Destructive Lust Reborn

By TrebleX

Chapter 3: Haunting Memories.

Shadow leaned firmly against a thick ochre hue tree trunk, his gaze upturned towards the slowly dimming skies. "Soon night will fall, and the thief shall be thieved from." Shadow muttered to himself with a dark smirk. "Yes...for I shall steal her life." A slight dim chuckle escaped the confines of Shadow's throat as his lips parted.

Night had pretty much entirely fallen by now, and it was about time that the ebony furred hedgehog got to work. He held out the malachite hue chaos emerald before himself, sparkling a little with the amazing amount of energy that was contained within it. He outstretched his arm fully ahead of him. "Chaos Control!" Shadow called out, a sudden blinding flash of garish energy overcoming his form and engulfing it completely before both vanished into the wind.

Meanwhile a busty, jewel craving bat walked through Dry Lagoon, enjoying the cool night breeze as it beat about her form. A smirk came across her lips, fangs protruding from either side of her mouth as she thought of the next place she would invade to get her hands on some sort of jewel. She was interrupted from this train of thought however, as a black hedgehog walked out of the shadows ahead of her.

"Sh-Shadow?" Rouge stuttered in amazement, almost falling over herself from the sudden shock, as if she'd seen a ghost. He in return merely smirked a little, coming to a halt as he stood not far from her, his eyes fixated upon hers. She wasn't sure what to do, she was terrified as it was, due to thinking that the one who stood before her was dead. "H-How did you-?" Rouge began to inquire, but was quickly cut off by Shadow speaking.

"How did I survive? Thanks to my own power, not that any of you cared to try and save me." The ebony furred hedgehog said with hatred, his eyes narrowing a little as he glared towards her.

"Shadow, I...I would of saved you if I could, I really would!" Rouge replied urgently, continuing to back away from him a little. She was fearful of that dark smirk on his lips, and the way his eyes were narrowed towards her.

"Liar, you expect me to believe that!?" Shadow called out angrily, leaping into a run towards her. Without having the time to react, Rouge felt his fist impact heavily with her cheek. She was sent hurtling through the air, and crashed into one of the few pillars that protruded from the water around them. He could of easily just left her to collapse into the water and drown, but he didn't want to do that...no....he wanted to make them suffer.

As Rouge began to fall from the indentation the impact had made in the pillar, Shadow lunged forwards and grabbed her, then placing his feet to the pillar as he leaped from it. As soon as the two left it, the pillar collapsed into the water and caused a large eruption of water. Rouge groaned in pain as she was thrown to the terrain in the center of all the water, looking up weakly with her eyes only managing to stay half open.

Shadow landed with his legs either side of her chest as he kneeled down, retracting his right fist and readying another blow to her face. "Sh-Shadow...please..." Rouge whispered painfully as she looked up at him. The hedgehog's eyes widened, his fingers slowly uncurling from a fist as he trembled a little. That memory from so long ago returned to his mind again.

He could see it now, Maria was there, just about ready to die and he was unable to help her. She was giving her life to save him, allowing him to escape to Earth in that capsule. She pressed the buttons weakly, looking towards him fondly as she whispered. "Shadow....please...for me, for all the people on that planet..."

Shadow quickly shook his head, moving his hands to hold his head in them in his state of confusion. "No. No. Maria!" Shadow called out in pain, these memories once again haunting his mind painfully. Rouge was far too hurt to do anything, and merely lay there as her eyes slowly fell shut. He could of taken that chance to finish her off, but no, these memories were too much, his head hurt.

Knowing that it wasn't safe for him to be here probably, he yelled out as he grasped his chaos emerald. "Chaos control!" That same old flash of garish energy overcame his form, before vanishing along with him and re-appearing on his own found island.

Shadow collapsed to his knees when he got there, allowing the chaos emerald to fall from his grasp to his side as he buried his face in his hands. That same memory played over and over and over again in mind, when he had lost Maria. It hurt him so much, he trembled a little as these images haunted him once again. Why, why? Why was he suffering from this again, now of all times!?

He was a terrible, emotional wreck, something he wasn't very often. However this brought even more anger to him, thinking of how Maria had given her life to save the people of this pathetic planet...but they didn't care at all, did they!? Shadows painful cries slowly turned to snarls and roars of rage, quickly snatching up the chaos emerald once again in his right hand. He was going to go now, right to Station Square, and he was going to bring hell to them.

Shadow rose the chaos emerald above himself, his crimson eyes seeming darker than ever as hatred overcame his mind entirely. "Chaos control!" Shadow yelled out once again, his anger making himself and therefore the chaos magic ever stronger. The dim garish glow was much more violent and brighter as it overcame his form this time, before sweeping his body away into the winds, leading him to where he wished to go to. It was time he made even more of them pay...