Me: Hi guys, its OddSakura here!

Amy: Are you finally updating this story!

Me: Unfortunately… no.

Sonic: Then why are you here… wait YOU'RE NOT DISCONTINUING THIS? Are you!

Me: No! Of course not! **Turns to look at screen** I need your help all loyal reviewers! As much as I hate to say it… I'm stuck, and I need your help!

Jet: Pfft, I wouldn't be surprised if they've all left by now!

Me: I have ideas for what I should do next in this story, but I can't manage to put them down in words! This has to be the worst writers block in history! I though it would be gone by, now, but no matter what I do, it's staying! I am pleased that I can give you guys a preview of the next chapter though!

Shadow: But that's not nearly enough!

Me: HEY! Just because this story is going slow doesn't mean that I don't have other Sonic stories! I have loads of other ideas that I've been thinking about for months, but I wanted to finish this one first! But I'm not sure how I'm going to do that…

Cream: It's okay Miss OddSakura, don't be sad!

Me: Thanks Cream. Anyway, to all my so lovely reviewers, especially YOU! Yes you, will you any of you guys give me some help? Please? Just PM me, if you've got anything, and I mean ANYTHING! Anyway, Silver, please do the disclaimer!

Silver: OddSakura doesn't own Sonic and friends and anything related, she only owns her OCs, but I bet she wishes she owned me!

Me: Too right! Lunaria and Moon belong to BladeofMoonlight, who rocks!

Chapter 12: Identity Discovered

Shadow smirked as he saw the red hedgehog girl's eyes widen when she saw Faker, either she was another fangirl…or he had just found Amy.

Mind you, he was a bit ticked off when Amy left everyone else a letter but Shadow. Although they didn't always exactly see eye to eye, over the three months after the Meterex were defeated he had come to see her as a very annoying, yet innocent little sister.

But, Shadow the Hedgehog never let anyone know his emotions, so Amy probably thought that he didn't care. When he had first met her, he wouldn't have cared, but the few people he got close to, he usually got close to very quickly. Like Molly and Maria, she was a little sister.

At first, he blamed myself. It certainly hadn't seemed like a coincidence when, just after he started to think of Amy as a sister, however annoying, like with Molly and Maria, something happened to her. Then Shadow learned what Faker did, and was quite happy to join Shoral in knocking a great deal of sense into him.

Shoral was another little sister, although Shadow was careful not to show it in any way. Who knows what could happen to her? Maria died, Molly was either dead or lost in a war she shouldn't be part of, and Amy had ran away. He would not let anything happen to Shoral, the one who probably understood best why he kept himself isolated out of the whole team.

No, this was why he was careful to keep myself cold towards others. The less people close to him, the better.

But now the red hedgehog was standing up, the silver hedgehog girl and the rabbit with her, and they quickly exited the lunchroom. Shadow quickly followed suit, no one at the table noticing his sudden disappearance.

He was just nearing the three when the silver hedgehog suddenly stopped in her tracks. She whispered something that the black anthro couldn't hear to the rabbit and it and the Could-Be-Amy both carried on walking. The silver hedgehog girl then turned around and stalked up to him.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked in a threatening voice. Shadow raised his eyebrows.

"I was under the impression that I was walking down the corridor."

"Don't play games with me, I know you're going after Amelia!" She paused and looked at him very carefully, then gasped. Her composure was regained quickly though. "Shadow the Hedgehog is it? I didn't think you of all people would be sucked into Danielle's group so easily, aren't you meant to be the Ultimate Lifeform?"

He glared at the girl. Brave words, but they made no sense whatsoever.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Shadow said sharply. He saw a flitter of fear pass through her eyes. The girl had earned some of his respect now. Most people would be cowardly and would have ran by now, or be unbearably dim-witted and wouldn't be scared at all because they didn't know that he was serious. The fact that she was slightly scared showed she was smart.

"Why are you working with Danielle to try and hurt Amelia?" She asked, a slight growl in the back of her throat.

Danielle?

Shadow racked his brains. Oh right, the slutty chipmunk that had flirted with Faker while he was ru- ahem, escaping his deranged fanclub. Why the hell would he be working with her?

"I'm not."

"Don't play games with me." She said again. "Why do you want to follow her?"

"Who said I was following her?"

The girl's eyes widened. "If you dare hurt Moon-"

"The only person who's going to be getting hurt is you if you don't get out of my way."

"Very good Shadow, I like a guy who can fight."

During their argument, Shadow hadn't noticed another person come up behind him. Danielle stood right in front of him; her heavily lipsticked mouth twisting into what she obviously thought was an award-winning smile. Shadow resisted the urge to shudder with disgust. He had never seen so much make-up in his life, not even on Rouge. It was easy to see that this was the girl that Faker had mentioned.

"What do you want Danielle?" He asked, all the cold of winter in his voice. The chipmunk ignored his unwelcoming tone and pretended to blush.

"Oh you know my name? I'm so flattered!" She giggled.

"Don't be, it wasn't a compliment."

Shadow couldn't believe she was trying to flirt with him, he was even more shocked that she thought she was even worthy of flirting with him, and even more that she only tried after Faker turned her down, making him the second choice! Hw clenched his fists in anger. He was no-one's second choice, not even to something as lowlife as Danielle.

"Oh, playing hard to get now are we?"

"Go away."

It was taking a lot of self-control for Shadow not to punch her, but the knowledge of how bad it was to hit girls held him back ever so slightly.

"Oh for the love of Chaos." The silver hedgehog behind him muttered not quite under her breath. Shadow blinked, in his concentrated trance of trying not to smash the chipmunk's face in, he had forgotten she was there.

"What was that Lunaria?" Danielle asked innocently, but her voice had a hard edge, and there was a hidden warning in her eyes.

"Nothing," Lunaria said just as innocently, but with the same warnings in her facial features. "I was just wondering if the reason you wear so much make up is because you're scared to find out how many people's eyes would bleed if they saw your real face." She smirked.

Danielle seethed, and Shadow cautiously stepped back. He may have been able to defeat both of them with one hand behind his back, but he had heard enough tales from Sonic to know that there's not many worse things in the world than a woman's wrath.

Me: That's all I've got for now.

Eggman: It took you THREE MONTHS to come up with THAT!

Me: GET OUT! *Kicks him out again.* Will that dude never learn!

Shadow: But he was right.

Me: SHUT UP!

Sonic: O.O uh-oh, she's mad! Silver! Tell her you love her! It's the only way to calm her down!

Me: I'M COMING AFTER YOU SONIC! *Grabs Flamethrower and chases Sonic*

Silver: But I'm scared!

Shadow *Also being chased* JUST DO IT DAMMIT!

Silver: I love you OddSakura!

Me: *drops flamethrower* ZOMG Really! I LOVE YOU TOO! *Takes deep breath* I mean- Thank you Silver! WHAT ARE YOU TWO SNICKERING AT! *Picks flamethrower back up*

Sonic and Shadow: Nothing!

Tails: Anyway, OddSakura still needs help in-case you haven't noticed, badly, so if you would be so kind as to help her, just PM her!

OddSakura is out!