Amy's eyes opened slowly the first thing she saw was the clock sitting on her nightstand. It read 7:00 PM. Amy quickly sat up "uh, did I really sleep all day?" She ran her hands through her quills. She got up and went to the bathroom and turned on the sink, running some cold water and splashing it on her face. She started thinking about the little mystery she had on her hands. "Hum… if that was Shadow at the jewelry store that means he's the one who took the emerald, now what would he want with it?" Then it hit her. "I know how to see him again." She ran from the bathroom and was rushing around her room putting her boots on and fixing her quills. Patch sat on the bed watching Amy run back and forth across the room. "If Shadow took that emerald he's probably goanna steal another one."

Patch continued watching her. "Meow" His tail twitching as he looked at her lazily.

"Oh come on Patch don't you see, if Shadow was only going to steal one emerald he would've gone for the green one, I don't know why but there's something about it he likes." She ran a brush through her quills as she spoke, and then put them up in a clip "Maybe it's because the emerald makes a great fashion statement and it matches his fur." She grabbed her jacket from her vanity chair and put it on and then headed for the door. "If I run I can make it to the library and see if I can't find out where he's goanna go next." She ran down the stairs and out of the house.

Amy just reached the Library as a lady was coming out and locking the door. "Oh I'm sorry MS. we just closed for the day."

Amy breathed heavily as she bent over her hands on her knees. "Please I need to get in, it's very, very important and it can't wait." Amy said between breaths.

"Ah a late school report, well you look like a nice girl and it seems that you have come long way, I suppose just this once, but mind that you get to the library during normal hours next time." The lady said nicely as she unlocked the door and opened it for Amy.

Amy was going to correct the lady at first but seeing as how she was getting in; she just kept her reasons to herself. "Thank you so much." Amy said politely as she entered. The woman flipped a light switch that was on the wall next to the door.

"I am locking this door so when you leave it will be locked from the outside, can I trust you to be here alone it is very much against regulations but you seem very trust worthy."

"Oh yes of course, I will be on my best behavior." Amy nodded at the woman.

"Alright and it's just this once, and make sure you turn out the lights before you go…goodnight." The woman made her exit.

"Night." Amy said before turning and heading over to the computers at the left. She took a seat in front of one. "Good thing they don't turn these off." She wiggled the mouse as it the computer screen crackled and came to life.

Amy began her search in the one place you can find dirt, recipes, pictures, shopping, porn, hookers and the location of jewelry… the internet. Amy ran a few searches but wasn't getting much. She saw plenty of emeralds but none of them chaos emeralds. "I gotta look for the emeralds around here he wouldn't just come all the way here if this place only had a single chaos emerald." Finally a search engine brought her to another jewelry store that was 5 blocks form the library. She found they had a chaos emerald for sale at the price of 50,000 dollars of course those idiots had no idea they pawning off a master weapon for pennies She copied out the directions to the place, then shut down the computer, and turned out the lights and ran out the door.

Amy was only a block away now, finally she turned the corner and saw the store, but that's not all she saw, there was a flash of red light as someone disappeared from in front of the shop. Amy sprinted to the door it was locked. "Hum…" Amy though for a moment then she pulled something out of her coat pocket. She ran it through the crack in the door and it opened. "Ah credit card never leave home without it." She walked in and looked around and reached for a switch on the wall next to the door and turned on the lights, that's when she saw it. The one from last night. He was at the left breaking open a metal vault and taking the pink chaos emerald that was in it.

It turned around when he heard Amy come in. He turned and began to run to the back of the store where some windows were.

Amy pursued him at first and then she stopped a few feet away. "Shadow wait…" "don't go."

He stopped, he was standing on the boarder line of the light, Amy could see half of him the other half was engulfed by the darkness. He looked at her as if he didn't know her and he wouldn't speak. He wore a pair of dark denim pants and black belt same shoes and no shirt.

Amy took a step towards him but that was a mistake she set of an alarm laser that was across the floor. Sirens and red lights started going off and Shadow ran for the window again. This time he busted through it and was gone. Amy wanted to run after him but a peace of the glass had scraped her leg when she tried go after Shadow before she could try to get out through the window. Amy was on the floor holding her leg where the cut was. Suddenly Amy heard a different siren it was a police siren. Amy clutched he leg harder as blood ran from it. She turned her head to the door where she saw something she wished she hadn't.

"Amy?" Sonic stood in the door looking at her. He ran over to her and kneeled down. "Amy what, what are you doing here?"

Amy thought about her answer. "I, I was trying to stop the thief from getting the chaos emerald." That was her only answer as she looked away from him and at her leg.

"Amy you shouldn't have tried to do it alone." Sonic put a hand on her shoulder.

Amy shrugged off his hand a little rudely. "It's not like I'm a little girl Sonic I can defend myself." She cringed as she felt pain run through her leg again.

Sonic moved closer. "Amy it's ok I know you're not weak I've got a sore cheek to prove it, it's just that whatever was stealing the chaos emerald might have hurt you, we don't know what it's capable of."

'You don't know what he's cable of.' She thought as she looked up at Sonic.

Sonic moved so that he was on one knee in front of her and he looked at her intensely. "Amy did you see who stole the chaos emerald." He put his hands on her shoulders and made her look at him.

She starred at him her eyes a little shaky, she thought hard before she answered. "No…"

"Amy…" Sonic's grip around her shoulders tightened slightly.

"I said no." Amy turned her face from him.

A few cops were walking in now, so Sonic released Amy and stood up. The police looked at him and then at Amy. "It's ok she tried to stop the thief but whoever it was got away." Sonic assured them.

A medical person pushed past the officers and was taking a look at Amy's leg. "She'll be fine it's just a minor cut." He wrapped a bandage around her leg after cleaning it.

Amy stood up, her movements a little wobbly as she made her way to the door. No one really paying her much attention senses the police had split themselves up among the store and were looking for any kind of clue. She was just in front of the door when Sonic stepped into her path. "Hey let me take you home."

Amy huffed "You can stop sucking up or whatever you're doing Sonic I said I forgive you so you can just leave me alone." She attempted to move past Sonic but he wouldn't let her.

"Amy I'm not trying to suck up, I just think you know more than you're telling." Sonic said in a hopeful voice, he really wanted to know what she wasn't telling him.

"Sonic I told you all I know now if you don't mind I wanna go home." She pushed past him and started walking down the street, and unknown to her she was being watched from above.

Shadow stood on the roof of the store and watched the whole thing. He looked at Sonic with disgust and hatred. "It's glory asses like you that make me do this." He turned from the scene and jumped to the next roof top, disappearing into the darkness.

Amy walked into her apartment and slammed the door behind her. "Who does Sonic think he is?" She yelled angrily as she walked towards an end table with a lamp on it. "He thinks he can do whatever to me and then act like it never happened well I've got news for him, he's wrong dead wrong!" She walked up the stairs and into her room. Patch had been asleep on the vanity chair and quickly lifted his head up when he heard Amy come in. "Hey Patch." She said softly as she rubbed his head when she pasted by him. She walked into her closet and put on her pajamas. Then went back downstairs to the kitchen, where she popped some popcorn and sat down on the sofa. She picked up the remote and turned on the TV. She sighed feeling a little defeated "Well I guess that was my last chance to see Shadow, there's no way he's still in Station Square." She looked at the Television screen as she put a hand full of popcorn in her mouth.

"There hasn't been much change in the case of the recent jewel thefts, but police found another robbed store on 3rd Street tonight at 11:45 police believe it was the same culprit from the jewel burglary on South Street last night, and now a brief intermission." Commercials came onto the screen.

Amy watched as she ate her popcorn and then something special caught her eye. It was an advertisement for a museum. The commercial showed shots from all round the museum but the one that caught Amy's attention was the shot of the green chaos emerald. She smiled and put some popcorn in her mouth. "Maybe this isn't the last time I get to see Shadow." Amy finished the popcorn and put the bowl in the sink and went up to her room. "I'll see you again Shadow I know I will." She was looking at the moon again, but she pulled herself from the window and got into bed it was late and she need to sleep.