CHAPTER 36
RESTORATION
At the Chaotix, Spike began to worry over Ker's strange behavior as he saw him kneeling down to the floor and holding his head in pain. "Are you okay, Ker?"
The demon slowly took his hands away from his aching head and stood from the floor. "I'm fine but this feeling…I haven't felt it in so long. It feels like the same presence Shadow had when he and Darkness was…" His sentence trailed off and his eyes widened in horror.
Spike saw how he was reacting and knew exactly what was going on. He suddenly found it hard to swallow and his heart had begun to race inside of him. He spoke softly, "No…"
Ker then saw the young black hedgehog jump from the desk chair and began to run out the door. "No! Spike, don't go!" He watched as he ignored him and ran out of the building. He sighed heavily and began to run after him. "Tonya is going to kill me."
Back at the office, everyone had their eyes laid upon Shadow who had Fakir in his grip.
Midnight took his eyes away and saw Sarah laying on the floor and still chained to the chair. He placed his hands over the chains and easily broke them.
She sighed in relief and whispered softly to him, "Thank you, Midnight."
Fakir didn't know how much longer he could be within Shadow's painful grip. He gritted his teeth in annoyance. "Get the hell off of me!" He suddenly let out a loud groan as he felt him beginning to sink his nails into his flesh.
The hedgehog formed an evil smirk while exposing his fangs as well. "Naughty commanders such as yourself need to stay quiet."
"Shadow!" Espio had shouted from across the room to get the hedgehog's attention.
The hedgehog's eyes flashed away from the wolf and to the purple chameleon.
"What's going on? How…how did you get out of the asylum?" He asked in a hesitant and nervous tone.
Sarah couldn't take her eyes away from Shadow's strange expression that was on his face. 'That's what I'd like to know', she thought.
Before Shadow could start to explain, he heard Fakir yell once more. He turned to the wolf and saw him staring at the blood seeping from his arms. He began to grow annoyed by his painful cries. "I said to be quiet."
Fakir's eyes widened as he suddenly felt his body being lifted and thrown against the wall without even being touched.
Startled, the entire group began to have uprising fears of the hedgehog.
Vector gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as he began to think the unexpected of what was wrong with Shadow. 'This power..', he thought. 'Could it be…'
Afterwards, he turned to the group with a demonic look in his eyes. "If you all must know, I escaped that asylum. How and why you ask? Well it's very simple. I found out the real story behind Rouge's murder and felt absolutely enraged when I learned that Fakir was involved in the entire thing."
Charmy's heart practically skipped a beat when he heard Shadow speak that Fakir was involved with Rouge's murder. "Fakir? No way!"
Tonya clenched her shaking fists in anger. "I knew he was a lowdown scumbag!"
The hedgehog made a small nod, "Yes and how I plan to kill him…easy…" The pupils in his eyes had gotten smaller and formed longer vertically. "…I became one with Darkness again so I can avenge her death."
"What? No way! That's impossible!" Espio spoke in shock.
"So…" Sarah had began while her eyes were focused on the blood around his body. "…I take it they didn't let you walk out that asylum with ease?" She didn't hear him speak a word so she assumed that he had taken some lives in order to get out of the asylum. "So you actually killed innocent lives?"
"They wouldn't let me leave…and besides…I was so thirsty…" He raised his bloody wrist near his mouth and licked the blood away hungrily. He noticed how everyone's body was trembling and knew that they were afraid of him. "No need to worry. I'm only after one body in this room…"
Once Fakir saw Shadow's murderous eyes flash upon him, he couldn't help but to spark fear deep down inside of him. 'He's going to kill me with that…that thing inside of him!'
Vector swallowed nervously before he began talking to Shadow. "Shadow, I'm glad that you can recognize us while you're half way into your demon form, but…but I'm afraid we can't allow you to kill Fakir. It won't be right…you know that." He then heard him laugh deeply.
"Oh Vector, how did I not know you would say that?" He then raised his hand to the group of detectives. "That's why I won't allow you to interfere this time."
Suddenly, everyone felt their bodies being lifted and then thrown out of the office and out into the hallway with the doors slamming shut in front of them.
Espio quickly stood from the floor and began to pound on the locked doors with his fists. "No! Shadow! Don't do it!"
Inside of the office, Shadow could hear Espio's voice and pounding from the outside, but he ignored his pleas to stop and began to walk forth to Fakir who was still sitting in the corner of the room with his back against the wall. Once he approached him, he looked into his nervous eyes and then stared at the blood trickling from his arms from what he had done to him. He licked his lips hungrily at the sight of his frightened look and the smell of his blood being exposed. "We get to have some alone time at last…"
A/N:
Espio: Shadow, open the door!
Fakir: I refuse to go down like this!
Shadow: But...I want to torture you...I want to make you suffer...
Fakir: N-No! Stop!