Love Struck

Chapter 92 - Touch Of Death

Shadow's POV

I was being held in Frost's arms as everyone stared at me.

I was crying in pain and fear as all my body shivered cold.

The redness was starting to burn as Marx and the General along with Dove stared at them in fear for me.

Slowly I felt Dove's touch on my arm and she quickly entered my view.

I stared into her eyes scared shitless as she looked at me in sadness.

"Did it happen again?" She asked.

I quickly nodded.

Dove knew it and looked at Marx.

"Shadow needs to be alone."

The general immediately shouted.

"Everyone back to sleep!"

The soldiers all disbanded and went back to their rooms as the officers and who ever else remained stayed next to me as I shook in Frost's warm lap.

"What happened?" Asked Marx.

Dove looked at me and I wasn't going to respond. I'm too scared. His touch consumed my thoughts.

All I kept thinking was that I could die at any moment and all I saw was my brother's black eyes.

Frost's POV

I was too shocked for words and less to move as Shadow looked just like me.

I was with him no longer then a few hours ago and suddenly he has a heart attack and magically comes back to live and into my arms. I don't know what to say or do but I know I wasn't letting him go.

"Shadow and Ghost back in the war for Afghanistan have done this before." Stated Dove as she talked to Marx.

Shadow wouldn't move and I stared at the hand prints on his neck and chin.

"What the hell is that?" I asked myself in fear.

"What do you mean?" Asked Marx.

The General quickly replied.

"Both Shadow and Ghost have died before and somehow manage to come back no matter what the cause of death was."

Marx was confused on this and asked.

"How?"

"We don't know. Both Ghost and him have never told us really." Replied Dove.

"It has to be something?" Stated Marx.

"Ghost only told me this. It has something to do with test and they have to pass them in order to come back here. The tests have broke them in more ways then one and Ghost won't tell me anything about what he had to do and nether will Shadow and especially not after this." Replied Dove as she took Shadow's hand gently.

"Tests?" Questioned Marx.

Dove nodded and replied.

"Ghost told me there are three. The test of Pain. The test of Love and the test of choice." Stated Dove.

Marx was so confused now as Shadow hugged me harder.

I hugged back as the general asked.

"Shadow can you hear me?"

Shadow didn't move nor look at anyone but the arms he owned.

Shadow shook as the marks began to smell.

I caught the odor and so did everyone else.

"What the hell is that!?" Asked the General.

Marx immediately placed his hand on Shadow's neck and he saw that the marks began to grow.

He backed off them as Shadow began to flinch in pain.

I stared as the marks began to bleed. Marx panicked and went for his rag that he always held with him.

The blood slowly dripped onto the floor as Marx pressed the rag against his fur to stop it in place.

Shadow began to turn his head in pain towards me and I stared at him as he closed his eyes.

The pain was killing him it seemed like and I quickly held him closer against my body.

My eyes widened as I saw Shadow quickly open and close his eyes.

I could have sworn they were a different color.

Shadow's head fell into my body and he went still and I lost the feel of his chest breathing in and out.

Marx looked at me in fear as everyone else stared.

"Shadow?" Said Marx as he went to touch him.

Marx's hand was about to touch his face when Shadow flew back into me sending both of us on the floor. I still held him as he screamed.

"GET AWAY!"

Marx and Dove along with the General and the officers backed up as I tried to hold him back.

Shadow must have knew I was holding him still and he quickly tried to push me off while shouting.

"LET ME GO! LET ME OUT OF HERE!"

I gained control over him and held his hands back as I squeezed.

"CALM DOWN SHADOW!" I screamed as he tried to shake me off.

"SOMEONE HELP ME!" He screamed as if he was being burned alive.

Everyone was scared as I tried my best to hold him.

"STOP SHADOW!" I begged as he kept shaking.

I looked around and no one would help me.

"STOP PLEASE!" He screamed as he began to cry.

The marks on his neck stopped bleeding and the odor increased as he began to toss me around the floor.

I was sent left and right until we were both sent head first into the wood.

I let go but quickly grabbed him again in fear for him and squeezed as hard as I could.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Screamed Shadow as he slammed the side of his head into the wood.

My eyes widened as his head began to crack open.

He was trying to kill himself.

Blood covered the floor and immediately after the third slam I got some help.

The General took Shadow by his head and held him in his lap as I held his legs and torso down.

Shadow was locked in place as he tried his hardest to break free.

"SHADOW IT'S FROST!" I screamed to try and get him to stop.

"GET AWAY!" He yelled in response as his blood dripped on the floor.

As we swung around the floor Shadow smashed his boot into the dresser.

My eyes widened as his knife and gun landed next to him.

Using all he had I lost my grip and Shadow grabbed the knife.

I was quickly swung at and immediately I leaped back letting go of his legs as the General held his head.

"HELP US!" He ordered at the other officers who watched in fear.

Dove went to move but I yelled.

"STAY BACK DOVE!"

She listened as two men got by her to help the General.

One immediately tossed the gun aside and the then helped the other try and take the knife from the scared Shadow.

His eyes remained shut the whole time as one of the men caught it to his arm.

The blade sliced and they instantly jumped on his arm to make him release the blade.

The General quickly kicked it aside as they held him down.

I went as fast as I could and I grabbed Shadow's legs and forced them to the ground.

Shadow was completely pinned to the floor and he screamed.

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

We all clinched by the screech of pain and suddenly.

His body gave out and he stopped; resting his bloody head on the covered wood floor.

Slowly I let go and so did the others and quickly I crawled towards his face.

I was close and as I went to check his pulse I was lunged at.

"AGHHHH!" He screamed as he grabbed my neck.

Shadow tackled me into the floor and I was getting choked extremely hard. Hard enough to know it wasn't him doing it.

My eyes were wide open as everyone watched in fear.

I tried to get Shadow to release my hand by attempting to force his off but I was losing.

The weird thing about this is his eyes are still closed as if he's trapped in a nightmare.

My heart began to slow down as Shadow was about to kill me.

"Stop…Shadow…please." I begged.

Shadow kept going but I saw him flinch.

"Please Shadow…it's Frost!" I shouted as best as I could.

Suddenly Shadow gave up and let go of the pressure and gently he fell on top of me.

My eyes were wide open as I took huge gasps of air.

I felt Shadow breathing calmly on me and I slowly looked over at him.

His eyes were shut tight and the marks on his neck went black.

Slowly I looked back at the crowd and everyone stared at me in shock as I was scared for both our lives.

"Help me." I ordered someone.

Quickly I was rushed by Marx and the General who gently got Shadow up and on his feet.

"You ok?" Asked the General.

"I think so." I replied while still gasping for air.

"What the hell happened to him?" Asked the General to Marx.

"I don't know, but he was trying to kill himself." Replied Marx.

The General quickly ordered.

"Get Frost checked out and Shadow examined! Shadow would never do that to himself because of anything! Something was fucking him up and I want it gone!"

Marx nodded and replied.

"I need time sir."

"I don't care son, but get it done ASAP!" Ordered the General.

Marx again nodded and I took over holding Shadow in my arms.

Slowly we carried him out of the room and on the way down the hall plenty of the soldiers stared at us in a sense of fear.

I was still gasping as we made it to the research wing where we rested Shadow down on one of the examining beds. Marx quickly went to stop the bleeding on his head as I fell back in one of the seats.

As soon as Marx was done he approached me.

"Open up." He ordered as I slowly opened my mouth.

Marx checked and he flinched as I asked.

"Why is it hard for me to breath?"

Marx didn't want to say it and quickly he felt my neck.

Again he looked in fear as I asked again.

"What's wrong?"

Marx slowly replied.

"One section of your pipes collapsed on the inside causing it hard for you to get air in your system."

My eyes widened and I asked.

"Can you fix it!?"

Marx nodded and replied.

"I better or you'll die of suffocation."

I was scared and shouted.

"Help me!"

Marx quickly got me up and into the next room where I was placed down on another table.

Quickly Marx grabbed a needle and stuck it in my neck.

I felt my neck numb up and slowly I passed out.

Normal POV

The leader's body rested in the other room as his friend fought for his own life. No one made a sound and slowly the black fur covering the leader's neck began to burn exposing a small amount of smoke. The fur burned clean off until nothing but his skin showed. The marks of death, the hand of the grim reaper stretched across the hedgehog's throat and they gently faded into his body causing a slight jump of his body. Slowly the hedgehog's chin began to do the exact same, but this time the hedgehog's mouth opened wide. It was as if he was screaming but not a sound was heard as he gently shut it tight. Slowly his head tilted to it's side and blood rolled out from under his eye lids. Slowly looking away from death, the hedgehog was sent into a deep sleep that no one and nothing would wake him from. Not till the time is right.