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Finally the story alot of people has been waiting for. On this chapter, Shadow is the character is focuses on.

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On Angel Island, we find Rouge the Bat and Knuckles the Echidna, sitting on the altars steps, just getting back from their date. They sit there, waiting for the sunset. "A great finish to a great day." Knuckles said, kissing Rouge on the cheek.

Rouge turned towards him. " I know. I wish this day wasn't over yet." Rouge said, a little saddened about it.

Knuckles and Rouge had started dating a little over a month ago. However, Knuckles and Rouge have different likings for each other.Rouge likes Knuckles alot, but she want to take small steps in the relationsip and not let things get serious to fast. Knuckles on the other hand, loves Rouge and thinks they are ment to be.

"Rouge, I have to tell you something." Knuckles said, facing Rouge. Rouge turned towards Knuckles. "What is it?" Rouge asked smiling. "Rouge I want to tell that, I lo..." Knuckes said, before he got interrupted by a black hedgehog. " Hey guys. Whats going on?" Shadow asked, looking at the couple?

Knuckles turned to Shadow and gave him a cold stare. "Nothing were just relaxing, back from our date. Why are you here?" Rouge asked. Shadow looked at Rouge. "Oh well I just wanted to see the sunset from a good point of view so I came up here." Shadow explained. He went in more closer.

"Do yall mind if I sit down?" Shadow asked. They both nodded and he sat. Shadow was happy to sit down by Rouge. Rouge was Shadows closest friend and vice versa. They know pratically everything about eachother. But what Rouge doesn't know is that Shadow has feelings for her. He was been liking her for a while.

Shadow always gave Rouge hints, to let her know he liked her. BUt she only though he was fooling around. Shadow was so close to tell her that he liked her, but it was to late, She had already started dating Knuckles.

Rouge turned facing Knuckles. "Oh I'm sorry. What was it that you were going to tell me?" Rouge asked. Knuckles sighed. "It was nothing." Knuckles anwsered. He wanted to tell her when they were alone.

As the sun started to set, the suns light gave a beautiful shine on the ocean. For Rouge and Knuckles it was romantic, although it would have been more romantic if Shadow wasn't around.

"It's beautiful. If I lived up here I would come out and watch the sun set all the time." Rouge said. Shadow and Kncukles both smiled and agreed. Now, the starts were out, and since Angel Island was so high up, it made the stars look brighter, it made it another site to see.

Kncuiles turned to Shadow. "Hey now that you've seen the sunset you can leave, right?" Knuckles asked, eager to make Shadow leave. Shadow got up, and started walking towards the edge.

"Yeah I'll be going." Shadow said, knowing what Knuckles was trying to do. Knuckles got up, stretched, and started to walk up the steps. "O.k. then I'll see you later. Come on Rouge." Knuckles.

Rouge looked at Knuckles. "Actually, I have to go to. I want to get home before it gets really darks." Rouge told Knuckles. Knuckles was confused. He knew bats loved the dark, but Rouge wants to get home before dark. He didn't want to argue, so he shurgged it off said "O.K." and gave her a goodnight kiss.

Rouge walked over to Shadow. Hey Shadow wait up." Rouge siad, catching up to him. Shadow stopped, turned around and waited for Rouge. "What is it?" The black hedgehog asked. Rouge finally caught up with him. "I can let you walk by yourself at night. Its to dangerous. I'll go with you." Rouge told him.

Shadow gave her a big smile. "Thanks Rouge. Now I will have someone to talk to." Shadow said. Rouge smiled back. She grabbed a hold to Shadow, which caught him off gaurd, picked him up and started to fly back to the ground.

They didn't talk the whole time they were flying. Shadow just looked at her, thinking how someone can be so beautiful. Rouge caught him lookin at her and just gave him a smile.

They finally reached the ground, and were headed to Rouges house. While walking on the city streets. SHadow decided to start a conversation. "So Rouge, who are things with Knuckles?" Shadow asked.

"Were doing good. Were having lots of fun. Its kinda hard to believe that someone likes Knukles knows how to treat a girl." Rouge answered.

Shadow knew Rouge was happy with Knuckles and he liked seeing her happy, but sometimes he kinda wished that her and Knuckles would breakup, so Shadow could finally tell Rouge how he feels about her.

Rouge looked up at Shadow. "Hey Shadow. Why don't you have a girlfriend?" Rouge asked. Shadow was surprised at that question. "Um well I do like this girl, but shes already in a relationship." Shadow answered.

Rouge frowned at that. "Aww that sucks. But, do I know this girl? What is she like? Who is she? Rouge said, asking alot questions. "Well you do know her. She loves jewelry, and she can be a little stubborn at times. She's also beautiful. You'll find out one of these days." Shadow said, answering all of her question.

Rouge thought of all the girls that she knew, that loved jewerly, was stubborn and was beautiful but couldn't find out.

While they were walking, they were passing the beach. Rouge turned to the ocean and saw someone sitting looking at the ocean. "Who's that sitting down?" Rouge asked him. Shadow turned to look.

"I dont know its to dark to see." Shadow answered. Rouge looked harder and knew who that was. "Hey it's Sonic. Hey Sonic!" Rouge yelled. Sonic turned around to see who it was. "Who's there?" Sonic asked. Rouge started walking toward him, then Shadow followed her.

"It's us, Rouge and Shadow." Rouge answered. Sonic got up to greet them. "Hey guys. What were you two doing?" Rouge and Shadow finally was where SOnic was at. "We were headed to our houses. Why are you here?" Rouge asked.

"Well when I was running, checking if there was any criminal activities going on, I ran past here and I saw that a full moon was out, and I saw that the moons light was making the water real bright, like it was glowing, so I just had to see it." Sonic finally finished.

Rouge looked at the water. "Yeah it looks great." Rouge said. Shadow agreed that the water looked great. Sonic turned back around towards the water. " It looks great, but this is nothing compared to my secret spot." Sonic added.

Shadow and Rouge decided to go. They said their goodbyes and they left. While they were walking they started a conversation about Sonic. "What do you think about Sonic?" Shadow asked.

Rouge thought about the question. "Well Sonic's nice. I hardly hang out with him though, but when we do it's alot of fun and when the day is over I'm glad I took the time to hang out with him." Rouge answered.

Rouge turned to see him. "What do you think about him?" Rouge asked. Shadow had thought about it. "He's cool and all but he talks about how good and how cool he is, it kinda gets annoying." Shadow answered.

Rouge agreed to everything he said except the annoying part. "I don't think he's annoying. I think it's good that he was alot of confidence and a high self-esteem." Rouge said.

They reached the first house, which was Rouge house. Shadow stayed at the first step of her porch. "Well Rouge I'll see you around." Shadow said. Rouge opened her door. "Bye Shadow I'll see you around." Rouge said walking in her house.

Before she closed the door, Shadow asked her a question. "Hey Rouge, do you want to do something tomarrow?" Shadow asked. Rouge frowned when he said that. "I can't I'm doing something with Knuckles tomarrow. Maybe some other time." Rouge said.

Shadow was saddened about it. They said their finale goodbye's and Shadow was on his way home.

There it is the first chapter. Hope you guys liked it.

Next Chapter focuses more on Knuckles.

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