I Will Protect You

Chapter 14

Shadow's POV
I was speechless... I just got there and I was already speechless.

Using my chaos emerald I had managed to arrive in my bedroom in no time flat. The sight of Sonic was horrific. The blood streaming from his mouth, the cries of pain and suffering, the screaming of agony...I almost couldn't face him. I felt like I wanted to turn away and cry but there was no time for that.

I shook out of my shocked state and bolted over to his side. I pulled him into my lap and rested his head on my chest as I began stroking his back quills in an attempt to calm him down. I looked up to see a frozen Rouge still in shock over the occurring events. I snapped my fingers are got her attention, " How long has he been like this? " I asked tried to regulate the calm and demanding tone that my tone usually consists of. I was worried... I was deathly worried but I couldn't show them. I had to remain calm for Rouge and strong for Sonic because right now they both need me more than anything.

"About half an hour I think, im not quite sure exactly! He stared when I was downstairs watching TV so it could have been at anytime!" I could tell that she was on the verge of a panic attack herself so I immediately tried to distract her.

"Rouge go to the bathroom in the medicine cabinet, there is a little orange bottle of pills I need you to bring me one hurry!" I spoke firmly as I instructed her. She nodded her head and ran to my bathroom and returned not ten seconds later with the bottle.

I immediately popped off the top and shook and pill out onto my palm. I Sonic's head up a bit so his mouth would open and I would be able to slip in the pill.

I forced him to swallow, by closing his mouth and pinching his nose. I then waited for him to calm down. There was a problem that I didn't expect though... he didn't.

I nearly began to panic when i noticed that instead of Sonic calming down and getting well again, his state seemed to worsen.

I began to feel panicked and distraught. Thought about the pill ran through my head, 'It always worked so why didn't it now? What was going on in Sonic's body!'

Sonic's seemed to be going into some sort of self induced shock after a while, when he began to shake and whimper. I held him closer to me in tight embrace since that was really I could do now. I hated feeling so useless and uneducated on what was going on.

I stroked his quills over and over praying that this sudden illness attack would pass and he would be fine again. His clutched his fists into my chest fur as his breathing become more labored and raspy. A hoarse cough then came out of no where and i patted his back going to ease him a bit, but miserably failed. That's when he started to puke. He clutched his lower abdomen as a thick black slimy substance made its out of his mouth and onto my floor.

He screamed in agony as it continues for what seems like hours. His tears mixed with blood as they streaked down his face with every hurl. For the first time in my life, I had no idea what to do. I Shadow the Hedgehog was dumbfound.

When Sonic finished puking I pulled him back up to me and rested his head on my shoulder and rocked him back and forth trying to sooth him as he sniffed and whimpered in pain until he finally fell unconsciousness.

I rested his in the bed and covered him up since I could still see he was shaking furiously. I sat next to him and watched him as he slept, making sure he wouldn't have another attack and Rouge offered to clean up Sonic's bile on the floor.

Sonic winced, which made me flinch when i tried ti pet his forehead. I had a sad expression on my face, and Rogue seemed to start to tear up at his suffering.

It seemed that with every touch of my hand Sonic seemed to become more stressed and more in pain. After a few minutes of my attempted comforting he actually tried to push me away, but failed when he sunk almost lifelessly back onto the bed.

Rouge walked over and tapped my shoulder getting my attention from Sonic for the moment. She looked at me with a sad worried look plastered all over it as she nodded over to the door and began walking that way.

I nodded and stood up slowly off the bed as to not wake Sonic or cause him more pain. I knew what she and I knew I had to tell her. She is really the only person I can really trust with this anyways, I mean if I didn't trust her then who else would I go to.

I gave on more glance over at Sonic as I stretched and walked out into the hallway and closed the door behind me. "Shadow we need to talk!" Rouge's tone was stern as she stood her arms crossed over her chest and a determined look in her eyes. I sighed and prepared myself for all her questions with a grunt as I to folded my arms and leaned gingerly against the wall, " lay it on me Rouge I know what you want. " I closed my eyes as she rolled hers.

"Shadow the Hedgehog I wish you act a little more concerned over things! Do you not remember what we just witnessed in there?! And now your acting as if nothing happened! Do you even care about Blue?!"

I opened one of my eyes at this and pushed myself off the wall, I growled at her word choice as I slowly approached her with my fist clenched, " Don't you ever! And I mean ever speak to me like that again! Of course I care about him! If you haven't noticed I was the one who rescued the little twerp in the first place if it wasn't for me he would still be getting experimented on!"

Rouge squinted her eyes as she snarled and pointed a finger into my chest, " Don't use that tone of voice me buster! How do I know if you didn't just save in order to cover your own hide. You probably knew that if anyone else found him there and knew you were there and didn't do anything about it that they would go saying stuff about you and ruin your precious little ego! Didn't you!?"

"That's not I don't give two fucks about the little blue brat, I just didn't want the thought of him being imprisoned there be on my conscience!" I closed my mouth after that as I heard a gasp from Rogue.

At first I thought it was for what I said but that was before I looked down into the doorway and saw a little blue hedgehog barely able to stand let alone walk, leaning helplessly against the door frame, while thousands and thousands of tears rolled down his peach muzzle.

It was my turn to gasp at the sight as his Jade eyes began to dull with the overflow of tears and his bottom lip quivered as he struggled to not burst out in tears.

"I-is th-that true Sh-Shadow... all this time...you only cared about you...and your ego?" I was at a loss for words as I tried to approach him. "N-No Sonic I would never say that. I didn't mean it! It just slipped out! I was mad I had no idea what I was saying!"

Sonic took a step back away from me as i tried to pull him into a hug. His eyes were closed as he silently cried and looked away from me. "Sonic please I didn't-..." " Leave me alone..." I froze. "W-what Sonic?" "L-leave me alone I don't trust you anymore. I don't trust anyone any more!" He screamed the the last part and pushed me aside as he ran as fast as his wobbly legs could carry him out the house and into forest.

"SONIC WAIT IT'S NOT FOR YOU OUT THERE!!" but at that moment all I heard was a door slam. I looked over at Rogue. Her head was done and her eyes were closed. I sighed and half heartily turned to leave, when I heard her speak, " Shadow I'm sorry..." I stopped walking and turned my head.

"Huh?" She then lifted up her head, tears rolling down her cheeks as she spoke," Shadow I'm sorry, if I wouldn't have been so careless and jumped to conclusions like I did then I would never had got you mad then none of this would have happened! I know you didn't mean anything you said, you proved that perfectly just now! Please forgive me Shadow I'm so sorry!"

She fell down to her knees and sobbed in her hands. I sighed and grumbled an, ' I don't have time for this' under my breath as I spoke, " its ok Rouge apology accepted, right now all we need to focus on is finding Sonic before he gets himself into trouble understand?"

She stood her whipped her eyes as she nodded her head. "Good then lets go!" At that very instant we skated and flew out of the house and into the forest in search for the blue runway experiment.