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Chapter 10: Cold Light

Sonic grunted and shivered as he shook the cold iron bars of his small cage. He was freezing cold, still hungry and, even though he'd never admit it, he was scared stiff. Normally he'd scold himself for thinking that but now he knew who Shadow was and what he does. Sonic quickly reached into his rucksack and pulled out a paper clip.

He started picking at the lock as he glanced over at Sally and saw she was starting to wake up.

"Sal!" He whispered.

"Sonic? She mumbled as the fog cleared from her mind. "W-What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see you; I went to your room but you weren't there, then this Rotor kid gave me some maps when I told him I'm going to confront The Dame."

"You what?!"

"Sal, she's the one responsible for this, she needs to stop!"

"But Sonic, she's-"

Suddenly the door about two hundred feet below them screeched open, allowing a beam of light to leak into the cold, dark prison. Sally and the few other children whimpered and curled up as Knuckles and Shadow stepped into the room. It must of been too dark for them to see the blue hedgehog held up in the cage.

"Are you sure about this?" The echidna asked as he walked over to one of the many levers.

"Yes." Shadow replied coldly.

Knuckles sighed and pulled down one of the levers. Sally screamed when her cage was suddenly dropped down until it almost touching the ground. When the adrenaline faded, she almost screamed again when she saw Shadow's glowing red eyes glaring down at her.

"Where is he?" He snarled.

"W-Who?"

"Where is Sonic!?" He shouted as he grabbed the cage, causing her to cry out.

"Shadow! Enough!" Knuckles exclaimed as he pulled the ebony hedgehog away from the crying chipmunk.

"No! Sonic's run around this place alone! He'll be cold and hungry and scared! I need to find him!"

"I know that but shouting and screaming at a child isn't going to help!" Knuckles shouted.

Shadow was panting and gasping for air as if he had just ran a marathon. The ebony hedgehog let out a threatening growl before storming out the room, punching the metal wall as he went. Knuckles sighed before he pulled the lever and Sally gasped when her cage rose back up before he left as well.

"Are you OK?" Sonic asked once it was silent.

She just nodded her head, too shaken up to speak. Sonic quickly returned to picking the lock until he heard a click and the door swung open. He started to swing the small cage until he built up enough momentum and jumped over to Sally's cage. She gasped when her cage lurched forward as he grabbed onto the bars.

"Hang on Sal, I'll get you out." He said and moved to the lock.

"No!" She cried, much to his shock. "I'm already in enough trouble, you need to get out of here! I'll be alright." She smiled weakly. Sonic wanted to protest, but he knew there was no point arguing with her. He quickly reached into his rucksack and pulled out a small lighter.

"Shadow and Knuckles' have a bunch of these things, I know it's not much but it'll give you warmth and light." He smiled as he pushed the lighter through the bars and into her hand.

"T-Thank you." She smiled, close to tears.

He smiled back as he started looking around for an exit. It was too far for him to jump and there was no way for him to climb down. He looked up and saw some large pipes close to the roof almost next to some vents. He gave Sally one last smirked before climbing up the chain. He then crawled across the pipes and into the nearest vent.

Once he was safe in the vent, he pulled out the maps.

He groaned when he saw that to get to The Dame's home he'd have to go through the kitchens. He could just take the elevator to get upstairs, but he knew that if he didn't want to be found he'd have to be sneaky. He started crawling through the vents when he came into a room full of giant bags and crates sat in some kind of rail line.

He realised he was in the room full of the freshly caught fish.

He knew these crates went up to the kitchen. Groaning, he slowly climbed into the crates full of wrapped fish and made sure that the bags covered his body so no one could see him. He frozen when he heard someone enter the room. He took a quick peek through one of the cracks of the crates and saw Blaze walking around, checking the crates.

Thankfully she didn't check them all.

As she left she pressed a button on the wall and the crates started moving along the tracks. Heading straight to the kitchens...