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Chapter 7
Shadow growled rather loudly as he reluctantly carried a large bowl of egg salad, striding beside Rouge.
The huntress had discarded her usual battle outfit and was dressed in a pair of extremely short light blue shorts that reached just below her cafes. Black knee high boots that reached just below her knee made the shorts seem less revealing. Draped over her chest was a small red tank top, revealing her stomach and some of her cleavage.
Shadow had nothing special on. Surprise, surprise.
"Amy said we didn't have to bring anything." Shadow said plainly as they both walked down the sidewalk leading to the pink hedgehog's house.
"I know," Rouge responded. "But I felt so obliged to bring something."
The dark hedgehog rolled his eyes. Yeah, bring something and make him carry it.
He wished Omega would have tagged along but of course the large red robot did not seem interested. A shame really, he needed another intelligent male oriented being with him at this party.
Rounding the corner passed a small fence and into a green front yard, Shadow and Rouge both walked up to a pink two story house, with a large white door.
Shadow raised an eyebrow at the color of the house as Rouge walked over to the entrance. Raising her hand, the bat knocked on the door.
A few seconds of silence passed as Shadow shifted his weight on his other foot, implying his annoyance. "Where the hell are they?" He asked bitterly.
Rouge shrugged and looked around. Focusing her acute hearing, she picked up talk and laughter from behind the house. "They're in the back
The dark hedgehog nodded and followed the white bat to the back of the house, where indeed, all of their associates were there.
Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Amber, Tails, Cream, Vanilla, Vector, Espio, Charmy; they were all there.
Sonic, who was attending to the grill, adorned in a "Kiss the Cook" apron, smiled when he saw them. Waving over to them, he motioned for them to come over.
Shadow and Rouge obliged to the hedgehog's request and walked past everyone, who greeted them. Rouge happily responded to all of them with a friendly "Hi" or "Hello" while Shadow merely humphed in return to their warm greetings.
Amber and Amy were standing together and simply chatting, Tails, Charmy, and Cream were playing tag with Espio, although when the children got to close, he simply camouflaged himself. Vector was talking with Vanilla intently, both blushing when they looked into each other's eyes.
"Hey guys, how's it going?" Sonic asked merrily as the two walked over to him.
"I'm great!" Rouge responded.
"Humph." Was the only thing Shadow said before speaking again. "Where do you want this?" He asked, motioning to the bowl in his hand with his nose, since his hands were full.
"Why in the world did you bring that?" Sonic asked, scratching his head with a long knife. "We have plenty of food. "He finished, pointing to a long table with a seemingly endless amount of food and beverages on it.
"Oh," Rouge said, a little surprised. "I guess we didn't need to bring the salad after all."
Shadow slowly, VERY slowly, turned his head towards her and stared at her in disbelief. Did she say what he thought she just said?
The albino bat shrugged. "Oh well, go put the salad somewhere where it won't get in the way." Rouge said carelessly, patting Shadow on the back before heading over to where Amy, Amber, and Cream were talking.
Shadow looked at her as she went. "No way…" The dark hedgehog mumbled.
Sonic stared at the hedgehog for a second before waving his hand in front of his face. "Uh, Earth to Shadow! You there?"
The dark hedgehog shook his head, as if to clear out a bad memory, before looking down upon the bowl in his hands. With an angry growl, the hedgehog tossed the bowl into the air, egg salad and all, and fired a small Chaos Spear at it, totally incinerating it.
Sonic shook his head at the dark hedgehog. "Shadow, that's no way to behave at a party."
The dark hedgehog turned around. "Don't lecture me about behavior hedgehog, you are an idiotic moron, party or not."
Sonic's green eyes were set aflame by that last statement. "Hey, don't call me a moron, you idiot!"
Shadow turned around, the flame in his eyes matching Sonic's. "What did you call me moron?"
"IDIOT" Sonic screamed back.
"FREAK!" Shadow retorted at equal volume.
"Hey, who are you calling a freak, I wasn't the one born in a tube!" Sonic said angrily.
"OH YEAH?" Shadow screamed, getting in the hedgehog's face.
"YEAH!" Sonic retorted.
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Amy put a hand to her forehead and sweat dropped. "Why can't those two ever behave?"
Amber shrugged. "Beats me, I guess that's just how they are."
Rouge sighed. "They'll never change, will they?"
Amy and Amber both closed their eyes and responded in unison. "….No."
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Energy sparks danced across Sonic's and Shadow's body as both hedgehog stared dead at each other, fists ready.
"Alright Sonic, let's pick up where we left off at the mall!" Shadow said cockily.
"Fin by me." Sonic responded with a smirk.
With a burst of air and the flapping of the "Kiss the Cook" apron, both hedgehogs charged at each other.
"BEEP BEEP BEEP."
Sonic and Shadow both stopped in mid-charge as Sonic smiled and walked back over to the grill. "Burgers are ready!"
The dark hedgehog blinked, before smiling. Were burgers anything like steak?
Shadow had no more time to ponder at that question as he looked back because of a loud thumping sound. Charging at him, were Vector, Charmy, Cream, and Tails, paper plates in hand.
With wide eyes, the hedgehog warped away from the mini-mob, reappearing beside Amy, Amber, and Rouge.
The bat laughed. "Having some trouble Shadow?"
The dark hedgehog blushed slightly out of embarrassment as the girls all laughed. Shadow waved the comment of with a "Humph" before turning back to the grill.
And oh, how glad he was that he did…
Right there, before Shadow, Sonic was literally being mugged by four hungry animals. The dark hedgehog laughed at the blue one's dismay.
"I'll think I'll join in." He said calmly, picking up a paper plate of his own and walking over to where the blue hedgehog was being attacked.
Through the fighting for the slabs of meat, Sonic stuck one hand out when he saw Shadow. "Help…me!" He begged.
The dark hedgehog laughed. "Not a chance, I wouldn't miss this for anything!"
Sonic's face widened in horror as he sunk back down under the crazed animals, all demanding burgers.
After a few minutes, the small mob disappeared, apparently having acquired what they wanted. Calmly, Shadow walked over to the grill and peeked over to see Sonic sprawled out by it, his apron torn to shreds, apparently passed out.
With a smirk, Shadow kicked his counter part in this side, awakening him.
"BURGERS!" Sonic screamed at the top of his lungs.
The dark hedgehog rolled his eyes and grabbed one of the pieces of meat lying on the grill. Popping it onto two pieces of oval bread, Shadow raised the burger to his face and took a large bite out of it. Shadow's eyes immediately widened, these were even better than steak!
Meanwhile, the blue hero rose to his feet, still wobbling from the recent onslaught. Shaking his head, Sonic stopped when he noticed Shadow practically devouring the burger he just got.
"Wow Shadow," The hedgehog said half-amazed, half-disgusted. "You really like burgers."
Shadow looked at Sonic with his left eye, his mouth full of bread and meat. With a simple "Humph" the dark hedgehog warped away from Sonic, reappearing beside the small chattering female group with his eyes closed, taking another bite from his burger.
Rouge eyed him slightly, without completely turning her head away from Amy and Amber. "Enjoying the food Shadow?"
Shadow merely ignored the comment from the bat woman and turned around, stuffing the last piece of the burger into his mouth with the push of his right index finger.
The hedgehog's moment of peace was interrupted however, when he heard an all too familiar and rather annoying squeaky voice. "SHADOW!"
With a growl, the hedgehog opened his ruby eyes to see a familiar and rather annoying bee hovering in front of him, with a green crocodile and purple chameleon behind him.
Shadow sighed. "Not you idiots."
Vector laughed. "Still bitter over that mission on the Ark, huh?"
The dark hedgehog nodded angrily. "You're damn right I am. All your shouting about finding the computer room nearly got me killed!"
The green reptile smirked. "Oh well, we pulled it off, didn't we?"
Shadow growled. "Yeah right, I pulled it off."
"Lighten up Shadow." Espio said calmly with his eyes closed and arms crossed. "It's a party."
Shadow smirked. "Look who's talking."
Espio merely humphed and walked away.
The green crocodile shrugged after looking towards his departing companion and looked back towards Shadow. "So, how have you been lately?"
"Fine, besides the fact my psychotic brother tried to murder me at least three times and G.U.N. taking me hostage." Shadow stated simply.
Vector gave him a confused look. "Brother, you mean another ultimate being?"
Shadow smirked. "Well, the fact that I'm standing here and he isn't proves that fact that I was the ultimate of us two doesn't it?"
Vector nodded. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Charmy scratched his head. "Wait, what?"
Shadow sighed. He might as well explain to them what happened since he had nothing better to do.
"Alright," He said calmly, I'll tell you exactly what happened."
