It had been days since the dark furred male had been thrown into his cell and he had seen guards walk past but none had the pink hedgehog. He was wondering if he would be unable to steal her from Sonic now. Maybe he had already claimed her and they were to be married soon? Or maybe not... Two guards carried her by the arms, lifting her off the ground so she couldn't drag her feet to slow their pace.

When they reached the cell that the dark male was being held in they opened the iron door, swung it open and threw the girl in there with him then closed and locked the iron door. "You should have accepted king Sonic's proposal little girl, maybe we wouldn't have put you in the same cell as a monster then." The first chuckled, sneering at her afterwards

"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to kill you once he woke up!" The other laughed. With that, the male stood up and silently walked towards the door in the shadows. As he got to the edge of his hiding place, he leapt from them and said: "I'm a monster am I? Open the door and I'll show you just how bad I am." The two guards jumped back from their position in front of the cell and quickly marched away when they saw the chilling glare he gave them.

"Sorry about that. I don't normally act that way towards people, it's just that they particularly annoy me. My name's Shadow. And you are...?" The male said apologetically.

"M...my name's A...Amy. Amy Rose." She stuttered, staring at the tall hedgehog from the cold floor. Shadow looked at her with a confused expression on his face then smiled and shook his head.

"There's no reason to be scared of me." He said sitting down on the floor so her was on the same level as her. "I don't want to hurt you or anything." Then Shadow lay down on the floor, trying to get to sleep.

For five minutes Amy stared at Shadow trying to analyse why he would try to be nice to her. Several things seemed believable, one of which was that he wanted to use her to get to Sonic, but he seemed to genuine for that and how would he even know that Sonic wanted to marry her? After a few more minutes of thinking, she decided that he was only trying to help because he knew how difficult it was being there. So, Amy decided that she should sleep too.

After Amy had gone to sleep, Shadow woke up and went to get the thin blanket that had been in the cell when he got there. He knew that it wouldn't be much help, but anything that would get him closer to his goal was welcome help. Shadow picked the blanket up, walked over to the sleeping female and then put the blanket over her making sure that he had covered as much of her as possible then went to the other side of the cell and went to sleep again.

The next morning Amy woke up to find a dark green blanket covering her. The first thing she wondered was where it had came from, and then who had put it on her. She looked to her right to see if Shadow was awake. He was still fast asleep. Pausing for a moment to ponder on the source of the mysterious blanket, Amy furrowed her brow in thought and placed her finger on her bottom lip.

Shadow stirred not long after Amy had woke to find the blanket he had given her. He looked across to her and with a faint smile on his face which he quickly forced to disappear. What the hell was that? Shadow thought to himself. Amy is only a way to get my emerald back. Although... she is kinda cu- NO SHE IS NOT CUTE! Shadow shook his head violently, trying to literally shake that thought out of his head. How could he even think that she was even remotely attractive in any way? Impossible. No. Never going to happen. Not in a million years.