Chapter 8: Looking Around

Once Sonic arrived at his house, he took off the Puzzle and set it down on the bed.

"You just going to stay in there now?"

Shadow came out of it in a transparent form. "I am. Hope you don't mind."

"Just don't be in there all the time." Sonic fell back into the bed and sighed. As much as he loved being out and about, it was nice to be in bed again. He yawned, and Shadow smiled. He floated in front of Sonic, watching him. Sonic raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing?"

"Watching you."

"Why? No offense, but it's a little creepy to see a ghost floating over me and watching while I'm trying to sleep."

"I think you're interesting." Shadow moved away, standing on the other side of the room instead. "But if you want me to go, I'm sure I can find something to do while you sleep."

Sonic blinked. "You find me...Interesting?"

"I do."

"Why's that?" Shadow thought about it for a few moments before shrugging. "Are you going to be transparent all the time now, or can you still become solid?" Sonic asked.

"Pretty sure I can still materialize."

He closed his eyes and concentrated. After a few minutes, his form had fully materialized. Sonic smiled and yawned, then went to sleep. Shadow looked at him, then left the room. He'd never really taken a good look at Sonic's house yet, and now seemed as good a time as any. The Egyptian walked though the house, looking at all the rooms. It was a nice house. More than half the items laying about were things he didn't recognize, and didn't dare take a closer look at until morning. It wouldn't do any good to break something while Sonic was sleeping. He sat down on the couch and looked at the TV, wondering how to use it.

Sonic had used the thing lying on the table to turn it on...Shadow looked at it, shook his head and set it back down. Turning on something that loud at this time would likely wake Sonic. What could he do to pass the time? He saw a bookshelf and walked over, pulling out a book. Shadow looked at it, wondering what it was. Flipping through the pages, Shadow decided to sit down and look at it.

"What are you supposed to do with this?" He asked himself as he flipped the pages.

There were words on the page. What he assumed were words, anyway. But he couldn't read the language everyone used here yet, even with everything the magic had helped him with already. Shadow shrugged and closed the book. Maybe later he could ask Sonic to teach him how to read his language. He put the book back on the shelf and yawned, then went into the next room. A CD player was on the table, along with some CDs. Shadow looked at them in confusion. The circular objects were thin, and both sides looked different. Shadow set the one he'd picked up down before he broke it.

"What is this?" He asked, and opened the top of the boombox. There was a CD in there also. He pushed a button and something on the front opened. Shadow looked inside to see a tape. He frowned in confusion.

"Maybe I shouldn't play with it," Shadow said. Pushing the part that had opened closed again, he tried to make sense of it without breaking anything.

He pressed another button in curiosity and loud music came out of the speakers. The Pharaoh jumped back in shock, swearing in Egyptian. What the hell was that noise? Pressing the same button turned it off again and he moved away from the device. A few minutes later he heard yelling from behind him.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Shadow turned around to see Sonic glaring at him.

"I was curious what that was." Shadow motioned to the player.

"Do you have any idea what time it is? It's 1 AM! I'm trying to sleep, but that damn music woke me up!"

"I didn't try to wake you up." Shadow glared back at Sonic.

Sonic yawned. "Whatever; I'm going back to bed. We'll talk about this tomorrow. Can you please not touch anything else?"

Shadow nodded as Sonic left, wondering what the hell the gold hedgehog's problem was. Going over to the couch, he lay down and closed his eyes. Maybe he could manage to get some sleep.