Chapter 2
Shadow returns to GUN and the General gets angry with Knuckles standing next to him. General looks strait at shadow and walks to him.
"Ah shadow, you have arrived!"
"That's him General! He took the Emerald!"
"Is that true Shadow?"
Shadow looked strait at The general and shook his head.
"Well no I didn't"
"You liar!"
"But I will find out who did. But it may take some time."
General nodded.
"All right shadow I understand, just take your time and make sure that you have the correct thief."
"Yes sir general. I will make all my effort to make sure that I find the correct thief."
"Good luck."
Shadow walks out of the room and Knuckles gets angry thought that shadow would lie to the general. But the thing is, he wasn't lying. Rouge took the emerald herself but, shadow was afraid of Rouge losing her job so shadow kept it a secret and tried to find someone that could be a culprit and replace Rouge from going to jail. Knuckles decided to leave and what's shadow do whatever he wanted. So after a few months Shadow found the culprit that was a thief to nearby grocery store and decided too let the thief take the blame. Meanwhile, Rouge was out and decided to give back the Master Emerald. So knuckles was fine and decided not to let rouge get in trouble. So after all that commotion Shadow and Rouge return to Eggmans Lab. Eggman looked through his experiments that he did with Shadow and found out that he could bring one person back to life using Shadows fourth chaos emerald. But, Shadow was the only one to be able to pick out that one person. So, Eggaman informed Shadow and he was shocked. So he picked up his chaos emerald and saw his reflection. Then he remembered Who made him the way he was. The one person that made him who we was that day. And that one person that stayed with him throughout all his first days in the life he lived.
Maria..
He began to have tears in his eyes. Then he wiped them away with his hand and looked at Eggman and spoke his cousins familiar name.
"I want Maria back.."
"Oh...well..ok but we have to have an agreement.."
"And what's that agreement?.."
"She has to live with me.."
"W-what?!..."
"Yep.. I am her only family and she must live with me.."
"O-ok... I...I guess"
"Good.. Now this is how to do it"
Eggman gives shadow a instruction book for secrets of the chaos and world. Shadow grabs his chaos emerald and it begins to glow as shadow releases his energy into the palm of his hand. And as the book he explained he repeated her name many times.
"Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria!"
Green smoke formed on top of the green chaos emerald. Eggman got surprised and hid behind a glass window secured into a wall. As the chaos emerald does what it's supposed to as the book has stated a poof of smoke poofs out words stating "Maria?"
"Yes.."
More words states "Any advance wishes for her return?"
"Could you... Bring her back as a hedgehog, get rid of her disease, and Turn her a year younger than me?"
"checking..."
A few seconds later the poof of smoke returns with these words.
"The first and third wish can be granted, but the second wish can kind of be changed."
"W-what do u mean?.."
"The disease is a very rare disease. Maria was meant to have that disease, but the thing is is that I can change her disease into another disease that may not harm her as much as it used to."
"So, does that mean that you will get rid of her original disease but the only condition of the way of getting rid of that disease is replacing it by another one?."
"correct..."
"Alright... But.. What disease is it?"
"Calculating"
5 seconds later...
"Heart Cancer.."
"H-heart C-c-cancer?..."
He began to cry..
"What all conditions will she have?..."
"Chest pain or pressure, Cough, Fatigue, Irregular heart rhythm but most conditions will rarely appear unless cancer gets worse.."
"Alright, I accept.."
"Processing"
As everything in the room darkens. In the green slip forms into a female hedgehog in as time progressed nicely the smoke forms into a body form. Oh her body parts along with the smoke and after five minutes her body was fully made and she fell to the ground. Shadow thought she was beautiful.. Shadow walked up to her and almost touched her. Eggman stopped him.
"Wait! It says here we have to wait an hour for her organs to begin working. So leave her be.."
"Alright.. I'll wait here..."
Eggman walked away and shadow layed on his stomach and gazed at Maria's Adorable new look. Her hair was the same, her clothes stayed the same, Her height made her kinda short but yet still a few inches shorter than Shadow. She had a tiny hedgehog tail but her nose was a kind of dark pink. But, seemed like that meant that her nose hasn't started working yet. So until then Shadow watched as she developed..
-1 hour later-
Maria silently moaned as she weaken. Shadow looked at her with surprise gasp. Her voice was beautiful and high pitched. Like, her normal voice but a little weaker.
"Huh?...mnnahh..."
She lifted the top part of her body and sighed slightly and looked up at shadow with her eyes. Her beautiful blue crystal clear eyes. Her eyes widened.
"S-shadow?!"
"Maria!"
Shadow hugged her tightly as she returned the hug. Shadow began crying.
"Oh my goodness! Maria! I've missed you...so so much.."
"Oh shadow,"
She holds his cheeks and giggles slightly crying a little bit as well. Whipping his tears off his cheek.
"It's ok shadow"
Shadow laughs slightly and he kisses her cheek, getting tears off her cheek. In the distance Eggman watches as there reunion continues.
"Mmm.. Maria.. Heh.. I'm so glad your here.."
"Oh shadow... I'm so happy to see you too"
Maria and Shadow chuckles and giggles as Shadow picks her up by her waist and spins her around. Maria makes a soft excited fist and places them over her mouth, pushing her cheeks, slightly blushing.
"Oh!"
Maria says giggling as he picked her up then laid her on her feet. Maria walks limplessly leaned on Shadow. He gets worried.
"Maria?.. Are you alright?!.."
"Oh yeah...I guess..."
"Can you walk?..."
"Um...I.. I don't know..."
Shadow sits her up on her feet and holds both her hands with both of his. Maria slowly develops walking. It mostly reminded Shadow as if A deer was first born. Her legs wiggled as each foot got in front of an other. After a few minutes she got used to it and Shadow let her go and she walked on her own. Then she got excited and started to run and jump around. Shadow watched and chuckled silently as she jumped around. He thought she was so cute. Well... He didn't think.. He knew. That Maria was the cutest hedgehog ever created... Her beautiful long fluffy hair flowed in the wind, her eyes sparkle more then the stars ever tried, her smile made the sun look like the dark sky at night, her body just was unbelievably unforgettable. Models in magazines like hedgehog weekly, time, canine nightly. Oh! Any magazine you could find! She would be even more beautiful then any model ever imagined. Even best! Her personality brightened the life of anyone! Her kindness overwhelms! Oh man... Shadow all thought.. Angel.. Just a true heavenly angel... He loved her so much... But then he thought... What does he have to ever have a chance with her... He thought he was just garbage.. He thought he was so dull and useless.. But, maybe if he admits her love.. Maybe she will feel the same way.
"Maria?.."
"Oh! Yeah Shadow?"
Shadows face turned all red and rubbed his hands together. Then began to sweat.
"Well, Um... Well I just... Wanted to tell u that.. Um..."
"Hey?.. U ok?..."
Maria holds his cheeks and looked worried. As she got close shadow shook in fear and blushed more.
"Um... Y-yeah... I just... Want to tell you that I... L-l-l-l-l"
"Live?"
"L-love... YOUR HAIR!"
She blushes and stroaks her own hair, looking at it.
"Oh thank you shadow.. I appreciate it.."
Shadow blushed and Eggman comes in.
"Oh! Doctor!"
Maria was confused and Shadow looked at Eggman surprisingly.
"I am your cousin Ivo Robotnik! You are going to stay with me. Safe and sound."
"Oh hello Ivo! I'm-!"
"Oh no worries, I already know who you are."
"Oh okay!"
Shadow got a little angry when Eggman reminded him of Marias stay with Eggman.
"Well, shadow I'm glad to finally see you. Maybe you can help me pick out some clothes and blankets and everything!"
"O-oh.. Ok!"