Chapter eleven

"by who?!" Shadow shouted, shaking the man, "who's deceiving me?!"

But the man didn't respond, "please! You to tell me!" closing his eyes, Shadow stood up and looked at his blood covered dagger, the man was dead. Now he would never find out who was deceiving him, 'I hope It wasn't…' realization hit like a brick, "sonic!" he shouted and ran through the forest, "sonic!"

"I'm up here!"

He looked up and smiled slightly, "I thought I told you to run?"

"you did," he answered and jumped out of the tree, "but I hid well."

Shadow shook his head, "you fool."

"I get that a lot," he said with a smirk.

Shadow soon fell silent and Sonic followed, "Shadow, what's wrong?"

"we're being deceived!" Shadow answered, "someone called me in, they know that I'm here."

"so what do we do?"

"we runaway! Just me and you," he shouted, "no one else!"

"but I…" Sonic hesitated to start and, then, he sighed, "you wish to leave?" Shadow nodded, "then I'll help you. Together, we'll escape since we're both fugitives. If what you're saying is true and we're being deceived, then I'll come with you!"

'I got this strange feeling gripping at me,' Shadow thought, 'almost like…' smiling, Shadow took Sonic's hand, "thank you," he said, "it means a lot to me."

'his smile, it's so heart warming,' Sonic thought, 'it's strange, but I think I'm starting to really care about you, Shadow. When you told me you wanted to runaway with me, I felt happy,' he smiled, "to where?"

"anywhere," he answered, "I don't care as long as it's faraway from here."

"yes, faraway from here," he agreed with a soft smile, "we can go to the next town."

"Sounds good."

"Sonic!" the voice of the yellow, two-tailed kitsune called, running up to them, "you alright?!"

Sonic laughed and waved, "yeah, we're fine!" he called out.

Tails stopped, breathless, "good to hear," he said after a few seconds of silence, "I heard an explosion and saw a lot of soldiers. How'd they get here? How's Shadow? He's bleeding?"

Shadow placed a hand to his stomach, "I'm alright."

"Tails," Sonic began, "Shadow and I are leaving."

"leaving? Why? To where?" he questioned.

"Shadow and I are fugitives, we have to escape somewhere. Someone knew Shadow was here and called it in."

"you were deceived?" Tails questioned and Shadow nodded, "sonic? You have to listen to me! The SGHS took the chaos emeralds in for testing! They don't plan on returning them! When they find out…"

Sonic silenced him, "I understand. They'll use them to create a war much worse then the vampire one. They might use the power to erase everything evil off of Mobius. I'm sorry, Tails, but I can't help you."

Tails gasped, "Sonic!"

"listen, Shadow's life is on the line. I'm not running away because I'm a fugitive, but because of him!"

Shadow gasped and looked at Sonic with shock, "Sonic…"

He smiled, then, looked at Tails, "I'm sorry, bud."

"I…suppose if you have to…then good luck!"

Nodding with satisfaction, Sonic began to turnaround.

"wait! Sonic!" tails exclaimed and he faced the fox, 'take this," he handed him a cell phone, "my number is in it, call me sometime. So Knuckles and I know you're safe!"

Before Sonic could respond, Shadow took the phone and opened it, "is there any other numbers in it?" Tails shook his head, 'good," he faced Sonic.

"Thank you, Tails! You helped a lot," to Shadow, "well lets go."

Shadow nodded and he followed Sonic.