Chapter 4- Shadow Awakens
Shadow opened his eyes. It was dark but he could still see the ceiling above him. He closed his eyes again to think.
What had happened? Ark… chaos control… the biolizard… Maria…
He opened his eyes again as he remembered all this. After realizing what had happened to him and how he'd gotten there… he began to wonder where exactly 'there' was.
He tried to stand up but a sharp stab of pain in his back forced him down again. So he just laid there trying to think of where he could be.
He'd fallen from Ark; that much was true, but he wasn't sure what had happened next. He remembered something burning him and then flash… had he used chaos control before he reached the full extent of the burning atmosphere? It was hard to remember.
While he was thinking of this he glanced around the room he was in. It looked like a normal living room. He was lying on a couch, there was a quilt thrown over him halfheartedly. He pulled it closer to him; it was actually very comfortable lying there.
As he reached out to grab the blanket he noticed bandages covering his arms and most of his chest. He paused but decided to think about that later. He was too exhausted to worry about that now. Besides, it didn't seem like he was in any immediate danger.
Shadow awoke with a start at the sound of glass shattering.
"Shit!" a female voice mumbled.
Shadow pulled himself upright as far as the pain would allow and saw over the back of the couch. There was an open doorway into a kitchen. Through it a black hedgehog was kneeling and picking up shards of broken glass from the floor. A picture frame had fallen from the shelf above.
As she picked up the frame he recognized the hedgehogs in the picture. It was Sonic and… what was that pink hedgehog's name? He thought about it but found that he never had really found out her name. Eggman had mentioned it once… Amy was it? Well, that didn't matter. Shadow was wondering more if this hedgehog knew them.
He laid back feeling much more relieved. If indeed she knew Sonic she probably had no intentions to hurt him. After all, Sonic never would have been able to stop Ark from falling if Shadow hadn't helped him. (A/N: failed to mention Ark wouldn't have been falling if it wasn't for him. hehe)
He felt a wave of exhaustion wash over him again and before he knew what happened he had drifted back to sleep.
Hannah came into the room and saw Shadow sleeping. She sat in a nearby armchair and stared at him for a minute.
She knew all about the 'Sonic and Shadow saving the Earth together' thing. She also knew Shadow had been the one to cause Ark to fall in the first place. (Amazingly, some people were still completely oblivious to this fact.)
What bothered her is she didn't understand why Shadow had suddenly changed his mind and tried to undo what he'd caused.
She thought about asking this to him if he woke up…. no, that didn't seem like the correct word to use. He would definitely wake up. Surprisingly, his wounds seemed to be mostly from hitting the ground. His fur was barely singed. She thought it would have been much worse than that. Re-entry had barely affected him at all.
She glanced at the clock hanging on the wall. 12:30.
It was late and since Shadow was now occupying the place she had planned to sleep, and she wasn't very comfortable sleeping in Sonic, Amy, or Tails' beds, she resolved on sleeping where she was.
She slipped off her boots and pulled her legs up close to her chest. Leaning her head against the back of the chair, she finally managed to sleep.
And that night she didn't have any nightmares.