Hey guys! This is my first published Fanfiction so please no hate. All characters belong to SEGA and the Sonic Team.

Shadow's Mutation

Chapter 1

Sonic lay awake in his bed as sunlight crept up his covers to his skin. It was 7:00 a.m., his usual run time. He got his sneakers and gloves on and bounded out the front door. He was about to speed off, when he noticed that he had forgotten to take his mail in yesterday. He sighed and took all of the bills and letters out of the mailbox.

He went inside with the mail and decided to take a quick look at them. "Bill, bill, ad…" he mumbled as he read them aloud. "A letter from Shadow?" he exclaimed. He rarely got any mail besides letters from Amy, and even less so from Shadow. Dear Sonic, it read. Please meet me at the new café that opened up a week ago. Something is happening. Sonic stared at it for a moment, not sure what to think. But hey, if Shadow wrote me, it's got to be important, right? He pondered.

Sonic put the mail on the coffee table and ran out the door. It didn't take him long to get to the café. He stepped into the front door and searched for shadow. It didn't take him long to find the ebony hedgehog sitting at a corner table. He walked over and sat down in the chair on the other side of the table.

The first thing Sonic noticed was that Shadow was much skinnier, and, somewhat smaller than the last time Sonic had seen him. "Hey Shadow, you okay? You look a bit…" he was cut off by Shadow. "Small? Skinny? I know," he answered in an unusually feminine voice. "Whoa, what happened to your voice?" "Uh… yeah um… that's… uh… kinda why I called you here." Boy, he seems really nervous, Sonic thought. "What is it?" "I… think I'm turning into a girl."

"WHAT?!" Sonic yelled a little too loudly. "Shhhh! Quiet down faker!" Shadow said, a little annoyed. "What do you mean your turning into a woman?!" "Well, a couple weeks ago, I was walking back to my apartment after one of my runs, like always." "And then what?" Sonic questioned. "Just let me finish!" Shadow exclaimed. "So, I was walking back to my apartment, and I wasn't really thinking about where I was stepping. I went down an alley and stepped into this weird blue gooey stuff." "Weird blue gooey stuff huh?" Sonic asked.

"Yep. A little bit of it got on my skin. So I went to my apartment, washed it off, and everything was fine until a couple days ago. Then I started… changing." "What do you mean… changing?" Sonic asked. "Well, as you know I've become a lot smaller and my voice has changed, but I've also been thinking differently, acting differently, feeling differently…" Sonic cut him off. "Feeling differently? What do you mean?" Sonic noticed him/her blush a little, and then turn away. "I'll explain later. But some other evidence, and this may sound a bit… well… weird… but… that… um… thing that uh… only men have… has um…" he motioned for me to get closer to his ear. "Almost completely disappeared." He whispered.

"Oh. My. Fucking. God." Sonic said, mouth wide open in shock. "Like, completely?" Sonic asked. "Almost." Sonic sat quietly for a moment, not sure what to think. "So… you really think your becoming a woman?" "Yes… I've… already seen a doctor about it. He said it was a very rare gender reversal disease that literally morphs you into the opposite gender, and there's currently no known treatment."

Sonic looked down, not sure what to think. "Have you told anyone else?" "Rouge." That was no surprise. Rouge is probably the only person on the planet that he trusts (besides himself). "Why did you tell me?" Sonic asked. "Honestly, that's another thing that worries me, I actually want you to know about this." Oh god, he's right, Sonic thought. He would've never trusted me with anything like this if he wasn't feeling weird. "And what about that 'feeling differently'? What is that all about? Do you mean like physically or…" he didn't get to finish. "Emotionally." Oh god… does he mean… "How emotionally?" "Well, let's just say that I haven't been feeling the same towards anyone of my friends lately." "When are you planning on telling the rest?" "I don't know but… Sonic… I need to tell you something." "What?" Shadow leaned in close. "I think I love you."

Okay guys! End of Chapter 1. Please no hate. And sorry if it was a bit slow for you, it just feels wrong for me to make a story without a proper introduction, plus I needed some way to turn Shadow into a girl! (Sorry if you don't like that, but hey, isn't that what a fanfiction's supposed to be?) Anyways, chapter 2 will be coming soon. Delta Dawg out!