Amy's eyes narrowed and she turned a deep red, she froze up and didn't move. Shadow froze up a little and turned a little red, he pushed her off of him but it was a second or two before he realized what happened. He shoved her away from him and sat up quickly. He was a little red still.
Amy hit the wall with a slight thud, she sat up quickly and looked over at him, she opened her mouth as to say something but Shadow beat her two it.
"Why the hell did you do that!" he yelled at her.
Amy shook her redden face back and forth, "No, it was an accident… I didn't mean to."
Shadow started to say something else but Amy had noticed that he was red as she was. She pointed to his muzzle, "Are you…. Blushing?" she asked.
Shadow covered his muzzle with his hand, "Don't be a fool, I don't do that." He said.
Amy didn't move she looked over at him still freaking out about what happened in her mind. She sat back against the rock, she looked over at Shadow until he finally put his hand down from his face.
Shadow stood up, the sun was down already and he walked out of the cave and into the rain like nothing had happened. He turned and looked at Amy, she had her eyes following him. He stood still waiting for her to get out, "Come on hurry up." He ordered.
She did, she stood up almost without will, and walked out of the cave into the forest that was quickly becoming more of a mountainous scene. Shadow started walking and he didn't say anything else.
Sonic and Knuckles were walking, Knuckles kept Sonic going, he refused to stop this time. Sonic kept slowing down and Knuckles kept pushing him forward, "Come on we have to catch up to them!" he yelled at him.
The two were moving at a fast pace and they soon passed the cave the Shadow and Amy where in only a short time ago. Knuckles kept going on, "We have to be close come on."
"Since when do you want to keep going like this?" Sonic asked. He looked around the dark forest, every day the moon got smaller and smaller, soon it would only be a sliver.
"Since I realized how long this will take if we don't find them soon, now lets MOVE!" he shouted pushing Sonic again.
Sonic walked on, he looked down at the footprints, they were getting deeper and looked more fresh then the ones they were on earlier. He started walking faster almost running. Knuckles had to run to catch up to him, he saw it to, the footprints of that one vampire where getting more and more fresh. They soon stopped running when they got to a point where they could hear some people talking… they saw them, the two vampires they came out here looking for. They ran to a bush semi ahead of the two and hid watching….
After a while Amy couldn't help but look over at Shadow, she walked by his side and she seemed to be doing ok with walking by him instead of walking behind him. Shadow saw her look at him through his peripheral vision. He looked down at her, "What is it?" he asked.
Amy shook her head, "It's nothing…"
"No it's really not." He said quietly to himself and he sped up a little, "Come on hurry up."
Amy looked back at the woods she nodded a little and sped up to a quick walk so she could keep up with Shadow. "I haven't seen Sonic in a while do you think he gave up?"
"No he didn't, he is out here somewhere searching for us and we need to continue."
"But we are just running away from him."
"It's not worth fighting him."
Sonic started to get up from where he was hiding, in a bush listening and watching them. Knuckles grabbed his shoulder and pulled him down, "Sonic stop it we have to wait for a good time to come out." He said not taking his eyes off of Shadow.
Shadow and Amy kept walking, and Sonic and Knuckles followed them from behind. Soon they were in a clearing. Amy walked into it, and she looked at the rather large clearing in the forest.
Sonic looked over at Knuckles, Knuckles was looking right at him. 'Now what?' he mouthed.
Sonic started making random and confusing hand signals. Knuckles tilted his head a little, "What?"
Sonic pointed at Knuckles, Knuckles nodded, 'Alright…' he then pointed the other way. He pointed to himself and then the other way. "So we spilt up and trap them in…" he said quietly. Sonic nodded, "You could have just told me that." He hissed starting to run the other way, bent down so that he was hidden in the bushes.
Sonic started the other way, Knuckles stood behind Shadow, still in the bushes. He looked across the clearing, Sonic was on the other side, he was behind Amy still in the bushes slightly. He gave a thumbs up, Knuckles gave a thumbs up in return. He looked back at Shadow, "Alright, now it's time…" he said to himself. He stood silently and started to walk towards Shadow from behind.
Sonic reached into his backpack and took out the silver stake he had made earlier, it was just as sharp as he had it when they left and now he held it tightly, he put his bag down just as Knuckles had, and he stood up as well and started to walk out.
Amy was looking around and Shadow looked up at the sky, it was still raining. He looked down and Amy looked back at him. Amy was smiling a little, and Shadow had a slight smile on the corner of his mouth but it was so small it wasn't noticeable unless you were looking for a smile, once in a long time he was semi- relaxed…
Amy stopped smiling and froze, she saw Knuckles trying to sneak up on Shadow. Shadow looked at her, his slight smile turned to an angry frown, his moment of relaxation only lasted a second or two. He saw Sonic behind her, he had a stake in his hand. They pointed up almost the exact same time to the other. "Behind you." They both said.
Shadow turned, Knuckles was getting ready to punch him, he jumped back so Knuckles missed, he barely his some fur on his chest. He landed hard on his feet.
Amy turned and saw Sonic behind her, she screeched a little and backed up some. Sonic started to run at her but not very fast, he held the stake. She backed up and ran in front of Shadow. Now Knuckles was behind her. Shadow looked at her, he looked back at Sonic who was now coming faster at him, he put one arm around Amy's waist, and he quickly ran out of the way of the other two. He stopped at the other side of the clearing, he looked back, Sonic had to duck down to dodge Knuckles second punch and Knuckles had to jump back to avoid the stake.
Shadow looked down at Amy she seemed to be freaking out, he sat her down and let go of her. When he got up to go back and fight Sonic he was stopped by Amy grapping his wrist, "Shadow if you go out there you might die."
He looked back at her, she was still sitting but she had her arm stretched out, he knelt down again, and took her hand of his wrist and let go of it so it fell. "I know." Was all he said before he got up again and walked back to Sonic and Knuckles who were looking at him ready to charge at him.
Amy sat helpless and watched him walk off slowly into the rain.
Sonic and Knuckles were ready, "Alright, this time we aren't leaving until there is a winner!" Sonic shouted out.
Shadow didn't say anything he stopped walking after a while and stood still. He looked at Sonic with his intense fiery eyes. "I am giving you one chance to get out of here unharmed, leave." He said coldly.
Knuckles shook his head, "There is no way we came out here for nothing!"
Sonic nodded and ran directly at him, "Now lets go!"
Shadow stood still and it was until the last second that he moved, he dodged the attack and he grabbed at Sonics wrist with the stake but he pulled it back and tried to kick at him, Shadow jumped up and dodged it, he landed back and Knuckles took the chance and he punched directly into his back before he had a chance to get away.
Shadow fell forward but caught himself and jumped back at Knuckles with a tackle digging his shoulder into his stomach.
Sonic stood behind them watching his friend try time after time and never get it. He looked at the stake, 'If we want to get him we need to team up…' he thought. He ran behind Shadow and tried to punch at his head again, but he leaned forward and the punch missed, he stepped at a turn and shot his foot straight up hitting Sonic in the chin.
Knuckles was getting what he was trying to do, teamwork really was the only way. He punched at Shadow when he was kicking up, leaving no was to block it. But he was wrong, Shadow quickly stepped down and spun only using his foot and did a spin kick at Knuckles.
Sonic rolled into a ball in the air and shot himself directly at Shadow, Knuckles tried to jump out of the way and he did with minimal damage from the kick. With Shadows attention turned Sonic got him straight on. He landed back a little and watched as Shadow fell to his knees.
Knuckles watched 'Is that it?' he asked.
Shadow sat still motionless quietly saying some words unfamiliar to them, he slowly started to get up, he had one hand on his elbow and his other hand was glowing yellow, the light reflected off of the rain around it causing it to glow, he was still saying words to this complicated move. Shadow wasn't even panting yet.
Knuckles stepped back, 'But that's impossible… how is he…?'
Shadow's hand stayed motionless, and he stopped mumbling the words. The light started to grow now the yellow turned into little individual spears appearing to be just per energy, and as it gathered more energy from the rain around it, it grew more, and the spears thrashed around in a circle around his hand.
Knuckles looked at Shadow who was now looking directly at him, he held his hand at his side now in a fist and he started to run at Knuckles, Knuckles started to jump out of the way, but Shadow was to fast for him. Reaching speeds that could surpass Sonic he quickly caught up to the jump and he turned a little and dug the energy covered hand into the young guardian's side. Instantly the energy burst into a ball of energy around them lighting nearly the whole clearing and sending a shockwave around them.
Shadow pulled his hand back, his white glove was clean, there was no blood, just some small shocks from the sudden energy release. Knuckles fell to the ground, his side bleeding heavily.
Knuckles grabbed his side and fell to his side. He was clearly in pain, the blood seeped threw his glove and onto his hand and he didn't move from fear of more injury. He let out a sudden scream of pain and his head fell, and his hand fell limply to his side, covered in blood.
Sonic looked at his friend, "Knuckles!!!!!!!" he shouted out. He looked at Shadow who now turned and glared strait at him.
He clenched his stake tighter, he ran directly at Shadow. Shadow dodged him easily and Sonic turned quickly in the air and kicked him with his heal in the back of the head. Shadow stumbled forward and Sonic landed down and threw more punches and kicks at him. Shadow blocked all of them but couldn't send attacks toward him without getting hit, he was moving to fast.
The two stood sparing like this for a little in the rain before Sonic started to do more kicks them punches, he had a idea now. And if he wanted to get out of there alive and save Knuckles he needed to do it fast.
Shadow was doing a better job of blocking his attacks, unlike Sonic he didn't have a breath he didn't need to pant or breathe. He caught a kick to his head, Sonic tore back his leg causing Shadow to come forward slightly since he caught the kick. Sonic lunched his body forward and punched into Shadow with the hand with the stake lunching the stake through him.
Shadow was caught off guard by this and the pain and shock surged through his body as he fell forward. Sonic jumped back, he looked down at the vampire, the stake was slightly coming out of his back. He stepped back not saying a word he looked over at Amy, who had gone white and she was on her feet. He looked back at Shadow, he wasn't moving he had fallen to his knees and he held the stake, he went over to Knuckles, he still was bleeding but the rain seemed to clear away most of the blood. He picked his up and started to run off, he knew he needed to still get Amy, but now that Shadow was gone in his mind, he thought it would be easy to get Amy.
Amy started over to Shadow, slowly at first but when she saw he wasn't moving she ran to his side, she put her hand on his back and he moaned in pain and pushed it off. "Shadow…"
Shadow looked over at her, one eye was shut tightly from the pain, he wasn't bleeding. He turned slightly and let go of the stake, it had gone through his stomach. It missed his heart, he could live.
Amy was crying a little, she reached down to touch the stake but Shadow grabbed her hand and pushed it away, he felt a shock wave of pain erupted from the stake. He moaned a little but he didn't yell. Amy put a hand on his shoulder, she didn't know how to help him.
He started to sit up, he was shaking a little. "Get me…….to the forest….." he said quietly, as if it took up a lot of his strength.
Amy put an arm around his shoulder and she held him stand up, she started to the nearest part of the forest and sat him down as soon as she got there. He was grinding his teeth a little and he put one hand on the stake but as soon as he touched it he let go and moaned more.
Amy looked at it, she put one hand on it gently and she put her other hand on it as well. She looked at Shadow, he knew what she was going to do, it had to be done.
After a few moments of silence, she quickly pulled out the stake, it came out with some ease from being wet from rain. He shut his eyes tight and his ears went back and he grabbed her wrist as a reflex to stop the pain and he yelled out.
Amy dropped the stake. There was no blood, and she could see clearly the insides of him. He grinded his teeth again and he tried to sit up. But Amy stopped him, she lifted him up herself, he looked over at her and he didn't fight against it. The intense pain was taking its toll and slowly his eyes started to close, and he fell limp, passed out, onto Amy………