Chapter 2 The Second Chaos Emerald

Shadow and Maria walked through the woods looking around at all the trees and animals that lived there.

"This place is so beautiful!" Maria said looking up at the sky.

"Yeah, it is." Shadow said as he smiled at Maria.

He still couldn't believe she was here standing next to him. Unfortunately the moment was ruined by a blue hedgehog named Sonic that we all know.

"Hey Shadow, who's your girlfriend?" He said almost as fast as he ran up to Shadow's face.

"She's not my girlfriend." Shadow said embarrassed and annoyed, as he and Sonic did not get along very well.

He shoved Sonic out of the way and walked on.

"Okay, then I guess you wouldn't mind if she were my girlfriend?" Sonic said trying to annoy Shadow, since he knew he had found a sensitive area in Shadow.

"Actually, I would mind!" Shadow yelled into Sonic's face.

"Sorry Shadow, but I don't think that's your choice." Sonic said as he looked at Maria expecting her to say something.

"Uh..." Maria said in confusion at Sonic's sudden move. She didn't want to offend Sonic so she just smiled at him, and backed away slowly.

At this point Shadow was very angry with him. He felt like crushing something, and to Sonic's misfortune it happened to be his neck. Shadow grabbed Sonic's neck and threw him to the ground.

"I would stay away from her if I were in your position." Shadow threatened staring at Sonic on the ground with great hatred.

"Or what?" Sonic said keeping his cool.

"Or else I'll... look, just stay away from her, Sonic. I don't want to be violent in front of her. Simply leave her alone and we won't have any problems." Shadow said quietly to Sonic making sure Maria didn't hear him.

"Well, someone's jealous." Sonic said trying to annoy Shadow even further.

At this point Maria was blushing, at seeing the two hedgehogs fighting over her. Maria quickly pulled Shadow away from Sonic as she noticed he was about to harm him. Shadow sighed.

"I suppose you have a reason for coming over here besides annoying me." Shadow said trying to smile, but failed.

"Not really." Sonic said as he started running away, but Shadow grabbed him before he could leave.

"You're lying." Shadow said as he turned Sonic around to look at him.

"Well, Shadow, I've found these odd creatures roaming around and I was wondering if you had anything to do with it?" Sonic said trying to make it not sound like he was asking a favor.

"What do these creatures look like?" Shadow said as his expression turned cold.

As if answering Shadow's question A bright green fire erupted from the ground, and six green entities appeared. They had cold auras that made the three hedgehogs freeze. The creatures hummed mysterious whispers as if communicating to one another. They looked as though they were dispossessed spirits that were longing for new bodies or to be laid to rest again. Shadow's head began to hurt as that voice spoke to him again.

"Your intentions for getting the Chaos Emeralds are all wrong!" The voice said very angrily as if it were ready to kill him.

"If you do not accept your destiny then, I will change it!" As the voice spoke in his head the six entities stepped towards them.

Immediately Sonic and Shadow began attacking two of them that were wielding swords, made of pure white-hot fire. Shadow and Sonic ran around the two so fast the whirlwind they created cut off the oxygen and extinguished the flames. Apparently the creatures were made out of fire as they were obliterated as well. Sonic and Shadow were prepared to take on the others, but Maria had already killed the other four.

What? Shadow thought to himself, Maria isn't a fighter, she can't defend herself can she?

The two male hedgehogs looked puzzled at Maria's actions since she had killed them very violently by stealing a sword one of them was carrying and slashing very articulately as if she knew their weak points.

"Look what I found!" Maria said as she grabbed a Chaos emerald out of the chest of one of the dark entities.

ALL CHARECTERS COPYRIGHT BY SEGA EXCCEPT MARIA THE HEDGEHOG

I hope you guys like this one more since it had more action and was not as boring as the previous one. Oh, and thanks to Tyler I will tell you that Shadow already has the green Chaos Emerald because he is always carrying it around in almost every video game he is in, sorry, it was implied since I knew you guys play Sonic games. And I just thought it would be odd if Shadow didn't already have a Chaos Emerald.