Shadow the Hedgehog- A Monologue
Author's Note: This is my first work of art. I know it's not a fanfiction but more of a poem but it was one of the first ideas that came to mind. Please review and comment. Told from Shadow the Hedgehog's perspective. Enjoy!
Shadow the Hedgehog, the name I've been given.
There's not much about my past that I can remember or understand nor will I ever understand.
I know that I was created in the Space Colony ARK by Professor Gerald Robotnik.
But why?
For what purpose do I exist?
But in the short time I lived aboard the ARK, there is one person I know that will never be erased from my memory.
Maria.
Maria, ah my sweet Maria, why did they have to end your life so soon?
Those humans that took your short and innocent life away.
Damn them! Damn them all to Hell!
They should have taken my life instead of yours.
So young and filled with happiness.
In the last moments of your dying breath, you said those words that I will never forget.
Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog.
But why Maria, did you send me to this planet in your last moments of life?
To save my life or to help me realize who I truly am?
I don't belong here with these humans.
I only know that I have the power of Chaos Control to teleport across the world.
Sadly however, I cannot travel back in time to that fateful day when your short, innocent life was ended at the hands of those humans.
Maria, my sweet Maria. You were the only human that treated me like anyone ought to be treated. With love and care.
You were always there whenever I questioned my own existence as I do to this very day.
You provided me comfort, warmth, strength, and occasionally, a tiny bit of happiness.
No human has treated me the way you have for as long as I have lived on this pathetic planet.
They all turn their heads to me whenever I'm near and cower in fear.
They see me as a threat to their entire species.
They will never understand who I truly am.
I don't belong here.
Time and time again, I ask myself the same question that I have asked myself from the day that I was created.
Who am I?
What is my purpose in life?
Will I ever know the true reason why I was created?
Nothing makes much sense to me.
The only fragments of my past that I will never forget are the times that I was with you.
Maria
My dear, sweet Maria.
You will never be far from my thoughts and will never fade from my memory.
Not a day goes by where something sparks my memory of the many times that I was with you.
Sometimes I ask myself, is my life truly worth living?
I've contemplated many times as to whether or not I should end my life at my own hands.
You are the only one that inspires to me continue living, Maria.
I seem to understand a little with each passing day that you just want me to be happy, as the many times that you seemed to show me what happiness is.
One day, eventually, my life will end just as yours did so many years ago.
Then we will finally be together once again for all of eternity.
Whatever happens to me now doesn't matter, just as long as I know that you will always be there with me.
No matter where I go, no matter what I do, you will always be in my memories Maria.
For now, I must keep searching for my true purpose in life and the true reason of my existence as well as finding happiness within my own self.
For I know that is what you desire from me Maria and I tend to fulfill that promise I made to you.
For I am, Shadow the Hedgehog.