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Tails of Shadows

Chapter Two

Regret


The twin tailed fox held the Emerald in his hands. He was alone now, alone with his precious Chaos Emerald. He stroked it gently, murmuring about his plans to himself. No one had suspected anything... except for Shadow... but now that he thought about it, maybe Shadow didn't know at first. But he sure as hell would know now... his reaction to Shadow's questions did raise a few in other's heads. But they wouldn't understand...

He placed his Emerald next to the potted plant he had been desprately trying to grow. It had remained as a sprout for too long... it had been over a year now...

He heard a loud crash outside his house, causing his head to snap up. It sounded like trashcans had been knocked over. He threw a piece of cloth over the Emerald, and dashed to his window to investegate. He looked out, to the left and the right... and saw nothing.

Must have been a squirel... He thought, shaking his head. It's still summer after all...

He turned to leave his window, closing the blinds as he did so. He didn't notice Shadow pressed up against the wall below the window. He let go of his chest fluff and breathed a sigh of relief. That had been almost too close...

He shook his head roughly, and furrowed his brows. He had seen Tails with the Emerald, that lying, little...

He stood up quickly, completely enraged, but soon clasped his hand over his head, falling down again, as he had just slammed his head into the door of the window. Teeth clenched, he let out a long, dragged out growl of pain.

"Dammit!" He cursed out loud, curling up tightly for a good moment before realizing what he just did.

He let loose a foul profanity, before looking up at a very angry Tails, and swore under his breath.

"... Tails..."

"... I'm afraid you've seen too much, Shadow..."

"... I won't tell..." Shadow tried to keep his gaze straight; looking left could screw this up for him.

"... No... I don't think you will..." Tails climbed out of his window, and pointed a ray gun at Shadow.

"... Wh-what are you going to do, Miles?" Shadow's voice was moderately strong, but was peppered with little fear. He had never seen Tails like this before. It made him feel a little uneasy. He was hoping to reason with him by using Tails real first name.

"... I'm going to erase what you just saw from your mind..." He said cold calmly, he did not seem to notice the name usage. "... Mind you, this is still just a prototype, so it might not even work the same way as I want it to..."

"... You're mad..."

Tails blinked a moment or two before laughing like a maniac.

" If trying to use supernatual forces to call back a loved one labels me as mad... then, yes, I am!"

Shadow tried to move. He tried to call for help. But he couldn't.

"I can only imagine the fear that must be coursing through your body right now, Shadow..." Tails tilted his head to the side, his sky colored eyes playng of the madness in droves. He bared his teeth a little as he grinned manaically; Shadow had never known that Tails actually had fangs.

"...Why...?"

Shadow's question did not throw Tails off even the slightest.

"'Why?' You asked me 'Why'? I'll tell you..." He pointed his aim better. "... Because every night, I wake up, knowing that I failed the one I really cared about!" He squeezed the trigger, and a beam of blue light hit Shadow. Shadow felt his mind dift away slowly. "... Because I could have done something, but I couldn't... of course... you wouldn't understand... nobody ever does!"

Shadow would have said he did... that he understands Tails more then he thinks...but his mind was slowly begining to fade away. He fell to the ground with a thud before his eyes closed. The last thing he heard was "...And don't call me Miles..."


Tails brushed himself off. He knew no one would be able to detect the mind erasion, except him. But, he wasn't going to leave Shadow for dead. He wasn't that bad...yet. At the most, Shadow might never remember this incident, at least for a couple years, if all goes according to plan.

He hurried into his house and pried up the floorboards under his bed. He dropped the Emerald and the ray gun in there, to hide them, and boarded the holes up again.

He stepped back outside and could'nt have asked for a better setup. It would have looked like Shadow had hit his head on the window door hard, a common injury, and with Shadow's luck, completly understandable. Though, that bump on his head did look bad...

He hurried back into his house and came out with a pillow and an ice pack. Shadow was too heavy to move anyway, so he might as well try out here. He place the ice pack on his head, and his head on the pillow, keeping care not to further injure him. He dash back indoors and dialed up Sonic... he had his alibi already.

"Yo..."

"Sonic... I think you might want to come over here... Shadow kinda hit his head on my window while checking on me after this morning's outburst, and I think he's hurt..."

"Wait, what!?"

"Shadow... hit... his... head..." Tails repeated slowly, hoping to get through to Sonic. "I need your help to move him to the couch..."

"How badly?"

"He's out of it... I got an ice pack on it though..."

" 'Kay... I'll be right over..."

No sooner had Tails had put down the phone had the blue blur showed up at his door.

"You aint kidding!" Sonic said, motioning a hand to Shadow.

" Help me, will ya?"

The two had managed to half drag, half carry, the poor black hedgehog to the couch over the time of three minutes. Shadow groaned lighty before turning over once they set him down.

" Geez... let's hope he'll be okay..."

"With a hit like that... he might have a little trouble remembering anything in the past few days...I can only hope he ends up with a sore spot." Tails said, actually worried. He felt that he might have crossed the line, severely. He didn't really mean to hurt Shadow, but he did'nt want everyone to know it was him who stole the Emerald.This was all for a good cause in the long run... maybe this was how Sonic felt when he was on the run with the Sword of Acorn, to save his dad.

oh, God... what have I done?


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