Dislcaimer time! Shad and matt...you know about ^_^ But Mr H belongs to Sonics_hedgehog. See? I told ya you would be in it.

Chapter Four

As the dust settled from the cave in, I found it hard to breathe; I could not believe that I had survived. As I tried to move I felt searing pain shoot through my left arm, " must be broken" I thought to myself, and in addition I found that I could not move my legs and I became aware of massive pressure, and because of the blocked opening of the cave I could not see anything, so I assumed that the fallen rock was trapping my legs.

Once I had got my breathing under control, I heard a sound from the other side of the blockage. I thought I was imaging it, and audio mirage caused by the pain in my arm. "Just great, the second day of freedom and I'm trapped again."

To tell the truth, I was scared that I was not going to get out of that dark and dusty place, I couldn't breathe and seeing was damn near impossible, and to make matters worse, the pain was getting to me and I felt dizzy from it.

Then I heard something. .It was a voice! I couldn't make out what is was saying, but my heart jumped and I called out, hoping who ever it was could hear me. I'm not sure how long it was but after a while I could every now and again this sort of scrabbling and scratching occurred, this started to unnerve me, but my heart skipped a beat when I heard " Girl can you hear me?".MATT! I couldn't believe it. "Yeah I hear you" I called out gratefully. "Hang in there, I'm gonna get you out" After that the scrabbling came louder and faster, but still the progress was painfully slow, but what caught my attention was that I could FEEL some of the larger rocks shifting. "UH OH.MATT DON'T MOVE THE ROCKS.THEY ARE SHIF-..." A tremendous shaking cut off the sentence as the passage started collapsing AGAIN!

I managed to cover my head with my good arm and held my breath, knowing this one might be my last as the world went dark for a second time..

It seemed once again I had escaped death, with one major draw back. I was now buried alive! Now it was even harder to breathe because of the new pressure on my chest, I don't know how long I could keep awake as I kept drifting in and out of consciousness.

I couldn't think either, I started to realise, I was probably going to die there.I would have cried if I could.

Suddenly I felt something brush my hand, it twitched from the contact, then there was nothing for awhile, I decided that it must be from being trapped for a while. But then I found it easier to breathe, as the rocks on top of me were gently being moved from on top of me, as soon as my head was cleared, I blinked a few time to clear my vision and the I could just make out a shadowy figure, looming over me. "Are you okay miss?" he asked once I could sit up and he handed me a canteen of water to sip from. Once I had cleared my mouth, I told him I ached all over and that one of my arms was probably broken.

" Okay lets get out in to the open and I'll see what I can do for you" he told me as he replaced the canteen once I had finished with it "Can you walk?" Shaking my head slightly "I don't think I can right now." The world suddenly started spinning as I blacked out.

I came round to the sound of bird song and feeling a gentle breeze through my fur, I slowly opened my eyes. "Ah your awake, no, don't try and sit up, your still in shock" I now got my first good look at my rescuer , he was a hedgehog with a strange type of cowboy hat on his head. I looked down at my broken arm seeing it was now in an arm splint and sling. He sat down next to me. "I'm Mr H. What's your name ?" I blinked taken back by all this. "Um..Im..Shade."

I felt something or someone was missing..I looked round and then asked...... "Where's Matt?"