Okay so here is chapter 9! This is the last chapter in this book!
The next book will be called TDR be on the look out for it :D!
Enjoy the story!
Rage had a hard time keeping her emotions in check she knew Shadow could feel it too so she had to keep focus on the mission ahead of them to calm herself. Then without even really noticing that Shadow and Sonic had stopped running for a minute, she looked up and saw Eggman's hideous base at which a person everyone despised was hiding out.
Rage: Guys I hate to be the one to say this but, Eggman man isn't the only villain here. Kutan is somewhere in that base too.
Shadow: Huh, how do you know that?
Rage: Ever since I was little I could sense every demon I came across like I could feel their presence as if they were right beside me. Just another little power I have as demon I guess.
Rage just shrugged her shoulders like it was no big deal. But out of the corner of his eye Jac-Jac looked down and shook her head and then came back up. Shadow gave a evil glare at Jac-Jac to show her he knew that she knew something more about this little power Rage has. Jac-Jac gave him a small nod and then they were off again towards Eggman's base. Sonic and Amy started off and charged in sounding off alarms, smashing robots, and they even got Eggman to come in his oversized hover craft. After that Jac-Jac read thru Eggman's memories as quickly as possible and luckily found a back door entrance which Eggman was just so happening to be going thru when he heard the alarms go off. Thank the gods the door was still open thought Jac-Jac. They all sneaked inside and instantly Jac-Jac lead them to the control room.
Once inside Jac-Jac started her job and went to hacking the security files for the doors and laser beams. She pulled out her weapons from when they were younger and gave Rage a quick smile reassuring her about leaving her here by herself. Rage nodded back with a smile and then looked at Shadow who was guarding the door. Jac-Jac only typed away a few more seconds before she started to talk.
Jac-Jac: All right Rage you will have to go down a few flights of stairs, thru four doors and then down a hallway until you find the room P23. Take a left on your way out the door. You should have to go thru your first two doors there. Then down three flights of stairs take that next door after that and then thru one more door and down that hallway until you find P23.
Rage: All right thank you Jac-Jac, please keep safe up here until we return.
Jac-Jac: I'm not leaving any time soon Rage.
Jac-Jac gave a small wink with a smile and then went back to hacking to open the first few doors. Rage turned toward Shadow and he gave a small nod saying he was ready to go. They looked out the door and then bolted out the it, Rage in Shadow's arms to go faster. Taking their first left out the door and it was open along with the second door. Rage smiled at seeing how this new profound skill of Jac-Jac's was very helpful. Shadow zoomed down the stairs and finally got the doors and they were closed. The first one opened only after a few seconds but it took a while on the last door. Rage feared she had been attacked and wondered if she should go back up but, to her surprise and gratitude, the door opened finally and Shadow let Rage down to her feet.
Shadow: Rage what number did she say it was again?
Rage: She said it was the letter P and number 23. We are at P07, we're not that far away come on Shadow.
Rage and Shadow made their way down the hall swiftly looking at every door. Rage called out each quietly until she reached P20.
Rage: P20, Shadow its only three doors away! Come on Shadow hurry! P21, P22,… P23! Shadow here it is. Come on Jac-Jac open the door.
Rage was only quiet for a second when the door opened. Then all of a sudden a whoop whoop sound was going off. Everything went black and the only sign of light were red ones circling around the room
Rage: No
Rage just started at the lights spinning around her and Shadow next to her all her senses went numb. Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion, Rage saw flashes of more different colored lights and appeared the robots from behind the door coming down the hall. Shadow was reaching out to her trying to say something. It was too muted to understand, Rage shook her head and then everything came rushing back to reality.
Shadow: Rage, go now find your brother and get him out if you can. Hurry I can only hold off so many robots for so long, hurry!
Shadow pushed Rage into room P23 and then closed the door and pulled out his crimson chaos emerald. He exposed his fangs and then disappeared only to reappear engulf by Eggman's evil robot inventions. Rage on the other side of the door heard the scrapping and smashing of metal against the walls. It only took her a moment to remember what was going on. She got up a quickly began running as fast as her mortal state would let her. She spotted a dim yellow light at the end of the room. She made out think black bars that lined a small section of the room. When she got closer she began to call out her lost brothers name.
Rage: Inyu,… Inyu are you there.
At first there was no response and as Rage approached the small cell she could make out a hedgehog form laying on a small cot. She called out once more just to be sure it was in fact her brother.
Rage: Inyu… Inyu please wake up, say something, please Inyu.
The only response Rage received was a small moan and cough, she began to cry and she fell to her knees with her head in her hands. Her small silent whimpers were enough to stir the sleeping hedgehog.
Inyu: Rage,… Rage is that you?
Rage: Inyu! Your alive, I have to get you out, tell me how I can break the bars.
Inyu: No Rage don't touch them they will send out a sleeping gas if you touch them. I'm sorry Rage there is no way to get me out I have tried before but I cannot escape.
Rage was about to argue this point until Inyu stepped into the light. Rage's mouth was a gape as she stared at her brother.
Rage: Inyu what has Eggman done to you.
Inyu's features were not right at all. His upper part of his body looks as if he is still in his demon state. However, the lower part of his body was in its mortal hedgehog state.
Inyu: Rage Kutan is behind this he is the one who caught me and brought me to this horrible confinement. He is trying to destroy the demon side of me. Eggman and Kutan are working together to develop a potion that could turn even full fledge demons into mortals. Also this potion slowly dissolves the sent we give off to each other so that way you may think I was dead. The reason I am in this state is that I am the one they have been testing this evil liquid on. But since our kind of demon is so strong they are having a harder time.
Rage: Inyu how long have you been here?
Inyu: No longer than seven days.
Rage: Inyu I have…Ah Shadow.
Inyu: Rage what happened.
Rage: Shadow was punched in his chest.
Inyu: Rage your receiving pain from someone else… Rage, this Shadow he is your Yang, is he not?
Rage: Yes he is Inyu I really want you to meet him but fist I have to get you out of here.
Inyu: Rage as much as I would be honored to meet your Yang the time is not now. There is no way for me to escape I have tried repeatedly. There is no hope now you need more time to plan how you are going to break me out of here.
Rage: Inyu that can't be please you have to come back. Inyu I love you, I miss you so much, and so dose Jac-Jac.
Inyu: You found Jac-Jac?
Rage: Yes we did just today actually.
Inyu: Thank the gods you found her, Rage Kutan has tried to beat this information out of me for the past few days. I cannot say the answer aloud just as a precaution. Rage while I was in Japan I was studying our families old legends of "The Other". There was one clue that our ancestors could use to tell who this hedgehog was. They all have a similar factor that resembled them. Rage when are both in our mortal state what do we have in common?
Rage: The color of your eyes and the color of my fur are exactly the same and one of a kind.
Inyu: Very good Rage now who else has that exact same color.
Rage: Inyu could it really be?
Inyu: It is Rage and always has been that is why our father never told us who they were. To protect their identity was why we were left to wonder who they were.
Rage: I now see father's point Inyu, but you have to come home.
Inyu: No Rage the time is not right you don't have much longer to stay I don't want Kutan to capture you as he did me. Please take this knowledge and save me when you have worked out a plan.
Inyu walked closer to the bars, reached his hand out to his sister, and wiped a tear away from her muzzle. He looked her straight in the eyes, patted her head, and scratched behind her ear and Rage giggled at it. Inyu had always done that to her as a sign to show her that he loved a cared for her.
Inyu: I love you Rage and your sister more than you could ever know. You both now mean the world to me and I wish I could go with you. But that chance is not here at the moment, regroup think of a strategy, and then find a way to come back for me. I don't know if this will help but before you go there is a girl bat that comes by here often to give me food and what seems to be water but it has a different taste to it. Seek her out to gain more information, I'm sorry Rage this is all I have to offer now take it and go please hurry Rage, protect what's left of our family!
Rage began to cry her eyes becoming blurry and she looked back up to her brother and held his hand tight.
Rage: I will Inyu, I intend to protect all of it, no matter what the cost. I will be back Inyu I will save you I promise.
With those last two words, Rage squeezed her brother's hand as tight as she could and turned to run. She never looked back she only spoke in a hushed voice to herself.
Rage: A dog demon never breaks their promises.
Inyu only knowing all to well that his sister would return to him. That last word was something Rage took more serious care of then anything else in the world. She used that word so scarcely as a child and Inyu knew this one was going to be the most important to her. Rage's protective skills were more keen and strong than any other hedgehog in the world and Inyu knew the reason for that. He knew that soon Rage would discover who she really was; she was to see her true form.
Inyu: Thank you my sister, I will always honor you Yin.
Inyu looked down towards the floor seeing a fog floating around his feet. That was the last thing he saw before passing out. As Rage busted out the door she saw Shadow surrounded by overwhelming robots. She quickly pulled out her fans and her eyes began to change colors until she remembered Kutan was here. She paced herself to hold her feelings in check so that she would not transform. She took out most of the robots with her blades and the rest Shadow took care of.
Rage: Shadow I saw my brother, but could not free him, if I touched the bars it would have put me to sleep and Kutan would have had me.
Shadow could feel the pain Rage was going through, she felt betrayed by herself. Shadow did not fully understand until she told him that she could not free her brother. She didn't even try to break him out she felt as if she had betrayed the hedgehog she really was.
Shadow: I am sorry Rage we will come back for him, I will see to it that your brother comes home with you. But right now we have a team that is in need of our assistance, so we need to move quickly.
Rage: I agree we need to get Jac-Jac out of here and pull out Sonic and Amy.
Shadow: All right then Rage jump in.
Rage jumped into Shadow's arms and shoved her face into his chest; everything again became a blur to her. She only remembered bits and pieces of what happened next. She saw Jac-Jac being attacked by robots and Shadow taking them out by a chaos spear. Then running with both of them outside to where she saw Amy down on the ground with Sonic trying to protect her from the robots. Shadow yelled out to Sonic telling him to get out and then Sonic picked up Amy and ran as fast as he could away from this horrible death trap. Away from Inyu Rage thought as they ran to the meadow where they first started their mission.
They stopped at the meadow and everyone fell to their knees, Sonic with Amy in his arms, Jac-Jac landed by herself breathing heavily from jumping so fast, and Rage still curled up with Shadow.
Shadow: Rage what is wrong?
She hadn't even noticed it really, but it was clear Rage had been crying for a while, her cheeks were red her eyes a little bloodshot, and her dried up tears that had slithered down her face.
Rage: I couldn't save him, of everyone in the world that I have ever cared about and loved. I could not even save my own brother.
Rage dropped her head into her hands once more seeing her brother's painful face over and over again.
Jac-Jac: Rage there is still hope we just have to find this other sibling of yours and we can save him.
Rage perked her ears up when she heard this. She needed to tell her, tell them all what she had learned from her pitiful attempt to rescue her brother.
Rage: Jac-Jac we don't have to look any farther than right in front of us. They have been here all along we…I just never noticed it. Jac-Jac What color or my brother's eyes when he is mortal?
Jac-Jac: A violet just like your fur Rage that's how you can tell you siblings.
Rage: Yes this same little detail it what tells whom the third sibling is.
Jac-Jac: Who is it then Rage?
Rage: Jac-Jac look at your quills and tell me what you see.
Jac-Jac slowly reached for a quill that she could see and placed it in front of her face. She looked at the quill for only a moment until she realized what Rage was saying. Jac-Jac highlights were not dyed they were natural color of her quills. This meant one thing.
Jac-Jac: I am the lost sibling.
Rage nodded her head in happiness and hugged her sister with more love than she have ever given to her before. Jac-Jac only stunned for a second began to hug back a cry a little bit. She forced herself to try to stop but Rage spoke out against it.
Rage: Jac-Jac don't hold it in.
With that, Jac-Jac let everything out all at once. Everything that had stayed with her from the day her real father had died. She knew who her father was; she knew why she had been separated from her family. She had a family secretly it had been there all along. She was with them when she thought she was alone. She had survived believing she was all she had left besides her friends. She was proven wrong Jac-Jac had a family and now that was what mattered most to her in the world, Rage and Inyu was what she had left. She smiled at the thought and looked back at her younger sister. All she could see was love and happiness that had been there all along with open arms. Jac-Jac looked and Shadow and saw the smile that had delicately placed itself upon his muzzle. She looked at Sonic and Amy who was now standing on her own with a blissful smile and a sparkle in her eye. Only then Jac-Jac realized she had found much more than just her lost family she had found a true family, bits of rag tags here and there all put together, to form what was surrounding her right now.
Jac-Jac: Rage I don't believe I was never without a family no matter if we are related or not. This, this right here is my family even though some of it is missing my family is whole now. I have found much more than just you and Inyu. I have found Shadow, Sonic, and Amy; they have been here too just waiting for me.
Jac-Jac looked back at Rage and smiled for the first time in a very long time. Rage only returned her smile thinking to herself. The real battle though has only begun this is just a small victory in the war that has just start.
Shadow: All right everyone let's get home we all have had a very exciting day. We need rest because we still have school tomorrow.
Everyone moaned at the thought of school but they all started to part ways.
Rage: Jac-Jac where are you going to go?
Jac-Jac: A tree close by town I guess.
Shadow: No you are not you can stay with us. I will not allow Rage to sleep in a tree and neither will I allow her sister the same.
Rage smiled at her Yang's comment and then looked back at Jac-Jac.
Rage: Come on sis Shadow can carry you if you would not like to jump.
Jac-Jac: No thank you Rage I would like some time to jump for a while to wrap my head around everything that's happened today.
Rage: Sure thing Jac-Jac we can give you some privacy.
With that Jac-Jac jumped off and Rage was picked up by Shadow bridal style and started running slowly to stay just a little behind Jac-Jac. When they finally reached the house and got everything inside. Rage gave Jac-Jac her room to sleep in and Rage would share a room with Shadow. Once Rage and Jac-Jac had said their goodnights, Rage walked to Shadow's room and saw a pallet on the floor. She started for it but then was stopped by Shadow.
Shadow: Oh no you don't I will be sleeping on the floor, you take the bed.
Rage: Shadow this is your room thought it doesn't…
Shadow: I don't want to hear it. You my love have had a long day and I am not going to have my girl sleeping on the floor in my house.
Rage didn't want to protest, the bed looked so comfortable at that point.
Rage: All right Shadow but only until we can get another bed in here.
Shadow: Deal, now get some sleep Yin.
Shadow kissed Rage on the forehead picked her up, carried her across the room, and laid her down in bed covering her up with the blankets. With one final kiss and a stroke of her cheek, Rage silently drifted off to sleep.
Shadow: Hum I love you Rage.
With those last final words Shadow slipped in under his blanket and fell fast asleep thinking of what was going to happen next.
I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter to SHS (Shadow High School) But be ready for spring break, and trips around the world in my next book! PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!
~Love Asha