Past Secrets
Chapter 16 - Tragedy
Silver's POV
School let out, all in all it was one hell of a day. I had a few presentations and I couple projects to turn in. It was also crazy to see Shadow and Sonic hugging. Are they friends now or something? I guess I'll find out when I get to his house. Tails, Knuckles, and me were walking to his house when on the sidewalk we noticed a red trail.
"What's that?" Asked Knuckles.
"I don't know." I replied.
Tails being the smartest one out of the three of us, approach the red liquid and examined it closely. Tails looked at it for a good ten seconds and knew instantly what it was.
"I think it's blood guys." Said Tails.
"Blood?" Questioned me and Knuckles.
"Look. It leads all the way down the street." Said Tails while pointing at the trail.
"Someone may be hurt. Lets follow it." I said.
"Alright. I hope whoever bleeding is ok." Said Knuckles.
"I don't know, A trial that wide and long is only made from a serious wound. Whoever's hurt need a hospital and fast." Said Tails.
"Then lets not waste time." I said while running after the trial.
Knuckles and Tails followed me close and we followed the trial down the whole sidewalk till the trail made a turn into Shadow's house. We stopped.
"Shadow…" I said quietly.
"AHHHHHHHH!" We heard a wicked scream come from inside Shadow's house. We panicked.
"Shadow!" I screamed. While running up the front stairs up to the front door.
The door had a crack in it, as if it was hit. I slowly opened the door and walked inside. Tails and Knuckles were behind me.
"Spread out and find him." I said.
"I'll check the basement." Said Tails.
"I'll look on this floor." Said Knuckles.
"Alright, I'll go look upstairs. If you find him and he's hurt; call 911." I said.
Everyone nodded and we went our separate ways.
As I walked up stairs I noticed the trail getting wider. It was hard to see because of Shadow's dark wood floor. I got to the top of the stairs and it was a maze. There was glass on the floor from pictures that have been broken and there was a destroyed vase. The trial of blood is what confused me the most. It lead in two directions. The first lead into Shadow's room and the second one lead to the bathroom. I had a fifty fifty shot on guessing what trial lead to Shadow. I went into his room first.
The room was a bloody nightmare{ No Silver's not British. It only means there was a lot of blood.} The bed was covered in it and the floor was the worst. There was a huge pool of blood right next to Shadow's bed and by the look of it, he might have been lying in it, I could make out half his face imprinted in the pool. But there was drips in the imprint; Meaning he somehow managed to get up and go somewhere else. Shadow was not in his room, that was for sure. The only place left was the bathroom.
I followed the trial once again and approached the bathroom door. The doorknob had blood on it. Shadow has to be in here. I wrapped my hand around the blood covered doorknob and slowly twisted it open. I shut my eyes. When I knew the door was open all the way I opened them.
"AHHHHH!" I screamed.
"Silver!" I heard Tails and Knuckles yell from down stairs.
I ran up to shadow's body and kneeled down besides him. I put my hand on his face. Half of his face was covered in blood. I guess I was right about the pool of blood and him lying in it. He was cold and unmoving. I took his motionless arm and felt for a pulse. I put my head down and began to cry. I moved my body so that I was now sitting against the tub like he was. Shadow had no pulse. He was dead. As I laid next to his body I heard footsteps coming up the stairs into the bathroom.
Knuckles came in first with Tails behind him. They stood there motionless just like Shadow's body. Tails put his hands around his mouth trying not to gasp. Knuckles with widened eyes approached me and looked at Shadow's body in shock. He took a good look and kneeled down next to me. I stared at him not knowing what to say, and that's a first for me. Knuckles looked into my eyes then at my hand. I had it around Shadow's. Knuckles slowly moved mine aside and took Shadow's hand for his own. He felt for a pulse but had the same luck I did. He too put his head down and for once I saw him cry. Knuckles was letting his feelings out and it surprised me to see him act this way. I cried with him, while Tails slowly got the courage to approach us. I lifted my head. Tails stared at me, I had blood all over my fur; and all this blood belonged to my best friend. We spent the next few minutes crying, Tails still stood and was examining the scene. It took him a good minute but I think he found out what had happened to Shadow.
"Tails…?" I hesitated.
Tails looked at me and he too had a few tears in his eyes.
"What happened Tails?" I asked sadly.
Tails started to walk around and pace but stopped in the middle of the room. While looking at Shadow's head. His eye's widened and he ran up to me and my best friends body and moved Shadows head forward towards him.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"He's not bleeding from the front and the tub has blood dripping behind his head, so the wound has to be back here." Said Tails.
I watched as Tails moved his head exposing the most gruesome slash I have ever seen in my life.
"Oh my god…" I said quietly.
Shadow had this huge gash in the back of his head. It was so big we could see part of his skull. I almost puked but I held it in. Tails looked around and found shadow's other hand, he lifted it up and found between his cold fingers was a chip, a small silver chip. Tails took the chip in his hands and handed it to me. I looked at it through my tear covered eyes and it read two things. The first was EI and we all knew who that was. And the second was control chip. I looked at Tails and he had picked up a pair of tweezers that was next to Shadows left leg.
"I think that was in his head and he took it out himself." Said Tails slowly.
"What!" Shouted Knuckles.
"It all makes sense." I said.
"What does?" Asked Tails.
"If Shadow somehow managed to escape Eggman, Eggman had this put in his head as a secondary way to get what he wanted out of Shadow." I said.
"That makes sense." Said Knuckles.
"I didn't think Shadow would get it out himself." Said Tails.
"Me ether, but he did." Said Knuckles.
"What do we do know Silver?" Asked Tails.
I pulled out my phone and handed it to Tails.
"Call the police." I said.
Tails dialed the police and they said they would be here in five minutes. Then Tails handed me my phone back and I put it away. Knuckles stood back up and helped me off the floor. I didn't want to leave his side but I had to. We took one last look at Shadow and the whole time this was happing we didn't hear someone behind us.
"Shadow!" We turned and it was Amy and Sonic. What were they doing here? I asked myself while catching Amy as she tried to rush to Shadow's body.
"No! let me go Silver! Shadow! Shadow!" Screamed Amy.
I held her back as she tried to break free.
"Amy… I'm so sorry." Said Tails.
Amy stopped and looked at him.
Tails approached her and put his hand on her shoulder.
Amy began to cry. Sonic took Amy from my arms and put her in his, giving her a comforting tight hug as she cried in his chest.
Sonic looked at Tails then at me.
"What happened?" Asked Sonic.
Tails looked at Sonic and he knew he could not hide the Eggman secret anymore.
"Yesterday Shadow was taken." Started Tails.
"Taken? By Who?" Asked Amy.
"EI." Said Tails.
"Eggman!" Shouted Sonic.
We all nodded are heads and let Tails continue.
"He wanted to interrogate Shadow. But Shadow somehow escaped and Eggman being one of the smartest people in the world had a back up plan just in case that happened." Said Tails.
"Which was?" Asked Amy.
"He somehow planted Shadow with this." Tails took the chip from my hands and handed it to Amy. Amy read it as Sonic did the same.
"A control chip?" Asked Amy in confusion.
Tails nodded his head and said.
"Shadow somehow managed to get it out and he…." I put my hand in front of Tails to get him to stop.
"Don't tails, they can figure out what happened next." I said.
Tails nodded his head and left the room heading back downstairs. Knuckles wiped his face and went behind him. I walked towards Amy and Sonic and I gave her a hug. She needed someone nice to comfort her. She hugged back. I let go a second later and made my way to the door. I took one last look at my best friends body and then went downstairs. I knew Amy would be up there with Sonic for a few minutes to say her goodbyes so I promised not to disturb them.
5 minutes later.
The police arrived and took Shadow's body away in a ambulance. Before the medic who was examining Shadow's body left' he declared Shadow dead, but we already knew that. I guess he said that just so we were sure. Amy cried out in sadness, as all us dudes stood by ourselves contemplating what we were going to do without Shadow.