Yeah, I can here them now, begging for you to stop hun…maybe keep that kind of stuff to yourself." Rouge shivered a little at what she had just heard.
"So what are we going to do, continue playing hooky or go to school and get our detentions?" Sonic sighed with a slight depressed tone.
"Well half the mornings gone already, we might be able to sneak into our next class." Tails replied with a worried look about getting caught and his perfect attendance record broken.
"Relax, I'll teleport us back to the school and no one will see us sneak in. I can also make it so we were there all morning." Shadow smiled happily at his friends.
With that agreed Shadow teleported them into the school hallway and said something in demon as his eyes glowed red. When he was finished he smirked at everyone.
"It is done, we are now all signed in to the registers so I suggest we better hurry up and get to our next lesson, the bell will go in a few minutes." Shadow chuckled then all dispersed to their lessons.
The bell went off and all the students left their classrooms and walked to their next. Shadow stood outside of his English lesson, as the teacher wasn't ready for the class yet, and was slightly nervous upon not having his book report.
"Alright you all can come in now." Mr Casey, a grumpy old owl with big hazel brown eyes and light brown feathers, announced to those waiting out in the corridor.
They all came in and took there seats, most getting out their book reports that was due in today. Shadow gulped as the teacher motioned him forwards by his desk. Shadow slowly stood up and approached Mr Casey's desk looking very anxious.
"Mr Casadonte` your book report…was very interesting to read. It was on my desk this morning but I don't remember seeing you drop it off. It doesn't matter, I've given it an A, well done and keep up the good work." Mr Casey announced with a bright smile then motioned Shadow to sit down.
Shadow bowed his head slightly then walked to his desk, mentally breathing out a sigh as he did, then sitting down at his single table.
"How the hell did my book report end up on his desk?" Shadow thought as his English teacher went around taking everyone's reports to read and mark over the weekend.
"Now class it's time to get your text books out and turn to pages 38 and 39. We are starting a new subject and it's poetry." Mr Casey announced as he fixed his small glasses and looked at his lesson plan.
There was a few groans from different area of the classroom but Shadow just shrugged indifferently and flipped his text book to the correct pages…
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