Hey everyone! I recently got a Beta and have decided to repost every chapter of this story after it's been fixed, so it's easier for all of you to read. And now...on with the story!
Shadow the Hedgehog leaned against the far wall of an alley, waiting for midnight. He could have waited in his house, but he didn't want to take the chance of someone finding him out. After all, who knew what Sonic and the others would do if they found out Shadow's deepest secret? Shadow found himself shuddering at the thought. Shadow looked up, seeing that the moon was at its highest point. He wasn't entirely sure if it was midnight yet, but he was pretty sure it was close enough.
He pulled the green Chaos Emerald out of his quills. He threw the emerald up in the air. "Armour down," he commanded the emerald. It shot a beam of green light at him as he closed his red eyes. Shadow's body twitched slightly as pieces of his skin and fur fell off of him.
Slowly a 17 year old female hedgehog was revealed under what was once Shadow, her eyelids naturally ruby red. Her quills were the same as Shadows, except that she had two short and thin quills that were down, one on each side of her face, also having stripes. She was as black as the sky at midnight on a moonless night and her stripes were a ruby red.
The dress that the girl wore, which had been at her hips, fell to halfway down her upper legs. The top of her dress was black, somehow even darker then her fur, with a bright yellow stripe going down the front all the way down the dress. The top of the dress had four black straps; two on the girl's shoulders and one on each side make it look cooler. Twin bright red stripes went out from the middle of the yellow stripes on the top of her dress, going diagonally to her under arms. There was a vertical yellow stripe separating the top and bottom of her dress. The bottom of her dress was bright red like the stripes coming off of the yellow stripe on the top of her dress. The yellow line fanned out at the bottom half of the dress, coming to where her legs were when she had them apart.
She had black shoes that had bright red at the end and a bit of bright red near the back and a strip of bright yellow that seemed to be a strap. Her shoes had holes on the bottoms, the same as Shadow's hover shoes did, meaning that her shoes were hover shoes too.
Her gloves were almost exactly like Shadow's, only the gloves themselves were bright red and fingerless and there was no red tab coming from under the restrictor rings. She wore a pair of tight fitting black shorts under her dress, to make battling easier if she had to battle.
She opened her eyes, revealing eyes the same color as her stripes, a striking ruby red. Her body was obviously female, the curves of her body obvious, but not as obvious as Rouge. Her chest also wasn't as big as Rouge; the girl's was more natural looking. Her arms and legs were thin, but strong looking, covered in her black fur. Her feet were small, probably because she was short for being 17.
Her muzzle and the inside of her ears were a soft peach. She had the same white upside-down triangle mark on her chest, which was hidden by her dress. She sighed, feeling unprotected without her armour. "I'll have to wait a while until I can put my armour back up, or I'll start to deteriorate." The girl said to herself.
Her voice might have been the most beautiful voice anyone had ever heard, and it was distinctively female, unlike the male voice she used when she had her armour up.
"Shadow!" She heard someone yell suddenly.
Oh crap! It's the faker! The girl thought freezing for a moment before she realized something. How the hell can he think I'm Shadow? I'm in a dress! The girl thought, wondering how Sonic could be so stupid. She turned around, seeing Sonic suddenly screech to a halt a few feet from her.
"Oh, Sorry. I thought you were someone else." Sonic apologized.
The girl thought for a moment, trying to figure out how she should reply. She couldn't use the same personality that she usually did when she has wearing her armour...she'd have to act like one of the females she knew. Rouge was too...Rouge, and Cream was too young. So that left Amy.
I'll just have to act like Amy...I look about 13 anyway. But not the Sonic-chasing part. There is NO way that I'm going to chase that Faker around! The girl thought. "It's okay. My name is Eclipse, what's yours?" she asked happily, saying the name without thinking.
Eclipse was her true name, the name that Professor Gerald had given her. The name that she hadn't been called in over 50 years, the name that she had nearly forgotten over time.
"Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog," Sonic stated, giving Eclipse a good-guy pose, making her want to twitch her eye, though she stopped herself from doing so.
"Oh wow! So you're the famous Sonic," Eclipse exclaimed excitedly, making herself feel inwardly sick.
"Yep, that's right," Sonic answered, smiling at her.
Eclipse inwardly smirked. Just because the Faker didn't know she was Shadow didn't mean she couldn't put herself up a few notches, right?
"You're supposed to be the fastest hedgehog ever right? Well, second to that Shadow that is," she said, inwardly smirking when she saw the look of horror on Sonic's face.
"Shadow isn't better then me!" he stated.
"Then how about this? We'll have a race, and if I win then you have to admit that Shadow is better then you. Deal?" she asked, hopeful innocence in her voice.
"Fine, but if I win you'll become one of my loyal fans," Sonic said, wanting to make sure that if he won, which he believed he would, then he'd get something he wanted.
"Deal," Eclipse said simply, smiling at him. You're going down Faker. She thought.
"Alright, so we'll race to the other side of the city, alright?" Sonic asked her.
"Okay," she said, smiling in the sweetest way Sonic had seen.
They both stood side to side, Sonic on the left and Eclipse on the right.
I'll go easy on her, Sonic thought.
Eclipse tapped the front of her right foot on the ground, causing her right hover shoe to activate. She then did the same thing with her left foot, though Sonic simply thought she was getting ready.
"Ready?" Sonic asked her.
"Set," she replied.
"Go!" they yelled in unison.
Eclipse shot off like a rocket, far faster then when she had her armour up, since the armour weighted a lot and it slowed her down. Sonic stared at where she had gone for a moment before it clicked that she was very fast. If he didn't hurry he'd have to say that Shadow was better then him!
Run Sonic! Run! his mind screamed at him. Immediately he shot off, running as fast as his legs would carry him. He soon caught up to Eclipse. He was just about to pass her when she passed the sign saying You are now leaving Ring City.
She stopped immediately, something that her hover shoes allowed her to do, before turning them off the same way she turned them on.
That wasn't nearly as entertaining when I'm not wearing my armour. I can run much faster without it, and that makes racing Faker here no challenge. Eclipse thought, a little upset that the only entertainment that she found entertaining wouldn't be entertaining without her armour on.
"I win," she commented happily.
"Geez. You took off so fast, I didn't think a girl could run that fast," Sonic admitted.
"Well, I can," she stated simply. "Okay Sonic, time to admit what you promised you would" Eclipse said, inwardly smirking.
"Shadow is better then me," Sonic muttered.
"WHAT?" The entire city screamed, thousands of people suddenly crowded around Sonic.
Eclipse just blinked as she saw everyone crowd around Sonic. How the hell did they all hear him? she wondered.
To say she was surprised when Sonic suddenly grabbed her hand would be an understatement. He suddenly started running quickly, pulling her with him. She managed to turn on her hover shoes before he started running, making it easy for her to keep up with him.
"Come on, we'll go to Tails' house. We should be safe there." Sonic told her, running at his top speed toward Mystic Ruins with Eclipse keeping up easily.
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