Chapter 3 Hooray! And sad thing is, it'll probably end soon. Oh well you probably got sick of reading 2 chapters ago! Thanks for reading and tell my if my stupid spell checker missed anything! This chapter is shorter because its the end!

NOTE: This is not a FANCHAR/Shadow coupling story! Thank you!

Disclaimer: Shadow does not belong to me, I only own Kayla and her family.

Kayla groaned, she waved her arm but nothing happened. She groaned again and sat up properly and waved both arms at the sky. For some reason the sky stayed cloudy and looked like it was threatening to storm.

Shadow looked questionably at the young mouse, Kayla glared at him "What are you staring at?" she growled, continuously trying to clear the sky.

Shadow chuckled "What's wrong? Can't control the weather anymore?" he teased.

Kayla frowned, the sky rumbled and rain immediately poured down on the area. Soaking the two furries in a matter of minutes. "I REALLY hate you right about now." Kayla murmured angrily again and got to her feet.

Lightning strikes through-out the sky, illuminating all the trees in a glorious array of light. Kayla ran through the rain and trees to get home, since she couldn't stop this storm she decided to at least be dry. Only a few more minutes from her home, Kayla looked at the sky as it rumbled more.

A streak of lightning shot down quickly and Kayla heard a sound that horrified her, she ran faster, her feet were aching. As she entered the small clearing with her home in it, the sight before her confirmed her fears.

Her home was burning, it was burning so brightly and the heat was radiating off it, there was a huge hole in the roof where the lightning struck. Kayla's eyes filled with tears and she rushed to the house. Someone tackled her and held her on the ground, it was Shadow.

"LET ME GO!" Kayla screamed, she faced her burning home with tears streaming down her face.

"IT'S TOO LATE!" Shadow yelled over the storm, the rain had soaked him.

Kayla struggled violently "No it's not!" She pulled out of his grip and tried to run to the house but Shadow grabbed her arm "It's too late... their already dead..." He murmured and Kayla somehow heard him.

Kayla's ears went down, "N-no..." she fell to the ground, "NOOOOO!" She screamed to the sky.

"There was nothing you could do..." Shadow said and looked sadly at the house he had stayed at for the past few days.

"It's all my fault..." she murmured sadly.

"It is not."

Kayla turned and stared at the hedgehog with tear filled eyes, rain soaking her clothing and hair, "I couldn't stop it..."

"It's still not your fault what happened."

"I could have saved them!" Kayla argued.

Shadow shook his head "It's too late now... There was nothing you could do."

"Then I should have died with them!" She screamed and fell to the ground crying.

That hit Shadow hard, died with them... Died with Maria... Died for Earth... Shadow wasn't going to die, but everyone he knew, was; and there was nothing he could do about it.

Shadow lowered his head and walked away, he could still hear the little mouse crying, sadness filled the air that night... Sadness of loss, loneliness... sorrow...

-10 Years Later-

It'd been ten years since Shadow was in that huge forest, he had made it out and everyone he knew greeted him happily, glad to know he was alive and safe. After everything cooled down he checked records for the mouse, they had all been deleted. No one except him knew she existed to this day as far as he knew.

Shadow was walking down a street one day, shops closing for the afternoon, wind blowing around fiercely so no one was outdoors. The sky was full of clouds threatening rain. The hedgehog sighed, so many things had happened over the years, but nothing as sad as what happened those ten years ago and back when he was on Ark.

Though everyone was a bit older, Shadow had not changed at all, he still looked exactly the same as he did when he was revived at the GUN base.

Shadow looked down the street, time seemed to freeze as he stared for a few moments.

There was a teenage looking mouse standing on the corner in the rain that had started up, she was soaked and her hair was long and dark blue. Shadow stared with disbelief and walked up to the young looking mouse.

As he approached her he recognized her pale blue fur, she turned sharply from hearing foot steps. The mouse's mouth dropped, "..." she stayed silent.

"Hello Kayla." Shadow said with a smirk.

"So... you weren't lying," she looked him up and down "You look exactly the same as that day you left..."

Shadow nodded, "You've changed though," he chuckled.

Kayla nodded, her hair wasn't as spiky and her curls had disappeared, her hair was tied back in a high pony-tail and the hair reached her shoulders. Her ears were larger and she wore a knee-long green dress with a dark green belt, white strands of material hung off that. Black shoes with purple rolled down socks were on her feet.

"I know how stubborn I was as a kid. But I'm free now, no one can stop me anymore." Kayla smiled, she actually looked like she was happy. "I'm sorry I said that I hated you," she murmured, "But you were being a jerk."

Shadow laughed, he wiped some rain off his face "Well, I don't know why I was like that but it was funny while it lasted."

Kayla nodded again, "Well... Nice to see you again, I have to go though." she moved forward and gave him a quick hug.

Shadow returned the hug and then watched Kayla walk away. "At least I know, you won't go dying before me!" she laughed and walked out of sight.

Shadow smiled, "Yeah..."

THE END!

Shadow will forever go through losses in his life, as he will live forever and meet generations of animals, he will not perish unless Sega pulls a stupid and decides he's not immortal anymore.

I Liked writing this and I hope you enjoyed reading it, Don't mind the spelling mistakes too much if there are any. Thank you for reading, See you!