CHAPTER 13

FINDING RAF

The next night came and they traveled the whole day, until they got to Asuka City. They were now walking on the abandoned sidewalks.

"This place sure looks empty", Rouge was studying the lifeless night.

Shadow was looking around himself, "This place hasn't changed at all..."

"You've been here before?" Rouge asked.

"This place brings back a lot of memories."

"What do you mean?"

"This is my home."

Derek stopped walking and faced him, "This is where you grew up?"

Shadow nodded, "I never wanted to come back here, but I have to find Raf."

"Why is place so deserted?"

"Maybe I'll tell you that later", he continued walking. "Derek, now is the time to tell me. Where is Raf?"

"At the cemetery, he's there practically every night."

"Vampires hang around at the cemetery a lot", Rouge thought.

"Then that's where I'm going", Shadow ran the rest of the way with Rouge and Derek behind him, in a hurry to find Raf.

When a couple of minutes passed they soon found a jet black hedgehog with a black cape that matched his black fur in the cemetery as Derek said.

He was walking around looking at the graves which was all around him.

Shadow couldn't wait anymore, he ran up behind him, "Raf."

He turned around and faced Shadow, "Shadow, what are you doing here?"

"Raf, I...", he then noticed his left ear halfway separated from his head. It looked like he had gotten into a serious fight, "What happened to your ear?"

Rouge and Derek stood beside Shadow looking at the beaten hedgehog.

Raf didn't answer Shadow's question, so he moved on to something else, "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for you", Shadow said.

"Why?"

"So I can serve you again."

Raf backed away from him, "No way, stay away from me."

"Why are you acting this way? I came a long way to find you and you were here the whole time! Why did you abandoned me like that? I thought you cared about me."

"Shadow, I couldn't stay by your side forever. I knew you were trouble from the beginning."

"Raf..."

Rouge couldn't watch this anymore. She walked up to Raf, "Look Raf, Shadow's been looking for you everywhere and he's not going to walk away empty handed."

Raf crossed his arms, "You don't understand the disorder he bought to this city."

"It was a mistake", Shadow said.

"You make everything a mistake, Shadow. You never listen to me and that's what happened to this city", Raf really hated Shadow.

"What happened to the city?" Rouge asked.

"I'm surprised he didn't tell you. I guess I'll have to do it."

FLASHBACK

Shadow and Raf were walking on the sidewalk during the dark night full of thick fog.

"Master, wait!" Shadow ran after Raf trying to keep up with him. "Stop running damn it!"

Raf stopped walking and faced Shadow, "I'm not running you idiot! I'm walking, and stop calling me master! It's Raf."

"Well you walk too fast, Raf. I can't keep up."

Raf sighed and continued walking with Shadow beside him, "Now that you're a vampire I guess you'll have to act like one,"

"You mean I have to feed off people more often?"

Raf nodded, "It's your curse, kill to survival."

"Kill to survival? You mean I have to kill people to survive?"

Raf nodded again, "Exactly."

"Who am I suppose to kill?"

"Anyone, it doesn't matter."

Shadow looked down at the sidewalk, "Right, I've already killed the people I loved."

He put his hand on his shoulder, "It's all right, Shadow."

Shadow smiled at him as he placed his hand on his shoulder, "Thanks, master."

Raf then hit Shadow in the back of the head, "As I said before, call me Raf."

"All right, Raf! Christ." He looked ahead of himself and saw two cops ahead of him. He licked his lips in hunger, "Fresh blood."

"Shadow, no. This doesn't feel right."

"There's only two of them, it can't be that hard."

"Shadow! Listen to me and do as I say. Do not attack those cops."

"Why not? You just told me to act like a vampire and I am", he ran towards the cops showing his fangs within his evil smirk.

Raf jumped up to a building across the street, he watched as Shadow got ready to kill them with his bare hands, "Damn you, Shadow", he muttered.

The cops seemed to think he was a threat and shot at him with machine guns, but not knowing he was immortal the bullets from their guns didn't slow him down.

Shadow ran up to one of them and hit the gun out of his hand and fell into his. He quickly shot him and the other cop.

Raf shook his head while he was watching him feed off the people.

When Shadow was almost done feeding he felt cold metal touch the back of his head.

"Get up now", a commanding voice said behind him.

He slowly got from the ground facing him with blood running from the side of his mouth.

It was a police officer that had a lot of other officers behind him. The police officer was not afraid for some reason, "We had suspicions that people were dying from bite marks in their necks and looks like you're responsible for it."

"What are you gonna do about it?"

The police officer held out handcuffs in front of his face, "You're coming with us."

Raf saw what was happening and he immediately rushed into the scene. He punched one of the officers out cold.

After when that happened the lead police officer ordered the rest of them to shoot at Raf.

Shadow pointed the machine gun at the lead police officer's head and shot at him.

He fell to the ground dead.

Shadow then shot at more of them.

When Shadow and Raf had taken out most of the cops, the others fled.

Shadow dropped the empty bloody gun on the ground and turned to Raf. He saw Raf walking towards him, "Did you see that, Raf? I had them running scared."

Raf said nothing, all he did was punch him hard in the face.

Shadow fell to the ground holding the side of his face, "What the hell was that for!"

Raf turned his back on him, "Thanks to you the survivors got away and they know about us. They will tell others about our kind."

"And that's bad?"

"They will hunt us down and will try to kill us."

"Don't worry about it, we're vampires and they're regular mortals. They don't stand a chance against us."

Raf began to walk away from him, "I can't be around you anymore. You're too much too handle."

Shadow stood from the ground, "Where are you going?" Before he knew it, his master disappeared into the thick fog.

END FLASHBACK

"How sad?" Rouge thought that story was heartbreaking.

"From there on I never wanted to see Shadow again. The cops told about us and now this city's a giant desert without the sand", Raf said still looking around.

"But on the bright side Raf, I've learned so much about being a vampire. I know how to make vampires", Shadow said.

"How could you possibly know how to make a vampire?"

"I know how it goes, you bite them and if you don't finish them off they become one of us. That's how I made Rouge a vampire."

"You mean that white bat?"

Shadow nodded.

Raf took his fist and hit Shadow in the face.

He fell to the ground holding his cheek, "Why did you hit me!"

"Don't play, you spread the breed!"

"Spread the breed?"

"He told all vampires that they couldn't make vampires without his permission."

"Who?"

"Dracula, our lord. He punishes those who disobeys his laws. Just as he did to me when I accidentally made you a vampire." He touched his wounded ear.

Shadow stood up from the ground, "I'm sorry, Raf. I just try to make you so proud, but I always end up screwing it up. I understand that you don't want me around anymore. Let's go, Rouge", Shadow began to walk out of the cemetery with Rouge behind him, until he saw a red and black motorcycle appear at the entrance. "What the fuck?"

The four vampires backed away when they saw the brown fox that was on the motorcycle.

Shadow's fangs appeared, "Vic."