This story is inspired by Shadow Lover 123. Jasmine is her character not mine, same thing with Bella. Sonic characters belong to Sega and others. Enjoy!

Chapter 1 Shadow's Little Secret

A 7 year old girl named Jasmine was chasing her big sister through a field of daffodils. Their mother sat under a willow tree with her handsome husband by her side. They all had the biggest smiles plastered to their faces.

"Bella slow down!" Jasmine cried as her sister sped up.

"I can't. There'd be no point in tag if I let you catch me." Her sister called over her shoulder.

"I'm tired! Can we go sit under the big willow with mommy and daddy?" Jasmine whined.

"Not until you catch me." Bella said, as she stopped running.

Jasmine took this as her opportunity to ponce. "Got ya!" She called as she grabbed the bottom of her sister's dress. She proudly, smiled.

"No fair! That doesn't count!" Her sister shouted.

"Does to! You didn't call times!" Jasmine shouted back. She stuck her tongue out at Bella. Bella stuck her tongue out at her sister in return.

"Girls! Stop it! Why don't you come over here and sit next to me and daddy." Their mother called.

"Yes, mommy!" They said in unison. They ran toward the great weeping willow and sat down next to their mother and father. Their parents gave them each a big hug and smiled at them.

"What do you think of the daffodils this spring?" Their mother asked them.

"Their pretty, but not as pretty as you, mommy." Bella said. Bella wasn't lying, their mother was a yellow hedgehog with long brown hair with purple highlights here and there. She had kind, violet eyes that said a lot about her person. She had on a long, silky, blue dress and their father's red baseball cape.

"She has you there, sweetheart." Their father said.

"Thank you, honey." Their mother and father leaned in for a kiss.

"Quick cover your eyes!" Bella shouted.

"Yuck!" Jasmine said.

"Oh, stop it you two. One day you'll fall in love and then you won't be complaining anymore." Their mother said.

"I'll never fall in love!" Declared Jasmine.

"Oh yes you will then you'll be sorry you ever said those words."

8 years later

(Jasmine's P.O.V.)

I was laying on my bed staring at the picture of my mother, my father, my sister, and me. How I miss you, mom. I thought. Just then my sister barged into my room. "Sonic's here. He says he wants to talk to you." She said.

I grinned. "What could he want now?" I asked myself out loud.

"I don't know. If you ask me, that boy needs a hobby besides running all the way out here to talk to you." My sister said.

I sat up. "I'll go talk to him, thanks Bella." I get off my bed and head downstairs. I walk to the front door and open it. There at the doorway was the fastest thing alive and my best friend. "What do you want?" I place one hand on my hip.

"Guess who's coming to town today." He said, excitement filling his emerald green eyes.

"Who?" I ask him.

"The 'Ultimate Life form' himself, Shadow." He gave me a big smile.

"Shadow, who?" I gave him a confused look. He slaps his forehead which made me more confused.

"That's right! You haven't met him! He's an old friend of Knux and me." He grinned.

"Oh." I said. "When's he coming?"

"Right now!" He grabbed my hand and dragged me to the middle of town where all the stores and restraints were.

"Sonic! Let go!" I commanded. Either Sonic didn't hear me or he was two excited to care because he didn't even slow down. Suddenly, he stopped at the town fountain. "What are we doing…?"

Before I could finish what I was going to say we saw a bright flash. "Control!" Came a voice and the light faded. There standing where the light use to be was a black and red hedgehog holding up a… Chaos Emerald? The Chaos Emerald was glowing a bright green in his white, gloved hand.

"Hey, Shads! How've you been?" Sonic said to the strange hedgehog. The dark hedgehog just glared at him and didn't say a word. He took a good look at both me and Sonic.

Finally, he muttered, "Faker." He walked right past Sonic to the fountain. He tossed a quarter in and turned around to look at Sonic.

"Nice to see you, too." Sonic said in a sarcastic tone.

The hedgehog nodded his head towards me, "Who's she?" He asked.

"Shads this is my best friend, Jasmine. Jasmine this is the 'Ultimate Life Form', Shadow." Sonic introduced us to each other. "Wait a minute!" Sonic grabbed my hand and pulled me towards Shadow. He let go of my hand once he put me closer to Shadow and backed away a few steps. "If you think about it, you guys look rather similar. Except one of you is a girl wearing clothes who smiles a lot more than the other."

I looked at Shadow and then I looked at me, Sonic was right, we did look a lot alike. Shadow's fur was black like mine and we wore the same kind of shoes only mine were purple, not red. We both had stripes on our quills, his red, and mine purple. Once I got to his face I saw that his eyes were the same ruby red as mine, only his seemed sadder. I looked at his month which was shaped into a frown and seemed it would stay that way. For some odd reason I found myself wishing he'd smile.

"I guess you're right, Sonic." I said. I looked at the green emerald still firmly in Shadow's grip. "So you can use chaos energy, too?"

He looked at me and asked, "What do you mean 'too'? You can use chaos control?"

"Yeah. Is that a problem?" He kept staring at me. For a minute I thought I saw his frown flash into a smile but it faded as quickly as it came.

He finally spoke. "I'm going to go to my house." He announced to us. He started to walk away.

"Can we come along?" Sonic asked.

"I'm not stopping you, Faker." Shadow said still walking.

Sonic gestured me to follow as he started to catch up with Shadow. "Come on, Jazz." He called.

….o0o….

Eventually we were at Shadow's house, already walking through his front door. His living room was small. There was just a small green coach sitting in front of a fireplace. On top of the shelf over the fireplace were a few pictures. My eyes were glued to one picture in particular. In the picture was a little blond human girl in a blue dress sitting in front of a window next to a younger Shadow. There was something different about this Shadow then the one I met now, this Shadow was smiling. I picked up the picture and examined it more closely. Yes Shadow was smiling, I admired his smile. What's so special about this human girl?

"Who is this little girl?" I turned to face Shadow.

"What little girl?" He asked.

"The little human girl in this picture?" I pointed to the girl in the photo. Shadow's frown became deeper.

"No one." He said. He took the picture from my hand and set it back on the fireplace.

"Come on, Shadow. You can tell her." Sonic said.

"I said no one, Faker. Now, just take your friend and get out." Shadow gave us both a glare.

"Okay, Shads. Sorry for bothering you." Sonic grabbed my hand and pulled me out of Shadow's house. "Sorry about that, Jasmine. Shadow doesn't like to talk about Maria a lot ever since she… passed." Sonic told me.

"What's so special about Maria?" I asked him.

"You'll have to ask Shadow. Later." Sonic told me.

We were silent the rest of the way to my house. I walked up my porch steps to the front door. The sun was setting by now which lit up the sky with all kinds of colors. "Bye, Jazz." Sonic called.

"Bye, Sonic!" I shouted as he took off. I took one last look at the sunset and headed inside.