On Broken Wings

Shadow opened his eyes slowly. He was falling from the sky. A small yellow bird flew near him.

"You seem familiar." Shadow said to the bird. The bird chirped back. Shadow looked down and saw Earth as he fell closer and closer to the planet. The bird created what seemed to be a bubble around Shadow.

"You should go." The bird chirped at Shadow but Shadow shook his head. The bird let the upward wind carry itself away. Now Shadow was alone as he fell. He was so exhausted from the battle he had just fought. He fell asleep while still falling toward Earth knowing that there wasn't a way that he could do anything about his current situation.

The dark hedgehog awoke again. He looked around and seemed to be surrounded by water. It went on for unseen miles, as it was so dark and cold looking. He noticed then that he could breathe even though he was completely submerged. Shadow found the source of this; it was a bubble around him. When he thought about it, he didn't remember how he'd gotten here. Once again he fell asleep. For some reason it was so comfortable in his bubble. So peaceful.

In a boat somewhere---

"Hey Froggy, there don't seem to be many fish today." A big purple cat told his companion frog. (AN/ Big's Japanese voice is so much better then his English one) It was quiet and peaceful on the ocean. Seagulls above them and fish below. The sky was clear and blue with a few fluffy, pure white clouds. Big looked over to his only catch. It was actually quite big. So silver and shiny like a piece of jewelry.

Suddenly Big noticed that there was something on the other side of the fishing line. He quickly tried to reel it in; it seemed like a very large fish. When he finally got it in all the way, he saw that it was no fish. It seemed to be a soaked and sleeping hedgehog tangled in his fishing line. (AN/ the barrier is gone just so u know) Big pulled the limp, dark hedgehog into the boat and decided now was a good time to go home.

As Big rowed the boat toward shore and his home, he glanced over at the hedgehog that looked a little like his friend, Sonic. Now that Big thought about it, where did everyone go? He hadn't seen many of his friends for a while now. He pondered on this thought until he reached the dock near his and Froggy's house.

He picked up the limp hedgehog and Froggy and began to go inside, once he reached the house. His house was small. He had found it abandoned and parts of it were broken, so he fixed it up and it became his. His house was only had 3 rooms, a main room; which had a small kitchen in a corner, the bathroom and one bedroom. There was a window in the bedroom and main room.

Big laid Shadow down on his bed, covered the wet hedgehog with a blanket then left to get the fish out of his boat which he had forgotten to take in.

Froggy sat on the bedroom's windowsill staring at the stranger in the bed. He heard Big open then close the front door fallowed by several noises from pans and glasses from Big preparing to cook. After awhile the house began to fill with the smell of cooking fish and various spices. The smell must have triggered Shadow's sense of smell as he slowly opened his blurry eyes half way trying to get them to focus. He tried to sit up but his body wouldn't obey his spirit so he just lay there and began to look around when a large green frog caught his eye. His eyes started to focus now as the frog ribbited at him then jumped down onto the bed. Shadow was now able to sit up a little and as he did he just blinked at the strange frog.

"That's Froggy." a deep voice said. Shadow shot his head in the direction of it. In the doorway was a big purple cat. Shadow jerked away a little from fear.

"No need to be afraid, I will not hurt you. I found you while I was fishing. Somehow you were in the water."

Shadow gripped his head in pain suddenly. "Are you alright?" When Shadow took his hands off his head and looked at them, there was blood on one of his gloves. "I'll be right back." The purple cat walked out of the room. Shadow looked at the doorway then around the room.

It was hard to control where his eyes looked. He heard footsteps and immediately looked back at the doorway where the cat once again appeared. This time he held a roll of bandages. He walked over to Shadow and looked for where on his head it looked wet then wrapped the bandage around his head.

"Sorry, that's the best I can do. I'm not very informed about medicine or have many things for it." Big said. Shadow was very confused so he just nodded at the cat.

"I'm going to eat so feel free to come." Big walked out of the room and Froggy hopped after him.

Shadow looked out the window that Froggy had been on the sill of. It seemed sunny out at the moment. He looked away from the window to the wall in front of him.

'What's going on?' He thought to himself. He then decided to go and eat with the cat who had found him.

He swung his legs over the side of the bed then tried to walk to the door. A sudden wave of dizziness came over him that made him end up on the floor.

When Big heard this, he went into the room where he found Shadow trying to get up again. He helped the hedgehog onto his feet and walk to the table. Big decided not to ask the hedgehog questions at the moment as he could see that the stranger was confused himself.