sonadow: chapter 9
Normal POV
Silence overwhelmed the two. "my son." james started. "shadow is still alive?" He said and walked out of the darkest part of the room. "yes he is. well, as much as alive you can say about a vampire." The vampiress said making james look down in guilt. He felt quilty because he was completely powerless to stop shadow from becoming a vampire. "oh, get over it already! you're leaving tomorrow night!" She said getting angry over the fact that james still felt guilty after all these years. She left the room leaving the hedgehog alone to think to himself.
james couldn't believe what he had just heard. His son was still alive? He sat down on his bed in shock. He had hoped that his son was still alive, but he had also hoped that shadow did die that day, so that he could've atleast found peace would've been reunited with his mother and brother. He allowed himself to drop down on the bed and look up the ceiling. he remembered everything that happened as clear as day. As if it happened only yesterday.
It was first time he had brought him son hunting with him. He felt proud that his son was going along and paying very close attention to what he told him. After some time of explaining shadow could som up everything his father had told him perfectly without fault. If it hadn't been for that cursed vampiress ambushing them then everything had gone as planned. james tried to follow his son as soon as he noticed the vampiress chasing him. he knew that it was to late when he heard shadow's heartwrenching screams of agony. When the screaming ceased is when james got hismelf to move again.
When he arrived at his son's body he didn't see the culprit. He had knelt besides his body and tried everything he could to bring the boy back, but nothing helped. He had held his son's cold body close and cried as he knew that his youngest and only son had died. He picked him up carefully in his arms and turned to walk home. But he soon got attacked by the same vampiress who had taken his son's life. he tried to fight her off and get revenge on what she had done. She had the upper, though. She had him pinned down in no time and started draining his blood aswell and it didn't take long before his concious slipped away aswell.
He woke up later on in a cave. He didn't know how he got here. He didn't know how he was still alive either. But after reminding himself what happened he figured that he had become a vampire. he wanted to check for certainty and held out his hand in the sun light, causing it to burn. He pulled his hand back and saw the burn wounds heal. He waited for night time to fall before he walked out to look for his son's body not knowing that shadow had become a vampire before he did. He went to the same place, but he didn't see a trace of him. james had searched everywhere to maybe see if a predator had gotten him, but found not a single trace even though he searched all night. he sighed and tried to look for the cave once again as the sun started to rise.
Back then he didn't know that shadow was a vampire. If he had known then he would've stayed with him untill he woke up instead of moving and risked getting killed by the vampiress. He wondered where shadow was at the moment. He also wondered if he had found himself a lover and if he had been alright during the whole time.
James got up from the bed and walked towards the balcony. He looked over the forest. "shadow." He said and looks up. "don't worry, my son, i'll find you." James said and looked at the moon.