CHAPTER 6

SHADOW'S BETRAYAL

That morning at Rouge's house Rouge and Appex was still waiting for Shadow to return.

"Where the hell could he be? He's been missing for the whole entire night. I'm worried about him." Rouge said walking around her living room in a small circle.

Then a black hedgehog came through the door.

Rouge was both happy and angry at the same time. She ran to him and hugged him. She broke away from him, "Okay , you got some explaining to do. Where were you all night? You had me worried."

"I found the secret of my past, the reason why I was created and bought to who I am."

Rouge's eyes widened, "Really? What did you find out?"

Shadow walked past her and headed into the kitchen, "I really don't want to talk about it."

Rouge stood there watching him pour water into a glass wondering about what happened last night.

Appex put his hand on her shoulder and whispered in her ear, "I think Shadow is up to something. I'm gonna check on the military and see what's going on."

Rouge nodded.

Appex walked out of the door leaving Shadow and Rouge completely alone.

'This is my chance.' Shadow thought. Shadow threw the glass of water on the floor.

Rouge jumped even when she saw Shadow do his action on purpose. "Shadow, what the hell?"

"Sorry it must have slipped."

"You did not, you did that on purpose. I saw you."

Shadow walked towards Rouge slowly.

"Shadow, are you feeling okay?"

"Of course I'm feeling okay. I feel better than ever, ever since last night."

"What happened last night anyway?"

"I told you before I don't want to talk about it." Shadow's fangs appeared from his mouth.

Somehow Rouge knew something was wrong with him. Rouge had gotten scared, she ran passed him and ran upstairs.

Shadow just watched as she just wasted her breath trying to get away from him, "You can't run from me you god damn fucker!" Shadow walked upstairs following her into her bedroom.

Rouge ran in her bedroom and had no clue what to do.

Soon Shadow showed through the doorway, he closed the door behind him and locked it. He walked towards her calmly.

Rouge backed away from Shadow and she soon met the wall. She couldn't go anywhere. She never knew that Shadow would turn on her...the only person who understood him, who trusted him. She was angry and scared all at once.

Shadow finally caught up to her, he was desperately out of control and no one could help him, not even the one he trusted. Shadow laid his hands on both of her shoulders bringing them up to her cheeks on her face.

Rouge never expected this would happen, they were so close. Just thinking about it made tears run down her cheeks.

Shadow saw her tears run onto his gloves. "Don't cry my love. Your pain will be over soon. I swear it."

That only made Rouge even more afraid.

Shadow's fangs appeared from his mouth once again threatening to kill her.

Rouge was terrified. His fangs were huge with saliva running from them.

"I haven't had decent blood in a while." He lured his mouth towards her neck, but he did not bite her. Instead he kissed her neck with passion.

Rouge would have enjoyed it, but she was too scared to do anything all she did was stand there getting tortured.

Shadow then stopped his action, he then eyed her lips. He made an easy going impact on her lips.

Rouge tried to pull away, but Shadow wouldn't dare let her go.

He took his hands and set them on her waist, he forced her towards him. He whispered in her ear, "Why do you resist? Love me just the way I love you."

"Why are you doing this?" Rouge said softly back.

"I need your blood, besides I have the strongest feelings about you."

"I have no feelings about you...not now...never."

Shadow took his tongue and started to lick her chest upward with pleasure.

Rouge jerked away, "Stop!"

Shadow pulled her back, "What's wrong?"

"Don't do this." Her tears were still running from her cheeks as he gripped up harder on her.

"Maybe I should kill you now, since you refuse my love."

"...Maybe you should..."

Shadow held her close to him and lured his fangs at her neck and this time he was going to kill her.

Rouge shut her eyes tightly ready for the painful impact.

Shadow pushed his fangs into her neck slowly trying to inflict pain into her.

More tears flooded out of her eyes while Shadow was slowly drawing blood from her. Her blood ran down her body and onto the floor. She was trying to push him away, but she was getting weaker and weaker by the second. "...Shadow...please...stop...please..." She said hoarsely.

Blood was overflowing in his mouth most of it ran on the floor.

Rouge couldn't take it anymore, she knew she was going to die, 'This is the end.'

Then they heard a ceratin bang on the bedroom door. The door broke down and Appex showed up with a crossbow in his hands, he pointed it at Shadow. "Get off of her!"

Shadow took his fangs out of Rouge's bloody neck vein.

Afterwards Rouge collapsed to the floor. She had lost a lot of blood.

"Rouge!" Appex shouted with concern.

Shadow focused on Appex with blood dripping from his mouth, he laughed evilly. "You could be late, Appex. I've drained too much blood from her. If she dies, it could be all your fault."

"You son of a bitch. You tried to kill her."

Shadow smirked, "I hope you know if you try to fight me, I will kill you without hesitation."

"I know what's going on General Bat told me all about it. You snuck into the military base last night and stole back all of your powerful blood and you killed Savya. Why?"

"That's what I'm created for to kill everyone I set my sights on. Even you." Since he had all of his powers back, he had confidence that he could kill Appex without any damages on him. "Prepare for your downfall." Shadow had punched Appex in his stomach, he fell to the floor.

Appex was planning to draw his weapon at him, but Shadow was too quick. His weapon met the floor in a fine distance. 'Damn, he's too strong.'

Shadow walked up to him slowly and grabbed him by his vest, "This is way too easy", he smirked, "I should've done this the day I met you."

"What are you going to do now? You practically killed Rouge. What are you gonna do with me?"

"Kill you of course."

"Why are you doing this? We're suppose to be friends."

"Friends? The ultimate weapon doesn't needs friends."

"You have feelings."

"Just because I have feelings doesn't mean I have to be a nice guy."

"You love Rouge, why did you try to kill her?"

"Love her? Ha, she was a desperate fool, I don't have any sympathy for mortals such as her."

Appex's eyes was filled with rage, "You lied to her! You bastard! You said you loved her. How could you do that to her!"

Shadow punched Appex in his stomach once more and whispered in his ear, "The only thing I loved about her was her delicious warm blood."

With anger Appex got out of Shadow's grip and punched him in the face, "You son of a bitch!"

Shadow acted like it didn't hurt, "So you want to fight me? That's so unexpected."

Appex paid no mind and came at him again with another punch, he didn't miss but Shadow had caught his fist in his hand holding his attack back.

"You're weak, how about I give you a glimpse of my power." Shadow's eyes were piercing red. All of a sudden Appex flew towards the wall with a great impact. Shadow then took his fist and started to choke him without touching him.

Appex was on the floor gaging.

"You see, this is what happens to those who oppose me."

It seemed that he was on the verge of dying, until something distracted Shadow which caused him to lose his control of his telekinesis power.

A sword was jabbed through Shadow's stomach. It had hurt him, but not critically even when a pool full of blood came from his insides.

He looked behind him and saw a red echidna. "You..."

"That's not all I got for yea." She remarked.

Then the sword had sent a voltage of electricity through his body.

Shadow kneeled to the floor with exhaustion, "Damn."

"Want some more?"

Shadow painfully removed the sword from his stomach and threw it over to the side of the room, "You bitch, I would fight you, but it seems that I'm running a little low on energy. Next time I promise." Shadow broke through the window and ran off.

Appex noticed that Lara wasn't going after him, "Aren't you gonna go after him?"

Lara helped Appex from the floor, "Getting her to a hospital is what we should be focusing on right now."

Appex nodded, "You're right."

Appex and Lara were off to the hospital hoping that they weren't too late.