The Chaos Cave
Dawn
I opened my eyes to the familiar wooden walls of our cabin. I'm very thankful to the Freedom Fighters for letting us stay at the cabin instead of the HQ, unlike Firestorm, who's under surveillance. Yawning, I stretch and head into the kitchen. Yesterday was hectic, so I certainly hope we can get some peace. After breakfast, I say goodbye to Violet and Stone and head out. I'm glad they managed to settle their disagreement. As I make my way to my secret place, pondering. When I arrived at the clearing, I was surprised to see Shadow there, leaning against one of the trees. "Hello, Dawn." He said coolly. "Hey Shadow, didn't expect to see you here. What's up?" "Nothing, can't I just visit an associate every now and then?" Associate. For most people, that would hurt, but Shadow calls all his friends associates. "Don't give me that. There must be some reason you're here." I retorted. Shadow sighed, and then walked up till he was only about three inches from my face, and said: "Stay away from Sonic. He's bad news. He may seem nice, or that he might like you, but he always has an ulterior motive." I didn't move an inch. "You think I trust him? Hah! I was hungry, and he was the only one around, so I asked him to take me. And guess what else? You were totally right! He's a faker! He wasn't interested in trust, or friendship, or even "Association," he just wanted to get in my pants! Do you want to know what he did after you left? He called you a faker, and then he got all touchy, feely on me. So you want to know what I did? I beat him up, and then I told him, I he ever tried something like that again, He would wake up in the hospital!"
Shadow
I was a bit shocked. I thought she'd fallen for him like all those other girls do. "What, don't tell me you thought I liked him or something, some of the other girls might like him, but, he's not exactly my type, Shadow." "What is your type then, Dawn?" I asked for some stupid reason. "Oh you know, the-um-the-oh, why do you care anyway?" Why indeed? I was about to come up with a good response when- "Come with me, Shadow, I want to show you something." "What is it?" I asked. She smirked, "You'll see when we get there." About fifteen minuets later, we arrived at a large, sparkly cave. "What is this place?" "This, my fine ebony friend, is the Chaos Cave." "The…Chaos Cave?" "Correct." "What's in it?" "Chaos Emeralds of course!" "But, there are only seven Chaos Emeralds." "That's what you think! There are tens of thousands of tiny Chaos Emeralds in here! And the best part? Stone, Violet and I are the only ones who know about it." I was in awe. Tens of thousands of Chaos Emeralds were in there. "Of course, there isn't much they can do individually, without combining several of them." "I see," was all I could say.
Dawn
As we began making out way to the house, Shadow suddenly stopped. Just as he did, I began to sense an odd presence, and stopped as well. "Who's there?" Shadow demanded. We both stood there awkwardly for a good fifteen minuets, then, we saw something peer over at us from the side of a tree. "It's a chao!" I exclaimed. "I used to have one when I was little. His name was wispy…." I paused to pick the Chao up. "And I think I'll call you Sunset." She was mostly yellow with a hint of orange at the top. Shadow just stared indifferently, I guess he really doesn't care. "Do you want to hold her?" Why did I ask such a stupid question? "I…guess…" Shadow responded, to my surprise. I carefully handed him Sunset, she seemed…intrigued, but quickly began to squirm around. "I think she likes you!" I giggled. Shadow was getting uncomfortable, so he gave her back to me. I decided to make small talk. "So Shadow," I began, "ever notice how sometimes Amy gets all freaked out and nervous when she holds Sonic's hand?" "Yeah, what about it?" "Don't you think that's rather silly? I mean, come on, it's a hand." "But she likes him, so it's different." "Oh, I see. Hey Shadow?" "Yes?" "Have you ever been in love with someone?" Shadow got all quiet and just began staring straight ahead, and for a moment I began to wonder if I'd asked too much, when he said "Once, a very long time ago, and not in the way you think. Her name was Maria." "What happened to her?" "She died." "Oh. I'm so sorry." Shadow glanced back at me, giving me a sad, beautiful smile. "What was it like, being in love?" "It's like you see that someone you love, and you know you'd do anything for them." I suddenly stopped. "Shadow, I think I-" but I was cut short by a horrible scream. I quickly let go of Shadow's hand and began running toward to sound. "You monster!" I heard Violet shriek. "Who are you? How did you get here?" We had rushed in upon Violet, and to my surprise, Ginger. "Ginger? What are you doing here? Why aren't you a man?" Ginger looked over at me with relief in her/his(?) eyes, we were training partners in class four. "Dawn! I'm so glad you're here! Can you please tell this nutcase I'm not doing any harm?" "Polite as ever, Ginger, but I need you to explain something, are you still a girl?" "Yes, I am, the rumor that I got a sex change was nothing but a hoax so that I wouldn't have to marry Stone." "Oh, but what are you doing here?" I asked. "I recently joined the freedom fighters, and sonic sent me to check up on you." "Why is everybody joining the FF all of a sudden?" "Actually, we get new members all the time. Just last week we got a hedgehog named Raven." "The waitress? No way! I never would have guessed." "Anyway, I got to get going, see you, oh, and tell your brother I said hey, alright?" "Alright, se you later." As Ginger ran away, Shadow turned to face me. "I suppose I'd better get going too." "Okay, great seeing you, feel free to drop bye anytime." As Shadow turned to leave, he looked back and said, "Thank you, for listening to my story." I gave him a half smile and said back "no prob," and with that, he sped off.
Shadow
I don't know why I told her my story about Maria, I guess it's because, When I'm with her, I feel, relaxed, like I can be myself. It's sort of like how I felt with Maria, but, not quite. There's something…different, but not in a bad way.
Auf wiedersehen!