CHAPTER 2

THE DEATH TRAP

After when they hit the island the plane was destroyed, but luckily Shadow and Rouge had survived. Shadow was unconscious on the ground for only a few minutes. He woke up finding Rouge with a worried look on her face.

"Shadow honey, are you all right?"

Shadow stood from the ground slowly, "Yeah I'm fine. You?"

"Okay."

Shadow looked around in the forest they were in, "Are we on the island?"

"Yes and I'm afraid the plane won't be operational, until we find somebody to fix it."

Shadow grabbed the communicator from his belt and checked to see if he could get through to Vector. The only thing it did was make a loud noise. That hurt his ears, so he just threw it over to the side of him. "Shit, the signals jammed."

"Mine too." Rouge put hers back in her belt. "What are we going to do?"

"We need to see if people are on the island and if they know anything about this." He began to walk along through the forest.

Rouge followed, "I hope there is people here or we can't get back." Rouge then noticed his arm was hurt from the crash. "Shadow, your arm. We need to stop and get that bandaged."

"No we don't as I said before, I'm fine." He didn't want to stop and waste time.

"You don't look fine."

"Damn it Rouge, I said I'm fine!"

Rouge was use to Shadow saying those things to her. "All I want to do is help, Shadow. I'm sorry if I upset you."

"You ought to be. You're the one who got us in this mess in the first place."

"Me? What makes you think I got us into this?"

"Well to start it off you volunteered us to do this shit."

"Shadow...well if this is how you feel then I'm better off on my own." Rouge began to take a separate path.

"Fine, who needs you anyway, I'm better off without you!" Shadow muttered under his breath, "Stupid bat."

Rouge began walking the path with anger, "That hedgehog drives my nerves. I can't believe I actually married him. He'll never learn." She finally got out of that forest and ahead of her she saw some kind of old shrine and a huge green emerald was in it. Her eyes widened, "That can't possibly be a Chaos Emerald. No matter mine now." She ran up the shrine and touched the emerald in happiness, "This thing is bigger than I thought it would be. Now how can I move this thing?"

"Hey! Get your hands off of that!" A voice said below her.

She looked down and saw a red echidna with spikes coming from his hands. She waved at him, "Hi."

"Don't you hi me. You tried to steal the Master Emerald."

"The Master Emerald?" She looked at it, "You mean this?"

"Yes, now get away from it. That's my property."

Rouge touched the emerald once more tempting him.

The echidna couldn't take it any more, "That's it." He ran up the shrine and punched her in her face and off of the shrine and she fell on the ground. The impact left a bloody cut on her cheek.

The echidna got on top pf her ready to finish her off, until he recognized how pretty she was. His eyes widened stunned by her beauty and sexual appearance, "Man, you're beautiful."

Rouge was confused, but charmed by his comment, "Thank you..."

He got off of her, "Knuckles."

"Knuckles huh? I can see why. My name is Rouge."

"Rouge, beautiful name."

Rouge blushed, "Thank you."

Knuckles noticed the mark he made on her face, "That cut, I'm sorry. I thought you were going to steal the Master Emerald away from me."

Rouge smirked, "Was thinking about it."

Knuckles helped Rouge from the ground, "Come on you gotta get to the best doctor on Angel Island, Cobar."

"Angel Island?"

Knuckles took her hand, "Lets go."

"Knuckles, I'm fine really."

Later still in the forest Shadow was walking trying to find a way out, "I should have never split up with her, now that the communicator is busted I can't contact her. I hope she's all right." When he wasn't eying the ground his foot got caught in a bear trap. He fell to the ground holding his foot in pain, "What the hell is this thing doing here?" Then he heard a growl, he looked ahead of himself and saw a drooling white wolf. "Shit."

It looked wild and angry. Shadow couldn't go anywhere, one false move and the wolf would attack, but it came at him anyway.

The wolf jumped on him biting him in his arm.

Shadow yelled as more and more blood came from his arm. He grabbed his gun and fired a round at the wolf's leg.

The wolf squealed and ran deep into the forest.

Shadow was exhausted especially from the bite. He couldn't take the pressure on his wound any longer, so he passed out there with his foot still caught in the trap.

Then a pink echidna came running through the forest spotting the injured hedgehog. "Dear god someone's hurt. I gotta get him to Cobar right away."