Gosh. More fillers. Sorry guys. Maid Cafe shall be worked on now. Ahaha this ones finally getting to the good parts. Yep. ~Panda

Shadow could not believe his luck. Of all the kingdoms he was going to be sent to to spy, it had to be the Kingdom of Fire. It just had to be.

"Wait. Why does it have to be me? Why can't you send Rouge? Or Espio?"

The king, Mephiles, stared at him with emotionless green eyes. "It's you because you have history with them and because I trust you." He waved Shadow off. "Now go get ready for your journey."

Shadow muttered a curse under his breath and turned around and left, not bothering to bid his king goodbye. Mephiles knew he wasn't going to anyways. His stride was large and slowly quickening, trying to get to his room as quickly as possible so he could punch another hole into his wall. It didn't matter. The servants were going to eventually fix it.

Over the past ten years, the small village had developed into a kingdom filled with people and visitors. Mephiles had been chosen to be the king because of his knowledge and his past experiences. There was the question of who was going to be queen, to which Mephiles had jokingly said Shadow should be it. He ended up with a bruise on his face for several weeks.

The kingdom had come a long way but there was always one law that everyone followed. Law number twenty six. Never have any affairs with the Kingdom of Fire. Ever. Each person followed the rule and respected the reason behind it.

Shadow pushed open the door to find Silver flopped on his bed with a book lying upside down on his face. He was snoring softly and a small puddle of drool had started forming on his rather large amount of chest fur (which he refused to cut).

"Hey. Idiot. Wake up."

Silver rolled onto his side, his sleeping face turning towards Shadow's. The black hedgehog leaned in closer to the other, a glare appearing on his face.

"Wake. Up."

He grabbed Silver by the ear, pinching down real hard, and dragged him off the bed, making sure to add a few hard kicks for good measure. After several more pinches and throwings of the silver hedgehog, Shadow finally managed to wake him up. Silver woke up to find several new bruises forming all over his body. He looked up at Shadow, back at the bruises, and back at Shadow.

"You did this to me?" Shadow responded with a nod.

Silver pouted and then frowned, the face later turning into a glare. Glowing yellow eyes stared into deep crimson ones. "Time for payback."

Silver threw a punch at Shadow's face only to miss when Shadow ducked beneath his fist and kicked him in the knee. The silver hedgehog stumbled before getting back up and striking again. He threw punch after punch, kick after kick but his hard work went to waste when Shadow struck back with a blow to the stomach.

The silver hedgehog pushed himself up from the ground. He glanced over at Shadow who didn't even seem to work up a sweat and only had a scratch mark on his cheek.

"I hate you."

"Why thank you."

Silver moved back onto the bed, rubbing his stomach in pain.

"'What do you want? I was having a good rest from patrolling."

Shadow threw a scroll into the other's lap. Gloved hands moved to open the scroll, revealing neatly handwritten words about a mission. Silver's eyes scanned over the document, looking from top to bottom.

"Blah blah blah, spy, blah blah blah, mission, blah blah blah Kingdom of Fire...," Silver stopped abruptly. "Kingdom of Fire?! Why is Mephiles sending you there?"

Shadow heaved a sigh. "I don't know."

Moments passed by before anyone spoke again.

"You're going to need a change of style then."

So Silver dragged Shadow down the hall, bringing him to the room where Rouge resided in. When he pushed open the door, he found Cosmo and Cream giving eachother makeovers with Rouge braiding Cosmo's hair.

"Hey honey, what do you need?"

"Shadow. Needs. A. Makeover."

Shadow pulled himself away from Silver's grasp. "No I don't! I just need a cloak or something to hide me."

The white bat frowned and moved herself over to a walk-in closet, gesturing for Shadow to follow. The two hedgehogs walked in and were surprised by the amount of clothes the bat owned.

"You said something to cover up right? How about this?"

Rouge held up a red hooded cloak embroidered with gold thread and handed it to Silver. Then she went over to a shelf and pulled out a mask that would only block the bottom half of Shadow's face.

"I heard you were going to the Fire Idiot Kingdom. Might want to start wearing more of their colors." She said, as she pulled out a pair of white boots. "There. Now go change."

Shadow took the clothes and pushed the other two out of the closet even though he didn't have much to show. He valued privacy. He put on what Rouge had given him and dug around for a few accessories and other things to go with the outfit.

When he came out, he was wearing a white uniform lined with gold, a pair of white gloves, his rings around his wrists and ankles, and a pair of white boots that had the rockets installed. The red cloak billowed behind him and in his right hand, he held an green chaos emerald that Rouge had stashed away.

"If I'm going there, I'll need this." He said, holding the emerald up.

Rouge nodded and placed a bag in Shadow's gloved hand.

"Good luck hun. Say hi to anyone you know." She said, smiling. Shadow gave a grunt in response and lifted the emerald into the air.

"Chaos Control!"

Oh the shortness ain't even funny. Screw it. It will get longer.