Chapter 11 "After They Left"
Shadow stood on the base of the curved small sandbar, the city seemed angry about something but as of now everybody had other things on their minds.
Shadow the hedgehog was known all overt the world, it was understandable why he would want to keep his identity a secret.
But what confused Lalo the most was why on earth would he try helping people, it didn't seem like the Shadow from the legends, could Shadow have changed? As of now it was questionable.
"Lalo leave Shadow alone alright." said Sofia. "Can we just continue as if this had never happened?"
"Not really considering he's half the reason this planet was doomed in the first place." said Lalo. "G.U.N should have hunted you down for what you did!"
"You have no idea what I've been through so don't pretend like you have." said Shadow. "Don't look for a fight because it would be unwise."
"What are you going to do? Chaos Blast me!" Lalo shouted.
Shadow snarled. "Don't tempt me!"
Sofia stood in the middle of them. "Stop fighting, lets focus on finding this Tyson before anything happens."
"Why are you so concerned about Tyson? So what if he's blamed by everyone, do you honestly think meeting up with him can change that?" Lalo said turning his head.
"That's not the only reason we need to find him." said Sofia.
"Then Shadow here can just Chaos Control you there!" Lalo said. "Why on earth do you need to get there on foot? And how can you trust him in the first place?!"
Shadow pushed Lalo out of the way ignoring him standing a far distance from them simply thinking.
Sofia looked afraid of something.
"Shadow can't use Chaos Control Lalo." said Sofia.
"Why not?" Lalo said still sounding angry.
"He just can't ok! Now he saved your life! Least you could do is stop yelling at him!" Sofia said. "And why are you the one asking the questions anyway? Did you not just push LAVA out of the way? Seems to me Shadow's not the one keeping a secret."
"I just found out!" said Lalo.
"How convenient." said Sofia. "You just so happened to figure out you can abuse the energy within fire right when the monster attacked."
"I'm serious! This girl told me something about destiny and chaos emeralds." said Lalo.
"Chaos emeralds…what did you say?" Sofia said suddenly showing a look of concern overwhelmed on her face.
"Yeah." Lalo asked. "She said I'm supposed to find all seven before Iblis does."
Sofia looked scarred to death. "Iblis, as in Iblis the monster who attacked us when you moved the lava?"
"That was Iblis!" Lalo said.
"Well duh, what planet are you on?" said Sofia. "We're lucky he wasn't bigger like he was last time."
"Last time?" Lalo said. "You people are crazier then I thought! Is there anything ELSE you want to tell me?"
"Never mind, we'll be on our way anyway." Sofia said with her nose turned up.
Sofia started on her way as Shadow followed slowly behind.
Lalo didn't understand these two; first they save him and now they're angry with him after he saved them.
"Oh well…I can still find Rosy afterwards…I don't know about those two..." Lalo thought. "Though…they did save my life but they'd probably have a safer time without my help anyway."
The other thing that was puzzling him was the fact Shadow showed no signs of incredible speed; he was just as fast as everybody else.
Lalo didn't trust Shadow as far as he could throw him.
There was a sound growing louder and louder building up underneath them, suddenly the ground started to feel hot.
"Maybe I should try to move it again." Lalo thought as he starred deeply into the lava river underneath the ground they stood on.
He reached his hands out slowly and the more he tried nothing seemed to be happening.
He saw Sofia and Shadow getting further away; Shadow was limping from the burns on his side.
Lalo tried to ignore the fact they were leaving even though nothing seemed to be happening with the lava he had this feeling he should keep trying.
He raised his hands quickly and suddenly he saw sparks light the ground and get larger and as he moved his hands frontward and backwards the small fire seemed to imitate his movement.
"Hey! She was right!" Lalo said with surprise in his voice.
He moved backwards with his hands still raised and the sparks did to.
The more he did this the easier it started to get; he didn't even notice the two had left completely now.
But when Lalo tried putting the fire out by lowering his arms, the flames just rolled down and seemed to be spreading.
They took to the dry land like a fish to water and the flames were getting bigger.
Lalo gasped, he didn't expect this.
The flames started following around him faster and faster till Lalo had to retreat to running.
He ran quick looking back but when the fire caught up to him he felt like an arm had reached out and grabbed his ankle.
A fire started crawling up his ankle and up to his hands quickly, they rotated around his arm like a shield and it started feeling hot and hard unlike the previous experience with the lava.
In fact the fire had gotten so big it started covering him completely; rolled up his sleeve and even as he tried moving it was like he'd been held in place.
End chapter
