Chapter Ten

Strange Behaviour

As the days went by, Rouge tried to carry on as normal, but she was so worried about her lover, as each day went by, Shadow would act strangely and odd. Once Rouge caught him sniffing her again when she was looking out the window and when she asked him, he again made an excuse saying he was smelling her warm scent.

Each time he did it, Rouge enjoyed it at first, feeling his cold black nose nuzzle her and his pink tongue flicker behind her ear making her giggle, but then she would get a little scared when he began to sniff her again, almost hungrily. Also everytime he held her body close to him she could feel that his nails were sharper than normal.

One night about almost a week and a half after the attack, Rouge was sitting in the living room, she was reading a large book that had jewels in them, Rouge always enjoyed looking at jewels and also pictures of jewellery, it made her feel happy and made her forget her worries.

Just then she heard the door open, then she heard frantic running up the stairs, she turned to the dark hallway to see Shadow zip up the stairs very quickly, Rouge's eyes widened, something wasn't right, she turned and ran up the stairs as fast as she could, hoping to find Shadow.

She then heard crying in the bedroom, she looked in and saw Shadow stumbling into the bathroom, "Shad!" she cried, she ran in and saw him collapse on the floor. "Shadow!" she ran over to touch him, then she saw his hands, they were soaked in blood!

"OH MY GOD!" she cried, Shadow pulled away from her, "keep away from me!" he cried, "what happened?!?" cried Rouge, "I'm a monster!" shouted Shadow "I'm a fucking monster!" Rouge stood frozen in shock as Shadow turned to lean against the bathtub, his hands were covered in blood and his shirt and his chin were bloodied up and he had tears streaming from his eyes.

"Shadow!" Rouge cried, "w...w…what did you do!?!" Shadow looked up at her, tears streaming from his eyes, "I…I…." he choked, spluttering up blood, "I killed a Chao" Rouge's eyes went wide, "What!" she cried, "how!?! When!?!" Where is it!?!"

Shadow looked up at her again hiccupping, "outside…" he spluttered, Rouge quickly helped him to his feet and began to use a flannel to wipe his mouth and hands clean, Shadow then lead her outside to the sidewalk, he then pointed to some bushes by the road.

Rouge walked over and looked at what was there, she then felt sick to the stomach, there was a Chao, it was a pink and white Chao but it was dead and it was disembowelled and it's head was ripped off. She walked away in a dazed and held her chest and throat trying not to throw up.

She looked at Shadow who sat there with his knees pulled up to his chest, "Wh…what…am I?" he stammered, Rouge walked over and cuddled him, "Shadow…" she whispered, "please…" "What am I?" said Shadow again, "what have I become" "Shhh Shhh" whispered Rouge, "please calm down"

Shadow then turned and wrapped his arms around her sobbing, Rouge felt her heart break for him, "I love you Shadow" she whispered "I know you are not a monster, and I promise you, I won't breathe a word…" she kissed his forehead and held him closer "come on baby" she whispered "lets go back inside" Shadow nodded and with Rouge's help he stood up and they walked back into the mansion.

As they walked back inside, Rouge lead Shadow to the sofa and wrapped a velvet blanket around him, Shadow held it around him shaking; Rouge then sat next to him and held him close trying to comfort him. As she cuddled him, she began thinking about what had happened.

"I can't tell the Sonic Team about this" she thought "they'll be on Shadow like a bunch of Nazis, especially Knuckles" she thought about the red echidna and knew that he and Shadow didn't get on. "I can keep this secret" she whispered to herself, "I can keep it, I won't breathe a word, I will help my lover, and I'll do anything possible to help him"

Oh dear...Shadow's truly turning! Poor little Chao....

Let me know what you think! Sorry it took so long.

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