3 Years Later… Part 1

This is three years later. Amy is 21, Shadow is 23, Sonic 23, Sally 22, Knuckles 22, Julie-Su 21.
Sorry no more sex scenes…well…in this story. Sonic still has his British accent, Matteo has his French accent, and Mephiles with his Russian accent.

Amy groans in pain, as she was giving birth once again. Julie-Su watches out the door and makes sure Knuckles came with water, and this time, he wasn't allowed inside.

"OK, Amy, with all your strength, 1…2…"

As Amy pushed, Shadow, Sonic and Knuckles did nothing of it and sat in the foyer as Shadow paces back and forth, worrying for Amy and their baby. Sonic was getting tense and was tired of seeing the black hedgehog walking in circles.

"Bloody Mary, QUIT THAT! You're going to make a bloody hole on the floor.'

"HOW DAMNIT, MY WIFE IS HAVING A BABY AND SHE'S ILL WITH BLOODY INFLUENZA!"

Sonic sighs and says, "Relax, the bugger and your wife will be alright. Influenza has a cure. You need to relax, Ivano had gone due to his old age and faith was lost, but I need to know, as a friend to Amy. Do you have faith in her."

"Yes I do."

"I can't hear it!"

"YES I HAVE FAITH."

"Then cobblers, believe, pray and stop being such a nancy!"

"OK." Shadow growled. Sonic felt proud of himself, "Speaking of nancies, where's Mephiles?"

"-Yawn- Probably training the boys again, Maria too, maybe." Knuckles yawned as he kept a lookout for his wife and keeps his trusty bucket on hand. Sonic and Shadow roll their eyes and Shadow hears Julie-Su opening the door.

Matteo, now eight, is watching over seven year old Lucas and his baby brother, Ivanno with Knuckles to help. As Ivanno naps in a crib, Lucas sneaks away when he sees Matteo's sisters, Maria and Marie. The black and pink twins were watching him, like hunter and prey. Marie thinks it's stupid and walks over to say hello.

"Hi Lucas, Matteo." Marie sneered, and then coos, "Hello, little Ivanno, and how are you this morning? You're such a cute baby, yes you are."

Matteo shrugs and Lucas rolls his eyes. Matteo calls Hawkens, and his messenger hawk flies in. Matteo whispers a command and the bird nods. It flies away and when Matteo turns around, he sees Lucas running away. He looks over at another direction and Maria is running after the blue and white hedgehog and his hawk, Hawkens following them. Matteo shakes his head and tells Marie to watch for the brown and white hedgehog. As much as she didn't want to, she thought it would give her better status in the household and give her a better and longer chance of holding her new sibling. She nods, knowing this is a benefit to herself. He follows his pet/messenger hawk and sees his sister, giving Lucas a bone-crushing hug.

"OH, Lucas! I love you so much, do you love me?"
"AH! Maria, take it easy!"

Matteo shakes his head and sees Lucas, pushing his sister off and she began to tear up. Lucas was in no mood to argue and lifted his hand so he can slap her head. Matteo sees his little sister in danger and sends Hawkens in to help her, only for him to say no and makes a call. Then, a young hawk flies in and pulls Lucas's hood from his robe over his head, blinding him. Then the hawk flies away, back to Matteo's left shoulder while Hawkens was on Matteo's right. Maria looks and sees Lucas on the ground, muffling words and screaming, "HELP, THE LIGHTS ARE GONE!"

Matteo shakes his head and takes the hood of Lucas's head and says, "Don't you ever, and I mean ever, place a paw on my sister ever in your life!" Matteo sneered, in protection of his younger sister.

Lucas then snarls, "She needs to know I will never be in love with her."

Then Marie, carrying baby Ivanno gives an angry look and then tells her brother, "Leave Lucas alone, whatever he was doing, he must be doing it for a reason."

"Marie, mind yourself! Our parents taught us better."

"Humph, you too need to stay put." Marie sneered as she looks at Lucas flirtatiously. She then laughs half heartedly and kisses Lucas on the cheek, only for him to wipe it off his cheek, Marie ignoring his action. He looks at Maria, seeing her big brother helping her up and hugging his baby sister and Matteo gives him the 'I'm watching you' look. Lucas ignores it and watches Maria walk over to Mario, a young echidna, who came in with a smile and dressed in a metal surcoat and chain mail. He looks at the brother and sister and asks, "Maria, Matteo what happened?"

Matteo then replies, "it was nothing, she though she lost her comb." He felt bad for lying, but did it so Lucas could learn to mind his attitude. Mario shrugs and walks to the female hedgehog, with a rose in his hand. She smiles and replies, "Thank You, Mario. It smells wonderful."
"No Problem, Maria. I'm just glad to see you smiling."

She blushes a bit and Mario says, "Come along, want to play? Mephiles is done training along with Blaze, so we can go out to the courtyard to play tag."

"Sure, why not?" Maria giggled. She follows the echidna and Matteo smiles at the two and sighs, "ah, young love."

Lucas growls in envy as he sees his rival with his princess. Matteo sees this and snickers, "I thought you had no feelings for my little sister."

"Of course I don't. She's good for other things, but my mate? You have to be kidding me!" Lucas snapped. But deep down, he did want something with Maria. He then realized that he loved her, like his father loved Amy, and then thinks in his mind,

Mario is looking for a battle, isn't he? Surely he'll get one. When the time is just right, then Maria, I will fulfill your dream of us.

Matteo rolls his eyes and walks away, leaving Lucas alone in the room.

Back at the foyer, the others were waiting out the door and then Julie-Su exits the room. Shadow gives her a worried look and only says, "She's ok and so is the Bambino. Amy is very tired, so let her rest, oh and Knuckles sweetheart, I need water for-"

"WATER!" Knuckles shouted as he grabs a bucket and dunks it on Amy and the baby for the third time. Shadow smacks his head and Julie-Su tsks at him. Amy woke up to a very cold shower and sees her baby crying. Knuckles quickly takes is and baby-talks the shadow-look-a-like until he calmed down. Surely, the baby did and gives it back to Amy, who just smiles and says,

"All babies loved when you did that, remember when the girls were born?"

"Yes I do." Knuckles replied and began to talk gibberish to the little child.

Sonic then randomly says, "Sally and I are the godparents, as long as he isn't named after Shadow."
(Sonic still has his accent, even though he isn't evil no longer.)

Amy frowns and says, "His name is Shadow, Shadow II I presume."

Sonic rolls his eyes and says, "Nice name for the bugger, but I was only kidding, lass." And walks to Marie, holding his child. He smiles and says, "I appreciate you taking care of my son, Marie. I could see you as a great mum in the future."

Marie smiles and curtseys, replying, "It was no trouble." And she walks away. She then looks back and purrs, saying in her mind, "If I ever do marry Lucas, he too could be like his father."

Sonic smiles and turns to Shadow, saying, "Your daughter is really the overachiever, isn't she?"
"Ugh, too much of it. She's the opposite of her sister and I have no clue where she gets it from."

"Eh, possibly her grandmother. That bitch always had something to snap about."
"Do not remind me of that woman."

"She made me so mad, I wanted to tell her to knock off!"
"Ugh, she made me do double duty just because I lifted Amy on her feet when she slipped."

"At least we know she's up there, making others miserable."
"I guess."

"You havin' anymore little ones? After this?" Sonic asked with a smug on his face

"Why not? Have a good excuse of it, for having sex."
"Eh, my wife wants another little bugger. Cobblers, why we can't adopt a child?"
"Ey! Not bad, but I prefer to have sex and my own children, than not having sex, but I guess adoption is good."
"But do you think she'll go for it?"
"She's your wife. Don't ask me that. I may have adopted Matteo, but I have no clue as to adoption from other places. Good luck with that."

Amy smiles and Shadow takes his child and carries him. Shadow, overjoyed with his son, tossed him in the air and caught him. He then looks at the child and the baby gives him a smirk, just like his. He was very proud of him and said, "Well, young one. Looks like you're in for a great life."

He then hands his mate the baby and kisses her and whispers, "I am very proud of you, and I love you."

"I love you, too." Amy whispered and kissed Shadow back. He leaves and looks for the kids. He goes out into the courtyard and sees Mario and Maria out in the rose fields, picking roses. He smiles at the two and sees a small vision of himself and Amy back in the past. He chuckles lightly and then sees an envious Lucas, watching them from a distance and Shadow whispers to himself, "Like father, like son."

He then sees Marie, looking at her sister and Mario in jealousy. He then shakes his head and says, "Well, I see a new couple. Marie and Lucas. They complement one another."

Shadow then sees Matteo and Mephiles, practicing with swords and he calls out to him, along with the other children.
"Matteo , Maria, Marie, its time."

The sisters run up to their father and Matteo obediently walks over to Shadow. Their father then says, "each of you will get to see the baby, one by one. Matteo, you will go first, since you're the eldest."

"Yes, father." Matteo replied and smiled. He and Shadow walk over to see Amy and the newborn hedgehog, and as they walk, Matteo asks, "So does this make me the leader of the household?"

"Big, responsible, brother could be a start. Maybe in a few more years, maybe when you're 12, you can make decisions."
Matteo nods, and proudly walks, knowing he is now the responsible one of the household. They reach the room, and Matteo knows what to expect, since he saw his sisters being born. He enters the room and sees his mother, smiling in great joy, holding a small bundle in her arms. She coughs a bit and gives Matteo his new sibling. He looks at him and the baby opens his eyes. Matteo reads his eyes, seeing who he would become. He smiles, proud at his new brother, due to Matteo's special gift of seeing the future of the next future ruler after him. He then asks, "His name, mother?"

"Shadow II."

"Hmm…I'll call him Shady. He has a shady personality at first, but then redeems himself later on. He seems like a good person, at least he won't be like Marie. My apologies for my statement, mother."

"Don't worry, Matteo. Sure, your sister maybe this way, but she loves you the same."
"She could just marry Lucas and call it even."

Amy shakes her head and Shadow chuckles, "I don't blame Matteo. The two complement one another."
"It might sound crazy, but he's in love with Maria, but Maria might shut off his feelings for Mario's."
Shadow sighs and replies, "-sigh- Just like your mother when she met me. She left Sonic to speak to me more often."

"A good thing, too. I don't want to sound mean, but Lucas is the spitting personality of Sonic and it scares me if he stays with either of the girls."

"But Amy, Marie and Lucas are practically meant for one another."
Amy gives him the 'What I say goes ' look. And it stays on her face until Shadow cracked and said, "-sigh- fine. But like I said, the two are almost like soul mates."

Amy then says, "Matteo, gladly show your father the door."
Matteo does what he was told and leads Shadow out the door. Shadow walks without the necessary need of Matteo to lead. 

Matteo turns back to his mother and says, "Good job, but is it true."
"As true as Italia being a powerful country and Europa is a powerful nation by far."

Amy smiles and Matteo hands his brother back to her. He then says, "I read his future, he'll make our country fair and he will be the ice breaker for a democracy"
"Hmm…no wonder he would kick me each time you would talk or your father, talk politics."

"I may be eight, but I am a bit mature for my age."
"-giggles- I guess you're right." Amy replied and she then coughs a bit.

"Want anything, mamma?"

"No thank you." Amy sniffled, due to her having the flu. "I need to sleep. Put the baby in the crib, please."

"OK." Matteo replied and puts his brother in the crib. He then leaves his mother to rest and sees his sisters along with Mario and Lucas. Maria asks, "So, how does the baby look?"

Marie then sneers, "I don't know why father would let you go first, you know nothing of children or babies. If they left you with our new baby brother in your hands, you'd starve him to death."

Matteo ignores her and says, "Marie, unless you want to miss Lucia's coalition, I'd suggest you stay in place and behave yourself. After all, I am her escort and as leader, I could decide if you will participate or not."

"You Wouldn't dare!"
"I will, remember, behave."

Marie growls and leaves the others. Maria looks at her brother and says, "You really didn't mean that...did you?"
"No. Because if she won't be in it, none of us will. And I know how important it is for you, Marie and myself. Oh Lucas, your partner is Marie, incase you forget."

"Bah, humbug."
Maria scoffs and says, "You are such a scrooge!"

Lucas ignores her and grabs her from the waist and pins her to the ground, touching her chest without her noticing. He then gets up and walks away. Maria looks back at Mario and says, "Big brother, if he's Marie's partner, who's mine?"

"Whomever you please." Matteo replied. Maria smiled and turns to Mario, then back to her brother. She smiles and squeals, "Oh, thank you! You won't regret it."

As she and the echidna run off, Matteo walks away and decides to meet the person he was to escort, Lucia. She was a sweet, caring blonde hedgehog who was turning 7, first stage of the possibility to be courted.

As Matteo walks away to meet her, Shadow sees from a distance at his daughter and the echidna and couldn't help but smile proudly, as he remembers when he and Amy were young.

Part 2 on the way by maybe...ASAP. R&R!