First attempt at something with chapters, woo! So I started with something simple, a subject I'm use to typing about, and a subject I enjoy thinking about. I'll update every chance I get, but please bare with me. Not sure how many chapters this'll have, I'm sticking to the storyline I actually made, but I want to add a little more here and there, just to keep you all reading.

I do not own Sonic, Shadow, Amy, or Tails (C), the all belong to Sega.
I also do not own Rise of the Guardians, that wonderful movie goes to it's rightful owner.

If you haven't watched Rise of the Guardians, please watch it. It's a great movie, it's touching, exciting, and has plenty of action. The animation is beautiful, and all in all I love the movie. If you don't have any time to watch it, just watch a few clips off YouTube or something, to get the gist of it.

Onto the story!

Shadow took off his shoes, putting them in a tree not too far away for him to forget. He slowly crept up to the dozing hedgehog, walking when the wind blew, so it would mask any sound he made. He looked up the the blue hedgehog, then looked down to the tree he slept on. He wouldn't be able to climb without making a noise, nor could he jump it without the tree shaking. He reached into his quills and pulled out his old hover shoes, slipping them on. Shadow floated up without a sound, his eyes half lowered as a smirk crossed his face.

..."Boo!"

Sonic jumped, hitting the top of his head on a low hanging branch. "Ugh, you got me!" He chuckled, playfully swatting at Shadow. Shadow frowned and dodged the hit, crossing his arms and huffing. "I may like to scare you, but I'm still not your buddy."

"Yeah yeah, gotta keep up that emo-hog status, eh?"

Shadow frowned and kicked Sonic out the tree, forgetting that he was relying mainly on his hover shoes to keep him in the air. He sent himself backwards and upside down, hitting the ground and chuckling. Sonic got up and shook the dirt off his fur, wincing. "Ugh, I landed on my leg..." Shadow tilted his head, still laying flat out on the ground. "Are you still able to walk?" Sonic put pressure on his leg, only to quickly lean off it. "Yeah, I can walk, can't say anything about running though."

Shadow chuckled, sitting up and smirking. "Good thing I didn't kick you off the cliff then, eh?" Sonic frowned at the dark joke, but couldn't help be snicker. "Then I'd grab your legs and force you to take me back up." Shadow rolled his eyes, looking up at the moon. "What are you going to do on Halloween? It's my favorite holiday, actually." Sonic blinked, "Um, based off what Tails or Amy want to do, which is normally force us into costumes and stuff their faces with candy." He chuckled, and Shadow soon followed in.

Sonic looked up to the sky, a soft smile on his face. "Don't get me wrong, I love Halloween. Heck, I love all the holidays." Shadow nodded, looking at the moon that seemed to glow brighter each time he looked. "Same here, but on the Ark, I never really got much of anything you all did when you were younger. There was no pine tree for christmas, we had a fake, plastic one due to Maria having NIDS. And no dyed eggs filled with chocolate, because the dyes would seep through the shell and ruin the chocolate. No snow to roll around and play in, no Tooth Fairy to collect your teeth while you slept...if you lost a tooth and put it under your pillow, you would wake up and still find your tooth there. No Sandman to keep us asleep with calm dreams, heck we didn't even have anything to be afraid of, besides Doctor's experiments, but they were always tanked up."

Sonic frowned, looking down to Shadow. "But, that didn't mean I didn't believe in them. I just gave up...hoping that wherever they were, that they were at least on Mobius. The only one I really got a kick out of was Halloween, because...who doesn't like scaring people every so often? It's all fun in the end, and you get to share your candy with them..." Shadow happily sighed, looking up at the moon once more.

"Does the moon seem brighter to you?"

He was met with a growl before Sonic even replied, the hedgehog just letting out a small grunt. Shadow turned to Sonic, his eyes going wide. "Sonic, don't. Move." Sonic stood stark still, afraid. "W-what i-is-?"

"Bear."

Shadow slowly stood, snarling at the bear. He didn't want to hurt it, so he was going to scare it away. The bear growled and snarled back, lifting a mighty paw and roughly pushing Sonic to the ground. Sonic gasped as he hit his leg once more, and Shadow's quills raised.

"Don't you DARE hit Sonic!"

He charged forward, inwardly worrying for his own life, but mainly wishing that Sonic could run away and not get injured any more than he was. The bear roared and stepped back, grabbing Shadow's leg and opening it's large mouth to try an bite the limb off. The massive animal made the stone rock cliff crack under it's weight, and fell. It clutched Shadow's leg in both it's large paws, and Shadow grabbed onto the remains of the edge of the cliff for dear life.

Sonic got up, crawling towards the cliff only to hear it crack under his weight. "No! Sonic, get back!" Shadow kicked at the animal below him, but that only made it snarl and grab tighter. Sure, he was made so he could withstand a great amount of weight, but only using your finger tips to hold up your own and a bear's weight at once? Even he couldn't do that! He pulled himself up, only for the rocks to crack again.

"Sonic, go! Leave! You can't save me!" Shadow kicked the animal, and it lifted on paw to grab his shoulder. Shadow's claws dug into the earth, and Sonic stood, his eyes watering. "Go Sonic..." Shadow looked down, snapping his head back up. "Boo!" Sonic jumped back, and the sudden pressure to the rocks made the edge fall completely. Shadow smiled softly, before whipping around and holding the bear under him.

The wind filled his ears, and he looked up at the moon, the glow seemed to be calling for him... before he was suddenly covered in darkness.

Shadow silently pattered through the Ark, having left his shoes in his room long ago. With a mute giggle, he snuck up to a young girl with blonde hair and a blue dress. "Boo!" the girl jumped, letting out a short and small yelp as she turned. She smiled widely, ruffing Shadow's fur. "Don't scare me like that!" she giggled, and Shadow laughed. "But you're quite good at scaring. Preparing for Halloween?" Shadow nodded, smiling with his tail wagging. "Okay, just don't give Grandpa a heart attack!" "Trust me Maria, I won't!"

And with that, he was off.

Yep..If you're wondering about Shadow's Hover Shoes and his Jet Shoes, here you go: His hover shoes does just that- hover. He can float up plenty of yards, but the action taps into his chaos supply so he only uses it when necessary. He cannot stop in mid-fall and simply hover there, the shoes will take a while to slow him down enough so he wouldn't die. Gravity is still in effect. Jet Shoes: Help propel him at great speeds that rivals Sonic's, though he can keep up without them, he mostly has upper body strength so he relies on his shoes to help him keep up with the blue blur.

I mean, even Sonic can't run that long without his shoes on!

Thanks for reading! I'll update soon!