A black hedgehog stood at the edge of a cliff, staring into the endless oceans with his ruby red eyes. He never said a word only so often he would carefully and every so smoothly whisper the name of his beloved dead friend Maria. Arms folded across his chest he sighed, nothing could bring back his beloved Maria. The sweet innocent girl who gave up her life so that he could live.
He couldn't help but smile at the good ole memories they had together. He loved that girl with all his heart, not in a romantic way, the way that pink hedgehog shows it. But as a sister, and now that she was gone nothing could replace that sisterly love he had for her. He had nothing. Well maybe he a few things. Like Omega. The robot that tried to destroy him who knows how many times, but either way they were still good friends. Another thing he had was an annoying white bat. Well he wouldn't call her annoying but she could come onto his bad sides sometimes. Like trying to steal his chaos emeralds or mock his attitude. That would get annoying.
Her name was Rouge. He sometimes got this strange feeling inside of him whenever she came close by or would say his name in that voice of hers. Yes that bat confused him on so many levels. He wanted to know what that feeling she was causing him and he wanted to know immediately. But something was telling him he already knew the answer to his question and that he didn't want to admit it.
He focused his gaze back onto the ocean and marveled at its beauty. It wasn't a simple blue and it wasn't a plain green, it was a mixture of both. Like Rouge's eyes. He could never tell whether they were a blue or a green, so he went with both. Again she confused him, the ultimate life form himself stood confused by a white bat named Rouge.
Why did it whenever he thought of Maria, Maria would always wind him up to Rouge. He shook his head and sighed, no matter how hard he tried he would still never understand bat-girl.
Speaking of Bat girl, "Hello Rouge." He said very coolly.
He smirked when he heard her gasp and trip over her own feet.
"How did you know I was behind you?"
Shadow closed his eyes and smirked, "I'm the ultimate life form, I see all, know all, and hear all."
Rouge walked up beside him and nudged him with her elbow. He opened his left eye took look at Rouge and could only chuckle when she flipped him off.
"So what are we thinking about today?" She said putting a hand on her hip and looking at him with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Personal thoughts. None you should be aware about."
She rolled her eyes and looked out into the ocean, thinking about the life form beside her. Compared to him, she knew what the feeling inside her chest was, and she all too well couldn't believe it. Yet she knew she had, Rouge the bat had fallen for Shadow the Hedgehog. Some would find that preposterous and others would find that sweet. But Rouge knew that Shadow wasn't all that too kind with returning feelings.
One time a crazed fan girl came to the ultimate life form and planted a kiss right on his mouth. Rouge being the jealous type was furious when she saw this, but immediately chuckled when Shadow shoved the girl off of him non too gently and spewed a whole world of cuss words at the poor girl. Rouge however literally was dancing in her head when she witnessed the girl run away crying.
She suddenly snapped herself out of her thoughts when a hand was waving in her vision and someone calling her name. The ivory colored bat turned her head around to meet fiery red eyes. She squeaked when she realized how close she was to Shadow's face. Shadow raised an eyebrow at her and went back in his normal position, arms folded across his chest, and eyes staring out into the ocean.
Rouge sighed, she must've looked stupid when she blushed as red as Shadow's quills. Then something hit her head and she realized she had important news to tell Shadow.
"Oh my! I almost forgot to tell you something that Sonic wanted me to tell you."
"Humph if its news from that faker then I don't want to hear it." He said brushing his quills back.
"Well I think you do. You know that Silver hedgehog you met when we battled Mephiles together?"
Shadow nodded, not making eye contact with Rouge.
"Well since we restored the future for Silver and a friend of his, their able to live in our world now."
Shadow finally looked at Rouge with a concerned expression on his face. "Shadow is everything alright?"
"No. Cause I'll have two fakers to deal with now."
Rouge laughed and put an arm around his shoulders, Shadow stiffened at the bat's contact but didn't recoil away from it.
"Don't be such a baby. Silver's not all that bad."
"If you've gotten to know him, he's just as bad as that faker."
Rouge smirked, "Well don't start hating him more just yet. Because the gang invited us to a cook out to celebrate the two new members."
Shadow groaned and put a hand to his forehead, "And let me guess, your going to drag me along with you?"
The bat brought her pink glossed lips into an evil grin, "Well duh! You know a party isn't a party without Rouge the bat and the ultimate life form! We make it come to life!"
Shadow looked up at Rouge and frowned, "Fine. But I'm not dressing up or anything. I'm going to walk in, eat, sit, kill anyone who talks to me and then leave. Got it?"
Rouge rolled her eyes and said, "Got it! Now can we go? It starts at 5:00 and were already five minutes late.
The ebony hedgehog groaned, he thought it wasn't in a few hours or so but no it was already starting. This another reason why the bat annoyed him, she was always persistent about everything she wanted.
"Well what are you waiting for? Chaos control us there." Rouge demanded.
Shadow hmphed and pulled out a chaos emerald from his fur pocket and with two words they disappeared in flash of green light.
An ivory colored bat and a black hedgehog arrived at Sonic's house, smelling a barbeque around the back. Rouge followed the scent in the air and found herself in a small backyard with numerous people attending. As they walked in the back yard they were greeted with a group of hellos and "hey you made it".
The first one to greet them up front was of course Sonic. "Howdy! Glad you could make it Rouge!" Sonic's eyes than moved over to the black hedgehog behind him, "Oh and what's this? You've managed to bring the ultimate ass himself!" Sonic joked.
Shadow didn't take that as a joke and immediately was by Sonic's side holding the faker mid-air by the throat. Sonic struggled against the life form's grip but made no success in getting away.
Shadow ever so slowly and very threateningly ask, "What did you just call me?"
Sonic smirked, "I said 'you've managed to bring the ultimate ass himself.'"
The grip on Sonic's neck tightened making him gasp for air, that's when Rouge decided they had enough fun and peeled Shadow's hand off of the gasping blue hedgehog.
Shadow turned his back towards the bat and faker and folded his arms across his chest. "Whatever, I don't give a damn what you think about me. I can kick your spiky blue ass anytime, anywhere."
Rouge groaned and put a hand to her forehand, knowing all too well Sonic would step up to any challenge that was offered to him.
"Oh really? Well how about here and now?" Sonic replied with a smirk, jogging his feet expecting a yes.
Shadow turned his head over his shoulder and smirked, just as he opened his mouth, another overruled his. "SONIC! Get your big blue butt over here right now!" That high pitched voice was all too familiar. It belonged to the pink hedgehog, Amy.
His ruby eyes scanned over the backyard to see a little party going on in one of the far fences corner. There he could see a bright red echidna, he sneered it was Knuckles, next to him was a two tailed fox. Shadow rolled his eyes, that was Tails, him and Knuckles were talking to a lavender colored cat. He raised his eyebrows questioningly, he never saw her around here before, was she Silver's friend?
Then he saw the Silver hedgehog and the small rabbit girl talking while eating a plate of ribs. This was getting annoying he should've just stayed at Rouge's place but no he had just had to go along. He fully turned around to Rouge and Sonic already heading towards the party, he sighed the sooner he went along with it the sooner he could get out of here.
Just as he reached the group, Silver and the purple feline (haha that's my name! oh continue the story) he saw earlier came up to him.
Silver smiled, "Hey Shadow. This is my friend Blaze. Blaze this is Shadow who helped saved our future."
The feline looked Shadow up and down and held out her hand, "The pleasure to meet you, Shadow."
Shadow returned her hand shake and nodded, "The same."
Blaze released her grip from Shadow and headed her way to the food table, not saying a goodbye to the gothic hedgehog. Shadow looked at Silver and raised an eyebrow, "She's a keeper."
"Well she's not allowed to reveal her emotions cause she's a princess and has to protect the Sol Emeralds. So she keeps to herself most of the times, even though she doesn't want to." Silver replied watching the cat's every movement.
"I see." Shadow said nodding and headed over towards Rouge and Amy.
The bat and hedgehog were talking and eating at the same time, careful not to talk while chewing their food. As Shadow stepped into their little conversation, they looked at him is if he just killed their parents. "What?" He simply asked.
"We were talking about personal stuff that you just interrupted." Amy growled.
Shadow snorted, "And what could you possibly talk about that's just so personal? Hmm? We all know that you like Sonic, isn't that supposed to be personal?"
Amy's face went from a cute pink to a vicious red, "Well weren't talking about Sonic we were talking about…!
"AMY!" Rouge yelled covering the pink hedgehog's mouth with her hand.
Rouge blushed and smiled sheepishly at Shadow before dragging the screaming Amy into Sonic's house.
What was that all about? Shadow thought. He turned around to see all eyes on him, he could tell from the look within their eyes they were all asking the same question.