Hey! This is a story I came up with in my own time! Please enjoy and tell me if you spot some spelling errors! Thank you!
NOTE: This is not a FANCHAR/Shadow coupling story! Thank you!
I think this was inspired by Kyra's Story, Thanks for writing stories that are addictive to the reader! Same with you Celestial! You rock!
Now, just so you know, this is not your normal, Shadow falls to earth, meets a cute girl, falls in love, lives happily ever after kind of story! This is different to anything you ever read before if I'm lucky! Hooray!
Disclaimer: All the characters in this story EXCEPT for Kayla, belong to Sega! Haha!
Shadow was falling from the ark, remembering his past with Maria and the animals he met only today. The sadness he was feeling was overwhelming, he was going to die and maybe if he was lucky enough, see Maria again. He was never going to see any of his new found friends and foe's ever again.
But.. This is what she wanted... Isn't it?
As he was entering the atmosphere, a strange light engulfed him and he vanished.
-1 Week Later-
There was the sound of a voice in the black and red hedgehog's head, what the heck was it? He felt a searing pain throughout his body and his head was aching, clearly he was not dead. Something hit his chest pretty hard. Shadow groaned and tried to move but he was too hurt.
"GET OFF IT!" A voice squealed.
Shadow grit his teeth and opened his eyes very slowly, his vision, blurry at first saw something blue. "Sonic?" he asked dryly.
"Who the hell is that?" The voice snapped angrily.
Shadow's vision slowly cleared up and the creature near him became more clear. It was a little female mouse with a branch in her arms, obviously that's what hit him. The girl didn't look any older than 7.
"Get Off It." The little mouse said firmly.
"Off what?" Shadow asked and choked a bit.
The girl stomped and pointed, a flower was sticking out from Shadow's back, it was dried up and almost dead. Some dried blood was visible on the ground around him too. Shadow sighed and rolled as well as he could off the plant.
The girl shrieked and picked up the flower, strangely enough as she touched it, it seemed to look more vibrant and moisture appeared on it. "How the..." Shadow murmured and pushed himself into sitting position.
The girl sniffled, then glared at Shadow, "You almost killed my lily!" She growled.
"It's not a lily." Shadow said with a smirk.
The girl frowned "That's what I named her."
"I don't believe flowers have genders."
"Ever see a boy looking that pretty?"
"A few."
"Other than the gay ones."
"I don't know."
The girl smirked, "Then its a girl! And if you don't agree then I'll KILL you!"
Shadow stared strangely at the little mouse, her dark blue hair was short and didn't even reach her shoulders, it seemed to have a few spikes in front of her joined eyes and two or three curls coming out of all the straight hair. Her fur was clearly more pale then Sonic's and her eyes the same strange colour. A long tail wriggling about behind her, she wore a long sleeved shirt and a skirt that curves up at the sides. She seemed very short, not even half the size of Shadow, her feet were bare and her ears poking through the hair on her head.
"You don't look very dangerous to me." The hedgehog said calmly.
The girl huffed, "Appearances can be deceiving!"
"Smart words for a kid."
The girl held up her middle finger, then turned and ran off. Shadow chuckled to himself, that was a good laugh. Though, he really wished he hadn't live to put up with it, what was wrong with that mouse?
Shadow shrugged, he was in a bad situation right now, he had to find someone that would HELP him. He wasn't well enough to be going off too far, so he looked around the surrounding area. It was all forestry and well cared for at that, there seemed to be a thin smoke coming from something nearby. That could be a house, or someone camping, could be where the mouse came from. But Shadow was in no position to be picky about his options.
The sky got cloudy quickly and started raining, it was soothing to Shadow, it cleaned his fur a bit and made him cool down.
Surely enough, after about 10 minutes of walking, the hedgehog arrived at a small old fashioned looking house. The house seemed to glow with the light inside, it looked almost foggy in the rain. Shadow stumbled up to the house and knocked on the door, hey he may have lived on the ark but he knew how to be polite!
The door opened and a female grey mouse opened the door, she looked a bit old and she was wearing strange looking clothing, a long brown dress and a apron. "Oh my! Look at you! Your all wet! Come in come in! Get dried up!" She said and motioned with her arm for him to come in.
Shadow didn't say anything as he walked in, the female mouse threw a blanket around his shoulders, "Please take a seat, warm up near our fireplace." she offered ever so kindly and led him into another room. The place was indeed very old fashioned, a stone fireplace with a wooden box next to it full of more wood. The floor covered in a red carpet that stops a foot before the fireplace, old looking furniture made of wood placed around the room perfectly to match into the mix.
The little female mouse from earlier was seated on the floor, she was playing with a rag doll but quickly hid it and sneered at the hedgehog. The older mouse didn't seem to notice her child growling at the hedgehog as she seated him in a chair, "Please, get warm, I'll be serving dinner soon, would you like some?"
Shadow looked strangely, "Why are you being like this?" he asked.
The female smiled "It has been ever so long since the last time we had company."
"He almost killed Lily." The little girl growled.
The mother laughed "I'm sure she'll be fine, you always seem to help your plants back to health."
"Well... Thank you." Shadow said before the little mouse could argue any further.
The mother left the room and the little mouse stood up and stomped right up to him, even though she couldn't even be high enough to climb on the chair, she still looked only a little bit threatening with that glare. She stood there until the mother returned from the kitchen with three warm bowls of soup. It was a strange colour with a delicious smell that flooded around the room so quickly.
The young mouse took hers and ran off, not spilling any surprisingly enough, the mother sat in an old rocking chair and quietly drank her soup.
Shadow looked around the room a bit more, some plants were sitting near the furniture and old black and white photo's hung around on the walls, that were covered in an old wallpaper design.
"I hope Kayla didn't do anything too harsh." The mother said as she sipped her soup.
Shadow shrugged "She hit me with a stick but that's about it."
The mother giggled "She's been like that for a long time."
"So... How does she... Kayla... do that?" Shadow asked.
The mother raised her ears and looked at him blankly for a moment, "Oh," she said and smiled, "If you mean how she fixes the plants, I don't even know, she's gifted though."
Shadow nodded and sniffed at the soup and took a spoon full. A warm feeling went through his body as he drank the soup, it had many strange tastes to it that made it taste so wondrous.
"I'm guessing you don't have anywhere to stay yet, would you like to stay here?" The mother asked, "We have a spare room upstairs."
"Only if it has locks" Shadow muttered to himself and chuckled.
"Hm?" she asked and tilted her head slightly.
"Nothing."
