Ladies and gents, it's finally happening! The sequel shall go on! I had a good debate about whether I wanted to take it down or continue, and after thinking a bit, I think I have a solid plot for this. The story will be set to follow a week or two after my Thanksgiving chapter in the first installment. So~ Here you are. Also, chapter one is revised so before you read on I'd go back and read that first. Other than that, let's go~!
-Chapter Two: Hey Mister!-
Sheets ruffled as a figure beneath it started to move. A messy head of quills popped out from them, and jade orbs were sleepily revealed. Amy yawned and stretched for a few seconds before looking around. Her room was painted a soft purple from the sunlight hitting her curtains, but despite the lack of bright lighting, she found something missing.
A messy head of crimson striped quills, to be exact.
The pink female peaked under the sheets, just in case she was mistaken. Hmm...no hedgehog. Pursing her lips in thought, she threw them back and climbed out of bed. Bits and pieces of last night came back to her as she slowly made her way downstairs. Deciding to not dwell on it for too long, Amy's wakening senses registered the smell of...food? Well, the surprises keep coming, don't they?
"He better not be burning anything," she muttered under her breath.
With that thought, she sped up and peaked into the kitchen. There, in front of the stove with nothing but shorts and socks, was a scowling Shadow the Hedgehog. He was glaring at whatever was cooking (cross your fingers it's edible) and muttering under his breath. It was funny, to say the least. Never in her wildest dream would she imagine him standing over a stove trying to cook. She had many questions, and thankfully they could be answered as her grumbling stomach alerted him of her presence.
He looked over at her, stared for a few seconds, and looked away. Well, I'll just get a little closer then, Amy smiled inwardly. She winced on the outside as her bare feet touched the cold tiles, but put up with it until she was by his side. Getting a good look, the pans held bacon and the batter for a pancake. Simple enough…
"If you came to see if I burned anything, I didn't." A hand took away her sight and pushed her away playfully, "You may leave now," Shadow said. When Amy was able to see, she was back where she started; outside the kitchen.
Wiggling her toes in irritation, her then stomach growled ferociously in protest. Huffing, she blew her bangs out her face and marched up to him again. "If you haven't noticed, Mr. Tummy is hungry. We need to know when it's ready, not if it's burned," It'd just be a bonus if it wasn't, she added in her head.
"You go tell Mister Tummy to get out of your house, because as far as I'm concerned, the only 'we' here is and better be us." Shadow flipped the bacon with a spatula and it landed with a delicious sizzle. The smaller hedgehog giggled.
Her stomach growled again, "He says no."
The ebony male shot her a look and she merely smiled. It was then that jade orbs landed on a few pieces of already cooked bacon not too far away, surprisingly looking pretty crispy. Licking her lips, Amy stared at Shadow. He looked at her, the bacon, her again, then the stove.
"Don't even think about it, Rose."
Not liking his answer, she moved towards it anyway – only to be stopped by Shadow's leg darted out in front of her. From the momentary shock, this allowed him to capture her in his arm, spin her around, and hold her against his body effectively trapping her. His little food deprived monster whined, the sound vibrating across his chest as she got a face full of his white chest fur. Leaning her head back, she stuck out her tongue.
"Can you not do that when your shirtless?" Amy complained. She sighed as his arm tightened its hold on her without totally crushing her.
"Then take it off and give it back." Shadow shot back with a straight face, now flipping the pancake. Her cheeks burned red, as she pursed her lips and glared at something behind him.
"No. I'm stealing it from you," she declared, now angry and hungry.
"And add to the five you already did? No, you won't."
"Watch me. You can't do anything to stop me."
Shadow suddenly reached to turn off the stove with his free hand, the other holding her moved grab the hem of his shirt. He only managed to get it so far up her body before she gasped, and pulled away. Her cheeks a very bright red now, "Don't you dare!" she cried. He simply smirked at her, expressing his amusement at her defiance.
After eating the breakfast Shadow prepared (which thankfully wasn't burnt!), Amy took a shower and dressed. The ebony male took his shirt (taking it while she was in the shower) and Chaos Controlled home to do the same. Since it was December and snow was everywhere in New York, there wasn't much the two could do besides stay at home and bother each other. Not that Amy would mind, she was used to the playful banter. It's only been two months since they announced they were officially dating. Other than shock, everyone wasn't affected by the news too much – Sonic and Shadow were still rivals, but admittedly more aggressively so if the Blue Blur's attention stayed on her longer than he deemed necessary.
In Shadow's terms of 'necessary', that meant three seconds before a threat of a Chaos Spear to the face.
If it were a random male, that meant one second before you got a Chaos Spear to the face.
Amy sighed as she looked out her window, watching the snow flurries dance around in the wind. One more month before she had the ultimate decision to leave for college. No matter how much she'd consider the consequences of getting accepted, it didn't make the decision any less bittersweet. She was beyond excited when she received the email, even celebrated with Rouge with peach ice cream cake. The next day, she literally smacked the ground of reality when she realized how close it was to having to actually pack and go to Tennessee.
She smiled bitterly remembering she almost had a panic attack when she woke up that day. Shadow came over and helped her calm down, but she still shed a lot of tears. After all, she had just begun her new relationship.
Hell, even Shadow admitted he would miss her when she left. It nearly broke her heart.
Then there's the dream… The same dream she had almost every other night, starting and ending at the same point in whatever it was trying to simulate. At first Amy thought it was just her stressing out over the whole situation and it came back to bite her in the butt. However, when she finally came to deal with it, it didn't stop. Waking in the middle of the night, writing in her dream diary, and going back to sleep occurred more often than she liked.
Shadow was there to help her, though. As much of a night owl as he was, he didn't like being called at three in the morning, and especially not for a crying Amy Rose. The ebony male then decided himself to 'stay' at her house while she seemingly went through the phase. Yet, here he still was a week and a half later…
Amy looked at the clock on her bedside table. She had managed to space out in her thoughts for a good ten minutes. Rolling her eyes at herself, she got ready to head out and go to her favorite cake shop. She didn't care if it was who knows how many degrees below zero, she wanted something sweet and if it was a cold dessert, so be it!
Let's hope I can resist the temptation of playing in the snow there and back…
~.~
"I still don't understand why I'm here..."
"For the last time, Sonic, you have to train to actually go with us. Stop being a wimp and grab a weight," Rouge said to the blue hedgehog. The Blue Blur looked at the rack holding the different weights, ranging from ten to sixty. He then proceeded to look around the empty room.
"But there's no one here."
"That's the point, genius."
"But-"
"Sonic! Grab one and lift!" the ivory woman cried. God, why did Shadow leave me to train him? Where is he anyway?!
Sonic picked up a twenty pound weight and tested it out. It would do, he guessed. If he had "train" as she had put, he never would've agreed to go on the stupid mission. Not like I was given a choice, he thought bitterly. He was going because he knew who could be behind this so-called mass disappearance and if it just so happened to actually be the crazy man, he and Shadow were supposed to stop him.
Simple enough, right?
Wrong.
"Has Shadow told Amy yet?" Sonic found himself asking aloud. The female bat looked over at him, raising an eyebrow.
"Not that I know of… why?"
"Well, I was just thinking," he stopped when Rouge snickered and said something under her breath. Rolling his eyes, he continued, "Why does the commander want us to keep it a secret from her?"
Rouge stopped lifting the weight in her hand, and looked at him like he'd grown a second head. "Why do you think? You don't see us going off to tell random strangers our business, and we know her. If the person behind all this sees us, GUN agents he knows are trying to stop him, and Amy, another innocent person; they'll most likely use her against us." She crossed her arms, "You of all people should know that."
Sonic kept a steady pace for lifting his weights as he shrugged. "Yeah, but we don't know if it's Eggman this time. He only did all that because Amy was in love with me..."
"Doesn't make much of a difference. We still can't tell her – at least not yet."
"Whatever," Sonic quickly dismissed.
He's never worked with GUN to know how they function and do things. Shadow and Rouge have been involved with them since first coming to Earth. What he did know was that Amy was his friend – though it took a few days for him to accept it fully. Yes, he apologized for what happened a couple months ago and moved on as quickly as he could, but he didn't think she would too and then drop the 'I'm-dating-Shadow' bomb soon after. Shock was a given upon hearing it, but it seemed to hit him just a bit harder than he thought possible. He didn't hate Shadow, but he was still (in Sonic's eyes) a cocky bastard. Literally, the last person on this planet to be 'boyfriend material'.
Rouge groaning brought Sonic out of his thoughts as she furiously tapped her phone. "What?"
"Shadow's ditching again."
"So?"
"It's his turn to watch you!" she cried out, sighing shortly after.
Sonic scrunched up his nose, "Watch me… I'm not a baby."
"..."
"..."
"Anyway..." Rouge said, "I don't actually have time to train you today. I have to be somewhere, so you either come with or stay here and not do anything stupid." She paused as she realized what she just said. "Nevermind. Get your stuff, you're coming with me."
"What if I don't wanna?"
"You don't have a choice. Come willingly or I drag you and tie you to the back of my car."
Sonic blinked once, then twice. He put the weight back in its place and gathered his stuff. "Alright, fine," he said finally. He then stopped, "Where is Shadow? Why'd he bail?" All it took was one look for to guess.
"It's about zero degrees out here and you're eating ice cream?"
The pink female shoveled a small piece of her cake into her mouth as they continued walking to answer his question. "I don't care how cold it is. I'm hungry and I want ice cream on a cake. Sue me!" she giggled. A few seconds later she winced and held her head, "Ah! Brain freeze!"
"Hmm..." Shadow hummed, his way of saying 'I told you so'.
"Oh, shut up. You can't say because you've never tried it," Amy said, sticking out her tongue at him.
"It's a peach flavored ice cream...on a cake. I don't eat sweets as it is."
"Um, that's not what my cookie box told me last week when it had four out of six missing from it."
Shadow blinked, before looking away. Not much proof was needed to know it was him – even if he wouldn't admit it. But he prayed she wouldn't start calling him 'her wittle cookie monster' again… He shuddered just thinking about it. "Nng.. ow," Amy groaned, holding her head again.
"You should stop before you hurt yourself. At least what until you get home to eat it."
Rubbing her head, she smacked her lips. "Fine..." she sighed. Her jade orbs then looked over at the park as they passed it. All the snowy white goodness just glistening in the sun, ready to be played in. Oh, she wanted to go and play~! But she had cake. Mr. Cake wouldn't survive her trying to dive headfirst into a giant pile of snow. If only he could...
"Look away before you think about trying something, Rose," Shadow said.
Amy began to pout as she moved closer to the ebony male for warmth. "I wasn't. Mr. Cake is with me now."
"Stop naming stuff Mister."
"You're just jealous 'cause I wanna date a cake."
"I am not jealous," he stated, having to bite his tongue before he continued. He knew she named things like they were male to get at him. He was a boyfriend on the possessive side. Other than getting a sight of seeing him riled up, she found it incredibly sweet and unbearably cute. Just think, 'Shadow the Ultimate Life Form jealous of a cake trying to steal his girl'.
The rosy hedgehog giggled to herself and leaned her head on his shoulder."Whatever you say, Shady."
