CHAPTER 14
Back in the freezing cold and iced over training gym, Sky came towards Shadow with his scythe.
Shadow dodged the blade of the scythe and used his fist that had a green aura around it to send a direct punch to his face.
Just from the powerful impact, Sky was sent flying back away from him.
Shadow had noticed Sky dropping his scythe to the floor. He thought that this would be a good time to try to finish him off.
While Sky was trying to get from the floor, he saw Shadow coming at him at a great speed. He looked at the scythe laying on the floor next to him. He quickly picked up the scythe and prepared himself.
Before Shadow could touch him, he felt a sharp and deep pain in his body. He paused and glanced over at his now bleeding shoulder.
Sky couldn't help but to slightly lick his lips as he saw Shadow's blood drip to the floor.
He winced and tried to fight off the pain he felt. "Damn it..."
He watched as he took the blade out of his shoulder without hesitation. When he tried to grab a hold of his scythe, he felt Shadow quickly jerk his weapon from his hands and flung it over in a far distance of the huge room. He now had to fight him without a weapon.
"That's right", he growled. "Fight me like the blood sucking monster you are."
He formed an evil smirk, "It's too bad."
Shadow gave him a puzzled look.
He crossed his arms, "That I can't drink your precious blood I mean. I'll work for Dark but I'll be damned if I sell my soul to become a demon."
Now this worried Shadow. He knew Sky would do anything to throw him off guard but the things he was saying, it all sounded too true. Shadow kept thinking was he still really and truly a demon?
He shrugged his shoulders, "Oh well." He then charged towards him and knocked him down to the floor.
When he had his body on top of his, he noticed him taking out a combat knife. Before he could stab the end of it into his chest, he took his hand that had a green aura around it and grabbed his bare arm with it.
Sky let out a loud cry in pain as he felt his flesh burning. While he was focused on himself being in pain, he didn't notice that Shadow used that opportunity to throw him off of his body. He fell to the floor and held his burning and bleeding arm. "Damn you!"
He stood before him with his fist clenched, "Don't underestimate me, Sky." He had suddenly heard him chuckling evilly. He just stood there and gave him an annoyed look while he laughed.
"You're pathetic. Just like my sister. I suppose you two belong together."
"...What does Rouge have anything to do with this?"
He slowly stood from the floor while still holding onto his injured arm. "I ran into her a little while ago. She seems to be doing well."
His body froze in panic. Sky had met up with Rouge somewhere in the mansion? He began to wonder what had happened and was she still alive? "You saw her? What did you do? If you laid one hand on her, I swear I'll..."
"Don't get so worked up, Shadow", he spoke calmly. "It's not my place to take her life. She is family after all. Besides, she's way too busy being caught up with Jess."
A shocked expression had overtaken his face.
"That's right. Jess is beating the shit out of her as we speak."
He didn't want to believe Sky and think Rouge was losing the fight with Jess. However, he didn't want to take any chances. "...No..." When he had tried to leave the room, he saw Sky suddenly jump in front of him.
"You're not going anywhere."
"Get out of my way", he growled angrily. He then saw him taking a gun from his holster and pointing it at him.
"You're going to stay right here."
The glowing green aura had then turned red around his fists. "I said get out of my way!"
Before Sky knew it, he was suddenly attacked by a powerful red blast of light that was strong enough to knock his body into the ice cold concrete wall.
Shadow watched as he collapsed to the floor from the attack. He looked down at his unconscious body and thought that this would be the perfect time to finally kill him. But he pushed the thought to the side as he had more important things to take care of at the moment.
Later on back at the chapel room, Rouge was still fighting with Jess. Her body had flown back into the concrete wall. When she saw Jess coming at her once again, she quickly stood from the floor and charged in her direction. Before she could allow Jess to touch her, she grabbed her around her neck and slammed her body onto the floor.
While still on the floor, Jess tried to fight her grip off of her. When she realized what she was doing wasn't working, she used her free hand and clenched it into a fist.
Rouge had suddenly felt an unbearable pain in her stomach.
Jess couldn't help but to form a small smirk as she watched her cough up some of her blood. Some of the blood even got on her face. She used this opportunity to kick her off of her body.
Rouge fell to the floor and was still coughing up some blood. She looked up and saw Jess standing in front of her with her hands glowing a blue color. Her eyes widened when she saw the blue lightning like attack come in her direction. She cried out in pain as the lightning attack cut deep into her arm.
Jess saw the blood trickling down her arm and couldn't help but to form an evil smile. She hit her with another attack and that time it had cut into the side of her stomach. She slowly approached her and used her foot to pin her wounded arm down to the floor. She kneeled over to her and made a menacing look. "It's over, guns girl."
When Rouge saw her raise her glowing fist into the air, she shut her eyes tightly awaiting her painful fate. Until a few seconds passed and she hadn't felt a thing. She peeked her eyes open and saw Jess' wrist being grabbed by a black male hedgehog. Tears swelled in her eyes at the sight of him. "Shadow..."
Jess' eyes widened at the sight of him. "You!" She felt his grip tighten around her wrist.
"You just made a grave mistake", he growled. He took his fist and sent a powerful punch to her face.
The punch was so powerful, she flew back onto the floor.
He looked down at Rouge who was still laying on the floor. He kneeled down to her and set her body up from the floor. He gently wiped some of the blood away from her mouth. "Are you okay?"
She made a small smile, "Yes I will be", she replied in a weak tone.
He looked away from her and turned to Jess with hate. He stood from the floor and walked his way over to the red fox woman.
When she saw the sight of him approaching her, her body shook. She knew that he was strong and could easily kill her if he wanted and this terrified her. However, she tried her best to not show it. She took out her handgun and pointed it at him nervously. "St-Stay back!"
With him not heeding her threats, he still came towards her. Before he gave her a chance to fire her weapon, he grabbed her by her wrist tightly. Just by him roughly grabbing her, it made her drop her gun to the floor. She watched him take his other hand and grab it around her arm. "Wha? Wait!" Before she could act, she felt her arm being snapped in half. As she was hit with an intense pain being shot throughout her body, she cried out in agony.
While Rouge weakly sat up from the floor, her ears twitched from the loud and agonizing cries from Jess.
Just when Jess thought it was over, it wasn't. She felt his hand grab her other arm and before she could say anything, she felt more intense pain in her other arm She had knew that Shadow had broken both of her arms.
When Rouge slowly stood from the floor, her ears twitched again from hearing more of Jess' horrific cries of pain. She didn't want to think Shadow would kill her, but she knew whenever he had gotten into such an angry state, he would not care who he had hurt or killed. "...Shadow?"
While she panted in exhaustion from screaming, she was struck in the face by another powerful punch from Shadow. She fell back onto the floor in pain. She gasped as she saw him grab her around her neck tightly. At that moment she knew that he was trying to suffocate her. He wanted to make her suffer before he killed her. She knew that there was no hope of her escaping. She had to admit that he was too strong for her. She couldn't take him on and she knew that from the beginning.
Rouge's eyes widened as she saw what was going on. She knew that he was planning on killing her but he had to stop him. She couldn't bear having the image of him taking someone's life. "Sha-Shadow! Stop!" Even after she called out to him, he seemed like he didn't hear her. "Shadow!" She then decided to run over to him. Once she ran over to him, she placed her hand on his arm. "Shadow, what the hell are you doing?"
He turned to her with an angry look. "She almost killed you."
"I know but you know this is wrong and you know it is!"
"Rouge..."
"We don't kill!" She spat.
After he saw the worry in her eyes, he decided to listen to her. However, this made him still not want to forgive her for what she had done to Rouge. Slowly he had took his hand away from her neck.
Jess gently placed her hand around her neck and started coughing and gasping for air.
He turned to Rouge, "You should've let me kill that fucking bitch", he growled.
She didn't like the way he was talking. It worried her, "...Are you listening to yourself right now? You kill her and you will never hear the end of this from Mayor Wish."
"The hell with Sarah! You are my wife damn it! I'll be damned if I stand by and watch someone beat you into a pulp!"
"Shadow, please!" She begged as she gently placed her hand on his cheek, "It's not worth it, hun."
He paused and took a deep breath before taking her hand away from the side of his face.
Rouge watched as he spun around and stormed towards the door of the room.
"Let's continue to look for the others."
"Shadow, wait", she called.
He paused in his tracks and turned back to her.
She pointed back to Jess who was still on the floor. "What about her?"
His eyes shifted over to the red fox woman who gave him a bitter look.
A little later, Shadow was walking down the long narrow hallway along with Jess following behind him.
Rouge was walking behind her while pointing her handgun towards her back. "Now are you sure you're leading us in the right direction?"
"Yes", she spoke without turning her head back to her. "This is the way to the dungeon where Kiba is holding Tikal captive." She then came to a stop when she saw Shadow suddenly stop walking.
Rouge looked over to Shadow in worry. "What's wrong, Shadow?" She then looked in front of them and looked out into the huge hallway in front of them. Her mouth hung open in shock. There she saw the rest of their group with Kiba and the rest of the Silver Fangs with them. They were all there except for Sky.
Appex, Espio, and Ker were kneeling on the floor looking exhausted and beaten.
Her eyes widened when she saw Nails kneeling to the floor with an unconscious orange echidna woman in her arms. "...Nails!"
The black bat woman slowly turned her head to her. "...Rouge?"
Shadow slowly took a step forward inside of the huge hall and glanced at the white male wolf who was giving him a sly smirk.
"How nice of you to finally join us."
He remained silent and continued to give the wolf a cold look.
"I've been waiting for you, Shadow."
In The Next Chapter...
Nails:...Shadow?
Kiba: At last...
Jess: What happened here?
Rouge: No...Not like my visions...
Shadow: Kiba, it was an honor fighting beside you...