On Broken Wings chapter 4
Shadow was in his room painting. On the walls, he was painting pictures instead of just color. At the moment he was painting a picture of a dragon that stretched from the floor and onto the ceiling. He was covered in dark yellow paint due to the main color choice for the dragon but also had spots of other colors. It was an awesome painting that could aw or scare anyone. The dragon was thin and long with scales going out of its' back, long talons on its' feet. It had short legs and teeth that could slice through metal. The floor now bore paint as well and when Shadow walked, he tracked the paint around. It actually made a cool effect on the floor.
"Wow Shadow, you painted that?!" Sonic said entering his room, which the door was open to. Shadow nodded where he stood holding a paintbrush in the dim light that only came in through the window and the door from the hallway. Shadow stepped back to admire his work. "We have food on the table so feel free to take whatever you want."
"Thank you." Shadow said a drop of paint dripped on his nose.
"You may want to take a shower too. Over there." Sonic pointed down the hall to a bathroom.
Table----
Everyone just took stuff off a table they had on their kitchen near the main room, Tails' main workshop. When they had a plate of food they sat on the floor of the kitchen. The group was sitting around the floor and ate when Shadow walked in. His fur was still a little damp from taking a shower. He had dried off as best he could but all the ones who lived in this particular house had trouble drying. He looked at the table and knew that the stuff was food but didn't know what some of it really was. He did recognize fish, which Big had taught him and the plants from being outside. He mainly took those things then sat on the floor with the others who were talking.
"Soooonic, when do you want to get married?" Amy winked at Sonic leaning over to him.
"Aaaaamy..." Sonic didn't like playing these games with her.
"I made a wonderful garden with flowers that---" Cream tried to put in but was stopped by Sonic.
"You guys love to torture me don't you?"
"Nooo Mr. Sonic!" Cream looked innocently at him. Cheese sat on her head. Tails was trying to ignore the whole thing.
'They do this all the time.' Tails thought. Shadow was curious but also confused as to what was going on. He just nibbled on the food on this plate and listened to them. Even though they seemed to be semi-fighting, they still were friends and were happy. It was good to see. After dinner they all wanted to see a movie.
"A movie?"
"Yeah Shadow." Tails said.
"What is that?"
"You're kidding right?" Amy interrupted but was hushed by Sonic who spoke over her.
"We'll show you what it is." They all walked to a room connected to the main workshop. A main home room where there sat a T.V. and huge sofa and a few soft chairs (recliner chair) as well as a bookshelf, with books of course. They chose to watch 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. (AN/ I liked that movie, the new version. I highly suggest it if you like horror movies.) It was already dark out so they turned off all the lights once the DVD was in the player. Amy and cream sat on the floor with Cheese, Sonic sat in a soft chair, Tails sat on the back (top) of the sofa, and Shadow laid on the sofa. Amy ran out and back into the room and brought with her a bag of popcorn. She threw a piece at Sonic that bounced off his nose but he caught and ate it before it fell. They passed the stuff around and when it got to Shadow he tried it then took a huge handful.
It was even later when the movie was done. There had been several screams from the girls and many whoas from the guys. Shadow had smirked once when he saw blood but then frowned and wondered why he'd done that. Cream and Cheese were asleep and Amy was getting to that point as well. At one point in the movie Tails had fallen off the top of the sofa from falling asleep. He didn't fall asleep after that. Sonic carried Cream and Cheese to their rooms with Amy trailing behind. Tails and Shadow went down to their rooms.
"Night Shadow." Tails said yawning.
"Night." Shadow responded as he walked into his dark room while shutting the door then flopped on the bed. He looked around the room. Some moonlight came in though the small window and made shadows on the walls. They moved around like monster with no sound. Shadow turned over and fell asleep.
Amy's Nightmare---
It was dark and Amy sat in a forest with mist all around. It was cold and she was alone. Or not quiet alone. She shivered as she looked around. The corpses of her friends and their blood was everywhere. (AN/ don't read this part if you don't want to. Just know it's bad.) Tails lay on the ground with big gashes in his sides. Sonic hung from a tree. Shadow sat against a tree covered in blood. And Cream and Cheese lay huddled together with long scratches on them. Amy covered her mouth with her hands and began to cry.
End nightmare---
Amy woke up screaming. She woke most of everyone else too, minus Tails and Shadow. Sonic ran into the room and told the now awake Cream and Cheese that it was ok and to go back to sleep. They did. Sonic tried to comfort the young hedgehog. After ten minutes she was able to go back to sleep. Sonic wondered what had happened but decided to ask in the morning or perhaps, not at all. Seeing how much it scared her.
By morning Amy was back to her old self. She prepared breakfast like she usually prepared all the meals; she liked to cook. Cream and Cheese helped once in awhile but they were sleeping on the floor, still tired from going to bed early but to restless to stay in bed. Sonic and Tails walked in hungry.
"Huuuungry!" Sonic said.
"Can we eat soon?" Tails asked.
"I know, the foods almost done." Amy said. "Shadow still asleep?" The boys nodded. "Well, you might want to wake him. If he doesn't get up you two might eat all the food." Amy shot a look at the two. Cream and Cheese still slept away not bothered by the whole thing. The two guys laughed. Then Sonic grabbed a waffle, which was already on the table.
"I'll get him." The blue hedgehog left the room and Tails tried to steal some food from the table too but got his hand slapped by Amy.
Shadow's room----
Light crept in through the window like it often did. This time, a bird sang near it as well. The bird's song woke Shadow slowly. Shadow opened his eyes and let them adjust. He got up and went to the window to see the one who woke him; a yellow bird.
"Are you the same bird from Big's house?" Shadow asked the bird. It continued singing. Shadow's head became dizzy so he leaned against the wall and slowly knelt down. Images made themselves known in Shadow's mind.
A glass tube; an escape pod. Trapped. Space colony. Stars. Sirens. A girl. The girl. Maria! Blood. Soldiers. She pressed the button. Falling. Darkness.
The hallway---
Sonic was close to Shadow's door now as he finished the rest of the stolen waffle. He knocked on the door but he didn't answer.
"Shadow? You awake?" Sonic tried the door and it was unlocked so he opened it. He saw Shadow standing in the middle of his room. His lips were moving like he was saying something but no sound came out and he stared blankly at the floor, not even noticing Sonic.
Sonic looked at his window and saw it was broken with shards of glass everywhere. "Hey Sha--" He stopped when he saw red liquid around where Shadow stood and a shard of the glass with blood on it. Then he noticed that there were things written all over the room in blood. They weren't complete sentences and were hard to comprehend. They were written sloppily but it was scary looking like something from a horror film.
Sonic saw one thing Shadow wrote that he understood.
'Maria'
Sonic snapped out of it and ran to Shadow, grabbing the other hedgehog's shoulders. Shadow still did not notice Sonic or stop his quiet ramblings.
"Shadow! Snap out of it!" Sonic shook him and finally Shadow looked at him.
"Sonic?" Shadow then closed his eyes and fell to the side, unconscious. Sonic saw where the blood came from. Shadow had cut himself several times on his arms. Without hesitation, Sonic rushed upstairs and returned a few seconds later with Amy and Tails; they were better at medical stuff then he was.
The two were confused at first but soon realized this was not the time for questions and rushed to help Shadow. Sonic brought all they needed to help their friend. Fortunately, the wounds were not deep enough to kill him fast or hard to tend to. They washed the cuts then bandaged the dark one. Before they were finished, Shadow had awoken but was as well confused.
While Sonic helped Shadow walk back to his bed, the two others cleaned up the glass and the blood that was on the floor.