Title: Voices
Anime: Sonic X
Pairing: Sonadow
Chapter 29

Sonic's eyes fluttered open. He was laying on Tails' couch, he realized. He looked down at Shadow, who was sleeping with his head on his arms. He must have been waiting for him to wake up. He smiled and petted his black ears softly. They twitched at first, and then got used to the warm hand. He smiled in his sleep.

'This is new,' Sonic thought. 'He rarely ever smiles for any reason.'

Slowly, Shadow's eyes opened. He looked up at Sonic, feeling slightly confused. Seeing where they were, remembering what had happened that day, and the fact that there was something different about the hero, he realized that they had gotten rid of Nameless for now. He laid his head back down and the blue hedgehog went back to petting his ears.

"Hey…" Sonic said quietly. "Wanna go some place tomorrow?" Shadow looked up at him a little bit. "I feel… like I can go anywhere with the way I'm feeling. I wanna go somewhere with you." Shadow turned his head to the side again on his arms. Sonic saw him smile again. Sonic stroked his ears until they both fell back asleep.

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As soon as she had gotten over it some, she had searched all night and most of the morning until now looking for someone that might be able to help. Sonic wasn't at home… if he wasn't alright, then Sonic couldn't be. She thought that she could get answers if she went there. Maybe he was in the hospital? She checked there, and he wasn't there. He hadn't been checked out, and had never been there in the first place.

'Where else do I go?' she wondered. 'Maybe he's fine. Maybe since he's so fine, my boyfriend isn't. It makes sense.' She kept walking until she came across Tails' workshop. 'Bet he'd throw a knife at me if I knocked on his door looking for Sonic…' she thought. It was worth a shot, though.

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Inside Tails' house/workshop, Shadow woke up Sonic.

"Morning." He said. He couldn't help it. Even if his face didn't show it, he was sort of excited. He and Sonic were going somewhere together. It was sort of like a…

"Shadow?" Sonic sounded shocked, yet happy, interrupting the darker one's thoughts. "Wow! You're alive!"

"…Huh?"

"Thought you died when we fought the Final Hazard! This is so cool! How've you been, man?" he had Shadow's full attention. He looked like a kid with a crush, or a person that hasn't seen his best friend for years… as if it were a long-since reunion.

"…So… that's when we last saw each other?" he asked.

"Yeah, I believe so. Why?" Sonic asked, looking confused, now.

"…" suddenly, after a moment of silence and a blank expression, Shadow looked mad. Angry. Furious. That shock from yesterday must have damaged his brain. He stood up and walked over to the stairs and called out the fox's name, "TAILS!/b"

There was a knock on the front door. Shadow didn't hear a reply from the blond, so he answered the door for him. At the door was a determined-looking brown-red, female fox with ice blue eyes. She seemed to be glaring at him a little bit.

"Who are you, and what do you want?" he asked impatiently.

"I guess you've lost your memory, again."

"So you know me, then." He crossed his dark arms. "What do you need, here?"

"I'm here to see Sonic."

"What does Sonic have to do with you?" he glared at her.

"I figured that he might be able to tell me about the voices that made Scourge the Hedgehog go into a two-year coma."

Sonic's ears twitched, having heard Scourge's name. He hated that hedgehog… and he was in a coma? It couldn't be any other girl than her at the door.

"Just exactly… who are you?" Shadow asked, slowly and accusatively.

"I'm Fiona Fox." She crossed her arms over her breasts, mimicking Shadow. "And you're starting to piss me off."