Shadow's POV

I appeared in my bathroom and began to clean myself up when I noticed several things were out of place. Looking carefully around the bathroom I could see that someone had used it as there was a pile of sandy pink clothes laying on the floor.

"Amy…" I whispered to myself realizing that I sent her here to be safe, but forgot about her as I fought that faker.

Slowly opening the bathroom door I could see her sleeping in my bed. I let out a sigh of relief seeing that she was ok, but soon something caught my attention and it was what she was snuggling with. Coming closer to her I cloud see a black and white chao.

"And here I thought you were always scared of others Shade?" I whispered as I chuckled to myself

the chao's ears flickered at this and woke up to see me

"CHAO, CHAO, CHAO!" shad said happily as it flew out of Amy's arms and hugged me

Before I cloud calm it down, Amy had awaken from all the noise Shade made.

"Shadow, is that you?" she said still tried and sleepy as she sat up the sheets slid down reviling her exposed breasts.

My face shot bright red immediately from blushing so hard that I turned my head away quickly as I could barely speak from seeing her naked while my mind was going crazy.

"Uh...um...Amy...your...your naked!?" I said stuttering

"So what of it?" she said "I can't sleep unless I'm naked."

"And you mister!" she snapped at me "You better explain why you just out of nowhere sent me here to your house!"

"Well I see you most certainly made yourself at home." I replied teasing her a bit as she made a face at me covering her with the sheets and then I spoke to shade "Shade, you can going ahead and sleep on the couch just for tonight."

"Chao!?" shade said

"*sigh* Yes you can take the all the pillows in the living room." I said only to find him speeding off as I said the last word

"What was that about and he's so cute!" she said giggling

"Yeah he's been a little ball of fun for the few years I've had him" I said happily then added "I'll tell you about him another time as I will answer your question"

"I'm waiting" she replied

"Amy, you heard my true feelings for you, so you should know I wouldn't do anything to harm you or let you get harmed. The reason I sent you here was for you to be safe and to protect you as I dealt with the person who was chasing us." I said softly, but seriously while lowering my head to my should

"Who was following us?" she asked nervously and I closed my eyes not knowing what was going to happening after I did tell it her

"Shadow?" She asked again with more concern "Shadow what happened after you sent me here?"

"*sigh* It was sonic…" I said as I heard her gasp at the named, but I continued "and I fought him. I'm sorry to say, but I had lost my cool and exploded in rage that I nearly killed him. Tails should be taking care of him by now, but I'm sorry for losing control and my temper Amy. I just couldn't let him get away with what he did to you and the things he said I…" I stopped as I felt her hug me

She gently touch my face and as I opened my eyes. she was pulling my face to hers looking into each other's eyes. I could see hers filled with worry.

"Shadow, I'm sorry I got mad at you when you were only protecting and I hope you aren't hurt, but know I am very grateful for you as you saved me twice now. I could care less for whatever happens to sonic as long as you didn't kill him then that's good enough for me. He got what he deserved." she said as she let me go.

I had a bit of a blank expression as this wasn't what I had expected and she is standing in front of me still naked, but hell it could've been worse. I quickly regained myself before she noticed and spoke while heading back to the bathroom

"It's ok rose, as long as you're ok everything is good."

she hugged me from behind once again causing me to stop. I could now feel her breasts on my back and they were so soft. My mind was starting to run wild as my instincts were trying to kick in to take this beauty here and now.

"Shadow, it's not ok if you're the one who's getting hurt." she said sadly as she slowly ran her hands down my arms to my restraints noticing that they were fractured "what happened here Shadow?"

Being embraced by her, touched by her, and her being so concerned for me was causing me to experience something that I still couldn't understand but it was warm and it made me happy. I turned around and hugged her catching her off guard

"It's alright rose, I just need to replace my restraints is all as I took on too much power for my body to hold" I told her

"Just how much power do you have?" she asked curiously

"I wonder that myself, but if I had to say it would be more then that faker in his super form though my body wouldn't be able to handle it all." I replied thinking about it myself

"I'm glad, I really am" she whispered in my ear in a seductive tone as she ran her hands over my chest

Being embraced by her, touched by her, and her being so concerned for me was causing me to experience something that I still couldn't understand but it was warm feel and it made me happy. I turned around and hugged her catching her off guard then kissed her gently. As I slowly pulled away she gave me a quick kiss causing me to smile. Looking over to the clock I saw the time.

"Well it's really late so you can sleep back in my bed and I'll go out to the couc..." I began to say but was stopped as she kissed me again then pulled away

"Nope!" she said playfully "I want to sleep with you!"

I smiled at her as I could see the love in her eyes, but I would have to really fight hard against my own lust and desires that wanted her so badly.

"Very well then, my rose," I said romantically then tossed her slightly in the air and jumped after her "Chaos Control!"
We both vanished only to reappear just above the bed and flopped down on to it she giggled and I was laughing. God, I haven't laughed like this for who knows how long. Maria, I finally found my happiness here on this planet, so you can rest in peace without any worries now. I rolled over to my back to get some sleep when Amy crawled up next to me very seductively and cuddled with me. I couldn't help, but think of all the things I wanted to do to her just to express, to show her my passion, my love, and I had to fight back my urges knowing full well it hasn't even been a full day since all this had started even the fact of her being naked sleeping next to me in my bed.

She was truly a beauty looking down to her as she was already sound asleep. I couldn't help but kiss her lightly on her head. There was a part of me that felt that this just wasn't me. I never thought I would be in love with someone or so caring towards another. Amy accepted me for who I was and my feelings. None the less I would try to take things slow with her cause moving at this pace I could only imagine how far we would go, but I'm sure this was somewhat normal for couples, I hope.

"Good night my rose" I whispered to her then fell asleep

Tail's POV

When I finished explaining everything to everyone, Cosmo and Rouge were really worried, but remain calmed. Knuckles looked as if he was the edge of exploding in rage. Surprisingly he was very calm through hearing everything and not exploding in anger every 5 minutes like he normally does. I guess being with Rouge had really done him a lot of good.

"Well," rouge said breaking the silence "I'm going to stand by with shadow on this."

The three of us looked at her in shock.

"I've known and worked with him longer than any of you. I also trust him though I don't agree with what he did. He wouldn't have done that or even go that far to do what he did to sonic if he didn't have a reason" she said in defense

"At least we know Shadow is stronger." Knuckles said playfully trying to lighten the mood, but failed as we glared at him " *sigh* anyways does anyone know where Amy is? I mean she was involved in all of this."

He had a point, shadow never said anything about where Amy was or if she was even ok except that sonic almost killed her twice.

"That's actually a really good point Knuckles," I said "but we don't even know where we would look to find her?"

"We could check to see if she's at Shadows?" Cosmo suggested

We looked at her in surprise.

"Well," she said nervously "if what shadow had told you is true then he would be the one keeping her safe right?"

"Well that would be a good start to look for her," rouge said as she yawned "for tomorrow at least"

"Then it's settled, tomorrow we'll head over to shadow's house!" knuckles said

"Where is his house exactly?" I asked

"We'll worry about it tomorrow morning." rouge said as she yawned once again "Do you mind if we stay the night?"

"No, not at all" Cosmo said "we have plenty of rooms."

"thanks tails and Cosmo" knuckles said as he went to find a room to his liking

Cosmo left to head back to our room while rouge pulled me off to the side.

"Tails, I'm going to let you and Cosmo go to Shadows while me and knuckles stay here and watch over sonic," rouge said handing me a paper with the address on it then add sadly "Please be careful Tails, Shadow had warned me if I should ever come over to this address it would be only for life and death situations and nothing else, if not then fear for the worse."

"Have you ever been over there then?" I asked nervously

"Nope," she replied turning around shrugging her shoulders "I never dared or cared to find out what he meant by that, but I'm sure you'll be fine. So have fun tomorrow and let us how it turns out."

She walked off leaving me worried for Cosmo's life as well as mine and scared to think of what to expect for tomorrow.