corrupted master emerald

AB negative

it had been another 3 weeks since tails found out about knuckles, shadow made it his goal to find knuckles. with rouge's help they find something out...

shadow's pov

BZZRT "hey rouge, found anything yet?" " not yet, i'm heading to angel island now. i'm nearby but i had to buy a mask 'cus this entire area REEKS of dried blood..." "alright, i'm already on my way so don't stray too far from the planned route." "okay, ciao!" "bye." i hang up the call and put my phone in my leather jacket's zip up pocket. activating my air shoes i start speeding towards angel island, passing tons of cars and motorcycles. as i reach its vicinity i cover my nose "geez... rouge was right this place stinks." i brush off the smell and notice a giant crowd in the distant, seeing espio and vector trying to hold back everyone "yo! espio, what's happening?" espio looks up at me and his face lights up "oh thank chaos. we could use your help. the EHPD (emerald hill police department) hired us to keep outsiders from entering the city but everyone is getting really angry and we can't keep hundreds of people out... the department put up barriers as well but we all know those don't help." espio let out a sigh of relief and wiped sweat from his forehead "oh, well in that case." i walk in front of the crowd of people and cars "alright, everyone has to turn back now! the city is off limits to everyone outside of the barriers. calm down and take a breather, everything will be dealt with soon." i yell and people start angrily turning back to green hill "so, wanna explain why the EHPD wants people to stay out?" i walk back over to espio and vector "you don't know what's going on? there's people going missing!" espio says and sits down on the pavement "that's not all, espio. the cops keep finding bodies, they said the bodies didn't... have any organs. some of their limbs were missing and it was clear that whoever is doing this is eating them. there's always a giant pool of blood, too much blood. mobians have roughly 10.5 pints of blood, but there's always more. it's terrifying. charmy's mom was one of the dozen victims, he's been real depressed since he found out!" vector hands me a polaroid image of one of the crime scenes, there was so much happening despite the victim being such a small person. "who's the vic?" i give vector the image back, none of them spoke. "answer me." espio sighs "it's... cream." i felt my heart shatter right then and there. cream was like a baby sister to me, like sonic and tails or amy and knuckles, cream was my tails and i was her sonic. who would do such a thing to such a young girl? who would do such a thing to cream? i immediately thought of vanilla and bolted out of there "shadow!" espio yells "shadow don't do anything stupid!" vector says right after espio. i run to vanilla's home and bust in through the door. vanilla was laying on her couch, tears flowed from her dull eyes "vanilla..." i walk up to her and she blinks. still staring into nothing "vanilla, i just heard... are you okay?" she doesn't respond. it's like talking to a corpse. she laid there, not moving. she was alive but looked dead. i place my hand on her arm, trying to get her up "you have to get up. vanilla, if cream saw-" i stop. she had pushed me to the ground. it was so fast i couldn't react to it in time, this is what grief does to a mother. "don't you EVER say her name." she was standing, but crying. her face looked angry and sad at the same time, i forced out the word "mom", vanilla was like a mom to me. i never actually called her mom though. i always thought it was embarrassing or humiliating. she stops yelling and stares at me blankly, her eyes wide with shock "w-what?" i get up and hug her "im sorry i wasn't there for her, mom." she drops to her knees and covers her face "i.. have to go. i'm sorry vanilla. i'm so sorry." i run out and wipe a tear that managed to escape from my glassy eyes. i head over to the path that led to angel island and the smell got worse. it reeked of decomposing flesh, i noticed rouge talking to someone in the distance "rouge!" she turns around and her eyes widen "shadow- you can't be here!" she runs up to me "what? why?" i try to look over her shoulder but she stops me "shadow. please. go home-" i cut her off "move rouge." "no." "fucking hell..." i gently push her away and get a closer look at what she was trying to hide from me. it was one of knuckles's shoes, covered in dried blood "what the hell?!" rouge grabs my arm "shadow don't. they're testing the blood now, it might not even be knuckles's. don't get all anxious now" i force her arm off of me and run up to his shoe and grab it "hey-! that's evidence you can't-" i give the forensic scientist a death glare and she backs off. this can't be happening. knuckles is fine, i refuse to believe that he became a victim to whatever was killing and eating civilians. i then felt a soft hand on my shoulder, i look up and it was amy. next to her was sonic "shads..." sonic stared at me with a worried look, i hated his face. i hated the way he stared at me. i blame him for this. for knuckles going missing, for knuckles distancing himself from me. i hated his voice, his high pitched grating voice. everything about him pissed me off. but he was a hero, he was kind. i had no reason to hate him, to despise him. so i managed my anger and remained calm around him "oh shadow! i'm so sorry!" amy hugged my side, she was apologizing with tears in her eyes as if i had just lost a loved one, and i did. she heard about cream, her eyes were closed but the moment she opened them; her eyes were on knuckles's bloodied shoes. she opened her mouth as if to say something but then the same forensic scientist from a moment ago walked up to rouge, who was next to me "miss rouge, we tested the blood and..." rouge raises a brow "and?" knuckles was popular in emerald hill, he had saved it so many times. he also donated blood to scientists and hospitals to help researchers, everyone knew his blood type at this point. i jolt up "and?!" rouge holds me back "and...it's not his. knuckles is AB neg. this blood is O positive..."