CHAPTER 1-2

It was black, pitch black but he heard a strange voice. He could actually understand what he was saying. He was unconscious and he could somehow feel something being ejected into his neck.

The strange voice started to laugh a little, "Now, we will give you our power and soon send you back from where you came from. You foolish hedgehog. Saving her will definitely be the death of you."

Shadow then immediately woke up and found himself in a whole different room. He was trying to get up but he was tied to the blue hedgehog on the floor. He started to hit him with his arm. "Hey, you! Wake up!"

The hedgehog yawned and finally woke up looking around the room as well, "Son of a bitch. Not again."

Shadow tried to look over to him, "You mind telling me what the hell is going on?"

"Wouldn't you like to know."

"At least tell me your name."

The blue hedgehog sighed, "I guess so. The name's Sonic the Hedgehog, but you can call me Sonic. Yours?"

"Shadow."

"Shadow huh? So uh what are you doing here?"

He took out the photo of the pink hedgehog and showed it to Sonic, "Have you seen this girl?"

"What are you a cop?"

Shadow remained silent.

A smile showed on Sonic's lips, "I'm guessing that's the president's daughter am I right?"

"That was too good of a guess. You're somehow involved in this aren't you? You're working with them."

"Hold on cop, you saw how they locked me in that wardrobe didn't you? I just so happened to quit their little game. I betrayed them", he said with a smirk.

"Sonic."

"What?"

"Tell me what are they planning to do with her."

"Well..." As Sonic was about to explain, he saw a bloody man villager dragging a bloody pick axe. "Oh shit!"

Shadow looked over to the bloody man as well. "Damn!"

They tried to get away from him, but they couldn't go far because they were tied together.

"Do something, cop!" Sonic shouted.

"You first."

The man raised the pick axe in the air.

Shadow and Sonic tried to part from each other and the pick axe struck down on the chain that was holding them together and broke it. They both separated from each other and fell on the floor.

The man pulled his weapon from the ground and raised it towards Shadow.

Shadow raised his foot in the air and used it to send the man into the wall.

The bloody villager fell to the floor landing on his head, breaking his neck.

"That's it I'm getting the hell out of here!" Sonic panicked and started to run out of the room.

Shadow looked over to the exit, "Sonic, wait!" It was too late Sonic was already gone. He got off the floor and crossed his arms, "I guess this means I'm on my own again." He heard something beep in his pocket. He took out his communicator and saw a relieved rabbit.

She sighed, "Thank goodness you're all right. I kept calling you but you never answered."

"Sorry Cream, something happened and it's all a big blur."

"Well I'll try to find out what's going on. In the meantime you look for the subject. Now get going." She cut off the communicator.

Shadow placed the device back in his pocket, "Okay I'm officially sick of being told what to do by a little girl." He began to leave the room. While he was walking down the short hallway, he heard a voice calling him.

"Hey, stranger."

Shadow looked over to a window beside him and saw a green crocodile wearing a blue cloak. "Uh you talking to me?"

"Of course I'm talking to you. Come over here, stranger."

The man was strange, but somehow Shadow was willing to trust him. He saw the door and opened it. Once he stepped outside, he started to shiver a bit because it was so windy. "Well...I'm not in the village anymore that's for sure." Ahead of him, he saw a huge door, but he didn't go through it. Instead he walked over to the wall and looked through one of the cracks and saw a swarm of villagers walking around with their weapons in their hands. Shadow quickly looked away and took out his gun. Now he was just staring at it, "I'm going to need more ammo." He looked away from his gun, "I should go check with that strange man." He went behind the house and saw the green crocodile smiling at him.

He started to laugh, "I may have a solution to your problem, stranger."

"You do? Wait a minute, who are you anyway?"

"A friendly merchant is all." He opened the inside of his cloak and many guns and ammo were shown.

Shadow's mouth dropped, "Whe-where'd you get all those weapons!"

"I got my sources. You want?"

"Wait, don't I have to get money from this country to buy those?"

The merchant nodded.

"Well I can't buy anything", he was about to walk away.

"Hold it, stranger."

Shadow turned to face him again.

"I could give you one item for free."

"Free? Well what would you recommend? I really need something stronger than a nine millimeter handgun."

The merchant started to look through his cloak until he found what he was looking for, "Ah here we are." He showed a very powerful looking magnum to Shadow. "What about this, stranger? This is called the broken butterfly, but you can call it a magnum."

He took the magnum out of the merchant's hand and started to look at it and looked back at the merchant, "This is perfect." He checked the chamber for any bullets but didn't see any. "You have any bullets?"

The merchant reached in his cloak for bullets and when he found them, he handed them to Shadow, "There you are, stranger."

"Thanks, but stop calling me stranger. It's getting annoying", he began to walk away.

"Whatever you say, stranger", the merchant said back as Shadow walked away.

Shadow placed the magnum in his pocket and took out his handgun instead, "I won't need that unless I come in contact with something like that guy with the chainsaw." He stood in front the door and kicked it open startling the villagers that was walking around.

All of the villagers immediately came towards him with their axes, pitchforks, torches, and hatchets.

Shadow smirked, "This is going to be cake." He took his gun and started to shoot the villagers anywhere he could hit them. It wouldn't matter, they would all die no matter where he shot them at. More of them were still coming so he placed his gun back in his pocket. He clenched his fists, "Maybe I should have a little fun." He ran towards a man and kicked a pitchfork out of his hand. He grabbed his arm and threw him at the other villagers behind him. Afterwards he raised his fist in the air and punched a woman in her face and made her fall to the ground with a bloody nose. He started to look around, "Okay I'm bored. There's gotta be an exit around here somewhere." He looked over to where a villager that he shot and saw a door behind his dead body. "There's one." He started to jump over the rest of the villagers to get to the door. When he got to the door, he kicked the dead body away from the door and went through it. Once he went through the door, he saw a pathway that looked clear of any villagers. He started to walk down the pathway and soon came to another door. He went inside it and everything looked like an underground passageway. Water was dripping from the ceilings and onto the floor. He then saw two villagers coming beside him with torches in their hands. One was a man and the other was a woman. Shadow ran up to a man kicked him in the face, knocking the torch out of his hand.

He fell to the ground, but was picked up by Shadow with his hand around his neck. He threw his body towards the woman making them both fall to the ground with the man on top of her.

Shadow picked the flaming torch off the ground and looked over to the two villagers, "Perfect formation." He quickly took the torch and stabbed the flaming wooden stick through them. He smiled and went through the next door. As he fought more villagers along the way, he finally found a way out of the sewer like tunnel. He climbed up the ladder and as soon as he reached the top, he was startled by a black crow staring at him. He glared at the bird, "I don't need to take any of your sympathy."

With that the bird flew away into the grey looking sky.

Shadow got out of the hole and looked around a bit seeing no villagers anywhere though he saw a house ahead of him. He got off the ground and started to walk towards the house until he saw two red lights on each tree beside him. He looked down and saw two bear traps set under that. He jumped back and smiled as he took out his handgun and pointed it at the center of the string that was connected to the dynamite packs. "They have to do way better than that." He pulled the trigger on his gun and shot at the string making the dynamite explode. After the explosion, he jumped over the traps that was set on the ground. He ran towards the house and headed for the door, but it was locked. "Oh come on!" He stared at the door and noticed a weird control panel that had some kind of weird symbol on it. "Huh? What's this?" He looked down at the control panel and pushed an arrow that was facing up. The symbol then changed shape. Shadow started to scratch his head, "I do not have time for a brain buster." He looked at the symbol again. "That insignia looks...familiar." He thought back to the village and the black door he was trying to get into was locked. That door had the same insignia on it. "That's it!" He pushed an arrow that was facing the left and the door had made a noise meaning it was unlocked. He turned the doorknob and went inside. It looked like a small bedroom. "Maybe I should look around." He started to look around and that's when he found a brown wardrobe. He started to walk towards it, "I hope someone else doesn't fall out of here." He opened it and saw nothing in there except a box of gold coins. He picked up the box, took one of the gold coins out of the box, and looked at it. "This must be money." He smirked, "Now I can buy more weapons from that weird merchant guy." He took some of the coins out of the box and shoved it in his pockets. Afterwards he saw something shining over to the other side of the room. He walked over to it and saw there was a key in a fancy box. He took it out of the box and stared at the key. There was the same insignia on top of the key. "This must go to that black door I saw in the village." He saw the door ahead of him. When he was about to go through it, he heard voices on the other side. He slowly opened the door and was in a hallway. He didn't see anything until he heard footsteps behind him. When he turned around he was grabbed around the neck by the red echidna.

The red echidna looked into his red eyes noticing that they were glowing a bit. He dropped him to the floor.

Shadow quickly crawled away from him while holding his neck coughing a bit.

"You have the same blood as our savior, but nonetheless you're still a rat and can't be trusted", the red echidna walked into the door that Shadow just came out of. Shadow nervously stood from the floor still holding his neck, "Stupid fuck", he said in a low tone. "What did he mean by 'same blood'?"