Alright, I've decided to do a bunch of oneshots and such, and you wanna guess what they all have in common? They all have a pairing that has Shadowpaw in it! Yep, it's a new project that got going after me and a friend (Dalsson and Co.) had a conversation talking about my goal to write down every single Sonic pairing in existence – which, by the way, is going very well, with over sixty so far! This first one is, of course, starting at the beginning – Sonic and Shadowpaw, otherwise known as SonPaw. (Yes, I will put 'paw' to the end of every shipping name from now on! MUAHAHAHA!!) And, since the damn chapter names don't appear unless you have more than one chapter to start, the chapter title is:

Our Island

As the blue hedgehog ran around the great open fields of Green Hill Zone, he thought of all the recent events that had led up to today. It was as if it was all years ago, and yet it had only happened in the time-span of a little more than a month. Funny how time seems to slow down for the 'Fastest Thing Alive', but, then again, he was always impatient. A minute could feel like hours, as his past experiences have told him, and that could be good or bad. It could drive a person insane.

But, even when things were slow, he seemed to have the best of luck; for example, they had no leads on the whereabouts of Eggman, and – lo and behold – he sends them a letter telling them that they had three days to deactivate his weapon of destruction before he took over the world with it. He was basically inviting them in, giving them a baseball bat and begging them to smack him. Also, the last time that there was a 'slow' period, with no crimes or anything happening to cause a ruckus, he learned that Amy had finally admitted her defeat. And, of course, it was hard to believe at first – Amy? Give up on Sonic? But, it came from Cream's mouth that the pink hedgehog was tired of him ignoring her and such and was going to look for someone new. The blue hero felt a bit guilty, but he knew it was for the best. After all, he liked Amy, but only as a friend. She just came on a little too strong. Now that the tension she used to create was gone, they could become peaceful companions, instead of the chaos that used to consume their lives before when she would beg him to marry her. Those days were (thankfully) long gone.

So, it all started a month ago, right after Amy had let loose the news that she was done. Sonic was baffled by her sudden surrender, and had actually worried about her so much that he went to go talk to her. She had said that she was fine, however, and no matter how many times he asked she would not tell him exactly what it was that made her stop – she just kept saying that 'she was through'. Now, he had to thank her dearly, and he only hoped they could still be close friends.

Soon afterwards, when he was still hanging around her in confusion (not used to the absence of her tackling him every chance she got), he got to meet some friends of hers that she would hang out with at times. Rouge was one of them, and along with her were some new faces he didn't know, but he soon got introduced to them all.

Gem was a fairly gentle and easygoing dragon – a rare species he was glad to have seen – and was actually quite beautiful to even him despite the complete difference in animal; she was light green with scales so smooth that you couldn't even tell they were there, and her wings were tinted a slight olive color and seemed to be a little bit bigger than Rouge's. She was normally wearing a sort of poncho (the color changed everyday) over a tan hide-colored dress, making her look like an Indian or something. Looking into her eyes was like staring at two Master Emeralds, and she had such an atmosphere that even the moody, broody Shadow the Hedgehog and the antisocial Knuckles the Echidna could relax around her. She could even make Sonic take a few minutes out of his busy schedule to rest, not moving and not caring, and she was the only one who knew how to keep him sane while doing so. It was as if she had a sort of magic, but when he said so to her she just laughed and patted his shoulder. She was a strange, exotic person, indeed.

Then, there was Salzar, the red lizard who liked to joke around. Sonic was glad to know him, since it made him feel better that he wasn't the only guy and he hated being surrounded by a bunch of girls, and he was a good guy as well. He was always laughing at something, making a joke with Amy or Sonic, and he made friends almost instantly. He had a sort of lopsided smile that could conjure up such good feelings it made you want to smile back, and he was really the 'life of the party'. He didn't seem to have a bad bone in his body, always making sure to pardon himself when leaving the house or ask politely to come in. In fact, he had actually called the blue hedgehog 'sir' before they got introduced, and it still puzzled Sonic to this day why anyone would talk like that. But, it was funny when he would tease the other girls by saying 'ma'am', and they would get mad at him and tell him to stop, especially…

He smiled, slowly coming to a stop to stand at the edge of a cliff and look over the waters rising and crashing in the distance, and as the salty wind rushed up to meet him he took in a deep breath and sighed out, "Shadowpaw…"

The feline was about as black as Shadow, but her hands and the very tip of her tail were white, giving her the irony of her name. He had actually asked her about it once, and she had gotten so touchy about it that he had backed off while saying 'sorry' many times. Sometimes, he actually feared for his life in there, when the arguments would get so heated that Shadowpaw would stand up to talk firmly to the others. Her voice rarely rose when she was angry, but if she wanted to get your attention, you would be able to hear her from three blocks away. On the subject of Salzar's funny business, he teased her everyday and called her 'ma'am' so many times that it was surprisingly she hasn't succeeded in killing him yet. She would threaten him each and every time, but she might as well have been talking to a brick because he still did it. She had the temper of an inferno, and yet when she was happy, it was as if she was a little child like Cream, sticking her tongue out immaturely and giggling a little when she was thinking of a joke. In fact, she got along really well with Amy, Cream, and Vanilla, although she had a totally different viewpoint on everything; she didn't like to go shopping, she hated dresses, blue reminded her of water (she hates water, something both her and the blue hedgehog had in common), and the best food in the world to her was tuna. Cream wrinkled her nose and said that it smelled funny, and Shadowpaw was offended by the comment so much that she actually defended her tuna by talking about other smelly foods, and in the end, she won.

Not wanting to risk teetering over the cliff, Sonic took a couple of steps back and sat down to collect his thoughts, musing silently as the wind howled up over the plunge of the water to the point of the rocky overhang. Many things had happened that month, and even though it was as messy and chopped up as the waves below him, it still all made sense. He couldn't explain how, or why, but it did.

Only a week after meeting everyone, Sonic felt that he had known these people for most of his life. Although it still wasn't the same degree of friendship that he had with Tails (who refused to come to the gatherings because he felt that his XY chromosome pairs were outnumbered too far), it was still something different than his other 'acquaintances' like Vector or Big; he felt he could rely on them to help him when he needed it most (although why he would need any is controversial), and he felt comfortable when he was with them because they acted as if they looked forward to him coming everyday. Eventually his stays became longer, and by the end of the second week he would spend at least half an hour talking to them, which was big considering his character. He even met some of them outside of Cream's house (for that's where they come together to chat with Amy), like Gem at a café and Rouge at the Mystic Ruins, and he would stay and chat with them there because he felt a need to do so with people who he was familiar with; although he could always do that with Tails, he knew almost everything the young fox was thinking, and it was refreshing to get a taste of something new, a different viewpoint to look at.

The third week, however, was when things got a little squirrelly; as Sonic and the others were enjoying the breeze outside, Eggman finally made his appearance and attacked them when they weren't anticipating it and made them extremely vulnerable. As Gem took Cream to safety, everyone else stayed out to fight – except for Amy. Truth be told, if Amy hadn't given up on chasing Sonic, the blue hedgehog wouldn't have been out there in the first place, and she would have been outside daydreaming about marrying him and be the prime target to kidnap. Since she did, though, she was inside talking to Vanilla when the attack started, and she stayed inside to look after Cream with Gem as the others battled with Eggman and his giant robot (really, they aren't any different each time he makes a new one – he didn't see why the doctor kept up his antics if it all just came back to the same result). In her place, someone that was totally unexpected…

If anything, she was probably the best choice out of them all (after all, he couldn't kidnap Sonic), but it was still unbelievable when his claw-thing deployed and grabbed Shadowpaw around the middle like it normally would Amy. They were shocked so much that they were distracted from his guns, and then they had to dodge the shots and allowed Eggman the time to burrow into the ground to escape, hostage in tow. After the initial shock of the situation, Sonic snapped out of it and prepared to do what he did best – rescuing – but when the others offered to come, he told them that they couldn't. It was his job to save people, and they had all been put into danger just because he knew them personally. It was his fault, and he was going to fix it by himself. So, he ran off alone into the tunnel to follow Eggman, leaving behind a worried Amy and crew and picking up a small sense of doubt as his quick footsteps echoed across the walls of the long, winding hole.

He ran for a long time (or, at least, he thought it was; he couldn't tell because he was underground), and he was slowly beginning to doubt himself the farther and farther he went. Finally, he stopped and listened, trying to find out whether he was close yet, but nothing echoed from the dark depths of the tunnel. Finding it a bit eerie, he took a rock from the wall and dropped it to see where it would go, and as it started to roll behind him he grinned at the knowledge that the passageway was starting to slant upwards toward the surface. Feeling his confidence renew itself, he revved up his feet and went back to running, not even near tired as he finally came out of the darkness and into the blinding light.

After his squinted eyes were able to focus on the change of lighting, he looked around the familiar landscape in shock as he wondered what Eggman wanted to do in the Mystic Ruins. He wasn't going to summon Chaos again (not after that disaster…), and there was nothing else of importance there…but, he remembered back to when he went towards the ruins to find the doctor's ship, and he retraced his steps to find that the conniving villain had gone back to his old hiding place with his giant ship. Grinning at how easy this seemed, he got onboard of the Egg Carrier II (it looked like a giant flying carton of eggs, of course) before it took off to the skies. He knew Eggman was waiting for him, and so he wasted no time in finding where Shadowpaw was kept and breaking her out, and he found the doctor just outside as they both ran out to try to escape. With all of their encounters, there was a big battle, and (so I won't bore you with the details) when it was over, Sonic typically crashed the ship into the water. Saving the world just wouldn't be saving the world without crashing something, in Sonic's book. Unfortunately, the blue hedgehog wasn't as lucky as he were last time, and instead of being near the Mystic Ruins, they found themselves on a totally unknown island with only the broken radio from the Carrier to use to call for help. After several tries, they gave up, and Day One on the island began rather roughly…

"What do you mean, we're stuck?" Sonic was used to getting thanks for saving someone, but instead he heard the familiar angry tone of the feline as she scowled at him with her arms crossed. She protested, "You're the 'Fastest Thing Alive'! Can't you, like, run on water?"

"I could," he admitted, but before she could yell at him further he added, "if I was alone and I knew where I was going. With someone with me and no clue where we are, we'd probably drown eventually after days of running and stopping. Besides…I can't swim."

"Well, neither can I! But," she kicked a pebble that was beside her feet irritably, "I wanna get off of this boulder sitting in the middle of the ocean…"

Sonic sighed at her stubbornness, not realizing until now how annoying it could be, and went about looking for some food. He found some fruit growing nearby, and he quickly picked some and shared with her, sitting silently as the feline grumbled about heroes who needed saving themselves. He wanted to get angry at her, but he knew that she had a right to be so sour after being captured by Eggman, rode a falling ship into the sea, and got stuck on a deserted island in the same day. That would ruin anybody's day.

After one more day on the island, the two of them were getting kind of tense around one another; by Day Three, they had established separate sides of the alcove for themselves and even collected their food separately, with Shadowpaw mostly fishing and Sonic sticking to the fruit. He caught her desperately trying to reach someone with the radio, and for some reason it left him feeling a little irked as he stared up at the stars in hopes of finding a familiar blue and yellow plane in the sky. He wondered if they were looking for him yet, considering that it had only been a few days, but news of the ship's crash should have reached them by now and it was probably only a matter of time until they were found. All he had to do was endure.

As the week sluggishly went by, stress and tension was elevated as they tried hard to put all of their energies into positive or productive things (since they would go insane if they did nothing), but it became a sort of contest between the two of who could do something more useful; Shadowpaw made a net while Sonic had a makeshift basket for the fruit, and she made a raft while he made a bridge over one part of the river so he could get to the other side without getting wet. Eventually, things got so strained that he actually snapped at her when she growled at him. After that, they didn't speak a word to each other, didn't even look at each other as if they didn't exist, and it was when they slept facing away from each other and backs to the fire that Sonic realized that they were taking it too far; it didn't help for them to be bickering like a bunch of little kids when they could actually be trying to make smoke signals or something to attract attention to them and get rescued.

So, as she was asleep, he snuck out of the 'camp' (if you could even call it that) to sit in the trees and try to figure out how to start a fire in the treetops. Several times the sticks would slip out of his hands before he could get a spark going, and once he dropped the fire so that it started to lick up the trunk of the tree and he had to leap out of it before he was burned alive. Getting frustrated with the thing, he tried numerous other methods of getting attention before the night was through, and Shadowpaw actually found him on her way to the river passed out on the ground with burnt sticks and leaves all around him. For some reason, after that, things all changed, and although he didn't quite understand it he didn't look the gift horse in the mouth and instead got her to work together with him to send smoke up into the sky many times each day. With work keeping him occupied most of the time, he calmed down enough that he was back to his calm self, and Shadowpaw actually became a rather serene person as well; they held many conversations over the night bonfire of very interesting subjects, and he was glad that she was composed enough that he could get to know her better, a bit more in-depth than at Cream's house since it was just the two of them.

"So," the hedgehog looked up at the feline poking the wood in the fire with her own stick and asked, "what about your parents?"

She was quiet for a bit, continuing with her poking as the crackling of the fire was his only answer, before she threw it rather roughly into the flames and stared at it as it was gobbled up greedily. She hesitated, and then answered rather quietly, "My family was killed a long time ago, when Eggman came and attacked our hometown in hopes of taking over and creating 'Robotopia' or something like that." She scowled momentarily, wrinkling her face up with bitterness towards the doctor before it returned to its somber attitude. "I was the first one to get out of the house before it crumbled, and I stood there and watched as my home was destroyed with my family inside." She gulped, a lump seeming to form in her throat at the remembrance, and silence once again fell between them. It was a creature that slinked in and out of their conversations each day, leaving awkwardness in its wake. Sonic chased it away, however, when he looked down at the fire and asked, "How old were you?"

"Five."

"Hm." Sonic put his chin in his hand as he rested his elbow on a log, thinking about something. Then, after glancing up at her amber eyes staring intently into the fire, he looked back down and told her, "I've never known my parents." He didn't know why he said it, but he felt that he should at least try to give her some consolation by talking a little about himself. When he noticed her head turning up out of the corner of his eyes, he knew it had worked, and he nodded as if agreeing with himself before saying, "I've been running ever since I can remember, fighting Eggman wherever he went." He glanced up to see a wry grin on her face, and he smiled briefly before returning his eyes to the diminishing flames before them, feeling kind of uncomfortable now that his words were left to hang in the air, waiting for her to do what she will with them.

"What a childhood, huh?"

He smiled again, this time without looking up, and nodded. "Yeah…what a childhood."

It wasn't long before another week had passed, and it was during the third week of their stay on the island that he sort of settled into the lifestyle they had created for themselves. Time passed by slowly, but surprisingly it didn't annoy him as much, and he just took each minute as it came while they hung out and talked about various subjects, all the way from the stars to the long lines in the grocery stores. They didn't argue at all during the rest of their stay, and it was quite amazing that this was the same feline who had been so stubborn and angry back home. It was as if she was a totally different person…

And, she had told him that the same happened to him.

"Ya know," she brought up one day as they were fishing together in the river, "you've changed a lot in the past few weeks."

"Really?" Sonic shifted the stick in his hands that was connected with the net before looking over at her and tilting his head. "What do you mean?"

She leaned back and put an arm behind her for support as she sighed and fished one-handed. "Well, whenever we were all hanging out, you were kind of quiet and tried to not stick out, and whenever we did get you to talk, it had something to do with Eggman." She grinned with him at the reminder of the doctor. Then, she added, "And, the first week or two, I kind of thought of you as an arrogant prick who was so impatient and thought he could do anything." She smirked and mocked, "Let's show them the real power of teamwork!"

"Hey!" He shoved her a little with a laugh. "I like that line!"

"Yeah, well, it's corny." She stuck her tongue out at him immaturely, and he rolled his eyes and went back to his waiting as a more comfortable silence came between them. It was no longer the hulking monster lurking around them; it was as if it was a playful dog that nipped at their heels and obeyed them whenever they wanted it gone. They fished for a while longer, waiting until the last possible moment to pull up the net, and when they returned to their camp they cooked a lot of it with some pieces of fruit and made something sweet with it. After eating it all eagerly, they sat back and looked up at the stars slowly appearing out of the darkening rays of the sunset. Not much was spoken until Sonic brought up a good point.

"Ya know, this is all great and everything, but once we get back, it won't be just the two of us." He glanced over at the feline who nodded silently, and he raised an eyebrow before continuing, "We'll have air-conditioning, full course meals, and lots of people crowding around us who won't leave us be." He realized that the way he said it made it sound as if it was a negative thing, and after a while of thinking he found that it was, in a way. After all, he enjoyed this type of relaxing, where it was almost complete solitude that woke you up each morning and caught you fish for dinner. This type of solitude – a solitude for two – was his thing.

"But…" His thoughts were interrupted by the feline speaking up, and he listened carefully as she suggested, "We could still hang out or something, right? I mean, we'll still be friends like this…right?"

The hedgehog sighed. "Well, I can't promise that it'll be exactly like this…" He then smiled at the sad look on her face. "But, it won't change that much. We'll just…be surrounded by people."

She nodded, accepting that answer as they reverted back to silence, watching the stars twinkle until they fell asleep.

It was two weeks and three days after they crashed that they were found by Tails' plane, and when the fox came down he greeted them happily and apologized for how long it took. Sonic told him with a smile that it was alright, and then Shadowpaw excused herself for a moment. He told her to not take too long (his impatience might have come back with the fox's arrival), but after a while of talking to his buddy he started to grow worried when the feline was still gone. Finally, after half of an hour, he told him to wait for 'a tic' as he ran off into the forest, hoping that she hadn't slipped into the river or fallen into some undetectable hole. He was surprised to find her sitting in a tree on a hill far away from the beach that had a perfect view of the ocean, and he leapt up to find her looking solemnly across the glistening waters. A frown deepening on his face, he asked her why she was sitting here.

"We're being rescued! What are you doing all the way out here? The plane's waiting."

She just shook her head, refusing to use her voice, and after looking at her oddly and being puzzled, he held out his hand to help her down and said, "Come on, let's go."

"Go where?" She looked at him with a face that said she regretted being rescued. "Back to the house where everyone talks to you but doesn't really know you? Or back to the normal friendship where we saw each other maybe a couple of times a week?" With the reason she was so upset revealed, she looked down at the ground below them as if she was at an all-time low. "I've never had someone who actually talked to me, and listened to me, until I was trapped on this island with you. And now, after all that's happened…" She nearly whispered the words, as if ashamed by the very thought, "Do I really wanna go back?"

He could understand what she was feeling; he actually was reluctant to be cast back into the fray, after having such a good time on the island with her. It was almost like a vacation for him, except it meant a whole lot more. She was determined, thoughtful, and had about the same thoughts as he did. And she wasn't just agreeing with him because he was Sonic the Hedgehog; she actually agreed because it was her exact thoughts. Out here in the middle of the ocean, it didn't really matter what you were or what your name was. It was who you were that made a difference.

He put a firm comforting hand on her shoulder and stared at her, telling her matter-of-factly, "You may not want to, but you have to. People are waiting and worrying for us, and we can't be selfish and ignore them just because we don't want to go back. It may have been just us two for a while, but now we have to go back home." Then, as she looked down reluctantly at the ground and sighed, he grinned and patted her on the back. "Besides, we can always come back."

She looked up at him surprised, and she asked incredibly, "Really?" When he nodded, she grinned and gave him a huge hug, laughing, "Thanks, Sonic!"

"No problem," he chuckled as he patted her on the back, glad that he could make her feel better. After all, what was the point of saving someone if they weren't happy? Although he deduced it as the right thing to do, it always made him feel better inside and made him wonder whether it was boosting his ego or something. Still, as the feline hugged him, he got that same feeling in his gut, and he grinned at the strange clenching before looking down at her.

She had been hugging him for at least ten seconds…

"Err…"

At this strange, confused sound of his, she immediately sat up straight and let go of him, but that quick movement unbalanced her and she teetered a bit on the branch before falling off of it with a yelp. Sonic was, of course, already on the ground by the time she came down, and he caught her with ease as he noticed how light she was. It couldn't be healthy to be so skinny and nearly weightless.

"…Whoops…?" She chuckled nervously, and he grinned and set her down on her feet as she looked at her feet in embarrassment. To try to ease away her humiliation, Sonic reminded her, "Tails is waiting for us, remember?" She nodded, and when he extended his hand as an offer, she gulped and took it carefully (and still a bit reluctantly), asking a bit warily, "You won't tell anyone about that, will you?"

Sonic grinned his heroic grin (he always had to 'do it at least fifty times a day', as Amy and the others liked to poke fun at him about it) and teased her, "Only if I get a hug like that every day!" His grin stayed as she blushed and shoved him (but playfully), but as they started to run (well, really he was the only one running, he just kind of dragged her along) he noticed that she gave a soft smile to what she thought was his back. Of course, it is kind of hard to smile behind someone's back if their back is beside you. Smiling to himself when he got to Tails and the plane and said they were ready, he added jokingly, "I guess it's time to leave our island!"

Tails nodded with a smile and got into the pilot's seat, but as the hedgehog and his companion got onto either wing to balance it out, she said, "Our island…it has a nice ring to it." And Sonic couldn't help but agree.

As Sonic sat reminiscing, he was startled out of his daydreaming when suddenly he was tackled from his right so hard that he fell over, rolling onto his back as he whirled his head around in shock to wonder what the heck just hit him. When he caught sight of the mischievous amber eyes and triumphant smirk, however, he calmed down and his spikes flattened down as he told her, "I hope you hit my spikes one day when you try to sneak up on me. Serves you right."

"Well, excuse me!" Although they seemed to be having an argument, Shadowpaw was smiling, and the glomp-tackle-hug turned into her laying beside him in the grass as she told him, "I was just fulfilling a promise."

He nodded as they both turned their heads to look up at the sky, thinking about things in silence. Even though he had been kidding, she had seemed to have taken the oath seriously and made sure that she found him every day just to give him a hug and say 'hey'. And, personally, he didn't mind it, as long as the prolonged hugs were saved for when people weren't there to stare at them oddly. Tails had actually asked him about the strange exchange that the two had, and the hedgehog just shook his head and said it was just the feline's bizarre tendencies that fueled it. Maybe he was just a bit embarrassed by it, but he didn't want to let anyone know. Keeping it a secret for some reason felt like a rush to him, and since he loved running that was a feeling he craved constantly.

But, he did like to relax every once in a while, like they had back on the island, and he smiled as he thought of how it became nearly a weekly thing to sit around and do nothing for a while. It wasn't too long, for a blue hero like him had many things to attend to, but it did help him for whenever he had serious problems or needed to think things through. In fact, there were some things he liked to think about during these peaceful phases, and he appreciated the feline being there for whenever he needed to talk to someone about those things.

Sonic looked over at her following the clouds with her gaze like they were goldfish in a giant fishbowl, and he spoke up carefully, "Shadowpaw?"

"…Hm?" A little preoccupied with her own thoughts, she shook her head and looked over at him to show he had her full attention, curious as her species was portrayed to be. His mouth twitched at the thought of those infamous sayings she hated so much ('Curiosity killed the cat' is the worst in her opinion), before he asked slowly, "Do you believe in 'love at first sight'?"

"No." Her answer was blunt and simple, almost killing the conversation right there, but Sonic was determined to get his point across before she tore it apart.

"I mean, when Amy first saw me, she fell for me so hard that she literally fell, and I had to save her. And…" The thing that had been irking him came back to him, and he mumbled, "I've seen so many places and faces, and yet I haven't even come close to…that…"

She turned fully on her side so that she was completely facing him, showing that she was about to go into a serious debate. If she was looking at you from the side or over her shoulder, you had her attention, but if she was only looking at you or was as she was right then, that meant that she was really paying close attention to everything you said; none of your words would fall on deaf ears if she was facing you with her eyes nearly glued onto your face. It was a sort of uncomfortable feeling to be watched so wholly, but he just shook it off as he listened to what she was going to say.

"So what if Amy said that she loved you? I know that I've said I love tuna, but if it was either me or the tuna can, I'm sorry, but the can's gotta go." As she grinned at his familiar smile, she continued more seriously, "Also, she gave up on you a while ago. If it was real love, a love that couldn't be tested by time or space, then she could have waited until the day she died to get it in return. What is the point of love if it goes away after a while?" She was quiet for a moment, thinking deeply about the subject, before she suggested, "I think love takes more time than that; it doesn't just sweep you off of your feet and say 'honey, I'm home!' as you swoon or faint or whatever. If it could last the tests of time and distance, then it can't just be a flimsy little thing that is suddenly there and could just as suddenly disappear. It has to grow, to spread and fill up every cavity of your heart, and it takes time to get that little acorn into a tree. But," she smiled at him, "I'm sure that when it has, you'll know it, for sure and for real."

"You know," Sonic spoke up, finding it kind of odd, "you talk about so many things as if you've been through it all, and it seems as if you've had a lot of experience…" Not really able to find a question to conjure up from that factoid, he let it hang in the air as he waited for a response from the feline. It was kind of odd, though; every bit of wisdom she had ever said had a tie to something that had happened to her, such as creating a fire did with trying to survive on her own for years. If he used that same principle with what she just said now…

Her face turned a bit red, and she rolled back onto her back to stare at the sky again as she hesitated and said, "Well, I'm just really smart, is all!" The way she danced around his statement made him a bit suspicious, and he wondered about it for a while before suddenly something dawned on him.

"When did we first meet?"

Shadowpaw scrunched up her face in a thoughtful frown, and she guessed, "I dunno, I think around four months or so…it's been a long time, I can tell ya that much." Then, she looked over at him and inquired, "Why?"

Sonic grinned, mischievousness that was usually so common on the feline's appearing in his, and he lied, "Nothing, just wondering." He left her to ponder about his words as he looked back up at the clouds, still grinning as he found one shaped much like a heart. Ironic, he thought before he sat up and got to his feet, finally feeling the itch to run again creeping up his legs like ants. Shadowpaw got up beside him and asked, "Where are you going?"

The blue hero looked at her, that grin seeming to forever be imprinted on his face, and he told her, "Let's go to Our Island."

Aww, don't you wanna kill me for being so cute? XP Yeah, well, too bad, I have to write more oneshots! I wrote this in the course of two or three days because I had nothing better to do since school was canceled for two of those days cuz of those damn fires… And, yes, before you guys all ask, I will do a pairings with EVERY character – that means Shadowpaw will have a pairing with some girl characters, too. For those of you who have cows about this kind of stuff, the chapter name will warn you because it'll say which shipping it is (i.e. RougePaw is Rouge and Shadowpaw). In fact, here are all the names of the shippings I shall use so that you guys don't get confused:

Guy/Shadowpaw Pairings:

Sonic/Shadowpaw is SonPaw (might become my second fav…)

Tails/Shadowpaw is TailsPaw (creative, I know!)

Knuckles/Shadowpaw is KnuxPaw

Shadow/Shadowpaw is ShadPaw (yay, my fav!)

Vector/Shadowpaw is VectPaw

Espio/Shadowpaw is EsPaw (ooh, I love it when they end out like that – like BlAmy, aka Blaze/Amy!)

Charmy/Shadowpaw is CharmPaw

Jet/Shadowpaw is JetPaw (lo and behold, shocker isn't it?)

Storm/Shadowpaw is StormPaw (hmm, really?)

Eggman/Shadowpaw is EggPaw (ooh, creepy, how will I do that one?)

Metal Sonic/Shadowpaw is MetalPaw (yes, he's included, too! But, he's the only robot…sorry!)

Chaos/Shadowpaw is ChaosPaw (but she hates water…)

Silver/Shadowpaw is SilvPaw

Mephiles/Shadowpaw is MePaw (yay, another one of those that just work out when typing it!)

Big/Shadowpaw is BigPaw (err, how will I do that? I guess we'll see…)

And any others I am missing…well, I'll fill it in later!

Girl/Shadowpaw Pairings:

Amy/Shadowpaw is AmyPaw (seriously, why do I bother typing this? I think you guys get the point)

Cream/Shadowpaw is CreamPaw

Vanilla/Shadowpaw is VanPaw (gosh, that'll be hard…maybe I could cheat and make it a friend-fic instead??)

Blaze/Shadowpaw is BlazePaw (yay, kitties!)

Tikal/Shadowpaw is TikPaw (heh, 'Tik'…as in ticks and fleas or tick-tock, tick-tock…Lol-moment)

Rouge/Shadowpaw is RougePaw (wow, no one saw that one coming)

Wave/Shadowpaw is WavePaw (gasp, it's so hard to figure out!)

And any others I am missing…well, I'll fill it in later!

Sorry, guys, but I've taken Sally, Mina, Elise, Cosmo, and Maria off of the list because…well, they're not really too important to life. I mean, Big is more important than Sally is right now! I think they deleted Mina from existence, too…and isn't Maria dead? Sure, Tikal is too, but she came back as a ghost! And Elise is annoying in my opinion…I don't know why, but she just is. Also, I've decided not to do Cosmo because the fans would be too freakin' vicious and, I really don't know enough about her. Deal with it, or don't read. Your choice.

So, if you want any news of what pairing is next or how my list of all the pairings is going, give me a holler via either PM or reviewing (hopefully the latter, winkwinknudgenudgehinthint) and just ask. It's not rude to be curious, but just pray you don't die. Ha, lol, kidding, just go ahead.

DL ('Dragon Lover')