Shadow frowns deeply as he stares at the sight that was in front of him; Sonic the Hedgehog had dyed his fur pink and was wearing that red dress, hair band and boots that the pink hedgehog normally wore. He was seat on a bench reading a book, looking less then pleased about doing so, the afternoon shone down lighting up the area of the long lost city that one Amy Rose would never be able to hike to.

As the dark hedgehog drew closer he could made out Sonic shaking, it was the dead of winter and very high above the clouds because of the city was on the side of the mountain and he did not have as thick fur as Shadow did.

Sonic raises his head when Shadow came nearer still, grinning the should be blue hedgehog pats the seat next to him.

"Shadow! I'm glad I found you!" Sonic says loudly, by his high pitch tone he was trying to mimic Amy, "I have to tell you something!"

Wordless by Sonic display of... whatever it was called, Shadow's brain cells were killing themselves in order to forget this later on; the dark hedgehog takes a seat next to the hero and frowns when he could smell alcohol.

"Now Shadow," Sonic carries on while shook and wobbles, one because of the cold and two because of the drink caused him to be a little imbalanced, what he had did not agrees with his body, "I want to end this relationship."

"Relationship?" Shadow asks staring at the drunkard hedgehog.

"Yes, our relationship." Sonic says leaning forward, almost nose to nose, "You see, I no longer love you!"

"I wasn't aware we were in any form of relationship." Shadow replies in a dull tone, he reaches out and carefully places his arm behind Sonic's back and through his surprisingly soft yet firm quills, which normally only harden when he felt like he was in danger.

"'Cause we're not any more!" Sonic answers with a bold grin, the grin faded quickly as green eyes turned to glances around the ruins, "By the way... Have you seen my crown?"

"Crown?" Shadow asks somewhat amused now, "What crown?"

"My crown!" Sonic drone out leaning towards Shadow, allowing the hand to rest on his shoulder while he bump heads with the other; he then whispers, "I think I lost it during the war... you know I was once a prince of my own Zone right... but you can't tell anybody, okay Shadz?"

"Okay Sonic," Shadow answers drawing the once blue hedgehog closer to him, he thought he heard a moan of disappointment from some rock; Sonic's friends no doubt watching, while Sonic himself had forgotten right why he was there.

"Yeah, it was during the war," Sonic continues with wide eyes as he stares up at Shadow, "We was eating a meal right, when a political crisis happens and then we escape through a secret passage because of the giraffe, only he was dirty and lead us to a religious ceremony with sacks over our heads. My mother was sad because of the betrayal, because she really liked that servant."

Sonic stops talking and pulls his legs up tucking them under him as he leans right onto Shadow now, who was listening with interest.

"And then..." Sonic mumbles as if trying to remember something of great importance, "Yeah, the giraffe that borrowed some money and needed to give it back and that was why he did the crime...So they went preparing for this ceremony thing... however some old scribe lost the item and blamed the giraffe 'cause of his greed... or something like that..."

"You awake?" Shadow asks bringing his other hand up and gently touches Sonic's cheek, wanting to hear the rest.

"I think so..." Sonic replies with a frown, his eyes did not seem to focus, "Where was I...? Sack? Lost? Greed? Oh! That's right!" he closes his eyes for a moment and then opening them he looks in a daze up at Shadow, "During that time mother gave birth to my baby sister, which was strange...but I'll always remember her screams. It was then the explosion happened, it shook the whole castle!"

Sonic fell silent for a moment, making Shadow wonder if the other had gone to sleep. But soon he rose his head again.

"The greedy ones got away," Sonic says in a low voice, "And someone innocent goat got framed for it; he was skinned alive and left for dead, but he lived and gathered a lot of people... oh me and my mother and sister was okay. And it was about ten years later before the hateful goat came back, he wore a mask that hid his face..."

Sonic pauses and sits up, pulling away from Shadow, then he wraps his own arms around himself and rubs. The dark hedgehog follows him, again wrapping his arms around the other and waited for him to continue with the odd story.

"The masked goat killed a of people because he was wronged," Sonic says with a heavy sigh, "But still, why did he have to kill those who did nothing wrong? They was not at fault, and by doing that, didn't become what he hated?"

Sonic glances upwards to the heaven above, they were so high up already with everywhere was filled with clouds.

"From what I hear," Sonic mumbles out, almost sorrowful, "That goat went on an epic adventure and could have lived out the rest of his life as a hero to those he met during his trip. Instead he went controlling those who he helped and started a huge riot towards the royals."

Sonic nods his head for some reason and turns to Shadow.

"Then the jackal guard stood and fought against the goat," Sonic went on with a serious tone, "This time however the king and queen was dethroned, just as the riot continued and my mother gave birth again, this time to my baby brother; a spear went right through my father's chest and did was at this time the goat learnt of the misunderstanding, he begged for forgiveness however my mother lost hear in her kingdom, letting her three hoglets she travelled the zones and went to sleep... The end."

"Well that was interesting." Shadow snorts out, "How about we go into that hut, where its warm... and your friends won't snicker at you."

"Huh?" Sonic managed to get out while blinking at the darker hedgehog, "Shadow what are you doing here?!"

"Taking care of a drunk hedgehog," Shadow answers picking up the pink should not be blue hedgehog and starts carrying him towards the wooden hut that was for some reason there, "You need to sleep it off, or vomit. One or the other."

"..." Sonic allows himself to be carried alone, feeling more and more sick as they went on.