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Chapter 10

Amy had spent the evening lying on her couch as she thought about what had happened earlier that day.

She could remember the altercation that she had with Knuckles and Rouge, and how cold they appeared to be to her. She tried everything in her power to make amends with them, but they wouldn't budge. Claiming that as long as Mephiles was in her life, she would have no part in theirs.

When she had walked away she had hoped that the two would chase after her, only they had made up their mind and walked away.

Then Shadow had dropped by her apartment and had told her that he was convinced that Mephiles had only taken an interest in her because of Shadow's love for her; and Mephiles was willing to do anything to hurt him.

Amy tried to tell Shadow that Mephiles seemed to really love her and how happy she had been the last several months, only it would end with Shadow kissing her passionately on the lips before telling her that he would always protect her no matter what.

Ever since the kiss, she felt really torn. The kiss that Shadow had given her was quite the opposite from the kisses that Mephiles would give her. With Mephiles, she felt lust and passion. With Shadow, she felt warmth and protection; and she liked both of those feelings, but she could only choose one. Was Mephiles really the one she loved dearly or was Shadow the one that was right all along.

Amy was interrupted from her thoughts when she heard pounding on the door.

She quickly ran to the door.

"Who is it?" She asked.

"Rose! Please let me in!" Shadow could be heard frantically on the other side of the door.

"Shadow? It's late... What's wrong?" She asked.

"Amy it's important! Something horrible happened tonight!"

"What happened?" She asked.

"Sally was murdered!"

Amy's eyes widened as she opened the door to see Shadow covered in blood.

"Shadow...?!" She asked, frightened.

He rushed into her apartment.

"You have to listen to me Rose... Mephiles killed her. Mephiles told me all of his plans and Sally overheard us. He murdered her to make sure she wouldn't say a word." He said, panting.

Amy felt tears start to run down her cheeks.

"Shadow... Sally was pregnant..." She sobbed.

Shadow breathed deeply.

"I know... She mentioned that to him. She begged him to spare her and the baby and she promised she wouldn't tell anymore."

"Then why are you covered in her blood?" She asked, frightened.

Shadow's eyes widened. It was becoming clear to him that the pink hedgehog was starting to think that he may have murdered Sally.

"Amy... I didn't kill her... I was immobilized by that bastard as he stabbed her death. She lay dying in my arms as I waited for help to come. It was too late though."

The pink hedgehog started to back away from him.

"But you're covered in her blood!" She sobbed.

"I told you Amy, she died while I held her in my arms. She told me to protect you!"

"Well did anyone she this happen?!"

That's when Shadow realized, nobody had been in the back when all of this had taken place and were probably all on the dance floor downstairs. The only other person that had been there was the bouncer, but he had come long after Mephiles had gone and Sally had just bled out. It all became clear, all the evidence was against him.

Amy slowly started to back away.

"Shadow... I'm going to say this nicely but... please get out of my apartment..."

"Rose I didn't kill her! I swear!"

"Please get out of here!"

"Amy please! You have to trust me!"

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE!" She screamed, tears poured from her eyes.

Shadow immediately ran to the door, tears were falling from his own eyes.

"Rose I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..." Was the only thing he could say. He was gone.

Amy immediately locked the door, sobbing uncontrollably hard. This couldn't be the Shadow she knew; she didn't who this person that looked like the black hedgehog really was, but she knew this wasn't the person she thought she knew.

She then heard another knocking on the door.

"SHADOW GO AWAY!" She cried.

"IT'S THE POLICE MA'AM! WE NEED YOU TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS!"

Amy sighed before opening the door and allowing three police officers to enter the apartment.

"We're sorry to bother you ma'am, but have you seen or have been in contact with Shadow the Hedgehog tonight?"

Amy gasped, she already knew.

"Why? What happened?" She asked, her voice shaky.

"We believe that he may have been responsible for the murder of Sally Acorn."

Amy could only blurt our sobs; all of what she had seen now had come together.

"Ma'am I know this may be hard, but we would really appreciate if you could tell us everything you know." The lead officer said, sympathetically.

Amy breathed deeply to try to calm herself down.

"Shadow...sob... came here... He told me what happened to Sally... sob... he claimed that my boyfriend did that to her... but he was covered in her blood... I forced him out... sob..."

"So he's not here?"

"Not anymore..."

The officer sighed.

"Thank you for the information, ma'am. If we need anymore information, we'll let you know okay?"

She nodded.

"Let's go, boys." The officers were gone.

Amy sat at the corner of the living room.

She couldn't help but wonder: was everything she ever knew a lie, all along? Was her infatuation with Sonic only because of how popular and heroic he was? Was her any of her friendships only based on what they could all offer each other; and the worst of all, was Shadow claiming that he changed his ways all those years ago only because he had learned to hide his murderous tendencies so way and only now they were starting to become more noticeable again?

Once more she heard a pounding on the door again.

"Whoever it is, go away!" She cried.

"It's me, my love. Please open the door." Mephiles could be heard on the other side.

Amy breathed a huge sigh of relief and immediately ran to the door, letting the monstrous hedgehog inside.

"Oh Mephiles I'm so glad you're here! Shadow was just here, and he was covered in Sally's blood!" She cried.

He looked down on her.

"Then you already have heard?" He asked.

"I guess so..."

"Poor Shadow... He seemed to go completely off the deep end. He murdered an innocent bystander, all because of jealously."

Amy looked up to his eyes.

"He claimed that you murdered Sally after you taunted him.

Mephiles pretended to look offended.

"Of course he would try to put the blame on somebody else... He wanted somebody to blame for his rage. Especially after what transpired before the incident."

"What happened?"

"I was at the supper club earlier this evening having some dinner when Shadow out of nowhere just burst into the back room. He was furious at me because of my relationship with you. He claimed that I had just swooped and took you away from him and that I was just flaunting our relationship just to spite him. He claimed that if I didn't stop seeing that he would kill me. Sally had overheard the conversation and started screaming at Shadow for being so jealous and for accusing me of things I didn't do. The two then go into a heated debate and I didn't want to get involved with argument that I decided to leave. Had I known that Shadow was going to stab a pregnant woman to death, I would have stayed and tried to change the outcome." He explained, perfectly controlling his voice to make it sound grief stricken.

Amy wrapped her arms around him.

"Oh Mephiles, I know you would have done everything in your power to help Sally had you known Shadow was going to do that."

He pulled her closer to me.

"It hurts me most of all that he would threaten to hurt because a feeling of childish rejection; but I knew you would believe and trust me."

"Why wouldn't I?"

Amy pulled away from Mephiles and went over to couch, turning on the television. To her surprise the news was on.

"We are interrupting this broadcast to bring this special report..."

The screen changed to a female journalist standing in the middle of the street with dozens of cars everywhere.

"Channel 7 news reporting live in Station Square's entertainment Distract as upcoming new reports that follow GUN agent Shadow the Hedgehog has just been arrested for the murder of Sally Acorn."

Amy gasped.

"So it was true?"

Mephiles sat beside her; keeping his sinister glee deep within him."

The journalist continued.

"Earlier this evening, it was reported that Shadow the Hedgehog had been in Station Square's supper club and had appeared to have a heated argument with deceased, resulting in the victim receiving multiple stab that killed her and her unborn baby."

Amy covered her ears as she didn't want to hear anymore of the story. Mephiles pulled her hands away from her ears, gently holding her tightly.

"You need to hear all of this, you need to know what Shadow has done..."

Amy turned her tear stained face back to the tv.

"Just a few minutes ago, the station has received video footage of the attack, and we are about to play you back the attack; and viewer discretion is advised..."

The screen changed to the video footage of the incident which only showed a black and white image of what was actually Mephiles walking towards Sally who was lying on the ground, with a look of horror on her face. Shadow was conveniently not on the camera image to Mephiles' delight. Sally appeared to be begging for her life as Mephiles pulled out the dagger and began to stab the anthro over and over again. Blood was gushing everywhere as Amy watched with horror as she saw one of her friends being killed right on screen. After a good few minutes the stabbing stopped and the hedgehog left for a few seconds to return and simply place the dying Sally in his arms and just hold completely still; appearing to everyone who was watching he wasn't doing a thing to help her. Sally's eyes were dimming but she they were slowly closing, one could see the look of horror in them when she stared into the eyes of the hedgehog that was holding her. Once she appeared dead, the footage was cut.

The scene shifted back to the journalist.

"Police have just caught the black hedgehog and are now transferring him to Gun's High Security Fortress in the Blue Mountains; where he will be placed in solitary confinement while under extreme security."

The camera panned to several officers holding onto a handcuffed Shadow and leading him to a security truck. The black hedgehog had a look of rage on his face but you could see that that there were also tears in his eyes all while screaming he was innocent and was being framed.

"Stay tuned for further information." It went to commercial.

Amy immediately turned the television off.

"Shadow... why...?" She whispered, softly.

"You know what they say: it's always the quiet ones that snap." Mephiles sighed.

"I always knew he had a cold edge to him, but I didn't think he was capable of something of this caliber."

Mephiles brought the pink maiden closer to him.

"Don't you feel better now you had found me instead?" He purred.

Amy smiled slightly.

"A little bit... But it still breaks my heart, though..."

"I would image that it would be hard to discover that person you have known for so long was capable of doing something like this."

Amy stood up.

"I don't want to talk about it anymore, let's go out and do something."

Mephiles chuckled.

"That doesn't sound like a bad idea; it seems the atmosphere in here is to on edge."

The two walked out of the apartment; leaving all of the darkness behind them.

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