CHAPTER 9

FINAL SILENCE

Later Shadow was on the hill of where the military base was located he was glaring at the hopeless city. "Pitiful mortals, don't they know that the experiment is as just as powerful as me? They try and try and yet they don't succeed. Time to get away from his vanquished city." He was about to leave, until he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"Shadow!"

He turned to find Rouge, "Bat? Did you come to die early?"

"No, I came to beg you to save the city from Experiment 001."

"Since when do I have to save people when I kill them?"

"You just have to. Millions of lives depends on you. You have enough power to kill that thing."

Shadow crossed his arms, "Me? I don't save people on my own time. Why can't that echidna and porcupine take care of it?"

"They're not strong enough. They need you."

"Last time I checked they wanted to kill me and now they want me to save everybody. No thanks I'd rather let the civilians of Station Square suffer." Shadow began to walk away.

Rouge had tears flowing down her cheeks, but she tried to fight it, "Please Shadow, do it for them. They need you! I need you!"

Shadow stopped and turned back looking into her eyes feeling sorry for her. He walked up to her, "I wish I could, but I need a lot of blood to go up against an experiment like that. Sorry."

"...You can have mine..."

"What?"

"Take my blood to kill that creature."

Shadow heard her say that more than once that time when he was sick she offered him her blood, but he would not take it, "You want me to kill you after when I tried to kill you before and broke your heart?"

Rouge nodded, "Do it please...save the city. That's what my father would have wanted."

Shadow hugged her with no tricks, "Rouge, my love..."

Rouge looked up at him, "There isn't much time, take my blood now."

Shadow's watery eyes bought tears to him as well. He kissed her passionately on her lips for a long while. They broke apart, "I love you, Rouge."

"I love you too." Rouge closed her eyes tightly ready for Shadow to bite her.

Shadow lured his fangs at her neck and bit her.

Rouge wanted to scream, but she never did. She took the pain in.

As Shadow tasted the warm blood in his mouth he didn't enjoy it. He couldn't stand losing the person he loved. When he finished drawing her blood he set Rouge's weak body on the ground.

She still lived, but not for long. She looked at him with tears.

Shadow held her hand in his.

Her eyes were about to close, she couldn't leave him without saying her final words to him, "Shadow, I'll love you forever. Please don't forget me." Her eyes had finally closed. Her hand let go of his.

He kissed her cold lips. His tears met her wet face , "I won't. I'll always love you." He ran off into the city ready to face off with the experiment.

Later Appex and Lara were trying to kill the experiment, but it was still too strong for them

They fell back on the ground bleeding everywhere.

Lara couldn't get up from the ground, "Damn it, where's Shadow?"

Appex thought Shadow killed Rouge and didn't care about anything, "He probably killed her and went on with his business."

The experiment was ready to make a powerful blast on them, until a yellow spear appeared and jabbed it in its head. Blood scattered all on the ground.

"What the-?"Appex looked behind him and saw Shadow walking up to the creature challenging it, "Shadow!"

"Stay down, you need to rest your body."

"Where's Rouge?"

"She's dead..." He said still a little heartbroken.

"She's what! You killed her!" Appex said with rage.

"Believe it or not she gave me her blood to fight the experiment. I will kill the experiment...for her." Shadow jumped and kicked the creature in it's chest.

The experiment fell to the ground and got back up quickly. The experiment charged at him and slashed its claw at him.

It had missed. Shadow glowed a red color all around his body, "Chaos Blast!" The redness around his body aimed at the experiment, the experiment fell to the ground about to get up , until Shadow approached it, "Everyone and everything has a weak spot." He laid his eyes on the experiment's forehead. "Chaos Trinity!" The blue blast had severely hit the experiment's head. The experiment fell to the ground dying instantly. The experiment was now dead.

The blast was so huge it affected half of the city and Shadow. He was in the center of the blast he faced Lara and Appex with a slight smile with tears running down his cheeks, "Thanks, guys. You were real friends."