CHAPTER 13

PEACE

Later, Sonic was huddled in a corner in Amy's living room, staring at the pink hedgehog's body laying in a slumped position on her sofa. He stared into her green eyes full of anguish and fearfulness. He observed the blood that was traveling down her neck and onto her chest. He clenched his shaking fists and tried to calm himself. "Her death was not too long ago", he said softly. "That means the killer is still active at the moment." He was then startled by the vibration of his cell phone that was in his pants pocket. He hesitantly took it out and opened it. 'It's a text from Charmy.' He then began to read it. After that, he dropped his phone on the floor full of panic. "Oh God! I have to warn Rouge!" He got off the floor with his body still shaking a bit from seeing Amy's corpse and now discovering who the killer is. He quickly made his way out the door and towards Rouge's house.

Later at Rouge's house, Rouge came downstairs wearing nothing but a short purple robe. She looked around her living room trying to find Shadow. "Shadow?" She called but she didn't see him anywhere. Suddenly, a green light was in the center of the room. "What the?" After when the green light had faded, she was the black hedgehog standing there giving her a menacing look. "Oh, there you are, Shadow. Where have you been?"

He remained silent.

His suspiciousness was starting to scare her more and more. She looked down at his hands dripping with blood. "Sh-Shadow, where did that blood come from?" She asked frightened.

He sighed, "You know Rouge, I don't think the Chaotix will ever find out who the killer is. I think this case was too much for them."

Her eyes widened and she slowly started to back away. "Stay away from me", she said in a frightened tone.

He held out his bloody hand to her, "Don't be afraid. I won't..."

"I said stay the fuck away from me!" She shouted.

He sighed and crossed his arms, "I see...looks like I have to do this the hard way." He ran up to her and grabbed her wrist.

She struggled to get out of his grip, "No! Leave me alone!"

"Stop struggling. You'll just make the situation worse." He found a wooden chair and threw her body in it.

Before she could get back up, he had found some wire and started to wrap it around her body. "No! Please let me go!"

After when he was done tying her to the chair, he confronted her and placed his hand on the side of her face. He started to caresses the side of her face, trying to calm her down. "Don't be so frightened."

A tear ran down her face and onto his hand, "Why are you doing this to me?"

Before he could answer her, he heard the door flung open and something fast had struck him from behind knocking him away from Rouge.

Rouge looked at Shadow trying to get up from the floor and looked at what was standing near the door. Her eyes widened full of happiness. "Sonic!"

When Shadow got off the floor, he faced the blue hedgehog who was glaring at him.

"I should've known you were behind this, Shadow."

"You're ruining everything", he growled.

He looked at a frightened white bat then back at the ebony hedgehog. "You sick fuck! What's your damage? You're trying to kill Rouge too huh?"

"Idiot! I would never harm her!"

"Then explain to me why you have her tied to a chair."

"It's none of your business!"

"Oh yeah? Well would you like to explain to us why you killed all your friends?"

He was silent for a few seconds until he finally answered. "Everyone was...happy. Except me. I envied every single one of you. You all had love and a strong will to carry on through life. I didn't have any of this. No one to love me. No motive to even live. All of this was missing because I lost someone dear to me."

Sonic was pretty confused about what he was talking about.

A tear fell from his face as he mentioned her name, "Maria."

"Huh?" Rouge said softly.

"She was the only person who gave me everything I needed. Her love for me made me happy. It gave me the will to stay alive so I could protect her but...I failed and couldn't save her." He clenched his fists, "I lost her to the humans and after that I lost everything. I was...empty. I needed to do something about this pain inside me. In order for it to go away, I had to kill those who I was envious of." He placed his hand over his heart, "Even after I killed so many, it still hurts. I just kept reminding myself, that I'm doing this for her. If she can't live, no one else deserves to live!"

Sonic stood there giving the hedgehog a confused look. "I think I know what's wrong now."

"What?" Rouge asked.

"...He's fucking insane."

The room was silent for a moment until Shadow spoke up.

"How dare you! I am not!"

The blue hedgehog crossed his arms, "Lets see...you're hellbent on killing everyone you know because you want to get rid of the pain that lies deep within your heart from fifty years ago. Sounds pretty damn crazy to me."

"Shut up! You don't know how it feels! To lose someone you admire the most!"

"Well now I do and you don't see me going crazy about it."

He gritted his teeth with frustration.

"Listen Shadow, this method that you're using to get rid of your pain obviously isn't working. You need to stop this. Think! Would Maria really want this?"

"...She wanted me to be happy and this makes me happy!" He took out a knife from his vest and struck it at Sonic, but he had held his wrist back.

"Sorry about this, faker", he took his free hand and punched him in his stomach making him fall to the floor while dropping his knife. He looked down at him and didn't see him moving so he assumed he was unconscious.

"Sonic!"

He looked over to Rouge struggling to get out of the chair. "Hold on, Rouge." He walked over to her and started to untie her. "By the way, why are you wearing that while you were with Shadow...alone?"

She blushed and remained silent.

He gasped, "Rouge, you didn't sleep with this psycho did you!"

"...Would you think less of me if I did?"

"Uh, hell yeah."

Behind him, she saw Shadow getting off the floor slowly and picking up the knife that he had dropped. "S-Sonic!"

He quickly spun around and saw Shadow leaning his back against the wall panting heavily. "Damn! You just won't quit!"

"No...Sonic, I now realized that this world doesn't have a place for me."

He had calmed himself when he figured that Shadow wouldn't be a threat to him. "What are you saying?"

Tears appeared in his eyes, "Deaths of others doesn't make me happy. Picturing Maria's sweet face in my mind...that always brought me happiness. Causing others pain was not clearly the answer to my suffering and I'm...sorry." He positioned the point of the knife to his neck.

"Wa-wait a minute, Shadow!"

"Don't try to stop me, faker. It's better this way. Trust me." He looked over to Rouge with her eyes full of tears. "Rouge, I'm sorry you had to fall for something like me."

"Shadow...", she sobbed softly. She saw the point of the knife touching his neck and decided to shut her eyes tightly. 'I hope you rejoin with her soon.'

A/N: Yays! I finally finished! I hope you guys enjoyed this little spinoff fic I did. Now I'll have to get back on track with my main story. Look out for my next fic coming soon. Oh and R&R pwease.