At first Sonic had to whip his head around to avoid the wretched stench coming from down the hall, but once his nose got over the shock of smelling rotten flesh he was able to slowly turn his head around to see what was causing the stink. What he saw would be imprinted in his memory for the rest of his life. It was about five feet tall with ragged clothes clinging to its moist rotten skin. All over the body of this… this, thing was patches of detached flesh slowly flaking off of the arm, leg, or even the neck. As bad as these details where, they where nothing compared to the face, the face looked normal enough, except for the fact that the entire left half seemed to be completely torn off like a bad scab. What was left was a huge grotesque smile that once formed the mouth; its eye was slowly rolling from side to side in its socket. The rest was just decayed muscle, and tendons. Altogether it was one of the most gruesome sites he had ever seen, or ever would. As the decayed monster slowly started to lurch towered him with a sickening scrunch, Sonic had to fight the urge to throw up all over him self. He lost, horribly.

Shadow was a few paces behind Sonic and not fully around the turn, but when he heard his pal toss his cookies, he dashed into the hall questioning Sonic as in a hurried voice that went almost to fast to catch, "What's wrong?"

"Ugh" was the only response Sonic could spit out, the rest was bile and used up chilidogs, he was how ever able to point past Shadow at the limping threat that had now put in a double time at the sight of two fresh meals. When the black animal turned to face his opponent, he was expecting anything, from a robot army to the cool face of Chaos 0, anything but what he saw. At first he was shocked, but then instinct kicked in and after that every thing was a blur. He was jumping at the monster, shouting "CHAOS NIGHTMARE!" A purple orb flashed around his closed fist, he was thrusting it into the air at the things head. Contact. He could feel the flesh twisting in the orb of purple light. Then the head exploded sending blood every where, skull flying through the air like shrapnel, chunks of skin and brain hit was with a sickening splotch sound, one of the pieces of skin bounced off the side of his own mouth, some of it even smacking the inside leaving a stain of blood before falling out. When Shadow landed he almost threw up then and there, but his pride wouldn't let him. And so with a swallow of spit he was able to force the bile back down into his stomach where it belonged, but along with the bile came the blood left on the inside of his mouth, down the throat and into his system, where the virus would grow and grow, until it would cause a transformation in the ultimate life, that not even his dear creator, Professor Gerald, would have been able to predict. But as the virus grew, the virus that had started it all, the darkness would grow to, causing a transformation of its own.

"You going to be O.K. Sonic?" Shadow asked flicking his hands around to get the blood off.

"Yeah, thanks for the save man." He stated whipping bile off his mouth with the back of his hand.

"Heh, chilidogs, I should have know" a teasing smile on his face.

"Oh, shut up" He turned his head to hide his embarrassment, but then decided to change topics to something a little more serious. "So… what do you think it is, or was for that matter."

"In all truth, I have no idea. It's nothing like I've ever seen. Looks like you where able to full fill your promise after all," The teasing grin resting comfortably on his cheeks.

"I haven't seen any thing like it either."

"So what do you think it is."

As Sonic walked pass Shadow to get to the corpse now sprawled on the floor, he felt a slight chill when he passed his double, as if a cool artic wind had swept up, but before he could ponder if anything was wrong his mind dismissed it as an open window near by. When he finally got up to the remains of whatever it had been, he had noticed that the skin was decaying at a faster pace then normal. Almost like it was dispersing into the vary air. But even seeing the remains of it was enough to reassure his mind of what it was, he had seen all the movies about them, in fact that would explain why it had fallen so quickly when Shadow had decapitated it. "I think, I think it's a Zombie." He's voice was quivering, not at the thought of what it was, but if these things where real, how many of the other things could be real, Like the Werewolves, Vampires, Swamp monsters, and even Frankenstein.

"Do you think there could be any think else out there, you know, like Werewolves or something," Sonic's hands where shaking lightly above the corpse lying on the floor. His mind swirled with images of what may lye ahead in this forsaken place.

"No, no I don't think there is anything else out there, at least nothing like that," Shadow then looked down at the Zombie on the floor for a moment before raising his head up to stare at the back of hall before responding to some unasked question. " I don't know how I can be sure of this, but it's as if I can feel it in my bones."

Sonic stood up for a minute, his face twisted into an uneasy frown. It was as if he was trying to decide between his pride and survival. At last he made a decision. As he looked up at shadow there seemed to be something there that his friend had never seen before, and it took him a while to place it. It was shame.

Sonic shut his eyes for a moment, and then taking a deep breathe he spoke, and what came out was a shock to Shadow. "I guess we should get Amy and Tails and leave, if there are more of these things around." After seeing the look of shock on Shadow face, he gently lowered his head to stare at his shoes instead of the accusing gaze on his doubles face.

"You what?" Shadow asked confused with a bit of anger seeping into his voice. How could sonic be so stupid? How could he bring two little brats to this place, and how could he have thought to bring me here? How could he have thought to endanger MY LIFE? As Shadow pondered these things the flame that had been in his eye before had returned, with doubled vigor. And with the flame came an emotion that the black hedgehog was not a complete stranger to. He had felt this way many times before, at Rouge's incompetence, at Eggman for being so clumsy with the Eclipse Cannon, and at Sonic for obliterating his dream of revenge for Maria along with the Eclipse Cannon.

Sonic slowly bowed his head and continued to explain how he had been here before both with tails and Knuckles. By the time Sonic had finished the anger Shadow had felt was slowly changing into a seething pot of rage. "You idiot! How the hell could you bring us here? What made you think that you could drag us into a dangerous mansion with monsters roaming about! How dare you do this to us, you shouldn't even be allowed to live for this, and yet here you are standing in front of me telling me that you brought us into a house full of monsters! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Shadow now had Sonic backed up against a wall yelling his head off at the quivering blue hedgehog in front of him. As scared as Sonic was by this sudden and violent mood swing, he was even more shocked at how Shadow was now threaten him in a most disturbing manner. When he tried to reason with the black creature in front of him, he was quickly shot back by the onslaught of rambling coming from Shadow.

Finally Sonic could take no more, and with a quick smooth motion he was able to cut shadow off with a quick slap to the face. Shadow was quite taken back by this and stopped just long enough for Sonic to get in "I know I screwed up Shadow, but that's no reason to bite my head off. What's wrong with you?"

As Sonic's voice slowly drifted down the hall Shadow stopped to think about what he had done, never before had he lost his cool like, not even when that bumbling idiot of a doctor failed to pull off his scheme with the cannon. But the only answer that came to from his lips was "I don't know, I don't know."

And as an uncomfortable silence drifted over them Shadow couldn't help but stare at his trembling hands and wonder what had happened to him, and what was to come.

A/N: hey guys, I just wanted to thank you for all the reviews. So far I have ten, and that's the most I've ever gotten. Now for some bad news. It seems that this is stating to get in the way of some of my homework, so this might be the last chapter for a while. I hopped you enjoyed this; personally I don't think it's the best. Remember to check up often and keep on reviewing.