Past Secrets
Chapter 15 - Headache
Shadow's POV 7:30 am
I rushed home as soon as my friends lost sight on me. I have no clue what's going on but the pain is becoming unbearable. As I ran home, I noticed I was leaving a small trail of blood on the sidewalk. The back of my head began to bleed more and more, I was getting drossy.
"Ahhhhhh! Bang!" I smashed open my front door and ran straight up to my room. As I made my way through the hall I was staggering all around hitting my body against anything I came in contact with. I knocked over a few photos that I hang on the walls and I smash a vase that was not harming anyone. By the time I reach my door I had blood all over my floor and on my hand because I was still leaking and holding the wound. I stumbled through my door and fell on my bed. I could not move really. I tried to get up and fight the blood loss but every time I tried to get up it felt like I was lightheaded.
"Come on Shadow! Get up! Ahahah the painnnn!" I yelled to myself.
I used almost all the energy I had left to make the attempt to stand but I didn't last long. I fell straight on the floor; smashing on the ground like a boulder. I made a huge thud. When my face made contact with the cold wood floor; I passed out into the void that was my mind.
Shadow's Mind
I woke up in this pitch black room, I could not see anything. The only thing I remember is the pain and me hitting the floor. Now I'm here. Is this my Mind or is this the place you go when you die, cause I'm pretty sure this isn't heaven. Maria said Heavens a place were angels live and if you are a really good person or hedgehog in my case, you would be sent here and you would spend your afterlife in selfless joy and goodwill. But this place is dark and cold. This might be Hell.
I stood up and felt around as if there was going to be a light switch or something on one of these cold walls. The walls felt like concrete, Strange. As I felt around I ran my hand across a chain. At least that's what it felt like and sounded like as I tugged on it. I pulled on it with all the might that I possessed. After my third pull on it a light came on exposing a horrific sight.
The chain that I so eagerly yanked on was connected to me. Not me but a clone of some sort. I stared at myself and I had a few dozen chains and locks all across my body. My legs were spread apart and so were my arms, They were being separated by a chain on each one of them. The clone had all the cuts and bruises that I had. It looked just like me. I stared at it and realized I was still holding the chain. I freaked out and let go of it and stumbled backwards in fear.
"Oh my god! What the hell!" I asked myself while tiring to find out what I was exactly looking at.
I got the courage to approach the clone and look at him up close. His eyes were close and he wasn't breathing. Was he dead? Was I dead? I put my hand out and ran it across his face. His eyes opened and he screamed. God the voice was mine. My clone screamed in Pain. He was scared and hopeless by the look of him. As he screech, I put my hand over my ears. His scream was piercing. Blood began to drip out of my ears. It was that loud and painful. The clone screamed for a good ten seconds and then stopped. His eyes closed and body fell motionless on the chains. I let go of my own ears and the blood ran down my arms. I was scared and stunned from all that was happening. I felt my clones cold face and I reached around to the back of his head; I felt a sharp slit. It was a fresh wound and it was open. I put my hand in the clones head and I felt around. To my surprise there was no skull, just a empty vessel. Then it hit me.
"I'm just a empty vessel waiting to die. Is that what this meant?" I asked myself.
I felt around in the empty void of my clones head and suddenly I felt a metal object. I pulled it out and it was a chip of some sort, a small silver chip. I looked at it and flipped it over, on the back read the curse initials "EI" and after the initials read "Control Chip". I dropped the chip when I read it to myself. When the chip hit the ground; a bright light flashed and I was overcome by its brightness.
Shadow's house 2:00 pm
"Ahhhhhhh!" I shouted as I awoke from that nightmare.
I still lied face first on the wood floor. I looked around the floor noticing I was face first in a pool of my own blood. I was scared. I slowly lifted my head and made my way onto the bed. I was lightheaded beyond belief. I slowly got myself into a sitting position and examined my head. I felt the front of my face first and I had blood on half of it due to the fact I was lying in the pool of blood on the floor. Then I made my way around back. My eyes widened in shock. I had that same slit on the back of my head; just like my clone in that dream. Does that mean I have it in my head as well? I asked myself. I looked at my watch and it was now 2:05. I slept through the day, Silver, tails, and Knuckles will be here soon. God I can't let them see me like this.
"Ahhh…" I stood up slowly and walked towards the door. I crossed my hallway into my bathroom. I looked at the back of my head slowly and I saw the slit, god was it nasty, but to my fears it was open; just like the clones. I had a bad feeling that the chip was in there and I had to find out. I looked around my bathroom and found a pair of tweezers. I was scared to do this, but it had to be done. I use my left hand to stretch open the slit so I could fit my right hand in it. I used the tweezers and felt around. My blood spilled onto the floor while going down my body in hot waves of red. I was becoming drossy again and stumbling across the slippery floor. I held my ground and made contact with the chip. When I put the tweezers around it and began to pull; my brain began to suffer from the stress of all this pain. I felt like I was going to die. I gave it one last yank with everything I had and the chip disconnected from my skull.
"AHHHHHHHH!" I screamed so loud that I might have alerted everyone in the town. I fell down on my butt and looked at the chip in utter happiness.
"Ha…haha….hahahahah!" I laughed.
I was happy it was out but I can't believe it was his. I don't know how he did it, but EI stands for Eggman Incorporate. The terrorist organization. Eggman went psycho after the escape and went rogue with the corporation. Eggman now kills all who oppose him and without mercy. North End has been terrified by the corporation for the past few years. The corporation has always been made of terrorists but now its gone to far and no one tries to stop them. Until me. You thought you could control me Eggman, but no one but me determines my own destiny. If I somehow live through this, I promise I will end your rain of terror. You have my word. I then passed out from blood loss. Before I faded away I heard my front door open.
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