Teardrops and Bloodstains - Chapter 8

Sorry, there's swearing in this one… only a bit (Actually, there's quite a bit, but it's mild).

Ok, disclaimer…

Blood Wren: I, Blood Wren, own none of the characters within this piece of Fiction, apart from the chaos called: Dark, Super and Twin. Thankyou for your time... WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I'm all alone! They've all gone home!

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Where am I? A solid, cold wall is holding me up, the floor is equally cold. Shadow! My eyes snap open. He's on the other side of the room, slumped in a corner, unconscious.

"Shadow, wake up."

"..."

"Wake up!"

"..."

"Shadow! Please!"

I can see his breath evaporating, and his hand reaches up.

"Ohhh... my head!"

"Where are we?"

"You're ok, right?"

"Yeah, you?"

"Uh huh. It's cold in here, jeez!"

He looks ill, and tired.

"Where are the others?"

"I don't know, I've just woken up myself. I hope they're ok..."

"Oh, they're ok! In fact, they're in cells just like yours; I suppose they'll come round soon enough! Hahahahahaha!"

"Eggman!"

"Relax, or I'll turn down the temperature!"

"We had to wait for hours before we were taken out of our cells. The new cells weren't so bad, the floor was soft and we could see each other through thick metal bars. But they where electrified, so there was only one wall we could lean on. Me and Shadow are in one cell, Amy and Sonic in another, and Mighty and Espio, and Vector and Charmy, and Knuckles with Cream, and Big and Rogue. All of the chaos were in their own cell, huddled up together."

"I wanna go home now… I want my mom!"

"I know Cream… I know."

Knuckles is trying to comfort the young rabbit, but she's still crying.

"Sonic! Stop! You'll hurt yourself!"

"Amy! I've gotta keep trying!"

"Spin attacking the bars is useless! You just bounce right off again!"

"Grrr…"

I see him moodily sit on the floor, head in his hands.

"I'm hungry!"

"Yes Big, you've told me!"

"I want one of them thingies Sonic eats…"

"Well, Eggman probably doesn't have any spare chilli dogs around."

"Awwww…"

Rogue's looking tired, we all are, but her ears have drooped, and she's wearing no make-up.

"Whoop-de-de-pop!"

"CHARMY! SHUT UP!"

All of the Chaotix crew shout this in unison.

"Awwww, come on guys! I'm bored-diddle-ored!"

"Shut up or I'll eat you whole!"

Vector's looking ill, his scales are loose, and his eyes are puffy, well, he is sharing a cell with the most annoying bee in existence…

Mighty appears to be trying making a hole in the wall through repetitive punching, and Espio's turned a pale pink.

Shadow's on the floor, on his back, sleeping. And I'm trying to help Knuckles with Cream.

"CHAO!"

Cheese's small screams can be heard from the cell hanging from the ceiling.

"…And I wanna see Cheese!"

"Could someone shut that bloody rabbit up!"

"Rogue! Don't make her worse!"

"Shut it knuckle head!"

"Grrrrrrrr…"

"Knuckles, cool it…"

"Shadow? I thought you where asleep!"

"Well, it's hard to sleep with you lot bickering like kids! Now calm down, or Eggman will get what he wants."

"What?"

"…"

"You know, pulling us all apart?"

"Oh… yeah."

Cream's sobs die down a bit.

"Is your ankle ok Tails?"

"Well, it's not getting worse!"

"Good!"

That's better.

"ATTENTION ALL OUTLAWS! YOU WILL BE LET OUT OF YOUR CELLS TO EAT IN EXACTLY 5 MINUTES!"

"What? We're let out of our cells to eat?"

"Eggman must have this security thing sorted out then…"

I glance over to the cell to the right, Mighty has stopped punching the wall, and Espio's purple again.

"Food?"

"Yes Big, food…"

Cream flaps her ears, making her take off a bit.

"Yay!"

Shadow sits up, and is now stretching. And Sonic has stopped droning on. I'm talking to Cream up against the bars, we gotta be careful not to touch them.

"Are you gonna be ok now?"

"Yeah… I think. How long are we gonna be here for?"

"I don't know… lets hope not for long, ok?"

"Ok!"

As I turn to face Shadow, I feel cold metal touch my ear. Before I have time to move, an electric current runs through my body, forcing me onto the floor.

"What the hell!"

"Tails? Are you ok?"

I can feel everyone's eyes looking at me, cowering on the floor. I don't care.

"HEY EGGMAN, LIGHTEN THE CURRENT! YOU NEARLY KILLED HER!"

"Knuckles…don't"

I can feel my strength ebbing away.

"Shadow, is she ok?"

Sonic, I thought you hated Shadow…

"Shadow?"

"Yeah, she's ok."

His voice has changed.

"Shadow? Something wrong!"

"Of course something's wrong Sonic! Shadow's turning…"

"What!"

"SUPER!"

Sure enough, a faint glow was emitting from Shadow. I hear the doors of our cells slide open, and I can feel knuckles gloves on my arms.

"Shadow, calm down, this doesn't have to happen."

"He has no choice my red friend. What's left of his mind is soon to be destroyed!"

Eggman's voice boomed from the same speaker that told us about food…

"How do you mean?"

"His mind hasn't been right… not since Tails' hand…"

"Very good spikeball! It's not just her hand I've ruined!"

"WHAT!"

"I got bored of waiting around for you to rescue her, so I had a little experiment!"

"No!"

"When you gave me the emeralds, the experiment was complete! The energy flowed into her bloodstream, and is still there! It gave her chaos powers, Sonic; she just doesn't know how to use them! And while she has the power of the other emeralds, his emerald reacts! Making him turn super!"

"You BASTARD!"

The volume at which Sonic says this at hurts my ears.

"But why now? Why's it taken so long?"

"Ah, it takes time to absorb energy from another body!"

"But doesn't that mean that I'll turn super too?"

"VERY GOOD! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Everyone get outta here!"

"Come on Tails, we've got to go!"

That's why his emerald cures me, that's why I can share his pain, chaos energy?

"Tails, I'm……………sorry! AHHHHHH!"

"No!"

A tear jerks out of my eye, involuntarily.

He flashes gold, but his red stripes remain.

"GEt OuttA HeRE! NOW!"

Both Shadow and Sonic are on the floor, glowing gold. Their skin is changing. Knuckles picks me up and sprints along the hallway, trying to find and exit.

"SO, SONIC… STILL DON'T TRUST ME?"

"NOT A BIT, FAKER!"

"YOU'LL REGRET THAT!"

"YEAH?"

'CRASH!'

"What was that noise?"

"I don't wanna know Tails. Is everyone ok?"

They're all here.

"I didn't know, about being… having chaos energy in me…"

"None of us did, I don't think Shadow knew what was going to happen either."

"It was so confusing, what Eggman said, it made no sense!"

I don't know what's happening, I'm feeling weaker… are they, making me feel like this?

"Why didn't I absorb energy from Shadow? I…don't get it."
"Tails, I think you are."

"What?"

"You're glowing too; can you… have you ever turned super?"

"No…"

I can feel my fur standing on end; energy seems to be invisibly making its way into my body.

"Knuckles let go…"

He doesn't argue. I fall a bit, but don't touch the ground. I look up, rings of energy are wrapping around my body. My fur changes from orange to white and the tips of my tails and my chest hair turn black.

"Tails?"

"It's ok, I have control."

"Be careful…"

"I will, thankyou Knuckles."

I pass through the hallways and corridors, back to the cells. It's a strange feeling, being in the air but not spinning my tails. I reach the cells… oh no!

"WANNA DIE YET?"

"NO, I WAS HOPING YOU'D DIE FIRST ACTUALLY!"

Sonic is holding Shadow up against the electric bars, by his neck.

"OH LOOK AT THAT! FOXY'S COME TO CHECK ON HER BOYFRIEND! SHAME HE'LL BE DEAD IN A MINUTE!"

"Sonic! STOP IT!"

My body is doing its own thing, my arm is raising.

"WHAT YOU GONNA DO? SCARE ME TO DEATH?"

"NO, I don'T KnOw WHaT I'M doiNG!"

"PATHETIC!"

A red sphere of energy appears in my hand.

"WHAT?"

"LET HIM GO!"

I've regain full control, and I'm not gonna back down. All I have to do is move my fingers and…

"OK, I'LL LET GO!"

Sonic does let go, but kicks Shadow in the stomach, making blood come out of his mouth.

"BUT I NEVER SAID I WOULDN'T KILL HIM! OR YOU…"

He floats lightly towards me, and moves my arm just by looking at it.

"Now now Tails, you woulDN'T want to hurt me, I'm your FriENd!"

"No you're not; you're not the real Sonic!"

"What! That pathetic CREatuRE!"

He puts his hand on my shoulders, and pushes me back into the wall.

"Now, death could be painless, I wouldn't know, I've never died."

"Get off me!"

Cuts and slashes are appearing on my arms and legs, but he's only holding my shoulders. I can feel the skin on my back splitting.

"Don'T STruGgle; you'LL OnlY MaKE THINGS wOrSE!"

"I'D NEVER………………….THINK…………. YOU'D EVER………………..STOOP THIS LOW SONIC… HEH… HEH……"

"YOU, YOU'RE STILL ALIVE!"

"OH YES… VERY ALIVE IN FACT! LET HER GO."

"WHY, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED A PET!"

A… pet? I move my hands in front of his stomach. Tears are now streaming down my white face, through both pain and anger.

"I don't want to do this Sonic…"

"DON'T THEN! IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!"

A purple orb appears in my hand this time.

"NO!"

"Yes…"

I tweak my fingers, sending Sonic blasting backwards, and through the wall. He's on the floor outside, back to blue, but bleeding heavily.

"No…. what have I done?"

I can feel my chaos form fading.

"Sonic! Can you hear me? Oh. Please don't be dead!"

He's breathing, but it's laboured.

"wow tails, you………can really pa…….pack a punch!"

"Don't talk… I'm so sorry!"

"Thankyou………….for…….stopping……………..me from……. Killing………………………………………..you."

"Don't Sonic! Don't die!"

"Tails… use your powers to help him!"

"But I don't now how to use them!"

I can hear him stumbling behind me, tripping and falling over.

"Shadow, I don't know what to do!"

His hands clasp around my shoulders, I'm shaking worse than ever. I can feel warmth flowing down my arms, and my hands heat up violently. A small flame flickers into life, then transforms into a small ball, which leaves my hands and hovers over Sonic's limp figure.

"Huh?"

One eye opens slightly, winces, and then opens again with the other one. The ball separates into three smaller balls that move onto all of Sonic's wounds. The wounds start to close. Shadow's hands are heating up on my shoulders, but he's shaking…

The balls have completed their work, and disappear.

"Ahh!"

"Shadow?"

His hands leave my shoulders, and he collapses on the floor.

"What's going on out here?"

"Knuckles! Help me!"

I have to explain all that's happened.

"And what, he just collapsed?"

"Yeah."

I'm starting to feel very dizzy. I know I'm bleeding, but… how much?

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