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Chapter 2
"What are you talking about?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah and why's your arm all screwed?" Knuckles butted in.
Shadow's mind began to rush. Now that he'd finally found Sonic, Shadow's news was beginning to whirl around his brain, eager to come out.
"It was truly awful! But it all happened so quickly, I..I…" Shadow spoke quickly.
"Calm down!" Sonic interrupted.
"Just tell us what you can." Tails said.
Shadow sighed, getting himself together.
"Well…it was just a few hours ago now…" he said, rather quickly.
FLASHBACK – 5 hours ago (6pm to be precise!)
Early evening.
Shadow was lying on the sands of Emerald Coast. He listened to the sea washing on the shore and the gulls calling out into the sunset. His eyes were closed and his arms were placed behind his head, acting as a pillow. He breathed deeply and was drifting off into a sleep.
But suddenly a strange sound was heard. It sounded like some kind of disgusting foreign tongue mixed with an electronic speech of some kind. It certainly was the strangest sound Shadow had heard in his lifetime.
As he heard the noise, Shadow's ear twitched. He opened his eyes and sat up, looked around to try and find out what had caused the noise but he saw nothing ahead of him.
Shadow stood up. Just then the noise came again but this time it was louder (so much louder in fact that it made Shadow jump slightly). He swung round, gasping a little, and saw one of the most horrific and surprising sights ever.
Standing on the promenade, just above the sand, were 4 strange looking creatures. Their bodies were green coloured and looked as if they had some kind of armour plating about them. Their heads were narrow and thin, clearly showing the outlines of their skulls. Their arms stood out the most, though. The arms were made out of steel and bent downwards (like a praying mantice), resembling blades. They looked incredibly sharp and menacing indeed.
Shadow was taken aback by this sight, very much so. For a while he couldn't speak and allowed the alien like things to take a good look at him.
Eventually, Shadow gathered his nerve.
"…Whatever you are, you better not be here to cause trouble!" he yelled, clenching his teeth.
The aliens didn't answer and continued to stand there and stare at the hedgehog, curiously making comments to each other in their strange yet gruesome language.
"Hey! Did you not here me!" Shadow yelled again, in an attempt to make himself heard.
Suddenly the creatures jumped down onto the beach and began to walk toward Shadow, their large feet stomping on the sand as they went.
Shadow blinked and took a slight step back. He frowned.
"You want to take me on? I dare you!" he shouted at the creatures.
He immediately swung his arm back and began to gather Chaos Spears. He clenched his teeth.
"CHOAS SPEAR!" he yelled and fired at the monsters.
The powerful attack flew directly toward the creatures, destined to be a perfect strike. But in an instant, one of the monsters swung its arm at the attack, deflecting it off of the sharp metallic blade. The spears were sent off toward the evening sky.
"What?" Shadow gasped.
Just then he was struck in the face by the same creature that had deflected the spears. He was thrown back across the beach and ended up hitting the sand. He rolled painfully through the annoying beads of sand and sent a cloud of it in the air.
The creature, which had struck Shadow across the face, roared in the horrible language and the other 3 creatures joined in. The sand began to settle and Shadow emerged and shook his head. He rubbed his face and winced in pain.
Suddenly the 4 aliens flew at Shadow, giving him a fright. Before Shadow could react, one of the creatures lifted up its blade of an arm. Glinting in the light of the evening, the blade swung down and struck Shadow's arm.
Shadow cried out in pain and clutched the wound. Using his feet he pushed himself away from the creatures, for he expected them to try something else.
But they didn't. Instead, the alien things roared again and, just as quick as ever, jumped up and darted away through the sky.
Shadow remained sitting on the sand. He looked at his arm, shaking slightly from the shock, and saw the sheer amount of blood he was loosing. He looked closer and noticed a strange greenish glow around the areas of cut skin. The green colouring began to glow and just then Shadow felt a strange feeling about him.
A horrible icy cold feeling was travelling up through his wounded arm and Shadow could feel it going around his boy. Then the strange new feeling hit his head and caused Shadow great pain. His vision became blurry.
Shadow carefully stood up, holding his head and wincing in pain.
"What….What have they done to me?" Shadow thought.
Then his body couldn't take it anymore and Shadow felt his eyes roll backward and let his body fall forward, hitting the sand.
He saw no more.
END FLASHBACK
"That's the last I remember of the fight." Shadow continued. "The next thing I remember was waking up a few hours later. I looked at my arm but all the blood had gone."
He began to take off the bandage.
"This was all that remained." He said.
Sonic Knuckles and Tails gasped and drew back as they saw Shadow's gruesome scar. It looked like any normal wound that was on its way to recovery but this cut had strange green covering to it. Mixed with the darkness of Shadow's blood, this looked repulsive.
"Man!" was the only thing Sonic could say.
"I know…" Shadow replied. "I knew that I had to tell you so I ran to the nearest pharmacy and got some bandages. Then the damn rain started…"
"Well you can stay here for the night then maybe get it checked out tomorrow?" Sonic suggested.
Shadow nodded.
"Thanks." He said.
"Oh and you did the right thing by telling me about these alien guys. Whoever they are, I'll get rid of 'em!" Sonic added.