Crimson Blood
By Streak The Chameleon
Chapter 7: Damien
I do not know any of the Sonic characters. Sega does.
Uh, correction, Maverick87, Streak is Espio's OLDER brother. Just wanted to clear that up. Thanks for your review.
Streak slowed a few feet away from Espio.
His eyesight seemed to swirl. He lost too much blood.
"I got to… go on…"
There was a brief whistling sound behind him, and cold metal buried into his back several times before the sound stopped.
For a spilt second Streak realized that Espio wasn't knocked out after all. He was faking it the entire time.
Before he lost conciseness, he turned his head to the side and looked at Espio.
"Espio…"
The last thing he saw was Espio's smirking face, and then a flash of sliver off to his right.
Then he tumbled to the ground and the world went black.
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Tikal's hand came up to knock the door of Amy's apartment.
Amy opened it after the first knock.
"Oh…Tikal? Come on in."
She walked in and Amy closed the door behind her. She walked into the kitchen and sat in a chair.
"So…what's up?"
Tikal paused. "It's about Streak. He won't tell me what happened."
Amy blinked. "Oh, him? Sure, he knows about it, but what really happened? For that, you'd have to ask Sonic."
"So where is he?"
Amy smiled. "He's at the ARK."
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Shadow had walked a few miles since we last left him near the cabin.
Now he was in the city outskirts. (Where we "left", more like dumped, Streak.)
As he went up the hill, he stopped.
Was that… the smashing of metal?
Shadow ran up the hill and looked.
He could see Espio's body lying on the grass. (No surprise there.)
But, on the left, he could see a silver hedgehog with a first aid kit, leaning over Streak's body.
The hedgehog had some sort of armor on him, with a red collar then went up to his eyes.
More importantly, he had a huge sword strapped onto his back.
Shadow calmly walked up to the hedgehog and stopped a few feet from him.
"You need something?" The hedgehog said casually.
"Yeah…"
Shadow quickly threw a punch at him.
The silver hedgehog spun and did a low kick.
Shadow fell to the ground.
The hedgehog stood up and hoisted Streak onto his back.
Shadow got up and dashed at him.
Shadow rammed into him, pinning him up against the tree.
"Do you know who you're dealing with?"
The hedgehog looked him up and down with bored eyes.
"You're Shadow the hedgehog. You're also a vampire."
"Right. So, how much blood you got in there?"
"I don't think I feel like giving up my blood today."
Shadow grinned. "Not your choice."
The hedgehog suddenly broke free of Shadow's supernatural grip and ran off into the distance.
Shadow stood back and watched him go, not because he dropped down his guard, but because he let him go.
He raised his walkie-talkie.
"Tikal? We have a vampire hunter."
