On Broken Wings chapter 5

When Shadow awoke it was dusk .He had seen the red lettering in his room. He didn't remember painting that so he thought he would ask someone. He got out of bed also noticing that his arms had bandages on them.

He walked upstairs to where Tails was working in his workshop. He seemed busy so he decided not to bother him. He walked into the kitchen expecting Amy to be there, but she wasn't. He went into the familiar den area and found none other then the blue hedgehog himself. Unfortunately, he was sleeping in a chair. Shadow decided to wake him up. The method he used wasn't necessarily the best though.

"SOOOOOONIC!" Shadow yelled into his ear. Needless to say, Sonic woke up. He practically jumped onto the ceiling before looking at the other hedgehog.

"Sh-Shadow! Your awake!" Sonic blinked a few times while looking at him.

"Why's there red paint on my walls! And what's with these bandages?" Sonic sighed.

"That's not paint on your walls, Shadow. It's blood. Your blood."

"I don't remember doing that! Is this a joke?"

"Take off the bandages and see." Shadow was motionless for a few seconds before removing part of one of the bandages. There were cut marks and blood on him as well as on the white bandage. He gasped.

"What the hell happened!"

"How the hell should I know! I came in to tell you there was food almost ready and found you totally zonked out moving your mouth like you were saying something. There were puddles of blood around you and on the walls! I should be the one asking YOU what happened!" Sonic lost his temper. He was still feeling strange after finding Shadow the way he did. "Don't you remember any of this?" Sonic said calming down a little.

"No. I don't." Shadow turned to leave when Sonic grabbed his arm. He winced a little.

"Did you understand anything that was on the walls?"

"I barely looked. But nothing stood-out really." Sonic let go after he answered and Shadow walked away.

Shadow was frustrated. He didn't remember his past, and now he didn't remember something that supposedly happened sometime recently. 'Why did Sonic ask me if I recognized anything that was on the walls?' He thought to himself. He stopped at the base of the staircase that led upstairs.

Cream and Cheese were coming down stairs.

"Amy! Me and Cheese are going to choa gardens! See ya later!" Cream noticed Shadow. "Shadow, do you want to come to choa gardens too?" Cream asked. He stared with a blank face for a while before nodding and slightly smiling. He had forgotten about what had happened and focused on thinking about what the choa gardens were like.

"How do we get there?" Shadow asked while they started walking; they were outside the workshop now.

"Which one do you want to go to? How about the city?"

"The city?"

"Oh! That's right. You haven't seen the city yet have you? Let's go there!" Cream grabbed his hand a began to run toward the train station that led to station square. Cheese grabbed onto Creams ear.

When they were near they heard the train was about to leave so Shadow took over and ran, while holding onto Cream, as fast as he could to catch the train and luckily made it in just as the doors were closing. They all stood on seats looking out the window. Shadow was the most curious about the world since he had seen so little of it.

"Shadow, are you feeling better?"

"Huh?" He was confused for second then knew what she was talking about. His arms. "Oh...yeah. I don't remember what actually happened."

"Ah. I wasn't there so I dunno either. The others just said you weren't feeling good. What happened to your arms?" She said while pointing to the bandages.

"I thought that was what we were talking about..."

"Now I'm confused." She picked up Cheese and held him.

"Are we almost there?" Shadow asked, trying to change the subject.

Cream held onto one of the bars in the train. "We should be there right abouuuuuuut...now." As soon as she said that, the train stopped and it had caught Shadow off guard. He fell off the seat he was standing on, onto the floor. "You ok?" Cream asked.

They got off the train once Shadow managed to get off the floor. Shadow looked around in aw at the city around him.

"It's this way, Shadow!" Cream was waving to him from a little distance away near another building. He soon caught up and they entered a building with glass doors. Amy said hello to a person behind a desk then pushed a button to an elevator. They got in it and went up.

The small containment seemed to make Shadow see things that he didn't understand. It was like he was somewhere else; somewhere where something horrible was happening. It soon wore off when they reached their destination.

"This is a choa gardens, Shadow!" Cream and Cheese threw their arms up in the air and ran off to creatures who looked like Cheese.

Shadow found them to be a little strange at first but then liked them a little more. He went over to where Cream and Cheese were. They were in the middle of choa gardens with many of the little choas in a circle around them. She seemed to be talking to them and when she noticed Shadow she introduced them to him.

"Everyone, this is my new friend, Shadow!" They all made loud sounds that sounded like cheering. He blinked out of surprise and he didn't really know what to do.

Time went by and Cream and Cheese played with the other choas but Shadow didn't really do much but watch them. He walked over to a small island-like corner that was surrounded by water in the gardens. A lot of the choa gardens had a stone floor. (Remember SA1? In that hotel there was a choa garden if you didn't know.)

It was then that Shadow noticed there was a strange looking rock hidden near a tree. He looked at it and before long it began to crack. He now realized this wasn't a rock at all but an egg. Out of the egg popped a small blue and yellow choa. He looked up at the dark hedgehog.

"Uh...hey little choa." Shadow tried to talk to the choa. The choa's ball above his head turned into a question mark. Shadow sweat-dropped. He decided to get the new choa food for him to eat so he shook the tree and a fruit fell in front of the creature. The choa ate it gratefully.

"Hey Shadow, you found another choa?" Cream and Cheese appeared.

"He just hatched."

"You should name him!"

"Uh...ok." Shadow thought briefly. "Katana."

"That's a cool name!" Cream and Cheese cheered. "We should be getting back." Cream looked at Shadow then at his bandages. "Why don't you take Katana with you?"

Shadow stared at Cream then nodded. He picked up the choa and they began to walk home.

When they entered the elevator again the same thing happened as before but with a clearer image. Running through narrow hallways with red lights flashing and falling while in a glass tube. Shadow felt dizzy and leaned against the elevator's wall. He didn't drop Katana though.

He breathed heavily and when the images had subsided completely he looked over at a worried Cream.

"I'm fine." He said slightly smiling. She gave a sigh of relief and they continued walking home once the elevator came to a stop and opened. 'What was that?' Shadow thought. He held Katana tighter while walking.