CHAPTER 2-3
Shadow took his mind off of Sonic and turned to Amy, "Amy, we have to go."
Amy just stared at Shadow's wounded arm. It was still bleeding a bit, "Shadow, maybe you should do something about that wound. It could get infected or something."
"Damn it, Amy! I told you before I'm fine! If you want to be useful then shut the fuck up!"
She gasped and was surprised by Shadow's behavior. She looked away from him in sadness, "I'm sorry, Shadow. I was just trying to help."
Shadow realized what he said and sighed, "No I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you like that." He sat down in a chair at the table and placed his hand on his forehead, "It's just...I've been through so much since I came here. I've never seen this much gore since the outbreak in Raccoon City. These parasites are in our bodies and our chopper got shot down. I just don't think we'll make it out here alive."
Amy placed her hands on his shoulders and started to gently massage them trying to calm him down. She blushed a bit as she did it, "Everything will be okay, Shadow. You said it will and I believe you. We will get out of here."
He placed his hand on one of her hands and took it away from his shoulder, "You're right." He stood from the chair, "I'm fine really. Lets just get out of here." He began to walk out the door.
Amy smiled and followed him.
They were in the back of the cabin and saw two large doors with a gate over each of them. In the middle of the two gates was a lever that could open the door on the left or right.
Shadow had to think for a short moment.
Amy anxiously waited fo his move, 'Make it a good one, Shadow.'
Shadow then moved the lever to the left door and the door had opened. He faced Amy, "Lets go."
They both went in the door and saw more ganados approaching them.
Shadow took out his handgun and saw a wagon with barrels on it. He shot at the barrels and the wagon blew up along with the ganados surrounding it. He and Amy started to run along the area full of villagers until they came across a ladder. They climbed up the ladder and saw more ganados in front of them. He took his gun and started to shoot them.
Amy started look around, "There's way too many of them."
Shadow looked down, took Amy's hand, and jumped down at another area.
Amy safely landed on the ground, but was still angry at Shadow for not warning her, "Are you crazy?"
Shadow looked ahead and pointed, "No, she is."
Amy looked and saw a woman with bandages all around her face holding a chainsaw in her hand. She pulled the string and started it up.
Shadow took out his magnum, "How could this get any worse?"
Amy heard another chainsaw noise. She looked over to the right of her and saw another woman with a chainsaw in her hands breaking through old wooden boards. She screamed, "It just got worse!"
Shadow pointed the gun at the woman ahead of him and shot her back on the ground. He turned around and shot the second woman back on the ground. He looked back at the woman in front of him and saw a key hanging around her neck, "Is that a key?" He looked around until he saw a door, "It must go to that door."
Amy screamed and got behind Shadow, "Shadow, they're getting back up!"
He pointed his gun at the woman that was beside them and shot her back down on the ground.
She fell to the ground dropping her chainsaw.
"Damn it, they just get stronger and stronger", he shot another round at the woman with the key around her neck.
She fell on the ground as well and this time, she never got back up.
After when Shadow killed them, villagers started to surround them. Shadow took the key off the dead woman's neck and ran towards the door inserting the key in the lock. After when it was unlocked, they went through the door and they were still outside. They heard voices ahead of them, so they slowly walked ahead and saw more villagers ahead of them.
Shadow took out his handgun and started to shoot them anywhere on their bodies. Some of them even had the plagas and he took time to kill them. After when he was done killing them, he saw another door ahead of him. They went through it and saw another big green door ahead of them. They ran across the narrow path and headed for the green door. Shadow tried to open it, but it wouldn't open. He examined the door. He never saw a key hole, but he did see an eye identification device on it. He turned to Amy, "This is probably our ticket out of the village, but we can't get in without the proper eye identification."
"How are we suppose to get eye identification? Just pull out someone's eye out of their head?"
Shadow looked over to the left of him and stared at the lifts, "Just might have to." He faced her, "Maybe we'll find our answers over there." He started to walk up the steps to get to the lifts with Amy following. Once he got up to the lifts, he figured he needed to ride them to get over to the other side. He walked over to one, "Lets go, Amy." He and Amy stood on the lifts and started to ride them towards the other side.
Amy enjoyed the great view of the surroundings. From a distance, she saw a tall building with lights coming from the windows. She pointed over to it, "Look Shadow, I think it's a castle."
He glanced over to it and had his attention back over to the other side, "Yeah, real interesting", he said in an uncaring voice.
"Hey this could be important. We might have to go over there next."
His eyes widened, "Amy, get down!"
She kneeled down making a flying hatchet miss her. She slowly got back up and got behind Shadow, "Wha-what's going on?"
He took out his handgun, "More of em." He looked around and saw villagers riding on the lifts beside them. A man was about to throw another hatchet, but Shadow shot it back and the weapon hit him in his head. He fell off the lift and fell towards the darkness beneath them.
Amy trembled a bit, "I would hate to fall down there." She held Shadow close to her, "When are we going to get off this thing?"
Shadow stopped shooting at the villagers and glanced at Amy, "Hold on, Amy. We're almost there." He looked away from her and shot the last villager on the lift. The lift didn't stop at where they wanted to stop at so they had to jump off it. They got off it and started to walk around the lifts until they saw stairs leading downward. They walked down the stairs and saw a blue light at the end. They walked towards the blue light and saw a green crocodile standing near it.
"Hello, stranger", he greeted. "Need something?"
"Yeah, seen anything weird around here?" Shadow asked.
"Stranger, I see a lot of things."
He crossed his arms in annoyance, "Right, what was I thinking asking you." He saw a door ahead of him and went through it. Then he and Amy were somewhere in the woods and a house was in front of them. He and Amy ran towards the door but didn't go in it. He faced Amy, "Something doesn't seem right. Amy, go hide."
She nodded, "Right." She ran off somewhere while Shadow slowly stepped into the building.
Shadow took his handgun and started to look around the room. He saw nothing unusual until something flew past him in a fast speed. "What the-" He looked behind him and a red echidna had grabbed his neck.
The echidna easily threw him towards the wooden beam on the ceiling.
His head hit the beam and he fell back on the floor but he wasn't knocked unconscious.
The echidna turned to the handle bars on the door and twisted them together so Shadow couldn't escape. He faced Shadow and slowly walked towards him while he was trying to get off the floor. He clenched his fist and began to punch Shadow, but he had rolled out of the way making the echidna miss.
Shadow was near a barrel full of gasoline. He kicked it down on the floor making the gasoline seep out of the opening and flow towards the echidna along with getting his feet wet.
He looked down at the gasoline all over his shoes and faced Shadow holding his handgun at the barrel full of gasoline.
He smirked, "Sayonara asshole." He pulled the trigger to his gun and shot at the barrel making it explode. He quickly jumped back and watched as the red echidna and the house being burned by the flames. He thought he had beaten him but the echidna was still standing. He stood from the floor and looked at the angry echidna in his eyes.
The echidna started to yell in anger and all of a sudden his spinal cord extended longer than it was suppose to be and he grew long sharp claws. He yelled again and started to approach Shadow.
Shadow's eyes widened at the sight, "It must be the parasite in his body." He quickly took put his machine pistol and pointed it at the echidna's head, "Time to put this thing to the test." He pulled the trigger and then bullets started to fly out of the barrel and shoot the echidna in his head but he was still coming. He stopped shooting realizing that the shooting to the head wasn't doing anything. He stared at the spinal cord and started to shoot at the that.
The echidna stopped walking towards him and started to yell in pain. As Shadow kept shooting, the echidna's waist separated from his body and he started to crawl around like a spider.
Shadow quickly reloaded his gun and shot at the echidna again until he had dropped to the floor.
The echidna yelled once more with blood arising from his mouth and passed out in the floor dead while his right eye fell out of his eye socket.
Shadow slowly kneeled down and took the eyeball looking at it with a smile, "Looks like I found that eye." Beside him one of the wooden boards had fell to the floor making a hole that Shadow could escape from. He jumped out of the opening and met up with Amy.
She looked at him with worry, "Are you okay, Shadow?"
"If it makes you feel any better then no. At least I don't have to worry about that bastard anymore", he started to walk towards the door he came from, "Come on."
They went back through the door and met up with the merchant again.
"Do you..." the merchant started to ask.
"No", Shadow simply said as he and Amy ran up the stairs towards the lifts leaving the merchant questioned.
The merchant scratched his head, "What a weird stranger."
Once Shadow and Amy rode the lifts back to the other side, they ran towards the big green door.
Shadow took out the eye that the red echidna had and held its pupil up to the scanner letting it scan it. Afterwards the door was unlocked. Shadow immediately dropped the eyeball on the ground, "Ugh, that's nasty!"
Amy laughed a bit.
He glared at her, "What are you laughing about?"
She shook her head slightly, "Nothing."
They went through the door and up ahead of them on top of a hill, they saw villagers with torches in their hands.
Amy placed her hands on her hips, "Okay, now I'm getting sick of these guys. Why can't they just leave us alone?"
Shadow took out his handgun, "Don't worry this will be easy." As he and Amy were about to walk towards the villagers, a truck came from behind the villagers and started to run them over killing them. Afterwards the truck started to approach them.
Amy started to scream, "It's going to run us over! Shadow, do something!"
He pointed his gun at the man villager driving the truck, "I'm on it", he shot the man in his head killing him. The truck uncontrollably crashed down the hill but didn't hit them.
Shadow checked the back of the truck and saw some gold coins, "I found money."
Amy rolled her eyes, "We're about to get killed and all you can think about is money?"
"I'm using it to buy more guns okay?"
She sighed and heard the door opening behind them. She looked and saw more villagers coming with torches in their hands. She ran up to Shadow, "Shadow!"
He grabbed her wrist and led her up the hill. When they got up there, they saw a castle.
Amy smirked and faced Shadow, "Told yea we'd be going here next."
Shadow led her across the bridge of the castle, "Amy this is not the time."
Once they made it across the bridge, they looked back at the villagers.
Amy stepped back, "What are we going to do, Shadow?"
He looked at the cranks on each corner of the bridge, "Take that crank over there."
Shadow ran over to one and so did Amy. He faced her, "Ready?"
She nodded and started to turn the crank to the bridge making it go up blocking the entrance to the castle for the villagers.
One of the villagers waved his torch in the air with frustration shouting in their language.
Shadow and Amy looked around the huge castle, looked at each other, and sighed the same time.
N/A: Well, Knuckles is dead. I'm pretty happy about that. It felt pretty good to kill him. Heh, heh! Oh and by the way, don't expect for the story to be perfect. I'm only doing this because I was bored and don't think I crossed over to the shadamy side cause I didn't. I'm still sticking with shadouge. The shadouge didn't happen yet because Rouge just didn't come in yet, but she will soon. And I'm not saying that shadamy sucks. It's okay, I just don't think it'll happen. Well on to the next chapter!