CHAPTER 1
The sky was light blue. It was so bright, it almost appeared to be white.
The snow white bat woman found herself standing in a field full of white beautiful flowers. She stood there like a statue while she held her arms while trying to warm them from the gentle and light breeze that was filling the air. She had her head directed towards the ground with her eyes shut. She slowly rose her head from the ground and opened her eyes. Her aqua green eyes caught sight of a white male bat who almost practically resembled her but he appeared to be a few years older than her.
He was standing across from a black and red male hedgehog.
She felt like she couldn't take her eyes away from the two while they both gave each other hateful glares.
The male bat held the blade of the scythe he held towards the hedgehog.
The hedgehog was pointing a black handgun towards the bat.
Her heart raced when she saw them both suddenly charging towards each other. "No!" She cried out, "Shadow! Sky!" She was suddenly blinded by a flash of bright white light. She opened her eyes and found herself covered in blood and the bodies of the two laying in the field of flowers. She fell to her knees and cried out once more. "No!"
Loud and terrified screams had filled the once quiet and dark bedroom. The screaming had stopped once the terrified bat woman had quickly awoken by her body being shaken by someone.
"Rouge!" A male voice had called. "Rouge, wake up!"
Her eyes shot open and she quickly rose her head from her pillow. She turned to a worried male black and red hedgehog who was beside her in bed.
"Rouge?" The hedgehog called out again. "Snap out of it!"
She suddenly realized that she was in bed alongside the worried hedgehog. "Shadow?" She sighed heavily and placed a hand to her heaving sweaty chest as she tried to calm herself. "Oh God..."
Once he knew that she was clearly awake, he sighed in relief. "It's okay, hun. You just had another nightmare."
She placed her hands on her forehead as she directed her head downward. She had then felt his hand gently rubbing her back. She slowly rose her head back up to turn to him who was comforting her.
"This is the second time tonight."
She slowly laid her body back down onto the bed. "I know. I'm sorry, Shadow." Her eyes wandered over to the hedgehog who was giving her a concerned look.
"...You sure you don't want to talk about these strange nightmares you've been having so much?"
She made a small nod. She really didn't want to mention a thing about the same dream she kept having over and over again. How could she even tell him? She feared about how he would take it. "...I'm sure."
It worried him that she didn't want to talk to him about her dreams. He knew they had to be serious if she woke up screaming. "...Are these nightmares about me?"
She paused and hesitated with her answer, "...No."
"...You're lying."
She paused and bit her lip as she tried to figure out how he was so sure the dreams involved him.
"You talk in your sleep you know?"
Her heart raced. He heard her talking? What exactly did he hear?
"You're always calling my name and screaming..."
She started to panic. He had heard her mention his name. She had wondered if he heard her calling out her cousin's name as well. She didn't think so. Other wise, he wouldn't be acting so calm and sincere.
"I don't know exactly what's upsetting you so much but..."
She suddenly saw him lean over to her and gently pressed his lips against her forehead. "I'm not going anywhere."
She tried to force a small smile to let him know that she would be all right. "I know, hun."
His eyes tiredly looked over at the digital clock over on the small table beside the bed. He yawned slightly and turned back to her. "We gotta be up in a few hours."
She saw when he rested his head back on his pillow and turned away from her.
"So I'm just gonna attempt to go back to sleep again."
In no time she could tell that he had almost instantly went to sleep. After going through another horrific nightmare, she closed her eyes and tried her hardest to go back to sleep.
Later on in the morning, at the Chaotix Detective Agency in the conference room, Shadow was sitting at the large table watching a male purple chameleon pace around the room with a clipboard in his hand.
The chameleon continued to read off of some papers that were on the clipboard. "I can't believe you're scheduled to have another meeting with Mayor Sarah Wish and the Detective Council today. You just went to one like two weeks ago."
Shadow tiredly had his head resting on his hand while he leaned onto the surface of the table. "Yeah it sucks", he replied in a tired tone.
"Well I wonder what she could possibly want to discuss this..." He was cut off when he had suddenly heard light snoring. He looked away from the clipboard and turned to the hedgehog who his head down on the table. He had fell asleep. "...Time." He rubbed his forehead in aggravation. "Shadow?" He had called but he heard no response. "Shadow?" Again there was no response. With a heavy sigh, he walked over to the table and slammed the bottom of the clipboard down on the table in front of him. "Shadow!"
In alarm, Shadow had quickly opened his eyes and rose his head up from the table. "What! What's going on?" He had then saw the chameleon standing in front of him with his arms crossed and an annoyed look in his face.
"You done taking a nap?"
He sighed and rubbed his forehead slightly. "Aw hell. I'm sorry, Es. I didn't sleep well last night."
"Well if you weren't so busy fucking your wife so much then maybe you'd get more sleep!"
He slowly shook his head, "No it's not that. Rouge has been having freakish nightmares again. She's been keeping me up most of the night."
"Oh? She's still having those weird dreams?" He was already aware that Rouge was having nightmares. Shadow had told him about it when it started happening just last week.
He made a small nod before he had stood from his chair. He gave him an irritated look, "And Rouge and I only had sex twice last night thank you very much."
He placed a hand on his hip and rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Wow must be a new record." He saw him walking over to a podium in the front of the room. "Has she been talking with you about it at all?"
"What? The dreams?" He took a stack of papers from the podium and turned to him. "Nope. She still refuses to tell me what the nightmares are about."
He placed a finger to his chin, "If she can't bring herself to talk to you about it, it must be pretty bad."
He walked over to him with the stack of papers in his hand. "I don't know why she's so hesitant on telling me. After all, I am involved in it."
"...She's having nightmares about you?"
"I heard her call out my name a few times."
He had then made an uneasy expression. "Well that sounds like a red flag. Maybe you should try to get more details about it from her."
"Espio, if she says she doesn't want to talk about it then I'll back off until she does feel the need to come to me about it."
"Okay, dude. Whatever you say." He saw him placing the papers he had into a yellow folder.
"Anyway, I gotta start getting ready to go to this damn meeting,"
He formed a smirk as he began to follow him out the room. "Must be fun being the leader of a detective agency."
"Oh yeah", he spoke in a sarcastic tone. "It's loads of fun."
Meanwhile in the weaponry room, Rouge was sitting in the chair of a desk that a black bat woman was sitting on.
The black bat woman had almost looked exactly like her. But instead they were completely opposite. Her hair was jet black and only barely pass her shoulders and wasn't long compared to Rouge's. Her style even consisted more of a goth look.
She sighed heavily as she continued to talk to her. "He's not an idiot, Nails. He knows the dreams I've been having are about him."
She crossed her legs and arched an eyebrow. "And Sky?"
With her head pointed down to the floor, she shook her head.
"Rouge, I don't understand. Why won't you tell him about the dreams?"
"Are you kidding me? He absolutely despises Sky. If I told him I was having crazy dreams about him and my brother killing each other, he might flip out."
Nails shrugged her shoulders. "Why would he be flipping out exactly?"
"Because everything has been somewhat calm around here. And I don't want Shadow to start having Sky and the Silver Fangs fresh on his mind all over again. Not after all this time." She had began to remember back when the last time everyone had saw the Silver Fangs. She remembered that horrible day when Kiba led his group of rogue detectives on an attack upon their headquarters. It was going on a year since it all had happened.
"That makes sense", she spoke in a sarcastic tone. "We wouldn't want your husband going into a fit of rage and hunting down our brother that no one knows where he's at."
All Rouge had did was shake her head and sigh heavily. After the attack on their headquarters, Sky and the rest of the Silver Fangs had suddenly disappeared and there was no trace of them anywhere.
"Yeah that's it", she spoke in a sarcastic tone once again. "Let's just continue to keep secrets from Shadow. Here's another fine example. Let's talk about babies. Um, you're almost a month along and your husband still doesn't know your carrying his child!"
Rouge practically jumped from her chair and hushed her. "Lower your voice! Someone might hear!"
"Rouge, this is silly! Why haven't you told that hedgehog your pregnant yet? You and him have had your hearts set on a child for the longest time. This would make him so happy!"
"I know it would, Nails. But he's been going through so much stress. Especially since Charmy left. He always has his face buried in paperwork, he's always off on business trips, the Detective Council is always breathing down his neck. And now what? A baby? I feel like it would just overwhelm him."
"...Um okay a few things here. Shadow is stressed out about every little thing on a daily. Even before he became the manager of the Chaotix."
She paused and made a nod as she agreed. She remembered back when he used to be second in command and Vector was in charge at the time. Even though he was the assistant manager, it always seemed that he had done more work than Vector.
"And another thing...I'm pretty sure he'll start to notice sometime in the near future when your stomach is the size of a beach ball."
She bit her lip and knew she was right. It would only be a matter of time before he would catch on that she was pregnant.
"Rouge, you need to tell Shadow you're pregnant or he'll find out some other way and then he'll be pissed you've never told him."
"Okay you're right", she stood from the chair she was sitting in. "He needs to know. I'll tell him first thing tomorrow." Her heard skipped a beat when she heard the door opening to the room. She turned and saw Shadow and Espio walking into the room. She tried to make a calm look as the hedgehog walked over to her. "Oh hey, Shad." She saw him holding a folder full of papers in his hand. "What are you up to?"
"I'm actually about to go to this meeting."
"What? Another one?"
With a confused look on his face, he arched an eyebrow towards her. "Um yeah. I've been talking about it all morning."
"Oh right! Somehow it slipped my mind. Heh, I can be so forgetful."
If he wasn't sure at first, she was indeed acting strange. "...You okay? You're acting nervous about something."
"What? Me? Nervous? What does that supposed to me? You think I'm hiding something? Don't be ridiculous! Why would you even think that?"
There was an awkward silence in the room as everyone noticed how strange Rouge was acting.
Shadow had then slipped a small laugh and placed his hand on her waist. "Relax will you?" He leaned over to her and softly kissed her forehead, "No need to get moody."
With her heart racing, her eyes shifted over to Nails who was giving her an uneasy look. She turned back to him with a small smile.
"Anyway, I'll probably be back later on this evening." He gently rubbed her back and made a comforting look. "Don't work yourself too hard while I'm gone. I love you."
"I love you too. I'll see you later." She had then saw him turning to Espio and tossing a key ring with a few keys attached to it.
When he saw him catch the keys in his hand, Shadow pointed towards him. "You're in charge while I'm gone. So try not to burn the place down."
The chameleon formed a sly look as he attached the keys onto one of the belt loops of his pants. "No promises."
After when Shadow and Espio left the room, Nails turned to Rouge with her hands on her hips while giving her a sly look. "You heard that, sis? You're moody."
Rouge was sure it was just a coincidence that he had said that she was moody. But she had to admit that Nails was right. It would be a matter of time until he had caught on. She had to tell him and soon.
In The Next Chapter...
Sarah: It seems that we'll never find out where the Silver Fangs are hiding...
Shadow: I'll never forgive them. Never.
Rouge: My dreams...I lost you, Shad. You died...
Shadow: You will never lose me.
Rouge: Shadow, I'm...
