Title: Connection-Chp 8
Author: Blu Evermind
Summary: When Sonic and Shadow went Super, The combined power of the Chaos Emeralds connects Sonic and Shadow to each other. A year after Shadow's disappearance, Sonic still can't let go. What could it mean?
A/N: Its a songfic. Hehehe...I'm funny.
Chapter Eight
Shadow had felt the tug at his chest, but he didn't fight against it. He simply let go of Sonic's sleeping body and stood up gently from the bed. He went to stare out the window. Only one thought came to his mind.
*I've got to get away.*
Without a second thought, Shadow slipped out the room and opened the front door and left, speeding at his usual speeds--oh somewhere around the speed of supersonic sound--leaving Sonic's apartment and Station Square behind.
*Maybe if I run farther enough, it'll give up.* Shadow thought, entering the thick forrest of the Mystic Ruins.
~hold on to me love
you know i can't stay long
all i wanted to say was i love and i'm not afraid
can you hear me?
can you feel me in your arms?~
Shadow kept running, until he didn't have the slightest idea where he was. The tugging was getting more frequent and behind more strengh. What would happen this time if the emerald absorbed him? With even more of its energy depleted, it could very well take Shadow's soul, or so he thought. A grim smile came over his face.
*Seeing as I don't go to heaven or hell, what's the use of a soul anyway?* he thought as he ran towards a cliff, overlooking the bright Station Square. *Dead end.*
~holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light
it ends here tonight~
***
Tails, Rouge, Knuckles were flying towards Station Square; Amy and Fiona being carried by Knuckles and Tails.
"Don't worry, I won't drop you," Tails reasurred.
Fiona blushed, "I know you won't. I trust you."
Meanwhile, Amy was pratically having a painck attack in Knuckles' arms, "DON'T YOU DARE DROP ME!!"
"Relax, I'm not, if you just keep *still*!" Knuckles responded.
Rouge looked down onto the street, a quick yellow dash appeared and disappeared as quick as it had come. "Hey, guys! There goes Shadow! It looks like he's heading towards the Mystic Ruins."
"What's with all this Mystic Ruins traveling? We already have to deal with those dumb hikers who won't go back to their families." Tails noted.
(A/N: really. Have you seen those guys in SA? One doesn't even go back to his wife!!!)
"Look, me and Rouge will take Amy and Fiona back to follow him," Knuckles said, "Tails, you know how to talk to Sonic, you go get him and meet us there."
Tails nodded in understanding and handed Fiona over to Rouge. Tails leaned down to meet Fiona's eye level, "You know, she won't drop you either. I can promise you that."
Fiona blushed again, "I know," she said dumbly.
***
~i'll miss the winter
a world of fragile things
look for me in the white forrest
hiding in a hollow tree
(come find me)
i know you hear me
i can taste in your tears~
Sonic woke up cold. Like he'd been doused in ice water. He was alone in his bed. What could that mean? Where was his Shadow? The one he'd just gotten the courage to say 'I love you' to?
He checked everywhere. Shadow was gone! Sonic began to whimper and leaned against the wall in his bedroom. Had it already happened? Had he just slept through it all?
*Maybe Shadow had slept too. Maybe it wasn't painless like earlier.* He thought.
The only person who was even close to being equal with Sonic was gone. He turned his wet eyes away from the bed, where just hours before...
Sonic jumped. There was a knock at the door. Wiping the tears from his eyes, he leaned up and walked out the room, over to the door to answer it. Apon closer inspection, he noticed that the doorknob was unlocked. Although, before he had time to calculate what this meant, Tails opened the door himself.
"SONIC?" Tails panted. He hadn't been running but he looked it. He'd been flying for long periods of time, carrying heavy loads. "Is Shadow--"
"He's gone." Sonic said misrerably, "Gone forever. I'll never see him again, not even after death..."
"Oh Sonic, Rouge said she saw Shadow run into the forrest of the Mystic Ruins. She, Knuckles, Amy and Fiona went to investigate." Tails explained.
"He must have didn't want me to have seen..." Sonic mumbled aloud.
"There's still a chance. I changed the frequency of the emerald, its going after Shadow's invinciblity now. Come on, we can still catch them."
Sonic's mood changed quite dramatically, although he was still worried that Shadow might have to be in pain. How did the chance of living forever feel when it was tore away from you and you were forced back into mortality?
"Let me get my shoes," Sonic said, smiling lightly.
~holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light
it ends here tonight~
***
Shadow saw the beam come at him and it pushed with such force that he fell from the cliff he'd been sitting on. He reached out a hand and grabbed a loose tree root and held on for dear life. A life that Shadow wouldn't have in a little bit.
Before, when the beam of energy first had happened, Shadow didn't have a chance to quite examine it. But now, it was dark and the beam was flowing freely from him. On the surface, images shown like a televison screen, through his eyes of his past.
Professor Gerald Robtnik supervising the loading and unloading of tons of boxes labeled "Maria's Things".
The Professor in a lab, two metaliic bodies floating in blue liquid, all the while with the Professor mumbling "Perfect".
Maria on her bed, opening her eyes for the first time--but that couldn't be right, no one opens their eyes for the first time at the age of 12...
And the time Maria sent him off to Earth.
*Give them a chance to be happy.*
*All living things must be given a chance*
*Because after this life, THEY have something to look forward to. So, right now, while their all happy and the same and unaware of their fates, let them be happy, Shadow.*
Then the freezing process, Shadow awaking...blah blah...island go boom...blah blah blah...Amy pissing him off...blah blah blah...Prototype...blah blah...the other metallic girl climbing out of her tank, eyes red like blood, thristing for revenge...blah blah...
*Who do you think made the call? Who do you think got the Professor in trouble? Who do you think, in a way, KILLED him?* an foreign thought slipped into Shadow's mind that at once he remembered used to be his...a long time ago...
Shadow looked up from the beam to see four figures land, and the chaos emerald--glowing brightly-- right behind them. "Shadow!" Rouge and Knuckles ran after him, but the beam lashed out and smacked against them, forcing Rouge back but hitting Knuckles into a tree.
"Dumbass, " Rouge breathed.
"Owie..." Knuckles moaned.
Fiona stayed back, "Looks like we can't get too close--" The root that Shadow was holding onto slipped a little. "Ah--! I guess only those who have used the Chaos Emeralds can get near..."
"That can't be it--Knuckles has used them but he can't get near!" Amy cried suddenly.
"Owie.." Knuckles moaned again.
"Well, maybe only the one he shares the connection with can get near..." Fiona added. *Hurry up guys...*
***
Tails and Sonic were on their way to the forrest limits at the fastest speed possible. Sonic didn't want to leave Tails behind, yet he was very eager to get to Shadow, to see if he was alright. When they came to the clearing, Sonic was a little relieved.
Shadow was hanging off a cliff, the emerald's thiving beam already in his chest, undoubtly looking for his invinciblity. Knuckles was knocked out with Rouge tending to him and Amy and Fiona were trying to reach Shadow without getting into the beam's way, but no matter what, the bight light would lash out at them.
Sonic quickly lunged forward, the beam accepting him, and threw both his arms down and grabbed Shadow's arms just in time before the root broke and fell into the dark abyss below. Their eyes met and Sonic noticed that Shadow's eyes had went grey again. Grey and very confused, but not in any pain from what Sonic could see.
"Does it hurt?" he asked, just to be sure.
"No," Shadow responded, "But something else is on my mind." he talked as if a bight beam pulled from the depths of an old 'Star Trek' episode were an everyday thing. Something else was bothering him, Sonic knew because he looked into the beam also, seeing the images.
*I found Metal Sonic quite like that...* he pondered. *Wait--Metal Sonic was a robot, meaning--* Sonic's thoughts were cut off as soon as the beam shut off and the bright glowing emerald fell to the ground, having recharged itself.
Everybody (besides Knuckles who was still crying "Owie") ran forward and helped Sonic pull Shadow back up. The black hedgehog didn't seem to have any damage, he just looked very tired. He embraced Sonic in a hug and whispered in his ear:
"Now we can be together forever now."
And without anyone noticing, the emerald suddenly disappeared, and as Tails had said, it went back to wherever it had been--in outer space.
~closing your eyes to disappear
you pray your dreams will leave you here
but still you wake and know the truth
no ones there~
***
A month after the ARK incident, the space station itself had drifted towards the remains of the moon, finally collasping after holding together for so long. Most of the debris and freak experiments spilled from the ARK, most of it burning up in the atmosphere when Earth's gravity brought it closer. But some of it remained, like a jar of blue liquid, with a floating figure in it...the shape was that of a child, but it didn't look quite like a normal child.
Its hair was black and red, as if it were to match with some accessorie...
When the chaos emerald that had just appeared there, tapped the glass jar...the girl's eyes opened--blood red, thirsting for revenge...for being created only to not be loved and to be labeled as a "mistake".
*They all loved her more than me! I did come before her! Even the hedgehog...the damn hedgehog. They all paid for it in the end. Maria II is destroyed...the Professor is dead...but that damn hedgehog is still out there. We're both connected to the Chaos emeralds...its how all of the Professor's creations got their energy.* The robotic girl thought suddenly.
"Oh Shadow, your Maria's here..." the girl echoed in a dark voice, nothing like the Maria Shadow DID know.
~say goodnight
don't be afraid
calling me calling me as you fade to black~
End of Connection Part 1
***
OOOH! What shall happen in Connection Part Two? Who is this Maria I and why did she betray the Professor? If Maria is totally made up, who gave Gerald the idea for her creation? Is Erika-Chan going to put up any stories under a different fandom? All this and more, answered next time on Dragon Ball Z! Oh wait ^_^; I mean, Connection!
The lyrics for my first ever song fic were from Evanescence's "My Last Breath". See, the song fic was something I'd never done before, I hope I did it right. Like that Harry Potter song fic with "As The World Falls Down" by David Bowie. That was cool. Oh, gosh, oh gee, I'm ranting, aren't I? I'm sorry! Well, I'd like to end my rant by saying THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED AND THOSE WHO WILL REVIEW! Thanks so much--your reviews and my ultimate writing skills have helped this story come along way!
Sonic: If their so ultimate, will there be sonadowy love scenes in Connection Pt. 2?
Erika-Chan (Blu Evermind): You'll have to wait and see, won't cha?
Shadow: Awww... -_-;
Author: Blu Evermind
Summary: When Sonic and Shadow went Super, The combined power of the Chaos Emeralds connects Sonic and Shadow to each other. A year after Shadow's disappearance, Sonic still can't let go. What could it mean?
A/N: Its a songfic. Hehehe...I'm funny.
Chapter Eight
Shadow had felt the tug at his chest, but he didn't fight against it. He simply let go of Sonic's sleeping body and stood up gently from the bed. He went to stare out the window. Only one thought came to his mind.
*I've got to get away.*
Without a second thought, Shadow slipped out the room and opened the front door and left, speeding at his usual speeds--oh somewhere around the speed of supersonic sound--leaving Sonic's apartment and Station Square behind.
*Maybe if I run farther enough, it'll give up.* Shadow thought, entering the thick forrest of the Mystic Ruins.
~hold on to me love
you know i can't stay long
all i wanted to say was i love and i'm not afraid
can you hear me?
can you feel me in your arms?~
Shadow kept running, until he didn't have the slightest idea where he was. The tugging was getting more frequent and behind more strengh. What would happen this time if the emerald absorbed him? With even more of its energy depleted, it could very well take Shadow's soul, or so he thought. A grim smile came over his face.
*Seeing as I don't go to heaven or hell, what's the use of a soul anyway?* he thought as he ran towards a cliff, overlooking the bright Station Square. *Dead end.*
~holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light
it ends here tonight~
***
Tails, Rouge, Knuckles were flying towards Station Square; Amy and Fiona being carried by Knuckles and Tails.
"Don't worry, I won't drop you," Tails reasurred.
Fiona blushed, "I know you won't. I trust you."
Meanwhile, Amy was pratically having a painck attack in Knuckles' arms, "DON'T YOU DARE DROP ME!!"
"Relax, I'm not, if you just keep *still*!" Knuckles responded.
Rouge looked down onto the street, a quick yellow dash appeared and disappeared as quick as it had come. "Hey, guys! There goes Shadow! It looks like he's heading towards the Mystic Ruins."
"What's with all this Mystic Ruins traveling? We already have to deal with those dumb hikers who won't go back to their families." Tails noted.
(A/N: really. Have you seen those guys in SA? One doesn't even go back to his wife!!!)
"Look, me and Rouge will take Amy and Fiona back to follow him," Knuckles said, "Tails, you know how to talk to Sonic, you go get him and meet us there."
Tails nodded in understanding and handed Fiona over to Rouge. Tails leaned down to meet Fiona's eye level, "You know, she won't drop you either. I can promise you that."
Fiona blushed again, "I know," she said dumbly.
***
~i'll miss the winter
a world of fragile things
look for me in the white forrest
hiding in a hollow tree
(come find me)
i know you hear me
i can taste in your tears~
Sonic woke up cold. Like he'd been doused in ice water. He was alone in his bed. What could that mean? Where was his Shadow? The one he'd just gotten the courage to say 'I love you' to?
He checked everywhere. Shadow was gone! Sonic began to whimper and leaned against the wall in his bedroom. Had it already happened? Had he just slept through it all?
*Maybe Shadow had slept too. Maybe it wasn't painless like earlier.* He thought.
The only person who was even close to being equal with Sonic was gone. He turned his wet eyes away from the bed, where just hours before...
Sonic jumped. There was a knock at the door. Wiping the tears from his eyes, he leaned up and walked out the room, over to the door to answer it. Apon closer inspection, he noticed that the doorknob was unlocked. Although, before he had time to calculate what this meant, Tails opened the door himself.
"SONIC?" Tails panted. He hadn't been running but he looked it. He'd been flying for long periods of time, carrying heavy loads. "Is Shadow--"
"He's gone." Sonic said misrerably, "Gone forever. I'll never see him again, not even after death..."
"Oh Sonic, Rouge said she saw Shadow run into the forrest of the Mystic Ruins. She, Knuckles, Amy and Fiona went to investigate." Tails explained.
"He must have didn't want me to have seen..." Sonic mumbled aloud.
"There's still a chance. I changed the frequency of the emerald, its going after Shadow's invinciblity now. Come on, we can still catch them."
Sonic's mood changed quite dramatically, although he was still worried that Shadow might have to be in pain. How did the chance of living forever feel when it was tore away from you and you were forced back into mortality?
"Let me get my shoes," Sonic said, smiling lightly.
~holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light
it ends here tonight~
***
Shadow saw the beam come at him and it pushed with such force that he fell from the cliff he'd been sitting on. He reached out a hand and grabbed a loose tree root and held on for dear life. A life that Shadow wouldn't have in a little bit.
Before, when the beam of energy first had happened, Shadow didn't have a chance to quite examine it. But now, it was dark and the beam was flowing freely from him. On the surface, images shown like a televison screen, through his eyes of his past.
Professor Gerald Robtnik supervising the loading and unloading of tons of boxes labeled "Maria's Things".
The Professor in a lab, two metaliic bodies floating in blue liquid, all the while with the Professor mumbling "Perfect".
Maria on her bed, opening her eyes for the first time--but that couldn't be right, no one opens their eyes for the first time at the age of 12...
And the time Maria sent him off to Earth.
*Give them a chance to be happy.*
*All living things must be given a chance*
*Because after this life, THEY have something to look forward to. So, right now, while their all happy and the same and unaware of their fates, let them be happy, Shadow.*
Then the freezing process, Shadow awaking...blah blah...island go boom...blah blah blah...Amy pissing him off...blah blah blah...Prototype...blah blah...the other metallic girl climbing out of her tank, eyes red like blood, thristing for revenge...blah blah...
*Who do you think made the call? Who do you think got the Professor in trouble? Who do you think, in a way, KILLED him?* an foreign thought slipped into Shadow's mind that at once he remembered used to be his...a long time ago...
Shadow looked up from the beam to see four figures land, and the chaos emerald--glowing brightly-- right behind them. "Shadow!" Rouge and Knuckles ran after him, but the beam lashed out and smacked against them, forcing Rouge back but hitting Knuckles into a tree.
"Dumbass, " Rouge breathed.
"Owie..." Knuckles moaned.
Fiona stayed back, "Looks like we can't get too close--" The root that Shadow was holding onto slipped a little. "Ah--! I guess only those who have used the Chaos Emeralds can get near..."
"That can't be it--Knuckles has used them but he can't get near!" Amy cried suddenly.
"Owie.." Knuckles moaned again.
"Well, maybe only the one he shares the connection with can get near..." Fiona added. *Hurry up guys...*
***
Tails and Sonic were on their way to the forrest limits at the fastest speed possible. Sonic didn't want to leave Tails behind, yet he was very eager to get to Shadow, to see if he was alright. When they came to the clearing, Sonic was a little relieved.
Shadow was hanging off a cliff, the emerald's thiving beam already in his chest, undoubtly looking for his invinciblity. Knuckles was knocked out with Rouge tending to him and Amy and Fiona were trying to reach Shadow without getting into the beam's way, but no matter what, the bight light would lash out at them.
Sonic quickly lunged forward, the beam accepting him, and threw both his arms down and grabbed Shadow's arms just in time before the root broke and fell into the dark abyss below. Their eyes met and Sonic noticed that Shadow's eyes had went grey again. Grey and very confused, but not in any pain from what Sonic could see.
"Does it hurt?" he asked, just to be sure.
"No," Shadow responded, "But something else is on my mind." he talked as if a bight beam pulled from the depths of an old 'Star Trek' episode were an everyday thing. Something else was bothering him, Sonic knew because he looked into the beam also, seeing the images.
*I found Metal Sonic quite like that...* he pondered. *Wait--Metal Sonic was a robot, meaning--* Sonic's thoughts were cut off as soon as the beam shut off and the bright glowing emerald fell to the ground, having recharged itself.
Everybody (besides Knuckles who was still crying "Owie") ran forward and helped Sonic pull Shadow back up. The black hedgehog didn't seem to have any damage, he just looked very tired. He embraced Sonic in a hug and whispered in his ear:
"Now we can be together forever now."
And without anyone noticing, the emerald suddenly disappeared, and as Tails had said, it went back to wherever it had been--in outer space.
~closing your eyes to disappear
you pray your dreams will leave you here
but still you wake and know the truth
no ones there~
***
A month after the ARK incident, the space station itself had drifted towards the remains of the moon, finally collasping after holding together for so long. Most of the debris and freak experiments spilled from the ARK, most of it burning up in the atmosphere when Earth's gravity brought it closer. But some of it remained, like a jar of blue liquid, with a floating figure in it...the shape was that of a child, but it didn't look quite like a normal child.
Its hair was black and red, as if it were to match with some accessorie...
When the chaos emerald that had just appeared there, tapped the glass jar...the girl's eyes opened--blood red, thirsting for revenge...for being created only to not be loved and to be labeled as a "mistake".
*They all loved her more than me! I did come before her! Even the hedgehog...the damn hedgehog. They all paid for it in the end. Maria II is destroyed...the Professor is dead...but that damn hedgehog is still out there. We're both connected to the Chaos emeralds...its how all of the Professor's creations got their energy.* The robotic girl thought suddenly.
"Oh Shadow, your Maria's here..." the girl echoed in a dark voice, nothing like the Maria Shadow DID know.
~say goodnight
don't be afraid
calling me calling me as you fade to black~
End of Connection Part 1
***
OOOH! What shall happen in Connection Part Two? Who is this Maria I and why did she betray the Professor? If Maria is totally made up, who gave Gerald the idea for her creation? Is Erika-Chan going to put up any stories under a different fandom? All this and more, answered next time on Dragon Ball Z! Oh wait ^_^; I mean, Connection!
The lyrics for my first ever song fic were from Evanescence's "My Last Breath". See, the song fic was something I'd never done before, I hope I did it right. Like that Harry Potter song fic with "As The World Falls Down" by David Bowie. That was cool. Oh, gosh, oh gee, I'm ranting, aren't I? I'm sorry! Well, I'd like to end my rant by saying THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED AND THOSE WHO WILL REVIEW! Thanks so much--your reviews and my ultimate writing skills have helped this story come along way!
Sonic: If their so ultimate, will there be sonadowy love scenes in Connection Pt. 2?
Erika-Chan (Blu Evermind): You'll have to wait and see, won't cha?
Shadow: Awww... -_-;