Chapter eleven

Three weeks later, in hell…

"Right lets see the quivering mess in that pit shall we." The king evilly grinned as he ordered his guards to start lifting up the cage.

They obeyed and pulled on the chains. Shadow was sitting against the bars, with his legs stretched out and staring at the other end of the cage, when he suddenly felt it moving upwards. He didn't move and just kept looking out with a scared expression. It took a good fifteen minutes for the cage to be seen from above the pit and once it was out, the guards moved it and placed it on the ground. One opened the cage as the other grabbed Shadow by the arm and pulled him out onto his feet, making him stand in front of his father.

"What no shivering? How disappointing." The king shook his head in annoyance.

Shadow growled with narrowed eyes at his father, yeah he was scared but only three weeks down there wasn't long enough for him to break. The king frowned deeply then grabbed his sons chin and pulled in closer.

"You dare growl at me?" He spat out with gritted teeth.

"I dare father, I dare…I really must thank you, being down there has given me time to think. You really believe I will do as you say when you treat me like I'm nothing. Maybe if you didn't beat me and torture me so much, we would get along." Shadow seriously said as he looked at his father dead in the eyes, not that he had a chose to.

"You shouldn't have tried to run away and done as I asked of you. Punishing you is what's needed to keep you in line. I will not have my son stab me in the back and defile my orders." The king growled as he tightened his hold on Shadows chin, making Shadow hiss as claws dug into him.

"I have no desire stabbing you in the back and never will. I only tried to run away because of how you treat me. There hasn't been one single day where you haven't made me bleed, not counting the seventeen years away from hell." Shadow replied with a raging fire in his eyes as he was beginning to feel angry and frustrated with his father.

"How about a deal then son, I'll stop my punishments and you do what I made you for." The king chuckled as he saw Shadows eyes widen in fear.

"N-no I wont kill innocent people." Shadow whispered out and was roughly released.

"Then no deal son, oh how I'm going to enjoy watching you bleed yet again." The king smirked as he grabbed Shadows arm and pulled him back to the palace.

"You can do whatever you want with me, it wont change a thing." Shadow said as he was forced to follow.

"Oh I beg to differ my son. What I'm about to do will break you into submission for sure." The king replied with a deadly serious tone.

"Y-your not going to…but you can't." Shadow gasped and tried to pull out of his fathers grip but the king had a firm hold.

"Stop this Shadow you are making a mockery of yourself." The king growled as they entered the palace and down into the lower levels where the dungeons were.

"You can't do this." Shadow pleaded as he was being forced to sit in an iron chair with strong leather straps.

Shadow was securely in place with the straps over his wrists, ankles and forehead. He looked to the left where there was a trolley holding many torturing tools and devices. He glanced over to the other side and widened his eyes at the sight of Jazz holding a very sharp knife in his hands, smirking darkly at Shadow.

"Now, I know this is very unorthodox and never done to a demon as powerful as yourself but you have left me with no choice. Jazz is going to be very slow in his work so brace yourself for a lot of pain." The king said with a deep frown and crossed arms as he glared unhappily at Shadow.

"G-go ahead and do your worse, it will all be for nothing." Shadow spat back regardless of how much he was scared.

"Jazz you may began…make him scream." The demon king chuckled as Jazz took a step forward.

"With pleasure, my Lord." Jazz smirked a toothy smirk and moved his knife closer towards Shadow.

Hedgehog residents…

"Only one more week to go." Sonic thought as he walked into his house with a smile after coming back from visiting his friends.

"Sonic your back…come into the kitchen." Amy smiled then linked his arm and forced him to walk with her.

"O-ok sure…like I have a choice." Sonic grinned at his sisters behaviour.

They made it to the kitchen and Sonic raised a brow at his sister, wondering why she wanted him to come here.

"Sit here." Amy instructed with a grin, watching Sonic shrug and take a seat.

Amy dashed off back through the kitchen entrance door, leaving a very confused Sonic up the kitchen table.

"Is she on drugs or something?" Sonic thought as he scratched his head.

A couple of minutes later Alfred entered with a smile and sat opposite Sonic.

"I have some good news for you and I have some bad news for you, which do you want me to tell you first?" Alfred grinned yet held a serious tone.

"Ok hit me with the bad news so the good news will sound more good." Sonic shrugged then paid attention.

"The bad news is Shadow isn't doing so well. Remember when I said I can glimpse into hell, I did this morning and what I saw was horrific. The king is really clutching at straws and doing absolutely anything to break Shadow. Right now as we speak, Shadow is strapped to a chair being tortured like some condemned soul…there is so much blood and his screams are going to stay with me for centuries." Alfred shivered at the image he had seen.

"At least he's fighting his father I guess, and the good news?" Sonic deadpanned, not wanting to hear any of that.

"Hur, oh yes right. We are ready to collect your blood and store it away to keep it fresh." Alfred smiled happily at the hedgehog.

"Alfred, how is that good news? I hate needles." Sonic shook his head and sighed in despair.

"Ah, sorry I did not know of that…if it helps it wont take no more that twenty minutes." Alfred said in a matter-of-fact tone and smile.

"Yeah great, can't wait." Sonic sarcastically cheered as he rolled his eyes

"I thought you said you hated needles?" Alfred asked with a confused look.

"I was being sarcastic, can we just go and get it over with please." Sonic slapped his forehead in disbelief then stood up from his seat.

In hell, torture chamber under the palace…

"Had enough yet my son?" The demon king mocked with sick delight as he watched with amusement at the blooded being in the chair.

Shadow was breathing heavily with slashes all over his body and burn marks to his arms and thighs. One of his ears were torn and a deep gash was down one side of his face, starting from the corner of his eye right down to his jaw line. His body mattered with his blood and bleeding from every deep open wound.

"AHHHA!" Shadow screamed when Jazz slowly stabbed a long sharp knife into his stomach then twisted it all the way around, yanking it out with such a force that blood splattered on Jazz's chest.

"I want to hear you beg for mercy Shadow, I can't here any begging." The demon king once again mocked with delight, laughing a little as Shadow screamed once more.

Jazz had once again slashed the knife but this time across Shadows collarbone, making some of the bone visible. Yeah it was that deep. Jazz put the knife down on the trolley and picked up something else. Shadows eyes widened with fear at the device he chose to use next.

"N-no not that." Shadow croaked out then braced himself for the blow.

Jazz had a handheld rusty saw, mostly used to chop down annoying branches or wood, and lightly placed it on Shadows arm below the elbow joint. With slow movements Jazz started sawing his arm. The pain was too much and Shadow screamed loud. Jazz kept sawing until he was half way through Shadows bone. He lifted the saw and moved to Shadows other arm and did the same thing.

"Ahha…please no more, stop please. I'm sorry, I'm sorry father please no more." Shadow cried out in agony as he felt waves of pain spread all over his body, making him feel sick to the stomach.

"Aright Jazz you may stop now." The demon king chuckled sinisterly at his sons pleas to stop.

Jazz did one more sawing movement then lifted it away. He chucked it on the trolley and stood back to admire his work. The king approached his son and held Shadows head up by the chin.

"Now my son, I will have no trouble from you and you will obey me. If you don't I'll have Jazz over there doing this to you every day for a decade." The king warned in a firm tone then let go of Shadows chin.

"Y-yes father…as you wish." Shadow whispered breathlessly as his straps were being undone by Jazz.

Shadow was dragged to his room by two large guards holding him up, linking Shadows upper arms in theirs, making a blood trail across the floor as Shadows legs were sliding along limply. When they reached Shadows room, he was thrown onto the bed face down roughly. The door was locked shut and Shadow was left alone to heal and rest. The next day Shadow was fully healed and sitting on the edge of his bed, looking over to the far side of the wall. His gaze held little to no emotion and his eyes were glassed over with nothingness. His door was unlocked and opened by the king, who smirked as he walked over to his son. He stood beside him and laid a hand on Shadows shoulder gently.

"Shadow my son, it's time to prepare you for your purpose." The king announced with glee then dropped his hold.

"Yes father." Shadow replied with little emotion and stood up.

They both walked out and down the hallways of the palace until they reached an open area. There was five large guards the king had made last night for his son to destroy.

"I want you to destroy those guards and don't hold anything back. I also want you to kill each of them in a different way. You can use whatever technique you like but they don't make it out of this arena alive, understand?" The king ordered with a smirk.

"Yes father, it will be my pleasure." Shadow smirked back as he bowed his head then walked to the middle of the arena, stopping in front of the five large guards.

(Got this done quicker than expected, yay if you are one of the fans to this story...Hope you enjoyed the chap and I know, it was a little dark wasn't it but hay you knew there would be torture in this story...Please tell me what you think and thank you for reading...)