Chapter 10 - Vampire and Vampire hunter
There was a small yet strong silence as Rouge began inspecting the cameras that watched the door constantly, a red light that flickered every few seconds seemed to show that they had not been affected by the power shut off, possibly running on a separate supply of power. Shadow still remained quiet as he stood at the side of the white bat and watched on with monotony at the tedious silence that danced among the room like an annoying child to him.
"So how do you suppose we get inside without being noticed?" The hedgehog then questioned as he straightened himself up, growing increasingly bored of standing around. The bat too expected the challenge to be a difficult one, and a soft noise stopped her from replying as Rouge checked her wrist radio.
"Rouge, have you got to the top floor yet? is Shadow there?" The wolf at the other end asked, the hedgehog walking over to rouge and leaning over at the mention of his name. She turned and looked at the hedgehog as he did so and back at her communicator.
"Yeah, he's right here next to me, we're currently waiting outside the room doors." She told as Shadow nodded confidently, surly the wolf would be able to aid the situation as Shadow knew they had faced far worse, opening a door without being seen was something that could quit easily be done with a little help from there friend.
"Alright, I followed your map as best I could and I'm on the 5th floor right now, and I'm on my way up via the elevator shafts as soon as I get there." Rouge smiled and looked at Shadow who walked back over to the wall, Rex hearing his footsteps walking away. "Rouge, keep an eye Shadow. If he starts acting strange try and avoid talking or turning your back on him." Rex advised. "If he does slip don't listen to anything he may say or try to do to you." Rouge nodded confidently and looked back over to the hedgehog.
Shadow leaned all his weight on one leg as he rested himself against the wall, chilling to the touch, right side of the room cold room. He had started to feel light and easier since he had began scaling the elevator shaft, and the closer he got to the doors a few feet away, the better he felt. For the first time in a while he felt calm and at ease, and very light-headed, but that would soon change.
"I suspected that this would be a little more of a challenge." He commented with a slight laugh as he gazed at the bat who had ended her convocation, and then he looked at the door. In his head he was questioning weather that door was an ordinary door, or perhaps something more challenging and dangerous lay beyond it, something more up to his considerable entertaining standards. Like a few feet of metal barricades, insinuating lasers, armed guards maybe? No, he gladly welcomed the idea of armoured robots of grate speed and power, large armoured tanks and heavily armed soldiers out numbering them and for him to wait, just for the last second so he could massacre them all, turning the city into a graveyard of bloody scrap metal and human parts if he had to.
"Shadow?" The white bat questioned for the 8th time starting to get frustrated with the attempts to get the hedgehogs attention and silence his strange behaviour. Her call finally answered with a gaze of annoyance from Shadow along with a slight groan to know what his name was summoned for.
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Meanwhile Rex tampered with his communicator as he attempted to get a signal to the Red echidna and the grey vixen, but got nothing but pointless static from the small device.
With a deep sigh of defeat, the wolf decided to give up on his pointless attempts and wanted to try and find his way to the elevator shaft as soon as possible, knowing that the hedgehog hadn't had his usual daily sleep or feed in more than 24 hours would probably cause problems. But nevertheless, he had to get to the elevator.
He turned himself sharply to one side causing an extremely irritating pain to shake his body, originating from his bandaged shoulder, a painful reminder that his wound was indeed still there. "Damn." He uttered to himself as he roughly capped his hand over it and squeezing it slightly as an attempt to ease the pain but only seemed to make it worse, removing it after a moment to a realisation that a seemingly large amount of blood was seeping threw the thin layer of fabric. "Oh damn, that's not good."
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About 2 minutes later the ebony hedgehog stood only a foot or two besides the bat as he watched, scanner her physique with his lifeless red eyes, he begged silently in his mind for some kind of entertainment to relieve from his constant boredom. It would be so easy to take her life right at that moment as she was alone in the room with him, nothing but the blank metal walls and the dark abyss of the elevator shaft that watched them.
He shook his head quickly. What was he thinking? Why? He didn't dare wish to think like that about his friend. Mentally shaking himself back to reality the hedgehog was almost taken aback by the sudden feeling that coursed his thoughts like an out of control train, like a wash of coldness that seemed to drain him of reason and emotion, as a light and familiar scent of something tickled his nose. Blood.
"Are you feeling alright? Its like your fine and then you just zone out every now and then." Rouge spoke as she cocked her head to one side getting the hedgehogs attention. He huffed in objection as he folded his arms and tried his best to ignore her and the delicious aroma that only added to his sudden craving and attempted to focus, but he wouldn't be able to just ignore it. As hard as he tried there would always be that one part of him that wouldn't allow him off that easily.
His stubbornness didn't surprise her but it made her feel slightly uneasy. "If your not killing or reading something then your just not satisfied are you." The bat growled with frustration as she stood herself up, taking her icy turquoise eyes away from his fiery red orbs that seemed to burn with nothing but hatred for other beings, not able to detect his crimson eyes flash an almost pitch black as she began walking towards the door once more.
She then felt something cold and firm being placed against her waist, checking to see what it was she then noticed that it was a familiar gloved hand. Another then being placed around her throat as she realised who's it was. His fingers slowly arranging themselves into a comfortable yet tight position as the bat drew breath in shock, the tightness making breathing a difficult task to perform, but she was able to accumulate words from the limited quantity of air she could get at a slight struggle.
"There are lots of things that satisfy me, Rouge." Came the whisper of a malice voice in her ear, cold and thoughtless unlike that she had just herd a moment ago from the ebony hedgehog, she realised this was something she had feared from the hedgehog, the inner demon that would do anything to escape it's immortal prison at any cost. The hedgehog hushed a growl deep in his vocal cords as he pressed his obscure form firmly against hers. The bat froze as she felt his grip around her neck tighten thus creating a sharp pain, but his grip soon loosened after he realised she couldn't breath from his actions. He didn't want to harm the young batgirl, her heart-beat quickening only tempting him more, he couldn't help himself.
"Sh-Shadow calm down.." The bat whispered shallowly in a small hope that her friend was still listening, but got no reply. Screaming out for help was an option as the demonic creature behind her had slowly relieved himself of the chance of choking the girl, but they both knew that it wouldn't help her, her cries only falling on deaf ears if she attempted it. He welcomed her screams or struggle for her life. Maybe it would help him jog his sense of reason, or just add to his enjoyment of the little game further.
"What to do? Struggle, beg, scream?" The hedgehog smirked as he listened closely, leaning his drooling fangs over her shoulder so that both their faces were align with each other as he made his desired request and awaited her answer. "How about a heart-warming brake down into tears?" He spoke harshly in a mocking and uncaring tone, knowing that he could quite easily accomplish that. The bat remained silent in constant fear of how long his slip of madness would last before he came to his senses.
But it wouldn't matter, he quickly lowered his fangs to her delicate peace skin, piecing the surface like a hot knife threw butter with the result of his action being his much desired reward. Rouge winced in pain as she felt the tears build up in her eyes and slowly make a river that ran down her cheeks. Much like the rich ruby flood that emerged from the small entrances to her neck, which his sharp canines had created, that formed a stream of crimson that overflowed his mouth and drizzled down his muzzle and her shoulder, small droplets of the red substance falling to the floor like raindrops.
Rouge felt light and dizzy at a sudden moment that hit her like a wave over her body, her mind hoping that this was all some bad dream, or at this point the twisted cruelty of her own childish nightmares, but unfortunately for her it was neither. She could feel her legs become weaker below her as she held onto the dark hedgehog's arm as support, waiting and hoping that any second the ordeal would end, not needing acute hearing to be able to hear her own blood being swallowed up in large and deep gulps that seemed to echo threw her body louder and louder each time.
The strong delectable taste against Shadow's tongue gave him a feeling of relief and ecstasy as he swirled his tongue around her bleeding wounds as to savour the moment that seemed to drag on for minutes, until something caught his attention that silenced the demonic hedgehog.
"Shadow!" A strange voice called from behind him. His ears flickered at the sound that had disturbed his meal as he lifted his head. A light 'thwip' of something travelling threw the air at a lightning fast speed caught his attention but before he could comprehend it a small pain in the back of his shoulder and then he realised it. A small silver dart. Immediately it began to irritate him as the pain began to spread into a wave of burning, soon accompanied by too more small darts that caused him to release his tight hold on the white batgirl whom fell to the unforgiving steel floor.
Taking a deep growl in discomfort, Shadow slumped himself down to the floor as he sat himself upon the metal tiles as he removed the three small oddities that had embedded themselves into the flesh of his arm. All but a burning sensation quickly disappearing into the back of his mind along with his vision and consciousness.
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"Shadow?" The white bat called in a hoarse voice as she opened her eyes with a slight flicker and looked up at the shady silhouette she could make out in front of her, finding that talking was still an extremely hard task to accomplish.
"Don't worry Rouge, he wont wake up for a while." The bat quickly turned at the strange voice that was completely alien to her, and the sudden mention of her name.
"Who are you, what's going on?" She spoke sitting herself up quickly but having a aching pain spread her body as she leaned herself back onto the floor and awaited her eyes to adjust, only to see a hooded figure at her side.
"Easy, don't rush yourself. You where bitten by your hedgehog friend, but it's nothing to worry about for now. As for him… just give him fifteen minutes and he should be back on his feet." He finished with an assuring toothy smile, patting Rouge's shoulder causing her to notice a small collar type of bandage over the wound on her neck. He sighed and walking towards the other member of the room, Shadow.
"Who are you?" Rouge questioned again in frustration as the figure turned to face her once more, removing his hood and intern his cloak. Rouge's eyes widened as she took a step back. "Who the hell?" She questioned in confusion as she looked upon the figure in front of her that took on almost an exact resemblance of her wolf friend, except his fur was a snowy white.
"As it seems you need a friend in this moment in time I shall assist you as your friend." He spoke as she turned to the side of the wolf. He nodded and reached down to his belt, removing a small switchblade of sorts. "But you can call me Zero. I'm a vampire hunter, shame I got here to late to prevent the vampire from biting you. He is truly a fast and dangerous foe."
He almost seemed to growl in disappointment to himself but turned back to Rouge and smiled as she brought herself to her feet, using the wall as a guide. She felt very weak and light-headed as images of the incident replayed itself in her mind like a fussy broken record.
Her mind thought about it for a moment as she steadied herself into balance so that she could stand, unaware of how close she was to fainting, but she didn't have time to complain about how she felt as she stumbled to the white wolf's side.
"Is he ok?" She spoke after a few short breaths. The wolf turned his head to face the still unconscious hedgehog and nodded gradually. She smiled lightly as he turned back to face her. "Zero. Thank you."
She took a moment to examine her knew ally as she looked closely at his glowing blue eyes that seemed kind and caring, but at the same time saddened and lonely, reminding her of the ebony hedgehog's eyes. She cast her gaze down at the strange gun of sorts that lie snugly tucked away in his belt along with a few other things, supposing it was something that he had used to temporarily calm Shadow.
"I see, you must be a friend of Rex the wolf." Rouge said pointing to communicator that was almost identical to the one she, Rex and Cass held position of. The smaller things that were also connected to his long dark blue jacket like ammunition consisting of small silver darts, to bullets and arrows, suggesting that he took his profession extremely seriously and was experienced in these sorts of cases.
"Ah, well you see that's just the person I was looking for."
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Ok rather short chapter again, but I've had to write this up in the school library (again with my friend's help) but I managed to get a chance to read up on some cool books like twilight and saw… anyway, enough of my obsessions with vampirism and gory stories, hope ya enjoy this short chapter. I shall be uploading the next one in a short time once I get my computer up and running.