CHAPTER 5
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
That next day, Shadow had awoken in a bed with a pink cat looking at him with concern.
"Good morning, Shadow. Are you feeling okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine", he said while rubbing his head. He felt like he had a major headache.
"My mom and dad were so worried about you last night. Dad brought you back here and I saw you covered in blood. Did something happen? My parents didn't tell me anything from last night."
Shadow's eyes widened, 'Blood!' He could remember the blood he tasted from last night. It tasted so damn good. He began to lick his lips.
Lynn was getting scared and began to talk to him more, "Shadow, are you sure you're okay?"
Shadow realized what he was doing and stopped, "I said I'm fine!" He shouted noticing that he startled Lynn. "Lynn, I'm sorry. I-I have to talk to your father." He got out of bed and walked downstairs and saw a familiar face talking with Espio. "Knuckles", he said in a low voice.
Espio and Knuckles heard him and looked over to him.
Knuckles eyes widened at the sight of his presence, "Shadow!" He turned to Espio and whispered to him, "Espio, you never told me that son of a bitch was alive."
Espio shrugged, "It slipped my mind I guess."
As Shadow stared at Knuckles, his hate for him started to build up. He hated that echidna so much, but he had to leave him alone. This was nothing related to retrieving Heaven's Light. He walked passed Knuckles like he was invisible and started to talk to Espio. "We need to talk", he said in an angry tone.
Knuckles began to walk out of the door, "This is awkward so I guess I'll see yea tomorrow, Espio." He quickly left the house. He was obviously going to tell the others about this.
Espio sat down at the kitchen table and so did Shadow, "What do you want to talk about?"
"I'm just going to make this loud and clear for you. I don't need your help with anything got it? I can take care of myself."
"This is about last night isn't it? Well Shad, I'm forever sorry for saving your sorry ass from getting arrested while you were fucking blood obsessed!"
Lynn was sitting on the couch with Tonya in the living room listening to Shadow and Espio yell at each other.
"My business has nothing to do with you!"
"Well maybe it is my business considering you and Deminse were the only people in that bar last night! You could've been working with Deminse and killed all those people!"
"I don't kill people! I'm an angel damn it!"
"Then what the fuck kind of angel are you!" Espio shouted as he slammed his fist down on the table.
Shadow's head met the table and he soon started to cry, "I-I'm a one winged angel. That's what I am." He again sobbed.
Espio couldn't stand to see Shadow upset so he decided to leave him alone. He slowly walked upstairs and walked into his room.
Tonya thought that she should say something to him. She looked over to Lynn, "Lynn, stay away from Shadow okay?"
Lynn made a slight nod.
Tonya got off the couch and walked upstairs to comfort Espio.
When she was gone, Lynn disobeyed her command, walked over to Shadow, and sat across from him at the table. "I've never seen my dad so upset. I think that's the first time I've ever seen him like that before." She moved on to a different subject, "Shadow, what's a one winged angel?" She had hoped that Shadow would answer her question.
Shadow lifted his head away from the table and stared into her yellow eyes, "A one winged angel is an angel, but it has more evil than good in it. Just...like me." He slowly got out of the chair and walked towards the door, "I have to go."
Lynn turned to him, "Wait! Will you come back?"
"I don't know", he then left.
Later at Rouge's house, Knuckles just got finished telling Rouge about Shadow's appearance and she was shocked herself.
"What!" She shouted. "Are you serious? He can't be alive. It's just not possible."
"Believe it Rouge, I saw him at Espio's house looking pissed off as ever."
Spike then came to her mind, "Oh my god, what about Spike! He's out there. What if he runs into him?"
Knuckles held her close to him, "Don't worry, chances are extremely slim. They can't find each other in this big city for sure."
Later on the streets of Tech City, Spike was walking on the sidewalk looking down until someone had bumped into him and hadn't stopped to apologize. He spun around and yelled at him, "Hey you selfish bastard! Watch where you're going!"
The man that bumped into him turned around and faced him.
Spike's eyes widened noticing the stranger had looked just like him. "What the fuck?"
The stranger had the same expression on his face, "Spike", he said.
"What? How did you know my name and why do you look...exactly like me?" Spike was starting to have the idea of him being his father, "Dad?"
The hedgehog slowly nodded, "Yeah, it's me. Shadow the Hedgehog. Your father."
Instead of happiness the young black hedgehog lit up in rage, "You fucking traitor!" He ran towards him with a blue aura of energy appearing from his hands.
