CHAPTER 2

PRISONER OR GUEST

It was later that next day and Rouge found herself in shackles with her back against the wall. She saw no one in the big empty room. She struggled to get free from the shackles even though she already knew that it was no use. She stopped when she heard voices approaching from the other side of the door. One was Shadow's the other was Dark.

They came into the room.

Dark looked as evil as ever and Shadow's personality seemed more...different, despite the reason that he was a demon. They walked up to Rouge greeting her.

"Bat girl, how do you feel?" Dark asked playing with her.

She answered back stressed, "How do you think I feel? I've been struggling in these chains for practically two minutes, it's cold in here and to top it all off I'm half naked!"

Dark stared at her body that was in a red nightgown. He laughed, "Child, if we captured you during the day people would have noticed that you had all of a sudden disappeared. So Darkness had no choice but to..."

"Shut up, demon", Rouge looked over to Shadow, "Why are you doing this? What do you want with me?"

Shadow turned his back not facing her.

"If he won't explain, I will", Dark said.

Rouge was anxious to hear, "Okay."

"Believe it or not the middle of the arctic can get very lonely when you don't have the people you love to comfort them. That's what Darkness wanted. He chose you because he loves you and the only way that could happen is if you become one of us."

Rouge's eyes widened, "What?"

Dark took out a needle that had red liquid in it, "That's why I removed some of my blood to give to you. To make you a demon just like us."

Rouge didn't know what to do at the time all she wanted was Shadow to save her. She began to call out to him, "Shadow, don't let him do this to me."

Shadow still had his back turned not saying a word.

Dark lured the needle towards Rouge's shoulder.

As he stuck it in her shoulder, tears ran down her cheeks not because it hurt, but because she was going to be a monster like them.

When Dark finished injecting his demon blood into her, Rouge had fainted.

Dark turned to Shadow who still had his back turned, "Darkness, be a good boy and take her to your bedroom. Do whatever you want with her, but in the next hour I want you in the control room finishing up the cannon."

Shadow removed the shackles off of Rouge's wrist, "Yes, my lord." He carried her in his room.

In a couple of hours later Rouge woke up in Shadow's bed. She yawned as her head rose from the pillow. She looked around his junky room, "Where am I now?" She then saw the door open, she wasn't surprised that it was Shadow.

He closed the door, "You're awake."

"How long was I asleep?"

"About an hour."

Rouge would have planned to escape, but knowing Shadow's great speed and power she couldn't do it easily, "Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you make me a demon?"

Shadow was silent for a moment, "I miss you, I wanted you to be with me."

"Turning me into a monster will get you nowhere."

Shadow moved on to a different subject, "Now that you're a demon, your body will start to change."

"How?"

"You'll feel lightheaded, coughing and throwing up blood, pains all over your body."

Rouge crossed her arms, "I would have committed suicide if you wanted to kidnap me and kill me so badly."

Shadow sat beside her on the bed, "I wouldn't want to get rid of you, Rouge. I love you."

Rouge turned her head in a different direction not facing him, "Well I don't." She looked back at him over her shoulder, "What did you do to me when I passed out?"

"Nothing, I just bought you in here to rest."

"Yeah right." She then felt pain in her sides. She held them, "What's happening to me?"

"Your body is changing", he helped her to the bathroom which was across from the bed.

She ran the rest of the way towards the toilet and started to throw up.

When she finished she came out of the bathroom crying, "Damn you Shadow, I hate you! You're trying to kill me."

"I'm not trying to kill you, I'm trying to help you. Help your body gain more strength than it had."

"Blood was in my vomit!"

"I know, I've been through this before."

"You son of a..." She almost fainted.

Shadow caught her in his arms.

Rouge weakly had her eyes opened, "Put me down you bastard. Let me go."

Shadow laid her body in his bed with a lot of blankets to keep her warm, "You'll be all right. I promise."

Rouge lied on her side not facing Shadow, "I hate you. Keep away from me", she whispered. She soon went to sleep.

Shadow left the room allowing her to rest.