Past Secrets
Chapter 46 - Black Soul
Shadow's POV
"So Shadow…do you remember a man named Roger?" Asked Nexus while taking a seat in front of me.
"How do you know about him?" I asked nervously.
"I only ask because I'm curious if you feel any regret for ruining his newborn's life." Replied Nexus.
"We had no way of knowing." I stated.
"I understand, but does it hurt to know that you killed a family in the making?" Asked Nexus.
"Of course it hurts. It hurts me everyday of my life. Even now I feel like shit for what me and Dark did." I replied.
"Do you know that the police came to her house and had to tell her that her husband was dead and they had no idea who it was?" Asked Nexus.
"I imagine it was like a knife to the heart." I replied with sadness.
"Did you also know that the wife was shocked to find out her love worked for our old boss?" Asked Nexus.
"No." I replied.
"She was embarrassed. She never knew her true love was capable of working for a man like Eggman. She actually ended her own life about a week after the attack." Stated Nexus.
My heart felt like it was being stabbed rapidly.
"Now that child is left alone in an orphanage, with no mom and no dad. She's all alone." Stated Nexus slowly.
A tear slowly rolled down my cheek and Nexus caught it with his blade.
"Don't cry Shadow. In the end it wasn't your fault. She ruined the life of the daughter. Not you." Stated Nexus.
Nexus wiped off my tear and brought the blade to his mouth. He slowly licked it. Enjoying every taste bud.
I watched as he slowly took the blade off his tongue and brought it back towards me.
"I love watching you cry Shadow, mainly because I never thought I would." Stated Nexus.
"I thought this would never happen to me, but look now." I replied.
Nexus nodded his head while skinning me with his blade.
"Your fur is so soft Shadow." Stated Nexus.
"Ring!"
We both looked back at the table to find my phone going off again.
Nexus stood up and approached the table, he slowly then grabbed my cell and looked at the id.
He began to laugh. He approached me with the phone in hand and whispered into my ear.
"I let you get it this time, but don't say anything stupid or I will hurt you."
Nexus then went behind me and wrapped his right arm around my neck with the blade across my trout. He used his other arm to flip open the cell and he gently put it against my ear.
I took a deep breath to try and relax myself.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Shadow we need to talk!" It was Dark.
My anger began to come back and I was pissed.
"What do you want Dark?" I asked in anger.
"Shadow I can understand why your mad, but please listen…!" I cut him off.
"No, you listen Dark! You went behind my back and had sex with Amy. I would never do that to you with Shade! What kind of brother are you!" I asked in rage.
"I'm a brother who is trying to tell you the truth." Replied Dark.
"I heard it from Amy, and its…!" Dark stopped me.
"You hurt Amy! You broke up with her! You didn't even let her explain! You just assumed!"
"Tell me then! What happened?" I asked.
"We never had sex! Sure Amy did give me oral, but nothing else happened because Silver and Tails walked in on us!" Replied Dark.
"And what if they didn't! You would have went all the way admit it!" I yelled at him.
Dark didn't respond.
"Admit it!" I screamed at him.
"Yes! I would have! Listen brother, I know what I did was wrong and I regret it completely! I know your mad, but…!" I cut him off again.
"I'm more then mad! You don't understand how broken and betrayed I feel! I want to die Dark because of you and Amy! I can't trust you! I can't trust anyone! I'm just a tool to all of you! You use me till I'm no good then you throw me away! Your not my brother anymore!"
"Shadow you don't mean that! Your letting the demon control you!" Shouted Dark.
"No I'm not!" I replied in anger.
"You are! Listen to you!" Shouted Dark.
"If anything Dark I want him to control me, because of you I realized I'm nothing! I'm worthless! I'm…going to kill you!" I yelled out in pure anger.
I heard Dark beginning to cry.
"Do you really want that?" Asked Dark in tears.
"I don't know what I want! The only thing that's clear to me right now is that I'm going to pay!" I shouted.
"What?" Asked Dark in confusion.
I felt Nexus tense up on the blade.
"Forget about me Dark! I'm long gone! I never want to see you again! Maybe you'll see my body on the news!" I shouted.
"Shadow I know Amy told you I almost ended my own life before when I thought you were dead, I understand how you feel right now and please just come home and talk this out with us." Pleaded Dark.
"I'm finished Dark, I'm done talking, I'm done living for nothing." I replied.
"What about Maria?" Asked Dark.
"She means nothing to me. She can't save me. She can't stop what he's about to do." I replied.
"Who?" Asked Dark in confusion.
Nexus began to choke me and I coughed into the phone.
"Shadow who's there! Are you in trouble?" Asked Dark in surprise.
"No more then usual!" I replied.
Nexus instantly brought up the knife and cut into my right ear
The blade went completely through. I began to scream.
"AGHHHHHH!"
Nexus immediately hung up the cell phone as he finished with my ear.
Blood began to pour down the side of my head as half of my ear fell onto the ground.
Nexus stopped once the blade came out the other side.
I held my ground from the pure pain as Nexus licked the blood of the blade. He then smiled with it in his mouth and gently picked up the part of my ear.
I began to slowly pass out from blood loss and Nexus knew it.
"Stay with me dumb ass! Can't have you falling down on the job!" Shouted Nexus as he pulled out his clear Chaos Emerald.
Nexus quickly used Chaos control and sealed the opening. The blood stopped and Nexus looked me in the eye.
"Can you hear me?" Asked Nexus as a joke.
"You only cut off the tip! You fucker! I can hear you as good as ever!" I yelled at him.
Nexus smiled and let that comment slip.
He smiled and walked over to the table. He tossed my ear on it and my cell phone. Then he looked around for something. He eventually found it. Nexus turned to me with a hammer. He smiled as he took a seat again in front of me.
"You look woozy Shadow are you ok?" Asked Nexus.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"Same as before. Where are my emeralds?" Asked Nexus.
"I'm not talking." I replied.
Nexus shrugged his shoulders and brought up the hammer. He used all his strength to bring it down onto my thumb.
"AGHHHHH!" I screamed.
The hammer instantly broke the bone and blood began to ooze out slowly.
I began to breath heavily as Nexus repositioned himself.
"I'll keep going. every time you refuse to answer, you lose another finger." Said Nexus.
I waited as he smiled at me with his blood covered teeth. Covered in my blood.
"Where are they?" Asked Nexus again.
I wasn't going to break.
"Fuck you!" I shouted.
Nexus once again smashed the next finger in the line up. My index finger. The bone shattered and I screamed again.
"AGHHHHH!"
Nexus began to chuckle at my pain.
I wasn't going to last much longer.
"Last chance Shadow. Where are they?" Asked Nexus.
"You'll have to do a lot more then that to get me to talk." I replied.
Nexus grew mad and smashed the rest of my fingers. My left hand was completely broken.
"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed as my blood quickly dripped onto the floor.
Nexus was completely mad and he toss the hammer aside and grabbed me by the neck. He began to choke me.
"Tell me where they are!" Shouted Nexus.
I didn't reply and after a few moments of him squeezing the life out of me; he finally let go and tried to relax himself.
Nexus looked at his watch and then at me.
"Your stubborn, I'll say that." Stated Nexus.
"I get that a lot." I replied barely.
Nexus began to head to the door leading out of the room.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"Why do you care?" Asked Nexus back.
"Its not like you to leave this sort of a thing empty handed." I replied.
"If this was my operation I would be staying, but I need to report my progress." Stated Nexus.
"Report to who, who's making you do this to me?" I asked.
"Do you really want to know?" Asked Nexus.
"If I'm going to die soon, then yes I would like to know who's it is who's doing this to me." I replied.
Nexus took a deep breath and turned back towards me.
"I'll make you a deal. You tell me what I want to know and I'll tell you anything you want to know." Stated Nexus.
"Is that a promise?" I asked.
"If you promise to tell me where they are, then yes it is a promise." Replied Nexus.
"You got yourself a deal then." I stated.
Nexus smiled and replied.
"Good. I'll be gone for a few hours so just stay here and relax. When I get back we'll talk."
I began to pass out from all the blood I lost and all the pain I was still feeling. I gently put down my head and drifted away.
Nexus's POV
Shadow finally pasted out. I smiled as he closed his eyes.
After I knew he was asleep I walked towards the door and just as I was about to close it I said.
"Sweet dreams cousin."
I locked the door and started to make my way through the abandoned warehouse. Once I made it outside I found my motorcycle out front. I love my bike, it's better then that low rider him and Dark drive. My bike was a GSX-R 1000. Pure white with black detail. I bought this bike after the fuck up on ARK.
I quickly started the engine and I had a long ride to South End.
Once I was ready I drove off down the street towards the freeway.
4 Hours Later
I looked at my watch and it was getting close to 2:00pm
I pulled into Paul's driveway and they waited at the door. I put down my helmet and approached them slowly.
"Did you get them?" Asked Paul.
"He's begin a pain with giving me answers, but I made a little deal with him and when I get back he promised to tell me what I wanted to know." I replied.
"What did you promise him?" Asked Paul.
"In return for my info I would tell him anything he wanted to know before I would kill him." I replied.
"You make sure you kill him. The last thing we need is him somehow escaping knowing that we've been behind this." Stated Paul.
"Won't be a problem. I'm going to enjoy killing him after what he almost did to me back on ARK." I replied.
"Back then we almost did it. Thanks to Shadow we failed." Said Amber.
"I have no clue where he hid those three emeralds but when I find them what do you want me to do?" I asked.
"You'll come to the base in the Eastern Front and will finish collecting." Replied Paul.
"What about Dark?" I asked.
"He has one emerald, we can deal with him after Shadow's out of the picture." Replied Paul.
I nodded my head.
"Are you ok with him?" Asked Amber.
"Dark's not a problem, I'm just surprised I got Shadow the way I did." I replied.
"Only because of us." Assured Amber.
"Of course, I don't know how you guys got all that info on there operations but it sure came in handy." I replied.
"Doesn't matter, just get those emeralds!" Shouted Paul.
"Fuck you! I will get them!" I yelled at him.
Paul instantly punched me in the face and I fell to the ground.
"Don't you dare yell at me you piece of shit! You'd be dead if it wasn't for us!" Yelled Paul.
I slowly stood up in anger and wiped my bloody lip.
"Go get my emeralds! Now!" Ordered Paul.
I gave him a pure look of evil and quickly walked back to my bike.
Once I was ready I stared at Paul one last time and began the drive home.
"No one treats me like that." I said to myself.