Amy's POV

Darkness surrounded me as I lay in the pitch black room, I reached of the bed to my bag and pulled it towards me taking my phone out and checking the time. 3:30am, I sighed before getting of bed and heading towards the kitchen. I wasn't one for snooping other people houses but I was in desperate need for a drink. I crept up the hallway, into the kitchen turning on the light as I entered the room. I noticed a small note on the fridge, Dear Amy, I'm sorry sweetie but I was called into work don't be alarmed if I'm not there :). After grabbing some milk from the fridge I sat down and yawned tiredly. Why would she be called into work this early? What even is her job?

My thoughts were interrupted when the lights started to flicker before turning of completely, I gasped and attempted to see through the darkness. My heartbeat started to increase speed when footsteps were heard coming through the hallway, freezing in fright I heard myself unconsciously let out a small almost unheard whimper.

"Amy?" A voice questioned.

I stayed silent still frozen, "Rose?" It spoke again getting closer.

"Shadow," I whispered in realisation, the nickname knocking me out of my frozen state.

I could now make out Shadows figure and realised he was right next to me.

"What are you doing," he asked grabbing what I could assume was a touch from the bench.

"I went to get a drink, then the power went out," I replied softly still slight shaken. We sat in silence for a while the torch our only source of light.

"So, couldn't sleep?" I asked in attempt to start a conversation.

"Yeah," was all he replied, staring back at me.

So much for trying to converse I thought letting out a small laugh.

Shadow stared at me strangely staring for a while. We again sat in silence.

I felt a small vibration from the chair and looked at shadow confused. I guess he felt it to, he was glaring at the floor in question.

The vibrations stated to increase, and a split second later the ground was shaking. Softly, but still noticeably. I realised something was wrong but before I could react Shadow grabbed me and forced me under the kitchen table, I gasped as he did so.

The ground stated to shake. Glass shattered through the windows. Shadow began to grip me hard putting his arms around me in protection. Loud defending explosions were heard about a mile from the house.

I started to scream, this made Shadow pull me even closer. Furniture came crashing down around us and the fridge leaned in towards the table. I screamed a higher pitch.

Shadow pushed me off him and away from the collapsing table, the fridge crashed though and hit the ground, Shadow rolled to the side just before it hit.

I crawled to the corner of the room, back against the wall. He joined me. A few seconds later the explosions stopped and the ground stopping shaking.

Red irises burned into green as Shadow stared at me, "Rose, are you alright," he asked looking a bit shaken but hiding it well.

I only nodded and faced the ground, replaying what just happened in my head.

Shadows POV

After I was sure Amy had calmed down I asked her if she was okay to go to bed now. She stayed silent and I soon realised she had fallen asleep, I picked her up and headed towards my room then laid her on the bed and covered her with a blanket. "Shadow..no," I heard her whisper. She's sleep talking, about..me?

"Help, no stop please..," Amy whispered aloud. I stared as she started to toss and turn, clearly having a nightmare.

Amy began screaming and I took this as a signal to wake her up. "Rose, Rose...wake up," I spoke softly shaking her. She opened her eyes and stared at me wide eyed and confused. "huh s-shadow?" She asked fearfully.

"Shh, Rose it's okay, you had a nightmare," I answered trying to calm her.

"Oh," she said softly. "I had a dream, you were there, there was an explosion like before but in my dream you-you got hurt, badly," she mumbled.

I sighed looking at her concerned. "It's okay Rose, I'm fine, now let's go to sleep."

I began to walking to the guest room. "Wait, shadow, can you umm, sleep in here."

I looked at her in surprise. "I don't think that's such a," I began but paused after seeing her face fall in disappointment, "...fine" I got some thick blankets and put them on the floor before laying above them. "Night, Rose," I said barley audible.

"Goodnight," Amy replied smiling slightly at me before drifting off.

I heard an unsettling ringing in my eyes and opened my sleep deprived eyes to see a pink figure above me, "Shadowwww, wake uppp," Amy whined shaking me.

I groaned and pushed her away before getting up of the floor and heading towards the kitchen not noticing how messy and torn apart the room was.

Once I got to the kitchen I realised just how hard the explosion must have hit, it was completely ruined, furniture was sprawled across the ground in all different directions, Windows where smashed and holes were shown through the roof and walls.

I turned around to Amy a shocked look upon my face. "I guess I won't be living here anymore,"

Amy giggled at my comment, I guess she's recovering from the shock last night.

"Hey, shadow, what do we eat for breakfast, there's nothing in the pantry." Amy asked smiling.

"All the food here was probably destroyed last night, we need to go out for breakfast, that is if there even is any places not destroyed, everyone probably went to a shelter to eat and stay," I said mostly to myself.

"Oh, okay let's go there then, do you know where the rescue shelter is," Amy asked.

"Yeah, let's go, I bet you dying to see if your friends are okay," I replied heading to the door with Amy trailing behind.

As we walked to the shelter I looked over at Amy, noticing she looked worried, she's been this way even since I had commented on her wanting to see her friends. I placed a hand on her back in comfort, "Shadow, do you think there okay..." She half whispered.

"I can't answer that, sorry," I replied upset that I couldn't reassure her. She noticed my concern and faked a smile, it looked so sincere, but I could tell she forced it. I only hope everyone's okay, for Amy's sake, I don't think she's coping to well, even if her smile says otherwise.

We arrived at the shelter shortly afterwards and Amy hesitantly walked up to one of the officers. The officer looked up from the clipboard he was holding and turned to Amy, "Name," he asked.

"A-Amy Rose, and This is Shadow, umm Shadow-" she began pointing towards me.

"Shadow the hedgehog," I interrupted.

The officer thanked us, and nodded towards inside, signalling we could enter, as we walked about a metre past the officer he stopped and called Amy back.

"Uh, yes?" She asked confused.

"Did you say you were Amy Rose?" He asked with a look of sympathy.

"Yes, why?"

"I'm sorry to tell you this, but your mother has fallen ill from the amount of smoke that the explosion produced, she was very close to where it happened." The officer said pityingly.

Amy's face fell, and tears began to well up in her eyes, "M-my dad?" She asked in a nearly inaudible voice.

"He's, fine, he is with your mother at the rescue centre, they ask that you stay here or with a friend until he is able to see you," he paused then continued. "I'm glad you came here as we had previously sent out a search party for you and a couple others, at least your one of our list."

We walked into the shelter in silence, I felt like if I said anything Amy would burst in to tears.