CHAPTER 7
Bunnie flung open the doors of Sarah Wish's office and rushed inside of the dark office. She stood at the doorway panting heavily from apparently running. She directed her attention towards the other end of the dark office. The room was lit with a dim lamp that was placed on the large desk across from her. Her eyes caught sight of a yellow fox woman who stood behind the large desk and had her attention directed at the computer screen in front of her. "Miss...Miss Wish", she panted. "I got your message." She started to walk over towards her with a panicked look on her face. "Is..is it true?"
Sarah slowly took her eyes away from the computer screen and turned to her while making a nod. "Just heard from Espio himself..."
In shock, Bunnie's eyes wandered down to the floor. "So it's happened...Shadow..."
"And Rouge..." She started to slowly make her way from behind the desk she stood behind. "I not too long ago alerted all of the Council members and their Captains."
She took her eyes away from the floor and looked back up at her. "Okay so Shadow and Rouge have gone off the grid. What should we do?" She held out her hands in a confusing gesture, "Should I alert my police force? G.U.N.?"
"Bunnie, this is a crisis of The Council. Not a nation wide emergency...as of yet anyway." She slightly bit her lip and hoped that The Council had a way to solve the situation before they actually did have to turn to military force. "We'll enlist the help of the Council and if we can't save them..."
She paused and made a nervous look towards her.
She slowly clenched her fist and held it next to her side, "We must stop them at all costs..."
Later, Rick came into Leon's office that was within The Crimson Blade's Detective Agency. He entered the seemingly dark and quiet office while he lazily scuffed his feet on the floor. He yawned and stretched out his arms tiredly while he made his way towards the desk Leon had sat behind. "Holy shit", he yawned. "Why did you call me here so late?" With him not hearing a reply right away from him, he noticed that his face was buried in the screen of his computer that was sitting on his desk. He made his way behind the desk and stood beside him. He took his hand and rested it on the surface of the desk while he turned to him and watched him type on the keyboard of the computer. "Don't you know some of us are trying to sleep or get laid? Or both?"
With an unamused look on his face, Leon paused and shifted his eyes over to him. "You didn't look at your messages?"
He arched an eyebrow and saw the serious expression on his face. With that, he could tell something was wrong. "Uh, no? Is...is something wrong?"
Leon's eyes shifted away from him and looked back at the computer screen, "...It's happened..."
Rick slightly tilted his head to the side in confusion. "...Huh?"
"Shadow...his demonic powers have been reawakened..."
Rick took his hand away from the desk he rested it on and took a step back as he gave Leon an unbelievable look. "Wha-what?" He took a step forward and looked at the computer screen to glance through the message that Sarah had sent out. "It's happened? It's finally happened?"
Leon made a slow nod while not taking his eyes away from the screen. "Yes and this time his wife, Rouge has also had demon blood injected into her body."
Rick looked away from the computer and turned to him. "So wait...Shadow and Rouge are both demons?"
He again made a slow and small nod.
Rick had clenched fist and punched it into the palm of his other hand with a smirk on his face. "Perfect! Now we can all kill those two together!" He hated Shadow and he always hated Shadow. Out of everyone else, he was the one who passionately wanted to see him dead. He never had much of an encounter with Rouge but he hated her for simply being his supportive wife. With her now being a demon, this gave him all the more reason to despise her.
Leon slightly arched an eyebrow as he witnessed how excited he had suddenly gotten. Then again he shouldn't be very surprised by his reaction. He knew how Rick felt about Shadow and he made it very clear towards him and others. "According to Miss Wish's message, she wants me and the rest of the Council to meet up in Tech City and figure out a way to stop them without having the intent to kill."
With his mouth hung open, he immediately objected to Sarah's decision. He held both of his clenched fists beside him in uprising anger. "What!" That's bull! We all need to ban together and take them out! There is no better opportunity than this!"
Leon saw how upset he was getting and decided that it was time for him to do his part and start acting on the situation. He stood from his chair and shifted his eyes away from Rick, "I don't understand her orders either but if she has a way to stop them without killing them then I won't argue with her." Leon always personally felt uncomfortable around Shadow due to this ever happening. So if anything were to seriously happen, he wouldn't object to eliminating him for the greater good.
"What!" He stepped back and watched him walking from behind the desk and heading towards the door. "This is madness! People are gonna die! Let me come with you!"
Leon spun around and turned to him with an aggravated look while he pointed towards him. "This is between me and the rest of The Council. You're staying here in case anything happens."
He wanted him to stay behind and he was not for that at all. He was determined to go with him to try to persuade the others to kill Shadow and Rouge. "But...but Leon!" He was silenced when he heard his loud voice filling the quiet office.
"That's an order, Rick!"
After that being said, Rick felt utterly powerless at the moment and in anger watched as Leon stormed out of the office.
Meanwhile, the bedroom was silent and the only thing was heard was the gentle wind making its way into the bedroom from the open balcony window. Sally's body froze as her eyes gazed upon the dark hedgehog who stood in front of her with still holding the sharp blade of the knife up against his neck. "Sha-Shadow?" She quickly took the knife away from his neck and set it down on the vanity table behind her. "My God! I-I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"
He took his hand and placed it around his neck with a small smile on his face. "My head's still in tact so I guess I'll live."
She let out a sigh of relief, "I'm sorry, Shadow. You just startled me." She just knew someone had snuck in and never in a million years she would find Shadow standing in the middle of her bedroom.
He arched an eyebrow towards her while he crossed his arms. "So if I were Sonic trying to play a prank on you, I guess he'd be in some deep shit huh?"
A small yet nervous laugh escaped her while her eyes anxiously adverted from his. "Uh, yeah. Pretty sure he wouldn't be laughing..." Her eyes slowly shifted back to him and wondered why he was in her bedroom and at this late at night. She glanced at him still wearing his work uniform and figured with him just randomly showing up at her house unannoucned and wearing his work attire, she thought something was wrong and it was all linking back to the message that Sarah had sent out.
He slightly glanced around the bedroom, "Speaking of Sonic...where is he anyway?"
"Oh, he just stepped out." She caught him several times already glancing at her revealing night attire and didn't have a robe or anything nearby to cover herself. She took her arms and crossed them across her chest that exposed her cleavage. "Why? Is something wrong?" She then watched him beginning to slowly pace around the room.
"Well no just..." He spun back around to turn to her with his eyes nervously looking around the room. "I wanted to talk..."
"To Sonic? He should be back soon..." Her words were cut off when Shadow had suddenly spoken.
He slowly shook his head, "Not Sonic. You..."
She made a slight pause and gave him a strange look. What did he possibly want to talk about with her? And why couldn't it have been through the phone? Was it so important that he had to suddenly show up at her house? "...Me? What's...what's wrong, Shadow?"
He slowly began to walk back over to her, "We just never had the chance to talk about us."
She nervously placed a finger under her chin as she watched him slowly approach her. "...Us? I um...don't understand..."
Once he stood close to her, he made a small nod towards her, "Yes you do."
She was at a loss for words. What had suddenly gotten into him? What was going on at that moment?
"Sally, you can try to fool everyone else but you sure as hell aren't fooling me."
She took her finger from under her chin and placed her hand lightly on her chest while her arms were still crossed. "...What?"
His eyes wandered from hers and shifted downwards, "Ever since we kissed each other back in Kingdom of Acorn, I've never felt the same about you. And you feel the same way." His eyes were again locked with her, "Don't you?"
He was talking about their small intimate moment the two had shared together back in Acorn Kingdom and was completely thrown off by it. As she recalled, he was the one who wanted to forget about it and here he was bringing it back up again. She didn't know what had suddenly got into him. Maybe he had some kind of disagreement with Rouge and he wanted some kind of comfort with her. She slowly shook her head and stepped back from him. "Shadow, don't...whatever is going through your head, you need to snap out of it. You're married and you love Rouge."
He shook his head, "That doesn't mean shit to me. It doesn't mean shit to you either. That's why you threw yourself at me that last time when we were in the bedroom. You wanted me to fuck you right then and then."
Just him bringing everything back up had made her feel awful. Just looking back at how she acted towards him realized how selfish she acted. She wanted to blame the lust and the tenseness of the situation but she knew it still fell back on her. "But you didn't and I'm so sorry if I came at you like that. You did the right thing and you stopped it. And I'm so glad you did..."
"Well I'm not..." He had snapped coldly.
Who was this man? Was this even Shadow she was talking to right now?
"I regret everything that didn't happen between us, Sal. I wanted you so badly, but I was an idiot and pushed you away."
She suddenly saw him reach out to her and began to gently caress the side of her face while the both of them were lost in each other's eyes. She knew where this was going and it felt wrong but she couldn't find the motivation to pull herself from him. "Shadow, why are you saying all of these things?"
"I know that we could never be together but have you ever thought about what it would be like if I never pushed you away?"
Her heart raced as he gently ran his thumb across her soft lips. "Shadow..."
His lips were practically inches away from hers as he spoke softly to her. "Sally, just one night with you is all I ask and I swear we can just walk away and continue to live our lives like nothing ever happened."
She placed her hand over his and shook her head slowly, "Shadow, we shouldn't do this..."
"But you want this", he whispered as he leaned forward and began to softly kiss her bare shoulder. "And I want this too."
She small gasp escaped her as she felt his lips touching her shoulder and making his way up to her neck. Her body slightly quivered when she felt the feel of his hands traveling down her lower waist. "Shadow..."
His hands slightly clenched the light blue lingerie dress she wore. The fabric was thin and sheer feeling. He felt like it would take him little to no effort to rip the dress right from her body. His hands traveled down to her bare thighs and made their way up under her dress. He playfully stroked and grabbed her bare butt while his hands traveled up her dress. "God you're so beautiful, Sal", he whispered softly.
Her breathing got slightly heavier when she felt him slightly playing with the elastic from the blue thong she wore. She ran her hands gently across his chest while his hands worshiped her body. Soft moans escaped her as he continued to kiss and suck on her neck. It was hard for her fight the feeling that was coming over her. His temptation towards her came in strong and she like she wasn't strong willed enough to push him away. "Shadow, please..." She begged in a soft and aroused tone. "We can't...we can't do this..." She felt him leading her body until her back had gently met the wall.
He took his lips from her neck and made his way up to start kissing her soft lips, "Don't fight it, Sal", he spoke as he kissed her. "You know you want this." He continued to passionately kiss her while his body was pressed against hers.
While his tongue fought with hers, she could feel his manhood hardening rubbing against her lower waist. He felt his hand grabbing her bare thigh and running it upwards until it met the front of the thong she was wearing. The blush that was already on her face deepened as she felt his fingers beginning to stroke her through her thong.
While he kissed her, he could feel her becoming wet through the thong she wore.
It wasn't long before she felt his fingers slowly being shoved into her opening. She took her lips from his and small gasps had escaped her. She bit her lip as she felt his fingers being shoved in and out of her drenched opening. "Oh, Shadow", she spoke in a low and aroused tone.
He saw the reaction on her face and took note of her clearly enjoying the taste of pleasure he was giving her. "You like that don't you, Sal?" He whispered in a low tone as he massaged her dripping entrance.
When she felt him taking his fingers out of her, she then felt her thong slipping down her legs and practically being ripped off of her. When he leaned in to kiss her once again, she could hear the rustling of his pants being undone. She then felt him taking her leg and gently lifting it off of the floor and wrapping it around his body. Her lips broke apart from his and her eyes met his as she felt his bare and hard member rubbing against her.
He leaned his forehead against hers before he spoke softly to her. "I wanted you, Sally. I've always wanted you."
Everything was like some kind of dream but this all was actually happening. She knew this was wrong and was bound to have severe consequences for them both but at that moment, she didn't care. With his constant teasing and taunting, it drove her wild and she wanted more. She wanted him and there was no denying it. With her breathing heavily, she wrapped her arms around his neck and replied back in a low and seductive tone. "...Then take me, Shadow." She leaned in and brought him into another passionate kiss. As she kissed him, she winced as she began to feel his hard and large member being placed inside of her. She took her lips away from his and dug her fingertips into his shoulders as she felt him shoving himself deeper inside of her. A gasp escaped her as he went further inside her, "Oh God, Shadow..."
He buried his face into her shoulder as he began to slowly thrust himself in and out of her. "Goddamn it, Sal. You feel so amazing."
She held onto him tightly as his thrusts had gotten slighter harder. Her aroused gasps and pleasurable moans filled the bedroom, "Ah...oh fuck..." She bit her lip as she felt his hard member stroking against the warm and tight walls inside of her. She didn't want this forbidden feeling between the two to never stop.
He took himself out of her and kissed her lips once again before he led her over to the bed that was near them. He playfully pushed her down onto the soft bed and placed his body on top of hers. When he had kissed her once more, he began to pull the small straps of her dress down her shoulders enough so that her bare perky breasts were exposed to him.
She felt his lips travel down her neck and to her chest. He began to lick and tease her erect nipples. She leaned her head back onto the soft white pillow it was on and slightly clenched the sheets of the bed. She clenched the bed sheets harder when she felt his fingers being placed inside of her moist and throbbing opening. His lips made their way down her stomach and to her lower waist until she felt his tongue licking and flickering at her clit. Her moans grew louder now that she felt both his fingers and tongue pleasuring her. "Ah! Oh fuck, Shadow!"
A low chuckle was heard from him as he continued to shove his fingers in and out of her in a rapid motion. "That's it", he spoke in a low tone. "Fucking scream my name."
As he taunted and teased her throbbing clit, she bit her lip harder, "Yes", she huffed in an aroused tone. "Oh yes, Shadow!"
He slowly took his mouth from her dripping hot core and took his tongue to slowly devour the sweet nectar that was left on his fingers. "God you taste so sweet, Sal. And the sounds you make when you're being pleasured...holy shit. Music to my ears." He leaned over to her and locked his eyes with her. "I wonder how you sound when you're getting off."
She winced slightly as she felt his length once again penetrate her throbbing opening. She gripped onto his shoulders while he placed himself deep inside of her. "Ah...Yes. Fuck me hard, Shadow."
With a smirk on his face, he began to do what she wanted. He thrusted himself into her slowly but rough.
She bit her lip hard as his thrusts had gotten fiercer. She dug her fingertips deep into his back. "F-Faster...", she begged in an aroused voice. "Faster, Shadow." When he picked up more speed, it was enough to rock the bed and her perky breasts had bounced along with his motions. With his length stroking her tight and moist walls inside of her, she didn't know how much longer she could hold herself back. "Ah! Shadow, I...I'm gonna come!"
He knew that she was getting close to reaching her peak especially with her body slightly shaking below his. "Do it. I want you to come all over my dick."
With him still going at it and not stopping, she could no longer hold herself back and released herself while she cried out in pleasure. "Oh God! Fuck!"
As soon as he felt her warm juices splash onto him, he felt like he couldn't hold back any longer himself. He held onto the headboard of the bed and released himself inside of her. He practically collapsed onto her body in exhaustion while he panted heavily. "Holy shit..."
With her chest heaving, she laid there and held him in his arms until she felt him take his dripping wet member out of her. She watched as he took his body from hers and got off of the bed. With her sweaty chest still heaving, her eyes looked up at the white ceiling above her. She slowly shut her eyes as she realized what the two had just got done doing with each other. She slept with Shadow and there was no going back from that reality. 'Oh my God', she thought. 'What have I done?' Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard Shadow zipping his jeans back up and trying to fix his clothes. She opened her eyes and slowly sat up from the bed. While nervously straying her eyes away from him, she tried to fix herself as well and placed the straps of her dress back over her shoulders. Her eyes were directed down at the messy bed sheets she was on until she heard the flicker of a lighter. She looked up and saw him lighting a cigarette that was placed in his mouth. She couldn't really tell what was crossing his mind. He didn't really seem at all upset by any of what the two had just done. She bit her lip slightly before she called out to him. "Shadow? Are you okay?"
"Heh", he took a puff of his cigarette and exhaled some of the smoke with his back turned to her. "I feel fucking great."
Well it was official. He definitely wasn't in the same boat as her. She placed her hand on her forehead and looked away from him with a shameful look on her face. "Well that makes one of us..."
Without turning his head, his eyes glanced back at her. "What's up with you?"
"What?" She turned back to him with a unbelievable look on her face. "What's up with me?" She got out of bed and placed her hand on her forehead while she began to nervously pace around the room. "The kissing was one thing but this?" She made her way towards her vanity table and sat back down in her chair and looked down at the table with a panicked expression. "We actually fucked each other! And I've never felt more awful!" She looked away from the table and back towards him who seemed like he didn't understand why she was so upset. "...Don't you feel bad at all?"
He took another puff of his cigarette and exhaled some of the smoked while he carelessly shrugged his shoulders. "Nope...not really."
He just cheated on Rouge and he appeared to not have cared. Was Shadow really like this? She thought that he took his marriage seriously but apparently not. At this point, he was just a selfish scumbag and it angered her that he wasn't taking the situation seriously. She placed her hand on her chest as she gave him an unbelievable look. "You just cheated on Rouge!"
He took the cigarette from his mouth and completely turned to her with an irritated look on his face. "And newsflash! You opened up your legs and cheated on Sonic! We're both guilty motherfuckers, Sally!"
No matter how she wanted to look at it. He was right. She just willingly had sex with him. Both of them played a part in this and what was done was done. She sadly turned away from him and blankly stared at her reflection in the mirror as she took her hand and ran it through her red hair nervously. "I...I don't know what to do..."
"You know what to do", he spoke as he turned back away from her and took another puff of his cigarette. "Like we did back in Kingdom of Acorn, this is our little secret."
It killed her that she had to hide the fact that the both of them had kissed each other and now she was supposed to hide that she and him had sex? The guilt was already killing her but she couldn't bring herself to hurt Sonic. "Sonic..." she spoke sadly under her breath. She was slightly startled when the vibration from her phone slightly shook the table. Her eyes shifted back over to the phone that was set across from her. The vibration was a reminder that she still had an unread text message. "The message...I forgot..." She picked the phone off of the table and held it in her hand. She slightly turned her head back to Shadow. "Hey, Shadow? Did you get some kind of message from Miss Wish?" She watched him flick the remainder of his cigarette off from the balcony window and didn't bother to face her.
"No..."
Sally looked back at the phone in her hands and wondered if Shadow didn't hear anything from Sarah then why would she just message her? "I wonder what's going on. It's not like her to send out messages at this hour."
Shadow slightly turned his head to her and saw her beginning to read the message.
When Sally began to read the message, her eyes immediately widened and her heart raced. She tried to hold her composure and not seem alarmed. With her hand slightly shaking, she placed the phone back down on the table and slowly shifted her eyes over to knife that was set on the other end of the table. She took a deep breath and quickly lunged out towards the knife to grab it. Once she placed her hand on the knife, Shadow's hand had slammed down on top of hers causing her to not move it. When he slammed his hand down onto hers roughly she cried out, "Damn it!"
With an evil smirk on his face, he leaned close to her and growled in a low tone. "Too slow, Princess."
When she looked back at his face, she didn't know how she didn't notice it before. The pupils in his eyes were a lot slimmer and she could see his fangs flashing within his smirk. Now it made sense when she felt that cold and dark aurora from before. It was him. The horrible feeling had came from him. "Damn you! You're not Shadow!"
"I am Shadow. The real Shadow." When he felt her trying to struggle to get his grip off of her, he roughly grabbed her wrist and forcefully threw her body across the room and made her back hit the wall.
While on the floor, she clenched her fists angrily. How could she not have seen this earlier? Everything was so clear now. His strange actions and words should have given everything away. However, she was thrown off that he was still working his work attire and figured his sudden presence was some kind of emergency deal with The Council. Her eyes angrily looked down at the floor, "You...you knew about the message that was sent out for the Council members."
He took the cell phone out of the pocket of his black jeans and held it up towards her. On the screen was the exact same message Sally had received from Sarah. "Sarah's a stupid bitch. She sent out a mass text to the entire Council and forgot to take me off of the forward list."
She looked back up towards him to see him showing her the message on his phone and gritted her teeth angrily. She didn't understand how Sarah could have forgotten to take Shadow's name off of the list. Perhaps she was in a hurry to issue out the message due to everyone's safety. That completely back lashed on her end.
"I knew about the message the moment she sent it out to everyone. It was just sheer luck to run into you when you knew nothing about it at the time."
"Damn you!" She watched him place the phone back in the pocket of his jeans. She didn't understand. What made him want to come after her and right after he apparently turned? "Why did you come here? To kill me?"
His smirk had then turned into a calming yet sinister smile, "If that's what you want..." Before he gave her a chance to stand from the floor, he grabbed her by her wrist and easily tossed her body onto the bed.
Before she could get off from the bed, he had set his body on top of hers and had his hand around her neck. His grip around her was secure but it wasn't gripped around her hard enough to choke her. She slightly flinched when she heard him whisper harshly into her ear.
"No...I already gave you what you wanted..."
She winced as she felt his tongue slowly lick the side of her neck. She just knew he was planning to kill her.
With a small laugh, he faced her and slightly licked his lips. "You know I wasn't lying when I said you tasted sweet. I'll admit it was rather hard for me to keep my shit together while I fucked you. I was so tempted to just start ripping into your flesh with my teeth."
She wanted to try to fight him off of her but at that point what could she do? One wrong move and he could easily break her neck. "Why? Why are you doing this?"
"I just thought I'd do you a favor. You clearly wanted to fuck me." He laughed evilly under his breath, "Hey I was gonna just fucking have my way with you regardless...but you made it so fucking easy for me! I never thought you'd open your legs so willingly. God you're such a fucking slut."
Her eyes shifted from his as his words cut her deeper than anything ever could have.
"I never thought I'd feel bad for that blue idiot. You? A princess? Of what? You're a fucking joke. You're nothing but a cheap fuck."
She flinched when she felt his lips press against the side of her head. "Please stop...", she whimpered.
His grip tightened around her neck before he slammed her head back down on the bed. He looked into her eyes with a cold and menacing glare. "Just know this, the next time I fuck you, it won't be very pleasurable on your end, Princess!" He took his body from hers and grabbed her by her wrist to throw her back down onto the floor.
She fell to the floor harshly and looked up at him walking towards her. She groaned in a low tone, "God you're going to kill me..."
He stood in front of her and placed his hands in the pockets of his black jeans. "Kill you? No...not yet. I actually wanted you to deliver a little message to Sarah and the rest of The Council..." He kneeled down in front of her and made sure he exposed his fangs to her. "Consider this a warning...do not cross The Dark Alliance! And you know damn well not to get in my way! I'm not playing any fucking games and there will be dire consequences if you or anyone else gets ballsy and square up to me!" He took one hand out of his pocket and pointed his finger towards her. "And don't think you're going to get any special treatment! You come at me with your bullshit and I'll be sure to snap that pretty little neck of yours and fuck your dead corpse in front of so called boyfriend! You got that, Princess?"
She gave him a terrified look while her body slightly shook after hearing his threats. She then saw him standing away from her and walking towards the center of the bedroom.
He spun back around to turn to face her while his menacing red eyes locked with hers. "Chaos Control..."
After when she saw the flash of white light, she saw that he had suddenly disappeared and without a trace.
Author's Note: Hey, guys! Hope you all have been enjoying these past couple of updates! Next round I am planning to do a chapter bomb. I just have no idea when it'll be up. I doubt I'll post another update before Thanksgiving because my schedule from here on out will be a little hectic. But who knows? I may surprise you guys with a chapter or two.
Anyway, looks like Shadow found Sally and delivered her quite the message. How will The Council plan on stopping him and Rouge? And what does Shadow actually have planned with The Dark Alliance? Find out in a few weeks during the chapter bomb! Chapters 8-11 will hopefully be posted soon! Besides that if I don't see you guys beforehand, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving and I will see you all on the flipside!
In The Next Chapter...
Angel: Da-Darkness-san!?
Luthor: It's about time he showed up...
Shadow: I'll be sure no one stands in our way.
Scourge: This guy irritates me...
Sonic: Sally? Wha? What happened?
Sally:...
