Crimson Vision

Chapter 3: Sonic, My Contradictor
He is my oppressor, my opposite, my enemy.

I stand alone in darkness.

Hero of the innocent, I detest everything he stands for.

I am alone in darkness.

I loathe that blue hedgehog. That mere copy of me. He tires to kill me but he shall feel my wrath, my power, my darkness.

I live alone in darkness.

I know no one yet everyone knows me.

The daylight hours have past and I am out on the streets during the late hours once again. A gruesome story of a man's death is floating around the bars tonight. That winged beast must've attacked again. But dispite his death, beings still walk the streets late at night not caring about what may happen to them. I still continue to walk amongst the shadows searching for victims to feed on. I haven't seen those three strangers at all tonight. Things must be getting back to normal…or so I thought.

There's an explosion at one end of town and a fire breaks out. Such things like this rarely happen and often I don't bother with them. But this time something told me to go and investigate. Even though the explosion happened at the other end of town my shoes were able to get me there quicker. Practically gliding on air I raced to where the fire was. As I neared the bright light from the fire, I made sure my shades covered my eyes. Then went into an alley nearby to watch. Fire trucks had already arrived and the beings were trying to put out the fire. It seemed like some sort of development home to many beings was the victim to the blaze.

There were many beings that were outside, an endless number to my eyes. I could easily lure anyone of these 'pure' beings into my grasp and feed off of them. Strangely that sensation did not occur within me. Nothing drove me to lure any one of them. I felt normal as usual. Definitely a strange night indeed. Then I, and many others in the area, heard a scream come from the top of the building. A small child was trap and was crying out for help. I stayed in the alley watching as the beings went into panic for the small child.

"There's nothing they can do for her." I thought. "She's as good as dead with all of that fire near her."

I would've left but something else had caught my eye. A figure was making its way across the rooftops of neighboring buildings. It moved with such stealth and speed and then jumped onto the building with the child on it. Then the figure took a daring leap off of the building and landed in a parachute of some kind the fire fighting beings had pulled out. The child was safe and ran back to its mother. As for the figure, once out of the parachute I recognized it quickly. It was that blue hedgehog that I saw on my last outing. He intrigued me with his abilities and made me wonder if he's the reason why my nights have changed. Many beings surrounded him giving him praises and many thanks for his heroic deed.

"Publicity stunt." I scoffed.

Soon he emerged from the crowd and was approached by who I assumed to be his friends; the orange fox and pink hedgehog. Suddenly that sensation appeared within me as I watched the three converse. From the alley I listened closely on their conversation.

"Sonic that was great!" the fox exclaimed.

"Yeah well it was all in a days work Tails." the blue hedgehog replied.

"That explosion was scary. Especially since it was so close by." the pink hedgehog spoke.

"That was pretty scary. Something must've busted in one of the apartments. At least no one was killed hopefully." the blue one said. "Amy, Tails you two better head on back to the shelter. I'll stick around to see if the fire fighters need any more help."

With that said the departed. The fox named Tails and the girl named Amy leaving the one called Sonic behind. By then I realized that my senses were drawn towards Amy so I followed her and fox taking to the shadows once again. I followed them until they were in a dark part of the streets and no one was around.

"This place is creepy at night." I hear Amy say.

"The shelter's around the corner so don't worry Amy." Tails condoles the hedgehog.

I decided to go ahead of the two and hide in an alley they were approaching. As they pass, I lure Amy into the alley.

"Amy…" I whisper.

She stops and looks.

"Amy…" I whisper again.

"Who's there?" she calls out.

"Who are you talking to?" I hear Tails ask.

"Someone just called my name." she replies.

She walks in and slowly makes her way toward the shadows and towards me.

"Amy come one. We better get back to the shelter." Tails says appearing in the opening.

Amy ignores him; my plan is working. She gets closer and closer to me and then she finally steps into the shadows. I make my move and grab her. Amy screams and I see Tails rush towards me. Too bad for him he doesn't see me and I attack the boy with a kick that sends him flying out of the alley. He tumbles across the street and comes to a stop motionless. He then struggles to get up but by then I have made my escape with Amy in my arms.

"Tails!! Help!" Amy shouts.

I speed off into the night to find a place where I may withdraw 'life' from my victim. Soon I arrived in a dark abandoned lot surrounded by some run down buildings. I threw Amy to the ground and she looked up at me in horror. I saw the fear in her eyes paralyzing her as I stared down upon her. Her lip trembled and I prepared to take action. My fangs slowly slipped out of my mouth into sight and Amy crawled back whimpering.

"Please don't hurt me." she said.

"I won't." I replied.

I a flash I picked Amy up and slammed her against the wall. With her dazed from the impact, I opened my mouth hissing as I was about to feed off of her…but a familiar voice stopped me.

"Drop her you creep!"

I looked over my shoulder to see Sonic with Tails standing next to him. The fox suffered from a nosebleed from my attack on him.

"Didn't you hear me? I said drop her!" Sonic shouted once again.

I held out the girl by her neck and dropped her to the ground. She breathed hard as she sat up holding onto her neck. Sonic gritted his teeth growling.

"Come and get me." I say to him.

Sonic charged at me at full speed but I moved out of the way at the last second and slammed my fist into his stomach. He's knocked back and stops curled up trying to catch his breath. Tails looks down at Sonic and then back at me. I walk towards the fox slowly. Fear is in his young eyes as he steps back not knowing what to do. As I passed Sonic, I sped up my pace towards Tails but he flies up into the air and dives towards me. I stop and look up at the kamikaze fox speeding towards me. Then as he prepared to swing at me I jump up and punched him. He fell to the ground blood seeping out of his mouth. I picked him up by his neck and tightened my grip. He becomes short of breath and begins to turn blue.

"Maybe it's you I should start on first." I say to Tails.

Suddenly something slammed into my back causing me to drop Tails and fall to my knees. I look over my shoulder to see Amy standing holding a hammer.

"Leave him alone!" she yells at me.

I stand up and she stepped back but still held her ground. Amy then swung her hammer at me again but I stopped it with one hand and snatched it from her. Throwing the hammer aside I took Amy by her wrist and she called out to Sonic. I looked over at the blue hedgehog to see that he has gotten up again. Without saying anything he charged at me and I pulled Amy close and jumped out of Sonic's way. But he circles back and I release Amy and run towards Sonic. When we met, I overpowered Sonic and slammed him against the wall.

"You're getting on my nerves you know." I warned him.

"I guess you never heard of me." Sonic managed to say.

"And I never will hear of you again once I'm done."

I tore Sonic away from the wall and threw him out into the opening. He stumbled but kept his footing. That's when I attacked. Punch after punch I continuously attack Sonic. My great speed kept him from retaliating and blood began to seep from cuts on his face. With one final hit Sonic flew into the concrete wall and slumped to the ground. I was satisfied until Sonic moved. He struggled to get up and glared at me with his bloody face. I prepared to attack again but Tails and Amy had ganged up on me. Amy attacked with her hammed while Tails kicked me in the face. Next thing I knew I was on my back looking up into the dark sky. My anger was growing slowly and I got up snarling a bit.

Before I could do anything Sonic slammed into me from behind. His sudden strength sent me slamming face first into the wall opposite of Sonic. My body created a dent in the concrete as pain surged through my face. I curled up on the ground and slowly put my hand on my face. My shades had fallen off and opening my eyes I saw blood. Suddenly my anger grew into rage that became out of control. A burning feeling grew inside of me. Sweat falling down my face as my muscles tightened and I became short of breath. I grasped at my chest and then…darkness.

Hmm? Everything's…blood red. I stand up and see Sonic and Amy and a Tails staring at me in fright.

"Dammit! What just happened!?" Sonic shouted his voice sounding distorted.

Amy just screamed getting my attention. There she is. My prey. I walked towards her but something hit me. I looked to my left to see Tails on the ground rubbing his fist. The fox. I must kill him. I approached Tails looming over him. He quivered almost crying. Sonic was advancing behind me and with one swing of my tail I knocked the hedgehog away from me. Turning back to Tails I raised my claw. SLASH! The boy was crying out in pain. I had taken off his right ear and blood flowed out of his head and onto the ground. There was another cut in his stomach and blood nearly covered his whole body.

I turned back to Amy and approached her menacingly. She won't run away. Not after what I did to Tails. Amy was scooped up into my claw and I prepared to take flight. But Sonic stopped me again.

"Hey!" I heard him shout.

My eyes found Sonic racing towards me. Anger was shown in every movement of his body. Just as he neared me, I simply smacked the hedgehog away. He slammed into the wall and I approached him. Holding Sonic up with one claw I, look into his eyes and utter one word with my darkened voice.

"Die."

The faint sound of sirens is heard. Hundreds of police car screech around the corner and come to a stop in front of the empty lot. Their lights fill the darkened area blinding me. Still holding Amy I shield myself from the flashing lights. Suddenly a freezing cold rush fills me. What's this numbing pain!? It just keeps growing!! Make it stop!! The pain grows faster and faster; then I fall on my knees and cry out tremendously and collapse into darkness.

My eyes open up. The mysterious room again. I sit up, my vision a blur, my head hurting. I look down at my hands and there's only blood on my right hand. I stand up and look around the room. Suddenly I hear a voice.

"Shadow…" it whispered.

Remembering the angry voices, I hurried out of the room and down the stairs. When I reach the stairs leading to the first floor someone is there on the floor. Amy. Unconscious with blood on her face and covered by my trench coat.