Life With Father
Chapter 7
Twenty years later…
"Sir the enemy has reached the castle and they are taking down our men faster than anything I've ever seen. We need back up now!" A purple humanoid soldier in a black uniform called out desperately into his wrist communicator.
"Back up is on the way, protect the Queen at all costs." Was the reply on the device.
"Shadow, destroy those soldiers and get to their queen." Black Doom ordered his son through the telepathic wave link.
"Consider it done, father." Shadow spoke back in the same manner then rushed off into the castle at high speeds, chaos spearing all of the planets soldiers as he went past them.
The purple men never saw Shadow coming, only the painful deadly bolts of chaos energy that impaled their bodies. Shadow smirked as he pressed forward and throwing more killer spears along the way. He could sense his brothers all around him and their enjoyment of the death and pain they were causing to the planets inhabitants. Shadow stopped in his tracks as he was face to face with two of his largest brothers, a chaos spear fizzing away in his hold.
"The queen is in there brother." One said to Shadow as he pointed to the tall and large door behind him.
"She be highly protected." The other announced as he felt the amount of beings behind the door.
"And probably armed to the bone too. I do not wish for you both to get hurt so go and finish off any stragglers in the castle. I will blast the door open with a chaos blast, it should disorientate them enough for me to attack and kill them all. Then father wants to deal with the queen personally." Shadow announced in a serious tone as he kept his smirk in place.
The two Black Oaks nodded and left their brother with his orders then they carried out Shadows. Shadow walked up to the door and concentrated his energy like he has so many times before. His body started to glow red until his attack was ready to be unleashed.
"Chaos blast!" Shadow shouted out then his attack expanded at a deadly fast rate.
The doors were blown off their hinges and flown into the room, knocking most of the men off their feet, some were crushed to death by the half destroyed heavy doors. The shockwave was so powerful the ones further away from the door were knocked down and flown across the room behind the queen. Shadow charged spears in both hands and started to strike the men dead, all but one that had enough time to dodge out of the way. Shadow walked in and growled in anger and frustration. He charged his attack again and this time landed a direct hit. The humanoid fell down to a bloody heap on the floor at the queens feet. The queen gasped in fear and grabbed her pistol out of her violet puffy dress. She aimed it at Shadow and fired multiple time. Shadow dodged all but the last available bullet in that gun, hitting him between his chest and shoulder. Shadow hissed out in pain and grabbed the area, he clawed out the bullet and flicked it away, smirking menacingly as he did.
"W-what do you w-want?" The worlds queen fearfully asked, dropping her now useless weapon and watched Shadow slowly walk up to her, backing away the closer he got to her.
"The queen is all alone and waiting for you father," Shadow reported back as he stopped walking when the queen backed herself up against the far wall opposite the entrance way.
"Excellent news Shadow, you have done well. Guard her until I arrive…and heal that wound she gave you." Black Doom praised with pride as he replied back inside of Shadows head.
Shadow held his right hand over his bullet wound and a bright glow covered it. When Shadow pulled back his hand after the glow had vanished, his wound was gone. The only evidence there that he had ever been shot was the green blood on his glove and matted into his fur.
"Please help me!" The queen called out to two of her soldiers, who rushed inside the room.
Shadow spun around and glared at them both. He then turned back to the queen and gave her a sinister grin. Shadow vanished in a bright light, reappearing behind the purple soldiers.
"He's behind you!" She called out in horror and pointed as she was left to helplessly watch her men die.
Shadow drove a chaos spear into one of the men's back before he had a chance to turn around. The man dropped dead with a pained expression on his face. The other man shakily raised his pistol at Shadow then gasped as the hedgehog vanished before his eyes. The purple soldier frantically looked in all directions but never saw the hit coming. He was knocked into a wall by a chaos infused punch to the gut, dropping his weapon in the process. Shadow appeared in front of the man, who slipped to the floor holding his chest and stomach with both hands. Shadow, without looking, charged a chaos spear then threw his warning shot at the queen as she tried to get away, purposely missing her and hitting the floor in front of her.
"You aren't going anywhere your majesty and as for you…see you in hell." Shadow said as he charged another chaos spear, but a more powerful one in his hand, then used it to decapitate the soldiers head.
The soldiers blue blood splattered on Shadows face, chest and on the wall as he made the final blow. The head of the humanoid slowly slipped off his neck and rolled across the floor a little away from the body. The headless body fell to the side and slammed down to the ground, with blood gushing out of the clean cut wound. Shadow sharply turned to face the queen, who was mortified at what she had just seen. Slowly Shadow approached her with a chaos spear in his hand.
Shadow suddenly paused in his approached as he felt his father getting close to him. Shadow made his spear retract and the energy absorbed back into his body as he waited for his father to appear.
"Well done my son, you have done well in your task as did you all." Black Doom said as he floated into the room, followed by a few of his children.
The queen watched Black Doom float to her in fear, knowing this was going to be the end of her and her kingdom.
"P-please have mercy, we have done nothing wrong." The queen begged with terror in her voice.
Shadow raised a brow at his father in a 'really she's begging' sort of way, this being his first time facing a planets ruler.
"Yes Shadow, they will always beg and plea innocence. It's rather pathetic I agree. You will come to learn this the more rulers you will face. It is their last resort in surviving the inevitable." Black Doom mussed to his son in an amused voice through the telepathic link.
Shadow excepted that explanation and looked back to the queen who was now on her knees, tears in her eyes and actually begging for her life.
"Please, I will do anything you want." The queen cried out as the fear rose and the tears fell.
"As you will find out I'm not a being filled with mercy, Queen Abadoss. You had made your final mistake by shooting at my son and now you will pay dearly. It was bad enough that my other sons were injured in battle because of your foolish attempts to ridicule me but to shoot Shadow as well. We came to help you and this is how you replay us!" Black Doom bellowed in rage.
"Please, I did not know. I'm sorry please." Queen Abadoss pleaded with even more tears falling down her flustered purple cheeks.
"Save you pathetic nonsense for someone who cares…good bye your majesty." Black Doom narrowed his three eyes at the creature in front of him and raised a hand out to her.
Abadoss gasped as she felt her body being held tightly by an invisible hold, her ribs were being crushed as the hold on her tightened. Abadoss looked desperately at her attacker to stop but he kept on crushing her.
"Shadow, impale a chaos spear into her heart." Black Doom ordered as he held her in place.
Shadow nodded, charging up his spear, he aimed for the centre of the queens chest. Once the spear was fully charged he threw it, ripping straight through her heart and out of her back, hitting the wall behind her. The spear fizzled away leaving a large dent in the wall with cracks all around it. The queens blood poured out of the wound at both ends of her body and her eyes slowly glassed over as death claimed her.
Black Doom released his hold and the queens lifeless body fell dead on the floor. Her golden diamond encrusted crown falling from her head as she fell and clanged onto the floor with a light bounce. Her blue blood slowly spilling out and collecting on the floor around her lifeless corpse.
"See to it no one survives this pathetic rock then head back to the Black Comet. Shadow you are to come back with me now." Black Doom ordered his children, both present in the room and not.
"Yes father, of course." Shadow nodded as he walked closer to his father with a semi serious expression.
Black Doom chaos controlled himself and Shadow back aboard the Comet safely as the rest of the Black Arms devoured the life that remained on the planet below. Black Doom guided his hybrid son to the shower room to wash off the blood from his fur. They stopped out side and Black Doom turned Shadow to face him.
"I want you to wash your fur clean then go straight to your room to rest. You did me proud today my child. I will see you when you wake in the morning." Black Doom pridefully said with a calm look on his features then vanished to join his other children to feast and kill.
Shadow inwardly smiled to himself but showed a mutual expression as he walked inside then before going over to the centre he removed his skates and gloves. When he did that he walked to the centre and stood above the hole where the water will fall down from. He sighed to himself as the water hit his body, a cool soothing feeling was felt and Shadow welcomed it as it relaxed him after a tough three days. He soon got to work cleaning the blood away and making sure he wasn't too long in here. Once done he walked to the far side where there were drying towels for him to use and he got to work with drying his fur. When he was finished he flattened his fur down the best he could, grabbed his gloves and shoes then chaos controlled to his room like instructed.
"What a day." Shadow sighed with exhaustion as he placed his blood soaked garments down near his sleeping place, sat on the edge of his 'bed' then laid down onto his back with his arms stretched out while he looked up.
"What a day indeed brother." A Black Arms Soldier agreed telepathically, standing in the entrance way of Shadows room holding something in his hands.
Shadow smirked and sat up, he looked at his brother as the Black Arms walked in and stopped in front of himself.
"I have brought you your meal, father has requested it of me." He said in Shadows head with a pleasant enough tone then put the tray on the floor beside the bed and in front of Shadow.
"Thank you. Hopefully the next world we try to help will see sense but I have a feeling they wont. On a much higher note, we had no deaths on our side this time." Shadow smirked wider as he looked up at his brother while talking back.
"This is very true and it is definitely something to celebrate. Well enjoy your meal brother as I will mine." The Black Soldier replied using their mind link then turned and left Shadow to his meal.
Shadow watched him leave then glanced down at the tray. He curiously lifted the cover off and grinned at what his father had given him. It was a thickly freshly sliced cut of meat from something from that planet below the Black Comet. It was a deep blue'ish purple and dripping in dark blue blood. (Just imagine a large steak that was doubled in size and thickness, uncooked and covered in blood while being a different colour and bang, that is what Shadow had.)
"Thank you father for my meal." Shadow telepathically thanked Black Doom as he picked up the tray, placing it on his lap, then grabbed the steak with both gloveless hands and began to eat it contently.
"You are more than welcome my son." Black Doom replied as he finished skinning one of the planets inhabitants alive then threw the poor guy down for his lava to feast upon.
After three more hours the planet below grew silent, dead silent, and all Black Arms were safely back aboard the Black Comet. Black Doom floated down the hallways towards Shadows personal chambers, to check in with him. When he reached the entrance way he peeped inside. Shadow was fast asleep curled up on his bed in the middle, with a content and peaceful look on his face.
"He did very well for his first time dealing with a planets ruler and that many enemy soldiers at once by himself." Black Doom thought as he grinned in satisfaction at Shadows sleeping form.
Black Doom, after another minute of looking at his hybrid hedgehog son, turned around and floated to his own chambers to rest for the night. The others were also in a state of rest as the Comet shot through space to their next destination, all feeling deeply satisfied with their victory and full stomachs.
(OMG Shadow has been totally corrupted by his father…please review if you liked this chap, I would love to hear your comments on this chap and story so far. Next chapter up as soon as I've typed it up. Thanks for reading, following and adding my story to your fab list…)
